Your problem is not Windows then. The problem is that you have a desktop machine intended for a low-power end user rather than a developer. I have 756MB on my Win2k machine because I run SQL2000 and all sort of other development tools. (Heh, I also run Everquest, but thats another story...) Yes, running development tools was a drag at 128MB. You just have to get the right tools for the job.
The story here is that the office product killer uses a whopping 4MB less of RAM and, by the way, is not exactly as feature rich as office, but we'll ignore that because it is a negative point. I wonder why anybody thinks that making it as feature rich as office is going to allow them to reduce the memory footprint significantly. Now if it took 2MB of RAM to run, then it would be impressive. Saving 4MB isn't what I'd call non-bloatware.
Hmm...Black and White sounds cool. Sounds like some of the ideas in the conductive concrete story might be kind of cool to use on your creature. Kind of like being able to make your feeble minded creature play Dance Dance Revolution with very little training.
Well, technically, you can be a serial killer if you have Hot Date. They key is to go to town and meet a lot of townies. Then you invite them over to your house. You lure them into the back room and then WALL THEM IN AND WATCH THEM PISS AND STARVE THEMSELVES!!! Ahem...
I remember one time I had a baby and not enough simes to sleep/work/care for the baby. So some social worker came to reposses the baby. I removed all the exit doors and installed a bunch of fireplaces and wicker furniture to try and burn her for taking my baby. Not only did she not burn, but she can walk through walls. That was scary.
I'm not a minor, but I sure hate it when punks like you pull the more experience card when it is total bullshit. The problem here is that it wasn't a problem when he was nothing more than a login and an email address, but became a problem when he decided to stand behind his work and get his reward. You would think that people on an open source oriented forum where your contributions are not solicited for money, but are a result of your own interests. I've certainly seen my share of OS people post how pissed they are that they did a bunch of work and then got their project forked and their name cut out of the credits.
Personally, I can't stand Apple machines and I don't write software for them. I decided not to try to give any value to their business after I bought their new line of 500 series laptops only to find them discontinued a few months later. I'm bitter about paying $200 for a 12v piece of crap power supply (that has big globs of solder on the board because it was done by an unexperienced person on some third world assembly line). I'm also bitter about their "smart" batteries knowing when to stop charging so that they can rape you for another one of them. But, thats me. It still doesn't make it right to treat someone the way Apple treated this guy after he actually did some work that they found useful. Someone got too scared to actually face the human on the other end of the email address and tell him, "Thanks, but we have a problem. Lets work it out."
I wonder if they gave him a free Apple if he would consider it adding insult to injury. If I were him right now, I'd be mighty, mighty pissed (actually, I don't know if a word exists to describe how pissed I'd be).
There are better ways around this than Apple took. Probably some dumb customer-service type that decided to be so heavy handed about it. This is obviously going to generate a lot of bad press considering what the kids done for them.
The robot doesn't work 24/7. We have a Cedar CD robot in-house. This is how it goes: 4 CD rom drives, each burning at 8x (its what it supports). It does the printing also (printer on top of tower). I think it makes about 300 a day if the sys admin brings it home and babysits it. The thing is constantly rejecting disks, which it puts in the reject bin, which only holds 5 rejects. Usually, the stupid thing forgets to drop the CD in the reject bin and stops everything until someone comes over and restarts it because it can't figure out how to recover. Sometimes the thing will drop a CD or put the cd in so that the drive tray can't close. Then it stops. The software doesn't let you do much to make the process smart either.
And the printing sucks too. You have to buy specially coated CDs to print on. The ink takes forever to dry if you put a lot on (which you would do to make the image look good), so we don't put a lot of ink on and you get this faded type image. If you put a lot of ink on, then the back side of the cd that gets placed on top of a cd in the out bin blots the ink. You get the image on the front and the back of the cd!
Robots are cool, but they are in no way low maintenance. Now if someone could make one that could be made smarter...that would be cool.
It doesn't matter if you opened it or not really. After a while, they assume you are avoiding being served and just call it done. Too bad if you never knew about it. I believe there was a lawsuit that Art Bell had going against some dork that was accusing him of being a child molester. The guy was avoiding being served, so the deputy eventually concluded that he was illegally avoiding service.
Anyone remember the name of that psychologist that put dogs in a room with an electrified floor? I wonder if they'll start putting this stuff into jail cells and mental hospitals. You know, the prisoner/patient/subject mouths off they can give them a jolt. All in the name of science, of course.
When you buy beer with your debit card, they do not track your itemized purchases and associate it with your debit card.
On the other hand, and I don't know about all US states, a lot of grocery stores in California have "club cards." The way it works is that they mark everything up 300% so that you have to join the club to be able to afford to live. (Come on, a package of steak goes from $55.00 to $12.00 for members of the club? BS) I remember a story on a local LA station that reported that this mexican guy went in to "buy sour cream for his tamales," and ended up slipping and falling on the floor. He claims he was injured, but no one wants to believe him (for reasons those that live in California know too well.) So some lawyer for the grocery store started talking about how they were going to use his itemized club card purchases to show how much Tequila he consumes to try to get out of paying him.
The grocery store backpeddled big time on that one. They realized that they let everyone know just what value the club card is for the company. So they claimed that they didn't track purchases and they didn't use the data against the guy. I don't know what ever happened to the guy though. They probably paid him off to keep quiet.
So have they made self-heatable beer cans yet? This way, the pubs in London can chill the beer like it was meant to be drunk (heh) and the locals can just heat it up if they swing that way. This is a win-win situation, eh?
In California, the power companies lease the land under the high-power lines to things like nursuries and christmas tree farms. Why travel to the North Pole to get it on if they could just as easily root around in a christmas tree farm? Wear some metal on the right spot and traverse a flux line the right way and your woman really will shoot lightning out of her ass! (Or the man will...yech)
I'm betting the dried, sharp pine needles can be a turn off.
A. Extra work eh? Whatever.
B. I paid $9.95 for the original EQ, which came with 1 free month. So I paid $0. When the expansions cost $9.95, I'll probably have maxed out the original zones and I'll buy them, get my free month, and pay $0.
C. Its only repetitive if you don't want to get killed a lot. If you make it non-repetitive, you might get killed a lot, but then you had some fun.
Well, whatever they did, it certainly looks like a cheap shot. I wouldn't shed any tears over Sony though as they have their own types of monopolies that they perpetute.
Oh please, so its an OS originated bug and now people are already criticizing Microsoft about it. What do you think they are going to do? Release a patch that does nothing just for the fun of it?
I don't think Microsoft could ever look good, not matter if the bug is theirs or not. Hell, the next bug found in any OS software should be blamed on Microsoft. Just because they're there.
Its amazing how many people will actually believe their own dishonest attempts at stretching the truth. So its as simple as you don't pay for it, you can't hold someone liable for it? I don't want this to sound like a flame, but you are a fool.
There is currently NO WAY to verify that there are no bugs in a piece of software. It is simple, published science. Look at a software engineering 101 book. No, this idea of liability stinks of a political agenda where someone is trying to pretend to be a friend to the people. The people are the ones that buy stuff off shelves and don't realize that it took many person-years to create that product. The politicials think it is just a matter of incompetence that is causing the problem. I am pretty sure that any good engineer will tell you that the problem is not 100% incompetence. Things change in the environments that software runs in that is totally outside of the control of the authors.
Open source software has bugs just as proprietary software has bugs. For this reason alone, no liability should be on the shoulders of anyone who produces software. If the liability is to be assigned, it should be equal without regard for the price you paid for the software.
Yeah, and on top of that it looks like this is another case of a PHB ignoring the warnings of the experienced engineers. The transcript had the engineers saying it was an emergency. Hell, how fun would it be to flush a cemetary down the town's main street? Also, if the tunnel broke, what kind of large sink-hole would that cause before some PHB decided to authorize the tunnel be shut down? I'm glad I don't live there.
You could also just use GUIDGEN on your local windows box to name your servers:
9A962BCC-97E0-4268-ABD4-FB5E7236DF64
AAEBD785-B9CB-405c-A09A-91719C979626
DDDFB01E-5979-454f-BE1E-175453F52127
Etc.
Then its sort of like remembering phone numbers. What, you can't rememberize 4000+ phone numbers?
Then you buy ACT! or some other contact management software. Then you set up contact reminders to make you remember to ping the server to make sure its alive or back it up. Your reminder list probably wouldn't be more than a few hundred entries on each day. You could polish that off before lunch. Then ask for a raise because you solved the problem without doing hardly any work! Thats reusability, and they pay people a lot to be good at it you know.
Well, in a production environment, there would not be time to go through all that. You basically crack open a new tape if you are going to cut a master. By the time you've recorded video on it, layed back the audio, and done all your verification, you can have something like 10 times the tape has traveled past the heads. Now, in its life, it will travel more over the heads and in different machines. Hopefully, not much though. What happens is that the oxide starts to flake off the edges first. If you put it in a dirty machine, you get scratches and pits more towards the center of the media. Usually, we would pop a tape in (knowing our machine was calibrated and clean), look at the concealment rates, and advise the client to make a clone (or just a new master). The problem is that if we layed audio back to it and it went out with high concealment, someone might have started pointing the finger at us.
You also have to wonder why record stores (for example, Virgin Megastore) have big piles of blank media for CDR (and presumably DVD). If it hurts their sales so much, why do they sell them in the record store? I don't go to the record store to buy CDRs for data purposes. Maybe all this complaining is just giving them free advertising time....
Digital tapes do wear, but the error correction helps mask it. If you ever actually work in production, you rarely re-use digital tapes even when they cost $100+ per unit. Any engineer will tell you its a bad idea to re-use them for storing any master. When they do wear out, you start to notice concealment rates skyrocket on the devices that let you view the graphs. If a professional production house were to send that out to a client as a master, that would be a coffin nail.
Some glory hound at Redhat found it. I doubt he fired up a windows machine and tested it before he realized he could get his name in the news. Maybe the fact that Redhat found it lead the press to bridge the conclusion that it was a Linux only issue.
For all Window's flaws, it just shows that no one is above releasing buggy software. It happens.
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The story here is that the office product killer uses a whopping 4MB less of RAM and, by the way, is not exactly as feature rich as office, but we'll ignore that because it is a negative point. I wonder why anybody thinks that making it as feature rich as office is going to allow them to reduce the memory footprint significantly. Now if it took 2MB of RAM to run, then it would be impressive. Saving 4MB isn't what I'd call non-bloatware.
Hmm...Black and White sounds cool. Sounds like some of the ideas in the conductive concrete story might be kind of cool to use on your creature. Kind of like being able to make your feeble minded creature play Dance Dance Revolution with very little training.
I remember one time I had a baby and not enough simes to sleep/work/care for the baby. So some social worker came to reposses the baby. I removed all the exit doors and installed a bunch of fireplaces and wicker furniture to try and burn her for taking my baby. Not only did she not burn, but she can walk through walls. That was scary.
You can do magic....its called catching your Sim on fire and turning it into an Urn.
Personally, I can't stand Apple machines and I don't write software for them. I decided not to try to give any value to their business after I bought their new line of 500 series laptops only to find them discontinued a few months later. I'm bitter about paying $200 for a 12v piece of crap power supply (that has big globs of solder on the board because it was done by an unexperienced person on some third world assembly line). I'm also bitter about their "smart" batteries knowing when to stop charging so that they can rape you for another one of them. But, thats me. It still doesn't make it right to treat someone the way Apple treated this guy after he actually did some work that they found useful. Someone got too scared to actually face the human on the other end of the email address and tell him, "Thanks, but we have a problem. Lets work it out."
There are better ways around this than Apple took. Probably some dumb customer-service type that decided to be so heavy handed about it. This is obviously going to generate a lot of bad press considering what the kids done for them.
And the printing sucks too. You have to buy specially coated CDs to print on. The ink takes forever to dry if you put a lot on (which you would do to make the image look good), so we don't put a lot of ink on and you get this faded type image. If you put a lot of ink on, then the back side of the cd that gets placed on top of a cd in the out bin blots the ink. You get the image on the front and the back of the cd!
Robots are cool, but they are in no way low maintenance. Now if someone could make one that could be made smarter...that would be cool.
Are you sure? I thought he did bells at feeding time and it was someone else that jolted the dogs into submission. Whatever.
It doesn't matter if you opened it or not really. After a while, they assume you are avoiding being served and just call it done. Too bad if you never knew about it. I believe there was a lawsuit that Art Bell had going against some dork that was accusing him of being a child molester. The guy was avoiding being served, so the deputy eventually concluded that he was illegally avoiding service.
Anyone remember the name of that psychologist that put dogs in a room with an electrified floor? I wonder if they'll start putting this stuff into jail cells and mental hospitals. You know, the prisoner/patient/subject mouths off they can give them a jolt. All in the name of science, of course.
On the other hand, and I don't know about all US states, a lot of grocery stores in California have "club cards." The way it works is that they mark everything up 300% so that you have to join the club to be able to afford to live. (Come on, a package of steak goes from $55.00 to $12.00 for members of the club? BS) I remember a story on a local LA station that reported that this mexican guy went in to "buy sour cream for his tamales," and ended up slipping and falling on the floor. He claims he was injured, but no one wants to believe him (for reasons those that live in California know too well.) So some lawyer for the grocery store started talking about how they were going to use his itemized club card purchases to show how much Tequila he consumes to try to get out of paying him.
The grocery store backpeddled big time on that one. They realized that they let everyone know just what value the club card is for the company. So they claimed that they didn't track purchases and they didn't use the data against the guy. I don't know what ever happened to the guy though. They probably paid him off to keep quiet.
So have they made self-heatable beer cans yet? This way, the pubs in London can chill the beer like it was meant to be drunk (heh) and the locals can just heat it up if they swing that way. This is a win-win situation, eh?
I'm betting the dried, sharp pine needles can be a turn off.
A. Extra work eh? Whatever.
B. I paid $9.95 for the original EQ, which came with 1 free month. So I paid $0. When the expansions cost $9.95, I'll probably have maxed out the original zones and I'll buy them, get my free month, and pay $0.
C. Its only repetitive if you don't want to get killed a lot. If you make it non-repetitive, you might get killed a lot, but then you had some fun.
Hey, Sony, thanks for Everquest.
They don't consider Cyborgs that had their brain implants removed as threats.
I don't think Microsoft could ever look good, not matter if the bug is theirs or not. Hell, the next bug found in any OS software should be blamed on Microsoft. Just because they're there.
There is currently NO WAY to verify that there are no bugs in a piece of software. It is simple, published science. Look at a software engineering 101 book. No, this idea of liability stinks of a political agenda where someone is trying to pretend to be a friend to the people. The people are the ones that buy stuff off shelves and don't realize that it took many person-years to create that product. The politicials think it is just a matter of incompetence that is causing the problem. I am pretty sure that any good engineer will tell you that the problem is not 100% incompetence. Things change in the environments that software runs in that is totally outside of the control of the authors.
Open source software has bugs just as proprietary software has bugs. For this reason alone, no liability should be on the shoulders of anyone who produces software. If the liability is to be assigned, it should be equal without regard for the price you paid for the software.
Yeah, and on top of that it looks like this is another case of a PHB ignoring the warnings of the experienced engineers. The transcript had the engineers saying it was an emergency. Hell, how fun would it be to flush a cemetary down the town's main street? Also, if the tunnel broke, what kind of large sink-hole would that cause before some PHB decided to authorize the tunnel be shut down? I'm glad I don't live there.
9A962BCC-97E0-4268-ABD4-FB5E7236DF64
AAEBD785-B9CB-405c-A09A-91719C979626
DDDFB01E-5979-454f-BE1E-175453F52127
Etc.
Then its sort of like remembering phone numbers. What, you can't rememberize 4000+ phone numbers? Then you buy ACT! or some other contact management software. Then you set up contact reminders to make you remember to ping the server to make sure its alive or back it up. Your reminder list probably wouldn't be more than a few hundred entries on each day. You could polish that off before lunch. Then ask for a raise because you solved the problem without doing hardly any work! Thats reusability, and they pay people a lot to be good at it you know.
Well, in a production environment, there would not be time to go through all that. You basically crack open a new tape if you are going to cut a master. By the time you've recorded video on it, layed back the audio, and done all your verification, you can have something like 10 times the tape has traveled past the heads. Now, in its life, it will travel more over the heads and in different machines. Hopefully, not much though. What happens is that the oxide starts to flake off the edges first. If you put it in a dirty machine, you get scratches and pits more towards the center of the media. Usually, we would pop a tape in (knowing our machine was calibrated and clean), look at the concealment rates, and advise the client to make a clone (or just a new master). The problem is that if we layed audio back to it and it went out with high concealment, someone might have started pointing the finger at us.
If it starts inserting REDRUM into your text repeatedly, RUN!
You also have to wonder why record stores (for example, Virgin Megastore) have big piles of blank media for CDR (and presumably DVD). If it hurts their sales so much, why do they sell them in the record store? I don't go to the record store to buy CDRs for data purposes. Maybe all this complaining is just giving them free advertising time....
Digital tapes do wear, but the error correction helps mask it. If you ever actually work in production, you rarely re-use digital tapes even when they cost $100+ per unit. Any engineer will tell you its a bad idea to re-use them for storing any master. When they do wear out, you start to notice concealment rates skyrocket on the devices that let you view the graphs. If a professional production house were to send that out to a client as a master, that would be a coffin nail.
For all Window's flaws, it just shows that no one is above releasing buggy software. It happens.