It reminds me of an 80's joke. If video games influenced behaviour then kids that grew up playing Pacman would spend their freetime running around rooms, eating pills and listening to repetive music.
I have written screenplays for a trilogy of Blade Runner sequels based on the novels by K W Jetter. I made a few changes though, Deckard has a wise cracking CGI robot sheep sidekick to lighten the mood.
If you all PayPal me a total of $1million dollars I won't send them to Uwe Boll.
I've never seen pirated software being sold in Japan or Taiwan. Or Singapore come to think of it, but I only spent a day or so there.
There was one street stand in Korea that sold probably pirated DVDs. Pretty much everything in China was pirated. Thailand had a big mall with shops that sold pirated software, but each time I went there it seemed like it was becoming less socially acceptable. By the last time they couldn't keep the burned CDs on site, they had to send someone out to get them, so they were presumably worried about the police raiding them.
My guess is that in a country that has no indigenous software houses, it's in everyone's interest to ignore piracy of imported software. However as domestic software houses start up they lobby for enforcement of IP law.
Now Starter Editions and price cuts by imported software houses can help this process.
Actually the implication that people in Singapore don't understand IP is pretty offensive. In Taiwan people are very aware of pirated goods. Buying them is seen as a very cheap thing to do. Possibly this is because it is so common in China.
The "home" versions of Linux most times are focused on speed rather than stability. Not to say the "home" versions are not stable, but the first priority is things like multimedia etc. Also the focus lays on the latest and newest applications.
The "Server" versions are optimized to be rock stable and fast in things you could expect from a server. Multimedia has no high priority here. Also software is not the latest bleeding edge but proved and stable.
So - there is a reason you have two very different types. At the other hand the Microsoft versions are all the same. The only difference is the amount of services (software) added, and the amount of cash you have to deliver...
Actually the server versions of Windows are tuned differently too
To me, it's not surprising. Server SKUs are tuned for high performance in server scenarios, they're not configured for desktop scenarios. That's the entire POINT of having a server SKU - one of the major differences between server SKUs and client SKUs is that the client SKUs are tuned to balance the OS in favor of foreground responsiveness and the server SKUs are tuned in favor of background responsiveness (after all, its a server, there's usually nobody sitting at the console, so there's no point in optimizing for the console).
In this particular case, the documentation for the MMCSS service describes a large part of the root cause for the problem: The MMCSS service (which is the service that provides glitch resilient services for Windows multimedia applications) is essentially disabled on server SKUs. It's just one of probably hundreds of other settings that are tweaked in favor of server responsiveness on server SKUs.
I'd guess it's because NTFS sucks on a removable device. On Windows, by default, hot pluggable devices are mounted with write through caching. NTFS supports this but not very efficiently.
FAT32 and exFAT are simple enough that you can do safe access to a disk even without much write caching. FAT (and probably exFAT) actually defines a way to mark the volume as dirty in the first FAT entry at the start of each transaction where the FAT will be modified.
If someone pulls the drive right in the middle of writing some clusters may be marked as used in the FAT but not actually in use by any files. Next time you insert the drive Vista checks the volume dirt flag and asks you for if you want to run chkdsk. If you run it it will find the 'lost clusters' and convert them to files in the root directory.
Of course this scheme only ensures filesystem metadata consistency, recover user data that was being written when the drive was yanked. Mind you, NTFS journalling has the same limitation. Of course scanning for lost clusters on FAT is a painfuly slow process - you read the FAT into memory and make a bitmap of allocated clusters. Then you read every single directory and tick off the clusters used by each file. Any that are left over are lost. A journaled filesystem is much simpler - you just rollback any incomplete transations in the journal.
Of course if you have to block waiting for write transactions to complete creating the journal entries, updating bitmaps, indexes and inodes and writing data, which you would have to do on a removable device with write through caching, a journaled filesystem like NTFS has a hefty overhead. NTFS structures are much more complex so plausibly extra disk writes are necessary to keep them updated and on small writes those extra writes dominate disk time. Write through caching makes this situation even worse.
That's not true generally though. For example if you buy a cheap laptop with the default choice of Windows Vista Home Basic you will die of aids AND cancer.
That's why it's important to read the tech sites EVERY DAY.
Seems like algae growth should increase with more dissolved CO2. Presumably it is limited by things like iron. The idea is you seed the ocean, algae bloom and if you get it right the dead algae sink to the bottom where it could stay for thousands of years.
You can take care of the temperature by spraying sulphate aerosols or see water into the stratoshere.
Not at all. Next time you're at Davos, sign up for a flight off this rock. Now the whole global elite wants to go prices are down to $20-30million per seat.
I heard one time that the former Soviet Union had a Constitution that was really quite remarkable -- it guaranteed much the same rights and freedoms that the U.S. Consitution did. The only difference between the U.S and the U.S.S.R. was that, since the only choice on the ballot in the U.S.S.R. was for Communist Party members, there was no opposition to what the Communist Party wanted to do, and therefore the courts rubber-stamped whatever the Politburo wanted done (and the Politburo rubber-stamped the wishes of the General Secretary)
That's the Brezhnev Constitution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Soviet_Constitution#Constitutional_rights An ostensibly democratic constitution, the Soviet Constitution included a series of civic and political rights. Among these were the rights to freedom of speech, freedom of press, and freedom of assembly and the right to religious belief and worship. In addition, the Constitution provided for freedom of artistic work, protection of the family, inviolability of the person and home, and the right to privacy.
On the other hand it was an explicitly one party state with a secret police force that was explicitly founded to prevent other parties starting so these meant nothing in practice.
I don't agree the the US is like this though. There are two electable parties which are rabidly hostile to each other. There are three branches of government and it's hard for one party to control both. And the power is split between the Federal and state governments. All of which makes it hard for a politician to break the rules with impunity.
It's not perfect of course but comparing to the Brezhnev era USSR where people's right to free speech and free assembly were in practice non existent is pure hyperbole.
Forgive my double post, but I, the evil Pedophiler has just captured a government agent and am about to reveal my insidious plan! *Adjusts monocle* Little does the government know that as we speak, I am gathering pictures to fuel my latest creation, The Pedo-Beam(TM). This ingenious device shall allow me to rape and kill children AT THE SAME TIME!! Mwahahaha. This weekend, I shall acquire the jackpot of all pictures to fuel the sexual rage in my device: a baby shower! Yes, with those hot nude children in my possession, I shall rape and kill all the children in the local elementary school! MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!
Actually that's an excellent point. There are loads of IE shells, and some of them probably contain malware. If there was a repository who's going to make sure that all the browsers in it are not trojaned?
Say you have 100% market share. You let a "competitor" exist which would sell just a few boxes of a competing product for a very high price... in fact you could just buy them yourself.
That's the reason that Microsoft produces Office for Mac and invested $150M in Apple back in 1997.
Stopping the bundling of IE doesn't hamper Windows, except in making it harder for them to cripple other technologies.
Stopping the bundling of a browser with the OS and telling people to download one with FTP does cripple the OS. At least for everyone except the most technical 1% of the population. And most of those people don't use IE anyway.
And it's not just not having a browser - third party applications like Steam won't work until you have a browser either.
The use FTP argument is bogus anyway. What's to stop Filezilla from demanding that Microsoft remove their FTP client? And in any case the Windows FTP client doesn't support PASV so it won't work from behind a firewall or most consumer DSL routers.
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They're about to get voted out of power. The Conservatives will probably reintroduce the death penalty for file sharers.
Inside every silver lining is a cloud.
It reminds me of an 80's joke. If video games influenced behaviour then kids that grew up playing Pacman would spend their freetime running around rooms, eating pills and listening to repetive music.
I have written screenplays for a trilogy of Blade Runner sequels based on the novels by K W Jetter. I made a few changes though, Deckard has a wise cracking CGI robot sheep sidekick to lighten the mood.
If you all PayPal me a total of $1million dollars I won't send them to Uwe Boll.
Maybe all fanboys should be prosecuted for a conflict of interest for downplaying the downsides of their favourite technology.
Windows used to be a great OS back in the XP SP2 days, before it SOLD OUT!
The server versions have a different name but each generation is released in both client and server version. E.g.
Windows XP vs Windows Server 2003
Windows Vista vs Windows Server 2008
Presumably the server based on the same kernel as Windows 7 will be Windows Server 2009 or 2010.
I've travelled around Asia quite a bit.
I've never seen pirated software being sold in Japan or Taiwan. Or Singapore come to think of it, but I only spent a day or so there.
There was one street stand in Korea that sold probably pirated DVDs. Pretty much everything in China was pirated. Thailand had a big mall with shops that sold pirated software, but each time I went there it seemed like it was becoming less socially acceptable. By the last time they couldn't keep the burned CDs on site, they had to send someone out to get them, so they were presumably worried about the police raiding them.
My guess is that in a country that has no indigenous software houses, it's in everyone's interest to ignore piracy of imported software. However as domestic software houses start up they lobby for enforcement of IP law.
Now Starter Editions and price cuts by imported software houses can help this process.
Actually the implication that people in Singapore don't understand IP is pretty offensive. In Taiwan people are very aware of pirated goods. Buying them is seen as a very cheap thing to do. Possibly this is because it is so common in China.
It's not missing, it's on a secret mission to the neutral zone.
Basement Linux would be a good choice.
Yeah - but there IS a difference....
The "home" versions of Linux most times are focused on speed rather than stability. Not to say the "home" versions are not stable, but the first priority is things like multimedia etc. Also the focus lays on the latest and newest applications.
The "Server" versions are optimized to be rock stable and fast in things you could expect from a server. Multimedia has no high priority here. Also software is not the latest bleeding edge but proved and stable.
So - there is a reason you have two very different types. At the other hand the Microsoft versions are all the same. The only difference is the amount of services (software) added, and the amount of cash you have to deliver...
Actually the server versions of Windows are tuned differently too
http://blogs.msdn.com/larryosterman/archive/2009/01/08/why-do-people-think-that-a-server-sku-works-well-as-a-general-purpose-operating-system.aspx
One of the senior developers at Microsoft recently complained that the audio quality on his machine (running Windows Server 2008) was poor.
To me, it's not surprising. Server SKUs are tuned for high performance in server scenarios, they're not configured for desktop scenarios. That's the entire POINT of having a server SKU - one of the major differences between server SKUs and client SKUs is that the client SKUs are tuned to balance the OS in favor of foreground responsiveness and the server SKUs are tuned in favor of background responsiveness (after all, its a server, there's usually nobody sitting at the console, so there's no point in optimizing for the console).
In this particular case, the documentation for the MMCSS service describes a large part of the root cause for the problem: The MMCSS service (which is the service that provides glitch resilient services for Windows multimedia applications) is essentially disabled on server SKUs. It's just one of probably hundreds of other settings that are tweaked in favor of server responsiveness on server SKUs.
I'd guess it's because NTFS sucks on a removable device. On Windows, by default, hot pluggable devices are mounted with write through caching. NTFS supports this but not very efficiently.
FAT32 and exFAT are simple enough that you can do safe access to a disk even without much write caching. FAT (and probably exFAT) actually defines a way to mark the volume as dirty in the first FAT entry at the start of each transaction where the FAT will be modified.
If someone pulls the drive right in the middle of writing some clusters may be marked as used in the FAT but not actually in use by any files. Next time you insert the drive Vista checks the volume dirt flag and asks you for if you want to run chkdsk. If you run it it will find the 'lost clusters' and convert them to files in the root directory.
Of course this scheme only ensures filesystem metadata consistency, recover user data that was being written when the drive was yanked. Mind you, NTFS journalling has the same limitation. Of course scanning for lost clusters on FAT is a painfuly slow process - you read the FAT into memory and make a bitmap of allocated clusters. Then you read every single directory and tick off the clusters used by each file. Any that are left over are lost. A journaled filesystem is much simpler - you just rollback any incomplete transations in the journal.
Of course if you have to block waiting for write transactions to complete creating the journal entries, updating bitmaps, indexes and inodes and writing data, which you would have to do on a removable device with write through caching, a journaled filesystem like NTFS has a hefty overhead. NTFS structures are much more complex so plausibly extra disk writes are necessary to keep them updated and on small writes those extra writes dominate disk time. Write through caching makes this situation even worse.
If you chop it into bits they won't be able to find it.
That's not true generally though. For example if you buy a cheap laptop with the default choice of Windows Vista Home Basic you will die of aids AND cancer.
That's why it's important to read the tech sites EVERY DAY.
What about the English? Informal studies show that 50% of Americans think we have 'a lovely accent' and 'love the way we talk'.
Would it not be ironic if Jobs died due to an unergonomic user interface on some medical equipment delaying his treatment?
What about seeding the ocean?
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/01/fertilizethis.html
Seems like algae growth should increase with more dissolved CO2. Presumably it is limited by things like iron. The idea is you seed the ocean, algae bloom and if you get it right the dead algae sink to the bottom where it could stay for thousands of years.
You can take care of the temperature by spraying sulphate aerosols or see water into the stratoshere.
http://sciencetalks.jpl.nasa.gov/meetings/2008/es/042201/PJR_JPL_april2008.ppt
Now that idiot Bush is out of office we're the opposition, and the opposition is always edgier than the government.
Not at all. Next time you're at Davos, sign up for a flight off this rock. Now the whole global elite wants to go prices are down to $20-30million per seat.
you tree hugging leftist athiest homo-sexual four-eyes malcontent
and everyone who has the time to waste reading this shit
I like the way this got modded insightful.
Stopping the bundling of a browser with the OS and telling people to download one with FTP does cripple the OS.
Umm, sure, but can you show me one regulator who suggested any such thing? Even MS's intentional doomsaying PR doesn't go that far.
Every time this comes up a decent percentage of people suggest it>
I heard one time that the former Soviet Union had a Constitution that was really quite remarkable -- it guaranteed much the same rights and freedoms that the U.S. Consitution did. The only difference between the U.S and the U.S.S.R. was that, since the only choice on the ballot in the U.S.S.R. was for Communist Party members, there was no opposition to what the Communist Party wanted to do, and therefore the courts rubber-stamped whatever the Politburo wanted done (and the Politburo rubber-stamped the wishes of the General Secretary)
That's the Brezhnev Constitution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Soviet_Constitution#Constitutional_rights
An ostensibly democratic constitution, the Soviet Constitution included a series of civic and political rights. Among these were the rights to freedom of speech, freedom of press, and freedom of assembly and the right to religious belief and worship. In addition, the Constitution provided for freedom of artistic work, protection of the family, inviolability of the person and home, and the right to privacy.
On the other hand it was an explicitly one party state with a secret police force that was explicitly founded to prevent other parties starting so these meant nothing in practice.
I don't agree the the US is like this though. There are two electable parties which are rabidly hostile to each other. There are three branches of government and it's hard for one party to control both. And the power is split between the Federal and state governments. All of which makes it hard for a politician to break the rules with impunity.
It's not perfect of course but comparing to the Brezhnev era USSR where people's right to free speech and free assembly were in practice non existent is pure hyperbole.
Forgive my double post, but I, the evil Pedophiler has just captured a government agent and am about to reveal my insidious plan! *Adjusts monocle* Little does the government know that as we speak, I am gathering pictures to fuel my latest creation, The Pedo-Beam(TM). This ingenious device shall allow me to rape and kill children AT THE SAME TIME!! Mwahahaha. This weekend, I shall acquire the jackpot of all pictures to fuel the sexual rage in my device: a baby shower! Yes, with those hot nude children in my possession, I shall rape and kill all the children in the local elementary school! MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!
Mod parent down.
And then kill him and burn the body.
Actually that's an excellent point. There are loads of IE shells, and some of them probably contain malware. If there was a repository who's going to make sure that all the browsers in it are not trojaned?
Say you have 100% market share. You let a "competitor" exist which would sell just a few boxes of a competing product for a very high price ... in fact you could just buy them yourself.
That's the reason that Microsoft produces Office for Mac and invested $150M in Apple back in 1997.
Stopping the bundling of IE doesn't hamper Windows, except in making it harder for them to cripple other technologies.
Stopping the bundling of a browser with the OS and telling people to download one with FTP does cripple the OS. At least for everyone except the most technical 1% of the population. And most of those people don't use IE anyway.
And it's not just not having a browser - third party applications like Steam won't work until you have a browser either.
The use FTP argument is bogus anyway. What's to stop Filezilla from demanding that Microsoft remove their FTP client? And in any case the Windows FTP client doesn't support PASV so it won't work from behind a firewall or most consumer DSL routers.