Apple's contributions to FreeBSD:
1) Removing giant kernel lock
2) Dramatically improved Wifi support
3) Much improved SMP scaling
4) D-Trace
5) Improved file system journeling
6) Improved scheduler
7) Super Pages
8) Some auditing framework needed for government systems
9) Full 64bit kernel
Apple didn't do all of the work, but the pioneered the required changes.
They both are bad. I think Romney is worse. We're just racing to the bottom anyway, I say let Romney take office and hurry the course to refresh the Tree of Liberty.
One could only hope that we get a decent President some day. I would rather have that then internal strife.
Why should I have to restart my browser? Isn't that like saying "Win95 is fine, just reboot it every few hours"?
Now that I've talked about FF, I'll have to test it out again in a few days. I like having alternatives and I know FF is getting better. And don't think I'm saying Chrome is better, I'm just saying for how I use my browser, Chrome works best for me right now. FF is a great product.
People have been saying for the past year that FF doesn't gobble memory, but I periodically check FF every month or two and last time I checked, it was gobbling memory and running slowly compared to Chrome. btw, I use no addons except Java.
Must be something about 20-30 tabs and running for 7+ days at a time. Chrome has no issues with this.
You were spot on for the response. What I was going after with the "egg" comment was what you said "Not getting flu vaccine is an entry for the Darwin award."
It's a bit of a blanket statement. It should be more like "Not getting flu vaccine is an entry for the Darwin award, assuming you don't have any know potential side effects."
I didn't word it the best, but you get the idea.
I myself am torn on getting a shot only because I don't have children or am around the young/old to whom I could pass it. I know several people who get identical symptoms from the shot as they do from getting the flu. I really wouldn't want to risk missing a week of work to prevent missing a week of work.
As a child, I have been around people who have had the flu and having close contact with them, like sitting next to them for hours watching TV and them coughing all over, etc. I tend to not get sick and when I do, I rarely get more than a sore throat or runny nose and get over the sickness fast(typically by the time I wake up). My biggest concern is not getting myself sick, but getting others sick.
Not to mention that the Dr who wrote about thermisol was paid a few million by a group of people who had money to be made by negative publicity against thermisol. Also, he didn't actually find a link, he merely suggested that their could be one and had absolutely no data to even suggest it.
Or it's just more likely(easier) to be attacked the other way before the "best" way is found. So anyone with a decent immune system will kill it off with the "good" way before ever discovering the "best" way and anyone who's immune system is weak enough to not fight it off the "good" way in time probably doesn't have an immune system strong enough to fight it the "best" way either.
Evolution isn't about best, just good enough. Best won't ever take over unless it gives an overall advantage, which usually means increasing the chance of reproduction and descendants surviving long enough to reproduce.
The human body already self inoculates against the majority of pathogens. There is no more reason to think the Flu will become more deadly over any other virus that is attacking humans 24/7.
While it is a large and growing market, Intel is probably the single largest company by revenue. They are targeting the mobile market with next year's chips.
Next gen Intel x86 has a lower idle power draw and better performance/watt than current ARM cpus. I don't know what new ARM cpus may be out next year, but that means Intel has closed the gap on cellphones.
That's all fine and dandy until you include things like "lag" into the equation. Joined a game with 30ms ping then find out they're on wifi when their signal goes to crap and you jump to 700ms?.. Died? So much fun!
Great points. I guess a good way may be to take several of the most similar chips/platforms from ARM and Intel and look at raw idle/load power usage and work per energy.
Intel's upcoming atom CPUs are demoing with nearly identical idle and load power draws as a whole platform to current competitive ARM based products. Both ARM and Intel still had their own strong points, but Intel closed the gap in one generation. Assuming final deliverables are similar, Intel has proven the x86 isn't entirely crippled on low power devices.
The family had to help him apply for the exams and got the see the results themselves. It's not what the drug addict claimed, it's what all the other family members claimed that they saw in the mail.
Around here, not everyone tests as "gifted". Maybe where you went to school, the teachers constantly told all the kinds that they're all "special" in their own way, but around here we have some of the best education in the country.
Everyone in my immediate family is considered "smart". Both of my brothers have done AP classes and the one was doing Senior level AP as a freshman. We all tend to do well in anything we put our minds to, yet we came from a family with very little money and we didn't fit well in school because we don't learn the same way the other kids do.
Then there's my extended blood related family. They all grew up in low income and had to work their way through life, but most of them got college degrees back in the 70s. One got a free ride and the other was a heroine and cocaine addict for 5 years, and still tested as "gifted". He was offered a free ride to an Ivy League, but his mind was so gone he had to eventually decline.
We had no special up-bringing and we came from manual labor families. Even many of my cousins are testing as gifted. Go figure. The entire family is rather easy going and don't push their kids. We just all tend to naturally excel at academics.
I went to my state Uni. $1.8k/sem and for the past 20 years my CIS major has had a 100% employment rate post-graduation in our field with an average starting wage of $60k/year-$80k/year.
Good track record and cheap.
Like you said, don't throw your money at a diploma mill.
Intel is not a stagnant monopoly, they have best-in-class R&D. In just the past few years, their IGP has gone from "god-awful" to "almost as good as AMD/nVidia low-end", which is their target. They've also gone from "power hungry desktop chips" to 10%-20% more power draw than ARM7 but 50%-100% better performance.... yeah
This is going to be some great times for everyone except Intel and ARM. They're going to war.
Win8 doesn't user a new driver model. The new "version" is just a super-set to the prior versions. One of the large benefits to the Windows driver model is the bulk of the driver code runs in user-mode. A crashing video drivers rarely kernel panics anymore. The GPU just gets reset, which can still be inconvenient, but it doesn't take down the system. It also allows for in-place driver upgrades. As long as the interface(kernel code) doesn't change, you don't need to restart for your new drivers to take effect. I've only had this happen around 3 times when Win7 first came out. The driver interface gets bug-tested like mad, then rarely ever touched. This leaves the "beta" code in user-land.
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Apple's contributions to FreeBSD:
1) Removing giant kernel lock
2) Dramatically improved Wifi support
3) Much improved SMP scaling
4) D-Trace
5) Improved file system journeling
6) Improved scheduler
7) Super Pages
8) Some auditing framework needed for government systems
9) Full 64bit kernel
Apple didn't do all of the work, but the pioneered the required changes.
They both are bad. I think Romney is worse. We're just racing to the bottom anyway, I say let Romney take office and hurry the course to refresh the Tree of Liberty.
One could only hope that we get a decent President some day. I would rather have that then internal strife.
The whole idea of "Yin and Yang" being balanced.
The more we learn, the less we know.
Why should I have to restart my browser? Isn't that like saying "Win95 is fine, just reboot it every few hours"?
Now that I've talked about FF, I'll have to test it out again in a few days. I like having alternatives and I know FF is getting better. And don't think I'm saying Chrome is better, I'm just saying for how I use my browser, Chrome works best for me right now. FF is a great product.
People have been saying for the past year that FF doesn't gobble memory, but I periodically check FF every month or two and last time I checked, it was gobbling memory and running slowly compared to Chrome. btw, I use no addons except Java.
Must be something about 20-30 tabs and running for 7+ days at a time. Chrome has no issues with this.
My anecdotal experience.
You were spot on for the response. What I was going after with the "egg" comment was what you said "Not getting flu vaccine is an entry for the Darwin award."
It's a bit of a blanket statement. It should be more like "Not getting flu vaccine is an entry for the Darwin award, assuming you don't have any know potential side effects."
I didn't word it the best, but you get the idea.
I myself am torn on getting a shot only because I don't have children or am around the young/old to whom I could pass it. I know several people who get identical symptoms from the shot as they do from getting the flu. I really wouldn't want to risk missing a week of work to prevent missing a week of work.
As a child, I have been around people who have had the flu and having close contact with them, like sitting next to them for hours watching TV and them coughing all over, etc. I tend to not get sick and when I do, I rarely get more than a sore throat or runny nose and get over the sickness fast(typically by the time I wake up). My biggest concern is not getting myself sick, but getting others sick.
But a Universal flu vaccine, I'm all over that.
Not to mention that the Dr who wrote about thermisol was paid a few million by a group of people who had money to be made by negative publicity against thermisol. Also, he didn't actually find a link, he merely suggested that their could be one and had absolutely no data to even suggest it.
If you're allergic to eggs then getting a shot is a Darwin award.
Statics don't work at the individual level.
Or it's just more likely(easier) to be attacked the other way before the "best" way is found. So anyone with a decent immune system will kill it off with the "good" way before ever discovering the "best" way and anyone who's immune system is weak enough to not fight it off the "good" way in time probably doesn't have an immune system strong enough to fight it the "best" way either.
Evolution isn't about best, just good enough. Best won't ever take over unless it gives an overall advantage, which usually means increasing the chance of reproduction and descendants surviving long enough to reproduce.
The human body already self inoculates against the majority of pathogens. There is no more reason to think the Flu will become more deadly over any other virus that is attacking humans 24/7.
While it is a large and growing market, Intel is probably the single largest company by revenue. They are targeting the mobile market with next year's chips.
Next gen Intel x86 has a lower idle power draw and better performance/watt than current ARM cpus. I don't know what new ARM cpus may be out next year, but that means Intel has closed the gap on cellphones.
That's all fine and dandy until you include things like "lag" into the equation. Joined a game with 30ms ping then find out they're on wifi when their signal goes to crap and you jump to 700ms?.. Died? So much fun!
Another reason for in-work day-cares so mothers can breast-feed or actually a society where women can stay home and be a mother.
Video drivers? At least Intel is working with Valve to better Intel's drivers. Hopefully AMD and nVidia will follow.
Great points. I guess a good way may be to take several of the most similar chips/platforms from ARM and Intel and look at raw idle/load power usage and work per energy.
Intel's upcoming atom CPUs are demoing with nearly identical idle and load power draws as a whole platform to current competitive ARM based products. Both ARM and Intel still had their own strong points, but Intel closed the gap in one generation. Assuming final deliverables are similar, Intel has proven the x86 isn't entirely crippled on low power devices.
The family had to help him apply for the exams and got the see the results themselves. It's not what the drug addict claimed, it's what all the other family members claimed that they saw in the mail.
Around here, not everyone tests as "gifted". Maybe where you went to school, the teachers constantly told all the kinds that they're all "special" in their own way, but around here we have some of the best education in the country.
Everyone in my immediate family is considered "smart". Both of my brothers have done AP classes and the one was doing Senior level AP as a freshman. We all tend to do well in anything we put our minds to, yet we came from a family with very little money and we didn't fit well in school because we don't learn the same way the other kids do.
Then there's my extended blood related family. They all grew up in low income and had to work their way through life, but most of them got college degrees back in the 70s. One got a free ride and the other was a heroine and cocaine addict for 5 years, and still tested as "gifted". He was offered a free ride to an Ivy League, but his mind was so gone he had to eventually decline.
We had no special up-bringing and we came from manual labor families. Even many of my cousins are testing as gifted. Go figure. The entire family is rather easy going and don't push their kids. We just all tend to naturally excel at academics.
I went to my state Uni. $1.8k/sem and for the past 20 years my CIS major has had a 100% employment rate post-graduation in our field with an average starting wage of $60k/year-$80k/year.
Good track record and cheap.
Like you said, don't throw your money at a diploma mill.
It is unconstitutional for the government to ignore rights guaranteed by the constitution ,which is treason.. much worse than plain old "illegal".
What they claim consciously and unconsciously are two different things. They want to interfere with our freedom and make use scared.
If you have given into fear and given up on your freedoms, they have won.
Intel is not a stagnant monopoly, they have best-in-class R&D. In just the past few years, their IGP has gone from "god-awful" to "almost as good as AMD/nVidia low-end", which is their target. They've also gone from "power hungry desktop chips" to 10%-20% more power draw than ARM7 but 50%-100% better performance.... yeah
This is going to be some great times for everyone except Intel and ARM. They're going to war.
Web servers, file servers, and firewalls/routers come to mind.
Win8 doesn't user a new driver model. The new "version" is just a super-set to the prior versions. One of the large benefits to the Windows driver model is the bulk of the driver code runs in user-mode. A crashing video drivers rarely kernel panics anymore. The GPU just gets reset, which can still be inconvenient, but it doesn't take down the system. It also allows for in-place driver upgrades. As long as the interface(kernel code) doesn't change, you don't need to restart for your new drivers to take effect. I've only had this happen around 3 times when Win7 first came out. The driver interface gets bug-tested like mad, then rarely ever touched. This leaves the "beta" code in user-land.