Well, since "1 Month" isn't a fixed time period, so it could be anything from 28-31 days, and if you need a more precise measurement, you need to use a more precise operand. However, I suspect that most people would assume that August 31 + 1 Month would be either September 30, or October 1 depending which benefited you the most. Then again, in some fields (financial), a "month" is always defined to be 30 days regardless of which month you are referring to.
I'm prepping now for the 2038 year bug where validating ancient systems will make me a fortune because I'm the only person left on the planet who still understands the Windows 95 interface! I'm so going to be rich!
Monday is really the start of the week, right after the WEEK END
Well, if the first day of the week is Sunday, and the last day is Saturday, what days mark the ends of the week? Thinking of the last day of the week as the end only works when you think of time being one directional.
It's worse than that. There are N:10, N:15, as well as N:30 and N:45. The offset for DST can change on a yearly basis, and some timezones follow DST partially, and different areas will use different dates to change to DST that varies by year as well.
Well you are. What in the world does Microsoft taking advantage of the enhanced security features of UEFI have to do with them being a monopoly? UEFI is out there for anyone to use, and its API is available for anyone, or any project to implement. Most users expect their OS to implement security, and taking advantage of the enhanced security is exactly what people want from them. Sure, if you want to run some odd ball linux distribution that refuses to implement it, then yes, you have to take the extra step of disabling it *IF* you bought a windows machine. You could buy a machine with your favorite linux distro on it instead if you want. You could also build your own machine, but gasp, you might have to set a few BIOS/UEFI settings, oh no!
And please stop using the term strawman until you learn what it actually means and can apply it correctly. Using it as a basis for your argument incorrectly just makes you look foolish to those who know what it is.
If you are going to be making crazy zealot ramblings, then yes, you have to clarify what crazy rambling you are talking about because the rest of us don't speak crazy.
I suppose you also blame all the thefts and robberies on the banks because they keep their money safe in a vault too. I mean those evil bankers! If they would just leave the vaults unlocked, then people wouldn't have to steal anymore! Am I right?
For future reference, being able to write so that you get your meaning across is apparently a skill that you lack. What you wrote could have been interpreted many ways, of which I read to mean one way, while you meant it another. Regardless of the context, and since this is a discussion board, you could have been trying to convey any of a multitudes of thought. I suggest you write your thoughts clearer in the future.
I totally got my system configured wrong then, because I get ~1,000MB/s reads off my flash with 0.1ms access time (RAID-0), and ~110-160MB/s reads off my HDDs with 9ms access time. Please tell me how to reconfigure my system so that I can get the same performance from my HDDs as I do my SSDs. And before you ask, I also have a hardware RAID of 8 3TB drives, and it still isn't as fast as reading my SSDs.
Way to be completely uninformed. UEFI was designed by a group of companies, not Microsoft, and had it roots from an Intel technology.
Just because Microsoft (and Apple) use it does not make it an anti-monopoly anything. Linux (or any software developer) can use it, they just choose not to in most cases.
You are making an assumption that RISC instruction sets are more efficient space wise than their CISC counterparts which typically is a false assumption. As per branch "problems", I think you are I'll informed. These simply don't exist in real world implementations.
There is a whole set of folks apparently that don't understand that the CPU doesn't have an execution engine that can process "REPNE SCASB". "REPNE SCASB" will get translated into a small set of RISC-like instructions internally that get executed.
Or are you trying to say that RISC computers can't possibly run C, because they don't those complex instructions too? Do you think that RISC assembly can't possibly have a REPNE SCASB macro? Are you confused because the translation happens inside the CPU instead of the assembler?
I'm sure this technology would get banned and made illegal before it every really took off. I mean, I could review when I was peeing when I was 13. That right there, is kiddie porn, and I need to be protected from watching my 13 year old self's private bits.
That is a pretty silly argument, unless in your world you expect everyone to have visited jailbreakme before they get served some malware, otherwise, yes, fixing the hole for everyone is a good idea before someone else takes advantage of it.
I tend to agree with you on a large part. I've worked from home for long stretches (a couple years), and I've worked in the office. I've had my own corner office, I've been in a cube, and I've shared an office. I hated the cube. It was too distracting, and too many people to come around because they can. Sharing an office I thought I would hate, but I found very quickly it wasn't that bad, and I drastically increased the productivity of the guy in my office because he wasn't scared to ask me questions, so he wasn't stuck for hours at a time, and he knew when I was knee deep in code and knew when not to bother me. The corner office was nice, and I rarely got bothered, but that was back in the day when I was working 60-80 hour work weeks and almost always knee deep in code. People would very rarely bug me in my office, but they'd stop me if/when I walked out of my office to go to lunch/bathroom, etc.
Working from home was a three-edge sword. It was extremely difficult to separate work from home for me, my wife, and kids making my home life miserable. I was putting in a LOT more hours while at home, which left me with very little "play time", and then when I did go to the office, I was appreciated a lot less, and some employees even had the guts to insinuate that I wasn't working even 40 hours a week when I was working more than 100 on some weeks (working over 100 hours a week wasn't unheard of while I was in the office either). My boss had to kick me out of the office a few times after being there 60 hours straight to make a deadline, or fix some critical issue. Ruining my home relationships, my work relationships, and catching crap when I was at work all at the same time was pretty bad.
Now, I go to the office every day, and every few weeks I'll stay home a day or two to get something done in a crunch, and I'm appreciated more, get paid more, and am a lot happier than I ever was working from home every day. My boss is happy because he knows what I come back to the office with, and it shows that my time out of the office was well spent. That and my home network is so much faster than the one we have at work, and I don't get interrupted.
My main home system has 64GB of RAM, 2 SSD's in Raid-0 for the OS/main apps, 1 high speed 3TB drive for programs (It was a RAID-1 until one drive died, and I haven't replaced it yet), and 8 3TB drives in RAID-6 on a hardware raid controller for data, media, etc. CPU is a 6-core hyperthreaded (12 threads), running at up to 4.2GHz (It increases clock speed as it becomes busier). Contrast that with the PC at my office that is a dual-core, with 6 or 8 GB of ram, running at 2.xxGHz, all I/O runs through full disk encryption, and a sadistic network admin that likes kicking off a full disk anti-virus scan at noon, and pushing updates to our staging server which is really a VM on some underpowered box with abysmal disk I/O speed, and even worse network speed. Network is so bad that last time I had to grab a copy of some DVD to install off our staging server, it was so slow that I went my bosses office and had him put a copy on my USB 3 stick (using USB 2 speeds because that's all our office PC have) and it was about 4 times faster than trying to copy it over the network.
I do, but then again, I don't let my kids run around screaming their heads off either. It's quite amazing what being an actual parent does to a child when you do it early on. They also don't bother me when I'm in my home office either because they know that work time is for work, not for playing games.
The difference in battery performance between warm and cold is usually only around 10%. This was the same stretch of road, in the cold. One couldn't make it, the other had 96 miles of charge left (96 miles out of 280). That is a HUGE discrepancy, unless you sit in the parking lot doing donuts.
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Well, since "1 Month" isn't a fixed time period, so it could be anything from 28-31 days, and if you need a more precise measurement, you need to use a more precise operand. However, I suspect that most people would assume that August 31 + 1 Month would be either September 30, or October 1 depending which benefited you the most. Then again, in some fields (financial), a "month" is always defined to be 30 days regardless of which month you are referring to.
I'm prepping now for the 2038 year bug where validating ancient systems will make me a fortune because I'm the only person left on the planet who still understands the Windows 95 interface! I'm so going to be rich!
Monday is really the start of the week, right after the WEEK END
Well, if the first day of the week is Sunday, and the last day is Saturday, what days mark the ends of the week? Thinking of the last day of the week as the end only works when you think of time being one directional.
It's worse than that. There are N:10, N:15, as well as N:30 and N:45. The offset for DST can change on a yearly basis, and some timezones follow DST partially, and different areas will use different dates to change to DST that varies by year as well.
Well you are. What in the world does Microsoft taking advantage of the enhanced security features of UEFI have to do with them being a monopoly? UEFI is out there for anyone to use, and its API is available for anyone, or any project to implement. Most users expect their OS to implement security, and taking advantage of the enhanced security is exactly what people want from them. Sure, if you want to run some odd ball linux distribution that refuses to implement it, then yes, you have to take the extra step of disabling it *IF* you bought a windows machine. You could buy a machine with your favorite linux distro on it instead if you want. You could also build your own machine, but gasp, you might have to set a few BIOS/UEFI settings, oh no!
And please stop using the term strawman until you learn what it actually means and can apply it correctly. Using it as a basis for your argument incorrectly just makes you look foolish to those who know what it is.
If you are going to be making crazy zealot ramblings, then yes, you have to clarify what crazy rambling you are talking about because the rest of us don't speak crazy.
I suppose you also blame all the thefts and robberies on the banks because they keep their money safe in a vault too. I mean those evil bankers! If they would just leave the vaults unlocked, then people wouldn't have to steal anymore! Am I right?
For future reference, being able to write so that you get your meaning across is apparently a skill that you lack. What you wrote could have been interpreted many ways, of which I read to mean one way, while you meant it another. Regardless of the context, and since this is a discussion board, you could have been trying to convey any of a multitudes of thought. I suggest you write your thoughts clearer in the future.
You do not need 50% market share to be a monopoly or weild monopoly power. And while their market share is sliding, they were at one time at 89%+.
Flash makes little difference to read performance
I totally got my system configured wrong then, because I get ~1,000MB/s reads off my flash with 0.1ms access time (RAID-0), and ~110-160MB/s reads off my HDDs with 9ms access time. Please tell me how to reconfigure my system so that I can get the same performance from my HDDs as I do my SSDs. And before you ask, I also have a hardware RAID of 8 3TB drives, and it still isn't as fast as reading my SSDs.
Because there are smarter people than you in the world.
Way to be completely uninformed. UEFI was designed by a group of companies, not Microsoft, and had it roots from an Intel technology.
Just because Microsoft (and Apple) use it does not make it an anti-monopoly anything. Linux (or any software developer) can use it, they just choose not to in most cases.
On a stock IE, it is the one that you chose when you installed it.
And what browser was better at the time of IE6's release?
Tablets.
Just how is it a pain to use other browsers or search engines on Windows 7?
You are making an assumption that RISC instruction sets are more efficient space wise than their CISC counterparts which typically is a false assumption. As per branch "problems", I think you are I'll informed. These simply don't exist in real world implementations.
There is a whole set of folks apparently that don't understand that the CPU doesn't have an execution engine that can process "REPNE SCASB". "REPNE SCASB" will get translated into a small set of RISC-like instructions internally that get executed.
Or are you trying to say that RISC computers can't possibly run C, because they don't those complex instructions too? Do you think that RISC assembly can't possibly have a REPNE SCASB macro? Are you confused because the translation happens inside the CPU instead of the assembler?
How much did you spend on connectors? Probably $50-$150.
$5.20 for 2 which included shipping. Just saying.
I'm sure this technology would get banned and made illegal before it every really took off. I mean, I could review when I was peeing when I was 13. That right there, is kiddie porn, and I need to be protected from watching my 13 year old self's private bits.
That is a pretty silly argument, unless in your world you expect everyone to have visited jailbreakme before they get served some malware, otherwise, yes, fixing the hole for everyone is a good idea before someone else takes advantage of it.
I tend to agree with you on a large part. I've worked from home for long stretches (a couple years), and I've worked in the office. I've had my own corner office, I've been in a cube, and I've shared an office. I hated the cube. It was too distracting, and too many people to come around because they can. Sharing an office I thought I would hate, but I found very quickly it wasn't that bad, and I drastically increased the productivity of the guy in my office because he wasn't scared to ask me questions, so he wasn't stuck for hours at a time, and he knew when I was knee deep in code and knew when not to bother me. The corner office was nice, and I rarely got bothered, but that was back in the day when I was working 60-80 hour work weeks and almost always knee deep in code. People would very rarely bug me in my office, but they'd stop me if/when I walked out of my office to go to lunch/bathroom, etc.
Working from home was a three-edge sword. It was extremely difficult to separate work from home for me, my wife, and kids making my home life miserable. I was putting in a LOT more hours while at home, which left me with very little "play time", and then when I did go to the office, I was appreciated a lot less, and some employees even had the guts to insinuate that I wasn't working even 40 hours a week when I was working more than 100 on some weeks (working over 100 hours a week wasn't unheard of while I was in the office either). My boss had to kick me out of the office a few times after being there 60 hours straight to make a deadline, or fix some critical issue. Ruining my home relationships, my work relationships, and catching crap when I was at work all at the same time was pretty bad.
Now, I go to the office every day, and every few weeks I'll stay home a day or two to get something done in a crunch, and I'm appreciated more, get paid more, and am a lot happier than I ever was working from home every day. My boss is happy because he knows what I come back to the office with, and it shows that my time out of the office was well spent. That and my home network is so much faster than the one we have at work, and I don't get interrupted.
My main home system has 64GB of RAM, 2 SSD's in Raid-0 for the OS/main apps, 1 high speed 3TB drive for programs (It was a RAID-1 until one drive died, and I haven't replaced it yet), and 8 3TB drives in RAID-6 on a hardware raid controller for data, media, etc. CPU is a 6-core hyperthreaded (12 threads), running at up to 4.2GHz (It increases clock speed as it becomes busier). Contrast that with the PC at my office that is a dual-core, with 6 or 8 GB of ram, running at 2.xxGHz, all I/O runs through full disk encryption, and a sadistic network admin that likes kicking off a full disk anti-virus scan at noon, and pushing updates to our staging server which is really a VM on some underpowered box with abysmal disk I/O speed, and even worse network speed. Network is so bad that last time I had to grab a copy of some DVD to install off our staging server, it was so slow that I went my bosses office and had him put a copy on my USB 3 stick (using USB 2 speeds because that's all our office PC have) and it was about 4 times faster than trying to copy it over the network.
I do, but then again, I don't let my kids run around screaming their heads off either. It's quite amazing what being an actual parent does to a child when you do it early on. They also don't bother me when I'm in my home office either because they know that work time is for work, not for playing games.
Cameras don't deal well with rain, snow, and fog.
Neither do your eyes, as they really aren't anything more than cameras.
BTW medcalf, I've met two people that said they were Jesus, and I'm pretty sure BOTH of them were wrong.
The difference in battery performance between warm and cold is usually only around 10%. This was the same stretch of road, in the cold. One couldn't make it, the other had 96 miles of charge left (96 miles out of 280). That is a HUGE discrepancy, unless you sit in the parking lot doing donuts.