Personally, I think the concept of FOSS should be torn down and rebuilt; at least the free part of it.
For instance... Free: If you use this library in another free product. For instance, if you make a small program which you give away for free, then you are allowed to use said library for free. Not Free: If you use this library in combination with systems that essentially make you a ton of money, you are legally required to pay a license for the use of the library in question.. .
FOSS may be a wonderful thing at first but lets face it; FOSS doesn't put food on your table, a house over your head, gas in your car, send your children to school, etc. I'm not saying that FOSS is a bad thing, no... far from it, but what we have to realize is that there are some fundamental issues with FOSS when we live in a world dominated by the use of money. Maybe in the future when we all work for the betterment of mankind (ie. United Federation of Planets level of betterment), FOSS will have no issues.
It is projected that within the next fifteen to twenty years, if global population growth rates don't slow down we will simply not be able to grow enough food to feed the world's population. Global famine will be a result. Already we're seeing the effects of over-fishing, fish populations are at the lowest seen in years. The giant water aquifer under the Great Plains of the United States (sometimes referred to as the Breadbasket of the World) is losing water, we're taking out water faster than nature can replace it.
So yes, even we in the United States, need to start worrying about over-population.
No, the reason why they put it into the Constitution like they did was to stop tyranny. They wanted to make sure that the people were going to be able to remain free and the only way to make sure that the people remain free is when the government fears the people.
Remember this quote by Thomas Jefferson...
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
At this moment, I fear this government and what it can do to me and the rest of the people in this nation.
For mere consumers it's a great drive. If you need that level of data assurance you're looking at the wrong SSDs, go look at Intel SSDs but be prepared to pay an arm and a leg for it. For us mere mortals it's still a great drive.
Not only that but if they didn't make the desktop user interface look like something that crawled out of the ass end of 1995, I'd be more inclined to upgrade to Windows 8/8.1.
The United States has enough IP addresses in our pool to carry us through to the end of say... 2018. If current growth of the Internet continues we will still have enough IP addresses in our pool, we'll just have to knock a year or two off that projection. Say, may 2017 or half way through 2016. The United States has more than enough IP addresses to keep us going for some time.
Europe and other parts of the world is a totally different story. When the Internet was created and we started handing out the IP addresses we were quite stingy when giving them to other parts of the world. The United States is one of the biggest hoarders of IP addresses in the IPv4 world while Europe and the rest of the world got relatively few IP addresses with compared to how many the US holds. There's where we are seeing the problem.
Europe has the issue, Europe has no choice in the matter; they have to move to IPv6 or their side of the Internet is pretty much crippled. So unless we all implement 6to4 to allow United States Internet users to connect to European web site (that's fugly) or finally get on the bandwagon in converting to IPv6 in the US, there will eventually be two Internets; a US and a European Internet with IPv4 and IPv6 being the limiting factor.
It's not just Apple that's had an issue with this particular problem. HP has had an issue with their GPUs failing on their motherboards too in their notebooks.
I'm of the opinion now that notebooks just don't belong having high-end GPUs in them. Notebooks have always had a history of cooling issues because of a variety of issues from inadequate fans or other various issues. Now let's stick the equivalent of a space heater in the device and let's see what happens. I'm really surprised that this sort of thing isn't happening more often to more brands of notebooks.
Let's face it, a notebook is a portable device with very cramped internals. It's like it's become a form of art to find out just how much more stuff we can cram into an even smaller space. A notebook is a portable device, it's not meant to be your one and only device. If you want to be playing games, get a desktop; not a notebook.
My Samsung SSD has a SMART Value of 97 (Normalized) and 30 (Raw). I've had it for about nine months 4.53 TBs to the drive. At this rate my SSD will still be working three years from now. If I get at the very least, five years out of it, then I'll be very happy.
In other words, all of this talk about how TLC NAND Flash Memory not being not durable isn't at all true. Yes, it's not as durable as MLC NAND Flash Memory but it's not like the sky is falling.
I have a feeling that they are watching a lot that comes out of Microsoft, Apple, Sun Microsystems, and Oracle.
Personally speaking, I think that all patents that come from Apple should be shot down but that's just my opinion. Apple is a filthy, stinking, no-good, idea-stealing, asshole of a company.
I've had good luck with two of the Samsung 840 Series SSDs that I have and my brother has had good luck with his 840 Series SSD as well. I've had better luck with the two Samsung SSDs that I had with an Intel SSD. Funny, the Samsung SSDs were cheaper than the Intel one I had but the Intel one died. Oh well.
Some people say that the reliability of the Samsung SSDs come from the fact that Samsung made the thing, the whole thing. Not just a piece of it. Samsung made the NAND, the main PCB, the controller chip, and the controller chip firmware. The whole thing was developed and manufactured in-house unlike several other SSDs that use the Sandforce SSD controller which has historically been quite a buggy piece of shit.
Maybe things have changed with the Sandforce controller but after that one Intel SSD that had the Sandforce controller in it that died on me, I won't trust a Sandforce controller-based SSD again.
Which just goes to show you, profit isn't everything. Profit is great and all, I know that but if that's all that you care about eventually you lose your way and lose the confidence of the very people who are giving you the money that makes you profitable.
Then again, that can be applied to so many other companies other than Microsoft. GM, Verizon, Comcast, AT&T, Time Warner, several of the large banks, etc.
I've always said that this fucked up need for more and more quarterly profits will lead to the downfall of companies. All Wall Street cares about is profit, profit, and more profit. The people on Wall Street do not give a damn about the future well being of the companies that they fuck over, when they're done fucking them over and all that's left is a dead husk of a company they'll just go onto the next company to fuck over.
This need for more and more quarterly profits needs to end and we need to get back to a economically sound long term investment strategy.
How many times have people AND the computer OEMs told Microsoft that Windows 8 and the ModernUI is absolute trash? Multiple times. You'd have to have been completely brain dead to not hear the complaints about it! But no, Ballmer must have had his fingers surgically implanted in his ears for the shouting over MetroUI was very loud yet he couldn't hear it. And now, here comes along Windows 8.1 and we have more MetroUI bullshit shoved down our throats.
GET IT THROUGH YOUR FUCKING HEADS MICROSOFT! METROUI IS FUCKING GARBAGE! GET RID OF IT!
They're going to present it to CBS? Seriously? Well, that's a one way ticket to cancellation. Better for them to present it to say, NetFlix, at least there it would stand a chance of survival.
Remember, this is CBS we're talking about here; mainstream media. Mainstream TV media wouldn't know a good TV show if it came up and slapped them upside the face.
It could be that they animal kingdom knows something we don't. Maybe this planet of ours is going to be facing an environmental change soon and that the animals of this planet are getting ready for it in the only way they know how, pack on the pounds. Those who have stored fat will survive longer than those without.
There is something to be said when you produce only one product in a particular product line per year. That is, one Galaxy S Series and one Galaxy Note Series device. If you keep producing more than one device per year like HTC has been doing for some time now you dilute your market.
At the risk of being called an idiot or troll, this is one of the reasons why Linux isn't going anywhere and won't any time soon. Ignoring what the user wants is what Microsoft is doing with Windows 8 and they too will be going down because of it.
Why would one need multiple monitors you say? Maybe he's a stock broker where he has to keep track of multiple datasets all at the same time, in real time, and can't be switching windows all the time (there's no time to do that, seconds count!). He has one screen with one graph on one screen and another other graphs and datasets on other screens.
Or maybe he just wants to be able to really multitask. An office document open there, a web browser open on another, a music app open another, etc.
Don't ask what a user wants and then proceed to scoff when the user's requests don't fall in line with what you think that the user needs. That will only provide you with a one way ticket to oblivion.
What about Isis? It's the same concept that the carriers in the US are already working on. Why didn't they patent the idea?
Apple thinks that they have power, they have none when it compares to that of say, big telecom and even the banks. The banks want this, so I figure that eventually the banks will come out with the same idea but with a bigger legal team behind it and kill Apple's idea.
There are parts of upper north east of the United States, places like Michigan and Ohio that haven't seen a tornado in years. That's where I live, North East Ohio. The nastiest thing we normally see in North East Ohio is a massive snow storm. Big deal.
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Basically it's a "Damned if you do, damned if you don't" kind of situation. No matter which way you go, you're damned. *shakes head*
Personally, I think the concept of FOSS should be torn down and rebuilt; at least the free part of it.
For instance...
Free: If you use this library in another free product. For instance, if you make a small program which you give away for free, then you are allowed to use said library for free.
Not Free: If you use this library in combination with systems that essentially make you a ton of money, you are legally required to pay a license for the use of the library in question..
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FOSS may be a wonderful thing at first but lets face it; FOSS doesn't put food on your table, a house over your head, gas in your car, send your children to school, etc. I'm not saying that FOSS is a bad thing, no... far from it, but what we have to realize is that there are some fundamental issues with FOSS when we live in a world dominated by the use of money. Maybe in the future when we all work for the betterment of mankind (ie. United Federation of Planets level of betterment), FOSS will have no issues.
It is projected that within the next fifteen to twenty years, if global population growth rates don't slow down we will simply not be able to grow enough food to feed the world's population. Global famine will be a result. Already we're seeing the effects of over-fishing, fish populations are at the lowest seen in years. The giant water aquifer under the Great Plains of the United States (sometimes referred to as the Breadbasket of the World) is losing water, we're taking out water faster than nature can replace it.
So yes, even we in the United States, need to start worrying about over-population.
No, the reason why they put it into the Constitution like they did was to stop tyranny. They wanted to make sure that the people were going to be able to remain free and the only way to make sure that the people remain free is when the government fears the people.
Remember this quote by Thomas Jefferson...
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
At this moment, I fear this government and what it can do to me and the rest of the people in this nation.
For mere consumers it's a great drive. If you need that level of data assurance you're looking at the wrong SSDs, go look at Intel SSDs but be prepared to pay an arm and a leg for it. For us mere mortals it's still a great drive.
Not only that but if they didn't make the desktop user interface look like something that crawled out of the ass end of 1995, I'd be more inclined to upgrade to Windows 8/8.1.
The United States has enough IP addresses in our pool to carry us through to the end of say... 2018. If current growth of the Internet continues we will still have enough IP addresses in our pool, we'll just have to knock a year or two off that projection. Say, may 2017 or half way through 2016. The United States has more than enough IP addresses to keep us going for some time.
Europe and other parts of the world is a totally different story. When the Internet was created and we started handing out the IP addresses we were quite stingy when giving them to other parts of the world. The United States is one of the biggest hoarders of IP addresses in the IPv4 world while Europe and the rest of the world got relatively few IP addresses with compared to how many the US holds. There's where we are seeing the problem.
Europe has the issue, Europe has no choice in the matter; they have to move to IPv6 or their side of the Internet is pretty much crippled. So unless we all implement 6to4 to allow United States Internet users to connect to European web site (that's fugly) or finally get on the bandwagon in converting to IPv6 in the US, there will eventually be two Internets; a US and a European Internet with IPv4 and IPv6 being the limiting factor.
Actually that would be fe80::200:f8ff:fe21:67cf. You can drop the three zeros after fe80 and replace it with a double colon.
No, they abandoned the enterprise market when they released that train wreck known as Windows 8.
It's not just Apple that's had an issue with this particular problem. HP has had an issue with their GPUs failing on their motherboards too in their notebooks.
I'm of the opinion now that notebooks just don't belong having high-end GPUs in them. Notebooks have always had a history of cooling issues because of a variety of issues from inadequate fans or other various issues. Now let's stick the equivalent of a space heater in the device and let's see what happens. I'm really surprised that this sort of thing isn't happening more often to more brands of notebooks.
Let's face it, a notebook is a portable device with very cramped internals. It's like it's become a form of art to find out just how much more stuff we can cram into an even smaller space. A notebook is a portable device, it's not meant to be your one and only device. If you want to be playing games, get a desktop; not a notebook.
My Samsung SSD has a SMART Value of 97 (Normalized) and 30 (Raw). I've had it for about nine months 4.53 TBs to the drive. At this rate my SSD will still be working three years from now. If I get at the very least, five years out of it, then I'll be very happy.
In other words, all of this talk about how TLC NAND Flash Memory not being not durable isn't at all true. Yes, it's not as durable as MLC NAND Flash Memory but it's not like the sky is falling.
Not according to Samsung. I've done the math on how it calculates the SMART values.
The Samsung 840 Series SSD has a total of 1000 P/E Cycles.
The SMART Wear Leveling Count value has two values; the normalized value (out of 100) and the raw value (out of 1000).
So, if the raw value is 30 it means that the cells have been erased 30 times out of the total 1000 times that the SSD can endure.
The normalized value is calculated like so
FLOOR.PRECISE((1000 - X) / 10)
With X being the raw value.
So, it would be like this
(1000-30)=970
970/10=97.0
FLOOR.PRECISE(97.0)=97 -- This is your normalized value.
I have a feeling that they are watching a lot that comes out of Microsoft, Apple, Sun Microsystems, and Oracle.
Personally speaking, I think that all patents that come from Apple should be shot down but that's just my opinion. Apple is a filthy, stinking, no-good, idea-stealing, asshole of a company.
I've had good luck with two of the Samsung 840 Series SSDs that I have and my brother has had good luck with his 840 Series SSD as well. I've had better luck with the two Samsung SSDs that I had with an Intel SSD. Funny, the Samsung SSDs were cheaper than the Intel one I had but the Intel one died. Oh well.
Some people say that the reliability of the Samsung SSDs come from the fact that Samsung made the thing, the whole thing. Not just a piece of it. Samsung made the NAND, the main PCB, the controller chip, and the controller chip firmware. The whole thing was developed and manufactured in-house unlike several other SSDs that use the Sandforce SSD controller which has historically been quite a buggy piece of shit.
Maybe things have changed with the Sandforce controller but after that one Intel SSD that had the Sandforce controller in it that died on me, I won't trust a Sandforce controller-based SSD again.
Which just goes to show you, profit isn't everything. Profit is great and all, I know that but if that's all that you care about eventually you lose your way and lose the confidence of the very people who are giving you the money that makes you profitable.
Then again, that can be applied to so many other companies other than Microsoft. GM, Verizon, Comcast, AT&T, Time Warner, several of the large banks, etc.
I've always said that this fucked up need for more and more quarterly profits will lead to the downfall of companies. All Wall Street cares about is profit, profit, and more profit. The people on Wall Street do not give a damn about the future well being of the companies that they fuck over, when they're done fucking them over and all that's left is a dead husk of a company they'll just go onto the next company to fuck over.
This need for more and more quarterly profits needs to end and we need to get back to a economically sound long term investment strategy.
How many times have people AND the computer OEMs told Microsoft that Windows 8 and the ModernUI is absolute trash? Multiple times. You'd have to have been completely brain dead to not hear the complaints about it! But no, Ballmer must have had his fingers surgically implanted in his ears for the shouting over MetroUI was very loud yet he couldn't hear it. And now, here comes along Windows 8.1 and we have more MetroUI bullshit shoved down our throats.
GET IT THROUGH YOUR FUCKING HEADS MICROSOFT! METROUI IS FUCKING GARBAGE! GET RID OF IT!
Sadly yes, they do. Unfortunately that means this is going to go nowhere fast.
They're going to present it to CBS? Seriously? Well, that's a one way ticket to cancellation. Better for them to present it to say, NetFlix, at least there it would stand a chance of survival.
Remember, this is CBS we're talking about here; mainstream media. Mainstream TV media wouldn't know a good TV show if it came up and slapped them upside the face.
It could be that they animal kingdom knows something we don't. Maybe this planet of ours is going to be facing an environmental change soon and that the animals of this planet are getting ready for it in the only way they know how, pack on the pounds. Those who have stored fat will survive longer than those without.
There is something to be said when you produce only one product in a particular product line per year. That is, one Galaxy S Series and one Galaxy Note Series device. If you keep producing more than one device per year like HTC has been doing for some time now you dilute your market.
At the risk of being called an idiot or troll, this is one of the reasons why Linux isn't going anywhere and won't any time soon. Ignoring what the user wants is what Microsoft is doing with Windows 8 and they too will be going down because of it.
Why would one need multiple monitors you say? Maybe he's a stock broker where he has to keep track of multiple datasets all at the same time, in real time, and can't be switching windows all the time (there's no time to do that, seconds count!). He has one screen with one graph on one screen and another other graphs and datasets on other screens.
Or maybe he just wants to be able to really multitask. An office document open there, a web browser open on another, a music app open another, etc.
Don't ask what a user wants and then proceed to scoff when the user's requests don't fall in line with what you think that the user needs. That will only provide you with a one way ticket to oblivion.
What about Isis? It's the same concept that the carriers in the US are already working on. Why didn't they patent the idea?
Apple thinks that they have power, they have none when it compares to that of say, big telecom and even the banks. The banks want this, so I figure that eventually the banks will come out with the same idea but with a bigger legal team behind it and kill Apple's idea.
Welcome to the United Police States of America.
There are parts of upper north east of the United States, places like Michigan and Ohio that haven't seen a tornado in years. That's where I live, North East Ohio. The nastiest thing we normally see in North East Ohio is a massive snow storm. Big deal.