You are the perfect example why people need to use 2 drives, if they want to go SSD (assuming you aren't willing to drop like $600 for a massive SSD). Buy 1 reasonable SSD for your OS and apps, then use a secondary HD for mass storage (MP3s, movies, pix, etc) since large files and heavy writing doesn't benefit from SSD. Moving your PageFile to the traditional HD might improve your performance further.
SSD wins when it comes to small reads, especially random ones, which is what your OS and apps do a lot of.
Knowing Intel, most likely the new drives, which double the capacity, will remain the same price. Therefore your 160gb drive for $399 will be 320GB for $399, and imho approaching $1 per GB on SSD is a big freaking deal. Of course this info is an early leak and Intel has no mention of price. But with a new fab and smaller nm, most likely Intel will deliver on this theory.
You're thinking like a nerd and not like a business person. What really happens is MySQL's main branch turns into crap, your average developer downloads MySQL because they don't know what a fork is and their boss just told them to "try this open source product". It really sucks compared to current commercial offerings because MySQL hasn't been updated in X years. Guess what just happened, unless money was an issue, they probably just decided not to go with OS.
This is what Oracle is hoping for, and imho it will happen, more-so as time goes on. MySQL may seem pretty good right this moment, but what about 2yrs from now, 5yrs, 7yrs? These forks have to make a name for themself, but chances are, the devs have either: quit the project entirely, gotten hired by Oracle and don't work on any OS code/forks anymore, or the senior devs are competiting with each other because they're all working different forks. More likely than not, Oracle has destroyed MySQL.
Dan is talking about paying money as a routine, like a salary. The security exploit pay is like a reward, you don't get paid for the effort, anybody can make the effort but only 1% of the people who would try are capable of finding a real security hole. The effect doesn't apply.
If you had anything to do with this setup you should be shot, you've broken two fundamental rules for developers.
1. You've taken away their root access to their own boxes?
That's like taking away a construction worker's toolbox and handing them a hammer and a screw driver because it's "all they'll ever need". I'm a web developer, I need to test my stuff in upcoming betas, testing your web stuff AFTER the browser has launched is too late, because users willl already have it.
2. You're running a browser so f#$%ing old, it makes IE8 look good (or at least, not so bad).
That's great for testing, but for developing, you're either; evil, naive or both.
Funny, but on a more serious note, during the time of the Bible, people had no way to access the oceans depths needed to reach lobster, shrimp and crab (ok, there are some land crabs).
So anything they could access in the upper parts of the water with a net, that didn't have scales & fins were unsafe to eat (ex: jellyfish).
You do know many spam/exploit bots use your robots file to look for admin logins or sensitive info. Just because the browser agent was the same as Google doesn't mean it really was, you have to check the agent's IP to be reasonably sure it's legit.
Considering that Google even says they have previously only indexed sites every 10 days, it's much more likely you have 3 Google indexes and 29 exploit scans.
Just one sip of this magic elixir will invigorate, exacerbate, collaborate, and dilate every muscle in your body. An old man will feel young, a young man will feel wise!
I didn't know it was the 1800s all over again.
On a tangent, and a somewhat interesting experience I had...
In 1992 I saved up enough allowance to buy a Sound Blaster, my first sound card. After I made my AUTOEXEC changes I tried out my favorite game of the time, Space Quest 4. What I experience was this annoying ringing that made me stop the game, quit, tweak the settings, reboot and start the game again. This went on a few times until almost an hour had passed.
Then out of defeat I started the game and didn't quit it, only to discover the annoying ring was the beginning of the soundtrack. Mind you, it's an MIDI instrument to the sound isn't as annoying on better sound cards, but on a SB it was pretty annoying, check it out for yourself:
Sounds like you want your appeal to be hired to rest on how many boy scout badges you got. The reason you are treated so well is because you have management that understands what makes a good programmer, and then rewards them accordingly. So no, you should get brownie points for having a degree, they prefer skilled people who have proven their ability to do the job they were hired for.
P2P would largely disappear overnight if there was a legal alternative that offered a perceived benefit (guaranteed quality, good search, high speed download, brand loyalty, etc) over a pirate source.
iTunes may have put a dent in MP3 distribution but by no means did MP3 sharing dry up. PirateBay's MP3 sharing was still very popular, Oink was massive while it was around and today you have Waffles and WhatCD. So don't beat the "we'll stop pirating if you sell it to us" drum, because just like the MPAA's pirate sales figures, your speech is also a lie.
Your shtick may sound good on paper, but nobody really wants a fancy metal box for their movie. There's a reason 99% of movies are still sold in their standard plastic casing, and it's not because movie companies are cheap or uncreative, it's because that's what the customer prefers. We could widdle down your point and just sell special features on the disc, but that can be copied just as easily as the movie but often excluded in pirate copies for simplicity and smaller overall size.
New biannual? Last I checked Win95, Win98, WinME & Win2000 and WinXP all had approx 2yrs in between their releases, it was XP -> Vista that ever broke the MS 2-3yr rule of thumb. Hell I'm glad we're back to it and I hope MS stays on this track.
Welcome to Xbox 360 circa 2006, at least MS realized that DRM'd movies in a box was more of a rental than a purchase, charged you adequately and let you have the movie for 7 days. I wasn't very excited about a $5 digital 7 day rental, but it looks like a blessing compared to Sony's $20 fee, heck this makes BlockBuster look like a good investment.
Let's also not forget consoles have a shelf life of 5yrs, and the PS3 came out in 2006 so how much longer will the majority of people will have their PS3 before they sell it. How much you want to bet you can't re-download your movie to your PS4 without purchasing a $4.95 transport fee? If they even allow that, remember Sony's promise that you could "upgrade" your PSP discs to digital downloads for $5, and at the last minute they pulled that and told you to pay full price. Wake up people, Sony _LOVES_ the idea that you have to re-purchase things every 5yrs, or sooner. They love the idea that you buy a $1 song on iTunes for your MP3 player, you pay $3 for it as a ring tone on your cell, you pay $2 per month to use a song as a ring back for people who call you, you pay another $5 for the music video.
Also don't forget Sony is the same company who didn't want you to rip your CD, they wanted you to buy the CD now, and in a couple years buy the songs again for your iPod. Sony is drunk off of the "CD revolution" that made everybody replace their cassettes and vinyl, it blew their profits sky high, good for them. But now Sony is trying to artificially recreate this scenario in the digital world out of pure greed.
Well if you're applying for an IT job with an AOL address, no matter which side of the fence you are on, I can't help but think this is the equivalent of a car engineer applying at a German company and he drives a KIA.
I know it's easy to pick on Second Life but my wife use to play it obsessively so let me give you some real insight:
The game gives you a lot of power to import models, animations and textures, think of it as an in game "make your own Sims game", where you can set rules, scripts that execute on other people's models, etc. The game is flooded with woman, usually stay at home wives, these aren't necessarily your traditional "fat goth chicks".
I'm a hardcore gamer myself, mostly just Xbox 360 lately, so I wouldn't touch Second Life with a 10 foot stick, it's not that it's a game as much as it is a social adventure that allows you to build more of the game. Unless you want to just be a consumer and shop for things people have made (clothes, animations, items) and just play what others made. My wife spent 99% of her time creating and selling items, there's no money to be made in Second Life anymore, unless you outright scam people somehow.
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You are the perfect example why people need to use 2 drives, if they want to go SSD (assuming you aren't willing to drop like $600 for a massive SSD). Buy 1 reasonable SSD for your OS and apps, then use a secondary HD for mass storage (MP3s, movies, pix, etc) since large files and heavy writing doesn't benefit from SSD. Moving your PageFile to the traditional HD might improve your performance further. SSD wins when it comes to small reads, especially random ones, which is what your OS and apps do a lot of.
Knowing Intel, most likely the new drives, which double the capacity, will remain the same price. Therefore your 160gb drive for $399 will be 320GB for $399, and imho approaching $1 per GB on SSD is a big freaking deal. Of course this info is an early leak and Intel has no mention of price. But with a new fab and smaller nm, most likely Intel will deliver on this theory.
You're thinking like a nerd and not like a business person. What really happens is MySQL's main branch turns into crap, your average developer downloads MySQL because they don't know what a fork is and their boss just told them to "try this open source product". It really sucks compared to current commercial offerings because MySQL hasn't been updated in X years. Guess what just happened, unless money was an issue, they probably just decided not to go with OS.
This is what Oracle is hoping for, and imho it will happen, more-so as time goes on. MySQL may seem pretty good right this moment, but what about 2yrs from now, 5yrs, 7yrs? These forks have to make a name for themself, but chances are, the devs have either: quit the project entirely, gotten hired by Oracle and don't work on any OS code/forks anymore, or the senior devs are competiting with each other because they're all working different forks. More likely than not, Oracle has destroyed MySQL.
Dan is talking about paying money as a routine, like a salary. The security exploit pay is like a reward, you don't get paid for the effort, anybody can make the effort but only 1% of the people who would try are capable of finding a real security hole. The effect doesn't apply.
I can't stand self righteous a**holes like you... you'd be the first to complain about your ad free cable costing $500/month
Actually I think your specialty, if you do get the prize money, will be subtraction (from the pool of money). No adding will occur at all.
If you had anything to do with this setup you should be shot, you've broken two fundamental rules for developers.
1. You've taken away their root access to their own boxes?
That's like taking away a construction worker's toolbox and handing them a hammer and a screw driver because it's "all they'll ever need". I'm a web developer, I need to test my stuff in upcoming betas, testing your web stuff AFTER the browser has launched is too late, because users willl already have it.
2. You're running a browser so f#$%ing old, it makes IE8 look good (or at least, not so bad).
That's great for testing, but for developing, you're either; evil, naive or both.
Funny, but on a more serious note, during the time of the Bible, people had no way to access the oceans depths needed to reach lobster, shrimp and crab (ok, there are some land crabs). So anything they could access in the upper parts of the water with a net, that didn't have scales & fins were unsafe to eat (ex: jellyfish).
You do realize the DS outsold the iPhone & Android put together? Why would N bother copying a loser, in regards to gaming sales?
You do know many spam/exploit bots use your robots file to look for admin logins or sensitive info. Just because the browser agent was the same as Google doesn't mean it really was, you have to check the agent's IP to be reasonably sure it's legit. Considering that Google even says they have previously only indexed sites every 10 days, it's much more likely you have 3 Google indexes and 29 exploit scans.
Just one sip of this magic elixir will invigorate, exacerbate, collaborate, and dilate every muscle in your body. An old man will feel young, a young man will feel wise! I didn't know it was the 1800s all over again.
On a tangent, and a somewhat interesting experience I had...
In 1992 I saved up enough allowance to buy a Sound Blaster, my first sound card. After I made my AUTOEXEC changes I tried out my favorite game of the time, Space Quest 4. What I experience was this annoying ringing that made me stop the game, quit, tweak the settings, reboot and start the game again. This went on a few times until almost an hour had passed.
Then out of defeat I started the game and didn't quit it, only to discover the annoying ring was the beginning of the soundtrack. Mind you, it's an MIDI instrument to the sound isn't as annoying on better sound cards, but on a SB it was pretty annoying, check it out for yourself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKE4YExWcy8
Sounds like you want your appeal to be hired to rest on how many boy scout badges you got. The reason you are treated so well is because you have management that understands what makes a good programmer, and then rewards them accordingly. So no, you should get brownie points for having a degree, they prefer skilled people who have proven their ability to do the job they were hired for.
It doesn't work for either institution, but they sell it like it does anyways.
Wait, now I'm confused, only one of these two have an insecure framework/product/application?
P2P would largely disappear overnight if there was a legal alternative that offered a perceived benefit (guaranteed quality, good search, high speed download, brand loyalty, etc) over a pirate source.
iTunes may have put a dent in MP3 distribution but by no means did MP3 sharing dry up. PirateBay's MP3 sharing was still very popular, Oink was massive while it was around and today you have Waffles and WhatCD. So don't beat the "we'll stop pirating if you sell it to us" drum, because just like the MPAA's pirate sales figures, your speech is also a lie.
Your shtick may sound good on paper, but nobody really wants a fancy metal box for their movie. There's a reason 99% of movies are still sold in their standard plastic casing, and it's not because movie companies are cheap or uncreative, it's because that's what the customer prefers. We could widdle down your point and just sell special features on the disc, but that can be copied just as easily as the movie but often excluded in pirate copies for simplicity and smaller overall size.
New biannual? Last I checked Win95, Win98, WinME & Win2000 and WinXP all had approx 2yrs in between their releases, it was XP -> Vista that ever broke the MS 2-3yr rule of thumb. Hell I'm glad we're back to it and I hope MS stays on this track.
Welcome to Xbox 360 circa 2006, at least MS realized that DRM'd movies in a box was more of a rental than a purchase, charged you adequately and let you have the movie for 7 days. I wasn't very excited about a $5 digital 7 day rental, but it looks like a blessing compared to Sony's $20 fee, heck this makes BlockBuster look like a good investment. Let's also not forget consoles have a shelf life of 5yrs, and the PS3 came out in 2006 so how much longer will the majority of people will have their PS3 before they sell it. How much you want to bet you can't re-download your movie to your PS4 without purchasing a $4.95 transport fee? If they even allow that, remember Sony's promise that you could "upgrade" your PSP discs to digital downloads for $5, and at the last minute they pulled that and told you to pay full price. Wake up people, Sony _LOVES_ the idea that you have to re-purchase things every 5yrs, or sooner. They love the idea that you buy a $1 song on iTunes for your MP3 player, you pay $3 for it as a ring tone on your cell, you pay $2 per month to use a song as a ring back for people who call you, you pay another $5 for the music video. Also don't forget Sony is the same company who didn't want you to rip your CD, they wanted you to buy the CD now, and in a couple years buy the songs again for your iPod. Sony is drunk off of the "CD revolution" that made everybody replace their cassettes and vinyl, it blew their profits sky high, good for them. But now Sony is trying to artificially recreate this scenario in the digital world out of pure greed.
Well if you're applying for an IT job with an AOL address, no matter which side of the fence you are on, I can't help but think this is the equivalent of a car engineer applying at a German company and he drives a KIA.
I see john37@aol.com wanted to interject his $.02
Those new LED TVs from Best Buy are the bawm! Crystal clear 1080p can render 2012 in full accuracy.
Protests? Damn hippy, back in my day we use to fight for what's right with guns, if we wanted to be nice, we just threw all your tea in the ocean.
I know it's easy to pick on Second Life but my wife use to play it obsessively so let me give you some real insight: The game gives you a lot of power to import models, animations and textures, think of it as an in game "make your own Sims game", where you can set rules, scripts that execute on other people's models, etc. The game is flooded with woman, usually stay at home wives, these aren't necessarily your traditional "fat goth chicks". I'm a hardcore gamer myself, mostly just Xbox 360 lately, so I wouldn't touch Second Life with a 10 foot stick, it's not that it's a game as much as it is a social adventure that allows you to build more of the game. Unless you want to just be a consumer and shop for things people have made (clothes, animations, items) and just play what others made. My wife spent 99% of her time creating and selling items, there's no money to be made in Second Life anymore, unless you outright scam people somehow.
Doesn't a low bitrate encoded song in the MP3 format sound like an auto-tune song that all the kids prefer now anyways?