[V8] C4
Dave Saad
dsaad at icehouse.net
Sun Oct 24 15:26:48 PDT 2010
OK Mike and Bryan - you guys are cracking me up -
On the microsoft thing, I will buy the first shell. I just spent the weekend writing three identical functionality programs demonstrating "threads" in windows, MacOS X, and Linux, using Java, C, and C++ (on windows).
Windows was by far the slowest performing. This was all done on my mac running native windows7, OSX, and Linux FDC13 - so the hardware remains the same for all tests.
That is hardly my reason for detesting the Redmond Empire though. That goes back about 20 years.
(test results - processing about 60 megabytes of data in about 20 files resulted in times of about 5 seconds for Mac and Linux (c and java) and about 10 seconds on windows7)
On the lender thing, I was most definitely coerced, pushed, tempted, and lied to by a lender to buy more house than I could afford. I specifically asked the lender - "do people really spend 80% of their monthly income on a house payment?" to which she very sincerely said yes. There are plenty of gullible and just plain stupid people out there who would easily fall for this scam. It is not the governments fault that people are greedy - but it is their job to pick up the pieces and try to make it all better. I don't have a solution, but not regulating the industry has thus far not worked out so well. Maybe a little over regulation is in order for a while.
Dave
(oh - and I drive an Audi with no C4)
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