It's pretty well established that the ACPI implementation that MS was using with Win XP was non-standard. The one that folks had access to wouldn't compile the DSDTs that were coming with a lot of the computers because they were buggy and non-standard. MS had the advantage of controlling the only validation program that mattered and could hard code into their OS the bits necessary to work with the most common bugs.
Unfortunately for Linux, *BSD and everybody else, those coders didn't have access to that information and had to go to a huge amount of work to rewrite the DSDT and load that so that it would work as the standard specify.
Also, nice ad hominem you've got there, I am not a Linux fanboy,
No, that only worked in cases where the Windows DSDT was standards compliant, much of the time even that didn't. I've done that in the past and it doesn't guarantee you any improvement as MS wasn't validating the DSDT against the official Intel implementation that everybody else had access to.
Nice, that some jackass with mod points felt the need to mod me down without bothering to understand the issue though.
And this sort of thing really ought to be used to slap MS upside the head for behaving irresponsibly. Years back when ACPI was first coming out and a significant number of motherboard models were shipped with a broken DSDT that would only function with Windows. The company creating the firmware didn't care and MS had the money to work around the problem leaving Windows the only platform that would work correctly.
MS could have solved the problem by refusing to implement work arounds, but opted to go out of its way to work around broken implementations rather than force the devs to program the DSDT correctly.
25 to 50 percent less gas in a scooter isn't really that impressive. Most decent scooters are at the point of diminishing returns, the increased cost of maintenance is almost certainly going to be more than the savings on fuel. It's relatively trivial to get a scooter to get 60-70mpg, an extra 25% to 50% isn't that significant, unless that extra mileage comes maintenance free.
The main problem with it is lumping disparate cultures together. The Chinese definitely steal ideas and IP to the extent that I can't imagine why corporations would have them producing their products as there are no trade secrets over there, especially for foreign companies.
As for your statement about what people could say about Americans, the difference there is that even now there isn't a track record that supports that notion. Around here we're just a few months away from the beginning of world's largest deep bore tunnel, Boeing recently delivered it's first 7e7 and in the near future we're looking to put the first train tracks on a floating bridge.
We're innovative in WA state, but we're hardly the only part of the country that's still capable of innovation.
That was my thought. Most likely it's a similar phenomenon where a plate will suddenly drop leaving whatever it is substantially lower than before the quake. I'm not sure what the proper term for that is. A tsunami is caused by a temporary drop in the sea floor, if the ocean floor didn't rise again after dropping you wouldn't get the characteristic wave.
This isn't any different from parking tickets, you have the right to challenge it in court, but it's frequently more efficient to just waive that right and pay the ticket.
That's not efficient enough, just put booths everywhere and arrest anybody that can't pass the credit check. I mean that is the whole point, right? Relegate the poor to work farms so that the rich don't have to do a damned thing.
The thing is that they don't profile without personal judgment because it's impossible. Profiling involves a great deal of personal judgment and training.
Perhaps, but how was his accuracy? It doesn't matter if I know there to be an alien in the Senate if I accuse 90 Senators that aren't aliens I'd be just a delusional crackpot. Same goes for McCarthy, when there's little concern for accuracy you might as well just be randomly arresting people.
I suppose in cases where the employer doesn't allow for that sort of thorough documentation that's probably a sign to move elsewhere. Documentation is a part of many jobs and if the employer doesn't allow for that time, they're probably not going to do well in the future.
Depending upon the specifics it might be as simple as adding a line to a notebook, but ultimately, it's not really documented if it isn't organized and that doesn't just happen organically for most people. Also, the documentation isn't just for you, it's for those who come in afterwards to get them up to speed, so that you don't have to spend that much more time prepping them or worrying about it catching up with you.
One thing I learned from past experience is that you need to be aware of times when you're trying to avoid the past. You're not going to do it as it already happened and in all likelihood you're tilting things in favor of repeating a similar circumstance.
They may not want to learn to use it, but those same people don't want to learn anything, no matter how productive or easy it might make their lives. Giving up usability because there's a lot of lazy morons out there is precisely why usability is in the toilet. And now that you mention it, I do wonder if it's any sort of coincidence that about the time that computing reached the mainstream that the usability started going down the toilet. DOS had serious issues, but it was significantly less likely to prevent me from doing something that I needed to do because MS didn't feel like giving me a way of doing it. There's still times when I have to crack a 3rd party utility because MS seemingly didn't feel like including basic functionality.
As for your comment about advanced programmers not end users, vi is there for anybody that edits text, you only need to know about:, w, q, !, i, a, x, hjkl and that's about it to get started with it. And most of those are the first letter of an intuitively named command.
I disagree, the problem is that the value of a journalist doesn't drop just because a huge number of bloggers flood the market, the price that people are willing to pay does however plummet. It's important to keep that in mind because as bloggers crowd out the journalists there gets to be more and more gaps in coverage which journalists can't afford to cover because they aren't going to get paid if nothing happens. So, you get coverage like city hall getting cut because nothing happens ther most days. In the past a newspaper would pay a journalist to be there every day in case something happens, but if people aren't willing to pay the premium for a professional to hang out there, you miss out on that coverage.
By your argument that value disappears just because people aren't willing to pay, but it's more accurate to factor in the loss of coverage as being a part of the value of bloggers.
By your definition it would be hard to find a job that's not a creative job. Pretty much the only ones that come to mind are ones that are going to be replaced by robots in the near future because the workers are basically mindless automatons.
Japan is a much smaller country in terms of land mass, population and language groups. India has a similar problem to China in that they're the two largest countries by population and have dozens of languages with which to contend. China does have somewhat of an advantage in having one written language to cover the country, although that tends to be rendered moot by the fact that the people being attracted to the factories aren't likely to be literate in the first place.
Precisely, I'm probably going to be writing a book in the near future. The reality is that I'm not likely to be able to make huge amounts of money per copy, but if I slap a price of $1, $2 or $3 on it the likelihood of people buying it goes up as it's a small price to them and for many people worth the gamble even if it turns out to be a turkey half way through the book.
There's still money in books. Photography, as a profession is dieing. If you're working on commission at things like weddings, photojournalism, portraits and things like that there's still money to be made, but it's getting tough when it comes to photography for creative reasons rather than documentary ones it's getting tough.
To an extent that's true, but chances are good that nearly all the movies you've loved are stories that have been told before. Movies are a tough proposition because ultimately they end up being the same thing only different. Often times the difference between a great movie and a poor or marginal one is how well the cast and crew twist the canon to create something new and special.
A good movie is a good movie. There's still plenty of quality films coming out, it's just that most of the crappy older films were never preserved and if they were preserved were unlikely to be transfered to a format which most people have available to them. VHS, and now DVD or Bluray.
New movies aren't really that hard to come up with, the real trouble is that it's a lot more expensive to make a movie than it was under the studio system. When the studio has everything from writers and crew to actors under contract it's a lot easier to turn a profit while still turning out something that resembles art. On top of that, most movies during the golden age were take it or leave it propositions, if you missed the movie the week it was out, you probably wouldn't get to see it again.
These days, not only can you see it, but the chances are good that if you liked it you own a copy, or at least have access to it via a rental shop.
While they're at it, I wish they'd cap the number of mod points they hand out at a time, I regularly end up with 15 mod points at a time, which means that if I were to try and use them all I'd either be giving them away to every Tom, Dick and Harry that posts or I'd be spending all my time here modding posts.
Considering that mod points are in part a reward for being respected by the community at large, that is somewhat counterproductive when you can't mod and post in the same article.
No kidding. My dad has been remodeling his house and in the process discovered the rather astonishing electrical circuits involved. One of which circles the entire house. And seemingly random splicings that could have burned the house down years ago.
Not to mention things like the chimney lacking reinforcing in case of earthquakes.
It doesn't work when the citizens are overtly suicidal. Somebody ultimately needs to be worrying about the consequences of their actions, and if it isn't big business or the public at large, then it's probably going to have to be a governmental organization.
I hear that a lot from conservatives, but when you look at the areas of the country that they run, the people there aren't anymore responsible than folks in liberal areas, they just have much easier access to ways of ending themselves and less assistance making reasonable choices.
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It's pretty well established that the ACPI implementation that MS was using with Win XP was non-standard. The one that folks had access to wouldn't compile the DSDTs that were coming with a lot of the computers because they were buggy and non-standard. MS had the advantage of controlling the only validation program that mattered and could hard code into their OS the bits necessary to work with the most common bugs.
Unfortunately for Linux, *BSD and everybody else, those coders didn't have access to that information and had to go to a huge amount of work to rewrite the DSDT and load that so that it would work as the standard specify.
Also, nice ad hominem you've got there, I am not a Linux fanboy,
No, that only worked in cases where the Windows DSDT was standards compliant, much of the time even that didn't. I've done that in the past and it doesn't guarantee you any improvement as MS wasn't validating the DSDT against the official Intel implementation that everybody else had access to.
Nice, that some jackass with mod points felt the need to mod me down without bothering to understand the issue though.
And this sort of thing really ought to be used to slap MS upside the head for behaving irresponsibly. Years back when ACPI was first coming out and a significant number of motherboard models were shipped with a broken DSDT that would only function with Windows. The company creating the firmware didn't care and MS had the money to work around the problem leaving Windows the only platform that would work correctly.
MS could have solved the problem by refusing to implement work arounds, but opted to go out of its way to work around broken implementations rather than force the devs to program the DSDT correctly.
25 to 50 percent less gas in a scooter isn't really that impressive. Most decent scooters are at the point of diminishing returns, the increased cost of maintenance is almost certainly going to be more than the savings on fuel. It's relatively trivial to get a scooter to get 60-70mpg, an extra 25% to 50% isn't that significant, unless that extra mileage comes maintenance free.
The main problem with it is lumping disparate cultures together. The Chinese definitely steal ideas and IP to the extent that I can't imagine why corporations would have them producing their products as there are no trade secrets over there, especially for foreign companies.
As for your statement about what people could say about Americans, the difference there is that even now there isn't a track record that supports that notion. Around here we're just a few months away from the beginning of world's largest deep bore tunnel, Boeing recently delivered it's first 7e7 and in the near future we're looking to put the first train tracks on a floating bridge.
We're innovative in WA state, but we're hardly the only part of the country that's still capable of innovation.
That was my thought. Most likely it's a similar phenomenon where a plate will suddenly drop leaving whatever it is substantially lower than before the quake. I'm not sure what the proper term for that is. A tsunami is caused by a temporary drop in the sea floor, if the ocean floor didn't rise again after dropping you wouldn't get the characteristic wave.
Harry Potter is a masterpiece? When did that happen?
This isn't any different from parking tickets, you have the right to challenge it in court, but it's frequently more efficient to just waive that right and pay the ticket.
That's not efficient enough, just put booths everywhere and arrest anybody that can't pass the credit check. I mean that is the whole point, right? Relegate the poor to work farms so that the rich don't have to do a damned thing.
The thing is that they don't profile without personal judgment because it's impossible. Profiling involves a great deal of personal judgment and training.
Perhaps, but how was his accuracy? It doesn't matter if I know there to be an alien in the Senate if I accuse 90 Senators that aren't aliens I'd be just a delusional crackpot. Same goes for McCarthy, when there's little concern for accuracy you might as well just be randomly arresting people.
I suppose in cases where the employer doesn't allow for that sort of thorough documentation that's probably a sign to move elsewhere. Documentation is a part of many jobs and if the employer doesn't allow for that time, they're probably not going to do well in the future.
Depending upon the specifics it might be as simple as adding a line to a notebook, but ultimately, it's not really documented if it isn't organized and that doesn't just happen organically for most people. Also, the documentation isn't just for you, it's for those who come in afterwards to get them up to speed, so that you don't have to spend that much more time prepping them or worrying about it catching up with you.
One thing I learned from past experience is that you need to be aware of times when you're trying to avoid the past. You're not going to do it as it already happened and in all likelihood you're tilting things in favor of repeating a similar circumstance.
Every couple weeks? I almost always have mod points. Right now is one of the rare times when I don't have any at my disposal.
They may not want to learn to use it, but those same people don't want to learn anything, no matter how productive or easy it might make their lives. Giving up usability because there's a lot of lazy morons out there is precisely why usability is in the toilet. And now that you mention it, I do wonder if it's any sort of coincidence that about the time that computing reached the mainstream that the usability started going down the toilet. DOS had serious issues, but it was significantly less likely to prevent me from doing something that I needed to do because MS didn't feel like giving me a way of doing it. There's still times when I have to crack a 3rd party utility because MS seemingly didn't feel like including basic functionality.
As for your comment about advanced programmers not end users, vi is there for anybody that edits text, you only need to know about :, w, q, !, i, a, x, hjkl and that's about it to get started with it. And most of those are the first letter of an intuitively named command.
I disagree, the problem is that the value of a journalist doesn't drop just because a huge number of bloggers flood the market, the price that people are willing to pay does however plummet. It's important to keep that in mind because as bloggers crowd out the journalists there gets to be more and more gaps in coverage which journalists can't afford to cover because they aren't going to get paid if nothing happens. So, you get coverage like city hall getting cut because nothing happens ther most days. In the past a newspaper would pay a journalist to be there every day in case something happens, but if people aren't willing to pay the premium for a professional to hang out there, you miss out on that coverage.
By your argument that value disappears just because people aren't willing to pay, but it's more accurate to factor in the loss of coverage as being a part of the value of bloggers.
By your definition it would be hard to find a job that's not a creative job. Pretty much the only ones that come to mind are ones that are going to be replaced by robots in the near future because the workers are basically mindless automatons.
Japan is a much smaller country in terms of land mass, population and language groups. India has a similar problem to China in that they're the two largest countries by population and have dozens of languages with which to contend. China does have somewhat of an advantage in having one written language to cover the country, although that tends to be rendered moot by the fact that the people being attracted to the factories aren't likely to be literate in the first place.
Precisely, I'm probably going to be writing a book in the near future. The reality is that I'm not likely to be able to make huge amounts of money per copy, but if I slap a price of $1, $2 or $3 on it the likelihood of people buying it goes up as it's a small price to them and for many people worth the gamble even if it turns out to be a turkey half way through the book.
There's still money in books. Photography, as a profession is dieing. If you're working on commission at things like weddings, photojournalism, portraits and things like that there's still money to be made, but it's getting tough when it comes to photography for creative reasons rather than documentary ones it's getting tough.
To an extent that's true, but chances are good that nearly all the movies you've loved are stories that have been told before. Movies are a tough proposition because ultimately they end up being the same thing only different. Often times the difference between a great movie and a poor or marginal one is how well the cast and crew twist the canon to create something new and special.
A good movie is a good movie. There's still plenty of quality films coming out, it's just that most of the crappy older films were never preserved and if they were preserved were unlikely to be transfered to a format which most people have available to them. VHS, and now DVD or Bluray.
New movies aren't really that hard to come up with, the real trouble is that it's a lot more expensive to make a movie than it was under the studio system. When the studio has everything from writers and crew to actors under contract it's a lot easier to turn a profit while still turning out something that resembles art. On top of that, most movies during the golden age were take it or leave it propositions, if you missed the movie the week it was out, you probably wouldn't get to see it again.
These days, not only can you see it, but the chances are good that if you liked it you own a copy, or at least have access to it via a rental shop.
While they're at it, I wish they'd cap the number of mod points they hand out at a time, I regularly end up with 15 mod points at a time, which means that if I were to try and use them all I'd either be giving them away to every Tom, Dick and Harry that posts or I'd be spending all my time here modding posts.
Considering that mod points are in part a reward for being respected by the community at large, that is somewhat counterproductive when you can't mod and post in the same article.
No kidding. My dad has been remodeling his house and in the process discovered the rather astonishing electrical circuits involved. One of which circles the entire house. And seemingly random splicings that could have burned the house down years ago.
Not to mention things like the chimney lacking reinforcing in case of earthquakes.
Because most people are too afraid to be caught calling vi usable?
It doesn't work when the citizens are overtly suicidal. Somebody ultimately needs to be worrying about the consequences of their actions, and if it isn't big business or the public at large, then it's probably going to have to be a governmental organization.
I hear that a lot from conservatives, but when you look at the areas of the country that they run, the people there aren't anymore responsible than folks in liberal areas, they just have much easier access to ways of ending themselves and less assistance making reasonable choices.