I've been using two cheap ($145 at Fry's) Kingston MLC's in Raid 0 via various LSI HBAs for a desktop. They won't set any records, but compared to a single sata it as if the Genie granted your first wish, "A computer that runs as fast as I think, please." The LSI HBAs are not cheap, but they come up on eBay cheap once in a while.
When you put your Kindle up on eBay, you have to provide the authentication credentials. If eBay had any sense they would provide a digital vault for said credentials, released to the new owner on confirmed payment. The new owner logs in, changes the password, and now the seller can no longer use it so they might as well ship it.
If Amazon had any sense at all they would run their own auction site for used Kindles. Derrr!
A man, a genius engineer, named Clifford Hugh Douglas analysed all this years ago. He created the answer. It is still 100% as true now as it was then. READ MY SIG!!
In reference to your comment about "stood on the back and shoulders of all those who came before you..."
The gentleman who developed that theme to its logical conclusion and showed us the way to a real workable utopia was named Clifford Hugh Douglas. Read my sig!
"Yes", says a former Libertarian. Not for the reasons you mention - they are valid only in the context of a corrupt political system to begin with.
I am a former Libertarian for these reasons:
Libertarians do not understand monetary systems. The gold standard is an open invitation to market manipulation.
Libertarians are self-deluding: they crow about their honesty when they call taxation theft, but they mumble when one asks them what to do with the unfit, the unemployed and the unemployable. By their standard the "honest" answer is "let them starve." Oh yeah, and they bring up volunteer and comunity based support. The "honest" take on that? Victimize the compassionate and empathic amongst us as they would be forced by their better natures to sacrifice themselves to the unfortunate, menawhile the boderline sociopaths whistle while they work!
Clifford Hugh Douglas was a better economist and social scientist than any libertarian. Read my sig!
Here's what I wonder: what the fuck does some "European Commission" have to say about the activities of two American companies?! I mean it's bad enough that businesses have to go hat in hand to the Massa's house to ask permisson to do something, but why the fuck do they have to go over to the neighbor Massa and ask him too? By what twisted logic does a European Commission have jurisdiction over the activities of American companies?
Report to the processing center at 0900, Slave Brian Gordon! That's right asshole, you have two choices: either we are free men or we are slaves. Telling people what they can and can not do with their own bodies makes them slaves, and that includes you, me, and every other citizen.
I have to drive 40 miles round trip every two weeks to buy raw milk in the next state. Why? Because it's "illegal" here. Yes Massa!
I am not allowed to purchase the machine I think would be best to treat my sleep apnea. Why? Because I can't get a doctor to prescribe it for me. Yes Massa!
Obviously you choose slavery. Fuck you! Better yet, why don't you just kill yourself - then you'll be safe from the stupid people.
I will buy one of these. But one thing will totally suck: synchronization with Outlook. If any of you code monkeys had any balls, you come up with an app that would reliabley and painlessly sync this bad boy with my hosted exchange. I would pay a monthly fee for that to "just work!"
Logitech's quality and customer service is top notch. However do yourself a big favor: get a USB extension cord and put the little bluethooth dongle thingy on your desk right up close to the mouse. Somehow they, (Microsoft's mice have the same issue), got sold a bill of goods by the Bluetooth association or whoever when they picked the level of signal for the application. It's too dam low. So the extension cord solves that and it's all good.
Got bad news for you. Nokia makes the best cell phones in the world, and for that they are doomed. "Best" = most reliable at transmitting and recieving radio waves. They drop less calls than any other brand, by a wide margin. That is why they are doomed.
The carriers hate them. Drop less calls = more load on the infrastructure. The asshole carriers play a very nasty game where they dial down your service to just the level at which you are not actually at their office with a pitchfork. Then they oversell their capacity. Profit! Nokia throws their calculations all off.
Sure dumbass. Think about the two meters. If you had two meters, at the end of the month both meters would show transmission. In and out. In the case where the out meter shows greater transmission than the in meter you get a check instead of paying. But your in meter may show a large amount of useage. So really in effect you sold most of the power recorded on your out meter for retail prices, not wholesale. As gp pointed out, that is not fair as then you are not paying your fair share for maintenance of the network. Get it?
Oh Noes! We will be eliminating boring, tedius, jobs!!
Fuck! That is the whole fucking point of developing technology in the first place.
READ MY SIGNATURE!
No, I really mean it. The idiotic concept that everyone must work "full time" or recieve demeaning charity was magnificently deconstructed and shown for the pernicious lie that it is by the genius founder of Social Credit, C. H. Douglas.
Wake up slaves!
What's that? You think you are not a slave? You are deluded. Our monetary system is the most brilliant con game in the history of the planet, and we are its vitims. We are slaves to this system that bleeds us continously. In the main our culture is carefully structured to ensure that we accept our slavery. Every aspect of our life is now controlled by laws that a free man would never accept. But it's accept or die. Added to the financial rape of the monetary system, sounds pretty much like slavery to me.
Christ! How many times does this have to be explained to the fucking simpletons? I hate what they, (the people who run the dog and pony show), are doing, but on one thing I fear I agree. Most people so stupid if they were to all die in some societal meltdown it would be no big loss. It's no crime to be stupid, but shut up and do what your betters tell you to do! Vote? Oh, hell no! Anyway, read my sig!
You are leaving out the no. 1 reason OSS guis suck. Often there will be an operation that Microsoft has already devised a very efficient implementation for. But the OSS developer in a religious-like mindset will deliberately not do it that way - "that's how M$ does it - Ewww not kosher..." or some such nonsense is, I am sure what is going through thier minds. Result, some of the stupidest kludge in interface space. The Linux kernal is a fine piece of work, but the distros rely on OSS for all the UI. With everything a hodge-podge of designs, themes, and operations, it is silly to thing that any of the distros are even close to being competitive with Redmond as serious desktops, even while Balmer et al pull blunder after blunder after blunder. I am no Mac fan, but that is the only example of a 'nix desktop that makes any sense at all.
That is exactly the problem as we have a system, fractional reserve banking, that is catgorically imposible to manage resoponsibly. One of the "benefits" of this system is that it besmirches fiat currency. The vast majority of people who think they are responsible concerned citizens are convinced that fiat currency is the devil and that we need to return to the gold standard.
They've been played like a fiddle. The gold standard is just as easy as the private central bank's credit-based system to manipulate. This may or may not be true, but I recently read that the Rothschild family has about 12 trillion dollars worth of gold. "You want to go back on the gold standard?" "No problem - we already own all the gold!" Besides even if it isn't true, I guarantee you that if we ever went back on the gold standard, we would still have fractional reserve banking. Things would be even worse. That is what all the gold bugs forget: the reason that we have the system that we have is that things were much worse before we adopted it. We didn't adopt it because everything was peaches and cream - we adopted it because it was sold as an answer to the decades of financial chaos we had endured under the gold standard.
The answer is fiat money, but only with fractional reserve banking outlawed. Read my sig.
Geez, will you dumbasses ever wake up and realize the comparing Win 7 to XP SPTHREE is like comparing a Buick to a Corvette with pallets of cement on the trunk and the hood. Hello?
I'd like to see a comparo to sp2. Now that would mean something.
EGGS-FUGGING-ZACTLY!!!
It's the expectation vs. results problem. In financial software one has multiple entries for each transaction. I buy something for $5, I expect to see my bank account reduced by that amount. It's reduced by $5, great! It's reduced by $5000, and we have a identified a problem, and thus are well on the way to a solution.
Elections, on the other hand, do not have two entries. There is no expectation to be fulfilled. Merely a one way transaction. That is why EDP is the worst possible tool for this job.
I will try it, and if the XP VM runs anything like decent, I will be shocked and eat these words. Course, no one knows what optimizations/unhobblings that MS has folded into this last ditch attempt to save their bacon. If its just regular XP SP3, it *will* suck!! XP SP3 sucks in native mode; I can only imagine how bad it would suck as a VMware VM. But MS may well have un-broken SP3 for *their* VM.
Is it worth buying? No, that is nonsense. (Word on the streets is that Corporate agrees with me, but we'll see.)
What *would* be worth buying would be XP, only a new version with all the stupid shit fixed, and with a rational architecture that splits the registry into two completely separate pieces: a device domain, and a user domain that has everything else including user data files, AND application files and settings! Then one could put one's User domain in a partition on a removable drive and take it with to wherever. Any windows machine could provide the services of the device domain, but my user domain: my desktop with my installed applications would always be with me wherever I am. THAT would be worth buying!
Sounds more like creative genius than whining to me.
Horseshit Dude. You have no fucking idea what you are talking about. "how well Win 7 runs on older hardware" Win 7 is much slower than XP SP2 which is the standard, NOT SP3 which is a fraud perpetrated by MS to make Vista and Win 7 not seem so bad.
Have you ever compared running a particular Linux distro as a VM under Windows vs. running Windows as a VM under the same Linux distro? It's a fucking joke. When you run Windows as a VM under Linux, the Windows VM is just a tick slower than native Windows. But when you try to run linux as a VM under Windows, the linux VM will barely run. Now try running a Windows VM under Windows. Hope you aren't in a hurry to get anything done...
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I've been using two cheap ($145 at Fry's) Kingston MLC's in Raid 0 via various LSI HBAs for a desktop. They won't set any records, but compared to a single sata it as if the Genie granted your first wish, "A computer that runs as fast as I think, please." The LSI HBAs are not cheap, but they come up on eBay cheap once in a while.
When you put your Kindle up on eBay, you have to provide the authentication credentials. If eBay had any sense they would provide a digital vault for said credentials, released to the new owner on confirmed payment. The new owner logs in, changes the password, and now the seller can no longer use it so they might as well ship it.
If Amazon had any sense at all they would run their own auction site for used Kindles. Derrr!
A man, a genius engineer, named Clifford Hugh Douglas analysed all this years ago. He created the answer. It is still 100% as true now as it was then. READ MY SIG!!
In reference to your comment about "stood on the back and shoulders of all those who came before you..." The gentleman who developed that theme to its logical conclusion and showed us the way to a real workable utopia was named Clifford Hugh Douglas. Read my sig!
Read My Sig!!!!!
Don't bother. Two Kingston V series in Raid 0 will cost you $290 for 120 gigs and give about the same performance as the Intel drive.
"Yes", says a former Libertarian. Not for the reasons you mention - they are valid only in the context of a corrupt political system to begin with.
I am a former Libertarian for these reasons:
Libertarians do not understand monetary systems. The gold standard is an open invitation to market manipulation.
Libertarians are self-deluding: they crow about their honesty when they call taxation theft, but they mumble when one asks them what to do with the unfit, the unemployed and the unemployable. By their standard the "honest" answer is "let them starve." Oh yeah, and they bring up volunteer and comunity based support. The "honest" take on that? Victimize the compassionate and empathic amongst us as they would be forced by their better natures to sacrifice themselves to the unfortunate, menawhile the boderline sociopaths whistle while they work!
Clifford Hugh Douglas was a better economist and social scientist than any libertarian. Read my sig!
Here's what I wonder: what the fuck does some "European Commission" have to say about the activities of two American companies?! I mean it's bad enough that businesses have to go hat in hand to the Massa's house to ask permisson to do something, but why the fuck do they have to go over to the neighbor Massa and ask him too? By what twisted logic does a European Commission have jurisdiction over the activities of American companies?
Report to the processing center at 0900, Slave Brian Gordon! That's right asshole, you have two choices: either we are free men or we are slaves. Telling people what they can and can not do with their own bodies makes them slaves, and that includes you, me, and every other citizen. I have to drive 40 miles round trip every two weeks to buy raw milk in the next state. Why? Because it's "illegal" here. Yes Massa! I am not allowed to purchase the machine I think would be best to treat my sleep apnea. Why? Because I can't get a doctor to prescribe it for me. Yes Massa! Obviously you choose slavery. Fuck you! Better yet, why don't you just kill yourself - then you'll be safe from the stupid people.
I will buy one of these. But one thing will totally suck: synchronization with Outlook. If any of you code monkeys had any balls, you come up with an app that would reliabley and painlessly sync this bad boy with my hosted exchange. I would pay a monthly fee for that to "just work!"
Logitech's quality and customer service is top notch. However do yourself a big favor: get a USB extension cord and put the little bluethooth dongle thingy on your desk right up close to the mouse. Somehow they, (Microsoft's mice have the same issue), got sold a bill of goods by the Bluetooth association or whoever when they picked the level of signal for the application. It's too dam low. So the extension cord solves that and it's all good.
Got bad news for you. Nokia makes the best cell phones in the world, and for that they are doomed. "Best" = most reliable at transmitting and recieving radio waves. They drop less calls than any other brand, by a wide margin. That is why they are doomed.
The carriers hate them. Drop less calls = more load on the infrastructure. The asshole carriers play a very nasty game where they dial down your service to just the level at which you are not actually at their office with a pitchfork. Then they oversell their capacity. Profit! Nokia throws their calculations all off.
Sure dumbass. Think about the two meters. If you had two meters, at the end of the month both meters would show transmission. In and out. In the case where the out meter shows greater transmission than the in meter you get a check instead of paying. But your in meter may show a large amount of useage. So really in effect you sold most of the power recorded on your out meter for retail prices, not wholesale. As gp pointed out, that is not fair as then you are not paying your fair share for maintenance of the network. Get it?
Oh Noes! We will be eliminating boring, tedius, jobs!!
Fuck! That is the whole fucking point of developing technology in the first place.
READ MY SIGNATURE!
No, I really mean it. The idiotic concept that everyone must work "full time" or recieve demeaning charity was magnificently deconstructed and shown for the pernicious lie that it is by the genius founder of Social Credit, C. H. Douglas.
Wake up slaves!
What's that? You think you are not a slave? You are deluded. Our monetary system is the most brilliant con game in the history of the planet, and we are its vitims. We are slaves to this system that bleeds us continously. In the main our culture is carefully structured to ensure that we accept our slavery. Every aspect of our life is now controlled by laws that a free man would never accept. But it's accept or die. Added to the financial rape of the monetary system, sounds pretty much like slavery to me.
Hello?
Christ! How many times does this have to be explained to the fucking simpletons? I hate what they, (the people who run the dog and pony show), are doing, but on one thing I fear I agree. Most people so stupid if they were to all die in some societal meltdown it would be no big loss. It's no crime to be stupid, but shut up and do what your betters tell you to do! Vote? Oh, hell no! Anyway, read my sig!
You are leaving out the no. 1 reason OSS guis suck. Often there will be an operation that Microsoft has already devised a very efficient implementation for. But the OSS developer in a religious-like mindset will deliberately not do it that way - "that's how M$ does it - Ewww not kosher..." or some such nonsense is, I am sure what is going through thier minds. Result, some of the stupidest kludge in interface space. The Linux kernal is a fine piece of work, but the distros rely on OSS for all the UI. With everything a hodge-podge of designs, themes, and operations, it is silly to thing that any of the distros are even close to being competitive with Redmond as serious desktops, even while Balmer et al pull blunder after blunder after blunder. I am no Mac fan, but that is the only example of a 'nix desktop that makes any sense at all.
>> They are fine when responsibly managed...
That is exactly the problem as we have a system, fractional reserve banking, that is catgorically imposible to manage resoponsibly. One of the "benefits" of this system is that it besmirches fiat currency. The vast majority of people who think they are responsible concerned citizens are convinced that fiat currency is the devil and that we need to return to the gold standard.
They've been played like a fiddle. The gold standard is just as easy as the private central bank's credit-based system to manipulate. This may or may not be true, but I recently read that the Rothschild family has about 12 trillion dollars worth of gold. "You want to go back on the gold standard?" "No problem - we already own all the gold!" Besides even if it isn't true, I guarantee you that if we ever went back on the gold standard, we would still have fractional reserve banking. Things would be even worse. That is what all the gold bugs forget: the reason that we have the system that we have is that things were much worse before we adopted it. We didn't adopt it because everything was peaches and cream - we adopted it because it was sold as an answer to the decades of financial chaos we had endured under the gold standard.
The answer is fiat money, but only with fractional reserve banking outlawed. Read my sig.
Under Social Credit no taxation is needed. Hello?
Dude, don't you know? We are all playing that game right now. Hello? More epic indeed...
Dude, you have exactly expressed the foundation for C. H. Douglas' invention of social credit! You too are a genius!
Obama can do whatever he wants as long as he doesn't touch the Fed.
Google "The Money Myth Exploded" and read the story. It's not what you think. It de-bunks both the Fed and Gold.
Geez, will you dumbasses ever wake up and realize the comparing Win 7 to XP SPTHREE is like comparing a Buick to a Corvette with pallets of cement on the trunk and the hood. Hello?
I'd like to see a comparo to sp2. Now that would mean something.
EGGS-FUGGING-ZACTLY!!! It's the expectation vs. results problem. In financial software one has multiple entries for each transaction. I buy something for $5, I expect to see my bank account reduced by that amount. It's reduced by $5, great! It's reduced by $5000, and we have a identified a problem, and thus are well on the way to a solution.
Elections, on the other hand, do not have two entries. There is no expectation to be fulfilled. Merely a one way transaction. That is why EDP is the worst possible tool for this job.
I will try it, and if the XP VM runs anything like decent, I will be shocked and eat these words. Course, no one knows what optimizations/unhobblings that MS has folded into this last ditch attempt to save their bacon. If its just regular XP SP3, it *will* suck!! XP SP3 sucks in native mode; I can only imagine how bad it would suck as a VMware VM. But MS may well have un-broken SP3 for *their* VM.
Is it worth buying? No, that is nonsense. (Word on the streets is that Corporate agrees with me, but we'll see.)
What *would* be worth buying would be XP, only a new version with all the stupid shit fixed, and with a rational architecture that splits the registry into two completely separate pieces: a device domain, and a user domain that has everything else including user data files, AND application files and settings! Then one could put one's User domain in a partition on a removable drive and take it with to wherever. Any windows machine could provide the services of the device domain, but my user domain: my desktop with my installed applications would always be with me wherever I am. THAT would be worth buying!
Sounds more like creative genius than whining to me.
Horseshit Dude. You have no fucking idea what you are talking about. "how well Win 7 runs on older hardware" Win 7 is much slower than XP SP2 which is the standard, NOT SP3 which is a fraud perpetrated by MS to make Vista and Win 7 not seem so bad.
Have you ever compared running a particular Linux distro as a VM under Windows vs. running Windows as a VM under the same Linux distro? It's a fucking joke. When you run Windows as a VM under Linux, the Windows VM is just a tick slower than native Windows. But when you try to run linux as a VM under Windows, the linux VM will barely run. Now try running a Windows VM under Windows. Hope you aren't in a hurry to get anything done...
Put the koolaid down, fool.