I've been wanting an electric car forever. The environment? meh, whatever, I'm just sick of funneling billions of dollars towards countries that hate us just so that I can get from A to B. Hydrogen, E85, etc, those are all just ways for the existing fuel companies to continue raking in the bucks. There's no reason to use those when we can use electricity. Electricity is everywhere - you don't have to worry about waiting for your small town to get a hydrogen / E85 / whatever station. You just get the necessary hook-up at your house and you're done. Additionally, I still haven't seen any evidence that power generated locally by an engine in a car is more efficient than power generated at a massive power plant.
I'm happy with my 4GB of RAM and 64bit Vista! Although I agree that memory is getting cheaper, and I'm fortunate enough to have a ton of it, that's still no excuse to just let programs consume as many resources as they can. I'm not saying FireFox is unreasonable, but I am saying that sloppy coding is getting far too common. We as IT / SE types need to help put a stop to some of the bloat that comes about as a result of lazy coding....Not everyone has a brand new machine. My mom's is 5 years old - she wants to surf the net too.
To add to what others have already posted -.jpg's suck up memory. Although they're small to begin with, the browser decompresses them and stores the decompressed version in memory. At least they used to a few years back, I'm assuming they still do.
Ummmm how do you know I'm not? This is the dumbest question ever. Just because I'm pointing out that it's foolish to waste money studying the effects of marijuana on people doesn't mean I'm not personally funding cancer research. ugh.
*sigh*. Crazy potheads. I never said that I support the war on drugs, I said we shouldn't be wasting money doing studies on the effects of marijuana. I actually happen to think that the war on drugs is a phenomenal waste of time and money. Although I don't agree with drug use I also think that the war on drugs is the most futile endeavor ever.
I saw special on TV about 9 months ago - it's not just lead bullet testing. There are thousands of people in jail based on bad science and / or human error. Hair analysis and finger printing are two good examples. Both of these techniques are only as good as the person executing them. I don't remember the state, but there was a guy that was doing hair analysis for criminal cases that knew nothing about it. He testified in hundreds of cases and put many people in jail. When the state found out that he was bogus they refused to pay to retry any of the defendants. Even in cases where his testimony was the state's primary evidence. The fact is, our government doesn't really care about true justice. They want the appearance of justice, just like they want the appearance of security. Real justice requires more time, effort and money than fake justice.
It's these darn kids clogging up our Internet with their garbage YouTube videos and their crappy MySpace pages with 5 million songs and videos playing at once on them and their loads of crappy prom pictures on Flickr. If those darn kids would just stay offa my Internet lawn there'd be plenty of bandwidth for me!
It's good to see so many people have done research to make sure that pot smokers can get high safely. Now if only we had time for those poor sods with *real* diseases...
ZOMG HOLY ASDF yes! I was about to say the same thing. I went shopping with my nephew and the cheapest HDMI cable we could find at Frys was $35. For a 6 foot long cable, that's a rip off. It's DIGITAL, not analog. Gold plating and a ton of shielding aren't going to make a difference in the signal. Either it'll work or it won't. This madness needs to be stopped.
I don't think I've even seen TinyURLs outside of print. The only time a TinyURL makes sense is when a human needs to write it down / type it into their browser. So if you're reading a newspaper article or a magazine and they give you a TinyURL it's nicer than a full size URL. That's the only use. If you're using TinyURL online, you're an idiot. That's what links are for. The URL could be ten pages long but the user isn't going to see it on your webpage, they'll just click the link that says, "go here". Once you get to the page, if you really like it, you'll just bookmark it. Maybe you'll cut and paste the URL and send it to a friend. Cut and paste doesn't care how long it is and neither does the bookmarking code. Either way, at that point, the length of the URL is irrelevant.
Now that I'm done ranting I'm going to go read some real news!
With 64MB you get limited functionality. I don't know the details but I know some things don't work. I also know that even 128MB of RAM with XP is a joke. The OS itself will suck up that much. Swap file city.
The first thing we do at my work when we get a new machine is reformat it and slap a clean install on. Then, if necessary, we add back some of the 3rd party apps that ship with the machine. Sometimes you need the touchpad utility, or the fingerprint software, or the bluetooth stuff. Although it takes a little extra time it makes a big difference in performance.
The best feature is it plays the movie. If I want the menu, previews, FBI warning, or "Don't steal this film" short, I can watch them later if I want.
Now, that sounds cool. The garbage you have to sit through at the beginning of a movie drives me nuts!
Ugh, or RAM just keeps on getting cheaper for the same reason hard drives keep getting bigger and processors keep on getting faster: competition between hardware vendors. Vista has nothing to do with it - don't be ridiculous. You can't say Vista sucks and it has no market share at the same time as you credit it for driving down memory prices.
Additionally, do we have to go through this with every release? Every update to Windows has required more resources. I remember balking because you couldn't run XP without 256 MB of RAM (128MB is the minimum, but it's a joke). Now Vista requires 512 MB (ok, we know that's really a 1GB, but whatever). Looking back, a 2-4 times increase in memory requirements is pretty standard. Brush up on your history. Does everyone have long term memory issues? Maybe you spent too much on "cheap vista RAM" and should have bought a bigger hard drive for long term memory support. I don't blindly love Microsoft, I'm just sick of the mindless bashing on/.
I agree. The early versions of Linux were definitely for the tech savvy only. Driver support was lousy and you usually spent a lot of time on the command line getting yourself going. That's not something Joe Schmoe is going to want to do on his own. A guy that doesn't know a megabyte from a gigahertz wouldn't have enjoyed setting himself up with Linux 5+ years ago.
People seem to forget what a big upgrade Windows 95, 98 and 2000 were. The improvements in stability, security, ease of use, and productivity were pretty significant. XP's nice, but even it didn't usurp 2000 the way 2000 did 98. I don't think any businesses "skipped" those releases because they were on some plan. If they chose not to upgrade it was either cost related, effort / time related or they had some legacy crap that had compatibility issues with the newest version. Although XP and Vista aren't quite as big of an improvement I think the real mistake with Vista was the pricing, the confusing versions, and the high system requirements - and I'm not talking RAM, RAM is cheap and XP "required a bunch" when it first came out too. I'm talking about the video and processor requirements.
Regarding your wife's laptop - boot dialog boxes? What are you talking about? Do you have a ton of crapware on there? Are you talking about waiting for the BIOS to do its checks? I've played countless DVD's on my Vista box using WMP and I've never had a problem with a single one. I've definitely never had any Java related prompts. Either your DVD came with some kind of DRM / player installer or you're using some craptastic 3rd party player. Either way, I wouldn't blame Vista because you didn't test your presentation beforehand.
Dual monitors? Of course Vista works with dual monitors, so does XP. I'm running two monitors on Vista right now, and I can hook up four.
AFAIK all of these SSDs have a limited number of writes that can be performed before they start having bad "sectors" (dunno the flash memory name equivalent of a sector off the top of my head). I don't see any information on those sites, but I'd be interested in knowing - how long until they start to fail? At what rate will it fail (in other words, how long to go from say, 500GB to 0GB)? These drives are great, but if you drop that kind of coin and then they fail in a year... that would suck.
But for feds to regulate-away throttling itself, is a nightmare.
From what I saw they're only trying to "urge the FCC to adopt regulations limiting Internet traffic throttling," - not do away with it entirely. While I agree that federal control of networks is bad, I also don't see much else happening to bring Comcast to its senses. They ignore consumers (we all know what their "customer service" is like) and they fight like crazy to keep any competition out of their market. At this point I'm just happy to see someone having a go at making their life a little more difficult.
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I've been wanting an electric car forever. The environment? meh, whatever, I'm just sick of funneling billions of dollars towards countries that hate us just so that I can get from A to B. Hydrogen, E85, etc, those are all just ways for the existing fuel companies to continue raking in the bucks. There's no reason to use those when we can use electricity. Electricity is everywhere - you don't have to worry about waiting for your small town to get a hydrogen / E85 / whatever station. You just get the necessary hook-up at your house and you're done. Additionally, I still haven't seen any evidence that power generated locally by an engine in a car is more efficient than power generated at a massive power plant.
I'm happy with my 4GB of RAM and 64bit Vista! Although I agree that memory is getting cheaper, and I'm fortunate enough to have a ton of it, that's still no excuse to just let programs consume as many resources as they can. I'm not saying FireFox is unreasonable, but I am saying that sloppy coding is getting far too common. We as IT / SE types need to help put a stop to some of the bloat that comes about as a result of lazy coding. ...Not everyone has a brand new machine. My mom's is 5 years old - she wants to surf the net too.
To add to what others have already posted - .jpg's suck up memory. Although they're small to begin with, the browser decompresses them and stores the decompressed version in memory. At least they used to a few years back, I'm assuming they still do.
Ummmm how do you know I'm not? This is the dumbest question ever. Just because I'm pointing out that it's foolish to waste money studying the effects of marijuana on people doesn't mean I'm not personally funding cancer research. ugh.
*sigh*. Crazy potheads. I never said that I support the war on drugs, I said we shouldn't be wasting money doing studies on the effects of marijuana. I actually happen to think that the war on drugs is a phenomenal waste of time and money. Although I don't agree with drug use I also think that the war on drugs is the most futile endeavor ever.
Do you know if it will support a network printer? I've been looking for a good NAS that will support a printer.
I thought potheads were supposed to be mellow... not angry.
Yeah... too bad your comment will never get modded up. :P
I saw special on TV about 9 months ago - it's not just lead bullet testing. There are thousands of people in jail based on bad science and / or human error. Hair analysis and finger printing are two good examples. Both of these techniques are only as good as the person executing them. I don't remember the state, but there was a guy that was doing hair analysis for criminal cases that knew nothing about it. He testified in hundreds of cases and put many people in jail. When the state found out that he was bogus they refused to pay to retry any of the defendants. Even in cases where his testimony was the state's primary evidence. The fact is, our government doesn't really care about true justice. They want the appearance of justice, just like they want the appearance of security. Real justice requires more time, effort and money than fake justice.
It's these darn kids clogging up our Internet with their garbage YouTube videos and their crappy MySpace pages with 5 million songs and videos playing at once on them and their loads of crappy prom pictures on Flickr. If those darn kids would just stay offa my Internet lawn there'd be plenty of bandwidth for me!
It's good to see so many people have done research to make sure that pot smokers can get high safely. Now if only we had time for those poor sods with *real* diseases...
nucking futs.
ZOMG HOLY ASDF yes! I was about to say the same thing. I went shopping with my nephew and the cheapest HDMI cable we could find at Frys was $35. For a 6 foot long cable, that's a rip off. It's DIGITAL, not analog. Gold plating and a ton of shielding aren't going to make a difference in the signal. Either it'll work or it won't. This madness needs to be stopped.
I don't think I've even seen TinyURLs outside of print. The only time a TinyURL makes sense is when a human needs to write it down / type it into their browser. So if you're reading a newspaper article or a magazine and they give you a TinyURL it's nicer than a full size URL. That's the only use. If you're using TinyURL online, you're an idiot. That's what links are for. The URL could be ten pages long but the user isn't going to see it on your webpage, they'll just click the link that says, "go here". Once you get to the page, if you really like it, you'll just bookmark it. Maybe you'll cut and paste the URL and send it to a friend. Cut and paste doesn't care how long it is and neither does the bookmarking code. Either way, at that point, the length of the URL is irrelevant.
Now that I'm done ranting I'm going to go read some real news!
Right... taking various quotes completely out of context and then interpreting them incorrectly for a comic makes that 100% believable!
With 64MB you get limited functionality. I don't know the details but I know some things don't work. I also know that even 128MB of RAM with XP is a joke. The OS itself will suck up that much. Swap file city.
Now, that sounds cool. The garbage you have to sit through at the beginning of a movie drives me nuts!
Ugh, or RAM just keeps on getting cheaper for the same reason hard drives keep getting bigger and processors keep on getting faster: competition between hardware vendors. Vista has nothing to do with it - don't be ridiculous. You can't say Vista sucks and it has no market share at the same time as you credit it for driving down memory prices.
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Additionally, do we have to go through this with every release? Every update to Windows has required more resources. I remember balking because you couldn't run XP without 256 MB of RAM (128MB is the minimum, but it's a joke). Now Vista requires 512 MB (ok, we know that's really a 1GB, but whatever). Looking back, a 2-4 times increase in memory requirements is pretty standard. Brush up on your history. Does everyone have long term memory issues? Maybe you spent too much on "cheap vista RAM" and should have bought a bigger hard drive for long term memory support. I don't blindly love Microsoft, I'm just sick of the mindless bashing on
I agree. The early versions of Linux were definitely for the tech savvy only. Driver support was lousy and you usually spent a lot of time on the command line getting yourself going. That's not something Joe Schmoe is going to want to do on his own. A guy that doesn't know a megabyte from a gigahertz wouldn't have enjoyed setting himself up with Linux 5+ years ago.
Regarding your wife's laptop - boot dialog boxes? What are you talking about? Do you have a ton of crapware on there? Are you talking about waiting for the BIOS to do its checks? I've played countless DVD's on my Vista box using WMP and I've never had a problem with a single one. I've definitely never had any Java related prompts. Either your DVD came with some kind of DRM / player installer or you're using some craptastic 3rd party player. Either way, I wouldn't blame Vista because you didn't test your presentation beforehand.
Dual monitors? Of course Vista works with dual monitors, so does XP. I'm running two monitors on Vista right now, and I can hook up four.
Soooo I'm asking a serious question and I get troll? Ok... Anyway, thanks to those of you that gave intelligent responses. I learned somethin'.
AFAIK all of these SSDs have a limited number of writes that can be performed before they start having bad "sectors" (dunno the flash memory name equivalent of a sector off the top of my head). I don't see any information on those sites, but I'd be interested in knowing - how long until they start to fail? At what rate will it fail (in other words, how long to go from say, 500GB to 0GB)? These drives are great, but if you drop that kind of coin and then they fail in a year... that would suck.
Must be called YoMommasaurus.