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Comment Re:Won't work (Score 1) 342

by PRMan on Monday April 07, 2014 @11:42AM (#46684285) Attached to: Australia May 'Pause' Trades To Tackle High-Frequency Trading

I think a 30 minute or 1 hour limit would take care of your concerns.

Comment Beta Sucks (Score 1) 306

by PRMan on Monday April 07, 2014 @10:55AM (#46683747) Attached to: Blender Foundation Video Taken Down On YouTube For Copyright Violation

And Sintel is virtually already in the public domain, except for attribution.

Comment Terrible (Score 1) 306

by PRMan on Monday April 07, 2014 @10:48AM (#46683677) Attached to: Blender Foundation Video Taken Down On YouTube For Copyright Violation

And there's no way for you to recover any lost wages? That's awful.

Comment Broken by a 5 year old... (Score 1) 196

by PRMan on Friday April 04, 2014 @03:41PM (#46664071) Attached to: Five-Year-Old Uncovers Xbox One Login Flaw

Typical Microsoft security... :(

Comment Re:Who? How? (Score 3, Funny) 196

by PRMan on Friday April 04, 2014 @03:39PM (#46664061) Attached to: Five-Year-Old Uncovers Xbox One Login Flaw

Actually, it says Hunter2 for me...

Comment Releases (Score 1) 46

by PRMan on Friday April 04, 2014 @03:24PM (#46663879) Attached to: NASA To Catalog and Release Source Code For Over 1,000 Projects

So, can we figure out why that Mars mission failed? And if so, maybe we should release the code ahead of time so people can help look for bugs.

Comment Re:Wait... What? (Score 1) 46

by PRMan on Friday April 04, 2014 @03:22PM (#46663845) Attached to: NASA To Catalog and Release Source Code For Over 1,000 Projects

But that cost $1 million and now it costs $300 to get it almost perfect. Billions of people having $300 computers has revolutionized the world.

Comment Re:so the new clock is 3x as accurate as the old o (Score 1) 127

by PRMan on Thursday April 03, 2014 @07:27PM (#46655819) Attached to: New US Atomic Clock Goes Live

I thought you were being funny, but it turns out you're totally serious. I didn't know the current clock was that accurate.

Comment Re:Ah another seemingly benign NIST approved stand (Score 1) 127

by PRMan on Thursday April 03, 2014 @07:17PM (#46655713) Attached to: New US Atomic Clock Goes Live

It's in the US. What do you think? Of course it's using that old "60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour" bullcrap!

Comment Re:What about number-crunching performance? (Score 1) 217

by PRMan on Thursday April 03, 2014 @07:16PM (#46655689) Attached to: .NET Native Compilation Preview Released

This only helps the first load. After that, either one should be the same if the JIT is worth anything.

Comment Re:So when is MS Office going to be built with .NE (Score 1) 217

by PRMan on Thursday April 03, 2014 @07:15PM (#46655675) Attached to: .NET Native Compilation Preview Released

No, what failed was coming up with RT instead of just using .Net (and by that for ARM I mean Mono) to begin with.

Comment Re:It produces performance like C++ (Score 0) 217

by PRMan on Thursday April 03, 2014 @07:13PM (#46655647) Attached to: .NET Native Compilation Preview Released

Given the number of unintended buffer overflows I've seen in C programs over the years, apparently so. BTW, I have never seen an unintended buffer overflow problem in C# or Java.

Comment Re:Holy **** did they get cheap fast (Score 1) 353

by PRMan on Thursday April 03, 2014 @07:01PM (#46655443) Attached to: An SSD for Your Current Computer May Save the Cost of a New One (Video)

Yeah. Where will you ever come up with that $16?

Comment Re:how do you convince microsoft (Score 1) 353

by PRMan on Thursday April 03, 2014 @06:59PM (#46655423) Attached to: An SSD for Your Current Computer May Save the Cost of a New One (Video)

Let's just say that you were lucky. I have re-authed Windows many times, just for changing the amount of RAM or the hard disk or network card.

Comment Re:Obviously? (Score 1) 353

by PRMan on Thursday April 03, 2014 @06:57PM (#46655403) Attached to: An SSD for Your Current Computer May Save the Cost of a New One (Video)

Only time it was useful was on XP32. I could only see 3 GB of my 4 GB. I made a RAM disk out of the other 1 GB and put my swapfile, temp files and browser temp files on there. It was good to use the "unusable" RAM.

I would say that most PCs would still benefit by putting their temporary internet files on a RAM disk.

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