And, frankly, I wish I would have waited a month. Had I done so, I could have bought a very nice Antec P160 for a good bit less money, and just as good quality.
Lian Li cases are nice, but they're not so nice that they justify the premium markup.
Did the editors or the submitter even read the article? The article is just a review of the Maxtor 300GB drive. It's hardly a comparison of several models and manufacturers.
I really only care about longevity and reliability anymore. Any drive on the market is going to be big enough to store what I want. They're going to be cheap enough that I can afford them, too. And I'm accustomed to dealing with the speed bottleneck that the hard drive represents. They're getting faster every day anyhow, but I can live with whatever for the most part. It's not like I'm running a commercial database server out of my house.
Cost, capacity, speed, and noise are all good to know about, but if the drive fails on average in just a year or two, you have to answer the question of how do you back up several hundreds of gigabytes, and there aren't many good solutions at the consumer level. RAID1 is one thing, but it's redundancy, still not a true backup.
The standard operating procedure for this will be: Tap first, invent a need later. If no need can be invented, deny the tap. If people start investigating your tapping, tap them as they are obviously threats to government authority.
The kernel may or may not make a big difference, but the licensing scheme for BSD might make a difference.
If a big company can modify a *BSD and keep the changes proprietary and sell the closed binaries by virtue of the BSD license allowing that, do you think they'll bother with Linux, where they're forced to publish the source code for what they likely consider to be "trade secrets" and "intellectual capital"? I don't.
BSD on the desktop could be a big threat to Linux on the desktop.
Over here, commerce has solved the problem of the expensive cell phone by offering rebate deals or free phones with a contract for service. What good is a $20 cell phone if I can get a $150 cell phone for free with a 1-year contract with t-mobile or verizon or whoever?
If we don't get along up there, we're going to have problems very quickly. Blow up a enough satellites, and now you have a cloud of virtually impossible to trace debris orbiting the earth at several km/s and presenting a deadly danger to anything else up there. Eventually, it'll be impossible to send anything up without it getting pelted.
Weapons in space do make sense, but only for protection of the Earth from outside dangers, such as wayward asteroids and comets, or as-yet undiscovered hostile alien races.
However, given our current capabilities, if aliens do come here, we better hope that they're friendly and enlightened, because if they're not, any aliens with technology capable of bridging interstellar space are going to laugh at our pitiful weapons. The Kent Brockman approach to dealing with such invaders is, unfortunately, for now, the best one.
Now that I think about it some more, however, if you get some saltwater and some metal plates, you could create a battery which you could keep topping off with saltwater, and use the electricity from that to electrolyze the water.
You'd need a pretty big battery to electrolyze water at the same rate that you can with a 220v AC power source, and you'd need pretty big hydrogen production capacity in order to sustain combustion.
It still would require more energy input than you'd get out of burning the hydrogen, but the coolness factor would more than make up for it.
Bullshit, my grandma has a RADIUS server that she set up herself to protect her WiFi network.... anyone gets within a 50m radius of her base station and she smacks them.
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And, frankly, I wish I would have waited a month. Had I done so, I could have bought a very nice Antec P160 for a good bit less money, and just as good quality.
Lian Li cases are nice, but they're not so nice that they justify the premium markup.
Did the editors or the submitter even read the article? The article is just a review of the Maxtor 300GB drive. It's hardly a comparison of several models and manufacturers.
I really only care about longevity and reliability anymore. Any drive on the market is going to be big enough to store what I want. They're going to be cheap enough that I can afford them, too. And I'm accustomed to dealing with the speed bottleneck that the hard drive represents. They're getting faster every day anyhow, but I can live with whatever for the most part. It's not like I'm running a commercial database server out of my house.
Cost, capacity, speed, and noise are all good to know about, but if the drive fails on average in just a year or two, you have to answer the question of how do you back up several hundreds of gigabytes, and there aren't many good solutions at the consumer level. RAID1 is one thing, but it's redundancy, still not a true backup.
Why dinnae they switch to ScotsOffice? Microsoft, Open, whatever Office you use, if it's not Scottish, it's CRAP!
The standard operating procedure for this will be: Tap first, invent a need later. If no need can be invented, deny the tap. If people start investigating your tapping, tap them as they are obviously threats to government authority.
In related news, ants in a 4500 acre area have all mysteriously vanished.
Amiga?
No, no wait... DEC. Yeah! Google is so fast because it does NOT run on a PDP-10.
How about chow mein code -- short lines of brittle code that is easily broken.
The kernel may or may not make a big difference, but the licensing scheme for BSD might make a difference.
If a big company can modify a *BSD and keep the changes proprietary and sell the closed binaries by virtue of the BSD license allowing that, do you think they'll bother with Linux, where they're forced to publish the source code for what they likely consider to be "trade secrets" and "intellectual capital"? I don't.
BSD on the desktop could be a big threat to Linux on the desktop.
First, you need to realize that 90% of everything is garbage. The other 10% may be useful, but to whom?
Even worse, what if everything is garbage to 90% of everyone, but everything is valuable 10% of everyone, and it's not always the same 10%?
Schools where you can learn their curriculum, but must agree NOT to teach anyone else what you've learned.
Academic institutions will proprietize their learning materials. There will be no more peer review, except intra-institutional peer review.
MS Frontpage-like EULAs will prohibit students from using the knowledge they gain from attending a school to publish negative reviews of the school.
People will become increasingly stupid.
Well well well well well!
Well well well well well!
WELL WELL WELL WELL WELL!!!
Look what we have here!
It's enough fodder to feed an ARMY of trolls!
The land of Grocklaw is sure to be overrun with the vermin.
Google has NEVER sent me spam.
Over here, commerce has solved the problem of the expensive cell phone by offering rebate deals or free phones with a contract for service. What good is a $20 cell phone if I can get a $150 cell phone for free with a 1-year contract with t-mobile or verizon or whoever?
If I tell you negative information, you'll know less. Apparently, researchers hope to use this to gain deeper insights into
So less really is more?
Inkjet printers suck. Don't buy one.
If we don't get along up there, we're going to have problems very quickly. Blow up a enough satellites, and now you have a cloud of virtually impossible to trace debris orbiting the earth at several km/s and presenting a deadly danger to anything else up there. Eventually, it'll be impossible to send anything up without it getting pelted.
Weapons in space do make sense, but only for protection of the Earth from outside dangers, such as wayward asteroids and comets, or as-yet undiscovered hostile alien races.
However, given our current capabilities, if aliens do come here, we better hope that they're friendly and enlightened, because if they're not, any aliens with technology capable of bridging interstellar space are going to laugh at our pitiful weapons. The Kent Brockman approach to dealing with such invaders is, unfortunately, for now, the best one.
Have fun tracking my dead body, because that is the only thing of mine that they'll be forcibly implanting this chip into.
A non-idiot would understand what I was saying and not split hairs.
Don't use RealPlayer, use Real Alternative.
Yes, but to get that energy requires more energy than you get out, because all known methods of generating energy are not 100% efficient.
Go back and read the /. summary.
That's exactly what I meant.
Now that I think about it some more, however, if you get some saltwater and some metal plates, you could create a battery which you could keep topping off with saltwater, and use the electricity from that to electrolyze the water.
You'd need a pretty big battery to electrolyze water at the same rate that you can with a 220v AC power source, and you'd need pretty big hydrogen production capacity in order to sustain combustion.
It still would require more energy input than you'd get out of burning the hydrogen, but the coolness factor would more than make up for it.
It takes MORE energy to get the hydrogen-oxygen bonds to release than you get back when you recombine them through burning.
GEEZ. You might as well take a solar powered light and shine it on itself.
Bullshit, my grandma has a RADIUS server that she set up herself to protect her WiFi network.... anyone gets within a 50m radius of her base station and she smacks them.
So far, it's worked.