At least there will be some extra motivation for fusion reactor development too. I want to see that happen in my lifetime, dammit!!

I would really like to see this benchmark repeated with half and double of RAM available.

We've been using java quite deeply on a project. We never tested it on any other platform than Ubuntu linux and Windows XP, and I can tell you never had any problem with our application. We just took seriously the notes in the documentation speaking about usage of the classes and cross-platform programming concerns. Java is not perfect but has its advantages.

java is cool. period. :)

THEY did the cut&paste! ;)

they are not so arrogant now :) ehe

What I would like to see is a command line like firefox --save-page-in-png-to /tmp/page.png http://page.com/

The worst lie is that "if someone made it, everyone can make it" -- pleeease. It's the lie of capitalism. Only one person can be the president or the leader of a software team. Would you tell it the guy who you are leading?

I think in general the post is true. If you cannot have the luxury to work all day on something relevant about the field, you cannot be prepared for a real job in months or a year.

Try to get a management like or consultant job that focuses on specs and like not coding, and try to do something to get better in the field in the meantime using your workplace and the mates you're working with.

In general i like AMD better, but these comparisons are usually wrong! If you upgrade your engine in your car and get +20% horsepower, are your car really 20% better?

Please notice that your computer is not just a processor, so when measuring performance of the processor/dollar then please use the performance/whole-machine formula instead.

However if you use your machine for io-intensive tasks, the question is bad for you. Anyways this way of calculating is simply not correct. If you are a quantum-mech scientist maybe... even my eclipse building my java code eats the hdd not cpu.

I think he's right in the first half. Let be data integrity and retention the default. Pleeease! I know i should RTFM but please raise hands who read an ext3 manual before installed. please don't just trash the work/life of other people and then laugh 'rtfm'

actually i had an abit nf-7 mobo some times ago and my friend had too. he trashed his bios and i restored it by booting his machine with my bios eeprom installed then switched the eeprom in the running machine to the bad and uploaded the bios successfully.

You're right, but the reason is not the modernity of the technology but some if-else branches were eradicated.

I think wind and solar NOW is not making money. It is too expensive and others are developing it. When it becomes cheaper, the biggest companies start to mass-produce it and kill the smalls that developed them. Not fair. Maybe i could say who cares. People get the tech and clean energy some day. That's what Shell wants.