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BUT what is impressive, is these headphones do have very good bass and sensitivity especially for a set that does not rely on any form of seal against the ear.
These are potentially a decent set for cycling with. Reasonable sound and loudness coupled with no seal and minimal isolation to retain some semblance of outside awareness....
Also minimal cable microphonics.
I may have been overly harsh when berating them out of the box. I still wouldn't buy them myself though.
For the average Joe who may be freaked out by canal phones that plug all the way in to the ear, they work.
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I'm not sure if we're taking the whole tswift thing a bit too far :P
OK final verdict on these bundled headphones: 6.5/10. Severely lacking in treble, but the bass does pass the "make me feel like my head is being whacked by a bass drum" test. But I feel just as weird wearing earphones that don't go in the ear ad normal people might with ones that do.
Still had foreign mods come in and delete 60 messages for being off-topic... At least now I can point at the topic in defense of any sporadic taytaytays
superuser.com/questions/1056245/… Is this guy trying to hack websites? or secure them? A little background information on what they are doing might go a long way?
Oh i am sure they are just doing research, like running down a row of cars checking the locks, so they can post stats about whos cars were unlocked on the web :-)
I don't even feel like pulling out my laptop tonight.
I'm on my Nexus 9 right now. I once hated the fact that we're moving away from traditional PCs, but after more than five years of carrying a heavy laptop to college (and in fact, a high-end gaming machine for the last two years), I'm starting to really like the way things are going.
With a tablet, a Bluetooth keyboard (perhaps integrated into a case), and (optionally) a Bluetooth mouse, you can be productive pretty much anywhere. Add a mobile broadband service (or even tether from your smartphone) and you may never need a laptop again.
For me, there will probably never be a genuine replacement for a "real" PC, but more and more of my day-to-day computing is done on mobile devices.
I mean, why carry your laptop when you can just use RDP from your Android tablet?
5 years of carrying a laptop and you still got it in one piece, is by itself a minor miracle :-) I have dropped my phone 4 times total now, once almost landing in a creek.
Two different systems. My old HP laptop was in service for 3.5 years before it was retired. This newer Clevo laptop (built by Sager Notebook) has been in use for two years with no major hardware issues thus far.
Lost my phone 2 weeks ago when romping both dogs through tall grass, one of them got caught up in the retractable leashes. Luckily (without the assistance of the web) I talked to it and had it send me a GPS signal of where it was at, then still not finding it, i had it cry out in pain.
I didnt feel too bad, after taking an hour to recover it, when a buddy (who is married) told me the story of his wife loosing her phone. And (get this) she goes back to the Phone store (AT&T) which will do Nothing to assist you in finding it. And buys not only a new phone, but get a "deal" on it, by buying another 2 Year contract :-(
So now he has 3 phone bills comming in and 2 phones, what a deal.
Write more than a few gigabytes to the drive at a time, and you get slower than HDD speeds. Not okay.
> Most of the time TLC SSDs perform quite well. But copy a large amount of data to a TLC drive, and part way through the operation you’ll see something discomforting—a startling drop in write speed. With some drives it’s relatively mild, but in the case of many recent TLC drives, the drop is so drastic you’ll wonder if the SSD is dying. It’s not, but you may wish it was.
just imagining a database workload, where a transaction commit requires flushing out to the storage media to guarantee data integrity, so you often see lots of small writes
(it would be dangerous for it to cache committed transactions in RAM)
actually, some databases like TimesTen are built around the concept of asynchronous transactions, where a "commit" does not necessarily trigger any disk writes, and it only periodically commits to disk -- this could save a lot of IOPS if your storage is HDD
In the quest to make SSDs cheaper (and you can't really bring cost per wafer much lower), companies are using TLC NAND to maximize storage density and minimize cost. However, this comes with some serious performance penalties.
SLC buffering helps make up for this, but on many drives, performance falls off a cliff if you write more than a few gigabytes to it at a time.
@bwDraco how much is that like setting up the graphics settings on a game? Meticulously finding out how "ultra" your settings can be and still get FrameRates, then (eventually) getting so involved in the game itself, that all that time setting up it wouldnt have mattered if it was on ultra , high or even medium :-) we playing now, benchmarks are done.
@Psycogeek It's something that can prove to be frustrating and confusing under certain circumstances. If you're importing lots of photos or video, installing a large game, or otherwise writing a lot of data to the drive, this is a limitation that will be felt by the end user.
with all this ram 32gig, and all these caches and stuff, and so many not only overlycomplex but very poorly optomised programs, many of my slowdown frustrations now are "the programs" themselves, the single core speed , how fast any single tread can run, when instead of "clock" speed we are stuck with multi-cores.
@bwDraco I have a first-gen TLC drive called "MyDigitalSSD" (about 64 GB of raw NAND, 60 GB usable) in my Haswell NUC, and even during OS install I was hitting that slowdown
> Do not allow moderators or microsoft staff to mark their own responses as "useful" - they often are not
Do not allow moderators or microsoft staff to mark their own responses as "useful" - they often are not but since there is no "not useful" button, its easier to just leave it blank.
but if I leave it blank - the MSFT employee comes around and marks his own answer as "useful" even when it is not
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the solution is simple; just block all the microsoft moderators and employees from this forum
I have written that up a couple of times on MS answers, I think even some of the other MVPs would agree there.
we could also replace many of the responces with Bots, See this title instert this script , mark as answered, continue to ignore the multitude of users popping back in saying that it doesnt work.
" I can't actually remember the last time I found an ACTUAL answer to a query on any of Microsoft's forums." Sorry bud it isnt your memory that is failing, it never happened.
i would suggest . . . nothing is ever marked as answered or finished. it is a forum, a string of "this one worked for me" is better, especially when there are 3 different ones that work for 3 different (actual) problems.
well they are watching that particular feedback from users very closely, , , that is why every 8th post is spam, oh were on it.
Dear SkinSoSoftly we are sorry your having a problem with rough skin, and dirty pores, please know that this problem is most often caused by your crappy equiptment in your computer, and is not caused by MS software. The AnswerBot
Yea, I do. Especially since the tutorial on 'WPA2 cracking with reaver' says that doing a 'live boot' is better than running Reaver from virtual box (my current set up). — user323362359 mins ago
So one of our suppliers set up a web service on a website for us and asked us to point one of our domains to his server. So far, so good. We asked him if we need to supply the SSL cert for HTTPS and he said, no, he'll take care of that
@allquixotic @allquixotic the tech probably searched MS Answers for the result instead, and the answer told him to jump into a smelting furnace (source) (source)
@Bob nah. Well sorta. In a city you have far more choice of cell towers, but the centralised UPS in a telephone exchange is more reliable than individual battery sets in each cell tower.
