Just imagine the mess if you tried to move said stack. Assuming a 700 meg movie file, that's 2936012800 bits. Say you get 1000 bits per card, that's nearly 3 million cards. That has got to be heavy.
The trouble is that it's been translated so many times that the origional wording has been pretty much lost. The general meaning is still there but not the origional wording per say.
So you can have 18 different cars hit 18 different walls and then not have to keep the data from 17 of them in storage waiting for computing time. Considering the amount of data something like this can generate it probably saves a lot on storage space.
There must be "good sparkles" and "bad sparkles" because I've got a 400W Sparkle in my system with an AthlonXP 1900+, DVD drive, CD-RW drive, 3 7200rpm IDE drives, GeForce3, TV tuner, RAID card, network card, SoundBlaster LIVE, and 2 256meg sticks of DDR266. This thing has been rock solid for over a year. Not a single crash, ever. I'll admit that I don't know much about which PSU brands are good and which are not but so far this 400W sparkle has served me well. Heck, it even has a fan that's powerful enough to suck start a leaf blower, not too loud either.
My theory is that all these speed problems people keep reporting have to do with hard drive speed. You have no speed problems and you have a 10k rpm SCSI drive. I also have absolutly no speed problems with Mozilla (without quick launch) and I'm running a RAID 0 array of 7200rpm IDE drives. FWIW I've got a 1.6ghz AthlonXP and 512megs DDR ram. But you don't have an insane processor (although you still have a good amount of ram) and you still get good speed. I think that Mozilla's startup sequence uses relatively few CPU cycles and not that much memory. But what it does do is require alot of stuff to be read from the hard drive (see XUL and its large number of dlls and other associated files). This would explain why moz is so fast on our comps but not on your typical gigahertz machine with a 5400 rpm hard drive. It would also explain why I can minimize mozilla for 30 minutes and then have it pop back instantly when I re-maximize it.
Which are commited either by criminals or in self defense against said criminals. Then again there are all those deaths involving legally held baseball bats and other blunt objects. I guess we should outlaw those to.
To reduce piracy in these parts, software companies should price their software at prices that are affordable from a local point of view.
And of course as soon as they do that some bright person will buy a million or so copies for 7 riggit each, ship them to the US, sell them for $10 a pop and make a nearly $10 million. I'm sure that will help the software companies profit margins. There really isn't anything the companies can do to stop this sort of thing, that's just the way it is.
Actually if you do down - right - down - right - up - right - up - right it sends it off to be validated. It doesn't actually sense a diagonal, just a pattern of right angles that resembels a diagonal. Although if you just do a V shape it's pretty good about recognizing it since the motion of the mouse is aproximated to the nearest compass direction anyway. Or in the this case, the nearest pattern of compass directions. Thanks for the easter egg info though, I think that's pretty cool.
Ok, a while back I had to copy about 55.6 gigs of data from a backup disk to my main hard drive. (If that doesn't max the bus I don't know what will.) First, the backup drive was a 60gig IDE 7200rpm drive on the primary IDE controler on the motherboard. The main hard drive was a 149gig RAID 0 array on a Promise Fastrak TX2 PCI card comprised of two 7200rpm drives. Anyway, the copy operation took something like 20 minutes. However during the entire time, CPU utilization never rose above 1% and I think that was just to draw the little copy dialog box and the CPU utilization graph. Sure the Promise card may have been been doing stuff the CPU would normaly do but the 60gig disk was just on the motherboard and hence, acording to previous posts, should have been taxing the crap out of the processor. So, how is the amount of CPU time IDE drives use actually significant? Sure SCSI beats IDE hands down for interleaved read/write operations but CPU utilization? Bah. That hasn't even been an issue since processors got above 300mhz.
In that case it must be hard drive speed. Because I'm running RAID 0 with two 7200 rpm 8meg cache drives (with AthlonXP 1900+ and 512megs ddr ram.) and I can't tell the difference between IE 5.5 and Mozilla 1.1 under Win2k as far as speed is concerned. They both scream. (Without Moz's quicklaunch btw.)
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Just imagine the mess if you tried to move said stack. Assuming a 700 meg movie file, that's 2936012800 bits. Say you get 1000 bits per card, that's nearly 3 million cards. That has got to be heavy.
The trouble is that it's been translated so many times that the origional wording has been pretty much lost. The general meaning is still there but not the origional wording per say.
Hit this link in Mozilla. It's cool.
You can't sue them, you entered into a legal agrement with them that granted them the right. At least, thats what the EULA says anyway.
So you can have 18 different cars hit 18 different walls and then not have to keep the data from 17 of them in storage waiting for computing time. Considering the amount of data something like this can generate it probably saves a lot on storage space.
There must be "good sparkles" and "bad sparkles" because I've got a 400W Sparkle in my system with an AthlonXP 1900+, DVD drive, CD-RW drive, 3 7200rpm IDE drives, GeForce3, TV tuner, RAID card, network card, SoundBlaster LIVE, and 2 256meg sticks of DDR266. This thing has been rock solid for over a year. Not a single crash, ever. I'll admit that I don't know much about which PSU brands are good and which are not but so far this 400W sparkle has served me well. Heck, it even has a fan that's powerful enough to suck start a leaf blower, not too loud either.
What doesn't make any sense? Pouring them down her pants or the fact that she's naked and wearing pants.
I suppose I won't say anything releating to hot grits then.... oh wait...
This incident gives your sig a whole new meaning.
cut down by terrorists
I can see it now. A guy with a pair of scissors. *snip*
My theory is that all these speed problems people keep reporting have to do with hard drive speed. You have no speed problems and you have a 10k rpm SCSI drive. I also have absolutly no speed problems with Mozilla (without quick launch) and I'm running a RAID 0 array of 7200rpm IDE drives. FWIW I've got a 1.6ghz AthlonXP and 512megs DDR ram. But you don't have an insane processor (although you still have a good amount of ram) and you still get good speed. I think that Mozilla's startup sequence uses relatively few CPU cycles and not that much memory. But what it does do is require alot of stuff to be read from the hard drive (see XUL and its large number of dlls and other associated files). This would explain why moz is so fast on our comps but not on your typical gigahertz machine with a 5400 rpm hard drive. It would also explain why I can minimize mozilla for 30 minutes and then have it pop back instantly when I re-maximize it.
I'm not sure if that's funny or if that's a troll. If I had mod points my head would explode.
Which are commited either by criminals or in self defense against said criminals. Then again there are all those deaths involving legally held baseball bats and other blunt objects. I guess we should outlaw those to.
Does that mean I can't have kids? And does that make my genatailia a circumvention device?
I wonder if any of the ships have "HMS Bounty" painted on them?
To reduce piracy in these parts, software companies should price their software at prices that are affordable from a local point of view.
And of course as soon as they do that some bright person will buy a million or so copies for 7 riggit each, ship them to the US, sell them for $10 a pop and make a nearly $10 million. I'm sure that will help the software companies profit margins. There really isn't anything the companies can do to stop this sort of thing, that's just the way it is.
We are civilized because we only do it when society deems it necessary.
> You first.
Way ahead of ya. ARRRGGG! Matey, ARRGGG!
I swear, one of these days I'm gonna build a machine, paint it black, and stencil "HMS Bounty" in large friendly letters on the side of the case.
Actually if you do down - right - down - right - up - right - up - right it sends it off to be validated. It doesn't actually sense a diagonal, just a pattern of right angles that resembels a diagonal. Although if you just do a V shape it's pretty good about recognizing it since the motion of the mouse is aproximated to the nearest compass direction anyway. Or in the this case, the nearest pattern of compass directions. Thanks for the easter egg info though, I think that's pretty cool.
Making CD's is like printing money.
So is providing pay-for-use downloads, except you save on the cost of CD manufacturing.
You have a point on the others, but IBM is hardly the evil behemoth it once was. I'd say, just give the others a bit more time.
Nothing lasts forever.
Ok, a while back I had to copy about 55.6 gigs of data from a backup disk to my main hard drive. (If that doesn't max the bus I don't know what will.) First, the backup drive was a 60gig IDE 7200rpm drive on the primary IDE controler on the motherboard. The main hard drive was a 149gig RAID 0 array on a Promise Fastrak TX2 PCI card comprised of two 7200rpm drives. Anyway, the copy operation took something like 20 minutes. However during the entire time, CPU utilization never rose above 1% and I think that was just to draw the little copy dialog box and the CPU utilization graph. Sure the Promise card may have been been doing stuff the CPU would normaly do but the 60gig disk was just on the motherboard and hence, acording to previous posts, should have been taxing the crap out of the processor. So, how is the amount of CPU time IDE drives use actually significant? Sure SCSI beats IDE hands down for interleaved read/write operations but CPU utilization? Bah. That hasn't even been an issue since processors got above 300mhz.
In that case it must be hard drive speed. Because I'm running RAID 0 with two 7200 rpm 8meg cache drives (with AthlonXP 1900+ and 512megs ddr ram.) and I can't tell the difference between IE 5.5 and Mozilla 1.1 under Win2k as far as speed is concerned. They both scream. (Without Moz's quicklaunch btw.)
Then why did it magically disapear from windows update after I did a network install of SP3?