If I'm a Ruby developer am I aware that in a.NET language if I add two strings together in c# "Hello" + "World" It constructs a new immutable string. But if I do String.Format("{0}{1}","Hello","World" it is much faster and uses less memory?
I'd hope you didn't believe that at all. I can't really speak in terms of memory usage, but in terms of CPU time, using String.Format() as you described is actually takes around 50 times as long as simply using the + operator.
Why should it even matter? iPhone already has parental controls and an iPhone App Store rating system, if parents really don't want their kids using that kind of thing, it's very easy to prevent it.
Most systems using vector graphics (including KDE/Gnome/Windows Vista/Windows 7) actually specify different images for small icon sizes for exactly this reason. Sure, it means you have to create more icons, but it's not as difficult as you claim.
Any student can get Visual Studio, Server 2008, etc, but only CS students can get Windows 7 for some reason. Not that it really matters all that much, Windows 2008 R2 is virtually the same thing, it just requires some tweaking to use it as a desktop OS.
There is. Select with the keyboard (I doubt I have to tell you how, but hold down shift when you move the input cursor), then press ctrl+k, s. virtually everything in VS has a keyboard shortcut.
Small clarification, but the vast majority of police in the uk do not carry guns. When arms are involved, specialised armed response teams are called. The uk is fairly unique in that respect.
I suspect that the game probably uses PKI encryption to ensure it's talking to a valid server. Now that doesn't mean it's not hackable, it always is eventually, but that kind of thing/would/ require a game patch.
In theory, you're correct. In practice, however, things don't really work that way. What is the content size of a terminal window? Even Apple can't decide. since the "zoom" button in Terminal.app simply fills the screen. Then there's web browsers. Safari seems to implement that zoom style behaviour, but Firefox does not. It's application specific behaviour on a control that appears on every window, and that's what's confusing.
Contrast this with Windows, where the maximise button always either makes the window fill the entire screen, or returns it to its original size. As other commenters stated, the button does indeed change its icon to indicate that this is the case, and it may not be entirely intuitive (two overlapped boxes?) but neither is an x, a - or a + sign with traffic light colours, it's all something the user has to learn.
Doesn't the Chinese government have control over the cn tld? If so, putting up a message is unlikely to help, if the government don't like it, they can just have it disabled.
I'm not sure if this applies to all download managers, but speaking specifically of the Adobe one, the reason they pressure you into using it, and make it more difficult to find the direct HTTP-link, is because it uses P2P technology from Akamai to spread out the bandwidth cost among all the people downloading.
It's a 10" screen, it's not like you can watch 1080p on it anyway. Sure, you can probably connect an external display, but I doubt that many people are going to buy this kind of computer to do that.
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Read the summary, there's a link to the demo - http://0xfe.muthanna.com/jsnotation/demo.html
I'd hope you didn't believe that at all. I can't really speak in terms of memory usage, but in terms of CPU time, using String.Format() as you described is actually takes around 50 times as long as simply using the + operator.
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Maybe so, but GP seemed to think that a mac client implied a possible Linux client, whereas a mac client is just business as usual for Blizzard.
Not going to happen. Blizzard games have always been Mac + PC.
Why should it even matter? iPhone already has parental controls and an iPhone App Store rating system, if parents really don't want their kids using that kind of thing, it's very easy to prevent it.
Most systems using vector graphics (including KDE/Gnome/Windows Vista/Windows 7) actually specify different images for small icon sizes for exactly this reason. Sure, it means you have to create more icons, but it's not as difficult as you claim.
Some particularly retarded applications mark themselves as DPI aware, then do absolutely no UI scaling. Skype, for example.
Any student can get Visual Studio, Server 2008, etc, but only CS students can get Windows 7 for some reason. Not that it really matters all that much, Windows 2008 R2 is virtually the same thing, it just requires some tweaking to use it as a desktop OS.
There is. Select with the keyboard (I doubt I have to tell you how, but hold down shift when you move the input cursor), then press ctrl+k, s. virtually everything in VS has a keyboard shortcut.
I'm pretty sure GP was speaking about the law in general, and not the PS3 issue specifically.
The other reason being blu ray, I presume?
Windows does - SetThreadIdealProcessor().
No DirectWrite on XP, that's a technical reason.
Newer hardware generally has more compatibility problems on Linux, etc, than older hardware, so maybe Linux wasn't an option.
Really? I've had no problem with watching BBC iPlayer on my 3GS for a couple of hours at least, and I've had it since June.
Small clarification, but the vast majority of police in the uk do not carry guns. When arms are involved, specialised armed response teams are called. The uk is fairly unique in that respect.
I suspect that the game probably uses PKI encryption to ensure it's talking to a valid server. Now that doesn't mean it's not hackable, it always is eventually, but that kind of thing /would/ require a game patch.
In theory, you're correct. In practice, however, things don't really work that way. What is the content size of a terminal window? Even Apple can't decide. since the "zoom" button in Terminal.app simply fills the screen. Then there's web browsers. Safari seems to implement that zoom style behaviour, but Firefox does not. It's application specific behaviour on a control that appears on every window, and that's what's confusing.
Contrast this with Windows, where the maximise button always either makes the window fill the entire screen, or returns it to its original size. As other commenters stated, the button does indeed change its icon to indicate that this is the case, and it may not be entirely intuitive (two overlapped boxes?) but neither is an x, a - or a + sign with traffic light colours, it's all something the user has to learn.
Doesn't the Chinese government have control over the cn tld? If so, putting up a message is unlikely to help, if the government don't like it, they can just have it disabled.
Google have offices in China, so I suspect "pulling out" would mean closing that and the google.cn domain.
You clearly haven't seen the sort of people who run these companies.
I'm not sure if this applies to all download managers, but speaking specifically of the Adobe one, the reason they pressure you into using it, and make it more difficult to find the direct HTTP-link, is because it uses P2P technology from Akamai to spread out the bandwidth cost among all the people downloading.
It's a 10" screen, it's not like you can watch 1080p on it anyway. Sure, you can probably connect an external display, but I doubt that many people are going to buy this kind of computer to do that.
Stop talking about things that you clearly do not understand. The lack of protocol encryption makes MITM attacks possible.