What features, you ask? Well, the new DPI scaling mechanism and arbitrary Metro split screen resizing will have significant implications for UI layout, for example.
Since when was this discussion limited to Metro apps? I'm pretty sure most antivirus vendors as one obvious example would want to get their hands on the RTM build too to ensure compatibility.
I'm assuming pepty is referring to this which merely talks about removing the distinction between hosting files vs hosting streams. As far as I can tell, it says nothing about watching a stream.
Minor nitpick - China is arguably USAs greatest identifiable "enemy" (perhaps threat or rival is a better term here). The terrorists are probably a bigger threat. Heck, they do a pretty good job of screwing themselves over, who needs enemies?
No. It was a 32GB card that I've had for a little over 2 years, it's been at near-full capacity for most of that time, and it's only started to have issues over the past 6 months.
Funny you should mention that: my microSD card in my S4 just had a catastrophic file system corruption (after months of files mysteriously vanishing infrequently while in my old HTC).
Before you judge others you should learn English. 'Pretence' is English for the word that Americans write as 'pretense'.
Actually, 'Pretence' is the screwed up spelling Great Britain uses for the word 'pretense'.
Yes, the English people have the screwed up version of the English language and the Americans have it completely right, as always, and non-Americans aren't allowed to use the English version.
They already have. My S4 came with both Google Play and Samsung Apps. Samsung Apps didn't seem to recognise that I already had some apps installed via Google Play and offered to install them again.
Good point, although currently that might be a DMCA violation. Even if it was legal, the technical hurdle would mean it's probably still preferable to having them buy properly supported Linux/Android tablets.
Apple has traditionally had high profit margins. I guess you could argue between the software is expensive and the rest of the device has a low profit margin, or the software is cheap and has a high profit margin, but that doesn't really affect the end price for the user.
Spelling isn't important in programming, lol. That's what the IDE is for. Coincidentally, most IDEs for javascript have little to no spelling assistance, lol.
Tell that to Microsoft who had to break compatibility due to some spelling mistakes. Specifically, the MFC/ATL section.
I've got some 5-10 year old drives (120GB through 320GB) still in service too. It's my newer ones (500GB and larger) that I've been having major issues with.
I disabled Intellipark on the Greens which was supposed to fix that RAID issue; apparently it didn't, or I was just really unlucky. My new RAID currently uses Reds, let's see how that one holds up.
I heard the same thing, but this is Dropbox not Google. I doubt they're using high end SAS drives, but they're probably using something more along the lines of the WD SE drives as opposed to WD Greens (or equivalent). I've had extremely high failure rates with greens - my last RAID5 consisted of 5 1.5TB greens, 2 died within the warranty period, 2 died within months after the warranty period ended, and one of the original warranty replacements died after that. ~70% failure rate in 2.5 years. Yuck. Hooray for backups.
Multiple drives with redundancy and backups (I hope!). Plus they're probably using enterprise class drives. The post I was replying to compared against a single cheap drive with zero redundancy and zero backups.
I don't see why young programmers in the USA would be coding with fear of the legal system etc.
They probably don't want to become the next George Hotz or Aaron Swartz. Copyright and patent lawsuits are becoming fairly common, one example is Lodsys suing small iOS app developers for using APIs in the iOS SDK. There are plenty of reasons why young programmers should fear the USA legal system.
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What features, you ask? Well, the new DPI scaling mechanism and arbitrary Metro split screen resizing will have significant implications for UI layout, for example.
Since when was this discussion limited to Metro apps? I'm pretty sure most antivirus vendors as one obvious example would want to get their hands on the RTM build too to ensure compatibility.
Nowhere in the title, summary or article was the word "alive" mentioned.
I'm assuming pepty is referring to this which merely talks about removing the distinction between hosting files vs hosting streams. As far as I can tell, it says nothing about watching a stream.
Minor nitpick - China is arguably USAs greatest identifiable "enemy" (perhaps threat or rival is a better term here). The terrorists are probably a bigger threat. Heck, they do a pretty good job of screwing themselves over, who needs enemies?
No. It was a 32GB card that I've had for a little over 2 years, it's been at near-full capacity for most of that time, and it's only started to have issues over the past 6 months.
Funny you should mention that: my microSD card in my S4 just had a catastrophic file system corruption (after months of files mysteriously vanishing infrequently while in my old HTC).
Before you judge others you should learn English. 'Pretence' is English for the word that Americans write as 'pretense'.
Actually, 'Pretence' is the screwed up spelling Great Britain uses for the word 'pretense'.
Yes, the English people have the screwed up version of the English language and the Americans have it completely right, as always, and non-Americans aren't allowed to use the English version.
It's not just carrier bloatware. The Galaxy S4 comes with some Samsung junk that can't be disabled either, for example.
They already have. My S4 came with both Google Play and Samsung Apps. Samsung Apps didn't seem to recognise that I already had some apps installed via Google Play and offered to install them again.
And when think about it, a guy who knows lots of stuff about the way the NSA spies on its citizens would be pretty useful to the PRC.
Everyone will win, except a few senators who'll end up with egg on their faces.
Snowden may not win if PRC decides to torture him to get more info than he's willing to give.
I doubt alternating disks would work if using a bitmap to only sync incrementally.
Good point, although currently that might be a DMCA violation. Even if it was legal, the technical hurdle would mean it's probably still preferable to having them buy properly supported Linux/Android tablets.
Can't wait for these to be sold off dirt cheap, even if they're mostly worthless before being rooted. Cheap tablets are awesome...
I'm listening...
...for home servers.
You lost me. Most home servers that I've seen are file servers, and you won't get much storage space on these.
That's not entirely fair. Microsoft has tried (and failed) multiple times with tablets long before the iPad.
Apple has traditionally had high profit margins. I guess you could argue between the software is expensive and the rest of the device has a low profit margin, or the software is cheap and has a high profit margin, but that doesn't really affect the end price for the user.
a) Give away inventory for free at schools etc
b) Bury/dispose of inventory, user base purchases competitors products instead
I know which option I'd be going with.
Spelling isn't important in programming, lol. That's what the IDE is for. Coincidentally, most IDEs for javascript have little to no spelling assistance, lol.
Tell that to Microsoft who had to break compatibility due to some spelling mistakes. Specifically, the MFC/ATL section.
Once you start talking about 1TB or so, it's still far cheaper for an end-user to build their own RAID plus backup solution.
I never said it wasn't. Other than a cheeky remark that a single cheap drive can't be relied on, I basically agreed with them.
I've got some 5-10 year old drives (120GB through 320GB) still in service too. It's my newer ones (500GB and larger) that I've been having major issues with.
I disabled Intellipark on the Greens which was supposed to fix that RAID issue; apparently it didn't, or I was just really unlucky. My new RAID currently uses Reds, let's see how that one holds up.
I heard the same thing, but this is Dropbox not Google. I doubt they're using high end SAS drives, but they're probably using something more along the lines of the WD SE drives as opposed to WD Greens (or equivalent). I've had extremely high failure rates with greens - my last RAID5 consisted of 5 1.5TB greens, 2 died within the warranty period, 2 died within months after the warranty period ended, and one of the original warranty replacements died after that. ~70% failure rate in 2.5 years. Yuck. Hooray for backups.
Perhaps you missed the part of my comment where I pretty much agreed with them? ;)
Multiple drives with redundancy and backups (I hope!). Plus they're probably using enterprise class drives. The post I was replying to compared against a single cheap drive with zero redundancy and zero backups.
I don't see why young programmers in the USA would be coding with fear of the legal system etc.
They probably don't want to become the next George Hotz or Aaron Swartz. Copyright and patent lawsuits are becoming fairly common, one example is Lodsys suing small iOS app developers for using APIs in the iOS SDK. There are plenty of reasons why young programmers should fear the USA legal system.