I thought that I read somewhere that if one block fails, the entire chip it's on fails as well but I don't know if that's true for SSDs. RAM won't do that but flash drives will do that so it's a tough call.
Shortly after (2 year) college, I took the Tek Systems programming assessment for.NET and VB. I beat 81% of their programmers and they have about 50,000 and are the #1 largest IT staffer in the US. Almost all their programmers have 4 years degrees and many have masters degrees. I was 23 at the time. I learned VB.NET from the ground up and know exactly how it works, what every part of the framework does, etc. But God forbid some 40 year old read a book for 20 hours or take a night class and learn the same thing. What's the result? Select case loops that are 50 lines instead of 5 lines because they're writing it VB6 style.
To all you haters who want to end football and say it's so horrible, tada, boxing reference right there, staring you in the face.
a condition once known as 'punch drunk' because it affected boxers who had taken multiple blows to the head
As opposed to the boxers that never get hit in the head in their entire career? The entire sport is giving each other concussions and you hear more complaints about the NFL than boxing these days. I think the loudest whiners are just soccer fans and/or people who don't like football.
In college I learned.NET languages right after they had been released. It's been my experience that anyone about 5+ years out of college has no idea how to code properly with them. They write the code like it's VB6 instead of VB.NET and I'm sure it makes sense to them but it's so far from MS's best practices or any remotely modern coding practice, it's almost impossible to read. It's so roundabout and needlessly complex without using any of the new features and there are legacy commands galore that should have been removed from the language that I've never seen before because superior modern ones exist and that's what we learned.
So in summary, your code likely is less than ideal. As a general rule, the closer someone is chronologically to having finished college, the more correct and prettier their syntax is and the older programmers simply refuse proper retraining or learning in general really.
It's a flawless execution of the old wake someone up in the middle of the night prank. They eliminated the slight percentage of failures caused by the person hearing you sneaking in and waking them up. Now you can blast some light straight into their retina at 2:00 AM with the push of a button.
Hey, I can put in a second 1TB+ magnetic drive, no problem. I'm WAY more concerned about the number of writes that a flash chip in an SSD can perform before it fails (2000-9000 usually). My estimation says I'd likely completely destroy a 256GB medium quality SSD in about a year. That's a problem. The way I understand it, it's per-chip, not per bit, and there are only like 16 chips in an average SSD. It'd take me a while to write 256GB 9000 times but if a 100MB write hits 3 different chips, that's a problem.
Most wireless routers can only support 50 clients at a time and that's in theory on the specs, not in practice. So unless they want RF-proof walls and 1 router per classroom, and no other 2.4GHz devices in the entire school, I think there might just be a little problem getting them on the network to stream course materials and presentations. So no, tablets in every students' is an idiotic idea that won't work.
If scale was ignored and it was just percentages, my company's CEO would win hands down against every person listed in that article. He went against everything and everyone else to make a disastrous decision that resulted in at least 1/8th of our gross income being wasted. He also researched and pushed a competing server replacement solution with friends of his, who happened to basically be scam artists, and I had to play with the prices and fight hard to get an actual, working solution in instead. Also, I'm quitting as soon as possible and I'm the sole IT worker so they're beyond screwed replacing me at this pay level. Approximately 1/3 of all employees here have quit for money and management reasons in the last 2 years. So yeah, he wins! And the lesson here is, there are much worse ones out there.
I think they're forgetting the current problem. Resolution = pixels. It says nothing about the data rate. Cable is somewhat compressed in my area but tolerable. Dish, though, look like a bad youtube stream. It's soooo bad when everything on the screen is moving. Last superbowl, with the confetti going, it looked like a mosaic. Every hard edge has HORRIBLE compression marks. It's just absolute crap. And yet they're both "1080 HD." Well I bet I can encode 1920x1080 at 500kbps too. That doesn't make it good, that just makes it wider and taller.
Yay, now I'll have something to shoot my Android-powered oven with when it becomes self aware and attempts to cook my dog as revenge for not cleaning it.
I think they're forgetting the first fact, which is this is so falsifiable, it's comical. One badge on your shirt, the other in your pocket. Tada, you and your friend attended class. It's idiotic and a complete joke of a system.
Okay, you can all go back to ethics and morals now, lol.
By the way, the political bill-namers could have a field day with this one! Anti-children as livestock bill. Anti-child tracking bill. Kid-tagging bill. Pretty much any title sounds bad, let alone if they try to do it on purpose.
So we used our super advanced technology to know precisely where this asteroid will be in like 2042 or whatever but we were off by almost half its mass (or volume)? Anyone see a little disconnect there? Especially since other solar system bodies' gravitational fields will affect it differently if it weighs double what we thought. I knew it was a load of alarmist, headline-grabbing BS.
So if someone runs up and pantses you and another takes a pic of you in your skivvies, you were in public so there's no recourse for them posting it all over the Facebook? You should have just guarded your pants better or worn suspenders?
Anyway, I'm anti-asshole-cops and this story is ridiculous but that's no excuse to say blanket laws and blanket terms are what we need in all cases.
Yes, let's be fair about this. Let's compare the 7 year TCO of a 2006 Honda Civic to a 2012 Ford Fusion...oh wait, I don't have a time machine. Look, more sensors, more parts, more electronics means more problems and you can't quite side-by-side them with plain vehicles seeing as how they're many years apart.
I did quite the opposite. It shipped it with a single core 939 socket AMD chip and 1GB of RAM and a 6600GT since my most immediate need was graphics. Then I bought the Toledo X2 CPU when the price went from about $700 to $220. Then I got some 2x1 GB CL2.5 400MHz DDR1 and the same in 2x512's later to max it out at 3GB for more advanced games. I also went to an 8600GTS then a GTS450 (which I brought with me to the new PC). I specifically bought a 4-DIMM board and a dual core capable one because of this and saved at least $1000.
Trust me, it doesn't work "just fine." Open up the program, okay. But then try doing um...anything. You'll be hard pressed not to find some glitches, display problems, crashes, weird permissions, font problems, etc. I think actually the Open and Save dialog boxes don't work either.
So it's like the current games but with 100x more financial reason to shut down the multiplayer servers after a couple years. That sounds like a great idea! Just ask PC gamers how much they love that.
Every commercial plane is "one of the most sophisticated" when its first created
And which automobiles have the most obscure, complicated, frequent problems? It's the super advanced once with 500 sensors and 1000 stupid, needless features.
Of course the next line would be: "If you thought the Dreamliner was flaming before, just wait until you hear what happened in Boston."
I think this is the end of anyone ever flying on it. One little tiny fire or malfunction and customers write it off as a death trap for decades and the tickets are unsellable. They might as well paint Hindenburg on it at this point.
You must not have known what you were doing or something. My PC is 2 years old and it's still fast enough to run any modern game at medium to maxed specs at 1920x1080 while running Netflix in HD on monitor 2. It cost about $790. The constant need for new requirements in "console" games would piss people off though. With an Xbox, once you've got the hardware, you're good. If you constantly have to buy expensive games plus new hardware, that's just stupid. I would make it mandatory for any game on Steam that wants to be console-capable to have a "Piston mode" that is guaranteed to run properly on their hardware as-is.
Since I know someone will ask....
i5-2400
8GB 1333 CL7 RAM
1TB 524AS-ending Seagate drive
ASUS DVD-RW
GTS450
MSI P67-based board
Digital TV Tuner Card
Tada, I'm good for a couple more years.
I can click on like 10 things at a time with my 10 fingers. Of course, by the time all those things register correctly and click and drag timeouts engage, I could have clicked on 10 things with my Razer Abyssus mouse. In fact, I've set a few records in twitch style games. I used to have the 3rd place worldwide high score in Delirium, which requires approx 5 flawless clicks per second for over an hour. I would challenge any input device to beating me in a heads up contest and it'd be a joke.
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I thought that I read somewhere that if one block fails, the entire chip it's on fails as well but I don't know if that's true for SSDs. RAM won't do that but flash drives will do that so it's a tough call.
Shortly after (2 year) college, I took the Tek Systems programming assessment for .NET and VB. I beat 81% of their programmers and they have about 50,000 and are the #1 largest IT staffer in the US. Almost all their programmers have 4 years degrees and many have masters degrees. I was 23 at the time. I learned VB.NET from the ground up and know exactly how it works, what every part of the framework does, etc. But God forbid some 40 year old read a book for 20 hours or take a night class and learn the same thing. What's the result? Select case loops that are 50 lines instead of 5 lines because they're writing it VB6 style.
a condition once known as 'punch drunk' because it affected boxers who had taken multiple blows to the head
As opposed to the boxers that never get hit in the head in their entire career? The entire sport is giving each other concussions and you hear more complaints about the NFL than boxing these days. I think the loudest whiners are just soccer fans and/or people who don't like football.
In college I learned .NET languages right after they had been released. It's been my experience that anyone about 5+ years out of college has no idea how to code properly with them. They write the code like it's VB6 instead of VB.NET and I'm sure it makes sense to them but it's so far from MS's best practices or any remotely modern coding practice, it's almost impossible to read. It's so roundabout and needlessly complex without using any of the new features and there are legacy commands galore that should have been removed from the language that I've never seen before because superior modern ones exist and that's what we learned.
So in summary, your code likely is less than ideal. As a general rule, the closer someone is chronologically to having finished college, the more correct and prettier their syntax is and the older programmers simply refuse proper retraining or learning in general really.
It's a flawless execution of the old wake someone up in the middle of the night prank. They eliminated the slight percentage of failures caused by the person hearing you sneaking in and waking them up. Now you can blast some light straight into their retina at 2:00 AM with the push of a button.
Hey, I can put in a second 1TB+ magnetic drive, no problem. I'm WAY more concerned about the number of writes that a flash chip in an SSD can perform before it fails (2000-9000 usually). My estimation says I'd likely completely destroy a 256GB medium quality SSD in about a year. That's a problem. The way I understand it, it's per-chip, not per bit, and there are only like 16 chips in an average SSD. It'd take me a while to write 256GB 9000 times but if a 100MB write hits 3 different chips, that's a problem.
Most wireless routers can only support 50 clients at a time and that's in theory on the specs, not in practice. So unless they want RF-proof walls and 1 router per classroom, and no other 2.4GHz devices in the entire school, I think there might just be a little problem getting them on the network to stream course materials and presentations. So no, tablets in every students' is an idiotic idea that won't work.
If scale was ignored and it was just percentages, my company's CEO would win hands down against every person listed in that article. He went against everything and everyone else to make a disastrous decision that resulted in at least 1/8th of our gross income being wasted. He also researched and pushed a competing server replacement solution with friends of his, who happened to basically be scam artists, and I had to play with the prices and fight hard to get an actual, working solution in instead. Also, I'm quitting as soon as possible and I'm the sole IT worker so they're beyond screwed replacing me at this pay level. Approximately 1/3 of all employees here have quit for money and management reasons in the last 2 years. So yeah, he wins! And the lesson here is, there are much worse ones out there.
I think they're forgetting the current problem. Resolution = pixels. It says nothing about the data rate. Cable is somewhat compressed in my area but tolerable. Dish, though, look like a bad youtube stream. It's soooo bad when everything on the screen is moving. Last superbowl, with the confetti going, it looked like a mosaic. Every hard edge has HORRIBLE compression marks. It's just absolute crap. And yet they're both "1080 HD." Well I bet I can encode 1920x1080 at 500kbps too. That doesn't make it good, that just makes it wider and taller.
Yay, now I'll have something to shoot my Android-powered oven with when it becomes self aware and attempts to cook my dog as revenge for not cleaning it.
I think they're forgetting the first fact, which is this is so falsifiable, it's comical. One badge on your shirt, the other in your pocket. Tada, you and your friend attended class. It's idiotic and a complete joke of a system.
Okay, you can all go back to ethics and morals now, lol.
By the way, the political bill-namers could have a field day with this one! Anti-children as livestock bill. Anti-child tracking bill. Kid-tagging bill. Pretty much any title sounds bad, let alone if they try to do it on purpose.
Also, they now own a patent AND copyright on anything you cook, including the family cookie recipe.
Also, it will land on a pyramid.
So we used our super advanced technology to know precisely where this asteroid will be in like 2042 or whatever but we were off by almost half its mass (or volume)? Anyone see a little disconnect there? Especially since other solar system bodies' gravitational fields will affect it differently if it weighs double what we thought. I knew it was a load of alarmist, headline-grabbing BS.
So if someone runs up and pantses you and another takes a pic of you in your skivvies, you were in public so there's no recourse for them posting it all over the Facebook? You should have just guarded your pants better or worn suspenders?
Anyway, I'm anti-asshole-cops and this story is ridiculous but that's no excuse to say blanket laws and blanket terms are what we need in all cases.
Yes, let's be fair about this. Let's compare the 7 year TCO of a 2006 Honda Civic to a 2012 Ford Fusion...oh wait, I don't have a time machine. Look, more sensors, more parts, more electronics means more problems and you can't quite side-by-side them with plain vehicles seeing as how they're many years apart.
Considering how game makers dump servers ASAP when a game's sales stop, I would say it'd do quite the opposite of escalate.
I did quite the opposite. It shipped it with a single core 939 socket AMD chip and 1GB of RAM and a 6600GT since my most immediate need was graphics. Then I bought the Toledo X2 CPU when the price went from about $700 to $220. Then I got some 2x1 GB CL2.5 400MHz DDR1 and the same in 2x512's later to max it out at 3GB for more advanced games. I also went to an 8600GTS then a GTS450 (which I brought with me to the new PC). I specifically bought a 4-DIMM board and a dual core capable one because of this and saved at least $1000.
Trust me, it doesn't work "just fine." Open up the program, okay. But then try doing um...anything. You'll be hard pressed not to find some glitches, display problems, crashes, weird permissions, font problems, etc. I think actually the Open and Save dialog boxes don't work either.
Sure, why not? I mean, letting your citizens starve has worked out so well for North Korea, we should try it here.
Oh yeah, if there's one thing California is known for, it's not giving out benefits to everyone and anyone despite any budgets or tax levels.
So it's like the current games but with 100x more financial reason to shut down the multiplayer servers after a couple years. That sounds like a great idea! Just ask PC gamers how much they love that.
Every commercial plane is "one of the most sophisticated" when its first created
And which automobiles have the most obscure, complicated, frequent problems? It's the super advanced once with 500 sensors and 1000 stupid, needless features.
Of course the next line would be: "If you thought the Dreamliner was flaming before, just wait until you hear what happened in Boston."
I think this is the end of anyone ever flying on it. One little tiny fire or malfunction and customers write it off as a death trap for decades and the tickets are unsellable. They might as well paint Hindenburg on it at this point.
You must not have known what you were doing or something. My PC is 2 years old and it's still fast enough to run any modern game at medium to maxed specs at 1920x1080 while running Netflix in HD on monitor 2. It cost about $790. The constant need for new requirements in "console" games would piss people off though. With an Xbox, once you've got the hardware, you're good. If you constantly have to buy expensive games plus new hardware, that's just stupid. I would make it mandatory for any game on Steam that wants to be console-capable to have a "Piston mode" that is guaranteed to run properly on their hardware as-is.
Since I know someone will ask....
i5-2400 8GB 1333 CL7 RAM 1TB 524AS-ending Seagate drive ASUS DVD-RW GTS450 MSI P67-based board Digital TV Tuner Card
Tada, I'm good for a couple more years.
I can click on like 10 things at a time with my 10 fingers. Of course, by the time all those things register correctly and click and drag timeouts engage, I could have clicked on 10 things with my Razer Abyssus mouse. In fact, I've set a few records in twitch style games. I used to have the 3rd place worldwide high score in Delirium, which requires approx 5 flawless clicks per second for over an hour. I would challenge any input device to beating me in a heads up contest and it'd be a joke.