Even if you had a fancy DVD drive that actually did read at 32x, it would only be doing so at the very outer edge of a single layer disc (is the Win7 install disc single layer?).
The average read speed will be about half that.
Oh, and of course, that's assuming you're reading one large file. You're not. You're reading tons of files and that laser is jumping around a lot.
A basic flash drive will beat the shit out of optical media.
FAT32 simply doesn't have the myriad of problems other filesystems have.
It has 1 problem - an ancient restriction on file size. It has 1 common issue due to implementation. It has 1 little thing for MS haters to bitch about.
The benefits - speed, compatibility, ease of implementation make it a fucking winner.
FAT32 is in no way crappy. It does what it says on the tin. It isn't bogged down with crap you don't need. It just fucking works. And with flash media, fragmentation isn't even an issue any more.
The only complaints I have with FAT32 are:
4 GB limit - an actual issue now.
Possible corruption when power is cut - don't cut power in the middle of a write, design a hardware solution for when it does happen.
Even if their tools did a good job at estimating my risk, convincing me to buy, and then covering my digital ass, the fact is that the vast majority of identity theft still occurs from dumpster diving, intercepted/misdelivered mail, and the waitress taking your credit card out of site.
If Symantec sold a good cheap shredder, or sold carry-to-table card readers to restaurants, then I'd give a fuck.
The way TFS is written, either this is about how the NSA is still being bad by snooping on our shit, or how the snooping is making me safer.
The REAL story is that the US is snooping around for the UK, and the UK is snooping around for the US. It's less illegal (in terms of consequences, a politician having their name attached to it, etc.) to have a foreign government spy on the people than it is to do it yourself, I guess.
There is no 3D content available for me to buy. Just like the extended color spaces supported by many TVs now, there's nothing to take advantage of them. Any 3D content that comes soon will be gimmicky crap.
Glasses:
If I'm sitting in front of the tv, I sure as fuck won't be wearing some shitty glasses. You're lucky if I'm wearing pants.
Cost:
Yeah, not gonna be shelling out for a new tv any time soon. Not gonna upgrade my brand new bluray player either.
HDMI:
Fuck this shitty spec. Either design it with forward thinking or design a second revision a decade later. None of this 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.3a, 1.4 bullshit for the same fucking cable.
You are sampling a population about something because the causes, effects, or numbers of that something are unknown - you can't calculate your desired data, so you resort to measuring and extrapolation.
Until you can account for all relevant variables, your sample cannot be said to be sound.
If you could account for all (or most) relevant variables, you would be able to calculate, hypothesize, and then measure to confirm or disprove (and then improve and retest). THAT is science.
Because all confidence intervals are equally bullshit.
When you're conclusion is "probably probably within a range of these two probabilities...", and your subject matter involves people, you've done a lot of work and achieved nothing.
The only effort of any use ever in statistics involving people is to increase the sample size. But, you know, that requires actual effort.
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Ah, the joys of a file system that thinks it's the one who should be deciding who has access to what files.
Oh, but this is slashdot, so let's also blame DRM and bloat.
More like 21 MB/second.
That's 16x.
Even if you had a fancy DVD drive that actually did read at 32x, it would only be doing so at the very outer edge of a single layer disc (is the Win7 install disc single layer?).
The average read speed will be about half that.
Oh, and of course, that's assuming you're reading one large file. You're not. You're reading tons of files and that laser is jumping around a lot.
A basic flash drive will beat the shit out of optical media.
Many of those errors had to do with SP2 enabling DEP.
Hell has frozen over.
You're a fucking moron.
FAT32 simply doesn't have the myriad of problems other filesystems have.
It has 1 problem - an ancient restriction on file size.
It has 1 common issue due to implementation.
It has 1 little thing for MS haters to bitch about.
The benefits - speed, compatibility, ease of implementation make it a fucking winner.
FAT32 is in no way crappy.
It does what it says on the tin.
It isn't bogged down with crap you don't need.
It just fucking works.
And with flash media, fragmentation isn't even an issue any more.
The only complaints I have with FAT32 are:
4 GB limit - an actual issue now.
Possible corruption when power is cut - don't cut power in the middle of a write, design a hardware solution for when it does happen.
MS owns it - deal with it.
Ultramon for the win.
Too bad CNN hasn't figured it out - you still see the default Candyland-blue XP window title bar on their "magic wall" sometimes.
"Associating a piece of data with multiple categories" sounds like how my brain remembers things.
Someone thinks they're relevant?
Even if their tools did a good job at estimating my risk, convincing me to buy, and then covering my digital ass, the fact is that the vast majority of identity theft still occurs from dumpster diving, intercepted/misdelivered mail, and the waitress taking your credit card out of site.
If Symantec sold a good cheap shredder, or sold carry-to-table card readers to restaurants, then I'd give a fuck.
Russian Progress?
Will they be delivering jumbo shrimp and other oxymorons to the crew?
Since TFA and TFS fail with regards to radiation, what about mercury?
Spray some of these bad boys on the lining of tuna cans and such?
How is twitter easier than RSS?
Either way, "a great number", maybe, but a ridiculously low percentage.
I don't care if there's 1000 interesting things on twitter when I have to wade through 10000000 others to find them.
Smartbook?
What is this new shitty term?
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess it's a small laptop, or possibly a tablet/e-reader, with a built in phone.
So is there like a little robot hand or something?
Can it yank and replace drives, yank cables, open up the chassis and replace parts, etc?
The way TFS is written, either this is about how the NSA is still being bad by snooping on our shit, or how the snooping is making me safer.
The REAL story is that the US is snooping around for the UK, and the UK is snooping around for the US. It's less illegal (in terms of consequences, a politician having their name attached to it, etc.) to have a foreign government spy on the people than it is to do it yourself, I guess.
They also make a delicious, buttery spread.
Lucas is fucking with Star Wars again?
God damn that man needs to go back to Skywalker Ranch and stay there.
Give me the fucking ORIGINAL trilogy in HD and you'll get my money.
Content:
There is no 3D content available for me to buy.
Just like the extended color spaces supported by many TVs now, there's nothing to take advantage of them. Any 3D content that comes soon will be gimmicky crap.
Glasses:
If I'm sitting in front of the tv, I sure as fuck won't be wearing some shitty glasses. You're lucky if I'm wearing pants.
Cost:
Yeah, not gonna be shelling out for a new tv any time soon. Not gonna upgrade my brand new bluray player either.
HDMI:
Fuck this shitty spec. Either design it with forward thinking or design a second revision a decade later. None of this 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.3a, 1.4 bullshit for the same fucking cable.
My negativity comes from the fact that these things will only realistically result in the further atrophy of physical fitness.
Depends.
Is the cat in that box over there alive, or dead?
WHOOSH.
Also, get a brain.
So?
The number of patch downloads for WoW through the Blizzard updater (which basically uses bittorrent) is a drop in the ocean.
No, but I'd be willing to bet my genitals that it's true 99.9% of the time.
How's that for a confidence interval?
No, it's not scientific.
You are sampling a population about something because the causes, effects, or numbers of that something are unknown - you can't calculate your desired data, so you resort to measuring and extrapolation.
Until you can account for all relevant variables, your sample cannot be said to be sound.
If you could account for all (or most) relevant variables, you would be able to calculate, hypothesize, and then measure to confirm or disprove (and then improve and retest). THAT is science.
Because all confidence intervals are equally bullshit.
When you're conclusion is "probably probably within a range of these two probabilities...", and your subject matter involves people, you've done a lot of work and achieved nothing.
The only effort of any use ever in statistics involving people is to increase the sample size. But, you know, that requires actual effort.