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Comment Re:Private details about employees (Score 1) 143

By little guy - I meant the actual employees. Not big-guy Sony Entertainment.

The emails of the employees doesn't sound like they were related to the policies of Sony Entertainment. While I haven't had [interest/time] to read the emails - none of the news articles I've read suggest anything interesting exists in this pile.

TMZ might be interested in a few of the emails.

Comment Re:Private details about employees (Score 1) 143

yeah - when they blow the door open on "big" govt and expose secrets kept from the people - we love them. When they expose the little guy - we don't like them.

Just because you come across stolen information doesn't mean you necessary can nor should share it with the world.

  Does this email dump expose "Sony" or just prove what we already know - that we can all be dinks at times. News or Gossip?

Submission + - AMD withdraws from high-density server business

An anonymous reader writes: AMD has pulled out of the market for high-density servers, reversing a strategy it embarked on three years ago with its acquisition of SeaMicro. AMD delivered the news Thursday as it announced financial results for the quarter. Its revenue slumped 26 percent from this time last year to $1.03 billion, and its net loss increased to $180 million, the company said. AMD paid $334 million to buy SeaMicro, which developed a new type of high-density server aimed at large-scale cloud and Internet service providers.

Submission + - "Google Maps for the Body" Zooms In From Whole Organs Down to Individual Cells (gizmag.com)

Zothecula writes: The algorithms used for zooming in and out on Google Maps and Google Street View have made it possible to visually traverse through layers of the body – starting with a whole joint and drilling all the way down to the cellular level. The new Google Maps for the Body system could have huge implications in medicine because it drastically reduces the time required to analyze and compare data.

Submission + - Turing Manuscript Sells for $1 Million

itwbennett writes: A 56-page notebook manuscript by Alan Turing, the English mathematician considered to be the father of modern computer science, was sold at auction Monday for $1.025 million. Turing apparently wrote in the notebook in 1942 when he was working in Bletchley Park, England, trying to break German military code.

Submission + - This Is Big: A Robo-Car Just Drove Across the Country (wired.com)

Press2ToContinue writes: AN AUTONOMOUS CAR just drove across the country.

Nine days after leaving San Francisco, a blue car packed with tech from a company you’ve probably never heard of rolled into New York City after crossing 15 states and 3,400 miles to make history. The car did 99 percent of the driving on its own, yielding to the carbon-based life form behind the wheel only when it was time to leave the highway and hit city streets.

This amazing feat, by the automotive supplier Delphi, underscores the great leaps this technology has taken in recent years, and just how close it is to becoming a part of our lives. Yes, many regulatory and legislative questions must be answered, and it remains to be seen whether consumers are ready to cede control of their cars, but the hardware is, without doubt, up to the task.

Submission + - Ebola virus found to be defective zombie virus (wikipedia.org)

kallen3 writes: The Center for Disease Control has announced that the Ebola virus originated as a zombie virus but has mutated to it's present form. What is a concern to many epidemiologists though is that there are some indications that not all strains of the zombie virus has mutated into a form of Ebola. Dr. Moreau of the CDC says that there are indications in local folklore that there are zombies wandering the back country in those countries currently affected by the Ebola strain of the zombie virus. The current concern that Dr. Moreau has is that those infected by the Ebola strain being brought back to their home country may spread the Zombie virus if the Ebola strain mutates back to it's original form.

Comment Re:in further news show tanks (Score 1) 662

but their creed (or motto?) was "if somebody dies, leave them behind"

Whether it be a car breaking down or somebody actually dead - they once said (several years back) that they had all sworn to keep going !!

However - Jeremy was kind of the leader. Hammond maybe could do it - would be strange. If it were me - I'd bail because I'd just "cock it up." Wouldn't want to be around as it fell down. Get out while on the top.

I saw an interview yesterday with Capt Slow on his front porch. He acknowledged the media reports and then said "If you'll excuse me I have a LaFerrari to list on eBay" and left.

Comment Re:Check their work or check the summary? (Score 1) 486

Yes thank you. This is a classic mistake that many first time programmers make. Years ago somebody was comparing the speed of C++ over VBScript/IIS over Java for writing Web pages back to a browser. They too came to a similar conclusion - and also made the same mistake.

When writing to disk - the data is written once. The algorithm for in memory is not doing the same thing. It is allocating a new buffer - copying all data to said new buffer - and finally adding data to the end. If one compared the I/O of the two program executions the "in-memory" version would have many times MORE I/O.

Doing this:
    Loop N.{ x = x + newValue}
    Write(x)
Will always be slower than
      Loop N.{ Write(newValue) }

In C# and I think Java - there is an object called StringBuffer - and is intended for this kind of workload. The first thing I learned in data structures class was how to expand buffers using different algorithms and pro/con of each (heap design for instance, buddy system).

Plus - O(n) is not created equal. :-P

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