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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: Big Prize - if you can convince my CEO that he can not continue with development of an undocumented (from the developer point of view) application of such huge size! It sooner than later will be a disaster...
The Big Prize" is that you will be doing the documentation along with all your other work. 
Watch what you ask for, you may get it. 
No good deed goes unpunished. 
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
I would agree with you but then we both would be wrong.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: will be a disaster
Yes he will move on the next guy will ask "Who developed this pos?".
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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I am amazed, how can you tell from his post that its a "Point of Sale" system they are developing
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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If you succeed, let me know the secret.
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Write up what should be done about it and what it would cost, and present it to whoever has the CEO's ear.
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I've been using the Opera Web Browser now for the past few days and I'm finding it to be very fast and it works quite well.
I can barely tell the difference between it and Chrome (previously used for over a year) and it actually seems a bit faster.
Also, I'm a Google Drive advocate. I own a droid pad and with Google Drive I can get to my documents from anywhere. Very nice.
Anyway, I find that the Google Drive web interface seems to work better in Opera than it even did in Chrome.
I know they're both WebKit, just sayin'.
Anyone else using Opera on desktop? Just curious as not many do, I think.
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Used it for a long time at 12, then upgraded when they finally added bookmarks at (21?). Only having 4GB on my machine, and multitasking a lot, I sometimes run up against my memory limitation. Tried the others and always went back to Opera because it is fast and it frustrates me less than the others.
Before, I used FF, and finally got tired of finding out it had somehow sucked down 1.5GB, and was continually rising in the background. They seem to have fixed that, but the last time I tried it (a month or two ago) there was still some issues that turned me back. Then I went to Chrome. It's memory consumption became outrageous. Even after their finagling, which improved it a bit, it still hogs more memory than Opera. Even using same base engine, Opera seems to take less, and releases it better. IE: boots up slower than a dog with one leg on my machine. Something else bothered me about IE, but can't remember what. Could have been slower page loads even after bootup.
Hope Opera brings back some of the stuff from their previous life, especially customizable mouse gestures (although you can add Chrome extensions, but I don't remember them working on Chrome settings pages - and similar info pages - which Opera's did). Stackable tabs were also a killer feature - WAY better implementation than anyone else's. Hopefully some day. But I'm not going to join the bandwagon of the disgusted ones who bash Opera for changing their engine and eliminating features. This think kicks butt and is compatible with pages the old version wasn't!
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Good analysis of the issues with browsers. I've wrestled with the same problems. Maybe one of the Big 5 (IE, FF, Safari,Chrome, Opera) should create a "small footprint" version or something.
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If you want a smaller memory footprint, one option is to run on a 32 bit OS! My 3GB 32bit Win7 can handle more stuff in memory than my 4 GB 64 bit system. There is evidently A LOT of 0's in the 64 bit version (understandably)!
Having a process for every tab is a memory killer...
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David O'Neil wrote: Having a process for every tab is a memory killer...
Wasn't that loved feature sometime back? One tab hangs but others still work...
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That's what they tried to sell us on. But if they just eliminated hangs it wouldn't matter whether it was a process per thread of not 
(Several times after the switch I had to reboot the entire browser (Chrome) because it didn't work the way they said it would. But lately they seem to have gotten that aspect sorted out.
(Also, I believe Firefox never went to that model. Initially its memory consumption is far lower than Chrome/Opera/IE because of that decision. But since history and everything else is kept in the process, it balloons badly in my experience. The longer it runs the more fragmented its memory seems to get, and the longer it takes for processing. That explanation makes most sense of its characteristics from what I witnessed.
(Overall, I think Opera achieved the best balance, even if it is a process per window (and memory intensive).)
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Windows 8 is running on Xbox.
Recently Windows RT was put on the Windows Phone - in march.
There is an article about Windows putting OneCore on all devices, well it was already done long ago.
There is no such thing is windows 9.
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Colborne_Greg wrote: There is no such thing is windows 9.
Let it go already.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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He's a MS Fanbois.
And like all Fanbois, blinked to the faults of what he uses - whatever it happens to be. They existed for DOS 4.0 as well, and there is little sign of them dying out or indeed growing up...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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OriginalGriff wrote: He's a MS Fanbois. And like all Fanbois...
True, but I've never seen his level of denial before. Even the most zealous Linux, Android, Apple, Microsoft, Blackberry, etc... fanbois don't deny that there is a "next version" coming out in the "not too distant" future. This is really quite remarkable.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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That's because he isn't an "MS fanboi". He is a "Windows 8" fanboi - even more fanatical!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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The rumors of Windows 9 existed shortly after windows 8 originally had been released, the features in threshold were suppose to be in windows 8.1 update, and Microsoft Virtual Academy videos eluded to consecutive roll out releases before Windows 8.1 and has further continued that trend with the 8.1 update, going to windows 9 is done so only for one reason; to have all the users of windows to pay money to Microsoft, these tactics in threshold are being put in place to try to better market windows 8.
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Oh! Of course! Now I get it.
What?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Cut and pasting a large block of fairly meaningless text in multiple replies to multiple messages is very close to being classed as spam.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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This is spam, someone responding to their tread is called an auto response.
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The rumors of Windows 9 existed shortly after windows 8 originally had been released, the features in threshold were suppose to be in windows 8.1 update, and Microsoft Virtual Academy videos eluded to consecutive roll out releases before Windows 8.1 and has further continued that trend with the 8.1 update, going to windows 9 is done so only for one reason; to have all the users of windows to pay money to Microsoft, these tactics in threshold are being put in place to try to better market windows 8.
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Cut and pasting a large block of fairly meaningless text in multiple replies to multiple messages is very close to being classed as spam.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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This is spam, someone replying to their own post is called an auto response.
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