Years ago I was sitting at light. The light turns green and the driver in front of me starts going oblivious to the car that's sailing down the road and clearly not intending on stopping for the red. So this guy slams right into the guy in front of me.

In Taiwan the lights count down to when they turn green, so as it gets to 3,2,1 you look both ways and can see if anyone is going to run the opposing red light. Apparently this reduced the sort of accident you saw by 30% vs putting in red light cameras that increased rear-end accidents by 20%. So they don't have red light cameras. They do have big yellow and black painted speed cameras, that are sign posted so people can clearly see where they are, but these are just in areas where they really do need people to stick to the speed limit.

You make it sound like people WANTED Windows 7. They didn't and they don't. Even today, if Windows XP was an option, they would go with that

Ha! good one. This should be awarded Troll of the week! I wish there was an option on slashdot to count troll points as +ve rather than -ve, as I have to browse at -1 to read good stuff like this.

I know the code you pasted was for C#, my comment was directed at your initial opening sentence... .Net has both query form Linq (what you posted) and method form Linq (what the java version looks like), and the two are interchangeable.

I read your comment in the wrong context. Thanks for clarifying.

Yes the code I posted was for C#, I was replying to a Java guy who was saying that Java has LINQ but looks like this http://slashdot.org/submission/1810940/java-linq

Wow, is that what you call LINQ? In C# LINQ looks like this:

var filteredStrings =
from s in myStrings
from p in myPrefixes
where s.StartsWith(p)
select s;

I guess Java really is light years behind. In C# you can multithread this as well:

var filteredStrings =
from s in myStrings.AsParallel()
from p in myPrefixes.AsParallel()
where s.StartsWith(p)
select s;

Awesome until you code in C++/CLI, which missed out on intellisense this time round, which is a total pain in the arse.

But Eclipse blows for C++ development.

There seems to be an opening here for some company like Skype to produce a Skype Fax Machine that connects to the net, but performs exactly like a normal fax. You could even have a SkypeIn number for recieving documents from normal fax machines.

Slashdot needs a "comment of the month", because that's what I think this comment deserves. Funny, insightful, interesting, and a little bit of troll. I think there is a history of the US Govt funding political groups that they favour, not all of which have peaceful methods, so its naturally follows that civilians with money would like to possess similar influences.

Actually I don't use my WP7 for facebook, I use OneNote, the calendar functionality which is great because its intergrated with the hotmail calendar, watching pre recorded tv shows, some business accounting stuff in an excel spreadsheet that I've set up on my desktop and put on my phone, e-mail, weather, stock trading. Facebook is something I update and read when I have some idle time at a desktop PC. It could be that facebook junkies tend to be more likely to use an iPhone and the Android clone of it.

I see this as an excellent opportunity for defence to be able to utilise the innovation of the small software vendor. Generally software supply contracts are won by big players. A platform like this enables small players to more easily get in the game as they can release apps tagged as defence apps, and the forces can see if they are useful or not. And yes, I haven't used American spelling in my post.

You ask a question "what language makes the most sense now to get the jobs", but then you don't want to hear the answer (C# and web based .NET frameworks). How can you expect anyone to take this question seriously then? It's like a smoker going to the doctor and saying "I want you to tell me how I can get rid of this cough, but I have no desire to give up smoking, so I've eliminated that as an option." The doctor would have nothing to say.

Dude, you'll attract the wrath of the fans of steam. I travel so much I'm practically homeless. I have computers for a temporary amount of time. Steam is a god send, I log onto the computer, I install steam, my life's collection of games are there. Any game that isn't on steam is dead to me now.

Taiwan and China aren't the same country. In fact China has 1000s of missiles pointed at Taiwan http://www.tibetanreview.net/news.php?cat=2&cp=8&&id=4667, and Taiwan desires F-16s so it can defend itself against china http://www.defensestudies.org/?p=1512