No. Remember good old IDE cables? Those could almost handle that load. 133 MB/S. That's higher than any single hard can provide.
Are you like my roommate, who likes to use firewire/800 for his external HDD instead of USB2, as "FW is so much faster"?
Yes, FW is faster than USB, but both still outperform everything but the fastest 15k rpm drives. And internal buses? Please... Remember good old PCI, bandwidth 133 MB/sec. Beyond any single harddrive. If that's not enough, get a new-ish computer with PCI-E. Bandwidth in the gigabytes. Memory? Tens of gigabytes.
Actually, it's not that bad. Ever tried windows 2000's software RAID? 4 disks was barely noticable on a AMD K6-2. If you really need that last 10% of a quad core, you need a workstation or server, and not a living room media machine:)
Comparing DDR2-400 to DDR2-1067, gives like 20% more performance. And that's on a core 2 platform, which is supposed to be memory starved. That is 2.5 times faster memory and a 20% performance increase.
And, you have backups right? That 4*250 array is good to mirror overnight to a terabyte drive on a old server in the closet. Then you also burn on dvds the more important stuff.
Uh, do the same thing with HDDs as with CPUs. Add more. What's stopping you to buy 4 250GB drives and stripe them? Almost 150 MB/sec sustained speeds. And how much is a 250GB drive, 80 bucks? You'll get four of those for the price of a quad core.
Not like you need any RAID cards anymore, as any decent desktop motherboard has like 6 SATA ports and a onboard RAID controller.
HDDs are commodities, almost in the same way floppies was in the 80's.
List of open cases in the company I work for dates back to 4 years, with about 5000 cases open that are over a year old. Build a big and nasty enough ticketing system, and auto-closing tickets do fail. And the list comes in one massive database, from which managers select only their own team to supervise. Only the curious and bored geeks look for interesting oddies like this.
The most common reason for cases staying indefinitely open is an agent quitting/getting fired, and him being removed from the list before his cases are reassigned.
Actually, on CF and data CDs they are exactly the same:)
And MB/s doesn't always make sense. Compare writing audio data and data data on a CD. Different sector sizes due to different ways of implementing error correction. See the technical details section: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Book_(audio_CD_standard)
No. That's not it. You have to do troubleshooting first. Do you know which error code your computer gives for a broken HDD, the code you have to give to the tech to get a new drive? You know that the HDD replacement is logged, and too many replacements call for suspicion?
The real reason is taxes. A returned part is classified as a sparepart, and therefore taxed less. That is true for all computer manufacturers. The keep your drive- thingy is to cover the sales takes for when they have to sell you a new part.
> Apple has a legitimate reason for keeping the drive which is described on the form given to the customer - it believes the drive can be fixed and sold.
Almost. Spareparts (parts that are returned) are taxed differently than regular parts. Apple pays less for a drive that is returned. So do _ALL_ computer manufacturers. Some do have 'keep your harddrive' fees, pay that and you'll keep the drive. The cost is to cover the taxes.
Don't know if it's true, but I've heard of a country that doesn't enforce winter tires, but does enforce a sticker on the car that says: I have winter tires, my car can actually stop.
It's not about the roads. It's about the people. The dickheads that has to press into an intersection even though he sees that it's blocked. It's that dickhead who won't let people change lanes. The dickhead who is blocked from changing lanes and has to stop in the middle of the road to change lanes *now*. That dickhead who drives under the speed limit in the left lane.
When we get cars that drive themselves, we can fit five times more cars on our current roads, with no traffic jams.
And public transport = fail. I do not know where you are from, but I do know the public transport in Amsterdam technically works. It's the people fucking it all up again. The subway next to me should go about every 5 or 10 minutes in the mornings. However at 8-8:30 there goes no subways past. At 8:30 precisely there comes one to the station. The door open and people explode out due that the car is so overfilled. The subway passes, and in the next two minutes 3 or 4 almost empty ones pass.
People have to be first, that is the only problem in this world.
Wrong. I do software support over phone/vnc. I don't go into the documents folder. I ask the customer to do it himself. That's both my morale and company policy (who would have thought they would agree on anything:)
Anyways, if there is porn on the desktop, or a file suggesting it, I ignore it. I don't want have to know or want to know what this customers particular fetishes are. I see so much accidental porn, that I don't need to dig for it.
And, most likely the techie himself was a pedophile in this case.
>allegedly spotted files that "appeared to be pornographic in nature" based on their names. Richert clicked on one that had listed a male name and an age of 13 or 14 and found a video he believed to contain child pornography.
Soooo.... would you click on "13y naked boy.jpg"? I'd err on the side of caution, and stay the fuck out of that file.
I have my personal porn collection at home. I don't need to copy other peoples porn. Same goes with all the techies. Those who would click on that file, most likely has his own stash at home, and should be happy with it.
Actually, IE7 is a step backwards. I work in software support for a large computer manufacturer. You would not believe the amount of calls we get from people who downgraded from IE6 to IE7 and IE7 suddenly stops working. Granted it has the reset button which is a step forward, but sometimes that too fails. No amounts of registry edits, or system restore gets it working. It stops. We install Firefox and the customer is happy.
Now that I think of it, our team should really be getting some ffox swag. A t-shirt would be nice. We do maybe 5 or 10 ffox installs per tech per day:)
That was only from the first result page using keywords address book import error... If they can't standardize on a way to store contact information, can you even claim that microsoft makes *standards*? There is nothing standardized in that company. Show me a single nontrivial webpage with CSS that looks the same in IE 5,6 and 7 WITHOUT any nonstandard hacks. Even when following Microsofts own guidelines, or software that is not possible.
True. The installer requires more. Think it was that 64 megs or something. Most likely a hard-coded limit though. Wonder if it would be possible to run past the check, and then remove some memory and see if it installs...
Give her games with real text. Those old Monkey Island games taught me English. Was quite fun the next year when we started learning English in school. When most pupils could say "This is a book", I used words as "rubberchicken with a pulley in the middle". You could actually install ScummVM and run Monkey Island on the DS:)
Go look at the wikipedia link. There is a little experiment that exactly shows you the hole in your vision. And about martial arts, humans detect motion over detail. You automatically evade something that comes your way, without actually seeing what it is. You see something is coming and do not assess if it's dangerous or not, you evade/block just in case.
An what you explain of noticing things, that should not be noticed, that is explained by your subconscious. Read up on how people missing most of their brains *can* be as intelligent as when they had a complete brain. So where does that excess capacity go? Your subconscience. If you'd ever tried LSD, you'd know what I'm talking about. On LSD you notice things, differences in human postures, smells, changes in voices. You can read a human way better than normally. You can track your surroundings, you know better than usual what's going on around you. Though, this is extremely tiring to the brain. You can't really think for a few days after a LSD trip. That's why your brain filters inputs. Most go to the subconscience and trashcan, some to your higher conscience. All this information that has been fed downstairs, will manifest in creepy feelings, weird ideas that something is about to happen.
Like with your burglar example. You could sensed a smell of a strange human, change in temperature due to the door being broken. You ignore the signs, but your subconsciense not. It informs you via a creepy feeling. Same with the firing. If a guy wanted you fired, he doesn't like you, and that's visible in his posture/tone of sound/way of looking when talking to you.
The eye is suprisingly simple. Your brain doesn't get all that much information. A lot is filled in by your brain, based on interpolation and assumptions. You are aware that you have a huge hole in your vision right? Read up on it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_spot_(vision)
And the raw video feed from your eye is not stored. It is interpreted and discarded.
Memories are the same. Not that much information. Memory is suprisingly volatile, and your brain does not retrieve information from a built in hard drive. It remembers some, and rebuilds the scene according to your memories. I have a personal example of this, I can bring up a very lifelike picture/memory from when I was a kid. I'm in a dressing room, looking at myself in the mirror. However, I do have a scar on me, the same scar I got years later. So I know for a fact that the memory or image my brain digs out is a fake, a composite of some kind.
It was *designed* for XP in mind. Want me to list other computer manufacturers who still sells pre-vista designed laptops? Oh, and please don't even ask why vista is then offered on the 1000. I'll give you a hint: Microsoft's licenses are not the most lax ones. Applies to all OEMs. How many laptops can you find today offered with only xp and no vista?
You buy the cheapest crap, and suprise, it breaks. That sorta applies to other things than computers too. My 20$ shoes broke after two weeks. My 100$ shoes still look like new after half a year. Duuuh....What a suprise.
No wonder the reputation is in the gutter, when people like you buy the cheapest crap and expect it to work and still run the latest games in 5 years. Wrong expectations meet reality -> people blaming somebody else.
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Oh, and if you decide to try, remember that you most likely are colorblind. All geeks are.
:)
Steal what you can't do yourself.
As I can't color-coordinate my own socks, ready palettes are a godsend
http://www.colourlovers.com/
I'm a good geek of all arts. But when I try to dabble in graphical design, I always fail spectacularly.
Get someone with actual talent to do it.
Do really you think you can train a graphical designer to code with a few book and tutorials, and not get out results fitting for thedailywtf?
No. Remember good old IDE cables? Those could almost handle that load. 133 MB/S. That's higher than any single hard can provide.
Are you like my roommate, who likes to use firewire/800 for his external HDD instead of USB2, as "FW is so much faster"?
Yes, FW is faster than USB, but both still outperform everything but the fastest 15k rpm drives.
And internal buses? Please... Remember good old PCI, bandwidth 133 MB/sec. Beyond any single harddrive. If that's not enough, get a new-ish computer with PCI-E. Bandwidth in the gigabytes.
Memory? Tens of gigabytes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_device_bandwidths
Actually, it's not that bad. Ever tried windows 2000's software RAID? 4 disks was barely noticable on a AMD K6-2. :)
If you really need that last 10% of a quad core, you need a workstation or server, and not a living room media machine
Which memory problem?
Google for some benchmarks. Here is one, appears to be in french, but luckily pictures are language independent.
http://www.matbe.com/articles/lire/357/ddr2-400-533-667-800-1067----que-choisir/page14.php
Comparing DDR2-400 to DDR2-1067, gives like 20% more performance. And that's on a core 2 platform, which is supposed to be memory starved. That is 2.5 times faster memory and a 20% performance increase.
And, you have backups right? That 4*250 array is good to mirror overnight to a terabyte drive on a old server in the closet. Then you also burn on dvds the more important stuff.
Uh, do the same thing with HDDs as with CPUs. Add more.
What's stopping you to buy 4 250GB drives and stripe them? Almost 150 MB/sec sustained speeds. And how much is a 250GB drive, 80 bucks? You'll get four of those for the price of a quad core.
Not like you need any RAID cards anymore, as any decent desktop motherboard has like 6 SATA ports and a onboard RAID controller.
HDDs are commodities, almost in the same way floppies was in the 80's.
With the exact same resolution as most 15" models (1680x1050).
Get the 17" with 1920x1200, same as a desktop 24".
You've never seen american tourists...
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU CANNOT TAKE AMERICAN MONEY YOU STUPID LITTLE FOREIGNER"
I don't know how you do it back home, but abroad you are are complete retards.
List of open cases in the company I work for dates back to 4 years, with about 5000 cases open that are over a year old.
Build a big and nasty enough ticketing system, and auto-closing tickets do fail.
And the list comes in one massive database, from which managers select only their own team to supervise. Only the curious and bored geeks look for interesting oddies like this.
The most common reason for cases staying indefinitely open is an agent quitting/getting fired, and him being removed from the list before his cases are reassigned.
Actually, on CF and data CDs they are exactly the same :)
And MB/s doesn't always make sense. Compare writing audio data and data data on a CD. Different sector sizes due to different ways of implementing error correction.
See the technical details section: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Book_(audio_CD_standard)
No. That's not it. You have to do troubleshooting first. Do you know which error code your computer gives for a broken HDD, the code you have to give to the tech to get a new drive? You know that the HDD replacement is logged, and too many replacements call for suspicion?
The real reason is taxes. A returned part is classified as a sparepart, and therefore taxed less. That is true for all computer manufacturers.
The keep your drive- thingy is to cover the sales takes for when they have to sell you a new part.
> Apple has a legitimate reason for keeping the drive which is described on the form given to the customer - it believes the drive can be fixed and sold.
Almost. Spareparts (parts that are returned) are taxed differently than regular parts. Apple pays less for a drive that is returned. So do _ALL_ computer manufacturers. Some do have 'keep your harddrive' fees, pay that and you'll keep the drive. The cost is to cover the taxes.
Finnish driver. Dutch rental car. France.
:)
Can you guess how many fines I actually had to pay?
Next summer I take the tunnel up there. Maybe I can get someone to moon the camera
>My truck can stop in 200ft from 60mph
But the driver behind you most likely can't.
Don't know if it's true, but I've heard of a country that doesn't enforce winter tires, but does enforce a sticker on the car that says: I have winter tires, my car can actually stop.
It's not about the roads. It's about the people.
The dickheads that has to press into an intersection even though he sees that it's blocked. It's that dickhead who won't let people change lanes. The dickhead who is blocked from changing lanes and has to stop in the middle of the road to change lanes *now*. That dickhead who drives under the speed limit in the left lane.
When we get cars that drive themselves, we can fit five times more cars on our current roads, with no traffic jams.
And public transport = fail. I do not know where you are from, but I do know the public transport in Amsterdam technically works. It's the people fucking it all up again.
The subway next to me should go about every 5 or 10 minutes in the mornings. However at 8-8:30 there goes no subways past. At 8:30 precisely there comes one to the station. The door open and people explode out due that the car is so overfilled. The subway passes, and in the next two minutes 3 or 4 almost empty ones pass.
People have to be first, that is the only problem in this world.
Wrong. I do software support over phone/vnc. :)
I don't go into the documents folder. I ask the customer to do it himself. That's both my morale and company policy (who would have thought they would agree on anything
Anyways, if there is porn on the desktop, or a file suggesting it, I ignore it. I don't want have to know or want to know what this customers particular fetishes are. I see so much accidental porn, that I don't need to dig for it.
And, most likely the techie himself was a pedophile in this case.
>allegedly spotted files that "appeared to be pornographic in nature" based on their names. Richert clicked on one that had listed a male name and an age of 13 or 14 and found a video he believed to contain child pornography.
Soooo.... would you click on "13y naked boy.jpg"?
I'd err on the side of caution, and stay the fuck out of that file.
I have my personal porn collection at home. I don't need to copy other peoples porn. Same goes with all the techies. Those who would click on that file, most likely has his own stash at home, and should be happy with it.
Actually, IE7 is a step backwards. I work in software support for a large computer manufacturer. You would not believe the amount of calls we get from people who downgraded from IE6 to IE7 and IE7 suddenly stops working. Granted it has the reset button which is a step forward, but sometimes that too fails. No amounts of registry edits, or system restore gets it working. It stops. We install Firefox and the customer is happy.
:)
:)
Now that I think of it, our team should really be getting some ffox swag. A t-shirt would be nice. We do maybe 5 or 10 ffox installs per tech per day
BTW, I think you'll "appreciate" the following link: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/frontpage/HA010429271033.aspx
How about a shortcut?
Get firefox, points to "ftp.exe ftp://mozilla.com/latest/windows/ffox.exe"
Same with "get opera", "get internet explorer"... get whatever...
Or simple let the OEM bundle the browser of their choise. Not like anyone buys windows boxed these days.
Oh, standards indeed. Would you like me to inform you on how incompatible microsoft is with microsoft?
Let's limit us to address books for example.
Outlook express 4 and 5 not compatible:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/244459
MS outlook to MS spam software, not compatible:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/179962
Outlook E supports folders in address book, but not exporting folders:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/241875
That was only from the first result page using keywords address book import error... If they can't standardize on a way to store contact information, can you even claim that microsoft makes *standards*? There is nothing standardized in that company. Show me a single nontrivial webpage with CSS that looks the same in IE 5,6 and 7 WITHOUT any nonstandard hacks. Even when following Microsofts own guidelines, or software that is not possible.
True. The installer requires more. Think it was that 64 megs or something. Most likely a hard-coded limit though. Wonder if it would be possible to run past the check, and then remove some memory and see if it installs...
Nope. Tried once with vmware, and a stock xp sp2 boots on 28 MB.
Give her games with real text. Those old Monkey Island games taught me English. Was quite fun the next year when we started learning English in school. When most pupils could say "This is a book", I used words as "rubberchicken with a pulley in the middle". You could actually install ScummVM and run Monkey Island on the DS :)
Go look at the wikipedia link. There is a little experiment that exactly shows you the hole in your vision.
And about martial arts, humans detect motion over detail. You automatically evade something that comes your way, without actually seeing what it is. You see something is coming and do not assess if it's dangerous or not, you evade/block just in case.
An what you explain of noticing things, that should not be noticed, that is explained by your subconscious. Read up on how people missing most of their brains *can* be as intelligent as when they had a complete brain. So where does that excess capacity go? Your subconscience. If you'd ever tried LSD, you'd know what I'm talking about. On LSD you notice things, differences in human postures, smells, changes in voices. You can read a human way better than normally. You can track your surroundings, you know better than usual what's going on around you. Though, this is extremely tiring to the brain. You can't really think for a few days after a LSD trip. That's why your brain filters inputs. Most go to the subconscience and trashcan, some to your higher conscience. All this information that has been fed downstairs, will manifest in creepy feelings, weird ideas that something is about to happen.
Like with your burglar example. You could sensed a smell of a strange human, change in temperature due to the door being broken. You ignore the signs, but your subconsciense not. It informs you via a creepy feeling. Same with the firing. If a guy wanted you fired, he doesn't like you, and that's visible in his posture/tone of sound/way of looking when talking to you.
The eye is suprisingly simple. Your brain doesn't get all that much information. A lot is filled in by your brain, based on interpolation and assumptions. You are aware that you have a huge hole in your vision right?
Read up on it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_spot_(vision)
And the raw video feed from your eye is not stored. It is interpreted and discarded.
Memories are the same. Not that much information. Memory is suprisingly volatile, and your brain does not retrieve information from a built in hard drive. It remembers some, and rebuilds the scene according to your memories. I have a personal example of this, I can bring up a very lifelike picture/memory from when I was a kid. I'm in a dressing room, looking at myself in the mirror. However, I do have a scar on me, the same scar I got years later. So I know for a fact that the memory or image my brain digs out is a fake, a composite of some kind.
It was *designed* for XP in mind. Want me to list other computer manufacturers who still sells pre-vista designed laptops?
Oh, and please don't even ask why vista is then offered on the 1000. I'll give you a hint: Microsoft's licenses are not the most lax ones. Applies to all OEMs.
How many laptops can you find today offered with only xp and no vista?
You buy the cheapest crap, and suprise, it breaks. That sorta applies to other things than computers too. My 20$ shoes broke after two weeks. My 100$ shoes still look like new after half a year. Duuuh....What a suprise.
No wonder the reputation is in the gutter, when people like you buy the cheapest crap and expect it to work and still run the latest games in 5 years. Wrong expectations meet reality -> people blaming somebody else.