Unless I'm missing something, Google's ads also say "ad related to" inside the same tan square. You'd be able to see that even if your screen is bad at rendering colors.
You also don't understand "failure mode". THe SSDs fail readable. spinning disk fails dead.
This hasn't really appeared to be accurate in practice. In theory, they could do this, but from what I've read most SSDs on the market appear to hard fail. Probably due to the controller dying, as it's nearly impossible to wear the NAND into a read-only state anyway. They also tend to fail with no advance warning. Might be one of the only areas other than price where SSDs don't work out better than HDD, but time will tell.
As usual, always keep a backup. Don't assume your drive will fail gracefully (that goes for HDDs too).
I've been using SSDs in my computers for 5 years now. If you think they're overhyped... I can only assume you haven't used one?
Admittedly, they're more expensive than platter drives (I still use all spinning drives in my NAS, where storage is more important than speed), but I do not miss load screens or waiting for my computer to become responsive. I have to deal with that crap at work still, I feel the chug of the HDD every time I open a solution in Visual Studio.
Because RAM caching is just a band-aid and only speeds things up if your entire working set can live in memory (or close enough that disk IO becomes rare). Netflix has way too much data to do this, and they were bottlenecked by disk IO even with the complicated caching system they had in RAM.
Essentially the SSD servers eliminated the disk IO bottleneck, so the RAM changing became unnecessary (which also reduces CPU and memory load, since caching is not free).
There's also clicking the desktop (if you're not already focused to it) and Alt+F4 opens a power menu. That shortcut works from Windows versions prior to 8 as well.
How would you even propose they filter spam links without a basic request? Do they blacklist all URL shorteners, or do you just let all spam that uses URL shorteners to go through?
Am I the only one confused about the 6 month timer? Who is going to leave a server running for 6 months after your death? Is this in a remote datacenter where you're always paid at least 6 months ahead? Is everyone relevant already informed that the password drops after 6 months so they'll know to check? Is the password even needed to access the files (is this data encrypted) or could they just mount the drive on another machine?
I'm imagining messing with the BIOS or spoofing the NTP server to provide it a future time but I can't see going through that effort for a bunch of movie files. Fun way to get at any secret encrypted files though...
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Unless I'm missing something, Google's ads also say "ad related to" inside the same tan square. You'd be able to see that even if your screen is bad at rendering colors.
Killing it has a pretty nice feature of making stealing phones much less desirable reducing the chances your phone will be stolen at all.
Attempting to track it can work, if the thief isn't smart enough to just wipe it and ditch the SIM (removing your ability to track the device anyway).
You also don't understand "failure mode". THe SSDs fail readable. spinning disk fails dead.
This hasn't really appeared to be accurate in practice. In theory, they could do this, but from what I've read most SSDs on the market appear to hard fail. Probably due to the controller dying, as it's nearly impossible to wear the NAND into a read-only state anyway. They also tend to fail with no advance warning. Might be one of the only areas other than price where SSDs don't work out better than HDD, but time will tell.
As usual, always keep a backup. Don't assume your drive will fail gracefully (that goes for HDDs too).
I've been using SSDs in my computers for 5 years now. If you think they're overhyped... I can only assume you haven't used one?
Admittedly, they're more expensive than platter drives (I still use all spinning drives in my NAS, where storage is more important than speed), but I do not miss load screens or waiting for my computer to become responsive. I have to deal with that crap at work still, I feel the chug of the HDD every time I open a solution in Visual Studio.
Because RAM caching is just a band-aid and only speeds things up if your entire working set can live in memory (or close enough that disk IO becomes rare). Netflix has way too much data to do this, and they were bottlenecked by disk IO even with the complicated caching system they had in RAM.
Essentially the SSD servers eliminated the disk IO bottleneck, so the RAM changing became unnecessary (which also reduces CPU and memory load, since caching is not free).
There's also clicking the desktop (if you're not already focused to it) and Alt+F4 opens a power menu. That shortcut works from Windows versions prior to 8 as well.
How would you even propose they filter spam links without a basic request? Do they blacklist all URL shorteners, or do you just let all spam that uses URL shorteners to go through?
Am I the only one confused about the 6 month timer? Who is going to leave a server running for 6 months after your death? Is this in a remote datacenter where you're always paid at least 6 months ahead? Is everyone relevant already informed that the password drops after 6 months so they'll know to check? Is the password even needed to access the files (is this data encrypted) or could they just mount the drive on another machine? I'm imagining messing with the BIOS or spoofing the NTP server to provide it a future time but I can't see going through that effort for a bunch of movie files. Fun way to get at any secret encrypted files though...