Actually, odds are that hand written assembly will underperform compiled c these days.
If your hand-written assembly looks like compiler-generated assembly, then yeah; you'll be right.
Hiring or training people that can write better assembler than a modern compiler is very very difficult.
Just as difficult as was writing assembly back in the 60s and 70s? If you can hire a particular person to optimize your code to squeeze that last 5% or 10% of speed out of it, your product will sell better, i.e. computer games and 64k code contests.
Take a look at the screenshots and tell me that you didn't notice some really/ugly/ window decorations. Yeah, I know -- it's the inside that counts --, but come on?;)
Also if I had to do this again I would ditch the op-amp circuit and feed the signal from the photo-resistor straight into the sound card and then do the filtering in software (if the photo-resistor is exposed to sunlight it can be a little tricky to tune using this circuit - software could be smarter).
I tried to read this sentence to my mother. She combusted halfways through.
Linus himself has repeatedly said that his goal is not to write an OS that is better than competitor X, Y or Z, but simply to write the best OS he can.
Right on!
And the destruction of Microsoft Empire(TM) will be just some more collateral damage.;D
Ah shit, while I was busy writing a witty post, someone came along and modded you up. Congratulations! Next time (and there will be a next time, I promise) get your facts straight.
could teach a four year old how to recite the quadratic equation, it doesn't mean they can use it.
Sadly, that's the state of affairs nowadays, isn't it? You have to know this and that, but you don't need to know about the principle behind this and that, because that's what other people will learn -- oh, and by the way... don't bother with the principles. You wouldn't understand them anyways, because it's too advanced for you. Don't even try to go there. No, really. Get out of here. We don't need no smart people around here. Get a life. Become a office drone. Get laid. Strip search at the door.
I have mod points, but whatever... you have to look at it on a grand scale. Take the processor running in this box I am typing on -- an athlon64 3400+. Now say that we get about 3.4 GHz worth of cycles each second (that's what AMD tells you), running 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, for 2 years:
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Emacs is already rated M - mature software. Can it get any worse? ;)
Just as difficult as was writing assembly back in the 60s and 70s? If you can hire a particular person to optimize your code to squeeze that last 5% or 10% of speed out of it, your product will sell better, i.e. computer games and 64k code contests.
Did you just post screenshots of you using a OSS application on Slashdot?
You sick, sick freak.
Take a look at the screenshots and tell me that you didn't notice some really /ugly/ window decorations. Yeah, I know -- it's the inside that counts --, but come on? ;)
And the destruction of Microsoft Empire(TM) will be just some more collateral damage.
Or use isbn.nu.
Ah shit, while I was busy writing a witty post, someone came along and modded you up.
;)
Congratulations!
Next time (and there will be a next time, I promise) get your facts straight.
Relatively speaking this will be an increase by 100%.... ;)
Absolutely speaking this will be an increase by 3!
No, but they should know that pi is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter.
Sadly, that's the state of affairs nowadays, isn't it? You have to know this and that, but you don't need to know about the principle behind this and that, because that's what other people will learn -- oh, and by the way... don't bother with the principles. You wouldn't understand them anyways, because it's too advanced for you. Don't even try to go there. No, really. Get out of here. We don't need no smart people around here. Get a life. Become a office drone. Get laid. Strip search at the door.
Have fun.
I bet you half a grand that he'll be out of a job by the end of the week.
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But think of the ROI!
;)
But think of the TCO!
But think of the CEO!
Please, pretty please -- think of the children of America who desperately need your Microsoft Dollar!
(Just kidding...
I have mod points, but whatever... you have to look at it on a grand scale.
;)
Take the processor running in this box I am typing on -- an athlon64 3400+. Now say that we get about 3.4 GHz worth of cycles each second (that's what AMD tells you), running 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, for 2 years:
3.4 * 10^10 * 60^2 * 24 * 365 * 2 = 2.14 * 10^18 cycles.
Your CPU will only live so long. They usually break when the warranty has gone void.
Partly correct.
;)
3D > 2D, if and only if 3D MAX_INT.
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Don't leave your wife and your kids when your kids are three and one year old. It messes up your wife and the kids.
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I know.
I'm talking from experience. I grew up without having a father I could talk to...