While I hate to be a fear monger. The symptoms of lower dose radiation poisoning are headaches and then vomiting. But then so is the flu.
Not to mention hangover. And gorging yourself too much while watching television 16 hours straight. Not to mention reading Slashdot evolution vs. creationism threads;).
Seriously, there is almost nothing which couldn't cause these symptoms, so saying that it might be radiation poisoning is, indeed, fearmongering.
Notice I said pretty dead which means a little bit alive.
It is not dead which can prettily lie, and with strange aeons, only the ugly die ?-) Or were you referring to the undead ? Hmm... Seeing how I've seen japanese OS-tan porn, I'd say it's only a matter of time before someone there makes an erotic DOS-zombie flick.
"Conventional memory! Must eat conventional memoryyyy..."
Summary version: they ARE fixing it, because it IS a bug and NOT an intentional hack.
From the link you posted:
Essentially, the root of the problem is that for Vista, when you're playing multimedia content, the system throttles incoming network packets to prevent them from overwhelming the multimedia rendering path - the system will only process 10,000 network frames per second (this is a hideously simplistic explanation, see Mark's post for the details)
Please explain how this can be read as anything but intentional throttling - which is a kludge or a hack, not a bug (programming error) ? The very text you linked to claims that this behavior was put in place for a reason (to prevent the network from overwhelming the multimedia path), that is, intentionally.
As for fixing it... This is clearly a scheduler problem. That they didn't fix it the simplest way - giving the multimedia subsystem a high, possibly even realtime, priority, so it would always get whatever CPU time it needed and the network could use all the remainder - and instead went for a hack - throttling network CPU usage to an artificial limit - strongly suggests that the scheduler simply isn't good enough. Since good schedulers are very difficult to write - even Linux only recently got a decent one - it is rather unlikely that Microsoft can come up with one anytime soon.
Did I mention they're working on a fix? Ah, I did, but you didn't bold that bit.
I find it highly unlikely that they can fix this. After all, if they could, why ship with the reduced performance in the first place - remember, the network performance reduction was put on place intentionally as a hack to get around other flaws. Also, let's not forget that they also worked on WinFS for years, and still failed to deliver. Finally, Microsoft has a reputation of saying anything to help drive sales; in other words, they could be lying.
Bad business, perhaps, but is it bad policy? I hear a lot of people complaining that corporate America is heartless and doesn't care, yet when one guy tries to do something that's right for the kids then he gets picked on. Why is it unreasonable for a company to say that they're unwilling to promote bad grades?
And when your local grocery store decides that they won't sell to you unless you can show a written confirmation from your local church that you have been there the last Sunday, is that still okay ? After all, being devote fundamentalist Christian, the grocer is convinced that you'll burn in Hell unless you convert, so he's simply being caring and trying to do right for you.
There is a huge difference between caring about people and trying to force your will on them, no matter how benevolent you think you're being. And traditionally, resource starvation has been one of the most efficient ways of coercion, as any army laying siege can tell you. Such enforcement might seem like it's nothing now because it's directed against kids and an unimportant resource; but even kids are human beings and shouldn't be subjected to arbitrary use of power by anyone who cares to do so. Besides, it's best to nip these things in the bud.
That, by the way, is also where the libertarian concept of "only physical force is coercion" falls flat on its face: I can kill you without ever lifting a finger against you if I control some vital resource.
You could look at a group of animals all day and not come to the conclusion that a single God, as described in the Bible, who himself had no creator, made all these creatures in a single day some 6000 years ago. That religious conclusion would not happen unless someone told you about it first.
So, you're saying that Genesis must be true, because no one could had invented it, so it wouldn't exist if it wasn't factual ?-)
Evolution just goes against many if not most people's intuition.
I have to disagree with this. Animal breeding is not a new development, and requires you to have a firm grasp of the basic principles of evolution (as it is essentially directed evolution). Domesticating plants likewise requires you to understand the principle.
I disagree primarily because the creation myth preceded religion proper, but any belief in god requires some sort of creationism.
No it doesn't. Zeus, for example, was not a creator god, but simply an usurper. Any religion with cyclical time can also work without a creator god, however some repair is typically required when the cycle comes full circle.
Then there's the Marvel mythology, in which gods rose as a side effect of life on Earth, rather than created it. I don't know of any actual religion with a similar premise, but it is certainly possible for one to exist.
You haven't lived until you've tried getting Final Fantasy VII for PC running on a modern machine.
Actually, nowadays it works fine, since the machines are fast enough to run it smoothly without 3D acceleration. With 3D acceleration enabled, the biggest challenge was reaching the next savepoint before the game crashed.
Of course, you could just run the PSX version on a Playstation emulator - ePSXe works wonderfully nowadays, even under Linux. Kinda funny: I've never owned a Playstation, but have bought games for it nonetheless:). And I'm writing this while listening to Skull Man's theme from mega Man 4 (NES). Ah, the times when I was young and NES was something new and wonderfull...
If one of my (non-existent) kids told me to "fuck off", I would backhand him, no matter where we were.
So basically, you demand civility from others, but fail to live up to even the most basic standard of it - refraining from violence unless physically threatened - yourself, and seem proud of this state of matters. How utterly pathetic.
But at least you deserve credit for not getting any children to abuse in the name of your ego.
On a personal workstation, however, an interactive user doesn't necessarily want all the programs to have fair access... we typically would like to have what we're concentrating on currently to be more responsive (have potentially unfair access) or else we may see dropped frames, stuttering music, or the like because the scheduler is trying to be fair to applications that aren't interactive with the console user.
This is where priority levels, or "nice", come in. They allow the user to tell the computer which stuff should be preferred/unpreferred, and how much.
Unfortunately, some people insist that the scheduler should guesstimate the priorities by itself, rather than depending on the user's judgement; since the scheduler can't read the mind of the user, such guesstimating (or "heuristic") scheduler frequently guesses wrong, leading to performance problems. What's even worse is that the constantly changing "dynamic priority" for every program can easily lead to temporary high latency, which in turn leads to audio/video skips and unresponsive system.
A totally fair scheduler will give each process CPU time according to their nice level, without trying to guesstimate. Con Kolivas came up with such a design (the Staircase Deadline scheduler), after which Ingo Molnar wrote a similar design (the CFS) based on the SD which then got accepted into the kernel. Con wasn't happy about this and quit kernel development altogether, which is unfortunate since the "-ck" patchset maintained by him was/is a huge improvement over the vanilla kernel.
How do you think I child develops that self-control? It is through receiving consequences for his actions, preferably starting at an early age.
Actually, no. Impulse control develops as the brain does. No amount of punishment can hasten this process, altought it can instill learned helplesness, which might look a bit similar in the beginning. The only thing consequences teaches is what impulses should be controlled.
It is also how many important values, such as respect, are instilled.
Fear isn't respect. Respect can't be forced, it must be earned. Altought I admit that it is a very useful skill to be able to pretend respect towards people who have the power to hurt and/or harm you.
Besides, if you teach your kid to show respect by punishing him whenever he doesn't, won't he simply continue to do what you've taught after you aren't the authority figure anymore, and bow down to anyone stronger than himself - the government, Mafia, religious demagogues, political leaders...? Is that a good value to learn ?
If you want to teach someone respect, show it yourself. Monkey sees, monkey does. But trying to force someone to be respectful will simply teach them that it's okay to hit - methaphorically or literally - those weaker than yourself to make them "respect" you, which is fine if you're trying to bring up future Mafia members but not otherwise.
If you think that telling a parent to f-off is a "mild insult," then respect might be a value you haven't yet learned.
If you think that "fuck off" is worth a month-long detention, or any significant punishment for that matter, then a sense of proportion might be a value that you haven't yet learned. In fact I'd go a step further and say that treating any show of disrespect as deserving harsh punishment might indicate that the parent himself has some serious issues with his self-esteem or confidence, and is reacting out of fear and pride rather than any rational reason.
And yes, "fuck off" is a very mild insult. It isn't even really an insult, but rather a rude way to tell someone to leave the speaker alone. It is worthy of a lecture on manners, not punishment (besides the inherent punishment value of a lecture from a parent;).
If one of my kids told me to "f-off" they wouldn't be leaving their room for a month.
Since one of the reasons why children don't have full legal rights but are under their parent's power is that they don't have sufficient self-control to use them wisely, I have to question the wisdom of your statement. A month-long detention is absurdly harsh punishment for a mere insult (and a mild one at that), likely shouted out on impulse in the first place, and it won't stop such impulsive behavior in the future, since its cause is organic immaturity of a child's brain.
So basically, it is unjust and doesn't stop such incidents as future, and even if it did it the cure is excessive in relation to the illness, so to say.
Of course it's also possible that you simply happen to be the kind of egomaniacal control freak who gets children in order to have someone to boss around, excercize power on, and inflict arbitrary and excessive punishments upon at the slightest hint of anything besides absolute obedience. In that case, please fuck off, drop dead, and burn in Hell, you sick little freak.
In other words, if you can double the thrust/weight ratio of the craft, you can use this to take off from Earth.
I didn't read the article because the link looks like one of those add-laden ones which tend to jam Firefox, so I don't know what kind of craft and power source this thing requires; but could you use this as an auxiliary engine at orbital launch ? Negating half of Earth's gravity would reduce fuel requirements a lot.
I've never understood how string theory could ever be validated, except through funky math invented for the purpose.
That's simple, actually: have you ever fallend down ? Fallen flat on your face, when there's been seemingly nothing that could have caused you to lose your balance ? Well, since everything must have the cause, we can conclude that there must have been an invisible string which wrapped itself around your legs and made you fall. We can further conclude - with some more testing - that the strings are especially attracted to the legs of people who have alcohol in their bloodstream; just watch drunks wave around as they are being pulled this way and that by invisible strings as evidence.
Better idea: instead of popping up a dialog asking to install 3D acceleration, the installer just does it. After all, it'll be free software.
An even better idea: since a Free driver can be included in the kernel source and compiled into a module, the installer doesn't have to do anything special to enable 3D acceleration. It just installs all available kernel modules as normal and the kernel figures it out at bootup time and loads the ATI driver if appropriate.
That's because they're evil or stupid, obviously. You aren't going to listen to stupid and evil people, now are you ?-)
Seriously speaking, capitalism is an economic system, which may or may not be morally desirable or undesirable. It is not, however, a system of morals, altought such system may or may not underlay it.
Microsoft has some pretty smart people working there.
... who are totally overridden by the Marketting Department.
No they aren't. They are in the Marketing Department. After all, while Microsoft's programs are of horrible quality, they keep on getting them sold year after year.
I guess there's a lesson here, about what it takes to be succesfull...
Seriously, has this guy never heard the old adage: "Know your enemy so you may face them."?!?
I think that this has more to do with another old saying: "Knowledge is power."
If there's one thing a politician hates it's an informed public, because such public is not as thoroughly in his power as an ignorant one. That's why every story about "redesigning the Internet" makes me scared: the Internet happened because it managed to "sneak" into common usage behind the backs of powers-that-be, and if it gets redesigned now it gets tracking, surveillance and censorship built-in.
Don't forget, the Internet was originally built by US Government as their communication tool. It was built for military use and sure as Hell not meant for civilians. It is every politicians worst nightmare: a communication medium in which everyone can get their voice heard to the other side of the world. Enjoy it as long as you can, for it won't last.
To give an example from another wave band and type, imagine that a disco opens across the road from your house. Yes, it can be soundproofed to hell and back, but I'd like them to do that first, not just remain at the "it could be done" stage. If the first test could be heard from a mile, dunno about you, I'd probably be at the head of the medieval mob with torches and pitchforks trying to get them out of town.
But if you do that, they might demand more for your out-of-court settlement; after all, you received their service (disco music) despite effective copy protection measures (soundproofing), making you a criminal. Furthermore, can you prove that you didn't record any of the disco music you unlawfully obtained ? Better get ready to have your home searched.
But I'm sure that you can negotiate a very reasonable monthly payment to compensate them for your unfitting infringement. Sure, it may feel high, but artists have to live too, you know. You don't want to be a music thief, now do you ?
Remember, MS at least has the policy of never shipping with known bugs.
Yes, when don't beta test your products, you won't know of any bugs prior to shipping, now will you ?-) A twisting of words which would make Aes Sedai proud.
Why do we as a free society keep rolling over for this particular religious group? Is it because they get angry and blow people up?
Yes. It will go on until the muslims make the mistake of angering the japanese, at which points it's ninjas vs. muslim terrorists, both flipping out and killing people and themselves and not even thinking twice about it.
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Not to mention hangover. And gorging yourself too much while watching television 16 hours straight. Not to mention reading Slashdot evolution vs. creationism threads ;).
Seriously, there is almost nothing which couldn't cause these symptoms, so saying that it might be radiation poisoning is, indeed, fearmongering.
DOS runs on more hardware than Windows Vista. Therefore, your statement is wrong.
It is not dead which can prettily lie, and with strange aeons, only the ugly die ?-) Or were you referring to the undead ? Hmm... Seeing how I've seen japanese OS-tan porn, I'd say it's only a matter of time before someone there makes an erotic DOS-zombie flick.
"Conventional memory! Must eat conventional memoryyyy..."
From the link you posted:
Please explain how this can be read as anything but intentional throttling - which is a kludge or a hack, not a bug (programming error) ? The very text you linked to claims that this behavior was put in place for a reason (to prevent the network from overwhelming the multimedia path), that is, intentionally.
As for fixing it... This is clearly a scheduler problem. That they didn't fix it the simplest way - giving the multimedia subsystem a high, possibly even realtime, priority, so it would always get whatever CPU time it needed and the network could use all the remainder - and instead went for a hack - throttling network CPU usage to an artificial limit - strongly suggests that the scheduler simply isn't good enough. Since good schedulers are very difficult to write - even Linux only recently got a decent one - it is rather unlikely that Microsoft can come up with one anytime soon.
I find it highly unlikely that they can fix this. After all, if they could, why ship with the reduced performance in the first place - remember, the network performance reduction was put on place intentionally as a hack to get around other flaws. Also, let's not forget that they also worked on WinFS for years, and still failed to deliver. Finally, Microsoft has a reputation of saying anything to help drive sales; in other words, they could be lying.
And when your local grocery store decides that they won't sell to you unless you can show a written confirmation from your local church that you have been there the last Sunday, is that still okay ? After all, being devote fundamentalist Christian, the grocer is convinced that you'll burn in Hell unless you convert, so he's simply being caring and trying to do right for you.
There is a huge difference between caring about people and trying to force your will on them, no matter how benevolent you think you're being. And traditionally, resource starvation has been one of the most efficient ways of coercion, as any army laying siege can tell you. Such enforcement might seem like it's nothing now because it's directed against kids and an unimportant resource; but even kids are human beings and shouldn't be subjected to arbitrary use of power by anyone who cares to do so. Besides, it's best to nip these things in the bud.
That, by the way, is also where the libertarian concept of "only physical force is coercion" falls flat on its face: I can kill you without ever lifting a finger against you if I control some vital resource.
So, you're saying that Genesis must be true, because no one could had invented it, so it wouldn't exist if it wasn't factual ?-)
I have to disagree with this. Animal breeding is not a new development, and requires you to have a firm grasp of the basic principles of evolution (as it is essentially directed evolution). Domesticating plants likewise requires you to understand the principle.
Because not respecting the dead tends to hurt the living people they left behind, especially in the case of the recently dead.
No it doesn't. Zeus, for example, was not a creator god, but simply an usurper. Any religion with cyclical time can also work without a creator god, however some repair is typically required when the cycle comes full circle.
Then there's the Marvel mythology, in which gods rose as a side effect of life on Earth, rather than created it. I don't know of any actual religion with a similar premise, but it is certainly possible for one to exist.
Actually, nowadays it works fine, since the machines are fast enough to run it smoothly without 3D acceleration. With 3D acceleration enabled, the biggest challenge was reaching the next savepoint before the game crashed.
Of course, you could just run the PSX version on a Playstation emulator - ePSXe works wonderfully nowadays, even under Linux. Kinda funny: I've never owned a Playstation, but have bought games for it nonetheless :). And I'm writing this while listening to Skull Man's theme from mega Man 4 (NES). Ah, the times when I was young and NES was something new and wonderfull...
So basically, you demand civility from others, but fail to live up to even the most basic standard of it - refraining from violence unless physically threatened - yourself, and seem proud of this state of matters. How utterly pathetic.
But at least you deserve credit for not getting any children to abuse in the name of your ego.
This is where priority levels, or "nice", come in. They allow the user to tell the computer which stuff should be preferred/unpreferred, and how much.
Unfortunately, some people insist that the scheduler should guesstimate the priorities by itself, rather than depending on the user's judgement; since the scheduler can't read the mind of the user, such guesstimating (or "heuristic") scheduler frequently guesses wrong, leading to performance problems. What's even worse is that the constantly changing "dynamic priority" for every program can easily lead to temporary high latency, which in turn leads to audio/video skips and unresponsive system.
A totally fair scheduler will give each process CPU time according to their nice level, without trying to guesstimate. Con Kolivas came up with such a design (the Staircase Deadline scheduler), after which Ingo Molnar wrote a similar design (the CFS) based on the SD which then got accepted into the kernel. Con wasn't happy about this and quit kernel development altogether, which is unfortunate since the "-ck" patchset maintained by him was/is a huge improvement over the vanilla kernel.
Actually, no. Impulse control develops as the brain does. No amount of punishment can hasten this process, altought it can instill learned helplesness, which might look a bit similar in the beginning. The only thing consequences teaches is what impulses should be controlled.
Fear isn't respect. Respect can't be forced, it must be earned. Altought I admit that it is a very useful skill to be able to pretend respect towards people who have the power to hurt and/or harm you.
Besides, if you teach your kid to show respect by punishing him whenever he doesn't, won't he simply continue to do what you've taught after you aren't the authority figure anymore, and bow down to anyone stronger than himself - the government, Mafia, religious demagogues, political leaders...? Is that a good value to learn ?
If you want to teach someone respect, show it yourself. Monkey sees, monkey does. But trying to force someone to be respectful will simply teach them that it's okay to hit - methaphorically or literally - those weaker than yourself to make them "respect" you, which is fine if you're trying to bring up future Mafia members but not otherwise.
If you think that "fuck off" is worth a month-long detention, or any significant punishment for that matter, then a sense of proportion might be a value that you haven't yet learned. In fact I'd go a step further and say that treating any show of disrespect as deserving harsh punishment might indicate that the parent himself has some serious issues with his self-esteem or confidence, and is reacting out of fear and pride rather than any rational reason.
And yes, "fuck off" is a very mild insult. It isn't even really an insult, but rather a rude way to tell someone to leave the speaker alone. It is worthy of a lecture on manners, not punishment (besides the inherent punishment value of a lecture from a parent ;).
Since one of the reasons why children don't have full legal rights but are under their parent's power is that they don't have sufficient self-control to use them wisely, I have to question the wisdom of your statement. A month-long detention is absurdly harsh punishment for a mere insult (and a mild one at that), likely shouted out on impulse in the first place, and it won't stop such impulsive behavior in the future, since its cause is organic immaturity of a child's brain.
So basically, it is unjust and doesn't stop such incidents as future, and even if it did it the cure is excessive in relation to the illness, so to say.
Of course it's also possible that you simply happen to be the kind of egomaniacal control freak who gets children in order to have someone to boss around, excercize power on, and inflict arbitrary and excessive punishments upon at the slightest hint of anything besides absolute obedience. In that case, please fuck off, drop dead, and burn in Hell, you sick little freak.
Well, since this is a science article, let us use the awesome power of experimental empirical experiments to research the issue:
I'm an idiot, so mod me up !
BTW. Isn't "photonic laser" a bit redundant - the "l" in laser stands for "light", after all ?
In other words, if you can double the thrust/weight ratio of the craft, you can use this to take off from Earth.
I didn't read the article because the link looks like one of those add-laden ones which tend to jam Firefox, so I don't know what kind of craft and power source this thing requires; but could you use this as an auxiliary engine at orbital launch ? Negating half of Earth's gravity would reduce fuel requirements a lot.
That's simple, actually: have you ever fallend down ? Fallen flat on your face, when there's been seemingly nothing that could have caused you to lose your balance ? Well, since everything must have the cause, we can conclude that there must have been an invisible string which wrapped itself around your legs and made you fall. We can further conclude - with some more testing - that the strings are especially attracted to the legs of people who have alcohol in their bloodstream; just watch drunks wave around as they are being pulled this way and that by invisible strings as evidence.
And that's all there is to string theory.
An even better idea: since a Free driver can be included in the kernel source and compiled into a module, the installer doesn't have to do anything special to enable 3D acceleration. It just installs all available kernel modules as normal and the kernel figures it out at bootup time and loads the ATI driver if appropriate.
That's because they're evil or stupid, obviously. You aren't going to listen to stupid and evil people, now are you ?-)
Seriously speaking, capitalism is an economic system, which may or may not be morally desirable or undesirable. It is not, however, a system of morals, altought such system may or may not underlay it.
No they aren't. They are in the Marketing Department. After all, while Microsoft's programs are of horrible quality, they keep on getting them sold year after year.
I guess there's a lesson here, about what it takes to be succesfull...
Wasn't that Judge Andersson, actually ? At least she killed some kid to prevent demons from sacrificing him to open a gate to Mega-City 1...
I think that this has more to do with another old saying: "Knowledge is power."
If there's one thing a politician hates it's an informed public, because such public is not as thoroughly in his power as an ignorant one. That's why every story about "redesigning the Internet" makes me scared: the Internet happened because it managed to "sneak" into common usage behind the backs of powers-that-be, and if it gets redesigned now it gets tracking, surveillance and censorship built-in.
Don't forget, the Internet was originally built by US Government as their communication tool. It was built for military use and sure as Hell not meant for civilians. It is every politicians worst nightmare: a communication medium in which everyone can get their voice heard to the other side of the world. Enjoy it as long as you can, for it won't last.
But if you do that, they might demand more for your out-of-court settlement; after all, you received their service (disco music) despite effective copy protection measures (soundproofing), making you a criminal. Furthermore, can you prove that you didn't record any of the disco music you unlawfully obtained ? Better get ready to have your home searched.
But I'm sure that you can negotiate a very reasonable monthly payment to compensate them for your unfitting infringement. Sure, it may feel high, but artists have to live too, you know. You don't want to be a music thief, now do you ?
Yes, when don't beta test your products, you won't know of any bugs prior to shipping, now will you ?-) A twisting of words which would make Aes Sedai proud.
Yes. It will go on until the muslims make the mistake of angering the japanese, at which points it's ninjas vs. muslim terrorists, both flipping out and killing people and themselves and not even thinking twice about it.