I have money to spend and little time, but I'm not sure how I would save myself time by driving to a bookstore when the mailroom guys will drop it by my desk tomorrow, and all I have to do is sign for it. I can't get to the stairwell in the time it takes to sign for a book. Maybe you drive faster.
Tell it to the sources Wikipedia used:
"decimate. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000". Dictionary.reference.com. Retrieved 2014-03-22.
^ Jump up to: a b Polybius, History of the World. Quoted in Shelton, Jo-Ann, As the Romans Did, p. 248 ISBN 978-0-19-508974-5
Jump up ^ G. R. Watson, The Roman Soldier (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1969), p. 119
Jump up ^ Ab urbe condita, ii.59
Jump up ^ Livy: History of Rome 2.59.9-11, quoted in Sage, M M: The Republican Roman Army; a Sourcebook (2013) p147
Jump up ^ Goldsworthy, Caesar: Life of a Colossus, 407
Jump up ^ Plutarch: Antony, c. 39
Jump up ^ Suetonius, Augustus, 24
Jump up ^ Suetonius, Galba, 12
Jump up ^ Tacitus, Annals, 3
Jump up ^ Watson, Roman Solder, p. 120
Jump up ^ Codex Parisiensis, Bibliothèque National, 9550, reproduced in Louis Dupraz, Les passions de st Maurice d'Agaune: Essai sur l'historicité de la tradition et contribution à l'étude de l'armée pré-Dioclétienne (260-286) et des canonisations tardives de la fin du IVe siècle (Fribourg 1961), Appdx I. on the historicity of the Theban Legion.
Jump up ^ Huw Strachan (2003) The First World War
Jump up ^ Antony Beevor, Stalingrad, p. 117.
Jump up ^ http://web.varkaus.fi/Varkaus_...
Jump up ^ http://www.oed.com.ezproxy.pls...
Actually it was a form of Roman military discipline in which 1 in 10 were killed, not a reduction of 9 out of 10. The name is derived from the Latin for "removal of a tenth".
So technically the film isn't out and out wrong on this point (they can choose any point as center) although it may and seems likely is wrong on other details. The artists in question should thus probably sue themselves or their PR people for not finding this out via some minimal research.
Well it's really all relative isn't it? I mean, defining the center some other arbitrary place probably makes the math simpler but really all the bits are robiting each other and choosing any one as a set reference is just arbitrary, right?
The folks at Trion have converted Rift to a fair and decent F2P game IMO. I played when it was not free, and was worried about the change but it's not pay to win, and it's still decent quality. Paying can make "the grind" less grindy but those with more time and less money can still be competitive.
I could see the protection in having my "official interactions" recorded, and I can get behind that in theory too, but I'd still hesitate to give a complete thumbs up to the "you have to wear a wire continuously" level of intrusion. It really seems excessive. Perhaps if there were assurances that legal barriers existed on who/how the data could be accessed then it would be a lot more palatable.
Every retail employee on the planet has to wear a wire and have every second of their conversations recorded and stored during their working hours? Citation really needed for that one.
That's fair, I just know I wouldn't like it, and I also know what the usual/. opinion of surveillance is. Some jobs or activities probably require it, but I'm not sure that pervasive big bothering is the optimal solution for police misconduct.
How would you like to have your every move and word recorded and transmitted by your employer every second of every working day? I don't condone police abuse but this level of intrusion seems extreme to me.
Modern lossy compression algorithms cut off these overtones....
The interference caused by the overtones is audible and is therefore preserved in a well implemented A/D conversion, and anything significant in the audible range will not be discarded by a decent compression algorithm. No need to have the overtone itself preserved at all.
Some people can't be trusted with pointy tools and should only eat with a spoon, but I still want a knife and fork as well. Many people are capable. For the rest, they have Java.
I guess it depends on the person, the road, how rested they are to start and so on. However in the spirit of being on-topic, I will just point out that a Tesla can't even do 5 hours at 70 mph.
No, I was quoting the time limits for commercial drivers. It's not illegal for you to do more. Just not safe.
And by the way, the maths I did didn't even allow for a single rest stop.
Commercial drivers drive about the the limit every working day, and I can see where that would be tiring after a while. For a normal healthy person to spend a day driving isn't the same thing, and it's no big deal for me. The car is nice, the road is nice, the music is nice, and it's just a nice change from the norm, and it can't be done in a Tesla.
I agree, however this HyperDuo technology is embedded in SATA controllers, so you use whatever (supported) SSDs and HDD you like. So far it works like a champ, a friend is using a 500gb EVO with a 500gb HDD to make a 1gb hybrid and I have a 120 EVO + a 2gb Hitachi. In both cases the vast majority of IO ends up going to the SSD. For around $28 you can have a dedicated coprocessor manage your hot data for you and as a bonus (a configurable) part of the SSD will also act as a sort of write cache, allowing new data to quickly be written to the SSD and then moved out by the controller later. It's not a cache strictly speaking, it's just defining data that's just been written as hot for a little while, and reserving a configurable amount of SSD for that use.
Performance is still worse because it takes time for it to figure it out. Also certain tasks you don't need the performance for will take it away from what you do. If you just keep them separate performance is always maximized.
So let's look at this assertion by assertion.
Performance is still worse because it takes time for it to figure it out.
True, strictly speaking, however I don't see people shopping for drives without RAM caches based on this line of thinking, and in fact the faster SSDs have.... drum roll.... built in RAM caches. Hmmm. Simple answer: The overhead is more than made up by the improvement.
Also certain tasks you don't need the performance for will take it away from what you do.
This doesn't seem to make any sense. Either the data is hot, and will live on the SSD, or it's not, and will get pushed over to the HDD. This is done on a on-board ARM based co-processor.
If you just keep them separate performance is always maximized.
Only if the user knows precisely which sectors are hot at the current time and maintains those sectors in the SSD and moves non-hot data out to make room, by hand, constantly. Yeah, not likely. I've done it both ways, and outside the hassle of setting it up and restoring from backups the co-processor way is better.
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I have money to spend and little time, but I'm not sure how I would save myself time by driving to a bookstore when the mailroom guys will drop it by my desk tomorrow, and all I have to do is sign for it. I can't get to the stairwell in the time it takes to sign for a book. Maybe you drive faster.
Tell it to the sources Wikipedia used: "decimate. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000". Dictionary.reference.com. Retrieved 2014-03-22. ^ Jump up to: a b Polybius, History of the World. Quoted in Shelton, Jo-Ann, As the Romans Did, p. 248 ISBN 978-0-19-508974-5 Jump up ^ G. R. Watson, The Roman Soldier (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1969), p. 119 Jump up ^ Ab urbe condita, ii.59 Jump up ^ Livy: History of Rome 2.59.9-11, quoted in Sage, M M: The Republican Roman Army; a Sourcebook (2013) p147 Jump up ^ Goldsworthy, Caesar: Life of a Colossus, 407 Jump up ^ Plutarch: Antony, c. 39 Jump up ^ Suetonius, Augustus, 24 Jump up ^ Suetonius, Galba, 12 Jump up ^ Tacitus, Annals, 3 Jump up ^ Watson, Roman Solder, p. 120 Jump up ^ Codex Parisiensis, Bibliothèque National, 9550, reproduced in Louis Dupraz, Les passions de st Maurice d'Agaune: Essai sur l'historicité de la tradition et contribution à l'étude de l'armée pré-Dioclétienne (260-286) et des canonisations tardives de la fin du IVe siècle (Fribourg 1961), Appdx I. on the historicity of the Theban Legion. Jump up ^ Huw Strachan (2003) The First World War Jump up ^ Antony Beevor, Stalingrad, p. 117. Jump up ^ http://web.varkaus.fi/Varkaus_... Jump up ^ http://www.oed.com.ezproxy.pls...
Actually it was a form of Roman military discipline in which 1 in 10 were killed, not a reduction of 9 out of 10. The name is derived from the Latin for "removal of a tenth".
So technically the film isn't out and out wrong on this point (they can choose any point as center) although it may and seems likely is wrong on other details. The artists in question should thus probably sue themselves or their PR people for not finding this out via some minimal research.
Is your small talk recorded and can people review it at any time? If so I recommend a new job.
Well it's really all relative isn't it? I mean, defining the center some other arbitrary place probably makes the math simpler but really all the bits are robiting each other and choosing any one as a set reference is just arbitrary, right?
The folks at Trion have converted Rift to a fair and decent F2P game IMO. I played when it was not free, and was worried about the change but it's not pay to win, and it's still decent quality. Paying can make "the grind" less grindy but those with more time and less money can still be competitive.
I could see the protection in having my "official interactions" recorded, and I can get behind that in theory too, but I'd still hesitate to give a complete thumbs up to the "you have to wear a wire continuously" level of intrusion. It really seems excessive. Perhaps if there were assurances that legal barriers existed on who/how the data could be accessed then it would be a lot more palatable.
Every retail employee on the planet has to wear a wire and have every second of their conversations recorded and stored during their working hours? Citation really needed for that one.
I agree people cope with it; do you think it's good thing and people should just cope with it?
That's fair, I just know I wouldn't like it, and I also know what the usual /. opinion of surveillance is. Some jobs or activities probably require it, but I'm not sure that pervasive big bothering is the optimal solution for police misconduct.
How would you like to have your every move and word recorded and transmitted by your employer every second of every working day? I don't condone police abuse but this level of intrusion seems extreme to me.
Oh good, an article bemoaning policies in place by increasingly irrelevant television operators. This is me using Netflix and not caring.
Pretty sure Walt Disney was doing this a long time ago, just without the "chemical suit testing" excuses, and on a much smaller budget.
So don't live there, "problem" solved.
There will surely be a difference from example to example; that's not the debate. The debate is whether the old instruments are preferable.
Modern lossy compression algorithms cut off these overtones ....
The interference caused by the overtones is audible and is therefore preserved in a well implemented A/D conversion, and anything significant in the audible range will not be discarded by a decent compression algorithm. No need to have the overtone itself preserved at all.
I find it quite useable, perhaps because my server is very organized.
Some people can't be trusted with pointy tools and should only eat with a spoon, but I still want a knife and fork as well. Many people are capable. For the rest, they have Java.
Or just toss (free) Plex server on your NAS and install the (free) Plex app on a $40 Roku.
I guess it depends on the person, the road, how rested they are to start and so on. However in the spirit of being on-topic, I will just point out that a Tesla can't even do 5 hours at 70 mph.
No, I was quoting the time limits for commercial drivers. It's not illegal for you to do more. Just not safe.
And by the way, the maths I did didn't even allow for a single rest stop.
Commercial drivers drive about the the limit every working day, and I can see where that would be tiring after a while. For a normal healthy person to spend a day driving isn't the same thing, and it's no big deal for me. The car is nice, the road is nice, the music is nice, and it's just a nice change from the norm, and it can't be done in a Tesla.
I agree, however this HyperDuo technology is embedded in SATA controllers, so you use whatever (supported) SSDs and HDD you like. So far it works like a champ, a friend is using a 500gb EVO with a 500gb HDD to make a 1gb hybrid and I have a 120 EVO + a 2gb Hitachi. In both cases the vast majority of IO ends up going to the SSD. For around $28 you can have a dedicated coprocessor manage your hot data for you and as a bonus (a configurable) part of the SSD will also act as a sort of write cache, allowing new data to quickly be written to the SSD and then moved out by the controller later. It's not a cache strictly speaking, it's just defining data that's just been written as hot for a little while, and reserving a configurable amount of SSD for that use.
Performance is still worse because it takes time for it to figure it out. Also certain tasks you don't need the performance for will take it away from what you do. If you just keep them separate performance is always maximized.
So let's look at this assertion by assertion.
Performance is still worse because it takes time for it to figure it out.
True, strictly speaking, however I don't see people shopping for drives without RAM caches based on this line of thinking, and in fact the faster SSDs have .... drum roll .... built in RAM caches. Hmmm. Simple answer: The overhead is more than made up by the improvement.
Also certain tasks you don't need the performance for will take it away from what you do.
This doesn't seem to make any sense. Either the data is hot, and will live on the SSD, or it's not, and will get pushed over to the HDD. This is done on a on-board ARM based co-processor.
If you just keep them separate performance is always maximized.
Only if the user knows precisely which sectors are hot at the current time and maintains those sectors in the SSD and moves non-hot data out to make room, by hand, constantly. Yeah, not likely. I've done it both ways, and outside the hassle of setting it up and restoring from backups the co-processor way is better.
I don't get why anyone runs Windows
Developing commercial software for Windows, games, Photoshop. That's my list.