At least you have a good reason not to use the feature, since Command (and even Ctrl) are in very impractical places on Apple keyboards.
I'll grant you Ctrl (but the keyboard that came with my old Apple//gs had Ctrl and Caps Lock swapped compared to most keyboards), but what's impractical about Cmd? Just slide your thumb over to either side of the spacebar.
... Honestly the only thing holding me to linux at this point is a lack of desire to have to repartition my disks using bsd slices,...
Don't let that stop you - FreeBSD at least has supported GPT partitioning for some time, so you don't have to mess around with slices if you don't want to.
... How does this sound for action packed fun: "We need to get hold of his laptop and pull out the hard disk drive. We can then mount it as a slave and wait for 6 hours while it takes an image of the entire contents, then put it back in his laptops. From there, we can mount the image in a read only state and use a tool to brute force the encrypted partition key. It should take around 8 years." ...
I was pleasantly surprised when I noticed that they started doing something like that on NCIS. Okay, the imaging probably took way shorter than it should have, and they were able to brute-force or otherwise deal with encryption, but they not only worked with an image and not the original drive, they even mentioned on screen that the original drive is evidence and shouldn't be messed with.
That having been said, some of their other IT-related babble has been painfully wrong. Still, at least they're trying.:-)
Actually, yeah. The problem with Cougar Point (the Platform Controller Hub that goes along with Sandy Bridge, not the Sandy Bridge chip itself, BTW) is with the SATA 3.0Gbps ports. So to get the maximum performance of these new SSDs, you wouldn't use those ports anyway.
That's the reason for using zero as prefix... if he used 0124 it would be explicit.
The hell it would! Some of us would like to use zero for padding decimal output, but we can't because when you then feed it into anything that uses libc atoi() or strto*(), the leading '0's make it get interpreted as octal. That, and *printf()'s inability to print a numerical value as a bit-string (i.e. "1111" (binary) in addition to "017" (octal), "f" (hex), and "15" (decimal)), are two of my biggest pet-peeves with C.
I doubt this will get seen as there are over 750 comments already, but please stop overriding the browser preference to underline links. The green link color blends in easily with the black normal text, making it easy to miss links when just scanning the page; I have my browser set to underline links for that reason, but it looks like you're overriding it.
This'll never work. How are people going to annoyingly talk on their phones while ordering?
Bluetooth. You can talk and run apps at the same time (even ones that access the Internet), at least on iPhones on AT&T. I hear that it might be different on Verizon w.r.t. the Internet, but non-Internet apps should work too. If all it does is display a the barcode for a debit account number, then there you go, no network required after initial setup.
... After all, for the new Tron movie they needed a young version of a character, so they did almost exactly this - recreated him entirely in CGI. But it's Disney! So no moral problems there!
Actually, that's because the actor in question is actually acting in the movie. Also, is it a fully CGI version, or is it just digital de-aging, like they did for Magnus and Xavier in X-Men III? The former would make it more like Golem being modeled on Andy Serkis; latter would simply make it Jeff Bridges playing two roles in the same film.
The copper solution requires twinax, might as well run fiber as it's easier to deal with at length and can actually fit into the existing raceways (twinax is huge).
I think you're thinking of CX4, which is indeed huge. 10Gb TwinAx comes in SFP+, which is the same port that you use for 10Gb fiber.
Say you're talking about a 4-level MLC cell, and say it runs at 3.3V. If the voltage is on [0V, 0.825V), that's 00b; [0.825, 1.65V) is 01b; [1.65V, 2.475V) is 10b, and [2.475V, 3.3V) is 11b. But those are analog voltages - the controller has to read the voltage, do an analog-to-digital conversion, and figure out which level it corresponds to. The ranges listed above are for if you have perfect discrimination - in most cases, it's difficult to differentiate small differences, so they don't use the full range. With better A-to-D and signal processing, they can resolve the differences better, which in turn lets them get more write cycles.
Those numbers are pulled out of the air for illustrative purposes; I have no idea what the real values are.
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At least you have a good reason not to use the feature, since Command (and even Ctrl) are in very impractical places on Apple keyboards.
I'll grant you Ctrl (but the keyboard that came with my old Apple //gs had Ctrl and Caps Lock swapped compared to most keyboards), but what's impractical about Cmd? Just slide your thumb over to either side of the spacebar.
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... Honestly the only thing holding me to linux at this point is a lack of desire to have to repartition my disks using bsd slices, ...
Don't let that stop you - FreeBSD at least has supported GPT partitioning for some time, so you don't have to mess around with slices if you don't want to.
-Ster
The FreeBSD kernel is not a microkernel - it's a modular monolithic kernel, not unlike the Linux kernel.
It's called "NVM Express", and they're working on it.
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How does this sound for action packed fun: "We need to get hold of his laptop and pull out the hard disk drive. We can then mount it as a slave and wait for 6 hours while it takes an image of the entire contents, then put it back in his laptops. From there, we can mount the image in a read only state and use a tool to brute force the encrypted partition key. It should take around 8 years."
I was pleasantly surprised when I noticed that they started doing something like that on NCIS. Okay, the imaging probably took way shorter than it should have, and they were able to brute-force or otherwise deal with encryption, but they not only worked with an image and not the original drive, they even mentioned on screen that the original drive is evidence and shouldn't be messed with.
That having been said, some of their other IT-related babble has been painfully wrong. Still, at least they're trying. :-)
-Ster
Where are you seeing that they're using a Marvell controller, I didn't see that in any of TFAs?
The perfect compliment to Sandybridge
Actually, yeah. The problem with Cougar Point (the Platform Controller Hub that goes along with Sandy Bridge, not the Sandy Bridge chip itself, BTW) is with the SATA 3.0Gbps ports. So to get the maximum performance of these new SSDs, you wouldn't use those ports anyway.
Add a Magic Trackpad? Or pair with an i(Phone|Pad|Pod Touch).
That's the reason for using zero as prefix... if he used 0124 it would be explicit.
The hell it would! Some of us would like to use zero for padding decimal output, but we can't because when you then feed it into anything that uses libc atoi() or strto*(), the leading '0's make it get interpreted as octal. That, and *printf()'s inability to print a numerical value as a bit-string (i.e. "1111" (binary) in addition to "017" (octal), "f" (hex), and "15" (decimal)), are two of my biggest pet-peeves with C.
Also, the colored dots for relationships. Much easier to visually parse than the text.
I doubt this will get seen as there are over 750 comments already, but please stop overriding the browser preference to underline links. The green link color blends in easily with the black normal text, making it easy to miss links when just scanning the page; I have my browser set to underline links for that reason, but it looks like you're overriding it.
Please don't.
There's a reason the robot is holding a pipe.
This'll never work. How are people going to annoyingly talk on their phones while ordering?
Bluetooth. You can talk and run apps at the same time (even ones that access the Internet), at least on iPhones on AT&T. I hear that it might be different on Verizon w.r.t. the Internet, but non-Internet apps should work too. If all it does is display a the barcode for a debit account number, then there you go, no network required after initial setup.
I know there is (was?) an issue with *Chrome* and Slashdot and copy/paste, but this is the first time I heard of it affecting Safari.
BTW, I just copied and pasted that quote to Slashdot with Safari 5.0.3 (6533.19.4). :-)
... After all, for the new Tron movie they needed a young version of a character, so they did almost exactly this - recreated him entirely in CGI. But it's Disney! So no moral problems there!
Actually, that's because the actor in question is actually acting in the movie. Also, is it a fully CGI version, or is it just digital de-aging, like they did for Magnus and Xavier in X-Men III? The former would make it more like Golem being modeled on Andy Serkis; latter would simply make it Jeff Bridges playing two roles in the same film.
Wikipedia to the rescue; looks like the former.
-Ster
This reminds me of that time you tried to drill a hole in your head....
That would have worked if you hadn't stopped me.
This is also why I love Chrome. It buckets Flash into a separate process, so when Ads start hogging the CPU, I kill the Flash process.
"Flash Player (Safari Internet plug-in)" is a separate process as of Safari 4 (on OS X at least).
-Ster
Fail Safe
Actually, so old that he (she? it? (maybe it's a bot!)) has a three-digit UID! (Anonymous Coward has UID 666 :->)
My first flip phone was a Motorola Star Tek, which did resemble the original Star Trek communicators.
Typoos are a bitch, aren't they?
Indeed they are: it was a StarTAC .
The copper solution requires twinax, might as well run fiber as it's easier to deal with at length and can actually fit into the existing raceways (twinax is huge).
I think you're thinking of CX4, which is indeed huge. 10Gb TwinAx comes in SFP+, which is the same port that you use for 10Gb fiber.
Say you're talking about a 4-level MLC cell, and say it runs at 3.3V. If the voltage is on [0V, 0.825V), that's 00b; [0.825, 1.65V) is 01b; [1.65V, 2.475V) is 10b, and [2.475V, 3.3V) is 11b. But those are analog voltages - the controller has to read the voltage, do an analog-to-digital conversion, and figure out which level it corresponds to. The ranges listed above are for if you have perfect discrimination - in most cases, it's difficult to differentiate small differences, so they don't use the full range. With better A-to-D and signal processing, they can resolve the differences better, which in turn lets them get more write cycles.
Those numbers are pulled out of the air for illustrative purposes; I have no idea what the real values are.
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