Sorry to reply to my own post but I wanted to just also say that SSDs as a rule are not unreliable. Rather that at the space/cost ratio that matters for current end users.
Most of us need these days a lot of space for all the digital media we have and SSDs don't offer that at a price point that is even near what HDs offer. (And as I said HDs, even with their own failure rates, are still preferred.)
I really like the idea of a device that does not need to be constantly de-fragmented. To me, above the moving parts issue/noise/heat issues, it is paramount. However I need my data storage to be reliable and right now SSDs still don't have the track record.
I understand that there are those people who are running 2-4x SSD drives in a RAID0 that are fully happy. But mostly they are gamers who don't care if they have to do a reinstall if that array fails. And or don't really have any sort of long term data that they mind wiping at the drop of a hat.
I personally deal with end users who care a lot about their digital pictures, email, and other assorted crap. As it stands right now those ol' spinning platters still offer us all the best reliability at the lowest cost point.
What was Kevin's weight/height? I mean I've seen a lot of subjective options here as to what it's like to fly next to someone who is spilling over into your seat. How it's unfair that a 5 year old has to pay a full fair because they are taking up a full seat but weigh next to nothing compared to an adult. Blah blah blah.
Look, during my real hardcore WoW days was at least 250 lbs. and I stand 6' tall. I've leaned up to 190 lbs. but you know I still fill those airline seats up pretty damn much the same way. (For those who don't understand how the male body stores it's fat, it is not just right to our guts. Look at any obese persons face and think about it.) And I'm quite sure I could have easily packed on another 50 lbs. and not made that much a difference in my presence to the people next to me from 250 -> to 300 at 6'.
My point is that I've yet to see the real reason that Kevin, given that he freaking eventually flew the same airliner to his destination, was booted from the flight in question. I suspect that it had nothing to do with his weight but lets clear that up so that we can get down to what really happened.
Oh trust me that was the 1st thing I checked, the contacts were never an issue. I know that often when dealing with people who run into issues like this they can fail to check the simple things but...well I'm not a total noob. (I've warn out my share of erasers on electrical work rather than paper.)
No, while I only relayed that one story for an examples sake it has not been my only experience with failing/malfunctioning chargers that end up killing batteries. I've also seen it in power tool chargers and I have suspected some laptops as well.
Over the years as my number of rechargeable battery items have gone way up I'd like to think I'm somewhat familiar with the tech behind them. At the very least enough to use them well and do some basic troubleshooting when problems arise with them. And one of the main things I've observed lately is that sometimes it's the battery chargers that are ultimately the issue when problems start to become reoccurring.
I've had a 3 set cordless phone setup for about 5 years now and when they started to act up I got them all new batteries. Given that they had still been using the originals I figured ok problem solved. However not too long after using them with their new batteries they started to act up again. And it was a bit harder because the pattern was very hard to see.
While I'm sure that the original batteries were due for replacement the satellite chargers had stopped working properly. While the phones normally would stay in their normal charger that was not always the case which what threw me off at 1st. But I noticed that as long as I charged a phone in the main station it would work fine.
However the damage had been done and even my new batteries are not nearly as good as they should be. Extend what happened in my story to say a laptop where it's built in battery charging system has stopped working properly. Not only is the battery not getting a good charge it's likely being damaged in the process. Leading to Win7 telling people so even thou they think, "But I just got this thing a new battery!"
Googles ad was one of the better ones imo. Only a few other standouts and both of them were beer commercials. Course ymmv on what you consider good.
On a side not I was pleased to see that CBS did at least reach a compromise with their...lets say selective censorship and only ran a very short Tim Tebow ad as opposed to something longer and more dogmatic.
Disclamer: I'm a Florida Gator, I like Tim a lot, I'm also a (weak) atheist who is pro-choice.
I've seen a lot of posts with very good math talking about how it's not realistic to move data or energy across a field. But I'd submit that whenever these study's come up they always move said data or energy along something outside the inside part of the nuclear field that someone is dealing with.
In a room with all of the guys who are responsible for making the NFLs money, and this is not unique to the NFL, they are talking about how they can increase their profits. Someone brings up that small bars and such are profiting off their games and in particular the Super Bowl and so they push some legislation/trademark/copyright bullshit though.
And the kicker is that the Republican party as it stands will all vote for such a measure even thou they 'hate government regulation' and all that. (Oh and the Dems that vote for this kinda crap are just as slimey, but at least we can call them on it.)
Why was 3 so awful? I've seen a few comments here that talk about it but are there any movie geeks that can expound on why it was so bad? (Not just that the screenplay was bad but why was it so bad?)
I'm not a huge Spiderman fan but I thought that at the very least the first one was a nice setup. The second one was nothing great but did it's job. Good popcorn movie. The thrid, ugh, I turned it off before it was half way over. And I've sat though all of Battlefield Earth, non-Rifftrax version!
The more I think about it, from a physicist POV, energy is always out there. It's waiting for us to tap it.
If Google want's to use it's resources to try and tap some of the energy that is out there, and in a way that is good for our planet/society, I say game on.
Even if we all here on/. hate twitter and facebook and such social sites (you have to interact with people!)...
The thing is that I'd say that even here on/. and other various sites the interaction with people part is not the issue at all. Hell geeks have been using newsgroups, IRC, and other forms of interaction over the internet since it's been around.
No, it's rather the fact that such 'social networking' sites are all about gathering your personal information and then selling it. We know this far better than our non-techie peers and as such steer away from them.
IANAL but has it always been SOP for companies to be able to bill the government when they are compelled, ie via a court order, to provide information?
Its one thing to try and recoup the costs of smartphones that you all but give to customers. There is plenty to be said about that but I'll give that part a pass here.
But to setup the OS such that a user can 'go online' as described only to be billed for it is just downright sleazy. I am quite sure that if any customers called in to complain Verizon's solution to them was that they just needed to add a data plan to their contract.
Look, I'm not anti corporations/big business but so many business models have turned into 'how can we best extract money from people' rather than 'provide good service in return for money'. That type of thinking needs to change and it is the job of the government to do that. They are the best 800lb. gorilla that can reign in large corps.
Bullshit. Your soccer camp did not tell you how to live other than to run a lot. Your soccer camp did not tell you were were going to hell if you did something wrong 'in the eyes of god'. Your argument is so full of shit and had I mod points you'd be -1. Someone please do such.
Look, I've been using the online sphere since 110 baud modems. Yeah there was a bit more before me but not by much. I've since then been on the cutting edge for most of it since then and have seen the rise and fall of various search engines. Webcraweler (AoL), Yahoo, and then Google.
Google got it right and has now market dominance which if you don't know capitalism means that they are entrenched and not going anywhere. The idea that MS can somehow break that is folly at best.
I could go on with a thesis level dissertation about why Google is not about to be displaced by MS but honestly/. is not the place for it. And to boot I'd have to deal with the trolls that come with it. Suffice to say that yay for MS getting a bit of the share. They had the war chest to make it so. But Google is still the 1000lb monkey.
Heh, most people already know the answer but always forget. Price is set by what the market will bare.
Now of course these days of course we are so used to having prices set and there being no haggling that when someone asks us to name a price we don't know what to do. So really it's mostly the opening move in any sales persons game of trying to feel you out for how much they can milk you for.
Interesting, could it be that it's different by state? I'm not sure how the laws play out for the Indian casinos but for the normal ones I'm thinking that they are going to be regulated by the states and not a common federal law.
We English and Welshmen value correctness above freedom.
Who's correctness? Who's values? Therein lies the rub.
A system that is fully open always will have issues with 'wrong' theories. But it protects the good ones too. I honestly feel what your saying and good peer review is key. But your idea that openness is a bad thing is flawed.
Fair enough. I'm glad your in agreement that your forecast is just that, a forecast. And again I don't want to dismiss your forecast, just rather make sure that we both are using the same common terms.
For what it's worth I think my major issue with your projection is that your dismissing RIM a bit too easily. They have a sizable installed base, a loyal one at that, good hardware, and multiple providers. Yes developing on that platform is annoying as hell but their market does not need too much that isn't provided with a base install.
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Sorry to reply to my own post but I wanted to just also say that SSDs as a rule are not unreliable. Rather that at the space/cost ratio that matters for current end users.
Most of us need these days a lot of space for all the digital media we have and SSDs don't offer that at a price point that is even near what HDs offer. (And as I said HDs, even with their own failure rates, are still preferred.)
I really like the idea of a device that does not need to be constantly de-fragmented. To me, above the moving parts issue/noise/heat issues, it is paramount. However I need my data storage to be reliable and right now SSDs still don't have the track record.
I understand that there are those people who are running 2-4x SSD drives in a RAID0 that are fully happy. But mostly they are gamers who don't care if they have to do a reinstall if that array fails. And or don't really have any sort of long term data that they mind wiping at the drop of a hat.
I personally deal with end users who care a lot about their digital pictures, email, and other assorted crap. As it stands right now those ol' spinning platters still offer us all the best reliability at the lowest cost point.
What was Kevin's weight/height? I mean I've seen a lot of subjective options here as to what it's like to fly next to someone who is spilling over into your seat. How it's unfair that a 5 year old has to pay a full fair because they are taking up a full seat but weigh next to nothing compared to an adult. Blah blah blah.
Look, during my real hardcore WoW days was at least 250 lbs. and I stand 6' tall. I've leaned up to 190 lbs. but you know I still fill those airline seats up pretty damn much the same way. (For those who don't understand how the male body stores it's fat, it is not just right to our guts. Look at any obese persons face and think about it.) And I'm quite sure I could have easily packed on another 50 lbs. and not made that much a difference in my presence to the people next to me from 250 -> to 300 at 6'.
My point is that I've yet to see the real reason that Kevin, given that he freaking eventually flew the same airliner to his destination, was booted from the flight in question. I suspect that it had nothing to do with his weight but lets clear that up so that we can get down to what really happened.
That...is really cool. Thank you.
Oh trust me that was the 1st thing I checked, the contacts were never an issue. I know that often when dealing with people who run into issues like this they can fail to check the simple things but...well I'm not a total noob. (I've warn out my share of erasers on electrical work rather than paper.)
No, while I only relayed that one story for an examples sake it has not been my only experience with failing/malfunctioning chargers that end up killing batteries. I've also seen it in power tool chargers and I have suspected some laptops as well.
Over the years as my number of rechargeable battery items have gone way up I'd like to think I'm somewhat familiar with the tech behind them. At the very least enough to use them well and do some basic troubleshooting when problems arise with them. And one of the main things I've observed lately is that sometimes it's the battery chargers that are ultimately the issue when problems start to become reoccurring.
I've had a 3 set cordless phone setup for about 5 years now and when they started to act up I got them all new batteries. Given that they had still been using the originals I figured ok problem solved. However not too long after using them with their new batteries they started to act up again. And it was a bit harder because the pattern was very hard to see.
While I'm sure that the original batteries were due for replacement the satellite chargers had stopped working properly. While the phones normally would stay in their normal charger that was not always the case which what threw me off at 1st. But I noticed that as long as I charged a phone in the main station it would work fine.
However the damage had been done and even my new batteries are not nearly as good as they should be. Extend what happened in my story to say a laptop where it's built in battery charging system has stopped working properly. Not only is the battery not getting a good charge it's likely being damaged in the process. Leading to Win7 telling people so even thou they think, "But I just got this thing a new battery!"
Googles ad was one of the better ones imo. Only a few other standouts and both of them were beer commercials. Course ymmv on what you consider good.
On a side not I was pleased to see that CBS did at least reach a compromise with their...lets say selective censorship and only ran a very short Tim Tebow ad as opposed to something longer and more dogmatic.
Disclamer: I'm a Florida Gator, I like Tim a lot, I'm also a (weak) atheist who is pro-choice.
I've seen a lot of posts with very good math talking about how it's not realistic to move data or energy across a field. But I'd submit that whenever these study's come up they always move said data or energy along something outside the inside part of the nuclear field that someone is dealing with.
In a room with all of the guys who are responsible for making the NFLs money, and this is not unique to the NFL, they are talking about how they can increase their profits. Someone brings up that small bars and such are profiting off their games and in particular the Super Bowl and so they push some legislation/trademark/copyright bullshit though.
And the kicker is that the Republican party as it stands will all vote for such a measure even thou they 'hate government regulation' and all that. (Oh and the Dems that vote for this kinda crap are just as slimey, but at least we can call them on it.)
Your just now realizing this? Where the hell have you been?
If nothing else AMD serves to counterpoint Intel from being a monopoly. Further they actually make some pretty good chips.
I support AMD because they keep Intel in check. And as a bonus their chips aren't that bad.
Why was 3 so awful? I've seen a few comments here that talk about it but are there any movie geeks that can expound on why it was so bad? (Not just that the screenplay was bad but why was it so bad?)
I'm not a huge Spiderman fan but I thought that at the very least the first one was a nice setup. The second one was nothing great but did it's job. Good popcorn movie. The thrid, ugh, I turned it off before it was half way over. And I've sat though all of Battlefield Earth, non-Rifftrax version!
The more I think about it, from a physicist POV, energy is always out there. It's waiting for us to tap it.
If Google want's to use it's resources to try and tap some of the energy that is out there, and in a way that is good for our planet/society, I say game on.
Even if we all here on /. hate twitter and facebook and such social sites (you have to interact with people!)...
The thing is that I'd say that even here on /. and other various sites the interaction with people part is not the issue at all. Hell geeks have been using newsgroups, IRC, and other forms of interaction over the internet since it's been around.
No, it's rather the fact that such 'social networking' sites are all about gathering your personal information and then selling it. We know this far better than our non-techie peers and as such steer away from them.
And always came back to that old Chinese curse:
May you live in interesting times.
IANAL but has it always been SOP for companies to be able to bill the government when they are compelled, ie via a court order, to provide information?
Its one thing to try and recoup the costs of smartphones that you all but give to customers. There is plenty to be said about that but I'll give that part a pass here.
But to setup the OS such that a user can 'go online' as described only to be billed for it is just downright sleazy. I am quite sure that if any customers called in to complain Verizon's solution to them was that they just needed to add a data plan to their contract.
Look, I'm not anti corporations/big business but so many business models have turned into 'how can we best extract money from people' rather than 'provide good service in return for money'. That type of thinking needs to change and it is the job of the government to do that. They are the best 800lb. gorilla that can reign in large corps.
Bullshit. Your soccer camp did not tell you how to live other than to run a lot. Your soccer camp did not tell you were were going to hell if you did something wrong 'in the eyes of god'. Your argument is so full of shit and had I mod points you'd be -1. Someone please do such.
Who else was turned on a little by pig girl...
Come on, you know you were.
Look, I've been using the online sphere since 110 baud modems. Yeah there was a bit more before me but not by much. I've since then been on the cutting edge for most of it since then and have seen the rise and fall of various search engines. Webcraweler (AoL), Yahoo, and then Google.
Google got it right and has now market dominance which if you don't know capitalism means that they are entrenched and not going anywhere. The idea that MS can somehow break that is folly at best.
I could go on with a thesis level dissertation about why Google is not about to be displaced by MS but honestly /. is not the place for it. And to boot I'd have to deal with the trolls that come with it. Suffice to say that yay for MS getting a bit of the share. They had the war chest to make it so. But Google is still the 1000lb monkey.
Heh, most people already know the answer but always forget. Price is set by what the market will bare.
Now of course these days of course we are so used to having prices set and there being no haggling that when someone asks us to name a price we don't know what to do. So really it's mostly the opening move in any sales persons game of trying to feel you out for how much they can milk you for.
Sounds logical. I'd also say that I don't think the OP was lying just rather that he happened to run into the rare instance of a casino cheating.
And as you say good luck getting anywhere with that.
Interesting, could it be that it's different by state? I'm not sure how the laws play out for the Indian casinos but for the normal ones I'm thinking that they are going to be regulated by the states and not a common federal law.
We English and Welshmen value correctness above freedom.
Who's correctness? Who's values? Therein lies the rub.
A system that is fully open always will have issues with 'wrong' theories. But it protects the good ones too. I honestly feel what your saying and good peer review is key. But your idea that openness is a bad thing is flawed.
Fair enough. I'm glad your in agreement that your forecast is just that, a forecast. And again I don't want to dismiss your forecast, just rather make sure that we both are using the same common terms.
For what it's worth I think my major issue with your projection is that your dismissing RIM a bit too easily. They have a sizable installed base, a loyal one at that, good hardware, and multiple providers. Yes developing on that platform is annoying as hell but their market does not need too much that isn't provided with a base install.