When they were enforcing the 250 gig cap, they were within 1% of my dd-wrt tally. Now that they're not enforcing the cap, their reading is waaaaaay under my actual usage. I wonder if they're no longer counting traffic that stays in the Comcast network.
Seriously. Where are they? I've got the 750 gig Seagate and I love it but it's not big enough for my games. The only other choice I have is the 1tb Revo but that's not really much of a bump and it would take up a PCIe slot, preventing me from ever running 4-way SLI. And it's almost 4x the price of the slightly smaller Seagate. Hardly a bargain compared to SSD. If I'm gonna spend $500, I may as well spend a grand and go full SSD.
I assume Apple must have some sort of exclusive deal on their 3tb hybrids or we'd be seeing general purpose versions of those drives by now.
Tell that to my Galaxy Nexus that's still running 4.1.1. So much for the idea that Nexus devices are on the cutting edge. They're abandoned as fast as any other phone.
You're out of your element, Donny. I didn't say burn-in. I said image persistence. Because that's what it's called when the ghost of an image remains on an LCD.
I think it may be related to the age of the panel. I'd never seen an image stuck on that particular panel in 5 years. Then it had permanence of a web page and some windows that had only been displayed in those positions for a matter of hours. It was so clear, I could read the title bars and text in a command shell, browser tabs, and the text on the active web page. Glad there wasn't anything embarrassing displayed.:)
Tried that for several days with no change. Also tried the "turn it off" method for several days with no change. So I moved it to video playback duty and now the shadows are gone.
Image persistence on LCD is a real thing. I've only seen it on panels that have been in use for a long time but it's still real.
Of course, it's not a big deal if the displays are only used for fairly static displays. It'll only be a problem when the display format is updated to a new layout. Then you'll have outlines of boxes, dark patches where the text was, etc. Fortunately, the damage can usually be reversed by "exercising" the pixels. I have a 37" 1080p panel that I rehab'd by using it to display video content for a few months.
Seriously. I've lived on the central coast most of my life and 5 years or so in the OC. When I visit other places, the weather often seems extreme. I visit family in the northwest and they've got this crazy stuff called snow that's like everywhere. It's where people live. In central and southern CA, we keep that shit up in the mountains where it belongs for ski weekends. I go to Vegas and it's ball-scorching hot. I don't care if it's a dry heat. An oven is dry heat, too. Don't even get me started on those New England summers and their 112% humidity. Just sit on the porch and sweat. Same in the south but they throw in thunderstorms and hurricanes.
Having said all that, I plan to be out of CA forever this year. I can take my equity from CA and be a semi-retired land baron in just about any other part of the country, living a comfortable life of leisure. Gonna load up the RV and head east until I find a nice place to settle down.
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes." It's still faster to drive terabytes of data across town than it is to "network" it unless you have an unusually fast internet connection on both ends and a reliable tube between the locations.
You assume that it matters what I'm looking for and where that stuff is located. It doesn't. Even if I know exactly what I'm buying and where it's located in the store, I still shop like a bump-n-go.
If "They" can take my data and do something useful with it, resistance is futile.
That's what my track would look like. I just wander all around the store, grabbing stuff as it catches my eye, contemplating items I'll never purchase, backtracking and crisscrossing the store at random.
I've taken long train trips. If I expect to have to sleep, I get a room in a sleeper car. If you've got the money to spend on some sort of GPS tracking system and proximity alarm, you can afford a sleeper car. If you can't afford that, lock the zippers, tie the bag(s) to your leg and dream about the day when you can afford to travel in comfort. A well-designed travel bag will be configured so all of the zippers can come together in one location and be locked with a single lock. Even my super fancy camera/laptop bag with 5 external zippered pockets can be locked with two locks.
Yep. Not long ago, I got caught in a management change that resulted in a complete lack of actual production. The first week seemed great because we were going to finally put resources into projects that had been lingering for months or years. But the next week, all that got pushed out by a new set of projects that were all promised within a week. Too bad it was a month's worth of work. The next week, those projects were pushed aside by a new set of projects. Every damn week, there would be another month's worth of projects approved with delivery dates of 1 week. Eventually, nothing ever got started, let alone completed because we knew any effort we put into this week's projects would be wasted when those projects get shelved next week. Any benefit from working? No. Any immediate negative consequences to not working? No.
After a few weeks, I just ignored the new projects and picked ones I considered critical and worked them to completion. After a few months, I left. I had other stuff going on IRL and decided to retire to focus on that. Couldn't be happier. The thing is if the job hadn't gone completely sideways, I'd probably still be there contentedly plugging away and banking more cash.
Why on earth would I want to load myself and the kids* in the car and schlep it over to the library to read stuff on an electronic device? It'd be a lot easier to do that from home using the entartubes. Are there still library systems out there that haven't drank the Overdrive Kool-Aid? I don't even need to put on pants to do that.
*I don't have kids but, from what others tell me, they can be a handful.
I've only been using Android since 2011 and my devices have never had any kind of lag. Maybe because I have Nexus devices that aren't encumbered by third party skins and interfaces.
I have a 750 gig Seagate hybrid drive on my gaming computer. Only thing on it is the OS, games, and a few apps. No movies, no music, no "junk drawer". I'm currently using 562 gigs. That's with all but the most recent restore point deleted, and a recent disk cleanup. I don't even have productivity software installed.
So a 960 gig SSD is of interest to me. What would be of more interest is a 2tb or larger hybrid drive with a moderately sized SSD. Something like the 3tb fusion drive Apple has would be excellent. I've been quite happy with the performance of my hybrid drive and I'd rather pay $200 or so for a 2tb hybrid than $600 for a 960gb SSD.
You just said that you did exactly what I described in Point 4 so I'm not sure how you think my point is irrelevant or misleading or why my comment needs to be "cleared" by anyone.
I did busy[sic] few of the items I had on vinyl again on CD so I re-created refined copy of my previous library.
And I said
So people re-purchase their favorite titles...
How is what I said not exactly what you did? A new format came along and you re-purchased your favorite LPs in the new format.
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I tried #blowjobs and nothing happened.
Or Sony's SmartWatch of a year ago.
When they were enforcing the 250 gig cap, they were within 1% of my dd-wrt tally. Now that they're not enforcing the cap, their reading is waaaaaay under my actual usage. I wonder if they're no longer counting traffic that stays in the Comcast network.
Seriously. Where are they? I've got the 750 gig Seagate and I love it but it's not big enough for my games. The only other choice I have is the 1tb Revo but that's not really much of a bump and it would take up a PCIe slot, preventing me from ever running 4-way SLI. And it's almost 4x the price of the slightly smaller Seagate. Hardly a bargain compared to SSD. If I'm gonna spend $500, I may as well spend a grand and go full SSD.
I assume Apple must have some sort of exclusive deal on their 3tb hybrids or we'd be seeing general purpose versions of those drives by now.
Tell that to my Galaxy Nexus that's still running 4.1.1. So much for the idea that Nexus devices are on the cutting edge. They're abandoned as fast as any other phone.
Maybe today but Facebook's already monetized sending messages to non-friends. How long until they charge $5 to do a "photo tag search" of non-friends?
Take a creepshot of some girl at the mall, upload it to facebook, and see if you get a hit.
150 complaints out of the millions of accounts they claim is pretty darn good.
Clearly you've never read business emails. The keyboard, it does nothing!
You're out of your element, Donny. I didn't say burn-in. I said image persistence. Because that's what it's called when the ghost of an image remains on an LCD.
I think it may be related to the age of the panel. I'd never seen an image stuck on that particular panel in 5 years. Then it had permanence of a web page and some windows that had only been displayed in those positions for a matter of hours. It was so clear, I could read the title bars and text in a command shell, browser tabs, and the text on the active web page. Glad there wasn't anything embarrassing displayed. :)
Tried that for several days with no change. Also tried the "turn it off" method for several days with no change. So I moved it to video playback duty and now the shadows are gone.
Image persistence on LCD is a real thing. I've only seen it on panels that have been in use for a long time but it's still real.
Of course, it's not a big deal if the displays are only used for fairly static displays. It'll only be a problem when the display format is updated to a new layout. Then you'll have outlines of boxes, dark patches where the text was, etc. Fortunately, the damage can usually be reversed by "exercising" the pixels. I have a 37" 1080p panel that I rehab'd by using it to display video content for a few months.
Hey, did you get that great vacation opportunity, too? Only $99* for a week in Fiji!
*Airfare, hotel, food, and transportation extra.
It's all about the weather.
Seriously. I've lived on the central coast most of my life and 5 years or so in the OC. When I visit other places, the weather often seems extreme. I visit family in the northwest and they've got this crazy stuff called snow that's like everywhere. It's where people live. In central and southern CA, we keep that shit up in the mountains where it belongs for ski weekends. I go to Vegas and it's ball-scorching hot. I don't care if it's a dry heat. An oven is dry heat, too. Don't even get me started on those New England summers and their 112% humidity. Just sit on the porch and sweat. Same in the south but they throw in thunderstorms and hurricanes.
Having said all that, I plan to be out of CA forever this year. I can take my equity from CA and be a semi-retired land baron in just about any other part of the country, living a comfortable life of leisure. Gonna load up the RV and head east until I find a nice place to settle down.
That's unpossible! /looks at "Fire Prevention Fee" bill
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes." It's still faster to drive terabytes of data across town than it is to "network" it unless you have an unusually fast internet connection on both ends and a reliable tube between the locations.
You assume that it matters what I'm looking for and where that stuff is located. It doesn't. Even if I know exactly what I'm buying and where it's located in the store, I still shop like a bump-n-go.
If "They" can take my data and do something useful with it, resistance is futile.
Who taped a phone to a blind wombat on PCP?
That's what my track would look like. I just wander all around the store, grabbing stuff as it catches my eye, contemplating items I'll never purchase, backtracking and crisscrossing the store at random.
I've taken long train trips. If I expect to have to sleep, I get a room in a sleeper car. If you've got the money to spend on some sort of GPS tracking system and proximity alarm, you can afford a sleeper car. If you can't afford that, lock the zippers, tie the bag(s) to your leg and dream about the day when you can afford to travel in comfort. A well-designed travel bag will be configured so all of the zippers can come together in one location and be locked with a single lock. Even my super fancy camera/laptop bag with 5 external zippered pockets can be locked with two locks.
Yep. Not long ago, I got caught in a management change that resulted in a complete lack of actual production. The first week seemed great because we were going to finally put resources into projects that had been lingering for months or years. But the next week, all that got pushed out by a new set of projects that were all promised within a week. Too bad it was a month's worth of work. The next week, those projects were pushed aside by a new set of projects. Every damn week, there would be another month's worth of projects approved with delivery dates of 1 week. Eventually, nothing ever got started, let alone completed because we knew any effort we put into this week's projects would be wasted when those projects get shelved next week. Any benefit from working? No. Any immediate negative consequences to not working? No.
After a few weeks, I just ignored the new projects and picked ones I considered critical and worked them to completion. After a few months, I left. I had other stuff going on IRL and decided to retire to focus on that. Couldn't be happier. The thing is if the job hadn't gone completely sideways, I'd probably still be there contentedly plugging away and banking more cash.
Why on earth would I want to load myself and the kids* in the car and schlep it over to the library to read stuff on an electronic device? It'd be a lot easier to do that from home using the entartubes. Are there still library systems out there that haven't drank the Overdrive Kool-Aid? I don't even need to put on pants to do that.
*I don't have kids but, from what others tell me, they can be a handful.
I've only been using Android since 2011 and my devices have never had any kind of lag. Maybe because I have Nexus devices that aren't encumbered by third party skins and interfaces.
I have a 750 gig Seagate hybrid drive on my gaming computer. Only thing on it is the OS, games, and a few apps. No movies, no music, no "junk drawer". I'm currently using 562 gigs. That's with all but the most recent restore point deleted, and a recent disk cleanup. I don't even have productivity software installed.
So a 960 gig SSD is of interest to me. What would be of more interest is a 2tb or larger hybrid drive with a moderately sized SSD. Something like the 3tb fusion drive Apple has would be excellent. I've been quite happy with the performance of my hybrid drive and I'd rather pay $200 or so for a 2tb hybrid than $600 for a 960gb SSD.
You just said that you did exactly what I described in Point 4 so I'm not sure how you think my point is irrelevant or misleading or why my comment needs to be "cleared" by anyone.
I did busy[sic] few of the items I had on vinyl again on CD so I re-created refined copy of my previous library.
And I said
So people re-purchase their favorite titles...
How is what I said not exactly what you did? A new format came along and you re-purchased your favorite LPs in the new format.