Yeah good luck with that... for that, slashdot would need to be filled with ya know like... positively minded people? Or even the people here now once they've discovered other ways to make themselves feel good that isn't related to going "your idea's crapper than my caustic nature" in the most unconvincing ways.
I click the story cuz I was interested in what people had to say... I'm not interested in doing it myself, I have no need to, so I'm not gonna google it, but I can still be interested in solutions people have to offer (which has been extremely poor on this thread, but a few good bits of information).
But oh my god the whining and bitching, HINT SLASHDOTTERS:: If the story bores you, DON'T CLICK IT!!!! Go get a big brush and clean the sand out of your vaginas or something.
(and yes I am aware of the subtle ironies of my post:-)
*lol* it's funny because if mac's were that far ahead of windows machines for anything gaming he wouldn't need to run it on windows under vmware in the first place
Err... get process explorer and start shutting things down that you don't need running. View your system services (start -> run -> 'services.msc') and disable unneeded services from starting up automatically with boot. My Dell laptop is a P4-M 1.7Ghz with 1.25G RAM, running windows 2003, and it copes no sweat. I was running a 5 way browser test on a project I'm working on not too long back (IE8, Safari4, Chrome, FF3.1, and Opera (forget the version)), all running at the same time, no problem. (short summary: ie8 had the smallest memory footprint, safari4 and chrome rendered and ran javascript the fastest). There's no reason why a P4 with a gig of ram should struggle with browsing. I'm not a gamer* so can't speak for that.
(*tho civ3 has taken days of mine in a row, but have banned myself from that because of it!)
But IIRC on XP a remote desktop connection will kick out the person sitting at the machine; it will only allow one person to be logged in at a time. When the remote desktop logs out, you get control of the screen back (or if you type the login password to relogin, they get kicked out)
I'm not talking about "appears to", I'm talking reality... process explorer tells you how much private, shareable, and shared memory processes and each library linked in is using. Very nice little tool, has been my taskman replacement for years now, highly recommend it.
Have you tried the new Safari? I'm anything but an Apple fan, but downloaded it because a project I'm currently working on has to be cross browser compatible... and credit where credit's jew, I was impressed, it's still on my machine. It seems to have the speed improvements of chrome, with a more complete UI (menubar, bookmarks where I look for them). The window decoration does encompass the tabs but seems a bit dark on my system, but isn't bubbly like chrome. Also, for developers out there, is had a nice set of development tools such as javascript profiler 'n debugger that in some places is better than IE8s. I tested 5 browsers in all, also latest FF and Opera, which seem so far behind the curve I can't see any point in using them. Much to my surprise, out of all of them, the browser that (after going through a process identically on all 5 browsers) had the lowest memory usage was IE8, by up to a third of the others. Safari took the highest (memory vs speed?), chrome sat about 10-20% less (unsurprisingly, safari is much more featureful), although some usage patterns firefox would overtake them both (note my tests weren't extensive as browser tests, with opening and closing tabs etc, they were just testing usage patterns for the project which includes webapps that I'm working on). Oh, also, Safari 'n Chrome as far less annoying to develop under than FF and Opera.
So, it's IE8 and Safari4 for me. The others have far too much catching up to do. Here's hoping IE8.1 manages to close the gap on render and javascript speed that Saf4 and Chrome have, whilst still keeping its footprint smaller.
Their example usages of the word follow a verb ("to make loose", "to let loose"), without another verb it becomes inflected ("I'm going to loosen it", not "I'm going to loose it") or as oxford english dictionary says ("His speech loosed a tide of nationalist sentiment", "He loosed the straps that bound her arms")... although American dictionary entries do look different... but I'm not American... and anyway I was making a joke where I was uncorrecting somebody's perfectly correct spelling and usage, with the inverted slashdot mantra "there, I broke that for you"... what I wrote as 'loose' wasn't what the guy meant which remains primary reason why it's wrong, whatever various english variation dictionaries state.
I hate the taste of water, makes me feel sick... anything to take the taste away (bit of squash or anythin) and no problem, but on its own... yeah, it most certainly does have a taste!
"Your forgetting the effect that drinking diet can have on someone"
No I'm not, as I said, I wasn't making *any statement at all* on the effectiveness of drinking diet, the difference in chemicals, calories, or psychological effects as I think there're far too many variables for me to make any informed comment on the issue with the level of experience and lack of research I have carried out on the matter, and I don't touch the stuff, diet or otherwise, coke's disgusting and just makes me thursty. My point was the *exact* thing I said it was, nothing more, nothing less, nothing between any lines to read into, AND, whether drinking diet does help 100% of the time, makes people fatter 100% of the time, or (more likely) somewhere in between (depending on a million other factors)... my point is completely unaffected and so still completely valid, because I only said anything about the cause, and cause must come first. What happens to people once they are already drinking it cannot be the cause of why people decide to drink it in the first place.
"Likewise there's a strong innate (unlearned) notion of contamination in humans that..."
Oh, no, we learnt it, not even that long ago in the grand scheme of things. I think the British lead the way in many respects, I recall seeing a thing on tv saying how Britian went through a period of winning many battles simply by pushing out standards of cleanliness to their soldiers which meant they were no longer suffering the extremes of diarrhea as enemy soldiers were... but at this moment, I struggle to find any clear details on timeline etc, anyone with any insight may wish to share.
Yes I know what I said, but you're forgetting one... the intensity of the light AT each wavelength AT each angle of polorisation. There's 6 different virtual colours (each virtual colour being a wavelength/polorisation combo), and each of those 6 are able to store a value (although only 1 or 0 by the looks of it, I had originally thought they were using more different levels of reflectiveness). So that's not 6 permutations, it's 64.
My confusion was over the fact that they were counting the address space dimensions that you need to find any single 1 or 0 (3 x spacial position, wavelength, polorisation -> 1 bit of data), not as I was refering to being the number of dimensions of data that is stored in any one physical location, which is 6, as there are 6 individual bits that can be turned on and off independantly which means it's carrying 6 small values.
"nothing more annoying than going to view a pdf file, and having to update Acrobat"
Foxit - I got fed up of how big and clunky acrobat - a viewer - has gotten, and constantly seeing it's quick start thing being left in memory all the time unless I manually kill off the process. I have foxit installed now. It behaves. You might want to have a look.
"If you only considered wavelength and polarization, that would be 2 dimensions"
No I thought information was stored in the intensity (or rather, reflectiveness) of the light at each wavelength, so horizontal red would give you a range of values, as would vertical red, and so on for the other colours... but no it looks like each colour/polorization combo is storing a simple one or zero, there's no grade. Basically I was thinking of data bits rather than address bits.
"Then you are saying the diet soda does nothing for obese people"
You liar! Look, simply:
Person A: I'm overweight, I know, I'll drink diet. Person B: I'm not overweight, I know, I won't drink diet. RESULT: people found drinking diet are those who are overweight.
There is absolutely no claim there one way or another that it actually does help, makes things worse, or makes no difference. The *only* thing that's stated there that people who're overweight are more inclined to be drinking diet. Anything else you're reading into what I've said is purely a figment of your imagination. Why you'd conjure up such imaginings is certainly beyond me.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah good luck with that... for that, slashdot would need to be filled with ya know like... positively minded people? Or even the people here now once they've discovered other ways to make themselves feel good that isn't related to going "your idea's crapper than my caustic nature" in the most unconvincing ways.
I click the story cuz I was interested in what people had to say... I'm not interested in doing it myself, I have no need to, so I'm not gonna google it, but I can still be interested in solutions people have to offer (which has been extremely poor on this thread, but a few good bits of information).
But oh my god the whining and bitching, HINT SLASHDOTTERS :: If the story bores you, DON'T CLICK IT!!!! Go get a big brush and clean the sand out of your vaginas or something.
(and yes I am aware of the subtle ironies of my post :-)
"And Windows? Hah. You can't even remote desktop to a Windows PC without kicking off the user at the console"
I can. 2003 baby.
What's wrong with your post, looks like you're stuggling with the keyboard... wrist playing up?
*lol* it's funny because if mac's were that far ahead of windows machines for anything gaming he wouldn't need to run it on windows under vmware in the first place
I got it!
+1 funny :-)
Err... get process explorer and start shutting things down that you don't need running. View your system services (start -> run -> 'services.msc') and disable unneeded services from starting up automatically with boot. My Dell laptop is a P4-M 1.7Ghz with 1.25G RAM, running windows 2003, and it copes no sweat. I was running a 5 way browser test on a project I'm working on not too long back (IE8, Safari4, Chrome, FF3.1, and Opera (forget the version)), all running at the same time, no problem. (short summary: ie8 had the smallest memory footprint, safari4 and chrome rendered and ran javascript the fastest). There's no reason why a P4 with a gig of ram should struggle with browsing. I'm not a gamer* so can't speak for that.
(*tho civ3 has taken days of mine in a row, but have banned myself from that because of it!)
But IIRC on XP a remote desktop connection will kick out the person sitting at the machine; it will only allow one person to be logged in at a time. When the remote desktop logs out, you get control of the screen back (or if you type the login password to relogin, they get kicked out)
Well they say sex is like air, is a much bigger deal to people deprived of it :-)
I'm not talking about "appears to", I'm talking reality... process explorer tells you how much private, shareable, and shared memory processes and each library linked in is using. Very nice little tool, has been my taskman replacement for years now, highly recommend it.
That's not gonna stop me from trying!!!
Hey wanna hear my favourite chatup line for pregnant women? "Room for one more?" haha I doth cracketh me up
Have you tried the new Safari? I'm anything but an Apple fan, but downloaded it because a project I'm currently working on has to be cross browser compatible... and credit where credit's jew, I was impressed, it's still on my machine. It seems to have the speed improvements of chrome, with a more complete UI (menubar, bookmarks where I look for them). The window decoration does encompass the tabs but seems a bit dark on my system, but isn't bubbly like chrome. Also, for developers out there, is had a nice set of development tools such as javascript profiler 'n debugger that in some places is better than IE8s. I tested 5 browsers in all, also latest FF and Opera, which seem so far behind the curve I can't see any point in using them. Much to my surprise, out of all of them, the browser that (after going through a process identically on all 5 browsers) had the lowest memory usage was IE8, by up to a third of the others. Safari took the highest (memory vs speed?), chrome sat about 10-20% less (unsurprisingly, safari is much more featureful), although some usage patterns firefox would overtake them both (note my tests weren't extensive as browser tests, with opening and closing tabs etc, they were just testing usage patterns for the project which includes webapps that I'm working on). Oh, also, Safari 'n Chrome as far less annoying to develop under than FF and Opera.
So, it's IE8 and Safari4 for me. The others have far too much catching up to do. Here's hoping IE8.1 manages to close the gap on render and javascript speed that Saf4 and Chrome have, whilst still keeping its footprint smaller.
Firstly, no, within the context of the perfectly correct message that I broke in joke form, it's plainly obvious that the word that was meant, is the word that was said.
Perhaps it is you who should reconsider your joke lead grammer debate nazi behaviour?
See, I can put 'nazi' on the end of things to make them seem worse than they are too!
Their example usages of the word follow a verb ("to make loose", "to let loose"), without another verb it becomes inflected ("I'm going to loosen it", not "I'm going to loose it") or as oxford english dictionary says ("His speech loosed a tide of nationalist sentiment", "He loosed the straps that bound her arms")... although American dictionary entries do look different... but I'm not American... and anyway I was making a joke where I was uncorrecting somebody's perfectly correct spelling and usage, with the inverted slashdot mantra "there, I broke that for you"... what I wrote as 'loose' wasn't what the guy meant which remains primary reason why it's wrong, whatever various english variation dictionaries state.
Huh... so you see an exclamation as stressed rage then? One can be calmly expressive ya know :-)
"Actually in that context, either verb (lose/loose) is perfectly appropriate"
Loose is an adjective, it'd become loosen or loosened etc to be a verb.
I hate the taste of water, makes me feel sick... anything to take the taste away (bit of squash or anythin) and no problem, but on its own... yeah, it most certainly does have a taste!
"Humidity must be a problem on space stations; people loose water due to respiration"
There ya go, broke that for ya
"Your forgetting the effect that drinking diet can have on someone"
No I'm not, as I said, I wasn't making *any statement at all* on the effectiveness of drinking diet, the difference in chemicals, calories, or psychological effects as I think there're far too many variables for me to make any informed comment on the issue with the level of experience and lack of research I have carried out on the matter, and I don't touch the stuff, diet or otherwise, coke's disgusting and just makes me thursty. My point was the *exact* thing I said it was, nothing more, nothing less, nothing between any lines to read into, AND, whether drinking diet does help 100% of the time, makes people fatter 100% of the time, or (more likely) somewhere in between (depending on a million other factors)... my point is completely unaffected and so still completely valid, because I only said anything about the cause, and cause must come first. What happens to people once they are already drinking it cannot be the cause of why people decide to drink it in the first place.
"Likewise there's a strong innate (unlearned) notion of contamination in humans that..."
Oh, no, we learnt it, not even that long ago in the grand scheme of things. I think the British lead the way in many respects, I recall seeing a thing on tv saying how Britian went through a period of winning many battles simply by pushing out standards of cleanliness to their soldiers which meant they were no longer suffering the extremes of diarrhea as enemy soldiers were... but at this moment, I struggle to find any clear details on timeline etc, anyone with any insight may wish to share.
Is that what inspired your nick? *lol*
Yes I know what I said, but you're forgetting one... the intensity of the light AT each wavelength AT each angle of polorisation. There's 6 different virtual colours (each virtual colour being a wavelength/polorisation combo), and each of those 6 are able to store a value (although only 1 or 0 by the looks of it, I had originally thought they were using more different levels of reflectiveness). So that's not 6 permutations, it's 64.
My confusion was over the fact that they were counting the address space dimensions that you need to find any single 1 or 0 (3 x spacial position, wavelength, polorisation -> 1 bit of data), not as I was refering to being the number of dimensions of data that is stored in any one physical location, which is 6, as there are 6 individual bits that can be turned on and off independantly which means it's carrying 6 small values.
"nothing more annoying than going to view a pdf file, and having to update Acrobat"
Foxit - I got fed up of how big and clunky acrobat - a viewer - has gotten, and constantly seeing it's quick start thing being left in memory all the time unless I manually kill off the process. I have foxit installed now. It behaves. You might want to have a look.
"If you only considered wavelength and polarization, that would be 2 dimensions"
No I thought information was stored in the intensity (or rather, reflectiveness) of the light at each wavelength, so horizontal red would give you a range of values, as would vertical red, and so on for the other colours... but no it looks like each colour/polorization combo is storing a simple one or zero, there's no grade. Basically I was thinking of data bits rather than address bits.
...and the barman says "I'm sorry, we've run out of magnitudes"...
(yeah I'm tired... consider this beginnings of a joke gpl'd, patches welcome)
Please no jokes about sticking a thermometer up Uranus.
"Then you are saying the diet soda does nothing for obese people"
You liar! Look, simply:
Person A: I'm overweight, I know, I'll drink diet.
Person B: I'm not overweight, I know, I won't drink diet.
RESULT: people found drinking diet are those who are overweight.
There is absolutely no claim there one way or another that it actually does help, makes things worse, or makes no difference. The *only* thing that's stated there that people who're overweight are more inclined to be drinking diet. Anything else you're reading into what I've said is purely a figment of your imagination. Why you'd conjure up such imaginings is certainly beyond me.