Pick a random block: 1. GC comes along, swoops up block, eliminates junk, writes new junkless block (awhile later) 2. OS requires write, swoops up block, combines data, writes new block.
Step 1, and 2 could be combined
2. OS requires write, swoops up block, GC kicks in, removes junk, OS combines data, writes new block.
Slightly longer write time, but one less write, unless of course the SSD's can erase data, without having to write over it with zero's or whatever.
Or better yet, why not erase the shit properly the first time? Assuming that's what they mean by "junk" cause if I buy an SSD and it wanders around eliminating random files cause I haven't accessed them in 2 months it's going to end up a couple "blocks" away after I see how far I can frisbee it.
because it turns your 104 into 208 or 312, there's the obvious "angry typing" usage, but there is also potential for stuff like... Alt+Tab (light) = Change Tab In Browser Alt+Tab (med) = Change Application Window Alt+Tab (hard) = Change User Account
or
Left (light) = Move (one char) Left (med) = Move (one word) Left (hard) = Move (one line)
or the F# keys, you could now have 24 instead of 12.
(granted I basically just look at the pictures, didn't RTFA) but depending on how this is done, it could also mean 2 or 3x the failure rate, however, it could also mean half or a third of the failures for normal key typing, your Space Bar gives out on a normal keyboard, it's done, but with this one you could just press harder/lighter and it would still work.
A lot of people tend to think that "If it costs money, it must be worth it" regardless of the actual quality. I don't mean to go all tin-foil-hatty, but I see it becoming very 1984-ish in some (more) ways, polarizing the media even more into an "us or them", making the independent/free journalism seem like terrorists, running around behind the cameras, spreading the awful truth about what's actually going on, becoming physically locked out of more and more things, until they basically have to become a sort of terrorist (in the loose "war on terror" meaning) just to actually find out what the hell is going on.
Not like this is "new"(s), it's been happening for, well almost forever, just getting more in-your-face about it now. How long before the internet itself gets split in two? The paid-for/tracked/censored/"legitimate" internet, it's 12 websites in pale shades of happy colors, and the underground/hacker/truth-seekers that are "destroying the world as we know it, they're coming for your kids constantly being rounded up and thrown in pits by the World Communications Agency's new "Communications Synergy & Harmony Squad" in some weird war of the web. I digress.
But I imagine that simple subscriptions, isn't their ends, but just a means to their desired goal of partitioning the internet the same way Cable TV is/was... "channels" of internet, Fox "Network", Comedy "Network", Outdoor Life "Network" a lot of their names wouldn't even have to change, you "log on" to their weird little virtual reality (suddenly reminded of Strange Days) all Matrix style, not that the technology is bad, just "their" (my idea of their) idea of how it should be used.
I'm not sure if Apple has any specific meaning to their Major.Minor.Maintenance(.Build) that you might be referring to, but this to me certainly seems worthy of a 0.0.1 (10.5.7 to 10.5.8)... It doesn't add any significant new features (as a 0.1.0 would/should), basically just bug fixes and tweaks. What would you suggest? 10.5.7.5.xxxx?
Microsoft has started the process of acquiring a patent on the ribbon user interface concept. The ribbon design guidelines are confidential and an evaluation copy is only available when a non-disclosure agreement has been signed. No patent has so far been issued. Since April 2008, the Ribbon interface is available as a Visual C++ 2008 feature.
They didn't leave it out, it was specifically hard to get to, to prevent people accidentally fucking stuff up.
Yes, CLI > cacls would be what most people end up using, but XP Home, was designed so that only an "Administrator" would know how to change those, using either cacls, or preferably the "standard" or suggested way, of rebooting into Safe-Mode, and editing file permission/access/etc from there, which does have the GUI for cacls, on the "Security" tab, just like XP Professional.
This was before Microsoft thought maybe security prompts/dialogs was a better way in keeping newbies out of where they probably shouldn't go. Don't forget that XP is now 8 years old, and XP Home is kinda like using Windows 3.11 instead of Windows NT, instead of XP when it first came out, you can't expect it to have the latest and greatest, because it isn't.
Not to say that XP is as bad as Win3, XP is what I'm typing from at the moment, but the Professional version, because I need/want that control.
CLI is faster for people who can type well, but your "average" user, generally hates the keyboard, if it was possible, they would do everything with the mouse, even if it takes 10 times longer. Even in your example, a lot of users wouldn't even bother renaming it, they would just leave it as "Copy of file I copied.ext" because they'd have to touch the keyboard.
Notice teh spelkin of teh avrage usre? Image how long it would take for them to type out something like
copy "c:\documents and settings\%username%\documents\my pictures\caughtthisoncam.jpg" "c:\documents and settings\%username%\documents\my pictures\archive\caughtthisoncam.jpg"
while correcting spelling mistakes, making sure that's where they actually want it, didn't leave out something like "\documents\" nevermind trying to get them to remember something like "%homepath%/%userprofile% %appdata% %allusersprofile%, cacls, attrib, or to use " | more " so 30 pages of shit doesn't go wizzing by... they'd wear out they're / and ? keys pretty quick, if they even remember them or "help" without having to ask someone what the "help" command is.
Don't get me wrong, I love CLI in Windows and Linux, but you do have to be somewhat of an expert, otherwise it will only slow you down even more, it's too much mental "processing" for the average user to cope with, they want it to be light, and easy, like the remote to their TV... they use 5 buttons, completely ignore the other 25 on a "universal" remote that works for their TV, DVD, and Stereo, they'll find a "menu" button, hunt through 7 pages of menu options, using their beloved up/down buttons, because it's "easier" to them than holding one button down, remembering what the second one is, and then pressing that one at the same time.
Same reason why Mouse-Gestures are increasingly more popular in web browsers... CLI?... never.
It's currently in Beta 4, and judging by the release times of the previous Betas, and assuming Beta 4 is the last before the final release, I would guess the somewhere between the end of this month, and the end of September.
I know that doesn't really help, but if you are really that interested, start playing with the beta.
Like others have said, OpenDNS does this same thing, it shows you a Yahoo search page, and if you are one of those F5ck Mycr0$of7 types, then that will be a Bing search soon.
I just set mine up with OpenDNS to see, and there doesn't seem to be an Opt-Out for it. And none of their options are really that nifty, they can all be done within your Router, and/or within your Browser settings.
Quantity doesn't really mean anything, I've got 6 computers, that doesn't mean that I am selling 5 of them. How many of those "...more than a dozen..." are actually running? or in a closet? covered in 3mm of dust?
...Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony video game consoles.
Well MS hasn't been involved that long, but what if some of the "Nintendo's" are NES/SNES, are the "Sony's" PS1's? I'd still have a Commodore64, Atari, NES, Sega Genesis, etc if I hadn't moved, and I likely wouldn't be doing anything with them.
...illegally modified Xbox, Playstation, Wii and other video game consoles
Fine, but what constitutes "illegal", are they all modded? or were some of them just sitting there without there shells "potentially modified" or some shit? I'm not saying the guy is innocent, only that the article is full of fuck all, and uses the classic tactics to enrage (frankly, idiotic) people like trailing off into
"Piracy, counterfeiting and other intellectual property rights violations not only cost U.S. businesses jobs and billions of dollars a year in lost revenue, they can also pose significant health and safety risks to consumers," he said.
Like this guy modding consoles caused your favorite store to close, and is going to make YOU lose your job, and hell fuckit, he might even give you cancer. KILL THE BASTARD.
He deserves a fine, and nothing more.
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I wouldn't really say this requires any extra attention, it should just be good practice on a whole to try and limit/reduce exposure to direct forms of blood/fluid transfers when dealing with any animal.
We probably shouldn't hunt or eat primates at all though really. But any animal is a potential risk for infections. HIV might be the scariest, but there are others that are just as deadly.
During hunting most likely, get a cut from a branch/rock/weapon/etc, then get the blood from the gorilla in the cut, or get bitten/attacked by the gorilla itself. Could also be transmitted through eating (really I don't know fuck all about it), I imagine that a lot of people there (or "here" for that matter) have gum/teeth problems, perhaps an open wound or sore in the mouth from something, add that to improperly (or uncooked) meat, voila.
Tough it out you fuckin pussies. We didn't climb out of trees into our shiny new SUV however many thousands of years ago. Besides, Soccer, Baseball and Softball are usually canceled in rain or snow, occasionally school altogether is.
Not necessarily, it could also be seen as, the USA (and others) are creating robots that are already against us, whereas Japan (and others) are creating ones that will eventually turn against us.
What better way to do? Get one of these helper bots in every home, on every street corner, flip the switch and they all take over without any loss of (your, the conquering) lives. Not that I'm saying that's what they are doing, but simply because these appear benign, doesn't necessarily mean that's the ultimate goal, although I do like to think they are to remain harmless, "here to do good thing" robots, as the Japanese have generally always done with them, from Karakuri Ningyo's brining tea, to these.
Only if they are retarded enough to think that their voice cannot be heard without it going through a phone first.
With the exception of a phone that has some sort of panic button, I don't think a phone would be much more use than a calculator in that or similar scenarios. Screaming/yelling, kicking/biting, etc would be much more effective, than 15 seconds to dial, wait for someone to answer, then wait for whoever answers to decide if it's a joke or not, and then if they act upon it, how long it takes them to "help", same goes for fires, and pretty much anything else that would happen in the school. If the blocker was large enough to cover the entire property, fields, alleys, etc that would be a different story though.
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Wrong, its the Google GFS File System!
In Soviet Russia, Browser Interfaces You! (IU)
IE7 + GUI sucks. you bet, I only use IE7 in command line only.
(I know, I know, but I had to)
Citation?
Pick a random block:
1. GC comes along, swoops up block, eliminates junk, writes new junkless block
(awhile later)
2. OS requires write, swoops up block, combines data, writes new block.
Step 1, and 2 could be combined
2. OS requires write, swoops up block, GC kicks in, removes junk, OS combines data, writes new block.
Slightly longer write time, but one less write, unless of course the SSD's can erase data, without having to write over it with zero's or whatever.
Or better yet, why not erase the shit properly the first time? Assuming that's what they mean by "junk" cause if I buy an SSD and it wanders around eliminating random files cause I haven't accessed them in 2 months it's going to end up a couple "blocks" away after I see how far I can frisbee it.
because it turns your 104 into 208 or 312, there's the obvious "angry typing" usage, but there is also potential for stuff like...
Alt+Tab (light) = Change Tab In Browser
Alt+Tab (med) = Change Application Window
Alt+Tab (hard) = Change User Account
or
Left (light) = Move (one char)
Left (med) = Move (one word)
Left (hard) = Move (one line)
or the F# keys, you could now have 24 instead of 12.
(granted I basically just look at the pictures, didn't RTFA) but depending on how this is done, it could also mean 2 or 3x the failure rate, however, it could also mean half or a third of the failures for normal key typing, your Space Bar gives out on a normal keyboard, it's done, but with this one you could just press harder/lighter and it would still work.
A lot of people tend to think that "If it costs money, it must be worth it" regardless of the actual quality. I don't mean to go all tin-foil-hatty, but I see it becoming very 1984-ish in some (more) ways, polarizing the media even more into an "us or them", making the independent/free journalism seem like terrorists, running around behind the cameras, spreading the awful truth about what's actually going on, becoming physically locked out of more and more things, until they basically have to become a sort of terrorist (in the loose "war on terror" meaning) just to actually find out what the hell is going on.
Not like this is "new"(s), it's been happening for, well almost forever, just getting more in-your-face about it now. How long before the internet itself gets split in two? The paid-for/tracked/censored/"legitimate" internet, it's 12 websites in pale shades of happy colors, and the underground/hacker/truth-seekers that are "destroying the world as we know it, they're coming for your kids constantly being rounded up and thrown in pits by the World Communications Agency's new "Communications Synergy & Harmony Squad" in some weird war of the web. I digress.
But I imagine that simple subscriptions, isn't their ends, but just a means to their desired goal of partitioning the internet the same way Cable TV is/was... "channels" of internet, Fox "Network", Comedy "Network", Outdoor Life "Network" a lot of their names wouldn't even have to change, you "log on" to their weird little virtual reality (suddenly reminded of Strange Days) all Matrix style, not that the technology is bad, just "their" (my idea of their) idea of how it should be used.
I'm not sure if Apple has any specific meaning to their Major.Minor.Maintenance(.Build) that you might be referring to, but this to me certainly seems worthy of a 0.0.1 (10.5.7 to 10.5.8)... It doesn't add any significant new features (as a 0.1.0 would/should), basically just bug fixes and tweaks. What would you suggest? 10.5.7.5.xxxx?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beam_me_up,_Scotty
"Beam me up Scotty. There's no intelligent life down here."
Was also used in Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future , which is about as close to an "origin" that you would probably find.
Ribbon
Microsoft has started the process of acquiring a patent on the ribbon user interface concept. The ribbon design guidelines are confidential and an evaluation copy is only available when a non-disclosure agreement has been signed. No patent has so far been issued. Since April 2008, the Ribbon interface is available as a Visual C++ 2008 feature.
They didn't leave it out, it was specifically hard to get to, to prevent people accidentally fucking stuff up.
Yes, CLI > cacls would be what most people end up using, but XP Home, was designed so that only an "Administrator" would know how to change those, using either cacls, or preferably the "standard" or suggested way, of rebooting into Safe-Mode, and editing file permission/access/etc from there, which does have the GUI for cacls, on the "Security" tab, just like XP Professional.
This was before Microsoft thought maybe security prompts/dialogs was a better way in keeping newbies out of where they probably shouldn't go. Don't forget that XP is now 8 years old, and XP Home is kinda like using Windows 3.11 instead of Windows NT, instead of XP when it first came out, you can't expect it to have the latest and greatest, because it isn't.
Not to say that XP is as bad as Win3, XP is what I'm typing from at the moment, but the Professional version, because I need/want that control.
CLI is faster for people who can type well, but your "average" user, generally hates the keyboard, if it was possible, they would do everything with the mouse, even if it takes 10 times longer. Even in your example, a lot of users wouldn't even bother renaming it, they would just leave it as "Copy of file I copied.ext" because they'd have to touch the keyboard.
Notice teh spelkin of teh avrage usre? Image how long it would take for them to type out something like
copy "c:\documents and settings\%username%\documents\my pictures\caughtthisoncam.jpg" "c:\documents and settings\%username%\documents\my pictures\archive\caughtthisoncam.jpg"
while correcting spelling mistakes, making sure that's where they actually want it, didn't leave out something like "\documents\" nevermind trying to get them to remember something like "%homepath%/%userprofile% %appdata% %allusersprofile%, cacls, attrib, or to use " | more " so 30 pages of shit doesn't go wizzing by... they'd wear out they're / and ? keys pretty quick, if they even remember them or "help" without having to ask someone what the "help" command is.
Don't get me wrong, I love CLI in Windows and Linux, but you do have to be somewhat of an expert, otherwise it will only slow you down even more, it's too much mental "processing" for the average user to cope with, they want it to be light, and easy, like the remote to their TV... they use 5 buttons, completely ignore the other 25 on a "universal" remote that works for their TV, DVD, and Stereo, they'll find a "menu" button, hunt through 7 pages of menu options, using their beloved up/down buttons, because it's "easier" to them than holding one button down, remembering what the second one is, and then pressing that one at the same time.
Same reason why Mouse-Gestures are increasingly more popular in web browsers... CLI?... never.
There's lots of software that is pretty much exactly like GarageBand.
Cakewalk - Sonar
Propellerhead - Reason
Steinberg - Cubase
Magix - Samplitude
Image-Line - FL Studio ... can even do most, if not all of what GarageBand does.
It's currently in Beta 4, and judging by the release times of the previous Betas, and assuming Beta 4 is the last before the final release, I would guess the somewhere between the end of this month, and the end of September.
I know that doesn't really help, but if you are really that interested, start playing with the beta.
Travolta wears a blue suit, Cage wears a black one, therefore Travolta is the Acer, Cage is the Gateway.
Like others have said, OpenDNS does this same thing, it shows you a Yahoo search page, and if you are one of those F5ck Mycr0$of7 types, then that will be a Bing search soon.
I just set mine up with OpenDNS to see, and there doesn't seem to be an Opt-Out for it. And none of their options are really that nifty, they can all be done within your Router, and/or within your Browser settings.
Quantity doesn't really mean anything, I've got 6 computers, that doesn't mean that I am selling 5 of them. How many of those "...more than a dozen..." are actually running? or in a closet? covered in 3mm of dust?
...Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony video game consoles.
Well MS hasn't been involved that long, but what if some of the "Nintendo's" are NES/SNES, are the "Sony's" PS1's? I'd still have a Commodore64, Atari, NES, Sega Genesis, etc if I hadn't moved, and I likely wouldn't be doing anything with them.
...illegally modified Xbox, Playstation, Wii and other video game consoles
Fine, but what constitutes "illegal", are they all modded? or were some of them just sitting there without there shells "potentially modified" or some shit? I'm not saying the guy is innocent, only that the article is full of fuck all, and uses the classic tactics to enrage (frankly, idiotic) people like trailing off into
"Piracy, counterfeiting and other intellectual property rights violations not only cost U.S. businesses jobs and billions of dollars a year in lost revenue, they can also pose significant health and safety risks to consumers," he said.
Like this guy modding consoles caused your favorite store to close, and is going to make YOU lose your job, and hell fuckit, he might even give you cancer. KILL THE BASTARD.
He deserves a fine, and nothing more.
I wouldn't really say this requires any extra attention, it should just be good practice on a whole to try and limit/reduce exposure to direct forms of blood/fluid transfers when dealing with any animal.
We probably shouldn't hunt or eat primates at all though really. But any animal is a potential risk for infections. HIV might be the scariest, but there are others that are just as deadly.
During hunting most likely, get a cut from a branch/rock/weapon/etc, then get the blood from the gorilla in the cut, or get bitten/attacked by the gorilla itself. Could also be transmitted through eating (really I don't know fuck all about it), I imagine that a lot of people there (or "here" for that matter) have gum/teeth problems, perhaps an open wound or sore in the mouth from something, add that to improperly (or uncooked) meat, voila.
Yeah? and I climb rainbows for a living... with our powers combined, we form Captain Planet.
I really enjoined that little piece of info.
Tough it out you fuckin pussies. We didn't climb out of trees into our shiny new SUV however many thousands of years ago. Besides, Soccer, Baseball and Softball are usually canceled in rain or snow, occasionally school altogether is.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karakuri_ningyo
my bad.
Not necessarily, it could also be seen as, the USA (and others) are creating robots that are already against us, whereas Japan (and others) are creating ones that will eventually turn against us.
What better way to do? Get one of these helper bots in every home, on every street corner, flip the switch and they all take over without any loss of (your, the conquering) lives. Not that I'm saying that's what they are doing, but simply because these appear benign, doesn't necessarily mean that's the ultimate goal, although I do like to think they are to remain harmless, "here to do good thing" robots, as the Japanese have generally always done with them, from Karakuri Ningyo's brining tea, to these.
That's a security feature in case you leave it somewhere. The password is to wave it around like some reverse etch-a-sketch.
Only if they are retarded enough to think that their voice cannot be heard without it going through a phone first.
With the exception of a phone that has some sort of panic button, I don't think a phone would be much more use than a calculator in that or similar scenarios. Screaming/yelling, kicking/biting, etc would be much more effective, than 15 seconds to dial, wait for someone to answer, then wait for whoever answers to decide if it's a joke or not, and then if they act upon it, how long it takes them to "help", same goes for fires, and pretty much anything else that would happen in the school. If the blocker was large enough to cover the entire property, fields, alleys, etc that would be a different story though.
We should start bumping into Vulcans in about 54 years... Zefram Cochrane should be born pretty soon... then we'll know.