Good thing most cars that feel safe at that speed have the technology to still get 30 MPG at that speed. Or, at least, mine does and it's a 2008 model year.
No, I am not. I don't identify completely with any of the parties.
If we go to some scheme where I vote for a party rather than a person, you are taking my vote and giving it to an organization that either is opposed with what I think is sound fiscal policy but I agree with on social principles, or giving it to an organization that I agree with their fiscal proposals, but are complete wing nuts when it comes to social issues and the environment.
I'd rather vote for a guy who aligns with my beliefs as much as possible, than vote for the party plank that I hate the least, and then have that party install some person I've never heard of to supposedly represent me. That's not how we play pool.
Well, the only thing that can gerrymander a United States Senator is the borders of a state, and those don't change much, and certainly not because of the census.
Gerrymandering at the federal level is strictly a phenomenon of the U.S. House of Representatives, as the 435 seats of that body are reapportioned based on the United States Census every 10 years, per the constitution.
And they tied individual votes to a geographical address, how? If they couldn't do that (and they couldn't) then they would have had to tie it to precinct results, which is going to decrease 'resolution' so to speak.
Yes, there is gerrymandering. And it's effective, which is why it's been used since the early 19th century. But there's more going on in the balloting booth than two checkboxes for D or R. Maybe some democrats voted for a republican candidate because the democrat was a shrew with no good ideas? Or vice-versa?
This is why we vote for candidates, and not parties.
Yeah, because there is absolutely no use for having large storage capacities with even bigger video formats on the way. Or with people wanting to not deal with optical media anymore. And there is absolutely no use in business of keeping large amounts of data online.
Have you even seen the camera density in a large retail store these days? Do you think that video might get stored somewhere for legal purposes if there's an issue, or do you think they have 50 VHS recorders in the back?
You can bet that someone from Ohio will be in - either Gov. John Kasich who just soundly won reelection, or Senator Rob Portman. Both of which would be better than most of the other names being bandied about, and could deliver the Midwest.
So two people that couldn't even win a senate seat during favorable election conditions, a retread candidate, a guy with a toxic last name, a complete idiot who is known for being a punch line to everyone except the extreme right wing, a governor who barely dodges scandals erupting from typical New Jersey politics, and Bobby Jindal.
Anyone else want in, because I'm not seeing a lot to get fired up about here...
what's funny, is that SSD and tape could completely replace spinning magnetic.
Tape, specifically LTO, is still the long-term backup medium of choice for price, density, and reliability of restore. It's just shit for latency and throughput.
Tape drives still serve a purpose. Show me any other removable storage mechanism that can store 2.5TB before compression for $40 and have them still readable after 10 years in a safe.
Spinning rust STILL can't do that.
No, you don't get very good performance from tape, and tape is a general pain in the ass; but if you need to keep something for a long time, and you need it to be reliable, tape is how that's done.
Except that when you write to an SSD, the controller puts the data where it thinks it should go, rather than a specific block. You can't do what you're suggesting without writing your own firmware for the drive.
Yes and no - they simply don't QA every drive that ever existed or will exist, because they didn't ship them and it would be ridiculous to do that anyway. Where the change was, is that they implemented code signing on kernel extensions in order to beef up security a bit, and the side effect is that the ugly binary patch people were applying to the AHCI kext is quite broken. If anyone out there was patching any of the other 200+ kexts that ship with OS X, they have a similar problem; unless they turn off kext signing. Which you are free to do with a simple nvram flag.
Or, it's postulated that you could create your own signing cert, import it into system.keychain, and then re-sign the patched kext; but I'm not aware of anyone doing that. The third option is for some nice SSD manufacturer to make a proper signed driver, but they don't want to spend the time or resources.
Either way, it's a tempest in a teapot. Software vendor is blamed when unsupported hack applied without their knowledge is broken in a major upgrade. In other news, fire is still hot.
let me get this straight: you are saying he is wrong because: - Sony abuses a rights-stripping piece of shit on everything they produce - Sony mandated it into the technology license for the disc format to 3rd party player manufacturers - the GP postulates that once you format-shift the content away from the licensed Blu-Ray spec, third party players no longer adhere to enforcement of the rights-stripping piece of shit - you post the Slashdot equivalent of "NUH UHH!" because the company that abuses the rights-stripping piece of shit still enforces when it's found in other formats on their hardware, which is a surprise to NOBODY.
If you didn't know, the PS3 is made by SONY, and is going to play the game that SONY wants played. Why would you expect different?
Your "well established fact" is only one because you didn't put a timetable in place. Yes, the sun will turn into a red giant and cook the planet into a cinder in a few billion years. That also gives us a couple hundred million years to figure it out before it really becomes a thing.
Were you referring to some other factor, because your blanket statement of nonsense didn't get specific...
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If you're truly in the right lane doing 45, how are you being passed on the right? They blowing past you on the shoulder? That's already illegal.
Good thing most cars that feel safe at that speed have the technology to still get 30 MPG at that speed. Or, at least, mine does and it's a 2008 model year.
No, I am not. I don't identify completely with any of the parties.
If we go to some scheme where I vote for a party rather than a person, you are taking my vote and giving it to an organization that either is opposed with what I think is sound fiscal policy but I agree with on social principles, or giving it to an organization that I agree with their fiscal proposals, but are complete wing nuts when it comes to social issues and the environment.
I'd rather vote for a guy who aligns with my beliefs as much as possible, than vote for the party plank that I hate the least, and then have that party install some person I've never heard of to supposedly represent me. That's not how we play pool.
Well, the only thing that can gerrymander a United States Senator is the borders of a state, and those don't change much, and certainly not because of the census.
Gerrymandering at the federal level is strictly a phenomenon of the U.S. House of Representatives, as the 435 seats of that body are reapportioned based on the United States Census every 10 years, per the constitution.
Each district has precincts, but that's likely the lowest the data goes.
But it would require voting for a party, rather than a person. I'm not represented by a political party - I'm represented by Steve.
It would also require a constitutional amendment, passed by whom? Good luck with that.
And they tied individual votes to a geographical address, how? If they couldn't do that (and they couldn't) then they would have had to tie it to precinct results, which is going to decrease 'resolution' so to speak.
Yes, there is gerrymandering. And it's effective, which is why it's been used since the early 19th century. But there's more going on in the balloting booth than two checkboxes for D or R. Maybe some democrats voted for a republican candidate because the democrat was a shrew with no good ideas? Or vice-versa?
This is why we vote for candidates, and not parties.
So we'd be voting for a party rather than an individual with his or her own ideas? That's a step backwards.
I really hope you are trying to be funny.
Yeah, because there is absolutely no use for having large storage capacities with even bigger video formats on the way. Or with people wanting to not deal with optical media anymore. And there is absolutely no use in business of keeping large amounts of data online.
Have you even seen the camera density in a large retail store these days? Do you think that video might get stored somewhere for legal purposes if there's an issue, or do you think they have 50 VHS recorders in the back?
God I wish I had mod points for this. Everyone seems to forget about the 10th, and it's just as important as the first.
Plus, what politician would want to sign their name to laying off millions of people in the health insurance sector?
You can bet that someone from Ohio will be in - either Gov. John Kasich who just soundly won reelection, or Senator Rob Portman. Both of which would be better than most of the other names being bandied about, and could deliver the Midwest.
So two people that couldn't even win a senate seat during favorable election conditions, a retread candidate, a guy with a toxic last name, a complete idiot who is known for being a punch line to everyone except the extreme right wing, a governor who barely dodges scandals erupting from typical New Jersey politics, and Bobby Jindal.
Anyone else want in, because I'm not seeing a lot to get fired up about here...
what's funny, is that SSD and tape could completely replace spinning magnetic.
Tape, specifically LTO, is still the long-term backup medium of choice for price, density, and reliability of restore. It's just shit for latency and throughput.
especially as that 600GB 15K drive doesn't have anywhere close to the performance of the SSD.
Tape drives still serve a purpose. Show me any other removable storage mechanism that can store 2.5TB before compression for $40 and have them still readable after 10 years in a safe.
Spinning rust STILL can't do that.
No, you don't get very good performance from tape, and tape is a general pain in the ass; but if you need to keep something for a long time, and you need it to be reliable, tape is how that's done.
Except that when you write to an SSD, the controller puts the data where it thinks it should go, rather than a specific block. You can't do what you're suggesting without writing your own firmware for the drive.
Which is where wear leveling comes in.
Yes and no - they simply don't QA every drive that ever existed or will exist, because they didn't ship them and it would be ridiculous to do that anyway. Where the change was, is that they implemented code signing on kernel extensions in order to beef up security a bit, and the side effect is that the ugly binary patch people were applying to the AHCI kext is quite broken. If anyone out there was patching any of the other 200+ kexts that ship with OS X, they have a similar problem; unless they turn off kext signing. Which you are free to do with a simple nvram flag.
Or, it's postulated that you could create your own signing cert, import it into system.keychain, and then re-sign the patched kext; but I'm not aware of anyone doing that. The third option is for some nice SSD manufacturer to make a proper signed driver, but they don't want to spend the time or resources.
Either way, it's a tempest in a teapot. Software vendor is blamed when unsupported hack applied without their knowledge is broken in a major upgrade. In other news, fire is still hot.
let me get this straight: you are saying he is wrong because:
- Sony abuses a rights-stripping piece of shit on everything they produce
- Sony mandated it into the technology license for the disc format to 3rd party player manufacturers
- the GP postulates that once you format-shift the content away from the licensed Blu-Ray spec, third party players no longer adhere to enforcement of the rights-stripping piece of shit
- you post the Slashdot equivalent of "NUH UHH!" because the company that abuses the rights-stripping piece of shit still enforces when it's found in other formats on their hardware, which is a surprise to NOBODY.
If you didn't know, the PS3 is made by SONY, and is going to play the game that SONY wants played. Why would you expect different?
While we're talking about Samsung, cheaters still find ways to cheat benchmarks.. I wonder if Nvidia could sue over stealing their benchmark cheating methods too...
Good thing there are more than two phone manufacturers, eh?
Why does this have to be Samsung OR Apple?
... Mac OS X 10.9.5 -> Mac OS X 10.10.0?
Your "well established fact" is only one because you didn't put a timetable in place. Yes, the sun will turn into a red giant and cook the planet into a cinder in a few billion years. That also gives us a couple hundred million years to figure it out before it really becomes a thing.
Were you referring to some other factor, because your blanket statement of nonsense didn't get specific...
Yeah, because Slashdot hasn't been a libertarian hangout for the last 15 years or anything.