My (normally clocked) Ryzen 1800X processor runs cool on my AMD machine. Each time I check the heat pipes on the processor heat sink they're cold. Never fails to surprise me. Unlike my Intel i7 based machine where I can hardly keep my fingers touching the heat pipes due to the hot temperature. And yes, my heat sink is working fine on the Ryzen.
Also looks very similar to virtually every flat screen TV out there - perhaps Apple should start seeking damages from that market too...
I want the US market players (mobile, computing and others) to tie themselves in patent knots. Maybe then people will have the courage to attempt to reform such a broken patent system. It's almost a joke. Instead of encouraging innovation It's having the opposite effect. It completely stifles innovation relegating it to an ammunition stockpile just in case someone else takes a patent potshot at you. Only companies (and not individuals) have the financial clout to even do this. It also steers foreign companies away from the US for fear of treading on someones patent toes. I wouldn't try publishing any programs in the USA - it just means that I would probably get spanked by someones lawyer sooner or later for the method I used for string concatenation or adding two numbers together or something else simple and obvious like that... And I'm not the only one to think this way either. There are other people that I know in the computing industry that give the USA a wide berth for this very reason.
I had been pressing that we go the VMWare route for our virtualisation. Looks like I'll have to look at the alternatives as the extra unexpected cost will not go down very well with the management.
.NET hasn't killed Java - Oracle is the one to do that!
I had to hack together a computational module using C# that did some pretty intensive maths calculations and was pleasantly surprised when I discovered that the actual performance wasn't that bad at all. It was so good, in fact, that it stayed in C#.
Ooooh - I almost forgot to mention Linq and all it's flavours (Linq to objects, Linq to SQL, Linq to entities, PLinq... lambda expressions too... In fact, with the latest entity framework I can get a fairly complicated system up and running within a day along with MVC, dbContexting and an Entity model. Even better is that if the design changes I can leverage the stuff I have already and basically refactor the whole lot with extra fields, business logic and whatnots in a VERY quick turnaround time with the additional knowledge that I have not forgotten any part of the system that needed the change. That sort of thing used to take me days - now it take me tens of minutes. Beat that! (Disclaimer - this is within a business environment and is not on systems intended to be sold externally to the business).
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-- but then again this is a world where Budweiser is the King of Beers.
LOL - how modest of them... The original Budweiser brewed in the Czeck Republic is a lot better. Pity they are forced to call themselves Budvar in some areas due to the American Budweiser and they are the original company!
Personally, my favourite lager beer is Pilsner Urquell - now THAT is a decent lager beer not like that American ricey/maizey adulterated rubbish.
For stouts I DO like a glass or two of Guinness but I liked that Scottish stout that you could get about 15 years ago. Such a wonderful smokey, peaty flavour that I kept on going back for more. I just wish I could remember what it was called...
Holy cow, I never thought surveillance would get this far in the UK. Once CCTV monitoring inside problem families homes is accepted (sounds reasonable doesn't it) then it will be inside convicted criminals houses (still sounds reasonable), then suspected criminals homes (hmm), then inside the homes of people who drop litter, then the homes of those who drove past a protest, then the homes of YOU. WAKE UP!
Knowing my luck I've now been put on a list somewhere for potential anti-government terrorist speak - just for this posting.
Type louder, please.
