Comment: Re:And then the umpire probably calls you out (Score 4, Informative) 212
Online references aside, this makes a lot of sense thinking of the baseball that I've played and watched on tv.
Comment: Re:It's made of magic (Score 2, Informative) 188
Comment: And then what? (Score 1) 251
Next you'll have to have another competition between two managerial candidates to see who does a better job of judging the programmers' work.
Gimmickry is not going to solve the issues that we have in software development. You can probably only count on two hands the number of true 'one size fits all' solutions and this isn't one of them.
Comment: And What Recourse Do Players Have? (Score 4, Informative) 479
Comment: Re:The fun is in the simplicity (Score 1) 322
Comment: Re:The fun is in the simplicity (Score 1) 322
Comment: Re:Might be particularly applicable to Java (Score 1) 252
And how does this situation differ other than the fact that the alloc/free operations are done local to the JVM instead of making system calls? The fact that the JVM is doing the work doesn't magically make memory management easier.
The other thing that I'm skeptical about is that the article seems to be contradicted by a more recent paper by the author that they are referencing (see Zorn http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=582419.582421). In the newer paper, Zorn et al. say that custom allocators are less efficient than a modern general purpose allocator.
Comment: Re:Different from Canada? (Score 1) 102
I think that Rogers just had HTC remove the paid app functionality from the phone, and surprise surprise, Rogers has their own paid market instead (which is useless). I'm considering reinstalling the OS to turn my Dream into a regular Google phone.
Comment: Thermite + Water Vapor = BOOM (Score 4, Informative) 130
For a neat visual presentation of the physics they're relying on, Mythbusters did an experiment on the explosive power of thermite powder and water vapor http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnHR4cMXiyM.