dapreview.net: content / meizu m6 (stand-alone review) That my firengi friends is why one needs to be in China!! Damn that is a kewl gadget, and that if built with good quality can beat the sh** outta any pod that any fruit in the computer industry can make! (for the uninitiated read fruit as “apple”). Check out the reviews at the link mentioned above
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The much talked about and often cursed part of Java development is Garbage Collection. I often say, “Writing code in Java is easy, but writing good code is extremely hard” I have listed a list of links at the end of this article that provides more detailed information. Resources: http://java.sun.com/docs/hotspot/gc1.4.2/index.html http://java.sun.com/docs/hotspot/PerformanceFAQ.html#1
After what has been ages, I have returned. Not that many are reading this, but I intend to use this for future reference in any case I have wanted to learn javascript, and this time I found a sustainable way. Learn a language by implementing something very huge in it. I’m writing, what I must say a very kewl application at work, and am learning quite a few tricks in javascript. ...
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The Alchemy of Desire by Tarun J. Tejpal This is an amazing amazing book. What prose?! and what a story?! This has rekindled my faith in Indian authors, Finally a book in “english†by an Indian author, without a thousand transliterated words from Hindi. It has made me see a few things I had forgotten, made me look and find new things, that I didnâ€(tm)t knew existed. Thank you Tarun, you need to write more! ...
I was listening to the song “Piya Bole” and couldn’t figure out meanings of some words … so I googled it and presto! BollyWHAT? presents THE TRANSLATED LYRICS of PARINEETA enjoy.. nice lyrics eh?! Btw, You can find guitar tabs for that song here and here
The Da Vinci Code by Ron Howard Well, finally managed to catch the moview! The moview has been banned all over Tamil Nadu (Drat!!!), but I chanced to catch it. IPrehaps because I have read the book, the actors seem to be mere narrators of the script. I could hardly accept Tom Hanks (guess he is getting a little old these days), as Robert Langdon. I like Silas though, but would have expected a more burly man! ...
One more little thing that is painfully difficult to do in Java. (I love Java though ;) ) There are two ways of getting it done. a. Cryptic but sweet! bring on the bit manipulators! private long getLong(byte[] mbytes) { long lValue =0; for (int i : mbytes.length) { lValue = (lValue< <8) | (mbytes[i] & 0xff); } return lValue; } b. painfully slow and created a gazzillon objects (sooo typically Java) write byte array to DataOutputStream, and read from corresponding input stream using readLong() ...
Check out the news item!! The height of hypocrisy! When there a thousand things we can raise hue and cry over, all we can manage is go on a hunger strike to avoid screening a movie?!! We got to be better than this.. someone please tell me .. we got to be better than this! Top News | Reuters.co.in