Apple can wait, they have more money than God, it's the long con for them.

They'll get new Indy artists, some of those artists will eventually hit it big with Apple, and while they won't get paid during the 3 month trial period, they WILL get paid a significantly better cut than anyone dealing with one of the traditional labels where Hollywood accounting insures artists don't make dick.

And in a few years the greedy record labels will have screwed over enough people while others are making copious amounts of cash on iTunes music ... At which point tswift is going to come back apologizing for being a moody little brat and ask them for some love.

She doesn't know enough about the accounting to realize how much better iTunes Music COULD be for her if she wasn't locked into her current shitty contracts.

Anyone with an established fan base is on the verge of being yesterday's fad, only a statistically insignificant number make it big more than one album. The tswifts of the world aren't that large a part of the industry on the whole, even if they do make a fortune on paper compared to you and I

Hum, VisualStudio has supported Edit And Continue on C and C++ since VisualStudio 6 at least. Before C# existed you could do it in c and c++.

Still right now in VS 2013 you can do it if configured correctly

And you, like most people missed the point.

If you have one rock hit, all its energy is concentrated. The atmosphere isn't going to slow it down as much as it will collectively slow down 'millions'

With millions, some of them ARE going to miss the planet, and some will be vaporized by the blasts in space, there you've already lowered the total energy involved with hitting earth. Not much possibly, but some.

Would you rather a hail ball the size of a golf ball hit your house, and one each hitting every house in your city ... Or would you prefer that a Volvo of ice fell on it, because that's what your suggesting.

As with basic impact physics if you want to lower the damage spread out the impact surface area and time. If the NEO is large enough that in a million bits, it still causes global catastrophe then it's still going to be a global catastrophe as one rock, and it's going to be worse.

The blast will break it into a million peices that are ALLnow on a new course. If you do it at any distance of any magnitude from earth, the new course will be a completely different path that is not in ours.

Contrary to all the stupid shit you've heard from "scientists" about how bad it would be, that's only true if IT WAS ALREADY TOO LATE TO DO ANYTHING.

Under no condition does it actually get worse on a global scale.

The problem is, Arduino cycles are expensive compared to something like a i7, when you compare actual performance per watt.

Low power devices for connected devices save power by not doing stuff. If you make them run their CPUs, they use more power and they are FAR less efficient at actually running then their big brothers like a desktop or server class intel chip.

It is ridiculously inefficient to use the spare CPU on your phone, Raspberry Pi or Arduino, just buy the proper CPU for the task. And lets be real, add up all the spare CPU power in your home on these low power devices ... and eventually, with a big enough home and enough devices ... you'll get a Pentium Pro out of them.

Stupid and inefficient.

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Monster sued Apple (via Beats) first. Thats hardly Apple stabbing Monster in the back.

This is pretty typical business, if you want to start a lawsuit against me, I promise you our business agreements and relationship is over. I don't think I've ever seen a contract that didn't explicitly state that even.

COW doesn't solve the problem that TRIM solves.

Once you write over the entire drive once, then all blocks of flash are dirty and MUST be erased before any new writes can take place. At this point, you can't even write the meta data without a sector erase, then you can write to it ... just to tell it that you've added another ref to an existing block.

With TRIM, blocks are erased when they are no longer used, so they do not need an erase cycle when before writing to them.

I don't use BTRFS, but do use ZFS and it most certainly benefits from TRIM on an active drive, which is certainly what all your SSDs are going to be.

The problem is that the author thinks that he has a clue, when he clearly doesn't.

Your post is exactly the proof that he doesn't have a clue, because if he did, he'd understand EXACTLY what you've stated already and wouldn't be asking this question on slashdot in the first place.

The real problem is, we've got some dude that knows slightly more than pushing the power button to turn his PC on (probably just figured out he can hold it down to force it off) and he thinks that qualifies him as an 'IT Pro'

By asking the question he asked, he's shown he has pretty much no experience in the industry and knowns pretty much nothing about how and why tech support is done the way its done. His question shows us that he isn't an 'IT Pro', whatever that is actually supposed to be.

No, no it isn't.

Its easier for the tech support guy trying to not have to do any work and at the same time not caring about getting anything done or actually solving any problems. Using email or chat ... WHEN YOUR INTERNET DOESN't WORK is ... well, pretty fucking stupid of a suggestion.

Chat alone takes longer, loses subtle clues that voice doesn't, lets you have some sort of idea how much time it takes the customer to do things, there are hundreds of reasons why a voice call is more efficient than chat or email, both of which take an order of magnitude or 2 (respectively) to accomplish anything.

I'm sure you're customer service skills are right up there with Comcast and TWC by the sound of it.

What is with this stream of people recently that thinks they are 'pros' or 'experienced' asking questions that a new grad wouldn't ask?

Don't call yourself a pro and then ask a question about basic life that everyone else on the planet has found a way to cope with.

Energy and mass are equivelent. Massless particles (light) can have effects like particles with mass because of their energy.

Example: radiometers

Don't pretend you know everything about high energy physics either.

People who move to the desert and then demand someone else supply them with water (which comes from out of state btw) so they can grow crops that would NEVER grow there on their own ...

Yea, fuck those people and their ignorance, they did it to themselves and its bullshit they are dragging down others with them.

They KNEW this was an issue, how did they know? BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO PIPE WATER IN FROM HUNDREDS OF MILES AWAY AND THEIR CROPS DON'T STAND A SNOWBALLS CHANCE IN HELL WITHOUT SOMEONE ELSES WATER.

You're an asshole because you think just because some dumbfuck started a farm in a shitty plot we should subsidise his stupidity and supply water to him. Personal responsibility, learn about it.

... Look up the definition of a desert ... look at where the water is flowing in the state ... look at what that area was like say 200 years ago ... then get back to me on how hey aren't watering a desert.

This has been common knowledge for 50 years. They have been warned about this problem for god knows how long and have been complaining about running out of water for at least 30 years.

Here's a novel idea, move out of the fucking desert and quit trying to grow produce by piping in water from several states away.

If you're 'senior' anything, you should have been around long enough to know that slashdot is not the place to ask a question, especially since its a question only you or someone who knows you REALLY well can answer.

My suggestion if you want some safety is to start with some introspection.

... because in the ridiculous example provided ... they would certainly model it exactly after the EU law ... because Muslim extremist countries are so thoughtful and considerate ...

What they would do is 'Google is not allowed to exist anywhere in the world because they know of Charlie Hebdo'

Thats the point. Do you want this sort of thing happening where countries think they can tell other countries what to do, more so than already happens?

In reality, Google will just invade France with something as powerful as an Android device that just repeatedly plays 'capitulation' loudly and that would be the end of France complaining about 'Right to be Forgotten', which, by the way, is a stupid fucking law.

If people in France actually wanted to solve a problem, they'd remove the original source material, not just remove it from the index.