Comment Re:How do they think they can win? (Score 1) 230
Another big Wack a Mole hammer. I can never win at Wack a Mole why does the Defense Department think they will be able to?
You can be sure they are busy developing new moles, too.
Mozilla MemShrink Set To Fix Firefox Memory 375
darthcamaro writes "If you're like a lot of Firefox 4 users out there, you've probably noticed that Firefox has a serious memory problem — it uses more than it really should. At long last, Mozilla developers are finally set to take this issue seriously with a dedicated team called MemShrink that are focused on the problem. 'It's pretty clear by now that this is a much bigger problem than any one person can likely tackle,' Mozilla Developer Johnny Stenback said."
Comment Re:75% of apps? Shaa, right! (Score 1) 277
Show me a construct in COBOL that wouldn't be much easier in something modern -- even Java, if we have to.
It is designed as a business language. I would say a couple of major points are that it uses decimal arithmetic to give the correct accounting answers, database manipulation in inherent in the language, and forms layout (think paychecks, tax forms, etc) is easy. Yes, you can do all of these via libraries in other languages, but they are rarely inherent parts of the language.
Comment Re:Not true. (Score 1) 325
While I agree that the original post is "hogwash", there have been many architectures based on word sizes that were not a power of two. A few I recall are: PDP-8 (12 bit), Univac 1100 (36 bit), and the early CDC machines (60 bit). I know the CDC machines evolved into a 64-bit architecture. The PDP-8 architecture evolved into the PDP-11 (16-bit, I believe). I'm not sure if the Unisys 2200 retains the 36-bit architecture or not. In any case, one could write a C compiler for any of those architectures.
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