I can't believe it took them 26 years to start working on a proper containment shelter. The original sarcophagus was meant as a temporary solution and wasn't supposed to be relied upon for 26 years.
From TFA, "In surveying the course, some nights I personally got seriously depressed at the notion that this might be standard fare for the college lectures encountered by most students during their academic careers."
It was for me. Most classes were absolutely awful.
Wasn't there a Windows95 bug that would 100% crash the OS after 46 days? And it took years to find this bug because usually the OS would crash much much earlier...
These drives have actually been on the market for well over a year now, and I was (un)lucky enough to pick one up last year when my local Fry's Electronics got them in stock. While the drives themselves are handy because of the amount of data you can squeeze into them, making my macbook pro a beast of a mobile studio (at the time I was using it for music production), they seem to be prone to issues.
The first drive lasted about a month, before I almost lost several weeks worth of a project I was working on due to the drive crashing. I was able to retrieve my work from the drive by mounting it externally before it became completely unreadable, and I attribute this to the high density drives not being able to handle the average bouncing around of a laptop in a backpack. When I attached the drive to one of my linux workstations, I could hear the disks spinning up but dmesg wouldn't pick up the drive and they just kept spinning endlessly louder and louder.
The second drive lasted about 2 months before a similar problem occurred, though by that time I had migrated most of my work to a different workstation. I replaced the drive with the original 500gb drive my macbook came with, and I haven't had any problems since.
In short, I'm not sure if the early drives off the assembly line were just prone to failure more often or if perhaps I was just extremely unlucky with the ones I procured. Either way, I am rather uncomfortable about putting any important data on one of these drives in the future until they've been on the market for a while and have been thoroughly tested.
The drive mentioned in the article has not been out for over a year. The drive you likely bought is this one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136545 That drive is 12.5 mm high, not 9.5. They are indeed prone to issues; at work, we have purchased 11 of them for custom NAS servers and 2 of them have been DOA.
I used wave for a brief period of time. A few classmates and I formed a wave and used it to talk about the class, assignments, and how awful the professor was that day. It initially worked ok for that purpose, but when it got to 100+ posts, it was as slow as molasses and we stopped using it. In retrospect, a forum would have worked better for what we were doing. I think wave was trying to aim for a niche in between IM and forums. The problem is that, that niche doesn't really exist.
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I would like to call attention to the radio abridged reading of War of the Worlds and the panic that ensued when people thought it was a news broadcast.
If the competition for Vista is XP, there would be some incentive for microsoft to break parts of XP with service pack 3. Perhaps we should approach SP3 with caution.
Maybe it's just me, but I've tried taking notes on my laptop before and I just didn't retain the information as well as when I physically write notes with paper and pencil.
Don't they need to make the screens brighter first to allow them to be visible in the sunlight first? I have yet to use a laptop that is even just a little bit usable in the sun.
Whether or not [commercial] developers develop for an operating system has the largest impact on how well an operating system suceeds. With the.net framework, Microsoft has secured a very strong foothold in the programming world. Using the.net framework, you can create powerful, attractive, large applications very rapidly. While, it hasn't taken hold so much in the gaming development world, xna and directx 10 may change this. Moving to development for linux or mac when you are already a.net developer is a daunting and painful experience. One issue with developing on the mac is that you have to use a strange language called Object-C if you want to develop cocoa applications(which you do). Object-C is a bizare attempt at making C object oriented that was created before C++ was introduced.
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The licensing screen on the PS Vita says it is running a modification of FreeBSD too.
I can't believe it took them 26 years to start working on a proper containment shelter. The original sarcophagus was meant as a temporary solution and wasn't supposed to be relied upon for 26 years.
From TFA, "In surveying the course, some nights I personally got seriously depressed at the notion that this might be standard fare for the college lectures encountered by most students during their academic careers." It was for me. Most classes were absolutely awful.
For both of those, as an investor in both companies, I'm very happy with both Jobs' job and Ballmers' job.
Jobs is no longer with the living.
Wasn't there a Windows95 bug that would 100% crash the OS after 46 days? And it took years to find this bug because usually the OS would crash much much earlier...
49.7 days. Affected Windows 95 and 98. http://news.cnet.com/Windows-may-crash-after-49.7-days/2100-1040_3-222391.html
Hulu, among others: http://rubyonrails.org/applications
Here's a protip: Double click on a ribbon tab and watch it collapse, saving your precious vertical space.
Most physics and math pages on the main Wikipedia are incomprehensible. Try this out for size: http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersymmetry
These drives have actually been on the market for well over a year now, and I was (un)lucky enough to pick one up last year when my local Fry's Electronics got them in stock. While the drives themselves are handy because of the amount of data you can squeeze into them, making my macbook pro a beast of a mobile studio (at the time I was using it for music production), they seem to be prone to issues. The first drive lasted about a month, before I almost lost several weeks worth of a project I was working on due to the drive crashing. I was able to retrieve my work from the drive by mounting it externally before it became completely unreadable, and I attribute this to the high density drives not being able to handle the average bouncing around of a laptop in a backpack. When I attached the drive to one of my linux workstations, I could hear the disks spinning up but dmesg wouldn't pick up the drive and they just kept spinning endlessly louder and louder. The second drive lasted about 2 months before a similar problem occurred, though by that time I had migrated most of my work to a different workstation. I replaced the drive with the original 500gb drive my macbook came with, and I haven't had any problems since. In short, I'm not sure if the early drives off the assembly line were just prone to failure more often or if perhaps I was just extremely unlucky with the ones I procured. Either way, I am rather uncomfortable about putting any important data on one of these drives in the future until they've been on the market for a while and have been thoroughly tested.
The drive mentioned in the article has not been out for over a year. The drive you likely bought is this one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136545 That drive is 12.5 mm high, not 9.5. They are indeed prone to issues; at work, we have purchased 11 of them for custom NAS servers and 2 of them have been DOA.
I used wave for a brief period of time. A few classmates and I formed a wave and used it to talk about the class, assignments, and how awful the professor was that day. It initially worked ok for that purpose, but when it got to 100+ posts, it was as slow as molasses and we stopped using it. In retrospect, a forum would have worked better for what we were doing. I think wave was trying to aim for a niche in between IM and forums. The problem is that, that niche doesn't really exist.
Obligatory: I would like to call attention to the radio abridged reading of War of the Worlds and the panic that ensued when people thought it was a news broadcast.
If the competition for Vista is XP, there would be some incentive for microsoft to break parts of XP with service pack 3. Perhaps we should approach SP3 with caution.
There seems to be a huge community backlash in the user scores section: http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/action/kanelynchdeadmen/players.html?om_act=convert&om_clk=gssummary&tag=summary;yousay
Maybe it's just me, but I've tried taking notes on my laptop before and I just didn't retain the information as well as when I physically write notes with paper and pencil.
Don't they need to make the screens brighter first to allow them to be visible in the sunlight first? I have yet to use a laptop that is even just a little bit usable in the sun.
Whether or not [commercial] developers develop for an operating system has the largest impact on how well an operating system suceeds. With the .net framework, Microsoft has secured a very strong foothold in the programming world. Using the .net framework, you can create powerful, attractive, large applications very rapidly. While, it hasn't taken hold so much in the gaming development world, xna and directx 10 may change this. Moving to development for linux or mac when you are already a .net developer is a daunting and painful experience. One issue with developing on the mac is that you have to use a strange language called Object-C if you want to develop cocoa applications(which you do). Object-C is a bizare attempt at making C object oriented that was created before C++ was introduced.