First I can sympathize strongly with Apple (and MS in this case). Apple is attempting to protect their image. If they did not do this they were opening themselves up for some jerk to call them purveyors of SMUT. MS has the same issue but in a different realm.
Apple is damned if they do or damned if they don't. The right wing will pounce on anything to make headlines saying they want to protect the children. HAHA they get upset with Janet Jackson but they do not care that football is a dangerous sport and hundreds (maybe thousands) of players get injured each year from a sport that should have been banned years ago. Blood & Guts is "OK" but a part of the female anatomy is dangerous??? I laughed so hard at this that I almost lost control. People get a life and if you are watching football just think of the people that have lost theirs lives playing it or practicing for it. I think it should be banned from High School and probably from TV as it teaches kids aggression. That is something we should not be teaching kids. We should be teaching them how to get along with their school mates and people they run across in day to day life. Anyway, 4 letters words (in most cases) do not harm people it is peoples reaction to those words is more important. Parents should teach kids that they will see and hear things like that and to steer them into understanding why people use 4 letters words and how it shows that people that use them are less educated and or lazy not to come up with decent English alternatives. Yes I know about the comic strips and they like have been using special characters to give of the idea that there are swear words and it is less that successful in doing so. The artists (or whoever puts words into the cartoon) need to grow up .
Once they put anything slightly illegal on your machine you are responsible for it. Think Child porn or any other nasty item (death threats) and worse.
I have some friends who are street car "nuts". They like to go to different cities and take pictures of street cars. They were informed while they were taking pictures of street cars (I think it was in New England) that they were violating a federal law by taking the pictures. The policeman was *SERIOUS*. They do this for their own enjoyment and they give talks at various "clubs" on street cars. They are *NOT* foreign agents or out to give aid to the "enemy" (whoever that is). This whole idea of the US government intervening in purely information building effort to write a book on street cars is way over the top. The Bush people(and their new laws) have done so much damage to the national mindset and liberties has got to stop.
In another life I was working 100 hour+ weeks and I did manage to skim the security logs daily. I was not told to do it but I was always proactive and if there was something needed to be done I did it. Then I got laid off and they had to hire 3 people to replace me. Chuckle the jerks did not have a clue as to what was going on.
I agree completely. Some of the video's are mildly funny but to pay for much of the other crap on there **********NO***************.
I watched a vid clip of a plane taking off and it was boring nothing happened no funny voice over no nothing.
I gave it a zero rating and the author was upset because I did so, he got into a pissing contest and set him on ignore.
Of course there was a video clip that showed companies how to hire H1B's it was disgusting to see how companies get around the rules for H1B's which told me that US companies(who hire H1B's) are companies to stay away from for jobs. Clips like that give a real perspective on how US companies are screwing over US citizens.
So every now and then it provides a good service. I suspect however those are a small minority. Pay?? NO!!!!
I have a friend that uses ringtones to announce specific individuals and it is mildly amusing. The boy friends gets a ompa dupa (not spelled correctly I know but it is irrelevant to this. Other friends get other songs. Frankly its a PITA when you are on the land phone and you hear a ringtone go off and you know who is calling him. Its like "she who must be obeyed" and he practically hangs up on you in mid sentence. I also found out that ringtones cannot be transfered between phones do you have to pay for another copy. I agree that ringtones should only be allowed but the volume should be low. Then I do not care.
I do not want to go into it in depth but to try and stay on topic all the "old wisdoms" (truth shall set you free etc) were probably good for the day when their use was appropriate. This is the information age and what was good 30-100 or more years ago is not necessarily true today. In the electronic age the privacy has to be more fiercely protected than in the past. To the people who think everything should be public the golden exception is medical records.
ps:Have done all of the items you suggested many many times and have run 2 utilities that claim to fix plist (or at least claim they can spot bad ones) and even tested memory and drive till I am blue in the face and nothing works.
I did not say it was perfect only that it was better than any of the MS products.
I was attempting to get across that at least you have a choice and yes the other choice was LINUX and APPLE. The point was that you might have an argument if there was no choice. But you do and the others maybe be more or less expensive than VISTA (or almost any other MS OS reasonably current).
AFAIK Apple has 1.5 OS X and its server version (whatever that is)
Probably 95 percent uses OS X (like I do) and IIRC it is around $100 (depending, is you average out the 5 user pak) With VISTA you get 2-3 (that I have heard about) price levels. I am obviously leaving out the "Enterprise or the name of the day" price which for a flat fee you get X many licenses. Typically (only large companies do that) but you get the idea.
As to stability everybody seems to have their own story, but I guess it is fair to say MS has improved a little. I am not going to sit here and tell you OS X is. It needs a lot improvement but it has gotten better over 5 years.
A side story here I guess is needed. Before Leopard I was only rebooting about once a month and it was planned. Now I am crashing 2-3 times a week probably due to one application. Unfortunately the application is really needed and it is the only one that fits my needs. I am *GUESSING* here but there is some sort of issue between the application and the OS X when it comes to redrawing windows. In any case I am here to tell you that NO OS is perfect. There are lots of usability issues with OS X as while the help is OK it could be a LOT better.
So no OS is perfect but people are willing to pay for better.
Some of us do want dependable OS's, not ones that crash often or come up with multiple reasons to hate them. MS does that rather well. Oh BTW if you are going to bring up the old saw horse of LINUX there are at least 2 versions of that out there.
So what if its married to Apple hardware, in the end all OS's are married to some hardware. So what is it is more expensive, that is a persons right to spend his/her money on whatever he/she can afford.
Get over it.
Yes I own a Apple computer and I am not ashamed to admit it.
This is of but one thorny area(s) where the First Amendment and the new information age becomes really sticky.
I do not have an answer and I am afraid that there is no perfect answer. Having all information available also comes at a price of personal freedom.
Be-careful what you fight for you may get it and some totally unforeseen circumstances that will come back and haunt you.
I am just suggesting tread lightly and think things through. I do not mean gut reactions just sit back and think of any consequences as once the "genie" is let out of the bottle you will probably never get the "genie" back in.
Well, I have dealt with IBM support for somewhere around 50 years. At times my call backlog was 10 calls deep talking to IBM support people. Now the question comes up is this pre '92 or post '92?
Somewhere around that time frame IBM support went to pot. Before then most of the time I could call IBM support and get a fix for the issue I was having and IBM would test it out on their own equipment before sending it to the customer (there was a lot of complex issues that happened causing fixes to be delayed. If it hit a critical part of the OS it could take 6 weeks before they let go of the fix as IBM does test the code before they send it out. In my 40 years I have not had one bad fix given to me (complicated so I won't expound).
Somewhere in 1992 support went into the hole. I was not talking to the old people anymore I was talking with fresh "new" people that really did not have the experience that the old people had.
There are several levels of IBM support and the new green "kids" were semi taught things but really did not have much of a clue. The second level is usually good unless you got a "kid"then you have to tell the person what to search on. IBM's Problem database got larger and larger and much more user friendly over the years. 30 years ago the update tape came once a month. Now you can search online the IBM database and its reasonably good (although IBMLINK (their tool to communicate with IBM over the internet is OK just the reliability is just not there (as it should be) they can be down on the weekend and you are desperately needing access and its down. Sometimes they do announce outages in advance and usually if they do it takes 2-3 days of teeth mashing to get it back up. Reliability of IBMLINK just plain sucks. They keep saying they are working on it but IBM has lost almost all credibility it had with the customers because of that.
IBM for last lets say about 15 has been porting unix software to run on their big mainframes. I am not privy to the numbers but lets just say its quite a few. The Porting sort of works but in their rush to do so IBM has bent so many of their own rules that it was obvious (to me) that they hired green CS kids to do this. I cannot tell you how many violations of IBM internal standards but it is *SUBSTANTIAL* one of the "precursor" products has been through so many code changes its almost impossible to guess where the issue lays. I would suspect that IBM does not want to have this heard as every time I have brought it up they say "hey its the Pimply faced kids doing the coding not the old timers. The error rate is approaching (or may have surpassed the DFP VSAM people out west about 20 years ago. IIBM is bad now but I could just see what the SUN people might do in the future. IMO SUN was a so-so option to buy. Not enough bang to the buck (for me). I hope it does not happen, as the clash between the young the current IBM "mindset". IBM would be like being on the front of a train going 100 miles an hour and hitting a 100 foot thick brink wall. IOW the ex sun types would be running to another vendor quickly. I guess in this economy that would really be a good idea.
The memory *HAS* to have built into in double bit parity error checking. A *VERY* small subset of PC's have it now days. I could be wrong but the last maker of the memory was IBM with their PS2 line.
I am pretty sure they still do use it on their BIG MF computers but I do not personally know the currency of this.
If you have mission critical system IMO you should be using memory that does parity checks. The OS has to know what to do when the system see them of course. I do not know if INTEL allows for this or not (this is way out of my safety zone). The OS must recognize that the hardware has parity issues and an OS to decide what to do with them.
I am pretty sure the IBM MF's when they get a parity check go through some error analysis and if possible makes the page in eligible to be used again and *IF* there was an application that was using the page and there was not a good copy someplace else the application would be terminated. There would also be information logged to at least 2 places I am familiar with so there can be some sort of PDA by the hardware types.
Depending on the error (and where the error was) the system *MIGHT* halt (ie go into a non restartable wait state and a red light would be turn on to indicate a major fault). IIRC IBM uses double bit error correction in there MF. I think I have seen one in 40 years.
renox said: I'm French and among our many stupidities, there are: - we treat our elected president like a King (still much better than having a monarchy but hardly ideal) - many believe in 'graphologie': in many case you have to take a graphologie test before being hired!! -----end quote You forgot the worst one of all: the French Like Jerry Lewis.
They should be drummed from the UN and every other place on earth and sentenced to Devils Island.
I might get in some controversy if I say this but hey its/. and what is a little controversy. As always it *DEPENDS* so take this opinion as just that. I have seen computer science majors that come in and apply for a job and they do nice on tests and everything but when it comes to interviewing they do not have a clue. I have really never seen a comp sci person give a good interview. If they do there is something suspicious about the person. Having said that what I have also found that most (not all) comp sci people that come from a regular college (4 year at a state or more university) do reasonably well if you toss in the so called business colleges the real 4 year degree you get a lot better quality than the business college types. When I had an opening it always went to the 4 year regular school types. I just do not find the business students have the in depth learning that the colleges and the like have. The work habits of these people are usually better than the business school types. I also find that the intelligence is better in a 4 year school than the business type schools. We look at what school they attended as well as there are some colleges that just do not teach what we need. Just a quick example at NIU (Illinois) they teach the strongest courses that we need, at the business school they typically do not teach anything we want. I would suggest that you figure out exactly what you want to do and find the best 4 year college that will accept you and apply.
As for the age issue IMO it depends on the company. I have seen at some companies its blatant age discrimination at other companies it might be there but they cover it up well so you won't know you are being turned down because of your age. I had one company tell me that I was the strongest person to apply but I was to old (I was around 45 at the time). They hired some younger guy that did not really have any experience (of course at lesser money) and they had to end up firing him right in the middle of a major project.
The companies in this market today can get pretty much what they want for the $$ they want. They can also go overseas and get it for less (with H1B's). They are not supposed to do it but it happens *ALL* the time.
So you have two (at least things going against you) "AGE" and H1B's availability. Be prepared for this as you might be unemployed for quite a long time. BTW there is a fascinating video on YOUTUBE (it may not be all true but I will vouch for part of it) where there is a group of people from the personal department and they are "instructed" on how to hire H1B's by advertising the job at paltry wages so they can get H1B's "legitimately" . It is an eye opener for anybody looking for a job now days and it will make you wonder if our government is not winking their eye at the practice.
I/O is almost always known for its bottle necks. That is one of the things that an OS can actually help out some programs. There was a study done (eons ago) that showed 5 i/o buffers are the most efficient. Now that depends on several factors of course and AFAIK the PC world does not block their records. So I/O is a major thruput stopper. Probably trying to get the PC world to change would be like trying to sell more processors for the same or cheaper. IOW it will not happen. CPU is way to cheap and OS's are dumb to do simple things like buffering for thruput.
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First I can sympathize strongly with Apple (and MS in this case).
Apple is attempting to protect their image. If they did not do this they were opening themselves up for some jerk to call them purveyors of SMUT. MS has the same issue but in a different realm.
Apple is damned if they do or damned if they don't. The right wing will pounce on anything to make headlines saying they want to protect the children. HAHA they get upset with Janet Jackson but they do not care that football is a dangerous sport and hundreds (maybe thousands) of players get injured each year from a sport that should have been banned years ago. Blood & Guts is "OK" but a part of the female anatomy is dangerous??? I laughed so hard at this that I almost lost control.
People get a life and if you are watching football just think of the people that have lost theirs lives playing it or practicing for it.
I think it should be banned from High School and probably from TV as it teaches kids aggression. That is something we should not be teaching kids.
We should be teaching them how to get along with their school mates and people they run across in day to day life.
Anyway, 4 letters words (in most cases) do not harm people it is peoples reaction to those words is more important. Parents should teach kids that they will see and hear things like that and to steer them into understanding why people use 4 letters words and how it shows that people that use them are less educated and or lazy not to come up with decent English alternatives.
Yes I know about the comic strips and they like have been using special characters to give of the idea that there are swear words and it is less that successful in doing so. The artists (or whoever puts words into the cartoon) need to grow up .
Go disk to disk and carry the drive over to the next door neighbor (or someone that is a safe distance away).
As some else suggested just say "NO"
Once they put anything slightly illegal on your machine you are responsible for it. Think Child porn or any other nasty item (death threats) and worse.
Tell them sorry my machine is not available.
I have some friends who are street car "nuts". They like to go to different cities and take pictures of street cars. They were informed while they were taking pictures of street cars (I think it was in New England) that they were violating a federal law by taking the pictures. The policeman was *SERIOUS*. They do this for their own enjoyment and they give talks at various "clubs" on street cars.
They are *NOT* foreign agents or out to give aid to the "enemy" (whoever that is). This whole idea of the US government intervening in purely information building effort to write a book on street cars is way over the top. The Bush people(and their new laws) have done so much damage to the national mindset and liberties has got to stop.
Family of 4 out at 2AM??
Maybe the parents should be investigated as well for child abuse.
The real question should be: Does it work correctly?
Almost any program can run, but if the output isn't then you can say it doesn't create valid output.
In another life I was working 100 hour+ weeks and I did manage to skim the security logs daily. I was not told to do it but I was always proactive and if there was something needed to be done I did it.
Then I got laid off and they had to hire 3 people to replace me. Chuckle the jerks did not have a clue as to what was going on.
I thought the mini black holes that were going to be creating would "absorb" all those particles.
I agree completely. Some of the video's are mildly funny but to pay for much of the other crap on there **********NO***************.
I watched a vid clip of a plane taking off and it was boring nothing happened no funny voice over no nothing.
I gave it a zero rating and the author was upset because I did so, he got into a pissing contest and set him on ignore.
Of course there was a video clip that showed companies how to hire H1B's it was disgusting to see how companies get around the rules for H1B's which told me that US companies(who hire H1B's) are companies to stay away from for jobs. Clips like that give a real perspective on how US companies are screwing over US citizens.
So every now and then it provides a good service. I suspect however those are a small minority. Pay?? NO!!!!
I have a friend that uses ringtones to announce specific individuals and it is mildly amusing. The boy friends gets a ompa dupa (not spelled correctly I know but it is irrelevant to this. Other friends get other songs. Frankly its a PITA when you are on the land phone and you hear a ringtone go off and you know who is calling him. Its like "she who must be obeyed" and he practically hangs up on you in mid sentence. I also found out that ringtones cannot be transfered between phones do you have to pay for another copy.
I agree that ringtones should only be allowed but the volume should be low. Then I do not care.
I do not want to go into it in depth but to try and stay on topic all the "old wisdoms" (truth shall set you free etc) were probably good for the day when their use was appropriate. This is the information age and what was good 30-100 or more years ago is not necessarily true today. In the electronic age the privacy has to be more fiercely protected than in the past. To the people who think everything should be public the golden exception is medical records.
ps:Have done all of the items you suggested many many times and have run 2 utilities that claim to fix plist (or at least claim they can spot bad ones) and even tested memory and drive till I am blue in the face and nothing works.
I did not say it was perfect only that it was better than any of the MS products.
I was attempting to get across that at least you have a choice and yes the other choice was LINUX and APPLE. The point was that you might have an argument if there was no choice. But you do and the others maybe be more or less expensive than VISTA (or almost any other MS OS reasonably current).
AFAIK Apple has 1.5 OS X and its server version (whatever that is)
Probably 95 percent uses OS X (like I do) and IIRC it is around $100 (depending, is you average out the 5 user pak) With VISTA you get 2-3 (that I have heard about) price levels. I am obviously leaving out the "Enterprise or the name of the day" price which for a flat fee you get X many licenses. Typically (only large companies do that) but you get the idea.
As to stability everybody seems to have their own story, but I guess it is fair to say MS has improved a little. I am not going to sit here and tell you OS X is. It needs a lot improvement but it has gotten better over 5 years.
A side story here I guess is needed. Before Leopard I was only rebooting about once a month and it was planned. Now I am crashing 2-3 times a week probably due to one application. Unfortunately the application is really needed and it is the only one that fits my needs. I am *GUESSING* here but there is some sort of issue between the application and the OS X when it comes to redrawing windows. In any case I am here to tell you that NO OS is perfect. There are lots of usability issues with OS X as while the help is OK it could be a LOT better.
So no OS is perfect but people are willing to pay for better.
And your point is?
Some of us do want dependable OS's, not ones that crash often or come up with multiple reasons to hate them. MS does that rather well. Oh BTW if you are going to bring up the old saw horse of LINUX there are at least 2 versions of that out there.
So what if its married to Apple hardware, in the end all OS's are married to some hardware. So what is it is more expensive, that is a persons right to spend his/her money on whatever he/she can afford.
Get over it.
Yes I own a Apple computer and I am not ashamed to admit it.
This is of but one thorny area(s) where the First Amendment and the new information age becomes really sticky.
I do not have an answer and I am afraid that there is no perfect answer. Having all information available also comes at a price of personal freedom.
Be-careful what you fight for you may get it and some totally unforeseen circumstances that will come back and haunt you.
I am just suggesting tread lightly and think things through. I do not mean gut reactions just sit back and think of any consequences as once the "genie" is let out of the bottle you will probably never get the "genie" back in.
What one moment, according to the Army they already have one and are using it to recruit people.
What oh my goodness was that a misleading advertisement by the Army? No they wouldn't lie to possible recruits would they???
YES......
Yes the morticians will make a mint:)
Well, I have dealt with IBM support for somewhere around 50 years.
At times my call backlog was 10 calls deep talking to IBM support people. Now the question comes up is this pre '92 or post '92?
Somewhere around that time frame IBM support went to pot. Before then most of the time I could call IBM support and get a fix for the issue I was having and IBM would test it out on their own equipment before sending it to the customer (there was a lot of complex issues that happened causing fixes to be delayed. If it hit a critical part of the OS it could take 6 weeks before they let go of the fix as IBM does test the code before they send it out. In my 40 years I have not had one bad fix given to me (complicated so I won't expound).
Somewhere in 1992 support went into the hole. I was not talking to the old people anymore I was talking with fresh "new" people that really did not have the experience that the old people had.
There are several levels of IBM support and the new green "kids" were semi taught things but really did not have much of a clue. The second level is usually good unless you got a "kid"then you have to tell the person what to search on.
IBM's Problem database got larger and larger and much more user friendly over the years. 30 years ago the update tape came once a month. Now you can search online the IBM database and its reasonably good (although IBMLINK (their tool to communicate with IBM over the internet is OK just the reliability is just not there (as it should be) they can be down on the weekend and you are desperately needing access and its down.
Sometimes they do announce outages in advance and usually if they do it takes 2-3 days of teeth mashing to get it back up. Reliability of IBMLINK just plain sucks.
They keep saying they are working on it but IBM has lost almost all credibility it had with the customers because of that.
IBM for last lets say about 15 has been porting unix software to run on their big mainframes. I am not privy to the numbers but lets just say its quite a few. The Porting sort of works but in their rush to do so IBM has bent so many of their own rules that it was obvious (to me) that they hired green CS kids to do this. I cannot tell you how many violations of IBM internal standards but it is *SUBSTANTIAL* one of the "precursor" products has been through so many code changes its almost impossible to guess where the issue lays. I would suspect that IBM does not want to have this heard as every time I have brought it up they say "hey its the Pimply faced kids doing the coding not the old timers. The error rate is approaching (or may have surpassed the DFP VSAM people out west about 20 years ago.
IIBM is bad now but I could just see what the SUN people might do in the future.
IMO SUN was a so-so option to buy. Not enough bang to the buck (for me). I hope it does not happen, as the clash between the young the current IBM "mindset". IBM would be like being on the front of a train going 100 miles an hour and hitting a 100 foot thick brink wall.
IOW the ex sun types would be running to another vendor quickly. I guess in this economy that would really be a good idea.
The memory *HAS* to have built into in double bit parity error checking. A *VERY* small subset of PC's have it now days. I could be wrong but the last maker of the memory was IBM with their PS2 line.
I am pretty sure they still do use it on their BIG MF computers but I do not personally know the currency of this.
If you have mission critical system IMO you should be using memory that does parity checks. The OS has to know what to do when the system see them of course. I do not know if INTEL allows for this or not (this is way out of my safety zone). The OS must recognize that the hardware has parity issues and an OS to decide what to do with them.
I am pretty sure the IBM MF's when they get a parity check go through some error analysis and if possible makes the page in eligible to be used again and *IF* there was an application that was using the page and there was not a good copy someplace else the application would be terminated. There would also be information logged to at least 2 places I am familiar with so there can be some sort of PDA by the hardware types.
Depending on the error (and where the error was) the system *MIGHT* halt (ie go into a non restartable wait state and a red light would be turn on to indicate a major fault).
IIRC IBM uses double bit error correction in there MF. I think I have seen one in 40 years.
renox said:
I'm French and among our many stupidities, there are:
- we treat our elected president like a King (still much better than having a monarchy but hardly ideal)
- many believe in 'graphologie': in many case you have to take a graphologie test before being hired!!
-----end quote
You forgot the worst one of all: the French Like Jerry Lewis.
They should be drummed from the UN and every other place on earth and sentenced to Devils Island.
Mustard seeds.. Is that close to mustard gas that was used in WWI ?
I thought weapons were banned from space:)
I might get in some controversy if I say this but hey its /. and what is a little controversy. As always it *DEPENDS* so take this opinion as just that. I have seen computer science majors that come in and apply for a job and they do nice on tests and everything but when it comes to interviewing they do not have a clue.
I have really never seen a comp sci person give a good interview. If they do there is something suspicious about the person. Having said that what I have also found that most (not all) comp sci people that come from a regular college (4 year at a state or more university) do reasonably well if you toss in the so called business colleges the real 4 year degree you get a lot better quality than the business college types. When I had an opening it always went to the 4 year regular school types. I just do not find the business students have the in depth learning that the colleges and the like have. The work habits of these people are usually better than the business school types. I also find that the intelligence is better in a 4 year school than the business type schools.
We look at what school they attended as well as there are some colleges that just do not teach what we need. Just a quick example at NIU (Illinois) they teach the strongest courses that we need, at the business school they typically do not teach anything we want.
I would suggest that you figure out exactly what you want to do and find the best 4 year college that will accept you and apply.
As for the age issue IMO it depends on the company. I have seen at some companies its blatant age discrimination at other companies it might be there but they cover it up well so you won't know you are being turned down because of your age. I had one company tell me that I was the strongest person to apply but I was to old (I was around 45 at the time). They hired some younger guy that did not really have any experience (of course at lesser money) and they had to end up firing him right in the middle of a major project.
The companies in this market today can get pretty much what they want for the $$ they want. They can also go overseas and get it for less (with H1B's). They are not supposed to do it but it happens *ALL* the time.
So you have two (at least things going against you) "AGE" and H1B's availability. Be prepared for this as you might be unemployed for quite a long time. BTW there is a fascinating video on YOUTUBE (it may not be all true but I will vouch for part of it) where there is a group of people from the personal department and they are "instructed" on how to hire H1B's by advertising the job at paltry wages so they can get H1B's "legitimately" .
It is an eye opener for anybody looking for a job now days and it will make you wonder if our government is not winking their eye
at the practice.
Lets just hope they don't use an MS operating system as it may go straight to the luny bin in no time.
I can just see the new headlines:
CD'S STRIPPED for search on possible use of illegal drugs!!!
Details follow...
Wonder if the pornography people will be far behind...
I/O is almost always known for its bottle necks. That is one of the things that an OS can actually help out some programs. There was a study done (eons ago) that showed 5 i/o buffers are the most efficient. Now that depends on several factors of course and AFAIK the PC world does not block their records. So I/O is a major thruput stopper. Probably trying to get the PC world to change would be like trying to sell more processors for the same or cheaper. IOW it will not happen. CPU is way to cheap and OS's are dumb to do simple things like buffering for thruput.