I admit I have never owned an SSD and therefore I might be ignorant. Having said that, to the best of my knowledge SSDs use the same standard connectors (SATA) as spinning hard drives. If/when an SSD fails you should be able to buy either another SSD or a spinning hard drive as a drop-in replacement. This situation is no different and no more proprietary than mechanical drives.
Some do some don't, it depends what they're aimed at. My Netbook as a 4gb SSD, which looks a lot like a stick of RAM, but I also know that some are hooked into a similar bit of electronics to what you see in IDE drives.
Indeed, most of the time when drives die, it's a result of dirty power. Installing a line conditioner helps that a lot. I haven't had any drives go south when they weren't being exposed to random power fluctuations.
It's not Linux specific, although he's complaining about it on Linux. I've seen similar behavior on Windows and FreeBSD as well as Linux. If I'm not mistaken, MS added IO scheduling of some sort to Vista and 7 likely has it as well. And FreeBSD has its own effort for that as well.
It's not something which one notices all the time, but I have noticed it and it is annoying. Not personally sure what exactly causes it except in the case where multiple programs want to access different portions of the hard disk at the same time.
That's my feeling about that. I'd love to play it, but with Blizzard being so dickish about things which aren't that big a deal, I'm going to have to pass. And if Diablo III gets the same treatment, which it likely will, I won't be playing that either. Which is a shame since I was really looking forward to both games.
Sneakernet was definitely better than the Internet in some ways. Sure latency sucked, but the bandwidth was amazing. Plus as long as you traded just with friends the likelihood of the BSA finding out about your pirated software was almost nothing.
Indeed, in Seattle, AT&T appears to have a dozen or so towers, all of them are way up north or way south, with none actually in the city limits as far as I can tell. Whereas T-Mobile seems to have a half dozen in my neighborhood alone.
While distance wise, 5 miles or so isn't too bad, trying to cram that many phones onto the same towers definitely isn't the way to decent reliability.
The long term effect is to ruin students ability to learn as you have to actually read it correctly first. Sure they retain the information, but they don't retain what's on the paper, they retain what they think the paper says. Which isn't always the same thing. All this is going to do is cause folks with what was a relatively minor learning disorder to have a really tough time.
Not really, doctors are being allowed to write in their own script less and less because of all the medical errors associated with poor penmanship. At my doctor's office, all the communication is typed, so the likelihood of mistakes due to poor penmanship is eliminated.
This sounds like a matter of screwing over the segment of the population that already has a hard time reading to benefit the rest that aren't having any trouble. This would be a lot more impressive if it actually targeted the people who had trouble in the first place.
Telling the truth is never wrong. Breaking your promise to keep certain materials confidential is wrong. It's fucked up beyond belief that anybody believes the notion that telling the truth can be wrong. It's only wrong by proxy of all the other fucked up stuff that's gone on.
But blaming in on telling the truth is just bullshit.
Not really, the reason why China is less than enthusiastic about cracking down on piracy comes down to cost. If there citizens had to start paying for software they'd all of a sudden notice that they don't really have much money and discontent would likely result. The Chinese government cracks down hard on malcontents and so piracy is allowed.
Plus it's generally software that's produce overseas rather than domestically.
FB just totally came out of the closet and everybody has missed the point. Can a website even be gay? Isn't that just a matter of improperly coding the API?
I'm not aware of anybody being raped for liking red cars. Being raped for being gay, definitely happens. Because clearly gay men are just confused, it couldn't possibly be for other reasons.
Which is really your point. Given the degree amount amount of homophobic bigotry and violence, I'm not really sure that FB should be facilitating anything like this. Plus, is there really a legitimate reason to be advertising things which aren't gay specific to only gays? I mean I can understand targeting gay bars to gay men, but nursing school?
FreeBSD did that years back with Perl. It's problematic shipping things with the base system when you don't need to and which come from outside the project. In this case, I'm not sure why they bothered to include it. Often times it's done because they're using the functionality for something in the base system.
Which is what's so odd about that. People regularly flag things as not being noteworthy and as such in need of deletion. Makes me wonder how they find those pages if they're not noteworthy in the first place.
I think the assumption is that it will be like what they've got in SC2. Which definitely justifies boycotting. Requiring you to be connected or to play via the guest account and reactivate every 30 days is not something that I consider to be acceptable. Likewise I don't think that it's OK to take away somebody's game because they chose to cheat in a way which Blizzard doesn't approve of.
Just the fact that they can take away your game without providing a refund for things you do in single player games makes me really concerned about it.
Except the Canadian Privacy minister lacks the jurisdiction to sue for things allegedly done on foreign soil. Sure sue about violations of Canadian law in Canada, but Canadian law does not extend to places beyond Canada. Trying to enforce Canadian laws overseas is a really, really bad thing for everybody.
It's hard enough at times just dealing with international law, if all of a sudden you're having to worry about some foreign entity suing you for something which is perfectly legal in the local jurisdiction it could very easily cause gridlock.
Unlikely, usually what they have is a hash of the password which can't readily be turned into the password. It's not considered secure to store a password in it's unencrypted form.
The game looks like it's going to be awesome, but considering the DRM and bad behavior by Blizzard, I'm not going to be playing. I hate going without, but when a company can ban accounts for what one does during single player gaming and isn't even required to give a refund, that's not something that I'm willing to be a part of.
The reason they don't do that is that while nearly everybody wants the encryption actually setting it up is challenging for geeks. And that's sort of the challenge.
Things like WPS help quite a bit, there's still a lot of devices like the Wii which aren't completely compatible with the standards making it a challenge to create something that's going to work reliably and easily.
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I admit I have never owned an SSD and therefore I might be ignorant. Having said that, to the best of my knowledge SSDs use the same standard connectors (SATA) as spinning hard drives. If/when an SSD fails you should be able to buy either another SSD or a spinning hard drive as a drop-in replacement. This situation is no different and no more proprietary than mechanical drives.
Some do some don't, it depends what they're aimed at. My Netbook as a 4gb SSD, which looks a lot like a stick of RAM, but I also know that some are hooked into a similar bit of electronics to what you see in IDE drives.
Indeed, most of the time when drives die, it's a result of dirty power. Installing a line conditioner helps that a lot. I haven't had any drives go south when they weren't being exposed to random power fluctuations.
It's not Linux specific, although he's complaining about it on Linux. I've seen similar behavior on Windows and FreeBSD as well as Linux. If I'm not mistaken, MS added IO scheduling of some sort to Vista and 7 likely has it as well. And FreeBSD has its own effort for that as well.
It's not something which one notices all the time, but I have noticed it and it is annoying. Not personally sure what exactly causes it except in the case where multiple programs want to access different portions of the hard disk at the same time.
That's my feeling about that. I'd love to play it, but with Blizzard being so dickish about things which aren't that big a deal, I'm going to have to pass. And if Diablo III gets the same treatment, which it likely will, I won't be playing that either. Which is a shame since I was really looking forward to both games.
Sneakernet was definitely better than the Internet in some ways. Sure latency sucked, but the bandwidth was amazing. Plus as long as you traded just with friends the likelihood of the BSA finding out about your pirated software was almost nothing.
Indeed, in Seattle, AT&T appears to have a dozen or so towers, all of them are way up north or way south, with none actually in the city limits as far as I can tell. Whereas T-Mobile seems to have a half dozen in my neighborhood alone.
While distance wise, 5 miles or so isn't too bad, trying to cram that many phones onto the same towers definitely isn't the way to decent reliability.
The long term effect is to ruin students ability to learn as you have to actually read it correctly first. Sure they retain the information, but they don't retain what's on the paper, they retain what they think the paper says. Which isn't always the same thing. All this is going to do is cause folks with what was a relatively minor learning disorder to have a really tough time.
Not really, doctors are being allowed to write in their own script less and less because of all the medical errors associated with poor penmanship. At my doctor's office, all the communication is typed, so the likelihood of mistakes due to poor penmanship is eliminated.
This sounds like a matter of screwing over the segment of the population that already has a hard time reading to benefit the rest that aren't having any trouble. This would be a lot more impressive if it actually targeted the people who had trouble in the first place.
Telling the truth is never wrong. Breaking your promise to keep certain materials confidential is wrong. It's fucked up beyond belief that anybody believes the notion that telling the truth can be wrong. It's only wrong by proxy of all the other fucked up stuff that's gone on.
But blaming in on telling the truth is just bullshit.
Well, to be fair, we were pretty sure they were all guilty. After months of torture they finally broke and told us exactly what we wanted to hear.
Not really, the reason why China is less than enthusiastic about cracking down on piracy comes down to cost. If there citizens had to start paying for software they'd all of a sudden notice that they don't really have much money and discontent would likely result. The Chinese government cracks down hard on malcontents and so piracy is allowed.
Plus it's generally software that's produce overseas rather than domestically.
FB just totally came out of the closet and everybody has missed the point. Can a website even be gay? Isn't that just a matter of improperly coding the API?
I'm not aware of anybody being raped for liking red cars. Being raped for being gay, definitely happens. Because clearly gay men are just confused, it couldn't possibly be for other reasons.
Which is really your point. Given the degree amount amount of homophobic bigotry and violence, I'm not really sure that FB should be facilitating anything like this. Plus, is there really a legitimate reason to be advertising things which aren't gay specific to only gays? I mean I can understand targeting gay bars to gay men, but nursing school?
FreeBSD did that years back with Perl. It's problematic shipping things with the base system when you don't need to and which come from outside the project. In this case, I'm not sure why they bothered to include it. Often times it's done because they're using the functionality for something in the base system.
Can't get enough of that Derry air?
Which is what's so odd about that. People regularly flag things as not being noteworthy and as such in need of deletion. Makes me wonder how they find those pages if they're not noteworthy in the first place.
You're just mad because somebody deleted your entry for not being notable.
I think the assumption is that it will be like what they've got in SC2. Which definitely justifies boycotting. Requiring you to be connected or to play via the guest account and reactivate every 30 days is not something that I consider to be acceptable. Likewise I don't think that it's OK to take away somebody's game because they chose to cheat in a way which Blizzard doesn't approve of.
Just the fact that they can take away your game without providing a refund for things you do in single player games makes me really concerned about it.
Except the Canadian Privacy minister lacks the jurisdiction to sue for things allegedly done on foreign soil. Sure sue about violations of Canadian law in Canada, but Canadian law does not extend to places beyond Canada. Trying to enforce Canadian laws overseas is a really, really bad thing for everybody.
It's hard enough at times just dealing with international law, if all of a sudden you're having to worry about some foreign entity suing you for something which is perfectly legal in the local jurisdiction it could very easily cause gridlock.
Unlikely, usually what they have is a hash of the password which can't readily be turned into the password. It's not considered secure to store a password in it's unencrypted form.
The game looks like it's going to be awesome, but considering the DRM and bad behavior by Blizzard, I'm not going to be playing. I hate going without, but when a company can ban accounts for what one does during single player gaming and isn't even required to give a refund, that's not something that I'm willing to be a part of.
The reason they don't do that is that while nearly everybody wants the encryption actually setting it up is challenging for geeks. And that's sort of the challenge.
Things like WPS help quite a bit, there's still a lot of devices like the Wii which aren't completely compatible with the standards making it a challenge to create something that's going to work reliably and easily.
If the RIAA respected their customers, do you really think that crap like Hanson and Bieber would ever be released?
Delusion is an extremely powerful affliction. And no matter how many "facts" and studies you throw at it, it isn't quite enough to allow reality in.