That's fine. Most web proxies (like Opera's) and dialup services like AOL's will re-render images to lower quality in order to compress the web pages down before sending them out to the user which is what commodore64_love was talking about.
Considering this topic is about consumer SSDs I figured we were talking about home desktops. Of course in a business environment you would back things up because it is critical information and as I said in my post:
Well drives in servers are also put through far more strain than a home desktop so their failure rate would be expected to be earlier than a 5 year mark for a consumer drive in a home PC.
Lucky enough that I would recommend regular backups rather than depend on your luck with the hard drive.
Wouldn't you?
Based entirely on my own experience and that of those around me? No, not really. For extremely critical information, sure, but I don't really bother backing anything up as it's pretty much all replaceable and I've never really had a hard drive fail before the 5 year mark. By the time I've ever had a drive fail it's been probably 8-10 years old and is storing nothing of extreme value anyway so anything that may get lost is easily replaced.
No shit? They said it was going to be a paid service when it was first announced. From the title of the original Slashdot article from March: Pirate Bay To Offer VPN For $7 a Month. From where did you get the idea that this was ever going to be a free service?
If you can get a regular hard drive to the five year mark running perfectly well with no data loss, you can consider yourself moderately lucky.
There's nothing lucky about it. Unless you are just straining the drive constantly or don't have any adequate ventilation in your box, an HDD lasting 5 years if not longer is a pretty mundane thing for quite some time.
Intel Mainstream Solid-State Drives are available in either 2.5in (Intel X25-M Mainstream SATA Solid-State Drive) or 1.8in (Intel X18-M Mainstream SATA Solid-State Drive) standard hard drive form factors.
The term you meant was hard disk drive (or HDD) not the name of the connector interface (SATA).
That would require the Slashdot coders to actual be competent. That little comments box on the AJAX version has also been broken for about as long and no one seems to have noticed that either. You're supposed to be able to dock it to the top of the page but if you click the button it just gets black outline and stays in the same place.
But your reply is not a reply to my comment, as suddenly you're narrowing it down to the music game genre.:)
I wasn't suddenly narrowing anything down. My comment was directly about the topic at hand since I was replying directly to this statement from the OP:
But it seems to me that if you're interested enough in playing music to spend hours on a simplified simulator, you might as well buy a cheap guitar / bass / drum kit and do it for real.
Yes, I read what he's talking about and I've seen the compression he refers to in action. The ISP will re-render the images to a lower quality they aren't gzipping them.
Well, no, they usually don't re-encode images, they just compress, which, as my following poster WillKemp pointed out, would usually increase the file size of compressed images.
Well you and WillKemp are both wrong. Because by "recompress" he wasn't talking about gzipping it or anything like that. He was talking about them recompressing the JPEG image with lower quality settings. Just so you know, reencoding a JPEG file is "recompressing" it.
But that wasn't what commodore64_love was talking about. By recompressing the image he does mean that they recompress the image to a lower quality before sending it to the user.
Yeah, I'm still trying to figure out what is supposed to be evil about them using GPLv2 only over GPLv3 when it seems to be perfectly acceptable that the Linux kernel is licensed under the exact same terms. *shrug*
Generally if you compress a file that's already compressed, it gets bigger.
Then you're doing it wrong. To compress a JPEG to a lower size you would decrease the quality setting in whatever editing program you are using and reencode the picture. It's really not that hard.
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That's fine. Most web proxies (like Opera's) and dialup services like AOL's will re-render images to lower quality in order to compress the web pages down before sending them out to the user which is what commodore64_love was talking about.
That's unnecessary code, but it serves it's purpose by increasing readability over:
It doesn't serve any purpose. If you can't understand the statement:
if (isTrue)
Then you're worse than an amateur coder.
Considering this topic is about consumer SSDs I figured we were talking about home desktops. Of course in a business environment you would back things up because it is critical information and as I said in my post:
For extremely critical information, sure,
gonna have to keep some kind of records of those payments; therefore it's not fully anonymous.
Yes, the record that have to keep would amount to this: "x user paid his monthly fee". There is no need to retain any other information.
Well drives in servers are also put through far more strain than a home desktop so their failure rate would be expected to be earlier than a 5 year mark for a consumer drive in a home PC.
Lucky enough that I would recommend regular backups rather than depend on your luck with the hard drive.
Wouldn't you?
Based entirely on my own experience and that of those around me? No, not really. For extremely critical information, sure, but I don't really bother backing anything up as it's pretty much all replaceable and I've never really had a hard drive fail before the 5 year mark. By the time I've ever had a drive fail it's been probably 8-10 years old and is storing nothing of extreme value anyway so anything that may get lost is easily replaced.
It'll have to be a paid service.
No shit? They said it was going to be a paid service when it was first announced. From the title of the original Slashdot article from March: Pirate Bay To Offer VPN For $7 a Month. From where did you get the idea that this was ever going to be a free service?
Oops that was meant to be:
if (isTrue == true)
If you can get a regular hard drive to the five year mark running perfectly well with no data loss, you can consider yourself moderately lucky.
There's nothing lucky about it. Unless you are just straining the drive constantly or don't have any adequate ventilation in your box, an HDD lasting 5 years if not longer is a pretty mundane thing for quite some time.
Because he's one of those morons who when checking a bool do something stupid like this:
bool isTrue = false;
if (bool == true)
and there is no discernible lag on first load like you will get with SATA drives since they are still trying to load system tray applications.
Protip: Intel's SSDs are also "SATA drives".
From here
Intel Mainstream Solid-State Drives are available in either 2.5in (Intel X25-M Mainstream SATA Solid-State Drive) or 1.8in (Intel X18-M Mainstream SATA Solid-State Drive) standard hard drive form factors.
The term you meant was hard disk drive (or HDD) not the name of the connector interface (SATA).
That would require the Slashdot coders to actual be competent. That little comments box on the AJAX version has also been broken for about as long and no one seems to have noticed that either. You're supposed to be able to dock it to the top of the page but if you click the button it just gets black outline and stays in the same place.
*facepalm*
At present most networking gear has a hard time routing packets through open air
That's weird. My 8 year old wireless router seems to handle routing packets through the open air just fine. *shrug*
But your reply is not a reply to my comment, as suddenly you're narrowing it down to the music game genre. :)
I wasn't suddenly narrowing anything down. My comment was directly about the topic at hand since I was replying directly to this statement from the OP:
But it seems to me that if you're interested enough in playing music to spend hours on a simplified simulator, you might as well buy a cheap guitar / bass / drum kit and do it for real.
Actually to be more accurate, the US DoD is the largest oil purchaser in the world.
Yes but your touchpad mouse gives an "immediate visual feedback" which wouldn't be the same as the claim in this patent.
mister Anonymous Coward, if that is your real name...
Did you miss the memo? His name is now "Anonymous Cowardon". Apparently the Slashdot coders decided to give him a new name.
Yes, I read what he's talking about and I've seen the compression he refers to in action. The ISP will re-render the images to a lower quality they aren't gzipping them.
Well, no, they usually don't re-encode images, they just compress, which, as my following poster WillKemp pointed out, would usually increase the file size of compressed images.
Well you and WillKemp are both wrong. Because by "recompress" he wasn't talking about gzipping it or anything like that. He was talking about them recompressing the JPEG image with lower quality settings. Just so you know, reencoding a JPEG file is "recompressing" it.
But that wasn't what commodore64_love was talking about. By recompressing the image he does mean that they recompress the image to a lower quality before sending it to the user.
Yeah, I'm still trying to figure out what is supposed to be evil about them using GPLv2 only over GPLv3 when it seems to be perfectly acceptable that the Linux kernel is licensed under the exact same terms. *shrug*
Generally if you compress a file that's already compressed, it gets bigger.
Then you're doing it wrong. To compress a JPEG to a lower size you would decrease the quality setting in whatever editing program you are using and reencode the picture. It's really not that hard.
You reencode the picture with lower quality settings.
So then why even release the source code at all? Because they are going to sue their own users of the Live@edu service? I seriously doubt that.