and sometimes cyclists and even bikers... I have the same problem with all of them: I usually walk because I'm in no rush and i want to (daydream) think deeply about life, the universe, and everything. These guys rush by on MY walkway, stirring me out of my reverie at least, sometimes forcing me to jump out of the way.
the code is available for download from their project site. that's where your can get the code, not from apple's appstore. there's no requirement that the source be distributed along each and every excutable, only that it be "available", which it is.
I've just installed Windows 7, and I see the point now: 7 is much better than XP. The interface is what XP's should have been, and it's not too unfamiliar, as an XP user I can poke around fine.
With the various under-the-hood improvements, and if indeed performance is roughly the same, it's worth it, except for the DRM-everywhere problem.
Last I checked, a Commodore 64 could access the Internet, too.
Apple has made a deal with AT&T: in exchange for a % of all fees paid by customers, they guaranteed AT&T that users wouldn't be able to use their phone to avoid the AT&T network and fees.
they do have nicely designed hardware and software. I'm using a winmobile phone right now, and it seems unconceivable that anyone could design such a crappy interface. It's not even bad, it's pathetic.
the whole "my way or the highway" attitude stinks though, but as long as the competition remains too dumb to have nicely designed hardware, software, and content (apps+media) store, apple's going to rule.
1- it's a lot more than a couple hundred bucks, if you take into account the very expensive plan 2- iPhone is very locked-in: pps can only come from tha apple store, unless you jail break it (and lose your warranty + get a chance to have it bricked on apple's next update)
You can actually smear diamonds on your face! And it's only $400 a tub! That's, like, what, like, a million diamonds for $400? A million bleeping diamonds!
I take Linus's statement as a huge vote of confidence in the way the Free Software movement is working right now: a good system works when everyone shamelessly and ruthlessly pursue their own self-interest.
Linus seems pretty confident that whatever reason MS has for giving back code (probably because they HAD to), MS has now given code, which in the end is the desired result. It's probably not very important in the great scheme of things, I seem to understand it's a fairly marginal piece of code, they didn't donate the Windows code-base. But it can't hurt: at worst the code is useless, or bugged, but can be fixed freely.
I've heard it said that the best language depends on the job to do.
Obviously, the same applies for the best first language: what is most important for their first program/project - quick "whoa" results to generate excitement ? - doing something useful ? - fostering some understanding of a CPU, OS, Network... inner workings ? -... ?
Again, I'd say the language is just a tool to an end. Get a good project idea, then select the right tool to do it quickly and in a fun way. Maybe it's just scripting/macroing a very specific app. Maybe it's a website. Maybe it's a "real" program...
The thing is, governments are as bad at negotiating contracts as they are at running data centers, so it probably doesn't matter much either way.
Actually, many contracts are designed to be bad from the get-go: pretend you're negotiating hard and getting good prices, get locked-in with a supplier, discover suddenly you need lots of expensive, single-source, no-competitive-tender extensions, enjoy the kickbacks.
The sudden discovery can be attributed to either incompetence or corruption. I lean towards the later, because it is so common, and I have inside stories.
It's the difference between "what" and "how". It does WHAT it says (transcribes voice mail to text), but not HOW they say (employees instead of algorithms, cheap countries instead of home).
It's quite silly actually. I personally don't care much about the "how" (as long as my "data" is indeed anonymized), so I don't understand why they'd lie about it.
I'll leave the "bitching" (sic) and cheap epithets to you (does that say something about the type of people who fell for SSDs, or not ?)
You don't seem to make a difference between having a computer or not, and having game levels and comparable stuff happen 25% faster, for the 1% of the time your PC is doing that. Let me assure you: there is one.
You seem to imply you're smarter than me because, like me, you knew faster SSDs were coming. Can you please explain your (obviously very smart) logic ? Also, you may be surprised at how well I can comprehend your work, whatever that is. I hope for you it involves a lot of cheap bitching ?
Try and put things in perspective. On a desktop computer, what % of the time is spent doing disk access ? Actually, what % of the time is spent doing blocking disk access, because background ones are not really noticable, fast or slow.
Anandtech found sequential writes to be 50% faster than an HD (192 vs 120 MB/s). That's good, but not incredible, especially if your OS or HD does any kind of write caching.
Same remark for random writes, though SSD's advantage is much larger then: small % of time spent doing that, mostly cached anyway... the low-level tests are pretty much worthless.
Higher level tests show really negligible performance gains.
tests say sequential write = 50% faster than HD, not twice as fast. Maybe 2x faster than older SSDs, but not than HDs. Again, that's 50% when you're doing disk writes, which really is not that often. Plus those disk writes need to be "blocking", not done in the background.
My point is that SSDs boost performance in the very rare cases where 1- you're doing "blocking" disk IO 2- SSD are significantly faster than HDs That's not a lot.
Four your second upgrade, I'd sell my old PC, and use that + the SSD money to buy a whole new PC, sans SSD. That's what I'm doing right now.
It's always fun to read bleedin' edgers rationnalize how they didn't pay over-the-top for immature first trys that soon got obsoleted.
So, yes, you only overpaid $100 for a drive which Intel hasn't yet come out and said will never get TRIM, and is 25%+ slower than the new one. Congrats.
I've got some oil here that will do wonder for your hair ! it is expensive, too.
Let's make a few predictions based on recent trends:
July 2007: number of wives = 0 July 2009: number of wives = 1
July 2011: number of wives = 2 July 2013: number of wives = 3 July 2015: number of wives = 4 July 2017: number of wives = 5 July 2019: number of wives = 6 July 2021: number of wives = 7
Gosh, I'll need to implement wear levelling soon, too.
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Intelligent people realize they don't know everything, and are willing to seek advice from a variety of sources. Which they'll then evaluate.
Explain the risks (and benefits) clearly to them, in writing, with proof you did it. Storing medical info is particularly sensitive.
If your customers are willing to take the risk, it's their choice, and their responsibility, as long as you've been clear with them.
I think they'll back down when you come to them with a waiver to sign to clarify that they are responsible, not you.
and sometimes cyclists and even bikers... I have the same problem with all of them: I usually walk because I'm in no rush and i want to (daydream) think deeply about life, the universe, and everything. These guys rush by on MY walkway, stirring me out of my reverie at least, sometimes forcing me to jump out of the way.
They are to walkways what SUVs are to streets.
the code is available for download from their project site. that's where your can get the code, not from apple's appstore. there's no requirement that the source be distributed along each and every excutable, only that it be "available", which it is.
I've just installed Windows 7, and I see the point now: 7 is much better than XP. The interface is what XP's should have been, and it's not too unfamiliar, as an XP user I can poke around fine.
With the various under-the-hood improvements, and if indeed performance is roughly the same, it's worth it, except for the DRM-everywhere problem.
Last I checked, a Commodore 64 could access the Internet, too.
No, you can't. unless you jailbreak it, the iPhone only runs apple-approved apps.
Apple has made a deal with AT&T: in exchange for a % of all fees paid by customers, they guaranteed AT&T that users wouldn't be able to use their phone to avoid the AT&T network and fees.
they do have nicely designed hardware and software. I'm using a winmobile phone right now, and it seems unconceivable that anyone could design such a crappy interface. It's not even bad, it's pathetic.
the whole "my way or the highway" attitude stinks though, but as long as the competition remains too dumb to have nicely designed hardware, software, and content (apps+media) store, apple's going to rule.
1- it's a lot more than a couple hundred bucks, if you take into account the very expensive plan
2- iPhone is very locked-in: pps can only come from tha apple store, unless you jail break it (and lose your warranty + get a chance to have it bricked on apple's next update)
You can actually smear diamonds on your face! And it's only $400 a tub! That's, like, what, like, a million diamonds for $400? A million bleeping diamonds!
Make you look nice, too: http://the-op.com/images/episode/202/tobias-glitter_sm.jpg
Appalogies to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrested_Development_(TV_series)
It used to be good for both casual and nerdy gamers... until their nauseating 3D.
2D > 3D. Anybody knows of a 1D game ?
I take Linus's statement as a huge vote of confidence in the way the Free Software movement is working right now: a good system works when everyone shamelessly and ruthlessly pursue their own self-interest.
Linus seems pretty confident that whatever reason MS has for giving back code (probably because they HAD to), MS has now given code, which in the end is the desired result. It's probably not very important in the great scheme of things, I seem to understand it's a fairly marginal piece of code, they didn't donate the Windows code-base. But it can't hurt: at worst the code is useless, or bugged, but can be fixed freely.
Sadly, computers are not only transistors on a chip. Looking at costs, they are not even **mainly** that.
I've heard it said that the best language depends on the job to do.
Obviously, the same applies for the best first language: what is most important for their first program/project ... ?
- quick "whoa" results to generate excitement ?
- doing something useful ?
- fostering some understanding of a CPU, OS, Network... inner workings ?
-
Again, I'd say the language is just a tool to an end. Get a good project idea, then select the right tool to do it quickly and in a fun way. Maybe it's just scripting/macroing a very specific app. Maybe it's a website. Maybe it's a "real" program...
The thing is, governments are as bad at negotiating contracts as they are at running data centers, so it probably doesn't matter much either way.
Actually, many contracts are designed to be bad from the get-go: pretend you're negotiating hard and getting good prices, get locked-in with a supplier, discover suddenly you need lots of expensive, single-source, no-competitive-tender extensions, enjoy the kickbacks.
The sudden discovery can be attributed to either incompetence or corruption. I lean towards the later, because it is so common, and I have inside stories.
Nope, that was compared to a rotating HD...
Strangely, the benchmark has disapeared from their review a couple of hour aftert hey posted it. They must have gotten a call from their advertisers.
It's the difference between "what" and "how". It does WHAT it says (transcribes voice mail to text), but not HOW they say (employees instead of algorithms, cheap countries instead of home).
It's quite silly actually. I personally don't care much about the "how" (as long as my "data" is indeed anonymized), so I don't understand why they'd lie about it.
I'll leave the "bitching" (sic) and cheap epithets to you (does that say something about the type of people who fell for SSDs, or not ?)
You don't seem to make a difference between having a computer or not, and having game levels and comparable stuff happen 25% faster, for the 1% of the time your PC is doing that. Let me assure you: there is one.
You seem to imply you're smarter than me because, like me, you knew faster SSDs were coming. Can you please explain your (obviously very smart) logic ? Also, you may be surprised at how well I can comprehend your work, whatever that is. I hope for you it involves a lot of cheap bitching ?
Try and put things in perspective. On a desktop computer, what % of the time is spent doing disk access ? Actually, what % of the time is spent doing blocking disk access, because background ones are not really noticable, fast or slow.
Anandtech found sequential writes to be 50% faster than an HD (192 vs 120 MB/s). That's good, but not incredible, especially if your OS or HD does any kind of write caching.
Same remark for random writes, though SSD's advantage is much larger then: small % of time spent doing that, mostly cached anyway... the low-level tests are pretty much worthless.
Higher level tests show really negligible performance gains.
To me, Trim-less, and at least 25% slower is obsolete. That would be "design".
I'm happy for you if you think you got your money's worth. After much reading, I finally decided not to get one for the new PC I just ordered.
http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/intelx25mg2perfpreview_072209165207/19505.png
tests say sequential write = 50% faster than HD, not twice as fast. Maybe 2x faster than older SSDs, but not than HDs. Again, that's 50% when you're doing disk writes, which really is not that often. Plus those disk writes need to be "blocking", not done in the background.
My point is that SSDs boost performance in the very rare cases where
1- you're doing "blocking" disk IO
2- SSD are significantly faster than HDs
That's not a lot.
Four your second upgrade, I'd sell my old PC, and use that + the SSD money to buy a whole new PC, sans SSD. That's what I'm doing right now.
That's what Anandtech found out during "desktop" testing.
(And, I assume, OS, Apps and Documents loads)
That's it. 25% faster during the, what, 1% of the time your PC spends actually loading stuff off the disk ?
The rest of the time, you get nothing.
That's not worth $200 to me.
On the Enterprise front, I wouldn't know how compelling that is (or not). But on the consumer front ...
Because everyone knows how Ferraris have made trucks redundant so quickly !
It's always fun to read bleedin' edgers rationnalize how they didn't pay over-the-top for immature first trys that soon got obsoleted.
So, yes, you only overpaid $100 for a drive which Intel hasn't yet come out and said will never get TRIM, and is 25%+ slower than the new one. Congrats.
I've got some oil here that will do wonder for your hair ! it is expensive, too.
Let's make a few predictions based on recent trends:
July 2007: number of wives = 0
July 2009: number of wives = 1
July 2011: number of wives = 2
July 2013: number of wives = 3
July 2015: number of wives = 4
July 2017: number of wives = 5
July 2019: number of wives = 6
July 2021: number of wives = 7
Gosh, I'll need to implement wear levelling soon, too.
Extrapolation: almost as good as copulation.