I know for a fact that Kingston's SSDnow series are rebadged Intels, so they should perform identically.
There are three separate generations of SSDnow SSDs. The originals used JMicron controllers - the next ones used Intel controllers (but with less lanes going to the NAND, or something), and the new ones are Toshiba controllers + Toshiba NAND, I believe.
But since you can't prove anything at all conclusively, you're just not allowed to say negative things at all. Any new quack medicine has to be kept hands off or else you're sued into oblivion. It's now up to you to prove an alternative medicine is ineffective, using your own money, not the person selling the bogus goods. That's messed up.
Medical Doctors. Pharmaceuticals. There's plenty of very rich associations and companies that would be happy to discredit Chiropractors making such outlandish claims. You don't have to do anything.
Any potentially hazardous product or practice needs to be allowed to be criticized, and the producers and sellers need to be the ones to prove that it's safe. This includes medicines, treatments, British made dowsing equipment relabeled as bomb detectors, etc.
Yes. But this isn't exactly "hazardous". It may not cure you, but unlike many medicines, it won't actively kill you either. (Many medicines have severe long-term side effects on various organs)
I believe that in some cases, where Dr.s of Chiropractic have repeatedly "manipulated" folks in an attempt to cure illness, people have become seriously injured or died.
That's possible - but you're no better off with other healthcare providers. Have you seen the stats on GPs prescribing the wrong drugs, resulting in death or serious illness?
There's quacks and morons in every field.
I wouldn't trust the scientific objectivity of nutritional advice from someone who believes in Chiropractic theory.
I'll listen to it from anyone that's taken enough courses, then cross-check what they say online.
I've never heard of Chiropractors curing cancer. Heh - when my chiropractor got a malignant melanoma, she got it cut out before it could spread.:P
But I have heard the theories that proper alignment can help your body heal itself. I'd be interested in statistics (one way or the other) showing cancer rates in people that regularly have chiropractic adjustments, vs those that don't. Is anyone aware of such statistics?
In what way did the BCA not get what they wanted? Singh's attitude went from 'you are ripoff artists' to 'please dont sue me'. The courts sided with the BCA.
Simple solution - don't slander without factual proof. Even if you strongly believe something, or know it to be true, don't say it unless you have actual evidence, because if you don't (and can't provide some), it's slander.
Colic? Often caused by gas, treated by moving the baby around.
Hehe... I've seen a few babies that wouldn't stop screaming get better after an adjustment.
Not Colic per se, but you can knock bones out of place at any age.
The chiropractors I know do a lot of muscle work too, so they're more like Chiropractor-Physio hybrids. My favourite Chiropractor also knows a lot of nutritional stuff. She just radiates knowledge compared to my MD.
But they are people. I'm sure there's quacks, or less educated members of the profession. That happens with every profession.
The iPad has a lot going for it, especially that you can get one for about 1/3 the price of that thing (if you convert the 1998 dollars, see eldavojon's post) and that you have wireless networking (a major plus).
Price is just a side effect of when they were each made.
There's boatloads of cheap chinese tablets in the $100-150 range, with superior specs to that old thing. The OS on most is sure to suck, but you can get very cheap hardware now.
Also, the drive itself is about twice the price of the cheapest 500 GB drive you can find on Pricewatch. So even as a 500 GB drive (if you're not interested in paying to watch the movies) it's a rip-off.
I got some 1.5TB drives for $99 shipped around Feb. This isn't a very good "deal".:/ It'd be decent if 20 movies were included in the $100 price, though.
> "Defragmenting or "defragging" a SSD takes up many write/erase cycles... which shortens the lifetime of an SSD, even if it's also cleaning up the drive."
No, defragging is not cleaning up an SSD drive. There is no reason to defrag an SSD because their is no latency getting to a further sector.
> "it's a delicate balance, how often you should defrag your SSD for optimum performance and lifetime"
How about "NEVER"?
> "Only defrag when necessary!"
Argh!
I see your point - but also consider that NTFS is pretty stupid, and may split a large file into 15000 chunks. There is some performance impact associated with locating all those chunks. It may be on the CPU end rather than SSD end, but it's there. If you want to check how bad it is on your own PC, use a tool like Defraggler - it can tell you how many fragments your worst files are split into.
With a smart filesystem, there would be no reason at all to defragment an SSD.
I feel that even with stupid NTFS, you should avoid defragmenting SSDs.
H.264 decodes fine at low bitrates. 128-256kbit should decode fine on most cellphones - software permitting. That's a high enough bitrate to look decent at cellphone resolutions.
75 seconds long, FRAPS footage of a game intro. It happens to compress quite well, so for actual video footage, 256kbit and up would be best.
That's with all settings tweaked to the max. If your cellphone or media player can play that, then hardware support probably isn't required - it's just handy to avoid having to transcode to lower bitrates.
Noone needs a fucking 2.8Ghz dual core processor just to run flash video, all you need is a better OS and a little optimization.
Hehe... I need a 3.5ghz quad-core. But I actually encode H.264 in realtime from time to time.
Those Atom 330's and D510's really are affordable, and quite powerful. They come close to Pentium D's in performance, but without the 100+ watts power consumption.
A lightweight OS with efficient multiple-core usage (*cough* Linux) can make good use of them. They're a tad weak in Vista/Win7, but still better than anything single-core.
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OTOH these supporters cost them real money.
They don't cost them anything - unless you think 100% profit on the hardware should be part of the "cost" to manufacture.
Since Sony's production capacity outstrips demand, is it really killing them to give some away to crazy hobbyists and researchers at cost?
I know for a fact that Kingston's SSDnow series are rebadged Intels, so they should perform identically.
There are three separate generations of SSDnow SSDs. The originals used JMicron controllers - the next ones used Intel controllers (but with less lanes going to the NAND, or something), and the new ones are Toshiba controllers + Toshiba NAND, I believe.
But since you can't prove anything at all conclusively, you're just not allowed to say negative things at all. Any new quack medicine has to be kept hands off or else you're sued into oblivion. It's now up to you to prove an alternative medicine is ineffective, using your own money, not the person selling the bogus goods. That's messed up.
Medical Doctors. Pharmaceuticals. There's plenty of very rich associations and companies that would be happy to discredit Chiropractors making such outlandish claims. You don't have to do anything.
Any potentially hazardous product or practice needs to be allowed to be criticized, and the producers and sellers need to be the ones to prove that it's safe. This includes medicines, treatments, British made dowsing equipment relabeled as bomb detectors, etc.
Yes. But this isn't exactly "hazardous". It may not cure you, but unlike many medicines, it won't actively kill you either. (Many medicines have severe long-term side effects on various organs)
I believe that in some cases, where Dr.s of Chiropractic have repeatedly "manipulated" folks in an attempt to cure illness, people have become seriously injured or died.
That's possible - but you're no better off with other healthcare providers. Have you seen the stats on GPs prescribing the wrong drugs, resulting in death or serious illness?
There's quacks and morons in every field.
I wouldn't trust the scientific objectivity of nutritional advice from someone who believes in Chiropractic theory.
I'll listen to it from anyone that's taken enough courses, then cross-check what they say online.
While it sucks that working conditions like these exist, how else can we buy mice for $20?
The last Microsoft mouse I bought was $11 free shipping.
Shortly before that during the boxing week sale I saw a Microsoft Keyboard + Mouse combo going for $9.99 + S&H
IMHO, that might help! ;)
I've never heard of Chiropractors curing cancer. Heh - when my chiropractor got a malignant melanoma, she got it cut out before it could spread. :P
But I have heard the theories that proper alignment can help your body heal itself. I'd be interested in statistics (one way or the other) showing cancer rates in people that regularly have chiropractic adjustments, vs those that don't. Is anyone aware of such statistics?
They are. A massage therapist could helped you more and with less hocus-pocus.
You've got your head in the sand. There are injuries where bones need to be realigned. This sounds like one of them.
In what way did the BCA not get what they wanted? Singh's attitude went from 'you are ripoff artists' to 'please dont sue me'. The courts sided with the BCA.
Simple solution - don't slander without factual proof. Even if you strongly believe something, or know it to be true, don't say it unless you have actual evidence, because if you don't (and can't provide some), it's slander.
Colic? Often caused by gas, treated by moving the baby around.
Hehe... I've seen a few babies that wouldn't stop screaming get better after an adjustment.
Not Colic per se, but you can knock bones out of place at any age.
The chiropractors I know do a lot of muscle work too, so they're more like Chiropractor-Physio hybrids. My favourite Chiropractor also knows a lot of nutritional stuff. She just radiates knowledge compared to my MD.
But they are people. I'm sure there's quacks, or less educated members of the profession. That happens with every profession.
The iPad has a lot going for it, especially that you can get one for about 1/3 the price of that thing (if you convert the 1998 dollars, see eldavojon's post) and that you have wireless networking (a major plus).
Price is just a side effect of when they were each made.
There's boatloads of cheap chinese tablets in the $100-150 range, with superior specs to that old thing. The OS on most is sure to suck, but you can get very cheap hardware now.
But computers also cost more back then. In 1998, a $250 new PC was unheard of...
Hey look, now there's tablets even better than that for under $100!
http://www.aliexpress.com/product-fm/293443154-cheapest-7inch-MID-with-touch-screen-wholesalers.html
Hmm... chinese crap. :P
I'm not sure that tablet is useful for anything, considering the OS.
Apparently it's still being developed, too!
http://www.ecomstation.com/
Yep, it is rather silly. All the major browsers seem to display BMP images just fine.
Technically I was incorrect, though. We can't leave out lynx! ;)
Needless to say, I'm quite disgusted with the Apache foundation right now.
At least it wasn't stored plain text!
Also, the drive itself is about twice the price of the cheapest 500 GB drive you can find on Pricewatch. So even as a 500 GB drive (if you're not interested in paying to watch the movies) it's a rip-off.
I got some 1.5TB drives for $99 shipped around Feb. This isn't a very good "deal". :/ It'd be decent if 20 movies were included in the $100 price, though.
> "Defragmenting or "defragging" a SSD takes up many write/erase cycles... which shortens the lifetime of an SSD, even if it's also cleaning up the drive."
No, defragging is not cleaning up an SSD drive. There is no reason to defrag an SSD because their is no latency getting to a further sector.
> "it's a delicate balance, how often you should defrag your SSD for optimum performance and lifetime"
How about "NEVER"?
> "Only defrag when necessary!"
Argh!
I see your point - but also consider that NTFS is pretty stupid, and may split a large file into 15000 chunks. There is some performance impact associated with locating all those chunks. It may be on the CPU end rather than SSD end, but it's there. If you want to check how bad it is on your own PC, use a tool like Defraggler - it can tell you how many fragments your worst files are split into.
With a smart filesystem, there would be no reason at all to defragment an SSD.
I feel that even with stupid NTFS, you should avoid defragmenting SSDs.
All the same, I can't wait to get my hands on a VP8 encoder. I'd love to see what it encodes well, and doesn't encode well.
So now instead of two incompatible codecs for HTML5 video, we will have three? Great!
Nah, Theora will fade away like BMP.
I mean... every browser supports BMP, but how many websites do you see using it? :P
Everyone uses, JPEG, GIF, PNG. This'll be similar - H.264, VP8, Flash[H.264]
H.264 decodes fine at low bitrates. 128-256kbit should decode fine on most cellphones - software permitting. That's a high enough bitrate to look decent at cellphone resolutions.
Here - if you want to test it, I'll hand you a bunch 128-256kbit videos:
http://www.mediafire.com/?iyohljiy3gy
75 seconds long, FRAPS footage of a game intro. It happens to compress quite well, so for actual video footage, 256kbit and up would be best.
That's with all settings tweaked to the max. If your cellphone or media player can play that, then hardware support probably isn't required - it's just handy to avoid having to transcode to lower bitrates.
what relevance does it have now?
The only OS to ever do GUI responsiveness properly?
Wikipedia says 720p+ is HD. Microsoft and Sony seem to say the same for their consoles.
Since wikipedia lists resolutions up into the thousands, I'm going to say 720p+ is the correct definition of HD - not merely 1080p/i
Err... no thanks. I'd take an internal PSU with a bit of moving air before one of those humming laptop power bricks.
A good PSU is more power efficient, too. My NAS uses 2006 hardware(Via C7-M), but barely consumes 40w even with all those HDDs.
Noone needs a fucking 2.8Ghz dual core processor just to run flash video, all you need is a better OS and a little optimization.
Hehe... I need a 3.5ghz quad-core. But I actually encode H.264 in realtime from time to time.
Those Atom 330's and D510's really are affordable, and quite powerful. They come close to Pentium D's in performance, but without the 100+ watts power consumption.
A lightweight OS with efficient multiple-core usage (*cough* Linux) can make good use of them. They're a tad weak in Vista/Win7, but still better than anything single-core.
P.S. Did you mean 1920x1200?