After my computer slowing to a crawl, inspecting the task manager, discovering FF was using 1.5G memory, restarting FF, and seeing that it only used 500M memory with the exact same windows open...
That is because it has elements from previous pages cached for if/when you hit the back button or revisit your commonly visited sites. Closing and reopening it simply lets all that go. I can't imagine any other browser does anything much different. Perhaps they are better at hiding it.
Also, how much system memory do you have? I don't know any modern PC of anyone I own with less than 8GB, and most apps have a hard time breaking ~150M of RAM usage. Even if Firefox was using 2GB, I can't see how it would choke a reasonable system.
I made a shitton of extra money in 1998/99 during college, via y2k/cobol contracts. People would just come to the school and if you knew how to even declare variables, you could make $50 USD/hour.
Thing was, these were run on old unix mainframes that were still justifying their cost. I'm not sure the target audience with this thing though
First, licensed code... etc and so on... they probably can't just "open source" it.
However, even if they can, it may be a problem of design. If AMD's drivers were built with a paradigm that only really works on Windows, just being open source isn't going to be of much value. The driver would still have to be redesigned.
Your comment is irrelevant. Person was saying he was using NetBIOS, not over TCP/IP. This almost certainly means over NetBEUI, requiring actual stupid hubs, not switches. Mitigation off of this era of abomination usually called to at least move your transport protocol to TCP/IP, which would benefit the whole network just by using a switch.
I don't know how to respond because this whole post is bullshit.
If you are using C++ as such a high level language as Java/C#, you may as well use them because you threw away some of the most useful/valuable parts. Also, Exceptions are EXCEPTIONAL and should be treated as such... only expected to be thrown when something exceptional happens, not as a means of flow control.
What does "just works" even mean? Do you want it to be able to reliably make phone calls without having to worry about software failing? Get a non-smart phone.
If you want a "reliable" smart phone that doesn't need reset or suffer stupid ass software failures, get one of those $50 Samsung android smart phones. They are pretty reliable because they can't do much to begin with.
If you want a top of the line, super-newest-version, can-serve-as-my-PC smart phone, you are going to have issues, just like every other computer doing complicated tasks does.
No one seems to remember what a complete piece of shit XP was until service pack 2.
People who bitch about Windows ME don't even know why. The real complainers of the day didn't like the fact that there was no "Shutdown to DOS" option, but that was about it (and easy relatively easy to solve). Else, it was better than Win98 in every way. The rare people who tout "stability issues" were running cheap PCs with Cyrix processors and toilet paper RAM.
This is the same general reason people percieved Vista being "bad". It was installed on shit machines and it ran like shit on them. That, and people were still couldn't be bothered to treat their local user account as a non-admin, so UAC was "stupid".
How fricking complicated is it to eat less than you burn?
Like I stated above, having an office job and not exercising, one would only need ~1300 calories for equilibrium. Eating under that, let alone 300-500 calories less than that to start shedding fat is not only HARD, it may be damn well impossible for some people
The problem isn't so much "too many calories" consumed, but that the sedimentary lifestyle people are accustomed doesn't require even close to the 2000 calorie "standard diet". If you drive to work, sit behind a desk all day, go home and even do mundane, unimpactful chores, like vacuuming and wiping things down, and average person would be lucky to need maybe 1200-1300 calories as their TDEE (Total Daily Energy Expenditure). Even drinking nothing but water, and consuming mostly calorie empty foods like lettuce/salad, you still need your macronutrients, which when adding carbs and fat now will take you to your quite low TDEE with very little food/effort.
2. If you do go for C++, make sure to start learning on C++11 or C++14. C++11 significantly changes quite a lot about the language, and if you start with older C++ books, you'll have to unlearn a lot of stuff if you want to develop modern C++. C++14 has mostly just minor fixes to C++11.
You mean using C++ like it is compiled javascript? pffffffffffffffffff
If I were to do something, I'd focus on price/quality as opposed to volume
Absolutely. I love these games, but the instruments are complete shit. I have never once even had a drum set for these games that could handle the input fast/reliable enough for the hardcore levels. The buttons on the guitars are so far apart as if they were made to be used by Sasquatch.
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After my computer slowing to a crawl, inspecting the task manager, discovering FF was using 1.5G memory, restarting FF, and seeing that it only used 500M memory with the exact same windows open...
That is because it has elements from previous pages cached for if/when you hit the back button or revisit your commonly visited sites. Closing and reopening it simply lets all that go. I can't imagine any other browser does anything much different. Perhaps they are better at hiding it.
Also, how much system memory do you have? I don't know any modern PC of anyone I own with less than 8GB, and most apps have a hard time breaking ~150M of RAM usage. Even if Firefox was using 2GB, I can't see how it would choke a reasonable system.
Don't they just send short messages around and count hash tags?
Even less impressive. IRC over HTML, but with the burden of tiered responses instead of linear. So Newsgroups + IRC jammed into a webpage.
Miners, not minors!
I made a shitton of extra money in 1998/99 during college, via y2k/cobol contracts. People would just come to the school and if you knew how to even declare variables, you could make $50 USD/hour.
Thing was, these were run on old unix mainframes that were still justifying their cost. I'm not sure the target audience with this thing though
Why is parent modded down?
Because it is anecdotal. No matter how true it may be, it is terrible science.
Obviously... ... 0_0 ...
not.
Um, DriveSpace was a disk compression method. It was like treating a partition like a zip file.
This has nothing to do with compressing data in RAM, which the artcle is about
First, licensed code... etc and so on... they probably can't just "open source" it.
However, even if they can, it may be a problem of design. If AMD's drivers were built with a paradigm that only really works on Windows, just being open source isn't going to be of much value. The driver would still have to be redesigned.
Debian was the last *working* linux for sparc32 platforms
Your comment is irrelevant. Person was saying he was using NetBIOS, not over TCP/IP. This almost certainly means over NetBEUI, requiring actual stupid hubs, not switches. Mitigation off of this era of abomination usually called to at least move your transport protocol to TCP/IP, which would benefit the whole network just by using a switch.
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Oculus + HoloLense
I don't think this is as random as people seem to think it is
I don't know how to respond because this whole post is bullshit.
If you are using C++ as such a high level language as Java/C#, you may as well use them because you threw away some of the most useful/valuable parts. Also, Exceptions are EXCEPTIONAL and should be treated as such... only expected to be thrown when something exceptional happens, not as a means of flow control.
What does "just works" even mean? Do you want it to be able to reliably make phone calls without having to worry about software failing? Get a non-smart phone.
If you want a "reliable" smart phone that doesn't need reset or suffer stupid ass software failures, get one of those $50 Samsung android smart phones. They are pretty reliable because they can't do much to begin with.
If you want a top of the line, super-newest-version, can-serve-as-my-PC smart phone, you are going to have issues, just like every other computer doing complicated tasks does.
The language standard is larger: of course.
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Long before Docker, there was Thinstall/Thinapp
No one seems to remember what a complete piece of shit XP was until service pack 2.
People who bitch about Windows ME don't even know why. The real complainers of the day didn't like the fact that there was no "Shutdown to DOS" option, but that was about it (and easy relatively easy to solve). Else, it was better than Win98 in every way. The rare people who tout "stability issues" were running cheap PCs with Cyrix processors and toilet paper RAM.
This is the same general reason people percieved Vista being "bad". It was installed on shit machines and it ran like shit on them. That, and people were still couldn't be bothered to treat their local user account as a non-admin, so UAC was "stupid".
How fricking complicated is it to eat less than you burn?
Like I stated above, having an office job and not exercising, one would only need ~1300 calories for equilibrium. Eating under that, let alone 300-500 calories less than that to start shedding fat is not only HARD, it may be damn well impossible for some people
East less calories? Gotcha.
The problem isn't so much "too many calories" consumed, but that the sedimentary lifestyle people are accustomed doesn't require even close to the 2000 calorie "standard diet". If you drive to work, sit behind a desk all day, go home and even do mundane, unimpactful chores, like vacuuming and wiping things down, and average person would be lucky to need maybe 1200-1300 calories as their TDEE (Total Daily Energy Expenditure). Even drinking nothing but water, and consuming mostly calorie empty foods like lettuce/salad, you still need your macronutrients, which when adding carbs and fat now will take you to your quite low TDEE with very little food/effort.
Shit man. We had this argument about VB6 back when rock was cool. No one listened then either
2. If you do go for C++, make sure to start learning on C++11 or C++14. C++11 significantly changes quite a lot about the language, and if you start with older C++ books, you'll have to unlearn a lot of stuff if you want to develop modern C++. C++14 has mostly just minor fixes to C++11.
You mean using C++ like it is compiled javascript? pffffffffffffffffff
If I were to do something, I'd focus on price/quality as opposed to volume
Absolutely. I love these games, but the instruments are complete shit. I have never once even had a drum set for these games that could handle the input fast/reliable enough for the hardcore levels. The buttons on the guitars are so far apart as if they were made to be used by Sasquatch.
These folks has some busted RAM, but all is good because it's ECC
How will this work for the likes of Tracfone and subsidiaries? There is never really a debt to begin with.
Wow. Senators have never lied or been flat out ignorant when testifying before congress /s
At least you will get an actual accelerated video driver instead of framebuffered X