" As if Java isn't slow enough, they open source it just in time as.NET is 100x better and faster." Wow , i had no idea that.net was that much faster than natively compiled C binaries, considering Java is anywhere between 75-95% percent of the speed of C (Statistics pulled out of nowhere, i remember last time i checked Java was expected to be around 90% of the speed of Compiled C i was guessing that improved) That would make.net considerably faster than C;)
For one , you completely misunderstood my sentiment, I shall not repeat it though. I was taking no jabs at Iran i will say that though. However since you brought it up, Iran is a fine place to live if your of the Shia branch of Islam. The Sunni get along fine as well,However if your of the Bahá'í Faith then you may not find it such a great country.
I myself am not a big proponent of some of the Trappings of American culture , however i do strongly believe it is their right to have this culture , and they don't seem to be doing badly with it either. Imposing your beliefs and ways on another is wrong indeed.
Fine what Iranian say probably does have actual meaning , so long as that meaning does not question the revolutionary sentiment or the Islamic doctrine . Honestly i would rather choose Hell than be forced into heaven
One of the founding principles of the USA was liberty and Americans like to refer to themselves as living in the land of the Free. Its a sad state of affairs when the very definition of believing in freedom (liberalism) has become a swear word over there. Patrick Henry one said during a speech "Give me Liberty or give me Death" , sadly it looks like so many are now trying to give death to the liberties the country was founded upon,Whether it be the prohibition of the early part of last century or the Bush administration and denying Adults rights to marry or the restrictions of freedom upon research due to religious grounds , the Constitution gets walked all over. Socialism can be a wonderful thing , unfortunately too many Americans have the Words of Mcarthy and Hover etc. ground into their minds constantly comparing socialism to communism to the sudo communesque regimes of last century. Its a concept that won't likely see the light of day over there in any meaningful way till someone repackages it and sells it under its new identity. Iran is at least honest in their restrictions ,
Indeed Paro-no-more-say-I (paronomasia, for those who don't get it , that was an awful pun on the word for pun) You shall never get rid of puns in the news , they are a corner stone of news headlines and have been for centuries . Though i do wish they would use slightly better paronomasia
Copyright infringement is a civil offence, It requires court action before it can be acted upon. The only thing the RIAA IRAA or whatever should be allowed to do is to ask the site owner that they remove the site , failing that then ask the Host , If all else fails then they should take action against the site. Once that action is complete they can ask the host to remove the site and the host will have to comply or face legal action, which would then be a criminal case then (IIRC disobeying a court order is a criminal offence).
The Admins deserve no reprimand or prosecution , They did all they had to do .
Simple answer to that,They can do absolutely nothing.Which is about all they can do for about 99.999% of the spam out their , they may get lucky and catch a few spammers in Michigan , but not even if a country has an extradition treaty with the USA they will not extradite someone for spamming
I had forgotten about that actually , i got mine from Poland (before it was an EU state , and I'm not even sure if the shop should have been selling it anyway but well no complaints here). hm then i should remove the Europe part , but it still stays true for the other regions.
Yes , that's not the problem though. The problem is they didn't later inform the other perhaps 29,999 people that they also had their data and privacy compromised. Not to mention the whole issue of taking their data in the first place
Well for now and hopefully the future but that's a side point. This is a US patent and the device could be sold in Europe and other regions , allowing the US fans of the Device to import it , perhaps it will cost a little more but its better than nothing.
I can see where your coming from with LPT and Serial port (never remember its actual name these days).The problem i have with floppies , is not that i can't see why they are useful , Its just that they should have been superseded at the very least 10 years ago if not more.
;) thatcher ruled from 1979-1990 , so there is a fair chance these are the children of thatcher still. I myself shall never forgive the women for stealing my school milk , not to mention the poll-tax , the coal miners thing or most of her carrier. but these are still most likely the children of thatcher , but could also be the children of the children of thatcher and the children of thatcher.
What we will need if this is going to occur is a peer review system , so those few brave pioneers with too much time on their hands can wade through the crap and find the pure quality so the rest of us can enjoy the good stuff. lets call it voging (video web log) or vogoning (in tribute to hitchikers)
I think the problem is most likely the controller chip and the USB interface , I imagine samsung would create the drive to use IDE or SATA for the connection and have a far better controller chip. So speeds would be far better, we shall have to wait and see though. As for the reboots , i was talking about a desktop mac actually, my mind wandered hee(i mainly turn it off to save electricity and any unfortunate incidents with cats and keyboards=)
Got someone should smack that racist scum bag back into his place, Being Scottish , Having both Scottish family and family from Eire not to mention I'm married to a German ,. This guy must really hate me, Unfortunately this is Veritas-softtware , as opposed to this pompous twits party. So i don't think we have to worry about a half baked ex-daytime TV presenter here,
I agree with you there , i probably should of clarified more as i really meant for consumer products. Most people have no use for the ports these days i would imagine, in several fields they are useful because of legacy equipment( i have a couple of ruggedised network test handhelds which require serial) So i agree it is not dead , but it certainly is becoming less relevant (iirc you can pick up fairly good Serial to USB converters fairly cheaply as well) but its defiantly a niche
;) actually come to think about it , 1000 boots and a new drive does not seem too bad for a flash drive on a mac , just thinking i normally boot my mac once a day (sometimes i leave it on overnight , but not too often) 1000 boots on a mac for me is around 3 years(most likely 2 and a half to 3 really , i like to patch at the end of a day anyway and then shut down to save extra boots or anything that requires a reboot) , which is when i would normally wish to replace a hard drive anyway
I would imagine samsung have considered that , well i hope they had. But i think the numbers are for complete write/erase (which i should of written above as opposed to write/read) of every block , so each block will last up to that amount of read write cycles so when one is spent i imagine it would take a few years for that to occur and hopefully the hardware/software can account for it and mark it as dead and move the data for future writes. so the drive would reduce in size over time giving you ample opportunity to replace it http://www.samsung.com/Products/Semiconductor/Flas h which has a lot of the tech info,I'm just going through it myself right now. Hopefully if apple or other companies adopt this, then a file system will be developed for the purpose to avoid the situation. Pure vapourware right now any so all we can really do is speculate , but i would certainly hope they have the fore-sight to account for all of this
Sometimes good tech just takes years to catch on and neigh on useless legacy crap takes forever to die off. Just look at the fact that FDDs are still clinging on tooth and nail in the PC world. LPT ports are still used for printers , serial ports still come as standard on most motherboards.
I think the principle advantage is in the power consumption for laptops, Batteries are really expensive , if you use your Laptop on the road a lot then it has two principle advantages , lower power consumption and its far far more robust to damage due to things like dropping. In this field of the ultra compact laptops i would say that the Power consumption and durability will outweigh the per GB cost. If the write/erase cycles are now within the realms that samsung is considering offering these drives for commercial sale then i would defiantly want one in my laptop , i could easily cope with 15GB on a portable device for work.
That's not really a worry any more , modern flash memory has a substantially greater number of read/ write cycles. IIRC the numbers are good enough that they would probably live as long if not longer than your average laptop HDDs.
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Ok it is insanely hard to code even when your just a little stoned. Imagine trying to code a game when your tripping. I mean wooh dude Heavy number shittt man. Recounting one time i was on acid , i completely forgot all about numbers and created some complex system involving blips of and the position of Christmas tree lights, This is not a rare incident , one time i turned a manual for the game 1080 snowboarding into the nix nax nox tobo , a religious book to live you life by , the devil being a tree outside and god being IIRC my light bulb. Making a game whilst on drugs is really really hard if not nearly impossible.Perhaps you could draw quite well on past experiences,but whilst actually on anything it would not be a good idea unless you like code so obsfucated that it makes badly written perl look like the nirvana of code. Perhaps it would be easier if your on a little amphetamines , but anything hallucinogenic is asking for trouble.;) unless your the graphics artist or story writer then they are all permanently wasted anyway, Not to mention the Voice over director who in most game pretty much has to have been smoking to Cheech and Chong levels
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" As if Java isn't slow enough, they open source it just in time as .NET is 100x better and faster." .net was that much faster than natively compiled C binaries, considering Java is anywhere between 75-95% percent of the speed of C (Statistics pulled out of nowhere, i remember last time i checked Java was expected to be around 90% of the speed of Compiled C i was guessing that improved) .net considerably faster than C ;)
Wow , i had no idea that
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For one , you completely misunderstood my sentiment, I shall not repeat it though. ,However if your of the Bahá'í Faith then you may not find it such a great country.
I was taking no jabs at Iran i will say that though.
However since you brought it up, Iran is a fine place to live if your of the Shia branch of Islam.
The Sunni get along fine as well
I myself am not a big proponent of some of the Trappings of American culture , however i do strongly believe it is their right to have this culture , and they don't seem to be doing badly with it either.
Imposing your beliefs and ways on another is wrong indeed.
Fine what Iranian say probably does have actual meaning , so long as that meaning does not question the revolutionary sentiment or the Islamic doctrine . Honestly i would rather choose Hell than be forced into heaven
One of the founding principles of the USA was liberty and Americans like to refer to themselves as living in the land of the Free. Its a sad state of affairs when the very definition of believing in freedom (liberalism) has become a swear word over there . ,Whether it be the prohibition of the early part of last century or the Bush administration and denying Adults rights to marry or the restrictions of freedom upon research due to religious grounds , the Constitution gets walked all over.
Patrick Henry one said during a speech "Give me Liberty or give me Death" , sadly it looks like so many are now trying to give death to the liberties the country was founded upon
Socialism can be a wonderful thing , unfortunately too many Americans have the Words of Mcarthy and Hover etc. ground into their minds constantly comparing socialism to communism to the sudo communesque regimes of last century.
Its a concept that won't likely see the light of day over there in any meaningful way till someone repackages it and sells it under its new identity.
Iran is at least honest in their restrictions ,
Indeed Paro-no-more-say-I (paronomasia, for those who don't get it , that was an awful pun on the word for pun)
You shall never get rid of puns in the news , they are a corner stone of news headlines and have been for centuries . Though i do wish they would use slightly better paronomasia
Copyright infringement is a civil offence, It requires court action before it can be acted upon.
The only thing the RIAA IRAA or whatever should be allowed to do is to ask the site owner that they remove the site , failing that then ask the Host , If all else fails then they should take action against the site. Once that action is complete they can ask the host to remove the site and the host will have to comply or face legal action, which would then be a criminal case then (IIRC disobeying a court order is a criminal offence).
The Admins deserve no reprimand or prosecution , They did all they had to do .
Simple answer to that,They can do absolutely nothing.Which is about all they can do for about 99.999% of the spam out their , they may get lucky and catch a few spammers in Michigan , but not even if a country has an extradition treaty with the USA they will not extradite someone for spamming
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http://www.bookandhost.com/domains/countrydomains
http://www.urjaonline.com/web-hosting-Burkina-Fas
http://distrowatch.com/stats.php?section=countrie
http://www.linuxcompatible.org/French_Ministry_of
Not all totally about linux or not totally up to date , but it does show that in Burkina Faso that linux has made some impact , so i would expect that server use is up to some extent though i couldn't give you hard figures without commissioning a study
But then your FPU unit gets locked awaiting moderation because of a dispute about its accuracy.
I had forgotten about that actually , i got mine from Poland (before it was an EU state , and I'm not even sure if the shop should have been selling it anyway but well no complaints here).
hm then i should remove the Europe part , but it still stays true for the other regions.
Yes , that's not the problem though.
The problem is they didn't later inform the other perhaps 29,999 people that they also had their data and privacy compromised.
Not to mention the whole issue of taking their data in the first place
Well for now and hopefully the future but that's a side point.
This is a US patent and the device could be sold in Europe and other regions , allowing the US fans of the Device to import it , perhaps it will cost a little more but its better than nothing.
blogging sounds like something you do when you have trench foot though ;)
We could use Video Diary , Video diarist , much more universal
Yo , yo is talkin trip Holmes , Terminator X is da Big Blue to his Enigma machine -
X gonna go cold lampin on yo an yours , and turn yo kasparov
I can see where your coming from with LPT and Serial port (never remember its actual name these days) .The problem i have with floppies , is not that i can't see why they are useful , Its just that they should have been superseded at the very least 10 years ago if not more.
;) thatcher ruled from 1979-1990 , so there is a fair chance these are the children of thatcher still. .
I myself shall never forgive the women for stealing my school milk , not to mention the poll-tax , the coal miners thing or most of her carrier
but these are still most likely the children of thatcher , but could also be the children of the children of thatcher and the children of thatcher.
Slashdot seems to have numerous AC problems as well.
Perhaps the editors should call that guy he seems cool
What we will need if this is going to occur is a peer review system , so those few brave pioneers with too much time on their hands can wade through the crap and find the pure quality so the rest of us can enjoy the good stuff.
lets call it voging (video web log) or vogoning (in tribute to hitchikers)
I think the problem is most likely the controller chip and the USB interface , I imagine samsung would create the drive to use IDE or SATA for the connection and have a far better controller chip.
So speeds would be far better, we shall have to wait and see though.
As for the reboots , i was talking about a desktop mac actually, my mind wandered hee(i mainly turn it off to save electricity and any unfortunate incidents with cats and keyboards=)
Got someone should smack that racist scum bag back into his place, . , . ,
Being Scottish , Having both Scottish family and family from Eire not to mention I'm married to a German ,
This guy must really hate me
Unfortunately this is Veritas-softtware , as opposed to this pompous twits party
So i don't think we have to worry about a half baked ex-daytime TV presenter here
I agree with you there , i probably should of clarified more as i really meant for consumer products.
Most people have no use for the ports these days i would imagine, in several fields they are useful because of legacy equipment( i have a couple of ruggedised network test handhelds which require serial)
So i agree it is not dead , but it certainly is becoming less relevant (iirc you can pick up fairly good Serial to USB converters fairly cheaply as well) but its defiantly a niche
;) actually come to think about it , 1000 boots and a new drive does not seem too bad for a flash drive on a mac , just thinking i normally boot my mac once a day (sometimes i leave it on overnight , but not too often) 1000 boots on a mac for me is around 3 years(most likely 2 and a half to 3 really , i like to patch at the end of a day anyway and then shut down to save extra boots or anything that requires a reboot) , which is when i would normally wish to replace a hard drive anyway
I would imagine samsung have considered that , well i hope they had. /erase (which i should of written above as opposed to write /read) of every block , so each block will last up to that amount of read write cycles so when one is spent i imagine it would take a few years for that to occur and hopefully the hardware/software can account for it and mark it as dead and move the data for future writes. so the drive would reduce in size over time giving you ample opportunity to replace its h ,I'm just going through it myself right now.
But i think the numbers are for complete write
http://www.samsung.com/Products/Semiconductor/Fla
which has a lot of the tech info
Hopefully if apple or other companies adopt this, then a file system will be developed for the purpose to avoid the situation.
Pure vapourware right now any so all we can really do is speculate , but i would certainly hope they have the fore-sight to account for all of this
Sometimes good tech just takes years to catch on and neigh on useless legacy crap takes forever to die off. Just look at the fact that FDDs are still clinging on tooth and nail in the PC world. .
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LPT ports are still used for printers , serial ports still come as standard on most motherboards
I think the principle advantage is in the power consumption for laptops, Batteries are really expensive , if you use your Laptop on the road a lot then it has two principle advantages , lower power consumption and its far far more robust to damage due to things like dropping
In this field of the ultra compact laptops i would say that the Power consumption and durability will outweigh the per GB cost
If the write/erase cycles are now within the realms that samsung is considering offering these drives for commercial sale then i would defiantly want one in my laptop , i could easily cope with 15GB on a portable device for work.
That's not really a worry any more , modern flash memory has a substantially greater number of read/ write cycles. .
IIRC the numbers are good enough that they would probably live as long if not longer than your average laptop HDDs
Ok it is insanely hard to code even when your just a little stoned. .Perhaps you could draw quite well on past experiences ,but whilst actually on anything it would not be a good idea unless you like code so obsfucated that it makes badly written perl look like the nirvana of code. ;) unless your the graphics artist or story writer then they are all permanently wasted anyway,
Imagine trying to code a game when your tripping. I mean wooh dude Heavy number shittt man.
Recounting one time i was on acid , i completely forgot all about numbers and created some complex system involving blips of and the position of Christmas tree lights, This is not a rare incident , one time i turned a manual for the game 1080 snowboarding into the nix nax nox tobo , a religious book to live you life by , the devil being a tree outside and god being IIRC my light bulb.
Making a game whilst on drugs is really really hard if not nearly impossible
Perhaps it would be easier if your on a little amphetamines , but anything hallucinogenic is asking for trouble.
Not to mention the Voice over director who in most game pretty much has to have been smoking to Cheech and Chong levels