Hard for any SATA drive to distinguish itself on sequential transfers, given that SATA is capped around 550MB/s
Which is why every fast SSD has data rates for SATA2 and SATA3. SATA3 is a lot harder to cap. But even then, for the ultrafast are SSD cards, and no SATA involved.
The 550MB/s is for SATA3 and has been capped for a good time already.
Flappy Bird didn't gain popularity thanks to a great and innovative concept. It succeeded thanks to 1. initially fake reviews from the author 2. many people downloading it 3. and talking about it (basically asking the same question as yours) 4. more downloads. In other words, the snowball effect...
I still haven't played it or even watched a video about it. I do not robotically follow every hipster trend that happens. As the game has been all over the place, I have seen a couple of screenshots of the game like the one in the article. But I will probably just pass this one. I'm not criticizing the game in any way though.
Can the open source community create a super long term support Linux distro? Most of the components of a Linux desktop have been just fine for a long time. I would be still comfortable with a KDE3 or GNOME2 desktop, for example. So stick with something that works, and concentrate on support and quality assurance for 10 years. Seeing all the bugs and unnecessary reinventing of things is very tiring and I would jump into that kind of distro in an eyeblink.
Many people wanted still to stay abroad even with crusty Windows XP (no desktop compositor, terrible security) despite the extended support ending, so there is clearly an interest for this kind of long-term conservative OS.
12.04 LTS runs just fine on any machine that I've run 10.04 on.
It does not, actually.
Due to Unity, Ubuntu 12.04 is way more heavyweight on CPU and GPU than the GNOME 2 -based 10.04. 12.04 needs 2x-3x more power than 10.04 to run the desktop smoothly. 12.04 and newer versions of Ubuntu are basically unusably laggy on low-end Atom devices, which BTW all run Windows 7 and 8 smooth like butter.
Just because something seems logical doesn't mean it's easy.
In the case of OS X it does not have to be easy. They have hired a massive team of smart engineers which are paid exactly to solve tough problems. I'm sure that arranging just a predictable support schedule wouldn't be a too big challenge for them.
A vulnerability in a router or e-mail provider is not the end of the world, but a money system has to be something that is extremely trusted and reliable.
Yep. Bitcoin can still live, but we must start rigorously monitoring and rating the trust towards various exchanges. As you said, for Mt. Gox it was obvious that something was seriously wrong for around a year. That should have rung an alarm bell.
I recently watched a relaxing Let's Play of Thief Gold by a Finnish guy called Crowley9. So if someone wants to check out what the first game in the series looked like, there's my recommendation.
As Apple products keep gaining larger market share, also the number of discovered vulnerabilities increases day after day. Having a UNIX base does not mean that you are automatically invincible.
At least I don't hate the Beta that much anymore. In the beginning it made me want to kill myself, but now it looks just fine after a couple of beers. But seriously speaking... Sure, there are parts missing which must be fixed, but the user experience is already quite bearable.
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Hard for any SATA drive to distinguish itself on sequential transfers, given that SATA is capped around 550MB/s
Which is why every fast SSD has data rates for SATA2 and SATA3. SATA3 is a lot harder to cap. But even then, for the ultrafast are SSD cards, and no SATA involved.
The 550MB/s is for SATA3 and has been capped for a good time already.
Flappy Bird didn't gain popularity thanks to a great and innovative concept. It succeeded thanks to 1. initially fake reviews from the author 2. many people downloading it 3. and talking about it (basically asking the same question as yours) 4. more downloads. In other words, the snowball effect...
So basically just effective marketing.
It's a shame that the game become so big emotional endurance for the creator Dong Nguyen.
To think about all the entertaining and relaxing little moments around the world that the game created in people's lives, he deserved the success.
I still haven't played it or even watched a video about it. I do not robotically follow every hipster trend that happens. As the game has been all over the place, I have seen a couple of screenshots of the game like the one in the article. But I will probably just pass this one. I'm not criticizing the game in any way though.
Can the open source community create a super long term support Linux distro? Most of the components of a Linux desktop have been just fine for a long time. I would be still comfortable with a KDE3 or GNOME2 desktop, for example. So stick with something that works, and concentrate on support and quality assurance for 10 years. Seeing all the bugs and unnecessary reinventing of things is very tiring and I would jump into that kind of distro in an eyeblink.
Many people wanted still to stay abroad even with crusty Windows XP (no desktop compositor, terrible security) despite the extended support ending, so there is clearly an interest for this kind of long-term conservative OS.
Well, I guess you have to buy a new computer then! *Ka-ching* While your previous one still works perfectly and has plenty of processing power...
12.04 LTS runs just fine on any machine that I've run 10.04 on.
It does not, actually.
Due to Unity, Ubuntu 12.04 is way more heavyweight on CPU and GPU than the GNOME 2 -based 10.04. 12.04 needs 2x-3x more power than 10.04 to run the desktop smoothly. 12.04 and newer versions of Ubuntu are basically unusably laggy on low-end Atom devices, which BTW all run Windows 7 and 8 smooth like butter.
Just because something seems logical doesn't mean it's easy.
In the case of OS X it does not have to be easy. They have hired a massive team of smart engineers which are paid exactly to solve tough problems. I'm sure that arranging just a predictable support schedule wouldn't be a too big challenge for them.
I won't buy Apple products since February, 2014. Won't tell Apple.
They got angry because the Google Glass rose the women into higher power and social position for having the convenient recording feature.
Bitcoin can be used completely decentralized, but it can also be stored in a Bitcoin bank if the user wishes to. That's all there is to it.
A vulnerability in a router or e-mail provider is not the end of the world, but a money system has to be something that is extremely trusted and reliable.
I figured out that one, but am still confused what's the purpose of that new special address in the first place?
I thought that was part of the purpose/advantage of Bitcoins, they're Peer-to-Peer and need no bank.
I was under that impression too.
It is also a bit unnerving that the whole currency is created by some mysterious "Satoshi Nakamoto" whose identity is not known.
I have also seen many of the question sessions pass by without any responses posted ever.
That seems to be correct. Binary firmware is their only exception.
Fedora is 100% free and they have good quality assurance.
Yep. Bitcoin can still live, but we must start rigorously monitoring and rating the trust towards various exchanges. As you said, for Mt. Gox it was obvious that something was seriously wrong for around a year. That should have rung an alarm bell.
Apparently they did not do enough quality assurance.
I recently watched a relaxing Let's Play of Thief Gold by a Finnish guy called Crowley9. So if someone wants to check out what the first game in the series looked like, there's my recommendation.
As Apple products keep gaining larger market share, also the number of discovered vulnerabilities increases day after day. Having a UNIX base does not mean that you are automatically invincible.
Did you report that incident?
Anyone reading this at Dice...can you at least finally add the Unicode support to the Beta?
At least I don't hate the Beta that much anymore. In the beginning it made me want to kill myself, but now it looks just fine after a couple of beers. But seriously speaking... Sure, there are parts missing which must be fixed, but the user experience is already quite bearable.