Even so, X has had backing store for years. You can't tell me translucency isn't the "logical next step."
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My brother (Who's in the Navy) showed me one of his uniforms when we used the adopt-a-sailor program to see him this past Christmas. (He was still in basic training.)
It had 13 buttons that had to be undone before you could use the bathroom. You can't tell me they don't learn how to plan ahead in the Navy.;)
Less range would be a good thing in that situation. Running a cluster application using a "global" wireless hub would likely cause a nasty traffic jam.
Short range, using mesh network routing and self-organized calculation allocation, would likely be much more effective.
It'd also be a real challenge to implement, at least at the software level.
That gives me an idea, though. Cell service providers could use the processing power of advanced phones on their network in a sort of distributed.net-like setup. Not that people would appreciate their batteries being run down by constant CPU utilization. But cell manufacturers could provide hardware tuned to both low power consumption and tuned calculation.
Your best bet for that crap left over after uninstalls is to use an app that tracks the files on your machine. Norton System Utilities had something for that, but that was way back on Win95 retail. I don't know what's available now.
Anyone have any suggestions?
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What in the hell causes it to degrade every few months?
Spyware. Hidden "functionality" and drivers. DLLs installed but not removed (Especially shared ones that you weren't sure if any of your applications were still using). Especially file fragmentation. (That was a big problem for me under WinME and FAT32. I don't know if that is solved with NTFS.)
To some extent, even things you intentionally have on there. Like the latest DirectX. Or installing.NET if your system didn't already have it.
These are all things I encountered under WinME and earlier...the machines in the computer lab I work in run XP, are locked down pretty tight, and don't usually exhibit these symptoms. When individual stations are ghosted, there isn't a noticable difference in performance between stations freshly ghosted and the stations next to them that weren't.
Other items I could theorize about would include searching "Temporary Internet Files" for ActiveDesktop components. Memory leaks from cruddy software, especially if you "hibernate" instead of shutting your system down.
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Most of my friends didn't try Linux until I told them about my own success stories and satisfaction.
So Linux's spreading is clearly due to flaws in the users. (tongue in cheek)
With a car, it's easy to switch to a different brand. There's not much new to learn; if you can drive one car, you can drive another. And if you can drive a stick, you can drive damn near anything on the road. Maybe not to the best of the car's abilities, but you can still get from point A to point B.
With software, it's generally much more difficult to switch vendors. System requirements and means of configuration, not to mention configuration options, are often vastly different.
Granted, proficiency with the underlying principles (Component functions in a car, protocols in software) go a long way in easing change. However, while many people aren't familiar with cars beyond filling the tank and checking the oil, most people aren't familiar with the workings of databases and HTTP.
The real problem people have is that the changes seem to be trending towards more and more limited use. Around here, it's often attributed to greed, but on the other hand, it could be corporate necessity.
Certainly, you've heard of companies announcing the removal of a product or service because they "just couldn't afford to provide it anymore."
For the record, I'll take a Debian Linux box over Windows XP any day. But that's primarily because I've found Debian's flexibility to far exceed that of any Windows system I've used. (And I still use Windows a lot, though not at home.)
Under my understanding of the religious views I was most exposed to as a child, (Baptist, Lutheran and the Jewish faith) God is "all things" and is capable of "all things."
Therefore, under those views, a multiverse/non-deterministic-universe would seem logical. It satisfies the path of least resistance in supporting the known nature of God.
(BTW...I worded this post the way I did in order to try to avoid stepping on anyone's toes.)
Thrust up and away from your current vector. If you can reduce your angular velocity with minimal encounter of atmosphere during the process, you can reduce your dependence on heat shielding.
The requirement that the filing being sealed is an atrocity, in my opinion.
However, I can see the reason. They're worried about undue influence of the judge presiding over the case.
With the word out on who the judge is, investigative powers that be are probably going to be watching the judge's every move.
<fiction> That gives me an idea for a Grisham book. Both sides of a major case are watching a judge for "undue influence." And they end up harassing each other. Of course, today, if the "government" was one of those sides, they'd just charge the other side with terrorism-related activities. </fiction>
An interesting component of attaining low orbit is that to attain velocity in a low orbit, you have to go through a lot more atmosphere. Unless you go straight up as far as you can, and try to make a sharp turn.
Here's a good example: attach a USB-based flash drive to your system windows/linux system. SCSI system says it's a SCSI disk attached to a SCSI controller. A virtual SCSI controller. Check the USB bus. USB bus says it has a mass storage device. Huh! Well which is it? (Actually the SCSI subsystem would probably call the controller something like USB mass storage host controller or something)
That's a software issue. The driver access the device by communicating through the PCI bus, through the OHCI/UHCI/EHCI controller, through the device tree, to the flash disk.
Under Linux, the usb disk driver then provides access to the scsi subsystem and an entry under sysfs.
Somewhere in there, a device node is also available for raw access to the USB device.
The difference is that XBOX games are already written for the PC. So you don't need emulation of the CPU, you need virtualization. You'll still need to emulate the XBOX-specific hardware, though.
Rather, he hasn't used a properly administered Windows box.
However, I'll argue that your average Linux administrator (read: home user) knows more about permissions, etc. than your average Windows administrater (again, read: home user).
In Linux, it's hard to learn how to do anything involving the core software without bumping up against permissions. Under Debian defaults, at least, you can't even shut down the box without the root password.
When you have parallel serial connections isn't it just one parallel connection?
Not if each connection handles different data.
Let's say you've got 8 wires going in one direction. In a parallel connection, you'd be communicating the 8 different bits of a single byte at the same time. Do it seven more times, and you've sent 8 different bytes.
As multiple connections, you're transmitting the first bit of eight different bytes, then the second bit, then the third. After 8 cycles, you've again sent 8 different bytes, one on each wire.
The downside of the multiple serial conections lies in latency. It doesn't matter if you only want one byte, it'll still take eight cycles to transmit. With a parallel connection, it only takes one cycle.
The downside of a of a parallel connection lies in that you have to keep all eight wires in perfect sync. If you don't, you risk mis-matching bits from different bytes, or even not registering signal on all the wires. With multiple serial connections, Each wire can be independent of the other wires.
That's simplified, of course. With RS232 serial communications, the old standard in PC peripheral technology (though still pretty common in manufacturing technology), you had as few as nine wires. With USB, they've cut it down to four wires.
The routing circuitry could make two copies of data requested by the GPU. Changes only occur on one copy, until a given number of other read requests occur. At that point, the old copy is freed.
Remote requests are always read from the old copy.
At high enough framerates, you can exceed the refresh rate of your display. In such cases, old data won't be as noticable. That doesn't solve the problem on high-refresh-rate displays, though.
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I didn't mean to imply you were. And I agree with you. :)
...but they weren't dynamic as Apple's are.
Even so, X has had backing store for years. You can't tell me translucency isn't the "logical next step."
My brother (Who's in the Navy) showed me one of his uniforms when we used the adopt-a-sailor program to see him this past Christmas. (He was still in basic training.)
;)
It had 13 buttons that had to be undone before you could use the bathroom. You can't tell me they don't learn how to plan ahead in the Navy.
I knew a tech once who put his emergency call pager in his pocket. So he'd look forward to it.
Less range would be a good thing in that situation. Running a cluster application using a "global" wireless hub would likely cause a nasty traffic jam.
Short range, using mesh network routing and self-organized calculation allocation, would likely be much more effective.
It'd also be a real challenge to implement, at least at the software level.
That gives me an idea, though. Cell service providers could use the processing power of advanced phones on their network in a sort of distributed.net-like setup. Not that people would appreciate their batteries being run down by constant CPU utilization. But cell manufacturers could provide hardware tuned to both low power consumption and tuned calculation.
Your best bet for that crap left over after uninstalls is to use an app that tracks the files on your machine. Norton System Utilities had something for that, but that was way back on Win95 retail. I don't know what's available now.
Anyone have any suggestions?
What in the hell causes it to degrade every few months?
.NET if your system didn't already have it.
Spyware. Hidden "functionality" and drivers. DLLs installed but not removed (Especially shared ones that you weren't sure if any of your applications were still using). Especially file fragmentation. (That was a big problem for me under WinME and FAT32. I don't know if that is solved with NTFS.)
To some extent, even things you intentionally have on there. Like the latest DirectX. Or installing
These are all things I encountered under WinME and earlier...the machines in the computer lab I work in run XP, are locked down pretty tight, and don't usually exhibit these symptoms. When individual stations are ghosted, there isn't a noticable difference in performance between stations freshly ghosted and the stations next to them that weren't.
Other items I could theorize about would include searching "Temporary Internet Files" for ActiveDesktop components. Memory leaks from cruddy software, especially if you "hibernate" instead of shutting your system down.
Most of my friends didn't try Linux until I told them about my own success stories and satisfaction.
So Linux's spreading is clearly due to flaws in the users. (tongue in cheek)
With a car, it's easy to switch to a different brand. There's not much new to learn; if you can drive one car, you can drive another. And if you can drive a stick, you can drive damn near anything on the road. Maybe not to the best of the car's abilities, but you can still get from point A to point B.
With software, it's generally much more difficult to switch vendors. System requirements and means of configuration, not to mention configuration options, are often vastly different.
Granted, proficiency with the underlying principles (Component functions in a car, protocols in software) go a long way in easing change. However, while many people aren't familiar with cars beyond filling the tank and checking the oil, most people aren't familiar with the workings of databases and HTTP.
The real problem people have is that the changes seem to be trending towards more and more limited use. Around here, it's often attributed to greed, but on the other hand, it could be corporate necessity.
Certainly, you've heard of companies announcing the removal of a product or service because they "just couldn't afford to provide it anymore."
For the record, I'll take a Debian Linux box over Windows XP any day. But that's primarily because I've found Debian's flexibility to far exceed that of any Windows system I've used. (And I still use Windows a lot, though not at home.)
Let us suppose your simplification is correct.
Under my understanding of the religious views I was most exposed to as a child, (Baptist, Lutheran and the Jewish faith) God is "all things" and is capable of "all things."
Therefore, under those views, a multiverse/non-deterministic-universe would seem logical. It satisfies the path of least resistance in supporting the known nature of God.
(BTW...I worded this post the way I did in order to try to avoid stepping on anyone's toes.)
I got "mitigation" and "litigation" crossed. Mitigation makes sense...not litigation.
Here's an idea on re-entry:
Thrust up and away from your current vector. If you can reduce your angular velocity with minimal encounter of atmosphere during the process, you can reduce your dependence on heat shielding.
The requirement that the filing being sealed is an atrocity, in my opinion.
However, I can see the reason. They're worried about undue influence of the judge presiding over the case.
With the word out on who the judge is, investigative powers that be are probably going to be watching the judge's every move.
<fiction>
That gives me an idea for a Grisham book. Both sides of a major case are watching a judge for "undue influence." And they end up harassing each other. Of course, today, if the "government" was one of those sides, they'd just charge the other side with terrorism-related activities.
</fiction>
An interesting component of attaining low orbit is that to attain velocity in a low orbit, you have to go through a lot more atmosphere. Unless you go straight up as far as you can, and try to make a sharp turn.
Some places use a "." instead of a "," ...
Ah. I see. You make (several) excellent points.
Here's a good example: attach a USB-based flash drive to your system windows/linux system. SCSI system says it's a SCSI disk attached to a SCSI controller. A virtual SCSI controller. Check the USB bus. USB bus says it has a mass storage device. Huh! Well which is it? (Actually the SCSI subsystem would probably call the controller something like USB mass storage host controller or something)
That's a software issue. The driver access the device by communicating through the PCI bus, through the OHCI/UHCI/EHCI controller, through the device tree, to the flash disk.
Under Linux, the usb disk driver then provides access to the scsi subsystem and an entry under sysfs.
Somewhere in there, a device node is also available for raw access to the USB device.
The difference is that XBOX games are already written for the PC. So you don't need emulation of the CPU, you need virtualization. You'll still need to emulate the XBOX-specific hardware, though.
Rather, he hasn't used a properly administered Windows box.
However, I'll argue that your average Linux administrator (read: home user) knows more about permissions, etc. than your average Windows administrater (again, read: home user).
In Linux, it's hard to learn how to do anything involving the core software without bumping up against permissions. Under Debian defaults, at least, you can't even shut down the box without the root password.
Ah. I'll have to look at my sysfs tree at home to see if I can find another mention of AGP in there.
BTW, RAM tends to appear as I2C devices on the ISA bus. Does that mean RAM sticks are on the ISA bus?
Probably not. IIRC, the ISA bus runs at 4.77MHz. RAM has required greater speeds than that for a long time.
serial connections in parallel
When you have parallel serial connections isn't it just one parallel connection?
Not if each connection handles different data.
Let's say you've got 8 wires going in one direction. In a parallel connection, you'd be communicating the 8 different bits of a single byte at the same time. Do it seven more times, and you've sent 8 different bytes.
As multiple connections, you're transmitting the first bit of eight different bytes, then the second bit, then the third. After 8 cycles, you've again sent 8 different bytes, one on each wire.
The downside of the multiple serial conections lies in latency. It doesn't matter if you only want one byte, it'll still take eight cycles to transmit. With a parallel connection, it only takes one cycle.
The downside of a of a parallel connection lies in that you have to keep all eight wires in perfect sync. If you don't, you risk mis-matching bits from different bytes, or even not registering signal on all the wires. With multiple serial connections, Each wire can be independent of the other wires.
That's simplified, of course. With RS232 serial communications, the old standard in PC peripheral technology (though still pretty common in manufacturing technology), you had as few as nine wires. With USB, they've cut it down to four wires.
The total amount of intelligence is increasing. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear to be directly proportional to population. (At least, to me.)
Reminds me of SMP and cluster performance wrt processor count.
That was quoted by Heinlein(via Lazarus Long)...But he didn't give a source.
Yet he says computers are widespread. That's still only 25% of literate people. (see 60% illiteracy figure in the article)
I'm thinking it must be either a cultural misunderstanding on my part. Either that or a typo.
The routing circuitry could make two copies of data requested by the GPU. Changes only occur on one copy, until a given number of other read requests occur. At that point, the old copy is freed.
Remote requests are always read from the old copy.
At high enough framerates, you can exceed the refresh rate of your display. In such cases, old data won't be as noticable. That doesn't solve the problem on high-refresh-rate displays, though.