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Next Generation SSDs Delayed Due To Vista
PoliTech notes in a journal entry that "Vista is the gift that just keeps on giving." "Speaking during SanDisk's second-quarter earnings conference call, Chairman and [CEO] Eli Harari said that Windows Vista will present a special challenge for solid state drive makers. 'As soon as you get into Vista applications in notebook and desktop, you start running into very demanding applications because Vista is not optimized for flash memory solid state disk,' he said... 'The next generation controllers need to basically compensate for Vista shortfalls,' he said. 'Unfortunately, (SSDs) performance in the Vista environment falls short of what the market really needs and that is why we need to develop the next generation, which we'll start sampling end of this year, early next year.' Harari said this challenge alone is putting SanDisk behind schedule. "We have very good internal controller technology... That said, I'd say that we are now behind because we did not fully understand, frankly, the limitations in the Vista environment.'"
For some reason 'rpm' from mandrake is surprisingly inefficient on SSD's. It makes mandrake practically unusable for me on my eeepc. Yet dpkg/apt-get/aptitude on debian and ubuntu is just zippy.
--jeffk++
An aptly named program, to be sure.
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
Compared to all the other things that are delayed because of Microsoft, SSDs are not at the top of my list to worry about: the main reason we're still using 1980's style window systems, programmed in 1970's style languages, running on top of 1960's style kernels and file systems is because Microsoft perpetuated that.
If Microsoft hadn't dragged the market to the bottom of the cesspool with the bad "standards" that they set, companies would actually have been able to produce innovative operating systems and user interfaces, and market forces could have led to a gradual improvement.
How very true, but don't forget global warming eventually will cause cancer and kill puppies.
Correction, causes cancer and killed many a puppy.
How many fathers and mothers aren't being raped as we speak in one of the global warming related wars ?
I filled a terabyte drive with crap; now I need another terabyte drive. That means within the last few years I've accumulated 3 to 4 terabytes of data, much of it redundant from sloppy backup procedures and paranoia.
About a year ago one of my 500GB USB drives blew up, so now I'm backing up everything on both a second drive and DVDs. I've moved to dual-layer DVD+R disks: 8GB, which isn't enough for anything. I need 30GB Blu-ray or something bigger.
One of the problems everyone has is that since hard disks began to double in capacity every 12 months, we've become complacent with the knowledge that we'll never fill them up. But multimedia files and other downloads chew up space quickly, especially since everyone has gotten on the high-quality bandwagon. Downloading a movie? It has to be HD. Downloading an MP3? It has to be at a high bit rate.
My downloaded movies consist mostly of files off the Comcast DVR where I keep recording old classics from TCM. They build up, so I burn them on the DVD recorder before transferring them to a hard disk using HandBrake, the excellent video ripper. Then I watch the movies on a laptop when I travel. Of course I never watch anything, and they start to accumulate.
On top of this useless collection of crap are my digital photos. I've upgraded to the 10MP Olympus 520, which offers me the opportunity to shoot RAW and JPEG formats at the exact same time. So instead of accumulating thousands of shots just mildly compressed with JPEG, I now save that exact same JPEG along with a huge RAW file. This will worsen when I eventually move to 12-, 14-, and 16-megapixel cameras.
The worst aspect of this photography hobby is that the longer you do it the more likely you are to take numerous redundant shots. Instead of one cool pic of the street corner you take two, three, four...just in case you wiggled a little. I can easily shoot 300 to 400 shots on this camera before the battery drops dead. So I may as well shoot 300 to 400 pics. I promise myself that I'll sort them out later. And I eventually will, but in the meantime they chew up hard disk space like nothing else.
Right now the best solution for backup is a second hard disk. It's the cheapest way to do it. But things get complicated when you overflow a terabyte drive with junk.
I think one or two of twitter's sockpuppets got mod points today.
Comment about Vista being a resource hog and unrunnable on the XY hardware?
Its a piece of Microsoft software. Criticizing Microsoft is the local sport and favorite pastime on slashdot.
Now, if you were to say something like...
"That Apple software/hardware isn't really all that cool as they advertise..." or god forbid try to say anything but praises about any Linux distro...
Now that would get you at least a troll + flamebait moderation. At which point it would be best to let it slide and move on.
If you tried to defend your position - you would get moderated to troll hell and your Freaks category would start to overflow.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
why does everyone jump on the bandwagon and hate vista? vista runs like a champ on my system... its nice to not have to manually defrag, i come home from work and my HD is in order. caching my apps mr. vista? SWEET THX LESS LOAD TIME FOR ME! if you just tweak the hell out of vista, its a rather nice OS. With 8gb of ram and no swapfile ;)
i'll continue to use BSD for my servers, but what a waste to use some unix style OS for my desktop... bleh!
Perhaps there are people like myself who after years of hearing freetards use every opportunity to take a shot at MS, are just sick and tired of the juvenile behavior. Most of the jokes are at the "BSOD!!! Insecure! LOL!!!" level, where windows stability has not been an issue since 2000. I am guessing that these same people are ignorant to the fact that in the early 90's *nix had a security model that was deemed broken/nonexistent as well.
Its the behavior of many Linux users that I feel is the biggest deterrent to Linux adoption on the desktop. To some people it is clear that their choice of OS is not about getting a job done, but is an ideology they subscribe to and a group they belong to. There is nothing wrong with this, but when you start to view criticisms as personal attacks on your beliefs and not constructive criticisms of things that should be improved upon, there is a problem. Some might accuse me of a lack of passion, but if you ever find yourself typing in all caps in a discussion about OS's, I can only recommend you take a step back and get a breathe of fresh air before hitting send.
Don't worry, I mod down similar idiots that still spout Linux!!! No Hardware Support!! LOL!!! or just take shots on Stallman or Reiser without anything intelligent to add.
I don't think there is any conspiracy, and aside from the reasons cited above, I think a more reasonable explanation is that slashdot has attracted more mass appeal as time goes on (which is at least partially due to the editors- you don't see articles about every little new release or project in the linux world anymore.)