What if I want to selectively say DONT cache any APPs, but DO CACHE all data in C:\work_files\ or C:\src ???
For most things, I really dont care that it has to read it of a HD, its bloody fast enough that I dont care if it reads it in 120ms vs 800ms. And if future computers use faster and faster HDs, especially flash based "HDs" for their system C:\ drives, then all this prefetching is useless if the flash can load at 100MB/sec. Its getting now to the point that is probably worth putting windows onto a 4-8gig flash drive of some sort (CF), rather than USB. Maybe motherboards will come pre chipped with 8gig flash for the OS, no more HD needed, that would be bliss for silent systems, use a real HD only for media/games/big apps.
OT - how about firefox developers build a selective cache that has options like, cache all jpegs/gifs, or exclude blah websites, or always cache gifs 32kb permanently.
If used to its max, theres enough uranium to last 5 billion years, as quoted from an expert about it at roughly September in the FSN radio on www.financialsense.com
Build these god damn solar towers, basically they MAKE THE WIND , google it.
And a message to you environmentalists, especially greenpeace which is a front for coal (they stop all nuclear options in the 70s/80s) and the result? Doubling of coal usage.... bloody morons greenpeace are, they are Pro Coal, pollute the earth idiots with zero brains.
Google them, find out all the dirt and print it out, so when they mention your myspace page and say "whats up with the drunk girls" eh, you can pull out the print outs and say, "Your file is more dirty Mr, or we could just let this go under the table"
Both camps would cry foul if there is proof of that one, and if they do, they will keep it secret, Nights Of Templar and Free Masons anyone?
A god that treats us like play toys or pets is a joke... you have to be psychotic mentally insane to believe a muddled down and politically skewed bible that has missing items and misinterpreted items.
So either admit it, 100% evolution with zero interference by 3rd parties and zero god, or 100% fairy in the clouds ID.
Or a combination that is ID by ET changing DNA.
At least all the mistakes and inconsistencies can be attributed to ET's , rather than the perfect God. ET's can make mistakes, and their creations can back fire too.
gps + linux + multipath transmitter using UHF transponder uplink to satelite or downlink to ground receivers...
Surely its already been invented/designed/built, just send the plans to china to build 1 million of em and install em in all planes for free.
Just ask NORAD / NASA to 'clone' their current operations. I thought nasa can track every space junk and rock in orbit, and NSA can track all planes already, just upload that data to the airports.
Dude, and how much did every one pay for a vic20 then a c-64 which if the same hardware was put on a cell phone today would be less than $5 worth of IC, and still produce decent games at 320x240 res on a cell phone (someone make a 100% c64 phone with built in 500 games) Id love a thrust clone it was awesome. And impossiblemission games, as if java can do that in 32000 BYTES!. Let alone the main logo.jpg
6510 as bytecode might actually be faster than java;-) in a modern cpu/arm.
So its $1000 for a c-64, about in those days.. 1/10th of a salary, thats like paying $7,000 today for some hitech toy, we just dont have that these days. $400 is peanuts, but you have to like peanuts, not everyone does.
NOTE TOP SLASHDOT coders, seven dots in a row, is not a junk Character dudez, program some saner detectors, like if repeating dots are >5% of the message.Length()
Do we want time functions that constantly have to change... do we need a massive table/rules to work out long range time diffs?
Just as bad as time zones changing often, its going to really require people's code is correct, otherwise we have slight differences somewhere... even if it is small.
Thats the biggest problem with MS, too many dead end APIs or libraries or even whole components.
So instead of fixing said component and making it better, they just give up and start from scratch (usually with different people) call it a different name, make it work differently and sometimes worse, and also add a requirement that its only to work with NEW OS onwards. End result is with each new OS, theres more new libraries, and it has to keep the old ones to be compatible sometimes translating to new system apis, and perhaps breaking working apps. And, yes, their docs sometimes are poorly written.
All this makes learning stuff ongoing and short lived. There are probably more dead end end of cycle apis than new ones. The old ones often arent that bad, its just that because they are old they are not maintained or updated to link in with new components. Its a hodgepodge of mixed libs/apis.
The question long term is do you grow the system APIs or the 'application linked' apis. Some parts of windows which really are just like an application are wrong to be part of windows.
And if MS makes some wrong GUI designs or incomplete looking apps, they never get updated, just left to be crap, because if they did updated it, it would make countless manuals training books obselete. And then it goes back in a circle to the first problem, they wont fix it in the current OS so they pass it off to the next OS group.
It was bad enough that EU prices are high (not as bad evil MS charging same numerical numbers but in euros)
Do these corporates really think consumers are not aware that Dollar ratios have made some goods virtually 40%+ more profitable.
US corps love it that way, they can make 2 to 3x more profit from overseas sales at prices that would not sell in usa. Its a nice way to make more bucks for zero effort, with zero increased sales.
It might be over kill, but transfering mail from your local folder to an imap folder, then out again is the safest. You would think they would use the same internal conversion moethodoly to do it properly, ie export to mail format, then reimport again as if its imap over file IO.
But really, we dont need Tbird, since every linux geek has a linux box and mailserver, why not just keep all mail in your local mail server, and get a decent gmail lookalike web mail program on the linux box, then view all mail via firefox/whatever!!
when looking for hotel booking agents in asia, and I did book as well since they were cheap and no taxes, where as a direct hotel booking incurred their local GST + 'service tax' of 10%.
Its all good to document the bugs, but will the product manager approve the fixing of such bugs, if his personal stats on number of bugs found/fixed is high, and he loses his xmas bonus. He might just reclassify it as a 'low priority' low impact bug and put it on the bottom of the other 500000 bugs.
Just like IE6, MS has recognized lots of bugs, some simple that would take one line of code fix, but would NOT DO IT, because they had top orders to do security ONLY fixes.
Sometimes you gota just say, "screw you management", we are fixing any bug that is quicker/shorter to fix than it takes time to sip a coffee.
Dudes, in Sony OZ, the US dollar is not at.52 cents.
If your stupid execs made a bulk purchase of 100000 units at 72cents, then you guys should be FIRED!!
Any one in the finance industry would tell you the dollar is falling, expect 82-86 average rates.
I know your real secret Sony Australia, you are protecting your 'buddies' in the HIFI world from not killing their BluRay player market.
If every BR player is $1200+ and ps3 is sitting there for $699, they would scream murder!
So Sony..... why is it you can sell a ps3 in Singapore for $799 ($640AU) but cannot drag your self to sell the same package here for us people.
Is it because Singapore has better anticompetive rules, and because its harder to rip people of there where its easier to grey import?
It surely isnt the shipping costs since they are marginal of 20tonne containers, and dont tell me its tax, because 10% GST vs 4% in Singapore is hardly a 40% difference.
Why is it IPODS can be sold in AU with in 15% US prices (though they should drop, Apple, since each new shipment is raking in you more profits if sold in the same AU$)
Yes, java i see is great for 1000s of bussiness apps where you havent hit it big with 10m clients +.
I cannot see the backend of google ever going java.
But each tech to his own, and not all solutions are 10m+ client jobs. The number one thing thats important is total cost of job, which includes a lot of time for programming, and if that programming is shorter the better, up until a point where it wont scale and you either need a 100000 server farm, or go to C/C++. (a true C++ expert can write safe/fast/easy to read code too). Just as in C++ code and java, you dont have to use every feature of the language every 5 lines. In most cases, you don't even need 90% of the features. Anything too complex and tricky is just not readable or debuggable. Stick to simple seperated logic. Any component requiring really complex language usage should be written well enough to be readable/scalable.
Now OT, all we need now is intel to provide a JVM/byte converter in the CPU.
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Just go under water, im sure 10ft of water will stop the beam
or perhaps tonnes of smoke 500ft high should help, but your reaction time will probably be too slow and you will fry.
What if I want to selectively say DONT cache any APPs, but DO CACHE all data in C:\work_files\ or C:\src ???
For most things, I really dont care that it has to read it of a HD, its bloody fast enough that I dont care if it reads it in 120ms vs 800ms.
And if future computers use faster and faster HDs, especially flash based "HDs" for their system C:\ drives, then all this prefetching is useless if the flash
can load at 100MB/sec. Its getting now to the point that is probably worth putting windows onto a 4-8gig flash drive of some sort (CF), rather than USB.
Maybe motherboards will come pre chipped with 8gig flash for the OS, no more HD needed, that would be bliss for silent systems, use a real HD only for media/games/big apps.
OT - how about firefox developers build a selective cache that has options like, cache all jpegs/gifs, or exclude blah websites, or always cache gifs 32kb permanently.
If used to its max, theres enough uranium to last 5 billion years, as quoted from an expert about it at roughly September in the FSN radio on www.financialsense.com
Build these god damn solar towers, basically they MAKE THE WIND , google it.
And a message to you environmentalists, especially greenpeace which is a front for coal (they stop all nuclear options in the 70s/80s) and the result?
Doubling of coal usage.... bloody morons greenpeace are, they are Pro Coal, pollute the earth idiots with zero brains.
Google them, find out all the dirt and print it out, so when they mention your myspace page and say "whats up with the drunk girls" eh, you can pull
out the print outs and say, "Your file is more dirty Mr, or we could just let this go under the table"
What we need is a way to export your massive profile as one big XML file.
That way moving to new systems would not need to re-enter all the damn info all over again.
Both camps would cry foul if there is proof of that one, and if they do, they will keep it secret, Nights Of Templar and Free Masons anyone?
A god that treats us like play toys or pets is a joke... you have to be psychotic mentally insane to believe a muddled down and politically skewed bible that has missing items and misinterpreted items.
So either admit it, 100% evolution with zero interference by 3rd parties and zero god, or 100% fairy in the clouds ID.
Or a combination that is ID by ET changing DNA.
At least all the mistakes and inconsistencies can be attributed to ET's , rather than the perfect God. ET's can make mistakes, and their creations can back fire too.
yeah I'll bash it because I CANNOT use it because MS is too lazy to make enough to sell in all english nations.
Give me the source to the firmware, Ide make it better to sell 2x in sales.
Screw DRM & control, make it like a PC in the 80s, 100% open arch.
Gee, whats it gonna cost...
gps + linux + multipath transmitter using UHF transponder uplink to satelite or downlink to ground receivers...
Surely its already been invented/designed/built, just send the plans to china to build 1 million of em and install em in all planes for free.
Just ask NORAD / NASA to 'clone' their current operations. I thought nasa can track every space junk and rock in orbit, and NSA can track all planes already, just
upload that data to the airports.
Dude, and how much did every one pay for a vic20 then a c-64 which if the same hardware was put on a cell phone today
;-) in a modern cpu/arm.
would be less than $5 worth of IC, and still produce decent games at 320x240 res on a cell phone (someone make a 100% c64 phone with built in 500 games)
Id love a thrust clone it was awesome. And impossiblemission games, as if java can do that in 32000 BYTES!. Let alone the main logo.jpg
6510 as bytecode might actually be faster than java
So its $1000 for a c-64, about in those days.. 1/10th of a salary, thats like paying $7,000 today for some hitech toy, we just dont have that
these days. $400 is peanuts, but you have to like peanuts, not everyone does.
NOTE TOP SLASHDOT coders, seven dots in a row, is not a junk Character dudez, program some saner detectors, like if repeating dots are >5% of the message.Length()
Do we want time functions that constantly have to change... do we need a massive table/rules to work out long range time diffs?
Just as bad as time zones changing often, its going to really require people's code is correct, otherwise we have slight differences somewhere... even if it is small.
That cannot be done, canada at japans request cannot say, "ok we delete you from canada" it cannot be done.
Japan might not recognize you canadian passport, but canada still will.
I may be wrong, but when I checked Italy, they said that they will never remove you from being an italian unless you committed war crimes.
Thats the biggest problem with MS, too many dead end APIs or libraries or even whole components.
So instead of fixing said component and making it better, they just give up and start from scratch (usually with different people) call it a different name, make it work differently and sometimes
worse, and also add a requirement that its only to work with NEW OS onwards. End result is with each new OS, theres more new libraries, and it has to keep the old ones to be compatible sometimes
translating to new system apis, and perhaps breaking working apps. And, yes, their docs sometimes are poorly written.
All this makes learning stuff ongoing and short lived. There are probably more dead end end of cycle apis than new ones. The old ones often arent that bad, its just that because they are old
they are not maintained or updated to link in with new components. Its a hodgepodge of mixed libs/apis.
The question long term is do you grow the system APIs or the 'application linked' apis. Some parts of windows which really are just like an application are wrong to be part of windows.
And if MS makes some wrong GUI designs or incomplete looking apps, they never get updated, just left to be crap, because if they did updated it, it would make countless manuals training books obselete. And
then it goes back in a circle to the first problem, they wont fix it in the current OS so they pass it off to the next OS group.
Dude, all your goodies cost less than 5% of your taxes, the rest 35%+ goes direct to the suits that run the banks!
ie, your still paying for WW1 and WW2.
Now check inflation from 1913....
Russian bases belonga to Kazakhstan, the greatest kuntry on a Earth.
Hi Five.
Yakshi Mash.
Take 3 concurrent shots with 3 diff exposures, mix it smartly back on earth, you will see all dark areas aswell as stars.
It was bad enough that EU prices are high (not as bad evil MS charging same numerical numbers but in euros)
Do these corporates really think consumers are not aware that Dollar ratios have made some goods virtually 40%+ more profitable.
US corps love it that way, they can make 2 to 3x more profit from overseas sales at prices that would not sell in usa. Its a nice way to make more bucks for zero effort, with zero increased sales.
Read Freakonomics, they author says it was the increase/legalization of abortion which made a generation of wanted people that did less crime.
Correlations are proven.
There, is that so hard???
Open two mail accounts, drag/drop between them. tsk tsk, how can you miss such an easy choice.
I used to use this method 7+ years ago.
It might be over kill, but transfering mail from your local folder to an imap folder, then out again is the safest. You would think they would use the same
internal conversion moethodoly to do it properly, ie export to mail format, then reimport again as if its imap over file IO.
But really, we dont need Tbird, since every linux geek has a linux box and mailserver, why not just keep all mail in your local mail server, and get
a decent gmail lookalike web mail program on the linux box, then view all mail via firefox/whatever!!
Any gmail clones for OSS servers?
when looking for hotel booking agents in asia, and I did book as well since they were cheap and no taxes, where as a direct hotel booking incurred their local GST + 'service tax' of 10%.
Listen MS, just tell your managers to get a clue.
Change your software to let anyone use an external HD/Usb Flash as the Xboxs main HD to allow downloads/saves etc... full access as per
internal HD.
You know its easy, stop trying to make money of a stupid HD addon pack, make money of GOOD GAMES.
Oh, get some new managers, not in suits.
The Wii lets their customers use an external SD card for all downloads etc.... are you listening MS????
Its all good to document the bugs, but will the product manager approve the fixing of such bugs, if his personal stats on number of bugs
found/fixed is high, and he loses his xmas bonus. He might just reclassify it as a 'low priority' low impact bug and put it on the bottom of the other
500000 bugs.
Just like IE6, MS has recognized lots of bugs, some simple that would take one line of code fix, but would NOT DO IT, because they had
top orders to do security ONLY fixes.
Sometimes you gota just say, "screw you management", we are fixing any bug that is quicker/shorter to fix than it takes time to sip a coffee.
Dudes, in Sony OZ, the US dollar is not at .52 cents.
If your stupid execs made a bulk purchase of 100000 units at 72cents, then you guys should be FIRED!!
Any one in the finance industry would tell you the dollar is falling, expect 82-86 average rates.
I know your real secret Sony Australia, you are protecting your 'buddies' in the HIFI world from not killing their BluRay player market.
If every BR player is $1200+ and ps3 is sitting there for $699, they would scream murder!
So Sony..... why is it you can sell a ps3 in Singapore for $799 ($640AU) but cannot drag your self to sell the same package here for us people.
Is it because Singapore has better anticompetive rules, and because its harder to rip people of there where its easier to grey import?
It surely isnt the shipping costs since they are marginal of 20tonne containers, and dont tell me its tax, because 10% GST vs 4% in Singapore is hardly a 40% difference.
Why is it IPODS can be sold in AU with in 15% US prices (though they should drop, Apple, since each new shipment is raking in you more profits if sold in the same AU$)
Yes, java i see is great for 1000s of bussiness apps where you havent hit it big with 10m clients +.
I cannot see the backend of google ever going java.
But each tech to his own, and not all solutions are 10m+ client jobs. The number one thing thats important is total cost of job, which includes
a lot of time for programming, and if that programming is shorter the better, up until a point where it wont scale and you either need a 100000 server farm, or
go to C/C++. (a true C++ expert can write safe/fast/easy to read code too). Just as in C++ code and java, you dont have to use every feature of the language every 5 lines.
In most cases, you don't even need 90% of the features. Anything too complex and tricky is just not readable or debuggable. Stick to simple seperated logic. Any component requiring
really complex language usage should be written well enough to be readable/scalable.
Now OT, all we need now is intel to provide a JVM/byte converter in the CPU.