these types of things are usually just nuances of the scheduler. i saw a video interview on msdn with some of the vista guys, and that is one of the things they will improve in the future: giving more preference to a full screen app. vista, though late, won't be for naught.
maybe this is yet another thing humanity will f*** up and have to learn from. there is some serious peace and tranquility that comes from silence. but i suppose our materialism won't allow silent stores for a while.
btw: they do share quite a bit of code among the 4 BSD distros so your point is practically moot. there are 4 distros because of different goals. the goals of each project drive the developers to do what they do. if they all only wanted one goal then these developers would probably work on one BSD just as you wish. research what each of these projects stand for and you will understand.
though in all reality these groups basically just don't get along. there is likely little reason for a full fork other than personalities. most of what each group stands for could probably just exist in a patch. it would probalby work to just have NetBSD. let OpenBSD work on openssh only. let freebsd merge what works well for i386 into the NetBSD base. and have a group work on making a great graphical installer, and a simple text/serial installer.
as a peice of interest: my car (1991 Olds Eighty Eight) has had it's transmission go crazy at 94k. bought it low mileage from an old couple. i put a performance camaro style (1 in, 2 out) exhaust on it, and a cold air intake, and after a month or more had the transmission just kill the vehicle when slamming the gas while in first gear. it still does this, and slips occasionaly if it doesn't want to shift from 3rd to 2nd (example) when given too much gas. i had the assumption that the modifications i made wouldn't produce too much more torque than the transmission would be able to handle. it's also possible that the air balance is way off, or that the back pressure is no longer enough. too much to figure out for a non-mechanic like me. i will probably rebuild the transmission this summer, since that engine is good for another 100k or more.
i wish gm would have stuck with body by fisher quality interiors, our 1986 oldsmobile was way nicer, still is interior wise, but the old 3.0 v6 isn't what it used to be. my mom still drives that around town though. it's up to about 190k. that car went to crap after i stopped driving it and my younger sister put it through hell. i guess, our family has had a LOT of gm vehicles, still does, and they've all been great. no problems on the pocket book always fixing things, they've been really reliable. and around south dakota, you have to be careful: there's no bmw dealership nearby, haha.
i will not say you are a racist, but i would say you are wrong. the typical white person no long commits open acts of hatred toward minorities. but instead we (white americans, probably in other countries too) show our racism when we do not show any ability to talk with a black woman, or a native american man, etc. when we are in line at the grocery store. it is little things like this that we each must do if we are to change the impression of the group as a whole.
just as politicians and lawmen are completely out of touch with the people, the people of this country are just waiting to clasp each other in a tight hug and move on with life, but there is so much bullshit in place in the walkways of society that we cannot get past historical hatred. i don't think that the rich of this country want the people to get along.
hate to break it to you, but check this out: J.D. Powers Dependability study. Domestics aren't doing quite as bad anymore. Of course not many people that read this are going to want a Buick or a Cadillac. I do agree with the previous post about Apple products being like Cadillacs, they look pretty, are very expensive, and are nice. But most people just don't care and would rather get something just about as nice but cheaper (i.e. Chrysler, Buick.)
I want to make an unbiased call for people to stop flaming fires. Apple makes good products. Some people don't like them and think they are too pricy. Others like the polish, that they work well, and don't mind paying more since they see compensation in other areas. Can we just give up on all this. It has been going on for about 6 years now, and it's just time to stop. Yea linux is great, yea OS X is great; yea there's substatial differences but all of us are smart enough to investigate those and make an educated decision.
as an answer, in general yes, compiling is heavily input/output bound. think about it: read a file, process file, write object code out. even a page fault can take a million milliseconds away. a hard drive is slower, because not only does your time spent leave the cpu and go elsewhere it has to go to a hard drive which is quite slow in finding your needed informatino and then sending it to memory. as others have noted, it does help to have the make program run multiple processes of gcc at one time, since then the hard drive will be busy more often getting you your data. anohter thing to help, when you do a compile, watch top, it'll notice things like user, system time being used.
Ford does: Ford Commercial trucks. That 5.9L I-6 Cummins Turbo Diesel engine is commonly found in Dodge pickups. Granted that's not a dodge engine in a ford pickup, but still. Hmm, perhaps slashdot users shouldn't make car analogies; though my picking at this is about as bad as a grammar nazi.
well, i personally never say hardware is bullet proof, because i have seen many a bad peice of hardware fall prey to a several large and well placed bullets. Though some larger equipment sold to goverment organizations could possibly be refered to as bullet proof, such as electronic signs over large highways. Those things can withstand hurricanes and tornados.
right on. here's a new one for y'all: the enthusiasts that rant about the latest technology craze don't matter. people writing code to get things done matter. and they will keep track of what works and what doesn't. journalists are just lame writers that can't code enough to write a full book about some various technology.
yea, i agree. but it's the typically geek thing where: i know more about x, y and z than you and this, that and those are why. but then again, i should be coding so i guess i suck anyways.
shh, don't confuse them. most people live in a fairy land where anyone can spout random liberal/sierra club bullsiht and believe they just made a difference.
I'll cling to the principle that the government cannot intrude on my privacy for a very long time, and you deserve to lose yours for beliefs like that.
They don't store the energy, they produce it on the fly. And if it wasted more of the engines energy to produce the hydrogen then it was able to obtain from the hydrogen production and hydrogen mixing with fuel and air, then they wouldn't do it! Because Miles per Gallon would drop, and these guys aren't going to just do something because it helps the environment, it has to also help their pocket book.
These guys travel so many miles that $700 a month (ftfa) would be fairly easy to acheive. But all in all it seems like a good idea. The basic premise for those who haven't gotten it yet: If you can increase your horse power (hp) through a means other than turbo charger(though they should have that already) you can use less fuel since you'll be naturally able to run at lower rpms. By introducing hydrogen to the fuel-air mixture the fuel will combust more efficiently, producing more hp, and sending less comtaminents out the exhaust. The truckers in the article mentioned that there was less 'black smoke' which is one sign that your engine is revved up high, wasting fuel, and not producing optimal power for what your foot is asking. The electricity needed to produce the hydrogen is negligible since the power from the hydrogen mixture thrown in is more than taken to produce the intial electricity.
I seem to remember this being on slashdot before, but the article talked about the engineering company trying to finish their work on the product and get it to another engineering firm to review before a full marketing push. Also, I think that right now this is a deisel only thing, but I could be wrong. Their marketing right now is for deisels, since this could be for larger companies, that could retrofit their existing fleet of vehicles.
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these types of things are usually just nuances of the scheduler. i saw a video interview on msdn with some of the vista guys, and that is one of the things they will improve in the future: giving more preference to a full screen app. vista, though late, won't be for naught.
maybe this is yet another thing humanity will f*** up and have to learn from. there is some serious peace and tranquility that comes from silence. but i suppose our materialism won't allow silent stores for a while.
I think that grocery stores should stay relatively quiet and peaceful, I don't want the produce to go crazy and taste bad.
i thought it was a great movie as well. hopefully it's deeper message carried through enough.
btw: they do share quite a bit of code among the 4 BSD distros so your point is practically moot. there are 4 distros because of different goals. the goals of each project drive the developers to do what they do. if they all only wanted one goal then these developers would probably work on one BSD just as you wish. research what each of these projects stand for and you will understand.
though in all reality these groups basically just don't get along. there is likely little reason for a full fork other than personalities. most of what each group stands for could probably just exist in a patch. it would probalby work to just have NetBSD. let OpenBSD work on openssh only. let freebsd merge what works well for i386 into the NetBSD base. and have a group work on making a great graphical installer, and a simple text/serial installer.
i wish gm would have stuck with body by fisher quality interiors, our 1986 oldsmobile was way nicer, still is interior wise, but the old 3.0 v6 isn't what it used to be. my mom still drives that around town though. it's up to about 190k. that car went to crap after i stopped driving it and my younger sister put it through hell. i guess, our family has had a LOT of gm vehicles, still does, and they've all been great. no problems on the pocket book always fixing things, they've been really reliable. and around south dakota, you have to be careful: there's no bmw dealership nearby, haha.
just as politicians and lawmen are completely out of touch with the people, the people of this country are just waiting to clasp each other in a tight hug and move on with life, but there is so much bullshit in place in the walkways of society that we cannot get past historical hatred. i don't think that the rich of this country want the people to get along.
it's the truth dude, get over it. liberals are off their rockers these days.
I want to make an unbiased call for people to stop flaming fires. Apple makes good products. Some people don't like them and think they are too pricy. Others like the polish, that they work well, and don't mind paying more since they see compensation in other areas. Can we just give up on all this. It has been going on for about 6 years now, and it's just time to stop. Yea linux is great, yea OS X is great; yea there's substatial differences but all of us are smart enough to investigate those and make an educated decision.
anyways i'm out, maybe i'll stop reading slashdot now, i don't know.
slap. haha, i'm rick james bitch.
word. someone understands this stuff!
dumbass
as an answer, in general yes, compiling is heavily input/output bound. think about it: read a file, process file, write object code out. even a page fault can take a million milliseconds away. a hard drive is slower, because not only does your time spent leave the cpu and go elsewhere it has to go to a hard drive which is quite slow in finding your needed informatino and then sending it to memory. as others have noted, it does help to have the make program run multiple processes of gcc at one time, since then the hard drive will be busy more often getting you your data. anohter thing to help, when you do a compile, watch top, it'll notice things like user, system time being used.
Ford does: Ford Commercial trucks. That 5.9L I-6 Cummins Turbo Diesel engine is commonly found in Dodge pickups. Granted that's not a dodge engine in a ford pickup, but still. Hmm, perhaps slashdot users shouldn't make car analogies; though my picking at this is about as bad as a grammar nazi.
And on the seventh day Jobs rested and saw what he had made, and saw that it was good.
Now I'm sure that Apple users are completely insane.
well, i personally never say hardware is bullet proof, because i have seen many a bad peice of hardware fall prey to a several large and well placed bullets.
Though some larger equipment sold to goverment organizations could possibly be refered to as bullet proof, such as electronic signs over large highways. Those things can withstand hurricanes and tornados.
that's the way it is at South Dakota State U. as well.
right on.
here's a new one for y'all: the enthusiasts that rant about the latest technology craze don't matter. people writing code to get things done matter. and they will keep track of what works and what doesn't. journalists are just lame writers that can't code enough to write a full book about some various technology.
yea, i agree. but it's the typically geek thing where:
i know more about x, y and z than you and this, that and those are why. but then again, i should be coding so i guess i suck anyways.
shh, don't confuse them. most people live in a fairy land where anyone can spout random liberal/sierra club bullsiht and believe they just made a difference.
me too!
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I'll cling to the principle that the government cannot intrude on my privacy for a very long time, and you deserve to lose yours for beliefs like that.
They don't store the energy, they produce it on the fly. And if it wasted more of the engines energy to produce the hydrogen then it was able to obtain from the hydrogen production and hydrogen mixing with fuel and air, then they wouldn't do it! Because Miles per Gallon would drop, and these guys aren't going to just do something because it helps the environment, it has to also help their pocket book.
I seem to remember this being on slashdot before, but the article talked about the engineering company trying to finish their work on the product and get it to another engineering firm to review before a full marketing push. Also, I think that right now this is a deisel only thing, but I could be wrong. Their marketing right now is for deisels, since this could be for larger companies, that could retrofit their existing fleet of vehicles.