the newer firmwares are much less likely to corrupt your data
Can you tell us any more about this? I've had SSD's lately (Kingstons, mostly) that get badly corrupted filesystems, but SMART is fine and any kind of userland testing of the drive shows no problems.
I mean, yeah, they were made two years ago, but they weren't free. They should be able to at least read and write data successfully from disk.
"Installing updates while the session is running causes havoc with some apps like Firefox that have file resources that have not been locked (just try updating xulrunner when Firefox or Thunderbird is open)," blogged Fedora developer Richard Hughes.
When Ubuntu noticed this same problem, they included a Firefox extension to tell the user to restart. Fedora tries to re-plumb the OS and re-invent the behavior Windows is moving away from instead?
Fortuantely, it looks like this is constrained to the GNOME environment at the moment, so most of us may be safe - for now. I'll have to surf over to the KDE list to see if there's some righteous indignation going on there.
Certainly not, I haven't spoken it for ages. I don't think there are many people out there who have Udmurt as a primary language.
So, you know Udmurt and Russian, and you're obviously fluent in English too - can you give us a sense of the relative utility of the languages?
Most of us have only learned 1+ languages that are already very successful (at least 10's of millions of speakers each), so the selection bias is towards all of them seeming 'good enough' for daily usage.
I find myself wondering why these particular languages are going extinct (I'd imagine the USSR had something to do with this one, but in general) and if they offer less utility. That is, perhaps they're just not as good (expressiveness, ability to represent complex ideas, etc.), and there's some Darwinian action here among human languages. Or maybe that's not even a primary criteria for why languages go away.
I'd love to hear if you think any of this has any bearing on Udmurt. TIA.
It's too bad btrfs still has such performance problems with common applications (BTDTBTEXT4).
We really ought to have each package on its own filesystem. When there's an update, snapshot the filesystem, let currently running processes reference the old stuff so they don't crash, but new processes can have the new stuff. When the old version on longer has any references left, it can go away. This might not always make sense, but for a desktop it's a lot better than what we have now.
Yeah, there's some plumbing work that needs solving (rpm, containers interaction perhaps, VersionKit or whatever) but this idea of rebooting a linux system to get consistent updates is just picking at a scab, and indicative that a real solution is still necessary.
Hrmmm.... good point - looks like it is available in a few devices.
esr says he can get 1ms on USB with the Macx-1 device. What accuracy is required for each stratum? The bufferbloat people are using that device for their latency measuring project.
You'll only get so far with just programming skills. Now's a good time to brush up on writing, so you come across as intelligent.
For instance, TFS leads off with "I graduated high school two days ago."
"I was graduated from high school two days ago" will make people think you're refined.
"I graduated from high school two days ago" most people will accept.
"I graduated high school" is actually wrong, and people will think less of you for it. It doesn't matter what you think, that's what other people will think.
Usage books are actually fun - an outline of the API exceptions that is English. A good programmer can handle these sorts of rules with ease.
There are some usage websites, but the best stuff is still locked up in books.
schools are not for-profit entities, with few exceptions, so there's no incentive to raising the price because the market will bear it
My alma mater has nearly doubled the square footage of facilities since I was there in the early 90's, made the dorms like a luxury suites hotel, and kept the number of students just about the same. IIRC the number of employees went up by about 50% during the same period.
This kind of spending makes people feel better about their jobs, gives them higher wages, with more helpers they have less work to do, and they get nice offices to do it all in.
When the endowment lost $400M or so (I did better in the market than their 'professionals' did) they fired the dishwashers and administrative staff rather that cutting back on the luxury or much middle management (certainly not among the top brass).
It's a non-profit that pays no property taxes. Oh, and I think tuituion has about tripled.
So close - I had a netbook with 720 and found a whole bunch of linux stuff that assumed 768 minimum so it was frustrating.
I'm not a fan of "everything 1080p" but I'd probably buy a set of these glasses if they could get there. It seems from 1990 to 2012 we've gone from 480 to 720. I guess that means I need to wait until 2034!
Yes, they'll put in regulations that protect the incumbents and hamstring the upstarts.
I was looking recently into why payment processors suck so much and asking "why hasn't this been fixed by competition?" A friend looked into the regulations and came back with a cost of $80M to meet bonding and regulatory requirements to start a new one. Hence, a startup will never be able to create competitive pressure to fix the problems. As somebody put it on a parallel thread, we're "locked" into the status-quo.
Assuming this is true and well-known, why aren't contracts built to avoid the problem? "Must pass this test and that test before payment, late penalties," etc.?"
Is it just me or should building skyscrapers not be a speed trial in any case?
Everything else aside, it must be more expensive to do work at 600 meters than at ground level. So, the minimizing of 'air time' by maximizing 'ground time' would seem to be a/cost saving/ technique. I'd also suppose it maximizes safety.
Irrelevant. The point was that when people say "I would donate..." it's a lie 19 times out of 20.
No, it's not. And you can find the statistics on how many people give how much of their disposable income to charity each year. It's over $1000 for every man, woman, and child in the US, and that's despite tax rates that can climb over 50% when fully considered.
Besides, even if people were stingy and spending that money on themselves, that would mean more goods and services, hence lower unemployment and less need for charitable giving. Non-zero-sum games are wonderful like that.
This assumes that hard drives are effectively only going to last half as long, or that one would have used the guarantee for all the faulty drives. Don't get me wrong, it's a vote of no confidence and strongly implies less reliability and shorter life expectancy. But "effectively doubled the price"? No.
Of course it assumes that - I work with lots and lots (and lots) of drives at many sites (many in good data-center conditions but all within Seagate spec conditions) and the Seagates nearly all fail on an average of 3 years.
Some don't fail, some are taken out of service in less than 5 years, but that's why I said double the price, not triple, quadruple, or quintuple. For the drive use patterns I see in production, Seagate's change from 5 year warranty to 1 year warranty doubles the production cost of the drive.
People operating on experience, data, and sound math isn't what gives Slashdot a bad name...
the court of law is better than government regulation?
Do you see government regulation as being effective in protecting our rights vis-a-vis the TSA? I sure looks like completely-the-opposite-of-that to me.
At least with contracts, privacy policies, and the threat of a class-action lawsuit, there's a chance.
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Agreed - $250 for 500GB has been my price target for about 3 years. Looks like it should be here in about a year (or perhaps on Black Friday).
For some reason, 500GB has been how much data storage I've needed on the go for about 5 years, even as my needs have fluctuated.
the newer firmwares are much less likely to corrupt your data
Can you tell us any more about this? I've had SSD's lately (Kingstons, mostly) that get badly corrupted filesystems, but SMART is fine and any kind of userland testing of the drive shows no problems.
I mean, yeah, they were made two years ago, but they weren't free. They should be able to at least read and write data successfully from disk.
"Installing updates while the session is running causes havoc with some apps like Firefox that have file resources that have not been locked (just try updating xulrunner when Firefox or Thunderbird is open)," blogged Fedora developer Richard Hughes.
When Ubuntu noticed this same problem, they included a Firefox extension to tell the user to restart. Fedora tries to re-plumb the OS and re-invent the behavior Windows is moving away from instead?
Fortuantely, it looks like this is constrained to the GNOME environment at the moment, so most of us may be safe - for now. I'll have to surf over to the KDE list to see if there's some righteous indignation going on there.
Certainly not, I haven't spoken it for ages. I don't think there are many people out there who have Udmurt as a primary language.
So, you know Udmurt and Russian, and you're obviously fluent in English too - can you give us a sense of the relative utility of the languages?
Most of us have only learned 1+ languages that are already very successful (at least 10's of millions of speakers each), so the selection bias is towards all of them seeming 'good enough' for daily usage.
I find myself wondering why these particular languages are going extinct (I'd imagine the USSR had something to do with this one, but in general) and if they offer less utility. That is, perhaps they're just not as good (expressiveness, ability to represent complex ideas, etc.), and there's some Darwinian action here among human languages. Or maybe that's not even a primary criteria for why languages go away.
I'd love to hear if you think any of this has any bearing on Udmurt. TIA.
It's too bad btrfs still has such performance problems with common applications (BTDTBTEXT4).
We really ought to have each package on its own filesystem. When there's an update, snapshot the filesystem, let currently running processes reference the old stuff so they don't crash, but new processes can have the new stuff. When the old version on longer has any references left, it can go away. This might not always make sense, but for a desktop it's a lot better than what we have now.
Yeah, there's some plumbing work that needs solving (rpm, containers interaction perhaps, VersionKit or whatever) but this idea of rebooting a linux system to get consistent updates is just picking at a scab, and indicative that a real solution is still necessary.
An USB GPS means no Pulse Per Second
Hrmmm .... good point - looks like it is available in a few devices.
esr says he can get 1ms on USB with the Macx-1 device. What accuracy is required for each stratum? The bufferbloat people are using that device for their latency measuring project.
Serial. USB has variable latency.
What's the cause of the variability of the USB latency? Does it apply on a dedicated bus?
This testing makes it look fairly stable.
I can't comprehend that size
Don't complain, calculate, and then post for the similarly challenged.
needs the Model B, of course.
Some quick searching shows one can get a USB GPS receiver for $27 and the comments say it works with linux/gpsd, showing up as /dev/ttyUSB0.
Somebody could make a simple OS image that would narrow the scope of the problem to the availability of ~$60 and an available public IP address.
You'll only get so far with just programming skills. Now's a good time to brush up on writing, so you come across as intelligent.
For instance, TFS leads off with "I graduated high school two days ago."
"I was graduated from high school two days ago" will make people think you're refined.
"I graduated from high school two days ago" most people will accept.
"I graduated high school" is actually wrong, and people will think less of you for it. It doesn't matter what you think, that's what other people will think.
Usage books are actually fun - an outline of the API exceptions that is English. A good programmer can handle these sorts of rules with ease.
There are some usage websites, but the best stuff is still locked up in books.
So hopefuly they've found a screen surface that cleans easily like a glossy one, but without the reflections.
I suppose it's possible to find something that's bumpy at optical scales but smooth at molecular scales.
the fact is that the ONLY reason he's being brought back to Sweden is to answer sexual assault charges.
How do you know he won't be extradited to the US with minimal process? How do you know that's not the reason for a pretext?
I don't know either way, but I'm making no claims as to the veracity of the charges.
schools are not for-profit entities, with few exceptions, so there's no incentive to raising the price because the market will bear it
My alma mater has nearly doubled the square footage of facilities since I was there in the early 90's, made the dorms like a luxury suites hotel, and kept the number of students just about the same. IIRC the number of employees went up by about 50% during the same period.
This kind of spending makes people feel better about their jobs, gives them higher wages, with more helpers they have less work to do, and they get nice offices to do it all in.
When the endowment lost $400M or so (I did better in the market than their 'professionals' did) they fired the dishwashers and administrative staff rather that cutting back on the luxury or much middle management (certainly not among the top brass).
It's a non-profit that pays no property taxes. Oh, and I think tuituion has about tripled.
I have one up for sale for half that if anybody wants it. It certainly works, and (you'll be shocked to learn) it's not as good as a real keyboard.
1280X720 native resolution.
So close - I had a netbook with 720 and found a whole bunch of linux stuff that assumed 768 minimum so it was frustrating.
I'm not a fan of "everything 1080p" but I'd probably buy a set of these glasses if they could get there. It seems from 1990 to 2012 we've gone from 480 to 720. I guess that means I need to wait until 2034!
Oh, Microvision, where art thou?
...that joint-bureaucracy works...
Yes, they'll put in regulations that protect the incumbents and hamstring the upstarts.
I was looking recently into why payment processors suck so much and asking "why hasn't this been fixed by competition?" A friend looked into the regulations and came back with a cost of $80M to meet bonding and regulatory requirements to start a new one. Hence, a startup will never be able to create competitive pressure to fix the problems. As somebody put it on a parallel thread, we're "locked" into the status-quo.
Assuming this is true and well-known, why aren't contracts built to avoid the problem? "Must pass this test and that test before payment, late penalties," etc.?"
Is it just me or should building skyscrapers not be a speed trial in any case?
Everything else aside, it must be more expensive to do work at 600 meters than at ground level. So, the minimizing of 'air time' by maximizing 'ground time' would seem to be a /cost saving/ technique. I'd also suppose it maximizes safety.
Probably some happy dances going on at Google.
In other words, they now know how the presidential elections will turn out.
Lemme guess, the Goldman-Sachs candidate is going to win?
Irrelevant. The point was that when people say "I would donate..." it's a lie 19 times out of 20.
No, it's not. And you can find the statistics on how many people give how much of their disposable income to charity each year. It's over $1000 for every man, woman, and child in the US, and that's despite tax rates that can climb over 50% when fully considered.
Besides, even if people were stingy and spending that money on themselves, that would mean more goods and services, hence lower unemployment and less need for charitable giving. Non-zero-sum games are wonderful like that.
This assumes that hard drives are effectively only going to last half as long, or that one would have used the guarantee for all the faulty drives. Don't get me wrong, it's a vote of no confidence and strongly implies less reliability and shorter life expectancy. But "effectively doubled the price"? No.
Of course it assumes that - I work with lots and lots (and lots) of drives at many sites (many in good data-center conditions but all within Seagate spec conditions) and the Seagates nearly all fail on an average of 3 years.
Some don't fail, some are taken out of service in less than 5 years, but that's why I said double the price, not triple, quadruple, or quintuple. For the drive use patterns I see in production, Seagate's change from 5 year warranty to 1 year warranty doubles the production cost of the drive.
People operating on experience, data, and sound math isn't what gives Slashdot a bad name...
Food stamps are "food insurance" in US, and it's obviously not privatized.
Hey, no fair defeating a debater who already defeated himself! :)
He should have gone with 'shoes'.
the court of law is better than government regulation?
Do you see government regulation as being effective in protecting our rights vis-a-vis the TSA? I sure looks like completely-the-opposite-of-that to me.
At least with contracts, privacy policies, and the threat of a class-action lawsuit, there's a chance.