Maybe it's just around here, but aren't saplings something that, you know, just grow when there are other trees around dropping seeds? Unless you're getting a tree that is well established (at least a few years old), or you want a particular non-native species, why would you buy a sapling? Either they are clear-cutting near you or they aren't. Planting a sapling here and there makes zero difference in the long run.
Right, because people don't have access to home CNC mills, and the casting of brass is still secret after all these decades. In a pinch, even Dremels suddenly stop working when they realize they're duping a "patent" blank. And there's no such thing as a locksmith who would dupe a "Do not duplicate" key for a few extra bucks... They're not the greedy, secretive type. They all talk to each other and this would get back to the owner of the original in no time...
There's fantasy and there's reality. In reality, people change their high security locks when somebody loses a key because it is almost trivial to get any physical key duplicated.
It was very cool, but they stopped using it in favor of ethernet-programmable fingerprint readers.
How long until they gave up on the fingerprint readers?
My experience with fingerprint readers, regardless of brand, is that they just plain can't handle people with dry, cracked skin. If you wash your hands or wear gloves a lot, they just don't work. Usually you see fingerprint locks go in, and then they're back to PIN or prox card locks within a few months.
It's a calculated risk. It's the same calculated risk that battery backed-up RAID controllers take (Will the battery die first, or will the disks become available to persist that data to?), except that they do it for performance, not power savings. It can be reliable s you're willing to spend power on, and the performance is very good. With a little dicipline (or a well written script), you shouldn't have to worry about ever losing more than 15 minutes of data, and you should never end up with a corrupted filesystem.
This will, of course, all be a moot point soon, as "Very Large" (> 100GB) solid state (flash) ATA storage devices are becoming small and cheap. The easy answer to this question for any OS will soon be "Buy a solid state hard drive".
The reason this is important, and the reason they are worried about the act of scheduling the next process rather than time complexity over all N processes, is that if scheduling the next process were not constant time, the percentage of time spent scheduling the next process would grow larger as you added more processes.
Of course there's every possibility that your O(1) scheduling algorithm takes as long to run as the O(log(n)) algorithm, or even the O(n^2) algorithm for the typical number of processes running on your system... Ideally, you'd use the best scheduling algorithm for the job and the number of processes, and you'd change on the fly when the number of processes increased or decreased such that the current algorithm was no longer the most efficient.
We rarely see the charts that compare the O(1) scheduler with the O(whatever) schedulers that get proposed over a range of process counts though... Maybe that's because linux_kernel is an all text forum.
Honestly, if there weren't so many credit whores in the non-commercial linux kernel development world, you'd think there would be hundreds of schedulers in the kernel. There's really no reason not to have many, dynamically loaded schedulers. They're easy to write, easy to test, and every CS student writes one at some point.
noatime prevents reads from making journal transactions which spin up the disk. If you're serving static files (I.E. Reading only), you can mount noatime and prevent the disk from spinning up once all the data you're serving is in memory.
Another old trick, which I still use regularly, is to copy all the data you're serving into a ramdisk or a tmpfs, and then unmount all disk based partitions. Turn on PowerNOW! or SpeedStep, force the CPU multiplier low, and you can serve thousands of pages per second for under 20 watts. This even works with dynamic content as long as you're not storing any data.
Easy workaround: Don't use a journaling filesystem.
There is no reason a filesystem needs periodic activity in order to prevent corruption; after all, it doesn't get corrupted when your system is powered off... Journaling protects against corruption when a transaction that is in progress is interrupted. If you don't mind integrity checks after a power loss, you can work just fine without a journaled filesystem. People have done it for decades. We can go with your theory that you can't do this, or we can go with my experience that I have done it, and it works.... I don't know about you, but I'm going to assume that I didn't imagine the last nine years.
Most commercial photo processing labs have a human operated QA station to check things like exposure levels, bad prints, etc... The prints fly by them at high speed, and they do their job very quickly, but your picture almost certainly gets looked at by at least one human during processing.
You need to write to the disk every few seconds, to maintain a consistent state, with or without a journaling file system.
No you don't, and in fact if you mount your filesystem read-only, or noatime, and run noflushd your hard drives can spin down indefinitely as long as your dataset fits in memory. I used to get 8-9 hours out of the battery on my PowerBook G3 using this method and low screen brightness.
Of course, if you are writing to files and you do this and then lose power, you lose data... But you could store the files you are working on in flash to avoid this.
I've got an LED power graph on my UPS that my desktop is connected to. Back when my main PC was a Dual P3 800, it was common for the graph to be at 2, and when a flash animation in the browser cycled the graph would increase a notch.
Samsung also sells standalone Blu-Ray players for under $600.
I'd bet that by Christmas you'll find Blu-Ray players for under $300. The price ramp thus far has fairly closely matched DVD players when they came out, with the exception of the slight stall at the end of 2006 with the blue laser shortage.
Do you know how easy it is to socket the nvram on something like this? People do it with things like Tivos all the time. How much do you want to bet t turns out the keys aren't even encrypted on the chip?
Once a player is available for under $100, the key will be hacked out of it, and the chinese knock-offs of unlicensed, dual-format players will arrive in mass quantities.
That's bullshit. I said I found no such links when I looked, And you are the one who made the assertion without any backup. Finding a reference for your own claim is your own job.
I never said anything about any price cuts. I have no doubt a price cut will come eventually.
News flash, everybody else expects people who make extraordinary claims to provide their own evidence.
You have to actually have some authority to "give lessons". Being an arrogant, obnoxious twit doesn't put you above anybody.
(Heh. "Something like three computers". You better head over to the ER and get that bowel dis-impacted, because you're so full of shit it isn't even funny.)
I have an even better idea. Just get rid of it entirely. The chaos in the financial community will die down rapidly, and the costs will be recovered over time from the lack of incidents like the one in the story.
The government collected taxes before social security. They didn't need a number for you back then...
The worst that could happen would be that it would be harder for the government, credit agencies and financial institutions to track you and information about you unless it is directly related to specific financial dealings, but that also seems like a 'win' to me.
With the Xbox and PS2, multi-platform games did look better on the Xbox, so there was at least a bit of an edge to buy a Xbox, or at least, buy your multi-platform games for your Xbox.
I know this is a matter of opinion, but the controller was a factor.
With multi-platform games last generation, my first choice was the GameCube for the wavebird, and second was the PS2 for the superior controller over Xbox. Other people prefer the Xbox controller over the Playstation controller. I'll pick a better controller over slightly better graphics any day.
And US data from NPD has what, exactly, to do with Japanese sales figures? And who said anything about the Wii anyway?
There are no links that say FF13 will be ported.... Maybe there will be a spinoff of the DS or the Wii or something, but they'll be "ports" in the same way that you can get Oblivion for your cellphone. Even that, however, hasn't been confirmed.
Essentially, SP2 should have cost 150 dollars [...]
... and been release as Windows XP, which wasn't worth owning until SP2 came out. In fact, Win2k installations outnumbered WinXP installations until SP2 came out.... So in a sense you're right. SP2 should have cost $150, but XP without service packs really wasn't ready for prime-time.
I won't be holding my breath while you try to find it. Perhaps you should while you're looking though. It would be one less troll around...
Here's why FF-XIII will be on PS3:
Japanese Console sales as of 4/1/2007:
PS3: 880,000 (Growing at 16.8k/month) X360: 380,000 (Growing at 3.8k/month)
The Final Fantasy series typically sells as well in Japan as in the US. The only way the Final Fantasy series goes multi-platform with 13 is if the PS3 completely flops in the US relative to the 360. Despite what you read in internet forums, it hasn't. It's already a third of the way to catching up in market share, and it's selling faster than the 360. Microsoft inflated their numbers for December and January by pushing stock out to retailers, and now the numbers are flat while they wait for all those units to actually sell. Until the Xbox 360 starts significantly outselling the PS3 in Japan, you're never going to see a SquareEnix 360 exclusive.
Even Forbes thinks the Japanese market means trouble for Microsoft.
I said "the vast majority of business software that *I* use. Big difference. Even in the previous post I said "Lots of business applications".
Why don't you get the popups? I don't know. Is Ultimate different from Business in that regard perhaps? Maybe your box came preconfigured differently? My guess is that it comes down to a difference in one of the settings under Computer Configuration->Windows Settings->*->Local Settings in gpedit.
Why, then, do you think, DOES your vista pop up said dialogs? Just to piss you off?
I assume it's because the policy assumes I don't know any better and has to warn me that what I'm doing might be dangerous. Vista displays this annoying "overbearing mommy" attitued in other places too. Like when it keeps the address bar in IE "red" when you're at a site without a commercially signed certificate even though you have explicitly told Internet Explorer that you trust said certificate...
I already told you what the trigger is. It is an application running another application. (Though Microsoft's own applications don't seem to trigger it).
Try right-clicking the setup file and selecting "Run-as administrator" on any old installer that doesn't support specifically requesting admin rights from windows like new ones do. That sorted it out for all the older setups that I've run on mine that did not install properly if you just ran them.
I had tried that. It doesn't work. I did, however, recently learn that installing InstallShield 12 itself solves the problem. Apparently there was an incompatibility between Vista and the older version of the installshield scripting library. This has reduced the number of apps I can't install.
Some installers still fail. They die at the point where, under XP, they would have popped up the "You are attempting to install an unsigned driver" dialog. Under vista (in any compatibility mode) they return the error saying the installation was interrupted. I have had this happen with network, USB, and audio drivers. (In fact, I had to switch back to my onboard audio hardware in one machine, because my OEM SBLive! isn't supported at all under Vista.)
So you've got some compatibility issues with a couple of apps. Woohoo-fucking-hoo.
You're right, and all it really means is that I have to keep an XP box too for a while. You're the one who busted a nut about all this when I said that I disabled the features that annoyed me, insisting that the features weren't actually annoying. It's not a big deal to me, I just don't see any reason not to present Vista as the experience really is, rather than as some holy grail from the Microsoft gods. I can't even say I prefer XP over Vista. I actually really like the new "Start" menu, for example... It's not my favorite OS to use (and certainly not my favorite to develop for), but it's OK. Just plain OK. Maybe my opinions will improve as time passes and the compatibility gets up to a level where it meets all of my needs.
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Maybe it's just around here, but aren't saplings something that, you know, just grow when there are other trees around dropping seeds? Unless you're getting a tree that is well established (at least a few years old), or you want a particular non-native species, why would you buy a sapling? Either they are clear-cutting near you or they aren't. Planting a sapling here and there makes zero difference in the long run.
Right, because people don't have access to home CNC mills, and the casting of brass is still secret after all these decades. In a pinch, even Dremels suddenly stop working when they realize they're duping a "patent" blank. And there's no such thing as a locksmith who would dupe a "Do not duplicate" key for a few extra bucks... They're not the greedy, secretive type. They all talk to each other and this would get back to the owner of the original in no time...
There's fantasy and there's reality. In reality, people change their high security locks when somebody loses a key because it is almost trivial to get any physical key duplicated.
How long until they gave up on the fingerprint readers?
My experience with fingerprint readers, regardless of brand, is that they just plain can't handle people with dry, cracked skin. If you wash your hands or wear gloves a lot, they just don't work. Usually you see fingerprint locks go in, and then they're back to PIN or prox card locks within a few months.
What would be the Mac equivalent to a Tablet PC?
It's a calculated risk. It's the same calculated risk that battery backed-up RAID controllers take (Will the battery die first, or will the disks become available to persist that data to?), except that they do it for performance, not power savings. It can be reliable s you're willing to spend power on, and the performance is very good. With a little dicipline (or a well written script), you shouldn't have to worry about ever losing more than 15 minutes of data, and you should never end up with a corrupted filesystem.
This will, of course, all be a moot point soon, as "Very Large" (> 100GB) solid state (flash) ATA storage devices are becoming small and cheap. The easy answer to this question for any OS will soon be "Buy a solid state hard drive".
Of course there's every possibility that your O(1) scheduling algorithm takes as long to run as the O(log(n)) algorithm, or even the O(n^2) algorithm for the typical number of processes running on your system... Ideally, you'd use the best scheduling algorithm for the job and the number of processes, and you'd change on the fly when the number of processes increased or decreased such that the current algorithm was no longer the most efficient.
We rarely see the charts that compare the O(1) scheduler with the O(whatever) schedulers that get proposed over a range of process counts though... Maybe that's because linux_kernel is an all text forum.
Honestly, if there weren't so many credit whores in the non-commercial linux kernel development world, you'd think there would be hundreds of schedulers in the kernel. There's really no reason not to have many, dynamically loaded schedulers. They're easy to write, easy to test, and every CS student writes one at some point.
noatime prevents reads from making journal transactions which spin up the disk. If you're serving static files (I.E. Reading only), you can mount noatime and prevent the disk from spinning up once all the data you're serving is in memory.
Another old trick, which I still use regularly, is to copy all the data you're serving into a ramdisk or a tmpfs, and then unmount all disk based partitions. Turn on PowerNOW! or SpeedStep, force the CPU multiplier low, and you can serve thousands of pages per second for under 20 watts. This even works with dynamic content as long as you're not storing any data.
Easy workaround: Don't use a journaling filesystem.
There is no reason a filesystem needs periodic activity in order to prevent corruption; after all, it doesn't get corrupted when your system is powered off... Journaling protects against corruption when a transaction that is in progress is interrupted. If you don't mind integrity checks after a power loss, you can work just fine without a journaled filesystem. People have done it for decades. We can go with your theory that you can't do this, or we can go with my experience that I have done it, and it works.... I don't know about you, but I'm going to assume that I didn't imagine the last nine years.
Or you can open the Sunday paper, cut out the coupon for Walgreens photo processing, and have the same thing in 20 minutes.
Most commercial photo processing labs have a human operated QA station to check things like exposure levels, bad prints, etc... The prints fly by them at high speed, and they do their job very quickly, but your picture almost certainly gets looked at by at least one human during processing.
No you don't, and in fact if you mount your filesystem read-only, or noatime, and run noflushd your hard drives can spin down indefinitely as long as your dataset fits in memory. I used to get 8-9 hours out of the battery on my PowerBook G3 using this method and low screen brightness.
Of course, if you are writing to files and you do this and then lose power, you lose data... But you could store the files you are working on in flash to avoid this.
I've got an LED power graph on my UPS that my desktop is connected to. Back when my main PC was a Dual P3 800, it was common for the graph to be at 2, and when a flash animation in the browser cycled the graph would increase a notch.
Samsung also sells standalone Blu-Ray players for under $600.
I'd bet that by Christmas you'll find Blu-Ray players for under $300. The price ramp thus far has fairly closely matched DVD players when they came out, with the exception of the slight stall at the end of 2006 with the blue laser shortage.
Do you know how easy it is to socket the nvram on something like this? People do it with things like Tivos all the time. How much do you want to bet t turns out the keys aren't even encrypted on the chip?
Once a player is available for under $100, the key will be hacked out of it, and the chinese knock-offs of unlicensed, dual-format players will arrive in mass quantities.
That's bullshit. I said I found no such links when I looked, And you are the one who made the assertion without any backup. Finding a reference for your own claim is your own job.
I never said anything about any price cuts. I have no doubt a price cut will come eventually.
News flash, everybody else expects people who make extraordinary claims to provide their own evidence.
You have to actually have some authority to "give lessons". Being an arrogant, obnoxious twit doesn't put you above anybody.
(Heh. "Something like three computers". You better head over to the ER and get that bowel dis-impacted, because you're so full of shit it isn't even funny.)
Why, because I won't do your homework for you?
Unlike who? Sorry, but you don't know anything about me.
If you can't provide a link, you're full of crap. End of story.
I have an even better idea. Just get rid of it entirely. The chaos in the financial community will die down rapidly, and the costs will be recovered over time from the lack of incidents like the one in the story.
The government collected taxes before social security. They didn't need a number for you back then...
The worst that could happen would be that it would be harder for the government, credit agencies and financial institutions to track you and information about you unless it is directly related to specific financial dealings, but that also seems like a 'win' to me.
Yet you refuse to provide a link.
I've googled, and there is nothing but rumors, mostly based on speculation from fan sites, but occasionally based on poor translations.
I know this is a matter of opinion, but the controller was a factor.
With multi-platform games last generation, my first choice was the GameCube for the wavebird, and second was the PS2 for the superior controller over Xbox. Other people prefer the Xbox controller over the Playstation controller. I'll pick a better controller over slightly better graphics any day.
Perhaps that's because you self-censor by visiting only Xbox friendly sources?
Or maybe you think that your little circle of friends (and Xbox Live buddies) are somehow representative of everybody?
And US data from NPD has what, exactly, to do with Japanese sales figures? And who said anything about the Wii anyway?
There are no links that say FF13 will be ported.... Maybe there will be a spinoff of the DS or the Wii or something, but they'll be "ports" in the same way that you can get Oblivion for your cellphone. Even that, however, hasn't been confirmed.
Link please?
I won't be holding my breath while you try to find it. Perhaps you should while you're looking though. It would be one less troll around...
Here's why FF-XIII will be on PS3:
Japanese Console sales as of 4/1/2007:
PS3: 880,000 (Growing at 16.8k/month)
X360: 380,000 (Growing at 3.8k/month)
The Final Fantasy series typically sells as well in Japan as in the US. The only way the Final Fantasy series goes multi-platform with 13 is if the PS3 completely flops in the US relative to the 360. Despite what you read in internet forums, it hasn't. It's already a third of the way to catching up in market share, and it's selling faster than the 360. Microsoft inflated their numbers for December and January by pushing stock out to retailers, and now the numbers are flat while they wait for all those units to actually sell. Until the Xbox 360 starts significantly outselling the PS3 in Japan, you're never going to see a SquareEnix 360 exclusive.
Even Forbes thinks the Japanese market means trouble for Microsoft.
I said "the vast majority of business software that *I* use. Big difference. Even in the previous post I said "Lots of business applications".
Why don't you get the popups? I don't know. Is Ultimate different from Business in that regard perhaps? Maybe your box came preconfigured differently? My guess is that it comes down to a difference in one of the settings under Computer Configuration->Windows Settings->*->Local Settings in gpedit.
I assume it's because the policy assumes I don't know any better and has to warn me that what I'm doing might be dangerous. Vista displays this annoying "overbearing mommy" attitued in other places too. Like when it keeps the address bar in IE "red" when you're at a site without a commercially signed certificate even though you have explicitly told Internet Explorer that you trust said certificate...
I already told you what the trigger is. It is an application running another application. (Though Microsoft's own applications don't seem to trigger it).
I had tried that. It doesn't work. I did, however, recently learn that installing InstallShield 12 itself solves the problem. Apparently there was an incompatibility between Vista and the older version of the installshield scripting library. This has reduced the number of apps I can't install.
Some installers still fail. They die at the point where, under XP, they would have popped up the "You are attempting to install an unsigned driver" dialog. Under vista (in any compatibility mode) they return the error saying the installation was interrupted. I have had this happen with network, USB, and audio drivers. (In fact, I had to switch back to my onboard audio hardware in one machine, because my OEM SBLive! isn't supported at all under Vista.)
You're right, and all it really means is that I have to keep an XP box too for a while. You're the one who busted a nut about all this when I said that I disabled the features that annoyed me, insisting that the features weren't actually annoying. It's not a big deal to me, I just don't see any reason not to present Vista as the experience really is, rather than as some holy grail from the Microsoft gods. I can't even say I prefer XP over Vista. I actually really like the new "Start" menu, for example... It's not my favorite OS to use (and certainly not my favorite to develop for), but it's OK. Just plain OK. Maybe my opinions will improve as time passes and the compatibility gets up to a level where it meets all of my needs.