It's been getting worse lately. A lot of papers are cutting back, and the first people to go are copy editors. That's why the spelling and grammar of the average newspaper has been declining into "USA Today"-like territory.
From the gov't's perspective, it frees up a part of the spectrum useful for signals that can penetrate walls easily (useful for emergency services).
From the public's perspective, the reception is generally better with digital (with a large radius of near perfect reception, followed by a drop to nil signal outside that radius) as opposed to analog which has a relatively small high fidelity radius with slow dropoff over distance. This also allows bands to be reused a little more easily in nearby markets, since the signals will cross less noticeably, and the digital aspect allows easy filtering of the weaker signal. And of course, 1080i signals beat 480i signals quite handily in picture quality.
Microsoft offers a dividend and has for a few years. And I believe concurrent with this announcement they upped it, from 11 cents per share per quarter to 13 cents per share per quarter.
Did I say it needed embellishment? Are you saying that the mere act of speaking eloquently turns your statements into lies? Or that unadorned statements must be truthful? You must be the most credulous person ever born.
Following the same logic, this will eventually lead to a party nominating a sociopath... which will most likely win.
I imagine that will be a pretty scary day for US.
You say that like it hasn't happened. I suspect sociopathic tendencies occur *far* more frequently in politicians than they do in the populace at large. Politicians always lie, the difference is generally in the degree of the lie. Anyone able to lie convincingly (that is, shamelessly) would always have an advantage in that sort of environment.
From reading the article, it appears that by spin, they mean "adhering to the rules your old English teacher laid down for rhetorical arguments." For example, don't qualify statements, since it waters down your argument needlessly. Don't use "I"; it makes it sound like you're the only one who holds your opinion, so use "we" when needed to help draw others in.
What this doesn't seem to do is provide any insight into how much the person in question shades the truth. Telling a bald-faced lie plainly won't set it off; wrapping up the truth in an eloquent package will.
Windows optimizes for the low core case. I believe they use a bit field to keep track of the cores, so the 32 bit flavors of Windows are limited to 32 cores, while the 64 bit versions are limited to 64 cores. There may be a high end server SKU that bypasses that limitation, but I don't know of it.
I did read the linked article (albeit only skimming). It adds nothing to the original Slashdot story, since it is using the Penn State news item from the original Slashdot story as a source.
Perhaps I shouldn't have called dupe. After all, it was an inferior summary of a month old article. "Cheap knock-off" might be more accurate.
Good design does not fix the aforementioned performance problems. One of the big reasons no one had any interest in minix is the incredible performance hit the design entails.
That certainly is true, but then, why should so many user applications have the ability to affect the rest of the operating system? Either they don't and whether they are shit quality is moot, or they do and this is rightfully considered a shortcoming in the overall design of Windows. I don't see any third options here.
I call trolling. If I install an app on any OS which integrates itself into the browser, runs as a background task consuming enormous amounts of RAM and network bandwidth and otherwise misbehaves, it's going to make the experience shitty. And no, this isn't a "shortcoming in the overall design." Any app needs to be allowed to do everything I just described (for RAM and CPU, see Photoshop, for network usage, see BitTorrent, etc.). Blaming MS for vendors loading shitty software onto a machine and claiming its a design flaw is bullshit.
Particularly since text message data doesn't need to be real time. Voice data needs to transmit effectively instantaneously; text data can wait for the network load to lower since there is no guarantee of speedy delivery.
Since the costs for equipment are essentially fixed, but the revenue is proportionate to utilization, text messages are perfect for smoothing the usage over time. Unless the text messages are so numerous that the phone companies are upgrading equipment to deal with them (above what they need for voice calls), then they are free.
Crashing is a sign that you ought fix your code, not stuff it in its own process. No web page should ever crash a browser in the same way no driver should ever crash an OS.
Good point, but bad analogy. A lot of drivers need permission to crash the OS by definition. You can try to limit the amount of kernel mode elements, but at the end of the day the driver needs to be able to directly communicate with hardware.
Of course, if you are using Firefox with NoScript, AdBlock and/or Flashblock it could be faster. Chrome may have a faster JavaScript engine, but not executing JavaScript is faster than running it no matter how fast your JavaScript engine is.
Wrong. If a process has affinity fixed to a single core, then its threads will be similarly constrained. But threads on an unconstrained process will happily move between cores; that's why you can get really aggravating race conditions on multi-proc machines that don't appear for the same multi-threaded program on a single core machine.
Also, Apache and the like allow the option of threads vs. processes. Traditionally, Windows installs use thread and *nix installs use processes because Windows is optimized for threads and *nix for processes, though it only matters if the server is under load.
Reading a number of the prior posts, it looks like Windows process creation has overhead of roughly a tenth of a second. That's slow enough to be visible to the naked eye (barely). If that's roughly synchronous per core and I open up a multitab bookmark (say, 30 webcomics) that means the time taken simply to launch the processes on a dual core machine would be roughly 1.5 seconds. That doesn't count any setup work Chrome has to do after the process is created, it's just the OS overhead cost. That's non-trivial.
I don't know if an analogue exists for unmanaged Windows code, but AppDomains in.NET seem to bridge the gap you describe. A single process can have multiple threads and multiple AppDomains, and threads operating in separate AppDomains have substantial protection against one another.
Not to rain on your parade, but exactly how are you intending to use browsers in cluster computing? Are you expecting to have so many tabs that a full compute cluster is needed to run them? Your post seems to completely forget that we are talking about a web browser!
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From Star it appears that the theoretical minimum is about 75 times the mass of Jupiter, and the smallest observed stars were about 87 times the mass of Jupiter. I think we're safe.
Also, this article claims that Jupiter's formation wasn't in line with proper star formation. Stars form from coalescing gas and little else. Jupiter required a core of denser planetoids and rock to acquire enough gravity to attract its gaseous shell. There simply wasn't enough matter left over from the formation of the Sun to form another star.
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Or you Tools->Options->Advanced->Network and select "Clear Now" in the Offline Storage/Cache section. And of course, Fasterfox is frequently responsible for making the memory cache size tool large, which necessitates the clearing in the first place.
The Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, cites a study by Laumann et al. (1994) which found that the percentage admitting to at least one act of extramarital sex are 25% of men and 15% of women. And even then, less than 4% admitted to doing so in the previous year, so most of them weren't in active extramarital affairs. A number of other studies cited in the same link show percentages of roughly +-5% for both genders. In other words, GP is pulling statistics out of his ass.
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It's been getting worse lately. A lot of papers are cutting back, and the first people to go are copy editors. That's why the spelling and grammar of the average newspaper has been declining into "USA Today"-like territory.
From the gov't's perspective, it frees up a part of the spectrum useful for signals that can penetrate walls easily (useful for emergency services).
From the public's perspective, the reception is generally better with digital (with a large radius of near perfect reception, followed by a drop to nil signal outside that radius) as opposed to analog which has a relatively small high fidelity radius with slow dropoff over distance. This also allows bands to be reused a little more easily in nearby markets, since the signals will cross less noticeably, and the digital aspect allows easy filtering of the weaker signal. And of course, 1080i signals beat 480i signals quite handily in picture quality.
Microsoft offers a dividend and has for a few years. And I believe concurrent with this announcement they upped it, from 11 cents per share per quarter to 13 cents per share per quarter.
Did I say it needed embellishment? Are you saying that the mere act of speaking eloquently turns your statements into lies? Or that unadorned statements must be truthful? You must be the most credulous person ever born.
Following the same logic, this will eventually lead to a party nominating a sociopath... which will most likely win.
I imagine that will be a pretty scary day for US.
You say that like it hasn't happened. I suspect sociopathic tendencies occur *far* more frequently in politicians than they do in the populace at large. Politicians always lie, the difference is generally in the degree of the lie. Anyone able to lie convincingly (that is, shamelessly) would always have an advantage in that sort of environment.
From reading the article, it appears that by spin, they mean "adhering to the rules your old English teacher laid down for rhetorical arguments." For example, don't qualify statements, since it waters down your argument needlessly. Don't use "I"; it makes it sound like you're the only one who holds your opinion, so use "we" when needed to help draw others in.
What this doesn't seem to do is provide any insight into how much the person in question shades the truth. Telling a bald-faced lie plainly won't set it off; wrapping up the truth in an eloquent package will.
Windows optimizes for the low core case. I believe they use a bit field to keep track of the cores, so the 32 bit flavors of Windows are limited to 32 cores, while the 64 bit versions are limited to 64 cores. There may be a high end server SKU that bypasses that limitation, but I don't know of it.
Why are you responding to speculation/a joke as if it were fact? This is a native six core chip, not an eight core with two disabled.
I did read the linked article (albeit only skimming). It adds nothing to the original Slashdot story, since it is using the Penn State news item from the original Slashdot story as a source.
Perhaps I shouldn't have called dupe. After all, it was an inferior summary of a month old article. "Cheap knock-off" might be more accurate.
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/10/2237223 And the first summary had more details.
Riiiight... Because an update to *Vista* broke everything.
Lincoln wrote the bug tracking software.
Good design does not fix the aforementioned performance problems. One of the big reasons no one had any interest in minix is the incredible performance hit the design entails.
That certainly is true, but then, why should so many user applications have the ability to affect the rest of the operating system? Either they don't and whether they are shit quality is moot, or they do and this is rightfully considered a shortcoming in the overall design of Windows. I don't see any third options here.
I call trolling. If I install an app on any OS which integrates itself into the browser, runs as a background task consuming enormous amounts of RAM and network bandwidth and otherwise misbehaves, it's going to make the experience shitty. And no, this isn't a "shortcoming in the overall design." Any app needs to be allowed to do everything I just described (for RAM and CPU, see Photoshop, for network usage, see BitTorrent, etc.). Blaming MS for vendors loading shitty software onto a machine and claiming its a design flaw is bullshit.
Particularly since text message data doesn't need to be real time. Voice data needs to transmit effectively instantaneously; text data can wait for the network load to lower since there is no guarantee of speedy delivery.
Since the costs for equipment are essentially fixed, but the revenue is proportionate to utilization, text messages are perfect for smoothing the usage over time. Unless the text messages are so numerous that the phone companies are upgrading equipment to deal with them (above what they need for voice calls), then they are free.
Crashing is a sign that you ought fix your code, not stuff it in its own process. No web page should ever crash a browser in the same way no driver should ever crash an OS.
Good point, but bad analogy. A lot of drivers need permission to crash the OS by definition. You can try to limit the amount of kernel mode elements, but at the end of the day the driver needs to be able to directly communicate with hardware.
Of course, if you are using Firefox with NoScript, AdBlock and/or Flashblock it could be faster. Chrome may have a faster JavaScript engine, but not executing JavaScript is faster than running it no matter how fast your JavaScript engine is.
Wrong. If a process has affinity fixed to a single core, then its threads will be similarly constrained. But threads on an unconstrained process will happily move between cores; that's why you can get really aggravating race conditions on multi-proc machines that don't appear for the same multi-threaded program on a single core machine.
Also, Apache and the like allow the option of threads vs. processes. Traditionally, Windows installs use thread and *nix installs use processes because Windows is optimized for threads and *nix for processes, though it only matters if the server is under load.
Reading a number of the prior posts, it looks like Windows process creation has overhead of roughly a tenth of a second. That's slow enough to be visible to the naked eye (barely). If that's roughly synchronous per core and I open up a multitab bookmark (say, 30 webcomics) that means the time taken simply to launch the processes on a dual core machine would be roughly 1.5 seconds. That doesn't count any setup work Chrome has to do after the process is created, it's just the OS overhead cost. That's non-trivial.
I don't know if an analogue exists for unmanaged Windows code, but AppDomains in .NET seem to bridge the gap you describe. A single process can have multiple threads and multiple AppDomains, and threads operating in separate AppDomains have substantial protection against one another.
Not to rain on your parade, but exactly how are you intending to use browsers in cluster computing? Are you expecting to have so many tabs that a full compute cluster is needed to run them? Your post seems to completely forget that we are talking about a web browser!
From Star it appears that the theoretical minimum is about 75 times the mass of Jupiter, and the smallest observed stars were about 87 times the mass of Jupiter. I think we're safe.
Also, this article claims that Jupiter's formation wasn't in line with proper star formation. Stars form from coalescing gas and little else. Jupiter required a core of denser planetoids and rock to acquire enough gravity to attract its gaseous shell. There simply wasn't enough matter left over from the formation of the Sun to form another star.
Gravity.
Or you Tools->Options->Advanced->Network and select "Clear Now" in the Offline Storage/Cache section. And of course, Fasterfox is frequently responsible for making the memory cache size tool large, which necessitates the clearing in the first place.
The Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, cites a study by Laumann et al. (1994) which found that the percentage admitting to at least one act of extramarital sex are 25% of men and 15% of women. And even then, less than 4% admitted to doing so in the previous year, so most of them weren't in active extramarital affairs. A number of other studies cited in the same link show percentages of roughly +-5% for both genders. In other words, GP is pulling statistics out of his ass.