I bought a 512GB SSD for $400-ish. It's about time somebody stuffed that kind of drive into a USB stick. It should have mass market appeal so the volume should be much higher than regular SSDs.
Not too shabby but not good either. I used a MS keyboard for some time but then ran into a Dell clicky which got me on the Model M/Unicomp bandwagon pretty soon.
Coding isn't the hard part in CS. Learning why you do what you do, i.e. the theory, is much more time consuming. From mathematical logic and set theory to Galois fields and from calculus to numerical algorithms for example. Then applied stuff on top like signal processing algorithms.
That's the right way to do it but manufacturers increasingly don't accept returns for a single or few bad blocks. They say that's acceptable. The reason is probably that it's too time consuming to test the entire surface with the high capacities but mostly unchanged transfer rates that we see.
> Hard drives go through extensive calibration before shipping, so the need for burn in doesn't really exist.
Not any more apparently. In our manufacturing line we see a lot of bad block replacements during the first write pass. When I worked in the HDD field a couple of years ago every drive went through a 24h burn-in before it shipped. That doesn't seem to happen any more.
The IPCC always said that various positive feedbacks were not included because the science wasn't clear enough. That always implied that the AR projections were the best possible case, and don't forget that those were the consensus opinion - meaning that if the Saudi delegates didn't agree it wouldn't go in the AR.
I just hope the AR5 will be a little more realistic and a wake-up call.
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I bought the SSD to build large projects. My 128GB had become too small.
I bought a 512GB SSD for $400-ish. It's about time somebody stuffed that kind of drive into a USB stick. It should have mass market appeal so the volume should be much higher than regular SSDs.
Not too shabby but not good either. I used a MS keyboard for some time but then ran into a Dell clicky which got me on the Model M/Unicomp bandwagon pretty soon.
And rooted/unlocked pretty soon.
Coding isn't the hard part in CS. Learning why you do what you do, i.e. the theory, is much more time consuming. From mathematical logic and set theory to Galois fields and from calculus to numerical algorithms for example. Then applied stuff on top like signal processing algorithms.
Yes! I'm watching all of them again after running across a torrent :)
Yup. That same shootout with Android would be way more interesting.
And even though they're way in front technology wise, they keep pissing everybody off with artificial market segmentation. Why?
I thought that applies only to software.
Same thing here. We use hundreds of drives per week, mostly Seagate plus some Hitachi and recently qualified Toshiba. No WD unless you count HGST.
Except for FW bugs that may lock up the drive hard or cause it to say it has 8MB capacity.
That's the right way to do it but manufacturers increasingly don't accept returns for a single or few bad blocks. They say that's acceptable.
The reason is probably that it's too time consuming to test the entire surface with the high capacities but mostly unchanged transfer rates that we see.
> Hard drives go through extensive calibration before shipping, so the need for burn in doesn't really exist.
Not any more apparently. In our manufacturing line we see a lot of bad block replacements during the first write pass.
When I worked in the HDD field a couple of years ago every drive went through a 24h burn-in before it shipped. That doesn't seem to happen any more.
Nokia is more or less owned by Microsoft so...
You could just stop listening to the political sides and listen to climate scientists instead.
Problem solved.
Most of Germany is way north of your latitude so quit your whining.
If you want to run x86 binaries, use a dynamic translation tool.
Are there any x86 instructions that are slow to emulate with standard RISC instructions so they could use special support instructions?
Oh and I love conditional skip instructions. They are so efficient. No more pipeline flushing, just ignore one instruction.
I hope it can shoot missle toes.
Unannounced drywall work is the best, especially if you have a tape library running.
Ahh, denier drivel.
The IPCC always said that various positive feedbacks were not included because the science wasn't clear enough. That always implied that the AR projections were the best possible case, and don't forget that those were the consensus opinion - meaning that if the Saudi delegates didn't agree it wouldn't go in the AR.
I just hope the AR5 will be a little more realistic and a wake-up call.
... if it works of course.
Amen.
Any time you hear marketingspeak from a FOSS group, run.
That's why I gave up on Ubuntu too.
The people who call themselves skeptics are the deniers.
Real scientists are the biggest skeptics. Skepticism is the basis of all science.
Watch this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gE6zipFWmo
and you'll know why you're a "skeptic."