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  1. From the table, it looks like the Oracle is the fastest, but also the highest price/tpmC, while the Dell is the cheapest.

  2. Re:Hmmmm... I forget... on Five Years After the Sun Merger, Oracle Says It's Fully Committed To SPARC · · Score: 1

    You have to be kind to your customers, otherwise they move too much when you rape them.

  3. Re:To be expected on Empirical Study On How C Devs Use Goto In Practice Says "Not Harmful" · · Score: 1

    I work with embedded devices. These things are limited (small battery, long life, low cost etc). Every clock tick costs power.

    State of the art ARM Cortex implementations use less power per clock tick than 10 year old 8 bit stuff, plus they do a lot more per instruction.

    Time-to-market is also important, and embedded devices are doing more and more complex tasks, so this means that your average programmer is just going to grab a couple of big libraries, instead of working out all the little details to increase performance.

  4. Lot of talk about number of cores, and cache sizes, but what is the actual performance compared to intel's chips ?

  5. No, but neither should the programmer overload the '+' and '*' operator to do all of those things.

  6. Re:GOTO is a crutch for bad programmers on Empirical Study On How C Devs Use Goto In Practice Says "Not Harmful" · · Score: 1

    But it doesn't work, because you didn't initialize hasResource2 and hasResource3 variables to false.

  7. Re:GOTO is a crutch for bad programmers on Empirical Study On How C Devs Use Goto In Practice Says "Not Harmful" · · Score: 2

    If AcquireResource1() fails, you have unitialized entries in resources[1] and resources[2].

    And this array only works if your resources all look the same.

  8. Re:GOTO is a crutch for bad programmers on Empirical Study On How C Devs Use Goto In Practice Says "Not Harmful" · · Score: 1

    You can't just grab a handful of lines of code and make it a separate function. A function needs to have a clear purpose, not too many arguments, and preferably not more than 1 return value.

  9. Re:To be expected on Empirical Study On How C Devs Use Goto In Practice Says "Not Harmful" · · Score: 1

    Lots of Internet of Things stuff runs on ARM Cortex M3/M4 on > 100 MHz CPUs. Plenty of resources for lazy development.

  10. Re:GOTO is a crutch for bad programmers on Empirical Study On How C Devs Use Goto In Practice Says "Not Harmful" · · Score: 2

    That's horrible with the code duplication. It gets even worse if the cleanup is 2 or 3 lines per resource.

  11. Re:GOTO is a crutch for bad programmers on Empirical Study On How C Devs Use Goto In Practice Says "Not Harmful" · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I find the gotos easier to read than the nested set of if statements. Especially because the gotos are a well known idiom for handling this type of error/cleanup.

  12. Re:I'll take the wine instead on The Mathematical Case For Buying a Powerball Ticket · · Score: 1

    Buying a second ticket on the other hand doesn't add any utility and it's still a bad investment, but for some reason people do it anyway.

    It doubles your hope !!

  13. Re:But the price... on Study: Smartphones Just As Good As Fitness Trackers For Counting Steps · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think they are mainly talking about people who carry a simple device to count their steps during a normal day. In that situation, it's perfectly normal to be carrying a smart phone, and not worry too much about it getting covered in sweat or getting exposed to shocks.

  14. Re:energy balance doesn't work out on Converting Sunlight Into Liquid Fuel With a Bionic Leaf · · Score: 1

    This would be just another facility that could go boom that we'd have to secure

    All you need to do is pipe the alcohol to a central storage facility, and then secure that. People routinely secure storage facilities containing in excess of 100.000 cubic meter of crude oil and derivatives, so this would be fairly easy.

  15. Re:The alternative on Your Java Code Is Mostly Fluff, New Research Finds · · Score: 2

    I always write my code in tar.gz format, you insensitive clod.

  16. Re:energy balance doesn't work out on Converting Sunlight Into Liquid Fuel With a Bionic Leaf · · Score: 1

    If I had the choice of alcohols

    They probably didn't.

  17. Re:energy balance doesn't work out on Converting Sunlight Into Liquid Fuel With a Bionic Leaf · · Score: 1

    Have you seriously thought about this?

    Yeah, I figured that somebody could be clever enough to not leave the alcohol out in the open where it can evaporate away.

  18. Re:energy balance doesn't work out on Converting Sunlight Into Liquid Fuel With a Bionic Leaf · · Score: 1

    And what happens if you use 100 square kilometer instead of a square meter ?

  19. Re:Animal, not plant on Converting Sunlight Into Liquid Fuel With a Bionic Leaf · · Score: 2

    mankind has been using yeast & bacteria to make alcohols of various forms since the dawn of time

    Not from hydrogen and carbon dioxide, though.

  20. Re:Give me a break on Building the Developer's Dream Keyboard · · Score: 2

    Real navigation keys are called H, J, K, and L.

  21. Re:Its all about the noise? on $10K Ethernet Cable Claims Audio Fidelity, If You're Stupid Enough To Buy It · · Score: 1

    Theres no such thing as an ethernet re-transmit, and switches dont do them

    There are possibly retransmits after a collision on a half-duplex connection. But most equipment is full-duplex, so that's not really an issue in typical cases.

    TCP retransmits could be used in combination with a buffer. With audio over ethernet, you're going to need some buffering anyway.

  22. Re:I'd rather a broken cable than broken socket on $10K Ethernet Cable Claims Audio Fidelity, If You're Stupid Enough To Buy It · · Score: 1

    There's no reason a well designed mechanism would ever have to be replaced.

  23. Re:Redesigned connector, unbreakable tabs on $10K Ethernet Cable Claims Audio Fidelity, If You're Stupid Enough To Buy It · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The RJ45 connector is a regrettable standard. They should have put the tab on the socket, instead of on the cable end where it easily snags.

  24. Re:About time. on The IPCC's Shifting Position On Nuclear Energy · · Score: 1

    What do you think all the "cooperation across all governance scales" is all about, anyway?

    International treaties and agreements, of course.

  25. Re:No amount of nuclear energy is safe. on The IPCC's Shifting Position On Nuclear Energy · · Score: 1

    Any population reduction effort begins with education

    History teaches us they usually begin with genocide.