Hear that whooshing sound? That's a joke going over your head. If you still don't get it, I'd be happy to explain it to you. I'll write very slowly for you.
$1 billion value for bitcoins $0.875 billion in tulip exports worldwide in 2006 (http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2006/0610-tulips_tulips_tulips.htm)
Right now we associate annoying ads with the site we see them on. Our only options are to put up with them or block them for a site. There's no fine grained feedback.
A better system would be to have a reputation system. A Slashdot style reputation system of rating ads and ad sources combined with filtering based on preferences would let users both control why types of ads they will put up with and give feedback to advertisers as to which characteristics are going to get them blocked from a lot of eyeballs.
Purely subjective impressions of how it works compared to the original 5400 drive it replaced is that I notice 3 types of file speeds.
Frequent files (boot and a couple of frequent programs) are noticeably faster. Not just a little, but enough that I'm pleasantly surprised each time. This has sold me on the utility of hybrids. Magic? No. But enough of an improvement to be worthwhile.
Large files seem a little more responsive. But I think this is due to going to a larger drive that can write them in larger contiguous segments. But seek times and r/w speeds don't hurt. In any case, I find myself cursing less at long delays.
Infrequent programs seem to behave just the same. These are the ones that a larger cache would help. Not to mention that I sometimes use a program for a day or two and it gets faster, only to switch to a previous frequent program that was running fast only to find it is now slow.
Ah crap! I just bought the Momentus XT 750 version a couple weeks ago. I'm pleased with it. Not as fast as SS drive, but roomier and cheaper. But crap, if I'd just waited...
Then again, I was expecting the next version to have 16 or 32 gig of flash. And I did get a 7200 rpm drive. Handy for some of the huge files I process.
Cool. I never knew that about nickel alloys. Nickel is avoided in surgical products due to nickel alleriges. So as soon as I see nickel in the name, I move on.
Still, I'm intrigued. I've seen titanium alloys do the same and thought it was a fluke. The stuff still broke, but after cycling a couple million times at 110% of yield.
I'm not sure how interesting it'd be as a video. I don't do much machining in my shop. There are some amazing people and shops out there and I value their expertise. All I could do is show my lab in the US and ramble about different projects.
Still, I get to play with some fun stuff. I use exotic stuff because I design medical devices. Little tiny mechanisms with tight performance requirements. 95% of the time exotic materials don't help, but it's worth testing them. I've researched gold for one application (as a cost reduction!), sapphire for another, cobalt alloys for another (I love them!). I forget what I was playing with platinum for. Gobs of nitinol for several applications. None of them ever panned out.
I've only used it for prototypes, but nothing aerospace. Which means either very expensive custom tooling for die casting or machining. And it won't quite machine like metal. Grinding works, but that's slow for complex shapes.
It's not impossible to work with, just weird. Vibrates and makes the strangest sounds while machining.
Now that I think about it, boralyn was worse. Tore up machine tools and gummed up grinding tools. You can cast, forge, and weld the stuff. But none of the parts I work with are amenable to those processes.
I think you parsed that wrong. The qualifier was "remaining." They were being realistic and modest. They realize that that HTML5 apps are the only remaining ecosystem they can influence.
IOS? managed by Apple. Android? Dominated by Google. They could have started a new ecosystem or tried one of the dying ones. But in the end, they saw that HTML5 apps are their only remaining option.
There was a sci-fi short story in Analog years ago that involved human evolution an junk food. The plot involved people getting mysteriously ill, even dying. Epidemiologists linked it to eating healthy. They discovered that humans had evolved to use caramel coloring as an essential vitamin. Eliminating it from your diet was as dangerous as eliminating vitamin C.
I think about that story every time I see caramel coloring listed as an ingredient in food.
Some of the hybrid systems are a nice compromise. A Momentus XT 750 for $129 has worked great for me. No, it isn't as fast as a SSD for all situations. And I really wish it had more than 8GB of flash. But for boot and launching some applications, it's fantastic. Price and storage volume are decent.
Until price, capacity, and robustness of SSD matches spinning media, we're going to see more of these hybrid systems.
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Oh yes, I feel terrible. Oh so terrible for parodying people who knee-jerk hate Apple or Foxconn. What ever shall I do to atone?
And yet I bet you still don't get the joke. That makes me feel oh so bad. Next time I'll do a fart joke instead.
Hear that whooshing sound? That's a joke going over your head. If you still don't get it, I'd be happy to explain it to you. I'll write very slowly for you.
I'm voting with my wallet. I'm definitely not going to be buying an iPhone made by Foxxcon. Who's with me?
It's far too early to start celebrating (and not very accurate to boot), but in my head it's the song:
Ding dong the Metro's gone!
The Metro's gone!
The Metro's gone!
Ding dong the stupid Metro's gone!
$1 billion value for bitcoins
$0.875 billion in tulip exports worldwide in 2006 (http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2006/0610-tulips_tulips_tulips.htm)
Exports appear to be about 2/3 of total value.
Took the kids this weekend. It was better than expected. It's not going to become some classic. But it was entertaining.
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Just send me loads of cash so I can quit my regular job and devote my efforts to your needs.
What was it you wanted again?
Right now we associate annoying ads with the site we see them on. Our only options are to put up with them or block them for a site. There's no fine grained feedback.
A better system would be to have a reputation system. A Slashdot style reputation system of rating ads and ad sources combined with filtering based on preferences would let users both control why types of ads they will put up with and give feedback to advertisers as to which characteristics are going to get them blocked from a lot of eyeballs.
So Han Solo didn't sign first?
Not a problem. All a flight attendant needs to do call a penalty and send them to the lavatory.
Purely subjective impressions of how it works compared to the original 5400 drive it replaced is that I notice 3 types of file speeds.
Frequent files (boot and a couple of frequent programs) are noticeably faster. Not just a little, but enough that I'm pleasantly surprised each time. This has sold me on the utility of hybrids. Magic? No. But enough of an improvement to be worthwhile.
Large files seem a little more responsive. But I think this is due to going to a larger drive that can write them in larger contiguous segments. But seek times and r/w speeds don't hurt. In any case, I find myself cursing less at long delays.
Infrequent programs seem to behave just the same. These are the ones that a larger cache would help. Not to mention that I sometimes use a program for a day or two and it gets faster, only to switch to a previous frequent program that was running fast only to find it is now slow.
I like to angle mine 120 degrees.
Ah crap! I just bought the Momentus XT 750 version a couple weeks ago. I'm pleased with it. Not as fast as SS drive, but roomier and cheaper. But crap, if I'd just waited ...
Then again, I was expecting the next version to have 16 or 32 gig of flash. And I did get a 7200 rpm drive. Handy for some of the huge files I process.
Cool. I never knew that about nickel alloys. Nickel is avoided in surgical products due to nickel alleriges. So as soon as I see nickel in the name, I move on.
Still, I'm intrigued. I've seen titanium alloys do the same and thought it was a fluke. The stuff still broke, but after cycling a couple million times at 110% of yield.
I'm not sure how interesting it'd be as a video. I don't do much machining in my shop. There are some amazing people and shops out there and I value their expertise. All I could do is show my lab in the US and ramble about different projects.
Still, I get to play with some fun stuff. I use exotic stuff because I design medical devices. Little tiny mechanisms with tight performance requirements. 95% of the time exotic materials don't help, but it's worth testing them. I've researched gold for one application (as a cost reduction!), sapphire for another, cobalt alloys for another (I love them!). I forget what I was playing with platinum for. Gobs of nitinol for several applications. None of them ever panned out.
I actually use titanium alloy because of its great fatigue properties. I've cycled Ti64 at 50% of yield for 10^10 cycles without failure.
Is your manager brittle, expensive, and prone to making weird noises?
I've only used it for prototypes, but nothing aerospace. Which means either very expensive custom tooling for die casting or machining. And it won't quite machine like metal. Grinding works, but that's slow for complex shapes.
It's not impossible to work with, just weird. Vibrates and makes the strangest sounds while machining.
Now that I think about it, boralyn was worse. Tore up machine tools and gummed up grinding tools. You can cast, forge, and weld the stuff. But none of the parts I work with are amenable to those processes.
I work with titanium. Buying 500 kg this week. It's not that bad. I'd use more of it if it were cheaper.
You want to talk hard to work with, try gamma titanium aluminide. Blah! And I'm sure there is far worse stuff. Plutonium?
I think you parsed that wrong. The qualifier was "remaining." They were being realistic and modest. They realize that that HTML5 apps are the only remaining ecosystem they can influence.
IOS? managed by Apple. Android? Dominated by Google. They could have started a new ecosystem or tried one of the dying ones. But in the end, they saw that HTML5 apps are their only remaining option.
Yeah, just another Goth article about cutting.
There was a sci-fi short story in Analog years ago that involved human evolution an junk food. The plot involved people getting mysteriously ill, even dying. Epidemiologists linked it to eating healthy. They discovered that humans had evolved to use caramel coloring as an essential vitamin. Eliminating it from your diet was as dangerous as eliminating vitamin C.
I think about that story every time I see caramel coloring listed as an ingredient in food.
What the Norwegians found was oil in their backyard.
Maybe. Sorta. Kinda. Not really.
Some of the hybrid systems are a nice compromise. A Momentus XT 750 for $129 has worked great for me. No, it isn't as fast as a SSD for all situations. And I really wish it had more than 8GB of flash. But for boot and launching some applications, it's fantastic. Price and storage volume are decent.
Until price, capacity, and robustness of SSD matches spinning media, we're going to see more of these hybrid systems.