Yep, that's true. There simply seems not to be an "iowait" class for a process, Windows just puts the process in an idle state. However the Performance Monitor (perfmon.exe) can (among other neat data) show disk latency counters, which allows you to find out total time spent for I/O operations on a specific device.
That is, a move from 64k to 640k felt like something that would last a great deal of time. Well, it didn’t – it took about only 6 years before people started to see that as a real problem.
Seeing how fast the PC industry develops, if his prediction lasted 6 years, I'd say that's still pretty good.
I once reheated some dumplings and saw an interesting phenomenon: the food quickly became extremely crusty and all the moisture got effectively sucked out to the inner walls of the microwave oven. Why did this happen?
I have sometimes said that the torrent file (or magnet link) is a virtualization of the actual data files, kind of a seed which you plant and from which the data grows. Even when the torrent does not contain the actual data files, you "see" the files through the torrent.
I want the old Slashdot back. It was very informative, genuinely funny at times (dont tell me a shark-laser joke is genuinely worth the now-guaranteed +5 Funny), and was the only place on the 'net that I could find and share in that level of expertise and genuine interest and excitement in Science and Technology. The last few years have been a sad and disturbing decline in the quality of commenters in Slashdot.
I challenge you to show me an old Slashdot article and its discussion that represents what you mean with "good old times". They are all archived. I have occasionally read them again. There is about the same amount of trash-talk and sophisticated comments as we have here today. The only clear difference is that back then there was a lot more mod points in circulation.
Except the software that comes bundled with this particular brand of smartboard is ridiculously clunky. Without naming this particular piece of software, and highlighting its shortfalls
I have a particular plan which involves some unnamed hardware and software. I won't go into details, but let's just say that everything of it is implemented through some specific steps. It allows the users to leverage various possibilities. Maybe this could be the solution?
Indeed. It would be even worse if they did not have those jobs, but the bad working conditions and low pay are still a problem. I wonder if some kind of fair trade system could be developed for electronics, just like we have for food products?
What I have sometimes pondered is why Google has not become its own hard disk drive manufacturer. Would it be feasible? I believe they continuously chuck in crazy amounts of storage into their data centers and make massive HDD orders.
UPDATE: As I’ve seen in some discussions of my post on the Internet (not the comments here) that people apparently thought the screenshot represented the next KMail desktop UI, I’ve updated the screenshot and the caption to make clear what it is.
- "Your distro is configured wrong for KDE."
- "Everyone knows how broken KDE is. That's why I switched to Linux Mint and haven't looked back."
- "I have never had that kind of problems and I have used Linux on desktop since 1997."
- "How much does Microsoft pay you to write that?"
XFCE hasn't been ultralight in a few years now. It is no longer recommended for netbooks and other underpowered systems.
Meanwhile, full Windows 7 and 8 runs smoothly on those same underpowered systems with all animations and compositing enabled, all the way down to Atom N270 systems.
Everyone can try this themselves if they do not believe it.
This YouTube video offers some pretty good KDE criticism as well. I personally am mostly frustrated with the clunky and cluttered notifications system.
Windows 8/8.1 and Server 2012 aren't bad operating systems. They are just hobbled with hideous user interfaces.
There's also some new vomit-inducing screenshots of the Start Menu colors of Windows 9. It's still nice that the menu is coming back, but they seem to be going full-kindergarten in terms of appearance.
I personally think that you hit the sweet spot when you have a name which sounds cool and professional, is easy to remember, and at least tries to vaguely describe the function of the program.
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In some level that is true. The actual game mechanics are mostly just animals wandering around.
As a sidenote, today I came across an interesting XBMC plugin called xbmctorrent which allows you to directly watch movies behind magnet links. So I guess it's like the Popcorn Hour thingy.
Maybe as a kid I was fascinated by the idea of having a server or "data center" at home, but these days I would hate to babysit all that trash. Normal networking equipment and a computer or two is enough.
A particular sin() implementation by IBM has always looked scary to me. I found it via an interesting Stack Overflow thread which talks about trigonometric functions.
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Yep, that's true. There simply seems not to be an "iowait" class for a process, Windows just puts the process in an idle state. However the Performance Monitor (perfmon.exe) can (among other neat data) show disk latency counters, which allows you to find out total time spent for I/O operations on a specific device.
That is, a move from 64k to 640k felt like something that would last a great deal of time. Well, it didn’t – it took about only 6 years before people started to see that as a real problem.
Seeing how fast the PC industry develops, if his prediction lasted 6 years, I'd say that's still pretty good.
No, it's not a distro. Linux from Scratch is a set of instructions to help you put together a Linux-based OS completely ground-up.
I once reheated some dumplings and saw an interesting phenomenon: the food quickly became extremely crusty and all the moisture got effectively sucked out to the inner walls of the microwave oven. Why did this happen?
I have sometimes said that the torrent file (or magnet link) is a virtualization of the actual data files, kind of a seed which you plant and from which the data grows. Even when the torrent does not contain the actual data files, you "see" the files through the torrent.
I want the old Slashdot back. It was very informative, genuinely funny at times (dont tell me a shark-laser joke is genuinely worth the now-guaranteed +5 Funny), and was the only place on the 'net that I could find and share in that level of expertise and genuine interest and excitement in Science and Technology. The last few years have been a sad and disturbing decline in the quality of commenters in Slashdot.
I challenge you to show me an old Slashdot article and its discussion that represents what you mean with "good old times". They are all archived. I have occasionally read them again. There is about the same amount of trash-talk and sophisticated comments as we have here today. The only clear difference is that back then there was a lot more mod points in circulation.
Except the software that comes bundled with this particular brand of smartboard is ridiculously clunky. Without naming this particular piece of software, and highlighting its shortfalls
I have a particular plan which involves some unnamed hardware and software. I won't go into details, but let's just say that everything of it is implemented through some specific steps. It allows the users to leverage various possibilities. Maybe this could be the solution?
Indeed. It would be even worse if they did not have those jobs, but the bad working conditions and low pay are still a problem. I wonder if some kind of fair trade system could be developed for electronics, just like we have for food products?
What I have sometimes pondered is why Google has not become its own hard disk drive manufacturer. Would it be feasible? I believe they continuously chuck in crazy amounts of storage into their data centers and make massive HDD orders.
The article precisely says this:
UPDATE: As I’ve seen in some discussions of my post on the Internet (not the comments here) that people apparently thought the screenshot represented the next KMail desktop UI, I’ve updated the screenshot and the caption to make clear what it is.
Yep. Some other classic ones:
- "Your distro is configured wrong for KDE."
- "Everyone knows how broken KDE is. That's why I switched to Linux Mint and haven't looked back."
- "I have never had that kind of problems and I have used Linux on desktop since 1997."
- "How much does Microsoft pay you to write that?"
XFCE hasn't been ultralight in a few years now. It is no longer recommended for netbooks and other underpowered systems.
Meanwhile, full Windows 7 and 8 runs smoothly on those same underpowered systems with all animations and compositing enabled, all the way down to Atom N270 systems.
Everyone can try this themselves if they do not believe it.
This YouTube video offers some pretty good KDE criticism as well. I personally am mostly frustrated with the clunky and cluttered notifications system.
Windows 8/8.1 and Server 2012 aren't bad operating systems. They are just hobbled with hideous user interfaces.
There's also some new vomit-inducing screenshots of the Start Menu colors of Windows 9. It's still nice that the menu is coming back, but they seem to be going full-kindergarten in terms of appearance.
Or time changes people into Stockholm Syndrome victims?
Yeah, I have seen a clear Stockholm Syndrome developing around XP. :)
XP was excellent
That's what inspired me to switch to Linux full-time, I'll say that much for it.
Same goes for me, I also moved full-Linux as XP was such a trash can. Came back when Windows 7 was released.
There are fireproof containers into which the heat won't get so easily.
How about "Confidisk"?
Good ones: Inkscape, Thunderbird, Blender, VirtualBox, Linux...
Crappy ones: GIMP, Tahoe-LAFS, Ubuntu, Kdenlive, XFCE...
I personally think that you hit the sweet spot when you have a name which sounds cool and professional, is easy to remember, and at least tries to vaguely describe the function of the program.
In some level that is true. The actual game mechanics are mostly just animals wandering around.
As a sidenote, today I came across an interesting XBMC plugin called xbmctorrent which allows you to directly watch movies behind magnet links. So I guess it's like the Popcorn Hour thingy.
Maybe as a kid I was fascinated by the idea of having a server or "data center" at home, but these days I would hate to babysit all that trash. Normal networking equipment and a computer or two is enough.
A particular sin() implementation by IBM has always looked scary to me. I found it via an interesting Stack Overflow thread which talks about trigonometric functions.
And I specifically banned netflix in my house because of the silverlight requirement.
Just limit the Silverlight plugin to run only on Netflix.
That would be enormous amount of work.