SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
Sir Garlon writes:
"Oracle released version 8 of the Java Development Kit (JDK) 8 to general availability on Wednesday, March 19, 2014. (A release candidate has been available since January 2014.) The release notes include a long list of security improvements as well as support for lambda expressions."
This discussion has been archived.
No new comments can be posted.
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
Two is not equal to three, even for large values of two.
(Score: 4, Funny) by nukkel on Friday March 21 2014, @08:25PM
Kinda like having to open the Start Menu to shut down your computer.
Perhaps Windows is programmed in COBOL?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by RobotLove on Friday March 21 2014, @10:15PM
I've resolved that particular chestnut in my mind by thinking of it as "Start stopping my computer", which unfortunately, can often take several minutes. Nothing makes me happier than powering down my laptop at work so I can catch the bus home only to have it say, "Installing update 1 of 3029. Do not turn off your computer." Would it be too much to ask me if I had time first?
(Score: 1) by blackest_k on Friday March 21 2014, @10:43PM
would be nice if it warned you, maybe a suspend wouldn't kill it and let you catch the bus.
Ok i admit it i find windows irritating but it is such a time sink. Turns 5 minute jobs into 2 hour or longer ones and the damn printers.
this afternoon two pc's connected to the same network printer one can print the other can send test pages only. both on the same group policy.
Think it was a corrupted driver as i finally got it going by installing the wrong driver which it then pulled from the server and could print normally. Problem is theres another 200 or so random pc's which may have similar issues and nobody ever willing to say much more than its in that room along with 25 others...
Maybe if i just use windows in a vm i can get control of it.
(Score: 3, Informative) by chromas on Saturday March 22 2014, @01:24AM
It usually does warn you by putting a little icon next to Shutdown in the menu. I think it's a shield but it's been a while since I've used Windows.
I think the idea is that if you want to do a task, you Start at the menu, even if it's to stop doing tasks. Of course, now it's where you Start raping your eyeballs with giant colored rectangles.
(Score: 2) by istartedi on Friday March 21 2014, @10:22PM
Not knowing any COBOL, I'm guessing that the RUN command could have been placed on a separate line, and that the STOP command is like a void return in C. The main function is compiled, and the RUN command is back in the "shell" or whatever it is COBOL has. That's my guess anyway.
Appended to the end of comments you post. Max: 120 chars.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by rochrist on Saturday March 22 2014, @06:33PM
I expect this stems from the days when programs were run as jobs on large timeshare systems, and the STOP RUN refers to stopping the run of this particular job.