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Yeah, imagine a production line hooked up directly to a web-based storefront where people are buying things to build. We're not far from it, and when this happens it probably won't be in China.
Re:Firefox 4's JägerMonkey JIT status on Wednesday July 14, 2010 @12:56AM (#1513638)
What's up with downvoting? It's a great question, I'm intrigued by adbge performance requirements as well.
Re:What every programmer should know about memory on Tuesday July 13, 2010 @01:41PM (#1512135)
_The former is much faster and provides the same functionality. Why is not all RAM in a machine SRAM? The answer is, as one might expect, cost._

But since the density of transistors is pushing the cost of everything down how expensive is expensive? Does it make sense to product a SRAM-based laptop with 512MB of fast memory?

Re:This was a triumph. on Tuesday July 13, 2010 @01:06AM (#1510418)
Don't you think they should be showing comments from "gold" users differently? Kind of like what PG did a while ago using different colors highlight distinguished users...