Indeed. If I have 4 cores, I have the ability to give 4 threads near 100% CPU time. I don't need to though, most of the time.
At the end of the day, most programs that are CPU intensive are naturally threadable. For the rest of the programs, assigning active threads to the core with the least utilisation works fine.
As long as the OS has a decent scheduling/balancing between cores, more cores will fix most processing resource problems.
It's posts like these that make me think that I'm the only one with 7 programs on the task bar, 12 in the system tray, assorted server processes, and 32 tabs open in Firefox (come on, 1 thread per tab!!). It doesn't much matter to me if each of these parts are not multithreaded, as long as the OS is smart enough to put active threads on different cores.
how do we know we're linking to a banned site, as we can't see the list?
are forum and blog owners responsible for links posted in comments? If they are, how do they know when someone posted a banned link?
I know I'd just love to go away for a week, and return to fines up the wazoo because an AC has posted the entire list of banned sites in my comments.
What if someone posts these links to my FB page? Or someone that I follow on Twitter posts them?
This whole plan just goes to show how little our legislators in this country know about technology and the internet.
Dear Mr Conroy;
You're a dumbass. No, I really mean it. You have no idea how the internet works, do you?
As a moderately trained network admin, I can come up with a number of ways to defeat your precious firewall that would take between 2 minutes and 2 days to implement, and be completely untraceable. Anyone who is sufficiently motivated can work out how to do it in a similar time-frame.
Given that your blocked site list now contains material that is not illegal in Australia (such as sites rated at R18+ - seriously, I can go into any video store and rent R18+ films, and they aren't even in a special closed-off section), you have given me the required motivation, even though I'd probably never want to look at the sites anyway.
The effects your filter WILL have are:
People will stop buying personal webhosting in Australia to minimise the chance of fines
You'll slow down the internet even further, which is already slow here in Australia
People will get around your precious filter, and you'll never find out about it
People will start looking for the blocked sites in question, to see why they shouldn't be looking at them
Your blocking solution, and the secrecy surrounding it, is entirely unacceptable in a democracy such as ours. If you want the filter to be an acceptable solution, the list of filtered sites and the reason for filtering must be open, and must have provisions allowing opt-out.
Mr Conroy, you have made it absolutely clear that we cannot trust elected government officials to make sensible, well informed decisions regarding technology in Australia.
Implement this filter and you won't see another term.
There was strong disagreement. Sides disagree. Whooop. Also, they only think it was controversial? It was or it wasn't, and either way, who cares? It's either a really dumb thing to say, or a really dumb way to say something else that I haven't grasped.
Here's a slightly different way to do it: a laser projected keyboard. No keypresses to hear, and unless you can crack the bluetooth encryption (yes, I know), it suffers none of the problems previously discussed.
Why throw the word "controversial" around like an accusation? Controversial is not a synonym for "bad". It merely means that there is contention or strong disagreement.
You'll note that without controversy, there would be no current affairs programs, and newspapers would look like pamphlets...
My guess here is that the MCPs don't pay for the licences outright - they send MS money from each years fee for each contract.
Logically, this means that companies are mid 3-year contract and are no longer paying, which means that the MCPs can't afford to pay MS as there is no money to pass on.
This is just a guess, but it's the only logical explanation I can come up with that would result in this kind of fail.
My hypothesis: it's not unsold inventory, it's sold, but only half paid-for inventory.
So let's count Walmart, Cost-Co, and the numerous other places that retail consumer electronics. After all, their share of the electronics market is obviously going to go up, and nobody's ever claimed Walmart wasn't competitive.
Posting to undo my accidental offtopic mod. Sorry.
People continue to deny that this is an issue, but it happens often enough that it clearly is. I have noticed that it especially becomes a problem when using trackpads.
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He was talking about "total", not "in terms of power production".
No, it doesn't - I'm still waiting for it to come.
Indeed. If I have 4 cores, I have the ability to give 4 threads near 100% CPU time. I don't need to though, most of the time.
At the end of the day, most programs that are CPU intensive are naturally threadable. For the rest of the programs, assigning active threads to the core with the least utilisation works fine.
As long as the OS has a decent scheduling/balancing between cores, more cores will fix most processing resource problems.
It's posts like these that make me think that I'm the only one with 7 programs on the task bar, 12 in the system tray, assorted server processes, and 32 tabs open in Firefox (come on, 1 thread per tab!!). It doesn't much matter to me if each of these parts are not multithreaded, as long as the OS is smart enough to put active threads on different cores.
Are they riding in cars?
You're doing it wrong. It's actually "Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Mushroom Mushroom"
I know I'd just love to go away for a week, and return to fines up the wazoo because an AC has posted the entire list of banned sites in my comments.
What if someone posts these links to my FB page? Or someone that I follow on Twitter posts them?
This whole plan just goes to show how little our legislators in this country know about technology and the internet.
Dear Mr Conroy;
You're a dumbass. No, I really mean it. You have no idea how the internet works, do you?
As a moderately trained network admin, I can come up with a number of ways to defeat your precious firewall that would take between 2 minutes and 2 days to implement, and be completely untraceable. Anyone who is sufficiently motivated can work out how to do it in a similar time-frame.
Given that your blocked site list now contains material that is not illegal in Australia (such as sites rated at R18+ - seriously, I can go into any video store and rent R18+ films, and they aren't even in a special closed-off section), you have given me the required motivation, even though I'd probably never want to look at the sites anyway.
The effects your filter WILL have are:
Your blocking solution, and the secrecy surrounding it, is entirely unacceptable in a democracy such as ours. If you want the filter to be an acceptable solution, the list of filtered sites and the reason for filtering must be open, and must have provisions allowing opt-out.
Mr Conroy, you have made it absolutely clear that we cannot trust elected government officials to make sensible, well informed decisions regarding technology in Australia.
Implement this filter and you won't see another term.
-beav007
RTFA carefully.
You must be new here...
I hate it when that happens. It's not hard to prevent either. It's just that those in charge can't be bothered :(
That's generally how "Internet Accelerators" work. I tried one out when I was still on 56k - it wasn't all that helpful...
Oblig. CAD Comic on the matter...
Someone was just being nice and giving me karma. I lost karma last time I posted funnywise.
And I'm glad someone got it...
Bandwidth is horrendously expensive here in Australia, including in data centres.
That's probably the worst thing about living in Australia...
I hate it when people invent pluri like that...
He was disbarred, which is sort of like dying for a lawyer. But he's still out there, sort of an undead lawyer now.
He still might be able to get a job with Morcombe, Slant and Honeyplace...
I don't think we call invading other countries "globalisation"...
Whooooooooosh
There was strong disagreement. Sides disagree. Whooop. Also, they only think it was controversial? It was or it wasn't, and either way, who cares? It's either a really dumb thing to say, or a really dumb way to say something else that I haven't grasped.
Here's a slightly different way to do it: a laser projected keyboard. No keypresses to hear, and unless you can crack the bluetooth encryption (yes, I know), it suffers none of the problems previously discussed.
Better article written by a known security researcher Dancho Danchev, who also thinks it was controversial and illegal act.
Why throw the word "controversial" around like an accusation? Controversial is not a synonym for "bad". It merely means that there is contention or strong disagreement.
You'll note that without controversy, there would be no current affairs programs, and newspapers would look like pamphlets...
I wonder if they counted the ~3 seconds it takes IE to open a new tab and give you control of the address box...
My guess here is that the MCPs don't pay for the licences outright - they send MS money from each years fee for each contract.
Logically, this means that companies are mid 3-year contract and are no longer paying, which means that the MCPs can't afford to pay MS as there is no money to pass on.
This is just a guess, but it's the only logical explanation I can come up with that would result in this kind of fail.
My hypothesis: it's not unsold inventory, it's sold, but only half paid-for inventory.
So let's count Walmart, Cost-Co, and the numerous other places that retail consumer electronics. After all, their share of the electronics market is obviously going to go up, and nobody's ever claimed Walmart wasn't competitive.
[citation needed]
"Walmart isn't competitive"
Posting to undo my accidental offtopic mod. Sorry.
People continue to deny that this is an issue, but it happens often enough that it clearly is. I have noticed that it especially becomes a problem when using trackpads.
CmdrTaco: Please can you fix this now? Please?
The Hilux is a ute, not a truck.