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Comment Asset acquisition? (Score 2) 141

Most business purchases these days are structured as asset acquisitions.

Can you take them to court for thsi? Sure you can, but it would be like taking your local coffee shop to court for writing "World's Best Coffee." As everybody knows, unlimited anything does not exist, it is just a marketing term.

Comment Easy! (Score 1) 316

Actually, you can factor a number like 2737631357921793461914298938174501291 relatively instantly.

        2737631357921793461914298938174501291 = 1238179781035456451 * 2211012810782926841

Perhaps, you mean factoring a number like two to the power of 2737631357921793461914298938174501291, now that is another story all together.

Comment Old and busted (Score 1) 289

All this been done before. Take Borland of 15 years ago or so, for example.

* Database: Program against SQL Links and plug any one from a number of popular database engines.
* User interface: VCL library for Windows and drop-in replacement CLX for Linux.
* Components: instead of making your own, purchase pre-made components from a catalog, and combine them in your RAD application.

Oh yes, RAD, Rapid Application Development, remember that?

Told you---old and busted

Comment Re:Virtualization requires memory (Score 1) 350

So, how would that physically work: you need two graphics controllers, one to see the Hypervisor interface, and the second one for the PCI pass-through to guests; and then a switch for to flip between the two adapters?
Or do you run the Hypervisor headless, and control it from another device via network, or COM port?
Or do you mean just the GPU compute part is passed through to the guests, with no way for them to use GPU for rendering?

Comment Re:As much as possible (Score 1) 350

> Replace these with just one straight "var" variable and let the runtime increase the size of the variable if the number would overflow.

This would break so much stuff:

  * Various bit masks, like IP address subnet mask;
  * All the code that shifts bits to the left, and just assumes that the ones that overflow simply disappear;
  * Various “-1” hacks;
  * Systems that encode negative numbers by setting the most significant bit to one;
  * If you try to invert all the bits in a number, you get what, infinity?
  * I think you get the idea...

Not necessarily a bad suggestion, but it would create an entirely different system of computing.

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