Later on he says it takes a data point for each process running. Using my awesome work laptop as a prime example, I've got 77 processes running. So it's more like 14*3600*77/3= 1,293,600. He must have some sweet processes (>=120) running to get into the multi-million range though.
From the article:
About the "Memory Watcher"
Memory Watcher is a small program I wrote that records the memory usage of each process on the system every three seconds. It uses the PrivateMemorySize64 long value from the Process collection in.NET.
* Simple
There are tools similar to this, offered on every platform, but they are not usually easy to use. Memory Watcher provides a super-easy way to monitor every process and silently work in the background.
* Exports to spreadsheet
It exports the currently viewed data to a CSV file. These data are easily taken into Excel, and were used for the graphs in this article.
* Implementation notes
The application uses a DataGridView control, and sets its DataSource property to a DataTable which is built from the object collection. It uses a Timer to poll the system every 3 seconds. It offers searching and filtering of processes using a TextBox.
There honestly was no control, below is all he talked about what type of pages he does:
Just regular stuff
These aren't stress tests, and I probably never went over 4 windows in each browser, with at most 3 tabs in each window. I didn't look at many pages that are extremely heavy on images, and no "browser benchmark" style pages. Gmail was used on each browser.
Tests need to be repeatable, and when they are repeated they need to provide consistent results. If you can't provide consistent results on each subsequent test, you need to provide solid rational on why the results were outside your margin of error. Saying "Oh, I might have had one or two youtube videos up at the time" is not solid rational.
Scripts that visit the exact same pages, for the exact same time, do the exact same things across all browsers provide consistent, quantifiable results. Since everyone's browsing behavior is different no script will ever provide "accurate" results for real world usage. But then again, those scripts could be closer to my real world usage than this guys anecdotal test. Get it?
These aren't stress tests, and I probably never went over 4 windows in each browser, with at most 3 tabs in each window.(Emphasis mine)
and .the individual numbers should not be compared to each other...
...how is this supposed to be taken seriously? "Contrived benchmarks" at least provide consistent and reliable results. They may not provide a completely accurate picture of real world browsing, but it's a hell of a lot better than this anecdotal "test".
You're confusing two different points I was making. 1) Disclaimers are useless, people will do whatever they want, free will and all, and 2) that idiots will still go onto private property, no matter how much warning they have.
But to combine them, I'd certainly argue that anyone that requires a disclaimer to not trespass is an idiot, yes.
So Randall put up a disclaimer up. No one would ever go against a disclaimer, right? No one has ever put anything but tobacco in a pipe, right? No 14 year old has ever clicked "Yes, I'm 18, enter", right? You're just downloading those NES ROMs because your NES broke and you don't want those carts to go to waste, right?
Just because they're geeks doesn't mean they might not be idiots. I realize, according to their story, that no one went on private property. But to assume that no geohashers will ever go on private property because Randall told 'em not to is just naive.
My former troop was actually kicked out of the church we met at (due to the policy changes) and moved to the local National Guard base for our meetings. Seemed like a serious "you're doing it wrong" kind of moment when I heard that.
Similar experience though. Several scouts in my troop made it very well known that they wouldn't participate in prayers, and our troop leader didn't care.
Ahh, I understand. Your extra features are very convenient with a multitude of uses. However, if your chosen device doesn't have a feature but other laptops do, it's immediately useless. Nope, no one ever wanted extra high speed storage without a dongle sticking out the side of their laptop. Nope, no one ever wanted to add extra interfaces. Not at all.
Don't get me wrong, if it was an actual emergency (they're teaching a class, finals week, etc), we had "first responders" that would be there within minutes. Nor would we bother trying advanced stuff if it wasn't necessary. I'm talking the extreme basics: Everything plugged in? Rebooted? Wireless turned on? etc.
At that point they're wasting their own time by not trying my basic suggestions. They could either wait 5 minutes for a first responder to show up to reboot their computer, or they could have their computer rebooted and running before the responder would get there in the first place.
And yes, it is a condescending thing. My favorite experience: On the phone with my own program adviser and professor (they didn't know who I was), troubleshooting their wireless connection. Several times during the call he reminded me what "retards" we were at the help desk. After a few more minutes he said "he got it working", and slammed the phone.
Later that day I had to go to his class (hilariously, Wireless Technologies), where he boasted to the whole class how much he liked being a jerk when he called the help desk, and how stupid the tech on the phone was (me). I casually asked him what fixed it, and he said something to the effect of "all I had to do was hit FN+F2 to turn it on, and the retard didn't even know about it!"
I reminded him that I told him to try that at least three times on the call. It took a minute for the realization to set in...to this day I still have never seen a face more red than his was. He was not the only professor I had that very openly complained about how dumb the people at the help desk was during class.
they automatically know more than you Absolutely. I did tech support for the university I went to...the professors were the worst. They knew we were all students manning the phones and a lot of them would treat us like the undergrad scum we were. They'd never listen to what you were saying, they'd just demand that the building tech be sent out immediately, even if it was a minor issue.
Do you know if that has ever been acknowledged by the dev team? My google skills are failing me right now...but that is pretty much my last complaint with this browser.
Did you uncheck the "Warn me if this will disable any of my add-ons" box that is on by default? Because FF shouldn't have installed the update if it saw that your version of IEtab was incompatible with RC1 without asking you to ignore the incompatibilities. Might want to submit a bug report if that's the case.
Yes, yes, I forgot Apple's big selling point was that expandability is a terrible thing. Why would you want an expansion slot that functions at PCI-E speeds?
And regarding Dell's prices, I honestly have never been to their website and not seen their computers on sale. Whether they're bumping up the price and knocking it down again as you say, I'm not sure. But, just like the weather in Wisconsin, if you don't like the prices on their site, wait 5 minutes and it will change.
As I posted above, to add in everything that was missing, except the DVI output, costs an extra $70. You're still saving tons, and you're getting much more memory, storage space, ExpressCard expansion, etc. Still far cheaper. Plus if you're buying a laptop with a terrible TN screen, then you can't really care too much about the difference between DVI and VGA, can you? Oh, and Apple charges extra for the actual DVI output dongle, too.
Sorry for the double reply, but I just realized I'm doing this half backward. I need to make the specs comparable across both! I jacked the price up on the dell for missing those $70 worth of features, but I didn't jack up the price of the MacBook to cover the missing RAM and storage space!
Apple charges $100 per GB of memory, so you have to add $200 for that, plus the upgraded hard drive, even though it's only 250GB instead of the 320GB the dell has, brings up the price another $150.
There we go. $1349 for the MacBook, $969 for the Dell. Go Jets.
My apologies for missing those features. As far as I can tell from the spec sheet, apple removed the IR port. If I'm not mistaken, they removed the remote as well.
Built in Wifi-N, webcam? $25 each. Bluetooth? $20. So my bad, you have pay $130 or $326 less for extremely comparable laptops. But I also forgot to add that you do get a ExpressCard slot as well.
I posted this earlier today, so you're in for a treat!
Comparative base MacBook config. Note the 2GB more ram, larger screen, bigger HDD, and the extra $200 in your pocket, at the cost of 100MHz slower processor
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Later on he says it takes a data point for each process running. Using my awesome work laptop as a prime example, I've got 77 processes running. So it's more like 14*3600*77/3= 1,293,600. He must have some sweet processes (>=120) running to get into the multi-million range though.
About the "Memory Watcher" Memory Watcher is a small program I wrote that records the memory usage of each process on the system every three seconds. It uses the PrivateMemorySize64 long value from the Process collection in
* Simple
There are tools similar to this, offered on every platform, but they are not usually easy to use. Memory Watcher provides a super-easy way to monitor every process and silently work in the background.
* Exports to spreadsheet
It exports the currently viewed data to a CSV file. These data are easily taken into Excel, and were used for the graphs in this article.
* Implementation notes
The application uses a DataGridView control, and sets its DataSource property to a DataTable which is built from the object collection. It uses a Timer to poll the system every 3 seconds. It offers searching and filtering of processes using a TextBox.
These aren't stress tests, and I probably never went over 4 windows in each browser, with at most 3 tabs in each window. I didn't look at many pages that are extremely heavy on images, and no "browser benchmark" style pages. Gmail was used on each browser.
Tests need to be repeatable, and when they are repeated they need to provide consistent results. If you can't provide consistent results on each subsequent test, you need to provide solid rational on why the results were outside your margin of error. Saying "Oh, I might have had one or two youtube videos up at the time" is not solid rational.
Scripts that visit the exact same pages, for the exact same time, do the exact same things across all browsers provide consistent, quantifiable results. Since everyone's browsing behavior is different no script will ever provide "accurate" results for real world usage. But then again, those scripts could be closer to my real world usage than this guys anecdotal test. Get it?
Between:
.the individual numbers should not be compared to each other...
...how is this supposed to be taken seriously? "Contrived benchmarks" at least provide consistent and reliable results. They may not provide a completely accurate picture of real world browsing, but it's a hell of a lot better than this anecdotal "test".
These aren't stress tests, and I probably never went over 4 windows in each browser, with at most 3 tabs in each window.(Emphasis mine)
and
You're confusing two different points I was making. 1) Disclaimers are useless, people will do whatever they want, free will and all, and 2) that idiots will still go onto private property, no matter how much warning they have.
But to combine them, I'd certainly argue that anyone that requires a disclaimer to not trespass is an idiot, yes.
So Randall put up a disclaimer up. No one would ever go against a disclaimer, right? No one has ever put anything but tobacco in a pipe, right? No 14 year old has ever clicked "Yes, I'm 18, enter", right? You're just downloading those NES ROMs because your NES broke and you don't want those carts to go to waste, right?
Just because they're geeks doesn't mean they might not be idiots. I realize, according to their story, that no one went on private property. But to assume that no geohashers will ever go on private property because Randall told 'em not to is just naive.
Nope. Just a regular, Lutheran church.
My former troop was actually kicked out of the church we met at (due to the policy changes) and moved to the local National Guard base for our meetings. Seemed like a serious "you're doing it wrong" kind of moment when I heard that.
Similar experience though. Several scouts in my troop made it very well known that they wouldn't participate in prayers, and our troop leader didn't care.
I'm quite sure my Ubuntu 8.04 installs have surpassed the "100 patches" mark.
And as the above AC posted, they patch a whole lot of content, changing the game world slightly as RL seasons pass. Or, at least they used to.
Did you start with a fresh profile?
Yes, they do. They also have a way to encrypt their storage as well.
HTC is the OEM for the X1 too, which I'm happy about. HTC's manufacturing is usually pretty solid.
Ahh, I understand. Your extra features are very convenient with a multitude of uses. However, if your chosen device doesn't have a feature but other laptops do, it's immediately useless. Nope, no one ever wanted extra high speed storage without a dongle sticking out the side of their laptop. Nope, no one ever wanted to add extra interfaces. Not at all.
I think we're on the same page now, thanks!
Don't get me wrong, if it was an actual emergency (they're teaching a class, finals week, etc), we had "first responders" that would be there within minutes. Nor would we bother trying advanced stuff if it wasn't necessary. I'm talking the extreme basics: Everything plugged in? Rebooted? Wireless turned on? etc.
At that point they're wasting their own time by not trying my basic suggestions. They could either wait 5 minutes for a first responder to show up to reboot their computer, or they could have their computer rebooted and running before the responder would get there in the first place.
And yes, it is a condescending thing. My favorite experience: On the phone with my own program adviser and professor (they didn't know who I was), troubleshooting their wireless connection. Several times during the call he reminded me what "retards" we were at the help desk. After a few more minutes he said "he got it working", and slammed the phone.
Later that day I had to go to his class (hilariously, Wireless Technologies), where he boasted to the whole class how much he liked being a jerk when he called the help desk, and how stupid the tech on the phone was (me). I casually asked him what fixed it, and he said something to the effect of "all I had to do was hit FN+F2 to turn it on, and the retard didn't even know about it!"
I reminded him that I told him to try that at least three times on the call. It took a minute for the realization to set in...to this day I still have never seen a face more red than his was. He was not the only professor I had that very openly complained about how dumb the people at the help desk was during class.
But those same home users need target disk mode and the ability to boot from 1394 hard drives, right?
Do you know if that has ever been acknowledged by the dev team? My google skills are failing me right now...but that is pretty much my last complaint with this browser.
Did you uncheck the "Warn me if this will disable any of my add-ons" box that is on by default? Because FF shouldn't have installed the update if it saw that your version of IEtab was incompatible with RC1 without asking you to ignore the incompatibilities. Might want to submit a bug report if that's the case.
Yes, yes, I forgot Apple's big selling point was that expandability is a terrible thing. Why would you want an expansion slot that functions at PCI-E speeds?
And regarding Dell's prices, I honestly have never been to their website and not seen their computers on sale. Whether they're bumping up the price and knocking it down again as you say, I'm not sure. But, just like the weather in Wisconsin, if you don't like the prices on their site, wait 5 minutes and it will change.
As I posted above, to add in everything that was missing, except the DVI output, costs an extra $70. You're still saving tons, and you're getting much more memory, storage space, ExpressCard expansion, etc. Still far cheaper. Plus if you're buying a laptop with a terrible TN screen, then you can't really care too much about the difference between DVI and VGA, can you? Oh, and Apple charges extra for the actual DVI output dongle, too.
Sorry for the double reply, but I just realized I'm doing this half backward. I need to make the specs comparable across both! I jacked the price up on the dell for missing those $70 worth of features, but I didn't jack up the price of the MacBook to cover the missing RAM and storage space!
Apple charges $100 per GB of memory, so you have to add $200 for that, plus the upgraded hard drive, even though it's only 250GB instead of the 320GB the dell has, brings up the price another $150.
There we go. $1349 for the MacBook, $969 for the Dell. Go Jets.
My apologies for missing those features. As far as I can tell from the spec sheet, apple removed the IR port. If I'm not mistaken, they removed the remote as well.
Built in Wifi-N, webcam? $25 each. Bluetooth? $20. So my bad, you have pay $130 or $326 less for extremely comparable laptops. But I also forgot to add that you do get a ExpressCard slot as well.
I posted this earlier today, so you're in for a treat!
Comparative base MacBook config. Note the 2GB more ram, larger screen, bigger HDD, and the extra $200 in your pocket, at the cost of 100MHz slower processor
Comparative to the highest priced default MacBook config. Note the 1GB more ram, larger screen, bigger HDD, and the extra $396 in your pocket.
Glad I could be of assistance!
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