Virtually all movies are edited digitally, so for a decade film prints have been from digital copies, anyway.
And given the costs of film copies (and the corresponding cut in profits from the distributor), theaters are being very heavily incented to go digital. (And the rise of 3D is pushing that, too.)
And Unix showed Digital what not to do with VMS, and the team that VMS built much of NT.
And before I get modded down for going there, Richie himself said, 21 years ago:
"From an operating system research point of view, Unix is -- if not dead -- certainly old stuff, and it's clear that people should be looking beyond it."
He wasn't a Unix zealot. Or a C zealot. He was a brilliant researcher who understood that every technology is a stepping stone to the next.
I dunno, you spend half your time in a relationship trying to figure out how to turn your partner on, and the other half wishing you could turn them off.
At least you've been able to do something with it.
Apple's shoddy drivers on 64-bit Win7 on systems with Intel's HM57 chipset mean I haven't been able to sync, backup or upgrade my phone since I bought this laptop -- nine months ago.
Fortunately for some, their hardware manufacturers released patched BIOSes to address Apple's driver problems, but Dell hasn't seen fit to, so I'm SOL with any device that relies on iTunes to sync, backup or upgrade (including my old iPods).
For example, I live in London and here we have something called special constables who get regular police training and donate their spare time to being a police officer with all the privileges and titles of that role.
Contrary to (their) popular belief, in the US cops can't beat the shit out of people because they're breaking the law.
While only tangentially related it seems many in Law Enforcement are not too keen on the idea of chemistry in general.
All too often they will arrest someone who has a DIY home lab setup, for running a meth lab, despite not having the necessary supplies to make meth. All you need as far as LE goes is a few beakers and a Bunsen burner and you're making meth.
No, the problem is a growing segment of society that believes its owed something for nothing.
Do you think bankers taking advantage of a situation to make a profit is materially different from a homeowner refinancing their house in a bubble, taking out $150k, blowing that on cars, vacations and expensive clothes and wanting a bailout when they can no longer afford the mortgage?
The people protesting are no different than the bankers. They're just pissed off because their free ride is over.
Every last one of them -- the dimwit tea party nuts who protest higher taxes in a tax bracket four above what they're in, these dimwit protesters now, the bankers -- they're all just leeches, sucking the productivity of those who produce to live and live on what they produce.
It seems to me the crux of the problem is that a few tens of millions of people in the US spent 10-15 years living on credit WELL beyond their means. Tens of millions of people who weren't middle class leading middle class lifestyles. Tens of millions of middle class pretending they were upper class.
The greed of the banks was a second order greed. They took advantage of a pool of people who knew *perfectly well* they were living beyond their means.
So the real story here is that a lot of people are really fucking mad that they're going to actually have to live within their means, as painful as that may be. A lot of kids are mad that those people fucked everything up, and everyone is (in a very left-wing Tea-Party like job of deflection) pointing fingers at "big business".
The trillions in bailout money that went to the banks? Do people *really* think that the bankers pocketed that money? Every person who refinanced their house at a gain above and beyond the rate of inflation pocketed that money. The banks just skimmed off the top. There are ten million $40k minivans and blinged out SUVs, a million McMansions, an industry full of half-billion dollar cruise ships and megaresorts all that consumed those trillions. Not the bankers.
These people out protesting weren't complaining when they locked up their $400k house, hoppped in their $40k minivan with their three kids, drove it to the airport and took seven days at Club Med. They only started complaining when they realized they needed a job paying $150k a year to support that, not the $55k a year they actually were making.
The vast majority of people -- even those who think they know how to interpret windows memory statistics -- don't know how to interpret Windows memory statistics. The common tools (like Task Manager) give meaningless numbers for both process and total system usage. Sysinternal's Process Explorer is better, but you still need to understand how the Windows kernel and memory management works to properly interpret the numbers.
I wouldn't read anything at all into the numbers you were seeing. 900M memory usage for two programs in Task Manager is just fine -- you quite literally *can't* get the real information through Task Manager.
Modern OS memory management is one of the most complicated things an OS does, and unfortunately no one has ever come up with a good way to distill all the information about what is really going on in your physical memory into a single number or statistic that lets people know if something is wrong. The only real statistic that matters is the percentage of pages that the total sum of processes are actively using relative to the commit charge... a process with a gigabyte of memory mapped files, or a hundred megabytes of shared code pages, or hundreds of megabytes of allocated and populated pages that only infrequently use them is running just fine.
Reducing memory usage in Windows 8 is more about reducing the churn of pages through the various kernel data structures in the memory manager. As the article says, that involves things like optimizing old code to not trigger page faults all the time, or to suspend threads or otherwise idle background services that aren't being used. (A thread waking up, and going immediately back to sleep because it has nothing to do will still potentially cause a page to be re-loaded from disk.)
The Russinovich/Ionescu book "Windows Internals" has some pretty good sections that talk about how Windows memory management really works, if you're curious about it -- it would likely be enlightening about some of the misunderstands that people have about Windows.
The big difference between now and 1776 is something that, unfortunately, people tend to misinterpret.
In 1776, voting was limited basically to white male landowners. That wasn't done arbitrarily or to support some set of social norms of the time, but rather explicitly to limit the voting pool to the pool of citizens that have the highest odds of being educated.
Can you provide the companies in China that do so?
I'm there all the time, and neither me nor any of my coworkers in China have ever found any providers in the country that do prepaid SIM cards with any data plans, much less unlimited.
(Unlimited plans, as far as I can tell, don't exist in China -- so if you could name the company that is doing that, that'd be great, too!)
The problem with democracy is that it assumes everyone's opinions on every subject are equal.
In the real world, they're not. With a sufficiently educated populace, or a sufficiently minor subset of the populace who gets involved in voting and politics, it can potentially work. But with a populace with shrinking levels of basic education and basic abilities to rationally evaluate the information they're receiving, the US is showing that democracy largely does not work.
The world was a far simpler place when the US system of government was put together.
There are a number of FPS games I've always had that problem with -- almost all of Id's after Quake 2, for example. Borderlands was another.
I think its some sort of combination of the field of view not being quite natural, and the framerate or something.
Its weird, I have absolutely no tendency for motion sickness in the real world, but there are a few games that give me raging headaches and make me want to hurl after a half hour of play.
I buy almost all of them through the computer or my phone, and send them to the Kindle.
The very rare times I've used the keyboard, it was when I was in a hurry to buy a book before an airplane door was closed and I had to shut the wireless off.
Its hard to imagine how anyone could be unsettled by a set of (completely obvious) changes to a consumer device.
Drama much?
- Obviously web browsing over 3G was going to be disabled. Amazon has *always* said it was experimental, and *obviously* they were going to remove it when they annouced free 3G access around the world. - Obviously a device without a touch screen and nothing but arrow keys was going to be a pain in the ass to use. I can count on my hands the number of times in four years I've used the keyboard on my Kindle. The target audience for it will never miss it.
The submitter is a moron if those were so much as a surprise, much less "unsettling".
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4k is extremely rare, even today. Even IMAX Digital isn't really 4k.
Virtually all movies are edited digitally, so for a decade film prints have been from digital copies, anyway.
And given the costs of film copies (and the corresponding cut in profits from the distributor), theaters are being very heavily incented to go digital. (And the rise of 3D is pushing that, too.)
I haven't read the article, but the idea sounds kosher.
Good night, tip your waitresses.
I'm taking the whole thing with a grain of ...
Nevermind.
And Unix showed Digital what not to do with VMS, and the team that VMS built much of NT.
And before I get modded down for going there, Richie himself said, 21 years ago:
"From an operating system research point of view, Unix is -- if not dead -- certainly old stuff, and it's clear that people should be looking beyond it."
He wasn't a Unix zealot. Or a C zealot. He was a brilliant researcher who understood that every technology is a stepping stone to the next.
I dunno, you spend half your time in a relationship trying to figure out how to turn your partner on, and the other half wishing you could turn them off.
A robot may be an improvement.
You screwed up on step 1:
1) Upgrade your six month old Apple device, its out of date.
At least you've been able to do something with it.
Apple's shoddy drivers on 64-bit Win7 on systems with Intel's HM57 chipset mean I haven't been able to sync, backup or upgrade my phone since I bought this laptop -- nine months ago.
Fortunately for some, their hardware manufacturers released patched BIOSes to address Apple's driver problems, but Dell hasn't seen fit to, so I'm SOL with any device that relies on iTunes to sync, backup or upgrade (including my old iPods).
Chandler, AZ?
I suppose that explains the reading comprehension problem.
Why? Your programs are almost certainly not compiled with the optimizations.
Thats a more accurate test.
Its called "superballs"
For example, I live in London and here we have something called special constables who get regular police training and donate their spare time to being a police officer with all the privileges and titles of that role.
Contrary to (their) popular belief, in the US cops can't beat the shit out of people because they're breaking the law.
While only tangentially related it seems many in Law Enforcement are not too keen on the idea of chemistry in general.
All too often they will arrest someone who has a DIY home lab setup, for running a meth lab, despite not having the necessary supplies to make meth. All you need as far as LE goes is a few beakers and a Bunsen burner and you're making meth.
Better than dihydrogen monoxide!
No, the problem is a growing segment of society that believes its owed something for nothing.
Do you think bankers taking advantage of a situation to make a profit is materially different from a homeowner refinancing their house in a bubble, taking out $150k, blowing that on cars, vacations and expensive clothes and wanting a bailout when they can no longer afford the mortgage?
The people protesting are no different than the bankers. They're just pissed off because their free ride is over.
Every last one of them -- the dimwit tea party nuts who protest higher taxes in a tax bracket four above what they're in, these dimwit protesters now, the bankers -- they're all just leeches, sucking the productivity of those who produce to live and live on what they produce.
What makes you think they're not after handouts?
It seems to me the crux of the problem is that a few tens of millions of people in the US spent 10-15 years living on credit WELL beyond their means. Tens of millions of people who weren't middle class leading middle class lifestyles. Tens of millions of middle class pretending they were upper class.
The greed of the banks was a second order greed. They took advantage of a pool of people who knew *perfectly well* they were living beyond their means.
So the real story here is that a lot of people are really fucking mad that they're going to actually have to live within their means, as painful as that may be. A lot of kids are mad that those people fucked everything up, and everyone is (in a very left-wing Tea-Party like job of deflection) pointing fingers at "big business".
The trillions in bailout money that went to the banks? Do people *really* think that the bankers pocketed that money? Every person who refinanced their house at a gain above and beyond the rate of inflation pocketed that money. The banks just skimmed off the top. There are ten million $40k minivans and blinged out SUVs, a million McMansions, an industry full of half-billion dollar cruise ships and megaresorts all that consumed those trillions. Not the bankers.
These people out protesting weren't complaining when they locked up their $400k house, hoppped in their $40k minivan with their three kids, drove it to the airport and took seven days at Club Med. They only started complaining when they realized they needed a job paying $150k a year to support that, not the $55k a year they actually were making.
It's okay. They're part of the 99% and are owed a job doing what they think they should do, for the income they think they should have.
The vast majority of people -- even those who think they know how to interpret windows memory statistics -- don't know how to interpret Windows memory statistics. The common tools (like Task Manager) give meaningless numbers for both process and total system usage. Sysinternal's Process Explorer is better, but you still need to understand how the Windows kernel and memory management works to properly interpret the numbers.
I wouldn't read anything at all into the numbers you were seeing. 900M memory usage for two programs in Task Manager is just fine -- you quite literally *can't* get the real information through Task Manager.
Modern OS memory management is one of the most complicated things an OS does, and unfortunately no one has ever come up with a good way to distill all the information about what is really going on in your physical memory into a single number or statistic that lets people know if something is wrong. The only real statistic that matters is the percentage of pages that the total sum of processes are actively using relative to the commit charge... a process with a gigabyte of memory mapped files, or a hundred megabytes of shared code pages, or hundreds of megabytes of allocated and populated pages that only infrequently use them is running just fine.
Reducing memory usage in Windows 8 is more about reducing the churn of pages through the various kernel data structures in the memory manager. As the article says, that involves things like optimizing old code to not trigger page faults all the time, or to suspend threads or otherwise idle background services that aren't being used. (A thread waking up, and going immediately back to sleep because it has nothing to do will still potentially cause a page to be re-loaded from disk.)
The Russinovich/Ionescu book "Windows Internals" has some pretty good sections that talk about how Windows memory management really works, if you're curious about it -- it would likely be enlightening about some of the misunderstands that people have about Windows.
And its equally easy to detect in Windows. In real-time, not in a scheduled scan.
So what is your point?
CableCard did come and fix that. It works fine, and has for ten years.
Not a lot of TVs have slots for them these days, though, because most people want DVRs.
Wasn't helium seen as a mandatory byproduct in the theory?
In what theory?
Helium is only a byproduct of hydrogen-hydrogen fusion. Hydrogen-nickel would, in fact, make copper.
The big difference between now and 1776 is something that, unfortunately, people tend to misinterpret.
In 1776, voting was limited basically to white male landowners. That wasn't done arbitrarily or to support some set of social norms of the time, but rather explicitly to limit the voting pool to the pool of citizens that have the highest odds of being educated.
Can you provide the companies in China that do so?
I'm there all the time, and neither me nor any of my coworkers in China have ever found any providers in the country that do prepaid SIM cards with any data plans, much less unlimited.
(Unlimited plans, as far as I can tell, don't exist in China -- so if you could name the company that is doing that, that'd be great, too!)
The problem with democracy is that it assumes everyone's opinions on every subject are equal.
In the real world, they're not. With a sufficiently educated populace, or a sufficiently minor subset of the populace who gets involved in voting and politics, it can potentially work. But with a populace with shrinking levels of basic education and basic abilities to rationally evaluate the information they're receiving, the US is showing that democracy largely does not work.
The world was a far simpler place when the US system of government was put together.
There are a number of FPS games I've always had that problem with -- almost all of Id's after Quake 2, for example. Borderlands was another.
I think its some sort of combination of the field of view not being quite natural, and the framerate or something.
Its weird, I have absolutely no tendency for motion sickness in the real world, but there are a few games that give me raging headaches and make me want to hurl after a half hour of play.
I buy almost all of them through the computer or my phone, and send them to the Kindle.
The very rare times I've used the keyboard, it was when I was in a hurry to buy a book before an airplane door was closed and I had to shut the wireless off.
Its hard to imagine how anyone could be unsettled by a set of (completely obvious) changes to a consumer device.
Drama much?
- Obviously web browsing over 3G was going to be disabled. Amazon has *always* said it was experimental, and *obviously* they were going to remove it when they annouced free 3G access around the world.
- Obviously a device without a touch screen and nothing but arrow keys was going to be a pain in the ass to use. I can count on my hands the number of times in four years I've used the keyboard on my Kindle. The target audience for it will never miss it.
The submitter is a moron if those were so much as a surprise, much less "unsettling".