Obviously they will spend a bunch of money, and it won't be 100% effective. But if you have 5 million users, and it costs an average of $100/hr to keep each of them, a significant reduction in spam is worth paying good money for.
One of the parents on a soccer team I was coaching had that. There was some glitch, and I started trying to work through their crappy system until I thought, "why should I go to this extra effort for somebody else's convenience?" So I didn't.
Also, a friend's yahoo account was compromised, so I started getting email "from him" (except not really). Not even whitelisting protects you then. (But the worst part was, my "real" email address was in his contacts list, so after 7 solid years, it was compromised. Game over!)
Actions need not be motivated by currency to be compatible with capitalism; rational self-interest includes such factors as goodwill and self-esteem in addition to the direct and indirect exchange of material goods and services.
Maybe it's capitalism and rational self interest that aren't fully compatible. Capitalism means capital. If bootlicking raises more capital than guitar playing, the pure capitalist licks boots. Self-esteem and such doesn't enter into it.
It was due to something like how it derived the heading vs the direction of travel or some-such.
Moral of the story was that using static ground stations like LORAN, this would not have occurred.
You can't draw that conclusion until you know what went wrong with the gps-based system, and what goes wrong with ground-based system. It's not as if the obvious alternative to a flawed system is using a perfect system instead, or even a (more complex) combination of systems.
"but makes it very clear that every write and delete operation you do on an SSD drive brings it that much closer to extinction."
I didn't get that message from it. My takehome from the article is that SSD write performance falls over time, but levels off once the whole thing has been written once. For Intel drives the fall is 22% in HDD benchmarks and 3% in real-world benchmarks, and the read speed is "largely unaffected." Of course, conventional hard drive performance does decline over time too, especially if you keep it fairly full, since it forces file fragmentation that kills performance due to rotational latency, both for reads and writes. On the Intel SSD, the degraded write latency is still under 1 ms. the article says, "You end up with a drive that still manages to be much faster than the fastest 3.5" hard drives, but slower than when you first got it."
I use laptops exclusively, so even matching the fastest 3.5" hard drives would have been the biggest breakthrough in 2.5" hard drive technology in years. I use VMWare a lot, often on a pretty full drive (laptop hard drives aren't all that big). With VMWare you suffer 2 layers of file fragmentation - guest OS + host OS (disk image files) - and running near full increases fragmentation further. Put that all together, and the performance increase over a nearly full 2.5" laptop drive is pretty remarkable. VMWare Workstation's snapshots and suspend/resume weren't even worth using before - they took too long - now just a few seconds. That's a multi-gig write every time, so I must have filled every block on the drive several times by now.
I didn't notice anything in the article about maximum write cycles, but Intel designed it to last at least 5 years of heavy usage. By then this drive won't be worth $20. I would like larger capacity though. I'm using my laptop's modular bay to hold a second one. That's no too bad, since I don't care for optical media and the second drive uses no power when idle. But I'd rather use the modular bay for an extra battery instead. Bring on the 1 TB SLC flash drives for $99:) I've no doubt it will happen within a few years.
I can't speak for games on Windows. Under Linux I've run without swap for years. I do run Windows on an Intel 2.5" SATA SSD drive and haven't done anything to disable swap, though the Intel engineering and its intended use as a hard drive gives me extra confidence there.
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I agree. I just looked for the cheapest I could find, and couldn't do any better than a 10-pack for $50 USD. link. I would have guessed it was down to half that by now, but no. And for about the same price you can get 512 MB or 2 GB, which makes me suspect the packaging is the cost driver? Unfortunately Moore's Law doesn't apply there.
Crayons = wax. As a dad I can tell you when a crayon goes through the dryer it is carnage, so if your memory stick threat model includes going through the wash, I would avoid wax.
I'd say there's a very important causal statement here, which is that being slower at javascript does not in itself cause a browser to be unpopular.
For myself, what's much more annoying is when a page doesn't render sensibly (regardless of whose fault it is), and when the browser locks up (which firefox does a lot on ubuntu on pages with videos, especially cnn also youtube).
Sometimes it's just baffling to see people goo "ooh" when someone states that they makes an extreme speed and then the people thinks that going that fast must be very dangerous.
Well, the historical evidence confirms they're right, and you're wrong. Yes, you really do have to sit on top of enough propellent to push that massive shuttle straight up into the air and accelerate it to 17000 mph, with pinpoint precision. And sometimes, it blows up and everybody dies.
Ah, no, the Shuttle actually did have to accelerate to 17000 mph from when it took off until it docked, with precise positioning. It's by no means easy, only a few nations are capable of it. I thought the X-Prize was pretty cool, but for that matter, they never even reach orbit.
How can you directly compare radio telescopes when they aren't even working in the visible spectrum? For that matter, does this new telesope really have 10x the resolution of Hubble - in the same frequencies? I know very little about astronomy, but often when you hear the newest telescope is X times better than the old one, it turns out it isn't even measuring the same thing, or it has better sensitivity but less resolution, or some sort of apples-to-oranges tradeoff.
AP spoofing is a big threat, and it's yet another good reason why never to enter your credit card to access wifi anywhere (besides the whole having to pay part:P ).
I have to disagree with you and the grandparent. https (ssl/tls) does work. So long as you look at the URLs you are accessing and don't override your browser's warnings, you don't have to worry about your bank account info being stolen. (Your precious slashdot ID is another matter, since there is no https access so far as I know).
Well, the US has finally, just in last couple years, mandated low sulphur diesel as well. So finally we are making some progress on diesel. However, that doesn't mean hybrids are a boondoggle, since a small diesel engine alone doesn't provide regenerative braking or quick acceleration, and aren't that efficient outside a range of RPMs. But why more hybrid cars don't use diesel powerplants instead of gasoline, I don't know.
Anyways, most mileage could be handled by electric-only cars, which would save a huge amount of weight on the engine, gearbox, and fuel. These should be great commuter cars for many people and can charge at night when demand on baseload generators is lower.
You're going way overboard with this. A baby monitor is just a walkie-talkie, if it stops working you can tell because you can't hear your child any more and makes white noise. It almost sounds like you're worried about is secret agents spoofing the baby monitor, or parents letting their kids starve because they would never think to feed them unless they heard them crying on the baby monitor.
Interesting stuff! But I think applicable in most jobs, not just teaching. For instance:
the bigger issue seems to be that everybody's priorities are for themselves; in a company everybody benefits (to different degrees) when the company prospers, and everybody is hurt (again, to different degrees*) when the company does poorly. But in the school system everybody's rewards are based on how well they help themselves rather than the students... unlike a corporation, there really isn't any one person in charge who can set a vision and coerce everybody to move towards it.
Where do you work that self-interest aligns with the corporate interest, and people take the CEOs "vision" seriously? Where I work it is all fiefdom-building.
Don't you see, that's the whole point - the PC makers have no choice but to do Intel's bidding because most customers do want Intel chips. When Intel tells a PC maker what to do, it is not a choice. If Intel were to punish HP for insufficient loyalty by giving a 10% "good customer discount" to Dell, then HP would have a very hard time competing in the market.
Those unfamiliar with IMDB scores might think that is pretty close, but it isn't. Star Trek is nearing Dark Knight territory (8.9), whereas Wolverine is closer to the X-Files=6.8 (and I mean X-Files, not the first X-Men=7.4)
What I meant was the legality of GPS receiver detectors may fall into the same class as radar detectors. But if there's no way to detect them, well the legality doesn't matter much.
"Truth and objectivity" is awfully high-minded for a subclass of notebooks that isn't well-defined in the first place. "The whole netbook craze" (quoting the blurb) doesn't exist in the first place. Yes, the low-end laptop market keeps getting lower. Big deal.
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Obviously they will spend a bunch of money, and it won't be 100% effective. But if you have 5 million users, and it costs an average of $100/hr to keep each of them, a significant reduction in spam is worth paying good money for.
Also, a friend's yahoo account was compromised, so I started getting email "from him" (except not really). Not even whitelisting protects you then. (But the worst part was, my "real" email address was in his contacts list, so after 7 solid years, it was compromised. Game over!)
Maybe it's capitalism and rational self interest that aren't fully compatible. Capitalism means capital. If bootlicking raises more capital than guitar playing, the pure capitalist licks boots. Self-esteem and such doesn't enter into it.
Moreover, Galileo is designed for cite).
You can't draw that conclusion until you know what went wrong with the gps-based system, and what goes wrong with ground-based system. It's not as if the obvious alternative to a flawed system is using a perfect system instead, or even a (more complex) combination of systems.
I didn't get that message from it. My takehome from the article is that SSD write performance falls over time, but levels off once the whole thing has been written once. For Intel drives the fall is 22% in HDD benchmarks and 3% in real-world benchmarks, and the read speed is "largely unaffected." Of course, conventional hard drive performance does decline over time too, especially if you keep it fairly full, since it forces file fragmentation that kills performance due to rotational latency, both for reads and writes. On the Intel SSD, the degraded write latency is still under 1 ms. the article says, "You end up with a drive that still manages to be much faster than the fastest 3.5" hard drives, but slower than when you first got it."
I use laptops exclusively, so even matching the fastest 3.5" hard drives would have been the biggest breakthrough in 2.5" hard drive technology in years. I use VMWare a lot, often on a pretty full drive (laptop hard drives aren't all that big). With VMWare you suffer 2 layers of file fragmentation - guest OS + host OS (disk image files) - and running near full increases fragmentation further. Put that all together, and the performance increase over a nearly full 2.5" laptop drive is pretty remarkable. VMWare Workstation's snapshots and suspend/resume weren't even worth using before - they took too long - now just a few seconds. That's a multi-gig write every time, so I must have filled every block on the drive several times by now.
I didn't notice anything in the article about maximum write cycles, but Intel designed it to last at least 5 years of heavy usage. By then this drive won't be worth $20. I would like larger capacity though. I'm using my laptop's modular bay to hold a second one. That's no too bad, since I don't care for optical media and the second drive uses no power when idle. But I'd rather use the modular bay for an extra battery instead. Bring on the 1 TB SLC flash drives for $99 :) I've no doubt it will happen within a few years.
I can't speak for games on Windows. Under Linux I've run without swap for years. I do run Windows on an Intel 2.5" SATA SSD drive and haven't done anything to disable swap, though the Intel engineering and its intended use as a hard drive gives me extra confidence there.
I agree. I just looked for the cheapest I could find, and couldn't do any better than a 10-pack for $50 USD. link. I would have guessed it was down to half that by now, but no. And for about the same price you can get 512 MB or 2 GB, which makes me suspect the packaging is the cost driver? Unfortunately Moore's Law doesn't apply there.
I'm skeptical that it would be a problem, but it hardly matters if you simply disable swapping. Swap is an outmoded idea.
# free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3091356 3000744 90612 0 31044 2489272
-/+ buffers/cache: 480428 2610928
Swap: 0 0 0
Crayons = wax. As a dad I can tell you when a crayon goes through the dryer it is carnage, so if your memory stick threat model includes going through the wash, I would avoid wax.
For myself, what's much more annoying is when a page doesn't render sensibly (regardless of whose fault it is), and when the browser locks up (which firefox does a lot on ubuntu on pages with videos, especially cnn also youtube).
Well, the historical evidence confirms they're right, and you're wrong. Yes, you really do have to sit on top of enough propellent to push that massive shuttle straight up into the air and accelerate it to 17000 mph, with pinpoint precision. And sometimes, it blows up and everybody dies.
Ah, no, the Shuttle actually did have to accelerate to 17000 mph from when it took off until it docked, with precise positioning. It's by no means easy, only a few nations are capable of it. I thought the X-Prize was pretty cool, but for that matter, they never even reach orbit.
How can you directly compare radio telescopes when they aren't even working in the visible spectrum? For that matter, does this new telesope really have 10x the resolution of Hubble - in the same frequencies? I know very little about astronomy, but often when you hear the newest telescope is X times better than the old one, it turns out it isn't even measuring the same thing, or it has better sensitivity but less resolution, or some sort of apples-to-oranges tradeoff.
I have to disagree with you and the grandparent. https (ssl/tls) does work. So long as you look at the URLs you are accessing and don't override your browser's warnings, you don't have to worry about your bank account info being stolen. (Your precious slashdot ID is another matter, since there is no https access so far as I know).
Anyways, most mileage could be handled by electric-only cars, which would save a huge amount of weight on the engine, gearbox, and fuel. These should be great commuter cars for many people and can charge at night when demand on baseload generators is lower.
Sheesh, where do you get your news - no sports!?
This is called "ceiling effect" and "floor effect." (cite).
You're going way overboard with this. A baby monitor is just a walkie-talkie, if it stops working you can tell because you can't hear your child any more and makes white noise. It almost sounds like you're worried about is secret agents spoofing the baby monitor, or parents letting their kids starve because they would never think to feed them unless they heard them crying on the baby monitor.
Where do you work that self-interest aligns with the corporate interest, and people take the CEOs "vision" seriously? Where I work it is all fiefdom-building.
Don't you see, that's the whole point - the PC makers have no choice but to do Intel's bidding because most customers do want Intel chips. When Intel tells a PC maker what to do, it is not a choice. If Intel were to punish HP for insufficient loyalty by giving a 10% "good customer discount" to Dell, then HP would have a very hard time competing in the market.
Wolverine imdb=6.9
Star Trek imdb=8.6
Those unfamiliar with IMDB scores might think that is pretty close, but it isn't. Star Trek is nearing Dark Knight territory (8.9), whereas Wolverine is closer to the X-Files=6.8 (and I mean X-Files, not the first X-Men=7.4)
What I meant was the legality of GPS receiver detectors may fall into the same class as radar detectors. But if there's no way to detect them, well the legality doesn't matter much.
"Truth and objectivity" is awfully high-minded for a subclass of notebooks that isn't well-defined in the first place. "The whole netbook craze" (quoting the blurb) doesn't exist in the first place. Yes, the low-end laptop market keeps getting lower. Big deal.
I hope some RF whiz answers your question. This would surely fall in the same class as radar detectors(?)