Yes, I agree. But in China's case (god help them), the situation is far far worse. Funny thing is, it was working fine six years go based on then future projections of the global and local markets. Today is an entirely different story. I have no idea why the government continues to build living space in Shanghai though. But if I had to guess, they're thinking in terms of economy of scale. Again a continuation of a "phase" not yet completed as originally scoped out. After all, the buildings are nothing more than poured concrete with the walls acting as load bearing structures for each floor. Conduits and all encased forever. It's also why all new or replacement wiring is tacked on the outside of a plastered wall. It's ugly as sin if you ask me.
Shanghai is big, 23+ Million and growing. But yes it is true. Property value is still increasing all while there are entire living units unpopulated. That's because as a resource, the government decides when to release them into the market. There's profit in scarcity. From a tax collection and population control perspective, the government still wants to control the first sale of availability. After that (from what my wife has told me), people are free to sell their existing unit to other buyers at market price. So the question many have is this. Why build so many homes (buildings) if there isn't a demand? To the west, that's a waste of resources and thus counter productive against market forces. But to China, they like build in phases all while still controlling supply and demand to an extent. It's inefficient because frankly, their government is inefficient. So ironically, the system works well for what it is. Relatively speaking that is.
Damn, you are a good troll. But I'll feed ya. First and foremost, you know nothing about me personally other than my basic views and what I've stated. Other than that, you're projecting and conjuring pure hyperbole. Oh and BTW, perhaps your quality of life used to be good because you were riding off the backs of 3rd world labor. For many, they're used to this way of life and thus not as materialistic as you are. Welcome to globalism and economic equilibrium.
You hear that? That's your reality coming crashing down in on you. You're nothing special in comparison to another man who contribute to society for far less than what your used too. And you're electing the same assholes that outsource to India and China. I'm so reveling in the schadenfreude. Payback is a bitch huh? Get used to it cupcake!
You think the political blame is bad now, just you wait until we start playing around with geoengineering concepts. I say that because it's still not entirely certain how big of an impact CO2 has on climate. That's because our data collection is tiny compared to the rest of Earths history and thus a baseline doesn't really exist. But when nations start playing around with geoengineering, that's when the real international finger pointing will occur. Unfounded or not, there will be demands for financial reparations between China, India, Russia, Europe, USA, Africa, and South America nations when crop yield diminishes. It could even lead to war from this very subject alone of who's responsible. That's because man would now actively, consciously, purposefully be altering the climate.
No, 'the left' wants to suck on the tit of the Federal Gov. We have certain party they vote for that's happy to give it to them to secure votes now and into the future. What do you think will happen when people are forced to depend on the Federal Gov for everything? Well now you're just a slave at that point. Stuck in indentured servitude to depend on the very institution that will tax you for everything you have in order to provide you everything you require. And you will not vote for any other alternative.
Simply put. You're confusing which party favors liberty over tyranny.
The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others, the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men's labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatible things, called by the same name — liberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatible names — liberty and tyranny. Abraham Lincoln
Politicians won't tax themselves. You would be hard pressed to find a single elected official who was middle-class let alone poor. In fact, I would say this applies to every single western democracy. No, I blame the voter for sitting on their ass deaf dumb and blind all while pulling the level for PartyX come election time. You know....fuck it. STOP! I want off this planet.
Oh, i'm sure they have plans. They already NAT IPs for their phones though. That, and none of the cell phones on the market support IPv6 to my knowledge. Except for the iDevices and Droids, updating the OS is rarely (if ever) done over the air for any other make/model. So they must be thinking, "why the rush?".
It's the classic chicken or the egg problem. It will be at least another 2 years before IPv6 is fully deployed and a total of 15 years (I pulled reasonable rough estimate out of my ass) before it completely replaces IPv4. Get used to the dual stack for a very very long time my friend.
Moderation is the key. Just like there's an optimal level of taxation and debt spending (inflation a bitch as it shifts the burden from the young to the old). So too is there an optimal level on how and where you should regulate using instruments of the federal government. Essentially, it's a problem involving the Law of Diminishing Returns. China is an example of what happens when you have little to zero safety regulations. America is flipped the other way around. We're too over regulated and can barely compete in the global market enough to pay back our debt. The same debt our government got us into the first place.
He is probably the most approachable president we've had since Carter. I can easily see sitting down and having a beer and talking sports with Obama.
Agreed. And just like Carter, Obama too is an abysmal failure in the POTUS role. In another life however, sure, maybe the best friend you've ever had.
As time goes on, I really feel that it's his wife that's pulling the strings for Obama on the activism front. It seems to be directed and fueled with so much resentment toward her fellow citizens. Michelle is the first lady in my lifetime that can't stand being the "first lady". She hates it in fact (her statement). So, she tries to escape it by going out on a multiple shopping spree for high dollar items all while telling the rest of us to live with less. Also, we should lose weight and watch what we eat all while she stuffs her face in front of the media with high calorie food. There's your elitist snob right there! Michelle Obama. Queen of psychological projection. His choice in a mate doesn't speed very highly of his own character if you ask me.
No, nothing so insidious. Windows 7 is what Vista was supposed to have been. But somewhere along Vista's development, the project management team fucked up -big time- at Microsoft. It was so bad in fact, their marketing dept was forced into damage control. Do you remember Microsoft's Mojave Experiment? That was their apologetic Vista relaunch campaign. But you know what they say right? If you can't polish a turd, roll it in glitter. It's still shit though now matter how you cut it though. And they knew it!
Actually, I prefer a two tiered GUI. The first one is dead simple, even if it is somewhat limiting. The second is an "advanced" mode that expands out to more customizable and controllable settings. Though it does require more time in development from a design and philosophy standpoint. It's also why we don't see this kind of GUI implementation often.
In your perfect little CLI world, the computer wouldn't nearly have the adoption rate as it does now. That means the industry as a whole doesn't grow. As such, we wouldn't have had the advancements in hardware that we enjoy today. The fact is, while the CLI may be great for scripted routines and vertical market solutions, it sucks absolute balls at scalability in feature sets. Not the CLI itself, but the learning curve. Also, having to pipe out a fucking paragraph just to get shit done is out-of-the-question for most people. To add to the confusion, mixing the CLI as the primary interface shell and non-standard application GUIs is even worse.
As a Windows user, I have to say that Apple got it right for the most part. A clean GUI with an optional terminal to CLI around in. I understand why Microsoft is having to play catch up, and that's only to maintain cross compatibility with their older product line and other 3rd party business applications.
Which is why we should be focusing on learning machines like Watson or a future HAL like computer. We're getting closer to developing tools that will make the big discoveries for us. Computers. The kind that will not only interpret data, but present us models of the Universe we never even thought of.
FairTax would never happen. That would take away power from the politicians to social engineer society in order to ensure votes. You gotta keep people dependent you know. Also, companies like GE would now be forced to pay taxes.
Actually, it's pretty safe for people and other forms of life. What I'm worried about is the idea of becoming too dependent on this type of space based technology. All it takes is an act of war or a few nasty solar storms to knock out power generation. Satellites, while can be hardened, are still extremely vulnerable pieces of equipment.
"Idle hands are the devil's tools." Other cultures have similar sayings. Basically, when people are not busy working (or learning), they find themselves more likely to cause mischief. Nothing new here.
IT and apprenticeship are antithesis to each other. That's because technology is the fastest moving target in any industry. Apprenticeships rely on solid skills that don't change much and can thus be passed down from generation to generation.
I don't know about Europe, but in America, most violent repeat offenders have a very long rap sheet going back toward their teen and sometimes pre-teen period. Others are one-off in which they snapped or got involved in some drug abuse. The later can be rehabilitated. The other group, not so much. They just end up being institutionalized the rest of their life because they refuse to live a normal life. I suppose that's not entirely fair to say as they really can't grasp the concept of what "normal" is. It's bad for them as it is for the tax payer. For these people, they never had proper parental upbringing or none at all. For example, mothers who are too immature and knowing who the father of their child is. At best, they know who the father is, but decided to be a deadbeat dad and go AWOL. A broken family contributes to more societal problems than any other social issue.
As for the concept of fear, just look to nations living under it every day. N. Korea, Iran, Afghanistan...ect. Just a few examples at the macro level. Evils such as slavery also come to mind.
Please. Money can buy just about anything. Many of these criminals are either unemployed experienced programmers with a CS background or highly educated skilled people looking for a name for themselves banking a six figure income. Some do it simply because it pays more than the legal private sector. Odds are, no university no matter how well educated the staff and students are can fend off being a target. Not possible.
So... your way of getting people to be less violent and move beyond petty anger and revenge is to... inflict violence on them?
Yes. I mean, as a last resort for the most serious of offenses. No matter how good of a parent you are, society around your child will shape and mould them in ways that can be destructive. When a child does something really serious, pain will send a message more clearly than words. It's generally effective because now that child will have a moment of fear should he/she even think about committing the same offense again. It may sound barbaric, but the history of fear has been proven very effective at controlling people. Unfortunately history also shows that fear is used more for evil than for good. And often too much of it.
Of course, if a child doesn't respond and even takes pleasure in the risk of getting caught again, you have more serious problems. Sometimes, children can be born mentally ill. Inflicting pain will not send a message and only makes matters worse. Only a professional psychologist and perhaps psychiatric therapy can be of help here.
You have to understand that most of America isn't culturally refined like some European nations are. We tend to be more risky and fly by the seat of our pants. This attitude is what makes America successful. It's precisely this attitude that get us into trouble as well. We learn this very young in America as children growing up. We push the limits harder and more forcefully as children than just about any other European nation. As such, our parents often have to be more forceful in letting us know where those boundaries are at.
This judge is an asshole on so many levels. You don't beat a 16 year old girl like that. Now, I've been beaten a few times with a belt on my ass when I was younger but it was never on the legs or back. My ass stung when it happened, but for the remaining hour afterward it was just a minor discomfort. By next morning, there was no pain. In grade school, we used to get the paddle to the ass as well for the most serious of classroom offenses. By your standards, that would be a "smacking". Oh and if you have to ask. I got belted at the age of 7 because I threw brick into the window of a home under construction. It was a game of dare with a friend of mine.
The problem we have in America is that as a rough culture, we also need the social tools to be able to address our misbehaving children. It worked out extremely well for children in the 1940s though mid 1950s. Then came the flower children / hippie generation. They had this idea that our method of punishing children were the cause of American culture. Quite the opposite, it was a way of refining our culture to be less rough. We were on a path to be coming more culturally refined like Europe. Slowly but surely. Instead, these baby boomers looked to European laws and parental methodologies and attempted to cut-n-paste them into US Law. Now we're a nation of runaway misfits and hooligans. Teachers can't even yell at children without getting sued now. And parents are threatened with CPS getting involved. Simply put, children can now get away with more and they know it. America's hands are socially tied from reducing lawless behavior both in the home and outside of it.
Obesity - Northern South America, but NOT the US?!
The emphasis of chart is on genetic ancestry and not location. Although the two coincide with each other from a historical perspective, location is meaningless for the USA. For example, most Americans can trace their ancestry to Europe while others South American. Over generations to this day, Americans are to put it bluntly, mutts. Based on that chart, my ancestry is mainly made up of Orcadian followed by North Italian and some Pima. Honestly, I wouldn't know how to calculate my risk if those numbers are based on purity alone. Once you mix the genetics, the results aren't evenly calculable within the ratios.
Cold boot = When hardware is first powered on engaging a lengthy (but thorough) POST followed by the bootstrapping of the OS. Warm boot = Followed by a restart of the system through the OS or a hardware reset button. Hardware POST time is reduced due to certain hardware checks being omitted prior to the bootstrapping of the OS. Hot boot = Starting or rebooting an OS after the POST process. For example in Windows 98, you could perform a hot boot by holding down the shift key and selecting "restart".
Technically, starting a VM from an original shutdown state is a cold boot even if it is emulated and certain POST checks have been omitted. But yes, from a functional standpoint, I agree, it's more of a warm boot if anything. As for booting from hibernation within any OS, I don't count the OS as booting up as it's just in a state of resuming. Nothing special there.
Depends on the PC. VMs of Win7 and Server 2008 R2 are near instant. Depending on the PC though, Win7 will boot almost as fast as Lion for sure. But, on some PCs, the POST process takes far longer than the OS bootup process itself.
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Yes, I agree. But in China's case (god help them), the situation is far far worse. Funny thing is, it was working fine six years go based on then future projections of the global and local markets. Today is an entirely different story. I have no idea why the government continues to build living space in Shanghai though. But if I had to guess, they're thinking in terms of economy of scale. Again a continuation of a "phase" not yet completed as originally scoped out. After all, the buildings are nothing more than poured concrete with the walls acting as load bearing structures for each floor. Conduits and all encased forever. It's also why all new or replacement wiring is tacked on the outside of a plastered wall. It's ugly as sin if you ask me.
Shanghai is big, 23+ Million and growing. But yes it is true. Property value is still increasing all while there are entire living units unpopulated. That's because as a resource, the government decides when to release them into the market. There's profit in scarcity. From a tax collection and population control perspective, the government still wants to control the first sale of availability. After that (from what my wife has told me), people are free to sell their existing unit to other buyers at market price. So the question many have is this. Why build so many homes (buildings) if there isn't a demand? To the west, that's a waste of resources and thus counter productive against market forces. But to China, they like build in phases all while still controlling supply and demand to an extent. It's inefficient because frankly, their government is inefficient. So ironically, the system works well for what it is. Relatively speaking that is.
Damn, you are a good troll. But I'll feed ya. First and foremost, you know nothing about me personally other than my basic views and what I've stated. Other than that, you're projecting and conjuring pure hyperbole. Oh and BTW, perhaps your quality of life used to be good because you were riding off the backs of 3rd world labor. For many, they're used to this way of life and thus not as materialistic as you are. Welcome to globalism and economic equilibrium.
You hear that? That's your reality coming crashing down in on you. You're nothing special in comparison to another man who contribute to society for far less than what your used too. And you're electing the same assholes that outsource to India and China. I'm so reveling in the schadenfreude. Payback is a bitch huh? Get used to it cupcake!
You think the political blame is bad now, just you wait until we start playing around with geoengineering concepts. I say that because it's still not entirely certain how big of an impact CO2 has on climate. That's because our data collection is tiny compared to the rest of Earths history and thus a baseline doesn't really exist. But when nations start playing around with geoengineering, that's when the real international finger pointing will occur. Unfounded or not, there will be demands for financial reparations between China, India, Russia, Europe, USA, Africa, and South America nations when crop yield diminishes. It could even lead to war from this very subject alone of who's responsible. That's because man would now actively, consciously, purposefully be altering the climate.
No, 'the left' wants to suck on the tit of the Federal Gov. We have certain party they vote for that's happy to give it to them to secure votes now and into the future. What do you think will happen when people are forced to depend on the Federal Gov for everything? Well now you're just a slave at that point. Stuck in indentured servitude to depend on the very institution that will tax you for everything you have in order to provide you everything you require. And you will not vote for any other alternative.
Simply put. You're confusing which party favors liberty over tyranny.
The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others, the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men's labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatible things, called by the same name — liberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatible names — liberty and tyranny. Abraham Lincoln
Politicians won't tax themselves. You would be hard pressed to find a single elected official who was middle-class let alone poor. In fact, I would say this applies to every single western democracy. No, I blame the voter for sitting on their ass deaf dumb and blind all while pulling the level for PartyX come election time. You know....fuck it. STOP! I want off this planet.
Oh, i'm sure they have plans. They already NAT IPs for their phones though. That, and none of the cell phones on the market support IPv6 to my knowledge. Except for the iDevices and Droids, updating the OS is rarely (if ever) done over the air for any other make/model. So they must be thinking, "why the rush?".
It's the classic chicken or the egg problem. It will be at least another 2 years before IPv6 is fully deployed and a total of 15 years (I pulled reasonable rough estimate out of my ass) before it completely replaces IPv4. Get used to the dual stack for a very very long time my friend.
Moderation is the key. Just like there's an optimal level of taxation and debt spending (inflation a bitch as it shifts the burden from the young to the old). So too is there an optimal level on how and where you should regulate using instruments of the federal government. Essentially, it's a problem involving the Law of Diminishing Returns. China is an example of what happens when you have little to zero safety regulations. America is flipped the other way around. We're too over regulated and can barely compete in the global market enough to pay back our debt. The same debt our government got us into the first place.
He is probably the most approachable president we've had since Carter. I can easily see sitting down and having a beer and talking sports with Obama.
Agreed. And just like Carter, Obama too is an abysmal failure in the POTUS role. In another life however, sure, maybe the best friend you've ever had.
As time goes on, I really feel that it's his wife that's pulling the strings for Obama on the activism front. It seems to be directed and fueled with so much resentment toward her fellow citizens. Michelle is the first lady in my lifetime that can't stand being the "first lady". She hates it in fact (her statement). So, she tries to escape it by going out on a multiple shopping spree for high dollar items all while telling the rest of us to live with less. Also, we should lose weight and watch what we eat all while she stuffs her face in front of the media with high calorie food. There's your elitist snob right there! Michelle Obama. Queen of psychological projection. His choice in a mate doesn't speed very highly of his own character if you ask me.
No, nothing so insidious. Windows 7 is what Vista was supposed to have been. But somewhere along Vista's development, the project management team fucked up -big time- at Microsoft. It was so bad in fact, their marketing dept was forced into damage control. Do you remember Microsoft's Mojave Experiment? That was their apologetic Vista relaunch campaign. But you know what they say right? If you can't polish a turd, roll it in glitter. It's still shit though now matter how you cut it though. And they knew it!
Actually, I prefer a two tiered GUI. The first one is dead simple, even if it is somewhat limiting. The second is an "advanced" mode that expands out to more customizable and controllable settings. Though it does require more time in development from a design and philosophy standpoint. It's also why we don't see this kind of GUI implementation often.
In your perfect little CLI world, the computer wouldn't nearly have the adoption rate as it does now. That means the industry as a whole doesn't grow. As such, we wouldn't have had the advancements in hardware that we enjoy today. The fact is, while the CLI may be great for scripted routines and vertical market solutions, it sucks absolute balls at scalability in feature sets. Not the CLI itself, but the learning curve. Also, having to pipe out a fucking paragraph just to get shit done is out-of-the-question for most people. To add to the confusion, mixing the CLI as the primary interface shell and non-standard application GUIs is even worse.
As a Windows user, I have to say that Apple got it right for the most part. A clean GUI with an optional terminal to CLI around in. I understand why Microsoft is having to play catch up, and that's only to maintain cross compatibility with their older product line and other 3rd party business applications.
Which is why we should be focusing on learning machines like Watson or a future HAL like computer. We're getting closer to developing tools that will make the big discoveries for us. Computers. The kind that will not only interpret data, but present us models of the Universe we never even thought of.
FairTax would never happen. That would take away power from the politicians to social engineer society in order to ensure votes. You gotta keep people dependent you know. Also, companies like GE would now be forced to pay taxes.
Actually, it's pretty safe for people and other forms of life. What I'm worried about is the idea of becoming too dependent on this type of space based technology. All it takes is an act of war or a few nasty solar storms to knock out power generation. Satellites, while can be hardened, are still extremely vulnerable pieces of equipment.
"Idle hands are the devil's tools." Other cultures have similar sayings. Basically, when people are not busy working (or learning), they find themselves more likely to cause mischief. Nothing new here.
IT and apprenticeship are antithesis to each other. That's because technology is the fastest moving target in any industry. Apprenticeships rely on solid skills that don't change much and can thus be passed down from generation to generation.
I don't know about Europe, but in America, most violent repeat offenders have a very long rap sheet going back toward their teen and sometimes pre-teen period. Others are one-off in which they snapped or got involved in some drug abuse. The later can be rehabilitated. The other group, not so much. They just end up being institutionalized the rest of their life because they refuse to live a normal life. I suppose that's not entirely fair to say as they really can't grasp the concept of what "normal" is. It's bad for them as it is for the tax payer. For these people, they never had proper parental upbringing or none at all. For example, mothers who are too immature and knowing who the father of their child is. At best, they know who the father is, but decided to be a deadbeat dad and go AWOL. A broken family contributes to more societal problems than any other social issue.
As for the concept of fear, just look to nations living under it every day. N. Korea, Iran, Afghanistan...ect. Just a few examples at the macro level. Evils such as slavery also come to mind.
Please. Money can buy just about anything. Many of these criminals are either unemployed experienced programmers with a CS background or highly educated skilled people looking for a name for themselves banking a six figure income. Some do it simply because it pays more than the legal private sector. Odds are, no university no matter how well educated the staff and students are can fend off being a target. Not possible.
Yes. I mean, as a last resort for the most serious of offenses. No matter how good of a parent you are, society around your child will shape and mould them in ways that can be destructive. When a child does something really serious, pain will send a message more clearly than words. It's generally effective because now that child will have a moment of fear should he/she even think about committing the same offense again. It may sound barbaric, but the history of fear has been proven very effective at controlling people. Unfortunately history also shows that fear is used more for evil than for good. And often too much of it.
Of course, if a child doesn't respond and even takes pleasure in the risk of getting caught again, you have more serious problems. Sometimes, children can be born mentally ill. Inflicting pain will not send a message and only makes matters worse. Only a professional psychologist and perhaps psychiatric therapy can be of help here.
You have to understand that most of America isn't culturally refined like some European nations are. We tend to be more risky and fly by the seat of our pants. This attitude is what makes America successful. It's precisely this attitude that get us into trouble as well. We learn this very young in America as children growing up. We push the limits harder and more forcefully as children than just about any other European nation. As such, our parents often have to be more forceful in letting us know where those boundaries are at.
This judge is an asshole on so many levels. You don't beat a 16 year old girl like that. Now, I've been beaten a few times with a belt on my ass when I was younger but it was never on the legs or back. My ass stung when it happened, but for the remaining hour afterward it was just a minor discomfort. By next morning, there was no pain. In grade school, we used to get the paddle to the ass as well for the most serious of classroom offenses. By your standards, that would be a "smacking". Oh and if you have to ask. I got belted at the age of 7 because I threw brick into the window of a home under construction. It was a game of dare with a friend of mine.
The problem we have in America is that as a rough culture, we also need the social tools to be able to address our misbehaving children. It worked out extremely well for children in the 1940s though mid 1950s. Then came the flower children / hippie generation. They had this idea that our method of punishing children were the cause of American culture. Quite the opposite, it was a way of refining our culture to be less rough. We were on a path to be coming more culturally refined like Europe. Slowly but surely. Instead, these baby boomers looked to European laws and parental methodologies and attempted to cut-n-paste them into US Law. Now we're a nation of runaway misfits and hooligans. Teachers can't even yell at children without getting sued now. And parents are threatened with CPS getting involved. Simply put, children can now get away with more and they know it. America's hands are socially tied from reducing lawless behavior both in the home and outside of it.
Obesity - Northern South America, but NOT the US?!
The emphasis of chart is on genetic ancestry and not location. Although the two coincide with each other from a historical perspective, location is meaningless for the USA. For example, most Americans can trace their ancestry to Europe while others South American. Over generations to this day, Americans are to put it bluntly, mutts. Based on that chart, my ancestry is mainly made up of Orcadian followed by North Italian and some Pima. Honestly, I wouldn't know how to calculate my risk if those numbers are based on purity alone. Once you mix the genetics, the results aren't evenly calculable within the ratios.
Just so we are on the same page here...
Cold boot = When hardware is first powered on engaging a lengthy (but thorough) POST followed by the bootstrapping of the OS.
Warm boot = Followed by a restart of the system through the OS or a hardware reset button. Hardware POST time is reduced due to certain hardware checks being omitted prior to the bootstrapping of the OS.
Hot boot = Starting or rebooting an OS after the POST process. For example in Windows 98, you could perform a hot boot by holding down the shift key and selecting "restart".
Technically, starting a VM from an original shutdown state is a cold boot even if it is emulated and certain POST checks have been omitted. But yes, from a functional standpoint, I agree, it's more of a warm boot if anything. As for booting from hibernation within any OS, I don't count the OS as booting up as it's just in a state of resuming. Nothing special there.
Depends on the PC. VMs of Win7 and Server 2008 R2 are near instant. Depending on the PC though, Win7 will boot almost as fast as Lion for sure. But, on some PCs, the POST process takes far longer than the OS bootup process itself.