3. Don't place icons in 3 places - Quick launch - Desktop - Start menu
Any app that does that is lazy. The non-lazy ones give you the option during installation, and you uncheck the ones you know you won't use. Firefox gets all three. Word doesn't get Desktop. Everything should have at least a start menu entry, because that's/usr/bin on a Windows box.
Let me know when they start beating out the i5-2500K or i7-2600K
They may never do that, if they keep getting all excited about a part that has less than half the performance.
Looking at the price-performance chart from the summary, it's clear the i5-2500K is leaps and bounds better than any other chip currently available.
Of course, people here are more performance- than price-conscious, so those i7-##0X jobs off to the right are drooltastic. Especially when you check on Pricewatch and find them for $200 less than TechReport is listing.
My home box is getting unstable in scary ways (memory shrinking relative to newer app reqs and multiple fails to find compatible upgrades that don't barf on half of boot attempts; and one of my RAID-0 discs has developed a boot failure reported in the BIOS at startup, but still manages to operate well enough to get me into the OS, but it's only a matter of time before whatever that is metastasizes until the system is a brick).
So it's time to rebuild. My next system will have the OS on an SSD and my data partitions on a properly error-tolerant RAID instead of the RAID-0 I'm using now just for the speedup. And, of course, it will be run by something sweet from the Intel catalog. i7-bignumbersX, most likely. No sense chintzing on the CPU when it's the most important component and the rest of the parts will cost $1k or more.
And since there are rumors that Intel is flattening out its roadmap (no sense overspending when the competition is as lame as they are), anything built today will remain egoboosting for longer than the usual.
But the aristos knew how to select certain of the serfs and turn them to doing their dirty work for them.
It's only failed in a couple of cases: 1. America, where the aristos were too far away to project their power effectively. 2. France, where the aristos had become incredibly distanced intellectually and simply didn't understand what was happening to them.
Other than that, once the power and wealth get concentrated, it's extremely difficult to reverse the process, especially when there is nothing that the wealthy need from the poor other than to stay on the other side of the highly-electrified and patrolled-by-mecha fence.
The RAM-creep caught up to me this past spring. I did just fine on 2 GB of RAM for 3 years (n.b.: it was 2 GB of what was then really, really fast RAM, and the CPU is still 4 cores of 3-Ghz goodness, and a couple of low-latency HDs splitting the bytes in Raid 0 is still a fast-enough solution, though an SSD looks mighty juicy right now). Now I'm fighting the compatibility game. Matching speed specs is not sufficient. Matching clock-latency specs is only a little better. You have to keep buying parts and trying them to get just the right timings for the slightly different traces on the mobo (a newer mobo would probably have a more consistent layout and fix this, but at that point it's time to gut-and-restart). Luckily, Fry's takes returns on RAM no-questions, but its selection is somewhat more limited than I'd like.
If I get frustrated enough, it will be time to go six-million-dollar-man on my machine. Even the case is inadequate, as it doesn't have a big hole on top for the power-supply cooler fan (though it looks like most of those go on the bottom now...). Here's where I'd start:
- Core-i7* (some huge number) (some speed north of 3 GHz). - 8-GB of DDR3-(some huge number) RAM. Maybe 16, just to keep it going through 2016. - Biggest SSD I can stand to pay for. - 4 or 5 fast, quiet HDs in Raid-(something fast and recoverable this time). This might just go outboard, over the GbE or eSATA, as the SSD would be doing all the real work. That could mean I could use a smaller form factor for the mobo and case. - The case as plain-vanilla as possible. All the shiny shit happens onscreen. Maybe no case. Just hang stuff from the wall.
* Actually, Intel is coming with new stuff this fall, so a short wait could just be the ticket.
From the bottom link I got that the ad mentioned mysql. Maybe I misread it.
Nope.
The seller, ominously using the nickname “sourcec0de,” points out that mysql.com is a prime piece of real estate for anyone looking to plant an exploit kit: It boasts nearly 12 million visitors per month — almost 400,000 per day — and is ranked the 649th most-visited site by Alexa (Alexa currently rates it at 637).
He offered to sell remote access to the first person who paid him at least USD $3,000, via the site’s escrow service, which guarantees that both parties are satisfied with the transaction before releasing the funds.
He'd opened that site up and was selling the access to it.
My question is, why is mysql.com's traffic that high?
Well, no. Capitalism always was about using machines to improve productivity, and ignoring workers' rights wherever they aren't pressed. Now the capitalists will get productivity without even the hint of workers' rights coming into play. And nobody but capitalists will get income from productivity.
They'll have all the money, and therefore all the power. They won't even need serfs this time around.
Summary: Forcing people to learn new skills to be employed is not the same thing as making all the jobs go away.
When the people who make money from productivity can multiply productivity deploying machines instead of hiring workers, they no longer have a reason to share that income with anyone, so they end up with all the money and nobody else has any. When the robots are building the robots, the circle will close.
That's the system we're building at one end, while some people are actively tearing down the old one from the other end.
Factoid: 98% of people who go to law school don't end up practicing law. I heard that, but I don't really believe it. But the plausibility of it is enough.
Someone, a week ago, before anything bad actually happened, was openly selling the fact that mysql was cracked, and anyone seeing the ad knew it, but HackAlert is taking credit for "discovering" the cracking after something bad actually happened?
How about if HackAlert, instead of crawling the web looking for whatever pattern of deviation defines its detection of a hack, crawls the blackhat markets for ads for open access to presumed secure sites.
If they aren't doing that already, and crocking their detection speed...
You should learn about things before you naysay them
Wow, did you just shove your entire foot in your mouth.
Don't forget that the bond energies, while they have the unit "kcal" in them, which sounds like a lot of energy, also have "per mole" in them, which is a reduction by a factor of nearly 10^24.
While such a material is relatively strong, it's still just one layer of atomic bonds.
"Even a monolayer of graphene is not easy to tear," only if you're the size of two layers of graphene.
And you don't tear things by breaking a trillion bonds simultaneously. Tearing starts from one end, or in the middle at a point where the stress concentrates. I don't even know how you'd be able to align things so that you could apply equal force to every one of a trillion bonds. That'd be a much bigger feat than making a square kilometer of graphene.
If you can even feel the force of your fingers ripping through it as you pick it up and it shreds from mishandling, you've probably got exposed nerve endings.
Cooking "meth" from stuff you find in the fridge doesn't make you a chemist.
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And then blame the smog of war?
He's on video, so he'll live longer than most of us.
And with copyright being what it is, and his personal artistic output being worth some cash, he'll be prospering for his family even after he's died.
3. Don't place icons in 3 places
- Quick launch
- Desktop
- Start menu
Any app that does that is lazy. The non-lazy ones give you the option during installation, and you uncheck the ones you know you won't use. Firefox gets all three. Word doesn't get Desktop. Everything should have at least a start menu entry, because that's /usr/bin on a Windows box.
I use it all the time.
Hit the Windows key, then arrow down to the app I want? 40-50 times a day.
Their solution had better be something at least as simple to do when working on a laptop with a crappy touchpad or, worse, a clit-stick.
Too right. I've been to Llano, and AMD picked the right name for a podunk part.
Let me know when they start beating out the i5-2500K or i7-2600K
They may never do that, if they keep getting all excited about a part that has less than half the performance.
Looking at the price-performance chart from the summary, it's clear the i5-2500K is leaps and bounds better than any other chip currently available.
Of course, people here are more performance- than price-conscious, so those i7-##0X jobs off to the right are drooltastic. Especially when you check on Pricewatch and find them for $200 less than TechReport is listing.
My home box is getting unstable in scary ways (memory shrinking relative to newer app reqs and multiple fails to find compatible upgrades that don't barf on half of boot attempts; and one of my RAID-0 discs has developed a boot failure reported in the BIOS at startup, but still manages to operate well enough to get me into the OS, but it's only a matter of time before whatever that is metastasizes until the system is a brick).
So it's time to rebuild. My next system will have the OS on an SSD and my data partitions on a properly error-tolerant RAID instead of the RAID-0 I'm using now just for the speedup. And, of course, it will be run by something sweet from the Intel catalog. i7-bignumbersX, most likely. No sense chintzing on the CPU when it's the most important component and the rest of the parts will cost $1k or more.
And since there are rumors that Intel is flattening out its roadmap (no sense overspending when the competition is as lame as they are), anything built today will remain egoboosting for longer than the usual.
The aborigines are messing around with parrot jammers.
Serfs always had numbers on their side.
But the aristos knew how to select certain of the serfs and turn them to doing their dirty work for them.
It's only failed in a couple of cases: 1. America, where the aristos were too far away to project their power effectively. 2. France, where the aristos had become incredibly distanced intellectually and simply didn't understand what was happening to them.
Other than that, once the power and wealth get concentrated, it's extremely difficult to reverse the process, especially when there is nothing that the wealthy need from the poor other than to stay on the other side of the highly-electrified and patrolled-by-mecha fence.
Modern technology will make it easy for them.
The local stereo-installlation pusher has started advertising window tinting.
So yes, their business is getting the same base-technology squeeze newegg is feeling, and causing them to have to fringe-out.
Heathkit is coming back.
Newegg better watch out.
"Yeah, we still sell some audio cards."
Wait a few months.
The RAM-creep caught up to me this past spring. I did just fine on 2 GB of RAM for 3 years (n.b.: it was 2 GB of what was then really, really fast RAM, and the CPU is still 4 cores of 3-Ghz goodness, and a couple of low-latency HDs splitting the bytes in Raid 0 is still a fast-enough solution, though an SSD looks mighty juicy right now). Now I'm fighting the compatibility game. Matching speed specs is not sufficient. Matching clock-latency specs is only a little better. You have to keep buying parts and trying them to get just the right timings for the slightly different traces on the mobo (a newer mobo would probably have a more consistent layout and fix this, but at that point it's time to gut-and-restart). Luckily, Fry's takes returns on RAM no-questions, but its selection is somewhat more limited than I'd like.
If I get frustrated enough, it will be time to go six-million-dollar-man on my machine. Even the case is inadequate, as it doesn't have a big hole on top for the power-supply cooler fan (though it looks like most of those go on the bottom now...). Here's where I'd start:
- Core-i7* (some huge number) (some speed north of 3 GHz).
- 8-GB of DDR3-(some huge number) RAM. Maybe 16, just to keep it going through 2016.
- Biggest SSD I can stand to pay for.
- 4 or 5 fast, quiet HDs in Raid-(something fast and recoverable this time). This might just go outboard, over the GbE or eSATA, as the SSD would be doing all the real work. That could mean I could use a smaller form factor for the mobo and case.
- The case as plain-vanilla as possible. All the shiny shit happens onscreen. Maybe no case. Just hang stuff from the wall.
* Actually, Intel is coming with new stuff this fall, so a short wait could just be the ticket.
Flash takes those diversions from ordinary CMOS.
The only thing that matters is profit margin.
If this produces more on the bottom line, Flash will be the next Floppy.
I want one of these in the oersted way.
The fact that you put malpractice insurance first on that list means you're still being fooled by the industry propaganda.
Malpractice is less than 2% of healthcare costs, but 50% of healthcare's excuses for high prices.
From the bottom link I got that the ad mentioned mysql. Maybe I misread it.
Nope.
The seller, ominously using the nickname “sourcec0de,” points out that mysql.com is a prime piece of real estate for anyone looking to plant an exploit kit: It boasts nearly 12 million visitors per month — almost 400,000 per day — and is ranked the 649th most-visited site by Alexa (Alexa currently rates it at 637).
He offered to sell remote access to the first person who paid him at least USD $3,000, via the site’s escrow service, which guarantees that both parties are satisfied with the transaction before releasing the funds.
He'd opened that site up and was selling the access to it.
My question is, why is mysql.com's traffic that high?
Well, no. Capitalism always was about using machines to improve productivity, and ignoring workers' rights wherever they aren't pressed. Now the capitalists will get productivity without even the hint of workers' rights coming into play. And nobody but capitalists will get income from productivity.
They'll have all the money, and therefore all the power. They won't even need serfs this time around.
Get ready for the Eugenic Aristocracy.
Um...what are paralegals but meatpunk robots who do form-based law?
Ask LegalZoom.Com if it takes a human being asking the questions to collect a fee.
Summary: Forcing people to learn new skills to be employed is not the same thing as making all the jobs go away.
When the people who make money from productivity can multiply productivity deploying machines instead of hiring workers, they no longer have a reason to share that income with anyone, so they end up with all the money and nobody else has any. When the robots are building the robots, the circle will close.
That's the system we're building at one end, while some people are actively tearing down the old one from the other end.
http://www.ncsl.org/default.aspx?tabid=13494
It may not be murder, but shooting a computer can still get you jail time.
Factoid: 98% of people who go to law school don't end up practicing law. I heard that, but I don't really believe it. But the plausibility of it is enough.
Someone, a week ago, before anything bad actually happened, was openly selling the fact that mysql was cracked, and anyone seeing the ad knew it, but HackAlert is taking credit for "discovering" the cracking after something bad actually happened?
How about if HackAlert, instead of crawling the web looking for whatever pattern of deviation defines its detection of a hack, crawls the blackhat markets for ads for open access to presumed secure sites.
If they aren't doing that already, and crocking their detection speed...
You should learn about things before you naysay them
Wow, did you just shove your entire foot in your mouth.
Don't forget that the bond energies, while they have the unit "kcal" in them, which sounds like a lot of energy, also have "per mole" in them, which is a reduction by a factor of nearly 10^24.
While such a material is relatively strong, it's still just one layer of atomic bonds.
"Even a monolayer of graphene is not easy to tear," only if you're the size of two layers of graphene.
And you don't tear things by breaking a trillion bonds simultaneously. Tearing starts from one end, or in the middle at a point where the stress concentrates. I don't even know how you'd be able to align things so that you could apply equal force to every one of a trillion bonds. That'd be a much bigger feat than making a square kilometer of graphene.
If you can even feel the force of your fingers ripping through it as you pick it up and it shreds from mishandling, you've probably got exposed nerve endings.
Cooking "meth" from stuff you find in the fridge doesn't make you a chemist.
This is not the beret you're looking for.
Giving to charity is the box.
Giving to candidates is not.