Actually Jmc23 is correct. I meant the DVD-Rom drive. In no bizzaro universe would the heads ever touch the disc. Lighter mechanicals in the drive make for less wear and tear on the drive.
You do realize the model he's using isn't exactly what one would normally use for ripping? it's a lightscribe drive, which is why I suggest a proper drive for the job rather than trying to use a one-size-fits-all that does none of them well.
If there isn't a requirement to put both types of drive in the same slot, I'd suggest you get a good ripper (read only) to rip (for mounting in your rig), and use a separate external burner (USB) for burning. You could never saturate a basic USB while for burning and the lighter heads (Read Only) for ripping will give you a longer life on your DVD-Rom.
For drives, LiteOn used to be a great brand, but I think these days they only do OEM hardware. Dig around and see if you can find any and you should be golden.
The article is also in error. They found shortly after release that you could limit the scope of the search field to the selected library, a wildcard match within that library category, or a title match within that category under your library. I suspect this information is a few days too stale. You just select the dropdown in the search box, and deselect the 'Search Entire Library' option.
In this case however, you can simply point that person to the places you've posted the information, and then the heat will fall on the IT consultant or person who installed it. Does your software currently warn them of such up front? You didn't indicate if it does or doesn't.
'Agree' type dialogs do NOT have to look like a EULA and this case, they definitely shouldn't. Put a big "STOP" graphic. Avoid the legal type text. Keep it short and simple. If you make it look like a EULA, it will just get it ignored. If I had a consultant that saw an obvious prompt like this, and they didn't inform me, I wouldn't be chewing you out. The consultant would be handed his hat. Assuming a consultant wouldn't warn an employer of this seems more unlikely to me. It also absolves you of failing to notify the users in a reasonable manner. Excluding this option simply because you think it may not be affective isn't a good reason. As I said, any easy steps you can take to put the info out there further removes you from any doubt of shady practices. A simple agreement to install is the most direct, and also easy to add. Win/Win.
Put the prompts in, and if you get calls of that nature, explain that you cannot install the product without being warned of that fact. Were I in this situation, I couldn't see myself holding you responsible.
I'm not sure why they marked you as flamebait. The old saying "You can't fix stupid' definitely applies here. Any 'company' that would use a product without doing even a minimal vetting of you and your support infrastructure is just stupid not to put too fine a point on it.
With that said however, in the spirit of open source, you should at a minimum note that support is provided with the product only with a fee and you should make this as obvious as is possible. An informed user has no room for complaint. This pay for play support info should be easy to find where they download the product, and better yet, an 'agree' prompt in order to install it. A simple 'agree' type prompt to indicate they understand that you will not be providing free support can cut short any complaints stating "we didn't know". Something as basic as that will tend to weed out a lot of 'indignation' if people have to accept the prompt in order to download and to install.
As a 'gimme', you could also provide user forums where they can ask the user community itself for help. Most sites provide this and those types of forums will typically reduce a lot of support 'chatter' for easy questions. If you go this route, the same method should be used to inform anyone who signs up to use the forum that it is not an official support forum, but rather community supported, and any 'official' support is provided for a fee.
Not knowing your history, I suspect some of these people are finding the lack of free support after the fact, meaning you are not making that information easily available to them (regardless of how they should have looked for it in the first place). If you make the information easy to find, I would think a lot of the nastiness will disappear. The fact that you are seeing a trend would indicate they are not finding that information easily enough, and you could probably better present that up front.
I'm a bit surprised everyone is looking for a software solution when a simple hardware solution would probably meet the needs posed by this question. Specifically they were looking for the benefits of caching for disk access. Simply provide a server with higher capacity SSD's. In essence, you get the perks of having data 'cached' in memory without having to beat yourself up looking to cram a square peg in a round hole.
That will at least buy you some time to beat some sense into whoever is keeping this legacy software around that it's well beyond time to get it upgraded to something more current than a few decades old.
I suspect too many users on/. grew up with their parents watching or Law and Order and like to 'pounce' when they see some opportunity to point out some flaw in a statement.
Can't agree more. Stating someone can 'survive' because they did so before AC is indeed true, but a pointless exercise. Taking someone who does not exist in 100+ degree heat on a daily basis and throwing them into such an environment isn't survivable. People here exist on AC for 10 months a year, and every year I hear about people who die from heat exhaustion.
Kind of like saying you can 'survive' in a pressure suit at 2000 feet under water, but your quality of life would be pretty impaired;)
Actually having lived both in the both in the north (Michigan) and the south (Texas), I find that most homes here are electric, while most homes up north have gas for heat. It's just more efficient for heating.
My home and everyone within a few blocks are all electric, although I think some homes on the other side of a nearby main street have gas available.
Actually people die in Texas every year due to heat exposure. A simple google search will turn up any number of results for any particular year. It's not uncommon. Claiming something is 'livable' is much more a matter of what you define as 'livable'. If you mean hide in the shade without moving, conserve your water and exertion, etc. until the sun goes down, then yes, you could survive much like the wildlife here does.
If you mean any sort of reasonably 'normal' existence, then no, you can't.
Being able to do a thing, and choosing to do a thing are not the same. Tennessee also doesn't have the highs that Texas does, which can reach well over 110.
I also don't consider sitting around under a fan, not moving, and waiting for the sun to go down, 'living'.
It would also make working in my IT job impossible without AC for my computer systems (I telecommute). Although computers may not have been an issue for previous generations, they are typically necessary for today's generation in such circumstances.
FYI, that is 3500 KW hours per month in the warmest summer months. Usage drops to about 1500 in the winter. This is for a 3000 square foot home though.
I keep my house at 74 in Texas, which ranges to 100+ (Fahrenheit) in the summer, and I rarely ever go above 3500. Are you sure you're 3 person house is lower than the average here in the U.S.?
As to whether or not it's worth it, the value is realized when oil availability decreases. Any new investments will have a very large up-front cost, as well as a higher cost for any new technologies (solar is a good example here where the ROI is rather low).
Wind is a different story though, and solar is rapidly changing with recent advancements. I'd be curious to see current ROI numbers for both of these if anyone has them.
I always took the tack that Windows Surface was designed for a child, but if you need to do any work, the interface gets in the way. For common tasks, I think the home users will be fine for the most part, but if you need to dig into the OS to do any serious work you will end up fighting the UI.
I don't it's a matter of being 'smarter', but target audience.
This used to work, but with the common availability of WiFi, any scan of your local neighborhood will often never find a channel with more than 1 channel separating you from neighbors (auto channel switching isn't aggressive enough...why is that?). The only way I've found to keep ahead of it is to invest in new frequencies as they become available. I've had the 5Ghz spectrum for quite a few years with no neighbors using it until this month. The first one popped up on my scanner a few weeks ago.
The other has to do with the quality of the equipment. I used to use Linksys, then Netgear, and then tried Buffalo as was disappointed with each either through hardware issues, or due to poor performance. The Linksys gear seemed to go down hill after Cisco bought them, but I always thought that Cisco was an industry leader (not in the telecom field so feel free to chime in). My old 10Mb switches are still working after a decade but it seems rare to find one of these that lasts this long these days.
I finally ended up with an Apple Time Machine which worked well with a mixed environment of Windows and Mac's for wireless backup, and my original printer didn't have WiFi so the print server was ideal. I have a WiFi printer now but that also works as well.
4 years later and I'm still pulling 16 MB/s (granted with very little competition on the 5Ghz band) with mixed mode (g for the printer, and some older smart phones that can't hit 5Ghz).
Holding out for the newest frequency, after which I'll switch again.
They'll end up liking the taste of crow. Idiots. Without search engines, the online content will never be found, shrivel up, and die. It's a symbiotic relationship and punishing one side is just going to hurt the other.
Kind of stupid to say that they shouldn't be investigated just based off the 'boost' they give the economy. I'm sure MS gave a huge boost to silicon valley, but that doesn't mean what they were doing was right or that it should insulate them from any investigations.
Had you actually read the article, this is regarding the SENDER, not the recipient. The sender signed no such agreement with Google. Hence the lawsuit stating that Google is violating the senders privacy since in this case the sender does not have a google account and signed no agreement.
From TFA:
Wayne Plimmer of British Columbia has filed a class-action lawsuit against Google for using his e-mails for ads. Plimmer is not a Gmail user, but his concern is that Google is reading and using his e-mails to serve ads to Gmail readers too. Being a non-Gmail user, he never agreed to the terms of service, so the legality of what Google is doing seems murky.
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Actually Jmc23 is correct. I meant the DVD-Rom drive. In no bizzaro universe would the heads ever touch the disc. Lighter mechanicals in the drive make for less wear and tear on the drive.
You do realize the model he's using isn't exactly what one would normally use for ripping? it's a lightscribe drive, which is why I suggest a proper drive for the job rather than trying to use a one-size-fits-all that does none of them well.
If there isn't a requirement to put both types of drive in the same slot, I'd suggest you get a good ripper (read only) to rip (for mounting in your rig), and use a separate external burner (USB) for burning. You could never saturate a basic USB while for burning and the lighter heads (Read Only) for ripping will give you a longer life on your DVD-Rom.
For drives, LiteOn used to be a great brand, but I think these days they only do OEM hardware. Dig around and see if you can find any and you should be golden.
The article is also in error. They found shortly after release that you could limit the scope of the search field to the selected library, a wildcard match within that library category, or a title match within that category under your library. I suspect this information is a few days too stale. You just select the dropdown in the search box, and deselect the 'Search Entire Library' option.
In this case however, you can simply point that person to the places you've posted the information, and then the heat will fall on the IT consultant or person who installed it. Does your software currently warn them of such up front? You didn't indicate if it does or doesn't.
'Agree' type dialogs do NOT have to look like a EULA and this case, they definitely shouldn't. Put a big "STOP" graphic. Avoid the legal type text. Keep it short and simple. If you make it look like a EULA, it will just get it ignored. If I had a consultant that saw an obvious prompt like this, and they didn't inform me, I wouldn't be chewing you out. The consultant would be handed his hat. Assuming a consultant wouldn't warn an employer of this seems more unlikely to me. It also absolves you of failing to notify the users in a reasonable manner. Excluding this option simply because you think it may not be affective isn't a good reason. As I said, any easy steps you can take to put the info out there further removes you from any doubt of shady practices. A simple agreement to install is the most direct, and also easy to add. Win/Win.
Put the prompts in, and if you get calls of that nature, explain that you cannot install the product without being warned of that fact. Were I in this situation, I couldn't see myself holding you responsible.
I'm not sure why they marked you as flamebait. The old saying "You can't fix stupid' definitely applies here. Any 'company' that would use a product without doing even a minimal vetting of you and your support infrastructure is just stupid not to put too fine a point on it.
With that said however, in the spirit of open source, you should at a minimum note that support is provided with the product only with a fee and you should make this as obvious as is possible. An informed user has no room for complaint. This pay for play support info should be easy to find where they download the product, and better yet, an 'agree' prompt in order to install it. A simple 'agree' type prompt to indicate they understand that you will not be providing free support can cut short any complaints stating "we didn't know". Something as basic as that will tend to weed out a lot of 'indignation' if people have to accept the prompt in order to download and to install.
As a 'gimme', you could also provide user forums where they can ask the user community itself for help. Most sites provide this and those types of forums will typically reduce a lot of support 'chatter' for easy questions. If you go this route, the same method should be used to inform anyone who signs up to use the forum that it is not an official support forum, but rather community supported, and any 'official' support is provided for a fee.
Not knowing your history, I suspect some of these people are finding the lack of free support after the fact, meaning you are not making that information easily available to them (regardless of how they should have looked for it in the first place). If you make the information easy to find, I would think a lot of the nastiness will disappear. The fact that you are seeing a trend would indicate they are not finding that information easily enough, and you could probably better present that up front.
I'm a bit surprised everyone is looking for a software solution when a simple hardware solution would probably meet the needs posed by this question. Specifically they were looking for the benefits of caching for disk access. Simply provide a server with higher capacity SSD's. In essence, you get the perks of having data 'cached' in memory without having to beat yourself up looking to cram a square peg in a round hole.
That will at least buy you some time to beat some sense into whoever is keeping this legacy software around that it's well beyond time to get it upgraded to something more current than a few decades old.
I suspect too many users on /. grew up with their parents watching or Law and Order and like to 'pounce' when they see some opportunity to point out some flaw in a statement.
Can't agree more. Stating someone can 'survive' because they did so before AC is indeed true, but a pointless exercise. Taking someone who does not exist in 100+ degree heat on a daily basis and throwing them into such an environment isn't survivable. People here exist on AC for 10 months a year, and every year I hear about people who die from heat exhaustion.
Kind of like saying you can 'survive' in a pressure suit at 2000 feet under water, but your quality of life would be pretty impaired ;)
Actually having lived both in the both in the north (Michigan) and the south (Texas), I find that most homes here are electric, while most homes up north have gas for heat. It's just more efficient for heating.
My home and everyone within a few blocks are all electric, although I think some homes on the other side of a nearby main street have gas available.
2011 Heat Related Fatalities
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/os/hazstats/heat11.pdf
Actually people die in Texas every year due to heat exposure. A simple google search will turn up any number of results for any particular year. It's not uncommon. Claiming something is 'livable' is much more a matter of what you define as 'livable'. If you mean hide in the shade without moving, conserve your water and exertion, etc. until the sun goes down, then yes, you could survive much like the wildlife here does.
If you mean any sort of reasonably 'normal' existence, then no, you can't.
Being able to do a thing, and choosing to do a thing are not the same. Tennessee also doesn't have the highs that Texas does, which can reach well over 110.
http://www.christianpost.com/news/texas-sees-no-relief-from-heat-wave-following-month-of-100-degrees-53433/
I also don't consider sitting around under a fan, not moving, and waiting for the sun to go down, 'living'.
It would also make working in my IT job impossible without AC for my computer systems (I telecommute). Although computers may not have been an issue for previous generations, they are typically necessary for today's generation in such circumstances.
FYI, that is 3500 KW hours per month in the warmest summer months. Usage drops to about 1500 in the winter. This is for a 3000 square foot home though.
Life here without AC wouldn't be possible. It will typically run about 10 months out of the year.
I suspect it has more to do with mild temperatures rather than better insulation.
Pretty amazing. Those low numbers aren't attainable here. You'd die of heat exposure.
I keep my house at 74 in Texas, which ranges to 100+ (Fahrenheit) in the summer, and I rarely ever go above 3500. Are you sure you're 3 person house is lower than the average here in the U.S.?
As to whether or not it's worth it, the value is realized when oil availability decreases. Any new investments will have a very large up-front cost, as well as a higher cost for any new technologies (solar is a good example here where the ROI is rather low).
Wind is a different story though, and solar is rapidly changing with recent advancements. I'd be curious to see current ROI numbers for both of these if anyone has them.
I had a nerd-gasm for nothing?
I always took the tack that Windows Surface was designed for a child, but if you need to do any work, the interface gets in the way. For common tasks, I think the home users will be fine for the most part, but if you need to dig into the OS to do any serious work you will end up fighting the UI.
I don't it's a matter of being 'smarter', but target audience.
I have to wonder if heat is a factor, or just the simplicity of the older gear that gives it the longevity.
This used to work, but with the common availability of WiFi, any scan of your local neighborhood will often never find a channel with more than 1 channel separating you from neighbors (auto channel switching isn't aggressive enough...why is that?). The only way I've found to keep ahead of it is to invest in new frequencies as they become available. I've had the 5Ghz spectrum for quite a few years with no neighbors using it until this month. The first one popped up on my scanner a few weeks ago.
The other has to do with the quality of the equipment. I used to use Linksys, then Netgear, and then tried Buffalo as was disappointed with each either through hardware issues, or due to poor performance. The Linksys gear seemed to go down hill after Cisco bought them, but I always thought that Cisco was an industry leader (not in the telecom field so feel free to chime in). My old 10Mb switches are still working after a decade but it seems rare to find one of these that lasts this long these days.
I finally ended up with an Apple Time Machine which worked well with a mixed environment of Windows and Mac's for wireless backup, and my original printer didn't have WiFi so the print server was ideal. I have a WiFi printer now but that also works as well.
4 years later and I'm still pulling 16 MB/s (granted with very little competition on the 5Ghz band) with mixed mode (g for the printer, and some older smart phones that can't hit 5Ghz).
Holding out for the newest frequency, after which I'll switch again.
They'll end up liking the taste of crow. Idiots. Without search engines, the online content will never be found, shrivel up, and die. It's a symbiotic relationship and punishing one side is just going to hurt the other.
A child can understand that concept.
Kind of stupid to say that they shouldn't be investigated just based off the 'boost' they give the economy. I'm sure MS gave a huge boost to silicon valley, but that doesn't mean what they were doing was right or that it should insulate them from any investigations.
If Google is innocent, then no harm no foul.
I was just surprised to read that Android was a Virus...
Had you actually read the article, this is regarding the SENDER, not the recipient. The sender signed no such agreement with Google. Hence the lawsuit stating that Google is violating the senders privacy since in this case the sender does not have a google account and signed no agreement.
From TFA: