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Support for multiple desktops will be hugely welcome in business/enterprise. The continuing furore, here and well everywhere, over the Start Menu is hilarious. Microsoft must be incredibly bemused by it all. Also Win8.1 was a free upgrade, so whoever said releasing a Windows release for free...

Tragic :(

It only comes across as opinionated drivel because you weren't expecting somebody with an actual clue to arrive. Fair play to you for not actually responding. There was nothing you could have said to redeem yourself from that rubbish anyway.

This a good post. D.P.'s is far less so. Multi-paradigm "functional-OO" hybrid languages are all the rage at the moment for good reason. Swift, Scala, F#, OCaml. OP should learn one of these. They are actually easier to learn than a legacy language too because they deal in higher-level, almost...

Not convinced about that sentiment at all. Things are moving to the cloud where distributed systems, resiliency and scaling/load distribution are more important factors than outright execution speed. C/C++ remains popular because it is still the ultimate low-level systems language, and because...

I use Amex for everything where possible. Pretty much everywhere worth buying things from in London accepts it. I don't see how filling in an application form, and, you know, using a piece of plastic, is "too much fussing" like some silly sod claims. It's easy enough to tot up enough points...

+1 though I'd argue Win2000 was the first properly rock solid release of Windows. NT4 was pretty good but still had a few fundamental design flaws.

That wasn't really at you Phate... and you should already know that I know you're a long time Windows user... I don't quite understand your logic here though. I *have* found countless threads from people with the same issues as me. But apparently this does not qualify? There seems to be some...

Me too. I run Windows in VMware Fusion, works pretty good. Wish Fusion supported V-sync though... That is the weird paradox with OSX. One half of its window management is absolutely awful. This is the half which seemingly hasn't been improved since the 1980s for fear of offending what must be...

Interesting: https://communities.vmware.com/thread/467919

Is this whole post specifically concerning the Sleep Wake Failure? Yes I read the rest of the panic log, but it was just dozens of stack traces from the kernel. What else are you expecting to glean from such a log? CPU registers? RAM faults typically show up as segmentation faults, not as...

Where was the entirely relevant suggestion to fix the Sleep Wake Failure issue? There hasn't been any suggestions. How about, you know, reading the thread rather than just sitting on the sidelines and slinging mud?

So we now have Beachballs and Picnics? :p Fantastic!

I've been around computers for too long to know that doing a "repair" isn't going to fix this Sleep Wake Failure kernel panic (unless it rolls back the kernel version?). It actually appears to be a bug they re-introduced in the 10.9.3 update, which I seem to recall installing late last week, and...

Also I figured out how to avoid the bug when disconnecting an external monitor and where all the windows/workspaces would get orphaned and become unaccessible until you reconnected the monitor. Solution is simple... make sure that external monitor is not "sleeping". It has to be fully awake...

Had more software-induced kernel panics this week alone than in >15 years of Windows. All related to power management, the specific error is "Sleep Wake Failure". Again, a quick Google seems to suggest this problem has been going on for 2 years but still no fix from Apple. Not sure why I've had...

Rosberg is a dirty cheat!

So it's okay when some guy parades around his cert and suggests I may be ignorant about how the concept of virtual memory works. But when I call him out on that it makes me arrogant? Give over mate. You've been hostile in this thread ever since your first post. Give over. Conspiracy theorist...

It's not a dodgy machine. The software is dodgy, that's the problem. It's 16GB. Though my Windows VM has 8GB of that. Don't tell me that OSX needs more than 8GB to run a few Chrome tabs, iTunes, Skype, Transmission and a Xamarin iOS Build Host? Because those are literally the only user...

Fixed. (in bold)