Using the latches gets you the ability to write/read 4 bytes to the VGA at the cost of writing/reading 1 byte - that was one of the key things in Mode-X, as it allowed extremely fast graphics performance.

It all depends on what sort of work he was doing in the role. If I see 7 years at a government department then I wouldn't touch with a bargepole. If I see 7 years at a small startup that used interesting recent technologies, then IMO he would be able to handle coming into a new role and taking on new technologies.

Tell me why your strawman argument about phone call meta data has any relevance to a proxy server?

So.....the end user wouldn't be checking for those things anyway, and if they were the one in a million user who does check out, they would most likely be using their own devices through paranoia anyway. Its more surprising if a big company doesn't use a proxy server.

one what planet is $615,000 "half a billion"?

To be fair, a few of the .Net developers I've worked with like building web services with wizards and clicking checkboxes to turn on stuff like WS-Security, without understanding how anything works beneath - so its probably a good thing.

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.