My main connection is from behind a firewall (hardware which I have no control of) but have the same experience on my alternate connection - direct to my ISP who place no restrictions on traffic. Also limit my upstream to 80% of max to prevent saturation, but no avail.:(
Perhaps my 'taste' in torrents means a high volume of newbs join but never finish or get enough to make a significant contribution, thus drain. Perhaps my 'style' of torrents are sourced on a saturated connection preventing efficient allocation. That is the only thing I can think of, so long as there is no hack in BT (which I have searched for and not found).
Something I've never understood about BT... the system should be proofed against leeches (more or less) and should offer good transfer rate, but after over a year using BT I rarely see it peak at more than 10kBps and usually upload at 200%+ before completion (not that I care much as throughput on my connection is liberal). I'm on a 50kBps connection (equal up and down) with good general ping and the torrents are always well seeded and peered. This is not a mirage of my mind either - I've kept a record over the past 6 months of bandwidth with analysis via Packetsniffer.
Something is fishy. I don't know or understand what. By contrast Kazaa can often max out my connection, and does my network of choice, WinMX (which has an awesome upgrade in the wings). Yet all I see is raving about BT.
COuld someone explain what is wrong???!!!! ANyone else have a similar experience????
...of my experience of a Mac. Luckily I took it back within 21 days... read on...
I was sitting at my freelance gig in front of a Mac (a 8600/300 w/64 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempted to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape would not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My 386DX20 with 2 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.
Mac addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
Yes, and if you look at my own reply to my post, you will see I corrected myself.
What, this reply:
Re:Putting USB flash drives... (Score:1)
by biz0r (656300) on Thursday June 03, @05:15PM (#9327349)
(http://biz0r.biz/)
Or rather maybe I should read the thing first...raid 0 flash? Ok maybe a bit geeky, I guess... But my point still stands...
Where you say your point still stands... what point would that be, would it be It's geeky to want to have redundancy and retain data? or would it be Putting all of your eggs in one basket (so to speak) is rarely, if ever, a Good Thing..
One second, I'm knocking on the front entrance of an upper middle-class home in a respectable eastern Porn Valley `burb, the next second, as I step inside, I'm confronted mere inches away with the demonically-energized sight of Melanie Jagger anally fisting Audrey Hollander as Otto Braun gets ready to pop.
Ah, another Skeeter Kerkove love story, this one entitled Sodomy: Law of the Land, for Metro's newish hardcore imprint, Fusxion.
"Anal fisting," Skeeter pontificates, as he tends to do, "the essence of true romance."
"Cum in her [Hollander's] ass," he directs Braun. "She'll fart it out into your [Jagger's] mouth."
Braun blows his "cock snot" (a big thank you to the inimitable Jim Powers, manning the camera, for expanding my porn vocabulary. - Ed. ) straight into Hollander's heinie hole, she loudly felches it out, and Jagger hungrily laps it up like she's just fallen off the wagon.
"Yum," she says in between gulps, scooping more of the stuff out with her fingers, lickin' em clean, then, for desert, fisting her own ass.
"Now you see why sodomy is the law of the land," Skeeter pronounces into the camera with authority.
A bit later, I witness an equally debauched scene in which former Penthouse Pet Venus, one big-time super-whore (even my jaw dropped at her maelstrom of depraved energy, which is saying something), pulls a double "A" train care of Mark Wood and Benjamin Bratt, loudly exclaiming, "Oh my fucking God."
"Excellent," Skeeter says, "Now let's fill her up with love juice."
The boys squirt in her gaping crapper, she digs it out with her PVC-gloved hand, sucks it dry, then slurps the rest of the spent man muck up off the rug.
I agree, a basic-type language would be great. Forget complicating things with a GUI or objects, for just getting the hang of stepping through, procedures and loops Java or Pascal would be great. Set her up a basic template (so she just has to do the coding), let her loose for a while and get more advanced with objects or user-actioned procedures (move into Delphi, a bit more with Java or VB). Tell her to move through with an interpreter and see the actions. Will get the hang in no time.
Everything I've looked at so far seems too complicated (Scheme, Python, VB) I am interested why you think this because these languages don't have to be at all complicated.
But having to upgrade the kernel to use a new driver is allright? Why should drivers come with the kernel anyway?
Errr... they don't. You just have to add in the driver. You don't even have to add it to the kernel to use it, and if you do choose to add it you don't even have to restart.
I want to start by agreeing with many other slashdot posters - You came to the wrong place in general to ask questions about medical health and/or mental health.
That said, I am a not a doctor, yet. (I'm also finishing my PhD in Clinical Psychology) I've worked on a locked inpatient unit with people who have had schizophrenia, and in an outpatient community clinic with a variety of people. So here is my starting advice: You may want to investigate The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, for further information regarding support groups for mental illness, and make sure that you get supported while you go through this process of learning and working with family and relatives who have a serious mental illness.
The bad news is: There is not a cure for schizophrenia. The good news is: It's a chronic illness that can be treated using medication (Some people understand better if they draw comparisons to diabetes, or other chronic physical illnesses). The bad news again is: Medications are still in need of improvement, because a lot of side effects (weight gain, lowered energy and libido) can certainly drive a person away from treatment. The best things that you can do are to provide a stable and caring environment for your relative, encourage them to stay on their medication (even when they're doing well).
For others of you interested, the "usual" symptoms of schizophrenia are hallucinations (a person sees or hears things that other people do not, usually hearing voices, but it can be anything), delusions (a person believes something illogical or bizarre, like they are under surveillance of the police), and disorganized thinking or behavior. Medications help mostly with the hallucinations, and sometimes with a persons mood; new medications can also help clear their thinking. Psychotherapy with schizophrenic patients can really range, from simple problem-solving and health management (which could cover taking medication or even just taking a shower), to learning how to interpret the emotions and gestures of other people so they get along better with family and friends.
Again, schizophrenia is a chronic illness, but it is treatable. When a person recieves proper treatment, a person can lead a happy and fulfilling life.
My 486DX2 66 had 24 MB of RAM. It was bleeding edge! It was nice to not have to hack on the autoexec.bat and config.sys to free up more memory to get DOOM to run.;)
Now I may be wildly wrong here, but wasn't the original DOOM a DOS app, and wouldn't going to a DOS prompt from Windows (3.1) or just not loading Windows mean you were back at the 640k limit (less command.com and whatever was loaded from config.sys and autoexec.bat) and everything else was enhanced/extended memory? Was Win95 different?
Yeah, because the second they do, someone would write a better implementation of it, then someone would port it to mplayer, then nobody would ever need to use Real's software again.
There already is a better implementation. One without the annoying UI. One that doesn't take any opportunity to associate itself with all media file extensions. One that plays real media files. One that is the Real Alternative, hey it comes with Windows Media Player Classic too!
If this is true, what's to stop me from bidding $500/share to guarantee I get to take part in the IPO?
Nothing, other than if enough other people think the same way you really will end up paying that amount - this may go on to answer your other question "What happens when a large number of people realize this and it artificially increases the price?" And the price (last, mid, bid/ask weighted thickness) will collapse as there are no others to maintain the bid side.
Intel says they want to concentrate on their new 'dual-core' technology for desktop and notebook systems. This is essentially putting two processors on one chip, allowing for a doubling of performance with less energy use.
Is this a parallel implementation then? In that case performance is only doubled for processes that can be performed in parallel.
I think this is more related to moving to the PM from the P4 architecture as the M series is more scaleable - taing P4 any further requires a lot more power and generates a lot more heat..
Intel says they want to concentrate on their new 'dual-core' technology for desktop and notebook systems. This is essentially putting two processors on one chip, allowing for a doubling of performance with less energy use.
Is this a parallel implementation then? In that case performance is only doubled for processes that can be performed in parallel.
I think this is more related to moving to the PM from the P4 architecture as the M series is more scaleable - taing P4 any further requires a lot more power and generates a lot more heat.
Slashdot Mirror
My main connection is from behind a firewall (hardware which I have no control of) but have the same experience on my alternate connection - direct to my ISP who place no restrictions on traffic. Also limit my upstream to 80% of max to prevent saturation, but no avail. :(
Perhaps my 'taste' in torrents means a high volume of newbs join but never finish or get enough to make a significant contribution, thus drain. Perhaps my 'style' of torrents are sourced on a saturated connection preventing efficient allocation. That is the only thing I can think of, so long as there is no hack in BT (which I have searched for and not found).
Something I've never understood about BT... the system should be proofed against leeches (more or less) and should offer good transfer rate, but after over a year using BT I rarely see it peak at more than 10kBps and usually upload at 200%+ before completion (not that I care much as throughput on my connection is liberal). I'm on a 50kBps connection (equal up and down) with good general ping and the torrents are always well seeded and peered. This is not a mirage of my mind either - I've kept a record over the past 6 months of bandwidth with analysis via Packetsniffer.
Something is fishy. I don't know or understand what. By contrast Kazaa can often max out my connection, and does my network of choice, WinMX (which has an awesome upgrade in the wings). Yet all I see is raving about BT.
COuld someone explain what is wrong???!!!! ANyone else have a similar experience????
yes
...of my experience of a Mac. Luckily I took it back within 21 days... read on...
I was sitting at my freelance gig in front of a Mac (a 8600/300 w/64 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempted to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape would not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My 386DX20 with 2 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.
Mac addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
TI-85 is awesome.
Linux is for dummies. Period.
Yes, and if you look at my own reply to my post, you will see I corrected myself.
.
What, this reply:
Re:Putting USB flash drives... (Score:1)
by biz0r (656300) on Thursday June 03, @05:15PM (#9327349)
(http://biz0r.biz/)
Or rather maybe I should read the thing first...raid 0 flash? Ok maybe a bit geeky, I guess... But my point still stands...
Where you say your point still stands... what point would that be, would it be It's geeky to want to have redundancy and retain data? or would it be Putting all of your eggs in one basket (so to speak) is rarely, if ever, a Good Thing.
???
One second, I'm knocking on the front entrance of an upper middle-class home in a respectable eastern Porn Valley `burb, the next second, as I step inside, I'm confronted mere inches away with the demonically-energized sight of Melanie Jagger anally fisting Audrey Hollander as Otto Braun gets ready to pop.
Ah, another Skeeter Kerkove love story, this one entitled Sodomy: Law of the Land, for Metro's newish hardcore imprint, Fusxion.
"Anal fisting," Skeeter pontificates, as he tends to do, "the essence of true romance."
"Cum in her [Hollander's] ass," he directs Braun. "She'll fart it out into your [Jagger's] mouth."
Braun blows his "cock snot" (a big thank you to the inimitable Jim Powers, manning the camera, for expanding my porn vocabulary. - Ed. ) straight into Hollander's heinie hole, she loudly felches it out, and Jagger hungrily laps it up like she's just fallen off the wagon.
"Yum," she says in between gulps, scooping more of the stuff out with her fingers, lickin' em clean, then, for desert, fisting her own ass.
"Now you see why sodomy is the law of the land," Skeeter pronounces into the camera with authority.
A bit later, I witness an equally debauched scene in which former Penthouse Pet Venus, one big-time super-whore (even my jaw dropped at her maelstrom of depraved energy, which is saying something), pulls a double "A" train care of Mark Wood and Benjamin Bratt, loudly exclaiming, "Oh my fucking God."
"Excellent," Skeeter says, "Now let's fill her up with love juice."
The boys squirt in her gaping crapper, she digs it out with her PVC-gloved hand, sucks it dry, then slurps the rest of the spent man muck up off the rug.
He said python was in appropriate..
A strange comment as Python seems like a really easy language to learn.
I agree, a basic-type language would be great. Forget complicating things with a GUI or objects, for just getting the hang of stepping through, procedures and loops Java or Pascal would be great. Set her up a basic template (so she just has to do the coding), let her loose for a while and get more advanced with objects or user-actioned procedures (move into Delphi, a bit more with Java or VB). Tell her to move through with an interpreter and see the actions. Will get the hang in no time.
Everything I've looked at so far seems too complicated (Scheme, Python, VB) I am interested why you think this because these languages don't have to be at all complicated.
But having to upgrade the kernel to use a new driver is allright? Why should drivers come with the kernel anyway?
Errr... they don't. You just have to add in the driver. You don't even have to add it to the kernel to use it, and if you do choose to add it you don't even have to restart.
teabagger. taste my pink sock.
I\sit\in\a\cubicle\\
Great advice. Hardcore study is the only way to become decent and Pimsleur is a fantastic oral learning tool.
I agree, the third season is actually quite good and the plots resonant.
I want to start by agreeing with many other slashdot posters - You came to the wrong place in general to ask questions about medical health and/or mental health.
That said, I am a not a doctor, yet. (I'm also finishing my PhD in Clinical Psychology) I've worked on a locked inpatient unit with people who have had schizophrenia, and in an outpatient community clinic with a variety of people. So here is my starting advice: You may want to investigate The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, for further information regarding support groups for mental illness, and make sure that you get supported while you go through this process of learning and working with family and relatives who have a serious mental illness.
The bad news is: There is not a cure for schizophrenia. The good news is: It's a chronic illness that can be treated using medication (Some people understand better if they draw comparisons to diabetes, or other chronic physical illnesses). The bad news again is: Medications are still in need of improvement, because a lot of side effects (weight gain, lowered energy and libido) can certainly drive a person away from treatment. The best things that you can do are to provide a stable and caring environment for your relative, encourage them to stay on their medication (even when they're doing well).
For others of you interested, the "usual" symptoms of schizophrenia are hallucinations (a person sees or hears things that other people do not, usually hearing voices, but it can be anything), delusions (a person believes something illogical or bizarre, like they are under surveillance of the police), and disorganized thinking or behavior. Medications help mostly with the hallucinations, and sometimes with a persons mood; new medications can also help clear their thinking. Psychotherapy with schizophrenic patients can really range, from simple problem-solving and health management (which could cover taking medication or even just taking a shower), to learning how to interpret the emotions and gestures of other people so they get along better with family and friends.
Again, schizophrenia is a chronic illness, but it is treatable. When a person recieves proper treatment, a person can lead a happy and fulfilling life.
My 486DX2 66 had 24 MB of RAM. It was bleeding edge! It was nice to not have to hack on the autoexec.bat and config.sys to free up more memory to get DOOM to run. ;)
Now I may be wildly wrong here, but wasn't the original DOOM a DOS app, and wouldn't going to a DOS prompt from Windows (3.1) or just not loading Windows mean you were back at the 640k limit (less command.com and whatever was loaded from config.sys and autoexec.bat) and everything else was enhanced/extended memory? Was Win95 different?
Yeah, because the second they do, someone would write a better implementation of it, then someone would port it to mplayer, then nobody would ever need to use Real's software again.
There already is a better implementation. One without the annoying UI. One that doesn't take any opportunity to associate itself with all media file extensions. One that plays real media files. One that is the Real Alternative, hey it comes with Windows Media Player Classic too!
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a 747 loaded with videotape.
Yeah, but the latency sucks.
aren't there licensing fees for mpeg-4 though?
Indeed, for most usage too. But hey, this is OpenSource so who cares that this is just a rip off of an existing technology?
If this is true, what's to stop me from bidding $500/share to guarantee I get to take part in the IPO?
Nothing, other than if enough other people think the same way you really will end up paying that amount - this may go on to answer your other question "What happens when a large number of people realize this and it artificially increases the price?" And the price (last, mid, bid/ask weighted thickness) will collapse as there are no others to maintain the bid side.
On a completely unrelated side note, as I spell-checked this in konqueror, it suggested hoes for hes (missing apostrophe). Who writes this dictionary?
Someone with a penchant for garden tools?
Perhaps this is a plan organised by Google to get the uber-|337 SEOs to disclose their methods, thus act against them.
Intel says they want to concentrate on their new 'dual-core' technology for desktop and notebook systems. This is essentially putting two processors on one chip, allowing for a doubling of performance with less energy use.
Is this a parallel implementation then? In that case performance is only doubled for processes that can be performed in parallel.
I think this is more related to moving to the PM from the P4 architecture as the M series is more scaleable - taing P4 any further requires a lot more power and generates a lot more heat..
Intel says they want to concentrate on their new 'dual-core' technology for desktop and notebook systems. This is essentially putting two processors on one chip, allowing for a doubling of performance with less energy use.
Is this a parallel implementation then? In that case performance is only doubled for processes that can be performed in parallel.
I think this is more related to moving to the PM from the P4 architecture as the M series is more scaleable - taing P4 any further requires a lot more power and generates a lot more heat.