While I still think the correct term is "psychopath" (please check the checklist ) I completely agree with you that psychopaths are found among women as well!
And I would really love to help you - I love children in general, and my sister has a niece whom is like my own child, so even though I can not entirely comprehend how a father can feel, I can at least somewhat come close to sharing your emotions. I live in Finland, so it's unlikely I'll be of any help to you. I can only tell you not to give up, use your smarts as much as possible, stay focused. And good luck!
Doesn't care about anyone (millions of people inconvenienced by his spam), doesn't have a conscience and leaves a trail of misery and destruction behind.
Psychopaths are very charming but still, girls, try not to marry one.
What's your brother's qualification to determine what "dangerous" levels of RF from a phone are?
This reminds me of the Big Tobacco lobbyst from "Thank you for smoking" - almost verbatim what he said to support his pro-smoking argument. It turns out, smoking really is bad for your health, and it also turns out that it's wise to err on the safe side. In general.
That thing, it moves amazingly swiftly and aptly. It's basically indistinguishible in its abilities from an average quadruped, except for the fact that the front legs bend the wrong direction. In any case, this BigDog is something special. It's frighteningly good.
1. Static wear levelling/leveling rotate the blocks being written to so both "empty" and "full" blocks are being used, so the amount of free space on the filesystem doesn't matter.
True. Unfortunately, some SSDs don't even implement dynamic wear leveling, and static wear leveling is considered more complex to implement - and so most SSD manufacturers don't implement it!
2. The 100.000 writes often quoted are a guaranteed statistical _minimum_, not a average or a maximum. According to some sources the typical cell will endure 200K-1M writes.
I thought I was careful enough to point out the difference between MLC and SLC Flash RAM. And MLC has an upper limit of 10.000 writes (the more honest vendors put it at 5000). And MLC is far more used in SSDs, than SLC. Sadly.
3. A typical SSD has spare blocks (just as HDD have spare blocks). So when a block is toast it is just marked as "bad" and a spare block is used instead.
Which in no wise different from having, say, a 1% (actually, spare blocks are much less than that) more of free space and using dynamic wear leveling. Those spare blocks change very little in the numbers considered here.
I am disappointed that you use a totally arbitrary number of write/erase cycles (500.000) to support your argument, when the most popular Flash RAM type by far only supports 5000 to 10.000.
Seriously can we put this statement to bed yet? It has been several years (think, five or so) since this statement has even been slightly accurate. Yes, many writes can destroy a drive, but the number is in the (upper) hundreds of millions - performed on one single sector.
Today flash hard drives levy on technology used in older embedded devices that relied on flash, called "wear leveling".
Because each write is spread out throughout the entire disk, you don't physically write to the same sector X thousands of times when updating a cache file or whatnot.
Even if you had something thrashing the SSD continuously, you would not destroy the drive within the reasonable lifespan of a comparable rotating media drive.
No, this statement will not be put to bed, because it is based on facts - measured physical quantities. And here's one thing to ponder: if an application writes to the disk 100 times per second, how much will your 4GB SSD going to last? If you have only 1GB of space left, then wear leveling can only count on the blocks that don't contain data. And if the blocksize for the Flash RAM device is 128KB (which is typical, but there are also 256KB Flash RAMs), then the number of blocks you can spread out the writes is 8192. If the SSD is based on MLC Flash (as is, sadly, becoming typical) then you can write up to 10.000 times per block. Assuming perfect wear leveling, the device will last less than 819200 seconds which is 9 days and a few hours.
Doesn't look so good when under the light of rigorous analysis, is it?
You will, probably, retort with "but what application writes 100 times per second". Well, any Unix filesystem could, for example: every time a file is accessed (be it in read only), the access time is recorded - that's one write. It doesn't matter if you write 128KB, 256B or just one byte - with Flash RAM, you must rewrite the whole block. I can easily imagine a system that accesses 80 files in a second, and then does some additional logging. 100 writes per second into a storage device is nothing extraordinary.
I agree the June sales are due to MGS4, but the PS3 has been outselling the Xbox 360 in North America in 2008, except for a month where they were neck to neck.
Do you have a link to these numbers? Not disputing them, just very curious. And also, I'd like to know the worldwide numbers for 2008, if you have any source. Thanks.
From a cursory glance, I'd say I like this. It seems the first Linux distro that is actually tweaked to run from Flash RAM storage, rather than just a somewhat leaner generic Linux bolted on top of a SSD-based computer. Less logging, less unnecessary data to and from the storage, more stuff loaded into RAM. This is what I was hoping from the Eee PC's Xandros, but was disappointed (Xandros on the Eee PC is every bit of a normal Linux distro, with some of the less useful logfiles annoyingly and dangerously often updated).
All right. How about this: mandatory death sentence - Texas style, not California - for anyone convicted of drunk driving.
Happy, now?
I'd definitely support such a law. There really isn't any reason why one that is drunk or under the influence of drugs, should be sitting at the wheel. It's the most easily avoidable crime, and it's a deadly one - hence, I feel the death penalty is an appropriate deterrent.
Seriously. If there were no NO-CD cracks, I suspect companies like Ubisoft would make lots LESS money than they do now. I usually buy the game, download the NO-CD crack, and play. I'll never forget how the CD in my previous ThinkPad almost died from overwork before I saved it (and myself from going insane) with the NO-CD for HOMM IV.
It has come to the point that I do NOT buy a game until a NO-CD crack exists for it.
Wow, nice post. I am not a Mac user, but I really appreciate the fact that you didn't resort to offensive language, nor tried to be condescending. You just tried to help!
You were extremely careful NOT to mention the greatest complaint that users have with Vista: it's dog-slow.
At anything.
Sure, if you throw enough CPU and memory at it, it will be "fine". While XP, on that configuration, actually boots quickly, performs quickly and is overall really fast and responsive. Quick, fast, responsive is what users want, and Vista takes that away, and leaves them with "fine" or "acceptable". So, some users said screw that, I want XP.
Ever tried running Vista on the Eee PC? It's a disaster - compared to XP or Linux. But HP decided they will release their Mini-note (similar hardware specs as the Eee PC eccept it has 2GB of ram, while the Eee has 512MB to 1GB), and well, they got themselves a nice shiny turd of slowness.
I just happen to live in Helsinki - surely a graph found on Wikipedia knows better than the people actually living here. Though you better believe it: every summer we have our share of 30+ days.
And additionally, oil cooling of traditional powerlines is nasty business, because these lines get hot, and sometimes so hot that the oil boils and/or hydrolizes, and when THAT happens, you have carbon - which is conductive - and then, well, you got yourself a blackout.
I imagine this is not impossible: the ISO has decided they want to be irrelevant and shunned. What better way to oblige them than to start a foundation (I'm sure Sun, IBM and RedHat would love to chip in with a few bucks) that is in direct and totally blatant competition with ISO, just without the bribeability and corruptability of the ISO? After the OOXML fiasco, I think this new international standards organisation would have no major problems getting established.
Probably other donors would appear: Nokia, Novell, a few of the scandinavian organisations, etc.
I would love to see this happen, and the ISO bitchslapped into the mud, as it deserves.
Well, at this point all I can say is fsck ISO. And I think that's the general feeling of many in the IT right now. That's going to have some consequences - like, ISO standards not being worth the paper they're written on, for example.
I think the Eee is a perfect candidate for having a trackpoint, it would fit with the compact nature of the Eee. I'd love to see an Eee with one. They don't take up much room and would probably increase productivity.
Does anyone know of a successful hack that added a trackpoint to an Eee?
As a bonus if you dropped the touchpad you'd probably gain some room for adding more mods
I completely agree! Trackpoints are the best pointing devices for laptops. Out of the way while typing, can be used while your hands are in the basic position, and don't require you to lift your finger several times off the pointing device, like on trackpads where you have to push the pointer a few times if it has to travel across the screen.
You get an 8.9" screen (greatest disadvantage of the 700 series is their 7" screen), larger resolution (1024x600) much larger SSD storage (20GB for the Linux version), touchpad that supports 2-finger scrolling and pinch gestures and still the same small form factor of the 700s. What's not to like?
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While I still think the correct term is "psychopath" (please check the checklist ) I completely agree with you that psychopaths are found among women as well!
And I would really love to help you - I love children in general, and my sister has a niece whom is like my own child, so even though I can not entirely comprehend how a father can feel, I can at least somewhat come close to sharing your emotions. I live in Finland, so it's unlikely I'll be of any help to you. I can only tell you not to give up, use your smarts as much as possible, stay focused. And good luck!
Doesn't care about anyone (millions of people inconvenienced by his spam), doesn't have a conscience and leaves a trail of misery and destruction behind.
Psychopaths are very charming but still, girls, try not to marry one.
What's your brother's qualification to determine what "dangerous" levels of RF from a phone are?
This reminds me of the Big Tobacco lobbyst from "Thank you for smoking" - almost verbatim what he said to support his pro-smoking argument. It turns out, smoking really is bad for your health, and it also turns out that it's wise to err on the safe side. In general.
That post is not nearly as funny as the "Informative" moderation of it. Hats off to the mods, for once.
As I understand it, the cheap $10 Kmart cards use MLC, while the "Ultra"/"Extreme" cards are more likely to use SLC.
They used to be SLC, but now both the Sandisk Ultra and the SanDisk Extreme lines use MLC.
would you really want someone to know that despite being a huge football fan, you also knew about My Little Pony?
I don't see why would I mind. I am a complex person, with very disparate interests and abilities, and I don't mind at all if people know it.
wow
That thing, it moves amazingly swiftly and aptly. It's basically indistinguishible in its abilities from an average quadruped, except for the fact that the front legs bend the wrong direction. In any case, this BigDog is something special. It's frighteningly good.
1. Static wear levelling/leveling rotate the blocks being written to so both "empty" and "full" blocks are being used, so the amount of free space on the filesystem doesn't matter.
True. Unfortunately, some SSDs don't even implement dynamic wear leveling, and static wear leveling is considered more complex to implement - and so most SSD manufacturers don't implement it!
2. The 100.000 writes often quoted are a guaranteed statistical _minimum_, not a average or a maximum. According to some sources the typical cell will endure 200K-1M writes.
I thought I was careful enough to point out the difference between MLC and SLC Flash RAM. And MLC has an upper limit of 10.000 writes (the more honest vendors put it at 5000). And MLC is far more used in SSDs, than SLC. Sadly.
3. A typical SSD has spare blocks (just as HDD have spare blocks). So when a block is toast it is just marked as "bad" and a spare block is used instead.
Which in no wise different from having, say, a 1% (actually, spare blocks are much less than that) more of free space and using dynamic wear leveling. Those spare blocks change very little in the numbers considered here.
I am disappointed that you use a totally arbitrary number of write/erase cycles (500.000) to support your argument, when the most popular Flash RAM type by far only supports 5000 to 10.000.
Seriously can we put this statement to bed yet? It has been several years (think, five or so) since this statement has even been slightly accurate. Yes, many writes can destroy a drive, but the number is in the (upper) hundreds of millions - performed on one single sector.
Today flash hard drives levy on technology used in older embedded devices that relied on flash, called "wear leveling".
Because each write is spread out throughout the entire disk, you don't physically write to the same sector X thousands of times when updating a cache file or whatnot.
Even if you had something thrashing the SSD continuously, you would not destroy the drive within the reasonable lifespan of a comparable rotating media drive.
No, this statement will not be put to bed, because it is based on facts - measured physical quantities. And here's one thing to ponder: if an application writes to the disk 100 times per second, how much will your 4GB SSD going to last? If you have only 1GB of space left, then wear leveling can only count on the blocks that don't contain data. And if the blocksize for the Flash RAM device is 128KB (which is typical, but there are also 256KB Flash RAMs), then the number of blocks you can spread out the writes is 8192. If the SSD is based on MLC Flash (as is, sadly, becoming typical) then you can write up to 10.000 times per block. Assuming perfect wear leveling, the device will last less than 819200 seconds which is 9 days and a few hours.
Doesn't look so good when under the light of rigorous analysis, is it?
You will, probably, retort with "but what application writes 100 times per second". Well, any Unix filesystem could, for example: every time a file is accessed (be it in read only), the access time is recorded - that's one write. It doesn't matter if you write 128KB, 256B or just one byte - with Flash RAM, you must rewrite the whole block. I can easily imagine a system that accesses 80 files in a second, and then does some additional logging. 100 writes per second into a storage device is nothing extraordinary.
Not hydroxide.
I agree the June sales are due to MGS4, but the PS3 has been outselling the Xbox 360 in North America in 2008, except for a month where they were neck to neck.
Do you have a link to these numbers? Not disputing them, just very curious. And also, I'd like to know the worldwide numbers for 2008, if you have any source. Thanks.
I love SLAX! It can even be booted so that it completely runs from RAM. But unfortunately, the logging issue remains.
From a cursory glance, I'd say I like this. It seems the first Linux distro that is actually tweaked to run from Flash RAM storage, rather than just a somewhat leaner generic Linux bolted on top of a SSD-based computer. Less logging, less unnecessary data to and from the storage, more stuff loaded into RAM. This is what I was hoping from the Eee PC's Xandros, but was disappointed (Xandros on the Eee PC is every bit of a normal Linux distro, with some of the less useful logfiles annoyingly and dangerously often updated).
All right. How about this: mandatory death sentence - Texas style, not California - for anyone convicted of drunk driving.
Happy, now?
I'd definitely support such a law. There really isn't any reason why one that is drunk or under the influence of drugs, should be sitting at the wheel. It's the most easily avoidable crime, and it's a deadly one - hence, I feel the death penalty is an appropriate deterrent.
Seriously. If there were no NO-CD cracks, I suspect companies like Ubisoft would make lots LESS money than they do now. I usually buy the game, download the NO-CD crack, and play. I'll never forget how the CD in my previous ThinkPad almost died from overwork before I saved it (and myself from going insane) with the NO-CD for HOMM IV.
It has come to the point that I do NOT buy a game until a NO-CD crack exists for it.
Wow, nice post. I am not a Mac user, but I really appreciate the fact that you didn't resort to offensive language, nor tried to be condescending. You just tried to help!
Truly great, considering /. standards.
You were extremely careful NOT to mention the greatest complaint that users have with Vista: it's dog-slow.
At anything.
Sure, if you throw enough CPU and memory at it, it will be "fine". While XP, on that configuration, actually boots quickly, performs quickly and is overall really fast and responsive. Quick, fast, responsive is what users want, and Vista takes that away, and leaves them with "fine" or "acceptable". So, some users said screw that, I want XP.
Ever tried running Vista on the Eee PC? It's a disaster - compared to XP or Linux. But HP decided they will release their Mini-note (similar hardware specs as the Eee PC eccept it has 2GB of ram, while the Eee has 512MB to 1GB), and well, they got themselves a nice shiny turd of slowness.
That Snitch-mode or functionality sounds awesome. I'd pay real money for that.
I just happen to live in Helsinki - surely a graph found on Wikipedia knows better than the people actually living here. Though you better believe it: every summer we have our share of 30+ days.
You can check the temperatures and precipitations in Finland here: http://www.mtv3.fi/saa/
Or then you can continue searching the 'net. To prove that I am a "liar".
Correct on all accounts.
And additionally, oil cooling of traditional powerlines is nasty business, because these lines get hot, and sometimes so hot that the oil boils and/or hydrolizes, and when THAT happens, you have carbon - which is conductive - and then, well, you got yourself a blackout.
I imagine this is not impossible: the ISO has decided they want to be irrelevant and shunned. What better way to oblige them than to start a foundation (I'm sure Sun, IBM and RedHat would love to chip in with a few bucks) that is in direct and totally blatant competition with ISO, just without the bribeability and corruptability of the ISO? After the OOXML fiasco, I think this new international standards organisation would have no major problems getting established.
Probably other donors would appear: Nokia, Novell, a few of the scandinavian organisations, etc.
I would love to see this happen, and the ISO bitchslapped into the mud, as it deserves.
Well, at this point all I can say is fsck ISO. And I think that's the general feeling of many in the IT right now. That's going to have some consequences - like, ISO standards not being worth the paper they're written on, for example.
I think the Eee is a perfect candidate for having a trackpoint, it would fit with the compact nature of the Eee. I'd love to see an Eee with one. They don't take up much room and would probably increase productivity.
Does anyone know of a successful hack that added a trackpoint to an Eee?
As a bonus if you dropped the touchpad you'd probably gain some room for adding more mods
I completely agree! Trackpoints are the best pointing devices for laptops. Out of the way while typing, can be used while your hands are in the basic position, and don't require you to lift your finger several times off the pointing device, like on trackpads where you have to push the pointer a few times if it has to travel across the screen.
You get an 8.9" screen (greatest disadvantage of the 700 series is their 7" screen), larger resolution (1024x600) much larger SSD storage (20GB for the Linux version), touchpad that supports 2-finger scrolling and pinch gestures and still the same small form factor of the 700s. What's not to like?
Hey, watch it - I'm an Amiga user (from time to time (actually, extremely rarely now, but still)), and I have *excellent* sense of humour.