Oh sure this gets 6 Gbit/ sec just like the Crucial C300 got 6 Gbit/sec.
Oh wait, neither got/get that. The drive is spec'd at 450 MB/sec reads (still nothing to sneeze at). 6 Gbit/sec is 750 MB/sec. The 6Gbit/sec is just the maximum speed of the interface.
I would expect a news for nerd site to not make this kind of mistake tbh. It only took a simple Newegg search to find the spec since the second page of the article indicated that this drive is indeed already for sale. Some might say this posting kind of seems like a slashvertisement in disguise.
Anyways, the C300 128 gig is 50 bucks cheaper than the 510 series 120 gig but the intel drive definitely wins on speed if it truely hits those benchmarks in typical use scenarios. That price might drop even further when the C400 (or whatever the next crucial drive is) comes out.
It's true, I've started to push for the complete repeal of a state sales tax and an upper margin income tax increase because people in an upper income bracket either: can afford the extra taxes, or, they own a home, have a mortgage, itemize their deductions, and wouldn't notice the extra taxes. Of course, after doing the math and research I found that no state has income taxes above 10%ish even in the upper tax brackets. Oregon has no sales tax and people lambast them ignorantly as one of the most taxed states, but when you factor in that ALL of their state taxes can be deducted on their federal income tax return they are actually quite a bit less taxed.
And yet, the super rich still complain that a measly 2% increase on upper margins will result in an mass exodus of rich people from the state and all businesses will close up and shop and leave.
Give me a break.
Fact is, people are ignorant, and rich politicians scratch each other's backs and live in a fantasy world where they believe the money they earn is directly proportional to the amount of hard work they put into it and completely unrelated to how fortunate they were to be given the opportunity to make that kind of money in the first place. Then they know a buddy who's trying to start a business so they do them a bunch of favors to remove the risk of starting that business while that buddy enjoys the rewards the government hands out in droves to small businesses. Ever wonder why all the high school kids of farmers drive nice brand new pick-up trucks? its because those are "company vehicles" them kids are driving, and the government ponied up $25k for it, not counting the write-off it's one-year depreciation is. Farmers were literally getting new Ford F-150's for virtually free with cash for clunkers.
Washington's tax system is by far the most ridiculous. They have an 8% sales tax (6% state sales tax, 2% sales tax for most counties) and no income tax. They try to compensate for the sales tax's burden on the poor by having insanely unfair social programs that encourage low income/untalented women to get pregnant and churn out babies and not marry because it pays more than ever getting a job or marrying someone with a job would. I must emphasize how unfair these are, as usually the benefits are day in night between qualifying and having your expenses more than paid for and getting jack squat. This creates a huge hurdle that low income people don't see the point in trying to overcome. I must also add that real estate prices correlate directly with "left over" money that people have. Quite simply by not having an income tax you are just encouraging the real estate market to go up since people have a little more jingle jingle left in their pocket.
Yes but betamax cassettes don't have the capability to see exactly what you are copying and determine if it should be allowed or not. There's a difference between the willful ignorance perpetrated by file sharing sites and a machine that is incapable of telling the difference between a home video and a movie rental. Likewise, if the only thing betamax could be used for was copying someone else's work, then I don't think the court would had ruled the way they did.
Honestly, politicians can introduce legislation all they want, doesn't mean it'll go anywhere. This guy's just flamebait. I'd be more concerned if the bill had like 20 or more co-sponsors. I'm not sure of the hurdles one has to jump through to get legislation to the floor but I doubt it's that many.
5. DONT TILT YOUR HEAD. If you without realizing always have your head slightly cock-eyed then you give yourself eyestrain watching a 3d movie. Here's a trick, cross your eyes a little. If the two images aren't exactly left/right of each other (i.e. one appears higher than the other) then your head is NOT titled properly to comfortably enjoy stereo-3d
If the only 3d I was exposed to was what I saw in theaters I would think 3d is inherently something that hurts your eyes. There's actually a couple things at play here:
1. A lot of movie theaters have bad technology that results in unwatchable motion blur. Hey tards, for starters lets get both eyes IN SYNC. I suppose asking a minimum wage earning employee to make sure this is correct is out of the question, they can't even get their sound levels to be balanced half the time. Here's another fun fact: I get the same problem on my DLP TV when I watch a 3d movie on my PS3; I have to enable "movie mode" to get the motion blur to go away. I'm not sure if this is a TV problem or if they really recorded the blu-ray disk with one frame for one eye and the next frame for the other eye but I doubt anyone who isn't as tech savvy as me would figure this little thing out. It's subtle for one, no one wants to spend a bunch of money on a TV and PS3 and 3D movie then say out lout do everyone around them "hey does that look blurry to you when it moves?"
2. The brain wants to control things when its in 3D. Despite having a lot of experience with 3D, being able to see stereograms without effort, and being able to play 3d games for hours on end, I don't feel that comfortable watching someone else play a 3D game. I get motion sick, I get eye strain, I feel things are blurrier or out of focus more often. I can't give a good explanation - maybe different parts of the brain are used when I play a game versus watching it.
3. If you hear someone bitch about 3D then they probably wear glasses or contacts. Seriously, I'm not kidding. As a non-glasses wearer I can only venture a guess that the cause is that people's brains are actually compensating for something at all times without them realizing it. For example, on 3d previews the text floats about a foot in front of the screen. My mom couldn't focus on it. Given how often 3d floats that far in front of the screen I'd imagine I wouldn't enjoy 3d either.
4. 3d is awesome for first person games. It is simply where it absolutely shines. There's no motion blur. You can set the depth to whatever you want. You are in control of the view so it feels natural. Real time strategy games can be kind of cool as well since it's like you have a bunch of toys in front of you fighting it out, but getting the depth to where it gives that neat effect without hampering gameplay is sometimes impossible if the game isn't already 3d ready.
err, the grass is greener on the other side buddy. Here you are saying you want to get an iphone and here I am saying I'm going to get an android (well, the dual core one when it comes out at least... assuming it doesn't have any gating issues)
TBH unless you need an ipod touch there isn't a lot of good reason to get an iphone at this stage. I have to turn my phone off and back on at work sometimes because of its inability to get any data throughput despite having a connection. Granted, the iphone 4 for verizon might not have this issue, but another issue is that my hard drive died and now I can't update the firmware without doing a sync and I can't sync without worrying that everything that isn't considered "a purchase" that I absolutely must remember to transfer pior to syncing else it will get wiped from the phone.
Finally, the iphone requires you have X gigs of hard drive available where X is the size of your phone. My wife's sister had a low end computer where 14.5 gigs of space is a premium and guess who was the culprit who devoured all that without telling her?
Your wife could just wipe her pinky on her shirt then swipe with her pinky
I was seriously considering getting the latest droid phone which has 2x 1Ghz processors and I heard Verizon's signal carries through thick walls and has overall better response and throughput than AT&T.
But now I have to worry that I would have the same problem that I get with my iphone. You have 3000 people in a single cell region or two and at lunch time some of them want to waste time looking up videos. Then I want just want to read the news I have to turn off my phone then turn it back on to get a connection. Oh sure, the phone lies and SAYS it's connected, but when it comes back on it takes 2 - 3 minutes before it establishes a signal with the mothership again.
3. Just go anyways 4. When approaching the left turn lane, keep your speed at at least 10 mph while you go over the second to final "box" in the pavement (yes, the one that is about 10 - 15 feet from the intersection). This increases the amount of induction your bike produces, making it more visible to the sensor. If you slowly coast up to the light it is unlikely to detect you. Obviously you can't be a beginner rider to try this and always account for conditions and the possibility of loose gravel that might had built up on the final sensor. 5. Buy one of those big magnet things that supposedly work and see if they work. 6. If this is particular to a certain light, contact the local highway department and inform then. It could be that one of the sensors is faulty and for whatever reason works on cars large enough to trip both of the final two ground sensors but not bikes.
Where are these high paying jobs they speak of? And how much do they really make after you take into account all the high paying jobs are in places with a high cost of living to go with it, and the lower paying ones.. well you get the idea. Everyone in California makes ridiculous amounts of money even though their job is usually perfectly transplantable elsewhere. With so many tech jobs in that state it really skews the numbers. How much does a "software engineer" make in a humble small town in a red state? Usually not so much...
I counted 36 alarms on my iphone.
Fortunately I still use iOS 3. Granted, the only reason I still use iOS 3 is because my computer hard drive failed and I'm afraid all my stuff will get wiped when I try sync to a new library on a different computer. Fucking apple.
Odd, my several month old 3D TV has the EXACT same warning on it, but it was made before this article about Nintendo was posted on Slashdot. Either this isn't news at all, or *gasp* my TV is FROM THE FUTURE!
The hardware isn't sold at a loss. There was still a bunch of R&D dumped into the project itself so it has to make X amount of revenue over it's lifetime before it truly turns a profit.
Of course, they are shooting themselves in the foot if they continue to release mediocre games that barely get beyond the novelty of the device itself. I think we've all learned our lesson from the Wii this time and any minor flaw that is in the product right now is probably going to continue to stay there.
The problem is that H1-B workers aren't cheaper workers. What it is is hiring someone with a higher degree than an american for work that is perfectly suitable for someone with a lower degree, then paying them 90% of what the higher degree is worth but is 20% more than the lower degree would get at the same company.
Maybe you can explain this to me- but why is dance central a "must have" game? It looks like it does dance moves and then you have to mimic it, but there isn't any feedback as to what you are really doing other than what you are really doing is wrong.
Not going into the music taste department of the game, just looking at it's fundamentals.
I'm using the future right now, I have a 65" Mitsubishi DLP TV with a super gaming computer hooked up to it via HDMI. I can play games like Bad Company 2 in stereo-3D. Its completely awesome, and then when I'm done I can watch hulu or netflix or whatever on my big TV in full screen mode. I use a USB extension cord so I can interact with it from across the room without getting that crappy mouse responsiveness problem you get with wireless (likewise so that the 3d sync isn't interfered with)
Just as a FYI, those sony and samsung 3D TVs you see on display every absolutely suck compared to DLP 3D. Go to RC Willy and try out their 3D TV demos if you haven't already.
Also technically GoogleTV is a computer, as is your Sega Genesis and your Xbox and your toaster...
My problem is that the salaries in the H1-B notice section is 98% of the time way more than mine. The positions themselves are rarely actually internally offered. Isn't that supposed to be illegal? Why hire from outside this country then turn around and pay them more than you pay the local engineers?
The Mazda 3's EPA gas mileage is wrong. My wife gets 27-29 mpg highway 24 mpg combined. According to fuelly, the mazda 3 gets 23 - 30 mpg for people. The mazda 3's optimal speed in 5th gear is 75-80 mph, it actually is quite inefficient at climbing slight hills or fighting a headwind at 60 - 70 mph. As you might guess most people don't live in areas with speedlimits that high. http://www.fuelly.com/car/mazda/3
In contrast, motorcycles are a lot cheaper and consume a lot less gas unless its some 1000cc model. However, motorcycles pollute more on either a per mile or per gallon basis but I forget which.
While they are at it they should remove the functionality to open a.lnk file in media player. My wife had media player as the default player, and she had some.mp3 files on her system. I'm guess she got these from limewire or something. They wouldn't play in itunes, so I tried opening them in media player and it said it was a filetype that didn't match it's extension, open anyways? So I said yes, thinking that it might of been a wma that was renamed by a dummy, and then instantly a web browser window opened up to some website. The file itself was 5 megs, so I'm guessing it had a.lnk header and then either padded the rest with the original mp3 or just dummy data.
As a fairly skilled computer scientist I absolutely hate Perl. I recently inherited a perl project that was fairly large and fairly complex and had to really dig into the more complex parts of perl with it. The biggest problem with perl is it's readability and the fact its a "do what I mean" language that rarely does what you mean. If you've rarely dealt with shell scripting, the logic behind the syntax for it is nearly non-existent. It has a massive learning curve, which is probably why they sell so many damned Perl books. The worst part about perl is that its difficult to look up how things work online. Perl's insistence on using special characters instead of words makes things difficult to read, understand, and look-up, and the number of special exceptions to things make things damned impossible at times when something is syntactically correct and yet still doesn't work right. I've found an amazing number of websites give simple incomplete examples for Perl. For example one popular reference website lacks a lot of useful and common parts of perl, like something as basic as getline.
Trying to remember what specifically was wrong with Perl; issues that eat up hours of time the first time you encounter them or when they aren't freshly in your memory:
having a $1 instead of a $l.
Arrays of arrays. Hashes of hashes. References to hashes of arrays... etc. Then pass them into a subroutine that is part of a class.
Using the debugger.
Trying to understand someone else's regular expression
a mysterious $_ in someone else's uncommented code
A class's function's reference. WTF does "can't create sub Main:: " mean? If I can call the function why can't I reference it?
Trying to use parenthesis to change precedence only to accidentally create an array instead.
Not knowing that parenthesis can create an array
Trying to create a naked hash
Thinking my $a, $b, $c = @something; is the same as my ($a,$b,$c) = @something;
Coming across the heap corruption bug in IO::uncompress in earlier versions
Not knowing how to typecast using squiggly brackets
Not realizing the requirement that arrays and hashes be typecasted after being dereferenced from a reference
Trying to read from standard input
Trying to write to a file
Not understanding the difference between print and printf
Not being able to slice a substring from a string
Not being able to index a character in a string
Trying to use a class like you would in C++
Trying to use a $ when it should be a @ or vice versa.
Trying to see if a file exists
Trying to use @somearray to get the number of elements, as directed by a website, only to get the array instead. (i.e. not knowing about the scalar keyword)
Trying to read a line of Perl out loud
And more...
And Perl 6 doesn't improve anything at all. Be ready to do some legitimate stuff that won't do what you thought it would do... all over again!
Some of my favorites:
Was: $#array+1 or scalar(@array)
Now: @array.elems
SSDs (or at least hybrid SSHDDs) will replace HDDs. How many of you tolerate the slows speeds of a tape drive despite the fact it is more cost efficient than a disk drive? Eventually people said, "Its not the most space, but I'd rather have the speed". There is simply going to be a point when:
The price is not cheap but not expensive either. Less than 20% of the total cost of the computer is probably the key price point here.
The density is enough that most people can live with it comfortably. Based on typical usage, this seems to be 128 - 256 GB, which is already met by SSDs at decent price points and it is only a matter of time before this is cheap to the average consumer.
The reliability and ease-of-use becomes mainstream. While people are still having to do firmware updates, this isn't mainstream yet. Same goes with using the SSD as a boot drive and as the page file drive. Consumers don't like the complexity of dealing with multiple drives, where one is superior to the other it confuses and inconveniences them.
Dude someone mod up thats an awesome idea. I wonder if these hackers would use automated scripts or if they would still have to manually poke around since everyone's set-up is going to be different.
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Oh sure this gets 6 Gbit/ sec just like the Crucial C300 got 6 Gbit/sec.
Oh wait, neither got/get that. The drive is spec'd at 450 MB/sec reads (still nothing to sneeze at). 6 Gbit/sec is 750 MB/sec. The 6Gbit/sec is just the maximum speed of the interface.
I would expect a news for nerd site to not make this kind of mistake tbh. It only took a simple Newegg search to find the spec since the second page of the article indicated that this drive is indeed already for sale. Some might say this posting kind of seems like a slashvertisement in disguise.
Anyways, the C300 128 gig is 50 bucks cheaper than the 510 series 120 gig but the intel drive definitely wins on speed if it truely hits those benchmarks in typical use scenarios. That price might drop even further when the C400 (or whatever the next crucial drive is) comes out.
It's true, I've started to push for the complete repeal of a state sales tax and an upper margin income tax increase because people in an upper income bracket either: can afford the extra taxes, or, they own a home, have a mortgage, itemize their deductions, and wouldn't notice the extra taxes. Of course, after doing the math and research I found that no state has income taxes above 10%ish even in the upper tax brackets. Oregon has no sales tax and people lambast them ignorantly as one of the most taxed states, but when you factor in that ALL of their state taxes can be deducted on their federal income tax return they are actually quite a bit less taxed.
And yet, the super rich still complain that a measly 2% increase on upper margins will result in an mass exodus of rich people from the state and all businesses will close up and shop and leave.
Give me a break.
Fact is, people are ignorant, and rich politicians scratch each other's backs and live in a fantasy world where they believe the money they earn is directly proportional to the amount of hard work they put into it and completely unrelated to how fortunate they were to be given the opportunity to make that kind of money in the first place. Then they know a buddy who's trying to start a business so they do them a bunch of favors to remove the risk of starting that business while that buddy enjoys the rewards the government hands out in droves to small businesses. Ever wonder why all the high school kids of farmers drive nice brand new pick-up trucks? its because those are "company vehicles" them kids are driving, and the government ponied up $25k for it, not counting the write-off it's one-year depreciation is. Farmers were literally getting new Ford F-150's for virtually free with cash for clunkers.
Washington's tax system is by far the most ridiculous. They have an 8% sales tax (6% state sales tax, 2% sales tax for most counties) and no income tax. They try to compensate for the sales tax's burden on the poor by having insanely unfair social programs that encourage low income/untalented women to get pregnant and churn out babies and not marry because it pays more than ever getting a job or marrying someone with a job would. I must emphasize how unfair these are, as usually the benefits are day in night between qualifying and having your expenses more than paid for and getting jack squat. This creates a huge hurdle that low income people don't see the point in trying to overcome. I must also add that real estate prices correlate directly with "left over" money that people have. Quite simply by not having an income tax you are just encouraging the real estate market to go up since people have a little more jingle jingle left in their pocket.
Sorry, this is a ramble, but I'm pissed off.
Yes but betamax cassettes don't have the capability to see exactly what you are copying and determine if it should be allowed or not. There's a difference between the willful ignorance perpetrated by file sharing sites and a machine that is incapable of telling the difference between a home video and a movie rental. Likewise, if the only thing betamax could be used for was copying someone else's work, then I don't think the court would had ruled the way they did.
Yes but they offer a "streaming only" option now and jacked the price up of getting DVDs in the mail.
And their streaming options were significantly more limited.
Honestly, politicians can introduce legislation all they want, doesn't mean it'll go anywhere. This guy's just flamebait. I'd be more concerned if the bill had like 20 or more co-sponsors. I'm not sure of the hurdles one has to jump through to get legislation to the floor but I doubt it's that many.
Sorry, I forgot 5:
5. DONT TILT YOUR HEAD. If you without realizing always have your head slightly cock-eyed then you give yourself eyestrain watching a 3d movie. Here's a trick, cross your eyes a little. If the two images aren't exactly left/right of each other (i.e. one appears higher than the other) then your head is NOT titled properly to comfortably enjoy stereo-3d
If the only 3d I was exposed to was what I saw in theaters I would think 3d is inherently something that hurts your eyes. There's actually a couple things at play here:
1. A lot of movie theaters have bad technology that results in unwatchable motion blur. Hey tards, for starters lets get both eyes IN SYNC. I suppose asking a minimum wage earning employee to make sure this is correct is out of the question, they can't even get their sound levels to be balanced half the time. Here's another fun fact: I get the same problem on my DLP TV when I watch a 3d movie on my PS3; I have to enable "movie mode" to get the motion blur to go away. I'm not sure if this is a TV problem or if they really recorded the blu-ray disk with one frame for one eye and the next frame for the other eye but I doubt anyone who isn't as tech savvy as me would figure this little thing out. It's subtle for one, no one wants to spend a bunch of money on a TV and PS3 and 3D movie then say out lout do everyone around them "hey does that look blurry to you when it moves?"
2. The brain wants to control things when its in 3D. Despite having a lot of experience with 3D, being able to see stereograms without effort, and being able to play 3d games for hours on end, I don't feel that comfortable watching someone else play a 3D game. I get motion sick, I get eye strain, I feel things are blurrier or out of focus more often. I can't give a good explanation - maybe different parts of the brain are used when I play a game versus watching it.
3. If you hear someone bitch about 3D then they probably wear glasses or contacts. Seriously, I'm not kidding. As a non-glasses wearer I can only venture a guess that the cause is that people's brains are actually compensating for something at all times without them realizing it. For example, on 3d previews the text floats about a foot in front of the screen. My mom couldn't focus on it. Given how often 3d floats that far in front of the screen I'd imagine I wouldn't enjoy 3d either.
4. 3d is awesome for first person games. It is simply where it absolutely shines. There's no motion blur. You can set the depth to whatever you want. You are in control of the view so it feels natural. Real time strategy games can be kind of cool as well since it's like you have a bunch of toys in front of you fighting it out, but getting the depth to where it gives that neat effect without hampering gameplay is sometimes impossible if the game isn't already 3d ready.
err, the grass is greener on the other side buddy. Here you are saying you want to get an iphone and here I am saying I'm going to get an android (well, the dual core one when it comes out at least... assuming it doesn't have any gating issues)
TBH unless you need an ipod touch there isn't a lot of good reason to get an iphone at this stage. I have to turn my phone off and back on at work sometimes because of its inability to get any data throughput despite having a connection. Granted, the iphone 4 for verizon might not have this issue, but another issue is that my hard drive died and now I can't update the firmware without doing a sync and I can't sync without worrying that everything that isn't considered "a purchase" that I absolutely must remember to transfer pior to syncing else it will get wiped from the phone.
Finally, the iphone requires you have X gigs of hard drive available where X is the size of your phone. My wife's sister had a low end computer where 14.5 gigs of space is a premium and guess who was the culprit who devoured all that without telling her?
Your wife could just wipe her pinky on her shirt then swipe with her pinky
I was seriously considering getting the latest droid phone which has 2x 1Ghz processors and I heard Verizon's signal carries through thick walls and has overall better response and throughput than AT&T.
But now I have to worry that I would have the same problem that I get with my iphone. You have 3000 people in a single cell region or two and at lunch time some of them want to waste time looking up videos. Then I want just want to read the news I have to turn off my phone then turn it back on to get a connection. Oh sure, the phone lies and SAYS it's connected, but when it comes back on it takes 2 - 3 minutes before it establishes a signal with the mothership again.
mod up funny
3. Just go anyways
4. When approaching the left turn lane, keep your speed at at least 10 mph while you go over the second to final "box" in the pavement (yes, the one that is about 10 - 15 feet from the intersection). This increases the amount of induction your bike produces, making it more visible to the sensor. If you slowly coast up to the light it is unlikely to detect you. Obviously you can't be a beginner rider to try this and always account for conditions and the possibility of loose gravel that might had built up on the final sensor.
5. Buy one of those big magnet things that supposedly work and see if they work.
6. If this is particular to a certain light, contact the local highway department and inform then. It could be that one of the sensors is faulty and for whatever reason works on cars large enough to trip both of the final two ground sensors but not bikes.
Where are these high paying jobs they speak of? And how much do they really make after you take into account all the high paying jobs are in places with a high cost of living to go with it, and the lower paying ones.. well you get the idea. Everyone in California makes ridiculous amounts of money even though their job is usually perfectly transplantable elsewhere. With so many tech jobs in that state it really skews the numbers. How much does a "software engineer" make in a humble small town in a red state? Usually not so much...
I counted 36 alarms on my iphone. Fortunately I still use iOS 3. Granted, the only reason I still use iOS 3 is because my computer hard drive failed and I'm afraid all my stuff will get wiped when I try sync to a new library on a different computer. Fucking apple.
Odd, my several month old 3D TV has the EXACT same warning on it, but it was made before this article about Nintendo was posted on Slashdot. Either this isn't news at all, or *gasp* my TV is FROM THE FUTURE!
The hardware isn't sold at a loss. There was still a bunch of R&D dumped into the project itself so it has to make X amount of revenue over it's lifetime before it truly turns a profit. Of course, they are shooting themselves in the foot if they continue to release mediocre games that barely get beyond the novelty of the device itself. I think we've all learned our lesson from the Wii this time and any minor flaw that is in the product right now is probably going to continue to stay there.
The problem is that H1-B workers aren't cheaper workers. What it is is hiring someone with a higher degree than an american for work that is perfectly suitable for someone with a lower degree, then paying them 90% of what the higher degree is worth but is 20% more than the lower degree would get at the same company.
Maybe you can explain this to me- but why is dance central a "must have" game? It looks like it does dance moves and then you have to mimic it, but there isn't any feedback as to what you are really doing other than what you are really doing is wrong. Not going into the music taste department of the game, just looking at it's fundamentals.
I'm using the future right now, I have a 65" Mitsubishi DLP TV with a super gaming computer hooked up to it via HDMI. I can play games like Bad Company 2 in stereo-3D. Its completely awesome, and then when I'm done I can watch hulu or netflix or whatever on my big TV in full screen mode. I use a USB extension cord so I can interact with it from across the room without getting that crappy mouse responsiveness problem you get with wireless (likewise so that the 3d sync isn't interfered with)
Just as a FYI, those sony and samsung 3D TVs you see on display every absolutely suck compared to DLP 3D. Go to RC Willy and try out their 3D TV demos if you haven't already.
Also technically GoogleTV is a computer, as is your Sega Genesis and your Xbox and your toaster...
My problem is that the salaries in the H1-B notice section is 98% of the time way more than mine. The positions themselves are rarely actually internally offered. Isn't that supposed to be illegal? Why hire from outside this country then turn around and pay them more than you pay the local engineers?
The Mazda 3's EPA gas mileage is wrong. My wife gets 27-29 mpg highway 24 mpg combined. According to fuelly, the mazda 3 gets 23 - 30 mpg for people. The mazda 3's optimal speed in 5th gear is 75-80 mph, it actually is quite inefficient at climbing slight hills or fighting a headwind at 60 - 70 mph. As you might guess most people don't live in areas with speedlimits that high. http://www.fuelly.com/car/mazda/3
In contrast, motorcycles are a lot cheaper and consume a lot less gas unless its some 1000cc model. However, motorcycles pollute more on either a per mile or per gallon basis but I forget which.
While they are at it they should remove the functionality to open a .lnk file in media player. My wife had media player as the default player, and she had some .mp3 files on her system. I'm guess she got these from limewire or something. They wouldn't play in itunes, so I tried opening them in media player and it said it was a filetype that didn't match it's extension, open anyways? So I said yes, thinking that it might of been a wma that was renamed by a dummy, and then instantly a web browser window opened up to some website. The file itself was 5 megs, so I'm guessing it had a .lnk header and then either padded the rest with the original mp3 or just dummy data.
As a fairly skilled computer scientist I absolutely hate Perl. I recently inherited a perl project that was fairly large and fairly complex and had to really dig into the more complex parts of perl with it. The biggest problem with perl is it's readability and the fact its a "do what I mean" language that rarely does what you mean. If you've rarely dealt with shell scripting, the logic behind the syntax for it is nearly non-existent. It has a massive learning curve, which is probably why they sell so many damned Perl books. The worst part about perl is that its difficult to look up how things work online. Perl's insistence on using special characters instead of words makes things difficult to read, understand, and look-up, and the number of special exceptions to things make things damned impossible at times when something is syntactically correct and yet still doesn't work right. I've found an amazing number of websites give simple incomplete examples for Perl. For example one popular reference website lacks a lot of useful and common parts of perl, like something as basic as getline.
:r & :x {...}
Trying to remember what specifically was wrong with Perl; issues that eat up hours of time the first time you encounter them or when they aren't freshly in your memory:
having a $1 instead of a $l.
Arrays of arrays. Hashes of hashes. References to hashes of arrays... etc. Then pass them into a subroutine that is part of a class.
Using the debugger.
Trying to understand someone else's regular expression
a mysterious $_ in someone else's uncommented code
A class's function's reference. WTF does "can't create sub Main:: " mean? If I can call the function why can't I reference it?
Trying to use parenthesis to change precedence only to accidentally create an array instead.
Not knowing that parenthesis can create an array
Trying to create a naked hash
Thinking my $a, $b, $c = @something; is the same as my ($a,$b,$c) = @something;
Coming across the heap corruption bug in IO::uncompress in earlier versions
Not knowing how to typecast using squiggly brackets
Not realizing the requirement that arrays and hashes be typecasted after being dereferenced from a reference
Trying to read from standard input
Trying to write to a file
Not understanding the difference between print and printf
Not being able to slice a substring from a string
Not being able to index a character in a string
Trying to use a class like you would in C++
Trying to use a $ when it should be a @ or vice versa.
Trying to see if a file exists
Trying to use @somearray to get the number of elements, as directed by a website, only to get the array instead. (i.e. not knowing about the scalar keyword) Trying to read a line of Perl out loud
And more...
And Perl 6 doesn't improve anything at all. Be ready to do some legitimate stuff that won't do what you thought it would do... all over again!
Some of my favorites:
Was: $#array+1 or scalar(@array)
Now: @array.elems
The easy to read __FILE__ is now $?FILE
Was: $str =~ m/^\d{2,5}\s/i
Now: $str ~~ m:P5:i/^\d{2,5}\s/
Was: if (-r $file && -x _) {...}
Now: if $file ~~
Yes sirree, they really helped improved the shortfalls of Perl. It really was not $$bugprone.enough(@{($confusing, $hardto$read)}).
SSDs (or at least hybrid SSHDDs) will replace HDDs. How many of you tolerate the slows speeds of a tape drive despite the fact it is more cost efficient than a disk drive? Eventually people said, "Its not the most space, but I'd rather have the speed". There is simply going to be a point when:
The price is not cheap but not expensive either. Less than 20% of the total cost of the computer is probably the key price point here.
The density is enough that most people can live with it comfortably. Based on typical usage, this seems to be 128 - 256 GB, which is already met by SSDs at decent price points and it is only a matter of time before this is cheap to the average consumer.
The reliability and ease-of-use becomes mainstream. While people are still having to do firmware updates, this isn't mainstream yet. Same goes with using the SSD as a boot drive and as the page file drive. Consumers don't like the complexity of dealing with multiple drives, where one is superior to the other it confuses and inconveniences them.
I learned everything about this already from Futurama
Dude someone mod up thats an awesome idea. I wonder if these hackers would use automated scripts or if they would still have to manually poke around since everyone's set-up is going to be different.