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There's supposed to be native Optimus support in the latest drivers. Ubuntu is aiming to support it for 13.10 (and backport to LTS), see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/HybridGraphics Le…

That's single threaded compositing on its own thread.

Nvidia software has always been much better than AMD. AMD on Linux is a complet disaster. So if you work on GPU it's natural to go Nvidia.

What Krugman said here applies to the EU too (infact he's basing it on IMF research using global data): http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/12/the-price- stability-trap/ "in t…

Triple Town. It's great though it's freemium (150 turns/day limit).

Most people's "true public IP address" is just as pseudonymous though.

It was not well known (before this came out last month) that putting an unlocked Android phone in the freezer lets you pull off a practical cold boot attack for the flash crypto ke…

Maybe stop the whole thing about "let's pretend common nth level domain signifies something about web page relatioships"? It's just baseless.

Generally you start with Python and 1) get the code correct (hardest part) and then 2) port the performance critical parts to C/C++. So even they ended up with 0% in Python, it wou…

You have it the wrong way around. People who cordon themselves off and only leave HTTP working aren't on the Internet. They don't want non-web apps to work. Those networks delibera…

So like others have pointed out, this is not aiming to replace UDP any more than HTTP is aiming to replace TCP. So it's more like a feature rich TCP replacement, a transport protoc…

People go completely irrational about avoiding writes to SSD's, I've seen researchers at an EE dept spending evenings tuning their Windows installations and going as far as stuffin…

This paper from 2011 compares autovectorization in GCC against two proprietary compilers, from Intel and IBM: http://polaris.cs.uiuc.edu/~garzaran/doc/pact11.pdf GCC got a 23% spee…

> It will probably take another 30 years before you can actually think like a human and perform optimizations like this. ITYM "It will probably take another 30 years before I use a…

They've been able to port various Windows-centric products to other platforms before (to Mac and Solaris at least). Exchange, Office, Internet Explorer etc. I agree they won't make…

Fortunately that kind of wiretapping is a crime in most of the civilized world, finance sector employer or not.

If you read the linked Washington Times article, the "monitoring centers" sound like separatete bells-and-whistles products that are not the same as the mandated LI mechanisms. Lot…

Does this also apply to end-users of Ruby apps that are just an apt-get away? I don't really want to learn all that stuff (and remember to redo it on all installs) just to use some…

In practice Itanium only competed with the existing 64-bit architectures from the Unix vendors. Many of whom got suckered into dropping their own stuff and moving onto Itanium, and…

Intel chips have supported it pretty soon after AMD, since the latter-day Pentium 4s (from 2004 on).

32-bit Windows (with the 2GB limit) couldn't run the 64-bit Firefox in any case, so in the context of this discussion the 32-bit build is always getting 4GB of address space.