I noticed people sometimes asking questions about a specific solution to their problem instead of asking how to achieve their goal. For example in this question the user wants to replace a faulty RAM. He needs to know what the specs are of his new RAM. He thinks he can deduce that from the partnu...
@allquixotic It wouldn't work to have a benchmark which leveled out once you hit Y2K CPUs would it? In the real world, you're probably going do go with a less modern OS. Going from 64 bit to 32 bit will nearly double your speed as well as double the effective RAM. Add the fact that, even though these older CPUs are hotter per core, they have less overall heat to dissipate to begin with and you can probably run it closer to 4Ghz on air. You aren't playing the latest blockbuster games & you'll notice < mem bus and 1xcore but it really isn't too bad. Still beats your average tablet experience. — krowe6 hours ago
@JourneymanGeek But if I leave the system turned off, then it'd be a zero bit computer. It'd be inf times faster. And since anything multiplied by inf is infinity, it is infinitely fast. What's all the fuss about quantum computers, again?
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And now it crashed while validating my app and apparently that corrupted my provisioning profile and signing identities but obviously I can't re-import them because they're already installed. So now I have to hunt down the actual files in the file system to clear them out before I can re-import them and then finally validate my app
@allquixotic It wouldn't work to have a benchmark which leveled out once you hit Y2K CPUs would it? In the real world, you're probably going do go with a less modern OS. Going from 64 bit to 32 bit will nearly double your speed as well as double the effective RAM. Add the fact that, even though these older CPUs are hotter per core, they have less overall heat to dissipate to begin with and you can probably run it closer to 4Ghz on air. You aren't playing the latest blockbuster games & you'll notice < mem bus and 1xcore but it really isn't too bad. Still beats your average tablet experience. — krowe8 hours ago
@JourneymanGeek the shit you can find... http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Colorful-Soft-Silicone-Protective-Back-Cover-Case-For-Xiaomi-10400mah-Power-Bank-/171396440042?pt=AU_MobilePhoneAccessories&var=&hash=item27e8061fea :P
Sennheiser is still my favorite headphones manufacturer, but personal cost-cutting measures plus the apparent inability of Sennheiser to purchase rechargeable lithium batteries that last longer than 8 hours, has led me to purchase Meelectronics and Steelseries sets for my bluetooth and wireless needs, respectively
one day a new-hire at Sennheiser is going to walk into the design studio with all the gray beards who produce the best headphones in the world and say "Hey, guys! I have an idea! Let's buy batteries that last longer and/or reduce our chipset's power consumption! People might like more than 8 hours of battery life!"
After being cussed out in German for about 20 minutes, one of the engineers will probably say "You know, he's on to something."
Ruby is psychologically taxing. MAN do I love it when I can express something elegantly. but with no compile-time type checker or syntax checker, prospects of random crashes are quite distressing
let's just say that I (ab)use rescue more than a firefighter
99.9% of the quality loss (dog ears or no) for BT or wireless headphones comes from the lossy encoding they perform between the transmitter and receiver. not because the drivers are bad or anything
@Bob that's what my H Wireless is for :D also, latency is a huge problem with gaming, so I don't game with BT headsets, I use the H Wireless, which is not bluetooth
I use the Steelseries whenever I'm at my desk at home. if I'm anywhere other than at my desk at home (read: not at home at all, or elsewhere than my desk), it's Meelec Air-Fi Matrix2.
I need to take a picture of the huge fire trap of dust and cables to the left of my PC in my "cable bay" (I call it that, but it's not a bay, it's just a space on the floor where all my cables go)
one day I'm going to wake up at 3 AM and my room is going to be on fire. -_-
@Braiam He is referring to the Steelseries H Wireless headset (it's a proprietary 5 GHz low-latency wireless audio protocol; it's not WiFi or Bluetooth)... base station that connects to just about anything (Optical, USB or 3.5mm) and 120 ft range on the headset.
only Sennheiser makes headphones pricier than that ;p
@Bob funny thing is, Beats' bluetooth headphones run almost as much as the Steelseries H Wireless in retail stores here in the US. yet they're infinitely worse in every way
@DarthAndroid If you've got money, I highly recommend them. I have had them for several months. Durable enough, great sound, perfect for gaming and music listening. Can listen across the hall with ease. Never had them drop out.
Only downside of them I can find is that the battery packs seem to be decreasing in their battery life over repeated charges. They're probably cheap lithium ions with a limited charge cycle. You get TWO, which is great, but you probably just need to run them empty; I prefer to switch them when it's merely low
@JourneymanGeek custom, AFAICT. they're roughly the size of the slice of cheese you'd put on a hors d'oeurves (or feed to a dog), very thin and fit in the palm of your hand.
@Bob I'd read that before, but somehow forgot it. Anyway, my usage habit is to let it get to 25% then recharge it.
If I start with a full charge on Friday evening after work, I will have switched out the battery approximately twice by Sunday night, with a full weekend-plus of gaming/musicing/coding/surfing.
the implication in the mythos was always that the human- and minbari-involved conflicts with the Shadows and Vorlons were relatively mild border skirmishes compared to what those two factions were really capable of
the movie will probably be all about "this is the REAL war"
the Vorlons and Shadows might not even care about the younger races if they decide to go all-out against eachother... they might "accidentally" blow up a solar system or two while fighting each other
@Sathya why are you taking so long to announce the next Windows, and whether it's another update for Windows 8.1, or Windows 9? September 30?! Come on, man... you can tell us... we won't leak it, we promise!
When soldering, I have on a few occasions, used my teeth to hold a strand of solder while my hands were busy. I do not do this frequently, but sometimes I forget that solder is made of lead and my instincts tell me to use my mouth.
How bad is doing that for my health? Is it very dangerous?
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@ThatBrazilianGuy The shell may be interpreting \t as whitespace and think, "Oh. So argv[0] is the program name, argv[1] is ., and then there's whitespace, and no next parameter, so there will be no argv[2]!"
I'm working on an application that plays music.
During playback, often things need to happen on separate threads because they need to happen simultaneously. For example, the notes of a chord need to be heard together, so each one is assigned it's own thread to be played in.
This kind of behavio...
> For example, consider a piece of music with a short melody and short accompanying chord progression. The entire melody can be played on a single thread, but the progression needs three threads to play, since each of it's chords contains three notes.
@allquixotic Random question time! Do you happen to know of the space based TV Series (or possibly Movie) that featured a missile that sort of jumped in and out of subspace to avoid detection/anti-missile countermeasures?
if there is any way at all to get executable code onto the machine and run it, whether it be VBScript, PowerShell, Java, VBA inside of Office, JavaScript in the local zone, ActiveX, batch files, or the good ol' .exe download, people are going to do what they want with your box -- admin rights or not
even without that there are still an infinite number of possible pages where a DOM-based proxy could be hosted, so someone could visit arbitrary sites without even needing to set a proxy in the browser settings
if you're giving computer access to people who are going to expose your organization to significant legal risk, you're doing it wrong
you have a people problem and you're trying to solve it with technology, which never works
it just frustrates and complicates the lives of legitimate users performing legitimate activity, while being only a temporary barrier to the ne'er-do-well
@DarthAndroid Your company money will make more money money when money they money give money users money more money freedom money. Money money money money money money money money money money.
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When soldering, I have on a few occasions, used my teeth to hold a strand of solder while my hands were busy. I do not do this frequently, but sometimes I forget that solder is made of lead and my instincts tell me to use my mouth.
How bad is doing that for my health? Is it very dangerous?
I ...
