This isn't "of the population", this is "of those asked". If the survey was online, that instantly rules out anybody who doesn't know how to use a computer and use (to a degree) the internet. Also, the baseline tech level of people asked depends on where you're asking people. If the survey is being taken in a computer shop, or from a tech website, you'd expect skewed results.
Your assumtion that I was wrongly saying I was wrong, is wrong:-D I used it as an example of something likely to be pointed out as an error. I also believe it was acceptable, but wanted to cut off potential "omg you idiot, complain about spleling and you cant even do gramma" posts by drawing the attention to it myself:-)
This is slashdot, I was expecting the usual flaming for it, but it looks like it may have actually been fairly well received. Think I should frame it!
"I hear, for example, that hemp would work much better"
Yeah, but how many industries would be fighting you against growing large scale hemp crops? Apart from corn... cotton... err... paper? I dunno, it certainly wouldn't be popular.
You'd move your harddrive in a bad state? Surely in the case of a system crash / power outage, you'd be best just booting up the machine first, establishing the state of the harddrive, and then move it? Otherwise you've no idea what you're putting into the other machine... (or did you mean something else?)
Erm... well here on slashdot, it/always/ gets bought up. Few points, that's not how many/writes/ it can handle, but complete writes, or to put it another way, that's how many times each block can be overwritten. To get full advantage out of the flash memory, the files you want to store on it are the files that are/read/ most often, not written most often, for example (as others have said) your system files, to make bootup and program startup faster.
That aside, should the flash memory fail, there's no reason why the data should not still be written to the harddrive. You may lose the speed increase of the flash, but there's no reason to be losing the actual data.
To refine that slightly, I'd say that people who post/just/ to point out spelling mistakes is a little sad and pathetic, yes. I have been known to point out a mistake as part of a reply, but I try to be constructive, it's never the/point/ of my reply, and I can usually tell the difference between a spelling mistake and a typing mistake (which many people can't... insulting somebody's spelling ability when it's obvious their finger slipped is even more pathetic).
However spelling is still important, wherever you are, for the reasons I gave... purely that it changes the impact what you're saying will have on people who consciously or subconsciously spot the mistake, even non-nazi's. If you're trying to put an intelligent point forward, slopping spelling really won't help you.
No, I have a dell laptop, which does get a little warm, but of cause the major concern is the exploding... *lol*
Actually I've not heard of a single case of exploding laptops/mobile phones here in the UK (anyone else?), I figured that may be to do with higher standards that electrical parts (esp the electronics protecting the batteries) must pass to be able to be sold here or something. The laptop's actually very well behaved, the trackpad works better than any other I've used (which I think is one of the most overlooked important features), freezing only occurs when I accidently shut down time by messing with applied string theory.
I don't think this will work on hard virtual machines, such as new AMD/Intel processors that virtualise the privileged instructions on-chip with additional circuitry (as her 'blue pill' would indicate), but checking the hardware configuration still would (except in 'blue pill' type configurations where IOMMU's etc are used to fully simulate the external environment, but we're going off track a little here).
No, the emulation's fine, vmware was never designed to be undetectable, instead it was designed to provide a stable host-machine-hardware-independant machine... ie, if I installed Windows (known for not coping with motherboard/chipset changes well at all) in vmware on one machine, and move the virtual machine to another completely different set up machine, it will still run with no problems and no driver changes required. This is one of the things that makes vmware such a great tool.
This means that you can detect that specific hardware configuration and tell that it's vmware.
You do, which is why the poster has corrected their sig to say 'a' instead of 'an'. You (as I) didn't see the reply pointing out the 'an' until it was fixed, making it look as if the reply suggested using 'an' instead of 'a', but a lil extra thought makes it obvious that it was the other way round.
Yeah I hate having to shave with lots of other people, especially when they think it's funny to nudge you and you end up walking around with a bleeding face... you might be protected from a nuclear bomb, but razors still cut ya!
There's a huge difference between searching for unknown problems in unknown places, and searching for solutions to set problems. The latter involves running a set function with different input values, and checking the result. The former involves several layer deep multi-property pattern recognition, and nothing comes anywhere near the brain at doing this.
If you're going to be so naive as to be taken advantage of, then expect to be taken advantage of... stupidity should have a personal price to match the price it inflicts on the rest of the world.
I think, if not quite that straightforward, there is an element of truth at a certain level in that, perhaps usually at a subconscious level.
Conscience, compassion, and various other traits give you overriding reasons to -not- want to, which you're not gonna feel for computer characters as you are with real women, leaving only the parts that do like the idea.
What about for people who just think it's important? What about people who don't think it's an important part of communication, but important as it's a factor that creates an outward appearance of the person writing? Does it demonstrate a level of self pride in attaining a certain level of accuracy?
Do people not wash their face and adjust their hair in the morning (/afternoon) before leaving the house, not because it changes how functional they are, but because not checking the things that create an outward impression gives the impression of a lack of self pride? Respect for somebody can suffer purely based on how much they appear to respect themselves.
Yes we can argue that appearance based opinions are shallow, but we can also argue that it's something that reaches others consciousnesses, and IS used to create an idea of how much effort somebody will put into something.
And before anybody jumps up at this being an attack at dyslexia, dyslexia to various degrees is pretty common, I share it myself, I know it's not a matter of just not trying hard enough, but where the extra effort into "learning spelling" would get you nowhere, that effort into checking spelling most certainly would (I alt+tab to a google window to check spelling of individual words, or even just switch to a different word as I struggle with one).
I'm not saying that mine is great, I'm sure people will find (and point out) errors in my post (like the last section beginning with "and"). What I am doing is pointing out the rationale behind spelling errors influencing the impact of what you saying having on people.
Having a computer do something very very fast is only of any use if you have the software to do what you want done very very fast. As far as I know, the hard part of what you suggest is writing such capable software, not running it.
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This isn't "of the population", this is "of those asked". If the survey was online, that instantly rules out anybody who doesn't know how to use a computer and use (to a degree) the internet. Also, the baseline tech level of people asked depends on where you're asking people. If the survey is being taken in a computer shop, or from a tech website, you'd expect skewed results.
4 out of 10 people, when surveyed, said that they would admit to making something worse if a survey asked.
"We buy Macs!"
:-p
That's so cool... so, what colour did you pick?
That's a really stupid statement...
...err, and you're a guy! Oh crap!
Your assumtion that I was wrongly saying I was wrong, is wrong :-D I used it as an example of something likely to be pointed out as an error. I also believe it was acceptable, but wanted to cut off potential "omg you idiot, complain about spleling and you cant even do gramma" posts by drawing the attention to it myself :-)
This is slashdot, I was expecting the usual flaming for it, but it looks like it may have actually been fairly well received. Think I should frame it!
Duh, you forgot the one about "which upgrade comes with DNF?"
Oh my god, the Windows!!! They're locking us in!
"I hear, for example, that hemp would work much better"
Yeah, but how many industries would be fighting you against growing large scale hemp crops? Apart from corn... cotton... err... paper? I dunno, it certainly wouldn't be popular.
By 1996 we will have at least 3 bases on the moon... by 2000, the world will have ended...
...oh, you own a Dell? :-p
You'd move your harddrive in a bad state? Surely in the case of a system crash / power outage, you'd be best just booting up the machine first, establishing the state of the harddrive, and then move it? Otherwise you've no idea what you're putting into the other machine... (or did you mean something else?)
Erm... well here on slashdot, it /always/ gets bought up. Few points, that's not how many /writes/ it can handle, but complete writes, or to put it another way, that's how many times each block can be overwritten. To get full advantage out of the flash memory, the files you want to store on it are the files that are /read/ most often, not written most often, for example (as others have said) your system files, to make bootup and program startup faster.
That aside, should the flash memory fail, there's no reason why the data should not still be written to the harddrive. You may lose the speed increase of the flash, but there's no reason to be losing the actual data.
To refine that slightly, I'd say that people who post /just/ to point out spelling mistakes is a little sad and pathetic, yes. I have been known to point out a mistake as part of a reply, but I try to be constructive, it's never the /point/ of my reply, and I can usually tell the difference between a spelling mistake and a typing mistake (which many people can't... insulting somebody's spelling ability when it's obvious their finger slipped is even more pathetic).
However spelling is still important, wherever you are, for the reasons I gave... purely that it changes the impact what you're saying will have on people who consciously or subconsciously spot the mistake, even non-nazi's. If you're trying to put an intelligent point forward, slopping spelling really won't help you.
No, I have a dell laptop, which does get a little warm, but of cause the major concern is the exploding... *lol*
Actually I've not heard of a single case of exploding laptops/mobile phones here in the UK (anyone else?), I figured that may be to do with higher standards that electrical parts (esp the electronics protecting the batteries) must pass to be able to be sold here or something. The laptop's actually very well behaved, the trackpad works better than any other I've used (which I think is one of the most overlooked important features), freezing only occurs when I accidently shut down time by messing with applied string theory.
I don't think this will work on hard virtual machines, such as new AMD/Intel processors that virtualise the privileged instructions on-chip with additional circuitry (as her 'blue pill' would indicate), but checking the hardware configuration still would (except in 'blue pill' type configurations where IOMMU's etc are used to fully simulate the external environment, but we're going off track a little here).
...usually when I hit my laptop, it's because it's already frozen.
No, the emulation's fine, vmware was never designed to be undetectable, instead it was designed to provide a stable host-machine-hardware-independant machine... ie, if I installed Windows (known for not coping with motherboard/chipset changes well at all) in vmware on one machine, and move the virtual machine to another completely different set up machine, it will still run with no problems and no driver changes required. This is one of the things that makes vmware such a great tool.
This means that you can detect that specific hardware configuration and tell that it's vmware.
You do, which is why the poster has corrected their sig to say 'a' instead of 'an'. You (as I) didn't see the reply pointing out the 'an' until it was fixed, making it look as if the reply suggested using 'an' instead of 'a', but a lil extra thought makes it obvious that it was the other way round.
Yeah I hate having to shave with lots of other people, especially when they think it's funny to nudge you and you end up walking around with a bleeding face... you might be protected from a nuclear bomb, but razors still cut ya!
There's a huge difference between searching for unknown problems in unknown places, and searching for solutions to set problems. The latter involves running a set function with different input values, and checking the result. The former involves several layer deep multi-property pattern recognition, and nothing comes anywhere near the brain at doing this.
If you're going to be so naive as to be taken advantage of, then expect to be taken advantage of... stupidity should have a personal price to match the price it inflicts on the rest of the world.
I think, if not quite that straightforward, there is an element of truth at a certain level in that, perhaps usually at a subconscious level.
Conscience, compassion, and various other traits give you overriding reasons to -not- want to, which you're not gonna feel for computer characters as you are with real women, leaving only the parts that do like the idea.
What about for people who just think it's important? What about people who don't think it's an important part of communication, but important as it's a factor that creates an outward appearance of the person writing? Does it demonstrate a level of self pride in attaining a certain level of accuracy?
Do people not wash their face and adjust their hair in the morning (/afternoon) before leaving the house, not because it changes how functional they are, but because not checking the things that create an outward impression gives the impression of a lack of self pride? Respect for somebody can suffer purely based on how much they appear to respect themselves.
Yes we can argue that appearance based opinions are shallow, but we can also argue that it's something that reaches others consciousnesses, and IS used to create an idea of how much effort somebody will put into something.
And before anybody jumps up at this being an attack at dyslexia, dyslexia to various degrees is pretty common, I share it myself, I know it's not a matter of just not trying hard enough, but where the extra effort into "learning spelling" would get you nowhere, that effort into checking spelling most certainly would (I alt+tab to a google window to check spelling of individual words, or even just switch to a different word as I struggle with one).
I'm not saying that mine is great, I'm sure people will find (and point out) errors in my post (like the last section beginning with "and"). What I am doing is pointing out the rationale behind spelling errors influencing the impact of what you saying having on people.
Having a computer do something very very fast is only of any use if you have the software to do what you want done very very fast. As far as I know, the hard part of what you suggest is writing such capable software, not running it.
"Interesting, but why would someone want or need to do this?"
You just answered your own question... see, right there, first word.