Current hardware with simple wear leveling will give you about a solid year of continuous writes. That's writing 24/7, nonstop. I don't think a HDD could even survive that. For a consumer device, even under fairly heavy use, the hardware will be long obsolete before it runs out of write cycles.
> Lick your other palm and every so often jam a 9v battery against it.
I fail to see how that would make it to the other side of your body. You'd probably have better luck touching only one of the terminals.
Besides, you can screw with their minds without even touching the e-meter. Just make eye contact. And never break it. Stare. Intensely. Use a flat affect, except for one or two questions, where you suddenly become sing-song, then switch back.
> that's the one over which Isaac Hays, thee voice of "Chef", resigned from the show, because of his membership in Scinetology.
He quit over pay actually. The statement about Scientology was issued in Hayes' name by a CoS publicicist (not even his own) after he had had a stroke.
I still think this is an equipment problem. Your cable modem doesn't have much in the way of configurability as a home AP/router box, but it still does route (they haven't been mere CSU/DSUs since they started being sold off the shelf), and still has the same sort of problems with lots of connections.
I wouldn't be surprised if Comcast was temporarily blacklisting cable modems that exceeded some kind of transient cap, but I still think the more plausible explanation is that your firmware is crap.
I've posted about this before, but whenever we run a Bit Torrent client for the better half of a day, our route to the internet gets lost. Everything still says we're connected and says the status is fine, we just can't get anywhere until we power-cycle the cable modem.
This is quite likely not Comcast's fault. P2P clients open lots of connections, and this often overflows various tables in home routers and crashes them.
A primary source is an eyewitness or participant in the event. A secondary source is an article about it. A tertiary source cites secondary sources. An encyclopedia is a tertiary source, and as you mentioned, should be treated as something more like a bibliography -- and if the topic's remotely controversial, the selection of sources has to be considered as well.
Wikipedia ostensibly has sourcing rules, but I sincerely doubt it does the slightest bit of checking on the secondary sources.
You're getting a skewed picture here on slashdot of course: most people have given up trying to overcome the special pleading and double standards on most internet fora that apply to Apple. What's left is more or less an echo chamber.
Anyway, I look forward to competition in platform openness, and it's definitely forthcoming. Apple can keep its touch screens. Tell the truth, I mostly just want a phone that has the battery life that my 8-year-old nokia had.
The 360 is worse. I can't go to many gaming news sites or even a few articles here on/. without hearing about the horrible DRM, or the incredibly common and fatal Red Ring of Death
Perhaps you should step away from the screaming animal cages that are the typical gaming forums. No one who actually buys one of these things for games cares about the DRM, and they've fixed the RROD problem, completely.
You're not a troll, just another representative type of idiot that gives slashdot its loudest shrillest voice.
No one cares about your amateur analysis: their sales are growing in double digits. During a recession.
Apparently the games use a Naughty Dog technique whereby the models "bones", i.e. canonically fixed points, are themselves allowed warp and distort, meaning that the models do not simply consist of fixed points rotating on joints.
That would be the Chuck Jones/Tex Avery Effect. The movie "Madagascar" also made good use of this.
I'm not too up on 3D graphics, but what's with these comparisons of ray-tracing vs polygons, or ray-tracing vs rasterizing? Isn't ray tracing just a lighting model?
Ok, that's to torque the mod that decided I was being redundant. Now to expand on it: though I can see where ray tracing might be able to describe a perfectly curved surface or how it could replace some amount of texture mapping by modeling the reflections off it, it's not like the model can exactly describe geometry itself or the starting color of the object. As for rasterization, it's got to go to the monitor sometime, so I'm not sure what the comparison there is either. So other than radiosity lighting, what's being made obsolete here?
I'm not too up on 3D graphics, but what's with these comparisons of ray-tracing vs polygons, or ray-tracing vs rasterizing? Isn't ray tracing just a lighting model?
When management or marketing (or worst of all -- sales) get to contribute to decisions for software platforms for development, something is REALLY WRONG.
Uhhh, management generally does make the decision. That's why they're called management. Sorry to burst your bubble, but not all managers are complete chowderheads. If they are where you work, well, suck it up or quit.
> Its been portrayed as a quick fix so if your hardware doesnt work out of the box, just use NDISWrapper.
If it doesn't work out of the box, I don't much care that it's superior. I'm tired of "learning how the system works" for the 1000th time. Not all toil is virtuous.
It's not just the accuracy either, it's the quality of writing. Virtually every article that's vaguely controversial in any respect is full of weasel worded insinuations, rambling tangents, or outright "some say / others say" crossfires. Any cited sources are themselves typically quite slanted or otherwise dubious.
Of course, you can get extremely detailed methodological analysis of virtually every episode of every anime program ever aired, along with all the characters that appear in them.
Oh well, mostly harmless. Don't Panic. Unfortunately, it lacks the witty writing to rise to *that* standard as well.
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Current hardware with simple wear leveling will give you about a solid year of continuous writes. That's writing 24/7, nonstop. I don't think a HDD could even survive that. For a consumer device, even under fairly heavy use, the hardware will be long obsolete before it runs out of write cycles.
Collateral was also quite good (and a rare entirely-evil-bad-guy role for him too, not just a "bad boy")
> Lick your other palm and every so often jam a 9v battery against it.
I fail to see how that would make it to the other side of your body. You'd probably have better luck touching only one of the terminals.
Besides, you can screw with their minds without even touching the e-meter. Just make eye contact. And never break it. Stare. Intensely. Use a flat affect, except for one or two questions, where you suddenly become sing-song, then switch back.
> that's the one over which Isaac Hays, thee voice of "Chef", resigned from the show, because of his membership in Scinetology.
He quit over pay actually. The statement about Scientology was issued in Hayes' name by a CoS publicicist (not even his own) after he had had a stroke.
I still think this is an equipment problem. Your cable modem doesn't have much in the way of configurability as a home AP/router box, but it still does route (they haven't been mere CSU/DSUs since they started being sold off the shelf), and still has the same sort of problems with lots of connections.
I wouldn't be surprised if Comcast was temporarily blacklisting cable modems that exceeded some kind of transient cap, but I still think the more plausible explanation is that your firmware is crap.
iTunes isn't a Cocoa app either. It's Carbon.
I've posted about this before, but whenever we run a Bit Torrent client for the better half of a day, our route to the internet gets lost. Everything still says we're connected and says the status is fine, we just can't get anywhere until we power-cycle the cable modem.
This is quite likely not Comcast's fault. P2P clients open lots of connections, and this often overflows various tables in home routers and crashes them.
Congratulations, you're now qualified to run a lemonade stand. That might get you a cashier position at your local Wal-Mart.
A primary source is an eyewitness or participant in the event. A secondary source is an article about it. A tertiary source cites secondary sources. An encyclopedia is a tertiary source, and as you mentioned, should be treated as something more like a bibliography -- and if the topic's remotely controversial, the selection of sources has to be considered as well.
Wikipedia ostensibly has sourcing rules, but I sincerely doubt it does the slightest bit of checking on the secondary sources.
> Although if marbles count as 1 sided dice, I'm open to using those as well.
No, they have infinite sides (ok, in the ideal sense). We're still working on klein bottle dice.
You're getting a skewed picture here on slashdot of course: most people have given up trying to overcome the special pleading and double standards on most internet fora that apply to Apple. What's left is more or less an echo chamber.
Anyway, I look forward to competition in platform openness, and it's definitely forthcoming. Apple can keep its touch screens. Tell the truth, I mostly just want a phone that has the battery life that my 8-year-old nokia had.
> Who do i trust, an independent researcher or an M$ lackey?
How about facts. Where are Guttman's?
You call yourself a nerd? Can you even think objectively?
The 360 is worse. I can't go to many gaming news sites or even a few articles here on /. without hearing about the horrible DRM, or the incredibly common and fatal Red Ring of Death
Perhaps you should step away from the screaming animal cages that are the typical gaming forums. No one who actually buys one of these things for games cares about the DRM, and they've fixed the RROD problem, completely.
You're not a troll, just another representative type of idiot that gives slashdot its loudest shrillest voice.
No one cares about your amateur analysis: their sales are growing in double digits. During a recession.
Apparently the games use a Naughty Dog technique whereby the models "bones", i.e. canonically fixed points, are themselves allowed warp and distort, meaning that the models do not simply consist of fixed points rotating on joints.
That would be the Chuck Jones/Tex Avery Effect. The movie "Madagascar" also made good use of this.
I'm not too up on 3D graphics, but what's with these comparisons of ray-tracing vs polygons, or ray-tracing vs rasterizing? Isn't ray tracing just a lighting model?
Ok, that's to torque the mod that decided I was being redundant. Now to expand on it: though I can see where ray tracing might be able to describe a perfectly curved surface or how it could replace some amount of texture mapping by modeling the reflections off it, it's not like the model can exactly describe geometry itself or the starting color of the object. As for rasterization, it's got to go to the monitor sometime, so I'm not sure what the comparison there is either. So other than radiosity lighting, what's being made obsolete here?
This was not redundant when I posted it. You just burned a mod point for nothing, because I'm about to show you redundant.
I'm not too up on 3D graphics, but what's with these comparisons of ray-tracing vs polygons, or ray-tracing vs rasterizing? Isn't ray tracing just a lighting model?
Score 4 informative, eh? It's a complete farrago of bullshit.
The MOON has 1/6 the gravity of earth. Mars has a bit over a third.
The moons of mars do not disqualify it from being a planet.
I'm not even going to bother with the rest.
When management or marketing (or worst of all -- sales) get to contribute to decisions for software platforms for development, something is REALLY WRONG.
Uhhh, management generally does make the decision. That's why they're called management. Sorry to burst your bubble, but not all managers are complete chowderheads. If they are where you work, well, suck it up or quit.
> In a way, it's kind of poetic that these trolls are going to get raped by a loan shark (SNCP) at 17% interest.
Oh even better, it's 17% over prime. As of today that makes it 23%.
Wow ... filler much? How many server admins or developers have been urgently looking for that?
> Its been portrayed as a quick fix so if your hardware doesnt work out of the box, just use NDISWrapper.
If it doesn't work out of the box, I don't much care that it's superior. I'm tired of "learning how the system works" for the 1000th time. Not all toil is virtuous.
> don't schtupp a bunny boiler
... eh, i'm out of steam ...
Five word summaries of hit movies, eh?
Let's try some others:
Star Wars I: The Force is just miticlorians.
The Crying Game: The chick is a dude.
It's not just the accuracy either, it's the quality of writing. Virtually every article that's vaguely controversial in any respect is full of weasel worded insinuations, rambling tangents, or outright "some say / others say" crossfires. Any cited sources are themselves typically quite slanted or otherwise dubious.
Of course, you can get extremely detailed methodological analysis of virtually every episode of every anime program ever aired, along with all the characters that appear in them.
Oh well, mostly harmless. Don't Panic. Unfortunately, it lacks the witty writing to rise to *that* standard as well.
> Could have sworn the Pope is supposed to be infallible.
Actually, the doctrine of Papal Infallability didn't come around til 1870.