Posts by T. O'Hara

W*nker's Against W*nking

I'm sure there's plenty of rock bands who'd sign up for this also!

Re: Re: GottaBeKidding

The quoted power figure will be for the drive although I suspect that the active mode figure is a little conservative. In stand-by mode, 16Gb MLC NAND flash burns about 3mW per device so the standby figure is fairly accurate. In operating mode 16Gb MLC NAND burns about 45mW per device which would be 2.88W if all devices were active at the same time. Of course Samsung are smart so they probably only activate individual devices as required and can keep the typical power consumtion down to 0.5W for the whole drive. Now that's low power!

License Widget

Is there a widget I can click so as not to have to pay the license fee for something I don't want? And I mean all of the BBC not just the website :-)

They're in the wrong science class.

Why don't they just become climate scientists and promote more global warming catastrophes. There's no need to do any scientific work. Just apply the following:

Oh my god! A hot summer = global warming.

Oh my god! A rainy summer = global warming.

Oh my god! More rain today than there was this time last year = global warming.

Oh my god! Less rain today than there was this time last year = global warming.

etc,.

Then write a computer program to show the ice melting over the next 20 years, et voila! Money for nothing and another excuse to tax us until we're dead.

PS. It's now a religion so that's why god is so involved.

As an outsider...

who mainly designs electronic circuits but often writes drivers I prefer single exit points and I'd like to point out that the following argument:

if (account == null) return;

at the top of a method is much clearer, than:

if (account != null)

{ // 20 lines of code

// (that are totally irrelevant if account is null)

// later...

}

// and out we pop

is a bit pathetic. The second if statement clearly encompassed between braces does include completely irrelevant code if the account is not empty. For me that's part of the purpose of braces. If the account is not empty skip that lot and find the single exit point at the bottom where it belongs.

No-one of any intelligence can argue that example 4 in any way strengthens the case for multiple exit points.

I also find that all of the points raised have no basis in logic and are only an opinion. As far as I can see that's the problem with software engineers, too much opinion and no logic just like Matt Stephens.

Inspiring...

Ooh dear, the "few" weren't great at achieving 1 kill for every round fired. I guess we should hold them up as examples of incompetence now instead of an inspiration to all.

To remember those who with little training, with little hope of surviving and with their whole life ahead got into an airplane and tried to hold off the undefeated Luftwaffe; this inspires me.

What doesn't inspire me are academics who spend years on producing this type of "sort-of-controversial" drivel that adds no value and is carried out in the hope that knowing they are deriding a few brave souls will get them news time.

Who would want to go to college for a pathetic life like that?

"most companies use Windows because" they are stupid

In all the companies I have worked for (6 to date) almost everyone uses their computer to create documents/spreadsheets/presentations/project plans/web browsing/wasting time and other administration activities. None of them need Windows and use it only because they don't know any better.

I EDA software which I was only available for Unix systems in the early days but when Windows brought along cheaper alternatives I started using them. I now need Windows only for EDA. Everything else I use Linux.

So save some money and teach all your admin people Open Office, next thing you know Microsoft might actually go back to designing software that we want.