Firstly, how did you confirm what you thought was happening ? available RAM in single-digit megs (not a bad thing. empty ram is wasted ram, but if something in the foreground needs that ram for something, it needs to be made available right now.), drive activity going nuts whenever i do something simple like open a menu, page file size rising, programs running extremely slow. to me, all this fits the usual "out of ram. go use the swap" symptoms.
UAC is only reacting to what the program is trying to do. It is the program, not UAC, that is broken. yes, and what i'm saying it that it seems to be reacting to something it shouldn't react to and the randomness of it is irritating. i can't think of anything that should require permission that it would do only every 3rd run, or anything that it does anytime that should require permission.
If the UI were fed into a chipper-shredder and some good human interface designers stepped in that's being done for 2.6. they've hired a UI design company called MMIWorks to redesign the GUI.
and the switch to GEGL will take care of the 8-bits-per-channel limit.
then again, this all could be excessive optimism and nothing will really change in 2.6.
i'd personally take the "when in actual service" part to say it refers only to the US' service personnel, not to any prisoners, but the interpretation of that is the court's job, which is why it ought to go there.
There is one key phrase in the constitution (that even you quoted) that makes it okay. ". . . except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; . ..". This phrasing is in the constitution because otherwise simply going to war would violate our own constitution.
from my reading of that, that exemption would appear to only apply to persons in military service to the US (allowing for things like military courts under the UCMJ), not to anyone else, such as prisoners.
i still say put 'em on trial in civilian court, just like any other suspected criminals. i do not particularly see why they are so different from any other criminal organization, which are handled through the same process.
It has far more aggressive memory-handling techniques, which load apps into and out of memory at certain times to increase their loading times.
I resume you meant "decrease their loading times", though this feature is a cause of annoyance to me. It's a great idea, but it seems really reluctant to release memory used for this caching when I'm actually doing something.
I've had more than one instance (happens at least every other day that I use this machine) where I have only OpenOffce.org writer (or a similarly non-intensive program) open, and it's SWAPPING with practically zero remaining RAM!
The computer in question has 2 GiB of RAM and practically nothing running in the background, so there's nothing else to take up all that RAM except vista's berzerk caching.
Add that to the fact that several programs i need on a daily basis either don't work (humorously, one is "vista compatible" and it won't even install), don't work properly, or require lots of futzing to get working, means i don't plan on getting vista anytime soon.
A bit of a shame IMO, as i really like some of vista's new stuff (the WGF stuff is a great improvement over the previous system and UAC would be great if they could make it a little less hyperactive (about every 3rd time i run KiCAD, it prompts me for some reason), along with several of the things you point out.)
changing the WM (shell) is just a single registry edit, on XP and earlier anyway. no idea if this works for vista.
change the "shell" value at (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE or HKEY_CURRENT_USER)\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon so it has the path of the new shell (C:\newWM\newWM.exe for example) rather than explorer.exe
wikipedia has a short list of some of the current alternative WMs for windows (link)
if not for all the other evidence, that might be valid reasoning. i know for a fact that the 2wire gateways (modem+router all-in-one) used by the local telco for DSL service have some NAT issues. they do odd things (crashing, dropping connections (the connection just stops, no RST like these fools are doing), losing sync, etc.) if you go above about 250 connections, as they run out of memory. they put the things into bridge mode, which basically turns it into a modem and a 4 port switch, for their higher-tier installs.
but, IIRC, azuerus and most other BT clients have a default limit around 100, so unless they use unbelievably crappy gear, it's bollocks.
yes, but history seems to indicate that any "solution" that requires people to change their behavior for no immediate personal benefit will fail dismally.
and as far as i see it, nuclear is our best option while we perfect wind/solar/geothermal/fusion/whatever. nuclear is not a permanent solution, but nothing is. even solar will only work for a few billion years and fission will work for a century or so, and even longer if we look to thorium and use integral fast reactors to burn the existing waste we have building up.
These guys are also as slow as flash memory, which currently maxes out around 20 MB/sec reading and 12 MB/sec writing, for the best reasonably-priced cards I've seen (SanDisk Ultra III), which is much slower than conventional hard drives (45 MB/sec reading/writing at the outer edge for conventional 7200 RPM disks, or up to 85 MB/sec for the newest perpendicular-recording disks with the proper firmware). But, they retain data for 5-10 years with the power off, which is about as good as you'd expect from hard disks (which tend to freeze up during years of inactivity). i've only heard of those slow speeds for earlier SSDs. reviews I've seen of newer ones put them matching or exceeding conventional drives in read/write speeds. not to mention beating the everloving crap out of them in seek times.
though the SSDs are still vastly more expensive and vastly smaller than conventional drives, so i predict that conventional drives aren't going anywhere for awhile.
We should already know how dangerous the natural nanotechnology is (virus, bacteria, etc, etc)
to extend your analogy, we also already know how beneficial it is/can be with the example of all the bacteria in your gut that allow digestion of various things.
as usual, technology is a double-edged blade. the same tech that can get a chemotherapy drug through the blood-brain barrier can also move something less friendly, intentionally or not.
not a whole lot you can do about the intentionally bit as far as science goes (dealing with that is the law/government's job.), but we can do our best to avoid the unintentional badness.
Ubuntu (XUbuntu in this case) often "just works" on desktop machines (laptops seem to still be really hit 'n miss). my 62-year-old aunt (she's practically the definition of "Aunt Tilly") has been using XUbuntu an old desktop i scavenged (1ghz p3, 512 ram, ati rage something video). she was off and running within the hour (including the time it took her to install it!) and the most difficult part was tweaking the font size up.
it does everything she needs it for (email,photos, embroidery patterns, mah jong and other basic games, web browsing, etc.) and is much lower maintenance than windows was.
Here's a rule that would lead to some restraint: no police officer should be allowed to carry a taser until they've experienced being at the wrong end of one.
How long until they can actually record and analyze everything within range of all our phones?
not too long i'd imagine.
16-bit, 44.1khz (CD quality) mono sound is ~11KB/s
with ~300 million Americans, presuming all of them use the phone for 3 hours a day:
300,000,000*11*3600*3=33,000 terabytes per day
a 1TB drive costs $402 currently, and assuming three copies of every call (for redundancy purposes) that's about $40 million per day or $14.6 billion per year, which isn't a whole lot given government spending.
of course, analysing all that would take considerable resources, but they could feasibly record every word said by everyone on every phone RIGHT NOW if they put their minds to it.
If true, what on earth could have triggered them to ask their lawyers for such a ridiculous action? Clearly, no one is a winner if "the Romantics" win over Activision in court:
presumabley they're trying the "sue for the world, settle out of court for what they really want" tactic.
either that or they're certifiably nuts, which is always a distinct possibility.
watch the local paper's entertainment section. many local bands around here get their gigs in there, especially if a few bands are having a collective show.
it has nothing to do with the cell phone systems. they're just sticking the equipment for this system on the same tower. why build new towers if you can just toss it on existing ones?
is probably the MOST standards compliant browser under the sun (not counting HTML dev tools)
standards compliance isn't worth shit if the rest of the web isn't even close to complying with the standards.
last time i tried opera, i had some really freaky problems with some sites, like a menu appearing upside-down and on the wrong side of the screen! never managed to figure out what was causing that on that site (an internal page for at college)
presumably that's about the face part. i'd think one would be more likely to aim for the chest (bigger target, lots of important parts) than the face (small target, potentially disfiguring, might blind the target, but difficult to do real damage)
yes but the RIAA trials are creating interesting/dangerous precidents/opinions on IP law, which the FSF does rely upon, as copyright is nessesary to use copyleft. suitable changes/interpretations could render the creation of Free software extremely difficult, if not impossible.
it is very much in their interest to get involved with this before it starts to have direct effect on them, as by then it has gathered inertia and will be that much harder to reverse.
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and the switch to GEGL will take care of the 8-bits-per-channel limit.
then again, this all could be excessive optimism and nothing will really change in 2.6.
i'd personally take the "when in actual service" part to say it refers only to the US' service personnel, not to any prisoners, but the interpretation of that is the court's job, which is why it ought to go there.
There is one key phrase in the constitution (that even you quoted) that makes it okay. ". . . except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; . . .". This phrasing is in the constitution because otherwise simply going to war would violate our own constitution.
from my reading of that, that exemption would appear to only apply to persons in military service to the US (allowing for things like military courts under the UCMJ), not to anyone else, such as prisoners.
i still say put 'em on trial in civilian court, just like any other suspected criminals. i do not particularly see why they are so different from any other criminal organization, which are handled through the same process.
It has far more aggressive memory-handling techniques, which load apps into and out of memory at certain times to increase their loading times.
I resume you meant "decrease their loading times", though this feature is a cause of annoyance to me. It's a great idea, but it seems really reluctant to release memory used for this caching when I'm actually doing something.
I've had more than one instance (happens at least every other day that I use this machine) where I have only OpenOffce.org writer (or a similarly non-intensive program) open, and it's SWAPPING with practically zero remaining RAM!
The computer in question has 2 GiB of RAM and practically nothing running in the background, so there's nothing else to take up all that RAM except vista's berzerk caching.
Add that to the fact that several programs i need on a daily basis either don't work (humorously, one is "vista compatible" and it won't even install), don't work properly, or require lots of futzing to get working, means i don't plan on getting vista anytime soon.
A bit of a shame IMO, as i really like some of vista's new stuff (the WGF stuff is a great improvement over the previous system and UAC would be great if they could make it a little less hyperactive (about every 3rd time i run KiCAD, it prompts me for some reason), along with several of the things you point out.)
changing the WM (shell) is just a single registry edit, on XP and earlier anyway. no idea if this works for vista.
change the "shell" value at (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE or HKEY_CURRENT_USER)\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon so it has the path of the new shell (C:\newWM\newWM.exe for example) rather than explorer.exe
wikipedia has a short list of some of the current alternative WMs for windows (link)
if not for all the other evidence, that might be valid reasoning. i know for a fact that the 2wire gateways (modem+router all-in-one) used by the local telco for DSL service have some NAT issues. they do odd things (crashing, dropping connections (the connection just stops, no RST like these fools are doing), losing sync, etc.) if you go above about 250 connections, as they run out of memory. they put the things into bridge mode, which basically turns it into a modem and a 4 port switch, for their higher-tier installs.
but, IIRC, azuerus and most other BT clients have a default limit around 100, so unless they use unbelievably crappy gear, it's bollocks.
presuming dry air at sea-level pressure (no idea on the humidity/pressure up on the ISS), it's a little more than 1 cubic metre or 1000 litres.
The most corrupt also tend to be the most experianced. Obviously, balance needs to be found.
This article, by nature, is useless because of who posted it. Can we get the opinion of someone who's NOT a known tin-hatter?
Go read the bill (linked in TFS) and form your own opinion then.
yes, but history seems to indicate that any "solution" that requires people to change their behavior for no immediate personal benefit will fail dismally.
and as far as i see it, nuclear is our best option while we perfect wind/solar/geothermal/fusion/whatever. nuclear is not a permanent solution, but nothing is. even solar will only work for a few billion years and fission will work for a century or so, and even longer if we look to thorium and use integral fast reactors to burn the existing waste we have building up.
because the settlement is cheaper than the cost of lawyers to contest the matter, even if they are completely above board?
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/is_a_solid_state_drive_in_your_future
benchmark results are on the 2nd page.
though the SSDs are still vastly more expensive and vastly smaller than conventional drives, so i predict that conventional drives aren't going anywhere for awhile.
We should already know how dangerous the natural nanotechnology is (virus, bacteria, etc, etc)
to extend your analogy, we also already know how beneficial it is/can be with the example of all the bacteria in your gut that allow digestion of various things.
as usual, technology is a double-edged blade. the same tech that can get a chemotherapy drug through the blood-brain barrier can also move something less friendly, intentionally or not.
not a whole lot you can do about the intentionally bit as far as science goes (dealing with that is the law/government's job.), but we can do our best to avoid the unintentional badness.
Ubuntu (XUbuntu in this case) often "just works" on desktop machines (laptops seem to still be really hit 'n miss). my 62-year-old aunt (she's practically the definition of "Aunt Tilly") has been using XUbuntu an old desktop i scavenged (1ghz p3, 512 ram, ati rage something video). she was off and running within the hour (including the time it took her to install it!) and the most difficult part was tweaking the font size up.
,photos, embroidery patterns, mah jong and other basic games, web browsing, etc.) and is much lower maintenance than windows was.
it does everything she needs it for (email
Here's a rule that would lead to some restraint: no police officer should be allowed to carry a taser until they've experienced being at the wrong end of one.
I believe they're already required to.
How long until they can actually record and analyze everything within range of all our phones?
not too long i'd imagine.
16-bit, 44.1khz (CD quality) mono sound is ~11KB/s
with ~300 million Americans, presuming all of them use the phone for 3 hours a day:
300,000,000*11*3600*3=33,000 terabytes per day
a 1TB drive costs $402 currently, and assuming three copies of every call (for redundancy purposes) that's about $40 million per day or $14.6 billion per year, which isn't a whole lot given government spending.
of course, analysing all that would take considerable resources, but they could feasibly record every word said by everyone on every phone RIGHT NOW if they put their minds to it.
one thing to keep in mind is that turning off the "Volume Shadow Copy" service causes some backup software to have fits.
If true, what on earth could have triggered them to ask their lawyers for such a ridiculous action? Clearly, no one is a winner if "the Romantics" win over Activision in court:
presumabley they're trying the "sue for the world, settle out of court for what they really want" tactic.
either that or they're certifiably nuts, which is always a distinct possibility.
watch the local paper's entertainment section. many local bands around here get their gigs in there, especially if a few bands are having a collective show.
it has nothing to do with the cell phone systems. they're just sticking the equipment for this system on the same tower. why build new towers if you can just toss it on existing ones?
is probably the MOST standards compliant browser under the sun (not counting HTML dev tools)
standards compliance isn't worth shit if the rest of the web isn't even close to complying with the standards.
last time i tried opera, i had some really freaky problems with some sites, like a menu appearing upside-down and on the wrong side of the screen! never managed to figure out what was causing that on that site (an internal page for at college)
presumably that's about the face part. i'd think one would be more likely to aim for the chest (bigger target, lots of important parts) than the face (small target, potentially disfiguring, might blind the target, but difficult to do real damage)
yes but the RIAA trials are creating interesting/dangerous precidents/opinions on IP law, which the FSF does rely upon, as copyright is nessesary to use copyleft. suitable changes/interpretations could render the creation of Free software extremely difficult, if not impossible.
it is very much in their interest to get involved with this before it starts to have direct effect on them, as by then it has gathered inertia and will be that much harder to reverse.
it's pretty common actually.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photic_sneeze_reflex