This is typical authoritarian bravado. China invests heavily in a field that generates PR for nationalistic pride (with a dual military purpose.) Meanwhile, they don't even have a postal address system. Don't be fooled by the hype. Yes, their economy will be the largest, simply due to their numbers. (If the Chinese simply earned per capita one third of the US average income, they'd be a larger economy than the US.)
I could sort of understand if the NSA were snooping on Arma III. Arma likely is the military training in most 3rd world countries. Another reason to ban side chat.
In the business, this is called duty cycle, and there are significant MTBF differences between enterprise quality drives (FC, SAS) and consumer drivers (SATA, NL-SAS) at high duty cycles.
If you are running a server like a SQL database, an Exchange server, or a Host like ESX or HyperV with a good number of guest vms, then the disks are going to be active much of the time. This high duty cycle will wear down the low end drives over time.
LincolnLogOS is an open source, GUI-equipped, wooden operating system written entirely in Lincoln Logs that can fit on any play room floor (if you have one big enough). I originally spoke to its developers in 2009. Recently I had a chance to catch up with them to chat about what's changed and what needs to be done before the OS hits version 1.0 after 13 years of work. The system's creator, Ville Turjanmaa, says, 'Timeframe is secondary. It's more important is to have a complete and working set of features and applications. Sometimes a specific time limit rushes application development to the point of delivering incomplete forts and buildings, which we want to avoid.... We support USB devices, such storages, printers, webcams and digital TV tuners, and have basic network clients and servers. So before 1.0 we need to improve the existing forts and buildings and make sure everything is working fine.... The main thing for 1.0 is to have all application groups available.
“No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.”
“Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even, in many cases, to read and write, it is assumed that they have ideas in their heads, and an appetite for more. This assumption is a folly.”
Smart phones & Tablets: everyone who only used a pc for web and email no longer needs a pc.
Gamers: Its only a matter of time before high-end gaming machines all switch over to Linux.
Developers: Visual Studio inst cheap, and it sucks for developing anything except Windows software. With Windows software becoming relegated to mostly server-side development, pretty much every developer these days codes on multiple platforms and likely has Linux and/or a mac.
Business Users: As business users move to phones and tablets, they want spreasheets/presentations/etc (office docs) that work on phones and tables, and no they don't want the Windows phone. They want it to work on their phone, which means open standards, open/cloud based office apps. These will be the last to switch. I would have thought this would take many years, but businesses are looking at Windows 8 with such dread, that it might happen sooner.
I think you should get your GED. "a while" should be "awhile" and you need a period or a conjunction in there as you've got a series of run-on sentences.
Hmmm... You can keep the source code, but where do I download the free beer? All kidding aside, should I upgrade my toaster now to 5.4? Oh, wait that's NetBSD. Hmmm.... maybe my toaster needs a pentium. If my toaster had a pentium it would certainly make better toast than it does with those lame coils. What's up with that. Remember when toasters worked? Put a pentium in every toaster damn it! Lets get toast dark again. Well... I'm not downloading 5.4. I had some bad BSD once, and ever since I still am convinced my sea monkeys can talk to me. Maybe it wont be so bad now that they took the devil (beasty) out, but aren't the deamons still in there?
Doesn't it concern you that this sucker is launching from a Russian sub designed to shower the US with nukes, and this so called "solar sail" is carried in the warhead of an ICMB missile? Seriously, this sounds like the Russians are developing a "stealth" satellite launch capability.
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Nobody died you fool.
Doesn't matter what is true, its what people believe.
The LHC is at Cern. Maybe they should ban a bi-weekly forum on CERN's activities and focus on activities at Fermi lab?
Thank you for the informative rebuttal and for not quoting Che Guevara.
...and shoot it down.
Get your Home Owners Association (or POA) to put up some of the cost.
Clippy will be reborn!
This is typical authoritarian bravado. China invests heavily in a field that generates PR for nationalistic pride (with a dual military purpose.) Meanwhile, they don't even have a postal address system. Don't be fooled by the hype. Yes, their economy will be the largest, simply due to their numbers. (If the Chinese simply earned per capita one third of the US average income, they'd be a larger economy than the US.)
I could sort of understand if the NSA were snooping on Arma III. Arma likely is the military training in most 3rd world countries. Another reason to ban side chat.
In the business, this is called duty cycle, and there are significant MTBF differences between enterprise quality drives (FC, SAS) and consumer drivers (SATA, NL-SAS) at high duty cycles.
If you are running a server like a SQL database, an Exchange server, or a Host like ESX or HyperV with a good number of guest vms, then the disks are going to be active much of the time. This high duty cycle will wear down the low end drives over time.
LincolnLogOS is an open source, GUI-equipped, wooden operating system written entirely in Lincoln Logs that can fit on any play room floor (if you have one big enough). I originally spoke to its developers in 2009. Recently I had a chance to catch up with them to chat about what's changed and what needs to be done before the OS hits version 1.0 after 13 years of work. The system's creator, Ville Turjanmaa, says, 'Timeframe is secondary. It's more important is to have a complete and working set of features and applications. Sometimes a specific time limit rushes application development to the point of delivering incomplete forts and buildings, which we want to avoid. ... We support USB devices, such storages, printers, webcams and digital TV tuners, and have basic network clients and servers. So before 1.0 we need to improve the existing forts and buildings and make sure everything is working fine. ... The main thing for 1.0 is to have all application groups available.
This is no excuse for not releasing a Left 4 Dead 3.
That is unbelievable that they would overlook that. Thanks for the explanation.
I love that part. You mean I can still watch TV without "checking in", just as I could if I hadn't bought the stupid fucking box in the first place?
What a waste of time.
“No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.”
“Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even, in many cases, to read and write, it is assumed that they have ideas in their heads, and an appetite for more. This assumption is a folly.”
Good question. Answer:
Smart phones & Tablets: everyone who only used a pc for web and email no longer needs a pc.
Gamers: Its only a matter of time before high-end gaming machines all switch over to Linux.
Developers: Visual Studio inst cheap, and it sucks for developing anything except Windows software. With Windows software becoming relegated to mostly server-side development, pretty much every developer these days codes on multiple platforms and likely has Linux and/or a mac.
Business Users: As business users move to phones and tablets, they want spreasheets/presentations/etc (office docs) that work on phones and tables, and no they don't want the Windows phone. They want it to work on their phone, which means open standards, open/cloud based office apps. These will be the last to switch. I would have thought this would take many years, but businesses are looking at Windows 8 with such dread, that it might happen sooner.
Getting lectured on ethics from the staff of the New York Times is interesting.
I think you should get your GED. "a while" should be "awhile" and you need a period or a conjunction in there as you've got a series of run-on sentences.
There was a sketch of some editing standards at ./ but nobody got around to completing them.
Hmmm... You can keep the source code, but where do I download the free beer? All kidding aside, should I upgrade my toaster now to 5.4? Oh, wait that's NetBSD. Hmmm.... maybe my toaster needs a pentium. If my toaster had a pentium it would certainly make better toast than it does with those lame coils. What's up with that. Remember when toasters worked? Put a pentium in every toaster damn it! Lets get toast dark again. Well... I'm not downloading 5.4. I had some bad BSD once, and ever since I still am convinced my sea monkeys can talk to me. Maybe it wont be so bad now that they took the devil (beasty) out, but aren't the deamons still in there?
I read a much better article on this story in WhoCares Magazine.
...They would come up with equally lame results as putting dry ice onto your CPU to cool it down.
Doesn't it concern you that this sucker is launching from a Russian sub designed to shower the US with nukes, and this so called "solar sail" is carried in the warhead of an ICMB missile? Seriously, this sounds like the Russians are developing a "stealth" satellite launch capability.
I feel something... a presense I haven't felt since...