My understanding based upon reading the originally posted materials was that they published their reliability findings based upon their own experience. I did not see anywhere that they claimed that it was comprehensive research into the reliability of hard drives. We should not crap upon backblaze because people could not be bothered to read the articles and made some faulty assumptions based upon the headlines, to do so would just serve to dissuade others from releasing their experiences.
As for the argument about some of the hardware having known faults... If a company does not want bad press they should do more quality control before releasing crappy hardware...
why would I want to buy a new PC when my 5 year old quad core 3Ghz AMD system with 12 GB of ram with a R5770 graphics card can do 99.99% of what I want in a desktop. Honestly it boots and runs every program I throw at it almost as fast as the new $1200 I7 I have at work(as perceived by the human Eye and not some benchmark).
If the innovation in desktop processors/graphics cards kept up with mobiles I would buy a new desktop. But for now there is no need.
Having more pixels is all well and good but I would rather have a higher frame rate so that we do not have to rely so heavily on interpolation to reduce artifacts in action shots.
Porsche has used magnesium engine blocks for a long time. Firefighters should know by now that putting water on a burning automobile is risky. Check youtube for Magnesium+engine+block+fire+water for fun videos.
Said like one of those ASSHATS that cut me off while talking on their phone..
As I drive a smart car and a motorcycle I get cut off on a regular basis. The vast majority of the time it is by people talking or texting on their phone. I realize my choice in vehicles effects my visibility but that does not give people a right to risk my life so that they can update facebook..
Having just moved to CM 10.2 on my HTC one I must say I disagree with your statement that most people want to expand functionality. I went to CM because I got prompted to install updates to applications that I did not use and AT&T would not let me remove.
Guess What AT&T, I no longer have to deal with your stupid Apps on my phone.
I think giving people a 5 year window to commercialize their product would only work if they could extend it providing they are actively licensing their product during the initial exclusivity. Imagine how the Dixy Chicks would have felt if George Bush could use their songs without their permission? I agree that more should be in the public domain but you should be able to extend the copy write for up to 50 years if it proves successful within a short time frame.
I want them to advertise radiation levels. It might help me identify the phones with the stronger transmitter. Living in rural state having a phone with a stronger transmitter is a good thing...
My personal experience was the major news organizations exploited this more than Twitter or Facebook. Twitter and Facebook allowed people on the ground to share their experiences where as the news organizations were sitting around talking about the emotional tragedy of an 8 year old boy getting blown up. What i mean to say is that the major news organizations were spinning the story to have the most emotional impact and thus gain the largest audience whereas bloggers each have their own bias. You get a more honest view(not necessarily more accurate) by sampling the blogs than you ever will watching the spin that we call news.
This is not a news story. I come to/. for information an halfway intelligent discussion and after reading that article I had fewer brain cells than when I started. samzenpus shame on you...
Ultimately the goal is to have a functional computer that does not unreasonably expose you to viruses. If we have a program that scan's all code against all known and potentially unknown vulnerabilities it would adversely impact the function of a computer system. Most of the products that do a halfway decent job of detecting viruses are the ones that cause the greatest impact to performance. The real question is what level of impact are you willing to put up with. I don't think any of the antivirus solutions built for windows offer a perfect solution.
My largest gripe with current AV products is that they impact the functionality more than necessary. I would love to get the AV exec who said "Lets ad a firewall that is less functional that the one windows has built in" or "let's put an unnecessary toolbar in IE so that the people who are limited to a 1024x768 display can no longer properly view web-forms optimized for that size display" in a room.
Does anyone else think it is kind of funny that the Microsoft response is (to paraphrase); We did not detect any of the software they say we could not detect.
That being said they may have a real point that their software is designed to detect real world threats and not proof of concepts that never leave the lab. Without more in depth analyses than I am willing to do, I can do little more than jump to conclusions based upon my own personal bias.
Instead of issuing software patents with a 15 year protection period, how about we give inventors a shortened time-frame (3 years to) sell their product if they have demonstrated that have sales of a product and are willing to license it on the open market we extend protection to a full term (10 years). This way patent trolls would loose their protection unless they are actively leveraging their patent portfolio. Obviously the numbers could be negotiated and the definition of sales would have to be clarified to minimize abuse.
Given the rate of change in the software world if you don't have sales within three years, your invention should become public domain so that other people can improve upon it without threat of litigation.
If you can type that fast on a normal Querty keyboard, I would not try anything else. Retraining the muscle memory may really mess with your speed. That being said, I once switched to a Kinesis Advantage keyboard to help with tendinitis, and saw my typing speed increase after a couple weeks. Note: I am not a speed typist just a systems administrator who types on average 50 wpm, but was averaging closer to 70 on the Advantage...
The beta looks decent but on the nexus 10 there is a noticeable lag when scrolling which is not there on the full site. I would think that a mobile optimized site would be more responsive and not less.
I am sorry a thread but, honestly do we really need to replace the meaning of one word for the meaning of another. Subconscious has a pretty clear definition. Why do we have to start using that definition for the word unconscious. I wonder if it is because someone was to lazy to pick up a dictionary.
Although you can get metrics from your call tracking system, Customer Surveys are a better judge of performance. Don't get me wrong, measuring the ability of the IT department to document stuff has its place but in the end you want to measure how well they are doing their job. Their job includes more than just the ability to write up a ticket.
The deals look like extensions of service for their traditional customer base. I doubt Xbox will provide anything if I don't already have a cable TV contract with the supplier. What I want is to be able to stream the shows that I want to watch, and not subsidize channels I don't want. Until that happens I will continue to rely on Netflix, Hulu, and the broadcast corporation websites to what the shows I am interested in.
I would be willing to pay for more good shows but nobody wants to sell them to me. It kind of sucks not being able to watch current HBO shows as they air. It does not suck enough that I will pay for outdated/overpriced Cable or Satalite TV technology.
My message to the Cable Companies is that they should look into this internet thing for delivering their content, and ditch the legacy hardware as quickly as possible (to minimize costs). They need to worry that someone who does not have the cost of maintaining legacy equipment will appear and undercut their whole business. O wait didn't Dreamworks just sign a contract with Netflix? It may already be to late!
I pay for TV service on Netflix and Hulu and that is it. I don't know the last time I turned on my TV. Everything is run through my computer or phone.
WYSIWIG is not reason enough to go with confluence. If you want to do any fancy formating/Custom CSS it is a bear to work with.
I recently transitioned the internal webserver for my agency (~400 users) to a Sharepoint services site because maintaining Confluence on Windows was such a pain.
Every patch basically required building a new instance, updating all the plugins, and then copying all of our customizations over to the new instance. I am sure it is easier on a Linux platform but if you are looking to run it on a MS Test the upgrade process before you make a decision. I have not built a site in Plone yet, so I cannot comment on it.
In my 400 person US based non-profit, the Director of IT reports to the CFO. It actually works quite well as they have to work together on most of the strategic planning initiatives.
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My understanding based upon reading the originally posted materials was that they published their reliability findings based upon their own experience. I did not see anywhere that they claimed that it was comprehensive research into the reliability of hard drives. We should not crap upon backblaze because people could not be bothered to read the articles and made some faulty assumptions based upon the headlines, to do so would just serve to dissuade others from releasing their experiences. As for the argument about some of the hardware having known faults... If a company does not want bad press they should do more quality control before releasing crappy hardware...
I would actually go further, and site the prevalence of mood disorders as exactly the type of malaise of the spirit he was predicting.
As if, I suppose you are now going to tell me that the posts to damnyouautocorrect are fake.
why would I want to buy a new PC when my 5 year old quad core 3Ghz AMD system with 12 GB of ram with a R5770 graphics card can do 99.99% of what I want in a desktop. Honestly it boots and runs every program I throw at it almost as fast as the new $1200 I7 I have at work(as perceived by the human Eye and not some benchmark). If the innovation in desktop processors/graphics cards kept up with mobiles I would buy a new desktop. But for now there is no need.
Having more pixels is all well and good but I would rather have a higher frame rate so that we do not have to rely so heavily on interpolation to reduce artifacts in action shots.
Porsche has used magnesium engine blocks for a long time. Firefighters should know by now that putting water on a burning automobile is risky. Check youtube for Magnesium+engine+block+fire+water for fun videos.
Said like one of those ASSHATS that cut me off while talking on their phone.. As I drive a smart car and a motorcycle I get cut off on a regular basis. The vast majority of the time it is by people talking or texting on their phone. I realize my choice in vehicles effects my visibility but that does not give people a right to risk my life so that they can update facebook..
Having just moved to CM 10.2 on my HTC one I must say I disagree with your statement that most people want to expand functionality. I went to CM because I got prompted to install updates to applications that I did not use and AT&T would not let me remove. Guess What AT&T, I no longer have to deal with your stupid Apps on my phone.
I think giving people a 5 year window to commercialize their product would only work if they could extend it providing they are actively licensing their product during the initial exclusivity. Imagine how the Dixy Chicks would have felt if George Bush could use their songs without their permission? I agree that more should be in the public domain but you should be able to extend the copy write for up to 50 years if it proves successful within a short time frame.
I want them to advertise radiation levels. It might help me identify the phones with the stronger transmitter. Living in rural state having a phone with a stronger transmitter is a good thing...
My personal experience was the major news organizations exploited this more than Twitter or Facebook. Twitter and Facebook allowed people on the ground to share their experiences where as the news organizations were sitting around talking about the emotional tragedy of an 8 year old boy getting blown up. What i mean to say is that the major news organizations were spinning the story to have the most emotional impact and thus gain the largest audience whereas bloggers each have their own bias. You get a more honest view(not necessarily more accurate) by sampling the blogs than you ever will watching the spin that we call news.
This is not a news story. I come to /. for information an halfway intelligent discussion and after reading that article I had fewer brain cells than when I started. samzenpus shame on you...
Ultimately the goal is to have a functional computer that does not unreasonably expose you to viruses. If we have a program that scan's all code against all known and potentially unknown vulnerabilities it would adversely impact the function of a computer system. Most of the products that do a halfway decent job of detecting viruses are the ones that cause the greatest impact to performance. The real question is what level of impact are you willing to put up with. I don't think any of the antivirus solutions built for windows offer a perfect solution. My largest gripe with current AV products is that they impact the functionality more than necessary. I would love to get the AV exec who said "Lets ad a firewall that is less functional that the one windows has built in" or "let's put an unnecessary toolbar in IE so that the people who are limited to a 1024x768 display can no longer properly view web-forms optimized for that size display" in a room.
Does anyone else think it is kind of funny that the Microsoft response is (to paraphrase); We did not detect any of the software they say we could not detect. That being said they may have a real point that their software is designed to detect real world threats and not proof of concepts that never leave the lab. Without more in depth analyses than I am willing to do, I can do little more than jump to conclusions based upon my own personal bias.
Instead of issuing software patents with a 15 year protection period, how about we give inventors a shortened time-frame (3 years to) sell their product if they have demonstrated that have sales of a product and are willing to license it on the open market we extend protection to a full term (10 years). This way patent trolls would loose their protection unless they are actively leveraging their patent portfolio. Obviously the numbers could be negotiated and the definition of sales would have to be clarified to minimize abuse. Given the rate of change in the software world if you don't have sales within three years, your invention should become public domain so that other people can improve upon it without threat of litigation.
How someone can call one of the most subsidized industries in the world a free market makes my head spin.
If you can type that fast on a normal Querty keyboard, I would not try anything else. Retraining the muscle memory may really mess with your speed. That being said, I once switched to a Kinesis Advantage keyboard to help with tendinitis, and saw my typing speed increase after a couple weeks. Note: I am not a speed typist just a systems administrator who types on average 50 wpm, but was averaging closer to 70 on the Advantage...
The beta looks decent but on the nexus 10 there is a noticeable lag when scrolling which is not there on the full site. I would think that a mobile optimized site would be more responsive and not less.
I am sorry a thread but, honestly do we really need to replace the meaning of one word for the meaning of another. Subconscious has a pretty clear definition. Why do we have to start using that definition for the word unconscious. I wonder if it is because someone was to lazy to pick up a dictionary.
FYI: I read the message, it is still in my Gmail inbox. I guess their spam filter was only applied to the unread messages..
Although you can get metrics from your call tracking system, Customer Surveys are a better judge of performance. Don't get me wrong, measuring the ability of the IT department to document stuff has its place but in the end you want to measure how well they are doing their job. Their job includes more than just the ability to write up a ticket.
The deals look like extensions of service for their traditional customer base. I doubt Xbox will provide anything if I don't already have a cable TV contract with the supplier. What I want is to be able to stream the shows that I want to watch, and not subsidize channels I don't want. Until that happens I will continue to rely on Netflix, Hulu, and the broadcast corporation websites to what the shows I am interested in.
I would be willing to pay for more good shows but nobody wants to sell them to me. It kind of sucks not being able to watch current HBO shows as they air. It does not suck enough that I will pay for outdated/overpriced Cable or Satalite TV technology. My message to the Cable Companies is that they should look into this internet thing for delivering their content, and ditch the legacy hardware as quickly as possible (to minimize costs). They need to worry that someone who does not have the cost of maintaining legacy equipment will appear and undercut their whole business. O wait didn't Dreamworks just sign a contract with Netflix? It may already be to late! I pay for TV service on Netflix and Hulu and that is it. I don't know the last time I turned on my TV. Everything is run through my computer or phone.
WYSIWIG is not reason enough to go with confluence. If you want to do any fancy formating/Custom CSS it is a bear to work with. I recently transitioned the internal webserver for my agency (~400 users) to a Sharepoint services site because maintaining Confluence on Windows was such a pain. Every patch basically required building a new instance, updating all the plugins, and then copying all of our customizations over to the new instance. I am sure it is easier on a Linux platform but if you are looking to run it on a MS Test the upgrade process before you make a decision. I have not built a site in Plone yet, so I cannot comment on it.
In my 400 person US based non-profit, the Director of IT reports to the CFO. It actually works quite well as they have to work together on most of the strategic planning initiatives.