IT's not windows. It's the whole dependency spaghetti problem created by bling, bloat and poor granularity.
Not everything is rolled into the kernel, but little obscure parts of services are used by everything. The Workstation Service (and it's UPS functions) might be called by the DRM on your laptop battery (Which exists on many Sony VAIOs) which then self signs to the TPM service. That might use CNG crypto service in part of its key creation and that CNG service might need 8 other services to run which each need a service or two. Each of them have their own startup procedure and serve their own (probably useless for what the user wants at the time) purpose when running, eating cycle upon cycle and your battery life with it.
All of a sudden you have nearly 100 services all being used for a singular function. What Windows needs in more granularity and the automatic halting of services that are non essential.
There are no 'correct' faster API's because Windows and Mac don't share any built in API's. And when they do, it's low level enough (like OpenGL) that it has to be written to target the power management subsystems of each OS specifically.
What there is in Windows land is a extreme lack of attention paid to power management on the part of developers, mainly because it's pretty poorly documented how to actually build a program to take advantage of power management to keep clocks low, aside from gaining admin access and attempting to force it through calls, which is a very stupid idea.
Which means it's lineage is from1984. The problem is that OSX can't support stuff made 2 years ago, let alone 10 like Windows strives to do. Whenever something is changes on OSX, the developer must update and recompile, but on Windows, a copy will be made of the changed system file, the old copy will retain he same name and the new copy will have a version number appended to it. Look at d3dx9 DLL files in your system32 (or sysWOW64) folders. I have versions from 24 to 43 all just sitting there plugged into my kernel.
Then there's the whole Windows on Windows thing that they did because making the kernel largely 64bit native like on Mac instead of semi-virtualizing 32bit would result in so many legacy apps breaking that it was untenable.
Oh and in addendum, anyone can submit their socket type to become a standard. Apple chose not to. And had Apple chose to, it would have been rejected on its 2000% profit margin alone.
Well where's the incentive to innovate on plug socket types if you can't use the result?
There is none, because there's nothing the Lightning connector can do that USB cannot, aside from offering 2 more watts and a $20 price tag for anyone who wants to use one on their product, as well as $45 cables. You can feed a family of 4 for a week on $45. It's an antitrust stratagem that the EU has to shore in to protect the consumer.
Nobody said that Apple cannot use Lightning connectors, just that Apple has to use Micro USB, they are free to put Lightning connectors or anything else they want on there as standard.
Again, your lack of knowledge on the subject shines through. 12v through any data cable to a phone would make the copper so hot that it would melt though it's plastic protection in a few seconds, short, and blow the socket. Long before that, if the phone kept the circuit the battery would explode in it.
There's a reason we've been using 3.3v in batteries for so long. PC's don't actually supply 12v to any socket on the outside of the system, and the cables to do so would have to be of at least SATA power thickness, which incidentally has to split the 12v line across 3 cables, each more than twice the thickness of lightning cables.
Firstly, the Gov't can't take away patents because it would cause a precedent of driving away patents from being registered in their country. The US has so many patents because they are A, easy and almost guaranteed to go through, and B, generally upheld by the world. To be quite honest, if the US decided to revoke Apple's right to their own invention in order to make it a standard, I wouldn't be surprised if Apple created another holding company in another country, transferred all their assets and declared themselves a non-American country. Especially considering that there is no real reason to do so.
Secondly, every socket on your PC operates at 5V, and the power brick on your wall socket converts the 110/240V from your mains to 5V. That goes for both Lightning and USB, do some research. The difference is in wattage, due to mA, with microUSB being limited by standard to 9w and Lightning stating 12w as it's limit. The problem with this whole statement and why it is a farce is that people have been putting larger amperage through microUSB for years and years by using transformers for wall sockets that are rated higher. The 9w line in the ISO standard is more of a 'minimum amount a cable manufacturer needs their product to tolerate' than a 'maximum amount that a socket can take'.
To make things worse all of these claims are made in absence of 3 very simple facts. 1. The lightning connector is USB at the other end so is in fact still as limited to the rules of USB as micro-USB is. 2. If Apple an their 9w vs 12w argument are to be believed, then despite the 12w claims, that USB port on the other end of a lightning cable can only accept 10w when not connected to a USB 3.0 port because that is the upper limit for the delivery of power from a standard USB 2 port. (As I mentioned before many products, including Lightning connectors break that but Apple conveniently ignores that). 3. If Apple switched to microUSB, they would go from charging over $20 per product that want's to use their connector to paying around $3 per socket in their phones in peripherals. Apple likes money so that's not a good idea.
And of course all those completely, wastefully lavish things out there in the world that are literally pointless dick waving tools, like private islands and 6 deck yachts are for charitable causes right?
I am trying to say that using Lightning connectors as a standard would mean giving over $20 per product sold to Apple. You can't write that into statute, and if you don't pay Apple you're technically stealing their design.
Also long charge times are not a facet of Micro USB, in fact it doesn't matter what connector you have on the phone end of the cable, it matters what conncet you have on the other end. USB for example, has a 100mA charging capability without digital negotiation and USB 2.0 has 500mA, both at 5V. Doesn't matter what connector you put on the phone end, if that's what's going in that's what will come out.
With Digital negotiation, the only machine that I have experienced that is incapable of delivering substantially more to my phone is the MacBook, presumably because it's not interested in helping non-Apple devices. Same goes for using a wall socket, and I have a Motorola Atrix 4G.
The Apple part of the marketplace that already uses a patented, heavily taxed (several dozen times the cost of manufacture) and closed design. That means that all of the market that is viable is already using USB.
Then we agree that the problem at the moment in the gov't that taxes the population. The problem is that even if you did tax at 90% it still would barely cover the state pension pool that's already been made.
Using world wars to imply that all other nation states were equal is disingenuous. Had the Iraq thing happend again you could bet your bottom dollar Iraq would not have the brains to build robots let alone the manufacturing hardware.
I would argue that that is not true for the UK yet we still saw the 7/7 bombings. Hell, there will be more asians than white people in this country by 2024 yet they still blew up a bus. (We get a lot of use out of buses in super-congested London)
At least you had a chance of survival with fists. If they outlaw sniper rifles then kill you with one, you never saw it coming and nobody outside of their (gov't) complex has the equipment to truly challenge them.
Swap the word sniper rifle for armored robot, drone, or even machine gun if you don't get the principle.
"Throwing money at education won't fix it. Why does everyone seem to think that's the case?
The problem is fundamentally what they are trying to teach your kids, and what they are deliberately leaving out so that your kids don't learn to critically think or question authority. You could make better schools on half the budget if you started teaching that."
^^That wasn't enough actually. You're a prick, and you don't really realise how much you need friends in this world. Keep being an asshole, but don't forget that your own buddies tolerate you. The people of the UK don't like your gov't that much either. I have to say, you're making me think that the population has more than it's fair share of pricks too.
Firstly, stop thinking of you and start thinking of your country. Just because you personally don't like the people you met on your travels doesn't mean you should force your country to cut beneficial ties with them. That's probably why you didn't like us in the UK, we can spot a dick a mile away... or 3000, slashdot would lead me to believe. Economic programs, great. What about exchange students, arts and culture programs and many other important international treaties that benefit you much more than your peers?
Same goes for foreign aid, unless you want to cut your own state welfare too and actually taste your own medicine. Some countries really need the help. Lots of them have you to blame. Maybe you should repurpose some of those TSA guys to go to those countries and make sure that the money is being spent properly too. It's not a terribly hard job to stand and watch 3rd worlders in Sudan be given food, but someone needs to do it to stem corruption over there.
Here's more food for thought. Why were the UK even involved in Iraq? The US should have owned that whole operation dead to rights. US is showing shades of Nazi Germany for being a bunch of ineffective cunts that can't take care of business in shit they started themselves with their FBI 'self bombing'. You're still sitting there holding your dicks talking shit about rebuilding and then doing fuck all to actually help. (See how it is when you have your medicine turned on you now.)
Sure, trend back towards self reliance, but try and isolate and you will be destroyed by a world that hates you. You are not special, you are the all singing all dancing crap of this world. After your NSA stunt you don't think you will suspected by everyone, more than a few of them already holding grudges?
And nobody got their teeth kicked in by China or Russia since the 40s. I think it's safe to say nobody is actually that warmongering anymore, other than you Mr Stars and Stripes. If you wanna wind back time and erase your involvement with WW2 then go ahead and help create a white Aryan world, but believe me they would have been coming for you anyway, and by the time they did they would have been far far bigger than you. Not to mention Japan on the other side.
Throwing money at education won't fix it. Why does everyone seem to think that's the case?
The problem is fundamentally what they are trying to teach your kids, and what they are deliberately leaving out so that your kids don't learn to critically think or question authority. You could make better schools on half the budget if you started teaching that.
Realize that everyone on this side of the pond doesn't see ourselves as a state. Were a bunch of small countries and we like it that way.
Thus we never were a world power because we never were united. The EU exists to make trade attractive in these countries, but nobody acts as if we have a United gov't (the EU gov't has no power) and quite frankly in the UK at least, we f*cking hate the idea of being tied to the rest of the EU more than we are, we're already having enough issues with free immigration (but no right to work) for other EEA countries.
You can do that all day, the producers have the design.
In any real WW2 level event (not including the US as they only joined at the end), you lose so much in war that you have to start military manufacturing to restore lost supply else your country gets overrun as soon as you run out of armor. If the US did the selling, and other cultures aren't trying to reverse engineer (which the US can prohibit with invasion much like nukes) then you find yourself with the only supply that can't be exhausted as long as you have the credit.
Look, poor people take more than the give, and you should want that because you are a civilized human being and realize that there shouldn't be people starving on the street.
Rich people as a result need to give more than they take, and it needs to be proportional to both the ratio of poor to rich and the income difference.
There are many ways around it that people will exploit, so it's not feasible, but agreeing that there should be a higher tax band for the mega rich (50m+) is not entirely unreasonable if it was done in the right way, (maybe hold a yearly 'shortfall return' which allows the gov't to give some back if he has a particularly bad year).
There's something in common with both of them though, which is once the business is running, as long as you hire someone to do the day to day, running the business becomes quite easy.
In other words, once you build the profit extraction machine, the hard (or easy for the ivy grads) part is done. From then on you do a lot less work than many of those you employ do, and earn far more for it. That's the point where the taxing starts to make sense, although perhaps a little later should be the sensible option due to inflation.
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*It's not window's kernel itself.
IT's not windows. It's the whole dependency spaghetti problem created by bling, bloat and poor granularity.
Not everything is rolled into the kernel, but little obscure parts of services are used by everything. The Workstation Service (and it's UPS functions) might be called by the DRM on your laptop battery (Which exists on many Sony VAIOs) which then self signs to the TPM service. That might use CNG crypto service in part of its key creation and that CNG service might need 8 other services to run which each need a service or two. Each of them have their own startup procedure and serve their own (probably useless for what the user wants at the time) purpose when running, eating cycle upon cycle and your battery life with it.
All of a sudden you have nearly 100 services all being used for a singular function. What Windows needs in more granularity and the automatic halting of services that are non essential.
There are no 'correct' faster API's because Windows and Mac don't share any built in API's. And when they do, it's low level enough (like OpenGL) that it has to be written to target the power management subsystems of each OS specifically.
What there is in Windows land is a extreme lack of attention paid to power management on the part of developers, mainly because it's pretty poorly documented how to actually build a program to take advantage of power management to keep clocks low, aside from gaining admin access and attempting to force it through calls, which is a very stupid idea.
OSX = NeXTStep
NeXTStep = Mach
Which means it's lineage is from1984. The problem is that OSX can't support stuff made 2 years ago, let alone 10 like Windows strives to do. Whenever something is changes on OSX, the developer must update and recompile, but on Windows, a copy will be made of the changed system file, the old copy will retain he same name and the new copy will have a version number appended to it. Look at d3dx9 DLL files in your system32 (or sysWOW64) folders. I have versions from 24 to 43 all just sitting there plugged into my kernel.
Then there's the whole Windows on Windows thing that they did because making the kernel largely 64bit native like on Mac instead of semi-virtualizing 32bit would result in so many legacy apps breaking that it was untenable.
The only thing that it took from neXTStep
Oh and in addendum, anyone can submit their socket type to become a standard. Apple chose not to. And had Apple chose to, it would have been rejected on its 2000% profit margin alone.
Well where's the incentive to innovate on plug socket types if you can't use the result?
There is none, because there's nothing the Lightning connector can do that USB cannot, aside from offering 2 more watts and a $20 price tag for anyone who wants to use one on their product, as well as $45 cables. You can feed a family of 4 for a week on $45. It's an antitrust stratagem that the EU has to shore in to protect the consumer.
Nobody said that Apple cannot use Lightning connectors, just that Apple has to use Micro USB, they are free to put Lightning connectors or anything else they want on there as standard.
Again, your lack of knowledge on the subject shines through. 12v through any data cable to a phone would make the copper so hot that it would melt though it's plastic protection in a few seconds, short, and blow the socket. Long before that, if the phone kept the circuit the battery would explode in it.
There's a reason we've been using 3.3v in batteries for so long. PC's don't actually supply 12v to any socket on the outside of the system, and the cables to do so would have to be of at least SATA power thickness, which incidentally has to split the 12v line across 3 cables, each more than twice the thickness of lightning cables.
Non American Company, not country. Apologies.
Firstly, the Gov't can't take away patents because it would cause a precedent of driving away patents from being registered in their country. The US has so many patents because they are A, easy and almost guaranteed to go through, and B, generally upheld by the world. To be quite honest, if the US decided to revoke Apple's right to their own invention in order to make it a standard, I wouldn't be surprised if Apple created another holding company in another country, transferred all their assets and declared themselves a non-American country. Especially considering that there is no real reason to do so.
Secondly, every socket on your PC operates at 5V, and the power brick on your wall socket converts the 110/240V from your mains to 5V. That goes for both Lightning and USB, do some research. The difference is in wattage, due to mA, with microUSB being limited by standard to 9w and Lightning stating 12w as it's limit. The problem with this whole statement and why it is a farce is that people have been putting larger amperage through microUSB for years and years by using transformers for wall sockets that are rated higher. The 9w line in the ISO standard is more of a 'minimum amount a cable manufacturer needs their product to tolerate' than a 'maximum amount that a socket can take'.
To make things worse all of these claims are made in absence of 3 very simple facts.
1. The lightning connector is USB at the other end so is in fact still as limited to the rules of USB as micro-USB is.
2. If Apple an their 9w vs 12w argument are to be believed, then despite the 12w claims, that USB port on the other end of a lightning cable can only accept 10w when not connected to a USB 3.0 port because that is the upper limit for the delivery of power from a standard USB 2 port. (As I mentioned before many products, including Lightning connectors break that but Apple conveniently ignores that).
3. If Apple switched to microUSB, they would go from charging over $20 per product that want's to use their connector to paying around $3 per socket in their phones in peripherals. Apple likes money so that's not a good idea.
And of course all those completely, wastefully lavish things out there in the world that are literally pointless dick waving tools, like private islands and 6 deck yachts are for charitable causes right?
I am trying to say that using Lightning connectors as a standard would mean giving over $20 per product sold to Apple. You can't write that into statute, and if you don't pay Apple you're technically stealing their design.
Also long charge times are not a facet of Micro USB, in fact it doesn't matter what connector you have on the phone end of the cable, it matters what conncet you have on the other end. USB for example, has a 100mA charging capability without digital negotiation and USB 2.0 has 500mA, both at 5V. Doesn't matter what connector you put on the phone end, if that's what's going in that's what will come out.
With Digital negotiation, the only machine that I have experienced that is incapable of delivering substantially more to my phone is the MacBook, presumably because it's not interested in helping non-Apple devices. Same goes for using a wall socket, and I have a Motorola Atrix 4G.
And all of your evidence of theyou three no's and thier untrustworthyness is western based.
Maybe they just knew the US a bit better than it's citizens did.
The Apple part of the marketplace that already uses a patented, heavily taxed (several dozen times the cost of manufacture) and closed design. That means that all of the market that is viable is already using USB.
Then we agree that the problem at the moment in the gov't that taxes the population. The problem is that even if you did tax at 90% it still would barely cover the state pension pool that's already been made.
Using world wars to imply that all other nation states were equal is disingenuous. Had the Iraq thing happend again you could bet your bottom dollar Iraq would not have the brains to build robots let alone the manufacturing hardware.
I would argue that that is not true for the UK yet we still saw the 7/7 bombings. Hell, there will be more asians than white people in this country by 2024 yet they still blew up a bus. (We get a lot of use out of buses in super-congested London)
The moment they do, the gov't will have 300 million 'insurgents' appear on US soil right that moment. Their own people will take up arms.
Yes, but in a sense it is.
At least you had a chance of survival with fists. If they outlaw sniper rifles then kill you with one, you never saw it coming and nobody outside of their (gov't) complex has the equipment to truly challenge them.
Swap the word sniper rifle for armored robot, drone, or even machine gun if you don't get the principle.
"Throwing money at education won't fix it. Why does everyone seem to think that's the case?
The problem is fundamentally what they are trying to teach your kids, and what they are deliberately leaving out so that your kids don't learn to critically think or question authority. You could make better schools on half the budget if you started teaching that."
^^That wasn't enough actually. You're a prick, and you don't really realise how much you need friends in this world. Keep being an asshole, but don't forget that your own buddies tolerate you. The people of the UK don't like your gov't that much either. I have to say, you're making me think that the population has more than it's fair share of pricks too.
Firstly, stop thinking of you and start thinking of your country. Just because you personally don't like the people you met on your travels doesn't mean you should force your country to cut beneficial ties with them. That's probably why you didn't like us in the UK, we can spot a dick a mile away... or 3000, slashdot would lead me to believe. Economic programs, great. What about exchange students, arts and culture programs and many other important international treaties that benefit you much more than your peers?
Same goes for foreign aid, unless you want to cut your own state welfare too and actually taste your own medicine. Some countries really need the help. Lots of them have you to blame. Maybe you should repurpose some of those TSA guys to go to those countries and make sure that the money is being spent properly too. It's not a terribly hard job to stand and watch 3rd worlders in Sudan be given food, but someone needs to do it to stem corruption over there.
Here's more food for thought. Why were the UK even involved in Iraq? The US should have owned that whole operation dead to rights. US is showing shades of Nazi Germany for being a bunch of ineffective cunts that can't take care of business in shit they started themselves with their FBI 'self bombing'. You're still sitting there holding your dicks talking shit about rebuilding and then doing fuck all to actually help. (See how it is when you have your medicine turned on you now.)
Sure, trend back towards self reliance, but try and isolate and you will be destroyed by a world that hates you. You are not special, you are the all singing all dancing crap of this world. After your NSA stunt you don't think you will suspected by everyone, more than a few of them already holding grudges?
And nobody got their teeth kicked in by China or Russia since the 40s. I think it's safe to say nobody is actually that warmongering anymore, other than you Mr Stars and Stripes. If you wanna wind back time and erase your involvement with WW2 then go ahead and help create a white Aryan world, but believe me they would have been coming for you anyway, and by the time they did they would have been far far bigger than you. Not to mention Japan on the other side.
Throwing money at education won't fix it. Why does everyone seem to think that's the case?
The problem is fundamentally what they are trying to teach your kids, and what they are deliberately leaving out so that your kids don't learn to critically think or question authority. You could make better schools on half the budget if you started teaching that.
Realize that everyone on this side of the pond doesn't see ourselves as a state. Were a bunch of small countries and we like it that way.
Thus we never were a world power because we never were united. The EU exists to make trade attractive in these countries, but nobody acts as if we have a United gov't (the EU gov't has no power) and quite frankly in the UK at least, we f*cking hate the idea of being tied to the rest of the EU more than we are, we're already having enough issues with free immigration (but no right to work) for other EEA countries.
You can do that all day, the producers have the design.
In any real WW2 level event (not including the US as they only joined at the end), you lose so much in war that you have to start military manufacturing to restore lost supply else your country gets overrun as soon as you run out of armor. If the US did the selling, and other cultures aren't trying to reverse engineer (which the US can prohibit with invasion much like nukes) then you find yourself with the only supply that can't be exhausted as long as you have the credit.
Look, poor people take more than the give, and you should want that because you are a civilized human being and realize that there shouldn't be people starving on the street.
Rich people as a result need to give more than they take, and it needs to be proportional to both the ratio of poor to rich and the income difference.
There are many ways around it that people will exploit, so it's not feasible, but agreeing that there should be a higher tax band for the mega rich (50m+) is not entirely unreasonable if it was done in the right way, (maybe hold a yearly 'shortfall return' which allows the gov't to give some back if he has a particularly bad year).
There's something in common with both of them though, which is once the business is running, as long as you hire someone to do the day to day, running the business becomes quite easy.
In other words, once you build the profit extraction machine, the hard (or easy for the ivy grads) part is done. From then on you do a lot less work than many of those you employ do, and earn far more for it. That's the point where the taxing starts to make sense, although perhaps a little later should be the sensible option due to inflation.
Say $100m?
No it's not. Neutral kills happen just as much and they do not go under either name. The catchall term is 'shooting the wrong person'.
We could have invented super soldier serums, or at least be a long way towards there, but that was outlawed a long time ago by the Geneva Convention.
That probably means we have over 20 different flavors already.