That's good they learned to stack silicon vertically and dropped my SSD's price by 50% in the past 8 months. I paid about $120 for a 120GB during tax season earlier this year, and now the 240GB model is going for $120. 50% price drop in less than a year is pretty good. The new 120GB models are $115, but they come with a 10 year warranty and are much faster and lower power.
A 4x increase in resolution is much less than a 4x increase in storage requirements. Unless we switch to holographic recordings, storage requirements for media is being outpaced by storage growth. Videos have gone from 100MB/hour to 1GB/hour(1080p) in the past 15 years but HDs have gone from 10GB to 8TB, and still cheaper and faster. For only several thousand dollars, I could build a RAID6 setup that could hold every movie I've ever watched in BlueRay quality. 15 years ago, I couldn't store more than a few days of binge watching of blurry videos for the same price.
EFI was deprecated 10 years ago for UEFI. Unless you're talking about 10year+ old machines, they support 2TB+ boot drives. I don't mean machines sold in the past 10 years, I mean the actual age of the tech. Some bargain bin computers are several years old at the time of purchase.
ECC memory triggers an even on error. There are counters to see how many memory errors you've had since boot. After the first multi-day memtest burn-in, you should be good just monitoring the counters.
Spinning drives are starting to became just as bad. 256MB zones that can be moved around that contain dynamically sized physical blocks based on if the data is an inner or outer track, multiple logical blocks per physical block. It's like a tree of pointers. Points to where the zone is located, pointer to where the physical block is located, pointer to where the logical block is located, all being shifted around.
Modern wear levelers will even move blocks that aren't being written to, in order to maintain evenness. Older ones only allowed wear leveling to happen with "free" blocks, but now all blocks can be moved.
New shingled harddrives have some very complex data-keeping going on, about as bad as SSDs. Pointers everywhere, keeping track of where the LBA actually goes on the disc.
A direct hit from above is one thing, a direct hit from the inside is another. The difference between a firecracker going off on the palm of your hand compared to a clenched fist.
Based on another site, the issue seems to be that this company is claiming to be able to call under the pretenses that they are a debt collector trying to collect the "debt" of paying for infringements or face a lawsuit. The problem seems to be that because this is a civil issue, there cannot be a "Debt" until they win a lawsuit. They put the carriage before the horse. They can sue, then attempt to collect debt, but not the other way around. Because there is no official debt, they are not allowed to robo call.
I had this once, complained to the police department, they put a trace on my phone line and found who was calling me. I never found out who, but I stopped getting calls.
On average, I reboot Windows about 0.125 times per week for Windows Updates. I keep going until I can't stand the "postpone" prompt anymore. The longest I've gone is about 8 months, but then I needed to reboot for a major graphic driver update.
Comp Sci 101 - The class that failed 80% of the students and they went to take on another major
Comp Sci 102 - The class that failed 50% of the students and they want to take on another major
In most high end planes, yolks are fly-by-wire, using advanced algorithms to make the plane operate like expected.
As a developer, a good portion of what I do is consult my manager. I'd say it's about 50/50 in that I tell him how it should be done, and I get my way, or I do exactly what he says, or some general mix of the two.
If all they want you to do is code, then they want a code monkey, not a programmer. There may be a lack of jobs where you are, but I'd look around for better.
We use Agile for the *development* process which is distinct from the *design* process. That is, we do architecture up front, including DB design, and - surprise - we even build the server platforms too!
Don't ever leave your job unless this is becomes no longer true. So many people think agile is free tick to skip design and when wonder why agile isn't saving them from creating a pile of crap.
It is like BitTorrent in that is primarily uses the BT protocol. The problem is why would I want to host your files? Sync allows you to setup "shares" among your computers. While this doesn't help much with increasing bandwidth from your home, you can also setup shares with your friends. This means your friends download your files and help distribute them. Of course everything is encrypted. By default, your friends can't see your files, but you can share with them a key to allow read or read-write access.
Coder: My program works fine on my box, it's your job as an admin to make sure production supports my code
Admin: I'm not enabling dynamic SQL and cmdexec calls on the DB nor punching holes in the firewall to support your custom networking code
This was a bit exaggerated, but for a system to be well designed, all aspects of the system must be taken into account from all view points. A great "programmer" can also think like a server admin, a network admin, a storage admin, a hacker, CPU, memory, harddrives, OS, assembler, etc.
80/20 rule, you don't need to be proficient, but you do need to understand the issues.
PC-BSD is just a wrapper on top of FreeBSD. Their installer supports upgrading an existing FreeBSD install or even doing naked FreeBSD only install. highly recommended
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That's good they learned to stack silicon vertically and dropped my SSD's price by 50% in the past 8 months. I paid about $120 for a 120GB during tax season earlier this year, and now the 240GB model is going for $120. 50% price drop in less than a year is pretty good. The new 120GB models are $115, but they come with a 10 year warranty and are much faster and lower power.
A 4x increase in resolution is much less than a 4x increase in storage requirements. Unless we switch to holographic recordings, storage requirements for media is being outpaced by storage growth. Videos have gone from 100MB/hour to 1GB/hour(1080p) in the past 15 years but HDs have gone from 10GB to 8TB, and still cheaper and faster. For only several thousand dollars, I could build a RAID6 setup that could hold every movie I've ever watched in BlueRay quality. 15 years ago, I couldn't store more than a few days of binge watching of blurry videos for the same price.
EFI was deprecated 10 years ago for UEFI. Unless you're talking about 10year+ old machines, they support 2TB+ boot drives. I don't mean machines sold in the past 10 years, I mean the actual age of the tech. Some bargain bin computers are several years old at the time of purchase.
5 years for current-gen TLC
That's good Samsung's new cheap SSD drives come with a 10 year warranty.
ECC memory triggers an even on error. There are counters to see how many memory errors you've had since boot. After the first multi-day memtest burn-in, you should be good just monitoring the counters.
Spinning drives are starting to became just as bad. 256MB zones that can be moved around that contain dynamically sized physical blocks based on if the data is an inner or outer track, multiple logical blocks per physical block. It's like a tree of pointers. Points to where the zone is located, pointer to where the physical block is located, pointer to where the logical block is located, all being shifted around.
Modern wear levelers will even move blocks that aren't being written to, in order to maintain evenness. Older ones only allowed wear leveling to happen with "free" blocks, but now all blocks can be moved.
New shingled harddrives have some very complex data-keeping going on, about as bad as SSDs. Pointers everywhere, keeping track of where the LBA actually goes on the disc.
A direct hit from above is one thing, a direct hit from the inside is another. The difference between a firecracker going off on the palm of your hand compared to a clenched fist.
Based on another site, the issue seems to be that this company is claiming to be able to call under the pretenses that they are a debt collector trying to collect the "debt" of paying for infringements or face a lawsuit. The problem seems to be that because this is a civil issue, there cannot be a "Debt" until they win a lawsuit. They put the carriage before the horse. They can sue, then attempt to collect debt, but not the other way around. Because there is no official debt, they are not allowed to robo call.
In this case, they were a company that has public stock and got investment funding with the promise of monetary returns. The investors are not happy.
I had this once, complained to the police department, they put a trace on my phone line and found who was calling me. I never found out who, but I stopped getting calls.
Working more than 40 hours/week salaried?! Dear lord! Glad I don't do that, while being salaried.
On average, I reboot Windows about 0.125 times per week for Windows Updates. I keep going until I can't stand the "postpone" prompt anymore. The longest I've gone is about 8 months, but then I needed to reboot for a major graphic driver update.
Comp Sci 101 - The class that failed 80% of the students and they went to take on another major
Comp Sci 102 - The class that failed 50% of the students and they want to take on another major
In most high end planes, yolks are fly-by-wire, using advanced algorithms to make the plane operate like expected.
Job security has its own value, along with enjoyment. You can't base everything off of the pay.
Don't forget these imaginary "sicknesses" due to wind turbines.
You mean the high amplitude infrasound that can mess with your inner ear and make your feel sick or possibly cause hearing damage in some cases?
Connection fee is about $15 and the usage is a flat $0.10/kwh
As a developer, a good portion of what I do is consult my manager. I'd say it's about 50/50 in that I tell him how it should be done, and I get my way, or I do exactly what he says, or some general mix of the two.
If all they want you to do is code, then they want a code monkey, not a programmer. There may be a lack of jobs where you are, but I'd look around for better.
We use Agile for the *development* process which is distinct from the *design* process. That is, we do architecture up front, including DB design, and - surprise - we even build the server platforms too!
Don't ever leave your job unless this is becomes no longer true. So many people think agile is free tick to skip design and when wonder why agile isn't saving them from creating a pile of crap.
I hate UI work, I prefer APIs and commandlines.
Are you saying the Walmart staff should have Internet access at their registers?
It is like BitTorrent in that is primarily uses the BT protocol. The problem is why would I want to host your files? Sync allows you to setup "shares" among your computers. While this doesn't help much with increasing bandwidth from your home, you can also setup shares with your friends. This means your friends download your files and help distribute them. Of course everything is encrypted. By default, your friends can't see your files, but you can share with them a key to allow read or read-write access.
/agree
Coder: My program works fine on my box, it's your job as an admin to make sure production supports my code
Admin: I'm not enabling dynamic SQL and cmdexec calls on the DB nor punching holes in the firewall to support your custom networking code
This was a bit exaggerated, but for a system to be well designed, all aspects of the system must be taken into account from all view points. A great "programmer" can also think like a server admin, a network admin, a storage admin, a hacker, CPU, memory, harddrives, OS, assembler, etc.
80/20 rule, you don't need to be proficient, but you do need to understand the issues.
PC-BSD is just a wrapper on top of FreeBSD. Their installer supports upgrading an existing FreeBSD install or even doing naked FreeBSD only install. highly recommended
Desktop users started taking over Linux and now we have SystemD. Be careful what you wish for.