Quick Nap

[OriginalGriff]

Perhaps the application is designed for use deep in a gravity well?

Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water

[Lost User]

Most have been up to today. At least as welly as our planet can make it :)

At least artificial intelligence already is superior to natural stupidity

[Chris Meech]

The comment has been truncated. I think it originally read

Thread.Sleep(3000); // wait a minute, let's slow things down a few seconds for no apparent reason.

:)

Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra] posting about Crystal Reports here is like discussing gay marriage on a catholic church’s website.[Nishant Sivakumar]

[BobJanova]

Optimisation opportunity? I've heard stories of people leaving those in so they can present a 'quick win' when they're under pressure.

[Lutoslaw]

Yep, it was here on CP. A "performance loop" it was call or sth like this (for int i=0;i<10000000;i++)

Greetings - Jacek

[Keith Barrow]

Pascal Ganaye wrote:

Thread.Sleep(3000); // wait a minutejust a tick!

FTFY, no, wait, that's not right either!

Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.[^]
-Or-
A Dead ringer for Kate Winslett[^]

[aureliosjr]

That would work, because the people inside the gravity well would experience the passage of time normally. Only an outside observer would see time passing by slower inside the gravity well. :-D

[Jorgen Andersson]

I like the measure microfortnight personally.

Light moves faster than sound. That is why some people appear bright, until you hear them speak. List of common misconceptions

[spencepk]

Thread.Sleep(3000); // wait a minute 3-seconds

[AspDotNetDev]

Ah, I remember writing that when I wrote Sim City. Of course, Sim time is different than our time. A side effect of reticulated splines.

Thou mewling ill-breeding pignut!

[Albert Holguin]

What is... thread synchronization for dummies? ;P

[PIEBALDconsult]

That looks more like three shakes of a lamb's tail.

[krsmichael]

Grrr....you beat me to the punch line!

[Steve Burchett]

Every day, I work a micromillenium.

Just think of it as evolution in action.