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Comment A basic Introduction (Score 1) 474

by tagx on Wednesday December 24, 2008 @12:38AM (#26219765) Attached to: ACM Urges Obama To Include CS In K-12 Core

Forcing advanced CS on students is bad, since most will hate it and it will probably pollute CS with unpassionate people. On the other hand, just introducing students to basic programming, maybe simple programs in basic or ruby, such as they do in biology or chemistry would introduce many kids to programming, and those that are passionate about it can continue with it.

Comment Re:Just tried (Score 2, Informative) 566

by tagx on Thursday December 13, 2007 @09:51PM (#21692250) Attached to: KDE 4 Uses 40% Less Memory Than 3 Despite Eye-Candy

Lancelot should not even be installed by default. Try removing ~/.kde/share/config/plasma*

KDE 4 Uses 40% Less Memory Than 3 Despite Eye-Candy 566

Posted by Zonk on Thursday December 13, 2007 @09:37PM from the optimization-in-action dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Pro-Linux reports that KDE 4, scheduled to be released in January 2008, consumes almost 40% less memory than KDE 3.5, despite the fact that version 4 of the Free and Open Source desktop system includes a composited window manager and a revamped menu and applet interface. KDE developer Will Stephenson showcased KDE 4's 3D eye-candy on a 256Mb laptop with 1Ghz CPU and run-of-the-mill integrated graphics, pointing out that mini-optimizations haven't even yet been started." Update: 12/14 22:40 GMT by Z : Or, not so much. An anonymous reader writes "The author of the original KDE 3.5 vs KDE 4.0 memory comparison has come out with a more accurate benchmark. In reality, KDE 4.0 uses 110 MB more memory than KDE 3.5.8.

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