Google is usually psycho-perfectionist about how their products perform. They still don't quite know where my business is and it's been there for 62 years. The "correction" we submitted now resulted in us being listed 3 times, once at the correct spot, all under slightly different names. I've had it claim it found something and my GPS disagrees and brings me to the correct spot several times as well. That's pretty major as far as problems go and they just can't seem to fix it. I'd focus on that more than anything if I were them.
The highest I've ever seen is a 5000 write cycle NAND flash chip in one of those (or any SSD) and a database server could easily kill that in 6 months to a year depending on traffic.
Because fast food water tastes like ass. I don't know where they get it from but it tastes like melted freezer burnt ice. Now aspertame I'm not a big fan of despite many arguments on both sides of that controversy but propel, Hansens, certain lemonades, Hydrive, and many more are made with Sucralose which nobody seems to imply causes bad effects. Its digestive absorption rate is like 12% and it isn't metabolized anyway. Or is, or whatever. I dunno, it sounds safe and the makers of Aspartame would have published the longest stretch of an article they could manage if it had any hint of causing cancer, because otherwise they'd be out of business. Well, that's where they're headed so oh well, sucralose for me:-)
server hosted in the U.S. and registered to a person in Saudi Arabia
Wow, there's something you don't see every day. Usually it's exactly the opposite. Someone's got to have some serious balls and a serious lack of brains to host a malware control type server in the US!
Considering the #1 most repeated rule for general PC users is "if it doesn't contain just your bank's website and end in.com, it's fake," I'm not sure they're doing themselves any favors. A year from now if I can an e-mail from MyBanksName.bank, even I'd assume it's a fake and not click it.
Yeeeeah, my current IT setup can't "go out of business" or be taken down by a failed modem or ISP outage. I mean yeah, you get February 29th off by default on some clouds and that's a big perk but I still don't think a "vast majority" are going to the cloud.
But hey, some idiots might look at 1Gbps local speed vs 1Mbps upload speed to offsite databases and files and compare it to the vastly increased ongoing costs of operation on a cloud and say hey, what a great pair! Let's do it!
I know our designers would just love AutoCAD files needing to be downloaded off the internet every time they need to open them and uploading them when they're done. I mean, even our remote-hosted Windows desktops and My Documents (as in they're on a server here in the building) open JPGs for preview a bit too slow for me but if other companies want to tack on even more delay, more power to them and less competition for me when they go out of business.
Ohhhhh, I get it! They'll be going to the cloud and shortly thereafter destroying their entire business because of it. Then they'll shut down and fire everyone, which will reduce available IT support jobs. I see where they're going with that.
Of course, the average home hard drive can't write that fast, nor can any home wireless connection or a 1 gigabit ethernet. It definitely sounds business only.
Exactly, lol. That's why they instead need to mandate that whenever you press the button for a non-diet drink at any soda fill up station, it needs to say "You fat ass." That would be much more effective.
At the local Kwik Trip (it's like a northern US 7-11 but way nicer) they have a 56 oz "Mega Buddy" drink which is one up from the "Big Buddy" and "Best Buddy":-P The difference is, over half their choices of things to put in it are diet or low calorie. I fill up on the 0 calorie Lipton Peach Tea or 5 calorie per serving Minute Made Light. And sometimes I am definitely THAT thirsty. So banning big drinks is idiotic. You can drink all you want of something relatively healthy. In fact, drinking a lot IS healthy.
What does piss me off is Burger King. I went there and decided to get a drink with my meal and they basically don't carry anything I'd drink. I'm thirsty as hell and I'm forced to drink one of their awful choices. I'm not a Pepsi or Coke guy and beyond that, they had nothing diet. That's what they should ban, if anything (and I don't think they should ban anything, fatties should make their own damn decisions. If someone's going to drink 800 calories because they don't think diet tastes good enough, they deserve the consequences).
They're actually building it into a genius bitcoin mining mega-rig! No overhead for utilities?! They're rich! Okay, just kidding...although I didn't see any evidence that they're not, lol.
P.S. my electric costs were $40/mo and my bitcoin income from it was around $54 so yeah....but FPGA miners can run at 14W and can alone hit 0.63x the performance of my own Radeon card rig (which ran at around 480W). So setting aside the bitcoin mining joke, no matter what they're using the place for, eliminating the utilities is HUGE! It easily blows away hardware cost divided by useable life for certain server types.
Please leave the rest of the world alone. Thank you.
Maybe someone should go visit his wikipedia page. He's broken at least a dozen laws, started a ton of crooked businesses like a hedge fund with no license, was denied a land purchase in another country on the grounds that he's an asshole, and is generally an awful, awful person that's especially an unbearable asshole to tech people. Seriously, go read it. Oh and he was, until January of this year, the #1 MW3 player in the world. I'm sure he wasn't cheating. Definitely doesn't seem like the type at all Every single thing he does is some crooked bullshit business venture and that asshole really needs to get arrested.
What was your defense again? You don't like the US? Whine whine whine.
Hey, it worked! Okay, so what's the price difference in their rockets vs traditional US airline companies? What? Everyone is hopping on board now that it didn't blow up or crash into the space station and I do hate air travel, lol.
If you consider that average bittorent files have gotten larger due to faster encoding computers, faster upload speeds, cheaper large storage, etc then it's even more drastic of a drop off.
I just picked up a 60GB Intel SATAIII SSD with around 550/450MB/s read/write for $65 on sale at newegg business. There's an SSD on crazy clearance sale every single day from Newegg and Infotel (aka Tiger Direct). 120GB went from $190 to $130 on average in the last couple months. So, until they come out with those 40TB spinning drives I heard about on Slashdot, I think traditional hard drive companies are going bankrupt if they don't change their prices or start making SSDs. I do have a feeling though that they're artificially inflating prices to raise capital in order to buy out a respectable but relatively small flash chip manufacturer like OCZ or Patriot. I think WD and Seagate could each afford that but their books look like crap from the shortage. Then they'd make both and tada, they're back in the market.
It just took GE $40 million a year and a big report to determine that Facebook ads aren't worth it. Some idiot at Sharpie thought their products would sell enough to cover a $3 million superbowl commercial a couple years back. So yeah, Fox ads are for companies that don't know how to calculate an ROI or don't track their ad returns at all.
Their market research division apparently found out that people want a slower browsing experience that uses more data and takes up more of the screen. Oh, and it looks like they also determine that and a non-unique and thus totally SEO dead zone name "Axis" with Hitler and communism ties that can also be in the title of dozens of games and apps, making it app store camouflage, is the way to go. Good job! I hope it works out as well as the Facebook IPO.
It's sort of irrelevant when you consider that every user hates Facebook, ever who will ever join has, and there's nowhere to go but down. Everyone who was stupid enough to invest in them is going to lose their ass regardless of the opening price. Oh, and it seems everyone knew Facebook wasn't going to magically double, re-double, then re-double their profits in coming years, which is what experts say they'd need to do to maintain that kind of a stock price. So to say they revised their profit projections in semi-secret is pretty pointless too.
P.S. mega lols at the irony of their complete privacy and lack of openness, which Mark Zuckerberg is obsessed with.
Apparently hacking tools and custom viruses are what they usually refer to in these types or articles but if a government makes them, they're "weapons." Of course, I don't recall that article mentioning EMP blasts. I have a feeling Kaspersky's software wouldn't be able to stop an EMP blast.
Btw, I've got an idea. That one mechanical computer from like 2000+ years ago that they found at the bottom of the ocean? Rebuild that into a voting machine:-D You can't hack something with no OS lol.
Exactly! Every manufacturer assures their customers that their protection software is 100% perfect and bulletproof in every way when in fact, it would probably heuristically detect my write in candidate as a virus and delete my social security number from the entire government.
What exactly happened to literal electronic voting? You don't need a processor, memory, storage, an OS, code, and all that other crap to count freaking numbers. You ever try to hack into and change the results of a free calculator you got at the bank for opening a checking account? Spoiler, it's a machine that doesn't have the capability to allow that. How about they develop an electronic machine instead of a computer for voting? Number +1 is not that hard to do without an operating system.
The bill would guarantee profits for new nuclear and offshore wind plants by putting a levy on people's energy bills.
Oh yes, because that really encourages people to support clean energy and encourages utility companies to reign in the budgets as much as possible for green energy projects.
Although if they outright banned coal and gas, nuclear is sort of controversial and on the fence, that would leave nothing but green energy from this point forward. Well, unless they can run a plant on Hogwarts magic, that would mean "Oh bloody hell, the wind isn't blowing and the sun's not out so we have no electricity at the moment." That would go over really well. What the need is a Mr Fusion that takes any regular matter like a bunch of US universities are inventing.
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Hmmm, we can have money or we can have angry.....ANGRY!!!!!! MOAR ANGRY!!!! -- the official board meeting minutes
Google is usually psycho-perfectionist about how their products perform. They still don't quite know where my business is and it's been there for 62 years. The "correction" we submitted now resulted in us being listed 3 times, once at the correct spot, all under slightly different names. I've had it claim it found something and my GPS disagrees and brings me to the correct spot several times as well. That's pretty major as far as problems go and they just can't seem to fix it. I'd focus on that more than anything if I were them.
The highest I've ever seen is a 5000 write cycle NAND flash chip in one of those (or any SSD) and a database server could easily kill that in 6 months to a year depending on traffic.
Because fast food water tastes like ass. I don't know where they get it from but it tastes like melted freezer burnt ice. Now aspertame I'm not a big fan of despite many arguments on both sides of that controversy but propel, Hansens, certain lemonades, Hydrive, and many more are made with Sucralose which nobody seems to imply causes bad effects. Its digestive absorption rate is like 12% and it isn't metabolized anyway. Or is, or whatever. I dunno, it sounds safe and the makers of Aspartame would have published the longest stretch of an article they could manage if it had any hint of causing cancer, because otherwise they'd be out of business. Well, that's where they're headed so oh well, sucralose for me :-)
Wow, there's something you don't see every day. Usually it's exactly the opposite. Someone's got to have some serious balls and a serious lack of brains to host a malware control type server in the US!
Considering the #1 most repeated rule for general PC users is "if it doesn't contain just your bank's website and end in .com, it's fake," I'm not sure they're doing themselves any favors. A year from now if I can an e-mail from MyBanksName.bank, even I'd assume it's a fake and not click it.
Yeeeeah, my current IT setup can't "go out of business" or be taken down by a failed modem or ISP outage. I mean yeah, you get February 29th off by default on some clouds and that's a big perk but I still don't think a "vast majority" are going to the cloud.
But hey, some idiots might look at 1Gbps local speed vs 1Mbps upload speed to offsite databases and files and compare it to the vastly increased ongoing costs of operation on a cloud and say hey, what a great pair! Let's do it!
I know our designers would just love AutoCAD files needing to be downloaded off the internet every time they need to open them and uploading them when they're done. I mean, even our remote-hosted Windows desktops and My Documents (as in they're on a server here in the building) open JPGs for preview a bit too slow for me but if other companies want to tack on even more delay, more power to them and less competition for me when they go out of business.
Ohhhhh, I get it! They'll be going to the cloud and shortly thereafter destroying their entire business because of it. Then they'll shut down and fire everyone, which will reduce available IT support jobs. I see where they're going with that.
Of course, the average home hard drive can't write that fast, nor can any home wireless connection or a 1 gigabit ethernet. It definitely sounds business only.
Exactly, lol. That's why they instead need to mandate that whenever you press the button for a non-diet drink at any soda fill up station, it needs to say "You fat ass." That would be much more effective.
At the local Kwik Trip (it's like a northern US 7-11 but way nicer) they have a 56 oz "Mega Buddy" drink which is one up from the "Big Buddy" and "Best Buddy" :-P The difference is, over half their choices of things to put in it are diet or low calorie. I fill up on the 0 calorie Lipton Peach Tea or 5 calorie per serving Minute Made Light. And sometimes I am definitely THAT thirsty. So banning big drinks is idiotic. You can drink all you want of something relatively healthy. In fact, drinking a lot IS healthy.
What does piss me off is Burger King. I went there and decided to get a drink with my meal and they basically don't carry anything I'd drink. I'm thirsty as hell and I'm forced to drink one of their awful choices. I'm not a Pepsi or Coke guy and beyond that, they had nothing diet. That's what they should ban, if anything (and I don't think they should ban anything, fatties should make their own damn decisions. If someone's going to drink 800 calories because they don't think diet tastes good enough, they deserve the consequences).
They're actually building it into a genius bitcoin mining mega-rig! No overhead for utilities?! They're rich! Okay, just kidding...although I didn't see any evidence that they're not, lol.
P.S. my electric costs were $40/mo and my bitcoin income from it was around $54 so yeah....but FPGA miners can run at 14W and can alone hit 0.63x the performance of my own Radeon card rig (which ran at around 480W). So setting aside the bitcoin mining joke, no matter what they're using the place for, eliminating the utilities is HUGE! It easily blows away hardware cost divided by useable life for certain server types.
Please leave the rest of the world alone. Thank you.
Maybe someone should go visit his wikipedia page. He's broken at least a dozen laws, started a ton of crooked businesses like a hedge fund with no license, was denied a land purchase in another country on the grounds that he's an asshole, and is generally an awful, awful person that's especially an unbearable asshole to tech people. Seriously, go read it. Oh and he was, until January of this year, the #1 MW3 player in the world. I'm sure he wasn't cheating. Definitely doesn't seem like the type at all Every single thing he does is some crooked bullshit business venture and that asshole really needs to get arrested.
What was your defense again? You don't like the US? Whine whine whine.
Hey, it worked! Okay, so what's the price difference in their rockets vs traditional US airline companies? What? Everyone is hopping on board now that it didn't blow up or crash into the space station and I do hate air travel, lol.
I would bet that the group is filled with not terribly tech-savvy people which means they're definitely going to get caught very quickly.
If you consider that average bittorent files have gotten larger due to faster encoding computers, faster upload speeds, cheaper large storage, etc then it's even more drastic of a drop off.
All Microsoft licensing on all products! Oh wait, is this not the submission form? Whatever, I'm in America anyway, lol.
It's because they were burning it down for the insurance money, lol.
I just picked up a 60GB Intel SATAIII SSD with around 550/450MB/s read/write for $65 on sale at newegg business. There's an SSD on crazy clearance sale every single day from Newegg and Infotel (aka Tiger Direct). 120GB went from $190 to $130 on average in the last couple months. So, until they come out with those 40TB spinning drives I heard about on Slashdot, I think traditional hard drive companies are going bankrupt if they don't change their prices or start making SSDs. I do have a feeling though that they're artificially inflating prices to raise capital in order to buy out a respectable but relatively small flash chip manufacturer like OCZ or Patriot. I think WD and Seagate could each afford that but their books look like crap from the shortage. Then they'd make both and tada, they're back in the market.
It just took GE $40 million a year and a big report to determine that Facebook ads aren't worth it. Some idiot at Sharpie thought their products would sell enough to cover a $3 million superbowl commercial a couple years back. So yeah, Fox ads are for companies that don't know how to calculate an ROI or don't track their ad returns at all.
Why don't you just buy a centrifuge? lol.
Their market research division apparently found out that people want a slower browsing experience that uses more data and takes up more of the screen. Oh, and it looks like they also determine that and a non-unique and thus totally SEO dead zone name "Axis" with Hitler and communism ties that can also be in the title of dozens of games and apps, making it app store camouflage, is the way to go. Good job! I hope it works out as well as the Facebook IPO.
It's sort of irrelevant when you consider that every user hates Facebook, ever who will ever join has, and there's nowhere to go but down. Everyone who was stupid enough to invest in them is going to lose their ass regardless of the opening price. Oh, and it seems everyone knew Facebook wasn't going to magically double, re-double, then re-double their profits in coming years, which is what experts say they'd need to do to maintain that kind of a stock price. So to say they revised their profit projections in semi-secret is pretty pointless too.
P.S. mega lols at the irony of their complete privacy and lack of openness, which Mark Zuckerberg is obsessed with.
Apparently hacking tools and custom viruses are what they usually refer to in these types or articles but if a government makes them, they're "weapons." Of course, I don't recall that article mentioning EMP blasts. I have a feeling Kaspersky's software wouldn't be able to stop an EMP blast. :-D You can't hack something with no OS lol.
Btw, I've got an idea. That one mechanical computer from like 2000+ years ago that they found at the bottom of the ocean? Rebuild that into a voting machine
Exactly! Every manufacturer assures their customers that their protection software is 100% perfect and bulletproof in every way when in fact, it would probably heuristically detect my write in candidate as a virus and delete my social security number from the entire government.
What exactly happened to literal electronic voting? You don't need a processor, memory, storage, an OS, code, and all that other crap to count freaking numbers. You ever try to hack into and change the results of a free calculator you got at the bank for opening a checking account? Spoiler, it's a machine that doesn't have the capability to allow that. How about they develop an electronic machine instead of a computer for voting? Number +1 is not that hard to do without an operating system.
Oh yes, because that really encourages people to support clean energy and encourages utility companies to reign in the budgets as much as possible for green energy projects.
Although if they outright banned coal and gas, nuclear is sort of controversial and on the fence, that would leave nothing but green energy from this point forward. Well, unless they can run a plant on Hogwarts magic, that would mean "Oh bloody hell, the wind isn't blowing and the sun's not out so we have no electricity at the moment." That would go over really well. What the need is a Mr Fusion that takes any regular matter like a bunch of US universities are inventing.