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Pretty much everything on this site

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Here is another chart of spicy images

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Nice Visual Representation of Global Economy

#GlobalEconomy #VisualEconomy 

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Good visual of MegaPixels and video frame size

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This coupon is FOR UNLIMITED USE. It can be used until next Mother’s Day. However it can ONLY BE USED ONCE PER DAY.

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I just can’t believe this is true. This is straight from BBB Website. #bbbsucks #bbbcorrupt

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SSD (Solid State Drives) is FAST, and everybody knows that, but what happens when your put it in RAID 0 Mode? Well as most of you might think the speed doubles. Well in my system I have 3 SSD Drives in RAID 0 Mode, which I was surprised to find out tipled the speed.

What are the numbers?

That 1620987 is  1,620,987 Bytes/s which is 1,600MB/s or 1.6GB/s transfer rate. Your average high end Samsung SSD is 480MB/s - 500MB/s

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Copyright Laws 101

In the United States, when the photos are taken then the photographer owns the copyright to the photos. The copyright owner (photographer) has the right to control a list of things, including: (a) who gets to reprint the photos, (b) who gets to make derivative works of the photos (such as a painting of a photo), (c) who gets to sell copies of the photos, and (d) who gets to display the photos publicly. It is more customary now that you can pay an extra fee to the photography to buy a copyright license (i.e, permission to do one of the things in (a) through (d)). Usually that license is just for the right to reprint the photos (i.e., use the photos for personal use, such as on Christmas cards or in a wedding photo book). The reason for this fee is that the photographer will lose out on the money that you would have paid her for the prints. Since one of the rights of the photographer is to sell copies and another right is to publicly display the photos, the couple and the photographer can also negotiate how the photographer will be limited in these activities. For a fee, the couple is purchasing those rights (and not just a license) away from the photographer. Sometimes this will not be an additional price in the contract, but it is understandable if the photographer wants to charge a fee for this, to make up for what the photographer otherwise would have made commercially on the photos.

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The Companies that run our world, at least the grocery aisles

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I always want to have this handy because I can never remember most of these spicy peppers.

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Amazing View from International Space Station (ISS)

You’ll have probably noticed by now that the Sun doesn’t set in the video, but instead goes round and round. This is because when the video was shot, the ISS was orbiting parallel with the Earth’s terminator line. The terminator (not Schwarzenegger, this time), or twilight zone, is the moving line that separates day from night on an object illuminated by a star.

The location of the terminator changes depending on the season. When the ISS lines up with the terminator it dodges the shadow from the Earth and consequently the crew onboard the satellite get an unfathomable view of the Sun. The ISS orbit only aligns with the terminator a couple of times per year, around one of the solstices, so this footage is pretty unique.

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Good To Know

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Picture I took during a birthday party, which turned out to be kind of cool after minor edits.

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Oscars 2014

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Bill Gates and Steve Jobs

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Shortcuts vs Hard Links

In Windows what is the difference between a short-cut, a symbolic link (symlink) and a hard link?

A short cut is a file that points to another file. It is an antiquated pointing system from the Windows 95 era that many programs do not recognise. Shortcuts do not only use up space on the hard drive, they also break and linger behind after the target has been deleted, renamed or moved.

A symbolic link is like a short-cut but instead of being saved as a file it is registered to the hard drive partition. It does not use any disk space and all programs recognise both the link and the target. A symbolic link can point to any file or folder either locally on the computer or over a network using a SMB path.

A file hard link is a little different and can not be used over multiple partitions meaning you can not have a link on drive C: pointing to a file on drive D:. A file hard link points to and duplicates a target as a mirrored copy but the copy does not use any additional space on the hard drive partition. So 2 hard links that mirrored a 1 GB file would  in total only use 1 GB on the partition rather than 3 GB. Importantly if either the hard links or the target are deleted the other links retain the data. Changes to the content of either the target or the links automatically propagate to all other items.

A junction behaves like is a hard link for directories but unlike file hard links you can create junctions that span multiple partitions. Again a directory junction and its content is stored on the hard drive partition but they do not use any additional space. Any changes to the content within either the target or the links will automatically propagate except where the target directory is deleted or renamed. In that case all hard links that point to the target will break and linger on the partition.

Microsoft Windows Vista, 7 and 8 use the command line program mklink to create links. It has 3 arguments and requires both a link name and target.

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I saw this online and found it to be very true especially in my field of Wedding Photography, and so I decided to share...

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Why We Age - And How We Can Stop It

Hank hates death, so he helps us understand the process of aging, informs us of how scientists are studying ways to prevent it and brings us the exciting new...