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Duke lacrosse case

Nope. I remembered this old thread, so I looked it up. I thought it would be interesting to show a historical view of some people's rush to judgment on these subjects, seeing as how mob protests against alleged social injustice are the cause du jour, facts notwithstanding. In addition, we...
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- Post #140
- Dec 2, 2015
- Forum: Politics and News
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Why are LGA 2011 boards so damn expensive?

Volume I'm sure is part of it, but I also suspect supporting the additional PCIe lanes available on most 2011 and 2011-v3 processors gets expensive. There is probably also a higher PCH chipset cost.
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- Post #4
- Dec 2, 2015
- Forum: Motherboards
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Java vs. C execution time

Garbage Collection can certainly be a bottleneck that an equivalent C++ implementation would not have, especially if the managed programmers take the "commonly accepted" advice to heart about not worrying too much about creating heap objects. All of that garbage has to be freed, and in...
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- Post #47
- Dec 2, 2015
- Forum: Programming
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Duke lacrosse case

Re-reading this thread after all these years, it's pretty sad now how wrong several people here were about the entire case. Pretty much everything I predicted here turned out to be true: - DA Nifong's handling of this case was extremely inappropriate - the allegations were later shown to be...
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- Post #133
- Dec 2, 2015
- Forum: Politics and News
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Too much comments or is this okay?

I concur with the central points others have raised: the most valuable comments to future maintainers (including yourself) describe WHY the code is structured/designed as it is (especially if the "obvious" design or structure was deemed insufficient or inappropriate for some reason). Comments...
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- Post #32
- Dec 2, 2015
- Forum: Programming
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The War On Christmas: [Starbucks]

The Left seems to be making a bigger deal about this than the Right, based on all of the news sources I've been listening to. This "War on Christmas" meme has turned into a dog whistle on both sides of the aisle.
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- Post #91
- Nov 10, 2015
- Forum: Politics and News
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Yale student screaming at professor for not providing safe space

This student's playbook is right out of the PC Principal caricature on South Park. Amazing how that show remains relevant. For a while it looked like the whole PC movement was abating. Now it's back in force, louder and more hypocritical than ever.
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- Post #111
- Nov 10, 2015
- Forum: Politics and News
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Suspend unavailable in ACPI compliant XP system

Let this thread be an example of why sometimes the "system integration" work that OEMs perform (culminating in the logo certification process), is essential for 99% of the user community, who never know the amount of work and testing that goes into bringing a new PC model to market with all...
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- Post #17
- Apr 29, 2008
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Java vs. C execution time

You said that you're running on an embedded platform? What JVM are you using? Anyway, thanks for posting back your findings.
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- Post #24
- Apr 16, 2008
- Forum: Programming
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Java vs. C execution time

I think the next big step towards a managed world will be the replacement of the Windows subsystem (Win32) by a new version of Microsoft's CLR implemented directly on top of native NT APIs. Basically, eliminating a layer of the OS underneath .NET and ditching Win32 once and for all. Obviously...
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- Post #22
- Apr 16, 2008
- Forum: Programming
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"Users fight to save Windows xp"

Critical security patches AND any other patches deemed critical by the OEMs. You'd be surprised how much effort this involves. There is an entire wing of the Windows organization (Sustained Engineering) dedicated to this task, and a large portion of the main Windows team gets pulled into the...
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- Post #25
- Apr 16, 2008
- Forum: Operating Systems
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XP Pro 64 bit

I ran it on my main system at home from April 2005 until January 2007 when Vista 64 was released. It was a great OS, although it could be difficult at times to find drivers. I had to ditch my older sound card, for example. Frankly though, if you're going to buy a retail OS, I'd buy Vista...
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- Post #3
- Apr 15, 2008
- Forum: Operating Systems
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"Users fight to save Windows xp"

Agreed, but it also depends on the support costs associated with continuing to sell XP. Today by all outward appearance, Microsoft only has the personnel to support 2 client versions of Windows at a time (XP and Vista right now). If they extend the XP sales period, it would require a...
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- Post #17
- Apr 15, 2008
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Java vs. C execution time

Not so sure about the validity of your argument here. There are certainly well-known circumstances where interpreters and/or VMs can perform substantial run-time optimizations that are off-limits to compilers, because compilers are not able to make assumptions about run-time data. (Example...
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- Post #18
- Apr 15, 2008
- Forum: Programming
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Has anyone calculated the cost of donated DC time?

I'm just curious. Back in the early days of DC, I always kept my computers on 24/7 so running programs like Seti@home was a no-brainer. Computers rarely consumed more than 100W total at 100% cpu utilization, and electricity was cheap. But now things are different. Electricity has gone up...
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- Thread
- Apr 15, 2008
- Replies: 11
- Forum: Distributed Computing

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