Personally, I think this guy is just plain retarded.
Also, he is a bigger MS fanboy than most of /g/, but that isn't relevant to the conversation
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Anonymous2009-02-15 19:22
Business users have fucked themselves into a corner by running Windows. After accounting for memory mapped I/O devices, that 4GB limit is looking pretty small. And there's no usable 64-bit version of Windows in sight.
All the more reason to switch to MAC
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Anonymous2009-02-15 19:24
As for me I'm still doing okay programming on a Commodore 64.
What a load of crap. I and the other developers on my team run Visual Studio 2008, the SQL Query Analyser, and all the other usual programs like Outlook and Excel on 2GB RAM and it's just fine. 8GB is ridiculous for a developer workstation.
That guy is a total moron. Unless you're using video editing software, 2GB is more than enough. Sure, you'll swap a couple hundred of megs, but what's the big deal? Not really that noticeable.
Who the fuck runs the follow at exactly the same time:
WinXP/2k3 - 500mb
IIS - 500mb
MS Office (multiple programs) - 700mb
SQL Server Dev - 1gb
SQL Server Manage - 1gb
Visual Studio - 1.5gb
App Being Developed - 800mb
IE - 1.7gb
VMWare - 2gb
>>14
Nice job butchering the English language. Also, if you've written anything longer than "HELLO WORLD!", you'd understand why using an IDE is so beneficial.
By quadrupling the performance of your employee's system, you’d effectively double the productivity of your employee; it’s like getting a new employee for free.
Oh fuck I can't even think of something to say capable of matching the stupidity of his pull quote
The "JAVA" [i]programming language[/i] can increase a machine's performance by a factor of TEN, effectively QUADRUPLING the productivity of your employee; it's like getting three new employees for free.
I am doing ENTERPRISE DATABASE APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT with the help of a STREAMLINED version of Eclipse installation branded with a BlueHat. This is possible on this ancient laptop because I am not utilizing an excuse for an Operating System designed by monkey-boys. top - 20:53:58 up 3 days, 11:08, 5 users, load average: 0.41, 0.86, 0.93
Tasks: 199 total, 4 running, 195 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 31.5%us, 12.8%sy, 0.0%ni, 54.0%id, 0.8%wa, 0.2%hi, 0.8%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 1024460k total, 1000652k used, 23808k free, 5904k buffers
Swap: 2064376k total, 790652k used, 1273724k free, 156640k cached
>>35-36
Actually I was trying for something sort of equivalent to faking like you're going to whisper in someone's ear, and then talk really loud instead. Obviously didn't work though.
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Anonymous2009-02-16 16:13
>>37 Actually I was trying for something sort of equivalent to faking
You're behaving just like your mother. Obviously didn't work though.
That's why I left her.
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Anonymous2009-02-16 18:24
>>1
I do stuff that requires an order of magnitude more performance than this clown yet I'd have trouble justifying more than 6GB on my workstation. There's no way microsoft's TURNKEY ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS eat such ridiculous amounts of ram. 512MB for a naked install of XP? How the fuck is that even possible? XP was released in 2001, and budget computers had only 256MB back then, maybe even 128MB for some.
What a fucking crybaby. If you're gonna beg your employer for new toys, at least ask for something that would actually do shit performance-wise, like a ssd or a velociraptor.
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Anonymous2009-02-16 20:47
TURKEY ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS
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Anonymous2009-02-16 23:12
TURKENTERPRISE ENTURKEY
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Anonymous2009-02-17 0:07
TURKANTERPIZSCHEN ZOLUZIONNEN
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Anonymous2009-02-17 0:13
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Anonymous2009-02-17 0:42
>>44
Sorry but I'm quite an important and successful person, without Firefox add-ons it would be too much of a chore to keep my hundreds of friends, subscriber, and followers updated on my social networking, blogging, and microblogging outlets.
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Anonymous2009-02-17 0:47
>>45
I can't see why people like reading what normal, everyday, unimportant people on the internet have to say.
>>46
Your deciding to be unimportant is limiting yourself. You should read my last post, ``10 new fields where the social media revolution enables crowdsourced insights'', which received thousands of diggs; it explains your problem in clear language in the introduction.
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Anonymous2009-02-17 1:15
10 new fields where the social media revolution enables crowdsourced insights
What a convoluted piece of shit. Sounds very ENTERPRISE.
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Anonymous2009-02-17 1:20
>>44
Opera sucks sure there's an ebuild for opera but it just get dropped to /opt, it's statically linked, and it's CLOSED SOURCE, which means that it is a BINARY package.
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Anonymous2009-02-17 1:32
>>50 CLOSED SOURCE? OMG, THAT'S LIKE SAYING NAZI! AND NIGGER! REPUBLICANS!
>>58
yes, for once i agree.
you're not a troll - infact, you're the perfect victim for those types.
you're an autistic with zero troll detection capabilities that loves to argue with anyone and about anything.
anyways, looks like i need to re-enable that /prog/fixer script now.
Internet Explorer and/or your other web browsers take up plenty of RAM. Typically 75MB for IE to be loaded, plus 10-15MB per page/tab. And if you’re anything like me, you’ll have lots and lots and LOTS of pages/tabs by the end of the day; by noon I typically end up with about four or five separate IE windows/processes, each with 5-15 tabs. (Mind you, all or at least most of them are work-related windows, such as looking up internal/corporate documents on the intranet or tracking down developer documentation such as API specs, blogs, and forum posts.) Cost @nominal: 100MB; @peak: 512MB. Subtotal @nominal: 1.75GB; @peak: 6.5GB.
And as to your OMG OPTIMIZATION I've got three words: ENTERPRISE WEB APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT.
Well... make that four words.
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Anonymous2009-02-20 16:54
>>39
The amazing thing about XP is that 512MB was never enough for it; People back in 2001 had a vastly different approach to what was considered enough.
Thanks to XP lasting as long as it did, the OS vs RAM ratio has swung in favour of us having loads of RAM and never having to rely on swap, which is one hell of a good thing.
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Anonymous2009-02-20 21:49
>>67
On a related note, I'm highly amused at how badly Vista has failed to gain acceptance.