Two DOA of the same part isn't out of the question, a good amount of the time the same part number is from the same batch, which may suffer from the same manufacturing defects. I see things like that pretty often in batches of disks that fall out of RAIDs.
>So, yeah, for a boot drive, SSDs kick ass, but for storing your movie collection, not only are they 10 times more expensive than magnetic disks, but they are way overkill as far as performance is concerned.
And where performance is concerned the raid of SSDs replaces many many more disks.
Use a sledgehammer to drive railroad spikes Use a finishing hammer to drive finishing nails.
Sounds more like your hard drive s.m.a.r.t. was useless. The tools can only report what the drive tells it, if smart isn't telling about relocated sectors, resets, or whatever other terrible malfunction then they are left in the dark.
That's why use someones open wireless or you run it thru a bot on some hapless idiots computer. Then you laugh when the PD/FBI/ATF kicks their door in. Just remember not to leave a trail back to yourself.
Jesus, do you wake up every morning and beg for your corporate masters to beat you?
It's pretty obvious that Apples licensing agreement is "You make a connector just like this and nothing else, ever." There is no 'redesign' that can occur. Burning or not burning the bridge is simply meaningless because Apple is not going to bend.
If something, buy investigating will cause national shame, it will not be investigated. The converse is said to be true also, bring up something you are not suppose to and you trouble may find you.
Information density. I don't touch my desktop with my finger. I use a mouse that has exceptionally fine control. This allows me to have an information dense workspace. Most professionals I know, when they use their desktops are using them with lots of applications open. Touch is useless in this environment. Just imagine your mouse as 50-60 pixel wide blotch that randomly selected where in that blotch it was clicked. The new start menu is not information dense, if you get more then a few programs on your computer it grows huge in size. Hidden options under all apps make it a mousing race to display the information you want.
Or, more simply put, Metro sucks for workstations. It may be great on media consumption devices where only one or two applications are commonly used, but when it comes to professional use, every one I've seen use it so far finds a way to get it to work like Windows 7 again.
iOS and Android would make poor workstation operating systems too.
B. 'designed so well', let me stop laughing here. I've had to force close more then a few apps on my iphone. I've had metro apps lock up, and bring me right back to the locked up screen when came back to them from the menu. Knowing to right click the app in the upper left got rid of the problem.
I believe you are correct in your observation. There are piles of 'unrefined' places in the metro interface where you simply get stuck and have to Windows key out of it, where on other versions of Windows or iOS you would be given a Back option. Metro one day might be a good touch interface, but there are too many little inconsistencies so far.
>Non-obviousness is not an issue. There are plenty of non-obvious and hidden interface designs that are good, like right context menus, double clicking, click drag,
Please die. When you travel to that dark place, let Steve Jobs retrain you how to make a user interface.
Right clicking is UI HIV+. It took me a long time to come to this conclusion, but it allows very bad UI design and lots of unexpected hidden things. Apple designed better UI's because they did not have a right click for a long time. Show the user what can be done visually, not by groping in the dark.
Double click and drag click are the most fun things ever to explain to a user, doubly so over the phone. You don't double click in the metro interface. Multiple versions of windows came with the single click to launch option (default in one of them I think).
No what Microsoft has done here is tossed out billions of hours of user training to make a half baked interface to compete with Apple and Android. Microsoft has always sucked at good UI design and continues to do so.
Umm, what your saying here is that users should go from a bad product (ribbon) to one that doesn't meet their needs because of non-user interface issues. How about Microsoft should stop making shitty interfaces... I guess that's not an option.
Make a folder with all the shortcuts you want to use. I put my VPN connections, RDP shortcuts, regular programs, different control panels in it. You can use subfolders in this folder too. Name it Start. Now from your taskbar add a new toolbar and choose that folder. It behaves like the start button. You just have to keep it arranged so it gives you the >> to click.
The first thing most users will do with 8 is get rid of associations to metro apps. Unless you specifically install a metro version of chrome (do they make one?) it will work just the same as W7. There are 2 versions of IE metro and regular. There are also a number of apps like PDF reader, image viewer, and a few other things that come metro by default, but again, most users will quickly change if they want to do more then one thing at a time.
I personally make a folder of shortcuts to different things I use quite often, then add the folder to a toolbar on the taskbar. It works like an XP start menu.
Lastly, I do kind of like the games on W8. It's really easy to grab a few free ones on the store and mess around when I'm bored with them.
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Two DOA of the same part isn't out of the question, a good amount of the time the same part number is from the same batch, which may suffer from the same manufacturing defects. I see things like that pretty often in batches of disks that fall out of RAIDs.
>So, yeah, for a boot drive, SSDs kick ass, but for storing your movie collection, not only are they 10 times more expensive than magnetic disks, but they are way overkill as far as performance is concerned.
And where performance is concerned the raid of SSDs replaces many many more disks.
Use a sledgehammer to drive railroad spikes
Use a finishing hammer to drive finishing nails.
Depending on your definition of reliable and long term, people still use tapes.
> SSDs are just for laptops or so, not for real data storage requirements
Yep, just for laptops
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/solid-state-drives/solid-state-drives-910-series.html
http://www.equallogic.com/products/default.aspx?id=10857
SSD isn't great for bulk data storage, but where you need high IOPS a few SSDs in arrays replace a truckload of drives.
Sounds more like your hard drive s.m.a.r.t. was useless. The tools can only report what the drive tells it, if smart isn't telling about relocated sectors, resets, or whatever other terrible malfunction then they are left in the dark.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Leonard_Orr
That's why use someones open wireless or you run it thru a bot on some hapless idiots computer. Then you laugh when the PD/FBI/ATF kicks their door in. Just remember not to leave a trail back to yourself.
>Another really thorny problem is that substance abuse is behind much of the violence that we see.
You may have this backwards. People with 'problems' are the ones more likely to abuse substances in the first place.
Because of Apple what, you mean Apache? Google wasn't even a platform until recently, and was newborn 15 years ago.
I don't understand how Steve Jobs kept his childhood story out of Helter Skelter
Jesus, do you wake up every morning and beg for your corporate masters to beat you?
It's pretty obvious that Apples licensing agreement is "You make a connector just like this and nothing else, ever." There is no 'redesign' that can occur. Burning or not burning the bridge is simply meaningless because Apple is not going to bend.
It's not the smog you worry about, it's the corporate types flying over in their private jets, dumping their shit on us that's the big problem.
http://www.japantoday.com/category/entertainment/view/freakonomics-documentary-looks-at-sumo-match-fixing-scandal
http://blackotaku.wordpress.com/2007/11/10/the-japanese-allow-criminals-to-get-away-with-murder/
If something, buy investigating will cause national shame, it will not be investigated. The converse is said to be true also, bring up something you are not suppose to and you trouble may find you.
Information density. I don't touch my desktop with my finger. I use a mouse that has exceptionally fine control. This allows me to have an information dense workspace. Most professionals I know, when they use their desktops are using them with lots of applications open. Touch is useless in this environment. Just imagine your mouse as 50-60 pixel wide blotch that randomly selected where in that blotch it was clicked. The new start menu is not information dense, if you get more then a few programs on your computer it grows huge in size. Hidden options under all apps make it a mousing race to display the information you want.
Or, more simply put, Metro sucks for workstations. It may be great on media consumption devices where only one or two applications are commonly used, but when it comes to professional use, every one I've seen use it so far finds a way to get it to work like Windows 7 again.
iOS and Android would make poor workstation operating systems too.
If you cannot get windows 8 down in 30 seconds, you really should return it and buy a Apple product. That will be more your speed.
So you are confirming Microsoft's worst fears, they have built another OS that pushes people to Apple products. Metro emulates iOS... Poorly!
Windows 8 isn't unusable. Metro is. Too bad it's the default UI and not easy to get rid of.
Oh, here's a really good one in Windows 8 with the PDF view.
Open a file with the default windows 8 reader. Ok, winkey out or go to something else like most people will by default.
Open up firefox and attach the pdf to an web based email (yahoo in this case). Uhh? what?
It doesn't work??? (a normal person would be putting a tech call, or doing some serious google-fu about now).
Oh, you have to figure out how to close that damn reader first.
>The better question is - why close the app?
A. We're used to it.
B. 'designed so well', let me stop laughing here. I've had to force close more then a few apps on my iphone. I've had metro apps lock up, and bring me right back to the locked up screen when came back to them from the menu. Knowing to right click the app in the upper left got rid of the problem.
I believe you are correct in your observation. There are piles of 'unrefined' places in the metro interface where you simply get stuck and have to Windows key out of it, where on other versions of Windows or iOS you would be given a Back option. Metro one day might be a good touch interface, but there are too many little inconsistencies so far.
>Adding support for the "modern UI" might have something to do with
Ah, desperation. It is a terrible perfume.
What I don't get is how some pieces of metro can feel so unpolished when they've had years and two other touch/tablet OS's to copy from?
>Non-obviousness is not an issue. There are plenty of non-obvious and hidden interface designs that are good, like right context menus, double clicking, click drag,
Please die. When you travel to that dark place, let Steve Jobs retrain you how to make a user interface.
Right clicking is UI HIV+. It took me a long time to come to this conclusion, but it allows very bad UI design and lots of unexpected hidden things. Apple designed better UI's because they did not have a right click for a long time. Show the user what can be done visually, not by groping in the dark.
Double click and drag click are the most fun things ever to explain to a user, doubly so over the phone. You don't double click in the metro interface. Multiple versions of windows came with the single click to launch option (default in one of them I think).
No what Microsoft has done here is tossed out billions of hours of user training to make a half baked interface to compete with Apple and Android. Microsoft has always sucked at good UI design and continues to do so.
Umm, what your saying here is that users should go from a bad product (ribbon) to one that doesn't meet their needs because of non-user interface issues. How about Microsoft should stop making shitty interfaces... I guess that's not an option.
Compared to 7 don't you mean. I've had to deal with all kinds of weirdness from Vista that has been refined out of 7.
Make a folder with all the shortcuts you want to use. I put my VPN connections, RDP shortcuts, regular programs, different control panels in it. You can use subfolders in this folder too. Name it Start. Now from your taskbar add a new toolbar and choose that folder. It behaves like the start button. You just have to keep it arranged so it gives you the >> to click.
The first thing most users will do with 8 is get rid of associations to metro apps. Unless you specifically install a metro version of chrome (do they make one?) it will work just the same as W7. There are 2 versions of IE metro and regular. There are also a number of apps like PDF reader, image viewer, and a few other things that come metro by default, but again, most users will quickly change if they want to do more then one thing at a time.
I personally make a folder of shortcuts to different things I use quite often, then add the folder to a toolbar on the taskbar. It works like an XP start menu.
Lastly, I do kind of like the games on W8. It's really easy to grab a few free ones on the store and mess around when I'm bored with them.