You are being deliberately obtuse. The answer to why Windows has terrible battery life i either it is doing things, or failing to stop things (putting devices to sleep for example), in the background.
Whether linux or OSX do things in the background is irrelevant. It could have been hardware, but that was ruled out by having identical hardware tests. It could be the drivers, and not Windows, but that's a hard quibble when you don't have the ability to swap drivers if you choose Windows.
So we're down to "doing things in the background" which we can further clarify as being done differently from OSX/linux, but that's rather redundant.
So, to a rational and thinking person, that was the obvious and correct answer, and yours was about as off-point as it could be.
The idle loop in MFC apps, like any other Windows program, uses GetMessage() which blocks. I'm curious what you're referring to, because I do remember the HLT instruction, and all the garbage about getting freeware to execute HLT in a loop to cool the CPU, and then it being part of Windows finally, before Windows 98.
The idle percent is not a measure of the CPU accomplishing nothing while churning a loop. It is a measure of when the CPU is not doing anything. The HLT or similar wait instruction.
To put it another way, the CPU could be idling on i/o or waiting for synchronous hardware to do something, but the CPU is not. Take a 200mHz computer with 64MB ram or so, and put NT server 4 on it. You will watch each control paint itself, first the outline then the background then the text, if there is any significant IO going on at the time. Network, audio, or disk, doesn't matter.
And, to Dvorak's point, the CPU will register as "idle". It's fundamentally shitty design, the same kind that was revealed when file copying caused problems in audio playback. A 2% CPU intensive mp3 playback would sound choppy, even though it could not have been CPU overload causing problems.
The CPU was not able to paint the display because something non-CPU-related was going on. I know what thrashing sounds like, and this happened when there was no thrashing. Perhaps there was memory swapping, but it managed to paint through the thrashing just fine most of the time. The non-thrashing pauses were just failure to respond. Task manager took 5 minutes to paint, so I could see what was going on. And then I watched the background, and task manager, repaint itself, and never break 5% CPU load.
Dvorak's idle process complaint was real, he just had no idea how to explain it other than his idiotic way - and because he is an idiot, this just looks like another one of his idiotic stupidities. Make no mistake - he is an idiot. But XP and NT 4, and to a lesser degree Windows 7, all exhibit the idle pause, where something other than the CPU is preventing the UI from responding as it should.
The article is about whether a person or device believes it has free will. And believing free will is based on not being able to predict the outcome of a decision until the decision is complete.
The decision that flips the screen orientation alone in a smartphone is an example of that decision. It has to get the current measurements, combined with an accelerometer reading to see if it has been stopped, and at least a few previous measurements to determine if it has been moved enough to qualify for flipping. The same numbers can mean "don't flip", "flip horizontally" or "flip vertically" if they come after a different set of prior measurements.
And thus it is not deterministic based on position, and the decision cannot be known other than running the decision tree. The iPhone "seems to possess all the criteria required for free will, and behaves as if it has it" - but doesn't necessarily actually have free will.
I bet Seth Lloyd is pleased with himself, while having accomplished nothing of note on this exercise.
They won't even get that. Teachers who participate (it is optional, so no one is being forced to teach something with a week or less to prepare) can win prizes, and students who attend a follow-up course can win stuff for themselves. Sounds like bribery to me.
Besides, I don't think it is important that things are incomplete, since the week designated is December 9-15. Plenty of time, and I don't think this qualifies as rushed.
And, they probably won't do much in the way of actual code. "Designed as a game that teaches basic coding principles, it will feature guest lectures by technologists including Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg and artwork from popular games"
There is a blurb at the CS education week site http://csedweek.org/ "No math needed. No computers either."
"Weâ(TM)ll host a variety of hour-long tutorials on the http://csedweek.orgwebsite/ for students to doâ"some developed by Code.org, others developed by partner organizations. Many of the tutorials will be compatible with tablets and smartphones, and there will be some âoeunpluggedâ lessons that require no computer at all. "
So you would have to at least preview each one to see which tutorial to show for that hour. Lots more time involved.
One actual demo, "Blockly", is putting code blocks together like legos, and it isn't completely terrible.
Education discussion? Time to talk about how public school sucks. Amirite? Considering the post you're replying to had nothing to do with public school quality?
You will have good schools and bad schools, good teachers and bad teachers. The question here is, whether a good teacher can do anything with this. Teachers can make something of the worst lesson plans, but this doesn't seem to qualify.
I see subjective opinion, with a few facts scattered about. Was there something specific that was informative there?
A screenshot of missing security questions, which probably failed to load via Ajax, and two pages of complaining about the same income and identify checks that the private sector does, and between the IRS and ssa, the government already knows about you. Low numbers, not surprising, and bad data, surprising because identity checks should have captured good info.
What did I miss, because that is not what you described.
"The work on Healthcare.gov grew out of a contract for open-ended technology services first issued in 2007 with a place-holder value of $1,000. There were 31 bidders. An extension, awarded in September 2011 specifically to build Healthcare.gov, drew four bidders, the documents show, including CGI Federal."
Search for part or all for source. Now, last you read it was a bid contract, invalidating your point.
If the incompetents stop working, or are consult only, the skill level will rise and no more people will be added. It is likely that a delivery date with follow on support has the headcount winding down anyway, so people are moving on to other projects to destroy already.
Which site isn't that complicated? The one that confirms eligibility based on data from multiple agencies which probably were not built to work together? The one that was supposed to magically work day 1 to support the kind of load that every other website grew to support organically?
There are too many things going on here to say it isn't that complicated. Nothing innovative, that's true, but the work to integrate a goodly number of systems still needs done, and it isn't that simple.
I have done post-merger integrations in the Fortune 100 space, and existing systems that only need to be tied together can be a convoluted mess. This is orders of magnitude more complicated, It isn't going to be a simple web service or database call to get some info, call another one, and display something on the page. It should be, but there's no way it "just works" like that.
They spent $800M for a 20 hour game, minus the driving, and I subtract retrying missions when the expectations were not clear to me, but would have to the character.
Point bring, they made a sandbox for online play, which I'll have none of. And even with an online connection, I got into Bawsaq exactly twice, and could not benefit from the stock tips.
I feel cheated, and while I have money to burn, no AAA title will get it other than on the used 6 month old market. I have bought 2 full price new games, and I'm replaying the other now because GTA bores me. It's from 2006.
"this email domain was also used by cabinet members, and contained âoediplomatic, economic and leadership communications which continue to provide insight into Mexicoâ(TM)s political system and internal stability.â
This article was barely longer than that so it wasn't hard to find.
No. Being the first mover with a mediocre product might have worked. Being one tenth as reliable and dodging warranty fulfillment wipes out any advantage. Myth it may be, but this does nothing to bust it.
The quote in the article blames capital constraints, and difficulty acquiring, not a shortage. They are likely buying cheaper supply with higher failure rates, creating a death spiral. If that is not the case, the author should kick himself in the balls repeatedly for using unrelated quotes to support a point, as I can't be arsed to dig past that stupidity. Non story, failing company cuts corners and fails faster.
Rather than security theater, I'm going with overabundance of caution. Someone who wants to discover new ways of killing people knows a target exists, but that is hardly helpful. Knowing whether you are getting closer to the goal is very helpful. Also, my first thought on reading this was "She forgot the attachment. Why send an email without attachment unless censorship? We will never see what was in that attachment." Every rebuttal applies equally to this situation, including "I really don't care what was in there". The data will be available to people, and will eventually be published.
The article has a few quotes from opposing viewpoints essentially calling bullshit. Science will not change because of one data point or one opinion unless it is bulletproof, which almost never happens. The real problem is reporting, where data is simplified once for the reporter, again by the reporter, again by the headline, and probably once each by the editor and reader. Go read the article, note both sides being represented, and admit how you simplified one person's report to mean all of science, and come back here to apologize for exactly the thing you are whinging about.
You sound like you hate children. Are you a child hater? Do you hate the kids? Because it sounds like you do. I think you are a child hater. Shame on you, they are our future.
I think it's a little more complicated. Tea baggers don't like taxes, and don't like agencies that regulate by wasting money or levying fines The EPA is a big target, since they tell you not to do stuff and then fine you. EPA and environmentalism in general is a huge target, since the financial benefits are not readily calculable. Climate change is a huge scale, which seems almost impossible that people could do.
Incalculable benefit on such a large scale leads to discounting it as nonsense. That is when the Yale study you cite comes in to play. Disagreeing has to come from somewhere, and the arguments I have read are exactly the sort of thing that would lead from being on the fence to vehemently denying just based on personal opinion and resistance to change.
I don't believe the possibility existed, or if it did the market was ignoring it. There was a dip and rebound 1 or 2 October, but 10 October is when it dropped. Republicans were clearly losing by then so it was not fear of fiscal responsibility. I'm most curious about the drop at the beginning.
That is disingenuous at best. Gold peaked at 1900 in 2011 during the housing and financial crises from 400 in 2003. It has been on the way down since then, making a spike unlikely. It took a 3% dip from 10 October and came back to where it was.
All signs point to gold markets knowing this would be a temporary crisis that would not maintain price levels past its resolution. Bitcoin, on the other hand, does not seem to be valued by market savvy investors. Knee jerk irrational fools more like, so it follows the panic more closely.
I'm no economist or fund manager, so I'm probably wrong.
I'm sure my ignorance of population genetics is quite average, or you are easily astonished.
Your knowledge of the incidence of chimerism among yeti is much more astonishing. And your certainty of the nature of the sampled mummy without having observed it is nearly psychic.
Everyone in this thread missed this part apparently: a 100% match with a sample from an ancient polar bear jawbone found in Svalbard, Norway, that dates back to between 40,000 and 120,000 years ago - a time when the polar bear and closely related brown bear were separating as different species.
That bear doesn't exist now, so it would have to be an interbred bear. That would explain the rarity of the yeti, and numerous other oddities. I'm sold, the yeti is a cross bred bear. Fuck it, I'm starting a yeti farm. 2 for one sale, own your very own mythical creature. Get them before they speciate!
This invention will not detect bad milk. It does not detect bacterial overgrowth, nor pH changes, nor the breakdown of proteins.
"Warn When The Milkâ(TM)s Gone Bad" is hyperbole and disingenuous as a title, except that it does say "warn" instead of "actually detect and tell you for sure".
Your only method to shut down the government requires force or trespass. The people you complain about need only inaction. These things are vastly different, making your analogy horseshit. Please try harder to make useful contributions. Additional deductions for stating conventional wisdom, D minus. The last 20 words weren't so bad.
Yes, but the point is that people change their support based on the name. Probably because they hear bad things about obamacare, and neutral or good about aca.
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You are being deliberately obtuse. The answer to why Windows has terrible battery life i either it is doing things, or failing to stop things (putting devices to sleep for example), in the background.
Whether linux or OSX do things in the background is irrelevant. It could have been hardware, but that was ruled out by having identical hardware tests. It could be the drivers, and not Windows, but that's a hard quibble when you don't have the ability to swap drivers if you choose Windows.
So we're down to "doing things in the background" which we can further clarify as being done differently from OSX/linux, but that's rather redundant.
So, to a rational and thinking person, that was the obvious and correct answer, and yours was about as off-point as it could be.
His, hers, its - all possessive. It makes sense if you think about it that way.
You wouldn't substitute and say "that book was its" so it's not a great analogy, but mnemonics and similar tricks just have to save you time.
"It's its" is similarly nonsensical, but effective in context.
The idle loop in MFC apps, like any other Windows program, uses GetMessage() which blocks. I'm curious what you're referring to, because I do remember the HLT instruction, and all the garbage about getting freeware to execute HLT in a loop to cool the CPU, and then it being part of Windows finally, before Windows 98.
The idle percent is not a measure of the CPU accomplishing nothing while churning a loop. It is a measure of when the CPU is not doing anything. The HLT or similar wait instruction.
To put it another way, the CPU could be idling on i/o or waiting for synchronous hardware to do something, but the CPU is not. Take a 200mHz computer with 64MB ram or so, and put NT server 4 on it. You will watch each control paint itself, first the outline then the background then the text, if there is any significant IO going on at the time. Network, audio, or disk, doesn't matter.
And, to Dvorak's point, the CPU will register as "idle". It's fundamentally shitty design, the same kind that was revealed when file copying caused problems in audio playback. A 2% CPU intensive mp3 playback would sound choppy, even though it could not have been CPU overload causing problems.
The CPU was not able to paint the display because something non-CPU-related was going on. I know what thrashing sounds like, and this happened when there was no thrashing. Perhaps there was memory swapping, but it managed to paint through the thrashing just fine most of the time. The non-thrashing pauses were just failure to respond. Task manager took 5 minutes to paint, so I could see what was going on. And then I watched the background, and task manager, repaint itself, and never break 5% CPU load.
Dvorak's idle process complaint was real, he just had no idea how to explain it other than his idiotic way - and because he is an idiot, this just looks like another one of his idiotic stupidities. Make no mistake - he is an idiot. But XP and NT 4, and to a lesser degree Windows 7, all exhibit the idle pause, where something other than the CPU is preventing the UI from responding as it should.
The article is about whether a person or device believes it has free will. And believing free will is based on not being able to predict the outcome of a decision until the decision is complete.
The decision that flips the screen orientation alone in a smartphone is an example of that decision. It has to get the current measurements, combined with an accelerometer reading to see if it has been stopped, and at least a few previous measurements to determine if it has been moved enough to qualify for flipping. The same numbers can mean "don't flip", "flip horizontally" or "flip vertically" if they come after a different set of prior measurements.
And thus it is not deterministic based on position, and the decision cannot be known other than running the decision tree. The iPhone "seems to possess all the criteria required for free will, and behaves as if it has it" - but doesn't necessarily actually have free will.
I bet Seth Lloyd is pleased with himself, while having accomplished nothing of note on this exercise.
They won't even get that. Teachers who participate (it is optional, so no one is being forced to teach something with a week or less to prepare) can win prizes, and students who attend a follow-up course can win stuff for themselves. Sounds like bribery to me.
Besides, I don't think it is important that things are incomplete, since the week designated is December 9-15. Plenty of time, and I don't think this qualifies as rushed.
And, they probably won't do much in the way of actual code. "Designed as a game that teaches basic coding principles, it will feature guest lectures by technologists including Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg and artwork from popular games"
There is a blurb at the CS education week site http://csedweek.org/ "No math needed. No computers either."
"Weâ(TM)ll host a variety of hour-long tutorials
on the http://csedweek.orgwebsite/ for
students to doâ"some developed by
Code.org, others developed by partner
organizations. Many of the tutorials will be
compatible with tablets and smartphones,
and there will be some âoeunpluggedâ lessons
that require no computer at all. "
So you would have to at least preview each one to see which tutorial to show for that hour. Lots more time involved.
One actual demo, "Blockly", is putting code blocks together like legos, and it isn't completely terrible.
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Bookend with some talking heads, and you got an hour without talking or touching code.
Education discussion? Time to talk about how public school sucks. Amirite? Considering the post you're replying to had nothing to do with public school quality?
You will have good schools and bad schools, good teachers and bad teachers. The question here is, whether a good teacher can do anything with this. Teachers can make something of the worst lesson plans, but this doesn't seem to qualify.
I see subjective opinion, with a few facts scattered about. Was there something specific that was informative there?
A screenshot of missing security questions, which probably failed to load via Ajax, and two pages of complaining about the same income and identify checks that the private sector does, and between the IRS and ssa, the government already knows about you. Low numbers, not surprising, and bad data, surprising because identity checks should have captured good info.
What did I miss, because that is not what you described.
Your blog sucks.
What did you read?
"The work on Healthcare.gov grew out of a contract for open-ended technology services first issued in 2007 with a place-holder value of $1,000. There were 31 bidders. An extension, awarded in September 2011 specifically to build Healthcare.gov, drew four bidders, the documents show, including CGI Federal."
Search for part or all for source. Now, last you read it was a bid contract, invalidating your point.
If the incompetents stop working, or are consult only, the skill level will rise and no more people will be added.
It is likely that a delivery date with follow on support has the headcount winding down anyway, so people are moving on to other projects to destroy already.
Which site isn't that complicated? The one that confirms eligibility based on data from multiple agencies which probably were not built to work together? The one that was supposed to magically work day 1 to support the kind of load that every other website grew to support organically?
There are too many things going on here to say it isn't that complicated. Nothing innovative, that's true, but the work to integrate a goodly number of systems still needs done, and it isn't that simple.
I have done post-merger integrations in the Fortune 100 space, and existing systems that only need to be tied together can be a convoluted mess. This is orders of magnitude more complicated, It isn't going to be a simple web service or database call to get some info, call another one, and display something on the page. It should be, but there's no way it "just works" like that.
They spent $800M for a 20 hour game, minus the driving, and I subtract retrying missions when the expectations were not clear to me, but would have to the character.
Point bring, they made a sandbox for online play, which I'll have none of. And even with an online connection, I got into Bawsaq exactly twice, and could not benefit from the stock tips.
I feel cheated, and while I have money to burn, no AAA title will get it other than on the used 6 month old market. I have bought 2 full price new games, and I'm replaying the other now because GTA bores me. It's from 2006.
Intentionally stupid or normal stupid?
"this email domain was also used by cabinet members, and contained âoediplomatic, economic and leadership communications which continue to provide insight into Mexicoâ(TM)s political system and internal stability.â
This article was barely longer than that so it wasn't hard to find.
No. Being the first mover with a mediocre product might have worked. Being one tenth as reliable and dodging warranty fulfillment wipes out any advantage.
Myth it may be, but this does nothing to bust it.
The quote in the article blames capital constraints, and difficulty acquiring, not a shortage. They are likely buying cheaper supply with higher failure rates, creating a death spiral.
If that is not the case, the author should kick himself in the balls repeatedly for using unrelated quotes to support a point, as I can't be arsed to dig past that stupidity.
Non story, failing company cuts corners and fails faster.
Rather than security theater, I'm going with overabundance of caution. Someone who wants to discover new ways of killing people knows a target exists, but that is hardly helpful. Knowing whether you are getting closer to the goal is very helpful.
Also, my first thought on reading this was "She forgot the attachment. Why send an email without attachment unless censorship? We will never see what was in that attachment."
Every rebuttal applies equally to this situation, including "I really don't care what was in there". The data will be available to people, and will eventually be published.
The article has a few quotes from opposing viewpoints essentially calling bullshit.
Science will not change because of one data point or one opinion unless it is bulletproof, which almost never happens. The real problem is reporting, where data is simplified once for the reporter, again by the reporter, again by the headline, and probably once each by the editor and reader.
Go read the article, note both sides being represented, and admit how you simplified one person's report to mean all of science, and come back here to apologize for exactly the thing you are whinging about.
You sound like you hate children. Are you a child hater? Do you hate the kids? Because it sounds like you do. I think you are a child hater. Shame on you, they are our future.
I think it's a little more complicated. Tea baggers don't like taxes, and don't like agencies that regulate by wasting money or levying fines The EPA is a big target, since they tell you not to do stuff and then fine you.
EPA and environmentalism in general is a huge target, since the financial benefits are not readily calculable. Climate change is a huge scale, which seems almost impossible that people could do.
Incalculable benefit on such a large scale leads to discounting it as nonsense. That is when the Yale study you cite comes in to play. Disagreeing has to come from somewhere, and the arguments I have read are exactly the sort of thing that would lead from being on the fence to vehemently denying just based on personal opinion and resistance to change.
I don't believe the possibility existed, or if it did the market was ignoring it. There was a dip and rebound 1 or 2 October, but 10 October is when it dropped. Republicans were clearly losing by then so it was not fear of fiscal responsibility.
I'm most curious about the drop at the beginning.
That is disingenuous at best. Gold peaked at 1900 in 2011 during the housing and financial crises from 400 in 2003. It has been on the way down since then, making a spike unlikely. It took a 3% dip from 10 October and came back to where it was.
All signs point to gold markets knowing this would be a temporary crisis that would not maintain price levels past its resolution. Bitcoin, on the other hand, does not seem to be valued by market savvy investors. Knee jerk irrational fools more like, so it follows the panic more closely.
I'm no economist or fund manager, so I'm probably wrong.
I'm sure my ignorance of population genetics is quite average, or you are easily astonished.
Your knowledge of the incidence of chimerism among yeti is much more astonishing. And your certainty of the nature of the sampled mummy without having observed it is nearly psychic.
Everyone in this thread missed this part apparently: a 100% match with a sample from an ancient polar bear jawbone found in Svalbard, Norway, that dates back to between 40,000 and 120,000 years ago - a time when the polar bear and closely related brown bear were separating as different species.
That bear doesn't exist now, so it would have to be an interbred bear. That would explain the rarity of the yeti, and numerous other oddities. I'm sold, the yeti is a cross bred bear. Fuck it, I'm starting a yeti farm. 2 for one sale, own your very own mythical creature. Get them before they speciate!
This invention will not detect bad milk. It does not detect bacterial overgrowth, nor pH changes, nor the breakdown of proteins.
"Warn When The Milkâ(TM)s Gone Bad" is hyperbole and disingenuous as a title, except that it does say "warn" instead of "actually detect and tell you for sure".
Your only method to shut down the government requires force or trespass. The people you complain about need only inaction. These things are vastly different, making your analogy horseshit.
Please try harder to make useful contributions. Additional deductions for stating conventional wisdom, D minus. The last 20 words weren't so bad.
Yes, but the point is that people change their support based on the name. Probably because they hear bad things about obamacare, and neutral or good about aca.