Well... it isnt actually like a driver at all. Its more of a launcher - plus some IPC so Steam can tell your friends what you are playing, and provide the shift-tab in-game overlay.
OSS isn't a panacea, and it's not going to give you things you don't have. It just means it's POSSIBLE to fix those problems. With closed source software, all the training, knowledge, and possibly even money in the world won't help you fix the closed source software.
Thats not entirely true. MS will happily take your money to maintain legacy apps - like NT4 if you so choose.
Probably better to pay them as well IMO - its not like you would want to skill up a bunch of in-house guys on MS's codebase:P
Yeah its pretty much assclowing IMO. I just booted my Vista laptop this morning. Process explorer shows 9300B idle cycles vs around 200B for other shit (mostly Opera, Steam, and sony's shitty phone sync). Taking them out we're left with bugger all - around 10B cycles "wasted" by default Vista services etc (well, actually SetPoint, AVG, Daemon tools, but regardless). Most of these aren't actually doing anything, just sitting there having started and are now idle. Looks like close as makes no odds 100% CPU avaliable for their JVM.
So according to this, the OS has fuck all overhead in terms of services. So either the kernel is managing the 50% overhead we saw in the SciMark test - or their tests / JVM are crap.
Haha are you retarded? Your firearm homicide rate is nearly ten times that of my country.
You are going to blame gang members now? Ten fucking times. Do you have that many violent criminals to skew the statistics that hard? Or perhaps, and this is my personal theory: "You are wrong, again. You are pulling numbers our your arse, again." What is it? The gangsters are killing each other at a rate comparable to genocide, or half your bloody population are inner city gangsters?
We've had some pretty shitty racist policies too, and have some serious cultural issues. That said, we manage to get along without shooting each other all the time. Thats because guns just aren't avaliable. How much does a black-market pistol cost in the US? Ten bucks? Here you are looking at an easy couple of thousand. Not pocket money.
So yeah, I'm blaming the avaliability of little pieces of metal. The fact that you get so fired up about this issue is bloody hilarious. I'm glad that people like you over here aren't allowed guns "for your protection". Protection my ass.
Which is fine. Like most editions of Windows, I'm pretty happy with the lower level bits. Typically of course they seem to get the "crap" developers to work on things like the shell/IE:P
More the new DX10 + kernel mods. Graphics ram is (roughly) virtualised now, so the kernel can kinda "page it out" - it avoids the DX9 and below situation as a game dev where you just suddenly get a "Hey, ya know those textures and vertex buffers you had? We had to drop em all, sorry!".
Haha, listening to your impotent redneck ravings makes myself and my collegues laugh a lot. Please keep it up. I've been offered a lot of beer if I can get you on YouTube crying "Leave mah guns alone".
We love how you continue to defend, while sidestepping around the fact that more people are dying from gunshots in your country than any other developed nation by a wide wide margin. Yet you think you can give the rest of the world advice on your obviously model laws.
So apart from your 1964 cop - the only other shooting I can think of in your country is that washington sniper chap. Turns out that fucker was using a bloody assault rifle, based on the M16. I guess you can claim a technicality that it was semi-auto and not full auto - thats pretty damn immaterial anyway - its a fucking assault rifle!
Looking at the wiki article makes me laugh - "I need this for hunting (I'm a shit shot)" or "I need this to protect myself". Haha. Nice society you've got going there.
Did you know you were less likely to get shot in Kuwait in 2004 than in your country?
In a modern civilised society we delegate the protection to the police forces. We don't need to wander around clutching our clubs and hiring private militias. The wiki article on the Washington Sniper made me laugh with this quote: "At 5:20pm, a shot was fired through a window of a Michaels Craft Store in Aspen Hill. As no one was injured, no serious alarms were raised." Lovely. Bullets going through windows, its just day to day life in the US. Guess we'll send out a squad car after they've finished helping that old granny across the road/load her prescription gun.
Our guns are regulated to the extent you cannot keep ammunition for your shooting pistols at home. If you are a farmer, you can own a shotgun or bolt action rifle. The regulations for gun safes are strict as hell. Most shooters keep their guns at the club for this reason. This is fine, because we don't have this paranoia that everyone else is tryign to shoot us (maybe they are in the US - perhaps its the gun laws that are fine, and its people like you that are paranoid and trigger happy rednecks thats the problem). Either way, you fucks are the ones with the problem.
Your gun laws suck. I'm safe here. Thats about it. Enjoy getting shot.
Haha my citations were fine. Your citation is based on a laughable premise that the factual number of gun deaths is somehow irrelevant because of "variables" such as the highway system. Guess what champ? All those "variables" cited are part of your country, and one of those "variables" is that every crazy redneck seems to think they need automatic weapons to protect themselves. Possibly they do in your country, sounds like a self-perpetuating violent problem with guns only escalating it.
Gun deaths per capita over the entire US is a perfectly unbiased statistic. Unless you are going to make the claim that you have some practical warzones that are slanting the overall stats?
I have the right to defend myself with lethal force when necessary. In the US you apparantly have the right to shoot to kill, on sight without provocation. That might make sense in your savage wild west nation, but not in a civilised country. I have the right to defend myself with lethal force when necessary. I do not have the right to carry around fully automatic weapons on the flimsy excuse of "someone else might attack me".
You know why we have a civilised gun death rate over here? Nobody needs to shoot each other, because its rare that anyone but criminals and the police are carrying weapons. We don't get a bunch of crims with itchy trigger fingers worrying what redneck retard is going to whip out a concealed weapon and try to save the day John Wayne style. If you go and rob a bank here, you can practically do it with a water pistol. We don't even need armed guards.
We like to call it civilisation.
We don't need to carry weapons around down under. Banning them mainly pissed off hunt clubs, gun clubs, and farmers. None of this crazy "self-defence" bullshit.
Five bucks says if theres a gunfight in your house - you vs some criminal that odds are in his favour. Another five says that if the same criminal was in my house, he'd be leaving with my insured posessions, and I wouldnt be the one in hospital wondering why life doesnt work like the movies.
If I try MySQL and it chokes on my database, all I am out is my time. If I buy proprietary, I am out money AND my time.
Sounds like your time is pretty worthless.
Regardless, there are both free and Free alternatives. Oracle and MS SQL come with a free version, theres postgres & firebird. Hell I'd even trust Jet+Access above MySQL.
I usually have no problem buying commercial products - its not just my time thats wasted, its my team's time. You could lose a week of time for a small team fucking around with some crappy library to save a few hundred bucks. Add all that up over a 40 hour week - you could be looking at around 10k wasted for a 5 man team...:S
I think it would be better to simply say -- this is not ready for enterprise or mission-critical usage and will not be for some time.
Then what, honestly, is the point of it? Its like some backyard project - which will never quite be good enough, and theres plenty of free and Free options avaliable, which are done right.
The waterfall model is the old slow model for software development.
Oh shit, another agile pundit?
Just because some dodgy informal "agile" model (which for you was just an excuse to not spec things), that was actaully nothing like the agile manifesto, happened to work for the last shitty website you worked on doesnt mean its appropriate for making complex software. Success in making some crap intranet site, while using a bunch of tools with "enterprise" in the description does not make you a real "software engineer".
What the hell does Google use MySQL for? I was also under the impression that Slashdot used postgres.
The others are mainly a bunch of shitty LAMP sites that got popular. Now that its all going its obviously going to be cheaper to throw more hardware at the problem than retool. (Well until you try and take a bite out of the pub/sub problem Twitter style and realise you fucked the design real good).
The thing that really shits me, is the lethal combination of multiple storage engines and rabid MySQL fanboys.
MySQL never appears to have any flaws, because "using storage engine XXX" it gets great performance in that scenario. Most of the high performance options IMO I would trust about as much as Jet+Access.
Harmful is more for assessing damages. If Nasajin was a well known bad-ass who spend time on TV talking up his bad-assery then it might be damaging to his reputation to be a car gifting nice guy;)
Believable also means that the slanderer has to be believable. If I was to say that Calista Flockhart is a slut, and I saw her in a four-way - nobody is going to believe ozphx on slashdot. However if I was Channel 93 News, it would be a different story.
Because I'd like to avoid shooting my mobile's battery to hell through constant use for music.
Considering the battery is there for running a moderate output transmitter, its not surprising that playing music pretty much has bugger all effect on battery life if you are involved in a call a day. (My W350's battery is barely scratched by playing music as opposed to normal standby).
Because despite the propaganda from various cell phones makers, there's more and more evidence coming out that tends to show it's not very healthy to carry one over you for long stretches of time.
If you read the GSM spec, you'll find when your phone is idle its transmitter is switched off. It listens to the closest towers, and when it notices its switched area (as in group of towers) it wakes up, notifys the BSC and goes back to sleep. Considering then its mainly a non-transmitting device like an iPod - I doubt the health issues are from anything but hippies. (I mean come on, its got a tiny battery - just how much energy can it deliver to your balls without flattening it?:P)
Because I'll never again bind myself with another 12/24/36 months contract to have the latest 'ooh, shiny' and I much prefer buying a cheap phone with no strings attached which will last me at least a couple of years. That way I can change provider whenever I feel like it.
Me too. Thats why I bought outright every phone I have owned.
That list shows your country far topping the list of firearm related homicides per capita of the industrialised nations. In fact you are so good at killing each other, your stats would look more at home in the second list of shitholes with bugger all income. You are closer to Zimbabwe than you are to Australia.
So I reiterate: Violent bloody rednecks, the lot of ya. Call yourselves a civilisation? Fuck...
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Well... it isnt actually like a driver at all. Its more of a launcher - plus some IPC so Steam can tell your friends what you are playing, and provide the shift-tab in-game overlay.
You don't get shit all up in your kernel :P
The "slightly difference" version was a fairly major point release too (evidently especially from a performance perspective).
I mean seriously - benchmark *nix vs doze on things like fileserving / web serving / TCO / etc. Execution of native code? Please..
Thats not entirely true. MS will happily take your money to maintain legacy apps - like NT4 if you so choose.
Probably better to pay them as well IMO - its not like you would want to skill up a bunch of in-house guys on MS's codebase :P
See my previous comment. My Vista install still has everything turned on - and realistically it makes zero difference.
I'd suggest either the JVM sucks, or their tests sucked.
Yeah its pretty much assclowing IMO. I just booted my Vista laptop this morning. Process explorer shows 9300B idle cycles vs around 200B for other shit (mostly Opera, Steam, and sony's shitty phone sync). Taking them out we're left with bugger all - around 10B cycles "wasted" by default Vista services etc (well, actually SetPoint, AVG, Daemon tools, but regardless). Most of these aren't actually doing anything, just sitting there having started and are now idle. Looks like close as makes no odds 100% CPU avaliable for their JVM.
So according to this, the OS has fuck all overhead in terms of services. So either the kernel is managing the 50% overhead we saw in the SciMark test - or their tests / JVM are crap.
I'd tend towards thinking the latter.
No, he's saying that users don't give a shit about the ACID test.
If I told your mum about IE not rendering the ACID3 page properly she would say "Well what moron would make a page that people can't see properly?".
So by "sony-donated" its "sony-still-pushing-teh-cell-is-teh-awesomes" bandwagon?
The "real" cell chip is used in "real" supercomputers - not the stripped down one with only 7 SPUs in the PS3. We're talking like 32 of the babys.
Thats how you make an efficient supercomputer - not by wiring together a bunch of toys (even if they do run *nix).
Haha are you retarded? Your firearm homicide rate is nearly ten times that of my country.
You are going to blame gang members now? Ten fucking times. Do you have that many violent criminals to skew the statistics that hard? Or perhaps, and this is my personal theory: "You are wrong, again. You are pulling numbers our your arse, again." What is it? The gangsters are killing each other at a rate comparable to genocide, or half your bloody population are inner city gangsters?
We've had some pretty shitty racist policies too, and have some serious cultural issues. That said, we manage to get along without shooting each other all the time. Thats because guns just aren't avaliable. How much does a black-market pistol cost in the US? Ten bucks? Here you are looking at an easy couple of thousand. Not pocket money.
So yeah, I'm blaming the avaliability of little pieces of metal. The fact that you get so fired up about this issue is bloody hilarious. I'm glad that people like you over here aren't allowed guns "for your protection". Protection my ass.
Which is fine. Like most editions of Windows, I'm pretty happy with the lower level bits. Typically of course they seem to get the "crap" developers to work on things like the shell/IE :P
Wow, you are a pedantic little fuckwad aren't you?
More the new DX10 + kernel mods. Graphics ram is (roughly) virtualised now, so the kernel can kinda "page it out" - it avoids the DX9 and below situation as a game dev where you just suddenly get a "Hey, ya know those textures and vertex buffers you had? We had to drop em all, sorry!".
As in 2000 was 5.0 and XP was 5.1...
Haha, listening to your impotent redneck ravings makes myself and my collegues laugh a lot. Please keep it up. I've been offered a lot of beer if I can get you on YouTube crying "Leave mah guns alone".
We love how you continue to defend, while sidestepping around the fact that more people are dying from gunshots in your country than any other developed nation by a wide wide margin. Yet you think you can give the rest of the world advice on your obviously model laws.
So apart from your 1964 cop - the only other shooting I can think of in your country is that washington sniper chap. Turns out that fucker was using a bloody assault rifle, based on the M16. I guess you can claim a technicality that it was semi-auto and not full auto - thats pretty damn immaterial anyway - its a fucking assault rifle!
Looking at the wiki article makes me laugh - "I need this for hunting (I'm a shit shot)" or "I need this to protect myself". Haha. Nice society you've got going there.
Did you know you were less likely to get shot in Kuwait in 2004 than in your country?
In a modern civilised society we delegate the protection to the police forces. We don't need to wander around clutching our clubs and hiring private militias. The wiki article on the Washington Sniper made me laugh with this quote: "At 5:20pm, a shot was fired through a window of a Michaels Craft Store in Aspen Hill. As no one was injured, no serious alarms were raised." Lovely. Bullets going through windows, its just day to day life in the US. Guess we'll send out a squad car after they've finished helping that old granny across the road/load her prescription gun.
Our guns are regulated to the extent you cannot keep ammunition for your shooting pistols at home. If you are a farmer, you can own a shotgun or bolt action rifle. The regulations for gun safes are strict as hell. Most shooters keep their guns at the club for this reason. This is fine, because we don't have this paranoia that everyone else is tryign to shoot us (maybe they are in the US - perhaps its the gun laws that are fine, and its people like you that are paranoid and trigger happy rednecks thats the problem). Either way, you fucks are the ones with the problem.
Your gun laws suck. I'm safe here. Thats about it. Enjoy getting shot.
Haha my citations were fine. Your citation is based on a laughable premise that the factual number of gun deaths is somehow irrelevant because of "variables" such as the highway system. Guess what champ? All those "variables" cited are part of your country, and one of those "variables" is that every crazy redneck seems to think they need automatic weapons to protect themselves. Possibly they do in your country, sounds like a self-perpetuating violent problem with guns only escalating it.
Gun deaths per capita over the entire US is a perfectly unbiased statistic. Unless you are going to make the claim that you have some practical warzones that are slanting the overall stats?
I have the right to defend myself with lethal force when necessary. In the US you apparantly have the right to shoot to kill, on sight without provocation. That might make sense in your savage wild west nation, but not in a civilised country. I have the right to defend myself with lethal force when necessary. I do not have the right to carry around fully automatic weapons on the flimsy excuse of "someone else might attack me".
You know why we have a civilised gun death rate over here? Nobody needs to shoot each other, because its rare that anyone but criminals and the police are carrying weapons. We don't get a bunch of crims with itchy trigger fingers worrying what redneck retard is going to whip out a concealed weapon and try to save the day John Wayne style. If you go and rob a bank here, you can practically do it with a water pistol. We don't even need armed guards.
We like to call it civilisation.
We don't need to carry weapons around down under. Banning them mainly pissed off hunt clubs, gun clubs, and farmers. None of this crazy "self-defence" bullshit.
Five bucks says if theres a gunfight in your house - you vs some criminal that odds are in his favour. Another five says that if the same criminal was in my house, he'd be leaving with my insured posessions, and I wouldnt be the one in hospital wondering why life doesnt work like the movies.
Doesnt work on vista. IIRC thats notepad on XP autodetecting the character set for an 8bit ASCII file - picks one of the asian languages?
Vista notepad is presumably a unicode build.
Kindof an ironic string to make it fail though ;)
Sounds like your time is pretty worthless.
Regardless, there are both free and Free alternatives. Oracle and MS SQL come with a free version, theres postgres & firebird. Hell I'd even trust Jet+Access above MySQL.
I usually have no problem buying commercial products - its not just my time thats wasted, its my team's time. You could lose a week of time for a small team fucking around with some crappy library to save a few hundred bucks. Add all that up over a 40 hour week - you could be looking at around 10k wasted for a 5 man team... :S
Then what, honestly, is the point of it? Its like some backyard project - which will never quite be good enough, and theres plenty of free and Free options avaliable, which are done right.
Oh shit, another agile pundit?
Just because some dodgy informal "agile" model (which for you was just an excuse to not spec things), that was actaully nothing like the agile manifesto, happened to work for the last shitty website you worked on doesnt mean its appropriate for making complex software. Success in making some crap intranet site, while using a bunch of tools with "enterprise" in the description does not make you a real "software engineer".
What the hell does Google use MySQL for? I was also under the impression that Slashdot used postgres.
The others are mainly a bunch of shitty LAMP sites that got popular. Now that its all going its obviously going to be cheaper to throw more hardware at the problem than retool. (Well until you try and take a bite out of the pub/sub problem Twitter style and realise you fucked the design real good).
The thing that really shits me, is the lethal combination of multiple storage engines and rabid MySQL fanboys.
MySQL never appears to have any flaws, because "using storage engine XXX" it gets great performance in that scenario. Most of the high performance options IMO I would trust about as much as Jet+Access.
It was a four-way. You wanted to know who the masked man was?
Yo.
Harmful is more for assessing damages. If Nasajin was a well known bad-ass who spend time on TV talking up his bad-assery then it might be damaging to his reputation to be a car gifting nice guy ;)
Believable also means that the slanderer has to be believable. If I was to say that Calista Flockhart is a slut, and I saw her in a four-way - nobody is going to believe ozphx on slashdot. However if I was Channel 93 News, it would be a different story.
Doesnt anyone else see this as CLEAR EVIDENCE that the great CONSPIRICY of Microsoft shills to mod Twitter down goes STRAIGHT TO THE TOP?
My god its giving me massive lulz over how much tinfoil that paranoid fucker must be wearing now :D
Considering the battery is there for running a moderate output transmitter, its not surprising that playing music pretty much has bugger all effect on battery life if you are involved in a call a day. (My W350's battery is barely scratched by playing music as opposed to normal standby).
If you read the GSM spec, you'll find when your phone is idle its transmitter is switched off. It listens to the closest towers, and when it notices its switched area (as in group of towers) it wakes up, notifys the BSC and goes back to sleep. Considering then its mainly a non-transmitting device like an iPod - I doubt the health issues are from anything but hippies. (I mean come on, its got a tiny battery - just how much energy can it deliver to your balls without flattening it? :P)
Me too. Thats why I bought outright every phone I have owned.
Perhaps you would like some fucking citations retard?
That list shows your country far topping the list of firearm related homicides per capita of the industrialised nations. In fact you are so good at killing each other, your stats would look more at home in the second list of shitholes with bugger all income. You are closer to Zimbabwe than you are to Australia.
So I reiterate: Violent bloody rednecks, the lot of ya. Call yourselves a civilisation? Fuck...