Following in some form is part of loading up executable...
for X in listOfFixUps
if executable==X.exename
X.fixupfunc()
break
What kind of fixups there are in windows... One of them is that simcity in windows 3.11 uses some memory AFTER it is freed, but since windows 3.11 isn't too quickly deallocating it, it didn't hurt it. But with windows 95 they changed that to more reasonable working way. The application compability was sustained simply by using lazier memory management when simcity is detected. So there are paths in memory manager to handle that specific case, and in application loading detection when that is needed.
Problem with windows is that it interacts with million little program, and it has leaky abstraction. So basicly they are emulating old bugs to work with old software that relies on those bugs.
Then there is new API:s in each generation of windows. API:s that come from win3.11, win95,win98, win2000,XP and the new API:s on newer windows, they *ALL* should work.
(I now understand why Linus has policy of not adding syscalls too quickly)
Another problem is throwing everything and kitchen sink to operating system, and that they rely on each other for different functions. They end up with such a dependency mess, with those bug fixes included in the mess that the code base probably is pretty hard to work with. Then we add the complex process of getting things to committed to main repository, reduction of testing staff and other things MS employees have told at minims blog.
There is no wonder that vista gets delayed, and the operating system works slowly. The slowness maybe dependent on few things, there are too many things that need to be optimized, and there is too much code memory footprint for cache&TLB.
There's a host of problems with hydroelectric that rarely get talked about. Damming the river slows the water, reducing the size of sediment it can transport. This causes all the sediment from upstream to settle out at the inlet to the dam resevoir, raising the bed level drastically. Changes in the river like this are detrimental to fish and plats in the river, and have also grounded many boats. This is why very few hydroelectric dams have been built in North America and Europe in the past few decades.
As far as europe goes the hydroelectric dams are not build not because enviromental conserns but because all the best locations for them are already taken. There is no point of building one in flat country. And because the land for water reservoir costs a lot in many places.
Similar noisy system wouldn't be more than 200$ cheaper. And thats under 10% off overall cost there. If you don't need more than 500W power supply, quiet system costs about 100$ more than noisy system. I picked Nexus breeze as my case, and nexus CPU cooler, over stock fan and thats all I needed to get quiet system. The breeze comes with preinstalled foam, and it has only slowly running 120mm fans, and quiet powersupply to begin with. Only thing missing here is how much more costs a quiet GFX card, since I don't do anything that needs fast gfx card so I'm still el cheapo gfx which don't need active cooling due low power consumption.
In starcraft custom level. She starts with 7 colonies spread accross the map with resources near by and you start with one. Good luck. Oh, before doing that let her play some single player games to get hold basic game mechanics before that. Now that custom level stuff works pretty well in many real time strategies, give her the upper hand and consider surviving for hour a victory. [But don't tell her that, let her feel victorious.]
Anyway when I dated we played some board games, and she was happy playing them even if she almost always lost, it was more important to her to play with me than winning. Most of time *she* was the one to ask for a game.
USA has trillion dollars debt in currency it can print. When it becomes infeasible to continue current trend, it can get rid of the debt quite quickly. Sure the worth of american dollars goes, down, relative salaries of americans and indians/chinese changes suddenly, but overall the effect could rebalance the american economy quickly.
While it might be "cripled" by FSB. Its faster than fastest opteron on perl and circuit layout part of spec int. And looses badly on chess;) In overall its EQUAL to fastest dual core opteron on spec int.
The fact remains that FSB is just ONE variable in huge nets of variables in performance equation. Using more cache means less memory accesses outside chip, using better prefetcher, helps memory access and soon, the off die memory accesses take such a small fraction of time, on MOST software that ondie memory controller vs FSB becomes non issue. [The percentage of improvement from ondie becomes less important than being flexible at new memory technologies on old sockets.]
And memory accesses only take part of the time that must be improved other part is improving core, which part is often more important than improving the offchip memory accesses when there is enough cache. [depends on code].
Take one thing that competitor can potentially do some what faster means nothing if you separate it from all the other aspects of CPU.
Some people say its really bad thing happening as it would raise the performance requirements of games. BULL** it will make some EXTRA highend stuff possible. The games are designed for something thats more mainstream, and very highend systems are for extra eye candy. The game companies probably cannot convince majority of their target market to upgrade to SLI. So majority of the money is from those who don't have SLI systems. But what does quad sli give us. Well first use comes to my mind is 30" displays, you know the thing that has slightly over double the pixels to 20" displays. You need twice the power to run equal 3D performance on 30" compared to 20". Or 4 times the low end displays. Another point is antialiasing requires some performance out of card. QUAD SLI isn't cheap so it won't be mainstream, so it won't be MAIN target for game developers. However its supported.
One use for QUAD SLI is when making a game you need to design the game for performance of typical system in 4-5 years. It is probably twice or quadruple the performance of current highend think the memory bandwith of SINGLE card has quadrupled in that time frame. Also there is more than 12 times the computational performance increase.
As for free slots. There is 7 places on the case where to put a card. For game system a soundcard is a must, that gives 2 free slots with quad SLI. For gaming those two slots *COULD* get nic or some extra raid card. But neither of those are top of list items since the onboard ones could be considered good enough.
Only problem though that with 4 gfx cards dualslot cooling isn't reasonable. Some highend cards don't have dual slot cooling already, and water cooling IS option for these kind of priceye highend systems.
Those who adapt new technology are facing extinction. Don't you see whats happening, and who gets to spread their seeds? Its certainly not the most technology aware population.
Your actions towards improving working conditions and living quality of all techworkers have been noted. We all should hail the australian techies for their great actions improving the living quality of us all. - Indian Techworkers.
In Finland it was earned by civil war. Which the unionized workers lost, and got plenty of them executed. But basicly after that experience the employers decided that there would be some improvements required to keep workers raising in straight revolt again. Communists losts simply because farmers where also mostly landowners and the "working class" wasn't majority of population. Too bad russian farmers where practicly slaves to landowners.
>My plan when I went looking for the place I eventually bought was to make sure the bedroom was empty. Have a rectangular room a big wooden four-pster bed in it and nothing else.
Actually audio in the walls can be good. Goto www.genelec.com and choose from the monitors, instead of hometheater "crap" . Those studio monitors are DESIGNED to put inside concrete walls. Of course you can use them normally too, but they give best performance when they are put inside wall. Sure it costs couple thousand bucks per speaker, but these are the quality speakers we want not just any crappy low end hifi stuff.
There is big difference in playing russian roulette with revolver and automatic pistol. In real world the difference is even bigger than what in that game. The death toll of coal is a LOT more each year than worst nuclear accident ever happened. And thats in about 50 years of having nuclear power. And the risks related to rest of nuclear powerplants are a LOT less than in the powerplant that had the accident.
>>Personally, I'd rather just type "OH SHIT!" and use the extra time it takes to type those 2 extra characters and try to run away.
Yeah obviosly the terrorist tried to escape so we had to shoot him on the spot. Wait for a while we are mak^C^C^C looking for evidence that he is terrorist.
The long term economic costs.... Right now the evacuated area except less than 1/4th of square mile has only 50% higher radiation than the normal background radiation. In the United States, 23,600 deaths each year can be attributed to air pollution from power plants. Plus 1000 miners from dust each yer.
There is no need for accidents to happen in coal burning for it to cause deaths of people, its the pollution due to normal operations that makes them deadly. And its not CO2 that I'm talking about here.
I don't like fission power, the coal isn't just reasonable option for amount of electricity modern society needs. A well regulated nuclear fission is best option right now, is not excellent but its best we have. The renewables are not good enough for industry, they are more like okay if it winds we can save some coal/oil by turning our plants down for a while, but we must have these plants ready for periods when there is no wind or it isn't sunny day at location of those plants. If society would adapt to a situation that at one time you have electricity and other time you don't have electricity, and the cycle of not having electricity will be multiple days in a row multiple time a year. Thats the time when renewables are option for main power production. If society isn't willing to make such changes we are stuck with either fossil fuels or nuclear. And nuclear is a LOT cleaner and safer of those too.
Yeah. Chernobyl. We should consider it as a learning example, instead of just proof that nuclear energy is unsafe.
The nuclear technicians should learn that. A) When you run procedures that states minimum of 30 rods down do not run it with only 6. B) Do not turn off the reactors cooling system. C) When running tests with powerplant please inform the people that are actually running it that there is a test going on.
The Nuclear Power Plant builders should learn to build the plant according to designes specifications instead of making it like it looks almost reasonably like that.
And people should learn that people at nuclear plants need training.
The finally, the reactor type should be decommissioned as soon as possible since there is inherent design flaw that made it impossible for humans to fix the problem they made during that test.
I think after Chernobyl people are atleast little more carefull here in west than the people responsible for Chernobyl.
56 people have died because of chernobyl and chernobyl related radiation diseases. 4000 people is estimated overall toll. There was over 400 000 people on the effected area.
Oh. And one thing, most people on the toll where within 20 mile radius of the reactor.
Thats from one accidents in many decades. The coal industry is more deadly but the difference is that coal industry has thousands of small incidents that kills, and those doesn't raise the headlines like a single nuclear accident does.
Here:s example of a 5 disc set... http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000AM6OQC/ Manufacturing cost with all the stuff 5$ DO you pay for media or content here? The prize for amazon probably is half of the list price. So basicly it goes about this, media 5$ the content 20$ rest goes to amazon. Then with OLD content the price is probably 5$ media 10$ content rest goes amazon.
1. Put control chip on shark. 2. Put control chip in monkey. 3. Put computer interface chip on man. 4. Upgrade computer interface chip with control chip. 5. Profit.
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Following in some form is part of loading up executable...
for X in listOfFixUps
if executable==X.exename
X.fixupfunc()
break
What kind of fixups there are in windows...
One of them is that simcity in windows 3.11 uses some memory AFTER it is freed, but since windows 3.11 isn't too quickly deallocating it,
it didn't hurt it. But with windows 95 they changed that to more reasonable working way. The application compability was sustained simply by using lazier memory management when simcity is detected. So there are paths in memory manager to handle that specific case, and in application loading detection when that is needed.
Problem with windows is that it interacts with million little program, and it has leaky abstraction. So basicly they are emulating old bugs to work with old software that relies on those bugs.
Then there is new API:s in each generation of windows. API:s that come from win3.11, win95,win98, win2000,XP and the new API:s on newer windows, they *ALL* should work.
(I now understand why Linus has policy of not adding syscalls too quickly)
Another problem is throwing everything and kitchen sink to operating system, and that they rely on each other for different functions. They end up with such a dependency mess, with those bug fixes included in the mess that the code base probably is pretty hard to work with.
Then we add the complex process of getting things to committed to main repository, reduction of testing staff and other things MS employees have told at minims blog.
There is no wonder that vista gets delayed, and the operating system works slowly. The slowness maybe dependent on few things, there are too many things that need to be optimized, and there is too much code memory footprint for cache&TLB.
Actually its one Texan news paper quoting another Texan news paper ;-)
Yeah you Texans know a lot.
Yeah you Texans know a lot.
As far as europe goes the hydroelectric dams are not build not because enviromental conserns but because all the best locations for them are already taken. There is no point of building one in flat country. And because the land for water reservoir costs a lot in many places.
Boy you ruined that cliche... Your dog wants a steak.
If by "dog" you mean "your mom" and by "steak" you mean "muh dick", well yeah.
Okay lets evaluate what you just wanted change.
Boy you ruined that cliche... Your your mom wants a muh dick.
I think there is some redundancy in what you tried correct.
Yeah. The world would be so much better place if people would have learned that long time ago.
Yeah. You can always say that you downloaded 3.3GB off stuff from playboy.com today, and didn't have to pay a dime.
Similar noisy system wouldn't be more than 200$ cheaper. And thats under 10% off overall cost there.
If you don't need more than 500W power supply, quiet system costs about 100$ more than noisy system.
I picked Nexus breeze as my case, and nexus CPU cooler, over stock fan and thats all I needed to get quiet system.
The breeze comes with preinstalled foam, and it has only slowly running 120mm fans, and quiet powersupply to begin with.
Only thing missing here is how much more costs a quiet GFX card, since I don't do anything that needs fast gfx card so I'm still el cheapo gfx which don't need active cooling due low power consumption.
In starcraft custom level. She starts with 7 colonies spread accross the map with resources near by and you start with one.
Good luck. Oh, before doing that let her play some single player games to get hold basic game mechanics before that.
Now that custom level stuff works pretty well in many real time strategies, give her the upper hand and consider surviving for hour a victory. [But don't tell her that, let her feel victorious.]
Anyway when I dated we played some board games, and she was happy playing them even if she almost always lost, it was more important to her to play with me than winning. Most of time *she* was the one to ask for a game.
USA has trillion dollars debt in currency it can print.
When it becomes infeasible to continue current trend, it can get rid of the debt quite quickly. Sure the worth of american dollars goes, down, relative salaries of americans and indians/chinese changes suddenly, but overall the effect could rebalance the american economy quickly.
While it might be "cripled" by FSB. ;)
Its faster than fastest opteron on perl and circuit layout part of spec int. And looses badly on chess
In overall its EQUAL to fastest dual core opteron on spec int.
The fact remains that FSB is just ONE variable in huge nets of variables in performance equation.
Using more cache means less memory accesses outside chip, using better prefetcher, helps memory access and soon, the off die memory accesses take such a small fraction of time, on MOST software that ondie memory controller vs FSB becomes non issue. [The percentage of improvement from ondie becomes less important than being flexible at new memory technologies on old sockets.]
And memory accesses only take part of the time that must be improved other part is improving core, which part is often more important than improving the offchip memory accesses when there is enough cache. [depends on code].
Take one thing that competitor can potentially do some what faster means nothing if you separate it from all the other aspects of CPU.
Some people say its really bad thing happening as it would raise the performance requirements of games.
BULL** it will make some EXTRA highend stuff possible. The games are designed for something thats more mainstream, and very highend systems are for extra eye candy. The game companies probably cannot convince majority of their target market to upgrade to SLI. So majority of the money is from those who don't have SLI systems.
But what does quad sli give us.
Well first use comes to my mind is 30" displays, you know the thing that has slightly over double the pixels to 20" displays. You need twice the power to run equal 3D performance on 30" compared to 20". Or 4 times the low end displays.
Another point is antialiasing requires some performance out of card.
QUAD SLI isn't cheap so it won't be mainstream, so it won't be MAIN target for game developers. However its supported.
One use for QUAD SLI is when making a game you need to design the game for performance of typical system in 4-5 years. It is probably twice or quadruple the performance of current highend think the memory bandwith of SINGLE card has quadrupled in that time frame. Also there is more than 12 times the computational performance increase.
As for free slots. There is 7 places on the case where to put a card. For game system a soundcard is a must, that gives 2 free slots with quad SLI. For gaming those two slots *COULD* get nic or some extra raid card. But neither of those are top of list items since the onboard ones could be considered good enough.
Only problem though that with 4 gfx cards dualslot cooling isn't reasonable. Some highend cards don't have dual slot cooling already, and water cooling IS option for these kind of priceye highend systems.
Those who adapt new technology are facing extinction.
Don't you see whats happening, and who gets to spread their seeds?
Its certainly not the most technology aware population.
Your actions towards improving working conditions and living quality of all techworkers have been noted. We all should hail the australian techies for their great actions improving the living quality of us all.
- Indian Techworkers.
In Finland it was earned by civil war. Which the unionized workers lost, and got plenty of them executed. But basicly after that experience the employers decided that there would be some improvements required to keep workers raising in straight revolt again. Communists losts simply because farmers where also mostly landowners and the "working class" wasn't majority of population. Too bad russian farmers where practicly slaves to landowners.
>My plan when I went looking for the place I eventually bought was to make sure the bedroom was empty. Have a rectangular room a big wooden four-pster bed in it and nothing else.
I'd rather have a hot chick in the bedroom.
Actually audio in the walls can be good. Goto www.genelec.com and choose from the monitors, instead of hometheater "crap" . Those studio monitors are DESIGNED to put inside concrete walls. Of course you can use them normally too, but they give best performance when they are put inside wall.
Sure it costs couple thousand bucks per speaker, but these are the quality speakers we want not just any crappy low end hifi stuff.
????? a tool for automatic wellfare generation.
There is big difference in playing russian roulette with revolver and automatic pistol.
In real world the difference is even bigger than what in that game.
The death toll of coal is a LOT more each year than worst nuclear accident ever happened. And thats in about 50 years of having nuclear power. And the risks related to rest of nuclear powerplants are a LOT less than in the powerplant that had the accident.
>>Personally, I'd rather just type "OH SHIT!" and use the extra time it takes to type those 2 extra characters and try to run away.
Yeah obviosly the terrorist tried to escape so we had to shoot him on the spot. Wait for a while we are mak^C^C^C looking for evidence that he is terrorist.
The long term economic costs....
Right now the evacuated area except less than 1/4th of square mile has only 50% higher radiation than the normal background radiation.
In the United States, 23,600 deaths each year can be attributed to air pollution from power plants.
Plus 1000 miners from dust each yer.
There is no need for accidents to happen in coal burning for it to cause deaths of people, its the pollution due to normal operations that makes them deadly. And its not CO2 that I'm talking about here.
I don't like fission power, the coal isn't just reasonable option for amount of electricity modern society needs.
A well regulated nuclear fission is best option right now, is not excellent but its best we have. The renewables are not good enough for industry, they are more like okay if it winds we can save some coal/oil by turning our plants down for a while, but we must have these plants ready for periods when there is no wind or it isn't sunny day at location of those plants. If society would adapt to a situation that at one time you have electricity and other time you don't have electricity, and the cycle of not having electricity will be multiple days in a row multiple time a year. Thats the time when renewables are option for main power production. If society isn't willing to make such changes we are stuck with either fossil fuels or nuclear. And nuclear is a LOT cleaner and safer of those too.
Yeah. Chernobyl.
We should consider it as a learning example, instead of just proof that nuclear energy is unsafe.
The nuclear technicians should learn that.
A) When you run procedures that states minimum of 30 rods down do not run it with only 6.
B) Do not turn off the reactors cooling system.
C) When running tests with powerplant please inform the people that are actually running it that there is a test going on.
The Nuclear Power Plant builders should learn to build the plant according to designes specifications instead of making it like it looks almost reasonably like that.
And people should learn that people at nuclear plants need training.
The finally, the reactor type should be decommissioned as soon as possible since there is inherent design flaw that made it impossible for humans to fix the problem they made during that test.
I think after Chernobyl people are atleast little more carefull here in west than the people responsible for Chernobyl.
56 people have died because of chernobyl and chernobyl related radiation diseases.
4000 people is estimated overall toll. There was over 400 000 people on the effected area.
Oh. And one thing, most people on the toll where within 20 mile radius of the reactor.
Thats from one accidents in many decades. The coal industry is more deadly but the difference is that coal industry has thousands of small incidents that kills, and those doesn't raise the headlines like a single nuclear accident does.
What the heck you are smoking?
http://www.proactionmedia.com/dvd_replication.htm
http://www.newcyberian.com/dvd9rom.html
These are what small guys get when we ask a replication service which has to make profit
to make these for us. So thats the price for media. Not costs, since big guys have their own printing shops that a lot cheaper than these.
Here:s example of a 5 disc set...
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000AM6OQC/
Manufacturing cost with all the stuff 5$
DO you pay for media or content here?
The prize for amazon probably is half of the list price.
So basicly it goes about this, media 5$ the content 20$ rest goes to amazon.
Then with OLD content the price is probably 5$ media 10$ content rest goes amazon.
1. Put control chip on shark.
2. Put control chip in monkey.
3. Put computer interface chip on man.
4. Upgrade computer interface chip with control chip.
5. Profit.