As far as I understand the issue, any application can register a thread with MMCSS (or whatever it's called) and, possibly with the provision of issuing some silence to the audio mixer / driver in order to avoid being caught, it can then be sure that the thread gets most of the CPU time.
Vista Viruses will have a multimedia angle, I presume.
They're fixing that in SP1. You sound so... definite! Pointers to official information about what is to be fixed in SP1 are most welcome.
Anyway, I'd say that the vast majority of Vista users never venture into the program files -- or system files -- folders, so it's not a major problem. [my italics] That's marketing-talk. That's what people (say, a project leader) at MS might be replying to programmers when designing the UAC scheme: "Never mind easing up things a little for the final user, Mike, the vast majority of users won't do xxx or yyy or zzz, so they won't feel the pain." Perhaps you are lucky enough to have inside info?-)
Anyway, enough with famous last words. It's unfortunate for MS that the remaining tiny minority proved to be too noisy.
I fully understand that by accepting the EULA, one has no legal grounds for requesting a refund; however, I can always dream that some Brockovich-wannabe will lead a massive class action against MS requesting damages on the basis of advertising fraud (with Vista your machine will run faster, isn't it?). Given that in the courthouse a given hardware can be proven to run Windows XP (or a Linux distro, but that won't mean anything for the case) and operate much faster than said hardware running Vista, we'll have opportunity and proof; perhaps then we will learn the motive too.
Why did I have the impression this is a well established fact? In addition, mitochondria not signalling the cell to die is the main reason that cancer cells don't die. It's many months now that research into dichloroacetate (DCA), which has been used for other purposes too, causes cancer-cell mitochondria to resume their operation and cause the cells to eventually die. See an example of a similar report.
Actually, only after seeing your other replies to various ACs, I appreciate the fact that I learned about Gray codes from you, and now I grok the "esotericness" of your signature.
In addition, I fully believe your statement (typically, it's an AC who said it, but it's obvious that it's you, and I have a hunch that you thought the other AC was I, which I wasn't if you do think so) that "It's a trap to prick the pompous": yes, your sig was never meant to be funny, now I see that. Of course, I might be wrong, and you might consider your sig a funny trap, but then you wouldn't know "inside jokes" from "jokes", which is possible since for you "reflected binary code" is equivalent to "binary code" (ie it doesn't need prefixing, and who gives a fuck about common use?).
We disagree on the purpose of a signature, and perhaps on whether you got people skills. I know, our virtual co-existence is too short, but you remind me of some people I know who, being very self-centric become very tiresome to others, and typically said others tend to agree as quickly as possible with said some-people in order to get rid of them. I won't pursue this issue any further, feel free to respond as you see fit (that is, if you think I'm intelligent enough to be worth of a reply from you.) Good hunting!
(To world) A feeble attempt at a humorous sig (which is much less cryptic although it also requires some knowledge and minimal processing):
"Binaries" is plural because there is more than one possible binary encoding. In this case 11 is two. You are in class 00.
(11 base 2) is three. (11 base 1) is two. I don't understand what "class 00" means, since it's obvious to me we haven't enjoyed the same educational system.
You surely use words in a non-mathematical way. The only way that "11" means two, is when you work in the unary numeral system with "1" as a chosen symbol. No binary involved whatsoever, so your signature's wordplay is, actually, a misteak.
Thanks for your reply. Even not your intention, you did reply to my question.
There are 11 types of people in the world, those who know binaries and those who don't.
The quoted line above comes from your sig. Do you mean, perhaps:
There are 10 types of people in the world, those who know binary and those who don't.
or am I missing something?
With "binaries", one would typically mean "multiple binary stars"; perhaps you meant "binary" (system)? OTOH you mention 3 (11 base 2) types of people, so I quite possibly am missing a joke. Unless... unless one should substitute "binary and counting" for "binaries"; this would fully explain that "11":)
Does it really matter in this case? It could be painful for the actor to accurately pretend climbing a ladder (unless he's a good mime already), but presumably he will be continuously portrayed as wearing a spacesuit, and they have the technology and the experience (and the garments, as can be seen in the article photos) to automate the process of rendering matching 3D content on pre-recorded footage. I can't fathom how skinning the actor with a 3D spacesuit could be a problem, if they just let their software follow the spots and o's and x's.
It is also quite impressive that _all_ the props will be CGI. It must have been incredibly painful to sync them with a live actor.
I think your comment is two-three years late. If you find impressive the fact of synchronizing CGI sets with a single actor, what do you think about Immortel (ad vitam), Sky Captain, Sin City and Casshern?
btw, the garden scenes in Casshern were a joy to my eyes.
I agree with you, too, that they (stupid people) breed more. The thing is, even children of extreme cases (you chose the example of brother and sister having children) with severe mental and/or physical problems, do not have trouble procreating (given they have the occasion to:)
Actually, you pasted some text involving lots of Hiragana letters plus occasional 'CATS:' at line beginnings, although the latin letters were FULLWIDTH CAPITAL LETTERs, and that is why they also came through as HTML numeric character references.
I have no idea what the text was saying. I also don't have any idea why one would post Unicode text (with very large code points) to a site that is encoded in ISO-8859-1.
Obviously I wasn't clear enough. I replied to your (Charcharodon (btw I didn't look it up, but this nickname in Greek can be translated as Sharktooth)) post that was a reply to an AC post, and I meant that I perceived as ironic the AC post, not yours.
So all I wanted to say was that, perhaps, your suggesting that the AC was historically-challenged was misdirected.
Do you mean Google has labeled for too long some of its products as 'beta'? If yes, please, point to the accepted standard of duration for "beta", over which it's an abuse.
And while we're at it, and fully knowing that little this has to do with your comment, I would like to protest against Microsoft's abuse of "version N" for all N >= 1.0 .
Splitting files trying to take as much space possible on specific-size media is one of many NP problems. You can't (AFAIK and so far) find the optimum solution unless you try all combinations. That's a known fact, and I would assume that the backup software developers know it too.
However, for my purposes, I have developed a generic module for this in Python, because I have similar needs (mostly media files, with some simple rules about files belonging together or requiring some ordering), and almost always the solutions that can be found in very little time are more than satisfactory (usually filling more than 99% of each medium). Finding a good enough solution covers my needs, and I assume this would also be the case for the majority of others.
I agree that this would be a very welcome addition to all backup software.
I'd like to see browsers support a cleaner language than Javascript (such as some variant of Python)
I love Python (for its clarity and simplicity) and use it extensively at my job and for personal reasons, but the whitespace-significant syntax is not very handy for embedding in web pages.
Next time I'll use smileys and/or straight comments, like How intelligent you have to be to post a reply to the correct forum?... I had no points to mark the parent Offtopic, therefore I used sarcasm.
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Parable: here in old Europe, when countries switched from their national coins to Euros, lots of similar stories happened everywhere.
Typical old woman: How much is it worth?
Typical clerk: 2 euros, 93 cents.
Typical old woman: Yes, and how much is it worth in money?
As far as I understand the issue, any application can register a thread with MMCSS (or whatever it's called) and, possibly with the provision of issuing some silence to the audio mixer / driver in order to avoid being caught, it can then be sure that the thread gets most of the CPU time.
Vista Viruses will have a multimedia angle, I presume.
http://www.amd.com/us-en/ConnectivitySolutions/Pro ductInformation/0,,50_2330_9863_9864,00.html
I'm sure that the AMD CPU has better performance per MHz than the VIA one, although I didn't bother to find facts about that.
Anyway, enough with famous last words. It's unfortunate for MS that the remaining tiny minority proved to be too noisy.
(Parent post about Vista: "I think it's a superior OS to XP", ... "All in all it's certainly a step forward." etc)
:) I'm certain that the post is dead serious.
Parent is rated 3-Funny, and that's the only thing that really is funny about it
Kudos to the moderators.
I fully understand that by accepting the EULA, one has no legal grounds for requesting a refund; however, I can always dream that some Brockovich-wannabe will lead a massive class action against MS requesting damages on the basis of advertising fraud (with Vista your machine will run faster, isn't it?). Given that in the courthouse a given hardware can be proven to run Windows XP (or a Linux distro, but that won't mean anything for the case) and operate much faster than said hardware running Vista, we'll have opportunity and proof; perhaps then we will learn the motive too.
Why did I have the impression this is a well established fact? In addition, mitochondria not signalling the cell to die is the main reason that cancer cells don't die. It's many months now that research into dichloroacetate (DCA), which has been used for other purposes too, causes cancer-cell mitochondria to resume their operation and cause the cells to eventually die. See an example of a similar report.
Actually, only after seeing your other replies to various ACs, I appreciate the fact that I learned about Gray codes from you, and now I grok the "esotericness" of your signature.
In addition, I fully believe your statement (typically, it's an AC who said it, but it's obvious that it's you, and I have a hunch that you thought the other AC was I, which I wasn't if you do think so) that "It's a trap to prick the pompous": yes, your sig was never meant to be funny, now I see that. Of course, I might be wrong, and you might consider your sig a funny trap, but then you wouldn't know "inside jokes" from "jokes", which is possible since for you "reflected binary code" is equivalent to "binary code" (ie it doesn't need prefixing, and who gives a fuck about common use?).
We disagree on the purpose of a signature, and perhaps on whether you got people skills. I know, our virtual co-existence is too short, but you remind me of some people I know who, being very self-centric become very tiresome to others, and typically said others tend to agree as quickly as possible with said some-people in order to get rid of them. I won't pursue this issue any further, feel free to respond as you see fit (that is, if you think I'm intelligent enough to be worth of a reply from you.) Good hunting!
(To world) A feeble attempt at a humorous sig (which is much less cryptic although it also requires some knowledge and minimal processing):
"Dear Paul: please stop spamming us." --The Corinthians
You surely use words in a non-mathematical way. The only way that "11" means two, is when you work in the unary numeral system with "1" as a chosen symbol. No binary involved whatsoever, so your signature's wordplay is, actually, a misteak.
Thanks for your reply. Even not your intention, you did reply to my question.
The quoted line above comes from your sig. Do you mean, perhaps:
or am I missing something?With "binaries", one would typically mean "multiple binary stars"; perhaps you meant "binary" (system)? OTOH you mention 3 (11 base 2) types of people, so I quite possibly am missing a joke. Unless... unless one should substitute "binary and counting" for "binaries"; this would fully explain that "11" :)
My objection goes to your 'painful'. That's all.
btw, the garden scenes in Casshern were a joy to my eyes.
I agree with you, too, that they (stupid people) breed more. The thing is, even children of extreme cases (you chose the example of brother and sister having children) with severe mental and/or physical problems, do not have trouble procreating (given they have the occasion to :)
Actually, you pasted some text involving lots of Hiragana letters plus occasional 'CATS:' at line beginnings, although the latin letters were FULLWIDTH CAPITAL LETTERs, and that is why they also came through as HTML numeric character references.
I have no idea what the text was saying. I also don't have any idea why one would post Unicode text (with very large code points) to a site that is encoded in ISO-8859-1.
Obviously I wasn't clear enough. I replied to your (Charcharodon (btw I didn't look it up, but this nickname in Greek can be translated as Sharktooth)) post that was a reply to an AC post, and I meant that I perceived as ironic the AC post, not yours.
So all I wanted to say was that, perhaps, your suggesting that the AC was historically-challenged was misdirected.
Define 'abuse'. Define "Google's abuse of beta".
Do you mean Google has labeled for too long some of its products as 'beta'? If yes, please, point to the accepted standard of duration for "beta", over which it's an abuse.
And while we're at it, and fully knowing that little this has to do with your comment, I would like to protest against Microsoft's abuse of "version N" for all N >= 1.0 .
I love kid's skewed view of things.
ICBW, but I perceived his post as plain, good irony. Irony of the kind that flies by your head and you don't typically notice.
Come on, Frosty. Admit the truth: you work at Microsoft, and you're the one everyone expects the patent list from.
Splitting files trying to take as much space possible on specific-size media is one of many NP problems. You can't (AFAIK and so far) find the optimum solution unless you try all combinations. That's a known fact, and I would assume that the backup software developers know it too.
However, for my purposes, I have developed a generic module for this in Python, because I have similar needs (mostly media files, with some simple rules about files belonging together or requiring some ordering), and almost always the solutions that can be found in very little time are more than satisfactory (usually filling more than 99% of each medium). Finding a good enough solution covers my needs, and I assume this would also be the case for the majority of others.
I agree that this would be a very welcome addition to all backup software.
Next time I'll use smileys and/or straight comments, like How intelligent you have to be to post a reply to the correct forum?... I had no points to mark the parent Offtopic, therefore I used sarcasm.
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