The only problem in your reasoning is that you assume that there is no increase in demand between time A and time B.
If you have one 40gbps line now, and will need 160gbps in 10 years, during those 10 years you are going to be short on bandwidth.
In any case, you are going to need to lay down fiber with the assumption that growth is going to cause an increase in bandwidth needs. You then need to factor both this and the estimated time to upgrade into your purchasing decision.
I played a MUD based in Norway that is composed of a player-base of mostly Norwegians and Swedes. The Swedes always bragged about their cheap 100mbit in-home connections. Apparently the Swedish government pushed awhile back to get the entire country wired.
In effect, they turned each city into a large university-like LAN. But outbound bandwidth is split between everybody in the township and oftentimes the reliabilty of the system is not so great.
Note the 90% CPU usage in the 4-disk RAID0 setup from the article.
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Seems infinitely more likely that the epistemic tradition of skepticism was the driving influence in The Matrix.
I mean, the BIV (Brain-in-a-Vat) scenario so common to epistemology is the basic plot point of the movie. The only difference is we have machines doing it instead of evil demons and crazy scientists.
Since all of a woman's eggs are formed well before she has herself been born, the eggs have plenty of years to build up genetic deformities cause my radiation, etc.
One of the reasons why many people cringe at people who try to use hormone therapies to get pregnant into their 60's: the chance of genetic diseases increases quite a lot.
Why does every ranting moron make some idiotic statement about freedom?
What in God's green earth does this have to do with freedom?
How about my freedom to choose to buy a product and pay a monthly fee for it instead of having to listen to hours and hours of commercials? Isn't that MY fucking freedom?
It's almost as cliched as the "terrorists have already won" statements.
Being a bus architecture, you can add additional PCI slot fairly easily. It just happens that it isn't very common in the commodity PC market because your standard PC case only has room for 7 expansion slots.
In 1U rackmount servers PCI expansion cards for horizontal (to the motherboard) are common.
LSI makes a highish-end 64-bit/66mhz PCI expander that I believe had 3 64-bit/66mhz slots on it.
Don't you mean that you're in your second year of a biology undergraduate degree and thus feel yourself fit to be called a molecular biologist?
Because obviously you know little of the scientific literature in the field if you lump together all those in the field of molecular biology as not believing that a future not unlike that of Gattaca is a distinct possibility.
The fact remains that we as biologists know very little about the complex arrangement of genes in our DNA. Even our basic definition of what a gene is has come under immense reconsideration. The the basic idea that a a certain percentage of the expression of our phenotypic traits is determined by our DNA. And in theory one could manipulate to a very high degree the expression of those characteristics. Will it be easy? Of course not, but it is possible.
Firewire and USB2.0 aren't even in the same league as IDE and SCSI.
You actually think that those external Firewire and USB2.0 hard drives connect directly via Firewire/USB2.0? Not a chance. They all use IDE converting daughterboards.
Hate to burst your bubble, but this will never happen since cable companies encrypt their DTV steams. This makes it possible to limit people to using their specific set-top box.
You will probably never see a DTV decoder/tuner in a PC.
HDTV decoders, on the other hand, you can already buy today!
Having used several PCI TV tuner cards over the years, I can tell you the performance is quite good.
I've captured hundreds of hours of video and with a clean source and good VitualDub filter chain, my copies of shows look like you went and bought them on DBD from Best Buy.
Well, maybe not that good, but close!
And a cheap Brooktree-based card does all that for about $20-30.
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Obscure? Maybe if you were only born within the past 10 years!
The only problem in your reasoning is that you assume that there is no increase in demand between time A and time B.
If you have one 40gbps line now, and will need 160gbps in 10 years, during those 10 years you are going to be short on bandwidth.
In any case, you are going to need to lay down fiber with the assumption that growth is going to cause an increase in bandwidth needs. You then need to factor both this and the estimated time to upgrade into your purchasing decision.
This is absolutely the case.
I played a MUD based in Norway that is composed of a player-base of mostly Norwegians and Swedes. The Swedes always bragged about their cheap 100mbit in-home connections. Apparently the Swedish government pushed awhile back to get the entire country wired.
In effect, they turned each city into a large university-like LAN. But outbound bandwidth is split between everybody in the township and oftentimes the reliabilty of the system is not so great.
Hardly any high-end server boards come without integrated video (generally an ATI Rage).
The 9000 Pro never cost $400.
The 9000 and 9700 were released around the same time.
At release, the 9000 was priced to compete with the 8500.
Perhaps you are confused about the difference between the $80 9000 Pro and the $350 9700 Pro?
Note the 90% CPU usage in the 4-disk RAID0 setup from the article.
Seems infinitely more likely that the epistemic tradition of skepticism was the driving influence in The Matrix.
I mean, the BIV (Brain-in-a-Vat) scenario so common to epistemology is the basic plot point of the movie. The only difference is we have machines doing it instead of evil demons and crazy scientists.
Seeing as how I can buy seperate DVD and CD-RWs for ~$50 each, $300 IS expensive.
Who really needs external stuff anyway?
You have an IDE floppy? Impressive.
Funny, I have an AMD 760MPX chipset on my motherboard.
How could they possibly do such a thing as you say they don't make chipsets!
My world is on end!
Oh btw, AMD's Hammer chipset is one of the few first-generation Hammer chipsets that will support onboard SATA.
Its actually not a bad idea.
Since all of a woman's eggs are formed well before she has herself been born, the eggs have plenty of years to build up genetic deformities cause my radiation, etc.
One of the reasons why many people cringe at people who try to use hormone therapies to get pregnant into their 60's: the chance of genetic diseases increases quite a lot.
Funny, I just overclocked a 1.6ghz P4 to 2.13ghz with the retail heatsink and fan.
It hasn't been rebooted in nearly 2 months.
Now compare the price/performance difference between a 1.6ghz/400FSB P4 and a 2.13ghz/533FSB P4.
Looks like a bargain to me.
There is a reason they call them 'Engineering Samples.'
I'll give you a hint. It has something to do with them being samples and not production units.
You're definition of freedom needs some work, I'm afraid.
And the Linux croud hasn't been chasing Windows for the past several years in an attempt to copy the Windows "look and feel" on the desktop?
Gnome/KDE are nothing more than attempts to mimic the Windows GUI.
OpenOffice/etc. are nothing more than attempts to mimic popular Microsoft productivity applications.
Why does every ranting moron make some idiotic statement about freedom?
What in God's green earth does this have to do with freedom?
How about my freedom to choose to buy a product and pay a monthly fee for it instead of having to listen to hours and hours of commercials? Isn't that MY fucking freedom?
It's almost as cliched as the "terrorists have already won" statements.
PCI expansion is hardly revolutionary.
Being a bus architecture, you can add additional PCI slot fairly easily. It just happens that it isn't very common in the commodity PC market because your standard PC case only has room for 7 expansion slots.
In 1U rackmount servers PCI expansion cards for horizontal (to the motherboard) are common.
LSI makes a highish-end 64-bit/66mhz PCI expander that I believe had 3 64-bit/66mhz slots on it.
Don't you mean that you're in your second year of a biology undergraduate degree and thus feel yourself fit to be called a molecular biologist?
Because obviously you know little of the scientific literature in the field if you lump together all those in the field of molecular biology as not believing that a future not unlike that of Gattaca is a distinct possibility.
The fact remains that we as biologists know very little about the complex arrangement of genes in our DNA. Even our basic definition of what a gene is has come under immense reconsideration. The the basic idea that a a certain percentage of the expression of our phenotypic traits is determined by our DNA. And in theory one could manipulate to a very high degree the expression of those characteristics. Will it be easy? Of course not, but it is possible.
If speed is your only concern, why would you opt to save money and sacrifice speed by going with IDE?
Unless you only look at maximum sustained transfer rates, SCSI will always be faster.
Look at Storagereview.com's analysis of the IBM 120GXP vs the 10k or 15k Fujitsu SCSI drives.
The SCSI drives have half the access times of the fastest IDE drive.
For me, acess times are far, far more important than transfer rates.
What does this have to do with anything?
Firewire and USB2.0 aren't even in the same league as IDE and SCSI.
You actually think that those external Firewire and USB2.0 hard drives connect directly via Firewire/USB2.0? Not a chance. They all use IDE converting daughterboards.
So what is the point of your post?
Hate to burst your bubble, but this will never happen since cable companies encrypt their DTV steams. This makes it possible to limit people to using their specific set-top box.
You will probably never see a DTV decoder/tuner in a PC.
HDTV decoders, on the other hand, you can already buy today!
Did you the miss the fact that ATI has been releasing Beta 8500/7500 drivers at the rate of about one every 2 weeks for a few months now?
I have like 10 driver version sitting on my computer for my 8500.
And they all work nearly perfectly!
Having used several PCI TV tuner cards over the years, I can tell you the performance is quite good.
I've captured hundreds of hours of video and with a clean source and good VitualDub filter chain, my copies of shows look like you went and bought them on DBD from Best Buy.
Well, maybe not that good, but close!
And a cheap Brooktree-based card does all that for about $20-30.
ePSXe (PSX emulator) looks and sounds better than the original, by far.
:)
FF9 on ePSXe with screen smoothing at 1600x1200 is pretty sweet.
It had a large niche in the small mom-and-pop PC shops.
Nearly every small PC place in town uses Durons.