ToadMan

scheurminator, your grammar and diction leave something to be desired.

It's now April 2nd, meaning that Anton is the fool... Well at least those are the rules I play by... fool.

I have BMS I also own the first print of the book, but no booklet.

I really enjoyed Matt's version. It's a little less raw than the NIN version, and seems to flow a little more than the Cash version.

Dude!! I'm taking a 400 level course in Operating System design. I am currently in the process of implementing a memory manager unit for intel IA-32 architecture. I know a lot about this stuff. I'll admit I have made a number of assumptions, but they are based off my experience and knowledge of operating system internals. I am very confident with them.

I would have recorded it... but I don't really have any quality equipment. Did anybody else have huge problems with picture quality. My buddy kept trying to snap shots on his cellphone, but the backlighting was screwing up his exposure. Oh to have permission to use my quality SLR for that kind of thing. I really enjoyed the joking around he did... And having them light the disco ball for the last song. "Pete... remember how pays you" Later

I didn't stick... I did see him when I drove back past the bus, but there wasn't a crowd, so I though stopping the car and running over would look kinda creepy... Opportunity lost I suppose.

buwhaaa Well, he's changed a bit...

WOHOOOO Saskatoon. I'm not a bootlegger though, so no rips from me... I got to chat with the panago guy delivering Matt Pizza though... None of you where camping out the bus, so I didn't want to look creepy... well, in my case, more creepy. Peace

LOL That's the most hilarious question ever. It goes to prove a point that we read what we want to read. I already have a copy ;).

You know, it was this kind question that got me to join this forum... the actual question was: What is your MG collection. I had to post since I out numbered all people who had already posted, by at least 2x. Then some other heavy weights showed me up...

Yeah, I'll admit that I got a little technical. When you spend all day doing the design for an OS memory manager, you sometimes get a little like that.

Firstly, everything on your system is virtual memory. That OS 101 for you. It's actually a rather complex process that I would love to explain to you, but maybe later. Second all three of your symptoms describe the same condition I was talking about earlier. Yes, FF does use more memory. That is a fact. We cannot however judge it simply on that basis. IE is using just as much memory, if not more. The difference is that IE causes the system to load DLLs into memory. DLLs don't count as part of a processes footprint, so they don't show up. Windows will likely not unload these DLLs, so they stay resident slowing your system down overall. Points about loading and unloading are a result of FF having static linked libraries and IE causing DLLs to be loaded. FF simply has most code in it. Now there is one possible low level advantage to IE, DLLs are usually shared. That means when your processor does a context switch into another process, it may not have to fault the DLLs to disk. That means that there is more rapid switches. This isn't explicitly true though, since pages are only faulted when they are needed, so I would estimate the number of page faults to be about equal. The bottom line of this argument is that you should use whatever browser you like best. There is no point arguing about which is better. Most of them have similar features, so it's all about whatever you're into.

On want basis are you guy's determining Firefox to be a memory hog. There are many ways a program can use memory. In Firefox it is likely that code is compiled into the program, where IE uses dynamically linked libraries. The key here is that a how much memory a process takes in the windows task manager, may not reflect how much memory it does use. There is also the concept of static loading and dynamic loading. IE may use dynamic loading to only have modules in memory that it immediately needs. This provides a smaller memory footprint, but if the program needs to deal with something that it doesn't currently have loaded, it will have to load that module. Firefox's footprint is likely the result of both of these. Since Firefox is cross-platform, it probably isn't able to use as many of the windows API calls as IE can. This means that it has to implement these calls statically within the program.

I'm posting to re-highlight this thread. Read the first post!

Well, That about does it. *end*

nor I....

I hate snape and all things remotely related to harry potter. Anton you insult my dignity

;) If you don't have anything relevant to say I'll close the thread.

The other biggest key (that has not been explicitly mentioned, but implied in the last couple of posts. Do note I haven't read the whole thread) is to make sure to work paired muscles equally. That's all kids

Indeed...

I've been trolling this for the past couple of days. This is an excellent discussion. I must say I tend to agree with both of you to an extent. Genes determine a potential in some basic area. i.e. genes will determine what sports coaches refer to as base skills, that is strength, speed, coordination, etc. But they only determine potential. Environment determines how much we meet this potential in a base skill. Training determines how we use our base skills to form complex behaviors. To use the Gretzky example: He had high potential in motor coordination, strength, speed, and balance. He was in an environment with facilitated the development of these base skills. He was trained to play hockey, utilizing his base skills to allow him to out perform other players. We have to note that in forming this example we also assume another fact, a higher potential begets a higher rate of development. Also we must note that a higher initial state allows faster development. That is, if Gretzky had poor balance, it is unlikely he would have ever been a good skater, also, he would have not been a "natural" skater. His ability to skate at a young age was a product of his development of his base skills, since he already had higher development, he was able to self train which is why he would have been a better skater. I think self train is a good way of looking at it. We're not talking about genetic knowledge, I'm saying that since the base skills where already sufficient, skating would be an extension of that. To use an analogy I can drive my car, I have that skill, to drive a different car with a slightly different configuration is easy, and even comes naturally to me. I think the keys of my little rant is the differentiation between potential, development, and behaviour. Anyway, I'll let you guys tare my post apart now.

The question is, can you still order it. I got a copy from HMV for about the same price, back in the day.

lol Just because only a few countries are good at a sport doesn't make it any less valid.

enjoying IE??? is that like "enjoying gouging your own eyes out with a toothpick" no jest, I hate IE. Not because it's a bad browser but because it breaks all the rules, and since so many people use it then we all just live in microsoft world because of it...