10Gbits / 8 bits per byte = 1.1GB. So you'll have to write DVDs faster than 1.1GB/sec, read them faster than that, at a rate that allows for 55mph times distance.
Good luck and please let me know where I can get one of those burners.
While you're caustically sarcastic, I don't think you're a troll. In serious response: x86 is the fastest thing commercially available for a very simple reason that has absolutely nothing to do with how well designed it is. Because of backwards compatibility ad nauseum. x86 leaves a lot to be desired from a purist design point of view but it's what works with what is already on the market, both support hardware and software. Look at the hoops Intel jumps through with the Itanium series trying to keep legacy x86 compatibility. Yes, x86 actually *is* inherently lousy, but that's what we've got. It's not because Intel came up with it, it's because its what the market demanded Intel do with each new revision. Back in the 8080 days, x86 was a decent design that balanced several issues of the day. Today, it has been cobbled together from the same old design with amazing new innovations. I assure you, if a magic wand could be waved and a totally new CPU architecture put in place it would be *incredible*. This won't happen, so we deal.
...in saying no one has a right to a platform. Ironically, by being moderated a troll, mods are denying the poster a platform. Is it thier intention to declare Stern not be denied a platform but the poster who dislikes Stern should be?
I'll tell you what: Consumers who turn up their noses at anything less than the latest because they've seen an ad telling them that's what they need to get. Trust me, back when I was handling donations I got plenty of perfectly useable second hand PC's in the Pent2 category and had a hard time giving them away to nonprofits with no budgets. When even broke nonprofits sneer at free/nearly free second hand computers, there's no way in heck to get the average paying customer to use one.
Are people seriously going to vote for the better candidate on copyrights and making backup copies of software?
Indeed, as if the chief executive makes or modifies laws. Sure, he can propose laws or changes but so can any Congresscritter. And that's the group that has the most say, not the executive. The original article is wasting its time with a presidental candidate. It should be asking Reps and Senators running what their stance might be.
Besides, is anyone really suprised that when someone asks Kerry a question he has a hedged answer? "Willing to look into it" is a non-answer. Heck, he probably has to look into it because he can't exactly recall what is at stake; outside of slashdot the DMCA is very behind-the-scenes.
a problem is that lasers are so rediculously focused
At point of sending, yes, lasers are very focused. However they spread very widely over interstellar distances. Still, from a conservation of energy point of view a laser is much more efficient than blasting radio in all direction.
But I think it depends on the nature of the communiction. If alien civilization #1 at star A already knows #2 is located at star B then laser is absolutely the way to go. Radio is more of a shout in the dark method. Whether you believe there are wolves or other travellers in the dark depends on whether you shout.
This is one of those words that we could easily remove from the lexicon if we could get over the absolutist position that ALL free speech is a good thing
Or better yet, we could all learn the proper definitions of the words.
Oh wait, that assumes the liability of effort onto the part of the ignorant. You're right, let's outlaw uncommon words that sound vaguely similar to common offensive words. I hearby renege all uncommon words and niggardly parse to you all a cleansed vocabulary.
Only a very small number of movies are beloved enough that studios are willing to cost out the restoration work.
A bulk of this cost is the initial hardware outlay and creating software to do the work. Once these 600 Macs are done with SW IV-VI, it should be fairly easy and cost effective to crank plenty of other old movies through.
San Francisco has a ridiculously high poor and homeless population. It's truly obscene
Transient homeless migrate to whereever they get the most handouts. It's a real problem here in Denver as well. They know that a lot of people in this area give handouts so they flock here. Same with SFO. See your own last sentence:
the mayor has focused a large part of his administration on serving the poor and the homeless
Let me guess: this a focus on shelters and free meals? I bet if it was a serious transition to work program, they'd flee to other parts.
I suspect that he only has two devices that care: his fridge, and his furnace.
While his fridge's motor might care about DC power, he certainly doesn't care about the fridge. The problem is during WINTER... if the power goes out for what looks like will be a long time, just put the contents of the fridge outside in the shade.
I wonder what they're going to do with the extra money?
What "extra money'? When a stock price goes up, the company doesn't get a penny. A company could issue yet more stock at near the newly high price, but that isn't what's happening here.
As far as the search engine wars go, well, I think they've pretty much been declared the winner for now
Please see: AltaVista, Yahoo!, Netscape, and InkTomi all of whom were declared "the winner for now" back in their respective days. Of these, only Yahoo! has transitioned into a major portal. Google is buying up a lot of miscellaney technologies so might be transitioning into an all purpose portal as well.
While we're on the subject of Toshiba laptops, I'd just like to mention as a happy customer that my Toshiba Satellite holds up quite well considering that it's almost three years old now and been through a lot. It has some little things that could have been better but overall I have no real complaints.
The best part about Toshiba's Satellite series: They've used the exact same battery design (with ever increasing capacity) since 386 based models. You can get brand new, genuine Tosh branded batteries from wholesalers for $30-$75 depending on capacity. Beats the heck out of any other big brand's ever changing battery design and extortionist prices.
I believe the agency is called the Federal Communications Commission, not Federal Airwaves Commission. So an argument can be made for them to get their paws in pretty much any kind of interstate communication.
for example, a friend or loved one - asking him or her to go to a Web site to update banking information
OK, hands up, whose mother has a habit of wanting one to provide bank account info via some web site? I can see the duplicitous falling for the fake 'from your bank' emails, but from friends and loved ones???
And some people want democracy to be MORE direct???
For you and the others who have said "I've seen SCSI in old Mac laptops long ago": This is less about just being SCSI so much as being on a 10K rpm spindle and getting pretty much the same performance and capacity as 3.5 inch drives.
Once upon a time, Seagate listened to its server customers and continued to produce and develop 5.25 inch drives while ignoring the new 3.5 inch format. KaLock and Quantum jumped into the marketplace with 3.5 inch drives and sold them to desktop makers. Seagate lost a LOT of market share by ignoring the push to smaller drives. It seems they are being proactive in moving to 2.5 inch format early before one of the other manufacturers get the jump on them this time.
Yes because while this particular grandparent thread didn't say so, other comments have said things like "Walmart is the most profitable company in the history whole world". Note that it does complain about high profitability at WM. I am addressing those highly inaccurate claims. Yes, for a retailer, they do well, but they are not "gouging" or any similar.
To further illustrate, Intel had free cash flow last year of $9.5 billion on sales of $33 billion while Walmart had $3.2 billion in surplus cash on sales of $247 billion. Walmart also has debt of $32 billion (ten times its free cash flow) while Intel, for some reason, maintains a piddly $1 billion (1/9 its free cash flow) in debt. Now tell me again that Walmart is a bunch of greedy price gougers...
PS - In case any nitpicky economists or financiers want to argue with my subject line, while "marginal" in economic terms simply means per each additional unit, it also means "barely within a lower limit" in plain English and that's what I was intending.
They pull in over $60 BILLION dollars per quarter and $2 billion of that is PROFIT
Now, while 2 billion bucks is a load of cash, 58 billion was spent in search of it. That's a margin of only 3.3%. It is NOT a profit of 33% as a post farther up claims with the illustration of a $12 CD being sold at $16. Walmart makes all of its money on razor thin margins. Yes, 3.3% is razor thin. Compare to, say, Intel, who pulls in a whopping 22.7% profit margin. Now THAT'S a huge margin of profit. Not Walmart and their piddly 3.3%, nevermind how many billions that 3.3% adds up to. Say what you want about the monolithic nature of Walmart and their heavy handed tactics with supplies but you cannot knock it on gouging or otherwise extraordinary profits.
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10Gbits / 8 bits per byte = 1.1GB. So you'll have to write DVDs faster than 1.1GB/sec, read them faster than that, at a rate that allows for 55mph times distance.
Good luck and please let me know where I can get one of those burners.
While you're caustically sarcastic, I don't think you're a troll. In serious response: x86 is the fastest thing commercially available for a very simple reason that has absolutely nothing to do with how well designed it is. Because of backwards compatibility ad nauseum. x86 leaves a lot to be desired from a purist design point of view but it's what works with what is already on the market, both support hardware and software. Look at the hoops Intel jumps through with the Itanium series trying to keep legacy x86 compatibility. Yes, x86 actually *is* inherently lousy, but that's what we've got. It's not because Intel came up with it, it's because its what the market demanded Intel do with each new revision. Back in the 8080 days, x86 was a decent design that balanced several issues of the day. Today, it has been cobbled together from the same old design with amazing new innovations. I assure you, if a magic wand could be waved and a totally new CPU architecture put in place it would be *incredible*. This won't happen, so we deal.
...in saying no one has a right to a platform. Ironically, by being moderated a troll, mods are denying the poster a platform. Is it thier intention to declare Stern not be denied a platform but the poster who dislikes Stern should be?
Sometime try to notice how some jokes just aren't funny if you explain them.
Hey, I just had a flash! Why not emulate a 12.5Ghz 68040? Then it would run at regular 68040 speeds!
What justifies the requirement for new equipment?
I'll tell you what: Consumers who turn up their noses at anything less than the latest because they've seen an ad telling them that's what they need to get. Trust me, back when I was handling donations I got plenty of perfectly useable second hand PC's in the Pent2 category and had a hard time giving them away to nonprofits with no budgets. When even broke nonprofits sneer at free/nearly free second hand computers, there's no way in heck to get the average paying customer to use one.
Are people seriously going to vote for the better candidate on copyrights and making backup copies of software?
Indeed, as if the chief executive makes or modifies laws. Sure, he can propose laws or changes but so can any Congresscritter. And that's the group that has the most say, not the executive. The original article is wasting its time with a presidental candidate. It should be asking Reps and Senators running what their stance might be.
Besides, is anyone really suprised that when someone asks Kerry a question he has a hedged answer? "Willing to look into it" is a non-answer. Heck, he probably has to look into it because he can't exactly recall what is at stake; outside of slashdot the DMCA is very behind-the-scenes.
a problem is that lasers are so rediculously focused
At point of sending, yes, lasers are very focused. However they spread very widely over interstellar distances. Still, from a conservation of energy point of view a laser is much more efficient than blasting radio in all direction.
But I think it depends on the nature of the communiction. If alien civilization #1 at star A already knows #2 is located at star B then laser is absolutely the way to go. Radio is more of a shout in the dark method. Whether you believe there are wolves or other travellers in the dark depends on whether you shout.
This is one of those words that we could easily remove from the lexicon if we could get over the absolutist position that ALL free speech is a good thing
Or better yet, we could all learn the proper definitions of the words.
Oh wait, that assumes the liability of effort onto the part of the ignorant. You're right, let's outlaw uncommon words that sound vaguely similar to common offensive words. I hearby renege all uncommon words and niggardly parse to you all a cleansed vocabulary.
Oops!
Anything you think is expensive now, just wait til the government provides it for "free". See esp: health care.
Only a very small number of movies are beloved enough that studios are willing to cost out the restoration work.
A bulk of this cost is the initial hardware outlay and creating software to do the work. Once these 600 Macs are done with SW IV-VI, it should be fairly easy and cost effective to crank plenty of other old movies through.
San Francisco has a ridiculously high poor and homeless population. It's truly obscene
Transient homeless migrate to whereever they get the most handouts. It's a real problem here in Denver as well. They know that a lot of people in this area give handouts so they flock here. Same with SFO. See your own last sentence:
the mayor has focused a large part of his administration on serving the poor and the homeless
Let me guess: this a focus on shelters and free meals? I bet if it was a serious transition to work program, they'd flee to other parts.
Dude, that old article about the 378TB is so Sept 12. Now it's 400TB. Ergo: new article.
I suspect that he only has two devices that care: his fridge, and his furnace.
While his fridge's motor might care about DC power, he certainly doesn't care about the fridge. The problem is during WINTER... if the power goes out for what looks like will be a long time, just put the contents of the fridge outside in the shade.
I wonder what they're going to do with the extra money?
What "extra money'? When a stock price goes up, the company doesn't get a penny. A company could issue yet more stock at near the newly high price, but that isn't what's happening here.
As far as the search engine wars go, well, I think they've pretty much been declared the winner for now
Please see: AltaVista, Yahoo!, Netscape, and InkTomi all of whom were declared "the winner for now" back in their respective days. Of these, only Yahoo! has transitioned into a major portal. Google is buying up a lot of miscellaney technologies so might be transitioning into an all purpose portal as well.
While we're on the subject of Toshiba laptops, I'd just like to mention as a happy customer that my Toshiba Satellite holds up quite well considering that it's almost three years old now and been through a lot. It has some little things that could have been better but overall I have no real complaints.
The best part about Toshiba's Satellite series: They've used the exact same battery design (with ever increasing capacity) since 386 based models. You can get brand new, genuine Tosh branded batteries from wholesalers for $30-$75 depending on capacity. Beats the heck out of any other big brand's ever changing battery design and extortionist prices.
I believe the agency is called the Federal Communications Commission, not Federal Airwaves Commission. So an argument can be made for them to get their paws in pretty much any kind of interstate communication.
for example, a friend or loved one - asking him or her to go to a Web site to update banking information
OK, hands up, whose mother has a habit of wanting one to provide bank account info via some web site? I can see the duplicitous falling for the fake 'from your bank' emails, but from friends and loved ones???
And some people want democracy to be MORE direct???
For you and the others who have said "I've seen SCSI in old Mac laptops long ago": This is less about just being SCSI so much as being on a 10K rpm spindle and getting pretty much the same performance and capacity as 3.5 inch drives.
We get good government discounts so we paid about 50% more on each 146GB 10K drive
Typical...
Once upon a time, Seagate listened to its server customers and continued to produce and develop 5.25 inch drives while ignoring the new 3.5 inch format. KaLock and Quantum jumped into the marketplace with 3.5 inch drives and sold them to desktop makers. Seagate lost a LOT of market share by ignoring the push to smaller drives. It seems they are being proactive in moving to 2.5 inch format early before one of the other manufacturers get the jump on them this time.
What about HP inkjet printers with the way they print from the cart? Toss it and do you have a "new" printer according to this kind of tracking?
Yes because while this particular grandparent thread didn't say so, other comments have said things like "Walmart is the most profitable company in the history whole world". Note that it does complain about high profitability at WM. I am addressing those highly inaccurate claims. Yes, for a retailer, they do well, but they are not "gouging" or any similar.
To further illustrate, Intel had free cash flow last year of $9.5 billion on sales of $33 billion while Walmart had $3.2 billion in surplus cash on sales of $247 billion. Walmart also has debt of $32 billion (ten times its free cash flow) while Intel, for some reason, maintains a piddly $1 billion (1/9 its free cash flow) in debt. Now tell me again that Walmart is a bunch of greedy price gougers...
PS - In case any nitpicky economists or financiers want to argue with my subject line, while "marginal" in economic terms simply means per each additional unit, it also means "barely within a lower limit" in plain English and that's what I was intending.
OK, everyone, read the parent post where it says:
They pull in over $60 BILLION dollars per quarter and $2 billion of that is PROFIT
Now, while 2 billion bucks is a load of cash, 58 billion was spent in search of it. That's a margin of only 3.3%. It is NOT a profit of 33% as a post farther up claims with the illustration of a $12 CD being sold at $16. Walmart makes all of its money on razor thin margins. Yes, 3.3% is razor thin. Compare to, say, Intel, who pulls in a whopping 22.7% profit margin. Now THAT'S a huge margin of profit. Not Walmart and their piddly 3.3%, nevermind how many billions that 3.3% adds up to. Say what you want about the monolithic nature of Walmart and their heavy handed tactics with supplies but you cannot knock it on gouging or otherwise extraordinary profits.