Are you saying there was no 5th Beatle? Or that Facebook didn't cheat Ceglia? Can you cite evidence either way? What, in fact, are you saying?
Do you know why the legal system exists?
Think very hard about what is unique and unrepeatable about this moment in history. Now extrapolate 50 years ahead. All of a sudden, those remarkable, delicate and doomed circumstances that make your life so pleasant right now - DON'T EXIST (food, clean air, water, infrastructure, toys, relative afflluence, relative safety). Just because they have existed during the few years you've been alive doesn't mean that happy circumstance shall continue. All available evidence, and any thorough projection (yes, there have been many over the past half a century, mostly with essentially the same clear message), makes it pretty clear this brief light bright period in the West is ending. It didn't have to be this way but a lot of very poor choices were made (and continue to be made).
It's really as dumb as two rocks when it comes to higher level behaviour (anything much more sophisticated than "shooting at you if they can see you" and "moving to where you are").
This is par for the course for colour, lighting, overall quality. Do you think she cares that her colour balance is screwed? (And it's already screwed, even before she starts to wonder if her display calibration has drifted in the 3 weeks since she bought the phone.)
The colour is terrible anyway, as are most other properties of cell phone shots (poor & dirty lenses, focus, flash, etc). These shots are taken in poor conditions and with very low user expectations. Colour accuracy is for graphic arts activities, not cellphones.
What I wanted to know is: Does colour shift in less than a year? If not, then it's an unimportant design consideration given the lifespans of throwaway consumer gadgets (and the other points above).
Samsung uses poor quality Chinese capacitors (yeah, I know, that's an tautology) that are practically designed to fail just outside the warranty period (e.g. the notorious CapXon). This is a scandalous waste, and Samsung is doing it deliberately since better parts are available.
When they overheat, bulge and ooze, causing well known failure modes, you can easily replace them with higher quality parts - this site has the details.
I'm in the process of repairing two Samsung 225bw screens that were thrown at out work with this fault (4.5 years since manufacture). The parts only cost a few bucks and the soldering isn't too difficult. Getting the case open is probably the hardest part.
I use Macs that are more than 5 years old, and frankly I'd be surprised if they weren't working in another 20. Mac G5 and Mac Pro (and unibody laptops) are built like tanks. The fans will wear out eventually, but the quality of fans in Macintoshes is better than that in PC (because Apple's reputation depends on it), and you can get spares. Obviously the disks won't last that long, but nobody would be so stupid as to throw out a computer when the disk dies... would they?
(before the manufacturers are counting on you throwing it away and upgrading): Does the change happen over this short timespan? And who needs colour accuracy in a *cellphone* anyway?!?!
... parents will do anything to avoid having their kids experience even mild discomfort, anxiety, or disappointment—“anything less than pleasant,” as he puts it—with the result that when, as adults, they experience the normal frustrations of life, they think something must be terribly wrong....
Consider a toddler who’s running in the park and trips on a rock, Bohn says. Some parents swoop in immediately, pick up the toddler, and comfort her in that moment of shock, before she even starts crying. But, Bohn explains, this actually prevents her from feeling secure—not just on the playground, but in life.
I probably won't buy the game. And I was planning to, previously; because I think GTA IV is an incredible piece of work.
A sweatshop is a sweatshop. I won't support assholes like McNamara.
It was a feature of the Resource Manager, but I don't think it was heavily used, as single-floppy-128K systems were quickly superseded and upgraded for serious use.
And calling it one was a poor marketing move on Sun's part. In any case, ZFS (and eventually btrfs) will obsolete write-in-place filesystems like UFS (or have already obsoleted, depending what you've been using in the last 7 or 8 years since ZFS went production).
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Well, Zuckerberg *is* a gold plated fucking asshole, so one can hardly fault Ceglia for saying so.
Are you saying there was no 5th Beatle? Or that Facebook didn't cheat Ceglia? Can you cite evidence either way? What, in fact, are you saying? Do you know why the legal system exists?
Speak for yourself! ;-)
Like the fabled non-volatile memory, stone-like disks have appeared on Slashdot at least once before.
Think very hard about what is unique and unrepeatable about this moment in history. Now extrapolate 50 years ahead. All of a sudden, those remarkable, delicate and doomed circumstances that make your life so pleasant right now - DON'T EXIST (food, clean air, water, infrastructure, toys, relative afflluence, relative safety). Just because they have existed during the few years you've been alive doesn't mean that happy circumstance shall continue. All available evidence, and any thorough projection (yes, there have been many over the past half a century, mostly with essentially the same clear message), makes it pretty clear this brief light bright period in the West is ending. It didn't have to be this way but a lot of very poor choices were made (and continue to be made).
I doubt it.
It's really as dumb as two rocks when it comes to higher level behaviour (anything much more sophisticated than "shooting at you if they can see you" and "moving to where you are").
This is par for the course for colour, lighting, overall quality. Do you think she cares that her colour balance is screwed? (And it's already screwed, even before she starts to wonder if her display calibration has drifted in the 3 weeks since she bought the phone.)
The colour is terrible anyway, as are most other properties of cell phone shots (poor & dirty lenses, focus, flash, etc). These shots are taken in poor conditions and with very low user expectations. Colour accuracy is for graphic arts activities, not cellphones.
What I wanted to know is: Does colour shift in less than a year? If not, then it's an unimportant design consideration given the lifespans of throwaway consumer gadgets (and the other points above).
Samsung uses poor quality Chinese capacitors (yeah, I know, that's an tautology) that are practically designed to fail just outside the warranty period (e.g. the notorious CapXon). This is a scandalous waste, and Samsung is doing it deliberately since better parts are available.
When they overheat, bulge and ooze, causing well known failure modes, you can easily replace them with higher quality parts - this site has the details.
I'm in the process of repairing two Samsung 225bw screens that were thrown at out work with this fault (4.5 years since manufacture). The parts only cost a few bucks and the soldering isn't too difficult. Getting the case open is probably the hardest part.
I use Macs that are more than 5 years old, and frankly I'd be surprised if they weren't working in another 20. Mac G5 and Mac Pro (and unibody laptops) are built like tanks. The fans will wear out eventually, but the quality of fans in Macintoshes is better than that in PC (because Apple's reputation depends on it), and you can get spares. Obviously the disks won't last that long, but nobody would be so stupid as to throw out a computer when the disk dies... would they?
(before the manufacturers are counting on you throwing it away and upgrading): Does the change happen over this short timespan? And who needs colour accuracy in a *cellphone* anyway?!?!
...has done this for decades.
I probably won't buy the game. And I was planning to, previously; because I think GTA IV is an incredible piece of work. A sweatshop is a sweatshop. I won't support assholes like McNamara.
You sir, win One Internets for this excellent and insightful remark. Pity I don't get mod points any more. But I'm now a fan!
You work two jobs and have zero interest in English, Philosophy, History, Art? You don't have much of a life.
Cheney's Energy Task Force already did all the research. All they have to do is refer to those files!
It was a feature of the Resource Manager, but I don't think it was heavily used, as single-floppy-128K systems were quickly superseded and upgraded for serious use.
"Groupon is insolvent (and you can be, too!)"
Reported somewhere around here.
And calling it one was a poor marketing move on Sun's part. In any case, ZFS (and eventually btrfs) will obsolete write-in-place filesystems like UFS (or have already obsoleted, depending what you've been using in the last 7 or 8 years since ZFS went production).
"64 bit CRC"? No. ZFS uses 256 bit checksums for each block.
Also, ZFS does not implement RAID-5, RAID-6 or any of the conventional RAID modes; but it has "RAID-like" modes (e.g. mirrored vdev, RAID-Z, RAID-Z2).
I'm not saying it does *today* - but isn't this a really common use case for a typical Linux user - geek or not?
He gets to live in beautiful, functional Switzerland instead of the shithole that is the USA today. :)
Justice DONE.
For the rest, you can just read the reverse engineered specs... either this year's, or the details published in 2006.