Yes, but when is it 'enough'. Maybe he was going to quit at 5M, or 3M, or maybe only 100K. He'd never know at what point he was being too greedy. Arguably after the very first transaction he should have quit.
In many countries in which I have lived, as a U.S. citizen it is not always in your best interests to broadcast the fact. This technology could give potential adversaries information on who you are, and where you are, making it easier to target Americans, even those who are not acting / dressing like it. Potentially, it could even be used to track you in a crowd, etc., making possible more targeted muggings / robberies / kidnappings.
I can see it now...After this, they'll go to Violet...Only they'll call it 'Purple-Ray' and license the rights to the Prince music...
"Purple Ray...Purple Ray"
It looks *extremely* slick, and I these would look so much better as the terminals in librarys and what have you, although probably way overkill.
Sadly, use in public spaces & libraries probably would not be cordless; they'd probably need cable locks on the keyboard & mouse to keep them from "wandering off"
Quick question: how many people here would honestly trade their political, civil, and economic freedom just for free health care?
Quick question: How many people here [in the U.S.] would honestly trade their political, civil, and economic freedom just for the illusion of safety?
I think we already know the answer to this...
His solution sucks because the hardware he is proposing is trash. Those 5400RPM Maxtor 160s are already very old drives or he wouldn't be able to pick them up for $70 US. They are 2 year old drives already. They are probably also grey market meaning that maxtor sold them to dell or hp with a 1 year warranty. Thus you will never be able to talk maxtor in to replacing one if it goes under warranty. 6 months from now Fry's won't even have the damn drives.
I'd dispute your assertion that the hardware is trash. The drives are 7200 RPM drives, and yes, they are supported by Maxtor. I have only had one of them replaced over the last few years and had no problems whatsoever obtaining a replacement. The $69 drives at Fry's are 8MB cache 7200RPM drives.
Likewise, you can say what you like about the Promise hardware, but it has worked fine. Also, it's commodity, meaning that I can probably pick up a replacement within hours if one of them does happen to die unexpectedly.
I don't think you've really substantiated your comment with anything more than speculation. And not even researched speculation at that.
I'm in a similar boat. If my girlfriend loses her job we're moving to oregon or florida. We'll just put everything in a uhaul and leave. Its getting soooo bad.
Please don't move to Oregon. Our unemployment is already too high. May I suggest Florida instead?
One thing to add - Just substitute 250GB drives for the 160s and add a third (or fourth) controller.
Also, 3Ware & RaidCore (now Broadcom) have 8 channel & 12 Channel SATA cards for relatively low prices. That would be a better albeit more expensive route to go.
I have 8 x 160GB Maxtor drives in a RAID5 array. It's fast, relatively inexpensive [Fry's Electronics recently was selling the 160s for $69/ea]
The 160GB drives used to come with a Maxtor [Promise] ATA-133 card. Two of those will support eight drives. Not the most optimal arrangement because of the bus having two drives on each channel, but it doesn't seem to affect performance too much since it is striping the data across all of the drives. I'm assuming it stripes in order, so you'd want to stagger the drives such that 1 & 2, 3 & 4 are not on the same controller.
Output of df -h:/dev/md2 1.0T 521G 522G 50%/ext
The cost to assemble something like this?
~ $600.00
8 x $70 for the 160GB drives 2 x $20 ATA-133 controllers
The biggest issue is that there is no easy way to back up the array. You could use RAID 6 and have two drives worth of parity info, but it still leaves you vulnerable to a catastrophic hardware (or building) failure.
Anyone have any ideas on how to back up 1TB in a home environment? i.e., not $3000 tape drives & $200 tapes
You'd have to have pretty darn good eyes to see the pixels the monitor's displaying on your behalf.
That's the whole point. You don't see the pixels. Have you spent so much time behind a monitor that you're disappointed when you go outside and the world isn't pixelated?
Actually, it's not 1.7 billion addresses. Because of the way the address space is allocated, not every potential address is available, and that's before you take into account things like CIDR (classless interdomain routing not this)
Does it take into account fuel taxes? As far as I know, even if you make your own fuel, you're still liable for paying the road use tax that is normally incorporated into the price at the pump.
"I'm afraid they won't be able to increase the life time for OLEDs much."
What is your basis for this statement? There's no physical law which states that the life may not be extended; it's simply a materials science issue. I am quite certain that the current lifetime of the OLEDS (particularly blue, I understand) will be extended sufficiently that lifetime of the OLED becomes largely irrelevant.
As OLEDs gain popularity, increasing amounts of engineering will be devoted to improving the yields and performance, much like LCD & Plasma technologies.
"it saves people who build clusters a heck of a lot of money on Hard Drives and CD-ROM drives, when a cluster node only really needs a mainboard, CPU, and RAM."
"Maybe with faster, bootable USB on motherboards in future, and cheaper flash RAM, flashing the BIOS to run Linux will seem a little less necessary."
You can do this now. I have multiple machines booting over the network, none of which have any local storage whatsoever. Just use a PXE based bootloader, or a motherboard with a BIOS you can flash and you can boot the kernel over the net and NFS-mount root.
It's great for tying a media box to a raid array without having all those pesky hard drives near your TV.
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Ironic the link is posted on 'iWon' news. Well, he's certainly going to get a prize...
Yes, but when is it 'enough'. Maybe he was going to quit at 5M, or 3M, or maybe only 100K. He'd never know at what point he was being too greedy. Arguably after the very first transaction he should have quit.
Well...With a birth rate of 23.39 / 1000 vs. our 13.9 / 1000, I'd say that they're more successful with women than we are.
Or is this roughly the plot of 'The Matrix'...
In many countries in which I have lived, as a U.S. citizen it is not always in your best interests to broadcast the fact. This technology could give potential adversaries information on who you are, and where you are, making it easier to target Americans, even those who are not acting / dressing like it. Potentially, it could even be used to track you in a crowd, etc., making possible more targeted muggings / robberies / kidnappings.
Once they regulate it, they can tax it. Believe me...once they see the six-figure checks for the first flights going around, they'll want their cut.
- ROYGBIV - Somewhere between green and indigo.
I can see it now...After this, they'll go to Violet...Only they'll call it 'Purple-Ray' and license the rights to the Prince music... "Purple Ray...Purple Ray"-
It looks *extremely* slick, and I these would look so much better as the terminals in librarys and what have you, although probably way overkill.
Sadly, use in public spaces & libraries probably would not be cordless; they'd probably need cable locks on the keyboard & mouse to keep them from "wandering off"Yes, but Dynamism is marketing the product to English speakers, presumably in the U.S...
- Quick question: how many people here would honestly trade their political, civil, and economic freedom just for free health care?
Quick question: How many people here [in the U.S.] would honestly trade their political, civil, and economic freedom just for the illusion of safety? I think we already know the answer to this...I'd dispute your assertion that the hardware is trash. The drives are 7200 RPM drives, and yes, they are supported by Maxtor. I have only had one of them replaced over the last few years and had no problems whatsoever obtaining a replacement. The $69 drives at Fry's are 8MB cache 7200RPM drives.
Likewise, you can say what you like about the Promise hardware, but it has worked fine. Also, it's commodity, meaning that I can probably pick up a replacement within hours if one of them does happen to die unexpectedly.
I don't think you've really substantiated your comment with anything more than speculation. And not even researched speculation at that.
Please don't move to Oregon. Our unemployment is already too high. May I suggest Florida instead?
j.k.
One thing to add - Just substitute 250GB drives for the 160s and add a third (or fourth) controller.
Also, 3Ware & RaidCore (now Broadcom) have 8 channel & 12 Channel SATA cards for relatively low prices. That would be a better albeit more expensive route to go.
I have 8 x 160GB Maxtor drives in a RAID5 array. It's fast, relatively inexpensive [Fry's Electronics recently was selling the 160s for $69/ea]
/dev/md2 1.0T 521G 522G 50% /ext
The 160GB drives used to come with a Maxtor [Promise] ATA-133 card. Two of those will support eight drives. Not the most optimal arrangement because of the bus having two drives on each channel, but it doesn't seem to affect performance too much since it is striping the data across all of the drives. I'm assuming it stripes in order, so you'd want to stagger the drives such that 1 & 2, 3 & 4 are not on the same controller.
Output of df -h:
The cost to assemble something like this?
~ $600.00
8 x $70 for the 160GB drives
2 x $20 ATA-133 controllers
The biggest issue is that there is no easy way to back up the array. You could use RAID 6 and have two drives worth of parity info, but it still leaves you vulnerable to a catastrophic hardware (or building) failure.
Anyone have any ideas on how to back up 1TB in a home environment? i.e., not $3000 tape drives & $200 tapes
- "Microwave pizzas, hot pockets, etc come with foil-backed cardboard underneath."
Would that have the same effect as aluminum foil? I thought it was microwave absorbing - That's the idea, right - it gets hot and cooks the pizza?- You'd have to have pretty darn good eyes to see the pixels the monitor's displaying on your behalf.
That's the whole point. You don't see the pixels. Have you spent so much time behind a monitor that you're disappointed when you go outside and the world isn't pixelated?Actually, it's not 1.7 billion addresses. Because of the way the address space is allocated, not every potential address is available, and that's before you take into account things like CIDR (classless interdomain routing not this)
Does it take into account fuel taxes? As far as I know, even if you make your own fuel, you're still liable for paying the road use tax that is normally incorporated into the price at the pump.
- "I'm afraid they won't be able to increase the life time for OLEDs much."
What is your basis for this statement? There's no physical law which states that the life may not be extended; it's simply a materials science issue. I am quite certain that the current lifetime of the OLEDS (particularly blue, I understand) will be extended sufficiently that lifetime of the OLED becomes largely irrelevant. As OLEDs gain popularity, increasing amounts of engineering will be devoted to improving the yields and performance, much like LCD & Plasma technologies.But my favorite...
"Kittens give Morbo gas"
You can do this now. I have multiple machines booting over the network, none of which have any local storage whatsoever. Just use a PXE based bootloader, or a motherboard with a BIOS you can flash and you can boot the kernel over the net and NFS-mount root.
It's great for tying a media box to a raid array without having all those pesky hard drives near your TV.
- "Imagine a picture of an object 10cm from you where both that object and the background is sharp."
This is just Depth of Field (DOF). It is largely a function of aperture size. As the aperture shrinks, the DOF expands.