As anon said further below, this could be a defence mechanism as it what they think is dead can rot and start to attract predators, affecting the rest.
So therein lies the question: Did they think that rat was dead?
And if so, how do they differ from unconscious rats versus sleeping rats?
Are you familiar with.NET at all? For some weird reason, my C# program compiled with "platform target" set as 32bit (x86) version takes 750ms to boot up on my 64bit CPU desktop, but that grows to 1.5seconds when compiled with x64.
I know - we'll get half of the population to do the screening for each user request, and the other half to actually view it immediately afterwards. The lag shouldn't be too bad - only half a minute per HTML page view.
They can take it in turns, so that half of the population screens one week, and then following week, they're the viewers, and the other half screens.
And the icing on the cake: it will create more work, which results in more jobs too!
Obviously a few bad apples will it through any software portal you care to mention, but Softpedia does not include the spamware 'installer' that Download.com is infamous for.
For the record, my own software is on there, and Softpedia supply exactly the same file (as expected).
To have all software in one place, compare them, see how highly they're rated, and see all the user reviews is very valuable to me.
But to download it? Just use Softpedia.com instead (which is almost as popular as Download.com, and avoids all the spamware).
Sure if you don't mind the control that Apple has over your software, and the 30% fee, and the possibilities for censorship. Not to mention the extra red tape for even getting your software out there in the first place.
My own software for Windows (in my sig actually) uses a donation-based system where users can pay whatever they want. 50 cents or 50 dollars - it's up to them. It's great because people may only use the software once, or ignore many of the more powerful features. And yes, I find people aren't that stingy, and donate pretty reasonably on the whole.
Does Apple allow that?
Well that word you used - 'everyone', would lose all its meaning with just 10 users no? How about 3 people?
I guess that's why I am a Windows user/developer. To have your user base, feedback, and often earnings, multiplied by 10 or 100 compared to other platforms is just too important to ignore.
Not to say I don't have idealistic visions for a better OS eventually, but then my heart is set more on Haiku, rather than Linux for a few reasons.
That's fine until all users disappear from your platform and you have an ever-shrinking market. How would you like it if Unix/Linux suddenly went down to 10 users? Would developing software for the platform still be as rewarding for you?
The bad Bufferbloat setup is on the left (yellow dots), and the 'good' setup (i.e. how things used to be configured about 10-20 years ago when RAM was more expensive!) is on the right (cyan/blue dots).
Both sides start off okay, but notice how the left side 'queues' (tall yellow dot columns) keep on growing over time, while the right side blue columns stop short because of the small buffer size. As they stop short, some data 'packets' must be dropped, and this gets reported back to the upload site that it's shoving data to the user too fast. As a result, the upload site temporarily slows the sending of data, and thus the system self-corrects.
Meanwhile, on the left side, these packets of data never get dropped, so the giant bloated yellow buffers get filled more and more, but the computer at the upload site doesn't realise the carnage of these giant queues further down the line, and instead thinks "All is okay, let's keep sending data fast!".
Finally, when a smaller piece of data needs to be sent to the user (see 2:30+ signified by red dots on the left and dark blue dots on the right), the left side shows the red dots (which could be say, a small email) wading through giant queues to reach their destination, really slowly. Furthermore these tiny bits of data often need special 'emergency' treatment as they hold up other larger data associated with it. On the good right side, the dark blue dots have no such giant queues.
I thought by 'hybrid', it actually meant two different drives (one SSD, one HDD) working in conjunction, where maybe the OS sits on the SSD, and where both drives simply take up half as much room. That sounds a great idea for laptops, which only have space for one drive.
But now I know it's all this cache crap, I'm suddenly not at all interested. If one wants the best of both worlds, simply get two drives, and install the OS on the SSD one.
Honest question. What is region locking supposed to accomplish anyway? Wouldn't it simplify the distribution process by making a universal version? Not to mention make them them more money (due potentially to less piracy, and better viral effects).
My mouse battery has lasted about 6-12 months so far, and battery tech is getting better all the time. There comes a point when the inconvenience of recharging/switching batteries becomes lower then the presence of a wire. What would your limit be? 1 month? 5 months? 50?
As for interference, that's why I spoke of standardizing frequencies so that kind of thing doesn't happen.
Wires look unsightly, and they get in the way, constantly getting tangled, or dragging on the table.
Yes, it's almost as if sound can't be represented by data:)
A year or two back, I checked Amazon for some decent wireless speakers, and they all seemed 4 or 3.5 star highest (problems being sound lag or connectivity or sound quality). Now though, the situation seems to have at least improved a bit...
Wireless is the future for many apps - there's no turning back now. My mouse is (blissfully) wireless, and is my router, and hopefully the blasted sound lead will be in the future too (one can dream about the power lead).
However what we do need are better standards, and/or an automated system where any communicating device can find space in the spectrum to signal. I'm not sure how trivial that is, but that would need standards as well. Problem is we need to work together and cooperate to set these standards.
Yes I would welcome the death of the CD/DVD drive, like the death of the floppy drive. USB drives do everything they do for just slightly more cash. And the upside is it make laptops lighter. I for one would much rather use that extra space for a 2nd hard drive, so I can use the SSD for Windows/Linux, and the other hard drive for my data.
Hopefully, the same will happen to the desktop soon enough.
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As anon said further below, this could be a defence mechanism as it what they think is dead can rot and start to attract predators, affecting the rest.
So therein lies the question: Did they think that rat was dead?
And if so, how do they differ from unconscious rats versus sleeping rats?
Almost a full second is *very* easy to tell, but yeah I do use a timer anyway and have run it on countless occasions...
Are you familiar with .NET at all? For some weird reason, my C# program compiled with "platform target" set as 32bit (x86) version takes 750ms to boot up on my 64bit CPU desktop, but that grows to 1.5seconds when compiled with x64.
Graphite can be 'peeled' to make graphene so easily that I doubt it could be *that* bad.
I know - we'll get half of the population to do the screening for each user request, and the other half to actually view it immediately afterwards. The lag shouldn't be too bad - only half a minute per HTML page view.
They can take it in turns, so that half of the population screens one week, and then following week, they're the viewers, and the other half screens.
And the icing on the cake: it will create more work, which results in more jobs too!
I like your "64-bit: facts and myths" article btw. I wish everyone would just switch to 64 bit and be done with for better compatibility like you say.
Obviously a few bad apples will it through any software portal you care to mention, but Softpedia does not include the spamware 'installer' that Download.com is infamous for. For the record, my own software is on there, and Softpedia supply exactly the same file (as expected).
To have all software in one place, compare them, see how highly they're rated, and see all the user reviews is very valuable to me. But to download it? Just use Softpedia.com instead (which is almost as popular as Download.com, and avoids all the spamware).
Sure if you don't mind the control that Apple has over your software, and the 30% fee, and the possibilities for censorship. Not to mention the extra red tape for even getting your software out there in the first place. My own software for Windows (in my sig actually) uses a donation-based system where users can pay whatever they want. 50 cents or 50 dollars - it's up to them. It's great because people may only use the software once, or ignore many of the more powerful features. And yes, I find people aren't that stingy, and donate pretty reasonably on the whole. Does Apple allow that?
Does that even apply to public domain, BSD and LGPL, or only GPL software? How about beer-free software?
Well that word you used - 'everyone', would lose all its meaning with just 10 users no? How about 3 people? I guess that's why I am a Windows user/developer. To have your user base, feedback, and often earnings, multiplied by 10 or 100 compared to other platforms is just too important to ignore. Not to say I don't have idealistic visions for a better OS eventually, but then my heart is set more on Haiku, rather than Linux for a few reasons.
That's fine until all users disappear from your platform and you have an ever-shrinking market. How would you like it if Unix/Linux suddenly went down to 10 users? Would developing software for the platform still be as rewarding for you?
The bad Bufferbloat setup is on the left (yellow dots), and the 'good' setup (i.e. how things used to be configured about 10-20 years ago when RAM was more expensive!) is on the right (cyan/blue dots).
Both sides start off okay, but notice how the left side 'queues' (tall yellow dot columns) keep on growing over time, while the right side blue columns stop short because of the small buffer size. As they stop short, some data 'packets' must be dropped, and this gets reported back to the upload site that it's shoving data to the user too fast. As a result, the upload site temporarily slows the sending of data, and thus the system self-corrects.
Meanwhile, on the left side, these packets of data never get dropped, so the giant bloated yellow buffers get filled more and more, but the computer at the upload site doesn't realise the carnage of these giant queues further down the line, and instead thinks "All is okay, let's keep sending data fast!".
Finally, when a smaller piece of data needs to be sent to the user (see 2:30+ signified by red dots on the left and dark blue dots on the right), the left side shows the red dots (which could be say, a small email) wading through giant queues to reach their destination, really slowly. Furthermore these tiny bits of data often need special 'emergency' treatment as they hold up other larger data associated with it. On the good right side, the dark blue dots have no such giant queues.
I thought by 'hybrid', it actually meant two different drives (one SSD, one HDD) working in conjunction, where maybe the OS sits on the SSD, and where both drives simply take up half as much room. That sounds a great idea for laptops, which only have space for one drive.
But now I know it's all this cache crap, I'm suddenly not at all interested. If one wants the best of both worlds, simply get two drives, and install the OS on the SSD one.
Wow, is there anything the SID ship *can't* do?
<goes back to listening to ocean loader 3 and monty on the run>
Fair enough. But that wouldn't apply to prices where they are the same.
Honest question. What is region locking supposed to accomplish anyway? Wouldn't it simplify the distribution process by making a universal version? Not to mention make them them more money (due potentially to less piracy, and better viral effects).
Perhaps they didn't mean it literally.
You bought the wrong mouse then. My logitech M505's never failed me. It appears everyone here agrees:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Logitech-M505-Wireless-Mouse-Silver/dp/B002L3TSKW/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1322147911&sr=8-2
It is indeed great, (apart from the super clicky buttons).
USB ports in a keyboard sound like a great idea.
My mouse battery has lasted about 6-12 months so far, and battery tech is getting better all the time. There comes a point when the inconvenience of recharging/switching batteries becomes lower then the presence of a wire. What would your limit be? 1 month? 5 months? 50?
As for interference, that's why I spoke of standardizing frequencies so that kind of thing doesn't happen.
Wires look unsightly, and they get in the way, constantly getting tangled, or dragging on the table.
Yes, it's almost as if sound can't be represented by data :)
A year or two back, I checked Amazon for some decent wireless speakers, and they all seemed 4 or 3.5 star highest (problems being sound lag or connectivity or sound quality). Now though, the situation seems to have at least improved a bit...
Wireless is the future for many apps - there's no turning back now. My mouse is (blissfully) wireless, and is my router, and hopefully the blasted sound lead will be in the future too (one can dream about the power lead).
However what we do need are better standards, and/or an automated system where any communicating device can find space in the spectrum to signal. I'm not sure how trivial that is, but that would need standards as well. Problem is we need to work together and cooperate to set these standards.
Electric cars may be more susceptible to pedestrian accidents because:
a: People are not used to them
b: Combustion engine cars drown them out
Both these issues will be solved within say 10-15 years, so for the sake of silence, please keep our vehicles quiet.
Yes I would welcome the death of the CD/DVD drive, like the death of the floppy drive. USB drives do everything they do for just slightly more cash. And the upside is it make laptops lighter. I for one would much rather use that extra space for a 2nd hard drive, so I can use the SSD for Windows/Linux, and the other hard drive for my data.
Hopefully, the same will happen to the desktop soon enough.
Interesting thanks - I'll try it out.