Ah, Coincidence, we meet again. I see you've been hanging out with Conspiracy again. I told you last time, Coincidence, nothing good will come of that. I told you that Conspiracy will only take advantage of everything you do and turn it against people. Ah well, you didn't listen last time, so I suppose my words fall on deaf ears again.
This may not be the case as there are constant ongoing improvements done to both kernels, but for a long time the Unix based kernels were highly tuned for fast process creation/duplication through fork() and the NT kernels were highly tuned for fast thread creation. Now I think the difference is becoming less significant, but I believe this is still the case.
It does, but basic research isn't carried out purely to produce products, and you should understand that as well as anyone, being a slashdotter.
After all, the slashdot community decried every closing of a basic research facility over the past decade because of the long-term negative impact. Basic research, that is, research performed without the intent to turn a profit or be implemented in a product, is the basis of almost all of our technologies today.
MS Research should not be measured by what current projects they have that have ended up in products, but by what products 10, 25, 50 years from now will have their roots in papers, mockups, and actual code written by the people at MS Research.
If you subscribe to certain philosophies, all ideas always existed, we simply discovered them.
Regardless of your adherence to such a philosophy, you have to admit that it doesn't really matter who created the idea, but who first successfully implemented it.
It's not like the people at Microsoft are somehow less capable because 100% of their ideas are 100% original, rather, they still had to have the intelligence to code it, document it, test it, etc.
The Vulcans are conservationists. That was the whole point of First Contact. The Federation is more forward about it, but they tend not to want to interfere with worlds with indigenous life.
The pharmaceutical industry is one of the most corrupt industries in existence today. I actually find pharmacology quite interesting, especially the idea that physical chemicals can impact the nonphysical/intangible mind.
Nonphysical intangible mind?
Neurochemicals, man. Read about them. Any intro to psych course includes education on what a few of the major neurochemicals do and their role in defining who "you" are.
To elaborate on the issue, think about how regular disks have sectors that tend to be around 512 bytes. This expectation is "baked" into a lot of filesystems, because of how ubiquitous it is.
This has to do with fragmentation of device sectors when those sectors don't conform to filesystem expectations. That is, the filesystem writes out a 512 byte sector, but the flash drive can only commit 128kb slices at a time. Each of those slices contains 256 sectors. That's not a good situation, because if the filesystem or the controller attempting to correct for the filesystem's writes handles the situation poorly, then that 128kb slice soon becomes fragmented. The fragmentation within that block causes your problems. The problem is when contiguous 512-byte sectors can no longer be allocated contiguously in the 128kb slices. Say you have a few sectors there, a few there, a larger chunk there, maybe even a whole 128kb slice that all corresponds to a single linear mapping of filesystem sectors.
All filesystems that write out blocks smaller than 128kb have this problem. Or whatever the size is the flash drive uses. The problem is twofold: filesystems were written with hard disk drive specifications expected, and those specifications were allowed to become so ubiquitous and the momentum behind them so great that writing for a different set of hardware becomes more difficult. And the second problem is that because of the inertia in expecting every SATA device to be a hard disk, that both filesystem driver and hardware manufacturers have come to expect, there is no "alternative" addressing or better or dynamic method of accessing a disk.
Everything, to the filesystem, is a spinning disk. If you made a disk that actually had 128kb sectors, you would probably encounter the same problem these flash drives have. The stupid realization now, a decade or more on from when many of these standards were drafted, is that these standards permitted very little, if any, deviation. All SATA disk devices are written with the expectation that they are spinning media. All SATA disk devices and the filesystem and the OS have expected this, and certain particular numerical definitions for things like sectors for so long, that no one ever thought to write a standard that would allow filesystem writers to create a filesystem that reasonably deals with new devices.
And because the SATA layer is so simplified and dumbed down for spinning media, there's no way in the SATA communication channel to manually defragment a sector. Apparently SATA/SAS are so set in stone, so stubborn that Intel and every other SSD manufacturers has to emulate a spinning media device, and there's no other good way to do it.
Literally, the filesystem cannot fix this problem, the OS cannot fix this problem. Because at that level of operation, the disk is seen as another dumb spinning disk with 512 byte sectors. You can't actually "see" where those sectors are located or attempt to defragment them from that level. The only way to do it is to issue a SATA command that wipes the entire drive, which allows the controller to flush its internal sector mapping.
If you don't care about being able to distribute your application, then I suppose I am. But if you had said, "Oh, but QT is moving to an interface entirely DPI and bitmap independent," I would be delighted to admit my wrongness.
Sure, there are vector GUI APIs that preceded WPF, as there will be vector APIs that succeed it. What makes WPF different is that it's installed on millions of computers right now, and Microsoft is slowly but surely moving to it as the basis of their GUI applications. Visual Studio 2010, for example, is a WPF application and that shows their commitment to it.
Now, if you want me to list some bugs and oddities in WPF, I'd be delighted to tell you how f'ed it is in some places:)
That's not the new standard, however by default in Vista and 7, they've made every attempt to increase icon quality so that the internal versions can scale up to 256 or 512 pixels for high DPI displays.
What? Parent is full of it. Vista 64-bit does not come with a virtual machine that uses 1GB of anything. You can optionally install any of a variety of different VM clients though and host many OSes.
The FDA simultaneously enforces standards of ethics and cleanliness that help prevent outbreaks of disease, which affect all of us, and outbreaks of rampant idiocy and ill-advised release of powerful and untested medications.
Without them, we wouldn't ever see salmonella coming. We wouldn't know if any cattle stock had been infected with salmonella, we wouldn't know if the drugs we're buying do what they say they're doing.
They still do what they were originally deigned to do: ensure that we get what we pay for, without the unwelcome side effects that cutting costs brings.
You wield your words in a foolishly irresponsible way without considering their ramifications, frequently. And you'll grab any excuse at all to interfere rail on the government.
Without the FDA, an enormous number of drugs would never be recalled, or, likely, ever see standard testing in the US to ensure their efficacy and safety.
I didn't say fundamentalists deserve to be slain, I said they don't deserve to be tolerated in discussion or in politics or in education. We can't force people to think rationally, but it should be the duty of rational people to attempt, at least attempt, to make the world a better place by keeping such irrationality out of harm's way. Public discourse is one thing, but there is no doubt in my mind that teaching that evolution is "just a theory" and teaching the "weaknesses of evolution" to kids who are insufficiently qualified to understand the nuances, and then immediately teaching the opposing view of intelligent design as if it were just as valid is damaging to the future of the nation.
That is just one among many examples.
As for your signature, the E.U. is a better United States than the US has been in a hundred years. They are a collection of many free states with a central set of principles of various freedoms and a unified trade structure and citizenship, but each member state has huge amounts of self-determination irrespective of their neighbors.
They and other specific groups of fundamentalists, of any religion, commit certain specific harms upon the future of the human race. Their particular views are immune to questioning, held to be incontrovertible truths. There are fundamentalists who believe that those who convert away from their belief are heathens, and don't deserve life, or liberty, or their belongings, or other things. There are fundamentalists who believe that scientific research and questioning our origins is blasphemy, and should be shunned, and if possible, punished. There are fundamentalists who believe that an entire half of humanity, the fairer sex, is always unclean, because of misleading teachings from before the widespread understanding of something as simple, as well understood today, as the menstrual cycle.
Fundamentalist, hard-liner beliefs that are held to be above question are damaging to all of society. By keeping down women, we hurt our economic, scientific and social progress. By restricting our areas of scientific inquiry without good reason, we hurt our ability to better all of humanity. Many sects of the Abrahamic and other religions still practice despicable practices and wage war on each other for petty differences in the form of a god they all think exists. Keep in mind, they all claim to believe in the same god, they just think that by adding or subtracting certain books, all of a sudden they're heathens, barbarians, or worse.
It's insanity. It hurts my future, it hurts my children's future. It caused untold harm to what my life may have been, or what life on earth would be now had religious organizations in the past not destroyed vast amounts of scientific literature because it questioned the status quo.
Young earth creationists shouldn't be "tolerated," their view is akin to, "The universe was born from the Great Banana in the year 500BC, and as a test of our faith, it was made to appear as if 13.x billion years old in every conceivable way."
Huh? You mean they implemented ODF 1.1 to the letter, and because of flaws in the specification that are widely known to exist, you're going to be a troll?
"OpenDocument 1.2 is currently being written by the ODF TC. It is likely to include additional accessibility features, metadata enhancements, spreadsheet formula specification based on the OpenFormula work (ODF 1.0 and 1.1 did not specify spreadsheet formulae in detail, leaving many aspects implementation-defined) as well as on some suggestions submitted by the public. Originally OpenDocument 1.2 was expected to become an OASIS standard by October 2007 but later it was expected to become a final draft in May 2008 and an OASIS standard in 2009 and a new ISO/IEC version some months later.[13] However currently there is no final draft of ODF v1.2 yet."
Short version: you don't deserve to be modded anything better than -1 Flamebait.
As long as they remain a minority, it will work. If 99% of people are vaccinated, the 1% will have so much less contact with each other that isolation is vastly more feasible. I believe similar studies have been done and there are case studies being made of some poor kids in California whose affluent parents decided their kids were too tough to need childhood vaccines.
The schools were safe until the minority grew to the point where it could spread quickly. If only one kid in the school hadn't had any shots, there would be no contagion. How could there be?
And a percentage drop in population corresponds to a very real percentage drop in total GDP. Fewer consumers, fewer producers, and slowed growth and achievement.
I've read on Reddit and some other sites some extreme comments, one was along the lines of, "Would it really be that bad if two billion people died?" Yes. Complete meltdown of the social order. That doesn't mean, yay "The caste system in India will be abolished." Yes, there are still prejudices in India against people of the lower caste. No, it means "Fallout (the game) style anarchy, city states and guns for hire... yay?"
Here's the thing, there are entirely reasonable responses, and irrational responses to this crisis. Reasonable responses are like the closing of a school when several students are confirmed to have the virus, or expensive testing of hospital staff for the virus, or even, if a major outbreak occurs, closing down public venues.
Why is this reasonable? Because the moral and economic cost of a widespread pandemic that kills millions or billions of people far outweighs the paltry economic cost of closing down... a school, or a mall. And if it becomes a pandemic, and thousands or hundreds of thousands are known to be infected in a major city, it's for the good of the rest of the nation and the world at large to limit the spread of the disease and close borders and limit travel. Because to do otherwise is insanity. This isn't like throwing billions of dollars at "terrorism" and fighting an ideology, a battle that can't be won. Fighting disease is something we can, and have defeated in the past. Come on, we've damn near wiped out polio, and we actually defeated smallpox.
This is money absolutely well spent. If even 1% of people get this, and 1% of those people die, that's nearly a million deaths. If either of those figures grows by an order of magnitude, it's death on the scale of the Holocaust. And you wouldn't argue that the industrial engine of the Nazi regime is more valuable than their lives, would you?
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Ah, Coincidence, we meet again. I see you've been hanging out with Conspiracy again. I told you last time, Coincidence, nothing good will come of that. I told you that Conspiracy will only take advantage of everything you do and turn it against people. Ah well, you didn't listen last time, so I suppose my words fall on deaf ears again.
This may not be the case as there are constant ongoing improvements done to both kernels, but for a long time the Unix based kernels were highly tuned for fast process creation/duplication through fork() and the NT kernels were highly tuned for fast thread creation. Now I think the difference is becoming less significant, but I believe this is still the case.
It does, but basic research isn't carried out purely to produce products, and you should understand that as well as anyone, being a slashdotter.
After all, the slashdot community decried every closing of a basic research facility over the past decade because of the long-term negative impact. Basic research, that is, research performed without the intent to turn a profit or be implemented in a product, is the basis of almost all of our technologies today.
MS Research should not be measured by what current projects they have that have ended up in products, but by what products 10, 25, 50 years from now will have their roots in papers, mockups, and actual code written by the people at MS Research.
This is the same for any research apparatus.
If you subscribe to certain philosophies, all ideas always existed, we simply discovered them.
Regardless of your adherence to such a philosophy, you have to admit that it doesn't really matter who created the idea, but who first successfully implemented it.
It's not like the people at Microsoft are somehow less capable because 100% of their ideas are 100% original, rather, they still had to have the intelligence to code it, document it, test it, etc.
Heroin.
The Vulcans are conservationists. That was the whole point of First Contact. The Federation is more forward about it, but they tend not to want to interfere with worlds with indigenous life.
The pharmaceutical industry is one of the most corrupt industries in existence today. I actually find pharmacology quite interesting, especially the idea that physical chemicals can impact the nonphysical/intangible mind.
Nonphysical intangible mind?
Neurochemicals, man. Read about them. Any intro to psych course includes education on what a few of the major neurochemicals do and their role in defining who "you" are.
To elaborate on the issue, think about how regular disks have sectors that tend to be around 512 bytes. This expectation is "baked" into a lot of filesystems, because of how ubiquitous it is.
This has to do with fragmentation of device sectors when those sectors don't conform to filesystem expectations. That is, the filesystem writes out a 512 byte sector, but the flash drive can only commit 128kb slices at a time. Each of those slices contains 256 sectors. That's not a good situation, because if the filesystem or the controller attempting to correct for the filesystem's writes handles the situation poorly, then that 128kb slice soon becomes fragmented. The fragmentation within that block causes your problems. The problem is when contiguous 512-byte sectors can no longer be allocated contiguously in the 128kb slices. Say you have a few sectors there, a few there, a larger chunk there, maybe even a whole 128kb slice that all corresponds to a single linear mapping of filesystem sectors.
All filesystems that write out blocks smaller than 128kb have this problem. Or whatever the size is the flash drive uses. The problem is twofold: filesystems were written with hard disk drive specifications expected, and those specifications were allowed to become so ubiquitous and the momentum behind them so great that writing for a different set of hardware becomes more difficult. And the second problem is that because of the inertia in expecting every SATA device to be a hard disk, that both filesystem driver and hardware manufacturers have come to expect, there is no "alternative" addressing or better or dynamic method of accessing a disk.
Everything, to the filesystem, is a spinning disk. If you made a disk that actually had 128kb sectors, you would probably encounter the same problem these flash drives have. The stupid realization now, a decade or more on from when many of these standards were drafted, is that these standards permitted very little, if any, deviation. All SATA disk devices are written with the expectation that they are spinning media. All SATA disk devices and the filesystem and the OS have expected this, and certain particular numerical definitions for things like sectors for so long, that no one ever thought to write a standard that would allow filesystem writers to create a filesystem that reasonably deals with new devices.
And because the SATA layer is so simplified and dumbed down for spinning media, there's no way in the SATA communication channel to manually defragment a sector. Apparently SATA/SAS are so set in stone, so stubborn that Intel and every other SSD manufacturers has to emulate a spinning media device, and there's no other good way to do it.
Literally, the filesystem cannot fix this problem, the OS cannot fix this problem. Because at that level of operation, the disk is seen as another dumb spinning disk with 512 byte sectors. You can't actually "see" where those sectors are located or attempt to defragment them from that level. The only way to do it is to issue a SATA command that wipes the entire drive, which allows the controller to flush its internal sector mapping.
If you don't care about being able to distribute your application, then I suppose I am. But if you had said, "Oh, but QT is moving to an interface entirely DPI and bitmap independent," I would be delighted to admit my wrongness.
Sure, there are vector GUI APIs that preceded WPF, as there will be vector APIs that succeed it. What makes WPF different is that it's installed on millions of computers right now, and Microsoft is slowly but surely moving to it as the basis of their GUI applications. Visual Studio 2010, for example, is a WPF application and that shows their commitment to it.
Now, if you want me to list some bugs and oddities in WPF, I'd be delighted to tell you how f'ed it is in some places :)
Which is what WPF, by Microsoft, is doing for applications well ahead of most other GUI APIs.
That's not the new standard, however by default in Vista and 7, they've made every attempt to increase icon quality so that the internal versions can scale up to 256 or 512 pixels for high DPI displays.
What? Parent is full of it. Vista 64-bit does not come with a virtual machine that uses 1GB of anything. You can optionally install any of a variety of different VM clients though and host many OSes.
The FDA simultaneously enforces standards of ethics and cleanliness that help prevent outbreaks of disease, which affect all of us, and outbreaks of rampant idiocy and ill-advised release of powerful and untested medications.
Without them, we wouldn't ever see salmonella coming. We wouldn't know if any cattle stock had been infected with salmonella, we wouldn't know if the drugs we're buying do what they say they're doing.
They still do what they were originally deigned to do: ensure that we get what we pay for, without the unwelcome side effects that cutting costs brings.
You wield your words in a foolishly irresponsible way without considering their ramifications, frequently. And you'll grab any excuse at all to interfere rail on the government.
Without the FDA, an enormous number of drugs would never be recalled, or, likely, ever see standard testing in the US to ensure their efficacy and safety.
I didn't say fundamentalists deserve to be slain, I said they don't deserve to be tolerated in discussion or in politics or in education. We can't force people to think rationally, but it should be the duty of rational people to attempt, at least attempt, to make the world a better place by keeping such irrationality out of harm's way. Public discourse is one thing, but there is no doubt in my mind that teaching that evolution is "just a theory" and teaching the "weaknesses of evolution" to kids who are insufficiently qualified to understand the nuances, and then immediately teaching the opposing view of intelligent design as if it were just as valid is damaging to the future of the nation.
That is just one among many examples.
As for your signature, the E.U. is a better United States than the US has been in a hundred years. They are a collection of many free states with a central set of principles of various freedoms and a unified trade structure and citizenship, but each member state has huge amounts of self-determination irrespective of their neighbors.
They and other specific groups of fundamentalists, of any religion, commit certain specific harms upon the future of the human race. Their particular views are immune to questioning, held to be incontrovertible truths. There are fundamentalists who believe that those who convert away from their belief are heathens, and don't deserve life, or liberty, or their belongings, or other things. There are fundamentalists who believe that scientific research and questioning our origins is blasphemy, and should be shunned, and if possible, punished. There are fundamentalists who believe that an entire half of humanity, the fairer sex, is always unclean, because of misleading teachings from before the widespread understanding of something as simple, as well understood today, as the menstrual cycle.
Fundamentalist, hard-liner beliefs that are held to be above question are damaging to all of society. By keeping down women, we hurt our economic, scientific and social progress. By restricting our areas of scientific inquiry without good reason, we hurt our ability to better all of humanity. Many sects of the Abrahamic and other religions still practice despicable practices and wage war on each other for petty differences in the form of a god they all think exists. Keep in mind, they all claim to believe in the same god, they just think that by adding or subtracting certain books, all of a sudden they're heathens, barbarians, or worse.
It's insanity. It hurts my future, it hurts my children's future. It caused untold harm to what my life may have been, or what life on earth would be now had religious organizations in the past not destroyed vast amounts of scientific literature because it questioned the status quo.
Young earth creationists shouldn't be "tolerated," their view is akin to, "The universe was born from the Great Banana in the year 500BC, and as a test of our faith, it was made to appear as if 13.x billion years old in every conceivable way."
I haven't yet heard anyone tell me if they were unladen or not.
Or the potentially preventable death of possibly millions of people?
Huh? You mean they implemented ODF 1.1 to the letter, and because of flaws in the specification that are widely known to exist, you're going to be a troll?
I see.
From Wikipedia:
"OpenDocument 1.2 is currently being written by the ODF TC. It is likely to include additional accessibility features, metadata enhancements, spreadsheet formula specification based on the OpenFormula work (ODF 1.0 and 1.1 did not specify spreadsheet formulae in detail, leaving many aspects implementation-defined) as well as on some suggestions submitted by the public. Originally OpenDocument 1.2 was expected to become an OASIS standard by October 2007 but later it was expected to become a final draft in May 2008 and an OASIS standard in 2009 and a new ISO/IEC version some months later.[13] However currently there is no final draft of ODF v1.2 yet."
Short version: you don't deserve to be modded anything better than -1 Flamebait.
You're paying Microsoft more than the OEMs are?
Have you ever heard of bulk rates?
Trust me, you're not spending nearly enough.
As long as they remain a minority, it will work. If 99% of people are vaccinated, the 1% will have so much less contact with each other that isolation is vastly more feasible. I believe similar studies have been done and there are case studies being made of some poor kids in California whose affluent parents decided their kids were too tough to need childhood vaccines.
The schools were safe until the minority grew to the point where it could spread quickly. If only one kid in the school hadn't had any shots, there would be no contagion. How could there be?
Considering the validity of the analogy, I would say it's appropriate to say he got Godwined.
Is there a single universal definition of the verb form, anyway?
And a percentage drop in population corresponds to a very real percentage drop in total GDP. Fewer consumers, fewer producers, and slowed growth and achievement.
I've read on Reddit and some other sites some extreme comments, one was along the lines of, "Would it really be that bad if two billion people died?" Yes. Complete meltdown of the social order. That doesn't mean, yay "The caste system in India will be abolished." Yes, there are still prejudices in India against people of the lower caste. No, it means "Fallout (the game) style anarchy, city states and guns for hire... yay?"
Here's the thing, there are entirely reasonable responses, and irrational responses to this crisis. Reasonable responses are like the closing of a school when several students are confirmed to have the virus, or expensive testing of hospital staff for the virus, or even, if a major outbreak occurs, closing down public venues.
Why is this reasonable? Because the moral and economic cost of a widespread pandemic that kills millions or billions of people far outweighs the paltry economic cost of closing down... a school, or a mall. And if it becomes a pandemic, and thousands or hundreds of thousands are known to be infected in a major city, it's for the good of the rest of the nation and the world at large to limit the spread of the disease and close borders and limit travel. Because to do otherwise is insanity. This isn't like throwing billions of dollars at "terrorism" and fighting an ideology, a battle that can't be won. Fighting disease is something we can, and have defeated in the past. Come on, we've damn near wiped out polio, and we actually defeated smallpox.
This is money absolutely well spent. If even 1% of people get this, and 1% of those people die, that's nearly a million deaths. If either of those figures grows by an order of magnitude, it's death on the scale of the Holocaust. And you wouldn't argue that the industrial engine of the Nazi regime is more valuable than their lives, would you?
P.S.: You got Godwined.