I did get a sloppy; my default mode of thinking about SSD+platters is using SSDs as journals for a transactional datastore. That said, while SRT is a nice feature, it's not universally available (even on Sandy Bridge motherboards), and support under anything but Windows leaves something to be desired. A hybrid disk drive is all-around simpler and (for now) a bit cheaper.
I'm not sure exactly which market Seagate are aiming for here.
*raises hand*
I put one of the 750GB XT's in my laptop and have been thoroughly pleased with it. It's nice to talk about having one SSD for caching and then platters for big storage of everything else, but the point of the hybrid drives is that you don't have to split up your partitions and manually allocate data between the two. A device-mapper target could theoretically do the same thing, but I'm only aware of one quite new third-party driver for Windows that attempts this sort of mapping, and in the meantime, I'm satisfied with near-instant application launches from my XT without having to touch a thing.
Don't read too much into the bad summary. The judge told the jury to determine whether Google infringed Oracle's copyright assuming the API can be copyrighted. If they find that Google did, then the judge will rule whether the API can in fact be copyrighted, but if they say that Google didn't infringe in either case, he doesn't have to make a ruling on the question (and, particularly, he avoids the scenario where he rules API's aren't copyrightable, an appeals court reverses him, and they have to redo the trial because the jury has been dismissed).
Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and IE will all cache HTTPS content if permitted by Cache-Control headers. Of course, HTTPS, does prevent transparent proxy caches.
We're arguing on the same side; the parent to my post got modded into oblivion. He said that if you're legal, you have nothing to fear; I'm pointing out that several legal sites have already been blown away for exactly the reasons you describe.
Not sure if you're a troll or an idiot. JotForm and Dajaz1 both had their sites returned after the feds admitted that there had been no wrongdoing but they'd been shut down anyway, and Rojadirecta (which is still offline) actually had a court judgment saying it was legal.
SSL is a protocol for agreeing on a set of encryption parameters to use (which cipher, what keys, and so on) rather than a cipher itself. The two most common ciphers, (3)DES and AES (as well as all the other block ciphers I know of) produce a ciphertext that's the same size as the plaintext (plus padding if necessary to fill out the block size). An SSL connection, however, frequently gzips the content before running it through the cipher, so the size of the ciphertext depends on the compressibility of the plaintext.
This is essentially what's happening here; PNG is a bitmap form, but it is supports a couple of different types of compression, so tiles of the same pixel dimensions compress to different file sizes, which can be distinguished even without knowing the contents.
The difference of opinion is that I'm willing to let Americans make that choice for themselves, while you want to choose for them. (I personally drive an 11-year-old compact car with high gas mileage.)
That's nonsense. "Society" is just a term for the collection of lots of people, and "society" has no goals of its own; each of the people has individual goals, some of which mostly align (e.g., most people are better off during peacetime than during war) and some of which vary widely (e.g., musical taste). Similarly, "the market" is just the collection of lots of individuals' economic activity, and the people making up the market most certainly do plan for the future; this is why commodity prices spike instantly on news of some catastrophe.
The claim that "$foo is running out, so you must give me power to keep you from using $foo" has been made repeatedly throughout history and has fallen flat every time. When it comes to oil specifically, the proven reserves of oil are greater now than they ever have been before. If oil were running out, the price of oil would have risen sharply, and that market you dismiss would have created incentives not only for people to use less but also for the limited oil to go to its most valued use.
It's only a market failure if you believe that a handful of politicians and bureaucrats should be making choices for millions of individuals and families rather than allowing those individuals to make choices (and bear the costs) for themselves.
Additionally, the Thrive has two power quirks that I appreciate: Its battery is easily replaceable, and it sacrifices the ability to charge via USB for a 30W power supply that can charge its battery from zero to full in 90 minutes. For typical business use, I only need to charge it about 30 minutes daily.
Halfway decent graphics systems scale text to dot pitch. If your text is illegibly small, either you have your display set to 6pt or your display manager needs to be dragged kicking and screaming into the 1990s.
Nationalizing it just ensures that some wanker will be at the wheel. Make it known that a crash means that the shareholders take a bath, and you'll get some serious scrutiny from institutional and other big players.
"Too big to fail" is utter nonsense. Make it clear that no business is going to get bailed out, and then let the failures fail.
Regulators always end up working more for the regulated industries than the public at large; it's known as regulatory capture and is a predictable result of the fact that the regulated industries spend lots of time lobbying the regulators on the specific issues while the public at large is too busy paying attention to Charlie Sheen.
If they're held responsible for the effects their actions have on the public, it can be amazing how quickly they respond. Give financial firms bailouts and limit the liability of oil companies, and then don't be surprised if they act irresponsibly.
Aaand once again, nothing particularly interesting here. RHIC has been producing QGP for years now, so not only is this a surprising result, it's not even "unique".
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I did get a sloppy; my default mode of thinking about SSD+platters is using SSDs as journals for a transactional datastore. That said, while SRT is a nice feature, it's not universally available (even on Sandy Bridge motherboards), and support under anything but Windows leaves something to be desired. A hybrid disk drive is all-around simpler and (for now) a bit cheaper.
*raises hand*
I put one of the 750GB XT's in my laptop and have been thoroughly pleased with it. It's nice to talk about having one SSD for caching and then platters for big storage of everything else, but the point of the hybrid drives is that you don't have to split up your partitions and manually allocate data between the two. A device-mapper target could theoretically do the same thing, but I'm only aware of one quite new third-party driver for Windows that attempts this sort of mapping, and in the meantime, I'm satisfied with near-instant application launches from my XT without having to touch a thing.
Don't read too much into the bad summary. The judge told the jury to determine whether Google infringed Oracle's copyright assuming the API can be copyrighted. If they find that Google did, then the judge will rule whether the API can in fact be copyrighted, but if they say that Google didn't infringe in either case, he doesn't have to make a ruling on the question (and, particularly, he avoids the scenario where he rules API's aren't copyrightable, an appeals court reverses him, and they have to redo the trial because the jury has been dismissed).
I hadn't heard Jenny McCarthy was blaming iPads now; I suppose it's an improvement from a public-health perspective.
Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and IE will all cache HTTPS content if permitted by Cache-Control headers. Of course, HTTPS, does prevent transparent proxy caches.
We're arguing on the same side; the parent to my post got modded into oblivion. He said that if you're legal, you have nothing to fear; I'm pointing out that several legal sites have already been blown away for exactly the reasons you describe.
Not sure if you're a troll or an idiot. JotForm and Dajaz1 both had their sites returned after the feds admitted that there had been no wrongdoing but they'd been shut down anyway, and Rojadirecta (which is still offline) actually had a court judgment saying it was legal.
GP is a troll, but the law's talking about revenue, not profit (which is what's usually meant by "income").
SSL is a protocol for agreeing on a set of encryption parameters to use (which cipher, what keys, and so on) rather than a cipher itself. The two most common ciphers, (3)DES and AES (as well as all the other block ciphers I know of) produce a ciphertext that's the same size as the plaintext (plus padding if necessary to fill out the block size). An SSL connection, however, frequently gzips the content before running it through the cipher, so the size of the ciphertext depends on the compressibility of the plaintext.
This is essentially what's happening here; PNG is a bitmap form, but it is supports a couple of different types of compression, so tiles of the same pixel dimensions compress to different file sizes, which can be distinguished even without knowing the contents.
The difference of opinion is that I'm willing to let Americans make that choice for themselves, while you want to choose for them. (I personally drive an 11-year-old compact car with high gas mileage.)
That's nonsense. "Society" is just a term for the collection of lots of people, and "society" has no goals of its own; each of the people has individual goals, some of which mostly align (e.g., most people are better off during peacetime than during war) and some of which vary widely (e.g., musical taste). Similarly, "the market" is just the collection of lots of individuals' economic activity, and the people making up the market most certainly do plan for the future; this is why commodity prices spike instantly on news of some catastrophe.
The claim that "$foo is running out, so you must give me power to keep you from using $foo" has been made repeatedly throughout history and has fallen flat every time. When it comes to oil specifically, the proven reserves of oil are greater now than they ever have been before. If oil were running out, the price of oil would have risen sharply, and that market you dismiss would have created incentives not only for people to use less but also for the limited oil to go to its most valued use.
It's only a market failure if you believe that a handful of politicians and bureaucrats should be making choices for millions of individuals and families rather than allowing those individuals to make choices (and bear the costs) for themselves.
Additionally, the Thrive has two power quirks that I appreciate: Its battery is easily replaceable, and it sacrifices the ability to charge via USB for a 30W power supply that can charge its battery from zero to full in 90 minutes. For typical business use, I only need to charge it about 30 minutes daily.
What do you use for an SSH client?
Halfway decent graphics systems scale text to dot pitch. If your text is illegibly small, either you have your display set to 6pt or your display manager needs to be dragged kicking and screaming into the 1990s.
Perhaps if they instead focused on fixing the memory leaks, pushing out 64-bit builds wouldn't be so pressing an issue?
Right. It's in the proposal this panel is floating. I'm interested in the media reaction if this gets put into practice.
It'll be amusing to see what happens if these proponents manage to get Botox admitted to the select club along with Ebola and smallpox...
Nationalizing it just ensures that some wanker will be at the wheel. Make it known that a crash means that the shareholders take a bath, and you'll get some serious scrutiny from institutional and other big players.
"Too big to fail" is utter nonsense. Make it clear that no business is going to get bailed out, and then let the failures fail.
Regulators always end up working more for the regulated industries than the public at large; it's known as regulatory capture and is a predictable result of the fact that the regulated industries spend lots of time lobbying the regulators on the specific issues while the public at large is too busy paying attention to Charlie Sheen.
If they're held responsible for the effects their actions have on the public, it can be amazing how quickly they respond. Give financial firms bailouts and limit the liability of oil companies, and then don't be surprised if they act irresponsibly.
They only host the outer shell. The content of apps is in an IFRAME hosted entirely from the developer's servers.
Aaand once again, nothing particularly interesting here. RHIC has been producing QGP for years now, so not only is this a surprising result, it's not even "unique".
Hooray! LHC has "discovered" "hints" of what the experiments at RHIC found several years ago...