I'm sure that's true, but I think it's more an example of "User Clustering" than the superiority of any specific OS.
User Clustering is the phenomenon of a group of users deciding to use the same OS as their closest alpha geek. The advantages of built-in support, by far, outweighs whatever advantages a specific OS might have, for a lot of people.
What can we conclude from these? Win XP and Macintosh roughly trending the same vs. Ubuntu? Ubuntu is on the rise with MacOS and Win XP falling behind? That commercial OS's, with installers that hold your hand, require less information from the net than linux-based OS's? That search traffic spikes when a security advisory is issued?
I think that this is a case of "Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics", and not much in the way of valid conclusions can be drawn.
Yes, but predominantly because of Microsoft. The Apple HIG has defined behavior for this for years, which most programs follow, unless they've been led down the garden path by MSFT.
All I can say is that it's a good thing that the garbage collection is on an "opt-in" basis for applications, and not OS-wide. I use OS X as a music workstation, and anything that gets in the way of real-time performance is bad. Garbage collection is not the friend of good timing. (and neither is preemptive multitasking, for that matter, at least with the current threading model).
There are days that I wish that OS X was built on top of the BeOS, which had a great thread model for media. Of course, Apple as we know it, would not exist had they gone with Be.
No, what he's saying is that CA should be able to bully VT, because more people live there.
Are you seriously suggesting that everyone in CA will vote as a block?
California has a huge, mostly conservative, central valley. This area is largely farm country. This area has concerns, and voting patterns, that are radically different from what most people think of when they think of California politics.
If you're not happy with doing away with the electoral college, what about having the states split their electoral college votesbased on the popular vote split in the state? California's central valley would certainly be better represented if states discarded the "winner takes all" nature of the electoral college. Why should huge states like CA (which would be the fifth largest economy, if it was a country) have to cast all of its electoral college votes as a block?
I think that the concept of all of a state's electoral votes being cast in a "winner takes all" fashion is at least part of the problem. If a state could split it's electoral college votes based on the vote split in that state I think that we would be better off.
Take California, for example... it is big enough, and diverse enough, to be several states (or a well-off country). The central valley is mostly a conservative, farm-oriented area. The northern area is, historically, a logging area (although now it seems to be skewing towards experimental agriculture). It's largely high-tech and biotech in the San Francisco region, largely media in the Los Angeles area.
Having the state vote as a monolithic block seems silly.
So if NY and CA decide that VT residents should pay 50% more in federal income tax than NYers or CAers, that would be ok with you?
What's to stop that now? The disproportionate representation in the senate? The fact that VT had a larger importance in choosing a president, courtesy of the electoral college? Nothing, really.
you're compaining that your vote in CA doesn't matter, but its A-OK to make sure the person's vote in VT doesn't matter?
No, what he was saying was that the votes from CA resident and from the VT resident would count exactly the same: 1/TotalVoteCount.
I believe the time of needing the electoral college is past.
I am going to skip the usual wordy and subtle version of the "you have no clue" diatribe and skip right to my point.
Copy right originated as the RIGHT TO COPY protecting printing presses from trying to put a stranglehold on production and allowing education to not be impeded by finance. It was the right for the people who purchased something to copy it for their own use.
Well I guess I'll have to skip the "you have no clue" diatribe, too, then.
Copyright was never about the individual's right to copy, but always about the Author's right to monopolize for a time period. See here and here
Some of the recent problems with copyright are that the monopoly period of time has gotten longer, and it is no longer as tied to an author as it once was, but rather, to a corporation. This means that things are taking much longer to enter the public domain and our culture has gotten poorer because of it. Disney, for example, has made millions from characters and stories in the public domain, yet it is fighting tooth and nail to stop any of its works slip into the public domain.
Righteousness has next to nothing to do with a case like this. Having a cloud over your business is _very_ expensive. Lawyers, etc. for a case like this are _very_ expensive. It costs _so_ much to fight a case like this, that, even if you think you will eventually prevail, it is often cheaper to settle.
I was recently involved in a patent fight, where we had comprehensive prior art, and were really convinced that we were going to prevail eventually, but between getting to trial in the first place, and the resultant inevitable appeals, it was cheaper to settle. It made my skin crawl, but we did it anyway.
Also, remember that juries on cases like this are not technologists who will readily understand a complex technological argument, but "peers" who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
There's no science in the show, its pure entertainment.
While there's no bable-talk about science in the show, they do have some solid scientific underpinnings. For example, space in Firefly is silent, unlike space in most filmed science fiction. The Serenity movies blurs this a little, with sound in some of the space battles, but they seem to be happening in upper atmosphere, so I guess that's forgivable.
There is obviously some sort of artificial gravity on the ships. We see this in one Firefly episode where there's a team that is in space suits, outside in zero-g, and then they come back into the ship, and the artificial gravity is turned back on and the box they are carrying drops to the floor.
In general I think the Firefly universe has more respect for science & physics than most filmed sci-fi, it just doesn't feel the need to talk about it. How often do you talk about the scientific things in your life? (well... this is Slashdot, but how much do normal people you might know talk about such things?).
If I had to guess, I would say that it's just sloppy coding of the Dashboard feature. They can, should, and hopefully, will do better than this in some future version.
Widgets take up very little memory and all of the default ones take up 0% of the CPU most of the time (check with top if you don't believe me). You've got something else going on there if you say it's sluggish.
Actually, in my experience Widgets take a fair amount of memory. Each Widget seems to take around 150 Meg ov VM, and use several Megs of real memory. They also seem to leak real memory. This is after about four days:
Real Mem Virt Mem NAME
27.33 MB 159.59 MB Weather DashboardClient
11.51 MB 144.20 MB Stickies DashboardClient
10.85 MB 147.11 MB Oblique DashboardClient
9.13 MB 154.76 MB Unit Converter DashboardClient
9.11 MB 144.05 MB Calendar DashboardClient
8.79 MB 151.12 MB Dictionary DashboardClient
8.65 MB 144.61 MB World Clock DashboardClient
6.20 MB 126.45 MB Calculator DashboardClient
This adds up to about 90 Meg of real memory, and over a gig of virtual memory, for about eight widgets. Desk accessories the world over are hanging their head in shame.
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Um... It's a bell curve. Do you mean below the mean?
User Clustering is the phenomenon of a group of users deciding to use the same OS as their closest alpha geek. The advantages of built-in support, by far, outweighs whatever advantages a specific OS might have, for a lot of people.
What can we conclude from these? Win XP and Macintosh roughly trending the same vs. Ubuntu? Ubuntu is on the rise with MacOS and Win XP falling behind? That commercial OS's, with installers that hold your hand, require less information from the net than linux-based OS's? That search traffic spikes when a security advisory is issued?
I think that this is a case of "Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics", and not much in the way of valid conclusions can be drawn.
Yes, but predominantly because of Microsoft. The Apple HIG has defined behavior for this for years, which most programs follow, unless they've been led down the garden path by MSFT.
There are days that I wish that OS X was built on top of the BeOS, which had a great thread model for media. Of course, Apple as we know it, would not exist had they gone with Be.
Are you seriously suggesting that everyone in CA will vote as a block?
California has a huge, mostly conservative, central valley. This area is largely farm country. This area has concerns, and voting patterns, that are radically different from what most people think of when they think of California politics.
If you're not happy with doing away with the electoral college, what about having the states split their electoral college votesbased on the popular vote split in the state? California's central valley would certainly be better represented if states discarded the "winner takes all" nature of the electoral college. Why should huge states like CA (which would be the fifth largest economy, if it was a country) have to cast all of its electoral college votes as a block?
Take California, for example... it is big enough, and diverse enough, to be several states (or a well-off country). The central valley is mostly a conservative, farm-oriented area. The northern area is, historically, a logging area (although now it seems to be skewing towards experimental agriculture). It's largely high-tech and biotech in the San Francisco region, largely media in the Los Angeles area.
Having the state vote as a monolithic block seems silly.
What's to stop that now? The disproportionate representation in the senate? The fact that VT had a larger importance in choosing a president, courtesy of the electoral college? Nothing, really.
you're compaining that your vote in CA doesn't matter, but its A-OK to make sure the person's vote in VT doesn't matter?
No, what he was saying was that the votes from CA resident and from the VT resident would count exactly the same: 1/TotalVoteCount.
I believe the time of needing the electoral college is past.
Unfortunately, you really have to limit use drastically. There is no single magic bullet. That said, this helped me a lot:
Evolient Mouse
Well I guess I'll have to skip the "you have no clue" diatribe, too, then.
Copyright was never about the individual's right to copy, but always about the Author's right to monopolize for a time period. See here and here
Some of the recent problems with copyright are that the monopoly period of time has gotten longer, and it is no longer as tied to an author as it once was, but rather, to a corporation. This means that things are taking much longer to enter the public domain and our culture has gotten poorer because of it. Disney, for example, has made millions from characters and stories in the public domain, yet it is fighting tooth and nail to stop any of its works slip into the public domain.
How do loathsome Flash sites get around this? They must run into the same issue, no?
Actually, for an elevator with only two destinations, this would be a pretty cool UI, IMO.
I was recently involved in a patent fight, where we had comprehensive prior art, and were really convinced that we were going to prevail eventually, but between getting to trial in the first place, and the resultant inevitable appeals, it was cheaper to settle. It made my skin crawl, but we did it anyway.
Also, remember that juries on cases like this are not technologists who will readily understand a complex technological argument, but "peers" who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
While there's no bable-talk about science in the show, they do have some solid scientific underpinnings. For example, space in Firefly is silent, unlike space in most filmed science fiction. The Serenity movies blurs this a little, with sound in some of the space battles, but they seem to be happening in upper atmosphere, so I guess that's forgivable.
There is obviously some sort of artificial gravity on the ships. We see this in one Firefly episode where there's a team that is in space suits, outside in zero-g, and then they come back into the ship, and the artificial gravity is turned back on and the box they are carrying drops to the floor.
In general I think the Firefly universe has more respect for science & physics than most filmed sci-fi, it just doesn't feel the need to talk about it. How often do you talk about the scientific things in your life? (well... this is Slashdot, but how much do normal people you might know talk about such things?).
(and yes I know TFA was about the artic, and my previous post mentions antartica)
Well, Antartica comes to mind. Do some research about how much ice is there. (hint: it's quite a lot)
If I had to guess, I would say that it's just sloppy coding of the Dashboard feature. They can, should, and hopefully, will do better than this in some future version.
Real Memory Size: 25.62 MB
Virtual Memory Size: 160.12 MB
Shared Memory Size: 4.99 MB
Private Memory Size: 18.93 MB
Virtual Private Memory:: 47.16 MB
Actually, in my experience Widgets take a fair amount of memory. Each Widget seems to take around 150 Meg ov VM, and use several Megs of real memory. They also seem to leak real memory. This is after about four days:
Real Mem Virt Mem NAME
27.33 MB 159.59 MB Weather DashboardClient
11.51 MB 144.20 MB Stickies DashboardClient
10.85 MB 147.11 MB Oblique DashboardClient
9.13 MB 154.76 MB Unit Converter DashboardClient
9.11 MB 144.05 MB Calendar DashboardClient
8.79 MB 151.12 MB Dictionary DashboardClient
8.65 MB 144.61 MB World Clock DashboardClient
6.20 MB 126.45 MB Calculator DashboardClient
This adds up to about 90 Meg of real memory, and over a gig of virtual memory, for about eight widgets. Desk accessories the world over are hanging their head in shame.
No, Republlicans are more interested in business control of state.
Or, perhaps, a hostile takeover of government by business.
Apple makes too much money from hardware, and values the Microsoft relationship too much to go head to head on Windows hardware.
Well, living in the US we pretty much have to use BBC for news, don't we?
In the US most news sources seem to have devolved into adverganda, and faith-based reporting.
The movie has a little intro where it makes it clear that it's a single system with a lot of planets and moons.
The trailer and the rough cut are the same on this.
Well, strictly speaking, he doesn't pay any royalties at all.