While tuna is actually an excellent source of protein (remember that a healthy diet needs many other things as well), there is a downside: eating large quantities can introduce the risk of consuming too much mercury; here's two interesting links:
"location-based advertising and services" means that any google ads that you would normally see if you weren't using this service might be further targeted towards you by factoring in location too. As for being "inspected/recorded by anyone", the Google Privacy Policy (URL:http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacy.html) lists everything thing collect.
This is basically so Google can offer advertisers a better service while gaining some good publicity.
Hmm... prediction markets... Ahh: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prediction_market Wonderful, Google realizes that many people think they're absolutely wonderful and finds a way to put those people to work for them. As for the possible MSN/AOL deal about to occur and "kill" Google, with ideas like this and a willing user base Google isn't threatened at all.
A merging of AOL with MSN will surely not "kill" Google. Yes, as the article states, Google earns roughly 25% of its profit from advertising on AOL but another article (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/15/aol_msn/) also states what's most important: "AOL - which has seen net users leave the service in their millions over recent years..." Yes, AOL is constantly losing customers and will likely continue to do so. While this move might put a dent in Google's current profit, it's certainly nothing as serious as made to seem.
I honestly cannot see any other reason for Dell releasing this... They see Apple selling similar items that are completely dominating the market and they release something that's nearly the same functionality-wise and extremely ugly; those two attributes are common among rushed products... I hope Dell (at least) learns that most people will choose desgin when compared with two products with nearly the same functionality.
First, the people that localize are volunteers - they have no obligation to continue their work at all... Also, with revisions come change; with change possibly comes more work for localizers. If a group or individual chooses to localize after a final release has been made then they skip the trouble of constantly updating nightlies. The theoretical grandpa that doesn't speak English will get his updated software after having a vulnerable version just like the English speaking users got an updated version after being vulnerable for a while; there's no need to be negative towards the localizers.
Having a contest like this has similar positive aspects as full disclosure concerning vulnerabilities; by providing examples of how it's done, people will be better able to spot such attempts were they to occur. I'm happy to see this contest being held.
Because that functionality is supposed to be handled by the RAID controller, and if the drive has it enabled you can end up losing performance as the two Command Queue Controllers fight each other.
From the excellent storagereview.com article: "TCQ must be supported by both the controller and the hard drive itself."
Are there current SATA raid controlers even able to use Command Queuing? If not how long until it is possible. It may be a feature that couldn't be used at this stage but later revisions might.
According to storagereview.com the "upcoming Promise FastTrak TX4200" of a year ago uses it; as the article is over a year old I'd surmise there a plenty more.
One vote really is worthless - only when that vote is one of many, many thousands backed by a group with enough money to convey the groups message does it have any power.
"In sum, we must state that all Command Queuing enabled drives have an advantage over those that do not support this feature. At the same time, CPU load is also slightly higher when Command Queuing technologies are used. However, considering the performance of today's processors, the additional CPU load is a marginal factor."
Basically, you put some load on the processor for increased disk performance... Why not include it?
The problem with this is that you lose the common appearance of the UI (granted, it can be made to look native but that's doing something a hard way that could much better be done otherwise) and generate incompatibilities. Just look at Camino - the benefits of creating a native Cocoa UI for Gecko was so great that many people willing pass up Firefox's features.
If they really did do this they'd create a pretty big incentive: take that $100 million and divide that by $300 and you get 333,333 people that could get a "free" high-end video card bundled with your copy of Vista.
One thing that favors panspermia is that if life developed on Earth instead, then that would be granting a great amount of special significance on this planet; it's kind of (not completely as it doesn't disallow life forming on other planets) like saying that the earth is the center of the universe. Why are we so special?
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While tuna is actually an excellent source of protein (remember that a healthy diet needs many other things as well), there is a downside: eating large quantities can introduce the risk of consuming too much mercury; here's two interesting links:
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"much-beloved" huh? That's some tough loving...
Maybe it shouldn't be
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"location-based advertising and services" means that any google ads that you would normally see if you weren't using this service might be further targeted towards you by factoring in location too. As for being "inspected/recorded by anyone", the Google Privacy Policy (URL:http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacy.html) lists everything thing collect. This is basically so Google can offer advertisers a better service while gaining some good publicity.
Hmm... prediction markets... Ahh: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prediction_market
Wonderful, Google realizes that many people think they're absolutely wonderful and finds a way to put those people to work for them. As for the possible MSN/AOL deal about to occur and "kill" Google, with ideas like this and a willing user base Google isn't threatened at all.
A merging of AOL with MSN will surely not "kill" Google. Yes, as the article states, Google earns roughly 25% of its profit from advertising on AOL but another article (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/15/aol_msn/) also states what's most important: "AOL - which has seen net users leave the service in their millions over recent years..." Yes, AOL is constantly losing customers and will likely continue to do so. While this move might put a dent in Google's current profit, it's certainly nothing as serious as made to seem.
I honestly cannot see any other reason for Dell releasing this... They see Apple selling similar items that are completely dominating the market and they release something that's nearly the same functionality-wise and extremely ugly; those two attributes are common among rushed products... I hope Dell (at least) learns that most people will choose desgin when compared with two products with nearly the same functionality.
First, the people that localize are volunteers - they have no obligation to continue their work at all... Also, with revisions come change; with change possibly comes more work for localizers. If a group or individual chooses to localize after a final release has been made then they skip the trouble of constantly updating nightlies. The theoretical grandpa that doesn't speak English will get his updated software after having a vulnerable version just like the English speaking users got an updated version after being vulnerable for a while; there's no need to be negative towards the localizers.
Having a contest like this has similar positive aspects as full disclosure concerning vulnerabilities; by providing examples of how it's done, people will be better able to spot such attempts were they to occur. I'm happy to see this contest being held.
Because that functionality is supposed to be handled by the RAID controller, and if the drive has it enabled you can end up losing performance as the two Command Queue Controllers fight each other.
From the excellent storagereview.com article: "TCQ must be supported by both the controller and the hard drive itself."
That's with TCQ being NCQ but for ATA-4.
Are there current SATA raid controlers even able to use Command Queuing? If not how long until it is possible. It may be a feature that couldn't be used at this stage but later revisions might.
According to storagereview.com the "upcoming Promise FastTrak TX4200" of a year ago uses it; as the article is over a year old I'd surmise there a plenty more.
Simple... Which soumds better: Mactel or Macamd?
Seriously, it's likely brand recognition, quantity discounts, and supply ability.
One vote really is worthless - only when that vote is one of many, many thousands backed by a group with enough money to convey the groups message does it have any power.
Here's an interesting quote from Tom's Hardware:
"In sum, we must state that all Command Queuing enabled drives have an advantage over those that do not support this feature. At the same time, CPU load is also slightly higher when Command Queuing technologies are used. However, considering the performance of today's processors, the additional CPU load is a marginal factor."
Basically, you put some load on the processor for increased disk performance... Why not include it?
The problem with this is that you lose the common appearance of the UI (granted, it can be made to look native but that's doing something a hard way that could much better be done otherwise) and generate incompatibilities. Just look at Camino - the benefits of creating a native Cocoa UI for Gecko was so great that many people willing pass up Firefox's features.
If they really did do this they'd create a pretty big incentive: take that $100 million and divide that by $300 and you get 333,333 people that could get a "free" high-end video card bundled with your copy of Vista.
One thing that favors panspermia is that if life developed on Earth instead, then that would be granting a great amount of special significance on this planet; it's kind of (not completely as it doesn't disallow life forming on other planets) like saying that the earth is the center of the universe. Why are we so special?