That article claims that Windows 9 will be announced on Sept 30. So much for that, then, right?

C:\Program Files\7-Zip
$ ./7z

7-Zip [64] 9.20 Copyright (c) 1999-2010 Igor Pavlov 2010-11-18

What's so complicated about that? Feel free to use the .exe as well if it makes you feel better:

C:\Program Files\7-Zip
$ ./7z.exe

7-Zip [64] 9.20 Copyright (c) 1999-2010 Igor Pavlov 2010-11-18

If 7z.exe is in your path, no need to give it a directory:

D:\
$ 7z

7-Zip [64] 9.20 Copyright (c) 1999-2010 Igor Pavlov 2010-11-18

Also, if you're into terseness, you can use the "gci" alias for Get-ChildItem, or the "dir" alias, or the "ls" alias.

LEDs don't have a ballast, they have a low-voltage current-regulated DC power supply.

We never knew anything about it. What makes you think they "really had something"?

Speculation by websites desperate to publish "news" for ad impressions does not count.

I can buy, right now, a Core 2 Duo machine with 4GB of RAM from my local uni surplus, for $60. Up to 75% less, if I get lucky and they're still there long enough after the sell-on date. They even come with a Win7 license.

You're definitely doing it wrong.

In my experience, I'm seldom if ever CPU-capped, and if I am, what I'm doing it the sort of thing that 10% won't make a difference on. My advice, save your money. Buy all the RAM you'll want now (16GB, 32GB would be extravagant) before it becomes expensive.

The few extra months you buy with the 5960X isn't going to make a difference in the long run.

Of course, I don't know your particular application, nor do I know your particular financial situation. YMMV.

You didn't sign a contract with your greengrocer that allowed them to rig the scale in any way they want. You DID (or, at least, the submitter did) sign a contract that allowed AT&T to measure bandwidth any way they want. Furthermore, he/she signed a contract agreeing to take all disputes to arbitration, not the courts. Double whammy.

They sure could. Additionally, if you read the T&C, they could do just about anything else they wanted, too (section 10.d, emphasis mine):

http://www.att.com/shop/intern...

Furthermore, the customer agreed to go through arbitration for all "all disputes and claims". This sure sounds like a dispute to me, therefore, what the submitter should be looking for is an arbitrator.

# get-process | measure -property handles -sum

Count : 119
Average :
Sum : 55134
Maximum :
Minimum :
Property : Handles

So, that's 119 processes, and 55,134 handles.

# Get-CimInstance win32_thread | measure-object

Count : 1623
Average :
Sum :
Maximum :
Minimum :
Property :

Looks like 1623 threads.

I wrote my S3 sync client in C#.

And I don't need to.

If you lost hours to 'var', then you lack sufficient skills to perform your job. Congratulations, you've reached your Peter level.

All my machines run beautifully; I spent the money for 16GB of RAM when I built them so that I wouldn't have to obsess over each MB a process uses.

I also don't use the Google disk-space-thingy- whatever-its-called. I use S3, and I wrote the sync client myself, because I couldn't find one I liked.

Doesn't matter. Chip-and-pin will kill Coin regardless. The whole point of chip-and-pin is to render the card uncopyable.

Um, 'var' always means exactly what the compiler decides it means. The coder gets no say in the matter. It's not a variant type, it simply means, 'compiler, decide what this type is for me'. It's called 'type inference', and it's quite common in non-ancient programming languages. C++ even has type inference, now. ML, Haskell, Scala, and Apple's new Swift language all have it as well.

You are so completely, terribly, obviously wrong. There are definitely 'better' languages.