And btw before someone mentions something like Azureus as a counterexample, I've seen Firefox still eat up more RAM than that program if they are running for the same period of time and that's with about 10 or so torrents running in it.
Memory safe ? What is exactly this concept of "memory safe" ? Having a GC that does not have a clue of what the programmer wants to do ? To have a such dumb programmer that expects that memory allocations can be entirely managed by other layers ?
That's funny because any good C++ programmer will take advantage of auto_ptrs which effectively do manage memory for you automatically. Or is Bjarne Stroustop only a "dumb programmer" since he advocates their usage?
The unchecked bloat that is being output by these latest college grads who know nothing but c#, vb, and java are serving no one's interest besides the hardware vendors.
That's funny cause I've never seen a single C# or Java apps that uses as much memory as C++ programs like Firefox (currently using 350 megs of RAM) or OpenOffice.org (current using 250 megs of RAM). On the other hand I have 5 different
Or better yet- take the crowbar and whack programmers who can't write in C++ until they leave the industry.
Because C++ is the pinnacle of programming knowledge? *giggle*
If you can't understand memory allocation and pointers, you aren't competent to be in this profession.
Just because one can understand memory allocations and pointers doesn't mean one wants to have to deal with them manually in all their programs. There is a reason why there are auto_ptrs in C++ and it's not because those people are "noobs", it's because people want to actually spend their time writing the program rather than having their time eaten up by writing tons of boilerplate memory management code.
sure when those 'memory safe' languages produce efficient executables that do not require 400MB 'runtimes' to function.
So that means Java and
The net result from these sandbox environments is a bloated app that requires 5-10x more ram than is needed.
Only if you can't code worth shit.
That's fine. Most web proxies (like Opera's) and dialup services like AOL's will re-render images to lower quality in order to compress the web pages down before sending them out to the user which is what commodore64_love was talking about.
That's unnecessary code, but it serves it's purpose by increasing readability over:
It doesn't serve any purpose. If you can't understand the statement:
if (isTrue)
Then you're worse than an amateur coder.
Considering this topic is about consumer SSDs I figured we were talking about home desktops. Of course in a business environment you would back things up because it is critical information and as I said in my post:
For extremely critical information, sure,
gonna have to keep some kind of records of those payments; therefore it's not fully anonymous.
Yes, the record that have to keep would amount to this: "x user paid his monthly fee". There is no need to retain any other information.
Well drives in servers are also put through far more strain than a home desktop so their failure rate would be expected to be earlier than a 5 year mark for a consumer drive in a home PC.
Lucky enough that I would recommend regular backups rather than depend on your luck with the hard drive.
Wouldn't you?
Based entirely on my own experience and that of those around me? No, not really. For extremely critical information, sure, but I don't really bother backing anything up as it's pretty much all replaceable and I've never really had a hard drive fail before the 5 year mark. By the time I've ever had a drive fail it's been probably 8-10 years old and is storing nothing of extreme value anyway so anything that may get lost is easily replaced.
It'll have to be a paid service.
No shit? They said it was going to be a paid service when it was first announced. From the title of the original Slashdot article from March: Pirate Bay To Offer VPN For $7 a Month. From where did you get the idea that this was ever going to be a free service?
Oops that was meant to be:
if (isTrue == true)
If you can get a regular hard drive to the five year mark running perfectly well with no data loss, you can consider yourself moderately lucky.
There's nothing lucky about it. Unless you are just straining the drive constantly or don't have any adequate ventilation in your box, an HDD lasting 5 years if not longer is a pretty mundane thing for quite some time.
Because he's one of those morons who when checking a bool do something stupid like this:
bool isTrue = false;
if (bool == true)
What good is a ticket to the good life, if you can't find the entrance?
