I thought a long standing goal of PC manufacturers was to do away with moving parts. I dont think fans will go away anytime soon as long as they are cheap to replace. From the comments hear I'd assume this heatsink spins on a platter essentially taking the place of the fan. What do you do when it fails? Can you replace it for less than $10?
The internet will not display anything you don't ASK for.
I have never asked for any of the following
- ads
- popups
- V14GR4 spam
- redirects to dubious search results or web pages
Unfortunately, if i dont take certain precautions the internet(in its current form) would give me all that and much more. A good portion of the internet has become an "in your face advertisement" I have been using adblock for as long as i can remember, because i simply do not care for ads. I especially dont care for ads that are produced based on my $geoloc and search histories.
aside from messages, that content is old 10 seconds after it is posted. Anyone with a reasonable amount of active friends isnt likely to notice a difference if you stagger the migration
If what this guy says is true and facebook devs have to rewrite everything the solution(as i see it) is quite simple.
Facebook user data is relatively similar across profiles. Their export application lends credit to this. Correct me if im wrong, but wouldnt it be simple to write a routine to port data from one product to the other? Test this thoroughly to make sure its bulletproof. Then run it until the job is done. To make this simple purge all the bullshit like wall posts, messages, notes and other user content. The only problem I see with this would be scale, and that can be mitigated by doing this a few thousand or million items at a time.
Correct me if im wrong, but doesnt the velocity of the blade influence the debris cloud. You'd probably still have a few airborne particles, but it seems that using some industrial scissors would produce less dust-like debris; instead you might get chunks of on leftover mobo. It might be a poor analogy, but consider slicing through a wood plank with a table saw. Then cut that same piece of wood using a well placed swing from a heavy axe. The table saw would produce a pile of saw dust while the heady blade would cut straight or produce wood chips.
PSTN is broken as a mechanism for connecting people reliably to emergency services. It is not broken because it is technologically inadequate, it is broken because people are not choosing to retain access to the PSTN network.
The alternative services which people are choosing are also, currently, broken for connecting people reliably to emergency services.
The recommendation is to recognize that the first fact is a trend that is largely desirable except for the second fact, and to address the problem posed by the second fact.
I blame the telcos for pushing new services without first taking things like E911 into account.
Im no expert, but every time the topic came up in a networking lecture the "simplicity" of PSTN compared to its more modern counterparts was the explanation why the tech is still widely used
iTunes is a polished turd. It's bloated. It's a multipurpose utility that often fails to do its core task of adding/removing media from the device. I dont need a media categorizing tool. I dont need playback integration. I dont need access to a web store. I dont need safari or quicktime. All I want is a tool to add/remove music from my device. Most other mp3 players handle this with a simple usb driver that's compatible with MTP
Case in point
Shortly after its release, iPod became synonymous with mp3 player. Sure, there were other mp3 players out there. However, Joe and Jane Public knew them as iPods or even worse "iPod knockoff." If im not mistake, Blackberry introduced the consumer market to the smartphone with the Curve. However, the market exploded with the release of the iPhone. In today's tablet market the iPad is king. I hate Apple products, because of their dependency on iTunes(ya, there are shitty alternatives) but im simply stating the facts.
Why are these products a staple within their respect markets? Its because they are advertised as such. People might like the fact that they are shiny. The fact that the UI remains consistent across product lines is nice too. The fact remains, if iProduct wasnt marketed so well it would be just another plain box on the retail shelf.
I didnt read the.tk TOS, but the wiki alludes to content policing
There are also content restrictions for free domains, banning sites containing sexual content, drug use, hate speech, firearms, and copyright infringement.
Wikileaks may find itself violating all of those within a short time. Who knows.
While I do agree with you, sadly this IS the state of things for many people in the US. Ad campaigns, while not being outright smear campaigns, go a long way to subtlly discredit the other person's character. If there is an ad centered around a political issue both parties give their input. However, if you listen closely enough its sometimes the same answer phrased differently.
Case and point: Fill in the blank ads
"$candidate_foo claims to do things "for the people" but did you know that he voted for $bill that led to $hardship in this great state? He has also done x, y and z that didnt help either. Im different. Vote for me! This campaign ad was paid for with the blood of your first born
Unless you plan to host from home i'm sure that many of the hosting companies out there have similar or more intrusive contracts. Bare in mind, if you do host from home your consumer-grade provider might have a similar policy or they may start bitching if you have too many folks accessing your stuff and impose quotas
AFAIK, using streaming services like Youtube, pandora and last.fm would require a constant connection to avoid stuttering and eventual disconnect. How can you use these services with the wifi radio in sleep mode?
doesnt it make sense for the validation method to ping the domain? so if site $foo pings bar@gmail.com it'll show google's server not mailinator. It'll show as a valid domain. Or am i missing something?
F-150 and 4two running on gasoline is akin to a PC running on electricity. A more apt comparison might have been F-150 and 4two both using an IC engine, and i dont think thats the case with 4two.
Both operating systems are written in C, no? If thats the case, they should be able to compete. I would assume MS devs have an advantage though, because they can evaluate opensourced code to see where it's efficient. They wouldnt have to rip code, but it gives an idea of what can be done better
I'd also wager that efficiency isnt solely in the hands of the ms/nix devs. If someone writes a shitty firmware for a hdd or disc drive that doesnt take power consumption into account its hardly the OS dev's fault
I think it's quite clear that we are in too deep to just pack up and go. Im sure if we pull out the current standing regime will raise hell on the civilians "just because." In addition, it might give those leaders the balls to try something on our home soil again.
20 Billion sounds like a bunch of money, but if it makes the lives of those fighting men and women any easier i say let em have it. I dont agree with this war, but I sure as hell respect the men and women who are doing their best to serve this country.
Most, if not all, of the resident evil series plays out a single chain of events, so i dont think theres much replay value in it. That said, would I pick it up to blast some zombies out of boredom?......maybe so. I didnt RTFA, but if this game is toast after the credits roll thats a bunch of bullshit for something i've purchased and "own."
Will other publishers follow in Capcom's footsteps to take a stand against the lucrative market of used video games?
Game sales would take a dive if a bunch of publishers jumped onboard here; especially if games were to remain at current prices. Im not going to spend $60 for a game I play through once. Its hard enough to justify $12-15 per ticket when I go to the theatre. Hell, some games are more cinematics than play time. Im not gonna spend $60 for something to watch.
Anyone who believes this, much less preaches it, is an absolute moron. There are vulnerabilities in any working system. There always have been and there always will be. Consumer distributions of Linux might not have the same holes that Windows has, but that doesnt mean there are none. It may be harder to achieve process escalation, but that doesnt mean its impossible. After all, a dumb user is still the weakest link in a security system.
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Lets assume you'll need the repairdroid in both instances....
- Typical case fan @ $3.49-42.99 from more than 20 manufacturers
- This product @ $_undisclosed from maybe one manufacturer
After parts and labor you're still going to pay more "just because"
I thought a long standing goal of PC manufacturers was to do away with moving parts. I dont think fans will go away anytime soon as long as they are cheap to replace. From the comments hear I'd assume this heatsink spins on a platter essentially taking the place of the fan. What do you do when it fails? Can you replace it for less than $10?
I have never asked for any of the following
- ads
- popups
- V14GR4 spam
- redirects to dubious search results or web pages
Unfortunately, if i dont take certain precautions the internet(in its current form) would give me all that and much more. A good portion of the internet has become an "in your face advertisement" I have been using adblock for as long as i can remember, because i simply do not care for ads. I especially dont care for ads that are produced based on my $geoloc and search histories.
aside from messages, that content is old 10 seconds after it is posted. Anyone with a reasonable amount of active friends isnt likely to notice a difference if you stagger the migration
If what this guy says is true and facebook devs have to rewrite everything the solution(as i see it) is quite simple.
Facebook user data is relatively similar across profiles. Their export application lends credit to this. Correct me if im wrong, but wouldnt it be simple to write a routine to port data from one product to the other? Test this thoroughly to make sure its bulletproof. Then run it until the job is done. To make this simple purge all the bullshit like wall posts, messages, notes and other user content. The only problem I see with this would be scale, and that can be mitigated by doing this a few thousand or million items at a time.
Correct me if im wrong, but doesnt the velocity of the blade influence the debris cloud. You'd probably still have a few airborne particles, but it seems that using some industrial scissors would produce less dust-like debris; instead you might get chunks of on leftover mobo. It might be a poor analogy, but consider slicing through a wood plank with a table saw. Then cut that same piece of wood using a well placed swing from a heavy axe. The table saw would produce a pile of saw dust while the heady blade would cut straight or produce wood chips.
PSTN is broken as a mechanism for connecting people reliably to emergency services. It is not broken because it is technologically inadequate, it is broken because people are not choosing to retain access to the PSTN network.
The alternative services which people are choosing are also, currently, broken for connecting people reliably to emergency services.
The recommendation is to recognize that the first fact is a trend that is largely desirable except for the second fact, and to address the problem posed by the second fact.
I blame the telcos for pushing new services without first taking things like E911 into account.
ya. I watched a replay earlier today. It was a crazy episode with a bunch of weird references
first futurama and now slashdot. I think my daily dose of minority report has been satisfied
Im no expert, but every time the topic came up in a networking lecture the "simplicity" of PSTN compared to its more modern counterparts was the explanation why the tech is still widely used
you lie!
iTunes is a polished turd. It's bloated. It's a multipurpose utility that often fails to do its core task of adding/removing media from the device. I dont need a media categorizing tool. I dont need playback integration. I dont need access to a web store. I dont need safari or quicktime. All I want is a tool to add/remove music from my device. Most other mp3 players handle this with a simple usb driver that's compatible with MTP
Case in point
Shortly after its release, iPod became synonymous with mp3 player. Sure, there were other mp3 players out there. However, Joe and Jane Public knew them as iPods or even worse "iPod knockoff." If im not mistake, Blackberry introduced the consumer market to the smartphone with the Curve. However, the market exploded with the release of the iPhone. In today's tablet market the iPad is king. I hate Apple products, because of their dependency on iTunes(ya, there are shitty alternatives) but im simply stating the facts.
Why are these products a staple within their respect markets? Its because they are advertised as such. People might like the fact that they are shiny. The fact that the UI remains consistent across product lines is nice too. The fact remains, if iProduct wasnt marketed so well it would be just another plain box on the retail shelf.
There are also content restrictions for free domains, banning sites containing sexual content, drug use, hate speech, firearms, and copyright infringement.
Wikileaks may find itself violating all of those within a short time. Who knows.
While I do agree with you, sadly this IS the state of things for many people in the US. Ad campaigns, while not being outright smear campaigns, go a long way to subtlly discredit the other person's character. If there is an ad centered around a political issue both parties give their input. However, if you listen closely enough its sometimes the same answer phrased differently.
Case and point: Fill in the blank ads
"$candidate_foo claims to do things "for the people" but did you know that he voted for $bill that led to $hardship in this great state? He has also done x, y and z that didnt help either. Im different. Vote for me! This campaign ad was paid for with the blood of your first born
Unless you plan to host from home i'm sure that many of the hosting companies out there have similar or more intrusive contracts. Bare in mind, if you do host from home your consumer-grade provider might have a similar policy or they may start bitching if you have too many folks accessing your stuff and impose quotas
AFAIK, using streaming services like Youtube, pandora and last.fm would require a constant connection to avoid stuttering and eventual disconnect. How can you use these services with the wifi radio in sleep mode?
doesnt it make sense for the validation method to ping the domain? so if site $foo pings bar@gmail.com it'll show google's server not mailinator. It'll show as a valid domain. Or am i missing something?
you wanna shoot penguins? ... You sir, are an evil bastard.
I clicked here from a newsfeed thinking "wtf?" but after reading the summary it sounds just like something China would do to bring in business.
Your analogy makes no sense at all.
F-150 and 4two running on gasoline is akin to a PC running on electricity. A more apt comparison might have been F-150 and 4two both using an IC engine, and i dont think thats the case with 4two.
Both operating systems are written in C, no? If thats the case, they should be able to compete. I would assume MS devs have an advantage though, because they can evaluate opensourced code to see where it's efficient. They wouldnt have to rip code, but it gives an idea of what can be done better
I'd also wager that efficiency isnt solely in the hands of the ms/nix devs. If someone writes a shitty firmware for a hdd or disc drive that doesnt take power consumption into account its hardly the OS dev's fault
im fairly sure you dont need a warrant to stake out your nearest dunkin donuts
Here is my pullout plan:
1. Pack everyone and everything up
2. Leave.
I think it's quite clear that we are in too deep to just pack up and go. Im sure if we pull out the current standing regime will raise hell on the civilians "just because." In addition, it might give those leaders the balls to try something on our home soil again.
20 Billion sounds like a bunch of money, but if it makes the lives of those fighting men and women any easier i say let em have it. I dont agree with this war, but I sure as hell respect the men and women who are doing their best to serve this country.
Will other publishers follow in Capcom's footsteps to take a stand against the lucrative market of used video games?
Game sales would take a dive if a bunch of publishers jumped onboard here; especially if games were to remain at current prices. Im not going to spend $60 for a game I play through once. Its hard enough to justify $12-15 per ticket when I go to the theatre. Hell, some games are more cinematics than play time. Im not gonna spend $60 for something to watch.
Anyone who believes this, much less preaches it, is an absolute moron. There are vulnerabilities in any working system. There always have been and there always will be. Consumer distributions of Linux might not have the same holes that Windows has, but that doesnt mean there are none. It may be harder to achieve process escalation, but that doesnt mean its impossible. After all, a dumb user is still the weakest link in a security system.