Yes, because changing your entire back-end architecture is a more logical move than escaping your strings or using parameterized queries or any of the other tools that can not only eliminate SQL injection vulnerabilities, but often make the code easier to write and read.
To an extent. Try selling a desktop that sucks down two kilowatts under full load - see how well it sells. Now look at the sales data and see that Intel's best-selling processors have dropped from 100W+ down to 77W, because it seems, given two processors of similar price, and both having sufficient processing power for the users' needs, consumers prefer the one using less power.
I have to admit, while I hate using Facebook, and hate most of their business practices, I like how they're not just writing new infrastructure software, but are open-sourcing it all. I don't think it quite makes up for everything else, but it helps.
There's more difference than just the warranty between the Green and Black.
WD has three "labels" for consumer drives: Green, Blue, and Black. Green drives are 5400RPM "power-efficient" drives, and new capacities generally show up here first as it's easier to increase density at low speeds. Blue and Black drives are both 7200RPM*, but Black usually has larger cache and is marketed at "enthusiasts", while Blue is aimed at "mainstream".
So I guess they also consider a lengthier warranty to be an "enthusiast", not "mainstream", feature.
* I think on their mobile side it's different, with notebook Blue drives still being 5400RPM, but I don't recall for sure and don't feel like checking.
The price of the same drive has dropped, but the average price has not. Logical conclusion then is that people are buying more expensive drives than before.
It actually makes some sense given the rise of SSDs. People who would have been satisfied with a small hard drive are now opting to get a similarly-sized but far faster SSD. So the bottom end of the market has shrunk, moving the average up.
That's just my conjecture, but it seems logical. The best way to test would be to compare similar market segments - compare the prices and volume of the current highest-capacity 7200RPM drive to the 2011 highest-capacity 7200RPM drive, and so on. If sales of the small (250GB) drives, particularly 2.5" 5400RPM models, has slowed, it might explain why the average has increased.
Maine and Washington (and possibly Maryland) legalized gay marriage. Minnesota had a referendum to ban it, results still inconclusive. Massachusetts, Washington and Arkansas (and probably Colorado) legalized marijuana. Montana "reformed medical marijuana". Oregon had a referendum to legalize, which failed. The Massachusetts assisted-suicide referendum is still undecided, but seems to have failed from early numbers Florida rejected a referendum to limit "Obamacare" ("prevents penalties for not purchasing health care coverage in order to comply with federal health care reforms"), but Alabama approved a similar referendum. That will probably lead to the Supreme Court as a states-rights conflict. California had a referendum to ban the death penalty, which failed.
Finally, Puerto Rico had a referendum to decide whether to pursue statehood, leave the union, or to remain a non-state commonwealth. While this could be one of the biggest actual changes of the election, I can't find any results as of yet.
Nintendo did this on the Wii - there's a primary PPC processor, and an ARM core on the northbridge that is used for running updates while the console is "off". Worked fairly well by all reports.
Asus G75, actually. Massive thing - 17" screen, weighs about 9 pounds (4-ish kilograms, if I remember my metric). Looks like a freaking stealth bomber. Lots of gamer-y features (subwoofer, backlit keyboard, etc).
It's the last Asus I'll ever buy, though. I had literally months of problems trying to get a working one.
Many people use an Air just because they're nontechnical enough to base their entire purchasing decision on which laptop looks the best, and rich enough to afford Apple's thinnest and shiniest. They don't care about power because all they run are iMail, Safari and iTunes. Not even all at once.
See: The boss of a firm my company works with, who is as nontechnical as you would expect the head of a print-based graphics shop that begrudgingly added a web option a mere two years ago to be. (Fun fact: my laptop's power brick weighs more than his Air, his iPad, and his iPhone combined).
Some users definitely need the power. Doesn't Torvalds have an Air? But others use it essentially as an iPad with a keyboard. Those would possibly be served by an ARM-based Air (AiRM?). If Surface somehow takes off, I expect an ARM-based Air to be Apple's response.
Right now, Apple's ARM stuff isn't powerful enough for anything above the Air, and even that's a stretch. Sure, long-term they might want to push for it, but it will be a long, long time before they even replace their laptop chips with their own design, let alone their desktops (unless they ditch their desktops completely, which isn't beyond possibility).
However, they'd lose market share doing so. The PPC->Intel transition was fueled by PowerPC being increasingly slow and power-hungry, while Intel was getting their shit together with Core. It was difficult for consumers to survive through the switch, but it was tolerable because you were getting a more powerful system, and the emulation capability was good.
Now, though, Intel is working just fine. And between ARM being less powerful, and x86 being painful to emulate, you'll have an even rougher transition. The only reason for Apple to switch away is for pure profit - they don't want to be giving Intel money. While some customers might go along with The Great Apple, most won't. It'll be especially bad for Apple, as they brand themselves as "the best, regardless of cost" - switching to weaker processors to save money goes completely against that.
I haven't had a laptop with a dock since floppies were popular.
Seriously, they aren't at all common for consumer laptops, and there aren't many "professional" laptops that can max out Crysis (which is totally something I need to do, for some reason).
Also, I take the mouse with me many times, so I'd need to plug that back in anyways.
I probably should. Especially since the 150W power brick weighs as much as some of the lighter laptops I've seen.
For now, I just have two of the wall->brick cords, one for home, one for work. They're standard PC power cables, just like a desktop, so I already had several.
Every morning, I have to drop a power brick down the back of my desk, plug in two video cables, a mouse, and sometimes an Ethernet cable. Fortunately, all my stuff plugs in on one side, so it takes less than a minute - and I can do some of it while starting up all my programs.
Happened to me as well. I moved a few months ago, went to the DMV to renew my license with the new address and register to vote.
Never got my new drivers license. Never got a registration card. I checked today, I was never officially registered. I'll be checking my debit card records to see if they took the money for it - if not, I will be contacting a lawyer.
Here's the short version - for full details, look at the Anandtech article an above user posted.
An SSD presents itself to the system as just a flat storage device, but internally it does a lot of weird mapping to do stuff like wear-leveling. The indirection table is basically "when the CPU asks for page X, we give them flash cell Y". It used to be a rather clever B-tree, but they ditched that for a flat array to get more consistent latencies.
Or, as in my case, they hate the main two parties more than they like any other. And the Libertarian candidate seems like the least crazy third-party candidate, at least to me.
Maybe not this election, but if candidates see that X% of voters want $IdeologyOfThirdParty, they'll start pushing that way more, because that few percent could be what wins them the election. So it still has influence, just more long-term.
(There's also that federal funding given to any presidential campaign whose party earned over 5% of the vote in the last election. So once a party reaches that threshold, it could jump up rather quickly.)
But in the further interests of fairness, this is more a feature of the reservoir than the hydro plant itself. So even non-power-producing reservoirs emit methane.
Also, the methane emissions can be greatly reduced by clearing the area of trees and plant life before filling the reservoir. This brings it down to roughly the level of a natural lake.
Seriously, when are people going to learn about the Streisand Effect?
I would never have heard about this had they left it up. But now, it's gone from "boring tax report" to "the economic analysis that THEY don't want you to know about!".
England, as you may be aware, is often cold. A bird could easily decide to perch next to a chimney to keep warm. It then passes out from carbon monoxide inhalation, and topples into the chimney, where it becomes lodged.
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Motion has been seconded, putting the motion to vote.
All in favor of revolution, say 'aye'. All opposed, 'nay'.
Actually, wait a second. Lynching all "the politicians who have been dragging their feet on patent reform" is a revolution, not a lynch mob.
The motion has been made to transition this lynch mob to a revolution. Does anyone second the motion?
How about "all of the above"?
Yes, because changing your entire back-end architecture is a more logical move than escaping your strings or using parameterized queries or any of the other tools that can not only eliminate SQL injection vulnerabilities, but often make the code easier to write and read.
To an extent. Try selling a desktop that sucks down two kilowatts under full load - see how well it sells. Now look at the sales data and see that Intel's best-selling processors have dropped from 100W+ down to 77W, because it seems, given two processors of similar price, and both having sufficient processing power for the users' needs, consumers prefer the one using less power.
I have to admit, while I hate using Facebook, and hate most of their business practices, I like how they're not just writing new infrastructure software, but are open-sourcing it all. I don't think it quite makes up for everything else, but it helps.
There's more difference than just the warranty between the Green and Black.
WD has three "labels" for consumer drives: Green, Blue, and Black. Green drives are 5400RPM "power-efficient" drives, and new capacities generally show up here first as it's easier to increase density at low speeds. Blue and Black drives are both 7200RPM*, but Black usually has larger cache and is marketed at "enthusiasts", while Blue is aimed at "mainstream".
So I guess they also consider a lengthier warranty to be an "enthusiast", not "mainstream", feature.
* I think on their mobile side it's different, with notebook Blue drives still being 5400RPM, but I don't recall for sure and don't feel like checking.
The price of the same drive has dropped, but the average price has not. Logical conclusion then is that people are buying more expensive drives than before.
It actually makes some sense given the rise of SSDs. People who would have been satisfied with a small hard drive are now opting to get a similarly-sized but far faster SSD. So the bottom end of the market has shrunk, moving the average up.
That's just my conjecture, but it seems logical. The best way to test would be to compare similar market segments - compare the prices and volume of the current highest-capacity 7200RPM drive to the 2011 highest-capacity 7200RPM drive, and so on. If sales of the small (250GB) drives, particularly 2.5" 5400RPM models, has slowed, it might explain why the average has increased.
And Mussolini made the trains run on time. Doing a few good things doesn't mean he didn't do a whole lot more bad ones.
Maine and Washington (and possibly Maryland) legalized gay marriage. Minnesota had a referendum to ban it, results still inconclusive.
Massachusetts, Washington and Arkansas (and probably Colorado) legalized marijuana. Montana "reformed medical marijuana". Oregon had a referendum to legalize, which failed.
The Massachusetts assisted-suicide referendum is still undecided, but seems to have failed from early numbers
Florida rejected a referendum to limit "Obamacare" ("prevents penalties for not purchasing health care coverage in order to comply with federal health care reforms"), but Alabama approved a similar referendum. That will probably lead to the Supreme Court as a states-rights conflict.
California had a referendum to ban the death penalty, which failed.
Finally, Puerto Rico had a referendum to decide whether to pursue statehood, leave the union, or to remain a non-state commonwealth. While this could be one of the biggest actual changes of the election, I can't find any results as of yet.
Nintendo did this on the Wii - there's a primary PPC processor, and an ARM core on the northbridge that is used for running updates while the console is "off". Worked fairly well by all reports.
Asus G75, actually. Massive thing - 17" screen, weighs about 9 pounds (4-ish kilograms, if I remember my metric). Looks like a freaking stealth bomber. Lots of gamer-y features (subwoofer, backlit keyboard, etc).
It's the last Asus I'll ever buy, though. I had literally months of problems trying to get a working one.
It's powerful enough for *some* Air *users*.
Many people use an Air just because they're nontechnical enough to base their entire purchasing decision on which laptop looks the best, and rich enough to afford Apple's thinnest and shiniest. They don't care about power because all they run are iMail, Safari and iTunes. Not even all at once.
See: The boss of a firm my company works with, who is as nontechnical as you would expect the head of a print-based graphics shop that begrudgingly added a web option a mere two years ago to be. (Fun fact: my laptop's power brick weighs more than his Air, his iPad, and his iPhone combined).
Some users definitely need the power. Doesn't Torvalds have an Air? But others use it essentially as an iPad with a keyboard. Those would possibly be served by an ARM-based Air (AiRM?). If Surface somehow takes off, I expect an ARM-based Air to be Apple's response.
Right now, Apple's ARM stuff isn't powerful enough for anything above the Air, and even that's a stretch. Sure, long-term they might want to push for it, but it will be a long, long time before they even replace their laptop chips with their own design, let alone their desktops (unless they ditch their desktops completely, which isn't beyond possibility).
However, they'd lose market share doing so. The PPC->Intel transition was fueled by PowerPC being increasingly slow and power-hungry, while Intel was getting their shit together with Core. It was difficult for consumers to survive through the switch, but it was tolerable because you were getting a more powerful system, and the emulation capability was good.
Now, though, Intel is working just fine. And between ARM being less powerful, and x86 being painful to emulate, you'll have an even rougher transition. The only reason for Apple to switch away is for pure profit - they don't want to be giving Intel money. While some customers might go along with The Great Apple, most won't. It'll be especially bad for Apple, as they brand themselves as "the best, regardless of cost" - switching to weaker processors to save money goes completely against that.
I haven't had a laptop with a dock since floppies were popular.
Seriously, they aren't at all common for consumer laptops, and there aren't many "professional" laptops that can max out Crysis (which is totally something I need to do, for some reason).
Also, I take the mouse with me many times, so I'd need to plug that back in anyways.
I probably should. Especially since the 150W power brick weighs as much as some of the lighter laptops I've seen.
For now, I just have two of the wall->brick cords, one for home, one for work. They're standard PC power cables, just like a desktop, so I already had several.
A laptop, perhaps?
Every morning, I have to drop a power brick down the back of my desk, plug in two video cables, a mouse, and sometimes an Ethernet cable. Fortunately, all my stuff plugs in on one side, so it takes less than a minute - and I can do some of it while starting up all my programs.
Happened to me as well. I moved a few months ago, went to the DMV to renew my license with the new address and register to vote.
Never got my new drivers license. Never got a registration card. I checked today, I was never officially registered. I'll be checking my debit card records to see if they took the money for it - if not, I will be contacting a lawyer.
I will also be filing a complaint at http://www.sbe.virginia.gov/Complaints.html. Might not do much good, but I'll do it anyways.
(Not that my vote would've mattered much - I was going to vote Libertarian)
Roughly the same as the stuff they eat. I think some of my ramen will last until the 2038 Problem hits.
Here's the short version - for full details, look at the Anandtech article an above user posted.
An SSD presents itself to the system as just a flat storage device, but internally it does a lot of weird mapping to do stuff like wear-leveling. The indirection table is basically "when the CPU asks for page X, we give them flash cell Y". It used to be a rather clever B-tree, but they ditched that for a flat array to get more consistent latencies.
I'm not sure what the context table is.
Or, as in my case, they hate the main two parties more than they like any other. And the Libertarian candidate seems like the least crazy third-party candidate, at least to me.
Maybe not this election, but if candidates see that X% of voters want $IdeologyOfThirdParty, they'll start pushing that way more, because that few percent could be what wins them the election. So it still has influence, just more long-term.
(There's also that federal funding given to any presidential campaign whose party earned over 5% of the vote in the last election. So once a party reaches that threshold, it could jump up rather quickly.)
But in the further interests of fairness, this is more a feature of the reservoir than the hydro plant itself. So even non-power-producing reservoirs emit methane.
Also, the methane emissions can be greatly reduced by clearing the area of trees and plant life before filling the reservoir. This brings it down to roughly the level of a natural lake.
Seriously, when are people going to learn about the Streisand Effect?
I would never have heard about this had they left it up. But now, it's gone from "boring tax report" to "the economic analysis that THEY don't want you to know about!".
England, as you may be aware, is often cold. A bird could easily decide to perch next to a chimney to keep warm. It then passes out from carbon monoxide inhalation, and topples into the chimney, where it becomes lodged.