Comment Re:I know (Score 1) 558
Any recommendations for geeky prostitutes?
Any recommendations for geeky prostitutes?
I’m using Cyanogen already (though I’m only now updating to the latest version), and AFAIK I don’t have any services other than standard.
Can you recommend a good task manager (as per your first answer)? I’ve tried a couple, but didn’t see much effect.
Actually, can you confirm that you’re using navigation and music simultaneously without issues? I can run Maps just fine, it’s the turn-by-turn navigation that (often) turns music off. (Presumably since it’s 3D.)
I hesitated to try the 10MB hack, since it’s supposed to make trouble for 3D apps; the only one I use is Maps’ navigation, though, if you can confirm it works I’ll try it.
Oh, and are you using the 2.22.23.02 radio image?
You’re right, I am on 4.2.14. And it did feel a slower than usual, I just assumed I just bloated it with apps. (Though I don’t actually use a lot.)
For some reason my CM Updater hasn’t been updated since 4.0 (I think its name was slightly changed; when I looked explicitly for it the app store found it and updated it). That version didn’t offer updates after 4.2.14.
I’m updating now. Are you also using the 2.22.23.02 radio image?
The Android system WILL close less recently used apps to free up memory as needed.
I’m sure it does, but apparently its “when needed” doesn’t quite agree with what I want.
My G1 consistently falls into prolonged periods of very bad responsiveness after using applications with large footprints. I don’t know what’s going on there, but some things are eating resources much more than a simple “kill it and reclaim resources” should take. It’s obvious that programs I no longer use will often keep using resources to the detriment of those I do use.
There’s a reverse side of that coin, and it’s also annoying: it will also kill things you don’t want it to. For instance, it will almost always kill my music player while using Maps navigation (though it does so inconsistently), simply because it’s in the background and Maps is lagging. But, while I want the nav program in the foreground, I don’t really care about having it responsive _all_ the time.
I’d much rather be able to tell it what to close (and, by omission, tell it not to stop my music playing).
Well, yeah, but you still need to find the mapping table. Just as you use the mapping table to find “normal” data blocks (because they keep moving), you need to use something else to find the mapping table (because, as you say, it can be written anywhere).
That means either a fixed location for the mapping table, or a fixed location for a pointer to the mapping table. Hence the “special block”.
(You might also just search for it, but that’s not really going to work for anything larger than a few MB.)
The problem with your explanation is that, to be persistent between reboots, the table must be stored in flash memory (as you mentioned).
But the method you describe causes one write to the relocation table for every write of a “data” block. One supposes that the table is significantly smaller than the data area. So the blocks of (hidden) memory used for the table are actually written even more often than the data blocks. Thus, one would expect them to fail even faster.
(Even worse: suppose I want to implement wear-leveling for the relocation table, and use a single block to remember where the relocation table was last written. This would be a two-level wear leveling. This means that that single block is written to for every write on the device. Thus, the wear is even more concentrated on the single block, while it is leveled on the rest of the device.)
I would assume that inventors of wear-leveling are not complete idiots, and that’s there’s a trick to avoid that effect. That’s the part of WL that isn’t usually explained.
Hmm, points to me for not being completely lazy: Wikipedia indicates that flash devices often (usually? always?) have a special block that supports many more write cycles than usually (by a factor of 100 or more), which is used for wear leveling. So, apparently what I suggested in the parentheses above is actually true: they focus writes on a special block in order to level writes over the rest, and make the special block more resistant. (Which is obviously cheaper than making all blocks more resistant.)
Yes. Conveniently enough, though, most current & future transactions automatically cause a debt to be created: taxes.
IANAL, but I’m pretty sure that even if you trade (say) cars for houses, you’re still supposed to pay taxes on the exchange (there are some exceptions, too, I’m sure); and the government usually accepts only cash for those.
(Now that I think of it, if you refuse to pay your taxes in legal tender, the state will confiscate some of your property. But it tends to take a lot more than “what was owed”, so you’re still at a great disadvantage. You could say that’s not really forcing you to use money, in the sense that killing is not really forbidden, it just costs a lot...)
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Also note that in “many situations” you’re not in the US, you insensitive clod!
I did use the words “in many situations”, didn’t I?
But anyway, the nasty side of legal tender is that usually it’s the only thing accepted for paying taxes. That is, even if you somehow manage to do all your private transactions without money, most such transactions are subject to taxes, and you need to obtain legal tender to pay those.
(It used to be worse: I’m told the Mongols imposed “legal tender” throughout their empire via the death penalty...)
Actually, no. In many situations you are required by law to accept whatever is legal tender in the country you’re in.
efficiency is measured by the number of peopled "freed" by the "freedom fighters" divided by the square of the number of people they kill.
How come? Really, I'm curious.
It seems to fail dimensional analysis: your formula would give people^-1. Efficiency usually is measured either in units gain/cost (which would imply the gain of freedom fighters is adimensional), or in percentages of the “ideal”, which is adimensional.
I'm kind of curious about something, though too lazy to test it myself by opening out my machines.
Did you (anytime recently) try the exact same thing (3â"4 dozen tabs open) on the same machine with, say, Netscape Navigator or Firefox 1.0?
Are there significant differences?
You mean it has will be already working.
You didn't get even as far as the future semi-conditionally modified subinverted plagal past subjunctive intentional, did you?
Well, yeah, but they didn't build the LHC accidentally.
They still need an accelerator bigger than the ones already running for the same reason they did before it broke. Just as someone who, presumably, wasn't driving (or owning) a car by accident when they got a flat tire. And the cheapest way to achieve those goals (better understanding of particle physics) is to fix the LHC.
And anyway, you don't need to drive, you can just walk, or take a bus, or ride a bicycle. Which is the analogous physical alternative to not using the LHC.
"Conversion, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will." -- Virginia Woolf, "Mrs. Dalloway"