There's one guy on the forums that specializes in data recovery from phones with flash memory. You should definitely look him up. His name is crazyates and his site is http://www.flashfixers.com/
Exactly! When is it not "hoarded" or "dormant?" When I and the bagel shop owner are both touching the bill at the same time? That's about a quarter second.
Just because you think it doesn't work and isn't in use and isn't real currency doesn't mean it isn't, sorry. I made a lot of money on bitcoins so you're wrong. Keep trolling though. As it spreads in popularity, you just look more naive.
A transaction is instant so there's no "floating" money. So 100% of bitcoins are "stored." Unless you do transactions are like 10 per second, they'd certainly be considered sitting dormant. If I pay for something somewhere with BTC, it's instantly sitting dormant in the shop's balance instead. In fact, money is never really sent. You actually just send a message to the protocol/network that you're changing the ownership of X amount of BTC and your wallet file is one giant password that authorizes it if you have the balance to cover it.
There was always that kid on the playground in grade school who nobody wanted to sell currency presses to cuz he was a dick to everyone. It's just funnier on a larger scale.
"an industry-first 'No Limit' DVR service that allows users to record as much TV content as they want, and access it from virtually anywhere" pretty well describes Netflix, just with more television and less flexibility.
I worked at a hospital for about a half year and noticed that their policy was if it isn't a "normal" computer, we don't touch it. We leave it up to the lab techs and pharmacy staff and cardiology people. So there's 99% of the problem.
I've had many flash drives fail and that's pretty identical, assuming the SSD's chip didn't burn out or something instead. When flash memory fails, you get quirky delayed write failures but can typically still read the data for a short period of time. That happened with all 3 of my drives that failed (they were really bad brands). And by the way, everyone's hating on OCZ since their 1-3 drives were a catastrophe but their version 4 ones work great as of firmware 1.5, which they all ship with. I've used about 15 for builds over the last several months with no problems. Intel I had 2 slight problems with though. For example, their own latest of the late copy of the bootable firmware flasher doesn't recognize a 60GB 330 Maplecrest under any circumstances on any board with any SATA controller, even an Intel one.
I'm fairly certain they said that the Surface is coming out on x86. I know they mentioned an ARM device running a special windows 8 but I don't know if that's a lesser model or an Acer instead or what. I'm pretty damn sure there's a full blown x86 coming out though.
There goes that opportunity down the drain. I know of waaaaay too many people who buy the cheapest tablet with remotely non-bad reviews regardless of anything else. Those people are now not considering the Surface due to its luxury level pricing. Is MS stupid or something? You break into a market at dirt cheap prices, get widespread because of it, then release version 2 at a higher price once people actually respect it. You can't just start it out at "respect it" prices when nobody respects it yet!
If you think about it, you keep feeding antimatter-matter reaction energy into an engine that makes your spaceship go 1 direction, SOMETHING has to happen after you're already going the speed of light. Some cosmic hand doesn't reach down and stop you from accelerating more, that's stupid. The energy doesn't simply disappear from the universe, that's impossible. The matter doesn't simply fail to accept the energy, that's weird and without precedent. So the only explanation is that it can still take more energy and accelerate faster, just physics don't work correctly at that point. Simple and obvious.
OMG you know what this means?! They FINALLY realized that you can't stream 60FPS video streams of 1920x1080 over the internet!
They may have even discovered that gamers don't tolerate an internet connection level of input delay in their games! And that serious gamers want to own their own gear! And that gamers do other things than games on their computer so they own a faster computer anyway! And that rendering a 1920x1080 video stream locally also takes a fast computer!
You're damn right! Finally someone with a brain and a grasp on reality wrote an article. I can out-type anyone on my desktop 2:1, outperform any mobile device on games, general video performance, hard drive I/O, archive decompression, ANYTHING! Anyone trying to run their entire life off a tablet or something is a crazy person (or has a very boring, simple life).
Considering how bad it makes them look, I think they made another one, planted it on the road, and pretended to find it. Usually things like radioactive cylinders are secured enough to not go flying off a truck.
One of the funniest headlines I've read all year. Don't need TFA.
When does anyone ever do that anyway? It's actually an official slashdot rule that all posts within the first 25 can't have read the article first and the first 5 aren't allowed to read past the title.
For the record, if my cat shot lightning out of its cheeks, I'd have it fight stuff, lol.
A financial company outsourcing its IT ought to be considered criminal negligence.
(Though an own employee could do the same thing, in this case.)
I worked at a hospital with around 1000 computers and IT was onsite but contracted from a 3rd party. So, that's odd but get this! They outsourced the support calls to Mexico! Yeah, you could walk right down to the damn IT office yourself on floor 1 and get your problem taken care of or you could call Mexico. You could even simply get an extension of someone in IT and call that...or call Mexico! MEXICO! AT A HOSPITAL! By the way, I was there on a 6 month PC replacement project from a different contractor that the other contractors hired. Oh and they all got fired 4 months later when the hospital didn't renew their contract.
the photos look just like some of the descriptions from the last few decades. probably explains the lights too. if its US Government then they have to follow most of their own laws and put lights on an aircraft so others can see it
why would aliens put flashing lights on an interstellar space craft? what is the point of glass and flashing lights in space other than to be broken by tiny particles
With all the crap we have flying around up there these days that can emit light and blink, aliens should be about 10021309123894132th place as the most likely explanation. Remember that super famous one in Mexico that was on multiple cameras etc? Proven to be flares on parachutes falling behind a mountain range. That's after at least 5 individual shows on television paid experts to make composite sketches and estimates of the "craft's" dimensions.
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There's one guy on the forums that specializes in data recovery from phones with flash memory. You should definitely look him up. His name is crazyates and his site is http://www.flashfixers.com/
Exactly! When is it not "hoarded" or "dormant?" When I and the bagel shop owner are both touching the bill at the same time? That's about a quarter second.
Just because you think it doesn't work and isn't in use and isn't real currency doesn't mean it isn't, sorry. I made a lot of money on bitcoins so you're wrong. Keep trolling though. As it spreads in popularity, you just look more naive.
A transaction is instant so there's no "floating" money. So 100% of bitcoins are "stored." Unless you do transactions are like 10 per second, they'd certainly be considered sitting dormant. If I pay for something somewhere with BTC, it's instantly sitting dormant in the shop's balance instead. In fact, money is never really sent. You actually just send a message to the protocol/network that you're changing the ownership of X amount of BTC and your wallet file is one giant password that authorizes it if you have the balance to cover it.
There was always that kid on the playground in grade school who nobody wanted to sell currency presses to cuz he was a dick to everyone. It's just funnier on a larger scale.
"an industry-first 'No Limit' DVR service that allows users to record as much TV content as they want, and access it from virtually anywhere" pretty well describes Netflix, just with more television and less flexibility.
My hands are getting sweaty! Can we go back and fight the ice dragon again?
I worked at a hospital for about a half year and noticed that their policy was if it isn't a "normal" computer, we don't touch it. We leave it up to the lab techs and pharmacy staff and cardiology people. So there's 99% of the problem.
I've had many flash drives fail and that's pretty identical, assuming the SSD's chip didn't burn out or something instead. When flash memory fails, you get quirky delayed write failures but can typically still read the data for a short period of time. That happened with all 3 of my drives that failed (they were really bad brands). And by the way, everyone's hating on OCZ since their 1-3 drives were a catastrophe but their version 4 ones work great as of firmware 1.5, which they all ship with. I've used about 15 for builds over the last several months with no problems. Intel I had 2 slight problems with though. For example, their own latest of the late copy of the bootable firmware flasher doesn't recognize a 60GB 330 Maplecrest under any circumstances on any board with any SATA controller, even an Intel one.
I'm fairly certain they said that the Surface is coming out on x86. I know they mentioned an ARM device running a special windows 8 but I don't know if that's a lesser model or an Acer instead or what. I'm pretty damn sure there's a full blown x86 coming out though.
There goes that opportunity down the drain. I know of waaaaay too many people who buy the cheapest tablet with remotely non-bad reviews regardless of anything else. Those people are now not considering the Surface due to its luxury level pricing. Is MS stupid or something? You break into a market at dirt cheap prices, get widespread because of it, then release version 2 at a higher price once people actually respect it. You can't just start it out at "respect it" prices when nobody respects it yet!
But a Kanguru encrypted flash drive is like $29! (US) That's A LOT of money for police officer equipment, lol.
He must have forgotten that the US invented the internet, not Saudi Arabia.
I dunno...devices and services look awfully bulky compared to HP's tablet strategy of devices and fuck it. That worked out a lot cheaper, lol.
If you think about it, you keep feeding antimatter-matter reaction energy into an engine that makes your spaceship go 1 direction, SOMETHING has to happen after you're already going the speed of light. Some cosmic hand doesn't reach down and stop you from accelerating more, that's stupid. The energy doesn't simply disappear from the universe, that's impossible. The matter doesn't simply fail to accept the energy, that's weird and without precedent. So the only explanation is that it can still take more energy and accelerate faster, just physics don't work correctly at that point. Simple and obvious.
They found it when they were actually searching for the nearest Burger King in Gary, Indiana.
And it was labeled Streisand Air Base.
OMG you know what this means?! They FINALLY realized that you can't stream 60FPS video streams of 1920x1080 over the internet!
They may have even discovered that gamers don't tolerate an internet connection level of input delay in their games! And that serious gamers want to own their own gear! And that gamers do other things than games on their computer so they own a faster computer anyway! And that rendering a 1920x1080 video stream locally also takes a fast computer!
The movie Changeling (based on a true story)
That is all.
You're damn right! Finally someone with a brain and a grasp on reality wrote an article. I can out-type anyone on my desktop 2:1, outperform any mobile device on games, general video performance, hard drive I/O, archive decompression, ANYTHING! Anyone trying to run their entire life off a tablet or something is a crazy person (or has a very boring, simple life).
Oh yeah, because a huge company has NEVER done anything similar to that ever!
Considering how bad it makes them look, I think they made another one, planted it on the road, and pretended to find it. Usually things like radioactive cylinders are secured enough to not go flying off a truck.
One of the funniest headlines I've read all year. Don't need TFA.
When does anyone ever do that anyway? It's actually an official slashdot rule that all posts within the first 25 can't have read the article first and the first 5 aren't allowed to read past the title.
For the record, if my cat shot lightning out of its cheeks, I'd have it fight stuff, lol.
I mean it's disappointing that a title like that wasn't a story about someone from IT going completely berserk apeshit. It's bound to happen, lol.
A financial company outsourcing its IT ought to be considered criminal negligence.
(Though an own employee could do the same thing, in this case.)
I worked at a hospital with around 1000 computers and IT was onsite but contracted from a 3rd party. So, that's odd but get this! They outsourced the support calls to Mexico! Yeah, you could walk right down to the damn IT office yourself on floor 1 and get your problem taken care of or you could call Mexico. You could even simply get an extension of someone in IT and call that...or call Mexico! MEXICO! AT A HOSPITAL! By the way, I was there on a 6 month PC replacement project from a different contractor that the other contractors hired. Oh and they all got fired 4 months later when the hospital didn't renew their contract.
the photos look just like some of the descriptions from the last few decades. probably explains the lights too. if its US Government then they have to follow most of their own laws and put lights on an aircraft so others can see it
why would aliens put flashing lights on an interstellar space craft? what is the point of glass and flashing lights in space other than to be broken by tiny particles
With all the crap we have flying around up there these days that can emit light and blink, aliens should be about 10021309123894132th place as the most likely explanation. Remember that super famous one in Mexico that was on multiple cameras etc? Proven to be flares on parachutes falling behind a mountain range. That's after at least 5 individual shows on television paid experts to make composite sketches and estimates of the "craft's" dimensions.