Am I even close to the mark on this one? Sounds like your system does not have DMA on its USB controllers. DMA would allow the controller to manage the data transfer itself. Instead, it sounds like the kernel is babysitting every i/o to the flash drive, which means it is essentially busy-waiting on the completion of each transfer and a cpu that is busy-waiting can't do anything else, which is why the system appears to freeze up completely.
Doing smaller transfers more frequently would just produce a bunch of shorter freezes, that in total would be at least as long as the one long freeze you get now. They'd also be pretty annoying, imagine every five seconds you have to wait through a 1 second pause. Any user interaction like typing or mousing would become super tedious.
They make it really easy too. They can charge your card monthly. Or, for those who aren't keen on giving a charity your personal information for fear that they will abuse it (resell it to other charities or just regularly hound you for more money), you can show up with a wad of cash at one of their offices and they'll take it no questions asked (well at least nothing personal recorded.)
Yes, I know this from personal experience from a few years back.
In other words, he was happy with the policy but not the amount of funding. As the senior senator from Massachusetts I suspect he had a pretty good idea what might happen because of the lack of funding. One might even say his words were prophetic. Obviously he didn't push the bill in an unfunded state.
I'm all for bashing politicians, but it sure seems clear to me that he was not bemoaning lack of funding for lack of funding's sake. No politician would make such a blatant statement.
Wasn't "no child left behind" largely an unfunded mandate to begin with? Forcing the states to re-allocate funding from other parts of the curriculum to support teaching to the test?
-- Register and log in to Firefox Addons What is with this registration required BS?
Firefox/Mozilla was the last group on the net that I would expect to forget that the web is about making information accessible rather than locking it up behind registration doors. Whatever fool decided that registration just to download was a good idea needs to be kicked off the team and have his internet privileges revoked.
I've found that not all add-ons require registration, but I can't figure out why some do and some don't. At least for the ones I wanted I was able to go to the author's own website and download from there.
Would you like a printer that anyone on the network could change the code? And if not, how would you prevent nefarious hacking of the printer? Although you've already been shown to be wrong in your reporting of events, I will humor you and answer your now hypothetical question.
A password. That's how I would prevent nefarious hacking of the printer. An administrator settable password. Just like the way the OpenWRT firmware on linksys routers can be updated but still prevent nefarious hacking.
You see, if a hacker can hack it, so can a cracker. Thanks but no thanks. Its really the other way around, even if a hacker can't hack it, chances are a cracker can still crack it. See how every attempt by Tivo to keep their recordings encrypted has failed, despite all the effort they've put in to prevent regular programmers from running custom firmware. Crackers win anyways, but the regular user is crippled.
Don't like Tivo cause you can't "hack" it? Then don't buy one. Build your own instead, using the EXACT SAME GPL software Tivo uses. How come this isn't good enough for people like RMS is beyond me. I suspect this will fall on deaf ears, but WTH...
RMS's defining moment was when his printer wouldn't work. The printer driver had a bug and he could not fix it because the driver's source code was not available.
This was his printer (well technically his department's) and yet he was dead in the water - there was nothing he could do to fix it. Buying another printer was not an option - the money had been spent. Sure he could try to reverse engineer and printer driver from scratch and write it correctly. But with no guarantee of success that sure sounds like a poor way to do things.
So he decided that such a situation sucks, sucks big time, and so he decided to make a difference and change the way the world works so that other people would not find themselves in such a situation.
THAT's why "build your own tivo" is not good enough for people like RMS.
Whoopity doo. So it's Mach -- from CMU -- with a BSD personality layer. Apple really doesn't make any especially innovative use of the micro-kernality of OSX, it might just as well be a monolithic BSD kernel for all the difference it's made.
Tor, Freenet, and I2P are probably on the top of the list. There is no way that government wants difficult to trace communication to be availble to the general public. And yet, Tor development was partially funded by the DoD.
Um... to whom, exactly? Some nerd who's going to spend the next three months in a darkened office reverse-engineering the proprietary drivers? To the people who decide what hardware they want to buy based on if it will work on their distro of choice. For example, Intel's video drivers are 100% Free and are plenty good enough for non-gaming 3D (compiz, etc).
To give incentive to the hardware manufacturers, we need a distro with the widest possible user base, not some fringe OSS purist crap. Sorry, but how does that follow? If a distro already has the widest possible user base using proprietary drivers, just where is the incentive for the hw manufacturers to lift a finger?
Newegg and Egghead.com are NOT related. Second that.
Newegg.com was founded in 2001, originally as a subsidiary of ABS Computer Technologies, Inc., a computer systems integrator that has operated from Whittier, California since 1991. Newegg was conceptualized when ABS executives recognized an increasing need to service the "do it yourself" customer. ABS was turning down numerous requests for upgrade components to their existing ABS PCs as an alternative to purchasing a new PC[citation needed]. Key players in Newegg's design and execution were CEO and Founder Fred Chang, and VCOB (Vice Chairman of the Board) Ken Lam. In time, ABS Computers became a subsidiary of Newegg. --Wackypedia
Egghead Software was founded in 1984 as a computer software retail company. It grew into a chain with over 200 stores in the United States, and a few in Canada, primarily located in shopping malls. Faced with declining revenues, in 1998, the company shifted its focus to online business, closing its retail locations and selling entirely through its egghead.com website. Egghead.com was purchased by OnSale.com in 1999 and assumed the name Egghead.com.
Egghead was hurt by a December of 2000 revelation that hackers had accessed its systems and potentially compromised customer credit card data. The company filed for bankruptcy in August of 2001. After a deal to sell the company to Fry's Electronics for $10 million fell through, its assets were acquired by Amazon.com for $6.1 million. --Wiki-Wiki for the Quickie
Can you imagine how annoyed the Christian God would be if you shot arrows at him? I mean, he even gets pissed if you don't kill your son when he orders you to.
I don't imagine any of the helicopter crew were particularly annoyed at being shot at.
Isn't it kind of odd that we're more forgiving than our deities? I like the interpretation that says Abraham was testing God, not the other way around.
If you remember, God stopped Abraham from actually killing Isaac. No just deity would have required the killing of an innocent, so if God had not stopped him, Abraham would have known He was Bogus.
PS, he's not just the Christian God - muslims and jews also believe that story about Abraham and Isaac.
The pointer doesn't physically move, but the keyboard input focus moves. Try it yourself - its inconsistent, some menus/apps will return focus if you hit escape, some will just do some other action.
Well - this is just so typical of the drivel found here on Slashdot. And are not all the responses refuting his claims also typical of the drivel found here on slashdot?
700 threads in C++? Why not use assembler, actually optimize the hell out of the code, and get it down considerably. Or get a lot more done per thread Because the hardware platform his company sells actually has more than 700 cores - that means 700 simultaneous threads - not sequential, simultaneous.
When you have a highly parallel system, it is counter-productive to try to make the workload sequential.
Any company that tries to review washing machines to Digital Cameras; Cars to the Wii Fit, will have trouble getting people knowledgeable enough in the subject area to write the article. I noticed this several times in their car reviews and their digital camera reviews. Too often they just speak from inexperience in that field. You don't understand the purpose of CR.
They exist to keep regular joes from getting ripped off.
They do not exist to give expert advise to nit-picking, niche hobbyists. If you want that sort of expert advise, go to one of the many magazines dedicated to whatever niche you have a fetish for.
Meanwhile the people who just want to buy a washing machine/refrigerator/car/bed/television/dvd-player/vacuum/etc that does a decent job and won't break down a month after the warranty expires can go to CR.
XanC on the other hand, chooses the Socialism path and paraphrases Marx. No, he just left out the analogy that usually accompanies that statement... That in a free market where Free source is the de facto standard, no customer would consider a product without it. Just as no customer would consider purchasing car with the hood welded shut.
The dictatorship of the proletariat is only a temporary system to enforce freedom in an age of government and capitalism. If society in the future becomes truly Communist, then there's no need for the dictatorship of the proletariat.
Of course, we know how well that works out, too. So, you are saying that because a lot of ignorant people confuse Free software with socialism that any analogy with socialism is valid?
if the answer is in a FAQ or easily found elsewhere, repeatedly answering the same questions gets tiresome. Favorite topical quote from over a decade ago:
Just your typical "white male". Single - or at least traveling without a female companion?
Single white male, traveling to asian country for non-work reasons sets the "sex tourist" flag on your profile. West coast customs apparently has a real bug up their behind about that.
on Slashdot everything is the big bad USA. Because most of us on slashdot are Americans and most of us on slashdot believed our elementary school teachers when they taught us that America is the land of the free and home of the brave. Most of us expect our country to live up to its ideals rather than be reduced to the lowest common denominator at best.
My country, right or wrong -- if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.
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DMA would allow the controller to manage the data transfer itself.
Instead, it sounds like the kernel is babysitting every i/o to the flash drive, which means it is essentially busy-waiting on the completion of each transfer and a cpu that is busy-waiting can't do anything else, which is why the system appears to freeze up completely.
Doing smaller transfers more frequently would just produce a bunch of shorter freezes, that in total would be at least as long as the one long freeze you get now. They'd also be pretty annoying, imagine every five seconds you have to wait through a 1 second pause. Any user interaction like typing or mousing would become super tedious.
Yes, I know this from personal experience from a few years back.
I'm all for bashing politicians, but it sure seems clear to me that he was not bemoaning lack of funding for lack of funding's sake. No politician would make such a blatant statement.
Wasn't "no child left behind" largely an unfunded mandate to begin with? Forcing the states to re-allocate funding from other parts of the curriculum to support teaching to the test?
Firefox/Mozilla was the last group on the net that I would expect to forget that the web is about making information accessible rather than locking it up behind registration doors. Whatever fool decided that registration just to download was a good idea needs to be kicked off the team and have his internet privileges revoked.
I've found that not all add-ons require registration, but I can't figure out why some do and some don't. At least for the ones I wanted I was able to go to the author's own website and download from there.
A password. That's how I would prevent nefarious hacking of the printer. An administrator settable password. Just like the way the OpenWRT firmware on linksys routers can be updated but still prevent nefarious hacking. You see, if a hacker can hack it, so can a cracker. Thanks but no thanks. Its really the other way around, even if a hacker can't hack it, chances are a cracker can still crack it. See how every attempt by Tivo to keep their recordings encrypted has failed, despite all the effort they've put in to prevent regular programmers from running custom firmware. Crackers win anyways, but the regular user is crippled.
RMS's defining moment was when his printer wouldn't work. The printer driver had a bug and he could not fix it because the driver's source code was not available.
This was his printer (well technically his department's) and yet he was dead in the water - there was nothing he could do to fix it. Buying another printer was not an option - the money had been spent. Sure he could try to reverse engineer and printer driver from scratch and write it correctly. But with no guarantee of success that sure sounds like a poor way to do things.
So he decided that such a situation sucks, sucks big time, and so he decided to make a difference and change the way the world works so that other people would not find themselves in such a situation.
THAT's why "build your own tivo" is not good enough for people like RMS.
Try comparing it to MS's share price. They are doing better than MS over the same period. Not spectacular, but well enough.
Whoopity doo. So it's Mach -- from CMU -- with a BSD personality layer.
Apple really doesn't make any especially innovative use of the micro-kernality of OSX, it might just as well be a monolithic BSD kernel for all the difference it's made.
...unless it's a crucifixion. Those are still cool. If you are Xian then that's more like suicide (c.f. all that trinity business).If you aren't Xian, then you don't believe God required it anyhow.
Newegg.com was founded in 2001, originally as a subsidiary of ABS Computer Technologies, Inc., a computer systems integrator that has operated from Whittier, California since 1991. Newegg was conceptualized when ABS executives recognized an increasing need to service the "do it yourself" customer. ABS was turning down numerous requests for upgrade components to their existing ABS PCs as an alternative to purchasing a new PC[citation needed]. Key players in Newegg's design and execution were CEO and Founder Fred Chang, and VCOB (Vice Chairman of the Board) Ken Lam. In time, ABS Computers became a subsidiary of Newegg.
--Wackypedia
Egghead Software was founded in 1984 as a computer software retail company. It grew into a chain with over 200 stores in the United States, and a few in Canada, primarily located in shopping malls. Faced with declining revenues, in 1998, the company shifted its focus to online business, closing its retail locations and selling entirely through its egghead.com website. Egghead.com was purchased by OnSale.com in 1999 and assumed the name Egghead.com.
Egghead was hurt by a December of 2000 revelation that hackers had accessed its systems and potentially compromised customer credit card data. The company filed for bankruptcy in August of 2001. After a deal to sell the company to Fry's Electronics for $10 million fell through, its assets were acquired by Amazon.com for $6.1 million.
--Wiki-Wiki for the Quickie
I don't imagine any of the helicopter crew were particularly annoyed at being shot at.
Isn't it kind of odd that we're more forgiving than our deities? I like the interpretation that says Abraham was testing God, not the other way around.
If you remember, God stopped Abraham from actually killing Isaac. No just deity would have required the killing of an innocent, so if God had not stopped him, Abraham would have known He was Bogus.
PS, he's not just the Christian God - muslims and jews also believe that story about Abraham and Isaac.
The pointer doesn't physically move, but the keyboard input focus moves.
Try it yourself - its inconsistent, some menus/apps will return focus if you hit escape, some will just do some other action.
When you have a highly parallel system, it is counter-productive to try to make the workload sequential.
They exist to keep regular joes from getting ripped off.
They do not exist to give expert advise to nit-picking, niche hobbyists. If you want that sort of expert advise, go to one of the many magazines dedicated to whatever niche you have a fetish for.
Meanwhile the people who just want to buy a washing machine/refrigerator/car/bed/television/dvd-player/vacuum/etc that does a decent job and won't break down a month after the warranty expires can go to CR.
That in a free market where Free source is the de facto standard, no customer would consider a product without it. Just as no customer would consider purchasing car with the hood welded shut.
Of course, we know how well that works out, too. So, you are saying that because a lot of ignorant people confuse Free software with socialism that any analogy with socialism is valid?
I think you have that backwards.
"I am not your AI interface to the internet."
A mini-billboard... or a bucket of chum?
Single white male, traveling to asian country for non-work reasons sets the "sex tourist" flag on your profile. West coast customs apparently has a real bug up their behind about that.
My country, right or wrong -- if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.