Most things don't do much, including services. They just sit there. If I close Firefox, my system barely uses any CPU (and gains about 750MB of memory back).
I don't have a car. I don't carry ID. I'm not doing anything wrong, so why should I have to prove who I am? Why should it be easier for the police to exercise power and control over people?
I haven't built a PC in 10 years. I probably won't ever again. Too much effort; too expensive due to getting sucked in to going for higher-end components; too much effort with unreliability; too expensive to buy an OS (no, I don't want to us Linux any more either); and for games, a dedicated console is a better choice.
I'm quite happy to buy a mid-range Dell if I'm worrying about price... at least everything has been tested, and it's one place to go if something fails. If price isn't an option, or I want something that just works really well, then it's a Mac all the way thanks. I don't have the time to spend pissing around doing the research, then keeping on top of drivers, or fiddling with configuring the OS. Give me something that works out of the box thanks.
Have you seen to the toilets in India? And in some places (e.g. Varanasi), the streets are already a hazard for pedestrians due to the all of the shit from the wandering cows. I don't blame people really.
Also, if they increase the power of the brakes, then won't that have a knock-on affect on the tyres? Won't they have to increase their quality or find people are locking them up more frequently?
If the parts are made in China and not meeting standards, then that's a failure by Toyota and Audi to inspect and qualify the parts properly. It's their choice to move manufacturing or purchasing to other locations, and with that choice comes different requirements for quality control. They know that.
I think it changes the way you use the internet. In fact I'm quite happy getting 6mbs down at the moment. What I'm unhappy about is is the 448kbs upstream. It's pathetic, and BT will not do a thing about it. Even full speed residential ADSL2+ is slow upstream, and this is a much bigger problem.
Seriously, you yanks only think about America. We've got about 1,700 million people within about three hours difference, so clearly you guys have your heads stuck up your arses.
(I'm teasing, of course, don't get your knickers in a twist)
Oh, I can make dumb posts too, so we do have something in common.
We do have more than one channel showing Olympic content. Sometimes as many as four or five channels. I just discovered it when pressing the red button whilst watching BBC HD - there's a multi-sport option that shows about four other secondary video streams and allows you to pick which one to watch. It's pretty cool. Of course, you have to be in the UK and watching via Freesat (dunno about Freeview). The time zone isn't very sociable for these games:)
I've lived in a few countries in my time, and it's always incredibly challenging, and can be quite lonely at times if one is single. The long term rewards are more than worth it, and I feel my life has been enriched by the people and cultures, and that I'm a better person for it. I've never been that close to my extended family because my father was in the Royal Air Force and we moved around a lot anyway, but eventually in life, we all standalone and presumably outlive much of our parent's generation - at what age should we start doing that? Ultimately, they've always been there should I fail and decide that I need to catch a plane "home". The best thing one can do is save some money, and be willing to put oneself out there to create opportunities to meet people and thus make new friends. If you don't take a chance in life, you won't experience everything that life has to offer. Always remember when living in a new country: it's not wrong, it's different.
I knew some people back in 2001 who lived in Windsor and worked in Detroit. For some reason I think they said they were double taxed, and that one country taxes you were you live and the other where you work, or something like that. At the end of the day, a Canadian resident will be in the US for more than 183 days in the year, which is a common benchmark for tax liability in many countries. In fact, I remember an Economist article a few years ago about the headaches for HR departments tracking some of their exec's travels in order to ensure they didn't inadvertently develop extra tax liabilities. Thank goodness for the tax treaties that lower the impact, but I think you'd have to be earning significantly more to make it worthwhile.
I quit my job in Denver in 1999 and move to Toronto. I felt a huge weight lift from my shoulders: no longer was I trapped in my job, and no longer did I have to fear illness ruining my and my family's lives.
Why would you block somebody? That's nasty behaviour by you. It's highly irritating when web developers do that. Especially they also tend to make mistakes with their sniffing... the number of times I've been blocked for using a newer version of a browser, or something on the Mac, that they were too stupid to consider. If they've got IE6, display a warning, but let them try to at least proceed. They'll know what to do if things fail, but they might also succeed. Why be an arsehole about it?
" It's days like these I'm glad I don't work on Wall Street or have jury duty."
And if you worked for the CIA, would you be complaining that you can't tweet about classified information? If you've chosen to work on Wall Street, the chances are that you accepted that there are some things you can't talk about long before Facebook and Twitter came along (or if you've just started, you know it's part of the territory). So what?
As a Briton who lived three years in Denver and a decade in Toronto, I can tell you that the N. American weather isn't that bad for cycling. Maybe it's too hot and humid in parts of the south, but elsewhere is fine. -25 to +35 were common temps for me cycling all-year around as I did in Toronto, and that's pretty bloody extreme weather for a European. Guess what? It ain't so hard. And about the southern US: I lived in Shanghai for four months in 2008. Any longer and I would have been cycling there too (it was a comfort thing with the traffic system), and I can tell you that it is higher on the heat index (high humidity) than most places Stateside.
The drivers: well they're another thing. I used to cheer when I saw the police pull over a taxi driver in Toronto. Jeeze, it's so much easier here in London, even on the narrower more congested roads. The drivers in Denver were far worse: I'd be followed for half a mile or more until the driver behind could pull in to the other lane to pass - thanks, I don't need that much room, but your nervousness is making me nervous! And then there's the moronic fuckwits who scream at you as they go by... only to panic and wind up their windows when they're at the next red light, watching me in their mirror as I catch up.
I don't know why this is even a story. It's a total waste of bandwidth. This shutdown is part of the deal of using the RC. Maybe there are people out there who downloaded it off bittorrent without realising it was limited, but then that's their own stupid fault.
3.6 seems no better than 3.5. Submitting bugs like that is pointless. Unless something has changed since the early to mid 2000's, the Moz devs are prima donnas and/. is full of Moz apologists. My previous attempts at involvement were an exercise in frustration. It seems you need to debug the code to stand a chance of even getting somebody's attention. Well, no thanks - I do that for my job, and I want a life after that.
Who cares about Flash/Silverlight/JS laden websites? Other browsers aren't as bad. Perhaps that's because of the move to multi-process architectures. Moz people have never liked this approach - there are still some people hanging on to Sea Monkey for some bizarre reason. Oh the arguments I had nearly ten years ago with people who seemed to believe it is necessary for tight integration (more like a lack of software engineering and programming skills).
Tell me, are there any tools to debug memory usage? about:cache?device=memory is useless. Where are the real tools, preferably as a plug-in or extension.
Of course, with its backwards monolithic architecture that has been so popular for almost two decades with Netscape and then Mozilla, it's now become almost unusable. I have to restart it every half day or so because its memory footprint creeps up to 1.5GB on all my computers (Windows and OS X), from 230MB when restarted. As soon as Chrome + Xmarks is available on my Mac, I'll be saying goodbye to FF.
I wish I could figure out how to get my US laptop to use the two higher channels. I've moved to London, and our office WAP has dreadful problems due to the interference from so many other WAPs. We can't get it on to cleaner frequencies because of the crippled American laptops.
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CPU usage on my two year old dual core laptop:
Processes: 118
System Idle Process: 81%
firefox.exe: 12%
X1.exe: 4%
OUTLOOK.EXE: 1%
System: 1%
vmware-authd.exe: 1%
Most things don't do much, including services. They just sit there. If I close Firefox, my system barely uses any CPU (and gains about 750MB of memory back).
What I would like this CPU for is AVC encoding...
I don't have a car. I don't carry ID. I'm not doing anything wrong, so why should I have to prove who I am? Why should it be easier for the police to exercise power and control over people?
You haven't heard of http://www.ifixit.com/, eh?
I haven't built a PC in 10 years. I probably won't ever again. Too much effort; too expensive due to getting sucked in to going for higher-end components; too much effort with unreliability; too expensive to buy an OS (no, I don't want to us Linux any more either); and for games, a dedicated console is a better choice.
I'm quite happy to buy a mid-range Dell if I'm worrying about price... at least everything has been tested, and it's one place to go if something fails. If price isn't an option, or I want something that just works really well, then it's a Mac all the way thanks. I don't have the time to spend pissing around doing the research, then keeping on top of drivers, or fiddling with configuring the OS. Give me something that works out of the box thanks.
Have you seen to the toilets in India? And in some places (e.g. Varanasi), the streets are already a hazard for pedestrians due to the all of the shit from the wandering cows. I don't blame people really.
Why would Apache run as an Administrator on Windows? Even IIS doesn't do that these days.
Also, if they increase the power of the brakes, then won't that have a knock-on affect on the tyres? Won't they have to increase their quality or find people are locking them up more frequently?
Why?
If the parts are made in China and not meeting standards, then that's a failure by Toyota and Audi to inspect and qualify the parts properly. It's their choice to move manufacturing or purchasing to other locations, and with that choice comes different requirements for quality control. They know that.
I think it changes the way you use the internet. In fact I'm quite happy getting 6mbs down at the moment. What I'm unhappy about is is the 448kbs upstream. It's pathetic, and BT will not do a thing about it. Even full speed residential ADSL2+ is slow upstream, and this is a much bigger problem.
Seriously, you yanks only think about America. We've got about 1,700 million people within about three hours difference, so clearly you guys have your heads stuck up your arses.
(I'm teasing, of course, don't get your knickers in a twist)
Oh, I can make dumb posts too, so we do have something in common.
We do have more than one channel showing Olympic content. Sometimes as many as four or five channels. I just discovered it when pressing the red button whilst watching BBC HD - there's a multi-sport option that shows about four other secondary video streams and allows you to pick which one to watch. It's pretty cool. Of course, you have to be in the UK and watching via Freesat (dunno about Freeview). The time zone isn't very sociable for these games :)
I always thought this to be a bit odd, from a country that fought a bloody war of independence over taxation and representation.
I've lived in a few countries in my time, and it's always incredibly challenging, and can be quite lonely at times if one is single. The long term rewards are more than worth it, and I feel my life has been enriched by the people and cultures, and that I'm a better person for it. I've never been that close to my extended family because my father was in the Royal Air Force and we moved around a lot anyway, but eventually in life, we all standalone and presumably outlive much of our parent's generation - at what age should we start doing that? Ultimately, they've always been there should I fail and decide that I need to catch a plane "home". The best thing one can do is save some money, and be willing to put oneself out there to create opportunities to meet people and thus make new friends. If you don't take a chance in life, you won't experience everything that life has to offer. Always remember when living in a new country: it's not wrong, it's different.
I knew some people back in 2001 who lived in Windsor and worked in Detroit. For some reason I think they said they were double taxed, and that one country taxes you were you live and the other where you work, or something like that. At the end of the day, a Canadian resident will be in the US for more than 183 days in the year, which is a common benchmark for tax liability in many countries. In fact, I remember an Economist article a few years ago about the headaches for HR departments tracking some of their exec's travels in order to ensure they didn't inadvertently develop extra tax liabilities. Thank goodness for the tax treaties that lower the impact, but I think you'd have to be earning significantly more to make it worthwhile.
Won't you be taxed in both countries?
I quit my job in Denver in 1999 and move to Toronto. I felt a huge weight lift from my shoulders: no longer was I trapped in my job, and no longer did I have to fear illness ruining my and my family's lives.
Why would you block somebody? That's nasty behaviour by you. It's highly irritating when web developers do that. Especially they also tend to make mistakes with their sniffing... the number of times I've been blocked for using a newer version of a browser, or something on the Mac, that they were too stupid to consider. If they've got IE6, display a warning, but let them try to at least proceed. They'll know what to do if things fail, but they might also succeed. Why be an arsehole about it?
And if you worked for the CIA, would you be complaining that you can't tweet about classified information? If you've chosen to work on Wall Street, the chances are that you accepted that there are some things you can't talk about long before Facebook and Twitter came along (or if you've just started, you know it's part of the territory). So what?
No it's not. For those of in the Hammersmith and Ealing areas for example, Heathrow remains the easiest choice.
How about writing "Suck this" across your belly with some sort of lead-based paint, with an arrow pointing downwards?
Or a chastity belt, and try to explain to them that the missus back home has the key. They might let you through out of pity.
You think this won't spread to other airports?
As a Briton who lived three years in Denver and a decade in Toronto, I can tell you that the N. American weather isn't that bad for cycling. Maybe it's too hot and humid in parts of the south, but elsewhere is fine. -25 to +35 were common temps for me cycling all-year around as I did in Toronto, and that's pretty bloody extreme weather for a European. Guess what? It ain't so hard. And about the southern US: I lived in Shanghai for four months in 2008. Any longer and I would have been cycling there too (it was a comfort thing with the traffic system), and I can tell you that it is higher on the heat index (high humidity) than most places Stateside.
The drivers: well they're another thing. I used to cheer when I saw the police pull over a taxi driver in Toronto. Jeeze, it's so much easier here in London, even on the narrower more congested roads. The drivers in Denver were far worse: I'd be followed for half a mile or more until the driver behind could pull in to the other lane to pass - thanks, I don't need that much room, but your nervousness is making me nervous! And then there's the moronic fuckwits who scream at you as they go by... only to panic and wind up their windows when they're at the next red light, watching me in their mirror as I catch up.
I don't know why this is even a story. It's a total waste of bandwidth. This shutdown is part of the deal of using the RC. Maybe there are people out there who downloaded it off bittorrent without realising it was limited, but then that's their own stupid fault.
3.6 seems no better than 3.5. Submitting bugs like that is pointless. Unless something has changed since the early to mid 2000's, the Moz devs are prima donnas and /. is full of Moz apologists. My previous attempts at involvement were an exercise in frustration. It seems you need to debug the code to stand a chance of even getting somebody's attention. Well, no thanks - I do that for my job, and I want a life after that.
Who cares about Flash/Silverlight/JS laden websites? Other browsers aren't as bad. Perhaps that's because of the move to multi-process architectures. Moz people have never liked this approach - there are still some people hanging on to Sea Monkey for some bizarre reason. Oh the arguments I had nearly ten years ago with people who seemed to believe it is necessary for tight integration (more like a lack of software engineering and programming skills).
Tell me, are there any tools to debug memory usage? about:cache?device=memory is useless. Where are the real tools, preferably as a plug-in or extension.
Of course, with its backwards monolithic architecture that has been so popular for almost two decades with Netscape and then Mozilla, it's now become almost unusable. I have to restart it every half day or so because its memory footprint creeps up to 1.5GB on all my computers (Windows and OS X), from 230MB when restarted. As soon as Chrome + Xmarks is available on my Mac, I'll be saying goodbye to FF.
I wish I could figure out how to get my US laptop to use the two higher channels. I've moved to London, and our office WAP has dreadful problems due to the interference from so many other WAPs. We can't get it on to cleaner frequencies because of the crippled American laptops.