Nowadays SSDs are more reliable than HDDs. I just checked the specifications for a Samsung SSD and a Toshiba HDD and they have, respectively, an MTBF of 2 000 000 hours and a MTTF of 300 000.
I have the same deal and it's good enough for me. It streams videos and audio just fine, which is probably the most demanding applications that i frequent.
I also like Now, Expose (accent mark at the end), AIR, Wide Angle, POV, and others on PBS. That channel, along with Link TV, are the only ones providing an alternate point of view in traditional tv media, in my opinion. Even if there was a liberal bias, how can anyone consider himself fully informed by _only_ watching Fox, MSNBC and the others?
Why would they want to stop illegal copying, stealing of secrets, theft of business. . . ?
Maybe the objective is that legal movies will be greatly affected while piracy will continue unaffected? Maybe some party members have a stake in this?
Not common understanding to some outside of the US ( mostly in Central/South America? ). As far as i know America is a continent made up of North, South, and Central America. In my country people from the United States are called unitedstaters ( estadounidenses ).
And. . . we are also taught that Mexico is in Central America. This makes much more sense from a geographical, cultural, economic, political, and so on, point of view.
I bought a 16 GB Samsung SSD a month ago ( Christmas present to myself ) which was about 200 USD. It is now installed on my Dell Latitude X1 which now has no moving parts at all, and the computer is faster and silent. With 2 000 000 writes, i don't think i should worry about this drive failing anytime soon. And if it does. . . i back up.
I've put the old 1.8 HDD in a case and now i'm using it as storage, but once it dies i don't think i'll ever buy an HDD again.
Bill: When I saw your operating system, I wanted all the features in it. Everything from the widgets on the desktop to the exhilarating smell of its security policies.
And it comes with the Billix kernel. Taken from the spanish word "bilis", meaning bile.
Maybe the developers could create a clean version of the game without hidden content but which lends itself easily to being modified after the purchase. Players could create the uncensored content from scratch or with special tools provided by the developers. Or, some "hacker" could "recover" omitted sequences of the game and, of course, "make them available".
As more music is composed, less music is yet to be composed. You just can't write an infinite amount of music with a limited tonal system like ours ( and i mean _listenable_ music ). In a copyright free society this is no problem since artists can freely copy from each other, but, when everything is copyrighted ad infinitum and IP holders are ready to sue everyone and their mother there will come a time when it will be very difficult to create new music without making a deal with the "devil". Or, composers could base all of their music on public domain music. It would be a good idea for new composers to abandon this stupid system. I mean, Bach didn't need copyright. And he wrote more than a thousand works. . . most of them very complex. . . and long. But something's got to give someday.
I agree. I love Linux to death but it's just not going to happen. It is difficult to use and, besides, if it becomes popular malicious hackers will start to get interested.
I think a good analogy from ages past would be Beethoven. He could write a single 3 minute piece like For Elise, or a 45 minute piece like the Ninth Symphony. It depends on what the artist wants; what kind of statement it's trying to make.
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So when i was in high school and the lazy rich kids that i saw there paid the smart ones to do their work for them. . . they were just "outsourcing"!?
"Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar." --Drew Carey
What a way to kill a joke. Heh.
Nowadays SSDs are more reliable than HDDs. I just checked the specifications for a Samsung SSD and a Toshiba HDD and they have, respectively, an MTBF of 2 000 000 hours and a MTTF of 300 000.
I have the same deal and it's good enough for me. It streams videos and audio just fine, which is probably the most demanding applications that i frequent.
Dude, this is Slashdot. If you had said: ".5" makes no difference at all." You would have been modded +5 Informative.
I also like Now, Expose (accent mark at the end), AIR, Wide Angle, POV, and others on PBS. That channel, along with Link TV, are the only ones providing an alternate point of view in traditional tv media, in my opinion. Even if there was a liberal bias, how can anyone consider himself fully informed by _only_ watching Fox, MSNBC and the others?
Maybe the objective is that legal movies will be greatly affected while piracy will continue unaffected? Maybe some party members have a stake in this?
And, of course, who decides what gets censored?
Not common understanding to some outside of the US ( mostly in Central/South America? ). As far as i know America is a continent made up of North, South, and Central America. In my country people from the United States are called unitedstaters ( estadounidenses ).
And. . . we are also taught that Mexico is in Central America. This makes much more sense from a geographical, cultural, economic, political, and so on, point of view.
Does it have any moving parts at all?
I've put the old 1.8 HDD in a case and now i'm using it as storage, but once it dies i don't think i'll ever buy an HDD again.
Gus
Yeah, but people in the US hate anything metric.
Reminds me of Brazil. They start playing so-so and everyone thinks they're going to get eliminated and. . . bam! They win the cup. . . again.
Bill: When I saw your operating system, I wanted all the features in it. Everything from the widgets on the desktop to the exhilarating smell of its security policies.
And it comes with the Billix kernel. Taken from the spanish word "bilis", meaning bile.
Maybe the developers could create a clean version of the game without hidden content but which lends itself easily to being modified after the purchase. Players could create the uncensored content from scratch or with special tools provided by the developers. Or, some "hacker" could "recover" omitted sequences of the game and, of course, "make them available".
Couldn't they just release it toned down but make the original available as an "easter egg" or something?
As more music is composed, less music is yet to be composed. You just can't write an infinite amount of music with a limited tonal system like ours ( and i mean _listenable_ music ). In a copyright free society this is no problem since artists can freely copy from each other, but, when everything is copyrighted ad infinitum and IP holders are ready to sue everyone and their mother there will come a time when it will be very difficult to create new music without making a deal with the "devil". Or, composers could base all of their music on public domain music. It would be a good idea for new composers to abandon this stupid system. I mean, Bach didn't need copyright. And he wrote more than a thousand works. . . most of them very complex. . . and long. But something's got to give someday.
I agree. I love Linux to death but it's just not going to happen. It is difficult to use and, besides, if it becomes popular malicious hackers will start to get interested.
Funny! I think the imperial system will need more than that. . . like a virus.
I think a good analogy from ages past would be Beethoven. He could write a single 3 minute piece like For Elise, or a 45 minute piece like the Ninth Symphony. It depends on what the artist wants; what kind of statement it's trying to make.
Cool! Now i can watch all my porn without having to reach for the keyboard or the mouse.
"Plutonic"? I've never tried that! Is it some kind of extraterrestrial sexual position?
I think Weird Al says it best: http://goear.com/listen.php?v=2338387
Are the pictures right? 5 millimeters? Shouldn't that be 5 micrometers?