And? Unless you've got 32GB of RAM, I really don't see the point of loading the entire game into memory. What's the difference, really, between loading 2 Gig into RAM + 28 gig into swap, and just loading 1-2 GB at a time, only into memory.
A game is an especially bad example as opposed to scientific applications. A game doesn't need to be particularly accurate, but it does need to have good performance. It should just drop stuff from memory when it needs it for more important stuff. No need to page-out, because the "stuff that changes" (e.g. position, inventory, game-state flags) doesn't take up nearly as much space as the "stuff that gets referred to a lot" (e.g. assets)
If the game needs to refer to a bunch of stuff, it should be aware of the available memory, and load versions of those assets with smaller memory footprints to make sure it doesn't go over.
It shouldn't make any difference whether you load assets from swap, or you load them from the files directly. Assuming that the install is on the same disk as the swap.
Indeed. Also, getting stuff TO the moon is a lot harder than getting stuff back, once the infrastructure is in place. Unfortunately, that infrastructure represents a HUGE capital cost, and there is some question over whether it could ever be paid back.
"you wouldn't make a railway bridge out of aluminium"
You could, but it'd be *expensive* On the plus side, you wouldn't have to worry about corrosion as much, but on the down side, you wouldn't be able to cut back on inspections, either, since you'd be trading a relatively easy to see failure mode (corrosion) with a relatively hard to see failure mode (fatigue)
"nor a plane out of steel"
Might not be that bad of an idea, though. It'd certainly cut down on a lot of the fatigue-stress issues. And there are alloys of steel that approach aluminum's strentgh-to-weight ratio.
The culture isn't "wasteful" you sanctimonious jackass. It's rational.
If it costs $200 to repair an old TV and $150 to buy a new TV of the same size, and a little better quality, you're going to pick the new TV option.
And it's still not wasteful, because the money pays for the repairman's time, which is supported by energy prices, just the same as the money for the new TV pays for the factory-workers' time and the factory's use of energy.
In this example, it is MORE WASTEFUL to repair the TV.
I'm offended by the idea of paying extra for the privilege of doing extra work to sort my trash. If it's not cost effective to recycle, there's not much point in it. Better to just pile everything up and mine the pile later when it IS cost effective.
I am however, perfectly willing to segregate my trash. Just don't make it difficult, or charge me more for it. And don't ask me to drive halfway across a state to dispose of household hazardous waste like CFLs.
Why are we still using swap? We can put, cheaply, more than 4 gigs of ram in a machine. With the differences in SSD, and the concerns about power efficiency, it really makes no sense to me that machines are still being designed to page out memory.
TLC is not geared toward the "older, wiser" crowd. It's geared towards the people who don't have the patience to watch "This Old House" but think they're interested in home improvements. And endlessly similar hard-tail choppers, for some reason.
Call me an elitist jerk all you want, but I think you should have to be a property owner to vote.
You're an elitist jerk.
Ben Franklin, when discussing a property requirement to vote back in the day phrased it this way:
I own an ass. I have the Right to vote. The ass dies. I no longer have the Right to vote. Therefore, the franchise rests not with me, but with the ass.
Well.. Butcher the remains and salt or smoke the meat. Bam. the franchise lasts as long as you can resist the urge to eat ass jerky.
The white/blacks were in power, so we got a half-hearted attempt at war, huge social programs, and massive assault on some of our most sacred amendments (1st, 4th, 10th)
Had the black/whites come to power, we'd have gotten slightly different huge social spending, and the other half of a half-hearted attempt at war and a massive assault on some of our most sacred amendments (1st, 2nd, 4th, 10th)
The supreme court however is an interesting case. And it's quite embarassing that decisions of such import are coming out with 5-4 splits. Still, it would be incorrect to say that the "wrong four" (or five sometimes) were all appointed by a single party, so it's not really as good of an example of the differences as you think.
Clinton wasn't so bad. He was so transparently awful once he got in that he lost congress for his party, and became distracted by extra-curricular activities with coeds.
Which gave us nearly six years of blessed fighting between the executive branch and half of congress. We even had a temporary government shut-down. (as in.. not long enough, but almost better than nothing. At least as proof of concept it was useful)
I won't say much for Clinton, but I will say this: He certainly was pretty ineffective. And for that, he'll go down in history as not-the-worst President in the 20th century.
Oh yes, let's blame the Democrats. They are in a situation which is unwinnable.
I'm really tired of that argument. The Republicans rammed their agenda down the Democrats' throats when the Republicans had a small majority.
Indeed. Those bastard Republicans passing such abominations as Ted Kennedy's "no child left behind" act, McCain-Feingold's "incumbent protection^h^h^h^h^h Campaign Finance Reform" act, the gigantic expansion of medicare benefits, the Kennedy-McCain "we give up on enforcing laws.. or borders" bill...
Are the costs really that much higher though? I'd assume that the majority cost to netflix are licensing, and that they're probably paying more per disk than the retail price (though perhaps being so large, they can command a lower price for replacements)
Anyway, based on the prices in stores, the licensing can't be too much higher for blu-ray.
"asserting something that isn't true" is only economically rational to the crooks because of the irrational value people place on "originals."
If a forger is so good that his work is indistinguishable from the original without isotopic analysis, I think that has quite a bit of value in and of itself. That the art world would so disproportionately value the "original" over the "forgery" is the motivating factor behind the fraud part of the forgery.
The problem is twofold. The "originals" are overvalued because of sentiment and speculation. And honest copies are undervalued for the same reason.
I'm a slower driver (slower = 70 in a 65), and I'll always move over, and I always use my turn signal.
Me, too, though I'll admit occasionally in high-traffic areas I'll forget to change back for a while. Usually after passing a line of people or entering from one of those crappy left-onramp dealys.
But when I put my turn signal on, it means I'm going over. It categorically does not mean, "you should go over and get in my blind spot" Which half the time, no matter what lane I'm in, people will interpret it to mean.
1) WTF, the third amendment? You seriously gonna try and read all kinds of wacky restrictions into the third amendment?
2) Almost nobody contests the fact that we need freeways, airports, rail lines, etc. Or that the public's need for those things occasionally must trump individuals' property rights. A stadium is pretty dumb, but we need highways to move goods, transport the injured, fight fires and crime, and move the army around for national defense.
3) They *can* ask you to put up a soldier in your spare bedroom, in time of war. And congress has the power to declare war.
no "Ex post facto" laws means (and is intended to mean) that you can't make something illegal after-the-fact. Not that you can't absolve people of wrongdoing, or make something that was illegal legal.
"Ex post facto" is not the appropriate grounds to object to the telecom bill.
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Autoclave. You should already have one for your toothbrush, anyway.
So.. you blame Global Warming?
And? Unless you've got 32GB of RAM, I really don't see the point of loading the entire game into memory. What's the difference, really, between loading 2 Gig into RAM + 28 gig into swap, and just loading 1-2 GB at a time, only into memory.
A game is an especially bad example as opposed to scientific applications. A game doesn't need to be particularly accurate, but it does need to have good performance. It should just drop stuff from memory when it needs it for more important stuff. No need to page-out, because the "stuff that changes" (e.g. position, inventory, game-state flags) doesn't take up nearly as much space as the "stuff that gets referred to a lot" (e.g. assets)
If the game needs to refer to a bunch of stuff, it should be aware of the available memory, and load versions of those assets with smaller memory footprints to make sure it doesn't go over.
It shouldn't make any difference whether you load assets from swap, or you load them from the files directly. Assuming that the install is on the same disk as the swap.
Indeed. Also, getting stuff TO the moon is a lot harder than getting stuff back, once the infrastructure is in place. Unfortunately, that infrastructure represents a HUGE capital cost, and there is some question over whether it could ever be paid back.
"you wouldn't make a railway bridge out of aluminium"
You could, but it'd be *expensive* On the plus side, you wouldn't have to worry about corrosion as much, but on the down side, you wouldn't be able to cut back on inspections, either, since you'd be trading a relatively easy to see failure mode (corrosion) with a relatively hard to see failure mode (fatigue)
"nor a plane out of steel"
Might not be that bad of an idea, though. It'd certainly cut down on a lot of the fatigue-stress issues. And there are alloys of steel that approach aluminum's strentgh-to-weight ratio.
The culture isn't "wasteful" you sanctimonious jackass. It's rational.
If it costs $200 to repair an old TV and $150 to buy a new TV of the same size, and a little better quality, you're going to pick the new TV option.
And it's still not wasteful, because the money pays for the repairman's time, which is supported by energy prices, just the same as the money for the new TV pays for the factory-workers' time and the factory's use of energy.
In this example, it is MORE WASTEFUL to repair the TV.
I'm offended by the idea of paying extra for the privilege of doing extra work to sort my trash. If it's not cost effective to recycle, there's not much point in it. Better to just pile everything up and mine the pile later when it IS cost effective.
I am however, perfectly willing to segregate my trash. Just don't make it difficult, or charge me more for it. And don't ask me to drive halfway across a state to dispose of household hazardous waste like CFLs.
Why are we still using swap? We can put, cheaply, more than 4 gigs of ram in a machine. With the differences in SSD, and the concerns about power efficiency, it really makes no sense to me that machines are still being designed to page out memory.
TLC is not geared toward the "older, wiser" crowd. It's geared towards the people who don't have the patience to watch "This Old House" but think they're interested in home improvements. And endlessly similar hard-tail choppers, for some reason.
Strip searching people for any reason will often yield busts...
You're an elitist jerk.
Ben Franklin, when discussing a property requirement to vote back in the day phrased it this way:
I own an ass. I have the Right to vote. The ass dies. I no longer have the Right to vote. Therefore, the franchise rests not with me, but with the ass.
Well.. Butcher the remains and salt or smoke the meat. Bam. the franchise lasts as long as you can resist the urge to eat ass jerky.
Not to worry. If you are chosen to be shipped off to die, the drinking age is 18.
The white/blacks were in power, so we got a half-hearted attempt at war, huge social programs, and massive assault on some of our most sacred amendments (1st, 4th, 10th)
Had the black/whites come to power, we'd have gotten slightly different huge social spending, and the other half of a half-hearted attempt at war and a massive assault on some of our most sacred amendments (1st, 2nd, 4th, 10th)
The supreme court however is an interesting case. And it's quite embarassing that decisions of such import are coming out with 5-4 splits. Still, it would be incorrect to say that the "wrong four" (or five sometimes) were all appointed by a single party, so it's not really as good of an example of the differences as you think.
Clinton wasn't so bad. He was so transparently awful once he got in that he lost congress for his party, and became distracted by extra-curricular activities with coeds.
Which gave us nearly six years of blessed fighting between the executive branch and half of congress. We even had a temporary government shut-down. (as in.. not long enough, but almost better than nothing. At least as proof of concept it was useful)
I won't say much for Clinton, but I will say this: He certainly was pretty ineffective. And for that, he'll go down in history as not-the-worst President in the 20th century.
I'm really tired of that argument. The Republicans rammed their agenda down the Democrats' throats when the Republicans had a small majority.
Indeed. Those bastard Republicans passing such abominations as Ted Kennedy's "no child left behind" act, McCain-Feingold's "incumbent protection^h^h^h^h^h Campaign Finance Reform" act, the gigantic expansion of medicare benefits, the Kennedy-McCain "we give up on enforcing laws.. or borders" bill...
The list goes on.
Are the costs really that much higher though? I'd assume that the majority cost to netflix are licensing, and that they're probably paying more per disk than the retail price (though perhaps being so large, they can command a lower price for replacements)
Anyway, based on the prices in stores, the licensing can't be too much higher for blu-ray.
Perhaps it doesn't. But it behaves an awful lot like an industry in which both demand and supply are quite inelastic, and pricing is efficient.
That is to say: if it doesn't follow "market economy" rules, whatever rules it IS following sure are approximating "market economy" uncannily well.
Now sprinkle in some hard returns next time, you paragraph-eschewing rant-monkey.
Well.. At least it's ironic when phone phreaks get their own phones tapped. Turnabout being "fair play" and all.
Although.. If you tap a beige-box-er, who've you really tapped, then?
Art forgery plan:
Step one: Buy or build my own synchrotron
Step two...
Ahh, but there's the rub.
"asserting something that isn't true" is only economically rational to the crooks because of the irrational value people place on "originals."
If a forger is so good that his work is indistinguishable from the original without isotopic analysis, I think that has quite a bit of value in and of itself. That the art world would so disproportionately value the "original" over the "forgery" is the motivating factor behind the fraud part of the forgery.
The problem is twofold. The "originals" are overvalued because of sentiment and speculation. And honest copies are undervalued for the same reason.
A common trick I like to do to figure out what I'm thinking:
If I'm having trouble deciding something, I flip a coin. Then, I go with the side I was hoping would come up.
Me, too, though I'll admit occasionally in high-traffic areas I'll forget to change back for a while. Usually after passing a line of people or entering from one of those crappy left-onramp dealys.
But when I put my turn signal on, it means I'm going over. It categorically does not mean, "you should go over and get in my blind spot" Which half the time, no matter what lane I'm in, people will interpret it to mean.
Woah woah woah here.
1) WTF, the third amendment? You seriously gonna try and read all kinds of wacky restrictions into the third amendment?
2) Almost nobody contests the fact that we need freeways, airports, rail lines, etc. Or that the public's need for those things occasionally must trump individuals' property rights. A stadium is pretty dumb, but we need highways to move goods, transport the injured, fight fires and crime, and move the army around for national defense.
3) They *can* ask you to put up a soldier in your spare bedroom, in time of war. And congress has the power to declare war.
no "Ex post facto" laws means (and is intended to mean) that you can't make something illegal after-the-fact. Not that you can't absolve people of wrongdoing, or make something that was illegal legal.
"Ex post facto" is not the appropriate grounds to object to the telecom bill.
Coffee doesn't have beans, it has pits.