I could swear i have seen this already in windows XP, i work as an It tech so i see a lot of windows systems (pity me?) anywho, i have come across a few systems where task manager shows the CPU pegged at 80-100% but no process in the process list is using it (sorted by CPU time), even the idle process shows 75% or so.. the system is slow as heck so I tend to believe the over all usage stats but it should show "something" using the processor.
I would say (from my hazy memory) that the system suffered from malware too, as after a cleaning of the system it would be gone (the problem).
I don't know for sure if the system was just too busy to report actual process usage or there was something hidden from the task manager so you couldn't kill it, but i have seen this a few times..
My wife and eldest daughter are the only "non-gamers" in the house, but they both love the Wii.. from playing with Miis, to Wii sports to Wii vote they love the thing.. so now while i'm fragging away online they can play the Wii.. win win!
"Ever wonder where resistant strains start? Hint: it ain't just in the hospitals."
Mexico? My mother in law works at a farm that produces fruit with a lot of immagrant worker.. they routinely go back to Mexico to see family and pick her up Antibiotics because she likes to pop a few when she has a cold (yes a few, yes a cold).
I had her get me some because i regularly get bronchitis (I smoke) and when it gets infected it's hard to get doctors to prescribe antibiotics. she brought me a bottle of 500 tablets. No script needed, no doctor warnings etc...
"Used properly (that is, not overused and used with care)"
Maybe in America where everything needs a script (800mg ibuprofen.. come on) but not in other countries where you can buy antibiotics in a super saver 500 pill bottle. I believe this is how the problem started in the first place.
"Robertson said an average user that maintains good [gadget] hygiene would never see the software loaded onto their device without their knowledge.'"
That's why spyware is no longer a problem on the Windows platform. Should work well with Blackberries too..
I used to work at a company that managed their own BB server, we had the ability to push software to clients without them needing to approve.. i wonder if this will be used by companies to help track usage by their employees...
"And yes, I have seen meth, coke, acid, etc ruin FAR too many peoples lives to not have large issues with people using them and or selling them."
Hmm, I have seen meth, coke, acid, etc.. have no effect whatsoever on people's lives. I am one of them. and I have seen the opposite. What i have noticed is that the lives that are "ruined by a substance" were in fact ruined because of the person, not the drug.
Meaning they would have ended up that way anyway whether it be from drinking, suicide, sleeping around etc.. when someone is on a path to destruction and cares not what happens it matters little what method they use.
But by all means punish me because others could use something irresponsibly, also lump me in with them because my personal freedoms mean nothing to me.
"Crying foul that you got busted doing something illegal because the person catching you was doing something illegal is stupid."
No it's not, you either enforce the law across the board or not at all.. selective prosecution is not Justice.
Reading your post i don't think you have a full grasp of the entrapment laws (in the US). If a citizen would not have committed a crime unless for the encitement of an officer of the court, that is entrapment.
Cops have to walk a very fine line to be able to avoid cases being dismissed because of entrapment, if you ever watch the cops shows with the prostituion stings you will notice that the undercover lady does not solicit actions from Johns, she asks them plainly what they are looking for, what are they doing etc.. they don't MAKE any offers, just accept them.
i thought i was being too conservative, i guess there couldn't be that many women murdering dog rapers out there... maybe hanging around with dick cheney and karl rove is skewing my perspective?
how about YOU don't look at it, how about YOU keep your nose and judgements out of what other people like to do. how about YOU worry about your own problems instead of pigeonholing others to make yourself feel superior?
No body is making you click on those bondage/rape links.. but i'm sure you have to "see what filth other people are capable of doing" or some other justification.
"they are jsut sitting there like a time bomb just waiting on teh right stimulus to explode."
You're right, we should form that point just ban any form of stimulus from the world. problem solved.
How about we identify these individuals and offer treatment and therapy? That way we can help someone and not have to punish the 98% of the population that won't murder women and molest dogs.
"Or maybe like when the druggie calls the cops because the dealer sold him fake coke."
This is actually a crime, it is distribution of a controlled substance in lieu of.
"The next thing you are going to tell me is that when the cops pretend to be drug dealers to catch druggies you want them to be wearing DEA uniforms."
No i think the law is clear on entrapment and if the officers are soliciting sales then yes the case should be thrown out.. this is the same thing the MPAA is doing, soliciting illegal activity.. they should be charged with conspiracy.
BTW do you have something against people who use drugs?
"the same pattern occurred because the person had erased the lesson from the first time."
Yes in one case it did, in another it didn't in the case of the doctor and the receptionist.
I think it also speaks a bit to fate/soul mates.. even with their entire history erased they still met each other the same way, had the same attraction and ended up together.
As i re-read your first post i see what you were saying though and I tend to agree more with it than i first did...there was something that bugged me about it when i first read it but i don't seem to remember why.
"How on earth can a nation with such ridiculous laws still consider itself free?"
It was said once that "freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose", so in this interpretation US is truely free, as everything we used to be able to do has slowly been taken away from us.
If you are thinking about molesting children then it is the same as molesting children, DUH.. eventually you would find a child and molest him/her, better to stop you now before a child is hurt.
This is great proactive behavior on the behalf of our government but i think we can do better, statistically speaking there is a percentage of people who will go to jail, the percentage is higher in some cities than others.. we could pro actively round up that number of people each year and put them in prison and save tons of police manhours.
OR even better put everyone in jail from age 8 on, and then the ones who exhibit good behavior can be released after 10 years or so (when they can become productive members of society, re:consumers/wage earners). Problem solved.
"How does stimulation of those receptors create the subjective LSD experience?"
Because it just does man, it makes things all like cool and stuff, i can totally hear the colors and this water is like part of me.. like part of all of us man.. whoa.
"The lesson to be learned from Eternal Sunshine is that history repeats itself. "
I don't know about that, what i saw was that no matter what our experiences we should learn from them and except them as they make up who we are. There wasn't enough time to pass in the movie to be about history but a lot of situations where people who had gone through a relationship, instead of dealing with the outcome and growing from it, pretended like it never happened.
"So when people self medicate to forget painful events they are considered abusers ( alcohol / drugs ). But if the researchers give you something that does the same thing it is good? How's that?"
You seem unaware of the level of propaganda the US employs to keep the status quo in the WOD. The latest i've heard is that my dog hates me and wants to start his own country because i occasionally smoke.
"I think that, in light of what the idiot salesweasels do, as opposed to, you know, the smart people who actually produce the products, create IP, and innovate, I would say that you can't coddle developers enough. I understand that without sales people, there's no market, no revenue."
This really annoys me too, last company i worked for (one of the reasons I left) wouldn't pay me "market rate" because it wasn't in the budget and they were trying to cut costs (I had been working at below market rates for 2 years by then), the very next month the whole sales team went to an offsite for a week IN THE BAHAMAS.
I worked in IT and kept these guys up and running, but it was more important to lavish them with off site retreats in exotic locations than to pay me a fair salary.
"This precaution isn't for the dork who can't spend ten minutes without hearing the latest piece of gossip about his brother's girlfriend's new boyfriend, it's for doctors and similar professionals for whom time matters."
Then maybe these extremely important people shouldn't be watching a movie when they need to be available... we aren't talking about forcing people to not use their cell phones.. just forcing them to not be inconsiderate asshats at self imposed locations.
when they start charging more reasonable prices for their games.. 20 bucks is too much for a little puzzle game. at 5 bucks a pop I wouldn't feel like i'm getting ripped off.
I can go to the local store's bargain bin and get year old games for 20 bucks.. this is a 5 MB download..
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I could swear i have seen this already in windows XP, i work as an It tech so i see a lot of windows systems (pity me?) anywho, i have come across a few systems where task manager shows the CPU pegged at 80-100% but no process in the process list is using it (sorted by CPU time), even the idle process shows 75% or so.. the system is slow as heck so I tend to believe the over all usage stats but it should show "something" using the processor.
I would say (from my hazy memory) that the system suffered from malware too, as after a cleaning of the system it would be gone (the problem).
I don't know for sure if the system was just too busy to report actual process usage or there was something hidden from the task manager so you couldn't kill it, but i have seen this a few times..
My mother is a Clod! you insensitive.. um.. nevermind.
"The artics & mattes people erasing all those damn wires?"
Why do they have to erase wires? I would imagine they use green wires that would meld against the green background.. no?
Plus with an updated MCU it might be too powerful to beat :(
My wife and eldest daughter are the only "non-gamers" in the house, but they both love the Wii.. from playing with Miis, to Wii sports to Wii vote they love the thing.. so now while i'm fragging away online they can play the Wii.. win win!
"Ever wonder where resistant strains start? Hint: it ain't just in the hospitals."
Mexico? My mother in law works at a farm that produces fruit with a lot of immagrant worker.. they routinely go back to Mexico to see family and pick her up Antibiotics because she likes to pop a few when she has a cold (yes a few, yes a cold).
I had her get me some because i regularly get bronchitis (I smoke) and when it gets infected it's hard to get doctors to prescribe antibiotics. she brought me a bottle of 500 tablets. No script needed, no doctor warnings etc...
"Used properly (that is, not overused and used with care)"
Maybe in America where everything needs a script (800mg ibuprofen.. come on) but not in other countries where you can buy antibiotics in a super saver 500 pill bottle. I believe this is how the problem started in the first place.
"Robertson said an average user that maintains good [gadget] hygiene would never see the software loaded onto their device without their knowledge.'"
That's why spyware is no longer a problem on the Windows platform. Should work well with Blackberries too..
I used to work at a company that managed their own BB server, we had the ability to push software to clients without them needing to approve.. i wonder if this will be used by companies to help track usage by their employees...
(wonder meaning yes of course they will).
"And yes, I have seen meth, coke, acid, etc ruin FAR too many peoples lives to not have large issues with people using them and or selling them."
Hmm, I have seen meth, coke, acid, etc.. have no effect whatsoever on people's lives. I am one of them. and I have seen the opposite. What i have noticed is that the lives that are "ruined by a substance" were in fact ruined because of the person, not the drug.
Meaning they would have ended up that way anyway whether it be from drinking, suicide, sleeping around etc.. when someone is on a path to destruction and cares not what happens it matters little what method they use.
But by all means punish me because others could use something irresponsibly, also lump me in with them because my personal freedoms mean nothing to me.
"Crying foul that you got busted doing something illegal because the person catching you was doing something illegal is stupid."
No it's not, you either enforce the law across the board or not at all.. selective prosecution is not Justice.
Reading your post i don't think you have a full grasp of the entrapment laws (in the US). If a citizen would not have committed a crime unless for the encitement of an officer of the court, that is entrapment.
Cops have to walk a very fine line to be able to avoid cases being dismissed because of entrapment, if you ever watch the cops shows with the prostituion stings you will notice that the undercover lady does not solicit actions from Johns, she asks them plainly what they are looking for, what are they doing etc.. they don't MAKE any offers, just accept them.
i thought i was being too conservative, i guess there couldn't be that many women murdering dog rapers out there... maybe hanging around with dick cheney and karl rove is skewing my perspective?
It when you decide to quit coffee so you look for a substitute in the meantime.
Or maybe that's going postum?
how about YOU don't look at it, how about YOU keep your nose and judgements out of what other people like to do. how about YOU worry about your own problems instead of pigeonholing others to make yourself feel superior?
No body is making you click on those bondage/rape links.. but i'm sure you have to "see what filth other people are capable of doing" or some other justification.
Just some thoughts.
"they are jsut sitting there like a time bomb just waiting on teh right stimulus to explode."
You're right, we should form that point just ban any form of stimulus from the world. problem solved.
How about we identify these individuals and offer treatment and therapy? That way we can help someone and not have to punish the 98% of the population that won't murder women and molest dogs.
"They can use methods that are above the laws in order to achieve this."
Are you actually saying that the police are above the law?
"Or maybe like when the druggie calls the cops because the dealer sold him fake coke."
This is actually a crime, it is distribution of a controlled substance in lieu of.
"The next thing you are going to tell me is that when the cops pretend to be drug dealers to catch druggies you want them to be wearing DEA uniforms."
No i think the law is clear on entrapment and if the officers are soliciting sales then yes the case should be thrown out.. this is the same thing the MPAA is doing, soliciting illegal activity.. they should be charged with conspiracy.
BTW do you have something against people who use drugs?
"the same pattern occurred because the person had erased the lesson from the first time."
Yes in one case it did, in another it didn't in the case of the doctor and the receptionist.
I think it also speaks a bit to fate/soul mates.. even with their entire history erased they still met each other the same way, had the same attraction and ended up together.
As i re-read your first post i see what you were saying though and I tend to agree more with it than i first did...there was something that bugged me about it when i first read it but i don't seem to remember why.
"How on earth can a nation with such ridiculous laws still consider itself free?"
It was said once that "freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose", so in this interpretation US is truely free, as everything we used to be able to do has slowly been taken away from us.
If you are thinking about molesting children then it is the same as molesting children, DUH.. eventually you would find a child and molest him/her, better to stop you now before a child is hurt.
This is great proactive behavior on the behalf of our government but i think we can do better, statistically speaking there is a percentage of people who will go to jail, the percentage is higher in some cities than others.. we could pro actively round up that number of people each year and put them in prison and save tons of police manhours.
OR even better put everyone in jail from age 8 on, and then the ones who exhibit good behavior can be released after 10 years or so (when they can become productive members of society, re:consumers/wage earners). Problem solved.
"How does stimulation of those receptors create the subjective LSD experience?"
Because it just does man, it makes things all like cool and stuff, i can totally hear the colors and this water is like part of me.. like part of all of us man.. whoa.
"The lesson to be learned from Eternal Sunshine is that history repeats itself. "
I don't know about that, what i saw was that no matter what our experiences we should learn from them and except them as they make up who we are. There wasn't enough time to pass in the movie to be about history but a lot of situations where people who had gone through a relationship, instead of dealing with the outcome and growing from it, pretended like it never happened.
"So when people self medicate to forget painful events they are considered abusers ( alcohol / drugs ). But if the researchers give you something that does the same thing it is good? How's that?"
You seem unaware of the level of propaganda the US employs to keep the status quo in the WOD. The latest i've heard is that my dog hates me and wants to start his own country because i occasionally smoke.
"I think that, in light of what the idiot salesweasels do, as opposed to, you know, the smart people who actually produce the products, create IP, and innovate, I would say that you can't coddle developers enough. I understand that without sales people, there's no market, no revenue."
This really annoys me too, last company i worked for (one of the reasons I left) wouldn't pay me "market rate" because it wasn't in the budget and they were trying to cut costs (I had been working at below market rates for 2 years by then), the very next month the whole sales team went to an offsite for a week IN THE BAHAMAS.
I worked in IT and kept these guys up and running, but it was more important to lavish them with off site retreats in exotic locations than to pay me a fair salary.
Whatever.
"This precaution isn't for the dork who can't spend ten minutes without hearing the latest piece of gossip about his brother's girlfriend's new boyfriend, it's for doctors and similar professionals for whom time matters."
Then maybe these extremely important people shouldn't be watching a movie when they need to be available... we aren't talking about forcing people to not use their cell phones.. just forcing them to not be inconsiderate asshats at self imposed locations.
Just change the gravitational constant for the universe, sheesh -Q
when they start charging more reasonable prices for their games.. 20 bucks is too much for a little puzzle game. at 5 bucks a pop I wouldn't feel like i'm getting ripped off.
I can go to the local store's bargain bin and get year old games for 20 bucks.. this is a 5 MB download..