How exactly was under-hydration causing sleep apnea? Are you saying that your tissue was swelling because it was drying out? Or something else? I've never heard of dehydration causing sleep apnea before.
I did some testing on this. Used the same machine to do the same build on a 7200RPM drive and an SSD. The mechanical drive would finish this particular build in 20 minutes. The SSD would do it in 18. Not a substantial difference. You are right that the CPU is doing way more work than the storage for a typical build. Now building an IPA for iOS, there could be a huge difference, depending on how many MB of resources you are throwing into the package. My current iOS project at work takes about 5 minutes on a mechanical drive (again 7200 RPM) versus just under 3 minutes on an SSD. That is substantial, and it is due to hundreds of megabytes worth of resources being shuffled around at build time.
If the "Dead Sea Effect" were true, companies would simply ensure that they had a high staff turnover, rather than worry about keeping valued employees. Especially in places like the US, it is very easy to fire old staff and hire new ones. Companies don't accumulate old, useless employees for the sake of it.
Maybe. Or maybe such companies would build a reputation for mistreating their employees and the talented people will never apply there to begin with. I have personally seen this happen. I was living in an area that had a small tech community. Our company was bought out by another and most of the good people left not very long after. The only talented people that stuck around were the ones that did not want to relocate for one reason or another. I have some friends who fall into that category and I've gone back to visit them. The people leading teams there now are people that I avoided working with when I was there.
Oh yeah Jag was a great game. I guess Jagged Alliance Back in Action was published in the not too distant past but it was a terribly executed remake of Jag 2.
Sure let me see what I can find for you. I still have the VM I used to modify the file, so I might be able to dig it up by hand if i can't find the exact forum I used that recommended the change. My brother has his wife's 4S on StraightTalk and he just borrowed my t-mobile SIM, changed the APN, and then everything worked. That is also a non-jail break option that works. That does have to be fixed every time you do a software update however (I have to set my t-mobile APN every update as well).
If you use Walmart Family mobile or the T-mobile bring your own phone plans you can access the APN settings. The problem is that i had to actually modify some plist (I don't even remember which one) and push it to the phone as a "restore" to fix incoming MMS. I haven't had to do that but once, even after multiple OS updates but it was a pain that first time. No jailbreak required.
What an incredibly short sighted answer, a shameful act that it was mod'd anything positive.
I use to run a creative labs cheap-o mic that happen to pic up the entire room, ran this fucker all through high school occasionally making music but more often then not enjoying the memories. There was no special moment it was turned on, it just was... Now 10 years later it's a pretty amazing thing to go back and listen to, same with my webcam took any picture I could with the 6 feet of USB cord I was provided..
Why are you going back and reliving your life of 10 years ago instead of living the life you have now? I love pictures, I love to watch old videos of special moments and funny things that happened spontaneously, don't get me wrong. But I'd rather be interacting with someone I love and care about than reminiscing on those interactions.
If it were a family member? I'd probably break their recording device. Seriously. And if it were a friend, I'd probably be hesitant to hang out with them. The fog of memory is a good thing, usually. It helps you to remember the things you really enjoy about your friends and family, and forget the things that really drive you nuts. Also consider the legal implications for yourself if you have such a recording device. If you ever are suspected of a crime, or investigated, sued, or anything else, they will subpoena the video / audio from this device. It could be very detrimental to your case, and even used out of context against you. There is no reason to record every second of your life. When would you ever listen to your entire life again? Just do what most people do. Record those precious moments that you know you're going to have, and keep a journal about the daily/weekly/monthly things that you think are significant to you at that time.
Your comment doesn't make mucht sense. They would rethink using the machines because nobody is using them? Removing them only makes the pad down line longer.
Incorrect for several reasons. They only do random pat downs when there is no body scanner. They only require the enhanced pat down when someone opts out of doing the body scanner. I've also personally seen them open the metal detectors and let 30-40 people through the metal detector instead of the scanner after I opted out of the scanner and the staff did not know what to do with me. They had me stand in the way of the scanner, which caused such a backup that everyone behind me didn't have to bother with the scanner or the pat down.
Because pitchforks are tools, mainly made to shovel manure. They are only clumsy, makeshift weapons.
Guns are built to propel projectiles at high velocity against a target, which makes them quite clumsy, makeshift tools for anything else.
A gun is a tool, as well. It may be a tool used to do things that you do not approve of, but that does not make it any less a tool than a pitchfork.
Pretty much any panel you buy these days is manufactured in Korea or Japan. I'm not referring to the quality of the panel itself, but the fact that these cheap Korean monitors are the exact same panels that other "premium" manufacturers have rejected due to manufacturing defects (dead pixels, poor gamut, whatever). I don't sell anything for a living. At least, not directly. I write software that other people eventually sell. I have no stake in the monitor business, except through any stock positions that my mutual funds may hold that I am unaware of. I am just telling you that I personally own a nice 2560x1440 display and use a poor quality one at work. I would gladly pay the $650 for the dell over the $300-450 for a no-name Korean display any day of the week. Its not the fact that Koreans manufactured the panel (they are probably both Korean panels), its the fact that Dell, Apple, ViewSonic, and other companies already had the chance to buy that panel and decided it was not up to their standards for whatever reason.
I'd be willing to bet any automatic after ~2005 would be shift by wire. In fact, the ODB-II standard that was used in cars '96 and newer have standard bus commands to tell the transmission what position the shifter is in. With my car, I can hook up an ODB-II device and literally tell the car to shift from 2 to 3rd gear, for instance. But I really dislike the fact that its almost impossible to get a manual transmission in most cars in the US.:(
Monoprice.com is going to start stocking house-branded 27" ($400) and 30"($600-$700) IPS panels for a DEEP discount in March. Same LG panels as used in Apple Cinema Display. Monoprice is a great company and wouldn't call what they are offering nameless Korean screens. Here is a link http://www.monoprice.com/products/search.asp?keyword=ips
Are they the IPS panels that Apple rejected due to manufacturing defects? Or ones that Apple would have used as well? The Korean branded 27" IPS displays that I have tried are all terrible. The controls suck, they don't seem to be properly adjustable for accurate colors, and the brightness and contrast suck. We bought a bunch of them from Monoprice at work and I hate every last one of them.
I have one of those Korean 27" monitors and a 27" dell ultra-sharp at home. IT *pains* me to use the work monitor. In fact, I hate the days that I actually have to go into the office because the color and brightness are so terrible on the Korean displays. We have a bunch of them at the office and no one could adjust their brightness, contrast, and color warmth to make it display colors accurately. Now that the Dells have dropped in price to $650, I think you would have to be a fool to buy one of those Korean displays. One of my coworkers was going to buy one of the ones we have at work and I convinced him to get the Dull Ultra-sharp. His response to me was "Now I understand why you were complaining about the displays at work." Sometimes its worth the extra money to get something of quality.
Sorry, I replied to myself and you didn't see it. A coworker interrupted me in the middle of reading your post and when I looked back I thought I had read your whole comment. Ignore me.
Sorry, there no such thing as "excelling" at compression "especially" with Opera Turbo.
You're obviously unfamiliar with how Opera does their compression. And its the same reason that I actually do not use the mobile version of Opera (well I don't use Opera at all, but I did try their mobile browser). They redirect all requests through their server where they reprocess images and do other things to compress and reduce the data footprint for a website. This is how they are able to excel at compression. The cost is your privacy and security.
Tell him to stop worrying about college and just enjoy the summer. Once you go to college, it's all about studying and doing well, then summers are for working jobs to pay off some debt and have spending cash during the school year, then back to school....and once your graduate and get a job, all of your freedom is gone!
Have him enjoy his last moments of freedom from responsibility and have fun with his friends.
Besides, if I had a dime for every kid in Intro to CS that thought he knew how to program but couldn't grasp the idea of simple design patterns...I wouldn't have had to be a TA.
Bah! I worked full time, went to school full time, and did summer school every summer. I still had plenty of time to stay out late and have fun with all my friends, and graduated with honors. College is a great way time to learn about sleep deprivation, and how to sneak in cat-naps when no one is looking. Those 200+ student classes are a great place to get in an extra nap. You just didn't do it right.;)
It is, yes. But the FDA is definitely right that it affects people differently. I can drink a red bull, a monster, a coke, tea, or anything but coffee and easily take a long nap afterwards. Something about the caffeine I get through coffee is different. It actually makes me feel alert and awake. So is there some other chemical in coffee that increases the effectiveness of caffeine for me, or is the caffeine delivered differently? Does it have a slightly different composition? I don't know. But its a difference I can definitely feel.
I think the quote was from Dilbert, though. That is definitely something that Dogbert would say in Dilbert, as well. I kind of remember reading that somewhere and I don't read anything from the UK, except BBC News.
Not only do you end up paying more for a subsidized phone, you lose your rights to do whatever you want with it.
That is not true from many angles.
For one thing a data plan for an iPhone on the major carriers is the same, subsidized or no. So you'd pay more for an unlocked phone, and then pay as much as the guy who bought a phone with a plan for service over two years. Yes you could bail earlier but most people keep the same carrier a few years.
You could pay less going to a company like T-Mobile but there is very real service degradation. To me even though in the long run that could save money the loss of wider coverage and aggravation makes it a bad tradeoff.
Secondly, ALL of the major carriers now will unlock the iPhone for you on request - but for international use only. So it's not quite right to say you can't do pretty much anything you want with it - you can, just not in the country you bought the phone in (which to most people is what really matters).
If you really want ATT service, go get a StraightTalk SIM for $48 a month and unlimited everything. That is much cheaper than the service you can get directly from ATT. There are ways around the subsidized pricing model that the major carriers use, you just have to buy your own phone first. I'm saving a fortune w/ Walmart Family Mobile.
I agree with the sentiment, but here in New York, I pass by several scummy electronics shops who sell unlocking services for phones.
Do they have a right to do this? Somehow I don't think so.
Well if the GP had his way, you wouldn't need to go to one of those scummy electronic stores to get your phone unlocked in the first place. Secondly, you're paying for the phone either up front, or through an overpriced service plan. You bought it, you should be able to hack it to hell as long as it doesn't violate FCC regulations for causing harmful interference.
heh sorry. I don't think i even read your post. I was clicking to respond to the GP, and i was in quite a fog when I replied. I guess I should try and wake up before I post things online.
Should McDonald's tell you exactly what is in their burgers when we buy them or should we have the foresight to look up nutrition facts before buying?
Um, no. A comparable situation would be if McDonald's advertised that that their McNuggets Lunch-a-rama had 12 nuggets, but when you buy one you only got 7. Their explanation being that the server has to eat some, too. At least McDonald's has the decency to admit that their Quarter Pounder is *pre-cooked weight. MS could do the same by saying pre-OS storage. However, if the Quarter Pounder was delivered at less than 2 oz, I think there would be an uproar.
Except that McDonald's does exactly what the article is talking about. Your Quarter Pounder is a quater of a pound before they cook it. You are not getting a quarter pound of meat on the bun. Some of the mass is lost during cooking. Now granted, I think this case is much more extreme than the case of a hamburger.
The problem is finding an area of the USA where a medium term power loss would not be business as usual, due to 3rd world infrastructure.
You have obviously not lived somewhere that truly has third world infrastructure. Try running water for an hour or two a day, tops. And sometimes going weeks without any running water at all. Or having the power go out a half a dozen times a day, for anywhere from 1 minute to 3 or 4 hours. And that's without any severe or unusual weather. That is standard operating procedure.
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How exactly was under-hydration causing sleep apnea? Are you saying that your tissue was swelling because it was drying out? Or something else? I've never heard of dehydration causing sleep apnea before.
I did some testing on this. Used the same machine to do the same build on a 7200RPM drive and an SSD. The mechanical drive would finish this particular build in 20 minutes. The SSD would do it in 18. Not a substantial difference. You are right that the CPU is doing way more work than the storage for a typical build. Now building an IPA for iOS, there could be a huge difference, depending on how many MB of resources you are throwing into the package. My current iOS project at work takes about 5 minutes on a mechanical drive (again 7200 RPM) versus just under 3 minutes on an SSD. That is substantial, and it is due to hundreds of megabytes worth of resources being shuffled around at build time.
If the "Dead Sea Effect" were true, companies would simply ensure that they had a high staff turnover, rather than worry about keeping valued employees. Especially in places like the US, it is very easy to fire old staff and hire new ones. Companies don't accumulate old, useless employees for the sake of it.
Maybe. Or maybe such companies would build a reputation for mistreating their employees and the talented people will never apply there to begin with. I have personally seen this happen. I was living in an area that had a small tech community. Our company was bought out by another and most of the good people left not very long after. The only talented people that stuck around were the ones that did not want to relocate for one reason or another. I have some friends who fall into that category and I've gone back to visit them. The people leading teams there now are people that I avoided working with when I was there.
Oh yeah Jag was a great game. I guess Jagged Alliance Back in Action was published in the not too distant past but it was a terribly executed remake of Jag 2.
Sure let me see what I can find for you. I still have the VM I used to modify the file, so I might be able to dig it up by hand if i can't find the exact forum I used that recommended the change. My brother has his wife's 4S on StraightTalk and he just borrowed my t-mobile SIM, changed the APN, and then everything worked. That is also a non-jail break option that works. That does have to be fixed every time you do a software update however (I have to set my t-mobile APN every update as well).
If you use Walmart Family mobile or the T-mobile bring your own phone plans you can access the APN settings. The problem is that i had to actually modify some plist (I don't even remember which one) and push it to the phone as a "restore" to fix incoming MMS. I haven't had to do that but once, even after multiple OS updates but it was a pain that first time. No jailbreak required.
What an incredibly short sighted answer, a shameful act that it was mod'd anything positive.
I use to run a creative labs cheap-o mic that happen to pic up the entire room, ran this fucker all through high school occasionally making music but more often then not enjoying the memories. There was no special moment it was turned on, it just was... Now 10 years later it's a pretty amazing thing to go back and listen to, same with my webcam took any picture I could with the 6 feet of USB cord I was provided. .
Why are you going back and reliving your life of 10 years ago instead of living the life you have now? I love pictures, I love to watch old videos of special moments and funny things that happened spontaneously, don't get me wrong. But I'd rather be interacting with someone I love and care about than reminiscing on those interactions.
If it were a family member? I'd probably break their recording device. Seriously. And if it were a friend, I'd probably be hesitant to hang out with them. The fog of memory is a good thing, usually. It helps you to remember the things you really enjoy about your friends and family, and forget the things that really drive you nuts. Also consider the legal implications for yourself if you have such a recording device. If you ever are suspected of a crime, or investigated, sued, or anything else, they will subpoena the video / audio from this device. It could be very detrimental to your case, and even used out of context against you. There is no reason to record every second of your life. When would you ever listen to your entire life again? Just do what most people do. Record those precious moments that you know you're going to have, and keep a journal about the daily/weekly/monthly things that you think are significant to you at that time.
Your comment doesn't make mucht sense. They would rethink using the machines because nobody is using them? Removing them only makes the pad down line longer.
Incorrect for several reasons. They only do random pat downs when there is no body scanner. They only require the enhanced pat down when someone opts out of doing the body scanner. I've also personally seen them open the metal detectors and let 30-40 people through the metal detector instead of the scanner after I opted out of the scanner and the staff did not know what to do with me. They had me stand in the way of the scanner, which caused such a backup that everyone behind me didn't have to bother with the scanner or the pat down.
Because pitchforks are tools, mainly made to shovel manure. They are only clumsy, makeshift weapons. Guns are built to propel projectiles at high velocity against a target, which makes them quite clumsy, makeshift tools for anything else.
A gun is a tool, as well. It may be a tool used to do things that you do not approve of, but that does not make it any less a tool than a pitchfork.
Pretty much any panel you buy these days is manufactured in Korea or Japan. I'm not referring to the quality of the panel itself, but the fact that these cheap Korean monitors are the exact same panels that other "premium" manufacturers have rejected due to manufacturing defects (dead pixels, poor gamut, whatever). I don't sell anything for a living. At least, not directly. I write software that other people eventually sell. I have no stake in the monitor business, except through any stock positions that my mutual funds may hold that I am unaware of. I am just telling you that I personally own a nice 2560x1440 display and use a poor quality one at work. I would gladly pay the $650 for the dell over the $300-450 for a no-name Korean display any day of the week. Its not the fact that Koreans manufactured the panel (they are probably both Korean panels), its the fact that Dell, Apple, ViewSonic, and other companies already had the chance to buy that panel and decided it was not up to their standards for whatever reason.
I'd be willing to bet any automatic after ~2005 would be shift by wire. In fact, the ODB-II standard that was used in cars '96 and newer have standard bus commands to tell the transmission what position the shifter is in. With my car, I can hook up an ODB-II device and literally tell the car to shift from 2 to 3rd gear, for instance. But I really dislike the fact that its almost impossible to get a manual transmission in most cars in the US. :(
Monoprice.com is going to start stocking house-branded 27" ($400) and 30"($600-$700) IPS panels for a DEEP discount in March. Same LG panels as used in Apple Cinema Display. Monoprice is a great company and wouldn't call what they are offering nameless Korean screens. Here is a link http://www.monoprice.com/products/search.asp?keyword=ips
Are they the IPS panels that Apple rejected due to manufacturing defects? Or ones that Apple would have used as well? The Korean branded 27" IPS displays that I have tried are all terrible. The controls suck, they don't seem to be properly adjustable for accurate colors, and the brightness and contrast suck. We bought a bunch of them from Monoprice at work and I hate every last one of them.
I have one of those Korean 27" monitors and a 27" dell ultra-sharp at home. IT *pains* me to use the work monitor. In fact, I hate the days that I actually have to go into the office because the color and brightness are so terrible on the Korean displays. We have a bunch of them at the office and no one could adjust their brightness, contrast, and color warmth to make it display colors accurately. Now that the Dells have dropped in price to $650, I think you would have to be a fool to buy one of those Korean displays. One of my coworkers was going to buy one of the ones we have at work and I convinced him to get the Dull Ultra-sharp. His response to me was "Now I understand why you were complaining about the displays at work." Sometimes its worth the extra money to get something of quality.
Sorry, I replied to myself and you didn't see it. A coworker interrupted me in the middle of reading your post and when I looked back I thought I had read your whole comment. Ignore me.
Sorry you are familiar. haha. Someone at work bugged me and I thought I had finished reading your comment and hadn't. My mistake ;)
Sorry, there no such thing as "excelling" at compression "especially" with Opera Turbo.
You're obviously unfamiliar with how Opera does their compression. And its the same reason that I actually do not use the mobile version of Opera (well I don't use Opera at all, but I did try their mobile browser). They redirect all requests through their server where they reprocess images and do other things to compress and reduce the data footprint for a website. This is how they are able to excel at compression. The cost is your privacy and security.
Tell him to stop worrying about college and just enjoy the summer. Once you go to college, it's all about studying and doing well, then summers are for working jobs to pay off some debt and have spending cash during the school year, then back to school....and once your graduate and get a job, all of your freedom is gone! Have him enjoy his last moments of freedom from responsibility and have fun with his friends. Besides, if I had a dime for every kid in Intro to CS that thought he knew how to program but couldn't grasp the idea of simple design patterns...I wouldn't have had to be a TA.
Bah! I worked full time, went to school full time, and did summer school every summer. I still had plenty of time to stay out late and have fun with all my friends, and graduated with honors. College is a great way time to learn about sleep deprivation, and how to sneak in cat-naps when no one is looking. Those 200+ student classes are a great place to get in an extra nap. You just didn't do it right. ;)
It is, yes. But the FDA is definitely right that it affects people differently. I can drink a red bull, a monster, a coke, tea, or anything but coffee and easily take a long nap afterwards. Something about the caffeine I get through coffee is different. It actually makes me feel alert and awake. So is there some other chemical in coffee that increases the effectiveness of caffeine for me, or is the caffeine delivered differently? Does it have a slightly different composition? I don't know. But its a difference I can definitely feel.
I think the quote was from Dilbert, though. That is definitely something that Dogbert would say in Dilbert, as well. I kind of remember reading that somewhere and I don't read anything from the UK, except BBC News.
Not only do you end up paying more for a subsidized phone, you lose your rights to do whatever you want with it.
That is not true from many angles.
For one thing a data plan for an iPhone on the major carriers is the same, subsidized or no. So you'd pay more for an unlocked phone, and then pay as much as the guy who bought a phone with a plan for service over two years. Yes you could bail earlier but most people keep the same carrier a few years.
You could pay less going to a company like T-Mobile but there is very real service degradation. To me even though in the long run that could save money the loss of wider coverage and aggravation makes it a bad tradeoff.
Secondly, ALL of the major carriers now will unlock the iPhone for you on request - but for international use only. So it's not quite right to say you can't do pretty much anything you want with it - you can, just not in the country you bought the phone in (which to most people is what really matters).
If you really want ATT service, go get a StraightTalk SIM for $48 a month and unlimited everything. That is much cheaper than the service you can get directly from ATT. There are ways around the subsidized pricing model that the major carriers use, you just have to buy your own phone first. I'm saving a fortune w/ Walmart Family Mobile.
How is unlocking a phone a right?
I agree with the sentiment, but here in New York, I pass by several scummy electronics shops who sell unlocking services for phones.
Do they have a right to do this? Somehow I don't think so.
Well if the GP had his way, you wouldn't need to go to one of those scummy electronic stores to get your phone unlocked in the first place. Secondly, you're paying for the phone either up front, or through an overpriced service plan. You bought it, you should be able to hack it to hell as long as it doesn't violate FCC regulations for causing harmful interference.
heh sorry. I don't think i even read your post. I was clicking to respond to the GP, and i was in quite a fog when I replied. I guess I should try and wake up before I post things online.
Should McDonald's tell you exactly what is in their burgers when we buy them or should we have the foresight to look up nutrition facts before buying?
Um, no. A comparable situation would be if McDonald's advertised that that their McNuggets Lunch-a-rama had 12 nuggets, but when you buy one you only got 7. Their explanation being that the server has to eat some, too. At least McDonald's has the decency to admit that their Quarter Pounder is *pre-cooked weight. MS could do the same by saying pre-OS storage. However, if the Quarter Pounder was delivered at less than 2 oz, I think there would be an uproar.
Except that McDonald's does exactly what the article is talking about. Your Quarter Pounder is a quater of a pound before they cook it. You are not getting a quarter pound of meat on the bun. Some of the mass is lost during cooking. Now granted, I think this case is much more extreme than the case of a hamburger.
The problem is finding an area of the USA where a medium term power loss would not be business as usual, due to 3rd world infrastructure.
You have obviously not lived somewhere that truly has third world infrastructure. Try running water for an hour or two a day, tops. And sometimes going weeks without any running water at all. Or having the power go out a half a dozen times a day, for anywhere from 1 minute to 3 or 4 hours. And that's without any severe or unusual weather. That is standard operating procedure.