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Comment Gawd. (Score 1) 215

Windows 7 actually uses MORE resources over XP, and slightly less than Vista. If you want to present something, make sure it's on Win7's core improvements (e.g. disk read perf with AHCI), x64 performance (if they have x64) (this is important, Win7 x64 blows the shit off Win7 x86) and app performance. I don't really know of any testing tool that can measure all of those and have a score (like 3DMark), but the built in Resource Monitor does well (although it uses percentages)
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Submission + - Adobe to sue Apple over Flash cross-compiler ban (itworld.com)

sopssa writes: "IT World reports that Adobe intends to sue Apple "within a few weeks," citing sources close to Adobe. Not only did the recent iPhone and iPad licensing change ban Adobe's Flash-to-iPhone cross-compiler, but also Novell's MonoTouch which lets you compile C# and .NET apps to the iPhone. "Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine, and only code written in C, C++, and Objective-C may compile and directly link against the Documented APIs". Lee Brimelow notes in his blog post that "What they are saying is that they won’t allow applications onto their marketplace solely because of what language was originally used to create them. This is a frightening move that has no rational defense other than wanting tyrannical control over developers and more importantly, wanting to use developers as pawns in their crusade against Adobe. This does not just affect Adobe but also other technologies like Unity3D."."

Comment Re:WTF? Just ask the patient. (Score 1) 981

Cool! (Not that you had this problem, but that you can see UV light.) I wish I could see UV...working with high-power UV lasers always makes me a bit nervous because I never know if I accidentally took a shot in the eye (which can, incidentally, cause cataracts). With a visible laser you can obviously see it, even with an IR laser you at least know when you develop a small blind spot haha...but take a shot with a UV laser and you wouldn't know it, you'd just end up getting cataracts earlier than you otherwise would.

Comment Re:Nope, they aren't. (Score 1) 981

I wonder if you realize how foolish you sound.

Every trait has a tradeoff. Evolution has no master plan, it has no absolutes, the superiority of one trait over another depends on environment and luck. It is not an accident that sickle-cell is a prevalent trait amongst those of recent african descent. Environmentally, living in africa presents a greater likelihood of dying from malaria. The sickle-cell trait protects the individual from malaria. In that population, it's a survival trait, as I said, in spite of that fact that getting copies of it from both parents is fatal. It is statistics, my friend.

Outside of Africa, particulary north European types, malaria is not a big issue. Sickle-cell in THAT population is NOT a survival trait, and is slowly disappearing amongst people of african descent who live in the north. They are also getting whiter, since black skin protects from heavy sun in africa but entirely blocks the diminished wavelengths needed to produce vitamin D in the skin, thereby causing rickets, a particular scourge of black people, especially nursing black mothers, and one reason why many countries add vitamin D to milk. Blackness is not a useful survival trait in northern climes.

Human evolution is a fascinating subject. You would do well to study it before demonstrating such cocky stupidity in public again.

Comment Re:Absolutely BS (Score 1) 984

Yes, who do they think they are. Those prefixes only meant powers of ten for nearly two centuries before computers came along. I think you'd find your precious dictionary reference would reflect that as late as the 70's or 80's.

Just why do you think that you are so important that you can redefine a centuries old standard?

Comment Re:Pull Factor (Score 5, Informative) 152

So much fucking FUD, people.
Windows XP (Server 2003/R2 is still mainstream, but they won't port IE9 to it becaus of the same reasons like they did with 2000 and IE 7), is in extended support, which means no more new features, just security updates until 2014.
Now, if you'd like those features, Microsoft has a program in which you pay the devs extra to port it to (insert older Windows OS here).

IE 9 will run on Vista and 7.

Comment Re:Open source windows (Score 0) 580

Windows Research Kernel. It's leaked (it's the Win2k3 kernel source). Also, the Win2k source is 99.9995% complete (it's actually Win2k with SP1), it just has to be linked to RTM binaries (which mean getting a copy of Win2k RTM, installing VC6, masm, the 2k3 PSDK, creating a D: drive, oh wait, you read too much.)

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