I wonder who owns the patent for suppressing vomit at learning of the notion of ads in books.

Awesome. The new 3.5.0 release is excellent. Fast, full featured, excellent. If I had a question, it'd be: What are the most important practices used in the Eclipse project which make it such a success?

It'd be much cheaper to blanket 100 km2 of the desert with solar cells. Store excess power in flywheels or similar for night use.

... think of the children?! Where am I going to go for my 3rd party battery explosion lottery kicks now?

The 'significantly less' is often a state economy play, ie they need less to get by therefore they can be paid less. This only works until economies adjust and it becomes more expensive to live, then wages need to be higher, then it's not cost effective for exploiters, then they move elsewhere. Leaving a trail of unwanted trained people and to further doom others to doing menial work that they wont do themselves (or pay locals fairly for). The is often the justification for the low wages (while ignoring the usually poor quality work). Sh*t stinks, and polishing it doesn't help.

Nice comment. There is a place for quick and dirty... at the core of an enterprise application is not it. I've worked with some Philipino devs... they were very nice, but lazy. I involved them as much as I could in the project and decision making, and the code improved, tho it still needed alot of work when it was done. A large project with quick and dirty devs would be painful.

Yes, the speedup is dramatic. The random access and multi-threaded speedup play a large role, and are left out of many comparisons. MLC and a good interface make a difference, certainly, but the major speedup is from random access.

Lots of RAM and an SSD will make a box fly.

Documentum, docushare, livelink, sharepoint. I've heard of documentum installs with 100m+ docs. It's quite good, but expensive.

I recently went for a trayless hotswap solution, and it's worked out well. NVidia SATA hotswap doesn't seem supported in linux, but it works fine with a promise sata pci card. The trayless enclosure means there are no trays lying around or keys to get lost. I brewed up a tool to auto-mount on insert, and unmount after removal and big drives now work like floppies. The only downside is that the enclosure fans are low quality and start making noise after a couple weeks. I ripped the fans out and placed a slow quiet big fan behind the unit. Drives are cool enough and little fan noise. When unused, I stash the drives in a cupboard. Another idea would be to do a find of the removable drive to an online text file, so as to make finding stuff easier.

> Also, MS isn't pushing developers to use C or C++ any more, they're pushing them to use C# and .NET, which are MS inventions.

... done by lured Borland architects. Despite this, derivatives and even duplication can be good. Eventually the good is derived and improved, the excess is stripped.

The one thread per tab idea is nice, but the usual usecase is only one tab doing something. Nice for tab isolation, but not of great benefit for performance. It would seem to me that real benefit on a multicore box would come from parallelizing the bottleknecks, if possible... ie, the page rendering. Splitting the rendering on contained dom elements, perhaps. I'm not sure where or how this is best implemented, but addressing the cpu bottleknecks would seem to be the way to a faster browser.

Yes, because blanket broadcasting crap that statistically nobody wants is such a good way. Internet viewing, if anything, stands a much better chance at producing a workable revenue model.

Listening to techno, coding either from lazy boy with datahands in front of 1080p projection, or datahands on aeron in back of truck camper next to creek 20km off main roads in back country British Columbia. Code, code, code, fill generator, walk around looking at trees and butterflies, have a beer in the sun, code, code, code. Will be doing more of that this summer ;)

The lockin forces the app-store, which forces the dev eula which forces the non-competition, which perpetuates apples distribution monopoly, which keeps the dump trucks full of cash coming in. Artist 'reward' as a justification for repression, etc. They don't care too much about jailbreaking because the avg buyer is not going to bother... and most people will continue to fork over cash, instead of stripping the nasty, avoiding the cash grab and using it as the more flexible and useful device it could be.

I thought the key to their success was OEM lock-in...