It lets the system deal with spare cycles without a special case. Add it as the lowest priority and it will always be in the runnable queue (or running). You don't have to do something special in the scheduler function like if(there are no runnable processes) do nothing for a while and try again }.
Granted, but you do have to admin that there are substantial improvements to Vista. (Setting users to run not as admin is itself a substantial improvement, albeit one that should have been done a while ago.) Also, Vista is the first Windows version to have had more than a small part of its development cycle under the new security procedures Gates announced a number of years back. (Maybe with the exception of 2003, but even with that, there's little comparison with Vista.)
I certainly understand the distrust, and don't really fault you for it, but there is reason to not be entirely pessimistic with this one.
Agreed. I've seen more Linux crashes in my office in the last two days then I have of XP on my home computer in a couple months. Two hard kernel lockups, one GDM crash that I couldn't fix myself because it required root. (The universite CS dept. doesn't give us root of course.) I had a particularily nasty explorer lockup a couple days ago for which I had to log out and back in (which took about 10 minutes because it was gulping down every cycle it could get its hands on), but that's the only reboot recently I can think of besides maintenance ones.
I love Linux, I really do, but it can be way more unstable than Windows if things aren't set up right.
Penn State uses MIPS, I think Cornell uses MIPS (at least the musical I read based off of their org course seemed to indicate so, at least from the hardware point of view), I'm pretty sure Wisconsin uses MIPS. Heck, the aforementioned CPU simulator (SPIM) came out of U. Wisconsin. And those are the only three places I have any inkling about.
I do know that PSU *used* to teach SPARC in a standalone assembly course, but that was later combined with the org class and at that point changed to MIPS.
(BTW, an addendum to my original post, I know that there are plenty of SGI machines around, so "narrowly-deployed" is probably too harsh. That said, the only time I've run any MIPS code we wrote in that class was on SPIM.)
Conan O'Brien, the late-night comedic genius who entertained millions of viewers in the acclaimed "Late Night with Conan O'Brien," died yesterday of natural causes. He would have turned 40 in less than six months.
Conan Christopher O'Brien was born April 18, 1963 to Thomas and Ruth O'Brien in Brookline, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston.
You know, it would help if you would at least make the effort to update your troll to the right year. Might seem more plausable.
True, but also remember the axiom that "the plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data'"... to draw valid conclusions there need to be a lot of controls in place for your sample to make sure it's fair. And going around to technology reviews on the web isn't a good control. "Dewey Defeats Truman" anyone?
Now, I'm not saying that the conclusions are false; the fact that this is a RC that a MS spokesman said things will change from by release certainly lends cred. to the discussion. But you can't JUST look at this and say "Vista sucks."
the notary (who refuses to comment at this time:-) claims that he knew the seller and that the owner showed phot id - a drivers licnese. In other words, the notary screwed up, since there was no drivers license and he didn't know the seller.
A) Don't even start to claim that his remaining silent is a possible indication of guilt, and B) What about a fake ID?
Did you set the options in Firefox that disable caching of back pages? It by default stores (I think) prerendered pages (or at least a representation a lot closer to a rendered page than the HTML) in RAM so if you hit back it can come up nearly instantly. Before I turned that off, I'd have to restart Firefox every couple days because it would start to eat up so much RAM. The processes tab in task manager would tell me that it would routinely use several hundred megs. I have a post in my LiveJournal where I complain that it was using 700 MB.
Heck, even with that option turned off, it says the mem usage is at 210MB now. That's with 17 tabs in three windows open.
Well, again, that depends; if your usage patterns don't cause enough memory use to justify swapping, and you're just creating a swap partition for the emergency where some program decides to break, then it hardly matters if your swap drives are slow, because they are never accessed.
Well, there's a system-wide log at Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Event Viewer...
(Whether that has what you're looking for, I dunno. But then again, if an app doesn't leave something there, it probably doesn't log anything on Unix either.)
In your situation, I'd get a pack anyway and give them a shot. If they work, great. If not, then you still have them for your bathroom lights. (Or, worst case, you blew a few dollars.)
Like I can see a 60 Hz flicker... if you put a monitor in front of me with a refresh rate that slow I'll get a headache pretty quick. If I look at the screen just out of the corner of my eye, I can even faintly detect the flicker at 75 Hz. Yet no matter what I do, I can't see a flicker in the light produced by the CFL I have sitting in a lamp a few feet away...
are a bit dimmer than their stated wattage equivalent standard bulbs
Yeah, I found that too. I currently have a supposed-100 watt equivalent going, but I'd say it's more like 60.
take a bit of time to warm up
I haven't found that though, at least with some. Like I have seen ones that take a while to come on (like the more pipe-like flourencent lights), but the ones I've used come on essentially instantly. (And I don't notice any change in light quality as they've been on.)
I saw a monster of a bulb just yesterday at the hardware store... threeway equivalent 50-100-150 watt. I almost bought it, but it was $15...
I've heard of "Measure of a Man" used in an ai class or something similar.
(For those unfamiliar, this was an episode early on in the series. Some random character at a space station wanted to disassemble Data to study him. After talking with this dude, Data decided that he hadn't the proper background knowledge to be able to reassemble him when he was done, so refused to undergo the procedure. The guy got an admiral to order Data from the Enterprise to go with him for the experiments, so Data resigned Starfleet. Starfleet responded by claiming that Data was its property and didn't have the right to resign, so Data went to a trial/hearing type thing so that a judge could decide. Picard argued that Data had the right to resign, and Riker was ordered to take the opposite side. (They didn't have any actual lawyers at this space station, so the top-ranking officials acted, though Riker against his will.) The episode was essentially about what constitutes life.)
UPS tracking "numbers" use letters too, otherwise I'd agree with you. So unless your phone has a keyboard with it... (cell phones' abuse of the numeric pad notwithstanding)
Agreed. I even had UPS understand an entire tracking number that I read out without making any particular attempt to enunciate. The only problems I faced during this were just finding my way around the menu in general (figuring out what to do if you know a package is being shipped to an incorrect address is NOT fun) and feeling stupid talking out loud.
The MIT Lockpicking Guide has three occurances of the word "bump", and none are talking about bumping. In addition, nothing I saw in it (before or now) talks about bumping in another name.
Picking and bumping are totally different animals. Lockpicking requires a couple weeks of steady practice to be able to break reasonably strong locks (like those that appear on a house) reliably, and I don't know how much more to be able to pick them reliably and quickly*. (Remember, you don't want to be standing on someone's porch for five minutes trying to pick the lock. Better to just break a window. It'll attract less attention.)
Bumping by contrast, if the information I've seen about it is to be believed, takes essentially no practice and reliably opens locks in about the same time you can with a key. Totally different animal.
* I never got to that point. I practiced for about two weeks and got to the point where I could: almost always pick a modified deadbolt (I removed a pin) in about 30 seconds; usually pick an unmodified, cheap deadbolt after several minutes of trying (though one attempt I got very lucky and opened it in under a minute); pick one specific three-pin padlock in about 10 seconds; rarely pick a four-pin padlock. I had yet to crack a five-pin padlock. These skills are probably not yet at the level where I could go up to a random house and break in even given plenty of time, and FAR from the point where I could do it quick enough that I would consider that it would be a reasonable entry method.
I'm curious what they're using now; if it's still a cylindrical lock, how is it less prone to the pen trick?
Cylinder locks aren't necessarily the kind that they were using; most non-combination locks are cylinder locks. Mine is just a standard pin tumbler, same as most keyed padlocks, and same lock-wise as almost all house locks.
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It lets the system deal with spare cycles without a special case. Add it as the lowest priority and it will always be in the runnable queue (or running). You don't have to do something special in the scheduler function like if(there are no runnable processes) do nothing for a while and try again }.
The ISS was meant to be finished LONG ago, but politics, things like iraq, and budget cuts all got in the way
Don't forget Columbia's disintegration and the subsequent shuttle program delays. That probably cost a couple years.
Playing old DOS games that require direct HW access.
Because that's what you bought your new Core 2 Duo for, isn't it?
Does your DVD player get infected by random porn movies?
No, but can you tell me how I might configure it so that it does?
Granted, but you do have to admin that there are substantial improvements to Vista. (Setting users to run not as admin is itself a substantial improvement, albeit one that should have been done a while ago.) Also, Vista is the first Windows version to have had more than a small part of its development cycle under the new security procedures Gates announced a number of years back. (Maybe with the exception of 2003, but even with that, there's little comparison with Vista.)
I certainly understand the distrust, and don't really fault you for it, but there is reason to not be entirely pessimistic with this one.
Agreed. I've seen more Linux crashes in my office in the last two days then I have of XP on my home computer in a couple months. Two hard kernel lockups, one GDM crash that I couldn't fix myself because it required root. (The universite CS dept. doesn't give us root of course.) I had a particularily nasty explorer lockup a couple days ago for which I had to log out and back in (which took about 10 minutes because it was gulping down every cycle it could get its hands on), but that's the only reboot recently I can think of besides maintenance ones.
I love Linux, I really do, but it can be way more unstable than Windows if things aren't set up right.
Penn State uses MIPS, I think Cornell uses MIPS (at least the musical I read based off of their org course seemed to indicate so, at least from the hardware point of view), I'm pretty sure Wisconsin uses MIPS. Heck, the aforementioned CPU simulator (SPIM) came out of U. Wisconsin. And those are the only three places I have any inkling about.
I do know that PSU *used* to teach SPARC in a standalone assembly course, but that was later combined with the org class and at that point changed to MIPS.
(BTW, an addendum to my original post, I know that there are plenty of SGI machines around, so "narrowly-deployed" is probably too harsh. That said, the only time I've run any MIPS code we wrote in that class was on SPIM.)
Now what narrowly-deployed architecture for which everyone runs a CPU simulator will be taught in computer organization and assembly language classes?
Conan O'Brien, the late-night comedic genius who entertained millions of viewers in the acclaimed "Late Night with Conan O'Brien," died yesterday of natural causes. He would have turned 40 in less than six months.
Conan Christopher O'Brien was born April 18, 1963 to Thomas and Ruth O'Brien in Brookline, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston.
You know, it would help if you would at least make the effort to update your troll to the right year. Might seem more plausable.
True, but also remember the axiom that "the plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data'"... to draw valid conclusions there need to be a lot of controls in place for your sample to make sure it's fair. And going around to technology reviews on the web isn't a good control. "Dewey Defeats Truman" anyone?
Now, I'm not saying that the conclusions are false; the fact that this is a RC that a MS spokesman said things will change from by release certainly lends cred. to the discussion. But you can't JUST look at this and say "Vista sucks."
the notary (who refuses to comment at this time :-) claims that he knew the seller and that the owner showed phot id - a drivers licnese. In other words, the notary screwed up, since there was no drivers license and he didn't know the seller.
A) Don't even start to claim that his remaining silent is a possible indication of guilt, and
B) What about a fake ID?
Um, did you notice the "the java web interface" phrase?
This right off the bat means that he was probably on ANOTHER computer from which he could administer them, not that the systems themselves were on it.
Did you set the options in Firefox that disable caching of back pages? It by default stores (I think) prerendered pages (or at least a representation a lot closer to a rendered page than the HTML) in RAM so if you hit back it can come up nearly instantly. Before I turned that off, I'd have to restart Firefox every couple days because it would start to eat up so much RAM. The processes tab in task manager would tell me that it would routinely use several hundred megs. I have a post in my LiveJournal where I complain that it was using 700 MB.
Heck, even with that option turned off, it says the mem usage is at 210MB now. That's with 17 tabs in three windows open.
Well, again, that depends; if your usage patterns don't cause enough memory use to justify swapping, and you're just creating a swap partition for the emergency where some program decides to break, then it hardly matters if your swap drives are slow, because they are never accessed.
Where's the log on this alleged operating system?
Well, there's a system-wide log at Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Event Viewer...
(Whether that has what you're looking for, I dunno. But then again, if an app doesn't leave something there, it probably doesn't log anything on Unix either.)
In your situation, I'd get a pack anyway and give them a shot. If they work, great. If not, then you still have them for your bathroom lights. (Or, worst case, you blew a few dollars.)
Can you actually tell though?
Like I can see a 60 Hz flicker... if you put a monitor in front of me with a refresh rate that slow I'll get a headache pretty quick. If I look at the screen just out of the corner of my eye, I can even faintly detect the flicker at 75 Hz. Yet no matter what I do, I can't see a flicker in the light produced by the CFL I have sitting in a lamp a few feet away...
are a bit dimmer than their stated wattage equivalent standard bulbs
Yeah, I found that too. I currently have a supposed-100 watt equivalent going, but I'd say it's more like 60.
take a bit of time to warm up
I haven't found that though, at least with some. Like I have seen ones that take a while to come on (like the more pipe-like flourencent lights), but the ones I've used come on essentially instantly. (And I don't notice any change in light quality as they've been on.)
I saw a monster of a bulb just yesterday at the hardware store... threeway equivalent 50-100-150 watt. I almost bought it, but it was $15...
I've heard of "Measure of a Man" used in an ai class or something similar.
(For those unfamiliar, this was an episode early on in the series. Some random character at a space station wanted to disassemble Data to study him. After talking with this dude, Data decided that he hadn't the proper background knowledge to be able to reassemble him when he was done, so refused to undergo the procedure. The guy got an admiral to order Data from the Enterprise to go with him for the experiments, so Data resigned Starfleet. Starfleet responded by claiming that Data was its property and didn't have the right to resign, so Data went to a trial/hearing type thing so that a judge could decide. Picard argued that Data had the right to resign, and Riker was ordered to take the opposite side. (They didn't have any actual lawyers at this space station, so the top-ranking officials acted, though Riker against his will.) The episode was essentially about what constitutes life.)
UPS tracking "numbers" use letters too, otherwise I'd agree with you. So unless your phone has a keyboard with it... (cell phones' abuse of the numeric pad notwithstanding)
Of course it's not! It's a very early April fool's day story.
Sheesh... get it right next time.
Agreed. I even had UPS understand an entire tracking number that I read out without making any particular attempt to enunciate. The only problems I faced during this were just finding my way around the menu in general (figuring out what to do if you know a package is being shipped to an incorrect address is NOT fun) and feeling stupid talking out loud.
The MIT Lockpicking Guide has three occurances of the word "bump", and none are talking about bumping. In addition, nothing I saw in it (before or now) talks about bumping in another name.
Picking and bumping are totally different animals. Lockpicking requires a couple weeks of steady practice to be able to break reasonably strong locks (like those that appear on a house) reliably, and I don't know how much more to be able to pick them reliably and quickly*. (Remember, you don't want to be standing on someone's porch for five minutes trying to pick the lock. Better to just break a window. It'll attract less attention.)
Bumping by contrast, if the information I've seen about it is to be believed, takes essentially no practice and reliably opens locks in about the same time you can with a key. Totally different animal.
* I never got to that point. I practiced for about two weeks and got to the point where I could: almost always pick a modified deadbolt (I removed a pin) in about 30 seconds; usually pick an unmodified, cheap deadbolt after several minutes of trying (though one attempt I got very lucky and opened it in under a minute); pick one specific three-pin padlock in about 10 seconds; rarely pick a four-pin padlock. I had yet to crack a five-pin padlock. These skills are probably not yet at the level where I could go up to a random house and break in even given plenty of time, and FAR from the point where I could do it quick enough that I would consider that it would be a reasonable entry method.
I'm curious what they're using now; if it's still a cylindrical lock, how is it less prone to the pen trick?
Cylinder locks aren't necessarily the kind that they were using; most non-combination locks are cylinder locks. Mine is just a standard pin tumbler, same as most keyed padlocks, and same lock-wise as almost all house locks.