You know, I've been hearing this alot on this thread, and I don't understand the thinking. You do NOT need threaded apps to take advantage of SMP. A SINGLE app will run faster (potentially) on SMP if it is threaded, but running a SINGLE application isn't the big benefit SMP gets you.
Its that Firefox can be run on one processor, while your MP3 player is running at the same time on the other. This in turn will speed up BOTH applications, since Firefox does not ever have to yield to the player, and visa versa.
Since there's more going on then just those two apps (various system process, etc), your machine should be faster as each process now only has to worry about HALF the number of processes it did before.
I don't understand why a largely tech audience misses that point. We're not in DOS anymore; the OSes we are using all run more then one process at a time.
I do read legal contracts before I sign them; however, an EULA isn't a legal contract, and causing an animation of a button depress on a TV screen isn't legally binding either.
Which is one of the primary reasons I wanted to move off of windows xp (which is ironic, b/c it is slowly getting better). I didn't feel that a lot of hard drive activity should cause my mouse and (on startup) my task bar to become unresponsive. Why must i wait to move a window on screen b/c the harddrive is overloaded?
This problem is greatly amplified on my new dell laptop (my work computer). With only a 40k RPM hard disk, just about anything that causes any disk activity results in the computer ignoring the mouse / keyboard.
Its really the developers I think at fault now.. how many programs just refuse to run as non-admin? There are quite a few, and I don't think any of those are MS (short of needing to install something).
Seriously, how do you expect to be able to run as non-admin when something as simple as The Sims needs to be admin so it can download the latest patches (which are released about once a week or so)?
I thought the reason everone was angry was that he was threatening to sue the writers of Mame. Must be mistaken.
Which is a possible outcome of his attemping to lift their logo. Yes, he said he didn't plan on doing that, but do you really trust someone that is trying to steal another projects logo and trademark it?
Harm... Trying to work out what harm has been done. He's not using the trademark, and not preventing the rightful owners of using it. Where's the injury? All I see is a free gain for Ultracade. Sure, they don't deserve the gain, but until it costs someone something I can't be bothered to complain.
He's not using the trademark because it hasn't be granted to him yet. If he is granted the TM, he could prevent the rightful owners from using it. Finally, if he does use the logo, it dilutes the value of the logo to the MAME project...you know, the very thing that trade marks are meant to protect. Do you think Kleenex would like to lose their trademark? Do you think its fair for a company to usurp the logo of a smaller, free, project? The free gain is exactly what the harm is.
Why does it matter!? Ohhh the poor pirates making heaps of money by breaching the licence terms of Mame on selling illegal copies of ROMs can't do it any more. So, he's using dirty tactics. I'll complain when someone who doesn't deserve to be harmed is harmed. Until then it's a couple of businesses fighting dirty. Not something I approve of, but I'm willing to ignore it if they keep it to themselves
It matters because Ultracades trademarking of the MAMEs project logo will not do ANYTHING to stop the illegal selling of copyrighted ROMs. I never once said I felt bad for them, I said he should not be trying to steal an FOSS project's logo and then claim its to help stop copyright violiations. Please, explain how his TMing MAMEs logo will help him stop that? MAME hasn't done anything wrong, and they will be hurt, while these infringers won't.
No, I think the reason everyone is angry is that he is trying to trademark the name and logo of the MAME project. I fail to see what that has to do with stopping the illegal sale of ROM images.
Please, explain how taking the logo from MAMEs site and trying to use it has his own isn't harmful. No, he hasn't threatened to sue, but he also hasn't gotten the TM yet. Why should he be able to use a FOSS projects logo to stop copyright voliations? He didn't coin the MAME acronym AFAIK.
Somehow I doubt your story...since Isuzu is not a GM company. Can you provide the model and proof that the Chevy was in fact rebranded?
Now if you had said the Pontiac was the Chevy was the GM car...then you'd have a point (since GM likes to make the same car under 3 different brand names, for some reason..).
Where in any of my posts did I give the impression "I accept substandard service" or "I am a person that's willing to take it"?
From Gparent post: If you think leaving your shopping in the aisles in protest is the way to get more people on the checkouts, you're wrong.
Thats where...sorry if I got the wrong impression though.
I don't make work for the little guy on the shop floor by deserting a shopping trolley in a petty tantrum. That wastes my time filling the trolley up in the first place, and the shelf fillers time putting it back.
Do you think the little guy on the floor cares? He still leaves at the same time regardless, and doesn't get paid more for working faster / harder. As far as I'm concerned, he's not paid enough to even have to smile with the crap he does put up with (also, FYI...when I worked in a grocery store, I'd much rather someone just leave their stuff then yell at me because the customer in front of them was too slow..). I don't drop the stuff on the floor, I just leave it somewhere and go. I don't make a scene or anything out of it either.
Honestly, sometimes I think people like you must go to a busy shop on purpose just to storm out and leave the shopping standing. Do you think other customers are looking at you thinking "Cor! He's brave! I wish I could be like him" They're thinking "Great! I get served quicker now!"
Nope, I go when I need something that I didn't plan on running out of so quickly. I don't think other customers really care if I'm there or not...or if they do, they're glad, b/c now they don't have to wait for me.
In the mean time, you've wasted your afternoon because you won't queue for any more than 5 minutes.
Now where did you get the impression I would just leave after 5 minutes? I haven't ever left because it took longer than 5 minutes...I leave when I've been there about 20 minutes in an express line. As far as I'm concerned, when they've already wasted my time, I'm not going to waste it further by going all the way back to the ailse to return the item. It doesn't take much longer to get to the next store, and for stores that repeatedly have not enough cashiers, I end up not going there anymore.
The last thing to consider is this: would that poor sap putting away the stuff I just left behind have a job if everyone did their own reshops and helped keep the store clean? Probably not..
You're right of course. Which is exactly why checkout lines have been becoming longer and longer. they know that people like you are willing to take it, no matter how long the wait becomes. If more people just said 'forget it' and went somewhere else (were there ARE enough cashiers), the store would have to be willing to pay more, or risk going under.
But I don't see that happening. More and more I think people are just sheep that will accept whatever crap is handed to them. Oh they'll complain, but ultimately do nothing. So if thats what you do, thats fine, but I'd rather not accept substandard service. Hey, if worse comes to worse, there's always internet grocery stores, right?
Oh, and I don't just put things back and leave...on the way out i pick up one of thier comment cards and fill it out, noting the exact date / time of my experience.
Yes, because the number of people in line when he walks in represents the number of people currently shopping that will also finish at exactly the same time as him.
And of course he won't get stuck behind the old biddy paying $20 in pennys, or the dumbass writing a check in the express line, find the slowest / dumbest cashier there is, or any sort of other things that cause your checkout to be much slower than it really should be.
The store can't eliminate stupid customers in front of you, but they can hire more and intelligent hard working cashiers, if they are willing to pay more.
You are wasting perfectly good food, also doing it in a world where others are starving, they might even kill you for your place in the queue.
Ya b/c if he had put it away the store would have shipped it to Ethiopia. Do you ship your half eaten hamburger to them too?
I'm sorry, but that logic is just stupid (even if well intentioned). The fact is that 'wasted' food would never end up going to feed starving people; it will sit on the shelf until someone else decides to buy it.
(even in IE), people aren't necessarily explicitly choosing to block popups anymore.
IIRC, when I installed SP2 (which put the blocker into IE), I had to go explicitly turn it on. Which makes sense; MS shouldn't change the behavior people are used to b/c they added a new option.
I've had a few also. On linux, I've had 2 total..the odd thing is that FF claimed to have blocked the ads.
On windows, I've had FF popups, but the popups loaded in IE, not FF. That one really got me worried..has anyone else had this behavior (FF launching IE)?
No, I paid NO TAXES when I registered the car in VT. As I said, I showed them my sales receipt that I had pai tax in PA, and it only cost me the registration fee (which I believe was cheaper last year).
Thats true, i wasn't suggesting taxing up front as solution...it was just a way to ask why the current system is considered 'fair.' I guess my sarcasm was lost:-)
So because thats how everyone does it, it does not matter that their assumptions are flawed, and I should be fined because my actions didn't fit with thier assumptions? Why not just take all my money up front and be done with it?
But no one gets hurt when I don't pay you say. I disagree that money was planned for allocation somewhere and someone else will be making it up in raised taxes elsewhere.
How can they account for and plan to spend money generated from the sale of an item that I might not even have decided to make yet?
Oh, you mean they are guessing how much people will spend, and thus how much sales tax they will make? Sounds like they'd better figure out a new way to project budgets.
A state collecting an 'import' tax on goods 'imported' from another state is expressly forbidden by the constitution. Only the Fed govt can regulate interstate commerce.
It is, which is why if you buy something mail order in any state, the only time you have to pay sales tax is if there is a nexus in your state; that is, a physical presence by the retailer.
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You know, I've been hearing this alot on this thread, and I don't understand the thinking. You do NOT need threaded apps to take advantage of SMP. A SINGLE app will run faster (potentially) on SMP if it is threaded, but running a SINGLE application isn't the big benefit SMP gets you.
Its that Firefox can be run on one processor, while your MP3 player is running at the same time on the other. This in turn will speed up BOTH applications, since Firefox does not ever have to yield to the player, and visa versa.
Since there's more going on then just those two apps (various system process, etc), your machine should be faster as each process now only has to worry about HALF the number of processes it did before.
I don't understand why a largely tech audience misses that point. We're not in DOS anymore; the OSes we are using all run more then one process at a time.
Well, why should they be able to regulate the content broadcast on that spectrum either? they shouldn't be able to do so, but they do.
I do read legal contracts before I sign them; however, an EULA isn't a legal contract, and causing an animation of a button depress on a TV screen isn't legally binding either.
Which is one of the primary reasons I wanted to move off of windows xp (which is ironic, b/c it is slowly getting better). I didn't feel that a lot of hard drive activity should cause my mouse and (on startup) my task bar to become unresponsive. Why must i wait to move a window on screen b/c the harddrive is overloaded?
This problem is greatly amplified on my new dell laptop (my work computer). With only a 40k RPM hard disk, just about anything that causes any disk activity results in the computer ignoring the mouse / keyboard.
Its really the developers I think at fault now.. how many programs just refuse to run as non-admin? There are quite a few, and I don't think any of those are MS (short of needing to install something).
Seriously, how do you expect to be able to run as non-admin when something as simple as The Sims needs to be admin so it can download the latest patches (which are released about once a week or so)?
I believe there was a way to excempt programs from DEP. Why not just add a few programs to the exemptions list?
I thought the reason everone was angry was that he was threatening to sue the writers of Mame. Must be mistaken.
Which is a possible outcome of his attemping to lift their logo. Yes, he said he didn't plan on doing that, but do you really trust someone that is trying to steal another projects logo and trademark it?
Harm... Trying to work out what harm has been done. He's not using the trademark, and not preventing the rightful owners of using it. Where's the injury? All I see is a free gain for Ultracade. Sure, they don't deserve the gain, but until it costs someone something I can't be bothered to complain.
He's not using the trademark because it hasn't be granted to him yet. If he is granted the TM, he could prevent the rightful owners from using it. Finally, if he does use the logo, it dilutes the value of the logo to the MAME project...you know, the very thing that trade marks are meant to protect. Do you think Kleenex would like to lose their trademark? Do you think its fair for a company to usurp the logo of a smaller, free, project? The free gain is exactly what the harm is.
Why does it matter!? Ohhh the poor pirates making heaps of money by breaching the licence terms of Mame on selling illegal copies of ROMs can't do it any more. So, he's using dirty tactics. I'll complain when someone who doesn't deserve to be harmed is harmed. Until then it's a couple of businesses fighting dirty. Not something I approve of, but I'm willing to ignore it if they keep it to themselves
It matters because Ultracades trademarking of the MAMEs project logo will not do ANYTHING to stop the illegal selling of copyrighted ROMs. I never once said I felt bad for them, I said he should not be trying to steal an FOSS project's logo and then claim its to help stop copyright violiations. Please, explain how his TMing MAMEs logo will help him stop that? MAME hasn't done anything wrong, and they will be hurt, while these infringers won't.
No, I think the reason everyone is angry is that he is trying to trademark the name and logo of the MAME project. I fail to see what that has to do with stopping the illegal sale of ROM images.
Please, explain how taking the logo from MAMEs site and trying to use it has his own isn't harmful. No, he hasn't threatened to sue, but he also hasn't gotten the TM yet. Why should he be able to use a FOSS projects logo to stop copyright voliations? He didn't coin the MAME acronym AFAIK.
Somehow I doubt your story...since Isuzu is not a GM company. Can you provide the model and proof that the Chevy was in fact rebranded?
Now if you had said the Pontiac was the Chevy was the GM car...then you'd have a point (since GM likes to make the same car under 3 different brand names, for some reason..).
Where in any of my posts did I give the impression "I accept substandard service" or "I am a person that's willing to take it"?
From Gparent post: If you think leaving your shopping in the aisles in protest is the way to get more people on the checkouts, you're wrong.
Thats where...sorry if I got the wrong impression though.
I don't make work for the little guy on the shop floor by deserting a shopping trolley in a petty tantrum. That wastes my time filling the trolley up in the first place, and the shelf fillers time putting it back.
Do you think the little guy on the floor cares? He still leaves at the same time regardless, and doesn't get paid more for working faster / harder. As far as I'm concerned, he's not paid enough to even have to smile with the crap he does put up with (also, FYI...when I worked in a grocery store, I'd much rather someone just leave their stuff then yell at me because the customer in front of them was too slow..). I don't drop the stuff on the floor, I just leave it somewhere and go. I don't make a scene or anything out of it either.
Honestly, sometimes I think people like you must go to a busy shop on purpose just to storm out and leave the shopping standing. Do you think other customers are looking at you thinking "Cor! He's brave! I wish I could be like him" They're thinking "Great! I get served quicker now!"
Nope, I go when I need something that I didn't plan on running out of so quickly. I don't think other customers really care if I'm there or not...or if they do, they're glad, b/c now they don't have to wait for me.
In the mean time, you've wasted your afternoon because you won't queue for any more than 5 minutes.
Now where did you get the impression I would just leave after 5 minutes? I haven't ever left because it took longer than 5 minutes...I leave when I've been there about 20 minutes in an express line. As far as I'm concerned, when they've already wasted my time, I'm not going to waste it further by going all the way back to the ailse to return the item. It doesn't take much longer to get to the next store, and for stores that repeatedly have not enough cashiers, I end up not going there anymore.
The last thing to consider is this: would that poor sap putting away the stuff I just left behind have a job if everyone did their own reshops and helped keep the store clean? Probably not..
You're right of course. Which is exactly why checkout lines have been becoming longer and longer. they know that people like you are willing to take it, no matter how long the wait becomes. If more people just said 'forget it' and went somewhere else (were there ARE enough cashiers), the store would have to be willing to pay more, or risk going under.
But I don't see that happening. More and more I think people are just sheep that will accept whatever crap is handed to them. Oh they'll complain, but ultimately do nothing. So if thats what you do, thats fine, but I'd rather not accept substandard service. Hey, if worse comes to worse, there's always internet grocery stores, right?
Oh, and I don't just put things back and leave...on the way out i pick up one of thier comment cards and fill it out, noting the exact date / time of my experience.
The feeling is probably they want to abolish IP rules, but until they do, they must use them to protect themselves.
Yes, because the number of people in line when he walks in represents the number of people currently shopping that will also finish at exactly the same time as him.
And of course he won't get stuck behind the old biddy paying $20 in pennys, or the dumbass writing a check in the express line, find the slowest / dumbest cashier there is, or any sort of other things that cause your checkout to be much slower than it really should be.
The store can't eliminate stupid customers in front of you, but they can hire more and intelligent hard working cashiers, if they are willing to pay more.
You are wasting perfectly good food, also doing it in a world where others are starving, they might even kill you for your place in the queue.
Ya b/c if he had put it away the store would have shipped it to Ethiopia. Do you ship your half eaten hamburger to them too?
I'm sorry, but that logic is just stupid (even if well intentioned). The fact is that 'wasted' food would never end up going to feed starving people; it will sit on the shelf until someone else decides to buy it.
(even in IE), people aren't necessarily explicitly choosing to block popups anymore.
IIRC, when I installed SP2 (which put the blocker into IE), I had to go explicitly turn it on. Which makes sense; MS shouldn't change the behavior people are used to b/c they added a new option.
I've had a few also. On linux, I've had 2 total..the odd thing is that FF claimed to have blocked the ads.
On windows, I've had FF popups, but the popups loaded in IE, not FF. That one really got me worried..has anyone else had this behavior (FF launching IE)?
No, I paid NO TAXES when I registered the car in VT. As I said, I showed them my sales receipt that I had pai tax in PA, and it only cost me the registration fee (which I believe was cheaper last year).
Thats true, i wasn't suggesting taxing up front as solution...it was just a way to ask why the current system is considered 'fair.' I guess my sarcasm was lost :-)
The money did NOT go to VT. PA had the money for 2 years already, why would they suddenly send it to VT?
So because thats how everyone does it, it does not matter that their assumptions are flawed, and I should be fined because my actions didn't fit with thier assumptions? Why not just take all my money up front and be done with it?
Interesting. I guess then that Amazon is not far behind, because it seems only tobacco is covered under this.
but trust me, if you bought a car over the state from a dealer in another state and registered it in VT, then you paid a USE tax
No, I didn't. I proved that I had already paid sales tax when I bought my car, and thus did not owe vermont anything.
But no one gets hurt when I don't pay you say. I disagree that money was planned for allocation somewhere and someone else will be making it up in raised taxes elsewhere.
How can they account for and plan to spend money generated from the sale of an item that I might not even have decided to make yet?
Oh, you mean they are guessing how much people will spend, and thus how much sales tax they will make? Sounds like they'd better figure out a new way to project budgets.
A state collecting an 'import' tax on goods 'imported' from another state is expressly forbidden by the constitution. Only the Fed govt can regulate interstate commerce.
It is, which is why if you buy something mail order in any state, the only time you have to pay sales tax is if there is a nexus in your state; that is, a physical presence by the retailer.
Honestly I'm not sure how Michigan can do this..