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Re:Ross: Attorney built on top of IBM's Watson on Thursday January 29, 2015 @04:00AM (#8965053)
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Re:XOR Linked List on Friday May 04, 2012 @03:10PM (#3929853)
hardware prefetching mechanism is in core i7 that i know for sure, it automatically identify memory referencing pattern and attempts to fetch those blocks into cache before they are accessed, the detailed algorithm of prefetching are not documented...
Re:Linux From Scratch 7 Released on Saturday October 29, 2011 @01:44PM (#3172347)
i am really curious suppose i have machine X everything configured and i have a new machine Y same architecture(let 64bit) can i port from one two another.
Re:It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad on Thursday August 18, 2011 @04:44PM (#2900964)
if they buy autonomy($10 billion) then they are definitely in enterprise solutions.
Re:It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad on Thursday August 18, 2011 @04:14PM (#2900895)
what i think lawyers and justice departments want patent war to go on as it will profit them, and this people are very powerful they know the laws inside out. Lawmakers or the congress will not pass any legislation to curb this problem as it profit many people its a money making pot. so the patent war will go on as usual and google or any other company will have to take concrete steps to shield themself.
Re:The 50 Best Websites of 2011 on Wednesday August 17, 2011 @10:52AM (#2895510)
Re:First programmable 8-bit CPU built in Minecraft on Friday November 12, 2010 @08:37AM (#1897552)
a game within a game that's impresive. but going dipper then 2 level is quite impossible!!
Re:Clojure Web Infrastructure on Friday November 05, 2010 @01:25PM (#1874029)
as clojure runs on JVM so is there is any string attached to the language whose other end is with the Oracle in any crazy manner imaginable? after the google vs oracle patent case i am really afraid of java. what is the point of open source java if there are patent issue which can come and get you.

Ask NH: how hot code swapping is done?

i want to know(or u can direct me to some awesome resources) how hot code swapping is done? i know erlang, pike,smalltalk have this feature but how they are really done in theory the mechanism behind it it not in brief, i want to know.. it will be really great if you people can direct me to some resource page/books/papers on it. thank you

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Re:Thank you, Ubuntu on Saturday October 02, 2010 @05:32PM (#1751410)
all those components come with drivers provider by the vendor of that component for windows(mostly) machine only. Linux doing a great job catching on all those components but the thing is linux is mostly behind. if Vendors helps linux community a little we should be going hand in hand.
the interface of the comment page should be more friendlier/organised. the reply comments should be folded/hidden so that if we like the comment and want to see what other people reply to this awesome/crappy comment i can do that by clicking a button and all the reply will be shown, everything should not be visible since it is very time consuming if there are more comments on a topic.