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  1. I know, but you ALREADY have your $200 elgato dock, right? :-)

  2. You are actually right about the memory. Not sure about the SSD, which is ridiculously small. Come on, 256gb default on the 13"? Is this 2010? That's 200 bucks for a 512gb SD card. Oh wait, no SD card reader anymore...

  3. the $4000 Microsoft iMac that runs windows? Thanks, but no, thanks. I am not the use case for that crap: painters and architects?

    Nah, I pass.

  4. And they already are as expensive as macs anyway

  5. It appears as standard. When nothing maps to the the bar, esc is always there.

    Now I want to see vi mappings for this bar!

  6. Don't forget the $80 adapter from thunderbolt 3 to normal thunderbolt so you can plug in your $200 thunderbolt-to-usb dock where you can have a usb-to-ps2 adapter, connected to a ps2-to-xt keyboard adapter, though! IT'S MAGIC

  7. Then get a model M and annoy the hell of your office mates!

  8. Like that little computer named "chip"?

  9. What about bees? on Genetically Modified Crops Are Safe, Report Says (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    As I understand, it's pretty much consensus that more pesticides equals to less bees.... or am I totally wrong?

  10. Re:Buy a Mac on Lost Opportunity? Windows 10 Has the Same Minimum PC Requirements As Vista · · Score: 1

    My machine is seven years old. It runs the latest mac os.

    The machine I'm writing now is an Early 2009 Macbook. According to the "about my mac" menu, I'm running 10.9.5. So...?

  11. Re:Legacy? on Ask Slashdot: What's New In Legacy Languages? · · Score: 1

    Really? A LOT. People swear by fortran. Look at the codes running on the top 10 fastest supercomputers in the world. Fortran is about a third of it, if not more.

  12. REXX on Ask Slashdot: What's New In Legacy Languages? · · Score: 1

    Ibm used to say for a time that REXX was the most used language in the world.

  13. Re:Why .Net? on Ask Slashdot: What's New In Legacy Languages? · · Score: 1

    People coming from the CS background just hate Fortran, but that thing just doesn't go away. Physics and Math people love it.

    The performance excuse is mostly excuse, you can have pretty much the same performance with C or well-made C++. The fact is that it's easier to come from a mathematical model to code in fortran than in C.

  14. Re:Why .Net? on Ask Slashdot: What's New In Legacy Languages? · · Score: 1

    That depends on the small world you live at.

    PHP WAS used for those things. People moved to ruby, python, etc. Which is bad, now when finally php does not suck anymore.

    C is HUGE. The open-source world is C. Everything unix is C. Pretty much every compiler for other language is C. The embedded world is C as well.

    Fortran is not legacy AT ALL. In my world, which is that of Supercomputing, about one third of new codes is in FORTRAN. It is simpler for the people in Math and physics fields to use it and achieve high speed using hundreds of thousand processors. (the other two thirds are roughly C and C++).

    Perl and python are used for data analysis in science. And some R.

    Python is used everywhere in Linux distributions.

    Functional languages are used in wall street.

    You can't even compare those with stuff like cold fusion.

  15. Re:Anything that isn't C on Ask Slashdot: What's New In Legacy Languages? · · Score: 1

    After I saw some idiots taking pictures with notebooks at concerts, I would say yes :)

  16. Re:Depends on your definition of legacy on Ask Slashdot: What's New In Legacy Languages? · · Score: 1

    That's because you don't live in reality. Legacy is that thing where you can't get any new, fresh programmers to work with. Good luck finding a 20yr-old PL/I ou AC/L or COBOL language.

    Or .NET.

  17. Re:Anything that isn't C on Ask Slashdot: What's New In Legacy Languages? · · Score: 1

    iOS, Mac OS, Linux and *BSD?

  18. Re:Ha ha on MtGox Files For Bankruptcy Protection · · Score: 1

    Ah, the same shit as with erections.

    There, fixed for you

  19. Re:Ha ha on MtGox Files For Bankruptcy Protection · · Score: 1

    could I buy pizza with tulips? because I just did that today at The Netherlands.

  20. Re:Ha ha on MtGox Files For Bankruptcy Protection · · Score: 1

    I could swear that the Euro only entered in circulation almost twenty years AFTER what you declare as using it for oil. Actually, it was 1999. So, your information is wrong.

  21. Re:well... on Ask Slashdot: What Software Can You Not Live Without? · · Score: 1

    I could swear that the "gcc" on current macs is just a shortcut for clang.

    Yep, it is:

    $ gcc --help
    OVERVIEW: clang LLVM compiler

  22. Re:You lost me at vim on Ask Slashdot: What Software Can You Not Live Without? · · Score: 1

    pff. Vi is great when all you have is a 300/75 baud connection and your "terminal" is an electronic typewriter with a two-lines display (one for the line being edited, one for modal)

    To be honest, my impression is that vi was DESIGNED for that use case.

  23. Re:Any Android Tablet on Ask Slashdot: Easy Wi-Fi-Enabled Tablet For My Dad? · · Score: 1

    Nope. Get an ipad. Better accessibility.

    I use android myself, but my father has the same problem. He uses an ipad with big letters, big contrast. works.

  24. Re:another design cue from apple? on Death to the Trapezoid... Next USB Connector Will Be Reversible · · Score: 1

    Nope! I like it. I miss the lenovo keyboard every time I have to use a Vaio.

  25. Re:another design cue from apple? on Death to the Trapezoid... Next USB Connector Will Be Reversible · · Score: 1

    I know what those keys are for. Especially because I write daily in German, Portuguese, Spanish and occasionally in a couple of other languages, besides English.

    And you know why the apple ones were created, and why they didn't use the already existing modifiers, right? And then why microsoft made those, as well. You can find it on the web.

    You might not like the symbol (on the alt case, but never mind - the new keyboards call it alt now). I like the cmd symbol, which is the symbol for touristic landmarks in nordic countries.

    Oh, and I am hardly a kid anymore.