Although SATA is more widespread and avoids any reduction in performance you might get from putting an intermediate layer in front of the native interface of the drive. A large drive is going to require a wall wart and all of those will need to be looked after.
The problem with case+power supply is not the cost but the fact that it is something else to lose. This goes for the extra cabling too.
Plus with a bare drive you can buy with performance in mind since the drive will likely be your bottleneck.
A real infantry rifle is meant to be used more like a hunting rifle.
It's not a machine gun and isn't supposed to be used like one. Even real machine guns aren't supposed to be kept on continuous fire indefinitely. Intensive use of a rifle will overheat the barrel. That's why real machine guns have removable barrels.
Some people just choose to remain ignorant and spread misinformation. They see a weapon, think it looks scary, and then conflate it with something from a gangster movie.
You know that and I know that but journalists don't seem to know that.
The term semi-automatic is really quite misleading for most people. It sounds a lot more impressive than it really is. Of course any weapon that doesn't look rustic is going to come off as bad-scary.
> The students found it would take a bomb about a billion times stronger than the biggest bomb ever detonated on Earth
No kidding. They even have an onscreen argument in the movie about this where the guy that later plays Lucious Malfoy eviscerates the President's science advisor over his college grades.
The whole point of the movie was to split the asteriod into 2 pieces rather than trying to destroy it.
That's the whole point of having the maverick drillers.
Star Trek had a tendency to ignore human nature. That's something that was nice about Bab5. We were in space but we were still ourselves. We've had 10 thousand years of recorded history to become something else. A couple hundred years and some extra technology isn't going to change us on a fundemental level.
You could point to history for equally drastic changes that didn't turn everything into pretty ponies and unicorns.
It got so bad that aliens had to stand in for human failings.
This is Debian. This is the progenitor of apt-get.
If you want something that needs GNOME3, all you have to do is ask for it by name and all of those ugly GNOME3 dependencies will be sorted out for you automagically.
The same goes for deciding that some-kde-app is a better choice than what Ubuntu has chosen for a default.
> I don't know, there's something to be said for a standardized platform to ensure your software and hardware can all work together.
So that's why my Minis are doorstops when it comes to casual gaming and why Mac Pros that are still very powerful aren't supported by the current version of MacOS.
Quite. Regardless of whatever high level sort of information hiding you do to prevent the end user from knowing where there stuff is coming from, sooner or later your network is going to have to figure out how to get stuff from Point A to Point B.
It's like how our phone network isn't addressable by person yet. You still need a phone number for a person or a company for the same reason you can't get away from IP addresses on the Internet.
No matter how much you try to get away from either, they will still be embedded in the guts of the machine somewhere.
I dunno. Perhaps people that use PCs are just used to having cheaper devices that provide more features while being more maintainable and more upgradeable.
Embed your PC into your monitor so that you can reuse neither?
Only seems to make sense to form over function types and people that live in overpriced studio apartments.
Except the distance between a Hyundai and a Lamborghini in this case is nothing more than a single chip that prevents the Hyundai from acting like a Lamborghini.
In all other respects they are identical.
This comes in real handy when you're running Linux or Windows on a Mac.
The most rational thing that people can do is make judgements about their own personal first hand experiences and second hand experiences from people they know and trust.
Of course he's lying. He's declaring that Apple hardware can break just like any other PC. [/sarcasm]
My Apple horror story is a an nv9400 Mac Mini. The thing cooked itself to death. A logic board replacement didn't help either.
Compact machines are tricky but they have certain obvious engineering challenges. If a machine burns your hand when you touch it, that might be a problem.
That may be true. However, it doesn't necessarily mean that DOS was CP/M. It could also mean that DOS was meant to be CP/M compatible and tried it's best to look like the real thing.
This could have simply been an original goal of QDOS.
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Actually, they are roughly the same price.
Although SATA is more widespread and avoids any reduction in performance you might get from putting an intermediate layer in front of the native interface of the drive. A large drive is going to require a wall wart and all of those will need to be looked after.
The problem with case+power supply is not the cost but the fact that it is something else to lose. This goes for the extra cabling too.
Plus with a bare drive you can buy with performance in mind since the drive will likely be your bottleneck.
A real infantry rifle is meant to be used more like a hunting rifle.
It's not a machine gun and isn't supposed to be used like one. Even real machine guns aren't supposed to be kept on continuous fire indefinitely. Intensive use of a rifle will overheat the barrel. That's why real machine guns have removable barrels.
Some people just choose to remain ignorant and spread misinformation. They see a weapon, think it looks scary, and then conflate it with something from a gangster movie.
One of my mid-level undergrad CS courses was nothing but applied calculus.
Math is cross training for your brain.
Well. Beyond the whole tendency to jam thing, you should be able to squeeze off plenty of rounds with only a semi-automatic.
You know that and I know that but journalists don't seem to know that.
The term semi-automatic is really quite misleading for most people. It sounds a lot more impressive than it really is. Of course any weapon that doesn't look rustic is going to come off as bad-scary.
> The students found it would take a bomb about a billion times stronger than the biggest bomb ever detonated on Earth
No kidding. They even have an onscreen argument in the movie about this where the guy that later plays Lucious Malfoy eviscerates the President's science advisor over his college grades.
The whole point of the movie was to split the asteriod into 2 pieces rather than trying to destroy it.
That's the whole point of having the maverick drillers.
I Robot is not nearly as bad as some people whine and Starship Troopers was clearly not meant to be a straight adaptation.
Star Trek had a tendency to ignore human nature. That's something that was nice about Bab5. We were in space but we were still ourselves. We've had 10 thousand years of recorded history to become something else. A couple hundred years and some extra technology isn't going to change us on a fundemental level.
You could point to history for equally drastic changes that didn't turn everything into pretty ponies and unicorns.
It got so bad that aliens had to stand in for human failings.
What "broad repercussions"?
This is Debian. This is the progenitor of apt-get.
If you want something that needs GNOME3, all you have to do is ask for it by name and all of those ugly GNOME3 dependencies will be sorted out for you automagically.
The same goes for deciding that some-kde-app is a better choice than what Ubuntu has chosen for a default.
Slackware? Just untar the tarball. It's a binary "package".
Clearly you were never a Slackware user.
You don't compile Slack tarballs.
...or having a shiny happy GUI tool like Ubuntu does.
For $200 you can get yourself a 3TB drive and have change left over.
> And you think a drive with actual moving parts will live forever?
Compared to how long SSDs have been in wide use, there are plenty of hard drives with "actual moving parts" that have lived forever.
However, the key thing is that you get some warning with a hard drive rather than it being sudden death.
Some SSD brands make Seagate seem reliable in comparison.
> I don't know, there's something to be said for a standardized platform to ensure your software and hardware can all work together.
So that's why my Minis are doorstops when it comes to casual gaming and why Mac Pros that are still very powerful aren't supported by the current version of MacOS.
Nope. The most common smartphone is an Android. Apple still has the lead in tablets but that probably won't last long either.
This is the "we have more marketshare than Dell, therefore we dominate the entire market" fallacy.
Quite. Regardless of whatever high level sort of information hiding you do to prevent the end user from knowing where there stuff is coming from, sooner or later your network is going to have to figure out how to get stuff from Point A to Point B.
It's like how our phone network isn't addressable by person yet. You still need a phone number for a person or a company for the same reason you can't get away from IP addresses on the Internet.
No matter how much you try to get away from either, they will still be embedded in the guts of the machine somewhere.
I dunno. Perhaps people that use PCs are just used to having cheaper devices that provide more features while being more maintainable and more upgradeable.
Embed your PC into your monitor so that you can reuse neither?
Only seems to make sense to form over function types and people that live in overpriced studio apartments.
Get a Zotac low profile machine. They come in various shapes and sizes. Many are Atoms but some are not.
Then use the VESA mounting kit they give you.
Except for Flash Games, an Atom based (ION) machine does pretty well as a AIO desktop actually.
Except the distance between a Hyundai and a Lamborghini in this case is nothing more than a single chip that prevents the Hyundai from acting like a Lamborghini.
In all other respects they are identical.
This comes in real handy when you're running Linux or Windows on a Mac.
Except there is nothing remarkable about a Mac. It is no Ferrari.
It's more like a Lincoln or Mercury.
The most rational thing that people can do is make judgements about their own personal first hand experiences and second hand experiences from people they know and trust.
He's not trolling. He's expressing a contrary opinion.
Calling you a blinded cult follower. ---- THAT is trolling/flaming.
Of course he's lying. He's declaring that Apple hardware can break just like any other PC. [/sarcasm]
My Apple horror story is a an nv9400 Mac Mini. The thing cooked itself to death. A logic board replacement didn't help either.
Compact machines are tricky but they have certain obvious engineering challenges. If a machine burns your hand when you touch it, that might be a problem.
That may be true. However, it doesn't necessarily mean that DOS was CP/M. It could also mean that DOS was meant to be CP/M compatible and tried it's best to look like the real thing.
This could have simply been an original goal of QDOS.