When you decided to have a family, was health insurance one of the considerations? If you hadn't had health insurance at the time, would you still have decided to get pregnant? I'm guessing that weren't entirely "lucky" and that you considered all this beforehand.
Yes, I know the healthcare system doesn't cover everyone, and that you could have got laid off and COBRA is expensive. But still, the majority of people are able to make the "should I have kids" decision and should consider health insurance and risks, as I'm sure you did.
It's not just the Intel chip that's the issue. Things like graphics card access and hard drive access *are* emulated, or at least abstracted and go through additional APIs. SLOW.
I've run VMWare many times on x86 hardware and it runs VERY SLOWLY when you need to access the hard drive, usually because the "hard drive" is actually a fragmented file sitting on the host OS hard drive, which is the only convenient way of setting it up.
That is like me running up massive debt on my credit card.
No it isn't. If we need a household example, let's assume that the supply of oil is like the supply of service staff in restaurants. Therefore, the cost of hiring wait staff continues to rise, and this cost is passed on in your bill at the end of the meal. Eventually, people will eat out less (i.e. conservation) or the restaurants will invent robot wait staff or innovate in other ways that allow each member of staff to serve more people. There is no "debt" involved in these scenarios - just economics.
The poster makes an entirely valid point regarding supply and demand, and the pricing structure that comes into play when we eventually "run out of oil", which I'm sure we'll do at some point in our future. Keep in mind that various parties have been predicting that we'll run out of oil since the late 19th century, so it will doubtless happen long after the pessimists predict.
Running out of oil is not the problem. As the parent poster said, we'll just invent (or use existing) alternative forms of enegy production. The real problem, however, is *how* we use the oil we have left, over what period of time, and what shit we pump into the atmosphere while we happily guzzle the remaining drops.
The poster never said that oil was unimportant, just that as it becomes more scarce - and therefore more expensive - the market will create alternatives.
The creation of these alternatives takes time and may be pushed forward more quickly by things like oil-shocks and subsequent recessions. No politician wants a recession on their watch so they would prefer to maintain the status quo and bleed the middle-east a little bit more dry for the time being.
In RFID, it's the *receiver* that is using the power and supplying it through the air to the transmitter. So the TV (receiver) would still need to be on. This is aside from the technical problems of distance, and other RFID stuff I don't understand...
I'm not sure if this is a common thing in the US, but in my old house (in Seattle) there were several circuits that were "bridged" (right term?) to create 230V circuits. These were used for the awful electric baseboard heating, and also maybe some of the larger electrical appliances.
Having lived in both England and the US, I have a perspective on this.
Houses in the US are more often made of wood, given that there is a lot of it around! Houses in England would be made of wood too, if there were any trees left.;) Why? Because it's easier and quicker to make houses out of wood. Bricks take a long time to put down compared to a "stick" structure.
Also, a lot of areas in the states have earthquakes. I lived in Seattle when we had an earthquake a few years ago and which buildings got damaged? Yes, the old ones make of brick. They're more brittle and not flexible enough to cope with a moving foundation. When you want strength and flexibility, you use steel or wood. Houses in England never have to survive such conditions.
I'm sure there are many other opinions and perspectives - just wanted to add my little bit of experience...
And why haven't the wonders of mixing faucets (insted of one hot and one cold) reached England?
Very true! I'm from England originally and whenever I go back there, this really pisses me off. My parents even renovated their bathroom a few years ago and happily put in two little taps - one hot, and one cold. When you wash your hands you either have to spend a couple of minutes filling the sink, or move your hands between burning and freezing to create a nice average temperature!
This may sound odd, but this is one of the reasons I won't go back to England to live. I should mention, however, that there about another 400 similarly minor reasons that add into my decision.:)
I totally agree. I'm looking to go solar on a cabin I'm hoping to start building soon. I used to live in England and don't imagine that solar power would really generate enough to be useful year round, but in the Southern United States, it's a very viable option.
I just wish it wasn't so stupidly expensive to buy the equipment!!!
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OK, I've been running Firefox for a few hours now and it's using about 92MB of RAM. I have a few Windows open and I imagine it's cached quite a bit of stuff in memory...
I opened about 10 new tabs and pointed each one to a major site (CNN, MSN, Yahoo, etc). Usage went up to about 110MB. I then closed all the tabs back down again.
I'm now back at 92MB.
I imagine its initially memory hunger is due to the memory caches for various things, that it subsequently reuses (i.e. NOT a leak). I highly doubt that Firefox has large memory leaks in it any more. A significant leak like you describe would be so obvious that it would get fixed quickly. I imagine that it still has rare and/or minor memory leaks that are harder to find and are reported less because they are not obvious to users.
Why have an eject button on a DVD remote? You still have to physically remove the disk!
Because one out of three Netflix DVDs is scratched to shit, and will actually freeze my DVD player and not allow me to skip. The only thing I can do is to note the time of the scratch, open the DVD, close it, skip using titles to after the scratch, and continue watching. All this is done remotely.
Yes, my DVD player is probably total shit.
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every computer owner has the right to view the source code of any program running on a computer that they own
Wow - extreme viewpoint, although shared by many. I agree that there is a place for opensource software, but I would also say that there is a place for proprietary software. Companies (the things that supply most software in the world) simply would not bother to spend so much time and money making software if someone could just come along and copy it. You may not like that, but that's the way it is.
Food has to be labelled with its ingredients list
But they don't need to list the procedure for making the food.
Clothing has to be labelled with its fibre composition.
What has roughage got to do with this?;)
Cosmetics have to be labelled with their ingredients. Beer has to be labelled with its alcohol content
Again, the value of the products here is not in the contents, but in the procedure for making them. The secret part of a beer is not in the alcohol content, but in the preparation: the water, the hops, the fermentation - there are hundreds of variables. Beer makers keep these variables and procedures a big secret because otherwise people could steal their secrets they spent time and money developing.
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IE7 can't possibly leak as much as Firefox. That browser is a memory pig! But I guess that's the price for security and "standards compliance"
Right now on my system Firefox is using 77MB of RAM, which is a pretty huge amount of memory! However, I'm not sure that's it's "leaking" as I am guessing that it is happily using all of it.
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To leak it would have to not return some RAM after the app is closed. I've not seen that behavior in Firefox at all.
What you describe may be *one* kind of leak, but it's certainly an OS leak and nothing to do with Firefox. Once an application exits or is killed, all memory will be released by the OS.
The vast majority of what people understand to be memory leaks are the applications leaking memory while executing. Firefox may or may not have this kind of problem - I have never bothered to check.
AFAIK, banks will lend the money to others, or buy stocks, or whatever. They don't just put it under the matress and pay out interest out of their own pocket. The bank re-invests and gives you a share of the profits (sometimes, anyway).
if you can find ANY new film cameras, ANY, offered in one year, it will be a major surprise.
It'll be like how CDs and MP3 players totally "killed" tape. Film will become harder to find, there will be less choice, and it will get more expensive (as will processing), but it will be around for a long time.
"To the old rule that one should never argue politics or religion, because there is no way to win, I believe we must add operating systems as a third thing one should never argue."
Being a Mac user is both religion *and* politics! It's religion because you believe in a supreme being (Steve Jobs), have a bunch of people that agree on a set of beliefs (e.g. one button is best) and think that other religions (Linux, Windows) are stupid and false. It's politics because you can only be on one side!
CPU performance is OK, and fairly close to native in my experience. HOWEVER, IO SUCKS!!! Disk access is many many times slower if you're using a "file" as the disk, which most do for pure convenience sake (which is what this is about). IO speed is really what makes VMWare be really slow. Graphics performace is also pretty crappy.... You only use VMWare if you absolutely have to.
Yes, I've used it many many time. Yes, I've done speed comparison tests too... Yes, there *is* emulation involved.
I didn't define subsidy at all. It's already defined for us by helpful dictionary folks - no need to broaden it:
"Subsidy - Monetary assistance granted by a government to a person or group in support of an enterprise regarded as being in the public interest."
It is a true statement to say that some defense industries are subsidized by the government - that much cannot be argued. Same with Walmart, same with a lot of people, as you state. What I think *you're* against is the political use of such statements that don't qualify the extent of the subsidy, and perhaps imply huge and out of control subsidies when they don't exist.
I would agree that the extend and nature of the subsidy is vastly different, but it *does* exist. At a state level, the government bends over backwards to assist companies like Boeing in order to make their state more attractive for the employer. They'll build roads, offer tax packages and so on. They may be doing this for the purposes of their state (jobs!) and nothing else, but the effect is still a form of subsidy.
This is *nothing* in comparison with federal agricultural subsidies, of course, but it does exist.
I agree. I think the problem is that everyone is focussing on an iPod killer, when the iPod isn't the only thing they need to kill. Users aren't *just* buying the iPod - they are buying iTunes, the Music Store that's fully integrated and easy to work with (yes, that matters to most people) AND to top it all off, you also get a cool gadget that will transform your life, make you more attractive, give multiple orgasms, and finally deliver self actualization. That's a fucking DEAL!
Shoveling out flashy gadget after glashy gadget is a waste of time if you don't have record labels, the content and the infrastructure to deliver it...
Sorry. Windows is still a piece of crap, no matter what hardware you run it on.
Well, I have NEVER EVER had a BSOD or unannounced reboot on my IBM laptop running XP. I use it for over 8 hours a day and have done so for a couple of years so far. The only problems I recall are some odd "application crashed unexpectedly" problems which have happened a few times with Outlook and some other Office apps. So, a few software bugs...
On the other hand, I once had a machine with some bad RAM in it that had a BSOD every few hours. I also had an ATI card that was unreliable at one point... It really does sound like you have some bad hardware in your machine somewhere. If your reboot problem is getting progressively worse, then you may have some of the now infamous bad capacitors on your motherboard. Open it up and see if any of the capacitors are bulging at the top. Some may even be leaking brown crusty crap.
In my experience, which has covered both reliable and unreliable, I have indeed found that bad hardware and bad drivers are often soley responsible for OS issues... Reliability aside, I too prefer OSX, but for different reasons.
"Sprites"? "2D"? What are these things of which you speak?
A quick Google search indicates that one can make these kinds of games in Fortran, as long as they are coded on punch cards.
Don't mean to be an ass, just trying to make the point that nobody gave a damn about 2D around the time the PS1 came out... 2D was certainly not cool, even if it wasn't dead.
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Yes, I know the healthcare system doesn't cover everyone, and that you could have got laid off and COBRA is expensive. But still, the majority of people are able to make the "should I have kids" decision and should consider health insurance and risks, as I'm sure you did.
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Seems to work quite well in the states... :)
I've run VMWare many times on x86 hardware and it runs VERY SLOWLY when you need to access the hard drive, usually because the "hard drive" is actually a fragmented file sitting on the host OS hard drive, which is the only convenient way of setting it up.
No it isn't. If we need a household example, let's assume that the supply of oil is like the supply of service staff in restaurants. Therefore, the cost of hiring wait staff continues to rise, and this cost is passed on in your bill at the end of the meal. Eventually, people will eat out less (i.e. conservation) or the restaurants will invent robot wait staff or innovate in other ways that allow each member of staff to serve more people. There is no "debt" involved in these scenarios - just economics.
The poster makes an entirely valid point regarding supply and demand, and the pricing structure that comes into play when we eventually "run out of oil", which I'm sure we'll do at some point in our future. Keep in mind that various parties have been predicting that we'll run out of oil since the late 19th century, so it will doubtless happen long after the pessimists predict.
Running out of oil is not the problem. As the parent poster said, we'll just invent (or use existing) alternative forms of enegy production. The real problem, however, is *how* we use the oil we have left, over what period of time, and what shit we pump into the atmosphere while we happily guzzle the remaining drops.
The creation of these alternatives takes time and may be pushed forward more quickly by things like oil-shocks and subsequent recessions. No politician wants a recession on their watch so they would prefer to maintain the status quo and bleed the middle-east a little bit more dry for the time being.
In RFID, it's the *receiver* that is using the power and supplying it through the air to the transmitter. So the TV (receiver) would still need to be on. This is aside from the technical problems of distance, and other RFID stuff I don't understand...
For example, you are a total moron and have no right to be on this earth using my oxygen, IMO.
See how the "IMO" makes it OK to be an asshole? After all it's just an *opinion* and therefore OK. I'm a genius!
I'm not sure if this is a common thing in the US, but in my old house (in Seattle) there were several circuits that were "bridged" (right term?) to create 230V circuits. These were used for the awful electric baseboard heating, and also maybe some of the larger electrical appliances.
Houses in the US are more often made of wood, given that there is a lot of it around! Houses in England would be made of wood too, if there were any trees left. ;) Why? Because it's easier and quicker to make houses out of wood. Bricks take a long time to put down compared to a "stick" structure.
Also, a lot of areas in the states have earthquakes. I lived in Seattle when we had an earthquake a few years ago and which buildings got damaged? Yes, the old ones make of brick. They're more brittle and not flexible enough to cope with a moving foundation. When you want strength and flexibility, you use steel or wood. Houses in England never have to survive such conditions.
I'm sure there are many other opinions and perspectives - just wanted to add my little bit of experience...
Very true! I'm from England originally and whenever I go back there, this really pisses me off. My parents even renovated their bathroom a few years ago and happily put in two little taps - one hot, and one cold. When you wash your hands you either have to spend a couple of minutes filling the sink, or move your hands between burning and freezing to create a nice average temperature!
This may sound odd, but this is one of the reasons I won't go back to England to live. I should mention, however, that there about another 400 similarly minor reasons that add into my decision. :)
I just wish it wasn't so stupidly expensive to buy the equipment!!!
I opened about 10 new tabs and pointed each one to a major site (CNN, MSN, Yahoo, etc). Usage went up to about 110MB. I then closed all the tabs back down again.
I'm now back at 92MB.
I imagine its initially memory hunger is due to the memory caches for various things, that it subsequently reuses (i.e. NOT a leak). I highly doubt that Firefox has large memory leaks in it any more. A significant leak like you describe would be so obvious that it would get fixed quickly. I imagine that it still has rare and/or minor memory leaks that are harder to find and are reported less because they are not obvious to users.
Because one out of three Netflix DVDs is scratched to shit, and will actually freeze my DVD player and not allow me to skip. The only thing I can do is to note the time of the scratch, open the DVD, close it, skip using titles to after the scratch, and continue watching. All this is done remotely.
Yes, my DVD player is probably total shit.
Wow - extreme viewpoint, although shared by many. I agree that there is a place for opensource software, but I would also say that there is a place for proprietary software. Companies (the things that supply most software in the world) simply would not bother to spend so much time and money making software if someone could just come along and copy it. You may not like that, but that's the way it is.
Food has to be labelled with its ingredients list
But they don't need to list the procedure for making the food.
Clothing has to be labelled with its fibre composition.
What has roughage got to do with this? ;)
Cosmetics have to be labelled with their ingredients. Beer has to be labelled with its alcohol content
Again, the value of the products here is not in the contents, but in the procedure for making them. The secret part of a beer is not in the alcohol content, but in the preparation: the water, the hops, the fermentation - there are hundreds of variables. Beer makers keep these variables and procedures a big secret because otherwise people could steal their secrets they spent time and money developing.
Right now on my system Firefox is using 77MB of RAM, which is a pretty huge amount of memory! However, I'm not sure that's it's "leaking" as I am guessing that it is happily using all of it.
What you describe may be *one* kind of leak, but it's certainly an OS leak and nothing to do with Firefox. Once an application exits or is killed, all memory will be released by the OS.
The vast majority of what people understand to be memory leaks are the applications leaking memory while executing. Firefox may or may not have this kind of problem - I have never bothered to check.
AFAIK, banks will lend the money to others, or buy stocks, or whatever. They don't just put it under the matress and pay out interest out of their own pocket. The bank re-invests and gives you a share of the profits (sometimes, anyway).
It'll be like how CDs and MP3 players totally "killed" tape. Film will become harder to find, there will be less choice, and it will get more expensive (as will processing), but it will be around for a long time.
http://www.tape.com/
Being a Mac user is both religion *and* politics! It's religion because you believe in a supreme being (Steve Jobs), have a bunch of people that agree on a set of beliefs (e.g. one button is best) and think that other religions (Linux, Windows) are stupid and false. It's politics because you can only be on one side!
(Before you respond, please understand that I was joking) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joke
Yes, I've used it many many time. Yes, I've done speed comparison tests too... Yes, there *is* emulation involved.
It is a true statement to say that some defense industries are subsidized by the government - that much cannot be argued. Same with Walmart, same with a lot of people, as you state. What I think *you're* against is the political use of such statements that don't qualify the extent of the subsidy, and perhaps imply huge and out of control subsidies when they don't exist.
This is *nothing* in comparison with federal agricultural subsidies, of course, but it does exist.
Shoveling out flashy gadget after glashy gadget is a waste of time if you don't have record labels, the content and the infrastructure to deliver it...
Well, I have NEVER EVER had a BSOD or unannounced reboot on my IBM laptop running XP. I use it for over 8 hours a day and have done so for a couple of years so far. The only problems I recall are some odd "application crashed unexpectedly" problems which have happened a few times with Outlook and some other Office apps. So, a few software bugs...
On the other hand, I once had a machine with some bad RAM in it that had a BSOD every few hours. I also had an ATI card that was unreliable at one point... It really does sound like you have some bad hardware in your machine somewhere. If your reboot problem is getting progressively worse, then you may have some of the now infamous bad capacitors on your motherboard. Open it up and see if any of the capacitors are bulging at the top. Some may even be leaking brown crusty crap.
In my experience, which has covered both reliable and unreliable, I have indeed found that bad hardware and bad drivers are often soley responsible for OS issues... Reliability aside, I too prefer OSX, but for different reasons.
A quick Google search indicates that one can make these kinds of games in Fortran, as long as they are coded on punch cards.
Don't mean to be an ass, just trying to make the point that nobody gave a damn about 2D around the time the PS1 came out... 2D was certainly not cool, even if it wasn't dead.