but stopped at the first mention of the "file copy engine". If your OS is so complex that you need an "engine" - a dedicated software construct - for copying files, then... I guess this is the reason Vista must use so much space.
Maybe this 'file copy engine' is the bit that makes the flying paper animation?
Now thats complex and must use heaps of system resources. Especially on Vista. I mean the animation is probably real-time rendered 3d with all kinds of cool effects. Maybe even particle simulation on each molecule in the piece of flying paper.
In Dragonball, villains would come along and beat the snot out of Gokus friends.
Then Goku would show up and the villain would beat on Goku for a while.
Goku would often say something to the effect "You hurt my friends and you *tried* to hurt me..." as a prelude to beating the snot out of the villain.
The "*tried* to hurt me..." is important because they never actually *hurt* Goku as he is pretty well indestructible.
I recommend viewing;
Bardok, father of Goku Dragonball (not Dragonball Z) from the beginning Dragonball Z up to about the Android saga (thats when I really went off of it as it seemed to take itself more seriously then).
And please, don't start with the "Well they should have had a backup!" crap. Of course they should have, but they didn't. We live in a real world, not an ideal one, and tech support has to support the real one.
Duh
'not having backups' is not supportable. End of story.
If they don't have a backup then thats not 'a supported configuration'.
This is the real world, not an ideal one, and tech support can only realistically support that which *is* supportable.
busy working for the people of Iran by viewing oops *monitoring* all those dirty nasty porno sites to figure out which ones need to be blocked to save the morality of their nation...
Oh I don't know, how about a Rogue build with Murder?
There are talent builds that are just obviously good and obviously stupid. What Blizzard were thinking with Survival hunter I will never know. Sub rogue almost the same.
There are a few talent tree patterns that basically everyone follows with minor variations here and there.
And once you *have* the talent theres no way to improve how you apply it other than gear. You can't get *better* at the talent by using it. Only by getting gear that amplifies it.
As for gear, well it is the *only* way to change how good your toon is at fighting or casting spells or their stats.
A mage don't get better at casting fireball by casting fireballs at foes; they get better at it by *maybe* a one-off pick of a talent point or two and then by acquiring +fire dmg gear.
There are other game systems in which you can change those things through the experience your toon picks up, through the exercise and practice of skills and abilities.
Its a difference between their stats being based on something they *own* vs something they *are*.
The 4E rogue sounds like the typical MMO DPS-machine; the 3E rogue, I would argue, is more defined by his skills
Of course, in WoW, *any* character is primarily defined by the gear he has.
In this respect WoW reminds me more of 2nd Ed AD&D than anything else; theres little difference between to characters of the same race, class and level beyond their gear. Talent trees are a *tiny* aspect. Combat 'skill' level in WoW is insignificant.
Early on in AD&D, gear really was the *only* thing that differentiated one rogue (eg) from another; all their theifly skills would be identical. Choice of weapon proficiencies? That would even out by the time things got interesting. THAC0? Identical but for gear based bonuses. Stats? Identical to what they were when the character started.
What I'd like to see is an MMORPG in which one gets the sense of ones *character* developing; learning new skills, improving skills. The experiences ones character has shapes them.
In WoW about the only thing that shapes your character is what loot you have bought or picked up.
It is, in this regard, intensely materialistic. Way more so than any monty-haul dungeon campaign ever was.
You say: You need them to see the equation Improving the process = making it more efficient = people is more productive = we can produce more = we can make more money = we can give better bonuses.
See the difference?
Non-profit = being more productive does not make more money = no matter what you do there will be no bonus.
It was from my days of studying linguistics, a long time ago. If I recall correctly it was not uncommon in Melanesia for words to get dropped if they sounded like names of people who died. I could be mistaken though.
No, because Europe - Britain, at least - will be Islamic within a few generations. Have fun with Sharia, because it's a helluva lot worse than anything the Christian crazies could ever dream of.
For one thing, I'm not in Europe but it was hard to imagine where on earth was being suggested by the OP. Not east asia, certainly not middle east nor south america...
For another, I've known a lot of christians and I doubt strongly that sharia would necessarily be any worse than what 'christian crazies' could dream up. Believe me, they can dream pretty scary.
This isn't flamebait, merely an expression of one man's frustration from having to deal with the pathetic primitives that can't accept the fact that the world has evolved past the sillier forms of supernaturalism.
The world?
Outside of the USA which is rife with that form of silly supernaturalism called 'christianity', of course.
There are cultures wherein if someone dies then you arn't allowed to use their name anymore.
Not only that, but you arn't allowed to use words that *sound* like their name.
Such cultures have languages in which the lexicon changes very rapidly as people introduce new words all the time to replace sound-alikes.
Sometimes its not hard to see why languages and traditions become extinct as people realise that they don't really *have* to maintain this kind of rubbish (yes call me insensitive. But realistic).
"Oh noes, Mr. Tellingbone died! Have to come up with a new word for 'telephone'!!! Ooops Mrs Hemboyga died! Have to come up with a new word for 'hamburger'!!!"
This kind of thing just doesn't scale well beyond populations of a few hundred.
That might make it easier to chat with all the beautiful, but differently-languaged babes the world is so full of
I think I saw a documentary about a prototype for this... it translated anything you said to helpful phrases such as "Free mustache rides" and "Suck it, bitch, suck it dry".
While a tree-structure is algorithmically convenient and very enticing... the "tree of life" is not a tree.
Ie it is not a "directed, acyclic graph".
Unfortunately it has 'cycles'.
Blame retroviruses; they can take genetic material from one species and insert it into the genome of another thereby creating cross-branches.
As I recall, from my genetics days, baboon retroviruses are a great example of this. Again, IIRC, domestic cats and humans both contain fragments of baboon retroviruses.
Its possible that the "Cambrian explosion" is a sign of the appearance of retroviruses on the scene.
The thing is that it is significantly harder to reason about graphs; trees are so much easier to deal with.
So its very tempting to see things like this as trees and to 'simplify out' the nasty cross-branches.
(I've studied genetics, computer science, logic and discrete math)
Management was surprised to find that my estimates of several thousand dollars a month for leasing a dedicated fiber connection were, in fact, entirely accurate.
If theres one thing that management doesn't like, which horrifies them, which makes them stick their fingers in their ears and yell "LALALALALALA" its when the IT guy is proven right.
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Did the exploit work by itself?
I couldn't get the bare exploit code to compile.
The 'workaround' compiled and resulted in the oops. It did not get as far as showing whether the kernel was exploitable or not.
disable-vmsplice-if-exploitable causes kernel oops on Debian Etch with kernel 2.6.18-3-xen-686
but stopped at the first mention of the "file copy engine". If your OS is so complex that you need an "engine" - a dedicated software construct - for copying files, then... I guess this is the reason Vista must use so much space.
Maybe this 'file copy engine' is the bit that makes the flying paper animation?
Now thats complex and must use heaps of system resources. Especially on Vista. I mean the animation is probably real-time rendered 3d with all kinds of cool effects. Maybe even particle simulation on each molecule in the piece of flying paper.
No wonder it is so slow to copy a file.
In Dragonball, villains would come along and beat the snot out of Gokus friends.
Then Goku would show up and the villain would beat on Goku for a while.
Goku would often say something to the effect "You hurt my friends and you *tried* to hurt me..." as a prelude to beating the snot out of the villain.
The "*tried* to hurt me..." is important because they never actually *hurt* Goku as he is pretty well indestructible.
I recommend viewing;
Bardok, father of Goku
Dragonball (not Dragonball Z) from the beginning
Dragonball Z up to about the Android saga (thats when I really went off of it as it seemed to take itself more seriously then).
We faithful take our Prophet, the Super Saiyan known as Goku, very seriously.
And to quote our Prophet "You hurt my friends and you *tried* to hurt me."
And please, don't start with the "Well they should have had a backup!" crap. Of course they should have, but they didn't. We live in a real world, not an ideal one, and tech support has to support the real one.
Duh
'not having backups' is not supportable. End of story.
If they don't have a backup then thats not 'a supported configuration'.
This is the real world, not an ideal one, and tech support can only realistically support that which *is* supportable.
I really feel for those Mullahs...
busy working for the people of Iran by viewing oops *monitoring* all those dirty nasty porno sites to figure out which ones need to be blocked to save the morality of their nation...
Oh I don't know, how about a Rogue build with Murder?
There are talent builds that are just obviously good and obviously stupid. What Blizzard were thinking with Survival hunter I will never know. Sub rogue almost the same.
There are a few talent tree patterns that basically everyone follows with minor variations here and there.
And once you *have* the talent theres no way to improve how you apply it other than gear. You can't get *better* at the talent by using it. Only by getting gear that amplifies it.
As for gear, well it is the *only* way to change how good your toon is at fighting or casting spells or their stats.
A mage don't get better at casting fireball by casting fireballs at foes; they get better at it by *maybe* a one-off pick of a talent point or two and then by acquiring +fire dmg gear.
There are other game systems in which you can change those things through the experience your toon picks up, through the exercise and practice of skills and abilities.
Its a difference between their stats being based on something they *own* vs something they *are*.
WoW is intensely materialistic.
or The Morrow Project, are probably in the same league.
If I recall, Aftermath was by the same people as Morrow Project and more complex. Way more complex.
(I did have copies of and try to run both Morrow Project and Aftermath).
The 4E rogue sounds like the typical MMO DPS-machine; the 3E rogue, I would argue, is more defined by his skills
Of course, in WoW, *any* character is primarily defined by the gear he has.
In this respect WoW reminds me more of 2nd Ed AD&D than anything else; theres little difference between to characters of the same race, class and level beyond their gear. Talent trees are a *tiny* aspect. Combat 'skill' level in WoW is insignificant.
Early on in AD&D, gear really was the *only* thing that differentiated one rogue (eg) from another; all their theifly skills would be identical. Choice of weapon proficiencies? That would even out by the time things got interesting. THAC0? Identical but for gear based bonuses. Stats? Identical to what they were when the character started.
What I'd like to see is an MMORPG in which one gets the sense of ones *character* developing; learning new skills, improving skills. The experiences ones character has shapes them.
In WoW about the only thing that shapes your character is what loot you have bought or picked up.
It is, in this regard, intensely materialistic. Way more so than any monty-haul dungeon campaign ever was.
Personally I can't stand "crunchy" systems any more. Spending ten minutes figuring out how a basic combat scene gets sorted out is just crazy to me.
Ten minutes?
Thats *nothing*
Try Aftermath; half an hour to work out how much damage a single shot will do... You practically have to be a ballistics expert to run the game.
but like OS X on the desktop it has a few UI issues that make it frustrating
I think the phrase you are looking for is "inspired and retarded at the same time."
and the lack of viagra spam in my spambox this morning...
So I guess there will be lots of South African guys still pondering what they can do about their shamefully insignificant penii today?
What would we do without teh internets?
Let them keep pumping rounds into their foot, I say.
I think it was Napoleon who said "Never interrupt an enemy when they are making a mistake."
TFA says:
I have a nice new IT job with a non-profit.
You say:
You need them to see the equation Improving the process = making it more efficient = people is more productive = we can produce more = we can make more money = we can give better bonuses.
See the difference?
Non-profit = being more productive does not make more money = no matter what you do there will be no bonus.
It was from my days of studying linguistics, a long time ago. If I recall correctly it was not uncommon in Melanesia for words to get dropped if they sounded like names of people who died. I could be mistaken though.
No, because Europe - Britain, at least - will be Islamic within a few generations. Have fun with Sharia, because it's a helluva lot worse than anything the Christian crazies could ever dream of.
For one thing, I'm not in Europe but it was hard to imagine where on earth was being suggested by the OP. Not east asia, certainly not middle east nor south america...
For another, I've known a lot of christians and I doubt strongly that sharia would necessarily be any worse than what 'christian crazies' could dream up. Believe me, they can dream pretty scary.
This isn't flamebait, merely an expression of one man's frustration from having to deal with the pathetic primitives that can't accept the fact that the world has evolved past the sillier forms of supernaturalism.
The world?
Outside of the USA which is rife with that form of silly supernaturalism called 'christianity', of course.
You were referring mainly to Europe?
Thats nothing.
There are cultures wherein if someone dies then you arn't allowed to use their name anymore.
Not only that, but you arn't allowed to use words that *sound* like their name.
Such cultures have languages in which the lexicon changes very rapidly as people introduce new words all the time to replace sound-alikes.
Sometimes its not hard to see why languages and traditions become extinct as people realise that they don't really *have* to maintain this kind of rubbish (yes call me insensitive. But realistic).
"Oh noes, Mr. Tellingbone died! Have to come up with a new word for 'telephone'!!! Ooops Mrs Hemboyga died! Have to come up with a new word for 'hamburger'!!!"
This kind of thing just doesn't scale well beyond populations of a few hundred.
That might make it easier to chat with all the beautiful, but differently-languaged babes the world is so full of
I think I saw a documentary about a prototype for this... it translated anything you said to helpful phrases such as "Free mustache rides" and "Suck it, bitch, suck it dry".
and someone is getting his butt chewed by his supervisor. I used to work at Apple testing video stuff, so I know (I got my butt chewed a few times).
Stop! Please! You are making it sound like fun...
What we all have to realize though is that Apple has a target market, and despite what they say it isn't the "power user"
You are *kidding*, right?
I mean, in order to change things like, oh I don't know, the color of the 'gumdrop' buttons you have to hack the *kernel*.
How much more "power user targeted" can you possibly get??
Not just this.
Genetic material can be exchanged between without any reproductive connection.
Retroviruses can lift genetic material from one organism and insert it into the *germ* *line* DNA of another organism.
This genetic material is then replicated by the second organism in its descendants.
Two species can share genetic material which they did not inherit from a common ancestor.
While a tree-structure is algorithmically convenient and very enticing... the "tree of life" is not a tree.
Ie it is not a "directed, acyclic graph".
Unfortunately it has 'cycles'.
Blame retroviruses; they can take genetic material from one species and insert it into the genome of another thereby creating cross-branches.
As I recall, from my genetics days, baboon retroviruses are a great example of this. Again, IIRC, domestic cats and humans both contain fragments of baboon retroviruses.
Its possible that the "Cambrian explosion" is a sign of the appearance of retroviruses on the scene.
The thing is that it is significantly harder to reason about graphs; trees are so much easier to deal with.
So its very tempting to see things like this as trees and to 'simplify out' the nasty cross-branches.
(I've studied genetics, computer science, logic and discrete math)
Management was surprised to find that my estimates of several thousand dollars a month for leasing a dedicated fiber connection were, in fact, entirely accurate.
If theres one thing that management doesn't like, which horrifies them, which makes them stick their fingers in their ears and yell "LALALALALALA" its when the IT guy is proven right.