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Paul M Watt wrote: "...it's good enough that an average bank transaction will post within 300 milliseconds."
"This is in contrast to hard real-time requirements, such as the requirement that a particular locomotive-switching solenoid close at worst within one-and-a-quarter seconds of the application receiving a specific alarm."
So the implication being that worst-case Java execution could take more than one-and-a-quarter seconds to call a function with a boolean parameter? I believe it. 
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WinBeta has learned that Microsoft is planning to launch a successor to the Surface 2 soon, however it won’t be a Windows RT based device. Retired Technology
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Microsoft said Wednesday that it plans to make the core viewing and editing features of Office free for devices with screens of 10.1-inches or smaller. I predict a number of companies will be upgrading to small screen machines soon
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Servers and VDIs? With no screens? 
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I think that counts as <10 inches! Start installing!
TTFN - Kent
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MSN wrote: The work is part of an effort to bring extinct species back from the dead
Did they not learn anything from Jurrasic Park? 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Microsoft is hosting a small conference this week to help key partners and developers get up to speed on Spartan and how to best work with the new browser. Fingers crossed for Marquee to make its comeback!
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I just found out yesterday (maintenance on some -very- old code) that Firefox still recognizes and properly displays marquee tags. 
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I'm not sure what's more frightening - that it does actually still work, or that you had code that tested that. 
TTFN - Kent
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The most eye-punching thing after <blink> and Comic Sans!
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
I use 1TBS
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A flaw in Android could allow apps to be modified or replaced by malware, Palo Alto Networks said. "We are all, by any practical definition of the words, foolproof and incapable of error."
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New research emphasizes the need for software developers to better understand how languages and operating systems carry out tasks in order to improve performance. I forget when this applies though
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That test seems dubious to me. That sounds more like string concat vs non-string concat rather than in-memory vs disk write. The "disk" version of the code likely wasn't concatenating strings, so there was no GC activity. I wonder if they had tried StringBuilder (or whatever its Java counterpart is) if the results wold have been different?
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Thanks, I'd forgotten good jokes could be found outside The Lounge. 
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." - John Lennon
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So, essentially what they're saying is that if you want to write something to disc, it's quicker to write it to disc with a little bit of processing than with more processing.
Y'know, if I were working on architecture at that level, I have a funny feeling I'd have maybe figured that out for myself.
A great headline for so many articles would be: "Idiot Researchers Discover the Bleeding Obvious"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The annual Salary Survey from Dice.com has arrived, and with it, the skills you need to perfect in order to make the big bucks. Cassandra, Java and JavaScript pros – you’re in for a surprise. "Your love gives me such a thrill, but your love won't pay my bills"
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Message Closed
modified 25-Mar-15 12:55pm.
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I think you posted your flame to the wrong place. Otherwise 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Thank you, Dan ... don't know where my head went !
«To kill an error's as good a service, sometimes better than, establishing new truth or fact.» Charles Darwin in "Prospero's Precepts"
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North?
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
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Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has become the latest tech figure to warn us that the computers are learning and they’re going to destroy us all at some point. "You are a plague and we are the cure."
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Calm down, Steve. You don't need to fear computers are getting smart enough to destroy us all, we're well on the way to manage it ourselves.
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A Dutch utility is inviting five families to use radiator-sized servers to heat their living rooms for free. In the old days, we called that "having a computer"
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