Indeed. If only there were real options in most places. I'm fortunate enough that the CITY rolled out fiber optics because neither Crapcast or Verizon wanted to do so. So now i get my internet and CATV through them. Cheaper, better service. Unlike comcast, which compresses digital channels so much, you actually end up with lower quality than analog signals.
I hope Comcast employees burn in the lowest pit of hell, I have nothing but hatred for that piece of shit company. Sub-moronic imbeciles is being too nice.
Skipping the link specific to dentists, since we're talking about women working in general, both of those studies state that women work less than one hour less than their male counter parts. Not really significant, since hours worked != productivity, or even that someone really is working (does/. count as work?).
Also, those studies are including people that work 35 hours or more a week; I've always been under the impression that 35 hours is still part-time, unless something has changed. I'd like to see the data for 40 hours or more, since all the graph shows is that there may be more women working 35 hour jobs than 40 hours.
Laziness stems from stupidity, because in the end, laziness always costs you more than not being lazy. So you stop being lazy because you realize this, unless you're stupid of course.
I guess apathy works, if you know you're poor and simply don't care. Of course, you need to be someone stupid to be that apathtic though, because that ultimate translates to one not caring about one's well-being, and only someone stupid (or I suppose mentally ill0 wouldn't care about their own well-being.
And drugs... ya, let me me inject this white powder from some guy living down the street into my blood, because he said it will make me feel better. Again, are you really an intelligent person if you don't stop and think about what you're putting into your body?
Leaving the choice to the end user, that just wants to use the computer, not figure out which browser they should pick... especially since they all do the same thing. That's my point; if you want the OEM to set one up, now you need three images, increasing by quite a bit the amount of storage the OEM needs to keep the images.
All for what? So the user can pick something that does pretty much the same thing as the other two options, and not knowing what would be the "best" option for them? It just adds to user confusion, and / or OEM costs.
Oh, and lets not forget about those support calls..
It does change things a bit, but perhaps they way they would have been forced to work would have allowed Vista to be more secure, but still allow AV to function. If they really work working on a solution, why the outcry about the changes in Vista?
Why is it a problem? OEMs don't want to waste time installing three different programs that do the same thing. So if IE is forced to be removed, browsers now will have to pay OEMs to be placed on as the browser.
FF has gained a respectable market, even though IE was bundled. I think that proves more than anything that there is no problem.
Raises do, yes. But again, unless there is some bias going on, women should get about the same amount in raises. Contrary to what some may think, women do work as hard and as long as men.
As for productivity, peer reviews don't measure how productive you are. What's a good measure? How many pages you can get done? How many graphics sliced? Those are no good, as you need quality as well. How do you quantify quality? How many times you are asked to redo a graphic?
Code reviews also don't point out how productive you are; they mearely measure quality of code.
Salaried workers don't get paid overtime, but they get paid for overtime in the form of bonuses and salary raises that reflect on the perceived or real performance that results from extra hours worked.
Which doesn't affect this survey in the slightest, because again, I would think you'd respond with your ACTUAL salary, not including bonuses and such.
If you have a man who works 50 hours, and a woman who works 40 hours all year, and the man is 10% more productive as a result of his 25% longer hours, which are you more likely to reward with a larger raise?
You act as if there's a solid metric to measure productivity. There's not, so your question is flawed right at the start.
So the common misperception is that you take what MS says and immediately think of some other idea that fits your agenda? Is that basically what you're saying?
Maybe you need to read the articles again, because the AV people didn't find another way to 'hack' around anything in Vista, MS changed Vista so that they could continue to operate as normal.
Ya, its too bad that when MS does want to fix a big problem that the same AV people bitch and complain that it would "kill" thier market, so MS is forced to leave holes in there. I can see why you trust them.. wait, I can't.
Considering that AV software sucks so bad I believe it was causing blue screens in Vista, or when it is working "properly" it slows down the computer noticably. Norton and McAfee are both steaming piles..
Ya, how dare he not want to waste time rebooting to do different tasks, or wanting to play certain games! He should be happy with those other games, even if he doesn't like them!
Because people that use iPods don't want to use the command line? Really, why write a GUI wrapper around a CLI when you can write a library that can be used by either a GUI or CLI? I never understood that line of thinking.
Well there's really no other explaination except bias, is there? Salary workers don't get paid overtime; even if some due, when asked what their salary is, they woudl give the amount excluding any salary, because overtime may or may not be there.
Given 100 people, half men, half women, I would expect that they have the same distribution of salaries.
Right, and the companies making digital to analog converter boxes won't be yelling just as loud, saying how you can "save" your old TV for pennies on the dollar?
Because the cable companies need to send the same analog signals to everyone, most of whom want digital for its clearer picture and more sound channels? It costs more for cable companies to do that, which they could be spending elsewhere?
If you want analog, get a box that converts digital signals to analog. As for your phone, I'd more likely put it out on display as a piece of art than try to use it.
So yea, either buy a converter for your analog TV, or get a newer digital TV. But don't expect that you have a right to hold up progress for everyone else.
No, I've only lost $400, because that is the only amount I actually paid on losting the bet. Also, it would not have been "dumb" of me to continue the game, as the odds are I would have one, if it not had been some lucky hits on your part.
But please, feel try to try claiming $600 loss with the IRS when you claim stock loses from the initial purchase of $400.
You are a complete moron. Semaphores and monitors (at least as that term is used in the same context as semaphores) are mechanisms used to synchronize threads and processes, with quite significant computational overhead may I add (particularly the monitors) as both involve deep calls into the kernel in modern multi-core/multi-CPU systems complicated by predictive branching, caching and multi-pipeline instruction execution (not to mention the whole rigmarole of wrapper code and access routines used in the monitor approach to concurrency).
Support for them is already there though, and has been for some time. A monitor can be used to make a thread sleep until something it cares about happens. Of course since you never saw the code the NT kernel uses to implement them, you really can't say how much overhead they use. I'd think any modern OS is smart enough not to even bother with a process / thread if its waiting to be pulsed.
Oh and they have absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with security or DRM.
And yet using them in a DRM system seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to do, especially if you don't want code checking all the time the state of the system; instead, the system notifies interested parties when something changes, and the check is done then. If nothing is monitoring, nothing is notified.
I think you really believe this! Well then, you should really seek a job in one of those inane DRM software outfits which gave us Shift-key bypassable CD rootkits or Media Defender style "anti-piracy defense". With clowns like you around "contributing", our job to crack this stuff would be child's play. I am looking forward to you reinventing ROT-13 or XOR "encryption"!
I explain how you could create such a system, and you claim its impossible. I don't think my coding skills are the ones that need to be questioned.
But of course! Listen up everyone! A breakthrough in Computer Science! Our resident Genius, plague3106, determined that splitting a task into multiple parallel threads magically reduces the overall computational requirements and memory footprint! All possible by Magical Overhead-Free Semaphores and Fairy-Tale Pixie-dust Monitors! The Nobel Prize cannot be far behind, surely?
It only adds overhead when DRM is in use. Otherwise the audio drives (or video) continue to operate the same, whether or not DRM is in place.
Yes they are sending "messages" in the vain of "Hey! Did you hear? plague3106 is a complete nimrod!".
The typical response of trolls. Assert something is true, and never stop and think they could possibly be wrong.
I am afraid that I discovered the reason for this. One has to be under the influence of some rather potent mind altering substances to enter the rarefied state of mind you possess. Fortunately, I do not do drugs.
No, but it seems you are suffering brain damage from ringing bells next to your ears and yelling loudly. Bill O'riely would be proud.
This is just too stupid for words. This idiot must have learned about concurrency in some book titled "Computing for Total Cretins" as the cure-all solution to all security problems, particularly DRM. Just you wait till he gets to a chapter wherein they describe memmap and shared memory...
I see you've never heard of WMI then..
Oh I see, the "MS has said..." has by now been downgraded to "an anonymous dude who said he works for MS on that Vista Rulez online forum said..."
Not anonymous to me, or my friend. I know when you know someone personally that it only means you talked to them online, but most of us actually are in the same room as people we know personally.
This guy is something else. Doesn't he realize how defensive does he sound? Next thing we will learn the whole sob story about how he really wants to make compilers while the cruel businessmen stop him from touching anything besides accounting software and some confused ramblin
Yes, Windows update started with the release of Windows 98, IIRC. The stealth update of recent was, IIRC, to resolve some performance problems arising from a previous (non-stealth) update.
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Indeed. If only there were real options in most places. I'm fortunate enough that the CITY rolled out fiber optics because neither Crapcast or Verizon wanted to do so. So now i get my internet and CATV through them. Cheaper, better service. Unlike comcast, which compresses digital channels so much, you actually end up with lower quality than analog signals.
I hope Comcast employees burn in the lowest pit of hell, I have nothing but hatred for that piece of shit company. Sub-moronic imbeciles is being too nice.
Skipping the link specific to dentists, since we're talking about women working in general, both of those studies state that women work less than one hour less than their male counter parts. Not really significant, since hours worked != productivity, or even that someone really is working (does /. count as work?).
Also, those studies are including people that work 35 hours or more a week; I've always been under the impression that 35 hours is still part-time, unless something has changed. I'd like to see the data for 40 hours or more, since all the graph shows is that there may be more women working 35 hour jobs than 40 hours.
Laziness stems from stupidity, because in the end, laziness always costs you more than not being lazy. So you stop being lazy because you realize this, unless you're stupid of course.
I guess apathy works, if you know you're poor and simply don't care. Of course, you need to be someone stupid to be that apathtic though, because that ultimate translates to one not caring about one's well-being, and only someone stupid (or I suppose mentally ill0 wouldn't care about their own well-being.
And drugs... ya, let me me inject this white powder from some guy living down the street into my blood, because he said it will make me feel better. Again, are you really an intelligent person if you don't stop and think about what you're putting into your body?
Leaving the choice to the end user, that just wants to use the computer, not figure out which browser they should pick... especially since they all do the same thing. That's my point; if you want the OEM to set one up, now you need three images, increasing by quite a bit the amount of storage the OEM needs to keep the images.
All for what? So the user can pick something that does pretty much the same thing as the other two options, and not knowing what would be the "best" option for them? It just adds to user confusion, and / or OEM costs.
Oh, and lets not forget about those support calls..
I dunno, I might, but I don't know enough about it? Does it only work with Live? The HD is optional; does that mean I can install one myself?
It does change things a bit, but perhaps they way they would have been forced to work would have allowed Vista to be more secure, but still allow AV to function. If they really work working on a solution, why the outcry about the changes in Vista?
Why is it a problem? OEMs don't want to waste time installing three different programs that do the same thing. So if IE is forced to be removed, browsers now will have to pay OEMs to be placed on as the browser.
FF has gained a respectable market, even though IE was bundled. I think that proves more than anything that there is no problem.
Have you tried talking to some poor people? I've come to the conclusion that poor people are poor because they are stupid more than anything else.
Actually its in the smart peoples' best interest to make sure stupid people don't reproduce at all.
So... make MS take out IE, just to have OEMs put it back in? Or do you think any modern OS should come without any browser at all?
Raises do, yes. But again, unless there is some bias going on, women should get about the same amount in raises. Contrary to what some may think, women do work as hard and as long as men.
As for productivity, peer reviews don't measure how productive you are. What's a good measure? How many pages you can get done? How many graphics sliced? Those are no good, as you need quality as well. How do you quantify quality? How many times you are asked to redo a graphic?
Code reviews also don't point out how productive you are; they mearely measure quality of code.
Salaried workers don't get paid overtime, but they get paid for overtime in the form of bonuses and salary raises that reflect on the perceived or real performance that results from extra hours worked.
Which doesn't affect this survey in the slightest, because again, I would think you'd respond with your ACTUAL salary, not including bonuses and such.
If you have a man who works 50 hours, and a woman who works 40 hours all year, and the man is 10% more productive as a result of his 25% longer hours, which are you more likely to reward with a larger raise?
You act as if there's a solid metric to measure productivity. There's not, so your question is flawed right at the start.
So the common misperception is that you take what MS says and immediately think of some other idea that fits your agenda? Is that basically what you're saying?
Maybe you need to read the articles again, because the AV people didn't find another way to 'hack' around anything in Vista, MS changed Vista so that they could continue to operate as normal.
Ya, its too bad that when MS does want to fix a big problem that the same AV people bitch and complain that it would "kill" thier market, so MS is forced to leave holes in there. I can see why you trust them.. wait, I can't.
Considering that AV software sucks so bad I believe it was causing blue screens in Vista, or when it is working "properly" it slows down the computer noticably. Norton and McAfee are both steaming piles..
Ya, how dare he not want to waste time rebooting to do different tasks, or wanting to play certain games! He should be happy with those other games, even if he doesn't like them!
Talk about arrogant..
Because people that use iPods don't want to use the command line? Really, why write a GUI wrapper around a CLI when you can write a library that can be used by either a GUI or CLI? I never understood that line of thinking.
I wouldn't say Bush Wins = Consitutional loss... more like Goverment wins = constitutional loss.
Well there's really no other explaination except bias, is there? Salary workers don't get paid overtime; even if some due, when asked what their salary is, they woudl give the amount excluding any salary, because overtime may or may not be there.
Given 100 people, half men, half women, I would expect that they have the same distribution of salaries.
Right, and the companies making digital to analog converter boxes won't be yelling just as loud, saying how you can "save" your old TV for pennies on the dollar?
Because the cable companies need to send the same analog signals to everyone, most of whom want digital for its clearer picture and more sound channels? It costs more for cable companies to do that, which they could be spending elsewhere?
If you want analog, get a box that converts digital signals to analog. As for your phone, I'd more likely put it out on display as a piece of art than try to use it.
So yea, either buy a converter for your analog TV, or get a newer digital TV. But don't expect that you have a right to hold up progress for everyone else.
No, I've only lost $400, because that is the only amount I actually paid on losting the bet. Also, it would not have been "dumb" of me to continue the game, as the odds are I would have one, if it not had been some lucky hits on your part.
But please, feel try to try claiming $600 loss with the IRS when you claim stock loses from the initial purchase of $400.
You are a complete moron. Semaphores and monitors (at least as that term is used in the same context as semaphores) are mechanisms used to synchronize threads and processes, with quite significant computational overhead may I add (particularly the monitors) as both involve deep calls into the kernel in modern multi-core/multi-CPU systems complicated by predictive branching, caching and multi-pipeline instruction execution (not to mention the whole rigmarole of wrapper code and access routines used in the monitor approach to concurrency).
..." has by now been downgraded to "an anonymous dude who said he works for MS on that Vista Rulez online forum said ..."
Support for them is already there though, and has been for some time. A monitor can be used to make a thread sleep until something it cares about happens. Of course since you never saw the code the NT kernel uses to implement them, you really can't say how much overhead they use. I'd think any modern OS is smart enough not to even bother with a process / thread if its waiting to be pulsed.
Oh and they have absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with security or DRM.
And yet using them in a DRM system seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to do, especially if you don't want code checking all the time the state of the system; instead, the system notifies interested parties when something changes, and the check is done then. If nothing is monitoring, nothing is notified.
I think you really believe this! Well then, you should really seek a job in one of those inane DRM software outfits which gave us Shift-key bypassable CD rootkits or Media Defender style "anti-piracy defense". With clowns like you around "contributing", our job to crack this stuff would be child's play. I am looking forward to you reinventing ROT-13 or XOR "encryption"!
I explain how you could create such a system, and you claim its impossible. I don't think my coding skills are the ones that need to be questioned.
But of course! Listen up everyone! A breakthrough in Computer Science! Our resident Genius, plague3106, determined that splitting a task into multiple parallel threads magically reduces the overall computational requirements and memory footprint! All possible by Magical Overhead-Free Semaphores and Fairy-Tale Pixie-dust Monitors! The Nobel Prize cannot be far behind, surely?
It only adds overhead when DRM is in use. Otherwise the audio drives (or video) continue to operate the same, whether or not DRM is in place.
Yes they are sending "messages" in the vain of "Hey! Did you hear? plague3106 is a complete nimrod!".
The typical response of trolls. Assert something is true, and never stop and think they could possibly be wrong.
I am afraid that I discovered the reason for this. One has to be under the influence of some rather potent mind altering substances to enter the rarefied state of mind you possess. Fortunately, I do not do drugs.
No, but it seems you are suffering brain damage from ringing bells next to your ears and yelling loudly. Bill O'riely would be proud.
This is just too stupid for words. This idiot must have learned about concurrency in some book titled "Computing for Total Cretins" as the cure-all solution to all security problems, particularly DRM. Just you wait till he gets to a chapter wherein they describe memmap and shared memory...
I see you've never heard of WMI then..
Oh I see, the "MS has said
Not anonymous to me, or my friend. I know when you know someone personally that it only means you talked to them online, but most of us actually are in the same room as people we know personally.
This guy is something else. Doesn't he realize how defensive does he sound? Next thing we will learn the whole sob story about how he really wants to make compilers while the cruel businessmen stop him from touching anything besides accounting software and some confused ramblin
Hmm.. I dunno then. My system runs just fine.. especially now that I replaced my failing graphics card fan. Sooo much quieter.
Or, another possibility is that its a big company and people within disagree on their views of open source.
Yes, Windows update started with the release of Windows 98, IIRC. The stealth update of recent was, IIRC, to resolve some performance problems arising from a previous (non-stealth) update.