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re: Performant is still not an adjective

Stephen — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:13:01 GMT

The "but everyone knows what you're talking about" line falls down immediately when you have a thread like this - that's obviously not true.

Phil just over simplifies what makes a high performance car high performing, it's not just one thing. Efficiency is simply a measure of how much input energy is returned in useful work, that's easy. A high performance car is lots of things - top speed, acceleration, braking, cooling, capacity, whatever else you can think of and some subjective combination of the lot, at some subjective point, becomes worth describing as "performant."

The reason I don't like performant is that it's usually used to replace details with a vague weasel word.

re: Xbox Live says my name isn't allowed

cody — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:24:36 GMT

yea i know i wanted to use my name in my gamertag but it was like not allowed on xbox live. sooooo gay

re: Xbox Live says my name isn't allowed

cody — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:59:03 GMT

ahh my name is cody 2 its says that whats wrong with my names Cody come on really Microsoft i am just a 16yr boy trying 2 enjoy xboxlive

re: U.S. education sucks, and other observations

Hal — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:52:10 GMT

Teaching is extraordinarily challenging in this "electric" era. Make no mistake... more so now than in the past. All of society is undergoing massive change and we are under a full blown media assault...26.5 hours a day. The trouble is, we've been bought off on all fronts. Read Marshall MacLuhan "Understanding Media" (1964), or view some postings of him on You Tube.

We live in an ocean of programmed media with explicit and embedded messages... extended and "always on" to batter and better butter our brain into absolute whipped numbness and narcissism. The overly thick bureaucratized brick and mortar public school system with its subject divisions and diversions is fascinatingly obsolete and PLANNED to remain STATIC while creating APATHY and three ring circus stupidity in spades. It does a FANTASTIC job of programming and dumbing down its little and big citizens (willing operatives) who do NOT think or perceive of our oppressive (cleverly designed and induced) reality "critically". We are set up to be a part of this mess, and no amount of tax money will change this reality, unfortunately.

But, for the time being, if you must teach to survive or feed your family, do it with loving the "Art" of teaching. This takes away the pain, temporarily...until you can get out!

re: I still don't get Twitter

Sid — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:59:06 GMT

Scary thing is, twitter is still growing, even now, years after the posting of this blog, and I STILL don’t get it. Is there something wrong with me? Am I like technologically disabled or something? Should I see a doctor?

re: Performant is still not an adjective

Phil — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:36:11 GMT

Performant is not a synonym for efficient. Race cars are performant, but they are not efficient. If high efficiency cars are efficient, why wouldn't high performance cars be performant?

re: MSDN is slooooooooooow

fastMSDN — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:54:22 GMT

I am getting 1034Kn downloads right now. I had the same problem until I changed my DNS...

TRY THIS:

www.mydigitallife.info/.../speed-up-and-download-faster-from-microsoft-msdn-downloads

re: Why I hate Windows today

Martin21 — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:33:23 GMT

I'm sorry you've become another victim of Micro$oft, it happens.

And while most people flaming in these comments are citing your install procedure or experience, I don't have either. My new laptop came with Vista pre-installed and no re-install CD (It's apparent that the microslouch team has tightened security by not including CDs that could be used for *gasp* installing Vista on a machine). Anyway, from the FIRST time I tried to boot it up its gotten a BSOD (ugly BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH) and EVERY single time since. The laptop was practically useless (but a great paperweight, and I thought they were joking).

Did I press the power button the wrong way? Go ahead, tell me I did.

Linux, FTW.

re: Salesforce.com: I missed an opportunity

Jason — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:16:51 GMT

I can tell you from a sys admin user of Salesforce, they suck. And being a "sales-driven" company as opposed to a technology driven one may seem good for short-sighted investors, but clients will get sick and tired of being lied to and suffering thru SalesForce's buggy software. They over promise and undeliver. They are not a Google that doesn't need any tech support. Their service sucks, and people will start finding other alternatives that aren't that much more than SalesForce costs now. And it will be well worth the conversion costs.

re: Application, Page and Control events in ASP.NET v2.0

Caxey — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 06:34:06 GMT

Just asking what event acctually ASP.net invoke after set all postback data to the control ?