If money is your focus, then make content worth selling on its own.
Authors will assume that your ad blocking means you think everything is worth selling. Enjoy your paywalls.
I will! 99.9% of the content on the internet is of no interest to me, and of that.1% that I'm interested in, 99% of it is shit. If everything were paywalled the shit would go away,
The way to combat this is for every website that detects the DNT header to simply respond with a page saying how to turn it off or download a different browser. How quickly we all forget what it was like to be constantly bombarded with ads for products you cannnot use or cannot be purchased in your locale.
I vastly prefer random ads to targeted ads. It's absolutely infuriating trying to get a good deal on hotels or airfare. I have to enable 3rd party cookies, turn of ghostery/noscript/adblock plus, and then browse to travel site a, look for something, browse to travel site b, look for the same thing, leave, and browse to travel site a and look for the same thing again to get a lower price.
Of course, my actual preference is for NO ads at all, which is why I block them fiercely. Content creators can't make money without? Not my problem. If money is your focus, then make content worth selling on its own.
No this is not thought crime, this is punishing a real crime. Making "terrorist threats" has been a crime for a very long time. You can think about crime all you like, telling someone you are going to kill people is a crime. Just not as bad a crime as actually doing it.
You are responsible for the direct consequences of your speech (causing violence, causing someone to legitimately fear for their safety thus disrupting their life, causing a panic in a crowded space resulting in people getting injured by yelling fire, causing someone to take a quantifiable financial hit due to your libel or slander).
Speech in itself is never a crime. You can point to laws and court rulings all you want that "prove" otherwise. Those laws are unconstitutional, those courts are wrong because:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Cool, I already eat vegan so it's not even a stretch to subsist on a goopy nigh-inedible paste.
Murtogg: This dock is off-limits to civilians. Jack Sparrow: I'm terribly sorry, I didn't know. If I see one, I shall inform you immediately. [Jack makes to continue but is blocked by Murtogg and Mullroy] Jack Sparrow: Apparently there's some sort of high-toned and fancy to-do up at the fort, eh? How could it be that two upstanding gentlemen, such as yourselves, did not merit an invitation? Murtogg: Someone's got to make sure that this dock stays off-limits to civilians. Jack Sparrow: It's a fine goal, to be sure. But it seems to me... that a ship like that one, makes this one here seem a bit superfluous, really. Murtogg: Oh, the Dauntless is the power in these waters, true enough. But there's no ship as can match the Interceptor for speed. Jack Sparrow: I've heard of one, supposed to be very fast, nigh uncatchable: The Black Pearl. Mullroy: Well, there's no real ship as can match the Interceptor. Murtogg: The Black Pearl is a real ship. Mullroy: No, it's not. Murtogg: Yes it is, I've seen it. Mullroy: You've seen it? Murtogg: Yes. Mullroy: You haven't seen it. Murtogg: Yes, I have. Mullroy: You've seen a ship with black sails that's crewed by the damned, and captained by a man so evil that Hell itself spat him back out? Murtogg: No. Mullroy: No. Murtogg: But I have seen a ship with black sails. [Jack quietly slips passed them unnoticed] Mullroy: Oh, and no ship that's not crewed by the damned and captained by a man so evil that Hell itself spat him back out could possibly have black sails, therefore couldn't possibly be any other ship than the Black Pearl. Is that what you're telling me? Murtogg: [nods] No. Mullroy: Like I said, there's no real ship as can match the Interceptor.
I'd be a little nervous about the teratogenic potential of the radiation you'd run into on the way; but (all joking aside) a plan like 'colonize mars' is really starting to get into the territory where somewhat... unconventional choices in order to save space/life support/etc. might start to be come eminently sensible.
Barring truly impressive recycling/life support systems, for instance, you could ship a hell of a lot of sperm specimens in cryo for the same payload cost that a single man and supplies to last the trip would occupy, with the additional advantage of far more genetic diversity than any single father could provide. Sooner or later, because of the finite shelf life of cryopreserved sperm cells, you'd need to re introduce males into your population; but it would seem somewhat inefficient to have any for the first generation, possibly even the first several generations...
Except you wouldn't get any work done without men. Especially not any work that involves manual labor or operating machinery, such as building a colony.
Furthermore, if your goal is to repopulate (why else are you sending sperm?) then you must already have a dome or whatever with sufficient infrastructure to support the increased population. Might as well send people with those supplies to continue development. The trip would cost mote, but those people are ready to work the instant they arrive. Sperm will put a woman out of colony building work for several months at least, and will in the best case scenario yield a child which is a net loss on the output of the colony as a whole, as well as the output per capita.
You don't breed on an unterraformed planet until you can do it, and sustain it, locally.
You should read the post you're responding to before responding. That's not the latest version. OEMs that pay up have had access to that shit for 3-6 months and are actively working on shit that is one or two major versions ahead of the open source version at all times. For all OEMs that want to seriously compete in the market, that code is useless. For all hobbyists that want to embrace an open source platform, that code is nearly useless. Additionally, it doesn't include the core Google applications, which are only "not part of Android" if you don't consider the overall user experience that the marketing campaign espouses to be part of Android.
If OEMs want to compete in the big leagues they have to pay up. Smaller OEMs will release cheaper phones on the older (open) versions, then if they're moderately successful they'll release higher-end phones on the older (open) versions and rush out a patch when the open version gets updated (and then users will beg their carriers to push it out OTA). Then they realize that situation is shitty and either stick to the older version with cheaper phones, or pony up cash and lick the boot of Google to compete in the high end.
If hobbyists want to do shit they either do shit that's useful to no one because you need open hardware, or they do shit that only half works because it's based on closed (but well poked at) hardware, or they do shit that works but involves the ol' *wink wink* *nudge nudge* about what the ROM was really based off of and where you can get the Google Play Store, Google Maps, etc., which makes it legally dubious and a failure in terms of being open source.
You may as well say XBOX Live is free and point at the silver membership as proof while saying "It's still XBOX Live!".
On the plus side, between the new iPhone connector and the loss of features like Google Maps, Android's just looking like a nicer alternative.:-)
Ok, so let me get this straight:
Slashdot readers, and especially the multitudinous Fandroid faction, who, by and large, value supporting a computing platform based on its "philosophy", are now going to argue that Apple sticking with an on-again, off-again "Partner/Competitor", (Google), who can take their ball and go home at any time is actually preferable to them "rolling their own" Mapping solution?
If so, the F/OSS "movement" has just jumped the shark on their entire philosophy.
1: The preferred situation is for Apple to develop their own maps/etc. program and let it live alongside Google's (and Microsoft's - Bing's maps are great, but there's no live navigation / etc.) and let the users choose.
2: The open source "movement" has nothing to do with Android. Android is no longer open source. It hasn't been since 2.2.Something. The latest version is always closed and you have to pay Google to get in on it. The older versions are released as open source (AOSP). Good luck getting them to work with your closed hardware, closed radio, etc., and if you're an OEM good luck competing with the OEMs who paid up and are launching devices with one major version ahead of you every single time.
And what evidence do you currently have that Mann intentionally and currently lies and manipulates data? For that matter, what evidence do you have that he ever did? Unless you have some existing evidence (called "probable cause"), this looks like it's just a fishing expedition by a pompous blowhard politician stoking his base for a run at governor in a few years.
If Mann intentionally did those things, and the DA found out and pressed charges and went to trial, then I guarantee you that he would be punished according to the laws that we currently have in place. But to say that "he won't be punished for it" requires that his guilt be determined in a court of law, and for that, you need some justifiable reason to get a judge to grant discovery. In this case so far, the judge has not seen any justification aside from partisan allegations from the DA's office, which are world their weight (eg: nothing). So, instead of parroting your opinion as absolute truth and congratulating yourself on how well you _know_ he is guilty but you _know_ he won't be punished, let the legal system do its work to root out and find guilt - that's what it's there for after all.
Are you fucking shitting me? Google "Mann" and read. And you're fucking retarded if you think guilt means you'll be found guilty in a court of law and punished. Have you not been paying attention to the courts for the past, I don't know, 236 years?
Of course all your emails are not a matter of public record. But all of your work is. All of your emails regarding that work are. If you email Bob about your work and your niece's birthday party, then the email would be public record with the part about the niece redacted.
All you do in your capacity as someone who gets paid with public moneys is public record and accessible via a FOIA request, with the usual exceptions for national security and whatnot (which don't apply when there's a court case - the court would get the records and then not release those records outside of the courtroom).
Mann is paid with public funds. All of his work is public record. The FOIA request should have been granted. It will be granted in an appeal. We will get further evidence that Mann intentionally lies and manipulates data. He won't be punsihed for it.
Wrong. If you're warping spacetime it's equivalent to moving the two points closer together. The problem with this is that there's stuff in that space, including the traveler. If you manage to do it, that wrinkle/pinch/wormhole/whatever you want to call it is going to have effects on everything around it. So either deal with travelers warping small chunks of spacetime as they travel (effectively capping them at near light speed since they'd have to spend time warping pace) or maintain wormholes by warping space between two gates, then moving one gate far away while maintaining the wormhole with insane amounts of energy.
Basically it's laughable even in theory, and you never get FTL and you never get time travel due to compressed space.
No, it's true for all Android versions since 2.2 or something (I forget the dumbass name they use for it).
It's closed source for as long as certain OEMs need it to be in order to get their product out the door. These OEMs pay big cash money and agree to leave all the Google stuff in and as the default/only choice. When devices launch it then becomes open source and other OEMs can work with it. Of course, by the time they get a product out using that version, the OEMs who pay up and suck Google's dick are about to release a product using the next version of Android.
The latest version of Android is never open source. People using the open source version of Android are 3-6 months behind what certain OEMs have access to and know about. It's not about being open "eventually" or "before hardware comes out", it's about OEMs, developers, etc. having access to it at the same time. If your competitor has had access to source code for 3-6 months longer than you, you're screwed. If the source code is opened up only a week before a competitor's device launches (or even a month before), you don't have a chance in hell at getting your device out (with the latest version of Android) in time to compete.
No, because Android is free, and Google doesn't work with most OEMs. They only work with a very, very few OEMs, and only on one or two devices. Motorola Xoom, Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 7, etc... those are the devices Google worked with OEMs on. Asus Transformer, Sony Xperia, Galaxy SIII - Google didn't do shit for those devices. Google hasn't worked with Acer on any devices so far - the relationship between those two seems weak at best.
This sounds like a blame game by Alibaba. Google has certainly not blocked "forks" or skins of Android, why would they try and block a completely different OS? Samsung makes WP7 phones, for example. Google hasn't tried blocking Amazon's Fire in any way.
Android is no longer truly open source. The latest major version of Android is always closed source and it is only showed to a select few OEMs - the OEMs who play by Google's rules and install all the Google-branded apps by default. If you're not in that club your latest device will be releasing with 4.3 Powdery Tart when the "flagship" products from other OEMs are releasing with 4.4.2 Flaky Strudel, dooming your products to perpetual obsolescence,
Which is basically none of them. I would be astonished if anyone could link me a drive sold on newegg, amazon, or by Dell that does not implement NCQ when set to AHCI mode.
Nobody who cares uses AHCI. People who care go into the BIOS/UEFI and set their controller to RAID. Once that's done, you have no clue what the drive is fucking doing and what the Intel / Nvidia RAID controller ROM is doing, and what the corresponding driver is doing.
NCQ? Caching? Hot-swapping? No one can reliably tell you wtf is going on. You can yank a drive and the add a drive, but when shit explodes (and it will!) you'll be left wondering who's at fault. The drive? The BIOS/UEFI? The RAID controller? The driver? The OS?
If you trust a hard drive manufacturer on the face of things, I've got a wireless router to sell you. It has all these features for QoS and firewalling and it's secure and it gets 300 mbps and it's got the DLNA,I swear. See? It's on the box, it must be true. And I promise I'll keep updating the firmware and never push out a firmware update that removes features and prevents you from rolling back.
This isn't just about Amazon and Apple. It's the fact no one will be able to compete against Amazon. If you don't think that's a problem then there's something wrong with you.
Anyone can compete in the eBook selling business.
1: Sign license agreements with publishers 2: Resell individual licenses to customers through a website 3: Send eBook file to customer
It's not like a physical store with a mass of inventory and startup costs.
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If money is your focus, then make content worth selling on its own.
Authors will assume that your ad blocking means you think everything is worth selling. Enjoy your paywalls.
I will! 99.9% of the content on the internet is of no interest to me, and of that .1% that I'm interested in, 99% of it is shit. If everything were paywalled the shit would go away,
The way to combat this is for every website that detects the DNT header to simply respond with a page saying how to turn it off or download a different browser. How quickly we all forget what it was like to be constantly bombarded with ads for products you cannnot use or cannot be purchased in your locale.
I vastly prefer random ads to targeted ads. It's absolutely infuriating trying to get a good deal on hotels or airfare. I have to enable 3rd party cookies, turn of ghostery/noscript/adblock plus, and then browse to travel site a, look for something, browse to travel site b, look for the same thing, leave, and browse to travel site a and look for the same thing again to get a lower price.
Of course, my actual preference is for NO ads at all, which is why I block them fiercely.
Content creators can't make money without? Not my problem. If money is your focus, then make content worth selling on its own.
No this is not thought crime, this is punishing a real crime. Making "terrorist threats" has been a crime for a very long time. You can think about crime all you like, telling someone you are going to kill people is a crime. Just not as bad a crime as actually doing it.
You are responsible for the direct consequences of your speech (causing violence, causing someone to legitimately fear for their safety thus disrupting their life, causing a panic in a crowded space resulting in people getting injured by yelling fire, causing someone to take a quantifiable financial hit due to your libel or slander).
Speech in itself is never a crime. You can point to laws and court rulings all you want that "prove" otherwise. Those laws are unconstitutional, those courts are wrong because:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Planning
Development
Testing
Marketing Shipping Carrier cooperation
Once you get to that 3rd phase you're stuck with the version you used in phase 1 and 2.
You are a class A jackass. Just thought you'd like to know.
Thanks. Would you like to discuss the points I made in the post?
Cool, I already eat vegan so it's not even a stretch to subsist on a goopy nigh-inedible paste.
Murtogg: This dock is off-limits to civilians.
Jack Sparrow: I'm terribly sorry, I didn't know. If I see one, I shall inform you immediately.
[Jack makes to continue but is blocked by Murtogg and Mullroy]
Jack Sparrow: Apparently there's some sort of high-toned and fancy to-do up at the fort, eh? How could it be that two upstanding gentlemen, such as yourselves, did not merit an invitation?
Murtogg: Someone's got to make sure that this dock stays off-limits to civilians.
Jack Sparrow: It's a fine goal, to be sure. But it seems to me... that a ship like that one, makes this one here seem a bit superfluous, really.
Murtogg: Oh, the Dauntless is the power in these waters, true enough. But there's no ship as can match the Interceptor for speed.
Jack Sparrow: I've heard of one, supposed to be very fast, nigh uncatchable: The Black Pearl.
Mullroy: Well, there's no real ship as can match the Interceptor.
Murtogg: The Black Pearl is a real ship.
Mullroy: No, it's not.
Murtogg: Yes it is, I've seen it.
Mullroy: You've seen it?
Murtogg: Yes.
Mullroy: You haven't seen it.
Murtogg: Yes, I have.
Mullroy: You've seen a ship with black sails that's crewed by the damned, and captained by a man so evil that Hell itself spat him back out?
Murtogg: No.
Mullroy: No.
Murtogg: But I have seen a ship with black sails.
[Jack quietly slips passed them unnoticed]
Mullroy: Oh, and no ship that's not crewed by the damned and captained by a man so evil that Hell itself spat him back out could possibly have black sails, therefore couldn't possibly be any other ship than the Black Pearl. Is that what you're telling me?
Murtogg: [nods] No.
Mullroy: Like I said, there's no real ship as can match the Interceptor.
I'd be a little nervous about the teratogenic potential of the radiation you'd run into on the way; but (all joking aside) a plan like 'colonize mars' is really starting to get into the territory where somewhat... unconventional choices in order to save space/life support/etc. might start to be come eminently sensible.
Barring truly impressive recycling/life support systems, for instance, you could ship a hell of a lot of sperm specimens in cryo for the same payload cost that a single man and supplies to last the trip would occupy, with the additional advantage of far more genetic diversity than any single father could provide. Sooner or later, because of the finite shelf life of cryopreserved sperm cells, you'd need to re introduce males into your population; but it would seem somewhat inefficient to have any for the first generation, possibly even the first several generations...
Except you wouldn't get any work done without men. Especially not any work that involves manual labor or operating machinery, such as building a colony.
Furthermore, if your goal is to repopulate (why else are you sending sperm?) then you must already have a dome or whatever with sufficient infrastructure to support the increased population. Might as well send people with those supplies to continue development. The trip would cost mote, but those people are ready to work the instant they arrive. Sperm will put a woman out of colony building work for several months at least, and will in the best case scenario yield a child which is a net loss on the output of the colony as a whole, as well as the output per capita.
You don't breed on an unterraformed planet until you can do it, and sustain it, locally.
http://source.android.com/
I'm sorry, you were saying something stupid?
You should read the post you're responding to before responding.
That's not the latest version. OEMs that pay up have had access to that shit for 3-6 months and are actively working on shit that is one or two major versions ahead of the open source version at all times. For all OEMs that want to seriously compete in the market, that code is useless. For all hobbyists that want to embrace an open source platform, that code is nearly useless. Additionally, it doesn't include the core Google applications, which are only "not part of Android" if you don't consider the overall user experience that the marketing campaign espouses to be part of Android.
If OEMs want to compete in the big leagues they have to pay up. Smaller OEMs will release cheaper phones on the older (open) versions, then if they're moderately successful they'll release higher-end phones on the older (open) versions and rush out a patch when the open version gets updated (and then users will beg their carriers to push it out OTA). Then they realize that situation is shitty and either stick to the older version with cheaper phones, or pony up cash and lick the boot of Google to compete in the high end.
If hobbyists want to do shit they either do shit that's useful to no one because you need open hardware, or they do shit that only half works because it's based on closed (but well poked at) hardware, or they do shit that works but involves the ol' *wink wink* *nudge nudge* about what the ROM was really based off of and where you can get the Google Play Store, Google Maps, etc., which makes it legally dubious and a failure in terms of being open source.
You may as well say XBOX Live is free and point at the silver membership as proof while saying "It's still XBOX Live!".
On the plus side, between the new iPhone connector and the loss of features like Google Maps, Android's just looking like a nicer alternative. :-)
Ok, so let me get this straight:
Slashdot readers, and especially the multitudinous Fandroid faction, who, by and large, value supporting a computing platform based on its "philosophy", are now going to argue that Apple sticking with an on-again, off-again "Partner/Competitor", (Google), who can take their ball and go home at any time is actually preferable to them "rolling their own" Mapping solution?
If so, the F/OSS "movement" has just jumped the shark on their entire philosophy.
1: The preferred situation is for Apple to develop their own maps/etc. program and let it live alongside Google's (and Microsoft's - Bing's maps are great, but there's no live navigation / etc.) and let the users choose.
2: The open source "movement" has nothing to do with Android. Android is no longer open source. It hasn't been since 2.2.Something. The latest version is always closed and you have to pay Google to get in on it. The older versions are released as open source (AOSP). Good luck getting them to work with your closed hardware, closed radio, etc., and if you're an OEM good luck competing with the OEMs who paid up and are launching devices with one major version ahead of you every single time.
And what evidence do you currently have that Mann intentionally and currently lies and manipulates data? For that matter, what evidence do you have that he ever did? Unless you have some existing evidence (called "probable cause"), this looks like it's just a fishing expedition by a pompous blowhard politician stoking his base for a run at governor in a few years.
If Mann intentionally did those things, and the DA found out and pressed charges and went to trial, then I guarantee you that he would be punished according to the laws that we currently have in place. But to say that "he won't be punished for it" requires that his guilt be determined in a court of law, and for that, you need some justifiable reason to get a judge to grant discovery. In this case so far, the judge has not seen any justification aside from partisan allegations from the DA's office, which are world their weight (eg: nothing). So, instead of parroting your opinion as absolute truth and congratulating yourself on how well you _know_ he is guilty but you _know_ he won't be punished, let the legal system do its work to root out and find guilt - that's what it's there for after all.
Are you fucking shitting me? Google "Mann" and read.
And you're fucking retarded if you think guilt means you'll be found guilty in a court of law and punished. Have you not been paying attention to the courts for the past, I don't know, 236 years?
1850? Call me when you have records going back to 10,000.
Then go suck an egg because your records are inaccurate, imprecise, unreliable, etc.
Of course all your emails are not a matter of public record. But all of your work is. All of your emails regarding that work are. If you email Bob about your work and your niece's birthday party, then the email would be public record with the part about the niece redacted.
All you do in your capacity as someone who gets paid with public moneys is public record and accessible via a FOIA request, with the usual exceptions for national security and whatnot (which don't apply when there's a court case - the court would get the records and then not release those records outside of the courtroom).
Well that's how it's supposed to be, anyway.
Mann is paid with public funds. All of his work is public record. The FOIA request should have been granted. It will be granted in an appeal. We will get further evidence that Mann intentionally lies and manipulates data. He won't be punsihed for it.
Wrong. If you're warping spacetime it's equivalent to moving the two points closer together. The problem with this is that there's stuff in that space, including the traveler. If you manage to do it, that wrinkle/pinch/wormhole/whatever you want to call it is going to have effects on everything around it. So either deal with travelers warping small chunks of spacetime as they travel (effectively capping them at near light speed since they'd have to spend time warping pace) or maintain wormholes by warping space between two gates, then moving one gate far away while maintaining the wormhole with insane amounts of energy.
Basically it's laughable even in theory, and you never get FTL and you never get time travel due to compressed space.
it's a SATA interface regardless, why does it matter if it's for the "desktop" or the "laptop".
do you know of have 3.5" SSDs?
I'm using the seagate momentus and it came witha 3.5" mounting bracket
The OCZ Colossus series are 3.5" SSDs.
I wish they would refresh that line.
No, it's true for all Android versions since 2.2 or something (I forget the dumbass name they use for it).
It's closed source for as long as certain OEMs need it to be in order to get their product out the door. These OEMs pay big cash money and agree to leave all the Google stuff in and as the default/only choice.
When devices launch it then becomes open source and other OEMs can work with it. Of course, by the time they get a product out using that version, the OEMs who pay up and suck Google's dick are about to release a product using the next version of Android.
The latest version of Android is never open source. People using the open source version of Android are 3-6 months behind what certain OEMs have access to and know about. It's not about being open "eventually" or "before hardware comes out", it's about OEMs, developers, etc. having access to it at the same time. If your competitor has had access to source code for 3-6 months longer than you, you're screwed. If the source code is opened up only a week before a competitor's device launches (or even a month before), you don't have a chance in hell at getting your device out (with the latest version of Android) in time to compete.
Anything else you want to be wrong about today?
No, because Android is free, and Google doesn't work with most OEMs. They only work with a very, very few OEMs, and only on one or two devices. Motorola Xoom, Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 7, etc... those are the devices Google worked with OEMs on. Asus Transformer, Sony Xperia, Galaxy SIII - Google didn't do shit for those devices. Google hasn't worked with Acer on any devices so far - the relationship between those two seems weak at best.
This sounds like a blame game by Alibaba. Google has certainly not blocked "forks" or skins of Android, why would they try and block a completely different OS? Samsung makes WP7 phones, for example. Google hasn't tried blocking Amazon's Fire in any way.
Android is no longer truly open source.
The latest major version of Android is always closed source and it is only showed to a select few OEMs - the OEMs who play by Google's rules and install all the Google-branded apps by default. If you're not in that club your latest device will be releasing with 4.3 Powdery Tart when the "flagship" products from other OEMs are releasing with 4.4.2 Flaky Strudel, dooming your products to perpetual obsolescence,
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Pushed by Intel. AMD is following... still.
The GPU parts in AMD's "APUs" are miles beyond Intel's HD Graphics.
AAC is not lossless nor is it a video codec.
The second "lossless" was obviously meant to be "lossy".
And no, it's not a video codec, that's why I said "multi-channel audio for movies".
Real-time codecs have shitty compression ratios, though, because they can't compress temporally.
Audiophiles care about FLAC for lossless music and AAC for high quality, lossless, multi-channel audio for movies.
Which is basically none of them. I would be astonished if anyone could link me a drive sold on newegg, amazon, or by Dell that does not implement NCQ when set to AHCI mode.
Nobody who cares uses AHCI. People who care go into the BIOS/UEFI and set their controller to RAID.
Once that's done, you have no clue what the drive is fucking doing and what the Intel / Nvidia RAID controller ROM is doing, and what the corresponding driver is doing.
NCQ? Caching? Hot-swapping? No one can reliably tell you wtf is going on.
You can yank a drive and the add a drive, but when shit explodes (and it will!) you'll be left wondering who's at fault. The drive? The BIOS/UEFI? The RAID controller? The driver? The OS?
If you trust a hard drive manufacturer on the face of things, I've got a wireless router to sell you. It has all these features for QoS and firewalling and it's secure and it gets 300 mbps and it's got the DLNA,I swear. See? It's on the box, it must be true. And I promise I'll keep updating the firmware and never push out a firmware update that removes features and prevents you from rolling back.
This isn't just about Amazon and Apple. It's the fact no one will be able to compete against Amazon. If you don't think that's a problem then there's something wrong with you.
Anyone can compete in the eBook selling business.
1: Sign license agreements with publishers
2: Resell individual licenses to customers through a website
3: Send eBook file to customer
It's not like a physical store with a mass of inventory and startup costs.
the only book genres in Walmart are Christian Fantasy and Right-Wing Fiction.
Seems like a single genre to me.