It becomes relevant when we can no longer trust that the summaries have any basis in reality, or that they will be free from gross innacurate hyperbole.
A headline indicating "TiVO to cancel service" would have been sufficient, and would not have sparked this discussion. A headline indicating "TiVO to come out and physically break all of your crap" is irresponsible and inexcusable, and this discussion is because a good number of us think that using the word "brick" is analogous to such a headline.
You dont think the inability to trust that the news youre getting has a basis in reality is significant?
No, brick has a very specific meaning in electronics jargon. You can refer to a router as bricked if the only recourse is to jtag it; you may not correctly refer to it as bricked if you forgot the password. Again-- a surge which fries the flash chip would be a bricking; losing your internet connection and being unable to use the router, not so much.
You wouldnt call your TV "bricked" if your provider cut you off, because the device still functions. These TiVOs will still function, and are therefore NOT interchangeable with bricks even under your definition.
The tragedy is people who view Fox News as "American" and don't know they are basically being propagandized and programmed against, for example, their own self-intererests, like higher quality, more affordable health care
I like what you did there. You started with a fairly ontopic opinion post, and then turned a corner and made this into some thing about how anyone against the healthcare plan must be a moron and hinges on every word a television personality says.
Is it at ALL possible some people simply dont feel that healthcare is a federal issue? Is it possible that some intelligent people are (gasp!) republicans?
Second page shows the Phenom roundly trouncing the i3 in a large number of tests, and besting a number of the i7s. There were a few tests where the i3 was slightly superior, most others the phenom was 15-20% faster, and in some cases 50+% faster. Look at the encoding performance, the AMD slaughters the i3.
And from what I can see, the i3 is closer to $150, with its AMD equivalent-- the X2 645-- being closer to $120. On most benchmarks they are rather close to each other, but the AMD is a whopping 20% cheaper. Things arent quite what youre making them out to be.
As of 2010, it is apparently the case. From what Ive read all RAID cards newer than the H700 are "affected". I have not had a chance to test yet, since I prefer to get my drives from newegg for 50% less, and have thus tried to avoid the affected cards.
He indicated that the speed limit is 55. AFAIK going 80 in that situation would fall under "reckless driving" by a number of definitions, and the potential fine would be very high.
Is it at all possible that youre not unique in your driving ability, and the speed laws apply to us all equally regardless of how fast you feel safe going? People saying "yea, but _I_ can handle it" is how we end up with fatalities from DUIs.
If people are entering and exiting the thing, it will lose momentum as it accelerates them. And are you implying that there would be no mechanical friction whatsoever?
By the time they're proven wrong, people will have forgotton about this article; and in the meantime the absolutist statements generate more pagehits. Whats not to like?
There's no reason to have user data stored on the local machine at all. All it does is needlessly choke up bandwidth when synchronising (you do sync it with the server, right? Or do you have some other backup mechanism in place?)
Seems better to tell people that if they dont put their eg scanned, multi-meg images on the shared folder, they will be trashed periodically. Unless you like waiting for file sync to dig through multi-gig folders every time they want to log off?
Folder sync has its place, but its not a panacea, and generally its far easier and less complicated to simply show people where to put the files; theyre not morons. I can see the utility growing as the size of the business grows, but for 0-80 employees, I've had no issues doing without sync for all my users-- across 20-30 organizations. Somehow the employees "get" that data has to go on the shared drive if they want to do anything with it, or have guarentees as to its safety.
Theres also the fact that if you mindlessly sync desktop and mydocs, you may end up with gigs and gigs of pictures and movies on your server-- downloaded from a camera, not the internet, so filtering wont help.
So, why cant I argue that voting for someone who believes in a bigger government isnt a freedom? I mean, from my standpoint, bigger government means less freedom (one way or the other), so clearly everyone should be forced to have the freedom to vote for smaller government.
You claim to be for religious freedom, just so long as they dont believe in "outdated bullshit". Kind of like "youre free to vote for whatever party you like, as long as its the communist party"? That kind of freedom?
So freedom, in your opinion, means that people cannot believe in "outdated, bullshit traditions", whether they want to or not? Sounds like your "freedom" is really you imposing your own ideas on them.
Which is ironic, because the classic, stereotypical attack on muslims is that their religion advocates just that (nevermind that its a mischaracterization)...
This is the same argument that crops up periodically with GPL vs BSD nonsense. Why cant you understand that freedom isnt defined by you? That actual freedom means the freedom to do things that you think arent freedom?
But no, clearly if they want freedom, they have to take it on YOUR terms.
I always wonder why The GIMP is listed as a viable alternative to Photoshop, given its awful interface, when the respectable and free (tho not FOSS) Paint.NET is overlooked. I really dont see why FOSS vs free would matter in the least to a business or burgeoning graphics artist, especially when the alternative is piracy.
Now, I'm no lawyer, but that sounds to me an awful lot like you can't simply say "We're running Linux on these 50 desktops, so we're not counting them.
Sounds to me like you can. What are they going to do, sue you for not having a license on a computer where you use none of their software? Yea, thats going to hold up REAL well.
Looks more like MS is pretending PC=Windows, and conveniently ignoring the fact that Linux desktop distros exist.
What makes it special is that Blackberries CURRENTLY do those things well. Arguing that android COULD is irrelevant; its battery life and overall communication experience is not as good as blackberry's right NOW.
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No government has ever funded anything
Is that some kind of hilarious new sarcasm?
It becomes relevant when we can no longer trust that the summaries have any basis in reality, or that they will be free from gross innacurate hyperbole.
A headline indicating "TiVO to cancel service" would have been sufficient, and would not have sparked this discussion. A headline indicating "TiVO to come out and physically break all of your crap" is irresponsible and inexcusable, and this discussion is because a good number of us think that using the word "brick" is analogous to such a headline.
You dont think the inability to trust that the news youre getting has a basis in reality is significant?
In that case no devices are *ever* bricked.
Take a linksys router. Hook the power terminal directly (sans transformer) to a 220v source. Grats, you just bricked your router.
No, brick has a very specific meaning in electronics jargon. You can refer to a router as bricked if the only recourse is to jtag it; you may not correctly refer to it as bricked if you forgot the password. Again-- a surge which fries the flash chip would be a bricking; losing your internet connection and being unable to use the router, not so much.
You wouldnt call your TV "bricked" if your provider cut you off, because the device still functions. These TiVOs will still function, and are therefore NOT interchangeable with bricks even under your definition.
The tragedy is people who view Fox News as "American" and don't know they are basically being propagandized and programmed against, for example, their own self-intererests, like higher quality, more affordable health care
I like what you did there. You started with a fairly ontopic opinion post, and then turned a corner and made this into some thing about how anyone against the healthcare plan must be a moron and hinges on every word a television personality says.
Is it at ALL possible some people simply dont feel that healthcare is a federal issue? Is it possible that some intelligent people are (gasp!) republicans?
You may want to recheck those benchmarks. Just googled "core i3 2100 vs phenom", this was the first review I found:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4083/the-sandy-bridge-review-intel-core-i7-2600k-i5-2500k-core-i3-2100-tested/16
Second page shows the Phenom roundly trouncing the i3 in a large number of tests, and besting a number of the i7s. There were a few tests where the i3 was slightly superior, most others the phenom was 15-20% faster, and in some cases 50+% faster. Look at the encoding performance, the AMD slaughters the i3.
And from what I can see, the i3 is closer to $150, with its AMD equivalent-- the X2 645-- being closer to $120. On most benchmarks they are rather close to each other, but the AMD is a whopping 20% cheaper. Things arent quite what youre making them out to be.
Thats $350 per port, I think he was right about "insanely expensive".
When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
Is it possible there are good uses for both su and sudo?
As of 2010, it is apparently the case. From what Ive read all RAID cards newer than the H700 are "affected". I have not had a chance to test yet, since I prefer to get my drives from newegg for 50% less, and have thus tried to avoid the affected cards.
Cars are not, however, a toy, so the argument that "its more fun to use it this way" doesnt really hold much water.
He indicated that the speed limit is 55. AFAIK going 80 in that situation would fall under "reckless driving" by a number of definitions, and the potential fine would be very high.
Is it at all possible that youre not unique in your driving ability, and the speed laws apply to us all equally regardless of how fast you feel safe going? People saying "yea, but _I_ can handle it" is how we end up with fatalities from DUIs.
Radiation, not gravity.
If people are entering and exiting the thing, it will lose momentum as it accelerates them. And are you implying that there would be no mechanical friction whatsoever?
By the time they're proven wrong, people will have forgotton about this article; and in the meantime the absolutist statements generate more pagehits. Whats not to like?
There's no reason to have user data stored on the local machine at all. All it does is needlessly choke up bandwidth when synchronising (you do sync it with the server, right? Or do you have some other backup mechanism in place?)
Seems better to tell people that if they dont put their eg scanned, multi-meg images on the shared folder, they will be trashed periodically. Unless you like waiting for file sync to dig through multi-gig folders every time they want to log off?
Folder sync has its place, but its not a panacea, and generally its far easier and less complicated to simply show people where to put the files; theyre not morons. I can see the utility growing as the size of the business grows, but for 0-80 employees, I've had no issues doing without sync for all my users-- across 20-30 organizations. Somehow the employees "get" that data has to go on the shared drive if they want to do anything with it, or have guarentees as to its safety.
Theres also the fact that if you mindlessly sync desktop and mydocs, you may end up with gigs and gigs of pictures and movies on your server-- downloaded from a camera, not the internet, so filtering wont help.
Sounds a heck of a lot more attractive than Dell's RAID cards having a harddrive whitelist (consisting of only drives with dell firmwares).
HP makes fantastic hardware. They just cant quite figure out how to get it to talk to the operating system, is all.
So, why cant I argue that voting for someone who believes in a bigger government isnt a freedom? I mean, from my standpoint, bigger government means less freedom (one way or the other), so clearly everyone should be forced to have the freedom to vote for smaller government.
You claim to be for religious freedom, just so long as they dont believe in "outdated bullshit". Kind of like "youre free to vote for whatever party you like, as long as its the communist party"? That kind of freedom?
So freedom, in your opinion, means that people cannot believe in "outdated, bullshit traditions", whether they want to or not? Sounds like your "freedom" is really you imposing your own ideas on them.
Which is ironic, because the classic, stereotypical attack on muslims is that their religion advocates just that (nevermind that its a mischaracterization)...
This is the same argument that crops up periodically with GPL vs BSD nonsense. Why cant you understand that freedom isnt defined by you? That actual freedom means the freedom to do things that you think arent freedom?
But no, clearly if they want freedom, they have to take it on YOUR terms.
I always wonder why The GIMP is listed as a viable alternative to Photoshop, given its awful interface, when the respectable and free (tho not FOSS) Paint.NET is overlooked. I really dont see why FOSS vs free would matter in the least to a business or burgeoning graphics artist, especially when the alternative is piracy.
Now, I'm no lawyer, but that sounds to me an awful lot like you can't simply say "We're running Linux on these 50 desktops, so we're not counting them.
Sounds to me like you can. What are they going to do, sue you for not having a license on a computer where you use none of their software? Yea, thats going to hold up REAL well.
Looks more like MS is pretending PC=Windows, and conveniently ignoring the fact that Linux desktop distros exist.
Clouds actually do NOT contribute. Having a high albedo, they reflect a lot of incoming sunlight back into space.
What makes it special is that Blackberries CURRENTLY do those things well. Arguing that android COULD is irrelevant; its battery life and overall communication experience is not as good as blackberry's right NOW.