I recommend it entirely for people in my position, but before you take the same plunge, take stock of what kinda computer user your wife is and what she expects out of the machine.
Is mic and webcam functionality on AIM/YIM/MSN important? Any games that won't work under Wine or Dosbox? Is spotty Flash support(OK it's good, but it ain't great) a dealbreaker?
Also, bear in mind that the swapping-around is done internally by the disk, and none of that information need ever be sent down the bus. There's no reason the disk couldn't do this asynchronously, without eating up any bandwidth at all.
Let's recap. Your browser allowed an inline plugin to runaway with the RAM, your kernel somehow failed to prevent the browser malfunction from fucking up a completely different process on your computer, and you're blaming the video app itself?
It doesn't need to happen nearly as often as the "real" disk activity. The disk could remap as few as 100 sectors a day and it would be enough to keep all the storage elements aging at about the same rate.
The 'wear leveling' actually shifts logical disk addresses around the physical media to account for the fact that different parts of the disk get different amounts of activity. Each physical storage element will get an equal turn holding the never-written data, given enough time.
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They will still not know in which cinema or exactly when the film was recorded.
They will if the watermarking equipment creates a unique signature with each playback.
Inversely Proportional to the square of the Distance Between Them.
/pedant
A+++++, excellent slashdotter.
WOULD DO BUSINESS AGAIN
-1 (Flamebait) + 1 (Informative) = 0 (Smackdown)
amateur anythings suck at organizing themselves
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open_source_software_packages
Welcome to the flock, my brother/sister.
both of the other groups of assholes get something for nothing.
You mean, just like how they already are?
OMG...
Did you just...
If it is a first past the post system this is a problem.
OH NO YOU DI'INT!
You have successfully bummed me out, AC.
(or is it that people with books generally have more money than people without?)
I can scarcely believe the preceding two comments were by a registered user and an AC respectively, rather than the other way 'round.
At least i don't have to turn some stupid ass page.
I recommend it entirely for people in my position, but before you take the same plunge, take stock of what kinda computer user your wife is and what she expects out of the machine.
Is mic and webcam functionality on AIM/YIM/MSN important? Any games that won't work under Wine or Dosbox? Is spotty Flash support(OK it's good, but it ain't great) a dealbreaker?
and snipey AC posts. Can't forget those ;)
Also, bear in mind that the swapping-around is done internally by the disk, and none of that information need ever be sent down the bus. There's no reason the disk couldn't do this asynchronously, without eating up any bandwidth at all.
Let's recap. Your browser allowed an inline plugin to runaway with the RAM, your kernel somehow failed to prevent the browser malfunction from fucking up a completely different process on your computer, and you're blaming the video app itself?
When I talked my GF into installing Ubuntu at home, the amount of tech support work I was doing for her fell dramatically.
You know what this forum needs?
More newbies asking for help!
Planck's Constant - the Nyquist frequency of spacetime?
man oh man, I would sue SO hard.
I want to play Wumpus IRL.
It doesn't need to happen nearly as often as the "real" disk activity. The disk could remap as few as 100 sectors a day and it would be enough to keep all the storage elements aging at about the same rate.
Human tissue cells routinely outweigh bacterial cells by more than 100 to 1.
The firmware is exactly how you suggest.
The 'wear leveling' actually shifts logical disk addresses around the physical media to account for the fact that different parts of the disk get different amounts of activity. Each physical storage element will get an equal turn holding the never-written data, given enough time.
er, "where SSDs shine is..."