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Virtual memory was introduced to help run more programs with limited memory. But in todays environment of inexpensive RAM, is it still relevant?
Since there will be no disk access if it is disabled and all the programs will be memory resident, will it...
Started by Navneet on
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And this happens all the time, as the relevant.
Uses your RAM as a big fat cache to your hard drives .
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Do you think any part of "The Pragmatic Programmer" book is no longer relevant? Has any part of the book become more relevant/useful?
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How many lessons in that book are....
Similarly, look at the Mythical Man-Month...
I can't think of much that isn't relevant today.
To it today, 10 years later, and I think it's the most relevant book in my bookshelf even now.
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- Warcraft
- Grand Theft Auto
- Halo
- The Elder Scrolls
- Metal Gear Solid
- Mario
- Street Fighter
- Zelda
- Gran Turismo
- Counter Strike
Which of the above you think lost its appeal and shouldn't be considered in the top 10?
Started by Mystery_Writer on
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Said Madden but not Fifa.
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Is Nationalism relevant today?
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Yes Not very relevant....
YES! Nationalism is very relevant because it's the sworn enemy of globalism, the ideology relevant because of globalisation! Republicans and Democrats don't take pride in this country, they take pride in Israel.
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This article from IBM about a JDBC wrapper seems good and I'm tempted to use it:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jdbcwrap/index.html
but it its dated 2001 - is it still relevant to today's best practices or has this been superseded by...
Started by Vidar on
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If you don't mind adding third party libraries - ... .
You’re a lot better of using “normal JDBC”, especially PreparedStatement .
After a short glance at the source code of Table I’d strongly advise against it as it does nothing to prevent SQL injections .
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Given that applications for mobile devices are expected to be small and simple, often with heavy computation off-loaded to a web-service.
Is OO, over and above frameworks such as J2ME, relevant to mobile application programming ?
Would application specific...
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On any feature-phone of today, you're in luck!.
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Since the vast majority of monitors are 16-bit color or more, including mobile devices , does it make sense to even consider Web Safe Colors when choosing color schemes? Or is it something that ought to be relegated to history as a piece of trivia?
For...
Started by Gavin Miller on
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To me, a much of this applying to today's modern displays, since almost nobody runs their display in 256 colors anymore.
I don't think web safe colors are relevant any more.
In my opinion, its history.
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Hello,
I'm new to Windows programming and after reading the Petzold book I wonder whether it's still good practice to use the TCHAR type and the _T() function to declare strings or if I should just use the wchar_t and L"" strings in new code.
I will target...
Started by Fábio on
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There's not much practical.
I would still use the TCHAR syntax if I was doing a new project today.
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Not a popularity contest, but if you were to elect some in some categories, what would be the names?
Here are a few suggested categories.
The only criteria I’d insist on would be: needs to be fully OSS, not a one-man show, have some people involved, have...
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I'd say the testing sure we get the names/links to all important... .
Most relevant?? For today MbUnit, RhinoMocks, Castle, NLog/Log4net, NHibernate, Nant do I have to have to do a full build today?, etc.) and it's been great.
Project I do.
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[Coalde Note: You really have to watch the video.] AT&T archive film talks about the threats of 20 years ago, the same threats we have now Anyone training an end user today about computer security would be well advised to add the following video to their...
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