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...and many which relies on external libraries built only for x86 fails miserably 
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All my windows apps are 64 bit
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When it comes to .net apps, there is an overhead when compiled as 64bit currently as the 64bit JIT compiler is optimized for services rather than applications. However the CLR team is currently re-writing all their compilers to a common bases that will improve the start up time for 64 bit .net apps.
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Fractal Extreme runs twice as fast in 64 bit mode.
Possibly because of the eight extra 128 bit SIMD registers available in 64 bit mode (XMM8-XMM15).
Taking days to generate Mandelbrot zoom movies I upgraded to Win7 64 bit specifically for this speedup.
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The ultimate result will always be the same:
"Where's My Data? I can't get my data. What's going on?"*
And there will be some other 'Language', rife with fricatives.
* help-desk phone numbers, call trees, notwithstanding
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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OK, that doesn't rhyme as much as I hoped it might.
Anyway, it was a slow news day yesterday (as anyone looking at the newsletter could tell), so I decided to look back on my posts to see just how nasty I am to our various friends. For all of the Daily News posts from Feb 1 to March 21, I encoded them as either neutral, positive, or negative (either based on the news story itself, or my blurb, and I think I took any even slightly snarky comment as negative).
For those as curious as myself:
| Company | Count | %Positive | %Neutral | %Negative |
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| Microsoft | 133 | 15% | 58% | 27% | | Apple | 14 | 7% | 36% | 57% | | Google | 36 | 6% | 56% | 39% | | Adobe | 2 | 0% | 0% | 100% | | Oracle/Java | 8 | 13% | 38% | 50% | | Linux/OSS | 13 | 23% | 38% | 38% | | Mozilla | 7 | 29% | 29% | 43% | | Facebook | 6 | 17% | 67% | 17% | | JavaScript | 7 | 14% | 43% | 43% |
TTFN - Kent
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Quote: OK, that doesn't rhyme as much as I hoped it might.
Depends on what part of the world you are from, as I reluctantly proved earlier. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Apart from the overly positive bias towards Adobe, it shows a healthy mistrust of them all.
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That's definitely one of the conclusions I was hoping people would notice. Well, maybe not the Adobe bit.
Thank you.
TTFN - Kent
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If you bother to look even slightly closely, Faceache is top at even opinion and none of them get positive. Though I still say you should temper your enthusiasm for Adobe.
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Thank you for not including the column "Pitying" with the single entry for Blackberry.
That just would have made me sad.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Were you one of the early users ?
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Interesting stats. So you are telling us that 'Microsoft and Linux are good but Facebook is even better while Adobe still sucks'... hmm alright, but are you sure about the Facebook part? 
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I think it got weighted by some (one) good news item. The book of face is definitely on my "ignore most of the time" posts, but they sneak in occasionally due to their open sourcing chunks of code.
The main message (other than I'm negative across the board) is that I'm actually less negative towards one company than the other biggish companies. And it's that company that people have complained about me being harsh towards.
TTFN - Kent
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I'm right with there with Adobe.
Along with Antimatter and Dark Matter they've discovered the existence of Doesn't Matter which appears to have no effect on the universe whatsoever!
Rich Tennant 5th Wave
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Here[^]
Not sure which one is the girl as they both appear to be wearing skirts.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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It's a pity she isn't an actress... 
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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not an actress? look at the shoes!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2587652/SEBASTIAN-SHAKESPEARE-Archbishop-Welby-marries-daughter.html
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There is a very, very old series of jokes that all end "as the actress said to the Bishop" (or vice versa) and are invariably smutty.
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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 too much!
in this context this fit well... "That’s What She Said”
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I don't know that one, but we're having Chicken and Apricot tonight.
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I'm sorry, having a bad day! That so looked like the set up for a joke, religion argument, it was my go to response. 
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No set-up, just as play on duck/chicken.
Jeez, I need a drink. 
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