Full disclosure: I'm Norwegian! As somebody who has spent a fair time abroad, I'm growing to like Norway more and more. We're just, well, sensible. The ISP's don't censor, don't log and don't do crappy shit. They all do subscribe to a voluntary kidporn DNS-filter though. I actually downloaded the list of wikileaks once, switched to opendns (whom we all should avoid) and checked it out. I really, really regretted it. There really was childporn there. Anybody getting of on that shit needs to have their dick cut off. Either way, the ISP's are upfront if they're selling internet with usage limits (mainly due to strong Norwegian customer protection, companies aren't allowed to fuck you over), and everything just generally works. Not that that stops most norwegian from bitching about everything though. Bitching is kinda the national past-time. Seriously, I'm a big believer in the "freedom to not be fucked over". I definitivly enjoy not being screwed over, and I really do think more people should subscribe to it :)

Any metric is, at best, indicative. You can spend all day designing a better metric and by the end, you're still not going to get anything better than, well, indicative.

As with all data-analysis, make sure that whoever's using these numbers know how bad they are. If we're dealing with reports and decisions, make sure that there's a short explanatory comment by somebody in the know about to which degree you feel that these numbers are representative (example : overall performance is improved, but averages are scewed by a large of number complicated bugs on New Product).

Oh, and if the people making decisions are MBA's unable to read a single short sentence, you're screwed either way. Then you just have to roll with it :)

Add IE7 and IE8 on Windows XP to that list.

I actually thought it was slashdot following standards and IE being rubbish, since everything was fine with Opera at home. So, I guess this means that the machine they test new changes on before rolling out is running Opera? That's a rather limited test-suite, not that I don't approve though. GO OPERA!

Please don't mod parent up.

Conan is an enjoyable game. I'm not playing it currently, as the wast majority of people here, as it isn't really my type of game.. but still, it's an enjoyable game. If you're wondering about playing it, try the 7-day trial. It's free.

That said, I'm sick and tired of whiners making uninformed, poorly written posts. The Conan forums were full of them a month after launch. Why?! It's not going to help, it's not going to solve anything and it's ruining the forums for the people who actually play and enjoy the game.

Furthermore, why on earth are native speakers the ones with the most spelling mistakes? When they're ranting, can't they include some details on whats wrong, instead of just " tihs game suxx".. so atleast the people reading would get some information and some basis for discussion? Seriously, why are so many people acting like utter retards?

Sadly, parent isn't funny. It's insightfull.

It's the same phenomon that whenever a company relocates, they tend to relocate to really near wherever the top managment lives. The human brain is really good at making up good, objective reasons for justifying whatever it wants to.

Vista RTM had some copy performance issues but SP1 fixed those, and during Win7 there was a significant focus on improving copy / move / delete performance.

It's a crazy, crazy world when the limiting factor on IO-transfers is the overall operating system. It's just so utterly fundamentally wrong that I'm having trouble finding words.

I mean, seriously, these are very well-defined and simple operations. You can mess with the scheduler a bit, to ensure the computer doesn't freeze when copying, but that doesn't incur that big a overhead.. what else is there to do? IO is a lot slower than the rest of the stuff inside the machine, and thus IO should run at something close to its maximum speed. Always.

Of course it works. In Norway there has been serious talks (like, not only nerds in basements) about not routing traffic through Sweden anymore. I don't know if anything came out of it, but I'm willing to bet it's affecting long-term plans on where to build pipelines.

The bill doesn't just cover traffic to/from swedish households, it covers all traffic entering and leaving the country.

-1 Nutcase.

Seriously, did you even read the summary? Did the mods? Critical infrastructure will be audited. Small business owners don't run critical infrastructure. Home users aren't running critical infrastructure off their DSL-lines. You could argue using the slippery slope argument, but saying that the government shouldn't inspect critical infrastructure (power grid, telephone system, water supply) because in the future they might restrict home users illegal file-sharing is so disconnected from reality it's utterly scary.

Furthermore, regarding their competence. They're not all idiots. Alot of governmental work is setup in ways that doesn't exactly promote talent, but they're still not raging retards. There are plenty of people that are fully aware that the wast majority of infrastructure doesn't run Windows. Hell, a lot of these systems were created long before DOS existed.

However, you are correct in that there will probably be a couple of silly results.. like a non-networked Win98 pc being audited. This could be a good thing though, because the 'if it works, don't touch it' mentality that often happens in real life quote often isn't a good long-term strategy.

As an aside, as a foreigner (just to ensure I don't get modded up), I'm absolutely flabbergasted that the wast majority of "omfg the government is scary"-americans seem to be republicans. The republicans are the ones who illegally wiretapped you. They're the ones who threw away habeas corpus. They're the ones who allowed torture and imprisoned foreigners for years without any sort of trial or oversight. I just honestly cannot believe they still got 45.66% of the vote. That is just utterly insane. New leader sure, but same party. Are you all daft?