"subjecting the stranded visitors to the very human condition of greed, fear, and exploitation."
Considering no one has ever met an alien from another world before, I don't see how these "conditions" can be attributed to humans alone. As far as any of us know greed, fear and exploitation could be the three most common things in the universe.
You mean like the fucktards that can't even sign up for an account and have post their troll like whining as an anonymous coward? Yea, I'm with ya on that.
A few decades? 50Mb is coming out now, don't think it will be a few decades before 100Mb will be out and common place.
http://techreport.com/discussions.x/14481
Of course, if Bittorrent crashes who needs a 50Mb line anyway?;)
Uhhh... 98SE came out BEFORE WinME... seems to me they got it right and then misstepped and fell flat on their face. Bad example. Or are you saying that.. LOL.. you liked WinME?
Offtopic: Is there a reason why when I was reading this story in my igoogle page that an ad for Al Jazeera showed up in the reader window? Since when has slashdot starting accepting ads from terrorist supporting organizations.
And, apple charges a lot for their computers. So? So go buy a Dell or something. The beginning and end of the whole wonky argument is that you want to run OS X and you want to pay exactly what you feel like paying to do so.
That is precisely *not* how capitalism works.
Who said anything about wanting to run OS X? I don't, never said I did. My whole argument was that I don't HAVE to run OS X and can CHOOSE not to because it is within my right to do so and run something else for cheaper. That is precisely HOW capitalism works. I can go buy a Psystar computer tomorrow and put windows or linux on it no problem. I may choose to do that, just to stick it to Apple. By NOT putting OS X on it I stick it to them even further by not buying their OS at all and still fund the company they are suing.
Just as its within my rights to demand fair pricing for the products I buy, its within apple's rights to charge whatever they want. In so doing all they do is hurt themselves because people who demand a fair price will not buy their product and go elsewhere. Anyone can run their own business how they want, it just so happens that Apple has decided to do it stupidly. Good for them.
Why is this "wonky" reasoning? I exercise my "right" to whatever computer I want at whatever price I want all the time. It's called capitalism and open markets.
Apple makes a flashy piece of hardware and charges a large premium for it. I choose not to enrich them and buy a faster competitor that will run all of the programs/games/etc that I want, which the Apple won't, for a fraction of the cost.
Apple wants to control the hardware and software because if they allow any type of competitor to their own products they will have to compete in the open market for that business. They can't allow that because then they won't enjoy their 40%+ margins anymore. So yea, I have a RIGHT not to buy their crap in the first place. Or better yet, to buy a clone from Psystar to help fund their legal fees against Crapple.
Most SSD's are using Multi-Level Cells to get the most space they can. Unfortunately these are really slow when it comes to writing data. One work around is using Single Level cells, which are much faster, but half as dense obviously. Here's a pretty good article on one of Intel's new single level drives: http://techreport.com/articles.x/15931
It's only 32GB, but fast as all get out. It's also over $700 if you want one:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167013&Tpk=X25-E
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"subjecting the stranded visitors to the very human condition of greed, fear, and exploitation."
Considering no one has ever met an alien from another world before, I don't see how these "conditions" can be attributed to humans alone. As far as any of us know greed, fear and exploitation could be the three most common things in the universe.
A swing and a miss!
WOW, talk about negative karma. Good luck with that.
We gave Europe the internet??? When did this happen?!
You mean like the fucktards that can't even sign up for an account and have post their troll like whining as an anonymous coward? Yea, I'm with ya on that.
A few decades? 50Mb is coming out now, don't think it will be a few decades before 100Mb will be out and common place. http://techreport.com/discussions.x/14481 Of course, if Bittorrent crashes who needs a 50Mb line anyway? ;)
Uhhh... 98SE came out BEFORE WinME... seems to me they got it right and then misstepped and fell flat on their face. Bad example. Or are you saying that.. LOL.. you liked WinME?
Offtopic: Is there a reason why when I was reading this story in my igoogle page that an ad for Al Jazeera showed up in the reader window? Since when has slashdot starting accepting ads from terrorist supporting organizations.
And, apple charges a lot for their computers. So? So go buy a Dell or something. The beginning and end of the whole wonky argument is that you want to run OS X and you want to pay exactly what you feel like paying to do so. That is precisely *not* how capitalism works.
Who said anything about wanting to run OS X? I don't, never said I did. My whole argument was that I don't HAVE to run OS X and can CHOOSE not to because it is within my right to do so and run something else for cheaper. That is precisely HOW capitalism works. I can go buy a Psystar computer tomorrow and put windows or linux on it no problem. I may choose to do that, just to stick it to Apple. By NOT putting OS X on it I stick it to them even further by not buying their OS at all and still fund the company they are suing. Just as its within my rights to demand fair pricing for the products I buy, its within apple's rights to charge whatever they want. In so doing all they do is hurt themselves because people who demand a fair price will not buy their product and go elsewhere. Anyone can run their own business how they want, it just so happens that Apple has decided to do it stupidly. Good for them.
Why is this "wonky" reasoning? I exercise my "right" to whatever computer I want at whatever price I want all the time. It's called capitalism and open markets. Apple makes a flashy piece of hardware and charges a large premium for it. I choose not to enrich them and buy a faster competitor that will run all of the programs/games/etc that I want, which the Apple won't, for a fraction of the cost. Apple wants to control the hardware and software because if they allow any type of competitor to their own products they will have to compete in the open market for that business. They can't allow that because then they won't enjoy their 40%+ margins anymore. So yea, I have a RIGHT not to buy their crap in the first place. Or better yet, to buy a clone from Psystar to help fund their legal fees against Crapple.
Most SSD's are using Multi-Level Cells to get the most space they can. Unfortunately these are really slow when it comes to writing data. One work around is using Single Level cells, which are much faster, but half as dense obviously. Here's a pretty good article on one of Intel's new single level drives: http://techreport.com/articles.x/15931 It's only 32GB, but fast as all get out. It's also over $700 if you want one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167013&Tpk=X25-E