Depends on what qualifies as a line of code: If LOGO qualifies then it was 7 If BASICA/QBASIC qualifies, then my age was 9 Wrote for C++ when I was 11 Wrote for VB when I was 13 All on a 40/66/100MHz 486 with 8MB and later 16MB RAM. ;P

Err.. I think you went to some other website, because I have been using irctc website for quite sometime and I needn't do any of such things you mentioned. Infact, its a simple wizard kind of interface where you type in source & destination city, select from a list of available trains and book it - simple. Anyway, coming to topic, I think the fault lies with lack of foresightedness. One rule of thumb which I use personally is to assume Moore's Law on expected data usage -- because software generally end up using more memory than initially planned and secondly, it happen to last more than designed for.

Or iRobot?

Well, see it this way: it helped you think of a new way of wrapping the message. :-p

And I think that should be our aim too. To move the 'real' developers into making frameworks and support tools for 'users' to program.

[quote] As a secular democratic republic, I think, the state should only support holidays that is applicable to all people. [/quote] No as a secular democratic republic, I think, state should support [b]all[/b] holidays that is applicable to anyone. And neverthless, if you wanna work nobody could stop you. If you think holidays are unnecessary and slow you down do your office work in your home also. :laugh:

DanielDyson wrote:

had used AVG for a 3 years before I switched to Avast and the improvement has been noticeable.

Well I did just opposite. I was using Avast for last 3 years. Avast also slows down your machine during regular scan just like AVG. So, the improvement which you are seeing may be just psyclogical or may be these AV are behaving differently on my machine!! Anyway, recently I had to install AVG along with Avast. I knew I had some virus due to creation of autorun.inf files along with strange files in my all drives. Avast didnt found anything unusual. So, I had to to install AVG which detected the virus & removed it. So, I guess AVG is better there. Currently, I have both of them installed as I know of some viruses which Avast detects but AVG doesnt. So, I guess you could also try this combination.

I think I was 9 or 10 years old when I first programmed in Basic. I had then a 486, 40MHz, which I was overclocked to 66MHz, which was later again overclocked to 100MHz , 272MB HDD, 8MB RAM