Been there, done that. You and I previously discussed the Ad Muncher software that I have been using for many years, and you agreed it was a good solution (especially compared to browser plugins). Is hosts file manipulation another solution? Sure, probably. But I don't care, since I already have a good solution.
In regards to my question to you, instead of repeating myself, I will just refer you to our other conversation.
My comment was about the content of your posts, and has nothing to do with your preconceived (and incorrect) notion that I am defending anyone.
I come here to read interesting discussions. Posts (from anyone) containing attacks and finger pointing are boring and hurt everyone's experience.
So again let me ask you:
why not make your point(s) without making personal attacks?
And please don't respond with "so and so was mean to me, so I needed to destroy them". You can rise above someone else's childish comment, if you so choose. Just ignore their comment and move on. It isn't worth your time.
All raymorris has is minusmods vs. that post of mine he downmodded.
Just because people don't like something you posted and thus mod it down, doesn't mean that someone in the discussion did the down-modding. You have no way to know who the moderators were, and accusing random people of doing so will make the discussion contributors not take you seriously.
Why not make your point(s) without making personal attacks? If you want to be taken seriously, then discuss things rationally *and* politely. If you are only here to attack in hopes of "destroying" people, then you are clearly asking moderators to jump all over you.
So are you here to contribute and be taken seriously, or is this merely a search-and-destroy effort?
If you want your comments to reach more people, sign up for an account and build up a tiny bit of karma so that your posts start with a score of 1 or 2, instead of 0. It really isn't that much effort.
Just because people don't like something you posted and thus mod it down, doesn't mean that Khyber or anyone else in the discussion did the down-modding. You have no way to know who the moderators were, and accusing random people of doing so just makes you come off as an asshole.
I know this is a long shot, but why not make your point(s) without making personal attacks? If you want to be taken seriously, then discuss things rationally *and* politely. If you are only here to attack in hopes of "destroying" people, then you are clearly asking moderators to jump all over you.
Then there's the tracking problem: figuring out where the headset IS in that industrial plant, to within the few cm or mm required for decent AR. Google glass doesn't address that problem. To address it, you need to chuck in a huge number of either tracking markers, or RF tracking tags (don't work well with metal) or some similar system. No only is that hugely expensive, it's also pretty much an unsolved problem in complex environment.
Could that be solved by using computer vision algorithms, similar to how some missiles can terrain-follow and find their target, visually?
Err, no. Depends on what kind of video you're doing. In the video world it's easy to end up bottlenecked by disk I/O.
HD resolution ProRes files for instance will tax any hard drive
Agreed, the suitability of any computer resource depends on whether it can handle the task you have for it.
I think GP was referring to mainstream use of videos on PCs, which certainly don't require RAID or SSD. GP's use of multiple storage types, while requiring more user involvement (managing which files go on slow/cheap HDD vs SSD), is a good bang/buck value.
Once solid state storage completely displaces HDDs, we can go back to having everything in one volume.
It's okay if AdMuncher is not as efficient as hosts file magic. AdMuncher solves my ad blocking problems in one go and gives me all the control I need.
AdMuncher's not free. It costs money. Apk's hosts file solution's free.
AdMuncher used to cost a few bucks, but earlier this month the author gave notice that they are no longer charging for it. So I guess now it costs the same as apk's program.
A square monitor would be okay, but it needs to be a more than 1920 pixels in each direction. If it was 2560, I would buy it.
A 28-inch ASUS 4K is 3840x2160 resolution (at 60Hz) and is $600. I bought a bunch of them for my group at work. Also supplied each person with a 24-inch Dell 1080p monitor. Everyone likes this dual-display setup.
There are other ad blocking tools out there that are lower level, and thus more general purpose, than browser plugins. I have been using Admuncher for 15 years, and what I like about it is that it operates below app level, so that I get no unwanted ads or tracking cookies in any app (two diff browsers, IM apps, etc.).
One thousand experienced Photoshop users underground (i.e. some kind of club), each doctoring one or two photos, isn't too much of a stretch to believe.
I'm still supposed to get dilated yearly so they can check inside, a detached retina is apparently a very real possibility since my eye is so "long". They dilate me because otherwise it's like trying to look into a room thru a peephole - their words not mine.
I'm no eyexpert.. Get dilated, what does that mean? Do they alter the way your eye dilates, like changing its settings?
They put drops (don't know what of) into your eyes, causing the pupils to stay dilated for a little while. Gives the doc easy visual access into your eyeballs.
A smart watch is a smart phone with less functionality that you have to wear around your wrist. I don't understand the appeal at all. Everything it does a smart phone does better, only a smart phone is not strapped to one of your body parts.
I have a Pebble, and it is very handy to be able to discreetly view texts and see caller ID info for incoming calls. Plus it shows me the time (since it still a watch) -- and far better than a regular watch, as it shows me time, date, three week calendar and some other details all at the same time. All of this is great because my phone is in my backpack or pocket the whole time, since I don't like to carry the phone around in my hand.
I have a Pebble watch. It looks cheap, but is pretty cool/handy. The interface tends to be very simple. It can control the music on my phone (without having to look at the watch), allow me to discreetly view texts, and see caller ID info for incoming calls. Those are my favorite features, aside from, you know, indicating the time.
But when dealing with a smart watch you aren't hitting a button. you need to tap a screen 3-4 times in the correct place while running to adjust one feature.
I have a Pebble (which my son says looks like a cheap piece of plastic, and he is right); it can control the music on my phone. Once the watch is in music mode it stays there, so the three buttons let me directly pause or skip back/ahead without looking at the watch.
Being able to discreetly view texts is my favorite feature, thus far. Seeing caller ID info for incoming calls might be my second favorite feature.
A French bank was found by USA to violate its (yes, USA's) policy on the embargo of Iran --- well, that bank was from France, and all its business dealings with Iran was done OUTSIDE the United States, --- and yet, US dare to fine that French bank hundreds of millions of dollars !
What the fuck is going on, people ?
How can the government of country A fine a company from country B any money when that company's dealing has NOTHING to do with country A in the first place ???
Simple, if your business wants to do business in the U.S.A., you'll need to mind the rules. That bank knew the rules and actively falsified documents to make it appear that it was abiding by those rules. They got caught and severely smacked. The fact that they are willing to pay that ginormous fine means they want to make amends with Uncle Sam and *continue* to do business in the U.S.A.
And with the DisplayPort connection, it's capable of 60Hz vertical refresh at full resolution, something HDMI can't do until the new HDMI spec is finalized.
So they claim the SSD writes data to a blank location on the drive temporarily, then erases the original intended location and later moves it back to that location to be contiguous? What's so damn special about that location? Just leave it in the blank location. They claim that causes fragmentation, which has no impact on the performance of an SSD in any way.
This is a useless invention from people who don't know how SSDs work.
You are correct. SSDs don't have a fixed LBA-to-physical arrangement, so host rewrites of an LBA will normally go to a new (erased) NAND location, with the drive updating its internal LBA map automatically (I.e. no need for TRIM of that LBA).
GP is correct about read disturb. NAND vendors will specify specific policy for a given part, but it is typically N reads to a particular area (i.e. one block, which is 256 or 512 or 1024 pages) then requires erasing that area. So even if page 7 in a block is never read, but page 100 is read a lot, the drive will have to rewrite that whole block eventually.
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Well said, man. I wouldn't mind if /. limited AC comments to two or three (or zero) per discussion.
Take a shot at this challenge of mine ...http://slashdot.org/comments.p... instead - Go on: Go for it...
Been there, done that. You and I previously discussed the Ad Muncher software that I have been using for many years, and you agreed it was a good solution (especially compared to browser plugins). Is hosts file manipulation another solution? Sure, probably. But I don't care, since I already have a good solution.
In regards to my question to you, instead of repeating myself, I will just refer you to our other conversation.
Apk,
My comment was about the content of your posts, and has nothing to do with your preconceived (and incorrect) notion that I am defending anyone.
I come here to read interesting discussions. Posts (from anyone) containing attacks and finger pointing are boring and hurt everyone's experience.
So again let me ask you:
why not make your point(s) without making personal attacks?
And please don't respond with "so and so was mean to me, so I needed to destroy them". You can rise above someone else's childish comment, if you so choose. Just ignore their comment and move on. It isn't worth your time.
Hey apk,
All raymorris has is minusmods vs. that post of mine he downmodded.
Just because people don't like something you posted and thus mod it down, doesn't mean that someone in the discussion did the down-modding. You have no way to know who the moderators were, and accusing random people of doing so will make the discussion contributors not take you seriously.
Why not make your point(s) without making personal attacks? If you want to be taken seriously, then discuss things rationally *and* politely. If you are only here to attack in hopes of "destroying" people, then you are clearly asking moderators to jump all over you.
So are you here to contribute and be taken seriously, or is this merely a search-and-destroy effort?
If you want your comments to reach more people, sign up for an account and build up a tiny bit of karma so that your posts start with a score of 1 or 2, instead of 0. It really isn't that much effort.
Hey apk,
Just because people don't like something you posted and thus mod it down, doesn't mean that Khyber or anyone else in the discussion did the down-modding. You have no way to know who the moderators were, and accusing random people of doing so just makes you come off as an asshole.
I know this is a long shot, but why not make your point(s) without making personal attacks? If you want to be taken seriously, then discuss things rationally *and* politely. If you are only here to attack in hopes of "destroying" people, then you are clearly asking moderators to jump all over you.
Then there's the tracking problem: figuring out where the headset IS in that industrial plant, to within the few cm or mm required for decent AR. Google glass doesn't address that problem. To address it, you need to chuck in a huge number of either tracking markers, or RF tracking tags (don't work well with metal) or some similar system. No only is that hugely expensive, it's also pretty much an unsolved problem in complex environment.
Could that be solved by using computer vision algorithms, similar to how some missiles can terrain-follow and find their target, visually?
so cold turkey is not an option
After the American Thanksgiving holiday, cold turkey was the only option for about a week.
Err, no. Depends on what kind of video you're doing. In the video world it's easy to end up bottlenecked by disk I/O.
HD resolution ProRes files for instance will tax any hard drive
Agreed, the suitability of any computer resource depends on whether it can handle the task you have for it.
I think GP was referring to mainstream use of videos on PCs, which certainly don't require RAID or SSD. GP's use of multiple storage types, while requiring more user involvement (managing which files go on slow/cheap HDD vs SSD), is a good bang/buck value.
Once solid state storage completely displaces HDDs, we can go back to having everything in one volume.
It's okay if AdMuncher is not as efficient as hosts file magic. AdMuncher solves my ad blocking problems in one go and gives me all the control I need.
AdMuncher's not free. It costs money. Apk's hosts file solution's free.
AdMuncher used to cost a few bucks, but earlier this month the author gave notice that they are no longer charging for it. So I guess now it costs the same as apk's program.
A square monitor would be okay, but it needs to be a more than 1920 pixels in each direction. If it was 2560, I would buy it.
A 28-inch ASUS 4K is 3840x2160 resolution (at 60Hz) and is $600. I bought a bunch of them for my group at work. Also supplied each person with a 24-inch Dell 1080p monitor. Everyone likes this dual-display setup.
There are other ad blocking tools out there that are lower level, and thus more general purpose, than browser plugins. I have been using Admuncher for 15 years, and what I like about it is that it operates below app level, so that I get no unwanted ads or tracking cookies in any app (two diff browsers, IM apps, etc.).
Way too many faces for them all to be fakes.
One thousand experienced Photoshop users underground (i.e. some kind of club), each doctoring one or two photos, isn't too much of a stretch to believe.
Nice list and interesting idea.
I would add "living on welfare as a lifestyle plan".
Nicely done, sir!
There was no advantage of a horse over a car. None what so ever.
Sure there was. Lots of existing narrow or steep trails (early roads) couldn't be navigated by car.
I'm still supposed to get dilated yearly so they can check inside, a detached retina is apparently a very real possibility since my eye is so "long". They dilate me because otherwise it's like trying to look into a room thru a peephole - their words not mine.
I'm no eyexpert..
Get dilated, what does that mean? Do they alter the way your eye dilates, like changing its settings?
They put drops (don't know what of) into your eyes, causing the pupils to stay dilated for a little while. Gives the doc easy visual access into your eyeballs.
A smart watch is a smart phone with less functionality that you have to wear around your wrist. I don't understand the appeal at all. Everything it does a smart phone does better, only a smart phone is not strapped to one of your body parts.
I have a Pebble, and it is very handy to be able to discreetly view texts and see caller ID info for incoming calls. Plus it shows me the time (since it still a watch) -- and far better than a regular watch, as it shows me time, date, three week calendar and some other details all at the same time. All of this is great because my phone is in my backpack or pocket the whole time, since I don't like to carry the phone around in my hand.
I have a Pebble watch. It looks cheap, but is pretty cool/handy. The interface tends to be very simple. It can control the music on my phone (without having to look at the watch), allow me to discreetly view texts, and see caller ID info for incoming calls. Those are my favorite features, aside from, you know, indicating the time.
Yes you can hit a button on your wrist easier.
But when dealing with a smart watch you aren't hitting a button. you need to tap a screen 3-4 times in the correct place while running to adjust one feature.
I have a Pebble (which my son says looks like a cheap piece of plastic, and he is right); it can control the music on my phone. Once the watch is in music mode it stays there, so the three buttons let me directly pause or skip back/ahead without looking at the watch.
Being able to discreetly view texts is my favorite feature, thus far. Seeing caller ID info for incoming calls might be my second favorite feature.
A French bank was found by USA to violate its (yes, USA's) policy on the embargo of Iran --- well, that bank was from France, and all its business dealings with Iran was done OUTSIDE the United States, --- and yet, US dare to fine that French bank hundreds of millions of dollars !
What the fuck is going on, people ?
How can the government of country A fine a company from country B any money when that company's dealing has NOTHING to do with country A in the first place ???
Simple, if your business wants to do business in the U.S.A., you'll need to mind the rules. That bank knew the rules and actively falsified documents to make it appear that it was abiding by those rules. They got caught and severely smacked. The fact that they are willing to pay that ginormous fine means they want to make amends with Uncle Sam and *continue* to do business in the U.S.A.
And with the DisplayPort connection, it's capable of 60Hz vertical refresh at full resolution, something HDMI can't do until the new HDMI spec is finalized.
It's already finalized: HDMI 2.0
I see what you did, there (though it took a moment).
So they claim the SSD writes data to a blank location on the drive temporarily, then erases the original intended location and later moves it back to that location to be contiguous? What's so damn special about that location? Just leave it in the blank location. They claim that causes fragmentation, which has no impact on the performance of an SSD in any way.
This is a useless invention from people who don't know how SSDs work.
You are correct. SSDs don't have a fixed LBA-to-physical arrangement, so host rewrites of an LBA will normally go to a new (erased) NAND location, with the drive updating its internal LBA map automatically (I.e. no need for TRIM of that LBA).
GP is correct about read disturb. NAND vendors will specify specific policy for a given part, but it is typically N reads to a particular area (i.e. one block, which is 256 or 512 or 1024 pages) then requires erasing that area. So even if page 7 in a block is never read, but page 100 is read a lot, the drive will have to rewrite that whole block eventually.
(I work for a NAND controller vendor.)