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I use kubuntu. Upgrading version on Linux systems still seems like a risky undertaking to me though.

Seems almost inevitable. People used to complain about streaming and not owning their music but almost everyone does now. In part I suppose because it is often prepared with other things.

Same as most of the above. I on;y replace when I build a new computer and it no longer meets the criteria.

I'm too cheap to buy a car younger than about 8 years old. Works okay with internal combustion, but fairly sure battery life will be shocking on an 8 year old car, especially on these earlier models that have low capacity to begin with.

Ugh, main problem with this is my computer is older than the 'oldest' games presented :cry:

If they're working on sensors like this, surely there are better places to keep them than ones digestive tract?

So I decided to upgrade the CPU in one of my computers. However, the computer just goes in to a few second reboot cycle with no beeps. I unplugged most accessories but same behaviour. Tried reseating a few times but same issue. Clear CMOS, same issue. The original g6950 still works in it. I...

I'm going to chuck my 2 pennies in to this derailed thread.... I've worked at a few banks, and they, like many other places are starting to explore other options to relational databases. I think this is a good thing as despite having a reasonable amount of experience of databases, I'm not fond...

Perhaps time to move on to anoher job, in order to expand your skills?

Kind of think that with prior coding experience, you may just be better off, for the start at least, just working out a small project, working on that and googling for assistance. Worry about more advanced language features later.

8 doesn't seem like many compared to some 'random' sites I checked in.

I'll go for a non-specific suggestion. I work in an area where no-one really cares about complex data structures or algorithms even though they use this in interview as a filter The ability to quickly pick up a new language, framework or concept, to produce reasonable quality code that will...

Why are you trying to do this?

Last few places I've been at have all used eclipse, although at one of them people also used intellij and emacs...

I enjoyed the thinking in c++ as mentioned above. It can be downloaded for free http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/eckel/

What you're saying seems to me to be fairly similar to the dictionary definition of 'advocate'?

As KaosDG said, calling toUpperCase returns a reference to a new String which is then lost. The 'issue' is caused because s still refers to the original String. To make s refer to the new String you need s = s.toUpperCase - you're assigning a reference to the newly created String from s.

So, anyones name on it from here? Whatcha been watching? :)

I'm sure Linux'll get there eventually. My computer tends to be a few years behind the curve so I don't mind if my games are too ;)

Indeed, what language are you doing this in? It has already been written in java http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/concurrent/ConcurrentLinkedQueue.html

Java concurrency in practice has a section on this sort of thing. Example is http://www.cs.rochester.edu/research/synchronization/pseudocode/queues.html

Hi Wormy, Firstly, ArrayList may be a better data structure than Vector for you - access to elements in Vector is synchronised and you may not need this overhead. If you don't define the type being stored then you can store any type of object in it, else you're restricted to the type you...

I'd be interested too. Stocks - bid/offer prices if possible. Thanks.

Remember, it is really easy to refactor now-a-days if you get it wrong first time around ^_^

I think you read the chart downwards. Therefore with 2 CPUs you start at the fifth column & read down (option of up to 8th column where all slots are populated.)

50-60 degrees isn't that hot - would think it should have no problems running at that speed it accurate (unless it gets a lot hotter under load). Have you considered it might be some other component going dodgy - the PSU for instance? Have you tried reseating the heatsink again? Checking the...

You might find this to be a good start http://www.amazon.com/Programming-C-3-0-Jesse-Liberty/dp/0596527438

Yup, you're right.

That is somewhat inaccurate. I have experience in the win32 api having written several small applications while learning to program in the win32 api, the most advanced being a application that showed a rotating wireframe model from various aspects (the MDI) which allowed one to...

Nothing wrong with it, I never got that advanced with win32 programming, but do remember finding it somewhat tedious setting up a reasonable looking gui. It was also hard to find documentation around things like MDI. Reason for suggesting C# is it is a lot quicker to get a gui going. Anyway...

Someone else may be able to give a better answer, but I'm not sure that C++ is the best language for you to do gui stuff in windows. Have you considered C# for instance? Should be easy to pick up if you're competent in C++.

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One way of putting costs into perspective is in the UK at least, a contractor would expect to be paid at least £350/day. Large companies would charge more than this for someones time. For someone to knock up just a requirements document would probably take a few days.

heh, a title to make people click eh? I presume that the samples are just to entice people in. I suspect that links to these websites are then sent to the well known 'free' websites. Nothing to stop you linking, except how are you going to find the addresses to the free samples?

will any normal stands hold a 30" horizontally? If your method no longer fitted on one screen you'd know it was too long :eek:

Just tried a quick google & the first thing brought up was this http://www.autohotkey.com/ Not tried it so can't recommend it, could be spyware, etc, standard warnings.

I believe you misunderstand my reasoning and assumptions here. In general I agree with you. My suggestion was for a person who as far as I can tell has no immediate support around coding & just wants to start playing around. In this case I recommended a language that I believe is fairly...

So the issue occurs after the threads start? Some sort of race condition then?

Friendlier error messages along the lines of "java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException at line 23"? Also being easier to diagnose as they tend to fail fast. + as I mentioned with C#, easier to get a pretty gui to impress yourself & friends.

I'm a Java guy myself. Just can imagine that sitting in a room learning a language, you might lose your inspiration pretty quickly after your program coredumps for the 15th time.. If he's keen to stick with it, then C, C++, sure..