Comment Re: Not just Comcast (Score 2) 401
I doubt the rep can say that there's the chance that s/he will get fired if the call ever gets reviewed.
Comment Cannot be run on VirtualBox (Score 2) 137
I going to try it but no QEMU or VirtualBox support yet.
Comment Re:Me gusta! (Score 1) 179
In a maze of scripts and Makefiles and scripts generating Makefiles and scripts generating scripts that call make, euphemistically called "a custom buildsystem", hunting down the right 'make' to change into 'make -d' can take a while.
That sounds like you're not doing sub-makes with $(MAKE), which would have passed down the -d automatically. See http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/MAKE-Variable.html#MAKE-Variable and http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Options_002fRecursion.html#Options_002fRecursion
Comment Please let Pascal die (Score 1) 404
I was at first intrigued by the summary, but then it got worst and worst as I saw the examples. Semi-colon statement rules in the Pascal tradition? Ugh.
Comment Yawn (Score 1) 132
Wake me up when their drivers are fast AND correct.
Comment Re:Same Story / Different Day (Score 1) 247
Does anyone know if MS Windows has introduced a UT internal time yet? If not, then we can reliably predict that such bugs will continue to plague their users.
According to an old MS guy [1], Windows NT stores UTC time internally but maintains the BIOS in local time. 1. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2004/09/02/224672.aspx
Comment Re:Full text in case the link gets taken down (Score 1) 354
Hiring standards vary according to the team because the needs of the team vary according to the team and according to what that person is going to be doing.
Just to play Devil's Advocate, what if the team was incompetent? It's not unheard of where all the good people leave the team, leading to hiring choices for similarly, incapable new employees.
Submission + - Windows 8 will have super fast boot times (windows8update.com)
An anonymous reader writes: This post describes about yet another blog post from Steven Sinofsky where he talks about new features in Windows 8. He talks extensively about how they planned to achieve faster bootup times for the operating system.
Submission + - Monthly Ubuntu Releases Have Been Proposed (phoronix.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Scott James Remnant, the former Ubuntu Developer Manager at Canonical and current Ubuntu Technical Board leader, has proposed a new monthly release process for Ubuntu Linux. He acknowledges that with the six month releases there's features that end up landing way too soon, leaving them in a sour state for users. With his monthly proposal, Remnant hopes to relieve this by handling alpha, beta, and normal releases concurrently. It's unknown whether Canonical will accept the policy at this time.
Submission + - FPS no more? New methods reveal deeper GPU issues (techreport.com)
crookedvulture writes: Graphics hardware reviews have long used frames per second to measure performance. The thing is, an awful lot of frames are generated in a single second. Calculating the FPS can mask brief moments of perceptible stuttering that only a closer inspection of individual frame times can quantify. This article explores the subject in much greater detail. Along the way, it also effectively illustrates the "micro-stuttering" attributed to multi-GPU solutions like SLI and CrossFire. AMD and Nvidia both concede that stuttering is a real problem for modern graphics hardware, and benchmarking methods may need to change to properly take it into account.
Submission + - Patent Reform Bill Passes Senate (politico.com)
nephorm writes: "The Senate gave final approval to the first major overhaul of the nation’s patent law in more than a half century Thursday, sending the America Invents Act to President Barack Obama for his signature.
The legislation won overwhelming approval in an 89-9 vote." Fee diversion from the USPTO will continue.
The legislation won overwhelming approval in an 89-9 vote." Fee diversion from the USPTO will continue.
Comment Re:I like not equals assignment operators (Score 1) 623
:= was originally an ALGOL 58 feature, but I digress. The real problem is not with operator ==, but with C allowing assignment in the conditional part of if statements.
Comment Re:Java killer? (Score 1) 623
The new assignment operator ":="
Oh look, someone revived the Clipper dBASE compiler / Pascal syntax.
No, someone revived the the ALGOL 58 syntax (yes, that is 1958) . Everything old will be new again
Comment Re:Home Labs? (Score 3, Informative) 206
Well, the "Smart Mama" (Jennifer Taggert) is someone that actually makes money through her XRF gun. According to the site below, she charges $5 per test or $100 per hour.
http://www.thesmartmama.com/xrf-testing/
Here's a media article where two families paid her to test their toys:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/25/AR2009122501674.html
Comment Re:No because they are different (Score 1) 205
GCD sounds exactly like Microsoft's "Concurrency Run-time Resource Manager" to me. Except they've already incorporated it into the kernel while MS has just started mentioning about incorporating it into the NT kernel for future releases.
