Here's the thing: Java and .NET have their own instruction sets (there's even a microprocessor that can run Java baremetal). So in my eyes it makes them "VM-y enough". > a VM has to effectively sidestep the underlying OS What do you mean about that? Is a paravirtualized kernel not a VM in your terms because it uses the host's OS API to perform its tasks? Or KVM, because again, it utilizes OS-supplied methods? > running files on a different OS on top of the underlying OS What about virtualizing MCUs/PICs or whatever embedded systems for testing purposes, which have no OS? Is anything a VM then? > PDF readers are VMs I'm not sure about PDFs, but PostScript engines are definitely VMs "I don't think about dying. It is the last thing I want to do. :) " - theoldfool

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If you want to spend that much money, you're in a weird space because you are bordering on the price of an actual server. At that level, you can do a few things: * Get a "second-from the top" CPU. Typically in the USD$750 range. * Get two video cards to power a pair of big monitors at full resolution. * Get top-notch SSDs and put them in RAID 1. Ensure that you have the enough throughput on motherboard, many mobos can't handle that type of throughput. My biggest struggle with recent development machines has really centered around lack of CPU power, lack of screen real estate and lack of drive speed. If you spend your day doing things like compiling your code and running unit tests, then your computer is mostly dependent on CPU + IO. Doing things like git checkout and branch can cause lots of data to cycle through memory while you sit on those two things. Using a tool like Resharper can also suck up your CPU as it's doing real-time compilation over and over again. Likewise, I have yet to stare a at computer and go "too much screen real estate". I know people who work on a pair of 30" monitors. It seems ridiculous until you realize that you actually have stuff to fill out those screens. Getting a pair of dedicated video cards is the best way to power those two devices.

Drugs can help in many ways not just stamina . Golfists would benefit from drugs that keep them calm , anyone who takes part in regular exercise would benefit from being able to recover better to train more frequently ( even if it is just to improve their skills) . Even 90 minutes is enough to get a fall off in performance . Drugs would help people perform as well in the last few minutes as the first few . ( Some football teams seem to repeatedly get victories in the last few minutes ?) . Its true drugs will not materially change your skill levels they wont make your Sunday league footballer into a Messi . But at the top end of the sport where the guys are very close on ability anything that gets you a few percentage points advantage is going to be taken ( by some) , especially when there are pornographic amounts of money involved.

You would also get a Monday every twenty minutes or so... 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 – ∞)

Same here. SB if the first forum I check, next is the Lounge. :laugh: Don't mind those people who say you're not HOT. At least you know you're COOL. I'm not afraid of falling, I'm afraid of the sudden stop at the end of the fall! - Richard Andrew x64

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Holly cr*p, you just recalled a horrible memories in my head, I’ve did parsers with the both languages for embedded systems. At least it’s challenging and satisfying experience and makes you feel a real programmer. The narrow specialist in the broad sense of the word is a complete idiot in the narrow sense of the word. Advertise here – minimum three posts per day are guaranteed.

Not fair. I've already started calling it Meh-ven, heh. :-\

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It's very likely to be dependent upon the wiring of the car it's fitted to (in my case a '98 Renault Laguna Estate). If the auxilary adaptor socket in the car has no noise suppression, you're relying entirely on that within the device. Anna :rose: Linting the day away :cool: Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "If mushy peas are the food of the devil, the stotty cake is the frisbee of God"

take a look at LLBLGen

Do a search for LLBLGen and download the free version. You'll have to do some coding changes to take advantage of technology advances, but I believe it will give you most if not all that you need. I added a generated method of my own to the code PopulateBy(DataRow row) since all of the selects it generates returns a DataTable. This keeps the use of the data at the row level.

Tiptoe away. Quietly. NOW!! The tigress is here :-D

Exactly. So the country that started the war did not achieve its aims. ie, the US, so it lost. While Britain had no interest in war, and didnt loose territory or control. And got what it wanted. So it won. Nunc est bibendum