I wouldn't want one of those, either, no matter how attractive Heinlein made them seem. Dealing with "big energy/business" is always a loss for the consumer. You can mitigate that, a bit, when there's a semblance of competition (5 brands of gasoline/diesel within 1/2 mile of my residence, but only one refinery in SoCal). If I have to buy a replacement aluminum fuel cell every 2 months, they'll impoverish me quickly.
I've written drivers for solid state media. It is a cost to find the the "next available block" for incoming data. Often, too, it is necessary to copy the original instance of a media block to merge new data with the old. Then, you can toss the old block into a background erase queue, but the copy isn't time-free, either.
Since so-called Smart Media didn't have any blocks dedicated to the logical-physical mapping (It was hidden in a per-physical-block logical id), there was also a startup scan required.
If the middleware is constantly trying to use the same physical block to represent a logical block (something even rotating media is giving up on), the physical block is going to take a pounding if is used for frequently-updated storage. Losing a directory block due to cell damage is not my idea of a good thing.
What I suspect they're really trying to do is reduce the number of blocks dedicated to logical-physical mapping. That lets them ship more parts with from-fab defective blocks at a given capacity out of the die.
I've watched a dozen, or so, "new, cool" methodologies, languages, and tools come and go over the years, mostly because some screwball "consultants" or publishers needed to sell books and training and managers who need to look useful to their organizational superiors. If a person has actual programming skills (understand a problem to be solved, state a solution in a form that a computer can understand and a human can maintain, choose an appropriate language/tool set in which to implement her specific component, work with others providing various components of the solution, give reasonable estimates of the amount of time it will really take to implement), then the current fad is an afternoon's adaptation by the programmer. Of course, "choosing a language/toolset" requires some familiarity with what the languages/tool sets provide, but that also means knowing when they're NOT useful, and not just hopping on each bandwagon as it passes.
How 'bout ticketing the jerks who disrupt traffic by rolling through intersections, break up the 30-bike pelotons, and otherwise make them actually obey the law? Maybe they wouldn't have so mny accidents if the riders weren't abnoxious.
If it had been motorcyclists, rather than bicyclists that tailgated the SoCal guy and hit him when he stopped, there would never have been the travesty of justice as his murder conviction.
In many places judges must run for election, re-election, or, at least, confirmation (California Supreme Court, for example).
Campaigns cost money.
It is a bit of a tossup whether the law enforcement endorsements (any criminal court judge that has, or seeks, one is, IMO, already in a conflict of interest situation) or their money is more important, though.
Not counting the pointless hours I've spent trying to find ANYTHING in Visual Studio, and that is even IF it can do what I need done. It is always faster to look it up on the 'net than use Microsoft's useless "help".
If you can channel the energy of a fusion explosion into many lasing-while-ionizing rods (think "Real Genius"s death ray laser, but MUCH larger) you could pack so many X-Ray photons into a burst that the impact (momentum transfer) alone destroys the target's armor, at least according to David Weber.
The "bad cop busted" is still news, and the "hero cop does the bust" just makes it better news. I have NEVER heard of a "bad cop" bust (and there have been many over my lifetime) where it was a "good cop" on his force that did it. It has always been outsiders.
I have heard of no evidence for there being ANY good cops. If there were any, it would be in the news that instead of various projects uncovering criminal behavior, it would be the cops, themselves, and it never seems to happen. There are cops who are murderers, rapists, thieves, and just plain thugs, and the rest of them are guilty of covering for the criminals. What happened to the NYPD officers who gang sodomized that Jamaican? The POLICE OFFICERS UNION pressured the city not to throw the SOBs in jail.
Except for a very few hardcore HW geeks (like me), "modular" PCs are simply not useful. Once a IT department has standardized, they don't change until the vendor stops making the base model, and the PCs are nearly always locked down to simplify support (never mind the stupidity/insanity/bullying by Microsoft that makes many upgrades have to re-authenticate). There's a small market, gamers mostly, that cycle through video cards, and more rarely, HDs/SSDs, but that's about it.
For example, the refurbished desktop (Dell T5400) I'm using for this posting has only the motherboard and CPU left from the minimum-corporate original configuration, but that cost less than a Xeon X5570 and compatible motherboard would have cost me when I bought it, and I've filled every slot, but one.
More likely, end users will rarely change a component, and phone vendors may find modularity useful for prototyping, but they won't bear the cost of the connectors.
As usual, their lobbyists (bribe bagmen) provide plausible-sounding bafflegab that has nothing to do with the reality. It's just there because most people cannot even find the details, much less understand them.
Tictail may be OK (perhaps a bit of info in an "about us" page, to help us sort the good from the bad, and why you need them), but who are cloudfront.net? I shouldn't need to keep running queries through noscript.net just to buy a magazine with some confidence.
There's so much third-party crap required on their website that I cannot buy a #1. Too bad. I like print, but won't expose my systems to the unknown (beyond tracking) consequences of off-site APIs.
Used to play Civ until breakfast or out-of-memory errors called for a break at LAN parties (Starcraft/BW, too, until they took that away and lost my sales). Better with multiple PCs that hot-seat 'cause you could think ahead more easily.
Still playing AC from the Loki release for Linux. It will be interesting to see how well a simultaneous release works.
Maybe it is evening/night people having their natural sleep schedules disrupted in our industrialized society that contributes to a higher BMI.
AFAIK, morning sun has essentially the same spectrum as evening sun (slightly red due to the longer path through the atmosphere than at noon), and the same angle of incidence, so morning sun should have no different intrinsic effect than evening sun, if the rest of the day is spent in artificial light.
I have not, and will not, use my cable provider's "on demand" service for anything for which I have to pay ($5 - $10 per selection per 24-hour viewing window). If there were some "bundle" price, al la Netflix, I'd give them $10 for access. Of course, I don't pay the obscene fees for "premium" channels, either. I only have one cable box attached to a screen. I cannot watch all three (four?) at the same time, but I would have to pay an additional monthly fee for each one, even if it is discounted slightly for second, third,... selection.
I may miss something, but nothing I've heard of justifies the pricing.
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I wouldn't want one of those, either, no matter how attractive Heinlein made them seem. Dealing with "big energy/business" is always a loss for the consumer. You can mitigate that, a bit, when there's a semblance of competition (5 brands of gasoline/diesel within 1/2 mile of my residence, but only one refinery in SoCal). If I have to buy a replacement aluminum fuel cell every 2 months, they'll impoverish me quickly.
Anyone who responded postively to that idea should be neutered immediately.
I've written drivers for solid state media. It is a cost to find the the "next available block" for incoming data. Often, too, it is necessary to copy the original instance of a media block to merge new data with the old. Then, you can toss the old block into a background erase queue, but the copy isn't time-free, either.
Since so-called Smart Media didn't have any blocks dedicated to the logical-physical mapping (It was hidden in a per-physical-block logical id), there was also a startup scan required.
If the middleware is constantly trying to use the same physical block to represent a logical block (something even rotating media is giving up on), the physical block is going to take a pounding if is used for frequently-updated storage. Losing a directory block due to cell damage is not my idea of a good thing.
What I suspect they're really trying to do is reduce the number of blocks dedicated to logical-physical mapping. That lets them ship more parts with from-fab defective blocks at a given capacity out of the die.
None of the fiction about "access"; that letter is a service performed for a payment. The traitors should be executed.
I've watched a dozen, or so, "new, cool" methodologies, languages, and tools come and go over the years, mostly because some screwball "consultants" or publishers needed to sell books and training and managers who need to look useful to their organizational superiors. If a person has actual programming skills (understand a problem to be solved, state a solution in a form that a computer can understand and a human can maintain, choose an appropriate language/tool set in which to implement her specific component, work with others providing various components of the solution, give reasonable estimates of the amount of time it will really take to implement), then the current fad is an afternoon's adaptation by the programmer. Of course, "choosing a language/toolset" requires some familiarity with what the languages/tool sets provide, but that also means knowing when they're NOT useful, and not just hopping on each bandwagon as it passes.
How 'bout ticketing the jerks who disrupt traffic by rolling through intersections, break up the 30-bike pelotons, and otherwise make them actually obey the law? Maybe they wouldn't have so mny accidents if the riders weren't abnoxious.
If it had been motorcyclists, rather than bicyclists that tailgated the SoCal guy and hit him when he stopped, there would never have been the travesty of justice as his murder conviction.
In many places judges must run for election, re-election, or, at least, confirmation (California Supreme Court, for example).
Campaigns cost money.
It is a bit of a tossup whether the law enforcement endorsements (any criminal court judge that has, or seeks, one is, IMO, already in a conflict of interest situation) or their money is more important, though.
Not counting the pointless hours I've spent trying to find ANYTHING in Visual Studio, and that is even IF it can do what I need done. It is always faster to look it up on the 'net than use Microsoft's useless "help".
If you can channel the energy of a fusion explosion into many lasing-while-ionizing rods (think "Real Genius"s death ray laser, but MUCH larger) you could pack so many X-Ray photons into a burst that the impact (momentum transfer) alone destroys the target's armor, at least according to David Weber.
which is the main reason I noscript /.
The summary doesn't say.
Printed documents have value, particularly financial, medical, and legal documents; scans of them do not.
Getting together for drinks is worth an email or text. Mortgage forms, or the medical history docs I got today should never be electronic.
Not on my browser install.
BTW, in English, the proper names of languages, such as German, are capitalized.
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Nonsense.
The "bad cop busted" is still news, and the "hero cop does the bust" just makes it better news. I have NEVER heard of a "bad cop" bust (and there have been many over my lifetime) where it was a "good cop" on his force that did it. It has always been outsiders.
"There are plenty of good cops out there, ..."
I have heard of no evidence for there being ANY good cops. If there were any, it would be in the news that instead of various projects uncovering criminal behavior, it would be the cops, themselves, and it never seems to happen. There are cops who are murderers, rapists, thieves, and just plain thugs, and the rest of them are guilty of covering for the criminals. What happened to the NYPD officers who gang sodomized that Jamaican? The POLICE OFFICERS UNION pressured the city not to throw the SOBs in jail.
Except for a very few hardcore HW geeks (like me), "modular" PCs are simply not useful. Once a IT department has standardized, they don't change until the vendor stops making the base model, and the PCs are nearly always locked down to simplify support (never mind the stupidity/insanity/bullying by Microsoft that makes many upgrades have to re-authenticate). There's a small market, gamers mostly, that cycle through video cards, and more rarely, HDs/SSDs, but that's about it.
For example, the refurbished desktop (Dell T5400) I'm using for this posting has only the motherboard and CPU left from the minimum-corporate original configuration, but that cost less than a Xeon X5570 and compatible motherboard would have cost me when I bought it, and I've filled every slot, but one.
More likely, end users will rarely change a component, and phone vendors may find modularity useful for prototyping, but they won't bear the cost of the connectors.
That's the Koch's, again, buying legislators.
As usual, their lobbyists (bribe bagmen) provide plausible-sounding bafflegab that has nothing to do with the reality. It's just there because most people cannot even find the details, much less understand them.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-solar-kochs-20140420,0,7412286.story
Tictail may be OK (perhaps a bit of info in an "about us" page, to help us sort the good from the bad, and why you need them), but who are cloudfront.net? I shouldn't need to keep running queries through noscript.net just to buy a magazine with some confidence.
There's so much third-party crap required on their website that I cannot buy a #1. Too bad. I like print, but won't expose my systems to the unknown (beyond tracking) consequences of off-site APIs.
Used to play Civ until breakfast or out-of-memory errors called for a break at LAN parties (Starcraft/BW, too, until they took that away and lost my sales). Better with multiple PCs that hot-seat 'cause you could think ahead more easily.
Still playing AC from the Loki release for Linux. It will be interesting to see how well a simultaneous release works.
Maybe it is evening/night people having their natural sleep schedules disrupted in our industrialized society that contributes to a higher BMI.
AFAIK, morning sun has essentially the same spectrum as evening sun (slightly red due to the longer path through the atmosphere than at noon), and the same angle of incidence, so morning sun should have no different intrinsic effect than evening sun, if the rest of the day is spent in artificial light.
Sounds like a VERY poorly controlled experiment.
My Monster's OEM mirrors did the same thing yours are doing.
I replaced them with these (although, if you want to look "mod" enough, you could add, rather than replace):
http://www.constructorsrg.com/mirrors/hindsight_ls.html
But when you've actually been asked by management whether you've implemented RFC 3514 (the "Evil Bit"), how can the Internet NOT be better?
I have not, and will not, use my cable provider's "on demand" service for anything for which I have to pay ($5 - $10 per selection per 24-hour viewing window). If there were some "bundle" price, al la Netflix, I'd give them $10 for access. Of course, I don't pay the obscene fees for "premium" channels, either. I only have one cable box attached to a screen. I cannot watch all three (four?) at the same time, but I would have to pay an additional monthly fee for each one, even if it is discounted slightly for second, third, ... selection.
I may miss something, but nothing I've heard of justifies the pricing.