Two days to fill a 512GB ssd? You could write 512GB in about an hour ~ 150MB/s (conservative speed, much higher if copying between SSDs). Rewrite the drive 24 times in a day, drive in dead in a month and a half.
(not sure if you were talking about casual use, which 256GB/day would be more extreme but still power casual use, or a major stress test of the drive)
What are we supposed to be doing? Violently overthrow media conglomerates?
I already vote with my dollars. I no longer buy nor subscribe to (or pirate) music, movies, etc. I stopped buying restrictive DRM games years ago. I've cut the cable cord. I prefer indie authors almost exclusively and get my text in print form whenever possible. These companies don't care, they've got more than enough $ already and the only one really being hurt is me (near zero access to pop culture).
Get off your high horse and be useful. Enlighten me. How else can this battle be fought?
Having the additional resolution helps preserve quality during the making process. For example, most music is recorded at least at 24bit 48-96khz per track (dozens to hundreds depending on the music), even tho the destination will usually be 16bit 44-48khz. The extra fidelity makes all the eventual filtering, dithering, resampling, correction, compression, etc ultimately that much higher in quality.
But think about this a step further. Presumably, the people who are doing all of the threatening (clearly highly intimidating threats otherwise guards wouldn't be called in) are supposed to be the 'good guys' gun carriers, not the bad guy criminals who aren't supposed to have guns in the first place. This whole thing says a lot about the perceived power a gun holder has over someone without. Good guy or bad, own a gun and you start to feel power enough to turn into a thug.
And aren't the thugs what the good guy gun owners want to defend against?
Forgot to mention.. the UPS reports the system usually hovers between 60-65w and is configured to shut the system down at 11pm (12am weekends), start back up at 8am. Almost negligible effect on the monthly power bill (~$1.75 iirc). Well worth it.
I reused an old Acer w/ an amd 4050E and 4GB ram. Installed a simple Newegg/Rosewill SATA card and added 2 WD green drives. I then stream all of my audio/video/photos to everything (android phone/tablets, tv via roku, itunes music, xbox, etc). I use standard windows file sharing along with FreeFileSync (http://alternativeto.net/software/freefilesync/) to use the server as a backup for everything else in the house.
My daughter (4) loves them. And interestingly, they are a lot more like the Legos I remember from my childhood (early 80s) than the kits I see now. Very few specialized pieces, much more of the generic block that you then turn into something interesting. The instructions that are included are very similar to how I remember, and some of the larger kits also feature the alternate builds that I again remember.
The topic poster has a point though. Wander through the Lego section and ooh-aah over the cool kits, but a lot of the pieces are very use specific. Obviously you can re-purpose them for anything you want, but they were clearly designed to put in a certain spot on a certain kit. The ghost series is a great example. The ghost train, while very cool, you really can't build much outside of the train using the pieces that are included. Little doodad crap sure, but nothing larger.
Killing no, but these people will all die eventually (just a hole in the dirt - hate to alarm them) and their crusade dies down with them. Will they be gone? No. But as their followers also die off, their message will fade.
As a followup, you don't have the resources to circumvent big brother if he's after you. And actively trying to do so will splash you with a bigger target.
Withdraw enough cash to feed yourself for a week, then leave. Go camping. Get out into nature. If technology is your concern, get away from the technology.
Equal pay for women, enabling bio/stem-cell research, cash for clunkers and a lot of military reform (openly gay is a-ok, not to mention addressing the body armor neglect controversy, the walter reed controversy, and ending iraq).
Also there's the whole Somali pirates and Bin Laden thing..
The article starts with the faulty premise that connecting with women is a requirement.
If a women isn't dependent on a man (thanks to increasingly equal (and in some cases exceeding) employment/opportunity/education, sperm banks, etc) for the things she desires in life, why isn't it fair game for a man to not need a women for what he desires?
I love my wife, happily married with 2 kids and I'm not a mascu-nazi, but I look at my parents generation with their greater than 50% divorce rate (with largely 1-sided devastation of the husband) and constant bombardment of the whole 'demeaning men to empower women' approach [seriously, just about any commercial in the last 40 years - the man is the moron who couldn't function w/o the woman], why would anyone want that short of being conditioned to accepting it?
" but I also recognize that a small percentage of users consume a disproportionate amount of bandwidth and that has to be managed somehow"
And managed why exactly?
Leave your [cable] TV on for all 720ish hours in a month. You don't get penalized (outside of electricity bill) with overage charges for going over some arbitrary viewing cap. Hell, leave it running for an entire year and it doesn't cost any more (or less) than it would if you left the TV off entirely.
What's wrong with tiered is that it is an economic invention, not a practical or technical limitation.
webOS was pretty well thought-out before they actually started building the software. It's a lot more consistent in interface than iOS (which isn't too bad) and Android (which is pretty abysmal). It also went the Apple school-of-thought of 'pick certain things, do those really well' (even 1-up'd iOS a bit) rather than the Android/Windows route of 'doing everything, specialize in nothing'.
Exactly. Similarly, no amount of money in the world can make a kid do better in school if he's just a dumbass who doesn't want to learn in the first place.
Traditional economic metrics just aren't applicable in some real world scenarios.
You do realize that a pension is basically a piece of a wage that has been deferred right? People give up/save/pause a portion of their earnings *now* so that they may have it *later*. All of this evil BS about pension and health care...
If you're spanking your kids all it means is that you have failed in your role as a parent. Spanking means that you have nothing else, no other ideas. There's nothing hip & trendy or touchy-feely about it.
re: behavior of other kids in the class.. I'll agree, there's a lot of extremely poor parenting out there. But smacking your kid to teach respect/authority is no better than having no discipline/consequences in order to be friends with your kid. In either case the parent took on the role of an abuser.
Seeing as you've posted AC, I think on some level you know this. Don't make up BS about you not wanting your real ID to be associated with you spanking your kid.
You can easily corrupt hard drives and TVs using pro audio speaker magnets (in the range of 50-200oz). A few years ago I did some playing around with a spare HD and a loose 18" PA sub driver (150oz? magnet iirc). Dumb simple, I had both sitting on a table and just moved the hard drive progressively closer to the magnet, the replugging back into the computer. Finally, at 10" away the computer was no longer able to recognize the drive as bootable.
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Two days to fill a 512GB ssd? You could write 512GB in about an hour ~ 150MB/s (conservative speed, much higher if copying between SSDs). Rewrite the drive 24 times in a day, drive in dead in a month and a half.
(not sure if you were talking about casual use, which 256GB/day would be more extreme but still power casual use, or a major stress test of the drive)
What are we supposed to be doing? Violently overthrow media conglomerates?
I already vote with my dollars. I no longer buy nor subscribe to (or pirate) music, movies, etc. I stopped buying restrictive DRM games years ago. I've cut the cable cord. I prefer indie authors almost exclusively and get my text in print form whenever possible. These companies don't care, they've got more than enough $ already and the only one really being hurt is me (near zero access to pop culture).
Get off your high horse and be useful. Enlighten me. How else can this battle be fought?
Having the additional resolution helps preserve quality during the making process. For example, most music is recorded at least at 24bit 48-96khz per track (dozens to hundreds depending on the music), even tho the destination will usually be 16bit 44-48khz. The extra fidelity makes all the eventual filtering, dithering, resampling, correction, compression, etc ultimately that much higher in quality.
Disclaimer: worked in TV and music production.
But think about this a step further. Presumably, the people who are doing all of the threatening (clearly highly intimidating threats otherwise guards wouldn't be called in) are supposed to be the 'good guys' gun carriers, not the bad guy criminals who aren't supposed to have guns in the first place. This whole thing says a lot about the perceived power a gun holder has over someone without. Good guy or bad, own a gun and you start to feel power enough to turn into a thug.
And aren't the thugs what the good guy gun owners want to defend against?
Forgot to mention.. the UPS reports the system usually hovers between 60-65w and is configured to shut the system down at 11pm (12am weekends), start back up at 8am. Almost negligible effect on the monthly power bill (~$1.75 iirc). Well worth it.
Plex - http://www.plexapp.com/ ($free$)
I reused an old Acer w/ an amd 4050E and 4GB ram. Installed a simple Newegg/Rosewill SATA card and added 2 WD green drives. I then stream all of my audio/video/photos to everything (android phone/tablets, tv via roku, itunes music, xbox, etc). I use standard windows file sharing along with FreeFileSync (http://alternativeto.net/software/freefilesync/) to use the server as a backup for everything else in the house.
My daughter (4) loves them. And interestingly, they are a lot more like the Legos I remember from my childhood (early 80s) than the kits I see now. Very few specialized pieces, much more of the generic block that you then turn into something interesting. The instructions that are included are very similar to how I remember, and some of the larger kits also feature the alternate builds that I again remember.
The topic poster has a point though. Wander through the Lego section and ooh-aah over the cool kits, but a lot of the pieces are very use specific. Obviously you can re-purpose them for anything you want, but they were clearly designed to put in a certain spot on a certain kit. The ghost series is a great example. The ghost train, while very cool, you really can't build much outside of the train using the pieces that are included. Little doodad crap sure, but nothing larger.
Killing no, but these people will all die eventually (just a hole in the dirt - hate to alarm them) and their crusade dies down with them. Will they be gone? No. But as their followers also die off, their message will fade.
As a followup, you don't have the resources to circumvent big brother if he's after you. And actively trying to do so will splash you with a bigger target.
Withdraw enough cash to feed yourself for a week, then leave. Go camping. Get out into nature. If technology is your concern, get away from the technology.
+1
Equal pay for women, enabling bio/stem-cell research, cash for clunkers and a lot of military reform (openly gay is a-ok, not to mention addressing the body armor neglect controversy, the walter reed controversy, and ending iraq).
Also there's the whole Somali pirates and Bin Laden thing..
"The government gets out of the fucking way..." by having the government do something.
How many thoughts did you put into that before you spit it out?
The article starts with the faulty premise that connecting with women is a requirement.
If a women isn't dependent on a man (thanks to increasingly equal (and in some cases exceeding) employment/opportunity/education, sperm banks, etc) for the things she desires in life, why isn't it fair game for a man to not need a women for what he desires?
I love my wife, happily married with 2 kids and I'm not a mascu-nazi, but I look at my parents generation with their greater than 50% divorce rate (with largely 1-sided devastation of the husband) and constant bombardment of the whole 'demeaning men to empower women' approach [seriously, just about any commercial in the last 40 years - the man is the moron who couldn't function w/o the woman], why would anyone want that short of being conditioned to accepting it?
" but I also recognize that a small percentage of users consume a disproportionate amount of bandwidth and that has to be managed somehow"
And managed why exactly?
Leave your [cable] TV on for all 720ish hours in a month. You don't get penalized (outside of electricity bill) with overage charges for going over some arbitrary viewing cap. Hell, leave it running for an entire year and it doesn't cost any more (or less) than it would if you left the TV off entirely.
What's wrong with tiered is that it is an economic invention, not a practical or technical limitation.
Use large (100-200+ oz) pro audio speaker magnets. If the hard drive attaches itself to the magnet, you've done it right.
webOS was pretty well thought-out before they actually started building the software. It's a lot more consistent in interface than iOS (which isn't too bad) and Android (which is pretty abysmal). It also went the Apple school-of-thought of 'pick certain things, do those really well' (even 1-up'd iOS a bit) rather than the Android/Windows route of 'doing everything, specialize in nothing'.
Exactly. Similarly, no amount of money in the world can make a kid do better in school if he's just a dumbass who doesn't want to learn in the first place.
Traditional economic metrics just aren't applicable in some real world scenarios.
Because that's how an employer/employee system works, when an employer is a government...
Irrational nutjob much?
You do realize that a pension is basically a piece of a wage that has been deferred right? People give up/save/pause a portion of their earnings *now* so that they may have it *later*. All of this evil BS about pension and health care...
If you're spanking your kids all it means is that you have failed in your role as a parent. Spanking means that you have nothing else, no other ideas. There's nothing hip & trendy or touchy-feely about it.
re: behavior of other kids in the class.. I'll agree, there's a lot of extremely poor parenting out there. But smacking your kid to teach respect/authority is no better than having no discipline/consequences in order to be friends with your kid. In either case the parent took on the role of an abuser.
Seeing as you've posted AC, I think on some level you know this. Don't make up BS about you not wanting your real ID to be associated with you spanking your kid.
Tinfoil hat time?
The petition now seems to be blocked. You can view it fine enough, but if you try to actually sign it (currently ~ 10.4K sigs) it gives you an error.
Democracy at work?
It doesn't really look all that different, just evolved. Both have docks and iOS doesn't have widgets.
You can easily corrupt hard drives and TVs using pro audio speaker magnets (in the range of 50-200oz). A few years ago I did some playing around with a spare HD and a loose 18" PA sub driver (150oz? magnet iirc). Dumb simple, I had both sitting on a table and just moved the hard drive progressively closer to the magnet, the replugging back into the computer. Finally, at 10" away the computer was no longer able to recognize the drive as bootable.
(they're rather - i'm a fucking idiot as well)