I would actually call that a feature. No more telemarketers!!!. In order for you to call me, I have to add you to my list. If I don't add you to my list, my phone doesn't work. Seems like a good idea to me.
I've seen them all over the place. It's easy to get one here, but I'm in Ottawa Canada. That seems to be the biggest problem to me, is distribution. There's places where you can go buy 5 right now, no problem, and there's places where you can look for weeks and never find a single one. This is the problem that needs to be solved, not simply producing more units.
What about a task manager extension for firefox that shows how much memory each extension is using? Seems like it could be useful. I mean, we know how much memory firefox in general is taking up, but it would be nice to get a breakdown of where that memory is going to.
Not raw like your camera raw, but raw uncompressed format. All those JPGs and GIFs and PNGs must be converted to raw or bitmap files to display them on the screen.
But Emacs doesn't display images (somebody will probably correct me on this). Just the cached copies of all the images can take up quite a bit of memory. And from what I remember, it has to basically uncompress them to bitmaps, and keeps those in memory, so that can eat up a lot of memory. Also, all the CSS, DOM, and other information that a text editor doesn't have to keep loaded all the time probably uses up a large amount of memory also. Not to mention plugins like flash and other things that probably use quite a bit of memory. A web browser isn't just something that displays text. If you want that, try Lynx, and you'll probably have a browser that uses very little memory. However, for those of us who want a graphical and eye-pleasing web experience, the browser is probably going to take quite a bit of memory for a long time to come.
Also, seems like a pretty crappy test to me, especially considering that most of the complaints with Firefox are with memory leaks, and not memory usage from opening a few pages. What happens after an entire work day of using the browser? Is there a significant difference in memory at that point? People who open their browser and look at 10 pages, then close it again will rarely ever have a problem with memory usage in Firefox. However, those of use who leave it open for days at a time, doing web development, and constantly looking at new pages are the ones who need to worry. It's like comparing the performance Visual Studio 2003 to Visual Studio 2005 on a project that only has 5 classes.
I've also started doing this for telephone numbers. Any number I don't recognize, I let the answering machine deal with it. If they don't leave a message, their call isn't important. Also, if you look up the number, just to make sure you didn't miss anything, then you can often find complaint sites when the number belongs to a telemarketer. I think just about every number I've ever looked up that didn't leave a message was a telemarketer.
That depends on where your telecommuting from, and where the office is they expect you to come to. If they are in the same city, there ma not be much of a problem. But if I'm telecommuting from Orlando, and the office is in Seattle, then the analogy is perfectly valid. It's up to the judge to decide if they are changing the job too much, and if the employees should receive any compensation.
Just because the US is sue-happy doesn't mean every lawsuit is unjustified. If my employer came up to me, and said, we're moving your job to Nunavut, if you don't want to move, too bad for you, then I'd probably want what is rightfully mine under laws dealing with firing without cause. Not millions of dollars, but the standard severance that is supposed to be given when they fire you. Otherwise, every employer would do this, and never have to worry about firing anybody for the wrong reasons.
Couldn't some sort of lawsuit be brought against them though. They can't just get rid of people by making huge changes to their jobs, and expecting them to leave. If that was the case, why not just change it so that they were required to work in some remote town in Alaska. I bet you that just about everyone would quit. I'm pretty sure you can't tell someone their job is moving, and that if they don't like it, they can just quit, and get no compensation. I'm sure the same could be said for switching a position from telecommuting to non-telecommuting.
Yes, some people do. I eat a lot, don't exercise that much, and I have never had a problem with my weight. Of course, there's other ways the body burns calories rather than just exercise. The brain consumes a lot of energy, so if you think more, then you will use more energy. On the other side of that, if you are really stressed out, and your mind is going 1000 miles a second, you will also lose a lot of energy. I also tend to be a very twitchy person. Always moving my hands or doing something. I'm rarely ever just sitting still. It drives my wife crazy, but I'm sure it burns quite a few calories. So, while you're right that calories in - calories burned = weight change, it goes a little deeper than that. Two people could eat the same thing, and do the same amount of exercise, and one would gain weight, and the other would lose.
A couple megabytes isn't a huge XML file. I'm talking about XML Files that are hundreds of megabytes large. Open an XML file that large, and the browser will use hundreds of megabytes. It's not something that would happen to most users on a regular basis, but I've done it before, and firefox doesn't like it.
I also find that my browsing experience is fast enough with Firefox. Sure it could be faster, but the speed it runs at doesn't seem to be a problem at all. Things that would improve my browsing experience would be a faster internet connection, not a faster browser, and I only need the faster internet connection for streaming video, or very graphic intense webpages. The things that I find slow on my computer are things like video encoding, but that's a much harder problem to solve.
I have the same experience. I figure it's either some rogue extension, or some weird webpages that people visit that actually lead their browser to consume gigabytes of RAM.
Maybe they need to realize when some pages that people make are taking up too much memory, or some extensions are using too much memory. If you go to a page that adds a couple new elements to the DOM every 3 seconds, and leave it on all night, you're going to end up with your browser consuming gigabytes of RAM. If you have a plugin which doesn't release it's memory, and keeps on asking for more, you're going to have a browser that takes up 2 GB of RAM. If you try to open up a huge XML file with your browser, then you're going to have a problem with the browser taking up lots of memory. Those are the only times I've ever seen my usage go above 200 MB. Under normal browsing conditions, even leaving Firefox open for weeks, I've never seen it go over 200 MB. When it does, it's because some rogue page keeps adding stuff to the DOM.
However, if I'm going to use Firefox without the extensions, then I might as well be using IE or Opera. Opera is fast, but without the extensions, isn't even close having as many features as Firefox. Extensions are what gives Firefox it's usefulness. Here's the extensions I use on a regular basis. Flashblock, Hackbar, IE View, Reload Every, Save As Image, Web Developer. That's what suits me. I'm sure everyone else who uses Firefox has their own list of extensions that they find useful, yet would be completely useless to me. Take away the extensions, and you've just taken away the whole point of running firefox.
True story. My brother-in-law lost hearing in one of his ears. He got a tooth infection which spread to his ear. He finally went to the emergency room when the pain was too much to bear. But he was a bit too late, his ear-drum exploded while the triage nurse was seeing him. Don't wait to go see a doctor. If you are in pain, there's probably something wrong with you. I had shingles. Anyone who has had shingles knows how much it hurts. I went to see a doctor in time to get it treated. According to the doctor, if you don't get it treated in time, the pain will never go away, and you'll be on pain killers for the rest of your life to deal with the pain.
Sounds kind of like when they changed the daylight savings time. They think that because we get a little bit more sunlight during the waking hours, that we'll save tons of resources. But they never thought of how much trouble all this changing of the clocks causes.
Why even have an admin account? On the Mac Mini we have at work, root was disabled by default. With many Linux boxes, you create a root password, but never login as root, and if you try, you will get dire warnings about how bad of an idea it is. Most Linux boxes rely on sudo to get most of the administrative actions done, with some being left to su root. There's no reason to even have an admin account that the user can log in to through the GUI. Take away the ability for users to log in as root, and you'll take away a lot of the problems.
I don't think it's an essential library either. I mean, I probably wouldn't install it on a server. Unless it was some kind of media server, but even then, the clients would be the one decoding the flac, and I'd probably want whatever was supposed to be in flac to already be encoded, lest I wanted to bring my server to its knees.
All I know of the Irish monetary system is what my neighbour told me. Something along the lines of, if you wanted a pound, you had to have X in coppers, or Y in silvers, where X did not equal Y, or any integer multiple of Y. I'm not sure if it was completely true, or if I'm remebering correctly, but I do remember that it was really messed up.
It's kind of like running winzip on your wav files. All the data is there, but it fits in a smaller space. Of course, they don't use winzip's compression algorithms because that's really bad at compressing audio. They have special algorithms that are much better at recognizing patterns in wav files. I'm not completely sure how it works, but that's my understanding of it, and the easiest I can explain it.
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I would actually call that a feature. No more telemarketers!!!. In order for you to call me, I have to add you to my list. If I don't add you to my list, my phone doesn't work. Seems like a good idea to me.
I've seen them all over the place. It's easy to get one here, but I'm in Ottawa Canada. That seems to be the biggest problem to me, is distribution. There's places where you can go buy 5 right now, no problem, and there's places where you can look for weeks and never find a single one. This is the problem that needs to be solved, not simply producing more units.
What about a task manager extension for firefox that shows how much memory each extension is using? Seems like it could be useful. I mean, we know how much memory firefox in general is taking up, but it would be nice to get a breakdown of where that memory is going to.
Not raw like your camera raw, but raw uncompressed format. All those JPGs and GIFs and PNGs must be converted to raw or bitmap files to display them on the screen.
But Emacs doesn't display images (somebody will probably correct me on this). Just the cached copies of all the images can take up quite a bit of memory. And from what I remember, it has to basically uncompress them to bitmaps, and keeps those in memory, so that can eat up a lot of memory. Also, all the CSS, DOM, and other information that a text editor doesn't have to keep loaded all the time probably uses up a large amount of memory also. Not to mention plugins like flash and other things that probably use quite a bit of memory. A web browser isn't just something that displays text. If you want that, try Lynx, and you'll probably have a browser that uses very little memory. However, for those of us who want a graphical and eye-pleasing web experience, the browser is probably going to take quite a bit of memory for a long time to come.
Also, seems like a pretty crappy test to me, especially considering that most of the complaints with Firefox are with memory leaks, and not memory usage from opening a few pages. What happens after an entire work day of using the browser? Is there a significant difference in memory at that point? People who open their browser and look at 10 pages, then close it again will rarely ever have a problem with memory usage in Firefox. However, those of use who leave it open for days at a time, doing web development, and constantly looking at new pages are the ones who need to worry. It's like comparing the performance Visual Studio 2003 to Visual Studio 2005 on a project that only has 5 classes.
I've also started doing this for telephone numbers. Any number I don't recognize, I let the answering machine deal with it. If they don't leave a message, their call isn't important. Also, if you look up the number, just to make sure you didn't miss anything, then you can often find complaint sites when the number belongs to a telemarketer. I think just about every number I've ever looked up that didn't leave a message was a telemarketer.
That depends on where your telecommuting from, and where the office is they expect you to come to. If they are in the same city, there ma not be much of a problem. But if I'm telecommuting from Orlando, and the office is in Seattle, then the analogy is perfectly valid. It's up to the judge to decide if they are changing the job too much, and if the employees should receive any compensation.
Just because the US is sue-happy doesn't mean every lawsuit is unjustified. If my employer came up to me, and said, we're moving your job to Nunavut, if you don't want to move, too bad for you, then I'd probably want what is rightfully mine under laws dealing with firing without cause. Not millions of dollars, but the standard severance that is supposed to be given when they fire you. Otherwise, every employer would do this, and never have to worry about firing anybody for the wrong reasons.
Couldn't some sort of lawsuit be brought against them though. They can't just get rid of people by making huge changes to their jobs, and expecting them to leave. If that was the case, why not just change it so that they were required to work in some remote town in Alaska. I bet you that just about everyone would quit. I'm pretty sure you can't tell someone their job is moving, and that if they don't like it, they can just quit, and get no compensation. I'm sure the same could be said for switching a position from telecommuting to non-telecommuting.
Yes, some people do. I eat a lot, don't exercise that much, and I have never had a problem with my weight. Of course, there's other ways the body burns calories rather than just exercise. The brain consumes a lot of energy, so if you think more, then you will use more energy. On the other side of that, if you are really stressed out, and your mind is going 1000 miles a second, you will also lose a lot of energy. I also tend to be a very twitchy person. Always moving my hands or doing something. I'm rarely ever just sitting still. It drives my wife crazy, but I'm sure it burns quite a few calories. So, while you're right that calories in - calories burned = weight change, it goes a little deeper than that. Two people could eat the same thing, and do the same amount of exercise, and one would gain weight, and the other would lose.
A couple megabytes isn't a huge XML file. I'm talking about XML Files that are hundreds of megabytes large. Open an XML file that large, and the browser will use hundreds of megabytes. It's not something that would happen to most users on a regular basis, but I've done it before, and firefox doesn't like it.
I also find that my browsing experience is fast enough with Firefox. Sure it could be faster, but the speed it runs at doesn't seem to be a problem at all. Things that would improve my browsing experience would be a faster internet connection, not a faster browser, and I only need the faster internet connection for streaming video, or very graphic intense webpages. The things that I find slow on my computer are things like video encoding, but that's a much harder problem to solve.
I have the same experience. I figure it's either some rogue extension, or some weird webpages that people visit that actually lead their browser to consume gigabytes of RAM.
Maybe they need to realize when some pages that people make are taking up too much memory, or some extensions are using too much memory. If you go to a page that adds a couple new elements to the DOM every 3 seconds, and leave it on all night, you're going to end up with your browser consuming gigabytes of RAM. If you have a plugin which doesn't release it's memory, and keeps on asking for more, you're going to have a browser that takes up 2 GB of RAM. If you try to open up a huge XML file with your browser, then you're going to have a problem with the browser taking up lots of memory. Those are the only times I've ever seen my usage go above 200 MB. Under normal browsing conditions, even leaving Firefox open for weeks, I've never seen it go over 200 MB. When it does, it's because some rogue page keeps adding stuff to the DOM.
However, if I'm going to use Firefox without the extensions, then I might as well be using IE or Opera. Opera is fast, but without the extensions, isn't even close having as many features as Firefox. Extensions are what gives Firefox it's usefulness. Here's the extensions I use on a regular basis. Flashblock, Hackbar, IE View, Reload Every, Save As Image, Web Developer. That's what suits me. I'm sure everyone else who uses Firefox has their own list of extensions that they find useful, yet would be completely useless to me. Take away the extensions, and you've just taken away the whole point of running firefox.
You've got to be fast to make first post. You must be using Firefox 3, beta 1.
Also less known is the fact that some men can lactate.
True story. My brother-in-law lost hearing in one of his ears. He got a tooth infection which spread to his ear. He finally went to the emergency room when the pain was too much to bear. But he was a bit too late, his ear-drum exploded while the triage nurse was seeing him. Don't wait to go see a doctor. If you are in pain, there's probably something wrong with you. I had shingles. Anyone who has had shingles knows how much it hurts. I went to see a doctor in time to get it treated. According to the doctor, if you don't get it treated in time, the pain will never go away, and you'll be on pain killers for the rest of your life to deal with the pain.
Sounds kind of like when they changed the daylight savings time. They think that because we get a little bit more sunlight during the waking hours, that we'll save tons of resources. But they never thought of how much trouble all this changing of the clocks causes.
Why even have an admin account? On the Mac Mini we have at work, root was disabled by default. With many Linux boxes, you create a root password, but never login as root, and if you try, you will get dire warnings about how bad of an idea it is. Most Linux boxes rely on sudo to get most of the administrative actions done, with some being left to su root. There's no reason to even have an admin account that the user can log in to through the GUI. Take away the ability for users to log in as root, and you'll take away a lot of the problems.
I don't think it's an essential library either. I mean, I probably wouldn't install it on a server. Unless it was some kind of media server, but even then, the clients would be the one decoding the flac, and I'd probably want whatever was supposed to be in flac to already be encoded, lest I wanted to bring my server to its knees.
How is that different from waking up at 7:00, having lunch at 12:00, and going to sleep at 10:00?
All I know of the Irish monetary system is what my neighbour told me. Something along the lines of, if you wanted a pound, you had to have X in coppers, or Y in silvers, where X did not equal Y, or any integer multiple of Y. I'm not sure if it was completely true, or if I'm remebering correctly, but I do remember that it was really messed up.
It's kind of like running winzip on your wav files. All the data is there, but it fits in a smaller space. Of course, they don't use winzip's compression algorithms because that's really bad at compressing audio. They have special algorithms that are much better at recognizing patterns in wav files. I'm not completely sure how it works, but that's my understanding of it, and the easiest I can explain it.