Not an enterprise size database. Even so, having a database in RAM isn't going to help processing it on the Graphics card.

Ok, I'll bite with an anecdote.... Our production database has a table with 320 GB of sharemarket pricing data in it, that grows roughly by a gigabyte a month. How would our database, or any other enterprise size database benefit from using GPU's when the problem is the size of the data, not the index performance? Using GPUs for calculations is one thing - using them to work through massive datasets is not in their realm.

Just keep your primary email address password backed up on a hard copy somewhere. If you lose your device, you can just reset all the passwords.

You've obviously never done a long-haul flight to the Southern Hemisphere through storms where you can get extreme turbulence. To be fair, you're making up rubbish.

I saw a documentary on them a couple of nights ago, and this shipyard is averaging a super-tanker every 3.5 days if you divide the number of super-tankers they will build this year. Absolutely stunning the technology, skills, planning and productivity that they are managing there. This wouldn't be achievable in a western country thanks to unions and the terrible productivity and project overruns that come with western societies.

lol, how do you get the 3D to work on a PC and whats it like when playing on a train or bus? Do you need to strap LCD panels to your head? 3DS emulation will never be flawless.

"Beeing an adult there are far more good games for the Vita then for the 3DS." Ah, no there isn't, not even by far. Thats the statement of someone who doesn't know what they are talking about with regards to the 3DS software library. Given your horrendous spelling, I'm assuming you aren't actually an adult.

How do you know he's not only applying for jobs that allow people to work remotely?

don't you realise that you can't tell the difference between a 1080p mobile phone screen and a 720p one? The human eye cannot make out that sort of difference. You need to be within 6 feet of a 50 inch screen running at 1080p to be able to discern it from a 720p feed, so the chances of you being able to tell the difference between a 1080p and a 720p phone screen are zero.

I don't believe that. I learnt from self-taught BASIC around 1990 when I was 11, and by the time I was at College, had also done self-taught C, Pascal and x86 assembler. When I started object-oriented programming first year of college, I didn't need to be untaught structured programming or GOTOs. My other friends at College were similar - the fact that we had programmed extensively prior to going to College was a massive boost for us over other students who were getting their first tastes of it then.

No, its just the realisation that if Java was a terrible language it would have died a long time ago. The financial services and banking industry that I work in - the only other services we have ever had to interop with in the last 12 years are Java or .Net based. If Java was such a rubbish language that would not be the case, although I suspect that due to you not really knowing any better you don't have a clue about the real world.

Its no better or worse than any other languages out there. If you think it is, then you probably need to get out of your mom's basement and into the real business world more.

Second this - I have been using iBatis+iBator for over 10 years, as well as JPA and Hibernate on a couple of projects, and iBatis, hands down is the easiest and the best performance. Its slightly more work, but I love having the control it gives.

Theres also research out there showing that GCed Java can often significantly outperform C/C++ during memory management. I find it hard to believe that you require 6 times the space to run a GC though - it probably depends on what algorithm you are forcing it to use.

Very relevant post to me - massive Def Leppard fan (35 years old) and have mild tinnitus in one ear from getting headbutted in a soccer game which also burst my ear drum. It would be awesome if there was something they could do to fix my hearing - the ringing is very high pitched, so gets lost amongst ambient sounds, but the real annoying thing is that semi-loud music now distorts in that ear for some reason. I still remember going to concerts in the early 90s like White Zombie where they had posters up all over the walls warning that they weren't responsible for any hearing damage concert goers may suffer. There were concerts where your ears had loud ringing noises in them for 3-4 days after the concert. I always wear ear plugs these days.