If that is all that happens, you get off lucky. I don't know if this is common or not (It isn't really idle chat material), but my "soldier" has been known to salute in a very obvious way. It made high school very awkward.
DSL isn't available to everyone. Dial-up isn't even in the same galaxy as these others. I am the only one in my family spread across the USA that has access to this "terrestrial wireless". Tethered cell data MIGHT be an option if you have deep pockets and aren't in a roaming zone. And how does one simply "start a co-op" when they don't even have time to wipe their ass?
It just sounds like you are a "WORKS HERE! NOTABUG." asshole.
Don't blame the businesses directly. Blame the consumer. When VHS won out over Betamax, it was at that point I became enlightened that the average consumer would rather have a cheaper, inferior product over a well engineered/produced, more costly one.
The most thoughtful article I read that truly explains what the technical tradeoffs are with dock/taskbar design: here.
While it startd off as a nice read, it is flat out wrong in a lot of places (at least for Windows). For instance:
Windows needs a window for each application, and this need doesn't go away just because there are no documents open. So, Word has little choice but to display this ugly application window. There's simply nowhere for the application to exist without having a window--the window is the application.
and...
The other kind of application that suffers from Windows' design is software that runs mostly in the background, but which needs to provide alerts or messages periodically. Instant messaging applications typically fall into this category. Most of the time an IM app is running, you don't want any window visible at all. But you don't want closing the window to close the application; you want it to run in the background. Windows has no good way of doing this; if an application has no windows, that normally means it isn't running, after all.
Seriously? Someone actually believes this? An application doesn't need a window AT ALL. For ANY REASON. Windows are used for GUI I/O, and occasionally, message passing. But you absolutely don't need one at all.
Then there is this shiny bit:
The common response is to use the notification area (often incorrectly called the "system tray") to provide ready access to these running-but-windowless applications.
Orly? You DO know that the it was called the "system tray" up until Windows XP, don't you? It was even instantiated by a process called systray.exe. Even MSDN is littered with its own references to it being the "system tray", like here.
Then I quit reading when I came to this:
The addition of the Quick Launch toolbar meant that the Taskbar contained not only running applications, but also non-running applications. It thus includes three main kinds of content; icons representing non-running programs, icons representing running applications, and icons representing documents.
Um, what? At this point the guy is a total idiot, or he is intentionally muddying the waters to invent a WTF.
So... you are pulling the "WORKS HERE. NOTABUG!", huh?
Your story in no way invalidates what I said. As a matter of fact, you illustrate one end of a two end spectrum I just explained. It worked for you. It does work for some people. For others it makes things terribly worse. That's why the warnings for these drugs clearly state "If your mood worsens or you feel suicidal, stop taking the medication and seek a professional".
Antidepressants work by mangling the neurotransmitter receptors in your brain. Essentially, just changing the way it works to stir up the soup, hoping whatever happens is a better situation for your brain functioning than what you currently have. This is EXACTLY what a lobotomy does, only it isn't chemical, but physical.
People equate a lobotomy with enormously insane people who end up a vegetable at the other end. It simply isn't true for most cases. Again, this is exactly the same situation as taking these drugs. To quote from Wikipedia:
"Lobotomies have now fallen out of use, as doctors use various drugs and psychological therapies to treat mental illnesses. Lobotomies were used mainly from the 1930s to 1950s to treat a wide range of severe disorders, including schizophrenia, clinical depression, and various anxiety disorders, as well as people who were considered a nuisance by demonstrating behavior characterized as, for example, "moodiness" or "youthful defiance"."
Antidepressants are akin to a lobotomy in a pill. Just like a lobotomy, you pretty much have a coin toss chance that it will make the situation better, or it can make the situation worse. There is a long history of depressed people cross over to suicidal when taking such things. Pay attention to the warnings on the commercials for these things now. They don't know how it works. Just like they don't know how exactly scrambling your frontal lobe with an ice pick works.
Let me save you and the world the struggle of finding the answer to this. Time Travel is NOT possible. Let me explain why.
I call this "The asshole theory". See, there is always an asshole in the bunch. Someone who makes things difficult and wrecks situations just because they can. Moving infinitely forward in time, there will be an infinite amount of these assholes somewhere throughout the cosmos.
With that, if time travel WERE possible, going infinitely into the future, one of these assholes will eventually go back to the beginning of time and screw it all up. So, ultimately, if time travel were possible, we wouldn't be here.
Sadly, you can get bit by this in Firefox too. The real bitch is, when I got infected, IE had never been explicitly opened and I don't "browse" the web with said machine. It turned out to be a flash, which was loaded by an ad banner from a hacked ad server, that was being served on a legitimate site.
In general, IE has tons more vectors for drive-by malware, but Firefox isn't immune, if for any other reason, because third party plugins can be the attack vector.
It appears 32bit desktop Windows has a limitation imposed by the licensing code since around XP SP2, not some option you can disable
Then I wonder what the/NOEXECUTE=ALWAYS(ON|OFF) and/(NO)PAE switches are for...
It also points out most applications don't use anywhere near 4GB of memory (yet at least) and the primary practical use of that much RAM these days IS multiple applications.
My comment had nothing directly to do with the article, but everything to do with the post I was replying to. They commented, in a nutshell, enabling "bank switching" is the solution to all of the 32bit memory limitation problems. It isn't. For the very reason I stated...
You CAN turn on PAE if your hardware platform supports it (most modern ones do). However, this tends to break Desktop 32bit windows, because the driver producers make stupid assumptions like its driver will always be loaded in the 3GB->4GB address space.
Aside from that, paging will only give you 4GB of contiguous memory. That kind of kills most practical uses for this kind of memory (aside from running many apps).
Does Microsoft really mean to say that when it re-badges these same executables as Windows Vista SP1, they suddenly acquire an architectural limit of 4GB? Or is it that a driver for Windows Server 2008 is safe for using with memory above 4GB as long as you don't let it interact with the identical executables from Windows Vista SP1?
Windows Server 2008 drivers have to be signed. For them to get signed, they can't do stupid shit like assume they are loaded in the memory space between 3GB->4GB, I'd imagine.
No I can't! The only link in the article is to the "Ask Blizzard people something or another"... and every other comment seems to be a bunch of WoW zombies.
Between Ebay and Paypal fees, I can't sell anything for $10 and still break even (meaning I get nothing out of selling the merchandise). So I said screw em and now anything that needs sold goes on Craigslist.
The "entire" OS isn't written in Assembly (Quake and I think the web browser were not. As a matter of fact, there is a C runtime lib at http://menuetlibc.sourceforge.net/). But certainly the core bits are. The choice for Assembly was to keep the design uncomplicated, not for performance.
Ah. So it's OK the my ISP throttle my usage of VPN, VOIP, gaming, etc, just so grandma can keep pumping out her botnet messages?
The blade cuts both ways.
Imagine you go to an all-you-can-eat buffet. Suddenly the owner comes out and one by one goes up to random tables and tells them they can only have x more plates before they are cut off.
Aside from the fact that this was advertised as an all-you-can-eat-buffet, the poor looking family starts making a ruckus: We are poor and my family is starving. If food is running sort then we deserve a little more! A few tables down a mother stands up: You may be poor but my son is dying! He certainly needs more nourishment! On the other side of the restaurant a large, fat man gets up and yells: I patronize this establishment every day! My loyalty should count for something!"
The problem illustrated here is that when deciding how to divide up the resources of many without considering their individual needs, you will end up screwing everyone out of what they think is fair. Some of them are justified. Others are greedy. The only way for it to truly work is give everyone an equal share and let them do with it however they see fit... and that's exactly what named ISPs are fighting against. At MY cost.
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If that is all that happens, you get off lucky. I don't know if this is common or not (It isn't really idle chat material), but my "soldier" has been known to salute in a very obvious way. It made high school very awkward.
DSL isn't available to everyone. Dial-up isn't even in the same galaxy as these others. I am the only one in my family spread across the USA that has access to this "terrestrial wireless". Tethered cell data MIGHT be an option if you have deep pockets and aren't in a roaming zone. And how does one simply "start a co-op" when they don't even have time to wipe their ass?
It just sounds like you are a "WORKS HERE! NOTABUG." asshole.
Don't blame the businesses directly. Blame the consumer. When VHS won out over Betamax, it was at that point I became enlightened that the average consumer would rather have a cheaper, inferior product over a well engineered/produced, more costly one.
The most thoughtful article I read that truly explains what the technical tradeoffs are with dock/taskbar design: here.
...
While it startd off as a nice read, it is flat out wrong in a lot of places (at least for Windows). For instance:
Windows needs a window for each application, and this need doesn't go away just because there are no documents open. So, Word has little choice but to display this ugly application window. There's simply nowhere for the application to exist without having a window--the window is the application.
and
The other kind of application that suffers from Windows' design is software that runs mostly in the background, but which needs to provide alerts or messages periodically. Instant messaging applications typically fall into this category. Most of the time an IM app is running, you don't want any window visible at all. But you don't want closing the window to close the application; you want it to run in the background. Windows has no good way of doing this; if an application has no windows, that normally means it isn't running, after all.
Seriously? Someone actually believes this? An application doesn't need a window AT ALL. For ANY REASON. Windows are used for GUI I/O, and occasionally, message passing. But you absolutely don't need one at all.
Then there is this shiny bit:
The common response is to use the notification area (often incorrectly called the "system tray") to provide ready access to these running-but-windowless applications.
Orly? You DO know that the it was called the "system tray" up until Windows XP, don't you? It was even instantiated by a process called systray.exe. Even MSDN is littered with its own references to it being the "system tray", like here.
Then I quit reading when I came to this:
The addition of the Quick Launch toolbar meant that the Taskbar contained not only running applications, but also non-running applications. It thus includes three main kinds of content; icons representing non-running programs, icons representing running applications, and icons representing documents.
Um, what? At this point the guy is a total idiot, or he is intentionally muddying the waters to invent a WTF.
Both seem highly unlikely.
So... you are pulling the "WORKS HERE. NOTABUG!", huh?
Your story in no way invalidates what I said. As a matter of fact, you illustrate one end of a two end spectrum I just explained. It worked for you. It does work for some people. For others it makes things terribly worse. That's why the warnings for these drugs clearly state "If your mood worsens or you feel suicidal, stop taking the medication and seek a professional".
Antidepressants work by mangling the neurotransmitter receptors in your brain. Essentially, just changing the way it works to stir up the soup, hoping whatever happens is a better situation for your brain functioning than what you currently have. This is EXACTLY what a lobotomy does, only it isn't chemical, but physical.
People equate a lobotomy with enormously insane people who end up a vegetable at the other end. It simply isn't true for most cases. Again, this is exactly the same situation as taking these drugs. To quote from Wikipedia:
"Lobotomies have now fallen out of use, as doctors use various drugs and psychological therapies to treat mental illnesses. Lobotomies were used mainly from the 1930s to 1950s to treat a wide range of severe disorders, including schizophrenia, clinical depression, and various anxiety disorders, as well as people who were considered a nuisance by demonstrating behavior characterized as, for example, "moodiness" or "youthful defiance"."
Your news program sucks. 11 is too late. I'm in bed by then.
Antidepressants are akin to a lobotomy in a pill. Just like a lobotomy, you pretty much have a coin toss chance that it will make the situation better, or it can make the situation worse. There is a long history of depressed people cross over to suicidal when taking such things. Pay attention to the warnings on the commercials for these things now. They don't know how it works. Just like they don't know how exactly scrambling your frontal lobe with an ice pick works.
... if time travel were possible ...
Let me save you and the world the struggle of finding the answer to this. Time Travel is NOT possible. Let me explain why.
I call this "The asshole theory". See, there is always an asshole in the bunch. Someone who makes things difficult and wrecks situations just because they can. Moving infinitely forward in time, there will be an infinite amount of these assholes somewhere throughout the cosmos.
With that, if time travel WERE possible, going infinitely into the future, one of these assholes will eventually go back to the beginning of time and screw it all up. So, ultimately, if time travel were possible, we wouldn't be here.
Sadly, you can get bit by this in Firefox too. The real bitch is, when I got infected, IE had never been explicitly opened and I don't "browse" the web with said machine. It turned out to be a flash, which was loaded by an ad banner from a hacked ad server, that was being served on a legitimate site.
In general, IE has tons more vectors for drive-by malware, but Firefox isn't immune, if for any other reason, because third party plugins can be the attack vector.
Easy there tiger.
/NOEXECUTE=ALWAYS(ON|OFF) and /(NO)PAE switches are for...
It appears 32bit desktop Windows has a limitation imposed by the licensing code since around XP SP2, not some option you can disable
Then I wonder what the
It also points out most applications don't use anywhere near 4GB of memory (yet at least) and the primary practical use of that much RAM these days IS multiple applications.
My comment had nothing directly to do with the article, but everything to do with the post I was replying to. They commented, in a nutshell, enabling "bank switching" is the solution to all of the 32bit memory limitation problems. It isn't. For the very reason I stated...
For it to be signed by MS, it has to pass the Windows Logo Program
I guess you weren't kept in the loop. Mr. Hyong-man has had a transgender operation and now goes by the name Dixie Wrecked
You CAN turn on PAE if your hardware platform supports it (most modern ones do). However, this tends to break Desktop 32bit windows, because the driver producers make stupid assumptions like its driver will always be loaded in the 3GB->4GB address space.
Aside from that, paging will only give you 4GB of contiguous memory. That kind of kills most practical uses for this kind of memory (aside from running many apps).
Does Microsoft really mean to say that when it re-badges these same executables as Windows Vista SP1, they suddenly acquire an architectural limit of 4GB? Or is it that a driver for Windows Server 2008 is safe for using with memory above 4GB as long as you don't let it interact with the identical executables from Windows Vista SP1?
Windows Server 2008 drivers have to be signed. For them to get signed, they can't do stupid shit like assume they are loaded in the memory space between 3GB->4GB, I'd imagine.
Why does Bennett Haselton have to blog every silly thought that pops into his brain...
Isn't that, by the very definition, what a blog is?
Actually, there is quite an ingrained story, but you wouldn't know that by the screenshots. Is this the most you have played of the game? Screenshots?
Mindless hack and slay, you say? Like WoW? Like Left 4 Dead? Like countless-other-games-you-can-overgeneralize?
From the Diablo III Monk trailer, you can see...
No I can't! The only link in the article is to the "Ask Blizzard people something or another"... and every other comment seems to be a bunch of WoW zombies.
Our body still likely tries to do it, but we end up with a tumor instead. Likely due to how complex we are compared to your examples.
And had he said Carrot Top was who authored them, you'd have said "It makes sense. It was cheesy and retarded all in the same breath"
Between Ebay and Paypal fees, I can't sell anything for $10 and still break even (meaning I get nothing out of selling the merchandise). So I said screw em and now anything that needs sold goes on Craigslist.
The "entire" OS isn't written in Assembly (Quake and I think the web browser were not. As a matter of fact, there is a C runtime lib at http://menuetlibc.sourceforge.net/). But certainly the core bits are. The choice for Assembly was to keep the design uncomplicated, not for performance.
Wait... Australia has STATES? We must be WAY behind in getting those stars on the flag
Ah. So it's OK the my ISP throttle my usage of VPN, VOIP, gaming, etc, just so grandma can keep pumping out her botnet messages?
The blade cuts both ways.
Imagine you go to an all-you-can-eat buffet. Suddenly the owner comes out and one by one goes up to random tables and tells them they can only have x more plates before they are cut off.
Aside from the fact that this was advertised as an all-you-can-eat-buffet, the poor looking family starts making a ruckus: We are poor and my family is starving. If food is running sort then we deserve a little more!
A few tables down a mother stands up: You may be poor but my son is dying! He certainly needs more nourishment!
On the other side of the restaurant a large, fat man gets up and yells: I patronize this establishment every day! My loyalty should count for something!"
The problem illustrated here is that when deciding how to divide up the resources of many without considering their individual needs, you will end up screwing everyone out of what they think is fair. Some of them are justified. Others are greedy. The only way for it to truly work is give everyone an equal share and let them do with it however they see fit... and that's exactly what named ISPs are fighting against. At MY cost.
Sure. Like Paris Hilton.