But those are not SATA, as far as I know. They are PCIe SSDs, which is essentially what you're building with the IBIS solution. Rather than packaging both together on a board, you're separating the actual storage from the PCIe "controller" and sending the signaling over a cable.
Given the choice between the two, I'll opt for the solution that lets me get a controller with the number of ports I want. This opens up the possiblity of doing RAID, as in their 4 ports/4 drives solution. It may seem silly to do that instead of just buying the appropriately-sized single drive solution or PCIe SSD, but it would also be nice to have the ability to swap just the drive as capacities increase.
It's far from a "real opportunity to be involved in politics", unless by that statement you mean it's "an opportunity to have their views ignored by politicians".
Worse than that, it's an opportunity for politicians to selectively "hear" opinions which support a particular effort or view, and ignore the rest. If everyone were being ignored uniformly, that would at least be fair.
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The writers liked to say that the series title "Lost" refers not being lost geographically or temporally, if one were to relate the title directly to events happening in the narrative. Instead, they say that it's about the characters being lost in their lives, searching for explanations or something otherwise. This seems to go hand-in-hand with their explanation that the series is meant to be about the discovery of the characters and their individual crises, and not so much about the island itself.
There's obviously an inclination to look to the series finale for answers to various mysteries that have been occurring, and then you are finding yourself lost just like the characters - searching for answers as a way to make sense of what's happening. It's just that the context for you is that of the series, rather than your life. But like life, you are presented the same set of facts as everyone else who has watched the series and are left to reconcile the series finale with what has happened. In that sense, the series is an allegory for life itself.
I think I like the ending I made up in my head better, because it's my ending. Telling you my ending wouldn't help you understand things, because my ending is based on conclusions I've drawn in the absence of certain explanations by writers. Even if they did answer absolutely every little thing the promised to explore, there's no guarantee that I'd like that ending better than the one that aired, so I'm given to interpretation in my own way. Nevertheless, my ending is in the last paragraph.
For example, according to writers, the black smoke is something like pure evil, and the island vis-a-vis the light at the heart of the island is keeping the black smoke in check so it does not go off and destroy the world. There was little explanation about how the light and the island came to be, and how Jacobs brother managed to become the black smoke, or even why the black smoke desires to destroy the world. But that matters little, as their explanation of these things is likely to describe events that themselves need further explanation.
Those explanations are likely to either be too neat as to be sufficiently plausible, or create too many more mysteries as to be sufficiently plausible. In the end, it seems like it's going to boil down to either being a matter of scientific (likely pseudo-scientific) explanation, or that no amount of science can explain things and you will be resolved to relying on some sort of faith or beliefs to help understand why things are the way they are. Sound familiar? Of all the people who experienced the same series (life) over the same 6 seasons (as long as life has existed), we've all come up we'll all have to come up with our own conclusions about the series (life).
Lost isn't about the island, or even about the characters. The finale isn't really that important, because the writers can't explain anything. It is what it is - what we are and how we make sense of the world; how different people develop themselves and come to be who they are. The ending is whatever our ending will be. We'll either come to accept things for what they are and move on together, or we'll continue to separate ourselves into rival factions and pit ourselves against one another to hammer out who is more right.
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Necessary? As though people were held hostage by their TVs lest they face something traumatic if they don't? Ignoring that the previous sentence could be an metaphor for escapism, you make it sounds as if people had no choice.
It's just a TV show. I know a lot of people like to bag on these sort of serial dramas and television in general for being little more than advertising machines, but I think you give the writers and the industry a bit too much credit.
With the exception of optical media, didn't we collectively drop the word 'disk' in the 90s? I thought they were just "hard drives", and now "solid state drives" now.
I'll still use the acronym HDD, but I'll never actually say "hard disk drive".
"Those fat-cat automobile CEOs KNEW that a [lane departure|radar-equipped automatic braking|drowsiness detection] system would have prevented my serious injury, but they didn't put one in my car. I think I might have a case!"
Not only that, but people are probably just trying them out just to try them out. Now that a lot of people suddenly see more options, they're going to give some or all of them a shot, but that doesn't necessarily mean they're converts, or that they'll do anything more than browse around for an hour or so to see what it's all about.
It would be more interesting to somehow correlate continued use.
The last sentence nails it. They only do certain types of operations well, and the frequency with which I upgrade GPUs compared to CPUs - or more specifically, the fact that I very rarely replace both at the same time - leads me to believe I'm better off having them separate. Maybe there are parts of the GPU which could be incorporated into the CPU, and I think that might be what the Core i3/5/7 processors are doing with GMA integration.
That Limewire was mentioned at all is more of a "that's what you get" on the part of the user sharing his tax information, I'm betting. Though you can carry out perfectly legal file sharing through any such service, I'm guessing it's meant to taint the image of file sharing and P2P in general.
When using a drive caddy, are you actually dis/connecting from the HDDs connectors each time?
I assumed that most caddies these days have a separate connector between the caddy and carrier which is being dis/connected, but the HDDs connectors are never dis/connected from the caddy unless you are disassembling the caddy.
Low tech and simple. The only thing I might do differently is attach the rotary knob to an unused PCI backplane thingy instead of an unused drive bay - would make it harder for inquisitive people/pets to crash things.
Even a kid who is properly raised and normally well-behaved is still going to let loose just a bit behind the wheel. Especially if they're out cruising with friends. It's not a matter of trust, but their inability to perform an adequate risk assessment. They may perform one, but their lack of experience behind the wheel will result in an inadequate assessment.
You never know what your kids are going to do when you're not around, but I don't think that's a reason to stop them from doing anything at all. Just a little something to help keep them honest.
The article mentions a periodic table of Baryons. I was just checking that out and there are all kinds of combinations that contain quarks from more than one group, and even one that contains one from each of those groups. That doesn't mean they will all be discovered, but it looks like they're well on their way.
Why is it up to console manufacturers to develop the next generation of power supplies? Why didn't they pick on computer manufacturers or power supply manufacturers themselves? There are far more computers out there than gaming consoles, and I think 450W is becoming the standard for a PC power supply these days. They could make a much bigger dent by going after the PC userbase.
My guess is that the resolution/viewport changes with screen size, but the image viewed through the viewport does not. You'd just have to scroll less on a larger monitor.
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If we let a=0.999, then wouldn't 10a = 9.990, not 9.999?
Makes a pretty big difference.
But those are not SATA, as far as I know. They are PCIe SSDs, which is essentially what you're building with the IBIS solution. Rather than packaging both together on a board, you're separating the actual storage from the PCIe "controller" and sending the signaling over a cable.
Given the choice between the two, I'll opt for the solution that lets me get a controller with the number of ports I want. This opens up the possiblity of doing RAID, as in their 4 ports/4 drives solution. It may seem silly to do that instead of just buying the appropriately-sized single drive solution or PCIe SSD, but it would also be nice to have the ability to swap just the drive as capacities increase.
It's far from a "real opportunity to be involved in politics", unless by that statement you mean it's "an opportunity to have their views ignored by politicians".
Worse than that, it's an opportunity for politicians to selectively "hear" opinions which support a particular effort or view, and ignore the rest. If everyone were being ignored uniformly, that would at least be fair.
The writers liked to say that the series title "Lost" refers not being lost geographically or temporally, if one were to relate the title directly to events happening in the narrative. Instead, they say that it's about the characters being lost in their lives, searching for explanations or something otherwise. This seems to go hand-in-hand with their explanation that the series is meant to be about the discovery of the characters and their individual crises, and not so much about the island itself.
There's obviously an inclination to look to the series finale for answers to various mysteries that have been occurring, and then you are finding yourself lost just like the characters - searching for answers as a way to make sense of what's happening. It's just that the context for you is that of the series, rather than your life. But like life, you are presented the same set of facts as everyone else who has watched the series and are left to reconcile the series finale with what has happened. In that sense, the series is an allegory for life itself.
I think I like the ending I made up in my head better, because it's my ending. Telling you my ending wouldn't help you understand things, because my ending is based on conclusions I've drawn in the absence of certain explanations by writers. Even if they did answer absolutely every little thing the promised to explore, there's no guarantee that I'd like that ending better than the one that aired, so I'm given to interpretation in my own way. Nevertheless, my ending is in the last paragraph.
For example, according to writers, the black smoke is something like pure evil, and the island vis-a-vis the light at the heart of the island is keeping the black smoke in check so it does not go off and destroy the world. There was little explanation about how the light and the island came to be, and how Jacobs brother managed to become the black smoke, or even why the black smoke desires to destroy the world. But that matters little, as their explanation of these things is likely to describe events that themselves need further explanation.
Those explanations are likely to either be too neat as to be sufficiently plausible, or create too many more mysteries as to be sufficiently plausible. In the end, it seems like it's going to boil down to either being a matter of scientific (likely pseudo-scientific) explanation, or that no amount of science can explain things and you will be resolved to relying on some sort of faith or beliefs to help understand why things are the way they are. Sound familiar? Of all the people who experienced the same series (life) over the same 6 seasons (as long as life has existed), we've all come up we'll all have to come up with our own conclusions about the series (life).
Lost isn't about the island, or even about the characters. The finale isn't really that important, because the writers can't explain anything. It is what it is - what we are and how we make sense of the world; how different people develop themselves and come to be who they are. The ending is whatever our ending will be. We'll either come to accept things for what they are and move on together, or we'll continue to separate ourselves into rival factions and pit ourselves against one another to hammer out who is more right.
Necessary? As though people were held hostage by their TVs lest they face something traumatic if they don't? Ignoring that the previous sentence could be an metaphor for escapism, you make it sounds as if people had no choice.
It's just a TV show. I know a lot of people like to bag on these sort of serial dramas and television in general for being little more than advertising machines, but I think you give the writers and the industry a bit too much credit.
With the exception of optical media, didn't we collectively drop the word 'disk' in the 90s? I thought they were just "hard drives", and now "solid state drives" now.
I'll still use the acronym HDD, but I'll never actually say "hard disk drive".
"Those fat-cat automobile CEOs KNEW that a [lane departure|radar-equipped automatic braking|drowsiness detection] system would have prevented my serious injury, but they didn't put one in my car. I think I might have a case!"
Not only that, but people are probably just trying them out just to try them out. Now that a lot of people suddenly see more options, they're going to give some or all of them a shot, but that doesn't necessarily mean they're converts, or that they'll do anything more than browse around for an hour or so to see what it's all about.
It would be more interesting to somehow correlate continued use.
The last sentence nails it. They only do certain types of operations well, and the frequency with which I upgrade GPUs compared to CPUs - or more specifically, the fact that I very rarely replace both at the same time - leads me to believe I'm better off having them separate. Maybe there are parts of the GPU which could be incorporated into the CPU, and I think that might be what the Core i3/5/7 processors are doing with GMA integration.
They were leaning on that "oh, our bad, we got some 'demo units' by mistake" excuse pretty hard.
Demos? C'mon, demos are supposed to work, not be a blob of aluminum.
That Limewire was mentioned at all is more of a "that's what you get" on the part of the user sharing his tax information, I'm betting. Though you can carry out perfectly legal file sharing through any such service, I'm guessing it's meant to taint the image of file sharing and P2P in general.
Not that they need to justify it, but did they explain their position at any point?
I believe you mean "to whom IE7 was proven".
When using a drive caddy, are you actually dis/connecting from the HDDs connectors each time?
I assumed that most caddies these days have a separate connector between the caddy and carrier which is being dis/connected, but the HDDs connectors are never dis/connected from the caddy unless you are disassembling the caddy.
Well that's pretty darn easy, depending on what you want that abort button to DO. :)
Low tech and simple. The only thing I might do differently is attach the rotary knob to an unused PCI backplane thingy instead of an unused drive bay - would make it harder for inquisitive people/pets to crash things.
Even a kid who is properly raised and normally well-behaved is still going to let loose just a bit behind the wheel. Especially if they're out cruising with friends. It's not a matter of trust, but their inability to perform an adequate risk assessment. They may perform one, but their lack of experience behind the wheel will result in an inadequate assessment.
You never know what your kids are going to do when you're not around, but I don't think that's a reason to stop them from doing anything at all. Just a little something to help keep them honest.
The infamous Konami particle. Very controversial. For example, it may or may not contain a Select particle, depending on who you ask.
The article mentions a periodic table of Baryons. I was just checking that out and there are all kinds of combinations that contain quarks from more than one group, and even one that contains one from each of those groups. That doesn't mean they will all be discovered, but it looks like they're well on their way.
Bob is a verb, which makes this a whole different scenario.
Bob Wood Johnson? Seriously?
You might want to grab a cough drop. You may be coming down with something.
Couple that with the fact that some players are absolutely rabid about having every last downloadable song that's available.
Why is it up to console manufacturers to develop the next generation of power supplies? Why didn't they pick on computer manufacturers or power supply manufacturers themselves? There are far more computers out there than gaming consoles, and I think 450W is becoming the standard for a PC power supply these days. They could make a much bigger dent by going after the PC userbase.
My guess is that the resolution/viewport changes with screen size, but the image viewed through the viewport does not. You'd just have to scroll less on a larger monitor.