Maybe my dictionary is out of date, but I never have thought that a court ordered subpoena is a "spying" activity. If they broke in to twitter and trolled through data that would be spying.
Looking at the website it's coming from... maybe I understand now why they think a subpoena is "spying". They say the Bradley Manning is currently being tortured by US jailers, and insinuate the subpoena is a front to cover the trail of supposedly confirmed NSA wiretaps 2x blocks from Twitter HQ. Sure sounds like level headed, unbiased facts abound there.
Even 3rd graders should understand that concept. I get the source code license for MS Windows from a public site I make an Apple app for it, just because I got it from a location that was publicly available doesn't mean it's unencumbered. I get the internal financial documents for Redhat that someone copied and put onto a public website, I make an Apple app for it, again using data I didn't have rights to. You have to be a complete moron to not understand the legality of content you don't have rights to.
Actually I'd say that one of two things should happen... Google is allowed to do this but they have to hand over the all end result data to the US government for it's free use by any other individual/organization in the US after a 2-3 year exclusive embargo; or the US government should fund doing this and again allow anybody in the US to use the results.
This is the only thing I can find about the EULA and VS having any contraversy. Basically the primary issue was around some bits in the license which MS said was there to prevent you from using it to work around restrictions. i.e. timebomb shareware / limited functionality software that you need pay for, etc. VS had/has different levels and a guy had written some things to extend the cheap limited version of VS to basically give it the functionality of the full version.
I've not been able to find anything anywhere relative to your acusation...
Actually those higher flow performance air filters make the engine work a little less hard so the engine actually is more efficient at burning the same ammount of fuel and better for the environment... normally at the expense of not being as good at cleaning the passing air allowing more particulates into the engine.
It really depends upon the size of the sutff you are doing. If you are going to recompile the same stuff over and over and the dataset will fit in memory... you most likely will get little to no benefit. Linux (Vista and others) cache every single file until some app needs memory and pushes it out. It sounds like he's doing it on a box by himself (not a server shared by 5000 other people), and with memory so cheap... unless you are compiling something huge I'd guess that you probably not have to disk again after the first time it read it in (as long as there isn't another app ran that eats up all the memory, forcing out cached files from buffer cache and at some point freed up all the memory again and the compile is ran again).
For a point app for a single user, spending less on SSD and buying more memory would probably give you much more benefits.
I'd say that in general it is working in the US, for the most part pretty much everybody has been getting richer and richer. What people seem to have a problem with is that while most everybody is getting more, not everybody's wealth is growing in perfect lockstep unison. Even when things grow in lockstep percentages people have a problem with it.
If 2 people's worth both grows at exactly 10% (for nice round numbers)
I have $1,000 You have $100,000
A number of people believe that it's a horrible thing for me to get $100, and you to get $10,000 and we need to *make* people get less (even though its the same percentage increase).
Unfortunately Obama chose the absolute worst VP regarding copyright that you could probably get (much worse than McCain/Palin on these types of issues). Biden is truely "in bed" with them, heck was one of only 4x Senators invited to a private party put on by the MPAA & RIAA to celebrate the DMCA, seriously look up his record than hang your head as to the sadness of the truth as I did.
This of course would be the reason why often when looking at game available on both platforms the Xbox native game resolution is higher than the PS3... if the Xbox 360 can handle a higher resolution, what does that tell me about the PS3 and how they could have (in your words) "graphics hardware so weak" they can't even keep up with the Xbox?
i.e. pretty much biggest cross platform game released recently: GTA4 native res: Xbox 360=720p, PS3=630P
Often what I've found in performance upgrades like this, doing the same task it is 10x faster; the marketing people seeing that we now have this capacity decide to something new widget (mainly to automatically change a color, etc) to management that developers are rushed to deliver and the color changing widget now makes everything run 10x slower so the net end performance result is the same (but you do have fancy colors).
I guess we differ in that I don't think that being able to inspire someone people through speeches and the color of ones skin really means much in whether or not someone is actually going to be a good leader. Just because something is different doesn't mean much, I can go down to a tent revival and get inspired, and what the color of your skin... well I guess call me a colorblind bastard for not jumping down giddly that we could have a different skin-tone in the Whitehouse since I really don't consider that a good voting decision either. Maybe I'm just a bit crazy here, but I care more about what bills, vetos, policies, etc a person would put forth rather than something so superficious as the two items you mention... but I guess that's all that really matters these days to some people.
Obama has samed old same old opinions on American global leadership - economic, political, cultural, environmental as the other Dems; he doesn't have a "tectonic" difference other than a couple of superficious ones that you mention. If you've based your opinions upon that (skin color & making speeches), then I guess we really are in Fahrenheit 451 watching the walls and voting for the candidate who "looks" the best.
That or much more likely is that you go a different route from your company to apple.com than you do using Comcast; and that route is less congested, etc.
To get to Apple: Comcast may send it's data from your house to ATT to MCI to Apple To get to Apple: Comcast from your house to work, work to BellSouth to MCI to Apple If there is a choke point from Comcast to ATT you will get poor performance if work to Bellsouth is uncongested
An interstate normally is a lot faster/shorter than surface roads to get to places... except when there is an accident, at 5pm, etc. then using going out of the way to use surface roads can be faster.
Sending 100 syn packets per second to an invalid internet address... that would seem like a big red someone stupid is trying (or testing) a DOS syn attack flag to any ISP worth their salt. They basically were trying to create 100 outbound connection attempts per second for an extended period of time, I would be more annoyed if the ISP didn't catch something like that, only need a few hosts to build up a nice syn attack and overrun someone's tcp stack.
Does your argument apply to condoms, and teachers teaching their "opinins" on them, and that you would (as you put it) "have them hauled in front of a Congressional Hearing for violation of my and my family's civil rights as fast as I could push the system." Or are you meaning that mentality only applys to things you disagree with?
Your argument really harks back to the Scopes Monkey trial, only now you are on the side of the government this time not allowing other items in. The teaching evolution was against the government criteria, John Scopes was teaching is opinion of evolution against the will of the parents.
As John Scopes the teacher said at trial... "Your honor, I feel that I have been convicted of violating an unjust statute. I will continue in the future, as I have in the past, to oppose this law in any way I can. Any other action would be in violation of my ideal of academic freedom--that is, to teach the truth as guaranteed in our constitution, of personal and religious freedom. I think the fine is unjust (World's Most Famous Court Trial 313)."
Maybe you should think about what you typed a bit, because no matter what side of the issue (for teaching evolution / against evolution), what you are saying is *very* *very* dangerous ground. If you believe in evolution, Christian creation, Budhist re-incarnation, etc does Scopes quote hold any less true?
I'd think in this day and age, putting back in the controls of past where teachers were put on US trial for giving their opinions, that we are so willing to jump right back in because it's what *we* believe in... something sure resembles religious ferver there to me.
>Take software for instance, it costs $0 to copy and Microsoft charges $800 for Windows Vista Ultimate without batting an eye
You've posted the very incorrect raw material cost analogy. Raw material cost != actual cost to create: if I distill a CPU to just some bits of metal & silicon it's cost will be hardly anything. If I distill a skyscraper to just buying a quantity of raw concrete and metal, it's cost will be just a fraction of what it cost to put it up (we'll ignore the window drapes, elevators, etc). Is the value of Linux, BSD, etc "0" as there are no raw material costs? Redhat will gladly charge me $900 over three years just to be able to download binary patches from RHN (no support after 30days). There is *value* outside the raw materials that is there, unless developers really are worth "0" and should be paid accordingly.
You are using a false analogy, and it should die; please stop repeating it as it makes F/OSS people look bad, there obviously is a premium cost being added for some products but to imply that it should be the cost of just the raw materials is very incorrect.
Can you show me your link to the exact drive model that you found for the Mac Air, I am unable to find it anywhere? However I will show you the data that I come to my information by.
Not having the Mac Air part number directly, logically that leads me to one conclusion. The drive that is actually being produced is the one that is going to be used in the actually being produced Mac Air Looking up the part number that is an ACTUAL PRODCUTION, not fantasy engineering land leads me these results:
Need I go on, as you how exactly you are looking right now? I gave you a nice opportunity to walk away, but no you just said well you are correct it's Samsung but then you picked a PART THAT'S NOT EVEN IN MASS PRODUCTION.
I don't have to prove anything to you, but if you search the internet for InsaneGeek, EMC & SAN you'll find a number of blogs that I am a regular poster of; even some from here from a couple of years ago (but like usual you do such awesome "research").
Again if you did the proper research (heck any research, just type Appl SSD), you'd see what brand of SSD they are using. It's the Samsung 64GB that I have listed in my post... there's a reason I used that brand and it's because it's the one that Apple actually *USES*. The market price for the drive that Apple *USES* is nowhere near $1500 period, and Dell's is pretty much around the market price for that particula drive that Apple *USES*.
If we are randomly going to be picking which model of drive SSD drive, then I'm going to pick the brand spanking new STEC ZeusIOP drive (announced this week) that they created specifically for the EMC DMX-4 (which I have more than one of). It has an expected list price of 30x the pricing of a normal 15k drive (it has some special magic, goto the storageanarchist for details), a 72GB 15k drive has a price of around $900, with a 30x multiplier the cost is $27,000 for it (divide $27,000 by 72 = $320/GB or $24,000 for $64GB). Since you were using a brand compeletely different than the one Apple actually *USES*, the statement that the market price of $24,000 for 64GB of SSD flash is as correct as the drive that you "researched", meaning that both of those are completely incorrect if one would (AS YOU SAID) say that Apple is selling their SSD for "below market price", when market price is either of those drives.
Why don't you just walk away, the hole you are in is getting deeper and deeper; facts are facts and you are simply wrong.
Ahh... I see what you did as "research" (your words not mine), went to Newegg and put the first thing in and said "Well, that's the market price".
Here goto Dell and buy a 64GB SSD outright (buy it from Dell directly, keep your 80GB Apple drive and still make money, over your so called "under-market price" Apple store)
I am aggressive with people that say grandious things but didn't put mental powers behind it... especially when they get incorrectly upmodded to a 5 when they are very incorrect.
BS you are pulling number out of the air as to retail pricing.
In fact I can go out today buy a Sony TZ91 with a 100GB hard drive for $2,699.00 or I can buy a Sony TZ91 with a 64GB SDD drive for $3,549.00 which is a price difference of $850, Sony's upgrade to SSD is 15% less than Apple's ($850/$999). http://www.dynamism.com/tz90/pricing.shtml
Either you knew ahead of time and were just pumping Apple or you are an idiot and didn't actually "research", pick one.
Because Gore's lawyers were demanding a recount in only specific areas of Florida, and the local officials started doing that even though it was illegal to do so under the election law.
If I remember correctly, the thing IMO that really killed Warp was the price:
1) Software was more expensive than windows but didn't give the average mom & pop at home much of a reason to buy it over windows (if you were a "power-user" maybe) 2) The minimum system requirements to run it were much larger to run it at the same speed as windows were significantly more. This was back when 1mb of ram was in the dripple digit cost category, the hardware cost for the same speed was not just a couple of percentage points.
OS/2 Warp was targetted at power users, MS targetted Mom & Pop. The places I saw running OS/2 had recently upgraded their systems, so I often wonder if IBM looked at it as a way to get people to buy additional hardware as a one-two punch kind of thing (the places I saw it were IBM blue as blue can be).
It's scary in how similar Vista's following the same path: a new OS that runs windows apps (OS/2 ran MS Win apps) + higher hardware costs = low adoption rate. The way MS won was to target the home users rather than the business one.
Ummm... you are incorrect regarding VMware CPU emulation and being able to have a bootloader without having direct access to physical memory.
VMware does not do any CPU emulatation at all. The physical CPU underlying it is visible to any guest, including all of the CPU's capabilities (i.e. MMX, SSE, etc). VMware is acts as scheduler for the CPU, each of the guest VM's are merely programs running inside VMware. VMware additionally does emulate particular pieces of the hardware: bios, motherboard, NIC, cdrom/floppy, USB. Guest memory is not virtualized, but is like any app that has mapped a chunk of RAM (where possible ESX does something similar to shared memory where chunks of memory are the same between guests).
A VMware guest does not directly access memory (I'm assuming you mean that it doesn't need to go through any memory manager) and it uses whatever bootloader the guest has on it's disk (grub, lilo, Windows, etc). So your guestimation is incorrect. VMware does emulate a standard bios available on motherboards (phoenix I believe) allowing the bootloaders to work without any hoops at all (I only have to go into that BIOS if I want to change from boot from disk to boot from USB/CDROM/etc, new versions make that as a prompt so I don't have to get in at all anymore). The guest doesn't need direct access because the memory starts for the guest logically at hex 0000, rather than whatever offset it actually is (0FE3). So the bootloader in the guest pulls in the data into it's logical block 0000 and jumps to it at 0000 (it doesn't know about all the rest of the memory before or after it). This is also true for the paravirtualized VMware 6.0 workstation using the new kernel paravirtualization module paravirtopts (that XEN is moving to as well) basically doing something very similar to XEN in that the guest kernel has knowledge it's in a virtual environment and can access things more directly. This is very similar to the above hardware statement, the VMWare memory scheduler makes available to a guest process a chunk of memory, just like with any process that uses a memory scheduler you don't really care about where the memory is only that you have bytes of memory starting a byte 0 going to byte , your program doesn't know that in reality it starts at address 0FE3 in the giant pool of memory the system has. This is the great secret about virtualization just like on unix everything is accessed like a file (memory, NIC card, keyboards, etc are all accessed like a file: open, read, close), everything virtualized is just a program running that is getting scheduled, inside your program it does things.
In a Xen-VM world the guest still runs a separate kernel, if it is paravirtualized the guest & the host need to use the same kernel XEN API (which in the past has basically meant that they had to be the kernel rev as the API was modified with almost every release). Something like Virtuozzo or Solaris domains would be like what I think you are meaning where there is one kernel running and it loads all code for the guests ahead of time and launches the guests into "jails" that interface back to the main kernel (they can have their own libraries, etc but everything uses the one kernel)
How about people who were looking to move their internal office applications to google (there were hundreds of people here on Slashdot saying they were planning on doing just that), are their critical private documents at risk or not? I've never been fond of software as a service for internal business functions, and this seems like another concern point against it.
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Maybe my dictionary is out of date, but I never have thought that a court ordered subpoena is a "spying" activity. If they broke in to twitter and trolled through data that would be spying.
Looking at the website it's coming from... maybe I understand now why they think a subpoena is "spying". They say the Bradley Manning is currently being tortured by US jailers, and insinuate the subpoena is a front to cover the trail of supposedly confirmed NSA wiretaps 2x blocks from Twitter HQ. Sure sounds like level headed, unbiased facts abound there.
http://www.thinq.co.uk/2011/1/8/us-wants-read-wikileakers-twitter-accounts/
Even 3rd graders should understand that concept. I get the source code license for MS Windows from a public site I make an Apple app for it, just because I got it from a location that was publicly available doesn't mean it's unencumbered. I get the internal financial documents for Redhat that someone copied and put onto a public website, I make an Apple app for it, again using data I didn't have rights to. You have to be a complete moron to not understand the legality of content you don't have rights to.
Actually I'd say that one of two things should happen... Google is allowed to do this but they have to hand over the all end result data to the US government for it's free use by any other individual/organization in the US after a 2-3 year exclusive embargo; or the US government should fund doing this and again allow anybody in the US to use the results.
http://www.windows-now.com/blogs/robert/weighing-in-on-the-visual-studio-express-eula-debacle.aspx
This is the only thing I can find about the EULA and VS having any contraversy. Basically the primary issue was around some bits in the license which MS said was there to prevent you from using it to work around restrictions. i.e. timebomb shareware / limited functionality software that you need pay for, etc. VS had/has different levels and a guy had written some things to extend the cheap limited version of VS to basically give it the functionality of the full version.
I've not been able to find anything anywhere relative to your acusation...
Actually those higher flow performance air filters make the engine work a little less hard so the engine actually is more efficient at burning the same ammount of fuel and better for the environment... normally at the expense of not being as good at cleaning the passing air allowing more particulates into the engine.
It really depends upon the size of the sutff you are doing. If you are going to recompile the same stuff over and over and the dataset will fit in memory... you most likely will get little to no benefit. Linux (Vista and others) cache every single file until some app needs memory and pushes it out. It sounds like he's doing it on a box by himself (not a server shared by 5000 other people), and with memory so cheap... unless you are compiling something huge I'd guess that you probably not have to disk again after the first time it read it in (as long as there isn't another app ran that eats up all the memory, forcing out cached files from buffer cache and at some point freed up all the memory again and the compile is ran again).
For a point app for a single user, spending less on SSD and buying more memory would probably give you much more benefits.
I'd say that in general it is working in the US, for the most part pretty much everybody has been getting richer and richer. What people seem to have a problem with is that while most everybody is getting more, not everybody's wealth is growing in perfect lockstep unison. Even when things grow in lockstep percentages people have a problem with it.
If 2 people's worth both grows at exactly 10% (for nice round numbers)
I have $1,000
You have $100,000
A number of people believe that it's a horrible thing for me to get $100, and you to get $10,000 and we need to *make* people get less (even though its the same percentage increase).
Unfortunately Obama chose the absolute worst VP regarding copyright that you could probably get (much worse than McCain/Palin on these types of issues). Biden is truely "in bed" with them, heck was one of only 4x Senators invited to a private party put on by the MPAA & RIAA to celebrate the DMCA, seriously look up his record than hang your head as to the sadness of the truth as I did.
This of course would be the reason why often when looking at game available on both platforms the Xbox native game resolution is higher than the PS3... if the Xbox 360 can handle a higher resolution, what does that tell me about the PS3 and how they could have (in your words) "graphics hardware so weak" they can't even keep up with the Xbox?
i.e. pretty much biggest cross platform game released recently: GTA4 native res: Xbox 360=720p, PS3=630P
Often what I've found in performance upgrades like this, doing the same task it is 10x faster; the marketing people seeing that we now have this capacity decide to something new widget (mainly to automatically change a color, etc) to management that developers are rushed to deliver and the color changing widget now makes everything run 10x slower so the net end performance result is the same (but you do have fancy colors).
I guess we differ in that I don't think that being able to inspire someone people through speeches and the color of ones skin really means much in whether or not someone is actually going to be a good leader. Just because something is different doesn't mean much, I can go down to a tent revival and get inspired, and what the color of your skin... well I guess call me a colorblind bastard for not jumping down giddly that we could have a different skin-tone in the Whitehouse since I really don't consider that a good voting decision either. Maybe I'm just a bit crazy here, but I care more about what bills, vetos, policies, etc a person would put forth rather than something so superficious as the two items you mention... but I guess that's all that really matters these days to some people.
Obama has samed old same old opinions on American global leadership - economic, political, cultural, environmental as the other Dems; he doesn't have a "tectonic" difference other than a couple of superficious ones that you mention. If you've based your opinions upon that (skin color & making speeches), then I guess we really are in Fahrenheit 451 watching the walls and voting for the candidate who "looks" the best.
That or much more likely is that you go a different route from your company to apple.com than you do using Comcast; and that route is less congested, etc.
To get to Apple: Comcast may send it's data from your house to ATT to MCI to Apple
To get to Apple: Comcast from your house to work, work to BellSouth to MCI to Apple
If there is a choke point from Comcast to ATT you will get poor performance if work to Bellsouth is uncongested
An interstate normally is a lot faster/shorter than surface roads to get to places... except when there is an accident, at 5pm, etc. then using going out of the way to use surface roads can be faster.
Sending 100 syn packets per second to an invalid internet address... that would seem like a big red someone stupid is trying (or testing) a DOS syn attack flag to any ISP worth their salt. They basically were trying to create 100 outbound connection attempts per second for an extended period of time, I would be more annoyed if the ISP didn't catch something like that, only need a few hosts to build up a nice syn attack and overrun someone's tcp stack.
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9890124-7.html?
Sony/ATV who owns most of the Beatles publishing licenses, says they haven't made any deal.
Does your argument apply to condoms, and teachers teaching their "opinins" on them, and that you would (as you put it) "have them hauled in front of a Congressional Hearing for violation of my and my family's civil rights as fast as I could push the system." Or are you meaning that mentality only applys to things you disagree with?
Your argument really harks back to the Scopes Monkey trial, only now you are on the side of the government this time not allowing other items in. The teaching evolution was against the government criteria, John Scopes was teaching is opinion of evolution against the will of the parents.
As John Scopes the teacher said at trial...
"Your honor, I feel that I have been convicted of violating an unjust statute. I will continue in the future, as I have in the past, to oppose this law in any way I can. Any other action would be in violation of my ideal of academic freedom--that is, to teach the truth as guaranteed in our constitution, of personal and religious freedom. I think the fine is unjust (World's Most Famous Court Trial 313)."
Maybe you should think about what you typed a bit, because no matter what side of the issue (for teaching evolution / against evolution), what you are saying is *very* *very* dangerous ground. If you believe in evolution, Christian creation, Budhist re-incarnation, etc does Scopes quote hold any less true?
I'd think in this day and age, putting back in the controls of past where teachers were put on US trial for giving their opinions, that we are so willing to jump right back in because it's what *we* believe in... something sure resembles religious ferver there to me.
Much easier method:
/proc/scsi/scsi
cat
Attached devices:
Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: VMware, Model: VMware Virtual S Rev: 1.0
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>Take software for instance, it costs $0 to copy and Microsoft charges $800 for Windows Vista Ultimate without batting an eye
You've posted the very incorrect raw material cost analogy. Raw material cost != actual cost to create: if I distill a CPU to just some bits of metal & silicon it's cost will be hardly anything. If I distill a skyscraper to just buying a quantity of raw concrete and metal, it's cost will be just a fraction of what it cost to put it up (we'll ignore the window drapes, elevators, etc). Is the value of Linux, BSD, etc "0" as there are no raw material costs? Redhat will gladly charge me $900 over three years just to be able to download binary patches from RHN (no support after 30days). There is *value* outside the raw materials that is there, unless developers really are worth "0" and should be paid accordingly.
You are using a false analogy, and it should die; please stop repeating it as it makes F/OSS people look bad, there obviously is a premium cost being added for some products but to imply that it should be the cost of just the raw materials is very incorrect.
Can you show me your link to the exact drive model that you found for the Mac Air, I am unable to find it anywhere? However I will show you the data that I come to my information by.
If one goes to Samsung's website there is only 1x PATA SSD drive that is in mass production, all the others are in "ENGINEERING SAMPLE STATUS", including the model *you* listed.
http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/productList.do?fmly_id=161
Not having the Mac Air part number directly, logically that leads me to one conclusion. The drive that is actually being produced is the one that is going to be used in the actually being produced Mac Air Looking up the part number that is an ACTUAL PRODCUTION, not fantasy engineering land leads me these results:
http://www.excaliberpc.com/SAMSUNG_FLASH_SOLID_STATE_DRIVE/MCCOE64GQMPQ-M1A00/partinfo-id-582173.html
Samsung FLASH SOLID STATE DRIVE MCCOE64GQMPQ-M1A00 64G PATA SLIM $962.20
http://triointernational.com/all.cfm/partno/MCCOE64GQMPQM1A00/stat/froogle
SAMSUNG FLASH SOLID STATE DRIVE MCCOE64GQMPQ-M1A00 64G PATA SLIM $966.90
http://www.pcsuperdeals.com/ProductView.asp?ProductID=a34bfeb9-6511-4c7e-8465-4dbd908e2175&Refer=11
SAMSUNG FLASH SOLID STATE DRIVE MCCOE64GQMPQ-M1A00 64G PATA SLIM $941.85
Need I go on, as you how exactly you are looking right now? I gave you a nice opportunity to walk away, but no you just said well you are correct it's Samsung but then you picked a PART THAT'S NOT EVEN IN MASS PRODUCTION.
I don't have to prove anything to you, but if you search the internet for InsaneGeek, EMC & SAN you'll find a number of blogs that I am a regular poster of; even some from here from a couple of years ago (but like usual you do such awesome "research").
Again if you did the proper research (heck any research, just type Appl SSD), you'd see what brand of SSD they are using. It's the Samsung 64GB that I have listed in my post... there's a reason I used that brand and it's because it's the one that Apple actually *USES*. The market price for the drive that Apple *USES* is nowhere near $1500 period, and Dell's is pretty much around the market price for that particula drive that Apple *USES*.
If we are randomly going to be picking which model of drive SSD drive, then I'm going to pick the brand spanking new STEC ZeusIOP drive (announced this week) that they created specifically for the EMC DMX-4 (which I have more than one of). It has an expected list price of 30x the pricing of a normal 15k drive (it has some special magic, goto the storageanarchist for details), a 72GB 15k drive has a price of around $900, with a 30x multiplier the cost is $27,000 for it (divide $27,000 by 72 = $320/GB or $24,000 for $64GB). Since you were using a brand compeletely different than the one Apple actually *USES*, the statement that the market price of $24,000 for 64GB of SSD flash is as correct as the drive that you "researched", meaning that both of those are completely incorrect if one would (AS YOU SAID) say that Apple is selling their SSD for "below market price", when market price is either of those drives.
Why don't you just walk away, the hole you are in is getting deeper and deeper; facts are facts and you are simply wrong.
Ahh... I see what you did as "research" (your words not mine), went to Newegg and put the first thing in and said "Well, that's the market price".
Here goto Dell and buy a 64GB SSD outright (buy it from Dell directly, keep your 80GB Apple drive and still make money, over your so called "under-market price" Apple store)
Dell 64GB SSD drive $949
http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/products/System_Drives/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&sku=341-5582
I am aggressive with people that say grandious things but didn't put mental powers behind it... especially when they get incorrectly upmodded to a 5 when they are very incorrect.
BS you are pulling number out of the air as to retail pricing.
In fact I can go out today buy a Sony TZ91 with a 100GB hard drive for $2,699.00 or I can buy a Sony TZ91 with a 64GB SDD drive for $3,549.00 which is a price difference of $850, Sony's upgrade to SSD is 15% less than Apple's ($850/$999). http://www.dynamism.com/tz90/pricing.shtml
Either you knew ahead of time and were just pumping Apple or you are an idiot and didn't actually "research", pick one.
Because Gore's lawyers were demanding a recount in only specific areas of Florida, and the local officials started doing that even though it was illegal to do so under the election law.
If I remember correctly, the thing IMO that really killed Warp was the price:
1) Software was more expensive than windows but didn't give the average mom & pop at home much of a reason to buy it over windows (if you were a "power-user" maybe)
2) The minimum system requirements to run it were much larger to run it at the same speed as windows were significantly more. This was back when 1mb of ram was in the dripple digit cost category, the hardware cost for the same speed was not just a couple of percentage points.
OS/2 Warp was targetted at power users, MS targetted Mom & Pop. The places I saw running OS/2 had recently upgraded their systems, so I often wonder if IBM looked at it as a way to get people to buy additional hardware as a one-two punch kind of thing (the places I saw it were IBM blue as blue can be).
It's scary in how similar Vista's following the same path: a new OS that runs windows apps (OS/2 ran MS Win apps) + higher hardware costs = low adoption rate. The way MS won was to target the home users rather than the business one.
Ummm... you are incorrect regarding VMware CPU emulation and being able to have a bootloader without having direct access to physical memory.
VMware does not do any CPU emulatation at all. The physical CPU underlying it is visible to any guest, including all of the CPU's capabilities (i.e. MMX, SSE, etc). VMware is acts as scheduler for the CPU, each of the guest VM's are merely programs running inside VMware. VMware additionally does emulate particular pieces of the hardware: bios, motherboard, NIC, cdrom/floppy, USB. Guest memory is not virtualized, but is like any app that has mapped a chunk of RAM (where possible ESX does something similar to shared memory where chunks of memory are the same between guests).
A VMware guest does not directly access memory (I'm assuming you mean that it doesn't need to go through any memory manager) and it uses whatever bootloader the guest has on it's disk (grub, lilo, Windows, etc). So your guestimation is incorrect. VMware does emulate a standard bios available on motherboards (phoenix I believe) allowing the bootloaders to work without any hoops at all (I only have to go into that BIOS if I want to change from boot from disk to boot from USB/CDROM/etc, new versions make that as a prompt so I don't have to get in at all anymore). The guest doesn't need direct access because the memory starts for the guest logically at hex 0000, rather than whatever offset it actually is (0FE3). So the bootloader in the guest pulls in the data into it's logical block 0000 and jumps to it at 0000 (it doesn't know about all the rest of the memory before or after it). This is also true for the paravirtualized VMware 6.0 workstation using the new kernel paravirtualization module paravirtopts (that XEN is moving to as well) basically doing something very similar to XEN in that the guest kernel has knowledge it's in a virtual environment and can access things more directly. This is very similar to the above hardware statement, the VMWare memory scheduler makes available to a guest process a chunk of memory, just like with any process that uses a memory scheduler you don't really care about where the memory is only that you have bytes of memory starting a byte 0 going to byte , your program doesn't know that in reality it starts at address 0FE3 in the giant pool of memory the system has. This is the great secret about virtualization just like on unix everything is accessed like a file (memory, NIC card, keyboards, etc are all accessed like a file: open, read, close), everything virtualized is just a program running that is getting scheduled, inside your program it does things.
In a Xen-VM world the guest still runs a separate kernel, if it is paravirtualized the guest & the host need to use the same kernel XEN API (which in the past has basically meant that they had to be the kernel rev as the API was modified with almost every release). Something like Virtuozzo or Solaris domains would be like what I think you are meaning where there is one kernel running and it loads all code for the guests ahead of time and launches the guests into "jails" that interface back to the main kernel (they can have their own libraries, etc but everything uses the one kernel)
How about people who were looking to move their internal office applications to google (there were hundreds of people here on Slashdot saying they were planning on doing just that), are their critical private documents at risk or not? I've never been fond of software as a service for internal business functions, and this seems like another concern point against it.