ad 1) assume there's 2GB RAM. Photoshop starts first. Photoshop acquired 1GB of RAM. Firefox sees 1GB free, allocates 0.5GB. Photoshop sees there's only 0.5GB free, frees 256MB out of its allocation and Firefox, seeing there's another 250MB free, grabs most of it. Both have roughly 750MB allocated, with 0.5GB free. Add a third program and both will scale back, freeing some RAM for it, for a fair share.
ad 2) mmap either returns an address outside actual available memory space, not acquiring any real memory (O_SYNC) , or actually allocates quite a chunk of the memory to pre-cache the file content for random access, which then is in use, and is reported as such.
Not really - as the later program grabs a major chunk of the RAM left available, the earlier one sees there's less RAM and frees up some, so the later one can scale up again. So after a while they will split the RAM between each other taking a fair share each, leaving some available and if another one is loaded, the share of unused RAM shrinks again and both deallocate more to allow the third one to acquire more.
The question about "when done" is the tricky one.
ask the user "Do you plan to go back to this page any time soon, or can I unload the pre-render already?" Or "Will you be using that tab with the huge document frequently and searching the contents at random, or will you just slowly read from the top, so that I can pre-render only the topmost part?"
This is all heuristics: grab more RAM and the user gets a better performance experience, as more things are cached in more "cooked", readily available form. You can render everything every time it enters the view area, or you can keep that all pre-rendered and just load up the image.
Firefox doesn't try to conserve memory when it's not required. If there's 2GB free, it will acquire 1GB from it without any qualms, and use it to store a lot of pages including history pre-rendered for very fast switching. If the system starts running short on RAM, Firefox will scale back, flush and free the mem caches and behave more reasonably memory-wise (albeit slower).
Stil, some standarization efforts still succeed. Blu-ray (yes, the battle with HD-DVD was not pretty), various computer interface and networking standards, the web, many more. And even though the beginnings may be painful, it will likely work in the end. Besides, you've got to standarize on a 12V plug in an arbitrary shaped (but standarized) box. It isn't nearly as hard as USB 3.0. And even the incompatible ones aren't utterly left out in the cold - they are still left with (slow) charging stations. (and besides, one could likely modify any older car to accept modern "trays" instead of the built-in batteries, just like about every modern car can be modified to run on LPG.
Got diesel? No, Superdiesel? No, bio-superdiesel for turbo engines.
Somehow they managed to standarize on exactly two incompatible kinds of fuel in multiple fully interchangeable variations, but I believe early cars rode on a wide variety that wasn't nearly as interchangeable. Also, fuel type is a result of very tricky distillation and mixing process. Battery shape is just putting it into an agreed upon case.
While most would survive up to 3 pounds, I believe a considerable percentage of the population would die after much less. The defensive reaction can easily lead to major swelling of any affected areas for quite a number of people. This would include throat and lead to suffocation.
Sounds an awful lot like media damage control to me. Downplaying the scale of the failure and misinforming the public once the full scale has became known and the utter mind-boggling disaster it was has became apparent. So far it was "We've got an embarassing problems", and now it became "If the press learns of the full scale, heads will fall like rain."
You mean Germany is not the country that got the new Wolfenstein game censored of all the nazi references? You mean it isn't where most Anime shows on TV get cut up without care about plot-essential elements, to remove all controversial content? You mean it wasn't Germany where the police set up hundreds of fake TOR nodes to catch people using it by monitoring the activity?
Oh, or maybe you just didn't catch the deadly irony of the situation, where the monster hunter becomes one of the monsters...?
Nope, that doesn't work that way. The citizens are strictly forbidden to perform any "suspicious activity" - violent games, underage cartoon porn, depiction of svastikas no matter what context and so on. German laws are exceptionally hard there. The government uses an and all means to control the citizens and stop them from doing any of that. The police is deadly efficient, ruthless and merciless fighting all the thoughtcrime so that no new Hitler would ever arise from the nation to overthrow the government and control the minds of the people...
So what about someone abusing magnetic crane to move construction materials? We're not talking about regular operation, just "corner cutting" and the likes. Say, a bunch of beams sold as scrap from a bankrupt developer, halfway from scrapyard to iron works get redirected to a construction site, to be used as actual construction elements - because wow, so cheap!
I bet magnetic crane abuse. A crane with strong electromagnet instead of hook is normally used to transport beams and other heavy elements between storage and cargo, but the duration is not enough to magnetize the beams. But if the operator decided to "have some fun" and waved the electromagnet above the beams in one direction several times, or otherwise abused the process - say, moving the "head" over the same bundle of beams multiple times on return trip after loading a bundle on a trach and going back for another, they could have become magnetized.
Goddamnit, be creative! Set up a netbook or portable DVD player or something like that, with autoplay of motherless.com set to a choice of channels like gore, scat, vomit, elderly porn etc, placing it just in focus of the camera.
Just a few days ago there was a story about a government agent sued for breaching state secret by posting a link to classified materials that were already posted on Wikileaks.
Patents aside, optical drives use ultra-precise elements, blue light laser that is capable of picking data 0.0003 millimeters apart, 400,000,000 times per second.
It's not like once the few competing firms fix price at $20, a garage competitor is gonna jump in and offer their blu-ray drives at $15, coming ahead of the price-fixing cartel.
Free market requires the law of big numbers to work. Say, one in 100 competitors decides to break out of a price fixing scheme, gets desperate and sells at a lower price.
Statistically, among 100,000 competitors who make shoes there will be 1000 rogue ones who oppose price fixing by others, come ahead of the rest in pricing, attract most customers and force others to drop their prices, for profit of the customer.
But here we don't have 100,000 competitors who make shoes. We have 10 competitors who make a highly specialized equipment. So statistically, there will be 0,1 rogue competitors who would break out of the price fixing agreement... which means none. Too few specimens for the law of big numbers to work, and free market fails. And no, deregulating the market won't suddenly create another 100 companies capable of manufacturing blue light laser that is capable of picking data 0.0003 millimeters apart, 400,000,000 times per second.
Employment is a contract between employer and employee, and violation of terms of the contract bears repercussions for the violating side, whichever it is. It's up to the court to enforce compensation for violation of the contract if the violator refuses to do so willingly.
Imagine: You're to be paid after a month of work, and you work hard, but at the end of the month you're told you won't be paid after all. Now you are free to go work somewhere else if you don't like it. Is that okay in your opinion?
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ad 1) assume there's 2GB RAM. Photoshop starts first.
Photoshop acquired 1GB of RAM. Firefox sees 1GB free, allocates 0.5GB. Photoshop sees there's only 0.5GB free, frees 256MB out of its allocation and Firefox, seeing there's another 250MB free, grabs most of it. Both have roughly 750MB allocated, with 0.5GB free. Add a third program and both will scale back, freeing some RAM for it, for a fair share.
ad 2) mmap either returns an address outside actual available memory space, not acquiring any real memory (O_SYNC) , or actually allocates quite a chunk of the memory to pre-cache the file content for random access, which then is in use, and is reported as such.
Not really - as the later program grabs a major chunk of the RAM left available, the earlier one sees there's less RAM and frees up some, so the later one can scale up again. So after a while they will split the RAM between each other taking a fair share each, leaving some available and if another one is loaded, the share of unused RAM shrinks again and both deallocate more to allow the third one to acquire more.
The question about "when done" is the tricky one.
ask the user "Do you plan to go back to this page any time soon, or can I unload the pre-render already?" Or "Will you be using that tab with the huge document frequently and searching the contents at random, or will you just slowly read from the top, so that I can pre-render only the topmost part?"
This is all heuristics: grab more RAM and the user gets a better performance experience, as more things are cached in more "cooked", readily available form. You can render everything every time it enters the view area, or you can keep that all pre-rendered and just load up the image.
Firefox doesn't try to conserve memory when it's not required. If there's 2GB free, it will acquire 1GB from it without any qualms, and use it to store a lot of pages including history pre-rendered for very fast switching. If the system starts running short on RAM, Firefox will scale back, flush and free the mem caches and behave more reasonably memory-wise (albeit slower).
Stil, some standarization efforts still succeed. Blu-ray (yes, the battle with HD-DVD was not pretty), various computer interface and networking standards, the web, many more. And even though the beginnings may be painful, it will likely work in the end. Besides, you've got to standarize on a 12V plug in an arbitrary shaped (but standarized) box. It isn't nearly as hard as USB 3.0. And even the incompatible ones aren't utterly left out in the cold - they are still left with (slow) charging stations. (and besides, one could likely modify any older car to accept modern "trays" instead of the built-in batteries, just like about every modern car can be modified to run on LPG.
You mean they never mix up some shit with the fuel to sell more and gain extra profit nowadays?
Okay, let me just seek overly expensive tires for my model of car, unavailable and not interchangeable with other models.
...with dispensers similar to current fuel distributors? I mean, the infrastructure wouldn't be -that- much harder to make.
Got diesel? No, Superdiesel? No, bio-superdiesel for turbo engines.
Somehow they managed to standarize on exactly two incompatible kinds of fuel in multiple fully interchangeable variations, but I believe early cars rode on a wide variety that wasn't nearly as interchangeable. Also, fuel type is a result of very tricky distillation and mixing process. Battery shape is just putting it into an agreed upon case.
While most would survive up to 3 pounds, I believe a considerable percentage of the population would die after much less.
The defensive reaction can easily lead to major swelling of any affected areas for quite a number of people. This would include throat and lead to suffocation.
I don't watch Anime, like most Germans, so it's not that great a deal.
First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.
Continue to praise the Fuehrer. Love the Vaterland and despise these who point out its flaws.
History likes to repeat itself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfenstein_3D#Controversy
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoSwastikas
Sounds an awful lot like media damage control to me. Downplaying the scale of the failure and misinforming the public once the full scale has became known and the utter mind-boggling disaster it was has became apparent. So far it was "We've got an embarassing problems", and now it became "If the press learns of the full scale, heads will fall like rain."
You mean Germany is not the country that got the new Wolfenstein game censored of all the nazi references?
You mean it isn't where most Anime shows on TV get cut up without care about plot-essential elements, to remove all controversial content?
You mean it wasn't Germany where the police set up hundreds of fake TOR nodes to catch people using it by monitoring the activity?
Oh, or maybe you just didn't catch the deadly irony of the situation, where the monster hunter becomes one of the monsters...?
Nope, that doesn't work that way.
The citizens are strictly forbidden to perform any "suspicious activity" - violent games, underage cartoon porn, depiction of svastikas no matter what context and so on. German laws are exceptionally hard there.
The government uses an and all means to control the citizens and stop them from doing any of that. The police is deadly efficient, ruthless and merciless fighting all the thoughtcrime so that no new Hitler would ever arise from the nation to overthrow the government and control the minds of the people...
Affecting spacing is a boon, as length of text may suggest the content.
So what about someone abusing magnetic crane to move construction materials? We're not talking about regular operation, just "corner cutting" and the likes. Say, a bunch of beams sold as scrap from a bankrupt developer, halfway from scrapyard to iron works get redirected to a construction site, to be used as actual construction elements - because wow, so cheap!
I bet magnetic crane abuse. A crane with strong electromagnet instead of hook is normally used to transport beams and other heavy elements between storage and cargo, but the duration is not enough to magnetize the beams. But if the operator decided to "have some fun" and waved the electromagnet above the beams in one direction several times, or otherwise abused the process - say, moving the "head" over the same bundle of beams multiple times on return trip after loading a bundle on a trach and going back for another, they could have become magnetized.
>So if you are not invited, how do you know your in the beta?
Apply+first come first serve,
Raffle+announcing the numbers
Competition/quiz
Goddamnit, be creative! Set up a netbook or portable DVD player or something like that, with autoplay of motherless.com set to a choice of channels like gore, scat, vomit, elderly porn etc, placing it just in focus of the camera.
Just a few days ago there was a story about a government agent sued for breaching state secret by posting a link to classified materials that were already posted on Wikileaks.
He gave:
- download size (albeit wrong)
- beta participation lengths, dates and habits concerning giving them out
- beta access method (timed password)
- method of participation (invited)
- in-game task system (classic: quests)
Can't happen if there's 100 or more of them. But one... can be dealt with.
How does that apply here?
Patents aside, optical drives use ultra-precise elements, blue light laser that is capable of picking data 0.0003 millimeters apart, 400,000,000 times per second.
It's not like once the few competing firms fix price at $20, a garage competitor is gonna jump in and offer their blu-ray drives at $15, coming ahead of the price-fixing cartel.
Free market requires the law of big numbers to work. Say, one in 100 competitors decides to break out of a price fixing scheme, gets desperate and sells at a lower price.
Statistically, among 100,000 competitors who make shoes there will be 1000 rogue ones who oppose price fixing by others, come ahead of the rest in pricing, attract most customers and force others to drop their prices, for profit of the customer.
But here we don't have 100,000 competitors who make shoes. We have 10 competitors who make a highly specialized equipment. So statistically, there will be 0,1 rogue competitors who would break out of the price fixing agreement... which means none. Too few specimens for the law of big numbers to work, and free market fails. And no, deregulating the market won't suddenly create another 100 companies capable of manufacturing blue light laser that is capable of picking data 0.0003 millimeters apart, 400,000,000 times per second.
Employment is a contract between employer and employee, and violation of terms of the contract bears repercussions for the violating side, whichever it is. It's up to the court to enforce compensation for violation of the contract if the violator refuses to do so willingly.
Imagine: You're to be paid after a month of work, and you work hard, but at the end of the month you're told you won't be paid after all. Now you are free to go work somewhere else if you don't like it. Is that okay in your opinion?
it's called "the brown rocket"...