I haven't personally used Eclipse for 3 years but, as I'm primarily a C++ developer, I left the IDE choice to my full time Java developing peers who informed me that Eclipse sucked hard. I had assumed this was an informed opinion. The problem I've found with NetBeans is that we are using Ant for the build process, which seems to work like a shell script rather than a makefile. I've found I'm faster in C#/VS2010 mainly because the intellisense seems to work better with that combination. As someone who is continuously changing languages and platforms I find intellisense quite valuable.

Java has something C# lacks: a good IDE. Java has eclipse.

Wow, where did you get that opinion from? Using a beta version of VS2005? VS2001?. The team I'm in right now is coding Java for Android in NetBeans because Eclipse sucked hard. But coding in C# in Visual Studio 2008/2010 is way better, way more productive. Hell even coding Javascript / HTML in VS2010 is better than this.

In the last couple of years I've seen more and more C in code bases for mathematically intense applications due to requiring C for GPU programming. OpenCL and Cuda are C based and from where I'm standing are the two main choices for GPU programming at the moment. Something on the horizon that looks interesting is Microsoft's C++ AMP stuff which fullfills the same need.

If they release these models into the public doman this might just be the self justification I need to convince myself to get a 3D printer. They should sell the printers and printer consumables off their website, and give away the models for free.

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.