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  1. Re:Know what else is 10,000x faster than flash? on Computer Memory Can Be Read With a Flash of Light · · Score: 1

    You just explained why the interface is a significant issue, then your last sentence was that the interface isn't the issue.

  2. Re:Know what else is 10,000x faster than flash? on Computer Memory Can Be Read With a Flash of Light · · Score: 1
  3. Re:Know what else is 10,000x faster than flash? on Computer Memory Can Be Read With a Flash of Light · · Score: 1

    See my other response. Those facts are lacking factuality.

  4. Re:Know what else is 10,000x faster than flash? on Computer Memory Can Be Read With a Flash of Light · · Score: 1

    50us? 50-100MHz? 1/50E-6 = 20KHz, not 50MHz.
    http://download.micron.com/pdf/datasheets/flash/nand/2_4_8gb_nand_m49a.pdf -> Sequential READ: 30ns
    I.E. half the speed of 15ns DRAM.

    Parallel read stuff is a bit slower, but not a lot. You can pay more for faster and you can always wire it up in parallel.
    http://download.micron.com/pdf/datasheets/flash/qflash/MT28F640J3.pdf

    SRAM speed depends entirely on the context, of which there are many. The on chip ones I use take less than 1ns to read on a modern silicon process.

  5. Eric Schultz on Your License Is Your Interface · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Eric Schultz appears to underestimate the ability of programmers to not give shit about licensing.
    Lawyers want to wheedle their ways into all our lives. Ignore them, they won't go away, but it will simplify your life.

  6. Re:Know what else is 10,000x faster than flash? on Computer Memory Can Be Read With a Flash of Light · · Score: 3, Informative

    No. SRAM and DRAM are not particularly faster than flash for read operations. The bigger impact on flash vs. SRAM is that SRAM is often on chip whereas flash is stuck behind a slow interface.

    Flash is many times slower for erase and write operations.

  7. 10 micrometres wide on Computer Memory Can Be Read With a Flash of Light · · Score: 4, Funny

    From the article: "10 micrometres wide"

    So move on. There's nothing to be seen here.

  8. Predicates on KDE Plasma Can Now Run On Wayland · · Score: 2

    Predicates are great, they let you be right even though you're not.
    E.G: "If everything works fine, you should not even notice any difference"

    This is true, but it doesn't tell you whether or not you will notice any difference, it just gives you the predicate under which you will not but doesn't walk the walk of telling you it will work fine.

  9. Re:Django Girls on The Rails Girls Are Coming to a City Near You (Video) · · Score: 1

    No funny mods? It was a guitarist joke.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Django_Reinhardt

  10. Re:Google Reader? on Slashdot Asks: How Will You Replace Google Reader? · · Score: 1

    I'm not, but if I was I wouldn't expect Google to bail me out.

  11. Re:Google Reader? on Slashdot Asks: How Will You Replace Google Reader? · · Score: 1

    Clicking on 4 bookmarks in the morning is not a great hardship. I might click on them again at lunch. I'm certain that it doesn't materially impact my spare time.

  12. Re:Google Reader? on Slashdot Asks: How Will You Replace Google Reader? · · Score: 1

    Ditto.

  13. Re:Naked? on The Rails Girls Are Coming to a City Near You (Video) · · Score: 1

    That was comment inheritance. The parent comment assign RoR - shit. My comment inherited that assignment and added the Django+Style Inhertance - I like property.

    Your comment overrode that assignment, but if you were using python you could assign a tuple django - {i like, bloated}

  14. Re:Naked? on The Rails Girls Are Coming to a City Near You (Video) · · Score: 1

    So what is the web framework du jour? I'm not going to try them all.

  15. Re:Naked? on The Rails Girls Are Coming to a City Near You (Video) · · Score: 1

    Django is better because I like it more than RoR. Probably because Python is pretty good and I use it enough to be fluent. I don't care about speed, it's fast enough for my purposes. I've written high performance web stuff and it didn't involve 'frameworks' or SQL databases.

    But Django's support for style inheritance is notable by its complete absence. Hence my comment.

     

  16. Re:Naked? on The Rails Girls Are Coming to a City Near You (Video) · · Score: 0

    RoR is indeed shit, but SAAS was ok.

    I got around that problem by using SAAS in Django. The best of both worlds.

  17. Django Girls on The Rails Girls Are Coming to a City Near You (Video) · · Score: 2

    Django Girls can do it with only two fingers.

  18. Re:2 year contract on CRTC Unveils New Wireless Code To Protect Canadian Customers · · Score: 1

    Fortunately I don't design battery subsystems any more. LiION chargers are tedious to design well.

    I'm strictly on chip now.

  19. Re:2 year contract on CRTC Unveils New Wireless Code To Protect Canadian Customers · · Score: 1

    My casio fx750 calculator has been running on the same battery for 25 years.

    The evidence is mounting up that old batteries were simply better.
     

  20. Re:2 year contract on CRTC Unveils New Wireless Code To Protect Canadian Customers · · Score: 1

    Your battery will crap out before two years is up.
    You may be able to replace the battery for a while, until they stop making it in that shape.

  21. Re:What if the person is innocent? on SCOTUS Says DNA Collection Permissible After Arrest · · Score: 1

    I'm going to buy stock in makers of PCR and sequencing machines.
    There's sure to be a dramatic rise in demand for these machines as the government seeks to sequence the genome of every human.
     

  22. Re:I knew it would be 5-4 on SCOTUS Says DNA Collection Permissible After Arrest · · Score: 1

    >Nope, easier just to pigeonhole someone as "100% evil"
    I'm under no illusions. Scalia is 80% evil.

  23. Re:Token ring ... on Ethernet Turns 40 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    >Cell, not packet.

    Just because the same idiots who thought 53 was a sane number of bytes to make packet also thought they had the right to just randomly rename things that standard network terminology calls packets or PDUs, and calls them cells instead.

    Let it be known, that when I'm master of the universe, I will not be tolerant of their mistakes.

  24. Re:Token ring ... on Ethernet Turns 40 · · Score: 1

    >ATM is the future of networking.

    But I can't fit the last 11 bytes in the packet.

  25. Re: And you make me sick on Intel's Linux OpenGL Driver Faster Than Apple's OS X Driver · · Score: 1

    W.T.F. does 'GIMP' have to do with physically challenged (I think you are too timid to write 'disabled') people?

    I suspect you of choosing to interpret what was written in way that enables you to choose to take offense, where non was offered.