Just make the light so bright it blinds everyone. If criminals can't see through the burned-out husks that were once their eyes, they can't commit crime! The number of wailing people stumbling around aimlessly, bleeding profusely from the face, will undoubtedly increase somewhat. Small price to pay.:-P
It's not only about FPS - it's about quality settings. If you can reach 100FPS with all the details turned down, no FSAA, no HDR stuff, you sure will notice an upgrade that still plays at 100FPS, but with all that stuff turned on. That's the difference. That's why PS3/Xbox360 games look as good as they do - it's not just FPS but quality of the graphics.
So this guy doesn't give actual figures (because it's in violation of the EULA), and you expect us to ignore him and believe you when you can't even be bothered to run through the tests you've gone through to establish XP being faster, and just claim XP to be the winner? I sure hope that was a delicious display of sarcastic commentary:) If so, congratulations - it's good stuff.
Superfetch doesn't get in the way of applications that need memory - it uses memory that otherwise would go unclaimed. If an application needs as much memory as it can, superfetch buggers off and doesn't get in the way. As for Aero, mine is currently using 40MB, on a computer that hasn't been restarted in 116 hours. I honestly don't know how a vista setup running identical software would cause such a drop in performance. But I guess it's possible, as is pretty much anything:)
I think the IRA were a bit more interested in the continuing dialogue between Sinn Fein and Whitehall than the Irish GDP. I'm not saying the GDP didn't affect anything, but there's that whole causation != correlation thingy.
It would be very ironic. But then we'd end up with extra security checkpoints before the real security checkpoints, and end up with not just the TSA but the TSASA, and maybe even the TSASASA. I just threw up in my mouth a little.
People of every religion on the planet (and atheists, too) have engaged in terrorism. Christians (both Catholic and Protestant, not too far from me), Buddhists, Muslims, the lot. Using someone's appearance as a way to judge whether they are dangerous or not is a terrible idea. As you said, all the "bad guys" have to do is look like someone not being targeted, and hey-presto, they'll get through with less scrutiny. It's a false sense of security. That's why profiling of anything other than actual threat (ie explosives/weapons on their person) is pathetic.
I understand your take on humanity (or at least one highly-publicised section thereof) might be somewhat skewed by your time in theatre, but it's a grave mistake to let that paranoia erode security, as it just ends up hurting your cause more than helping.
I was on the second plane back into the US after 9/11, sat next to 3 Muslim gentlemen, all speaking Arabic to each other. I didn't bat an eyelid. We sat on the tarmac and witnessed a 10-minute silence for those who lost their lives (it was an American Airlines plane). The Muslim gentlemen even asked to borrow my FHM after I was finished reading it (and this was a British FHM, not the US version:)). I wasn't scared - I trusted the Heathrow security enough to provide the best level of security possible, which they did. They swabbed every bag for explosives residue (twice), and didn't get their collective panties in a bunch when someone non-white person not dressed head-to-toe in Gap or Abercrombie & Fitch had the temerity to want to fly on a plane.
I don't blame you - paranoia is a disease that spreads rapidly through "us" when we feel threatened by "them". It's human nature.
In London the police used to give people with Irish accents a hard time, as they figured the terrorists blowing stuff up were all Irish. Funnily enough Irish people can change their accents too, and all that policy (as unofficial as it was) achieved was alienating the non-terrorist Irish (ie damn near every single Irish person), which increased their support for those conducting the bombings. It was about as counter-productive as you could get. If we want Muslim people to see that we're not the monsters we're portrayed as, we have to do everything we can to not rise to the bait, and treat everyone the same until there is actual real evidence of wrong-doing. Not a throwaway comment about the location of a part of an aircraft.
"Leeched upon" how? The royals pay taxes, are useful, and bring in a shedload of money from tourists who flock to Buckingham Palace to watch the Grenadiers march around. If there was enough call to abolish the monarchy, the ball would be rolling. As it is, a tiny percentage of folks want that, and that's not enough.
US pints are smaller than pints in other countries, which might explain the number of drunk Americans rolling around on floors in bars here in Germany. Plus the beer is stronger, which might not help the situation.
Oh noes! If all linux desktop users don't buy NVIDIA, they've lost a few percent of the market! Sorry for the sarcasm, but seriously - maybe if more people used linux on the desktop, the drivers would be more of an issue to NVIDIA. We can't really expect a company to spend more money on developing and supporting drivers than they'll make back from selling hardware that will use them - it would be nice, but it would be a gift to the community, not something they *should* do. And they might not be able to simply open-source them and let folks have their way with the source because of licensing restrictions, which regardless of how anyone feels about them, still matter a lot to any company that has to use someone else's licensed technology.
Linux is not a "very major OS". I know it is on slashdot, but not in the rest of the world. Any OS that has less than a few percent of the desktop market can not be very major, by definition.
Then don't sell them at wallgreens. Simple. Make drug-only stores, and sell them there. Don't make people who don't want to see drugs see them. It's mind-numbingly easy to keep them away from people. I know I don't have to see loads of horrific porn when I go shopping (unless I want to), and it's sold legally.
That's one of the best features of the Windows command-line - being able to use networked resources the same as local files, completely transparently. I'm sure it's possible in Linux (nearly everything is), but it's just so damned straight-forward in Windows, especially if you and the remote computer are on the same domain.
Just write a decent resumé/CV that outlines your abilities. Degrees don't mean squat in IT. People with them would like to think otherwise, but they don't. What matters is end results. If you are competent, skilled, and available, you're fine. The number of people with degrees I've worked with who were shit at their jobs is incredible - a degree does not automatically mean a person is skilled, and not having one doesn't mean you're not skilled. My advice: go for it.
I've found their chat interface very useful indeed. I bought a Dell Vostro 200 for the office, and (incorrectly) assumed it would have gigabit Ethernet. After using the chat, I was promptly informed (in minutes) that a NIC was in the mail to me, for no extra charge.
Get a fucking grip. They are talking about a TV advertisement that was straight-up lying its ass off. Bitching and moaning about website advertisements doesn't give Apple the right to do what they are doing. "Two wrongs", etc.
... and deny revenue to sites that people obviously want to use. It's like going to McDonalds and taking the fries for free because you don't want to wait to pay for them. You are taking the site's bandwidth - something which actually costs money, and are not willing to 'suffer' through a slight delay to make sure the site you obviously like so much (hence visit) stays profitable, or even able to pay for its own bandwidth costs.
You cheap bastard.
It's more to do with complaints. People know Shampoo isn't going to turn crappy hair into fantastic model-esque hair, but Apple made claims that could feasibly be true, but which turned out to be far off the mark. That's going to get people irked, and they will bring it to the ASA's attention. Kind of like how Dr. Pepper used to write "Solves all your problems" on their bottles in Germany. That stopped for obvious, and similar, reasons.
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Just make the light so bright it blinds everyone. If criminals can't see through the burned-out husks that were once their eyes, they can't commit crime! The number of wailing people stumbling around aimlessly, bleeding profusely from the face, will undoubtedly increase somewhat. Small price to pay. :-P
It's not only about FPS - it's about quality settings. If you can reach 100FPS with all the details turned down, no FSAA, no HDR stuff, you sure will notice an upgrade that still plays at 100FPS, but with all that stuff turned on. That's the difference. That's why PS3/Xbox360 games look as good as they do - it's not just FPS but quality of the graphics.
So this guy doesn't give actual figures (because it's in violation of the EULA), and you expect us to ignore him and believe you when you can't even be bothered to run through the tests you've gone through to establish XP being faster, and just claim XP to be the winner? I sure hope that was a delicious display of sarcastic commentary :) If so, congratulations - it's good stuff.
Probably as much as slashdot paid you to write your post. :)
Superfetch doesn't get in the way of applications that need memory - it uses memory that otherwise would go unclaimed. If an application needs as much memory as it can, superfetch buggers off and doesn't get in the way. As for Aero, mine is currently using 40MB, on a computer that hasn't been restarted in 116 hours. I honestly don't know how a vista setup running identical software would cause such a drop in performance. But I guess it's possible, as is pretty much anything :)
Not to mention taking the first picture of the Earth from another planet. Fuck.
Vista is not that far off XP when it comes to fps - definitely not 70%. I don't know what this guy's smoking, but I'm pretty sure it's illegal.
I think the IRA were a bit more interested in the continuing dialogue between Sinn Fein and Whitehall than the Irish GDP. I'm not saying the GDP didn't affect anything, but there's that whole causation != correlation thingy.
It would be very ironic. But then we'd end up with extra security checkpoints before the real security checkpoints, and end up with not just the TSA but the TSASA, and maybe even the TSASASA. I just threw up in my mouth a little.
People of every religion on the planet (and atheists, too) have engaged in terrorism. Christians (both Catholic and Protestant, not too far from me), Buddhists, Muslims, the lot. Using someone's appearance as a way to judge whether they are dangerous or not is a terrible idea. As you said, all the "bad guys" have to do is look like someone not being targeted, and hey-presto, they'll get through with less scrutiny. It's a false sense of security. That's why profiling of anything other than actual threat (ie explosives/weapons on their person) is pathetic.
I understand your take on humanity (or at least one highly-publicised section thereof) might be somewhat skewed by your time in theatre, but it's a grave mistake to let that paranoia erode security, as it just ends up hurting your cause more than helping.
I was on the second plane back into the US after 9/11, sat next to 3 Muslim gentlemen, all speaking Arabic to each other. I didn't bat an eyelid. We sat on the tarmac and witnessed a 10-minute silence for those who lost their lives (it was an American Airlines plane). The Muslim gentlemen even asked to borrow my FHM after I was finished reading it (and this was a British FHM, not the US version :)). I wasn't scared - I trusted the Heathrow security enough to provide the best level of security possible, which they did. They swabbed every bag for explosives residue (twice), and didn't get their collective panties in a bunch when someone non-white person not dressed head-to-toe in Gap or Abercrombie & Fitch had the temerity to want to fly on a plane.
I don't blame you - paranoia is a disease that spreads rapidly through "us" when we feel threatened by "them". It's human nature.
In London the police used to give people with Irish accents a hard time, as they figured the terrorists blowing stuff up were all Irish. Funnily enough Irish people can change their accents too, and all that policy (as unofficial as it was) achieved was alienating the non-terrorist Irish (ie damn near every single Irish person), which increased their support for those conducting the bombings. It was about as counter-productive as you could get. If we want Muslim people to see that we're not the monsters we're portrayed as, we have to do everything we can to not rise to the bait, and treat everyone the same until there is actual real evidence of wrong-doing. Not a throwaway comment about the location of a part of an aircraft.
So you'd rather plough into a pedestrian than get rear-ended? Classy.
"Leeched upon" how? The royals pay taxes, are useful, and bring in a shedload of money from tourists who flock to Buckingham Palace to watch the Grenadiers march around. If there was enough call to abolish the monarchy, the ball would be rolling. As it is, a tiny percentage of folks want that, and that's not enough.
What about if 99.9% of all butter knives are used to kill someone... does that slightly change things?
US pints are smaller than pints in other countries, which might explain the number of drunk Americans rolling around on floors in bars here in Germany. Plus the beer is stronger, which might not help the situation.
Oh noes! If all linux desktop users don't buy NVIDIA, they've lost a few percent of the market! Sorry for the sarcasm, but seriously - maybe if more people used linux on the desktop, the drivers would be more of an issue to NVIDIA. We can't really expect a company to spend more money on developing and supporting drivers than they'll make back from selling hardware that will use them - it would be nice, but it would be a gift to the community, not something they *should* do. And they might not be able to simply open-source them and let folks have their way with the source because of licensing restrictions, which regardless of how anyone feels about them, still matter a lot to any company that has to use someone else's licensed technology.
Linux is not a "very major OS". I know it is on slashdot, but not in the rest of the world. Any OS that has less than a few percent of the desktop market can not be very major, by definition.
Then don't sell them at wallgreens. Simple. Make drug-only stores, and sell them there. Don't make people who don't want to see drugs see them. It's mind-numbingly easy to keep them away from people. I know I don't have to see loads of horrific porn when I go shopping (unless I want to), and it's sold legally.
Yup.
Microsoft shipped their first mouse in 1983, so it's a head start of two years, not two decades. My first PC (back in the 80s) had a Microsoft mouse.
That's one of the best features of the Windows command-line - being able to use networked resources the same as local files, completely transparently. I'm sure it's possible in Linux (nearly everything is), but it's just so damned straight-forward in Windows, especially if you and the remote computer are on the same domain.
Just write a decent resumé/CV that outlines your abilities. Degrees don't mean squat in IT. People with them would like to think otherwise, but they don't. What matters is end results. If you are competent, skilled, and available, you're fine. The number of people with degrees I've worked with who were shit at their jobs is incredible - a degree does not automatically mean a person is skilled, and not having one doesn't mean you're not skilled. My advice: go for it.
I've found their chat interface very useful indeed. I bought a Dell Vostro 200 for the office, and (incorrectly) assumed it would have gigabit Ethernet. After using the chat, I was promptly informed (in minutes) that a NIC was in the mail to me, for no extra charge.
Get a fucking grip. They are talking about a TV advertisement that was straight-up lying its ass off. Bitching and moaning about website advertisements doesn't give Apple the right to do what they are doing. "Two wrongs", etc.
... and deny revenue to sites that people obviously want to use. It's like going to McDonalds and taking the fries for free because you don't want to wait to pay for them. You are taking the site's bandwidth - something which actually costs money, and are not willing to 'suffer' through a slight delay to make sure the site you obviously like so much (hence visit) stays profitable, or even able to pay for its own bandwidth costs. You cheap bastard.
It's more to do with complaints. People know Shampoo isn't going to turn crappy hair into fantastic model-esque hair, but Apple made claims that could feasibly be true, but which turned out to be far off the mark. That's going to get people irked, and they will bring it to the ASA's attention. Kind of like how Dr. Pepper used to write "Solves all your problems" on their bottles in Germany. That stopped for obvious, and similar, reasons.