No, I am not. I am saying that you and people like you imply that Flash is as unreliable as Windows Me, and that Flash is not in that category. Look at what I wrote, and you will realize that you just misread it.
They would suddenly sympathize. As a quad-core Mac user, I'm well aware that any Flash at all on a page in Firefox can drive a single core to 100% for no real reason.
Implies that it is a consistent reproducible problem.
The fact that YOU cannot point to a reproducible example of this mythical phenomena doesn't make it urban legend. The fact that NO ONE can makes it urban legend.
The general idea that keeps being thrown around is that Flash pegs CPUs at 100%, and brings systems to their knees as sure as Windows Me is to crash. You are just one voice in this extraordinary claim that has less than mediocre evidence.
Then your comment and complaint about Flash is absolutely unfair.
I still want someone to point out a site that pegs the CPU. As far as I can tell the 100% CPU utilization is an urban legend with about as much evidence as ghosts and alien visitors.
I have a Mac here on my desk, but I don't use it often because the the UI isn't quite as good as the Windows UI. So, I am referencing this primarily from a windows perspective. I have not seen this on XP nor 7.
I do think that making claims that a program uses 100% CPU when the last time you used it was over 2 years ago puts you in the "wrong but believe it" category. It makes about as much sense as me bagging on the Mac for being in Black and white.
Seriously, remote, 'turn off the coffee pot', or remote 'put away the dishes' would seem more useful. I would say remote 'mow the lawn' or remote 'vacuum the floor', but those have already been taken care of with 'automatic'.
Could you point me to a flash site that does this? I keep hearing this repeated, but I have never once had that problem. My son has had the problem of slowdown when he has 15 pages each with their own flash game running, but I'm pretty sure that he would have the same problem if he had 15 native games running on his PC at the same time.
I'm not sure if people are just lying about the 100% CPU usage, whether they are wrong but believe it, or whether everyone in my family is just supernaturally lucky to not have ever run into this.
We do all use Firefox, and we are on modest machines using on-board graphics.
No one has ever said that they NEED flash on there phone. Most people don't even say that they NEED a mobile phone. People WANT flash, and they don't WANT the phone manufacturer telling them that they cannot have it because the manufacturer wants to protect their non-hardware profits. Yes, Apple sucks for doing their best to prevent people from running the software they WANT on the hardware they OWN.
Apple has made a mistake. They are replaying the Mac/PC battle all over again on cell phones, and they don't seem to have learned their lesson.
That logic doesn't work. It is irrelevant how many people are born with herpes. It can be tested for, and those people could just skip the immunization. The anti-immunization crowd hasn't stopped the chicken pox vaccine, so they are not the reason that we don't see immunization for herpes 1/2. Liability hasn't stopped immunization of chicken pox, which is a major childhood hassle, but not particularly problematic. It hasn't even stopped the wide spread use of immunization for the flu.
I can think of no reason that a chicken pox vaccine would be acceptable but a herpes 1/2 vaccine would not, other than the sacrad cow education industry makes more money by pushing chicken pox out past school age, and herpes 1/2 will sell treatment for the rest of a persons life.
I know that if I was placed with choosing for my child, between the chicken pox vaccine, and a herpes 2 vaccine, a herpes 2 vaccine would be the obvious choice.
So, why not immunize everyone. Those that already have it have no problem, and new infections stop happening. I still don't see a problem with vaccination against Herpes 1/2. It might take a generation or two, but eventually, we should see the disappearance of this disease.
As for shingles, it being *nasty* is a new phenomenon. When my wife got it (at 25), the doctors were totally unconcerned, and said while painful and unattractive, it was otherwise benign.
In your hypothetical 45-44-11 scenario, if the group with 44 can sway just 2 percent of the 11 to their side, they win and the 45 group loses. That is a strong incentive to force the 45 and 44 to behave the way the 11 want.
I think the do care now. The two parties push "Everyone should vote" because all of the people that wouldn't have voted but are convinced to vote even thought they don't know any of the candidates, are going to fairly randomly vote for one of the two names they hear the most.
Everyone votes becomes white noise that drowns out third parties. Of course if uninformed voters could be convinced that their vote is most effective by voting against BOTH parties via a third party, then we would see improvement.
In fact, a third party candidate that doesn't win, but even comes close to tilting the scales will push the winner to do a better job, as they will feel the pressure to cater to the third party voters for support.
Third party. If even a small fraction of the people who are voting against a candidate would vote third party instead of voting for the other second party, we could see change. The third party doesn't need to win. They just need to have a third party candidate do well enough that it scares them into doing their job right.
The biggest difference being that what I do is none of Google's business, but it is my wife's? Of course, I just give my wife access to all of my communications, so having my SMS's forwarded to her would be a bigger problem for her than it would be for me.
Instamapper GPS tracking software for Android handles this in what I consider an adequate way. They put a small icon on the notification bar, and after about 3 days of running, it gives you the ability to turn off the icon.
I prefer Big Brother though. I like it better because it is designed for you to submit your locations to your own webserver instead of to the developers server. Ironic that 'Big Brother' is the least Big Brotherish.
By spying covertly, you get all of the problems of spying, but since your child knows you do it coverty, they will assume that EVERYTHING they do is being spied on. They will worry about cameras in the bathrooms. recorders in their clothes. You will create parinoia.
If you think you are so good that your child will NEVER catch you, you are deluded. Especially if they are a smart child.
But that only applies to parts made using the Analog Hole. Proper digital copies made using a "computer" are entirely different, and need special protections.
How do they handle immunizations of Herpes Zoster? Is it because there was not yet an infection? Personally, I would be ecstatic if they could even immunize against Herpes 1/2. It seems odd that there isn't a vaccine for it given the chicken pox vaccine.
100 Billion? Is that all it cost? With a population of just over 300 million, that means it cost us less than $350 per person over 10 years? I would have to give a resounding yes. ~$35 a year per person is a bargain.
I have a crazy idea. Lets make a space tax. 1% of any revenue generated directly from space goes to new space research. So, any telephone plan that uses satellites, television programming that uses satellites, satellite photos that use satellites, all get taxed at 1% to further the industry. Obviously any services that are consumed in space would be exempt.
Except it isn't MS ceasing to exist tomorrow. It is MS going out of business. No matter what happens to MS, the copyrights on Windows will continue to be in force in exactly the same way the the MacOS copyrights will be in force. If the Government decides to start commuting copyright infringement, or decides to eminent domain the OS, they are in no different of a situation with Apple than they are with MS. They are buying standard PC hardware, and either writing the drivers themselves, or having someone else do it for them.
The only thing that makes a hackintosh "bastardised" is that the copyright owner of the OS goes out of their way to shut down distributes and the writers of drivers for non-approved hardware. If they disappeared tomorrow, so would the only barrier to having MacOS run on the rest of the PC hardware.
That is a good point. I would say that in places like the US, we are nearing the maximum vehicle demand though. We are not there yet, as private jets for long trips are still pretty limited, but for ground based travel, I would be surprised if fuel side effects have even a 5% impact on how much people travel. If a perpetual car engine were to be created tomorrow, I doubt that we would see any significant increase in consumer auto travel.
Of course, your point might still hold true in that if we no longer used petrol in cars, we might see more of it diverted to rocketry, and we might just start traveling to other planets.
I think you are right to a point. I don't want to be a slave to the rental companies when it comes to long trips though. For example, your scenario would, in all practicality, ban anyone under the age of 25 from making any trip over 150 miles. To me, that is absolutely absurd.
A variation that would work better would be to have a standard plug and mounting brackets for the electric power source of all vehicles. This would have to be nationally mandated for it to really work, but as long as a minimum space, connector and wattage are standardized electric vehicles could be run as all electric with overnight charging for 95% of the people. For the people that make a few trips a year, they can keep the gas engine in the garage to swap out are trip day, and for the people that drive over 150 miles daily, they can just leave in the gas engine. Of course, they could also easily convert to any other fuel source at a consumer changeable level. It would also allow for new improvements in battery or generator technology to be put into any car that meets the standard.
We really need to get away from locking the fuel source to the vehicle. All electric cars with standardized mounting and plugs could do that for us.
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No, I am not. I am saying that you and people like you imply that Flash is as unreliable as Windows Me, and that Flash is not in that category. Look at what I wrote, and you will realize that you just misread it.
They would suddenly sympathize. As a quad-core Mac user, I'm well aware that any Flash at all on a page in Firefox can drive a single core to 100% for no real reason.
Implies that it is a consistent reproducible problem.
The fact that YOU cannot point to a reproducible example of this mythical phenomena doesn't make it urban legend. The fact that NO ONE can makes it urban legend.
The general idea that keeps being thrown around is that Flash pegs CPUs at 100%, and brings systems to their knees as sure as Windows Me is to crash. You are just one voice in this extraordinary claim that has less than mediocre evidence.
Then your comment and complaint about Flash is absolutely unfair.
I still want someone to point out a site that pegs the CPU. As far as I can tell the 100% CPU utilization is an urban legend with about as much evidence as ghosts and alien visitors.
I have a Mac here on my desk, but I don't use it often because the the UI isn't quite as good as the Windows UI. So, I am referencing this primarily from a windows perspective. I have not seen this on XP nor 7.
I do think that making claims that a program uses 100% CPU when the last time you used it was over 2 years ago puts you in the "wrong but believe it" category. It makes about as much sense as me bagging on the Mac for being in Black and white.
Seriously, remote, 'turn off the coffee pot', or remote 'put away the dishes' would seem more useful. I would say remote 'mow the lawn' or remote 'vacuum the floor', but those have already been taken care of with 'automatic'.
Could you point me to a flash site that does this? I keep hearing this repeated, but I have never once had that problem. My son has had the problem of slowdown when he has 15 pages each with their own flash game running, but I'm pretty sure that he would have the same problem if he had 15 native games running on his PC at the same time.
I'm not sure if people are just lying about the 100% CPU usage, whether they are wrong but believe it, or whether everyone in my family is just supernaturally lucky to not have ever run into this.
We do all use Firefox, and we are on modest machines using on-board graphics.
No one has ever said that they NEED flash on there phone. Most people don't even say that they NEED a mobile phone. People WANT flash, and they don't WANT the phone manufacturer telling them that they cannot have it because the manufacturer wants to protect their non-hardware profits. Yes, Apple sucks for doing their best to prevent people from running the software they WANT on the hardware they OWN.
Apple has made a mistake. They are replaying the Mac/PC battle all over again on cell phones, and they don't seem to have learned their lesson.
That logic doesn't work. It is irrelevant how many people are born with herpes. It can be tested for, and those people could just skip the immunization. The anti-immunization crowd hasn't stopped the chicken pox vaccine, so they are not the reason that we don't see immunization for herpes 1/2. Liability hasn't stopped immunization of chicken pox, which is a major childhood hassle, but not particularly problematic. It hasn't even stopped the wide spread use of immunization for the flu.
I can think of no reason that a chicken pox vaccine would be acceptable but a herpes 1/2 vaccine would not, other than the sacrad cow education industry makes more money by pushing chicken pox out past school age, and herpes 1/2 will sell treatment for the rest of a persons life.
I know that if I was placed with choosing for my child, between the chicken pox vaccine, and a herpes 2 vaccine, a herpes 2 vaccine would be the obvious choice.
Bingo! The more people we can make understand that, the more the major parties will have to behave.
Bingo! I don't care if Democrats, Republicans, or some other party wins as long as they behave the way I want them to.
So, why not immunize everyone. Those that already have it have no problem, and new infections stop happening. I still don't see a problem with vaccination against Herpes 1/2. It might take a generation or two, but eventually, we should see the disappearance of this disease.
As for shingles, it being *nasty* is a new phenomenon. When my wife got it (at 25), the doctors were totally unconcerned, and said while painful and unattractive, it was otherwise benign.
In your hypothetical 45-44-11 scenario, if the group with 44 can sway just 2 percent of the 11 to their side, they win and the 45 group loses. That is a strong incentive to force the 45 and 44 to behave the way the 11 want.
I think the do care now. The two parties push "Everyone should vote" because all of the people that wouldn't have voted but are convinced to vote even thought they don't know any of the candidates, are going to fairly randomly vote for one of the two names they hear the most.
Everyone votes becomes white noise that drowns out third parties. Of course if uninformed voters could be convinced that their vote is most effective by voting against BOTH parties via a third party, then we would see improvement.
In fact, a third party candidate that doesn't win, but even comes close to tilting the scales will push the winner to do a better job, as they will feel the pressure to cater to the third party voters for support.
Third party. If even a small fraction of the people who are voting against a candidate would vote third party instead of voting for the other second party, we could see change. The third party doesn't need to win. They just need to have a third party candidate do well enough that it scares them into doing their job right.
The biggest difference being that what I do is none of Google's business, but it is my wife's? Of course, I just give my wife access to all of my communications, so having my SMS's forwarded to her would be a bigger problem for her than it would be for me.
Instamapper GPS tracking software for Android handles this in what I consider an adequate way. They put a small icon on the notification bar, and after about 3 days of running, it gives you the ability to turn off the icon.
I prefer Big Brother though. I like it better because it is designed for you to submit your locations to your own webserver instead of to the developers server. Ironic that 'Big Brother' is the least Big Brotherish.
By spying covertly, you get all of the problems of spying, but since your child knows you do it coverty, they will assume that EVERYTHING they do is being spied on. They will worry about cameras in the bathrooms. recorders in their clothes. You will create parinoia.
If you think you are so good that your child will NEVER catch you, you are deluded. Especially if they are a smart child.
But that only applies to parts made using the Analog Hole. Proper digital copies made using a "computer" are entirely different, and need special protections.
How do they handle immunizations of Herpes Zoster? Is it because there was not yet an infection? Personally, I would be ecstatic if they could even immunize against Herpes 1/2. It seems odd that there isn't a vaccine for it given the chicken pox vaccine.
100 Billion? Is that all it cost? With a population of just over 300 million, that means it cost us less than $350 per person over 10 years? I would have to give a resounding yes. ~$35 a year per person is a bargain.
I have a crazy idea. Lets make a space tax. 1% of any revenue generated directly from space goes to new space research. So, any telephone plan that uses satellites, television programming that uses satellites, satellite photos that use satellites, all get taxed at 1% to further the industry. Obviously any services that are consumed in space would be exempt.
Except it isn't MS ceasing to exist tomorrow. It is MS going out of business. No matter what happens to MS, the copyrights on Windows will continue to be in force in exactly the same way the the MacOS copyrights will be in force. If the Government decides to start commuting copyright infringement, or decides to eminent domain the OS, they are in no different of a situation with Apple than they are with MS. They are buying standard PC hardware, and either writing the drivers themselves, or having someone else do it for them.
The only thing that makes a hackintosh "bastardised" is that the copyright owner of the OS goes out of their way to shut down distributes and the writers of drivers for non-approved hardware. If they disappeared tomorrow, so would the only barrier to having MacOS run on the rest of the PC hardware.
That is a good point. I would say that in places like the US, we are nearing the maximum vehicle demand though. We are not there yet, as private jets for long trips are still pretty limited, but for ground based travel, I would be surprised if fuel side effects have even a 5% impact on how much people travel. If a perpetual car engine were to be created tomorrow, I doubt that we would see any significant increase in consumer auto travel.
Of course, your point might still hold true in that if we no longer used petrol in cars, we might see more of it diverted to rocketry, and we might just start traveling to other planets.
I think you are right to a point. I don't want to be a slave to the rental companies when it comes to long trips though. For example, your scenario would, in all practicality, ban anyone under the age of 25 from making any trip over 150 miles. To me, that is absolutely absurd.
A variation that would work better would be to have a standard plug and mounting brackets for the electric power source of all vehicles. This would have to be nationally mandated for it to really work, but as long as a minimum space, connector and wattage are standardized electric vehicles could be run as all electric with overnight charging for 95% of the people. For the people that make a few trips a year, they can keep the gas engine in the garage to swap out are trip day, and for the people that drive over 150 miles daily, they can just leave in the gas engine. Of course, they could also easily convert to any other fuel source at a consumer changeable level. It would also allow for new improvements in battery or generator technology to be put into any car that meets the standard.
We really need to get away from locking the fuel source to the vehicle. All electric cars with standardized mounting and plugs could do that for us.
95% of all art is of the "con" variety. Look at most "art". It is total crap that the "artist" has convinced people is something special. Art consists mostly of "The Emperors New Clothes" situations.