LOL, no. LTO is normally about 1/3rd the $/GB of SATA drives and 1/5th the price of NL drives. As an example LTO5 tapes are currently around $20 each when bought in reasonable quantities and hold 1.5TB uncompressed for a cost of $.0133/GB, the cheapest 3TB SATA drive at Newegg right now is $105 for a cost of $.035/GB.
And the drive to read them? Tape is more expensive than disk up to about 50TB when you factor in all the costs.
What's more, politicians really DO care more about a large number of people voting one way than all the contributions in the world because if they get voted out, well the gravy train stops.
No it doesn't. First, congressmen and senators get salary for life. Benefits too. And there are lots of jobs at PACs and companies influencing the people they used to work with. So they can do the wrong but profitable thing and retire to more money a year than most people see in a lifetime.
The ONLY way to have serious reform that sticks is to...
1) Make sure Clinton gets into office in 2016,...
If you really believe this is the answer, you are deluded. She is a machine politician all the way. Note that saw was Romney and McCane, so this is not partisan...
What about all of the other things they will do? Unfortunately, everyone involved will have different ideas about what else is important. Just saying the word "abortion" will split most of the people who might contribute.
I've got a friend who's a structural engineer. He got drunk and told me exactly what he thought of the general level of ability of architects. Next time I'll ask him about interior designers - I think he'll explode.
Stop moving things around! Every time you do that, I lose something that I've become accustomed to for no good reason at all. That's like moving a table a couple of inches, making me bump into it for a couple weeks, and then you change it some more. Or changing the height of the stair steps. Don't do that. It's at best irritating.
Picture a car where every few years they moved the gearshift and the turn signal. Sometimes to the old places for each. I can't see anything bad happening there...
That's the real reason UX people have destroyed this industry. Mobile has been where the money is for the past couple of years. Develop the UX designed to be used by large-pawed morons, and backport to desktop.
This right here... My desktop is not a fucking phone, and I don't want you to make it one. Yes, my opinion is in the minority... But the majority come to ME for IT advice and I will not recommend a craptastic abomination of a UI. You want a minimal browser? Chromium. You want a full featured browser? One of the Firefox forks that will be coming out soon. I wonder if I should register Cinnafox.org and FireMate.org yet...
"if firefox has made any improvements since the 3.x series, I don't know what they are."
Like, pretty much anything that is not visible at first glance? Standards support, memory management, add-on handling, JavaScript performance, responsiveness, developer tools, networking, etc
And all the visible stuff that people actually see they keep beating with the ugly stick. Smart move!
Not a UI/UX designer so I have to ask, why have designers hidden these basic menus in most browsers these days? Is it because they want their browser to be "cleaner" by default? For me the 20 or so pixels that are saved by hiding the menu bar isn't worth the inconvenience of always having to turn these menus back on. I can't recall anyone I know mentioning how they hate the file menu and wish it were hidden by default on a PC.
If they actually cared what users did with it we would never have had, KDE 4, Unity, Gnome Shell, Windows 8, and so on... They simply don't care how you use it. They are alone in their echo chamber looking at the new shiny, going "Ohh... We should do that." Then they wonder why they are suddenly abandon and running out of money. http://tech.slashdot.org/story...
Can't wait for Cinnafox and FireMate forks! Why do design guys always want to follow everyone else? For a while, everyone made a car that looked like a Honda. And that helped Honda. Suddenly these new cars come out that do not look like Honda and they do very well. Now it is Follow the Chrome. Guess what? If people want a browser to look like Chrome, they will download... (Wait for it) Fucking Chrome! This UI fascination with playing "Hide the Menus" is not appreciated. And much like the infamous "Hide the print button" Microsoft played with the original Office ribbon, guess what is back?
If you're just objecting to someone having a video display on their face, then you're simply being a Luddite, and this isn't the place for you.
I object to having a conversation with someone who hasn't the courtesy to maintain eye contact and to focus on what is being said but rather with what is on screen.
Yeah... Smart phone users piss me off too... Here is an idea. Be annoyed with the asshole, not the tool the asshole uses. Even with this, the user can still look you in the eye and concentrate. Depth perception is totally screwed, so catch is probably out, however.
VirtualBox is GPL2.
If you install Oracles proprietary crap, that's your problem.
"This is called "dual licensing". Since Oracle holds all the copyrights to the VirtualBox code, or is at least permitted to relicense code that is owned by external contributors or other parties, we are free to choose the terms under which we license the code to our customers, or the open-source community. "
So any code you submit, you also assign to Oracle so they can release it closed source. So not totally open.
So they want an open and decentralized social network. But the VM images are only in the Oracle owned Virtual Box format? And right now it is only built for new and hard to source appliances, not older desktop easily found in rubbish bins? And I still haven't found what it does that owncloud does not... You would think the web page or wikipedia would have a short "This is what the we do" page somewhere...
Slashdot Mirror
Going 4 years on my Intel SSD. I am replacing it, but only to gain capacity.
LOL, no. LTO is normally about 1/3rd the $/GB of SATA drives and 1/5th the price of NL drives. As an example LTO5 tapes are currently around $20 each when bought in reasonable quantities and hold 1.5TB uncompressed for a cost of $.0133/GB, the cheapest 3TB SATA drive at Newegg right now is $105 for a cost of $.035/GB.
And the drive to read them? Tape is more expensive than disk up to about 50TB when you factor in all the costs.
What's more, politicians really DO care more about a large number of people voting one way than all the contributions in the world because if they get voted out, well the gravy train stops.
No it doesn't. First, congressmen and senators get salary for life. Benefits too. And there are lots of jobs at PACs and companies influencing the people they used to work with. So they can do the wrong but profitable thing and retire to more money a year than most people see in a lifetime.
She is what every she needs to be to get elected. Like far too many politicians.
None, and that is his point. The majority can outspend them. Sam Walton got rich from lots of small contributions from the middle class.
The ONLY way to have serious reform that sticks is to...
1) Make sure Clinton gets into office in 2016, ...
If you really believe this is the answer, you are deluded. She is a machine politician all the way. Note that saw was Romney and McCane, so this is not partisan...
What about all of the other things they will do? Unfortunately, everyone involved will have different ideas about what else is important. Just saying the word "abortion" will split most of the people who might contribute.
That fact that is was lacking in functionality is something seriously wrong in my book. And apparently a lot of others as well.
But everywhere I go, the parking attendants say my car is too old to be allowed in...
I've got a friend who's a structural engineer. He got drunk and told me exactly what he thought of the general level of ability of architects. Next time I'll ask him about interior designers - I think he'll explode.
May have to keep that as a sig quote...
It's a fork of FF engine with the older interface (from around version 26 I believe).
http://www.palemoon.org/ :)
I would love to see that website hit rate stats over the next few weeks...
Note, A Linux versions exists, but is hard to find. http://www.palemoon.org/contri...
Forcing bad UI to users : how did it work for Microsoft, Mozilla?
And KDE4... And Gnome... http://tech.slashdot.org/story...
Lots of object lessons for those who care to look.
Stop moving things around! Every time you do that, I lose something that I've become accustomed to for no good reason at all. That's like moving a table a couple of inches, making me bump into it for a couple weeks, and then you change it some more. Or changing the height of the stair steps. Don't do that. It's at best irritating.
Picture a car where every few years they moved the gearshift and the turn signal. Sometimes to the old places for each. I can't see anything bad happening there...
That's the real reason UX people have destroyed this industry. Mobile has been where the money is for the past couple of years. Develop the UX designed to be used by large-pawed morons, and backport to desktop.
This right here... My desktop is not a fucking phone, and I don't want you to make it one. Yes, my opinion is in the minority... But the majority come to ME for IT advice and I will not recommend a craptastic abomination of a UI. You want a minimal browser? Chromium. You want a full featured browser? One of the Firefox forks that will be coming out soon. I wonder if I should register Cinnafox.org and FireMate.org yet...
"if firefox has made any improvements since the 3.x series, I don't know what they are." Like, pretty much anything that is not visible at first glance? Standards support, memory management, add-on handling, JavaScript performance, responsiveness, developer tools, networking, etc
And all the visible stuff that people actually see they keep beating with the ugly stick. Smart move!
Not a UI/UX designer so I have to ask, why have designers hidden these basic menus in most browsers these days? Is it because they want their browser to be "cleaner" by default? For me the 20 or so pixels that are saved by hiding the menu bar isn't worth the inconvenience of always having to turn these menus back on. I can't recall anyone I know mentioning how they hate the file menu and wish it were hidden by default on a PC.
If they actually cared what users did with it we would never have had, KDE 4, Unity, Gnome Shell, Windows 8, and so on... They simply don't care how you use it. They are alone in their echo chamber looking at the new shiny, going "Ohh... We should do that." Then they wonder why they are suddenly abandon and running out of money. http://tech.slashdot.org/story...
They still break addons. Just look for Download Status Bar.
How? I can't find it anymore... Oh, wait... There is is. In Bookmarks, Most visited... /sarcastic_rant
Can't wait for Cinnafox and FireMate forks! Why do design guys always want to follow everyone else? For a while, everyone made a car that looked like a Honda. And that helped Honda. Suddenly these new cars come out that do not look like Honda and they do very well. Now it is Follow the Chrome. Guess what? If people want a browser to look like Chrome, they will download... (Wait for it) Fucking Chrome! This UI fascination with playing "Hide the Menus" is not appreciated. And much like the infamous "Hide the print button" Microsoft played with the original Office ribbon, guess what is back?
You realize that you have already lost this battle a long time ago, right?
http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UT...
If you're just objecting to someone having a video display on their face, then you're simply being a Luddite, and this isn't the place for you.
I object to having a conversation with someone who hasn't the courtesy to maintain eye contact and to focus on what is being said but rather with what is on screen.
Yeah... Smart phone users piss me off too... Here is an idea. Be annoyed with the asshole, not the tool the asshole uses. Even with this, the user can still look you in the eye and concentrate. Depth perception is totally screwed, so catch is probably out, however.
VirtualBox is GPL2. If you install Oracles proprietary crap, that's your problem.
"This is called "dual licensing". Since Oracle holds all the copyrights to the VirtualBox code, or is at least permitted to relicense code that is owned by external contributors or other parties, we are free to choose the terms under which we license the code to our customers, or the open-source community. "
So any code you submit, you also assign to Oracle so they can release it closed source. So not totally open.
OK. That is the intent. Now what the fuck does it do? Or better yet, what does it do differently than Owncloud?
Free, kinda. Open, a bit... But if you are a large company, not at all. And if you submit code, you assign it all to them.
https://www.virtualbox.org/wik...
So they want an open and decentralized social network. But the VM images are only in the Oracle owned Virtual Box format? And right now it is only built for new and hard to source appliances, not older desktop easily found in rubbish bins? And I still haven't found what it does that owncloud does not... You would think the web page or wikipedia would have a short "This is what the we do" page somewhere...
Look... If you catch someone with a stolen phone just check to see if it has any pirated content. That will get some real punishment!