To tase is to attack with a Taser or other stun weapon, typically with the goal of incapacitation. Tase comes from Taser, but in common usage it is used to refer to the action of using any such device (commonly called a stun gun). It is also spelled as taze. Do you say tased or tasered? For example, correct uses of the TASER trademark include “TASER device” and “TASER weapon.” All verb forms of TASER are not correct uses of the TASER trademark, including “tase,” “tased,” “tasing,” “tasered,” and variations using the letter “z” instead of “s. Read More...
Modern Java is quite fast and is comparable to C++ code base but it still takes lot of memory. Slowness of Java programs is primarily because of bad programming practices. But following areas are where Java can be improved. Java libraries are written keeping readability and correctness in mind, not performance. Why is Java language so slow? String operations are a bit slow.Java uses immutable, UTF-16-encoded string objects. This means you need more memory, more memory access, and some operations are more complex than with ASCII (C, C++). Read More...
By David Wharton | Updated 4 years ago This article is more than 2 years old
As far as all the current and upcoming revisitations old franchises go — most of them remakes — Mad Max: Fury Road is by far one of the most intriguing, and for one simple reason: it’s actually being made by George Miller, the guy who created the franchise in the first place. It’s still not entirely clear whether Fury Road is a sequel, prequel, reboot, or what, but Tom Hardy (Bane in The Dark Knight Rises) is taking over the role of Max made iconic by Mel Gibson, and the project is clearly intended to revive the franchise for a new generation. Read More...
