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Comment its gone to crap (Score 3, Interesting) 613

and i've worked out why:

i try write too fast!

when i type, i'm putting out 60-70 words per min, when i'm handwriting, its way way down, but i keep trying to go faster.

i've notice when i slow down and concentrate on the writing part, less what i'm writing, it shapes back up again to something more like i would have put out 15 yrs ago before i started sitting in front of a keyboard, and back in the day my handwriting was actually pretty decent by most standards.

its the same deal on paper as it is on the whiteboard - slow it down and it comes back to what it used to be

Comment Re:missing options (Score 1) 1131

dont we wish A/C's would grow a pair and put their names to whiney slapper comments like this?

whilst the set-up was knocked down by rts008 ( boom boom! ), if A/C had a fucking clue, they may have picked up on the :wq part - i actually voted vi, but find gedit quite useful for many straight up text purposes.

Comment Re:64 bit Java? (Score 1) 387

actually, this part of my original rebuttal was in relation to the troll's assertion that everyone had ditched java...

there is a time and a place for everything, but if your penny-pinched cheap ass hardware cant run the software, then where do you lay the blame?

certainly every mobile phone i've had in the last 5 years has run java applications which are responsive and stable ( i concede this is usually one golf game per phone, but still...), and i dont go for the top of the line bright and shineys...

Comment Re:Java is a disaster in practice (Score 1) 387

And to cap it all, the JVM is utterly non-portable, so much so that barely 1/4 of the highly varied boxes in my computer room complete the installation cleanly

perhaps you need to take the 'how to double-click install.exe' course again?

i call you an epic fail! :P

[ i know i shouldnt feed the trolls, but i'm bored ]

Comment Re:64 bit Java? (Score 5, Insightful) 387

Now it's racks of big ass servers or blades groaning under badly designed layers and layers of Java 'middleware'

so your premis here is the problem is the language/platform rather than the design at fault?

If you have insane amounts of CPU and memory to throw at it to cover up the slowness

either you need to replace the tandy coco you mention later as your primary pc, or you could actually _try_ it before you bag it. ( trying it again after 1997 might also be an idea..)

Must have missed it.

that tends to happen when you have HASUB* syndrome. it happens, dont worry about it. you probably havent noticed a lot of stuff.

.. some rant about java and vista bloat related to java desktop. and then brings solaris and mac into it. pfft.

yawn.

No, you notice when a small app starts sucking up all available memory. Java sucks memory so hard GNOME starts looking lean in comparison

i can malloc my way into something that smells the same in c too.. only in java you're less likely to leak.

hey actually put players on shelves that take upwards of two minutes to go from tray close to anything useful appearing on the display

huh? i drop blu-ray disks into my ps3 and its playing within a few seconds. you're smoking crack.

I've got a cheap crappy basic cell phone. You can almost see individual pixels draw on the darned thing...

unless you run an application on your cheap crappy phone, you're probably looking at just the cheapness and the crappiness of the phone, not java.

i think what you really meant in the above post was more along the lines of 'get off my lawn'.

i know this is slashdot, but occasional fact checking really cant hurt if you're going to go on a raving rant about your hatred of specific technologies.

*HASUB syndrome: Head And Shoulders Up Bum syndrome

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