Such a developer would have abhorred such a crazy idea for a feature though?:P I can't see much point in this one. It would make a nice novelty but I doubt I'd use it myself.
MS would might have just made it an option.. doesn't sound like it would have been difficult to do. This issue has been brought on by the users anyway, MS users don't have the option to fork off a new codebase, they just have to take it up the ass with whatever MS does (I'm thinking of Office here mainly, where you just don't have many viable alternatives because of the attitude of the world that Office is the only thing you can use to write letters or make presentations and spreadsheets)
PS I'm not entirely sure why the SSD's 'top speed' would be slower than a hard drive's, but I think it's because you have to do the 'seek' time for each block of data you write - so even though the seek time is much faster (someone above mentioned 7500x faster than a HD I think) than a hard drives, you have to 'seek' for each block of data, whereas a hard drive only has to seek once and then can just get on with the reading/writing (as long as the file is uninterrupted). So say the SSD is limited by the time it takes to retrieve one byte - for a file 7500 bytes long the SSD would already be done returning it before the HD had started spitting out data, but for files over that length the HD can start to catch up. IRL it probably won't be 7500bytes, it will depend on how much data you read at a time from the devices. Is it obvious that I don't really have a clue about the low down technicalities yet? Just trying to help give an idea of what's going on though:p
Because once the hard drive has 'seeked' its data, as long as the file it is reading is in one contiguous (un-interrupted) section of the hard disk, it can keep on reading without having to seek again. Think of it as having a car with low gearing as opposed to one with tall gearing - the lower gears let you accelerate faster but with a limited top speed, while in a high gear if you get on a straight, you can stay at your top speed (but if you hit a corner you have to slow right down then take a while to accelerate again). Got to love the car analogies;)
compare and contrast hardware reliability while holding the laptop in both hands and shaking it as vigorously as possible while reading and writing disk files. Is that meant to simulate yourself having a close encounter with the opposite sex while the laptop is in your backpack downloading torrents, or what?
From a quick googling, SSDs seem to use about 1/4 of the power of HDDs (1 watt compared to about 4 watts), but when you put that alongside the screen (~4 watts), speakers (maybe 20 watts in a laptop? Not that you'd always have them up that loud:P ), wifi (~1 watt idle, up to 4 watts while in use) and such, I'd think that you aren't gaining much. It is a step in the right direction of course..
But in the case for read requests it is better. Obviously HDs are currently better for some applications, but likewise SSDs are also better for some applications. Yet again, people seem to be herding each other into camps and throwing rocks at each other rather than just learning the merits of each other's viewpoints and using the best tool for the job.
My first thought when I saw the summary was "warning buoy makes it easier for illegal whalers to illegally whale". I thought that perhaps these were just poor whaling material. Obviously not!:P
Aye.. I had one and crashed a couple of times in the first two weeks! I then had no more accidents (though the bike was a total mess) for a couple more months til it got stolen. I've been considering getting another now that I've completed some advanced driver training and trust my observational skills a bit more, as well as learning about observing the 'limit point' when cornering which helps a lot for judging the severity of bends on roads you don't know. I find left hand bends (would be right hand bends in the US as you drive on the right) are a nightmare on a bike because you can't see where you're going, and if the bend tightens, you're screwed (well, unless you're an experienced rider perhaps, which I wasn't)!
Why what? I didn't specificallyt say it was a bad idea;) Robot soldiers dying on the battlefied seems a bit stupid - when both sides have them at least. In the cases where only one side has them it would be a massacre. In cases where both sides have them, what's the point? Why not just nuke all the robots? Why not just fight our wars over a game of Starcraft or something rather then spend billions developing robots to play our elaborate game?
I still like twinkle twinkle little star:P If it's a good tune, I don't see the point in stopping liking it. A lot of popular music is based off of melodies from nursery rhymes. Any chord progression or melody is bound to be at least slightly derivative these days..
Yep yep. Integrals are a fairly simple concept I guess, and you end up with squares. Been a few years since I've studied maths now.. getting old and all that (24!):s
I didn't say it was actual evidence, it's just food for thought. Someone else has pointed out that it's simply a result of integration giving the formula 1/2mv^2, and that is a good explanation for why e=mc^2 is so neat. Pi is pretty simple to define as the ratio of circumference to diamater of a circle. I don't see why it blows anything out of the water. It's funny watching people get so defensive and desperate to prove that their intelligence is greater than any other in the universe though..
Over here (presuming you're not in the UK) we have bus lanes which become active during rush hour - although they are not consistently applied on all roads so it still can be a problem.. the best commuting device is obviously a motorbike, I used to scoot through lanes of traffic all the time! I did knock someone's mirror once though.. oops:p
Yeah I guessed he was a fan since he was in both. I didn't think he was really a very Rincewind like character either, as Rincewind is generally portrayed as a skinny nimble little bugger:p I'm in the UK too btw.
The witches books were excellent.. any of the Watch books would probably be quite easy to televise too (apart from the trolls perhaps!).
It's absurd when both sides argue that only one or the other can be right. Like the nature vs nurture debate in psychology. There is some merit in finding out exactly how much of a person's personality or other characteristics can be modified, of course, but the way that the researchers on either 'side' were described in lectures, you'd think they were idiots.
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Such a developer would have abhorred such a crazy idea for a feature though? :P I can't see much point in this one. It would make a nice novelty but I doubt I'd use it myself.
MS would might have just made it an option.. doesn't sound like it would have been difficult to do. This issue has been brought on by the users anyway, MS users don't have the option to fork off a new codebase, they just have to take it up the ass with whatever MS does (I'm thinking of Office here mainly, where you just don't have many viable alternatives because of the attitude of the world that Office is the only thing you can use to write letters or make presentations and spreadsheets)
PS I'm not entirely sure why the SSD's 'top speed' would be slower than a hard drive's, but I think it's because you have to do the 'seek' time for each block of data you write - so even though the seek time is much faster (someone above mentioned 7500x faster than a HD I think) than a hard drives, you have to 'seek' for each block of data, whereas a hard drive only has to seek once and then can just get on with the reading/writing (as long as the file is uninterrupted). So say the SSD is limited by the time it takes to retrieve one byte - for a file 7500 bytes long the SSD would already be done returning it before the HD had started spitting out data, but for files over that length the HD can start to catch up. IRL it probably won't be 7500bytes, it will depend on how much data you read at a time from the devices. Is it obvious that I don't really have a clue about the low down technicalities yet? Just trying to help give an idea of what's going on though :p
Because once the hard drive has 'seeked' its data, as long as the file it is reading is in one contiguous (un-interrupted) section of the hard disk, it can keep on reading without having to seek again. Think of it as having a car with low gearing as opposed to one with tall gearing - the lower gears let you accelerate faster but with a limited top speed, while in a high gear if you get on a straight, you can stay at your top speed (but if you hit a corner you have to slow right down then take a while to accelerate again). Got to love the car analogies ;)
From a quick googling, SSDs seem to use about 1/4 of the power of HDDs (1 watt compared to about 4 watts), but when you put that alongside the screen (~4 watts), speakers (maybe 20 watts in a laptop? Not that you'd always have them up that loud :P ), wifi (~1 watt idle, up to 4 watts while in use) and such, I'd think that you aren't gaining much. It is a step in the right direction of course..
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000562.html is the link I used for a few of those figures
But in the case for read requests it is better. Obviously HDs are currently better for some applications, but likewise SSDs are also better for some applications. Yet again, people seem to be herding each other into camps and throwing rocks at each other rather than just learning the merits of each other's viewpoints and using the best tool for the job.
Rex: Go back, go back, you missed it.
Hamm: Too late, I'm already on the 40's, gotta go around the horn, it's faster.
Cleary you have never been to Singapore.
Oh wait, wrong movie
My first thought when I saw the summary was "warning buoy makes it easier for illegal whalers to illegally whale". I thought that perhaps these were just poor whaling material. Obviously not! :P
I dunno, I think McNuggium has a certain cholesterol encrusted ring to it.
Surely it would have been easier just to buy one and find out, rather than to go to all that effort?
Aye.. I had one and crashed a couple of times in the first two weeks! I then had no more accidents (though the bike was a total mess) for a couple more months til it got stolen. I've been considering getting another now that I've completed some advanced driver training and trust my observational skills a bit more, as well as learning about observing the 'limit point' when cornering which helps a lot for judging the severity of bends on roads you don't know. I find left hand bends (would be right hand bends in the US as you drive on the right) are a nightmare on a bike because you can't see where you're going, and if the bend tightens, you're screwed (well, unless you're an experienced rider perhaps, which I wasn't)!
Why what? I didn't specificallyt say it was a bad idea ;) Robot soldiers dying on the battlefied seems a bit stupid - when both sides have them at least. In the cases where only one side has them it would be a massacre. In cases where both sides have them, what's the point? Why not just nuke all the robots? Why not just fight our wars over a game of Starcraft or something rather then spend billions developing robots to play our elaborate game?
I still like twinkle twinkle little star :P If it's a good tune, I don't see the point in stopping liking it. A lot of popular music is based off of melodies from nursery rhymes. Any chord progression or melody is bound to be at least slightly derivative these days..
I still like both Gangsta's Paradise and Amish Paradise :) Great melody..
Yep yep. Integrals are a fairly simple concept I guess, and you end up with squares. Been a few years since I've studied maths now.. getting old and all that (24!) :s
I didn't say it was actual evidence, it's just food for thought. Someone else has pointed out that it's simply a result of integration giving the formula 1/2mv^2, and that is a good explanation for why e=mc^2 is so neat. Pi is pretty simple to define as the ratio of circumference to diamater of a circle. I don't see why it blows anything out of the water. It's funny watching people get so defensive and desperate to prove that their intelligence is greater than any other in the universe though..
Over here (presuming you're not in the UK) we have bus lanes which become active during rush hour - although they are not consistently applied on all roads so it still can be a problem.. the best commuting device is obviously a motorbike, I used to scoot through lanes of traffic all the time! I did knock someone's mirror once though.. oops :p
Yeah I guessed he was a fan since he was in both. I didn't think he was really a very Rincewind like character either, as Rincewind is generally portrayed as a skinny nimble little bugger :p I'm in the UK too btw.
The witches books were excellent.. any of the Watch books would probably be quite easy to televise too (apart from the trolls perhaps!).
Oi! I love Amigas *shakes fist* and stop taking photos of us
It's absurd when both sides argue that only one or the other can be right. Like the nature vs nurture debate in psychology. There is some merit in finding out exactly how much of a person's personality or other characteristics can be modified, of course, but the way that the researchers on either 'side' were described in lectures, you'd think they were idiots.