Comment Re:Check their work or check the summary? (Score 1) 486
In other words, the operating system already lessons disk access times.
I guess they don't teach English at this school either.
Comment Re:Just let go. (Score 1) 208
Why would a suicidal pilot go through so much trouble to hide it was a suicide? Was he trying to make sure the insurance paid out to his family?
Yes. In fact, exactly this has happened before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Comment Re:Both those Jar Jar movie sucked. (Score 1) 233
Until they have to finish the story. Then it turns out that the whole "magical" journey was about something utterly unremarkable, that almost all those unexplained elements were simply meaningless (cause they can't ALL be vitally important), that a lot of "cool" was forced, and that there is this huge pile of shit standing there in the living room - and they have to find a meaning to it all. Which usually ends up with a lot of really smart people on all sides of the story suddenly starting to act like complete idiots - or accidents start to happen. Or both. Improbable things suddenly become the norm, logic goes out the window, and it turns out that all the buildup and mysticism was leading to something very empty or simply stupid.
What is amazing about this is that you perfectly described Fringe, another JJ franchise. Which was also, ultimately, a massive disappointment.
Comment Michael Synergy (Score 1) 193
Comment Re:Nothing Will Come of It (Score 1) 131
The Obama administration does what it wants, laws are no.
It took me about a full minute of staring to realize you meant "laws or no(t)." What did you do, dictate your post?
Comment iSyncr (Score 1) 146
Comment Re: Classic Slashdot (Score 1) 463
Comment This will change after PS4 (Score 1) 573
Comment Re:real viruses (Score 1) 94
What's a lower UID supposed to show?
Penis size XOR FFFFFFFF
Comment Re:Pity they dropped the only architecture I was i (Score 1) 13
Comment They're about 20 years late (Score 1) 221
Comment Re:Historical significance (Score 1) 464
Comment Re:10 seconds per order should be law imho (Score 1) 395
I have long argued that stockmarkets should have a 10 second order freeze.
As this would completely destroy an exchange's ability to make money, no exchange will ever implement this.
Comment Re:Many years ago.... (Score 1) 395
If you are a rack switch away from the exchange's computer, you are too far. 1ms is too much latency.
Most of the hardware is sub-1ms. When I worked trading IT, we measured latency in micros.
You need to be a virtual appliance on the same virtual host, with read-only access directly to shared memory space on the host where trades are processed.
I'm not sure this is an actual offering you can purchase.
Infiniband was state-of-the-art in the trading industry about 3 years ago, although things were moving towards memory-mapped 10gig.