And it's not a non-destructive method, so when it doesn't work, you've altered the media such that future recovery is more difficult. Also, the way it's described as operating is technically impossible, so the whole thing is voodoo magic.
Write a copy tool that fills in all possible bit combinations for the bad sectors and spits out 100s of zip files instead of just 1. At a max of 1.44MB/zip file, it still shouldn't be much space in modern terms. Then just try to decompress them all and see what the results are.
After all, these OEMs have their own teams of lawyers, and these lawyers likely see something we don't, suggesting to us on the outside that Microsoft may actually have a valid claim to the patents in question.
OEMs look at more than "can we win this case" when they decide whether to move forward or not. SCO convinced plenty of companies to pay its licensing fee before they ultimately lost in court and went out of business. If MS makes the cost of licensing cheaper than the cost of going to court, a company will pay the fee even if they think they can win. Seriously, while they're fighting in court their competitors will be using android free of charge and once that company wins, all it means is they spent a lot of money while their competitors never had to spend a dime.
Really? That's why? What do you even use your status bar for? To see the URL when you float your mouse over a link? Firefox 4 does that without the need for a permanent status bar, just like Google Chrome does. For your add-ons that have icons down there (weather fox, adblock, etc)? Then turn on the Add-On Bar.
I don't think IE 9 has a status bar, either. IE 9 doesn't even support more than 2 or 3 tabs decently unless you play with the settings. Nobody's going to rebound because Firefox 4 hid the status bar by default and implemented its primary usage without wasting screen space...
Sega didn't sell the product. It would have been immoral and unethical for them to sell a 3D product knowing it is damaging to vision development. Since they didn't sell the product they are under no moral obligation to inform society.
Example: Last summer I built a jet pack and suffered 3rd degree burns of 60% of my body. I concluded, as did Sega, that a major design flaw would prevent me from ever safely bringing this product to market. I saw no reason to make my findings public.
Doesn't the FSF own the code for the GNU userspace utilities? If someone is selling a device with the Linux Kernel, most certainly it contains utilities the FSF has ownership over.
Look up some basic patent definitions; you don't even need to get into patent law.
Patents protect the owners from others selling/distributing infringing products. They give the patent owners a monopoly on the sale/distribution of these products. A competing company, however, is free to product infringing products for internal testing, etc as long as they don't distribute them in anyway. This is why you see generic drugs appear on the market the DAY the patents expire. They completed their FCC testing using infringing copies of the patented drugs, using the patent as a a design guide, no less. This is legal because the drugs are only used for study and any not used by study participants are destroyed. The company doesn't sell the infringing drugs, or even distribute them freely, until the patents expire (at which point they aren't infringing).
Drugs certainly aren't an exception by any means, and all patented items fall under the same laws. Generics of all popular products release as soon as the original patents expire if competitors haven't found non-infringing work arounds. They don't appear months afterwards because they already designed against the patent and tested, waiting for their chance to sell.
Indeed, I cut the cord in 2004 or 2005 and just torrented. Then NBC.com started streaming, and they're most of what I watch anyway. Now with HuluDesktop, I get it all easily from my couch without dicking around with a mouse.
Is iTunes really cost effective compared with, say, netflix or local video rentals? I thought it was a $2 or $3/episode.... I suppose that's still cheaper than cable for the few things you can't stream from hulu or direct from the studio.
And if you have 35% of that 140 at 1.99, you'll make $97.51 in revenue (note, not profit) so it's likely better to adjust down to $1.99 due to Apple's $0.99 crap than to adjust up.
If you go to the DD-WRT compatibility list and do a search for "a/b/g/n" you'll find the dual band ones, and then can sort through for simultaneous dual band. Linksys makes a couple (WRT400N, WRT6x0N, etc) as do others.
I helped a friend with OpenWRT on a 2.4GHz draft-n product about a year ago or so. It was supported, but only in 802.11g mode, so that might be something to watch out for. Don't just buy it because it says "supported". Take a peak and make sure it's not missing features.
Wikipedia is your friend. 802.11n supports both 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands, using the same channels as b/g and a. This means that on 5ghz not only do you have fewer devices competing for resources, but you also have non-overlapping channels. So when you want to take up 2 channels for the higher speed 40MHz mode, you can often find a section on 5 that has 0 conflicts.
Look for a router that supports a/b/g/n. The best ones are "simultaneous dual band". Just "dual band" means it can use 2.4GHz or 5GHz, but not necessarily at the same time (so if you want your Wii, PDA, etc on the network, you're stuck with 2.4GHz for everything). Some of the simultaneous dual bands even let you run separate SSIDs and subnets for the two frequencies.
The best arrangement I've been in is with 4 devs in a group, but each dev has 3 tables. Front, left, and right. Cube wall blocks in group of four with back to each other, but it's easy to turn around and convers, plus we had a hell of a lot of room to spread our work out on. I suppose a desktop software developer could get by with less room, since having bench equipment (oscopes, signal generators, etc) at hand aren't really helpful, but I'm sure you could find a use for the space...
And having our backs to each other had the added effect of keeping us honest... you don't want your co-workers to see you're always on slashdot...
Here's a look. TS16GSSD25S-S, 16GB, $160 on newegg. 96MB/s max write throughput.
AMD was advertising 1 million cycle flash chips back in the late 90s. Typical SSDs are estimated between 1-3million cycles, but manufactures generally don't give this data for individual products. Lets assume 1 million.
16GB * 1 million / 96MB/s = 5.4 years if all you did was continually write data to the SSD.
Intel's SSDSA2SH032G1, the 32GB SSD for $270 I referenced earlier? Again, estimating low with 1 million cycles. 32GB * 1 million / 170MB/s = 6.1 years.
So knock it off with this "matter of weeks" or "matter of months" crap.
Unless he's very careful, he can end up bricking that SSD in a few months by getting one setting wrong.
You're drastically underestimating SSD write limitations. I have an original EEE 900 with a 16GB SSD that I've used daily without a second thought for most of 2 years now. I even have a swap partition. It'll eventually wear out, but it hasn't yet.
SSDs if used for this purpose will burn out in weeks or months,
Probably not. He's asking for a cache of most used sectors, not a cache of currently used sectors. The information on the SSD/RAMDisk used for this cache probably wouldn't change much on a daily basis. Based on his description, I wouldn't expect this to be taking much abuse.
Additionally, modern SSDs have much higher block erase values than users give them credit for, and with wear level routines in the firmwares, they often have life expectancies greater than HDs, which wear out as oil leaks from the motor housing. Add in the cost benefit of both... $350 + 8 * $170 = $1710 for a 32GB RAMDrive using the ANS-9010. I'll take less than $200 for a decently spec'd 32GB SSD. Even if you're right and I have to replace it frequently, I'd have to go through 9 before I match the price of the RAMDrive. Heck, the most expensive 32GB SSD is still only $360, with 250MB/s read and 170MB/s write. Maybe not as fast as ram, but way faster than a HD and with a 3 year warranty I'd have a lot of trouble justifying the $1350 price difference.
It's all moot until someone writes an algorithm to match his request, though.
THIS! My Grandparents' new laptop is almost unusable after increasing the fontsize to something they can view. Many dialog boxes are too tall for the 900pixel high screen, or if they do fit, show up with the bottom edge off the screen, forcing them to move the dialog around before they can click the OK button.
Maybe not a big deal for the average user, but Grandparents don't always have the best mouse control... at least, mine don't.
We are expected to make a website that renders 99.99999999% the same on all browsers, and now... we must cater to YOU or be called a moron too?
That is correct. Additionally, I'll require you meet my needs as well as him, though I'll think of something more creative than moron to call you if you don't. Also, I won't tell you my needs unless you fail to meet them.;)
Higher resolution doesn't have to mean smaller text. If you have a 1280x1024 17" panel and a 2560x2048 17" panel, you can tell the OS that the second panel has a resolution of 192dpi (instead of 96dpi) and everything will be the same size on both panels, but the second will look better for anything vectorized (icons on Mac and Linux or fonts on any system).
This is what he's talking about when he says "Windows has support for high resolution displays". He doesn't simply mean it can pump the pixels, he means it can query the monitor for it's DPI and adjust the on screen rendering.
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And it's not a non-destructive method, so when it doesn't work, you've altered the media such that future recovery is more difficult. Also, the way it's described as operating is technically impossible, so the whole thing is voodoo magic.
I'd try other options first.
Write a copy tool that fills in all possible bit combinations for the bad sectors and spits out 100s of zip files instead of just 1. At a max of 1.44MB/zip file, it still shouldn't be much space in modern terms. Then just try to decompress them all and see what the results are.
After all, these OEMs have their own teams of lawyers, and these lawyers likely see something we don't, suggesting to us on the outside that Microsoft may actually have a valid claim to the patents in question.
OEMs look at more than "can we win this case" when they decide whether to move forward or not. SCO convinced plenty of companies to pay its licensing fee before they ultimately lost in court and went out of business. If MS makes the cost of licensing cheaper than the cost of going to court, a company will pay the fee even if they think they can win. Seriously, while they're fighting in court their competitors will be using android free of charge and once that company wins, all it means is they spent a lot of money while their competitors never had to spend a dime.
Really? That's why? What do you even use your status bar for? To see the URL when you float your mouse over a link? Firefox 4 does that without the need for a permanent status bar, just like Google Chrome does. For your add-ons that have icons down there (weather fox, adblock, etc)? Then turn on the Add-On Bar.
I don't think IE 9 has a status bar, either. IE 9 doesn't even support more than 2 or 3 tabs decently unless you play with the settings. Nobody's going to rebound because Firefox 4 hid the status bar by default and implemented its primary usage without wasting screen space...
Google Chrome has *never* had a status bar. Don't lecture me about shoving stuff down people's throats.
You can turn the Firefox status bar back on. It's been renamed "add-on bar". Press "Ctrl+/" or 'Preferences->Add-On Bar'
If his calendar server is going to violate HIPPA, you can bet your ass Google Apps will as well.
If he doesn't have any patient records on the machine HIPPA doesn't apply.
Sega didn't sell the product. It would have been immoral and unethical for them to sell a 3D product knowing it is damaging to vision development. Since they didn't sell the product they are under no moral obligation to inform society.
Example: Last summer I built a jet pack and suffered 3rd degree burns of 60% of my body. I concluded, as did Sega, that a major design flaw would prevent me from ever safely bringing this product to market. I saw no reason to make my findings public.
Doesn't the FSF own the code for the GNU userspace utilities? If someone is selling a device with the Linux Kernel, most certainly it contains utilities the FSF has ownership over.
Look up some basic patent definitions; you don't even need to get into patent law.
Patents protect the owners from others selling/distributing infringing products. They give the patent owners a monopoly on the sale/distribution of these products. A competing company, however, is free to product infringing products for internal testing, etc as long as they don't distribute them in anyway. This is why you see generic drugs appear on the market the DAY the patents expire. They completed their FCC testing using infringing copies of the patented drugs, using the patent as a a design guide, no less. This is legal because the drugs are only used for study and any not used by study participants are destroyed. The company doesn't sell the infringing drugs, or even distribute them freely, until the patents expire (at which point they aren't infringing).
Drugs certainly aren't an exception by any means, and all patented items fall under the same laws. Generics of all popular products release as soon as the original patents expire if competitors haven't found non-infringing work arounds. They don't appear months afterwards because they already designed against the patent and tested, waiting for their chance to sell.
I highly doubt a H.264 codec is a derivative of anything you wrote. But way to post as AC when making such generic claims.
Indeed, I cut the cord in 2004 or 2005 and just torrented. Then NBC.com started streaming, and they're most of what I watch anyway. Now with HuluDesktop, I get it all easily from my couch without dicking around with a mouse.
Is iTunes really cost effective compared with, say, netflix or local video rentals? I thought it was a $2 or $3/episode. ... I suppose that's still cheaper than cable for the few things you can't stream from hulu or direct from the studio.
And if you have 35% of that 140 at 1.99, you'll make $97.51 in revenue (note, not profit) so it's likely better to adjust down to $1.99 due to Apple's $0.99 crap than to adjust up.
Higher frequencies are more readily absorbed by solid objects. Outside they should have the same range, but 2.4 will penetrate walls much better.
If you go to the DD-WRT compatibility list and do a search for "a/b/g/n" you'll find the dual band ones, and then can sort through for simultaneous dual band. Linksys makes a couple (WRT400N, WRT6x0N, etc) as do others.
I helped a friend with OpenWRT on a 2.4GHz draft-n product about a year ago or so. It was supported, but only in 802.11g mode, so that might be something to watch out for. Don't just buy it because it says "supported". Take a peak and make sure it's not missing features.
Wikipedia is your friend. 802.11n supports both 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands, using the same channels as b/g and a. This means that on 5ghz not only do you have fewer devices competing for resources, but you also have non-overlapping channels. So when you want to take up 2 channels for the higher speed 40MHz mode, you can often find a section on 5 that has 0 conflicts.
Look for a router that supports a/b/g/n. The best ones are "simultaneous dual band". Just "dual band" means it can use 2.4GHz or 5GHz, but not necessarily at the same time (so if you want your Wii, PDA, etc on the network, you're stuck with 2.4GHz for everything). Some of the simultaneous dual bands even let you run separate SSIDs and subnets for the two frequencies.
I would never work with that. It looks dangerous, like it could kill a Jonas Brother.
I dunno. Strip joint sounds like an awful long way to go for porn. Don't they have internet at work?
If it's good enough for SEC Lawyers, it should be good enough for engineers...
The best arrangement I've been in is with 4 devs in a group, but each dev has 3 tables. Front, left, and right. Cube wall blocks in group of four with back to each other, but it's easy to turn around and convers, plus we had a hell of a lot of room to spread our work out on. I suppose a desktop software developer could get by with less room, since having bench equipment (oscopes, signal generators, etc) at hand aren't really helpful, but I'm sure you could find a use for the space...
And having our backs to each other had the added effect of keeping us honest... you don't want your co-workers to see you're always on slashdot...
Overestimating, sorry...
Here's a look. TS16GSSD25S-S, 16GB, $160 on newegg. 96MB/s max write throughput.
AMD was advertising 1 million cycle flash chips back in the late 90s. Typical SSDs are estimated between 1-3million cycles, but manufactures generally don't give this data for individual products. Lets assume 1 million.
16GB * 1 million / 96MB/s = 5.4 years if all you did was continually write data to the SSD.
Intel's SSDSA2SH032G1, the 32GB SSD for $270 I referenced earlier? Again, estimating low with 1 million cycles. 32GB * 1 million / 170MB/s = 6.1 years.
So knock it off with this "matter of weeks" or "matter of months" crap.
Unless he's very careful, he can end up bricking that SSD in a few months by getting one setting wrong.
You're drastically underestimating SSD write limitations. I have an original EEE 900 with a 16GB SSD that I've used daily without a second thought for most of 2 years now. I even have a swap partition. It'll eventually wear out, but it hasn't yet.
SSDs if used for this purpose will burn out in weeks or months,
Probably not. He's asking for a cache of most used sectors, not a cache of currently used sectors. The information on the SSD/RAMDisk used for this cache probably wouldn't change much on a daily basis. Based on his description, I wouldn't expect this to be taking much abuse.
Additionally, modern SSDs have much higher block erase values than users give them credit for, and with wear level routines in the firmwares, they often have life expectancies greater than HDs, which wear out as oil leaks from the motor housing. Add in the cost benefit of both... $350 + 8 * $170 = $1710 for a 32GB RAMDrive using the ANS-9010. I'll take less than $200 for a decently spec'd 32GB SSD. Even if you're right and I have to replace it frequently, I'd have to go through 9 before I match the price of the RAMDrive. Heck, the most expensive 32GB SSD is still only $360, with 250MB/s read and 170MB/s write. Maybe not as fast as ram, but way faster than a HD and with a 3 year warranty I'd have a lot of trouble justifying the $1350 price difference.
It's all moot until someone writes an algorithm to match his request, though.
THIS! My Grandparents' new laptop is almost unusable after increasing the fontsize to something they can view. Many dialog boxes are too tall for the 900pixel high screen, or if they do fit, show up with the bottom edge off the screen, forcing them to move the dialog around before they can click the OK button.
Maybe not a big deal for the average user, but Grandparents don't always have the best mouse control... at least, mine don't.
We are expected to make a website that renders 99.99999999% the same on all browsers, and now... we must cater to YOU or be called a moron too?
That is correct. Additionally, I'll require you meet my needs as well as him, though I'll think of something more creative than moron to call you if you don't. Also, I won't tell you my needs unless you fail to meet them. ;)
Let me know when we hit 130-140dpi so I can upgrade from 96.
Higher resolution doesn't have to mean smaller text. If you have a 1280x1024 17" panel and a 2560x2048 17" panel, you can tell the OS that the second panel has a resolution of 192dpi (instead of 96dpi) and everything will be the same size on both panels, but the second will look better for anything vectorized (icons on Mac and Linux or fonts on any system).
This is what he's talking about when he says "Windows has support for high resolution displays". He doesn't simply mean it can pump the pixels, he means it can query the monitor for it's DPI and adjust the on screen rendering.