I'm running firefox 2.0 with a rather minimal set of extensions. Let me tell you, does it leak. I have 1GB of RAM, and, left open long enough (say, three or four days) the system starts slowing down dramatically, and firefox starts not responding that well, UI starts not painting right, etc. I wonder what the heck is going on.
Then I go into task manager to find firefox consuming 900MB of RAM with tons put in the page file.
NO OTHER application I have ever used does it to this extreme, and while I'm sure IE has some not so good memory leaks, in my years of using IE that has NEVER happened to me.
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Or how about, anybody who wants language to stand frozen in time needs a punch in the face.
Another good example is socket 939 motherboards that are being replaced with otherwise identical boards that have an AM2 socket. Say people have an old nforce3 board and an X2 and doen't necissarily want to buy another X2 just to get PCI express. Or they have really fast, expensive DDR memory that they don't want to have to liquidate. I recently did a calculation on my computer's components and found that surprisingly, overall the core value had remained constant despite being almost a year old.
Modularity. Do you know how huge and complicated a system with 40 dual core CPUs would be? There's always use for massively parallel processing and news like this is a godsend for data centers, which are currently suffering from power/heat limitations (and expense).
Just a few years ago, having a four-processor system meant getting a big motherboard or a custom system with multiple motherboards/processor cards. In 2007 you'll be able to put a quad-core CPU in a dinky mATX HTPC motherboard. In 2012 probably 80 cores.
Some things can't be split 80 ways, others can (say for your average "consumer"... heavily media-based or video-based tasks...)
Of course, stuff that is stated as fact could be opinion, conveniently made to look like fact. Hence Orwellian doublespeak. Given how far AI is at current, I would say that such an algorithm would not really be able to alert flag doublespeak.
Universally appalling? Check the facts. In almost everything that Microsoft pursues, they eventually become a large, dominant player. As for this console wars thing, look at Sony et al. They are going to have to subsidize their consoles heavily too.
Microsoft is just playing the game; they've done it in the past, and they'll do it again. Look at everything microsoft "sucks" at first. Look at it 2-3 years later.
That's because most server RAID drivers or generic forms thereof are included on the XP build, and if not, they are added to the install CDs for the particular machines...or, a repository on the network is accessible...
Home user, though, with a home RAID/JBOD setup has no way around the floppy (couldn't they add a driver for USB pendrives)?
"Large, faceless, asshole corporations are, historically, a relatively new thing. My bet is that they have passed their peak. Rather than helping to prop them up, why not help speed their fall?"
I'm not so sure. Look back to Venice and the large family that controlled most of the financial industry there. Perhaps multi-national, world-wide corporations are relatively new things, but not large organizations with monopolistic control over things.
And as bad as they are, they did help speed progress. The IBM System/360 really helped the US go to the moon, for example. There are multiple examples of how Big Business has hurt (and helped) society. And the fact remains that large organizations tend to not give a shit about individual people, be it governments or business corporations. And as self-protecting entites, they tend to act with self-interest at expense to others, regardless of how much public funding they receive.
One of the basic security concepts: Don't trust the user. Don't ever trust the user. Assume the user is a cracker wanting to cause harm. Then you remember to htmlchar all javascript attempts so the browser can't interpret them.
just following up on this, a good site for fantasy portfolio investing is investopedia.com. You trade real stocks but are given a portfolio with $100,000 funny money starting cash. In the main competition, you cannot devote more than 1/5 of your portfolio to one stock, forcing you to diversify and in many cases limiting upside, but limiting downside too.
Do research on market conditions, realize what causes large groups of stocks to go up/down and what causes sectors and individual stocks to go up/down. If you can trend trade, you can make a lot of money.
It's funny comparing the gains between my real and fantasy portfolio. The fantasy one always wins, because decisions are less emotion based. Regardless of how hard I try, emotion always creeps in a little bit with a real portfolio. It's something that really has to be wringed out over time and can be the most damaging to your capital.
Save up more money first. You need to have enough in your account to where you can devote a maximum of 20% into one stock and still make a decent amount of money off of 10% or 20% increases. At the $1000 level, commission fees will likely gobble up any gains.
If you want to "dabble" in day trading, you need at least $15K. Day trading requires you to take out many low risk trades if you want to be successful. And I don't like the word "dabble," as anyone who doesn't go into it hardcore tends to lose money.
Brokers that charge flat fees for trading, and don't charge any maintenance fees, are good. Scottrade and TD Ameritrade are examples.
Wish I had mod points sir. It's good that this is in use already...I should've done research. But the fact that I haven't heard about it and not many people use it says something about its need to be advertised/implemented more.
I have an idea: Peer to peer power. The power company subsidizes some of the cost of installing a solar panel on people's homes, and in turn, power can be shared home-to-home. The power company wins, because they do not have as much load on their plants and can power more area with fewer plants. The people win because they have a more stable energy supply (not reliant on one/few sources). Financially, I'm sure it could be made so that people pay less for power bills and get more reliable power. The company will still have more money than they did before to invest in new plants and power more area with the same number of plants.
yeah it could use some of the energy from the air, key point. The machine doesn't have to be near 100% efficient, but the big question will be if it is efficient enough to be worth the added cost of purchase installation. That must always be factored in when piggybacking machines that take advantage of ambient energy onto fuel-driven machines.
Why is news about google stock on the site? Since search was down, I didn't get to see if slashdot posted news about Yahoo's stock dropping 22% in a day, the largest single drop ever, on Wed. Either make a customized finance.slashdot.org (which I'm sure a lot of slashdotters would be quite happy about, focusing on the financial aspects of certain tech companies and F/OSS finances) or don't report news at all.
But please, none of this "Logo Toilet Paper to replace Charmin at the Googleplex" news. I find slashdot diverging from its focus when it reports minutia about google. Either report all minutia, or report none, and especially don't bias toward certain companies (Yahoo, an equally important company, isn't nearly as well followed?)
Spot on sir! The government is a public instutition, and since it is funded by the taxpayers, it is owned by the taxpayers. The government is bought and paid for by the people, so it is the people's lackey.
was due to one-time gains, such as the sale of stock in BAIDU.com. That's why the stock was down in after hours. This nonsense of beating estimates by a huge amount is a giant Wall Street smokescreen. Non-recurring things factored out, Google barely beat estimates. Growth is slowing, the CEO himself said that. I imagine more money is going to be pumped out of this in the future (admittedly YHOO had a negative effect on GOOG and BIDU).
That's not the point. The point is that there exists a historically significant alternative truth movement, and regardless how baseless their accusations may be, they deserve mention because of their sheer magnitude. Look at the various professors, journalists, and activists, who've presented arguments. Discrediting them as "small" would be a disservice to an encyclopedia.
We may not agree with Bin Laden's views, but that doesn't mean he's omitted from encyclopedic entry. Geez, watch what you're saying, you're advocating indirect censorship.
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I'm running firefox 2.0 with a rather minimal set of extensions. Let me tell you, does it leak. I have 1GB of RAM, and, left open long enough (say, three or four days) the system starts slowing down dramatically, and firefox starts not responding that well, UI starts not painting right, etc. I wonder what the heck is going on.
Then I go into task manager to find firefox consuming 900MB of RAM with tons put in the page file.
NO OTHER application I have ever used does it to this extreme, and while I'm sure IE has some not so good memory leaks, in my years of using IE that has NEVER happened to me.
Or how about, anybody who wants language to stand frozen in time needs a punch in the face.
But will the 8600 GT be in a good price range? The 8200? This will matter to a lot more people.
More power is never, worse, though...unless you are trying to reduce power consumption...
Another good example is socket 939 motherboards that are being replaced with otherwise identical boards that have an AM2 socket. Say people have an old nforce3 board and an X2 and doen't necissarily want to buy another X2 just to get PCI express. Or they have really fast, expensive DDR memory that they don't want to have to liquidate. I recently did a calculation on my computer's components and found that surprisingly, overall the core value had remained constant despite being almost a year old.
Modularity. Do you know how huge and complicated a system with 40 dual core CPUs would be? There's always use for massively parallel processing and news like this is a godsend for data centers, which are currently suffering from power/heat limitations (and expense).
Just a few years ago, having a four-processor system meant getting a big motherboard or a custom system with multiple motherboards/processor cards. In 2007 you'll be able to put a quad-core CPU in a dinky mATX HTPC motherboard. In 2012 probably 80 cores.
Some things can't be split 80 ways, others can (say for your average "consumer"... heavily media-based or video-based tasks...)
Of course, stuff that is stated as fact could be opinion, conveniently made to look like fact. Hence Orwellian doublespeak. Given how far AI is at current, I would say that such an algorithm would not really be able to alert flag doublespeak.
"Hell no, we won't go" could be counted as six words, potentially invalidating your argument :P
Universally appalling? Check the facts. In almost everything that Microsoft pursues, they eventually become a large, dominant player. As for this console wars thing, look at Sony et al. They are going to have to subsidize their consoles heavily too.
Microsoft is just playing the game; they've done it in the past, and they'll do it again. Look at everything microsoft "sucks" at first. Look at it 2-3 years later.
That's because most server RAID drivers or generic forms thereof are included on the XP build, and if not, they are added to the install CDs for the particular machines...or, a repository on the network is accessible...
Home user, though, with a home RAID/JBOD setup has no way around the floppy (couldn't they add a driver for USB pendrives)?
What's wrong with being able to watch a movie from the air when you're flying from San Fransisco to Tokyo?
"Large, faceless, asshole corporations are, historically, a relatively new thing. My bet is that they have passed their peak. Rather than helping to prop them up, why not help speed their fall?"
I'm not so sure. Look back to Venice and the large family that controlled most of the financial industry there. Perhaps multi-national, world-wide corporations are relatively new things, but not large organizations with monopolistic control over things.
And as bad as they are, they did help speed progress. The IBM System/360 really helped the US go to the moon, for example. There are multiple examples of how Big Business has hurt (and helped) society. And the fact remains that large organizations tend to not give a shit about individual people, be it governments or business corporations. And as self-protecting entites, they tend to act with self-interest at expense to others, regardless of how much public funding they receive.
My mic has an off switch. Up yours, GOOG!
*screaming as hauled away by thought police*
One of the basic security concepts: Don't trust the user. Don't ever trust the user. Assume the user is a cracker wanting to cause harm. Then you remember to htmlchar all javascript attempts so the browser can't interpret them.
just following up on this, a good site for fantasy portfolio investing is investopedia.com. You trade real stocks but are given a portfolio with $100,000 funny money starting cash. In the main competition, you cannot devote more than 1/5 of your portfolio to one stock, forcing you to diversify and in many cases limiting upside, but limiting downside too.
Do research on market conditions, realize what causes large groups of stocks to go up/down and what causes sectors and individual stocks to go up/down. If you can trend trade, you can make a lot of money.
It's funny comparing the gains between my real and fantasy portfolio. The fantasy one always wins, because decisions are less emotion based. Regardless of how hard I try, emotion always creeps in a little bit with a real portfolio. It's something that really has to be wringed out over time and can be the most damaging to your capital.
Save up more money first. You need to have enough in your account to where you can devote a maximum of 20% into one stock and still make a decent amount of money off of 10% or 20% increases. At the $1000 level, commission fees will likely gobble up any gains.
If you want to "dabble" in day trading, you need at least $15K. Day trading requires you to take out many low risk trades if you want to be successful. And I don't like the word "dabble," as anyone who doesn't go into it hardcore tends to lose money.
Brokers that charge flat fees for trading, and don't charge any maintenance fees, are good. Scottrade and TD Ameritrade are examples.
thank eBay :P
and I always love how people thought that email would mean the demise of the post office; you can't attach furniture to an email message.
via voip over wifi if the laptop gets run over? Can save some time.....
Wish I had mod points sir. It's good that this is in use already...I should've done research. But the fact that I haven't heard about it and not many people use it says something about its need to be advertised/implemented more.
I have an idea: Peer to peer power. The power company subsidizes some of the cost of installing a solar panel on people's homes, and in turn, power can be shared home-to-home. The power company wins, because they do not have as much load on their plants and can power more area with fewer plants. The people win because they have a more stable energy supply (not reliant on one/few sources). Financially, I'm sure it could be made so that people pay less for power bills and get more reliable power. The company will still have more money than they did before to invest in new plants and power more area with the same number of plants.
yeah it could use some of the energy from the air, key point. The machine doesn't have to be near 100% efficient, but the big question will be if it is efficient enough to be worth the added cost of purchase installation. That must always be factored in when piggybacking machines that take advantage of ambient energy onto fuel-driven machines.
Spot on. Especially with IPv6 being implemented widespread, this should be one potential application.
Why is news about google stock on the site? Since search was down, I didn't get to see if slashdot posted news about Yahoo's stock dropping 22% in a day, the largest single drop ever, on Wed. Either make a customized finance.slashdot.org (which I'm sure a lot of slashdotters would be quite happy about, focusing on the financial aspects of certain tech companies and F/OSS finances) or don't report news at all.
But please, none of this "Logo Toilet Paper to replace Charmin at the Googleplex" news. I find slashdot diverging from its focus when it reports minutia about google. Either report all minutia, or report none, and especially don't bias toward certain companies (Yahoo, an equally important company, isn't nearly as well followed?)
Spot on sir! The government is a public instutition, and since it is funded by the taxpayers, it is owned by the taxpayers. The government is bought and paid for by the people, so it is the people's lackey.
was due to one-time gains, such as the sale of stock in BAIDU.com. That's why the stock was down in after hours. This nonsense of beating estimates by a huge amount is a giant Wall Street smokescreen. Non-recurring things factored out, Google barely beat estimates. Growth is slowing, the CEO himself said that. I imagine more money is going to be pumped out of this in the future (admittedly YHOO had a negative effect on GOOG and BIDU).
That's not the point. The point is that there exists a historically significant alternative truth movement, and regardless how baseless their accusations may be, they deserve mention because of their sheer magnitude. Look at the various professors, journalists, and activists, who've presented arguments. Discrediting them as "small" would be a disservice to an encyclopedia.
We may not agree with Bin Laden's views, but that doesn't mean he's omitted from encyclopedic entry. Geez, watch what you're saying, you're advocating indirect censorship.