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fluor2 writes:
Microsoft seem to suddenly start banning Xbox 360 consoles for playing on their Xbox Live service. A lot of frustrated owners on various forums. I guess it's obvious that Microsoft somehow detected them playing pirated games, but time will show why people are currently getting banned. Microsoft have not posted any news of this yet.
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fluor2 writes:
"I've become increasingly frustrated with the speed of computers lately, or rather, lack thereof. After thinking about it, I came up with three reasons why I think computers have gotten slow." — VirtualDub programmer, Avery Lee.
"Let's be honest: garbage collection is here to stay. It's quite powerful for certain data structures, most notably string heaps, and it has undeniable benefits in other areas such as sandboxed execution environments and concurrent programming. What I think aggrevates the problems, though, are languages and programming environments that you insist on putting everything in the GC heap."
Read his interesting blog post, which I think really missed a focus from both slashdot and other computer sites.
