This made me think, what would a Dyson sphere look like in the flat earth model, then I remembered they don't have one...

Did you turn it off, and back on again? "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

Your mention of google. . .this is important in the discussion of "pre-internet" vs. "post-internet" because I want to bring up an important point about google. When we say or think "post-internet" it really is "post-internet + google" that we are talking about when we say how all this info is at our finger tips now. Because, do people remember when we had the internet but when you searched for something it may take 45 minutes to find the information you were seeking?? I do. You would go through 20 pages of search results at times, navigating to several of the hits themselves in a percentage of each page before you found what really answered your question. I think of this almost weekly and tell my kids how awesome it is (we have it) today where if you are able to think for a moment on your search terms, boom, there it is EXACTLY what you were looking to be answered, in the first 3 hits usually.

there's your answer.

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C++ server components on linux are great fun. gcc, gdb, make and vi - what else do you need?

Personally I don't care what Microsoft does. Knowing, naturally, that I have no influence over any direction they take. And about any future course in any realm pivoting on news from them about this or that, I ignore. Hardware, the thing about which I think you REALLY mean to say something, has been around for ages. How is a software company going to kill that? Earplugs. To keep the annoying news from infiltrating the porches of the ear. Shades. To keep the blitz of gaud-awful electronic krap and it's shiney blithering unlessness at visual bay. And off you go.

Matt McGuire wrote: 1. Anyone from the .NET world have any experences useing this language? (how does it compare?) 2. Is this still an expermental language or are there people out there making and selling applications built with Go? (examples?) I would expect that train has left the station and crashed just outside it. http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html[^] The "GO" language is not in the top 50 but is in the top 100. But unless you have already mastered the top 50 that probably doesn't matter. Its most notable appearance was 2009 under the highest rise in a year. But that suggests it isn't sticking around.

I've seen some slowdowns, but nothing too severe. I'm using the Express version (for Windows 8 apps).

Meh it was meant to be joke. Btw. how the hell did you dig up this thread buried 26 pages down? [Genetic Algorithm Library] [Wowd]