When I saw it called the "unit" of computing I thought maybe it was modular so I could snap together a few "units" of them to make it faster, bigger, etc.
Shoot, make it NOT expandable at ALL and simply modular, so more ram, more hd, more proc, etc, just click it together. Have variations, different colors mean more ram or more hard drive. Pair a unit with more ram with a unit with more processor.
Otherwise, whats the point? They've made a nettop with an i3 rather than a atom? Ok...
I am crafting a dunce cap right now and will print out and staple your post to it and walk around today with it on my head, to make sure that everyone else knows what a moron I am.
If that's what the law states, then I'm glad the Texas AG is doing his job and upholding it since that the law that the democratically elected legislature passed. Additionally, why should there be unsupervised "observers" standing around a polling place and potentially intimidating voters? There are already plenty of limits to regulate campaigning in and around polling places, and I see no reason why unelected "observers" should be given more access to polling places that legitimately registered voters are.
That, and from what I've been able to tell, the "observers" appear to be wanting to "observe" voter issues (intimidation, discrimination, disenfranchisement) for only one of the two parties, the other party they have no interest in "observing."
Yeah, no red flags there. Why is it that the news doesn't talk about the camo-wearing black panthers with truncheons standing outside polls in the last election? Which party were they observing then?
This just doesn't smell right to me. Why does the UN feel the need to protect just one of the two prominent political parties in this country? If they want to meddle in our election they should help watch for problems on both sides.
You need to use a sandbox - google for sandboxie, read up on it and find out how to set it up to put your bookmarks outside the sandbox, etc.
You need to use a good browser, right now for me that's Chrome.
You need to do the customary tweaks to the browser such as ad-blocking, script blocking, etc. Ghostery seems to do well, chrome also has a noscript clone.
You can make windows accounts with limited privilege.
If you want an active antivirus you can use microsoft security essentials - free.
If you want to pay for something then get the pay version of Malwarebytes - will be active and run all the time. Otherwise the free version is "on-demand."
For myself, I never surf without a sandbox, ever, never without ad and script blocking. and in my opinion (FWIW) when you do that an antivirus is moot.
Also I use web based email, have done for years. Thus no attachments get downloaded automatically, and my email provider seems to do some a/v checking anyway.
Most infections come from drive-by downloads and that pretty much won't happen with adbock and script blocking. Most malware won't even run inside a sandbox anyway!
For good measure configure the windows box and then capture an image. If something gets messed up to any degree just pop on that fresh image and boom, rolling again with no hassles.
Use dropbox to store important documents. So if you have to re-image your documents repopulate automagically. I also use google bookmarks and lastpass.
It was my understanding that for traditional drives in a RAID you don't want to get all the same type of drive all made around the same time since they will fail around the same time too. Same would apply to SSDs.
Excellent idea, for "serious mission critical" applications it would be good to source drives for a RAID array from different channels. Maybe same model/mfg but different vendors...
Otherwise you know they're coming from the same case of drives which came off the same assembly line in a row and had the same guy sneeze on all of them.
It's a nice theory anyway, but do people actually bother to do that? How often do simultaneous failures REALLY happen nowdays?
Maybe for SSDs which are more of a literal "black box" scenario things would be more predictable than with mechanical HDs.
Instantaneous signalling, unlimited distance, perfect "reception" at all times, inherently secure.
Of course, I would presume our military already has it, (lag would suck for the drone pilot, hmmm?) but hey, I'm talking about something I could get in my future cell phone.
The way trading software works allows this manipulation, it's illegal, and it happens all the time.
Here's my impression of how it works.
Entity one buys the stock. Entity two does a buy order to inflate the price a little bit, entity one sells instantly, entity two cancels the order a few milliseconds later.
Wash, rinse, repeat several million times and... free money.
Well for one thing, I hope nobody else starts copying Monsanto's specific roundup-resistant GMO strain, since there was an article recently showing that both the GMO strain and roundup itself cause cancer.. so it would make sense to stop anyone else from copying it.
this needs modded up.
This frankenfood has GOT to stop. Europe is ahead of us on this issue. People have been VERY suspicious of it for years, now the truth comes out.
i'm sure an advanced civilization will master Star Trek type fusion tech before doing something ridiculous like building a starlight collector.
the earth compared to the sun is like a grain of sand to a beachball. where would you get enough matter to build something around a star if the same or similar size ratio will exist in other star systems?
This is being done by a civilization that isn't worried about the logistics of such trivial concerns as the raw materials...
x2 there are very effective windows and window technology that block noise. No I'm not an expert but I've experienced it myself.
Cellulose insulation blocks noise many many times better than fiberglass or anything else, with the benefit of being more fire resistant as well.
White/brown noise or similar is a very good idea it will block out distractions. Aiming it at the windows or making a sound curtain is a novel idea and will probably help - but the bass will tend to be more omnidirectional...
Here's an idea OP - if you're trying to create a noiseproof coccoon of your whole house or just your office, it might be simpler to wrap your office with cellulose insulation or other sound deadening material and replace just the window in that room, if any, with something better than what you evidently used first time around.
Expensive hardware has been dead for a while. That's why Apple had such disappointing preorders of the new iPhone and has been lagging behind Samsung in tablet sell-through.
Or, maybe not.
A while ago netbooks were all the rage. Now tablets. Next will be ________ and it will be cool, for sure.
The issue behind TFA is the same issue that's been around for about 4 years now. Entry level hardware is completely capable of meeting the needs of 90+% of consumers.
Tech companies keep innovating and trying to maintain Moore's law. There will always be a $1000 top-of-the-line Extreme Edition Ultra Uber chip, and people will always buy them, helping the tech companies pay for the R+D so that after a while the $1000 chip will be available for $35 on Tiger Direct.
iPhones are not expensive hardware, they cost about $200 or so.
iPads are not expensive hardware either, apparently.
Perhaps the real premise is expensive high-end desktop PCs are dead. Except for render stations, CAD stations, gamers, etc.
Why is everybody dropping their phones? How does this happen? After years of smartphone use, and over a decade of cell phone use, I've only ever dropped one phone (an old Nokia, circa 2000; ended up with a loose battery connection that would occasionally cause dropped calls if it shifted mid-call).
Maybe rather than a case people should get the Nokia Lumia 920 and wear grippy gloves, since the 920's screen can be used with gloves on.
The one time I REALLY dropped my droid3, onto concrete with a razor thin layer of laminate, was when I was at the supermarket, distracted and in a hurry, and went to put it into my pocket.
I completed the motion of putting it into the pocket, but instead of the phone actually entering the pocket it grazed the lip of the pocket and slid right on by. And then right on down to the floor.
Of course, being a moto, it was if it never happened.
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Except that's strictly a right-wing fantasy. Obama actually LOWERED taxes and CUT regulations.
Psst, hey AC, better check this out...
Incomes are down: http://news.investors.com/092512-626958-household-income-down-82-under-president-obama.aspx
Obamacare regulations for 2013 are going to be less than optimal: http://www.forbes.com/sites/gracemarieturner/2012/10/28/the-avalanche-of-new-obamacare-rules-will-come-in-january-2013/
Obama EPA regulations also sub-optimal: http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2012/11/04/epas-insanely-ambitious-agenda-if-obama-is-reelected/
Here's another tip- stop getting your news from NPR and MSNBC. that's a left wing fantasy.
When I saw it called the "unit" of computing I thought maybe it was modular so I could snap together a few "units" of them to make it faster, bigger, etc.
Shoot, make it NOT expandable at ALL and simply modular, so more ram, more hd, more proc, etc, just click it together. Have variations, different colors mean more ram or more hard drive. Pair a unit with more ram with a unit with more processor.
Otherwise, whats the point? They've made a nettop with an i3 rather than a atom? Ok...
You are right, of course.
Thanks for the correction.
I am crafting a dunce cap right now and will print out and staple your post to it and walk around today with it on my head, to make sure that everyone else knows what a moron I am.
If that's what the law states, then I'm glad the Texas AG is doing his job and upholding it since that the law that the democratically elected legislature passed. Additionally, why should there be unsupervised "observers" standing around a polling place and potentially intimidating voters? There are already plenty of limits to regulate campaigning in and around polling places, and I see no reason why unelected "observers" should be given more access to polling places that legitimately registered voters are.
That, and from what I've been able to tell, the "observers" appear to be wanting to "observe" voter issues (intimidation, discrimination, disenfranchisement) for only one of the two parties, the other party they have no interest in "observing."
Yeah, no red flags there. Why is it that the news doesn't talk about the camo-wearing black panthers with truncheons standing outside polls in the last election? Which party were they observing then?
This just doesn't smell right to me. Why does the UN feel the need to protect just one of the two prominent political parties in this country? If they want to meddle in our election they should help watch for problems on both sides.
You need to use a sandbox - google for sandboxie, read up on it and find out how to set it up to put your bookmarks outside the sandbox, etc.
You need to use a good browser, right now for me that's Chrome.
You need to do the customary tweaks to the browser such as ad-blocking, script blocking, etc. Ghostery seems to do well, chrome also has a noscript clone.
You can make windows accounts with limited privilege.
If you want an active antivirus you can use microsoft security essentials - free.
If you want to pay for something then get the pay version of Malwarebytes - will be active and run all the time. Otherwise the free version is "on-demand."
For myself, I never surf without a sandbox, ever, never without ad and script blocking. and in my opinion (FWIW) when you do that an antivirus is moot.
Also I use web based email, have done for years. Thus no attachments get downloaded automatically, and my email provider seems to do some a/v checking anyway.
Most infections come from drive-by downloads and that pretty much won't happen with adbock and script blocking. Most malware won't even run inside a sandbox anyway!
For good measure configure the windows box and then capture an image. If something gets messed up to any degree just pop on that fresh image and boom, rolling again with no hassles.
Use dropbox to store important documents. So if you have to re-image your documents repopulate automagically. I also use google bookmarks and lastpass.
It was my understanding that for traditional drives in a RAID you don't want to get all the same type of drive all made around the same time since they will fail around the same time too. Same would apply to SSDs.
Excellent idea, for "serious mission critical" applications it would be good to source drives for a RAID array from different channels. Maybe same model/mfg but different vendors...
Otherwise you know they're coming from the same case of drives which came off the same assembly line in a row and had the same guy sneeze on all of them.
It's a nice theory anyway, but do people actually bother to do that? How often do simultaneous failures REALLY happen nowdays?
Maybe for SSDs which are more of a literal "black box" scenario things would be more predictable than with mechanical HDs.
Unless you buy books authored by the Amazon, most of it will go to the authors (and publishers).
Most?
Since when?
Maybe Red Bull?
The next big thing will obviously be Quantum communications.
https://www.google.com/search?q=quantum+entanglement+record+broken
Instantaneous signalling, unlimited distance, perfect "reception" at all times, inherently secure.
Of course, I would presume our military already has it, (lag would suck for the drone pilot, hmmm?) but hey, I'm talking about something I could get in my future cell phone.
Keiser Report talks about this sometimes.
The way trading software works allows this manipulation, it's illegal, and it happens all the time.
Here's my impression of how it works.
Entity one buys the stock. Entity two does a buy order to inflate the price a little bit, entity one sells instantly, entity two cancels the order a few milliseconds later.
Wash, rinse, repeat several million times and ... free money.
No, it's okay because everyone has the same IP address - 127.0.0.1.
Phew. That's a relief.
Next thing you know, they'll be telling me my IP address is in EVERY packet I send and receive on the Internet!!!!
What? What? That is outrageous! This needs to be front page news! I will not tolerate such privacy violations!
Well for one thing, I hope nobody else starts copying Monsanto's specific roundup-resistant GMO strain, since there was an article recently showing that both the GMO strain and roundup itself cause cancer.. so it would make sense to stop anyone else from copying it.
this needs modded up.
This frankenfood has GOT to stop. Europe is ahead of us on this issue. People have been VERY suspicious of it for years, now the truth comes out.
i'm sure an advanced civilization will master Star Trek type fusion tech before doing something ridiculous like building a starlight collector.
the earth compared to the sun is like a grain of sand to a beachball. where would you get enough matter to build something around a star if the same or similar size ratio will exist in other star systems?
This is being done by a civilization that isn't worried about the logistics of such trivial concerns as the raw materials...
Android is Linux...without all the good stuff.
But it's still linux, and that's plenty good enough 'round these parts, fella.
the previous poster is probably talking about carbon monoxide being reduced.
It's (I've heard) hard to even kill yourself with a car these days.
Doing the math, (the formulas are out there) if gas gets high enough it can pay for itself in just a few years. I've done the math.
double paned?
x2 there are very effective windows and window technology that block noise. No I'm not an expert but I've experienced it myself.
Cellulose insulation blocks noise many many times better than fiberglass or anything else, with the benefit of being more fire resistant as well.
White/brown noise or similar is a very good idea it will block out distractions. Aiming it at the windows or making a sound curtain is a novel idea and will probably help - but the bass will tend to be more omnidirectional...
Here's an idea OP - if you're trying to create a noiseproof coccoon of your whole house or just your office, it might be simpler to wrap your office with cellulose insulation or other sound deadening material and replace just the window in that room, if any, with something better than what you evidently used first time around.
https://www.google.com/search?q=ingo+swann+penetration
You know, that's near the DARK side of the moon...
Yes, why not build spacecraft there? Because we don't have a trillion dollars to spare? That might be it.
Well we DID have a spare trillion, apparently, but it went to da bankers via stimulus...
https://www.google.com/search?q=def+leppard+drummer
What more proof do you need that it's made of cheese, eh?
Everyone knows the moon is hollow:
https://www.google.com/search?q=hollow+moon+theory
Duh... ;-p
Expensive hardware has been dead for a while. That's why Apple had such disappointing preorders of the new iPhone and has been lagging behind Samsung in tablet sell-through.
Or, maybe not.
A while ago netbooks were all the rage. Now tablets. Next will be ________ and it will be cool, for sure.
The issue behind TFA is the same issue that's been around for about 4 years now. Entry level hardware is completely capable of meeting the needs of 90+% of consumers.
Tech companies keep innovating and trying to maintain Moore's law. There will always be a $1000 top-of-the-line Extreme Edition Ultra Uber chip, and people will always buy them, helping the tech companies pay for the R+D so that after a while the $1000 chip will be available for $35 on Tiger Direct.
iPhones are not expensive hardware, they cost about $200 or so.
iPads are not expensive hardware either, apparently.
Perhaps the real premise is expensive high-end desktop PCs are dead. Except for render stations, CAD stations, gamers, etc.
hmmm.... Well....
So this is about 100 times human energy consumption.
Still that's a shocking reduction from the mass of Jupiter.
It's already been done. FTL.
No I don't have proof, just the non-stop claims everywhere of how far ahead the black projects are.
Why is everybody dropping their phones? How does this happen? After years of smartphone use, and over a decade of cell phone use, I've only ever dropped one phone (an old Nokia, circa 2000; ended up with a loose battery connection that would occasionally cause dropped calls if it shifted mid-call).
Maybe rather than a case people should get the Nokia Lumia 920 and wear grippy gloves, since the 920's screen can be used with gloves on.
The one time I REALLY dropped my droid3, onto concrete with a razor thin layer of laminate, was when I was at the supermarket, distracted and in a hurry, and went to put it into my pocket.
I completed the motion of putting it into the pocket, but instead of the phone actually entering the pocket it grazed the lip of the pocket and slid right on by. And then right on down to the floor.
Of course, being a moto, it was if it never happened.