Uh rail roads are far from dead. In fact many rail roads are at capacity, or are running dangerously over capacity. The problem is they've torn up so many existing lines because they weren't needed at one point, now they're needed and they don't want to lay the track for it. You also seem to have forgotten that the points where rail can be laid as a distribution point have changed. Those years you're talking about are when rail or horse traffic were the only real ways to get around.
First and second gen SSDs were garbage, people are reporting 2 petabyte write lifecycles on them.
I've got a first gen and a couple of second gen SSD's still slugging away. I swapped my first gen 60GB drive into my laptop a year or so ago after I put a ATADA SX900 in, I have to agree that there were some serious problems with 1st gen drives, probably the biggest problem I ran into was windows not playing nice and occasionally 'locking' the drive because of a bad write cycle. Sometimes it was recoverable, sometimes it wasn't, sometimes it was really bad and you had to get an unlock tool from the manufacture to fix it.
In terms of reliability now? Rock solid I'd say. The biggest downside to SSD's is similar to Bluray/DVD-R/W drives when they were new, and tossing out firmware updates every couple of weeks for xyz bugs. Now you don't hear about updates on the old write media drives at all, and it's becoming less common for firmware updates to be pushed out for SSD's now that they're getting very close to maturity as a technology.
I know someone will come along and say but xyz performance suxs compared to raid0, and let me remind that person that if you're using raid0 for speed you now have a higher failure rate then a SSD.
Is glycerol really off-limits now? Wow. Things are worse than I realized. Guessing while they're at it, hand lotions containing it are probably either banned or will be soon.
Welcome to the new reality of 'omg...it might hurt you' land. If all the stuff we played with was going to kill us, we'd be dead already. And well...some schools are banning sun screen so yeah...
It's funny that my generation is not the one with all the crazy levels of autism claims, and we're the ones that freely played around with mercury in our chemistry classes.
We were still playing with mercury in our high school science classes in the 90's and we knew it was dangerous then. We simply had to follow the rules when handling it, now they don't even let kids play with ethylene glycol, glycerol or copper sulfate.
What Iceland has to do with the reality of the situation being China having a stock market bubble and some US bonds on hand beyond transparent FUD, nobody knows.
7% is what it took to collapse the Iceland markets and pop their bubble when they had mixed currency debt. Now China holds 8% which is significant, now let's say China decides to devalue existing bonds in order to make up their short fall. What happens when you have a sudden 8% devaluation just like Iceland on mixed currency debt.
Yeah, it'll make junk from Wal-Mart suddenly expensive. I can't say I'm upset about that.
And there's the guy who doesn't have any idea what happens when the poor and middle class that would be directly impacted in more than one country. Suddenly it costs more for things in the US, Canada, Europe and Asia. Suddenly, everyone but the rich and ultra rich are now struggling, and no longer buying items but rather scraping by after paying for basic necessities. Well tell me what happens when growth in the economy comes to a screeching halt because people aren't buying anything?
There's no upside in that. The only solution is them to turn on the printing press when the banks run out of money because of non-existent collateral and they try to claim it. That in turn is going to cause an entirely separate problem.
Oh it's gonna get better, there's a lot and I do mean a lot of bad debt in China. A lot of banks over the last two years have been trying to claim it, and suddenly find there's no assets to seize and in some cases assets have been used upwards of half a dozen times under different names. When it pops it's going to be massive, and exceptionally nasty.
Yeah, but reading your other posts it looks like you believe a lot of crazy shit.
I'll bet many people would say the same thing about you and your other posts. By the way, did Gamergate steal your lunch money yet? Oh wait, that should be "steal your clickbait sites..."
How strange a person can't pick up on something that's been mentioned numerous times, by other people with regards to FF and the mozilla team in general.
I've switched to Palemoon. The thing I worry the most about with that decision is that retarded UI changed in FF might sneak its way into Palemoon just because it is bothersome to maintain a branch with too many differences from the main one.
Valid fear. With luck that will be a no, but if it does they'll simply be shooting themselves in the foot people will also say 'fuck it' and move to something else.
Slashdot's moderation system has been taken over by the MRAs.
Up next, person who doesn't understand culture outside of their little fiefdom screams "racist" at milk duds. Is there a world shortage of soup? Is Gamergate to blame for it, or have they opened a new salt mine. Find out when parent poster gets his news from Gawker etl.al.
Why this is marked troll I have no idea. I've dumped firefox myself, most of my 'tech' friends at work have done the same. At work the only person still using firefox is our web dev guys to make sure there's compatibility. Most have switched to chromium, palemoon(FF branch), or Opera. I honestly believe at this point, there's a group of people inside mozilla that are just going out of their way to destroy FF, the decisions have been braindead for the last 4 years.
Facts hurt your feelings? All that shit is true and that should tell you something. That you think they're talking points shows that you have no idea what's actually going on with your government. And it's something that a foreigner like me already knows about.
Look at what's happening in colleges and universities. You've got radical leftists and radical feminists pushing for racial quotas instead of merit. Even several universities have come out with their "meritocracy is a microaggression" bullshit. AKA University of California campuses. Surprise, those young, kids who want to be protected from everything...
claim they were always going to do this if needed to but hadn't realized they were required to
Yeah, and ignorance of the law is no excuse right? In places like Canada, the fines for failing to have the proper insurance start at $10k per incident. After the first incident, they jump to $50k, $100k and $250k per incident thereafter. Maybe it's time for the crown/DA to start laying fines at their feet.
In Ontario, anyone can open a cab company with next to no money if they're a single individual(in my city a person can run a 1-2 car company for $250-700/yearly). A company is required to front money for a mass-operators license in most cities/towns. This is anywhere from $10k to $500k depending on the number of cabs you're going to operate. Uber refuses to follow existing laws, bylaws, or even insurance regulations.
I can tell you right now what's going to happen. Someone is going to get into a serious or fatal crash with an uber driver, they're going to have bottom barrel liability insurance(because they refuse to follow the law), and the company will be banned from operating in xyz provinces/states/etc.
Protectionist laws like requiring a chauffeurs license? Having appropriate carrier insurance? Following the same rules that actual taxi companies have to? Holy fuck! It's like people want them to operate like a legal business or something!
You mean the "don't run reactors without proper controls" don't (thanks environmentalists) stall upgrades on a first gen nuclear reactor in an earthquake zone? Yeah. We already know about the first, the second though pushed back upgrades on the reactors several times.
It's not dissimilar to what happened at a medical reactor here in Canada. It didn't have a secondary or third backup system for various parts, and the environmentalists threw a hissy fit over and over and over again, and the government had enough and simply shut down the reactor leading to a world-wide shortage of medical isotopes until the new reactor was online.
The question then people should be asking, is are you using fast path or the slow path channel? My one machine is fast path and sees these problems, the other is slow path and doesn't see these problems. You put that together and what does it say? That fast path is still tweaking and testing like any other unstable build. While slow is doing a fine job of being stable.
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Uh rail roads are far from dead. In fact many rail roads are at capacity, or are running dangerously over capacity. The problem is they've torn up so many existing lines because they weren't needed at one point, now they're needed and they don't want to lay the track for it. You also seem to have forgotten that the points where rail can be laid as a distribution point have changed. Those years you're talking about are when rail or horse traffic were the only real ways to get around.
FYI: There's a read performance bug on the EVO series drives. So if you haven't updated the firmware you should probably do it.
First and second gen SSDs were garbage, people are reporting 2 petabyte write lifecycles on them.
I've got a first gen and a couple of second gen SSD's still slugging away. I swapped my first gen 60GB drive into my laptop a year or so ago after I put a ATADA SX900 in, I have to agree that there were some serious problems with 1st gen drives, probably the biggest problem I ran into was windows not playing nice and occasionally 'locking' the drive because of a bad write cycle. Sometimes it was recoverable, sometimes it wasn't, sometimes it was really bad and you had to get an unlock tool from the manufacture to fix it.
In terms of reliability now? Rock solid I'd say. The biggest downside to SSD's is similar to Bluray/DVD-R/W drives when they were new, and tossing out firmware updates every couple of weeks for xyz bugs. Now you don't hear about updates on the old write media drives at all, and it's becoming less common for firmware updates to be pushed out for SSD's now that they're getting very close to maturity as a technology.
I know someone will come along and say but xyz performance suxs compared to raid0, and let me remind that person that if you're using raid0 for speed you now have a higher failure rate then a SSD.
Is glycerol really off-limits now? Wow. Things are worse than I realized. Guessing while they're at it, hand lotions containing it are probably either banned or will be soon.
Welcome to the new reality of 'omg...it might hurt you' land. If all the stuff we played with was going to kill us, we'd be dead already. And well...some schools are banning sun screen so yeah...
It's funny that my generation is not the one with all the crazy levels of autism claims, and we're the ones that freely played around with mercury in our chemistry classes.
We were still playing with mercury in our high school science classes in the 90's and we knew it was dangerous then. We simply had to follow the rules when handling it, now they don't even let kids play with ethylene glycol, glycerol or copper sulfate.
What Iceland has to do with the reality of the situation being China having a stock market bubble and some US bonds on hand beyond transparent FUD, nobody knows.
7% is what it took to collapse the Iceland markets and pop their bubble when they had mixed currency debt. Now China holds 8% which is significant, now let's say China decides to devalue existing bonds in order to make up their short fall. What happens when you have a sudden 8% devaluation just like Iceland on mixed currency debt.
Yeah, it'll make junk from Wal-Mart suddenly expensive. I can't say I'm upset about that.
And there's the guy who doesn't have any idea what happens when the poor and middle class that would be directly impacted in more than one country. Suddenly it costs more for things in the US, Canada, Europe and Asia. Suddenly, everyone but the rich and ultra rich are now struggling, and no longer buying items but rather scraping by after paying for basic necessities. Well tell me what happens when growth in the economy comes to a screeching halt because people aren't buying anything?
There's no upside in that. The only solution is them to turn on the printing press when the banks run out of money because of non-existent collateral and they try to claim it. That in turn is going to cause an entirely separate problem.
Bad, China holds a lot of sovereign US debt. Think Iceland, and you'll get the idea.
Oh it's gonna get better, there's a lot and I do mean a lot of bad debt in China. A lot of banks over the last two years have been trying to claim it, and suddenly find there's no assets to seize and in some cases assets have been used upwards of half a dozen times under different names. When it pops it's going to be massive, and exceptionally nasty.
Obviously, people who encrypt their emails will be reported instantly.
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Yeah, but reading your other posts it looks like you believe a lot of crazy shit.
I'll bet many people would say the same thing about you and your other posts. By the way, did Gamergate steal your lunch money yet? Oh wait, that should be "steal your clickbait sites..."
How strange a person can't pick up on something that's been mentioned numerous times, by other people with regards to FF and the mozilla team in general.
I've switched to Palemoon. The thing I worry the most about with that decision is that retarded UI changed in FF might sneak its way into Palemoon just because it is bothersome to maintain a branch with too many differences from the main one.
Valid fear. With luck that will be a no, but if it does they'll simply be shooting themselves in the foot people will also say 'fuck it' and move to something else.
Slashdot's moderation system has been taken over by the MRAs.
Up next, person who doesn't understand culture outside of their little fiefdom screams "racist" at milk duds. Is there a world shortage of soup? Is Gamergate to blame for it, or have they opened a new salt mine. Find out when parent poster gets his news from Gawker etl.al.
Why this is marked troll I have no idea. I've dumped firefox myself, most of my 'tech' friends at work have done the same. At work the only person still using firefox is our web dev guys to make sure there's compatibility. Most have switched to chromium, palemoon(FF branch), or Opera. I honestly believe at this point, there's a group of people inside mozilla that are just going out of their way to destroy FF, the decisions have been braindead for the last 4 years.
Facts hurt your feelings? All that shit is true and that should tell you something. That you think they're talking points shows that you have no idea what's actually going on with your government. And it's something that a foreigner like me already knows about.
Look at what's happening in colleges and universities. You've got radical leftists and radical feminists pushing for racial quotas instead of merit. Even several universities have come out with their "meritocracy is a microaggression" bullshit. AKA University of California campuses. Surprise, those young, kids who want to be protected from everything...
Sounds like a paid anti-MS shill. Especially since Win8/10 both work fine on BIOS only PCs.
claim they were always going to do this if needed to but hadn't realized they were required to
Yeah, and ignorance of the law is no excuse right? In places like Canada, the fines for failing to have the proper insurance start at $10k per incident. After the first incident, they jump to $50k, $100k and $250k per incident thereafter. Maybe it's time for the crown/DA to start laying fines at their feet.
In Ontario, anyone can open a cab company with next to no money if they're a single individual(in my city a person can run a 1-2 car company for $250-700/yearly). A company is required to front money for a mass-operators license in most cities/towns. This is anywhere from $10k to $500k depending on the number of cabs you're going to operate. Uber refuses to follow existing laws, bylaws, or even insurance regulations.
I can tell you right now what's going to happen. Someone is going to get into a serious or fatal crash with an uber driver, they're going to have bottom barrel liability insurance(because they refuse to follow the law), and the company will be banned from operating in xyz provinces/states/etc.
Protectionist laws like requiring a chauffeurs license? Having appropriate carrier insurance? Following the same rules that actual taxi companies have to? Holy fuck! It's like people want them to operate like a legal business or something!
On second thought, it looks like the AV company is staffed with idiots.
Yeah that pretty much sums it up. I have a legit copy through work and it gave me the 'blahblahblah ur a pr8' bit the other day.
You mean the "don't run reactors without proper controls" don't (thanks environmentalists) stall upgrades on a first gen nuclear reactor in an earthquake zone? Yeah. We already know about the first, the second though pushed back upgrades on the reactors several times.
It's not dissimilar to what happened at a medical reactor here in Canada. It didn't have a secondary or third backup system for various parts, and the environmentalists threw a hissy fit over and over and over again, and the government had enough and simply shut down the reactor leading to a world-wide shortage of medical isotopes until the new reactor was online.
The question then people should be asking, is are you using fast path or the slow path channel? My one machine is fast path and sees these problems, the other is slow path and doesn't see these problems. You put that together and what does it say? That fast path is still tweaking and testing like any other unstable build. While slow is doing a fine job of being stable.
How the hell it became news, I don't have a clue either. Microsoft said it was going to be released on July 29th, almost 28 days ago.