Re:Funny you should say that - a story about sprin
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ACK! If 70% of your time is spent in a serialization function call, FORGET about optimizing the function call.... You are WAY too fine grained in your algorithm for effective parallelization. He's have been better off running the whole damn thing serially on a single box methinks. His fancy grid algorithm spent more time doing "grid" stuff than working on his problem!
Actually, the actually DLL that handles memory management in the kernal is different.. The reg setting is just a hint to the OS, but doesn't retarget the entire memory algorithm.
There is a primary drawback though. The memory management strategy is different between the desktop and server editions of Windows (actually, tha't probably the only difference outside of packaged applications) so if you are using server for heavy local GUI work you will probably see decreased performance over XP. It would be better to use XP on the desktop and turn off all those things such as Messenger and XP theme.
as far as win-win goes, check out the proportion of wealth in this country. notice the 1% with 80% of the wealth! that is not changing when we fund mega corporations with tax dollars.
So what?!? The other 99% has the highest standard of living on the planet. 99% of the richest population on the planet jealously bitching that there is a 1% that is richer than them is what is truely disgusting.
I agree... the *WEB* should be simple.. a stateless markup protocol was never designed for applications.
But the fact that there is NO application protocol for the internet is a travesty. Someone please write an open standard application protocol so streaming apps can be run smoothly. Really, with all the cycles spent trying to adapt HTML into a streaming app couldn't someone just make a protocol designed for it in the first place so we could url to app://slashdot.org/texteditor and run an app?!?
I agree that eliminating swap is the best option... but when you ARE swapping is IMHO when that extra 2 or 3 factor matters most. I'd rather have my main drive 1/2 the speed than my swap because during normal operation I experience very little annoyance at drive speed... but during swap, even a 15% increase in speed is very welcome.
Depends on the speed of the IDE drive... This discussion is missing the point that Temp and Swap should also be on a very fast drive. If the IDE is a slow drive and/or slow bus you're definately better getting a life.
I make more than the employees. Enough more that I can buy all the benefits they have and still have more left over. I am immune from company politics. I can always hide behind the "I don't work here" shield. I can leave anytime I want and come right back on good terms. I can switch positions, or entire departments with ease, so my job is varied and interesting. My networking is very strong, being in the contract industry, so I can change entire companies with ease... I am not tied to MS for an income and am not worried about losing my MS job. In my opinion I have more security than FT employees. All this and the tradeoff is I can't use the company gym... bid F. deal.
It used to be much better than this... I USED to be able to work year round, taking a break whenever I want, but since the crappy lawsuit I have a manditory 90 days off work every year... YEAH... That lawsuit sure did alot of "protecting" of me. What it did is put money into the pockets of some lawyers and make everyone involved jump through some more hoops of additional regulation.
These people signed up for a good deal, with many benefits and a fw tradeoffs. Now they want to get the best of both worlds post-fact... the extra money and flexibility of contract work combined with the few bennies of FT work.. an option that the employer NEVER offered ANYONE because it's too freaking expensive to make that offer. In the end, a bunch of attorneys will pat themselves on the back and both sides will complain about how bad they got screwed.
Totally. I have been primarily contract through the dotcom boom and bust and am presently. I have had a couple permanent positions throughout that time also. The differences?
1) I get paid more to be a contractor. 2) I get fewer benefits 3) I make enough in cash to go out and buy those same benefits and still ahve more money. 4) I just don't deal with politics. When stuff hits the fan I go to my dumb guns and say "huh? I'm just a contractor." 5) I have a much more varied and interesting job variety. 6) I have just as much job security as permanent. Probably moreso because my network being a contractor is much wider and I can jump jobs at the drop of a hat. 7) I can pretty much take time off whenever I want... I just finish off a project and don't get another for a bit. This has allowed me to do outside projects, take extended vacations and even start a side company.
Contracting has been very good to me. Sure, I'm treated pretty much just like an employee at my host company, and I prefer it that way... until the politics start, then I make it very clear I don't work there.
Have you noticed the boost unit testing library sucking up ALL your ram if you put too many tests in one file? I had a 300 line C++ file using the test framework and it took my machine 4 hours to compile (dual P4 2.2Ghz 512M RAM)... insane. Breaking up the files into small tests and one test per file worked to speed it up as it wasn't tromping RAM all at once, but I was wondering what others experience was.
In my experience, screw the makefiles and use GNU automake/autoconf. These force you into a best practice and get rid of the complexity of maintaining makefiles in the first place.
You are building a strawman to refute the point. Of course no one is going to directly attack the US government with handguns. Of course that is silly.
The purpose of the armed populace is as a deterrent. The government cannot suppress the population by force without armed conflict. Armed conflict causes dissent amongst the military, splitting it and leading to greater conflicts and eventually overthrowing the government by it's own military since militia siding with the oppressive government face hostile evironments even without direct conflict whereas the populaces militia is supplied and reinforced at every turn. Because this is such a stupid position for a government to get itself into, it would never do so as long as the populace remains armed. So the point of ownership is not to fight the US military head to head, but to ensure you never have to.
If you want a look at a true modern regime change, look at the fall of the Soviet Union. They do happen successfully with or without rutebegas.
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I believe good old TP cheated and was compiling while you typed or something. I have never seen a compiler approach the speed of good old TP, either on modern machines or old school.
Re:The Problem With XML
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I think that I shall never smell A standard worse than XML. A standard I am loath to use Though offered parsers to abuse; The designers couldn't pass a class, CS201 can kiss their ass; A structure no one can traverse pre and post order routes are cursed; What are it's types you cannot tell; Though it promised self referential. Standards are assigned by committee, But any fool can make a tree.
++i is clearer than i++ even. A bit of a pet peeve of mine.
I see something like: i++; and I think "why did he generate a temporary? Is there a side effect to the constructor? What's going on behind the covers? This isn't an issue in c, but in c++ where operator overloading of ++ is common, if your not going to use the temporary, DON'T GENERATE IT. even if the compiler will optimize it away, it is clearer to the reader to see that a temporary is explicitly not needed.
*IF* a bunch of people wanted to go live in a totalitarian state of their own free will, then yes, I would support that. The freedom to give up freedoms is an important freedom itself.
I have no guilty concience over locking my front door at night. Sure, that constricts your freedom to be able to walk into my bedroom while I sleep, and I *could* make it a public place where all are welcome, but I don't, for reasons of my own, that I don't need to explain because it's MY bedroom, and I feel no guilt for restricting your freedom in that way.
The same for software. I write some for the public good under OS licence, and some proprietary under commercial licence. I have reasons for doing both and I can because I am allowed dominion over my own intellectual creations, and THAT is a greater freedom to me in some cases than your freedom to do whatever you please with my stuff.
Carter was very against the Electorial college actually, until the staticians laid out for him how it really worked. There is a great article on it in an old (80's) scientific american.
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ACK! If 70% of your time is spent in a serialization function call, FORGET about optimizing the function call.... You are WAY too fine grained in your algorithm for effective parallelization. He's have been better off running the whole damn thing serially on a single box methinks. His fancy grid algorithm spent more time doing "grid" stuff than working on his problem!
I'm not going to comment on Red Hat, but 15 minutes for WinXP gold is very generous.
My last XP Sp1 install I left the net cable in (not gold, mind you, but sp1). The box was completely infected before the install completed.
no he didn't
Actually, the actually DLL that handles memory management in the kernal is different.. The reg setting is just a hint to the OS, but doesn't retarget the entire memory algorithm.
There is a primary drawback though. The memory management strategy is different between the desktop and server editions of Windows (actually, tha't probably the only difference outside of packaged applications) so if you are using server for heavy local GUI work you will probably see decreased performance over XP. It would be better to use XP on the desktop and turn off all those things such as Messenger and XP theme.
So what?!? The other 99% has the highest standard of living on the planet. 99% of the richest population on the planet jealously bitching that there is a 1% that is richer than them is what is truely disgusting.
I agree... the *WEB* should be simple.. a stateless markup protocol was never designed for applications.
But the fact that there is NO application protocol for the internet is a travesty. Someone please write an open standard application protocol so streaming apps can be run smoothly. Really, with all the cycles spent trying to adapt HTML into a streaming app couldn't someone just make a protocol designed for it in the first place so we could url to app://slashdot.org/texteditor and run an app?!?
I agree that eliminating swap is the best option... but when you ARE swapping is IMHO when that extra 2 or 3 factor matters most. I'd rather have my main drive 1/2 the speed than my swap because during normal operation I experience very little annoyance at drive speed... but during swap, even a 15% increase in speed is very welcome.
Depends on the speed of the IDE drive... This discussion is missing the point that Temp and Swap should also be on a very fast drive. If the IDE is a slow drive and/or slow bus you're definately better getting a life.
Hey. I'm a contractor at Microsoft.
I make more than the employees.
Enough more that I can buy all the benefits they have and still have more left over.
I am immune from company politics. I can always hide behind the "I don't work here" shield.
I can leave anytime I want and come right back on good terms.
I can switch positions, or entire departments with ease, so my job is varied and interesting.
My networking is very strong, being in the contract industry, so I can change entire companies with ease... I am not tied to MS for an income and am not worried about losing my MS job. In my opinion I have more security than FT employees.
All this and the tradeoff is I can't use the company gym... bid F. deal.
It used to be much better than this... I USED to be able to work year round, taking a break whenever I want, but since the crappy lawsuit I have a manditory 90 days off work every year... YEAH... That lawsuit sure did alot of "protecting" of me. What it did is put money into the pockets of some lawyers and make everyone involved jump through some more hoops of additional regulation.
These people signed up for a good deal, with many benefits and a fw tradeoffs. Now they want to get the best of both worlds post-fact... the extra money and flexibility of contract work combined with the few bennies of FT work.. an option that the employer NEVER offered ANYONE because it's too freaking expensive to make that offer. In the end, a bunch of attorneys will pat themselves on the back and both sides will complain about how bad they got screwed.
Totally. I have been primarily contract through the dotcom boom and bust and am presently. I have had a couple permanent positions throughout that time also. The differences?
1) I get paid more to be a contractor.
2) I get fewer benefits
3) I make enough in cash to go out and buy those same benefits and still ahve more money.
4) I just don't deal with politics. When stuff hits the fan I go to my dumb guns and say "huh? I'm just a contractor."
5) I have a much more varied and interesting job variety.
6) I have just as much job security as permanent. Probably moreso because my network being a contractor is much wider and I can jump jobs at the drop of a hat.
7) I can pretty much take time off whenever I want... I just finish off a project and don't get another for a bit. This has allowed me to do outside projects, take extended vacations and even start a side company.
Contracting has been very good to me. Sure, I'm treated pretty much just like an employee at my host company, and I prefer it that way... until the politics start, then I make it very clear I don't work there.
Have you noticed the boost unit testing library sucking up ALL your ram if you put too many tests in one file? I had a 300 line C++ file using the test framework and it took my machine 4 hours to compile (dual P4 2.2Ghz 512M RAM)... insane. Breaking up the files into small tests and one test per file worked to speed it up as it wasn't tromping RAM all at once, but I was wondering what others experience was.
In my experience, screw the makefiles and use GNU automake/autoconf. These force you into a best practice and get rid of the complexity of maintaining makefiles in the first place.
You are building a strawman to refute the point. Of course no one is going to directly attack the US government with handguns. Of course that is silly.
The purpose of the armed populace is as a deterrent. The government cannot suppress the population by force without armed conflict. Armed conflict causes dissent amongst the military, splitting it and leading to greater conflicts and eventually overthrowing the government by it's own military since militia siding with the oppressive government face hostile evironments even without direct conflict whereas the populaces militia is supplied and reinforced at every turn. Because this is such a stupid position for a government to get itself into, it would never do so as long as the populace remains armed. So the point of ownership is not to fight the US military head to head, but to ensure you never have to.
If you want a look at a true modern regime change, look at the fall of the Soviet Union. They do happen successfully with or without rutebegas.
I believe good old TP cheated and was compiling while you typed or something. I have never seen a compiler approach the speed of good old TP, either on modern machines or old school.
I think that I shall never smell
A standard worse than XML.
A standard I am loath to use
Though offered parsers to abuse;
The designers couldn't pass a class,
CS201 can kiss their ass;
A structure no one can traverse
pre and post order routes are cursed;
What are it's types you cannot tell;
Though it promised self referential.
Standards are assigned by committee,
But any fool can make a tree.
++i is clearer than i++ even. A bit of a pet peeve of mine.
I see something like:
i++;
and I think "why did he generate a temporary? Is there a side effect to the constructor? What's going on behind the covers? This isn't an issue in c, but in c++ where operator overloading of ++ is common, if your not going to use the temporary, DON'T GENERATE IT. even if the compiler will optimize it away, it is clearer to the reader to see that a temporary is explicitly not needed.
*IF* a bunch of people wanted to go live in a totalitarian state of their own free will, then yes, I would support that. The freedom to give up freedoms is an important freedom itself.
I have no guilty concience over locking my front door at night. Sure, that constricts your freedom to be able to walk into my bedroom while I sleep, and I *could* make it a public place where all are welcome, but I don't, for reasons of my own, that I don't need to explain because it's MY bedroom, and I feel no guilt for restricting your freedom in that way.
The same for software. I write some for the public good under OS licence, and some proprietary under commercial licence. I have reasons for doing both and I can because I am allowed dominion over my own intellectual creations, and THAT is a greater freedom to me in some cases than your freedom to do whatever you please with my stuff.
Non Coward here. Sql Server Team Bldg 35 representing!
Running Firefox.
I use Firefox for all my browsing except intranet sites, as many of the intranet sites use really weird IE only stuff that firefox chokes on.
Shouldn't that be, "In Soviet Russia, Koreans are older than YOU!" ??
The Intel 8085 ran at 3 mhz.
The Intel 8080 ran at 2, 2.6 and 3 mhz.
The XT was the 8088, a bastardization of the much better 8086, and it did run at 4.77 mhz initially
Only in Hibbian networks (which are unreasonably simplified.) I'm guessing they use a pleasure/pain model with this one.
Carter was very against the Electorial college actually, until the staticians laid out for him how it really worked. There is a great article on it in an old (80's) scientific american.
you rock
Yea. In fact, install IE 6 or so, then go get iexplore.exe from IE 3 or so. It will still run, and be a really funky hybrid.