I think reuters is right, most of the suggestions are pretty worthless.
How about these suggestions:
1) If you are getting email that is routine (for archive purposes), setup scripts to auto file them.
2) Remove your email address from any webpages where it isn't absolutely needed.
3) Change your email address! It may sound harsh, but a fresh start will surely curb your email intake, send your new address out to only the people you MUST stay in touch with. The people who HAVE to contact you will make a call or get your new email some way.
4) Only reply if asked to or it is absolutely necessary. A lot of email is simple yes, or haha comments, which are pretty much worthless and are only wasting yours and others time.
5) If you do reply stay on topic and keep it short as possible, if it is long or complicated this is why will still have those things called phones.
6) Automatically delete and never forward any of those chain letters or joke emails, what a waste of time and bandwidth those things are.
7) If you don't think you are going to reply or dont want to reply within the next 24 hours to an email just delete it, otherwise it will pile up and create a psycological burden for you.
8) Have a good SPAM filter.
9) Setup an autoreply for common questions you get asked.
10) It sounds simple but setup a signature, no point in wasting your time typing your name or website address.
This is awesome, but the conclusion of such an interesting study leaves a lot to be desired. FTA...
"In this study we report on the failure characteristics of consumer-grade disk drives. To our knowledge, the study is unprecedented in that it uses a much larger population size than has been previously reported and presents a comprehensive analysis of the correlation between failures and several parameters that are believed to affect disk lifetime. Such analysis is made possible by a new highly parallel health data collection and analysis infrastructure, and by the sheer size of our computing deployment.
One of our key findings has been the lack of a consistent pattern of higher failure rates for higher temperature drives or for those drives at higher utilization levels. Such correlations have been repeatedly highlighted by previous studies, but we are unable to confirm them by observing our population. Although our data do not allow us to conclude that there is no such correlation, it provides strong evidence to suggest that other effects may be more prominent in affecting disk drive reliability in the context of a professionally managed data center deployment.
Our results confirm the findings of previous smaller population studies that suggest that some of the SMART parameters are well-correlated with higher failure probabilities. We find, for example, that after their first scan error, drives are 39 times more likely to fail within 60 days than drives with no such errors. First errors in reallocations, offline reallocations, and probational counts are also strongly correlated to higher failure probabilities. Despite those strong correlations, we find that failure prediction models based on SMART parameters alone are likely to be severely limited in their prediction accuracy, given that a large fraction of our failed drives have shown no SMART error signals whatsoever. This result suggests that SMART models are more useful in predicting trends for large aggregate populations than for individual components. It also suggests that powerful predictive models need to make use of signals beyond those provided by SMART."
I just got done with level 4 last night, the game is awesome. The game play IMO is better than Gears of War becuase it is more varied, and the enemies are a lot more varied. Gears looks beautiful, but the game play was a lot of the same thing. I just love mechs, and this game does them justice, they are simply awesome to control and fight agaist. Some of them transform into other things which kicks it up a notch.
The major flaw, and only flaw I have seen thus far, is the voice acting and story, man is it bad, the characters and animation are beautiful, but the dialog is just terrible. Who the hell plays this game for the story and dialog though? This is the only reason this game doesn't get 5/5 from me.
Dual format players will win this war. As soon as this sells below $500, all other makers will follow. Right now it sells for $1200.
"Well this is more like it. After waiting forever between the initial announcement and first retail availability of the first wave of HD disc devices, LG's BH100 really rocketed to the shelves, and has just participated in its first unboxing (that we've heard of) mere weeks after the announcement at CES. We're a little disconcerted by that big front-and-center dent on the box, but the unit itself looks just dandy, and gadgetaholic promises a full review in the coming days. But that's not what you're here for, you just wanted to see this little guy ripped from his Styrofoam cocoon and flap his little Red and Blue wings, so hit the read link for the whole event. Fly, BH100, fly."
$200 in 2009 for a dual format player? Come on now. If there is a dual format player by the end of this year for less than $300 I will be buying it, and I bet there will be.
It's totally different. Land is tangible and limited. Domain names are not. Land only has value because of other land around it, except for minerals and such, but all of that land is gone anyways. Domain names have intrinsic value. And finally and most important, land is TAXED, domain names are not.
I wouldn't care if everything used DRM if it required zero extra time, no resources, allowed for fair use, and was fully compatible. Being a software developer I know this is almost impossible though. Unless you fully control the entire system and software (ie XBOX 360, iTunes and iPod) it is near impossible to implement, this is why DRM is unacceptable in most cases. Even if you have a closed system DRM is still very hard (ie XBOX 1, PS3).
Yeah I know, you think someone would have come out with that by now, especially considering how awesome a flash disk system would be for enterprise servers where IOPS is everything, and money is tossed around. Its far too late now though, by the time anything is out, SSDs will far out perform them, be cheaper, and much easier to manage than a cluster of flash devices.
Unlikely, MS has absolutely no reason to push HD-DVD other than to give an alternative to BluRay. More than likely they will try to skip the HD disc format altogether and push online video distribution which is so much cheaper, and far more lucrative.
I agree, the big issue is the 90nm, with the 65nm they will be making a lot more chips per wafer, which are much cheaper which drives everything, there will be absolutely no reason to produce any more 90nm chips.
Since drives are so dirt cheap, what could happen is the pro version comes with 120gb while the core version comes with 20gb drive, this would make a lot of sense since MS wants to push their videos and demos, which you can only get with a HD, for the manf cost of a 20gb drive, probably less than $20, they will make that back in no time.
as long as they offer a 120gb upgrade for older 360s that would be fine with me. there are currently hacks out that let you use any HD of any size, but the MS firmware drivers have hardcoded 20GB limits in them, so even if you hook up a 500GB hard drive, it only can use 20GB. with this coming update, you should then be able to use your own drive up to 120GB. (you can't put movies or demos on any media drives you connect, only the main drive)
"The NAND flash contained in the SanDisk drive, in fact, only contains one bit of data per memory cell. SanDisk makes NAND flash that can hold two bits of data per cell and, through Msystems, has technology for expanding that to 4 bits of memory in a cell. Increasing the capacity can thus be accomplished without massive technological breakthroughs."
Even if it were cost feasible your drive would die in a matter of months or years because flash, especially cheap flash has a limited number of write and read cycles, very small actually, 1000-10000 on some. If windows is churning at your swap file it would only take a day or so to do that many writes. Also the bandwidth of normal cheap flash drives is pretty crappy. The SSDs have special write algorithms in them which spread the writes out around the disk evenly, this extends the life of the memory gates much beyond normal flash memory.
With these new disks would be a great time for manufactures to align their specs with the consumers mind. i.e. 1,000,000,000 bytes does not equal a GB. For once I would like to buy a drive and actually be able to use 34,359,738,368 bytes and not the crummy 32,000,000,000 they are selling.
I have noticed a decrease in the amount of spam lately. 5-6 months ago it was more than 50% of all my email, now its probably around 30% or less. Outlook 2003 catches about 95% of it.
(Kia) first you got to put your neck into, come on... o wait...
I find that when leaning back my neck gets sore only after a few hours, perhaps if your monitor was hung from the ceiling 135 would be good, but for a long period of time I think you are going to have just as many neck problems as back problems.
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I think reuters is right, most of the suggestions are pretty worthless.
How about these suggestions:
1) If you are getting email that is routine (for archive purposes), setup scripts to auto file them.
2) Remove your email address from any webpages where it isn't absolutely needed.
3) Change your email address! It may sound harsh, but a fresh start will surely curb your email intake, send your new address out to only the people you MUST stay in touch with. The people who HAVE to contact you will make a call or get your new email some way.
4) Only reply if asked to or it is absolutely necessary. A lot of email is simple yes, or haha comments, which are pretty much worthless and are only wasting yours and others time.
5) If you do reply stay on topic and keep it short as possible, if it is long or complicated this is why will still have those things called phones.
6) Automatically delete and never forward any of those chain letters or joke emails, what a waste of time and bandwidth those things are.
7) If you don't think you are going to reply or dont want to reply within the next 24 hours to an email just delete it, otherwise it will pile up and create a psycological burden for you.
8) Have a good SPAM filter.
9) Setup an autoreply for common questions you get asked.
10) It sounds simple but setup a signature, no point in wasting your time typing your name or website address.
Austrialia will do little to curb overall output, North America and Western Europe are the problems.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Carbon_Emissio
I also wonder what the environmental manufacturing cost of a CFL vs a plain lightbulb is.
This is awesome, but the conclusion of such an interesting study leaves a lot to be desired. FTA...
"In this study we report on the failure characteristics of consumer-grade disk drives. To our knowledge, the study is unprecedented in that it uses a much larger population size than has been previously reported and presents a comprehensive analysis of the correlation between failures and several parameters that are believed to affect disk lifetime. Such analysis is made possible by a new highly parallel health data collection and analysis infrastructure, and by the sheer size of our computing deployment.
One of our key findings has been the lack of a consistent pattern of higher failure rates for higher temperature drives or for those drives at higher utilization levels. Such correlations have been repeatedly highlighted by previous studies, but we are unable to confirm them by observing our population. Although our data do not allow us to conclude that there is no such correlation, it provides strong evidence to suggest that other effects may be more prominent in affecting disk drive reliability in the context of a professionally managed data center deployment.
Our results confirm the findings of previous smaller population studies that suggest that some of the SMART parameters are well-correlated with higher failure probabilities. We find, for example, that after their first scan error, drives are 39 times more likely to fail within 60 days than drives with no such errors. First errors in reallocations, offline reallocations, and probational counts are also strongly correlated to higher failure probabilities. Despite those strong correlations, we find that failure prediction models based on SMART parameters alone are likely to be severely limited in their prediction accuracy, given that a large fraction of our failed drives have shown no SMART error signals whatsoever. This result suggests that SMART models are more useful in predicting trends for large aggregate populations than for individual components. It also suggests that powerful predictive models need to make use of signals beyond those provided by SMART."
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FREE - Maxtor 100GB ATA/133 Internal Hard Drive FAR PM/AR @ OD
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FREE - DVD,Case,PSU,KB,Mouse Free after rebate all the time at slickdeals.net
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Gears of War is the best looking game on any platform right now. So saying Oblivion looks better isn't saying much.
A sub $500 pc with a GTS 8800 and C2D will blow the PS3 out of the water.
I just got done with level 4 last night, the game is awesome. The game play IMO is better than Gears of War becuase it is more varied, and the enemies are a lot more varied. Gears looks beautiful, but the game play was a lot of the same thing. I just love mechs, and this game does them justice, they are simply awesome to control and fight agaist. Some of them transform into other things which kicks it up a notch.
The major flaw, and only flaw I have seen thus far, is the voice acting and story, man is it bad, the characters and animation are beautiful, but the dialog is just terrible. Who the hell plays this game for the story and dialog though? This is the only reason this game doesn't get 5/5 from me.
I give it 4/5.
Dual format players will win this war. As soon as this sells below $500, all other makers will follow. Right now it sells for $1200.
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"Well this is more like it. After waiting forever between the initial announcement and first retail availability of the first wave of HD disc devices, LG's BH100 really rocketed to the shelves, and has just participated in its first unboxing (that we've heard of) mere weeks after the announcement at CES. We're a little disconcerted by that big front-and-center dent on the box, but the unit itself looks just dandy, and gadgetaholic promises a full review in the coming days. But that's not what you're here for, you just wanted to see this little guy ripped from his Styrofoam cocoon and flap his little Red and Blue wings, so hit the read link for the whole event. Fly, BH100, fly."
http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/22/lgs-bh100-supe
seeing as LG already has a dual format player on sale RIGHT NOW for 1200, I think its very possible.
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http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/17/lg-bh100-hd-dv
$200 in 2009 for a dual format player? Come on now. If there is a dual format player by the end of this year for less than $300 I will be buying it, and I bet there will be.
It's totally different. Land is tangible and limited. Domain names are not. Land only has value because of other land around it, except for minerals and such, but all of that land is gone anyways. Domain names have intrinsic value. And finally and most important, land is TAXED, domain names are not.
I have read many sources saying consoles sell for like $1 over cost to the retailer. Wouldn't they be losing a lot of money doing this?
I wouldn't care if everything used DRM if it required zero extra time, no resources, allowed for fair use, and was fully compatible. Being a software developer I know this is almost impossible though. Unless you fully control the entire system and software (ie XBOX 360, iTunes and iPod) it is near impossible to implement, this is why DRM is unacceptable in most cases. Even if you have a closed system DRM is still very hard (ie XBOX 1, PS3).
Yeah I know, you think someone would have come out with that by now, especially considering how awesome a flash disk system would be for enterprise servers where IOPS is everything, and money is tossed around. Its far too late now though, by the time anything is out, SSDs will far out perform them, be cheaper, and much easier to manage than a cluster of flash devices.
Unlikely, MS has absolutely no reason to push HD-DVD other than to give an alternative to BluRay. More than likely they will try to skip the HD disc format altogether and push online video distribution which is so much cheaper, and far more lucrative.
I agree, the big issue is the 90nm, with the 65nm they will be making a lot more chips per wafer, which are much cheaper which drives everything, there will be absolutely no reason to produce any more 90nm chips.
Since drives are so dirt cheap, what could happen is the pro version comes with 120gb while the core version comes with 20gb drive, this would make a lot of sense since MS wants to push their videos and demos, which you can only get with a HD, for the manf cost of a 20gb drive, probably less than $20, they will make that back in no time.
as long as they offer a 120gb upgrade for older 360s that would be fine with me. there are currently hacks out that let you use any HD of any size, but the MS firmware drivers have hardcoded 20GB limits in them, so even if you hook up a 500GB hard drive, it only can use 20GB. with this coming update, you should then be able to use your own drive up to 120GB. (you can't put movies or demos on any media drives you connect, only the main drive)
"The NAND flash contained in the SanDisk drive, in fact, only contains one bit of data per memory cell. SanDisk makes NAND flash that can hold two bits of data per cell and, through Msystems, has technology for expanding that to 4 bits of memory in a cell. Increasing the capacity can thus be accomplished without massive technological breakthroughs."
Even if it were cost feasible your drive would die in a matter of months or years because flash, especially cheap flash has a limited number of write and read cycles, very small actually, 1000-10000 on some. If windows is churning at your swap file it would only take a day or so to do that many writes. Also the bandwidth of normal cheap flash drives is pretty crappy. The SSDs have special write algorithms in them which spread the writes out around the disk evenly, this extends the life of the memory gates much beyond normal flash memory.
With these new disks would be a great time for manufactures to align their specs with the consumers mind. i.e. 1,000,000,000 bytes does not equal a GB. For once I would like to buy a drive and actually be able to use 34,359,738,368 bytes and not the crummy 32,000,000,000 they are selling.
I have noticed a decrease in the amount of spam lately. 5-6 months ago it was more than 50% of all my email, now its probably around 30% or less. Outlook 2003 catches about 95% of it.
With all of the horror stories already posted how has this packaging not been sued out of existance yet?
(Kia) first you got to put your neck into, come on... o wait...
I find that when leaning back my neck gets sore only after a few hours, perhaps if your monitor was hung from the ceiling 135 would be good, but for a long period of time I think you are going to have just as many neck problems as back problems.
I would say cell phones have a far greater impact on disconnecting people from reality than all of the games and computers put together.
"Now what this does is it takes a person away from reality because they've created their own reality"
Funny, because thats what games are designed to do.
http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTI xOCwxLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==
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http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/11/08/geforce_88
Although the toms article is pretty worthless as most benches are cpu bound with a fx64 cpu.
my favorite has to be this page, 8800 GTX SLI/3.80GHz Core 2 Duo SLI
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,205379
itsatrap!