I concur, I've had a few motherboards that seem to have crosstalk issues - you could 'hear' the IDE bus etc. Discrete sound card didn't have the same problems.
I'm guessing preemption. From what I remember earlier versions of windows relied on 'co-operative' multi tasking: one bad program would never release the CPU and everything hung up.
Don't be fucking ridiculous. Hundreds of accidents saved due to traffic slowdowns? I thought we had a mechanism for detecting that: It's called a fuckload of stationary cars in front of you with their brake lights on. If you can't see it half a mile in advance you are either on an incredibly badly designed road or you cannot fucking see.
Having watched several people nearly get taken out by cellphone using idiots, and having nearly been knocked off my motorbike several times by people on phones, I think it's safe to say that common sense does not exist. That's like saying you should let people drink a 'sensible' amount, or travel at a 'sensible' speed. People aren't that fucking sensible.
Finally if you're one of the endless supply of cunts who insist on navigating complex junctions with high speed traffic (Black Dam roundabout onto M3 J7 in particular), by talking on your phone and drifting across lanes then I hope to fuck you die, because I've watched you damn near kill plenty of people, and damn near kill me too many times to believe that you are anything other than an impatient and selfish cunt. You're going to be on a nice straight motorway with no junctions for miles in about 1 minute, but you can't wait until then to use your phone, no, you have to do it at the time when you need to be concentrating the most on driving. Common sense? Like fuck.
Every time someone suggests a Windows based system in _any_ critical situation plenty of people come out shouting how it will undoubtedly lead to the end of the world. Hindsight doesn't even come into it - the possibility of these scenarios was predicted, brought to people's attention and dismissed.
'Captain Hindsight' parodies people who appear out of the woodwork to say what is now blindingly obvious, not people who had the foresight to predict these problems but were ignored.
I thought that Intel wanted to break into the embedded market that contains a lot of ARM and PowerPC cores with Atom? The FPGA + Embedded processor combination is pretty common, and PCIe is the way to interface them. Hence your low power/low performance chip is bundled together with another (FPGA or ASIC) that does the heavy lifting for a specific task. Every application that requires some serious, but fixed, number crunching is appropriate for this. I do broadcast related stuff, so the things that spring to mind are video compressors, deinterlacers, etc. Why spend lots of dollars and lots of watts on a powerful CPU when you can combine a amsll core and an ASIC/FPGA and get the same result? Without PCIe no one is going to consider the Atom for these applications.
Or wobbly links. I had to run X over an SSH tunnel on ADSL that reset every now and then. Result: All the applications close immediately. So what you needed was another machine at the remote end you could run your VNC server on, and then run the X apps from that. I don't know if I missed some kind of session persistence option but it was a pain in the arse.
While I'm on about it there's a utility for compressing the X protocol on the fly that made a world of difference to usability over ADSL speed connections. Stopped it soaking up all our bandwidth too...
I concur. This is especially true given this is new technology. For the obligatory car analogy look at the Prius, it got absolutely slammed for a minor fault, that could have (and similar things have) affected any number of cars. Given the number of people shouting that this 'new fangled hybrid thingy is too complicated, my old mechanically controlled xxx never gave me any problems' I'd bet that it's status as new technology means that any problem with it may lead to the technology as a whole being shunned or at the very least massively shaking consumer confidence and eroding the potential market for the technology.
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I use my linux desktop at work every day, and my linux laptop at home every day. My wireless router runs linux every day, and the several embedded products I'm working on run linux every day (when I haven't broken something...).
I have a car and a motorcycle that I can use to get to work or wherever every day. Neither are suitable for transporting cattle, but then that's not an issue for me. Your reasoning is that because you presumably have some situation for which no distribution fits your needs then all distributions are not ready for daily usage?
I think having been paid he will continue to design more cars or clothes in order to get paid again. I've been designing stuff all day today, and I got paid for it, just like I did yesterday and the day before. If I stop designing stuff tomorrow I'm fairly certain I'll stop getting paid...
Arguably I'm designing the wrong stuff, but to me it seems that 'art' is the only industry that gets away with being so far up it's own arse as to assume that everything these creative types create should be paid for by society forever. I'm willing to bet the guys who designed the Statue of Liberty, or the Viaduc de Millau Bridge, or the Aston Martin Vantage don't get paid every time someone looks at their work. It's not that I don't think they should get paid at all, it's just that they seem to expect to be paid regardless. I can't afford to buy a BMW M5, and at the moment I can't afford to buy £15 CD albums. If a friend had a car and lent it to me I wouldn't say no, and I certainly wouldn't expect to give BMW a royalty for the privilege. For some reason though if I borrow a friends CD and listen to it I should be paying someone though. If I sit in a pub listening to the radio on on a personal stereo that's fine, but if the pub has the radio playing they're supposed to pay royalties? If it was all about the music then they'd just play it. These guys are just like the bankers complaining about not getting bonuses when the economy collapses. We all could do with earning some more money, most of us seem to think we should work for it...
Everyone was suffering because people unthinkingly cause traffic delays, so now we implement and enforce laws to discourage this behaviour. People perceive the cost to them (as people who don't _usually_ break the law) as less than the cost they suffered because of the law breakers, so they accept it. DRM provides no benefit to the legitimate consumer, hence is near general dislike - however from the perspective of those who sell/implement/promote DRM it is of huge benefit and little cost, hence its prevalence.
Ok, so change upset lady for disabled person who requires ramps that take 5 minutes to set up, and turns up at the last second. My point isn't about whether the train timetable is designed well, it's about how making an exception for one person's convenience can cause significant inconvenience for everyone else.
Also I'd bet that at a large train station, at rush hour, could be affected by a reasonably short delay. Clapham Junction for example puts through 100 trains an hour outside peak periods, so presumably it wouldn't take much of a delay to knock the whole system out of kilter. Or to take an alternative approach: the efficiency with which you can use the resources available (number of tracks, platforms etc.) is determined by how well you can control the scheduling, so as you widen the arrival and departure windows of your train the efficiency of the station will drop.
I remember reading something about the old saying that 'at least the $fascists made the train run on time'. To paraphrase: When the attractive young woman runs onto the train platform in tears because she's a few seconds late and the doors are closing, and it's her first day of work etc. etc. etc. the fascist guard ignores her, blows the whistle and the train leaves on time. The not-so fascist guard will hold the train open a door for her and let her on - an action that may delay trains for everyone for the rest of the day.
I think your point is entirely valid. In a small village cars get parked wherever, and the minor slowdown to get round them is insignificant as there isn't the traffic to cause a problem. Having broken down on a red route in London at rush hour it's quite apparent how much difference one persons actions can make to the day of thousands. I certainly wouldn't stop there because it was more convenient for me, because the rest of the time I'm one of the many hundreds if not thousands of people who are being frustrated by that selfish action.
GP needs to consider that it's because of his unthinking attitude that we get such draconian restrictions. You _are_ harming others but are too lazy, unthinking or plain inconsiderate to see the consequences of your actions, so the government has stepped in to do its nanny state bit and fix the problem by controlling you. Irresponsible use of your freedoms results in them being taken away from you because everyone else thinks that the cost of your having those freedoms outweighs the benefits of them having them. Or to put it differently: Everyone who thinks 'I could stop here, but I'd be in the way' and hence doesn't sees the guy who does and thinks 'inconsiderate arsehole, someone should stop him doing that.'
Yeah, but the battery needs charging most just after the car has been started. When you turn your car off the battery should be full up (unless you are doing very short journeys, in which case there is a better way to save fuel...), so what are the solar panels doing?
Most car alternators are around 50-100A at 13.6v or so - 1300W to 2600W, so I could see that on a low power car you could save some percentage of power usage, but what I don't see is why the battery would need charging after the car has been run, so the question remains, was the alternator removed? If so that seems like a slightly risky game to be playing
I'm trying to work out if you are falling down the 'there is no centrifugal force' trap or if you are merely implying it is insignificant.
My maths says that a 250kg mass man, at sea level, on the equator, will require a centripetal force of: 250*(6378*10^3) * (7.27 × 10-5)^2 = 8.4N. Presumably at the North pole this is zero. That's 8.4/2452.5 N = 0.3% (using g = 9.8, which is a bit of a circular reference here...). Not a great deal, but not nothing. Note that the force is proportional to the square of the angular velocity so if the planet was spinning 17.82x faster you would have trouble standing on the equator...
Makes me think of the Roamers from Kevin J Anderson's Saga of Seven Suns - a colony group that essentially become space gypsies; they live in space stations and harvest resources from gas giants and meteor fields.
I suppose that if we developed large enough habitats in space then we could reach a point where cutting a large, mostly self sufficient (except resources etc.) space station adrift and pointing it in the general direction of some other solar system is plausible. Many generations would pass but eventually they might get there, I wonder whether they'd want to leave space for a planet when they did?
Ok, so let's say I decide that it's in my interests to have no online presence (not that I have much of one now). I will delete and disown everything about me that is online. How long before having no online presence is seen as subversive behaviour? Nothing to hide nothing to fear right? Well if I'm not showing something then I must be hiding it...
That's more detailed than I expected... I thought you were referring to parents who call their kids things like Chardonnay, Mercedes or Blade (that's responsible parenting, innit?). My personal favourite is the parents who wanted to name their twins Benson and Hedges. Everything has to be mispronounced with over-emphasis on some of the syllables, in the same fashion as McDonald's staff (in the UK at least) refer to a fillet of fish as a 'fill-A'. A quick search for 'chav names' brings up numerous other examples.
I've seen this done by a photographer in a night club - where I presume setting up remote flashes etc. is a bit inconvenient! He had a business card attached to the flash with an elastic band. I'm trying to remember how he had it oriented, I think it was with the flash pointing straight up, and the card taped behind, presumably to bounce some light from the card towards the subject and some off the ceiling?
My car is 17 years old and all the parts I can think of are available. I can still get replacement cylinder heads (albeit at uneconomical prices), not to mention all the other parts I can think of. The only stuff that seems to be unobtainable is the alarm key fobs... I've had Land Rovers that are older than I am, and someone built a complete one from parts a couple of years back. As parent says, either your dealer couldn't/wouldn't lookup aftermarket parts or you bought one rare-as-rocking-horse-poo car.
As Franky Boyle put it:
"Who else could 'Scotch' an egg. Let's take an egg, cover it in meat and batter it!"
That and the deep fried mars bar may explain some of the problem..
I concur, I think he would be awesome. Especially if he can transfer some Alan Johnson type persona into the role. "You'll be my Cheech and Chong... the iron fist in my velvet glove... the spiky balls on the end of my stick!"
I asked people when I was at university how long they spent sorting out references, numbering figures etc. in their Word dissertations, and for most people it was a day or two of work, and if you changed anything you had to check it all again. I felt quite smug thinking that I never had to worry about all that cruft (it's why I started using LaTeX in the first place). Build the document, all the references are correct. Simple.
We've seen from the internet that most partially trained monkeys are capable of knocking together some reasonable HTML, and it's not like using Word for dissertation+ level documents doesn't require some learning, so really I think it's just that it's entrenched in some fields to the extent that no one even realises there is an alternative. We had a lecture to compare the benefits of both approaches quite near the start of our course. You could use either, but the message was that you would be wasting time using word, and if you were doing anything postgraduate you'd need to know LaTeX (this was for the CS/CE/EE undergrads). The majority of people studying in different departments I've talked to haven't the slightest inkling that there is any other approach than to use word.
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I concur, I've had a few motherboards that seem to have crosstalk issues - you could 'hear' the IDE bus etc. Discrete sound card didn't have the same problems.
I'm guessing preemption. From what I remember earlier versions of windows relied on 'co-operative' multi tasking: one bad program would never release the CPU and everything hung up.
Don't be fucking ridiculous. Hundreds of accidents saved due to traffic slowdowns? I thought we had a mechanism for detecting that: It's called a fuckload of stationary cars in front of you with their brake lights on. If you can't see it half a mile in advance you are either on an incredibly badly designed road or you cannot fucking see.
Having watched several people nearly get taken out by cellphone using idiots, and having nearly been knocked off my motorbike several times by people on phones, I think it's safe to say that common sense does not exist. That's like saying you should let people drink a 'sensible' amount, or travel at a 'sensible' speed. People aren't that fucking sensible.
Finally if you're one of the endless supply of cunts who insist on navigating complex junctions with high speed traffic (Black Dam roundabout onto M3 J7 in particular), by talking on your phone and drifting across lanes then I hope to fuck you die, because I've watched you damn near kill plenty of people, and damn near kill me too many times to believe that you are anything other than an impatient and selfish cunt. You're going to be on a nice straight motorway with no junctions for miles in about 1 minute, but you can't wait until then to use your phone, no, you have to do it at the time when you need to be concentrating the most on driving. Common sense? Like fuck.
How thick do you think the textbook was? This ain't advanced engineering mathematics we're talking about...
Every time someone suggests a Windows based system in _any_ critical situation plenty of people come out shouting how it will undoubtedly lead to the end of the world. Hindsight doesn't even come into it - the possibility of these scenarios was predicted, brought to people's attention and dismissed.
'Captain Hindsight' parodies people who appear out of the woodwork to say what is now blindingly obvious, not people who had the foresight to predict these problems but were ignored.
I thought that Intel wanted to break into the embedded market that contains a lot of ARM and PowerPC cores with Atom? The FPGA + Embedded processor combination is pretty common, and PCIe is the way to interface them. Hence your low power/low performance chip is bundled together with another (FPGA or ASIC) that does the heavy lifting for a specific task. Every application that requires some serious, but fixed, number crunching is appropriate for this. I do broadcast related stuff, so the things that spring to mind are video compressors, deinterlacers, etc. Why spend lots of dollars and lots of watts on a powerful CPU when you can combine a amsll core and an ASIC/FPGA and get the same result? Without PCIe no one is going to consider the Atom for these applications.
Or wobbly links. I had to run X over an SSH tunnel on ADSL that reset every now and then. Result: All the applications close immediately. So what you needed was another machine at the remote end you could run your VNC server on, and then run the X apps from that. I don't know if I missed some kind of session persistence option but it was a pain in the arse.
While I'm on about it there's a utility for compressing the X protocol on the fly that made a world of difference to usability over ADSL speed connections. Stopped it soaking up all our bandwidth too...
I concur. This is especially true given this is new technology. For the obligatory car analogy look at the Prius, it got absolutely slammed for a minor fault, that could have (and similar things have) affected any number of cars. Given the number of people shouting that this 'new fangled hybrid thingy is too complicated, my old mechanically controlled xxx never gave me any problems' I'd bet that it's status as new technology means that any problem with it may lead to the technology as a whole being shunned or at the very least massively shaking consumer confidence and eroding the potential market for the technology.
I use my linux desktop at work every day, and my linux laptop at home every day. My wireless router runs linux every day, and the several embedded products I'm working on run linux every day (when I haven't broken something...).
I have a car and a motorcycle that I can use to get to work or wherever every day. Neither are suitable for transporting cattle, but then that's not an issue for me. Your reasoning is that because you presumably have some situation for which no distribution fits your needs then all distributions are not ready for daily usage?
I think having been paid he will continue to design more cars or clothes in order to get paid again. I've been designing stuff all day today, and I got paid for it, just like I did yesterday and the day before. If I stop designing stuff tomorrow I'm fairly certain I'll stop getting paid...
Arguably I'm designing the wrong stuff, but to me it seems that 'art' is the only industry that gets away with being so far up it's own arse as to assume that everything these creative types create should be paid for by society forever. I'm willing to bet the guys who designed the Statue of Liberty, or the Viaduc de Millau Bridge, or the Aston Martin Vantage don't get paid every time someone looks at their work. It's not that I don't think they should get paid at all, it's just that they seem to expect to be paid regardless. I can't afford to buy a BMW M5, and at the moment I can't afford to buy £15 CD albums. If a friend had a car and lent it to me I wouldn't say no, and I certainly wouldn't expect to give BMW a royalty for the privilege. For some reason though if I borrow a friends CD and listen to it I should be paying someone though. If I sit in a pub listening to the radio on on a personal stereo that's fine, but if the pub has the radio playing they're supposed to pay royalties? If it was all about the music then they'd just play it. These guys are just like the bankers complaining about not getting bonuses when the economy collapses. We all could do with earning some more money, most of us seem to think we should work for it...
Everyone was suffering because people unthinkingly cause traffic delays, so now we implement and enforce laws to discourage this behaviour. People perceive the cost to them (as people who don't _usually_ break the law) as less than the cost they suffered because of the law breakers, so they accept it. DRM provides no benefit to the legitimate consumer, hence is near general dislike - however from the perspective of those who sell/implement/promote DRM it is of huge benefit and little cost, hence its prevalence.
Ok, so change upset lady for disabled person who requires ramps that take 5 minutes to set up, and turns up at the last second. My point isn't about whether the train timetable is designed well, it's about how making an exception for one person's convenience can cause significant inconvenience for everyone else.
Also I'd bet that at a large train station, at rush hour, could be affected by a reasonably short delay. Clapham Junction for example puts through 100 trains an hour outside peak periods, so presumably it wouldn't take much of a delay to knock the whole system out of kilter. Or to take an alternative approach: the efficiency with which you can use the resources available (number of tracks, platforms etc.) is determined by how well you can control the scheduling, so as you widen the arrival and departure windows of your train the efficiency of the station will drop.
I remember reading something about the old saying that 'at least the $fascists made the train run on time'. To paraphrase: When the attractive young woman runs onto the train platform in tears because she's a few seconds late and the doors are closing, and it's her first day of work etc. etc. etc. the fascist guard ignores her, blows the whistle and the train leaves on time. The not-so fascist guard will hold the train open a door for her and let her on - an action that may delay trains for everyone for the rest of the day.
I think your point is entirely valid. In a small village cars get parked wherever, and the minor slowdown to get round them is insignificant as there isn't the traffic to cause a problem. Having broken down on a red route in London at rush hour it's quite apparent how much difference one persons actions can make to the day of thousands. I certainly wouldn't stop there because it was more convenient for me, because the rest of the time I'm one of the many hundreds if not thousands of people who are being frustrated by that selfish action.
GP needs to consider that it's because of his unthinking attitude that we get such draconian restrictions. You _are_ harming others but are too lazy, unthinking or plain inconsiderate to see the consequences of your actions, so the government has stepped in to do its nanny state bit and fix the problem by controlling you. Irresponsible use of your freedoms results in them being taken away from you because everyone else thinks that the cost of your having those freedoms outweighs the benefits of them having them. Or to put it differently: Everyone who thinks 'I could stop here, but I'd be in the way' and hence doesn't sees the guy who does and thinks 'inconsiderate arsehole, someone should stop him doing that.'
Yeah, but the battery needs charging most just after the car has been started. When you turn your car off the battery should be full up (unless you are doing very short journeys, in which case there is a better way to save fuel...), so what are the solar panels doing?
Most car alternators are around 50-100A at 13.6v or so - 1300W to 2600W, so I could see that on a low power car you could save some percentage of power usage, but what I don't see is why the battery would need charging after the car has been run, so the question remains, was the alternator removed? If so that seems like a slightly risky game to be playing
I'm trying to work out if you are falling down the 'there is no centrifugal force' trap or if you are merely implying it is insignificant.
My maths says that a 250kg mass man, at sea level, on the equator, will require a centripetal force of: 250*(6378*10^3) * (7.27 × 10-5)^2 = 8.4N. Presumably at the North pole this is zero. That's 8.4/2452.5 N = 0.3% (using g = 9.8, which is a bit of a circular reference here...). Not a great deal, but not nothing. Note that the force is proportional to the square of the angular velocity so if the planet was spinning 17.82x faster you would have trouble standing on the equator...
Makes me think of the Roamers from Kevin J Anderson's Saga of Seven Suns - a colony group that essentially become space gypsies; they live in space stations and harvest resources from gas giants and meteor fields.
I suppose that if we developed large enough habitats in space then we could reach a point where cutting a large, mostly self sufficient (except resources etc.) space station adrift and pointing it in the general direction of some other solar system is plausible. Many generations would pass but eventually they might get there, I wonder whether they'd want to leave space for a planet when they did?
Ok, so let's say I decide that it's in my interests to have no online presence (not that I have much of one now). I will delete and disown everything about me that is online. How long before having no online presence is seen as subversive behaviour? Nothing to hide nothing to fear right? Well if I'm not showing something then I must be hiding it...
That's more detailed than I expected... I thought you were referring to parents who call their kids things like Chardonnay, Mercedes or Blade (that's responsible parenting, innit?). My personal favourite is the parents who wanted to name their twins Benson and Hedges. Everything has to be mispronounced with over-emphasis on some of the syllables, in the same fashion as McDonald's staff (in the UK at least) refer to a fillet of fish as a 'fill-A'. A quick search for 'chav names' brings up numerous other examples.
I've seen this done by a photographer in a night club - where I presume setting up remote flashes etc. is a bit inconvenient! He had a business card attached to the flash with an elastic band. I'm trying to remember how he had it oriented, I think it was with the flash pointing straight up, and the card taped behind, presumably to bounce some light from the card towards the subject and some off the ceiling?
My car is 17 years old and all the parts I can think of are available. I can still get replacement cylinder heads (albeit at uneconomical prices), not to mention all the other parts I can think of. The only stuff that seems to be unobtainable is the alarm key fobs... I've had Land Rovers that are older than I am, and someone built a complete one from parts a couple of years back. As parent says, either your dealer couldn't/wouldn't lookup aftermarket parts or you bought one rare-as-rocking-horse-poo car.
As Franky Boyle put it: "Who else could 'Scotch' an egg. Let's take an egg, cover it in meat and batter it!" That and the deep fried mars bar may explain some of the problem..
I concur, I think he would be awesome. Especially if he can transfer some Alan Johnson type persona into the role. "You'll be my Cheech and Chong ... the iron fist in my velvet glove ... the spiky balls on the end of my stick!"
Get them to stick the special delivery label over the seal?
And you obviously know too little about English to not be American.
I asked people when I was at university how long they spent sorting out references, numbering figures etc. in their Word dissertations, and for most people it was a day or two of work, and if you changed anything you had to check it all again. I felt quite smug thinking that I never had to worry about all that cruft (it's why I started using LaTeX in the first place). Build the document, all the references are correct. Simple.
We've seen from the internet that most partially trained monkeys are capable of knocking together some reasonable HTML, and it's not like using Word for dissertation+ level documents doesn't require some learning, so really I think it's just that it's entrenched in some fields to the extent that no one even realises there is an alternative. We had a lecture to compare the benefits of both approaches quite near the start of our course. You could use either, but the message was that you would be wasting time using word, and if you were doing anything postgraduate you'd need to know LaTeX (this was for the CS/CE/EE undergrads). The majority of people studying in different departments I've talked to haven't the slightest inkling that there is any other approach than to use word.