Actually, the drive is Flash USB, not a (SATA) SSD. But in any case, fragmentation can definitely slow down flash drives - and can be even worse than an HDD on writes. Look it up...
300TB of storage can be built for less than $100k these days. Far from a "huge" waste of money. Though given the value of most Twitter posts, it's still probably a waste of $99,500.
Lamo is a sleaze, and from everything I have read his treatment has been extremely harsh, but in the end the person responsible for Bradley Manning being prosecuted for leaking government and military secrets is Bradley Manning.
If the dude has the skills to get a job as a software dev, he can work as a gas station attendant, which would give him enough money to room up with someone and eat. From there, it's his problem.
Clearly you never tried living on your own on a gas station attendant's wage.
Clearly you never tried reading the post you are replying to that specifically stipulated *rooming with someone*. But you are correct even 40+ hours a week at a gas station (almost impossible to get since they prefer part-timers) is barely enough for rent, gas, and a little cheap (unhealthy) food. It sucks.
And clearly neither of you actually RTFA, which said it was in China. I'd wager you have no idea what a "gas station attendant" makes there, how much rent or food is in his town, or what the hiring preferences of Chinese gas station owners is.
I am not a doctor, but all medications come in varying dosages. We don't exactly know the whole story here, so stop making assumptions.
This assumption goes both ways. If you intentionally drug someone, you have to assume it could be dangerous. And guess what, it usually is - there are very few prescription drugs where an overdose doesn't have some serious side effects. And sleep medications are usually not intended to knock you on your ass, but to aid sleep. If they woke up with a nasty hangover it's OBVIOUSLY more than the standard dose already.
And you clearly don't have kids, let alone teens with serious behavioral problems. What are they supposed to do, laugh it off? Or punish her by cutting off her Internet access? Yeah, that would be a great idea. Better make her taste all your food first.
I don't think parents or government should have the authority or control they do. It's not right. It's not justified. It just is. The assumption that parents/police/government know best is wrong.
Shouldn't you be in bed right now? Your parents WILL find out you broke curfew, you know.
Yeah, brilliant logic. And given the brain trust duo of these girls who actually DRUGGED their parents I'm sure they were model students not in need of any more discipline or lessons than "wow, I'm tired now".
If someone DRUGGED YOU would you think having them arrested was excessive? I mean, what are they going to do, punish her by restricting her Internet access? They'd be lucky to wake up at all.
I wouldn't even be surprised if it wasn't the parents, but the police that insisted on the arrest. A crime is a crime, and doesn't require the victim to be cooperative if there is enough evidence...
DRM is not specific to "your computer" or "owning" anything. At its core it's just a mechanism for limiting the distribution of encryption keys to those who (through whatever transaction/contract/etc) have been granted access to content.
DRM is also the foundation for cable and satellite encryption, where you may be leasing the hardware and subscribing monthly to the service. Nothing in that combination has anything to do with "ownership".
You might as well be saying that any software running on your computer that you don't have source to is giving someone else control of your machine. Which is fine if you really feel that way, some Open Source advocates share that rather extreme position.
But in the end encryption, DRM, etc are just tools used to implement business policies. They can be used for what most people consider reasonable (cable premium channels, movie rentals, etc) or for what many consider excessive and inconvenient (game and movie purchases). Don't blame the tools, blame the users.
If anyone has been paying attention in the last 5 years, Apple has blown past Microsoft in both profits/market cap and anti-competitive practices. Unless and until that is addressed, I think also-ran Microsoft will be free to do whatever it wants in this regard. It would be like ticketing a Toyota for an improper lane change while a Ferrari blows past at 150mph giving you the finger.
"Ownership" of hardware or software is orthogonal to DRM. DRM is just a mechanism for controlled access to digital content, regardless of whether the hardware or the content is owned, leased, rented, subscribed, or loaned.
There is absolutely as much scientific evidence for the existence of the tooth fairy as there is for God. The only difference is we tell our children a different story about one after they get older.
And there is a plenty of clinical evidence that marijuana has a much lower incidence of fatal health problems than alcohol of tobacco (and the LD-50 of THC is astronomical compared to ethanol or nicotine). Your knowledge is seriously lacking, but the data is not.
Except medically and scientifically that's an inane and inaccurate cliche.
Medically, absence of evidence (those being said side effects and long term issues/diseases) is just data in a massively complex multivariable system. If (taking into account other factors) there is no increase in a disease in a population using a drug, it statistically doesn't cause an increase in risk. With risk being a statistic assessment, the POINT is to use statistical analysis, and absence of a result can be just as significant.
Anyway, you can go back to your beliefs in creationism, the tooth fairy, and Santa Claus, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say the absence of any evidence of their proof is scientifically significant enough for me.
That seemed like a strange, political Nobel award until this year, when they awarded the prize to a giant bureaucracy pretending to be a government. Is it possible for an award to jump the shark?
Ironically your sarcasm just makes his point stronger.
His argument not only applies to but is based on the comparison to alcohol and tobacco, which have many well-proven side effects and long term medical issues. As he pointed out, Marijuana on the other hand does not have such clearly proven effects, and certainly none as serious as liver disease or lung cancer.
Considering Anil is part of the crowd responsible for destroying the internet
How is creating software to enable non-technical people to create their own blogs "destroying the Internet"? IMO software to promote the Internet as an equal access utility for everyone rather than a tool for corporations to profit or elitists to rant (I assume you are the latter) is a good thing.
What is trolling about it? Hardware design has nothing to do with GPL or CC since it's not a copyright issue, it's a patent issue. Besides, even the GPL has no problem with selling derived works for profit - and there isn't even a provision for credit, just redistribution of source.
Anyway, I agree that giving no credit to the original designer is a sleazy move, but so is calling using someone's open source design "stealing". For all you know she could be happy to see someone building fully assembled and tested versions of her design/kit, as not everyone has the skills or time to DIY.
And how do you even know that the company selling it is making a *profit*? Profit is what is left after subtracting expenses of material, labor, advertising, etc. Unless you have seen their books for all you know they could be losing money.
And "moral *crime*"? Seriously? Is that like a thoughtcrime? Maybe you should stop making assumptions about what other people think about usage of their work and go find out their real opinions before making these pointless rants...
How do you steal an open source hardware design? Clearly she doesn't care if someone else used her hardware design or she wouldn't have made it public. Since it's hardware it's more about patents than copyright, and if neither she nor the company selling the hardware patented anything, who cares?
Yeah, motion interpolation is making up new frames where they didn't exist, which is different from filming and displaying at a higher rate, of course. There is only so much information you can add to video by yelling "enhance!":)
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you DO have to admit that its pretty funny that even a thief wouldn't touch Win 8 or Surface
That's not true. Identity thieves love Windows.
Silicon is cheap, too, but people seem to pay hundreds of dollars for it after someone puts a little metal and dopant on it...
Actually, the drive is Flash USB, not a (SATA) SSD. But in any case, fragmentation can definitely slow down flash drives - and can be even worse than an HDD on writes. Look it up...
Wow, that makes the $1300 Apple charges to upgrade from 128GB to 768GB SSD on their Macbook Pro seem reasonable...
300TB of storage can be built for less than $100k these days. Far from a "huge" waste of money. Though given the value of most Twitter posts, it's still probably a waste of $99,500.
Lamo is a sleaze, and from everything I have read his treatment has been extremely harsh, but in the end the person responsible for Bradley Manning being prosecuted for leaking government and military secrets is Bradley Manning.
If the dude has the skills to get a job as a software dev, he can work as a gas station attendant, which would give him enough money to room up with someone and eat. From there, it's his problem.
Clearly you never tried living on your own on a gas station attendant's wage.
Clearly you never tried reading the post you are replying to that specifically stipulated *rooming with someone*. But you are correct even 40+ hours a week at a gas station (almost impossible to get since they prefer part-timers) is barely enough for rent, gas, and a little cheap (unhealthy) food. It sucks.
And clearly neither of you actually RTFA, which said it was in China. I'd wager you have no idea what a "gas station attendant" makes there, how much rent or food is in his town, or what the hiring preferences of Chinese gas station owners is.
I am not a doctor, but all medications come in varying dosages. We don't exactly know the whole story here, so stop making assumptions.
This assumption goes both ways. If you intentionally drug someone, you have to assume it could be dangerous. And guess what, it usually is - there are very few prescription drugs where an overdose doesn't have some serious side effects. And sleep medications are usually not intended to knock you on your ass, but to aid sleep. If they woke up with a nasty hangover it's OBVIOUSLY more than the standard dose already.
And you clearly don't have kids, let alone teens with serious behavioral problems. What are they supposed to do, laugh it off? Or punish her by cutting off her Internet access? Yeah, that would be a great idea. Better make her taste all your food first.
I don't think parents or government should have the authority or control they do. It's not right. It's not justified. It just is. The assumption that parents/police/government know best is wrong.
Shouldn't you be in bed right now? Your parents WILL find out you broke curfew, you know.
Yeah, brilliant logic. And given the brain trust duo of these girls who actually DRUGGED their parents I'm sure they were model students not in need of any more discipline or lessons than "wow, I'm tired now".
If someone DRUGGED YOU would you think having them arrested was excessive? I mean, what are they going to do, punish her by restricting her Internet access? They'd be lucky to wake up at all.
I wouldn't even be surprised if it wasn't the parents, but the police that insisted on the arrest. A crime is a crime, and doesn't require the victim to be cooperative if there is enough evidence...
A few cities near the coast, maybe. But a large part of Oregon very pro-logging, and about the furthest from "green hipster" as you can get.
DRM is not specific to "your computer" or "owning" anything. At its core it's just a mechanism for limiting the distribution of encryption keys to those who (through whatever transaction/contract/etc) have been granted access to content.
DRM is also the foundation for cable and satellite encryption, where you may be leasing the hardware and subscribing monthly to the service. Nothing in that combination has anything to do with "ownership".
You might as well be saying that any software running on your computer that you don't have source to is giving someone else control of your machine. Which is fine if you really feel that way, some Open Source advocates share that rather extreme position.
But in the end encryption, DRM, etc are just tools used to implement business policies. They can be used for what most people consider reasonable (cable premium channels, movie rentals, etc) or for what many consider excessive and inconvenient (game and movie purchases). Don't blame the tools, blame the users.
If anyone has been paying attention in the last 5 years, Apple has blown past Microsoft in both profits/market cap and anti-competitive practices. Unless and until that is addressed, I think also-ran Microsoft will be free to do whatever it wants in this regard. It would be like ticketing a Toyota for an improper lane change while a Ferrari blows past at 150mph giving you the finger.
WTF does ownership have to do with DRM?
"Ownership" of hardware or software is orthogonal to DRM. DRM is just a mechanism for controlled access to digital content, regardless of whether the hardware or the content is owned, leased, rented, subscribed, or loaned.
Did you RTFA? If not, STFU.
Yay for hard paywalls! Even Slashdot doesn't want users to RTFA any more...
There is absolutely as much scientific evidence for the existence of the tooth fairy as there is for God. The only difference is we tell our children a different story about one after they get older.
And there is a plenty of clinical evidence that marijuana has a much lower incidence of fatal health problems than alcohol of tobacco (and the LD-50 of THC is astronomical compared to ethanol or nicotine). Your knowledge is seriously lacking, but the data is not.
Except medically and scientifically that's an inane and inaccurate cliche.
Medically, absence of evidence (those being said side effects and long term issues/diseases) is just data in a massively complex multivariable system. If (taking into account other factors) there is no increase in a disease in a population using a drug, it statistically doesn't cause an increase in risk. With risk being a statistic assessment, the POINT is to use statistical analysis, and absence of a result can be just as significant.
Anyway, you can go back to your beliefs in creationism, the tooth fairy, and Santa Claus, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say the absence of any evidence of their proof is scientifically significant enough for me.
That seemed like a strange, political Nobel award until this year, when they awarded the prize to a giant bureaucracy pretending to be a government. Is it possible for an award to jump the shark?
Ironically your sarcasm just makes his point stronger.
His argument not only applies to but is based on the comparison to alcohol and tobacco, which have many well-proven side effects and long term medical issues. As he pointed out, Marijuana on the other hand does not have such clearly proven effects, and certainly none as serious as liver disease or lung cancer.
Considering Anil is part of the crowd responsible for destroying the internet
How is creating software to enable non-technical people to create their own blogs "destroying the Internet"? IMO software to promote the Internet as an equal access utility for everyone rather than a tool for corporations to profit or elitists to rant (I assume you are the latter) is a good thing.
What is trolling about it? Hardware design has nothing to do with GPL or CC since it's not a copyright issue, it's a patent issue. Besides, even the GPL has no problem with selling derived works for profit - and there isn't even a provision for credit, just redistribution of source.
Anyway, I agree that giving no credit to the original designer is a sleazy move, but so is calling using someone's open source design "stealing". For all you know she could be happy to see someone building fully assembled and tested versions of her design/kit, as not everyone has the skills or time to DIY.
And how do you even know that the company selling it is making a *profit*? Profit is what is left after subtracting expenses of material, labor, advertising, etc. Unless you have seen their books for all you know they could be losing money.
And "moral *crime*"? Seriously? Is that like a thoughtcrime? Maybe you should stop making assumptions about what other people think about usage of their work and go find out their real opinions before making these pointless rants...
How do you steal an open source hardware design? Clearly she doesn't care if someone else used her hardware design or she wouldn't have made it public. Since it's hardware it's more about patents than copyright, and if neither she nor the company selling the hardware patented anything, who cares?
Yeah, motion interpolation is making up new frames where they didn't exist, which is different from filming and displaying at a higher rate, of course. There is only so much information you can add to video by yelling "enhance!" :)