It's a failure of the English language that there's no gender-neutral singular pronoun. I do think "they" is wrong when you mean "he or she", but I refuse to write "he or she" repeatedly. Simply using "he" makes people more upset, and saying "she" just confuses people.
"By itself; without consideration of extraneous factors."
Also: "not precisely", "not actually", or "not really".
Meaning that the end result can be like a versioning filesystem, without adding any features to the filesystem code. In other words, it could be implemented right now on ext2, or any other filesystem.
The filesystem needn't be burdened with it. But if was a kernel function, you'd have the option of saving clobbered files as well as deleted files. You could also design a friendly retrieval system, without requiring a versioning filesystem, per se.
But the solar panel will be much bigger than the phone. Solar power has always been quite weak, especially for something as power hungry as a cell phone. The fact that solar is going so far today is only the result of large, well-designed panels.
#1, XP works pretty well. There are a few missing features, but no serious bugs that I know of.
#2, I hate the UI changes in Visa and Seven. In XP I use the classic NT/2000 theme.
#3, Seven is expensive when I already own XP.
I have been thinking of upgrading, but not until I build a new machine.
Accepting email only from addresses or domains on your white list is a decent idea, as long as you check your spam folder every day for legitimate mail from new people. Otherwise, it's cumbersome to have to add someone to your list before they email you. You would need the ability to whitelist a whole domain, though, such as amazon.com, etc... something that address books usually won't let you do.
Yes, but how much spam do you get each day, versus how much paper junk mail? Filtering spam is basically an all-day task, but sorting paper mail takes me 30 seconds.
Implementing a per-email charge would be almost impossible to implement well, even if people are willing to pay it. But it would eliminate the problem that sending 1 email costs the same amount of money as sending 1 million emails.
Not always. Most ISP's don't advertise static IP's for residential service, and in many cases I bet you'd have a hard time getting someone on the phone who knows what a static IP is. Two cable techs who came out to my house recently weren't even familiar with ping. Only one of them recognized the value of it.
Why not? You can tell just by looking at the version number that Firefox is almost as advanced as IE and Chrome. *rolls eyes*
As for memory, there was an article a while back I believe, explaining that it takes a million gigs of RAM (I'm exaggerating) to compile/link an Android app, and I still don't get it. What do you have to store in memory aside from a symbol table?
So they should have an army tasked with sanitizing all the backup tapes whenever I delete a photo?
No, backups are fine. But if I tell Facebook to delete something, they should delete it so that it fades out of the backups. Not keep it in their working data, but marked as deleted.
This goes 10 times as much for email providers, as well as credit card numbers, SSN's, etc, once the legitimate need for that information is finished.
Yes, someone may have already copied (or stolen) the data. But this is just about a service provider acting like we expect them to act, not secretly collecting personal information for their own purposes.
All hard drives are prone to failure. Sometimes you get lucky and find some that run for 5 years or more, and sometimes not. Back in the old days, I thought the WD Caviar was a terrible model, but now it seems to be good. I like Seagate in general, but I did have two drives with a chirping problem. I'm running on two Samsung drives now that seem a little slow, but reliable.
Backup considerations really need to come first. I only have 500 megs of data, so I run an automatic Ghost image each night. But with 6 TB, I would cut it in half and make do with 3 TB, mirrored.
All of that is very true. But for people who are comfortable with technology and have good PC's, you still have a severe lack of selection when it comes to streaming. And since that's largely a licensing issue, it may not be easy to fix.
Redbox? Their selection is even smaller than Netflix's streaming library.
When I want to see a specific title for free (after paying the monthly fee, which I am anyway - to me, it's just another bill) nothing beats Netflix by Mail. For the one or two movies I've found that they didn't have in stock on disc, I could buy them from Amazon if I wanted to.
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It's not a big problem in the grand scheme of things, but it is a non-trivial topic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-neutral_pronoun#Problems
The rest is really just pedantic
It's a failure of the English language that there's no gender-neutral singular pronoun. I do think "they" is wrong when you mean "he or she", but I refuse to write "he or she" repeatedly. Simply using "he" makes people more upset, and saying "she" just confuses people.
Ghost is a decent product (not great, but very useful). I stopped using NAV years ago because of the bloat.
I don't know what the problem is, and I hate guessing games. I'm not too worried about it, though.
Actually, I believe WWVB has a leap second provision. I don't know if the NTP protocol does or not.
1000 ms is a pretty big drift, so I assume NTP will have to step the clock and resynchronize. I'm not too worried about it, though. :)
"By itself; without consideration of extraneous factors."
Also: "not precisely", "not actually", or "not really".
Meaning that the end result can be like a versioning filesystem, without adding any features to the filesystem code. In other words, it could be implemented right now on ext2, or any other filesystem.
The filesystem needn't be burdened with it. But if was a kernel function, you'd have the option of saving clobbered files as well as deleted files. You could also design a friendly retrieval system, without requiring a versioning filesystem, per se.
But the solar panel will be much bigger than the phone. Solar power has always been quite weak, especially for something as power hungry as a cell phone. The fact that solar is going so far today is only the result of large, well-designed panels.
TRIM and SAS support would be nice additions to XP too. Apparently it can do IPv6, though I haven't tried.
#1, XP works pretty well. There are a few missing features, but no serious bugs that I know of.
#2, I hate the UI changes in Visa and Seven. In XP I use the classic NT/2000 theme.
#3, Seven is expensive when I already own XP.
I have been thinking of upgrading, but not until I build a new machine.
Accepting email only from addresses or domains on your white list is a decent idea, as long as you check your spam folder every day for legitimate mail from new people. Otherwise, it's cumbersome to have to add someone to your list before they email you. You would need the ability to whitelist a whole domain, though, such as amazon.com, etc... something that address books usually won't let you do.
Yes, but how much spam do you get each day, versus how much paper junk mail? Filtering spam is basically an all-day task, but sorting paper mail takes me 30 seconds. Implementing a per-email charge would be almost impossible to implement well, even if people are willing to pay it. But it would eliminate the problem that sending 1 email costs the same amount of money as sending 1 million emails.
SSL's useless because the CAs are crap about maintaining security
So you're saying online banking is dead?
I haven't read the instructions in a while, but updating every 20 or 25 days is not abuse to avoid a 30 day expiration.
Not always. Most ISP's don't advertise static IP's for residential service, and in many cases I bet you'd have a hard time getting someone on the phone who knows what a static IP is. Two cable techs who came out to my house recently weren't even familiar with ping. Only one of them recognized the value of it.
Why not? You can tell just by looking at the version number that Firefox is almost as advanced as IE and Chrome. *rolls eyes*
As for memory, there was an article a while back I believe, explaining that it takes a million gigs of RAM (I'm exaggerating) to compile/link an Android app, and I still don't get it. What do you have to store in memory aside from a symbol table?
So they should have an army tasked with sanitizing all the backup tapes whenever I delete a photo?
No, backups are fine. But if I tell Facebook to delete something, they should delete it so that it fades out of the backups. Not keep it in their working data, but marked as deleted.
This goes 10 times as much for email providers, as well as credit card numbers, SSN's, etc, once the legitimate need for that information is finished.
Yes, someone may have already copied (or stolen) the data. But this is just about a service provider acting like we expect them to act, not secretly collecting personal information for their own purposes.
All hard drives are prone to failure. Sometimes you get lucky and find some that run for 5 years or more, and sometimes not. Back in the old days, I thought the WD Caviar was a terrible model, but now it seems to be good. I like Seagate in general, but I did have two drives with a chirping problem. I'm running on two Samsung drives now that seem a little slow, but reliable.
Backup considerations really need to come first. I only have 500 megs of data, so I run an automatic Ghost image each night. But with 6 TB, I would cut it in half and make do with 3 TB, mirrored.
Or just build a few hard drive factories in countries other than Thailand.
No I haven't, and I wouldn't. A 2006 movie where the "futuristic landscape" is set in 2008? Come on.
You're right, rent by mail isn't the most cost effective thing to do. It's a good value for me because of the large selection.
All of that is very true. But for people who are comfortable with technology and have good PC's, you still have a severe lack of selection when it comes to streaming. And since that's largely a licensing issue, it may not be easy to fix.
Redbox? Their selection is even smaller than Netflix's streaming library.
When I want to see a specific title for free (after paying the monthly fee, which I am anyway - to me, it's just another bill) nothing beats Netflix by Mail. For the one or two movies I've found that they didn't have in stock on disc, I could buy them from Amazon if I wanted to.
How about TOMORROW?
Idiots.