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Comment Re: Wait ... (Score 1) 196

Who says they didn't get that compensation?
When the employees signed the contract, they sure as hell thought it was sufficient compensation.
This isn't some non-compete for a totally different joy; these employees are basically doing the exact same job, but at a competitor.

Comment Re:This is Texas! (Score 1) 591

It's kind of mind-boggling, isn't it?

This tells me the principal at this school is quite possibly a complete fucking moron who is too stupid to hold this job.

For pretending he'd use his magic powers he gets suspended? Amazing.

Imagine what this principal would do if God truely existed and Jezus went to this school, threatening to turn water into wine and such.

Comment Re:I don't know enough about this stuff (Score 3, Insightful) 63

Results don't come in out-of-order. Imagine two variables, A and B, each undergoes a number of calculation steps which don't refer to the other variable. I.e. A=A+5/2*13-29 and B=B*B*3+12/N, then finally adding them together as Z=A+B. Normal execution would first do all the calculations for A then all the calculations for B, then finally Z. Out-of-order execution would calculate both A and B simultaneously, wait for both to finish, then calculate Z. Out-of-order execution involves a lot of this type of waiting, but since it's waiting for just the slowest calculation instead of the sum of both the slowest and fastest calculation it ends up being done sooner. If things cannot be calculated like this, an out-of-order capable processor will simply do things in-order.

At least that's how I understand it at a very abstract level.

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