Hopefully when the tech has matured and mutated for 15 years or so, it'll be swimming in sewers. I imagine it will have developed a love of renaissance artists by them....

The UK is a member of the EU, and as such the European Court of Justice has a higher authority than any UK court, or the government.....

Find an EU law that the UK government has broken (shouldn't be too hard!), and then file a case. If the case is from an individual, then the European Court of Human Rights may be an alternative. (IAANL, so YMMV)

I have written the 3D renderers for a number of commercial software packages for the film VFX and games industries. The parent is right. PEBKAC. The drivers are fine. You are a shitty developer (who needs to make sure your code conforms to the GL/D3D spec properly).

Nvidia drivers are shittier than AMD. End of story. AMD drivers implement the graphics API's to the letter. Nvidia lets any old crap through. The result, is that apps developed on Nvidia GPUs, rarely conform to the target graphics API, and as a result end up failing on AMD/Intel hardware (although admittedly Intel can also fail due to either a lack of resources, or the occasional bug). If an app fails on AMD, blame the shitty software you're running, not the drivers. AMD releasing mantle would appear to me to be nothing more than a way of forcing Nvidia to adhere to an API spec for a change, rather than routinely ignoring it (as they do now)

Although the fact that elapsed time is in minutes whilst the other times are in seconds, might have something to do with it....

Last time I checked, 11 minutes was greater than 250 seconds. ('%e' is the default format for user/system time [seconds], '%E' is the format time for elapsed time [minutes]. The different formatting should have been a big hint).

I agree. He's not testing compiled code performance, he's just created a set of tests which will all be memory bandwidth limited. FTA:

That's all I needed to read to ignore him completely. Completely and utterly pointless. If g++ won, it is likely because it utilised stream intrinsics to avoid writing data back to the CPU cache, which would have freed up more cache, and minimised the number of page faults. This will not in anyway test the performance of the CPU code, it will just prove that your 1333Mhz memory is slower than your 3Ghz processor . This is why you don't profile code (wrapped up in a stupid for loop), but profile whole applications instead. From my own tests (measuring the performance of large scale applications using real world data sets), intel > clang > g++ (although the difference between them is shrinking). The author of the article hasn't got a clue what he's doing. FTA:

No it isn't. It's because your CPU is sat idle whilst it waits for something to do.

Most tech companies prefer to hire experienced engineers from overseas, than inexperienced graduates from next door. (Certainly that's what we did when I worked for a tech company in Oxford anyway....)

I imagine they're blocked by patents.

But all I want to know is, will sudo rm -rf / delete the internet?

Really? There were people claiming that XP wasn't as good as ME? Or that Windows Vista was better than 7? Really? Windows 8 is turd. It's the first version of windows I got a refund for.

You forgot bitcoin.

Amiga OS?

Windows 8 does have a start menu, it's just takes up the whole screen.
In windows 7 explorer, pressing 'alt' will give you the old menus back - and the toolbars were moved to the start menu.
No idea where they went in WIndows 8. My experience with windows 8 primarily involved getting a refund.

They don't remove features, they just move them to somewhere less convenient.....