I was modded down half of the time because I was too exited to write clearly
You'll get there eventually...:)
Cycling is great for geeks and introverts
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Do any Slashdotters have a regular workout routine that can be performed in the privacy of the home to stave off those pounds?
I literally just got back from a cycling workout - for me this means thrashing around town for an hour during the evening/night. OK, so it isn't in the privacy of the home, but regular cyclists know too well that nobody pays much attention to them:)
Cycling is familiar territory for geeks since it involves a machine that's easy to tweak and upgrade components for performance and a lot of technology surrounds it. Cycling also suits introverts since it doesn't require much human interaction or a gym.
Aero works perfectly well on many low-end video cards produced in the last 4 or 5 years.
It also works very poorly on many perfectly respectable video cards produced in the last 4 or 5 years. It ran terribly on our recent $360 to $600 Quadro cards. We've now upgraded to XP:)
Great for the pointless eye-candy first-person shooters. For everything else, there's MasterCard.
Yeah. I ran Quake 2 on my MacBook Pro for the first time yesterday. Even with most of that next-gen pointless eyecandy I get 327fps from the demo1 timedemo! I'm saving up for an SLI system though so that I can have enough power to play with cl_particles 1 at a reasonable framerate.
The downside, though, is that they're not using the right compression scheme. Artifacts which I would not have noticed on DVD are readily apparent on BluRay disk. Either they need a better algorithm or a lot more bits.
It depends on the quality of the transfer. This is why there are lists like these.
Re:RAID5 is stupid, RAID 10 or no RAID
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Off-site backup: protects against Fire
I've been responsible for the backups in my company for 9 years. So far, none of the restores have been due to filesystem corruption, hardware failures (thanks to RAID and some good luck) or natural disasters. That's right - every single restore has been due to user error.
So I sold it and went to external (firewire) disks and attatched them to computers I was already using.
I do the same thing and in my situation this is a case of the simplest solution being the best. The geek in me wants a full-blown ZFS setup, but so far I've managed to restrain myself because my requirements can't justify it. Benefits of sticking to a single external drive include lower purchase cost, power draw, maintenance overhead, complexity, setup time and noise.
So far I've been able to keep all my data on whatever is the mid-to-high capacity external disk du jour, thanks to Moore and Kryder. Currently that's a 1TB WD My Book Pro with FireWire 800. A collection of the most recent 'retired' drives gets used as an offline backup.
Your post is brilliant! The only reason it isn't +5 Funny is that it offends practically all car drivers, e.g. I drive a BMW M3 and you hit the nail on the head:)
Doesn't change that daybot's attempt to correct the corrector fell flat. You had better success; thanks. Er...I was pointing out the irony of the American spelling in the context of your statement:
"When somebody screws up an expression in a way that makes no sense, we should just accept it. In addition, since people on Slashdot constantly misuse pairs of homonyms like then/than, effect/affect, their/they're, we should just ignore historical usage differences and use them interchangeably. We should just accept sloppiness and mediocrity because that's how Western civilization was built."
...we should just ignore historical usage differences and use them interchangeably. We should just accept sloppiness and mediocrity because that's how Western civilization was built.
No one doesn't I've managed to restrain myself from marking this as Troll. The Wiki article you link to clearly explains that it's a contentious issue - language is in the hands of the people and for all my life I've heard this term used to mean raises the question. Anyone who argues against this usage is at least 20 years too late.
sleep != hibernate
The machine is in sleep mode, or very low power. Hibernate mode is everything is written to disk. So yes, you can remove the battery in any laptop in hibernate mode. No matter the OS. This is not new. Just most people want instant on, not 5-20 seconds on. Actually Macs have a feature called Safe Sleep - a kind of hybrid suspend/hibernate - enabled by default. This dumps the RAM to disk on sleep. When you wake the system up, if the power wasn't interrupted during sleep then you get instant on, otherwise it comes back from the RAM dump, just like hibernate.
I've no business attachment with Asus, but I have to say I couldn't be happier about the battery life of my Eee PC. Just today, I was using it for more than 3 hours for surfing the net, mplayer music playback, and occasional web video. I still had 30% juice left according to Ubuntu's battery state widget. I guess it's subjective. I looked at the Eee PC but the battery life was a deal-breaker. I know the Eee PC is excellent value and Toughbooks aren't, but Panasonic's ultraportable options of 7 (CF-W7), 9 (CF-T7) or 12 (CF-T5 - discontinued) hours set the benchmark that the subnotebooks will need to meet before I buy one.
Well at least I know you aren't the one marking this as offtopic/troll;) Can't see why it's offtopic when I respond directly to the comment in the original post, and can't see why it's a troll when I get several reasonable replies and a couple positive mods... unless "speaking out against the man" is now the definition of troll. Jeez, if that's true/. is dead.
You were modded down on Slashdot. It's not the end of the world:)
FWIW your post was offtopic because everyone's having an interesting discussion on crappy tech jobs and you come in complaining about Taco's article selections. Also, nobody likes "OMG slownewsday" whining posts.
Again, I'm surprised you didn't see Taco's logic here: posting a crap story on an interesting topic to spark a good discussion. We all agree that the article sucks, but I think Taco was right to post it.
Come on Cmdr Taco, you even pointed out that the article is nearly impossible to navigate, and most of the/. comments have shown how stupid the content is. Is it that slow of a day that you have to post stories you know are crap? Taco knew that this article would spawn an excellent set of comments with war stories from users:)
Your obviously not an English teacher, based on you're lack of correct punctuation. (Something about glass house's and stone's seems apposite here.) Fixed.
My grandparents (we're British btw) call it 'fizzy pop' but yeah, 'fizzy drink' is better for me. The tagging is missing the point though - my tag was 'itshumournothumor'... (ducks)
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I was modded down half of the time because I was too exited to write clearly
You'll get there eventually... :)
Do any Slashdotters have a regular workout routine that can be performed in the privacy of the home to stave off those pounds?
I literally just got back from a cycling workout - for me this means thrashing around town for an hour during the evening/night. OK, so it isn't in the privacy of the home, but regular cyclists know too well that nobody pays much attention to them :)
Cycling is familiar territory for geeks since it involves a machine that's easy to tweak and upgrade components for performance and a lot of technology surrounds it. Cycling also suits introverts since it doesn't require much human interaction or a gym.
What are the advantages of a glass trackpad? Wouldn't your finger stick to it?
I've wanted a glass trackpad on my laptop since I got an iPhone - it would feel great to use, be easy to clean, reliable and most of all hard-wearing.
Cue the 400 posts arguing whether or not "Internet" should be capitalized.
1 Internet = 8 internets
Please read the article and then comment.
You must be new here!
Aero works perfectly well on many low-end video cards produced in the last 4 or 5 years.
It also works very poorly on many perfectly respectable video cards produced in the last 4 or 5 years. It ran terribly on our recent $360 to $600 Quadro cards. We've now upgraded to XP :)
Great for the pointless eye-candy first-person shooters. For everything else, there's MasterCard.
Yeah. I ran Quake 2 on my MacBook Pro for the first time yesterday. Even with most of that next-gen pointless eyecandy I get 327fps from the demo1 timedemo! I'm saving up for an SLI system though so that I can have enough power to play with cl_particles 1 at a reasonable framerate.
The downside, though, is that they're not using the right compression scheme. Artifacts which I would not have noticed on DVD are readily apparent on BluRay disk. Either they need a better algorithm or a lot more bits.
It depends on the quality of the transfer. This is why there are lists like these.
Drink much kool aid?
Seriously, dude. What the fuck? [...] what exactly does it even mean?
"...being a strong or fervent believer in a particular philosophy or mission - wholeheartedly or blindly believing in its virtues"
Off-site backup: protects against Fire
I've been responsible for the backups in my company for 9 years. So far, none of the restores have been due to filesystem corruption, hardware failures (thanks to RAID and some good luck) or natural disasters. That's right - every single restore has been due to user error.
So I sold it and went to external (firewire) disks and attatched them to computers I was already using.
I do the same thing and in my situation this is a case of the simplest solution being the best. The geek in me wants a full-blown ZFS setup, but so far I've managed to restrain myself because my requirements can't justify it. Benefits of sticking to a single external drive include lower purchase cost, power draw, maintenance overhead, complexity, setup time and noise.
So far I've been able to keep all my data on whatever is the mid-to-high capacity external disk du jour, thanks to Moore and Kryder. Currently that's a 1TB WD My Book Pro with FireWire 800. A collection of the most recent 'retired' drives gets used as an offline backup.
Your post is brilliant! The only reason it isn't +5 Funny is that it offends practically all car drivers, e.g. I drive a BMW M3 and you hit the nail on the head :)
"When somebody screws up an expression in a way that makes no sense, we should just accept it. In addition, since people on Slashdot constantly misuse pairs of homonyms like then/than, effect/affect, their/they're, we should just ignore historical usage differences and use them interchangeably. We should just accept sloppiness and mediocrity because that's how Western civilization was built."
I think you'll find it's civilisation.
You were modded down on Slashdot. It's not the end of the world :)
FWIW your post was offtopic because everyone's having an interesting discussion on crappy tech jobs and you come in complaining about Taco's article selections. Also, nobody likes "OMG slownewsday" whining posts.
Again, I'm surprised you didn't see Taco's logic here: posting a crap story on an interesting topic to spark a good discussion. We all agree that the article sucks, but I think Taco was right to post it.
Your obviously not an English teacher, based on you're lack of correct punctuation. (Something about glass house's and stone's seems apposite here.) Fixed.
You're absolutely right, he's probably trolling. I bloody hope so, anyway!
My grandparents (we're British btw) call it 'fizzy pop' but yeah, 'fizzy drink' is better for me. The tagging is missing the point though - my tag was 'itshumournothumor'... (ducks)
Clearly netbuzz and Taco know all about cutting corners, especially in writing and checking summaries...
If these are large batteries with many AH, how big of a power supply would you need to charge 90% of the battery in ten minutes?
Dude, haven't you seen Back to the Future?