Does the ridiculous figure you come up with not make you question your working? 35 electric fires constantly on per user of facebook? In one datacentre? Are you high?
Remember that stories are picked largely by how they are voted in "recent stories" (or "Firehose", if you will). So there has been demand for this item to be published, thereby making it worthy.
Well, if we only count the Oregon data center (28 MW) and Wikipedia tells FB has 800 million active users, that alone makes it average 35kW to serve one person.:S
For some reason that always takes much longer than other methods. Still not sure why.
Anyway, I personally recommend the Secure Erase command. It works for HDDs and SSDs, takes care of resetting G-list and TRIM data, and the drive itself knows the best way of nuking itself most efficiently. There's this tool called Parted Magic which works great for this purpose and other disk operations. Just my 0.02€.
Some of you guys probably know the Pimsleur language learning courses. The idea is that small building blocks (words, phrases) are interleaved while the difficulty level is slowly increased.
You're first taught simply how to say "hello" and then just say it once. Then you are guided to say "how are you doing?". Then we again go back a bit and are told to say "hello". Then we add in the mix something like "I'm fine", etc.
So, this all is really effective and even fun. We are not disassembling long sentences or repeating them three times consequently. And we are constantly challenging the student in the process. This makes me wonder if a similar method could be used in teaching other topics. Of course not everything breaks to that small pieces easily, but it could still be useful. What do you think?
It's still basically a touch device, the Kinect.
It takes input from how fingers move around in a certain part of space. It'll operate in the same fashion.
But by using that analogy you could as well say that the standard mouse is a touch device.
I am struggling to get my parents to leave XP. There excuse is its a new computer they bought in Christmas 2007 ( a year after Vista). My father is not a computere genius but he reads the news and knows Vista was a POS and Dell advertised their XP 64 line of XPS for consumers and not just business users.
I think your father made a good decision there. Dell XPS with XP64 sounds like a nice classic combination. On the other hand I personally avoid XP installations so I understand your standpoint too.
But, if you go to a store and ask for Band-Aids and they give you a generic brand plastic adhesive, that's trademark infringement. Same reason why restaurant servers have to correct you when you ask for Coke, say, and they only have Pepsi.
Even basic settings like moving where the tabs are or fine-grained privacy settings are missing from Chrome and most Chrome derived browsers.
Hear ya. Chrome had tabs-on-side as a hidden beta feature for a while, but around xmas they removed it completely. Is there side tabs on any of the Chrome variants? For now, I'm with Opera, but frankly it's not the speed king anymore like it was in the day.
I've found low-end unlocked generic Android phones on eBay for less than $200. Moore's Law will cut than half twice in the next three years to $50. Is that affordable yet?
I think we're already at roughly $100. For example, there is this Diel phone which sells for 100€.
Do you know any methods to improve tethering? I use my 3G phone as a WiFi hotspot. It seems that when the connection is idle for a while, it takes some time to kick it up to full speed. Sometimes when I try to post a message to some forum, I have to load some another page in the background to wake up the link.
Does the TCP slow-start make things worse here, would the connection run better if I encapsulate it to some single tunnel, should I send some constant keep-alive data, can I force an Android phone to stay in full network speed, and so on.
Mulder: A group called Transception Incorporated, self-described as an Austin, Texas-based psychic R&D operation, sent a letter to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden that nominates the Apollo 16 crew for the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.
Scully: Why?
Mulder: Well, a variety of 'shipwreck elements' on the Moon — described as 'structures, people/aliens, biological technology, and their plight' — were reportedly 'seen' through remote viewing by six experts at Transception. These 'elements' can be seen, along with Apollo 16 moonwalkers John Young and Charles Duke, in photographs during that famous mission, obviously making this the first ever alien encounter.
The question that comes to my mind, and that I would very much like to have feedback upon, is: does this case deserve a campaign, under "us" computer programmers, geeks, architects, database tuners and birds of many digital feathers, to free Malekpour ?
The trouble is, thats like saying Toshiba, Seagate, Samsung, Hitachi and Western Digital are profiting from Pirating because people store illegally acquired content on their hard drives.
Well, I'm a programmer, of the "system programmer" and "network programmer" variety. Apple (and/or my cell-phone company) doesn't permit me to write and test my own software on their phones, unless I pay a special price to get a temporary "developer" account. So no, with the standard contract, I don't "own" my phone in the way any programmer would mean by that word. Someone else has the legal right to deny me the ability to write the kinds of software that I make a living writing.
A lot of devices include proprietary parts and technologies that you or me don't have access to. How could that mean that you wouldn't still own the device? Do you fully own your microwave oven only when you get the specifications to reprogram the microcontroller? I think a better word would be "hackable" or "programmable". And sure, those are good values to seek from a product.
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wy wife bought my the windows version of angry birds, but my computer runs linux. wtf!?
It should work with Wine too.
Does the ridiculous figure you come up with not make you question your working? 35 electric fires constantly on per user of facebook? In one datacentre? Are you high?
My calculation was sponsored by the Green Party.
...and this is slashdot worthy, why?
Remember that stories are picked largely by how they are voted in "recent stories" (or "Firehose", if you will). So there has been demand for this item to be published, thereby making it worthy.
Well, if we only count the Oregon data center (28 MW) and Wikipedia tells FB has 800 million active users, that alone makes it average 35kW to serve one person. :S
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda
For some reason that always takes much longer than other methods. Still not sure why.
Anyway, I personally recommend the Secure Erase command. It works for HDDs and SSDs, takes care of resetting G-list and TRIM data, and the drive itself knows the best way of nuking itself most efficiently. There's this tool called Parted Magic which works great for this purpose and other disk operations. Just my 0.02€.
Some of you guys probably know the Pimsleur language learning courses. The idea is that small building blocks (words, phrases) are interleaved while the difficulty level is slowly increased.
You're first taught simply how to say "hello" and then just say it once. Then you are guided to say "how are you doing?". Then we again go back a bit and are told to say "hello". Then we add in the mix something like "I'm fine", etc.
So, this all is really effective and even fun. We are not disassembling long sentences or repeating them three times consequently. And we are constantly challenging the student in the process. This makes me wonder if a similar method could be used in teaching other topics. Of course not everything breaks to that small pieces easily, but it could still be useful. What do you think?
It's still basically a touch device, the Kinect. It takes input from how fingers move around in a certain part of space. It'll operate in the same fashion.
But by using that analogy you could as well say that the standard mouse is a touch device.
I am struggling to get my parents to leave XP. There excuse is its a new computer they bought in Christmas 2007 ( a year after Vista). My father is not a computere genius but he reads the news and knows Vista was a POS and Dell advertised their XP 64 line of XPS for consumers and not just business users.
I think your father made a good decision there. Dell XPS with XP64 sounds like a nice classic combination. On the other hand I personally avoid XP installations so I understand your standpoint too.
But, if you go to a store and ask for Band-Aids and they give you a generic brand plastic adhesive, that's trademark infringement. Same reason why restaurant servers have to correct you when you ask for Coke, say, and they only have Pepsi.
That's why I these days always ask for "cola"...
Mod parent up? I think this is a really touchy one. It has the geek aspect but is still enjoyable by everyone.
I hope you understand that the bride is the "commanding officer" of a wedding..
Kind of grim... :/
Better stories are available here and elsewhere.
Here and elsewhere? Let's just try a little fix...
Better stories are available at PC Magazine and Engadget.
It's so often how these days the winner is the one who has the biggest muscle to shove the product down the people's throats.
Even basic settings like moving where the tabs are or fine-grained privacy settings are missing from Chrome and most Chrome derived browsers.
Hear ya. Chrome had tabs-on-side as a hidden beta feature for a while, but around xmas they removed it completely. Is there side tabs on any of the Chrome variants? For now, I'm with Opera, but frankly it's not the speed king anymore like it was in the day.
I've found low-end unlocked generic Android phones on eBay for less than $200. Moore's Law will cut than half twice in the next three years to $50. Is that affordable yet?
I think we're already at roughly $100. For example, there is this Diel phone which sells for 100€.
Do you know any methods to improve tethering? I use my 3G phone as a WiFi hotspot. It seems that when the connection is idle for a while, it takes some time to kick it up to full speed. Sometimes when I try to post a message to some forum, I have to load some another page in the background to wake up the link.
Does the TCP slow-start make things worse here, would the connection run better if I encapsulate it to some single tunnel, should I send some constant keep-alive data, can I force an Android phone to stay in full network speed, and so on.
Mulder: A group called Transception Incorporated, self-described as an Austin, Texas-based psychic R&D operation, sent a letter to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden that nominates the Apollo 16 crew for the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.
Scully: Why?
Mulder: Well, a variety of 'shipwreck elements' on the Moon — described as 'structures, people/aliens, biological technology, and their plight' — were reportedly 'seen' through remote viewing by six experts at Transception. These 'elements' can be seen, along with Apollo 16 moonwalkers John Young and Charles Duke, in photographs during that famous mission, obviously making this the first ever alien encounter.
Beep - wrong.
Copying isn't taking or stealing something from someone else. They still have their copy and can do what they want with it.
Yes, but the free copy you have acquired, still has a value. The producer loses there an opportunity to sell it to you with the intended price.
I brought that up one day but heard that BitTorrent over Tor might not work. Dunno.
This is what happens when any country is run by Muslims. We see it in Iran, Pakistan, Iraq, etc.
How's the situation in Indonesia, by the way? It also has a strong Muslim population base, Jakarta being the world's 2nd largest city (Tokyo is 1st).
The question that comes to my mind, and that I would very much like to have feedback upon, is: does this case deserve a campaign, under "us" computer programmers, geeks, architects, database tuners and birds of many digital feathers, to free Malekpour ?
Yes.
You can instruct it without quoting too (err...quote me to see how it is done).
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The trouble is, thats like saying Toshiba, Seagate, Samsung, Hitachi and Western Digital are profiting from Pirating because people store illegally acquired content on their hard drives.
In Finland, we call it Hyvitysmaksu.
Well, I'm a programmer, of the "system programmer" and "network programmer" variety. Apple (and/or my cell-phone company) doesn't permit me to write and test my own software on their phones, unless I pay a special price to get a temporary "developer" account. So no, with the standard contract, I don't "own" my phone in the way any programmer would mean by that word. Someone else has the legal right to deny me the ability to write the kinds of software that I make a living writing.
A lot of devices include proprietary parts and technologies that you or me don't have access to. How could that mean that you wouldn't still own the device? Do you fully own your microwave oven only when you get the specifications to reprogram the microcontroller? I think a better word would be "hackable" or "programmable". And sure, those are good values to seek from a product.
Well, when I upload something to the cloud, I still of course keep the master file. So there is no problem.