In answer to your first question: "HOLYSH!T I MADE IT! YAY! I CAN'T BELIEVE IT WORKED!", or, "My Blue Cross number? Sure, it's 398-88293-59. Yeah, better pack that in ice, they might be able to reattach it..."
Well, call this a silly thought, but what if a comb was made out of nanofibers, kind of like a microscopic rake? That could be used to align the pyramids properly...
What about using molecular assembly methods rather than lithography to begin with? Sure, it's expensive, but you can make it in bulk, and really, are we going to expect TB HD technology to be cheap in the short term... Oh, as an alternative, you could make the individual particles separately from the disc strata, with one compund at the base favoring an ionic attraction to the disc... When "dipped", the particles would bond electrostatically to the disc, after which a quick heat bonding could be used to permanently fix said particles to the disc, much like how toner bonds to an imaging drum and subsequently the paper that rolls across it... Just a thought...
I hope they aren't thinking of using the design that the example shows, it's an awfully inefficient use of space... Would be more effective to either make the particles pyramidic, that way you could have an even smaller point for magnetic fields and since it tapers at the tip, less chance for "crosstalk" from one particle to the next... Since we're talking something on a molecular scale, there would probably be less in the way of drag or heat buildup, whereas the cylindrical design is just begging for it...
They weren't really "bad" numbers per se, but averages based on what I've researched online... What you quoted were from specific sources, specific deals going on currently, on pricing specials that would inevitably end... If I was to go around the Puget Sound, purchasing each component at the street prices, they would have been in the range I described (for example, a 40Gb drive cost me $89 at the same store I purchased the PC at)...
If you go to one store and find a component for $59, another and find it's regular non sale price at $65, and another at $49, then your average price would be roughly $55, irregardless of what lower pricing shows up in a special... It doesn't mean that the $65 price example is a bad number, nor the $49 or even the $59, that's the range of variables in the market, and the average of $55 (est) is a final average representative of the going rate on the market...
As said, there could be better and faster components found for the same, if not cheaper prices, but the experiences I speak of are my own, relying largely on PriceWatch as a litmus test for existing "street" pricing (which basically means what you would pay if you went to a brick and mortar PC parts store), similarly you could wind up spending more...
In the Puget Sound in particular, a lot of the brick and mortar stores are price gouging...
Recently I bought a prebuilt system, to be precise, a eMachines T4155, for $549 at Office Depot (a floor model discount on a clearance item, so at least I knew it was burned in for a considerable time)...
The reasons were simple, my car died on me some months back, so I needed to get something from a local retailer as opposed to running all over the Puget Sound looking for decent bargains, didn't feel like waiting a week for miscellaneous components purchased through PriceWatch, and didn't have a check card/credit card to make the purchase with otherwise... Considering the area the Puget Sound covers, I would have wasted a couple of days running about, which, if you prorated the time spent @around $10 an hour (because that is the minimum you would charge if you were building a system for someone else), then you're talking $160... And now the specs:
FIC VC31 motherboard - Usually around $90 on average...
Pentium 4, 1.5Ghz - Usually another $80-$100, depending on street prices at the time...
Maxtor 60 Gb ATA 100 - About $120 average...
LG CD-R/W, 12x8x32 - Usually about $50-$60...
Samsung 12 DVD ROM - Approximately $40-$50...
256 MB PC133 SDRAM - $30-$40...
Reference Geforce2 MX card - $40...
Micro ATX case/PS - $30 for a good run of the mill case...
Since most who buy their hardware also have to go to several different retailers to pinch every penny, lets assume each one, if you pick the cheapest rates, charges you about $8-$12 for UPS ground, leaving you waiting about a week for you to recieve your components... Total would come to about $30-$50
Total cost (based on average street price): $490, add shipping and you have almost the same price I paid for the prebuilt model, which for all intents and purposes uses the cheapest "passable" hardware...
Sure, some can build for cheaper, with better components, but you probably would wind up spending more (unless you know where I can get a nice Geforce4 card for under $50, which I doubt)...
However, for a starting foundation, it's more than adequate... In either case, it's a tossup, between convenient and quick, and marginal savings VS inconvenient waits...
The bottom line for PC hardware has finally reached bottom, you can't really get it any cheaper, unless the company that made it is going to declare Chapter 13 and vanish off the face of the earth...
Sure you can, it's called buffer underrun protection (such as BurnProof), a feature included in many, if not all, current CD-R/W drives... Since I finally bought a drive with such a feature, I've been able to browse, download, listen to MP3s and chat online without the CD-R/W making a single coaster...
They did, the folks making this storage tech are also pushing for a new blue laser standard for standard size CDs, allowing them to hold up to 27Gb worth of data...
FF7, FF8, and FF9 were released for the PS1, FFX and FF Online were designed for the PS2... Hence why they were released so quickly for the PC (less optimizing for the emotion engine of the PS2, the systems were largely set up for PC emulation, hence why they seemed to run slower than the original PS1 games would run on Bleem! and other PS1 emulators)...
Ahhhyes, the moderator in question must (a) have a truly microscopic penis, and/or (b) one of the lightsabers written about in the article, because he modded me down even more! Wow, Slashdot hecklers are worse than those in Vegas! When you die at the Palace, you DIE at the Palace... But hey, you have oh, 2 mod points left, and I can keep posting so it'll keep showing, try and silence me, slug! And I have karma to burn too! So NYAH!
Ooooh, must have struck a nerve in one of the mods to get modded down as a troll for making what most normal folks would see as a joke... A JOKE... Repeat after me, a JOKE... Yeesh...
Who give these events the most credibility... They're the ones who run every attachment in e-mail, and don't even know how to enable the "show known extensions" feature in their folder properties, and often run attachments with hidden shortcut properties (such as picture.jpg.pif, et al, which exectutes the viral code)... The antivirus folks are capitalizing on this, of course...
Frankly, it's getting to the point where requiring people to take a one year course and get a license to operate a computer seems all the more feasable and even nessesary...
Well, technically it *can*... But the problem is, do you know of *any* software company that produces Windows software, who distributes instructions describing how to install their apps under WINE, etc?
Every competitor they've faced down, including the once mighty Kmart, has been summarily wiped from the planet... Since they're marketing Lindows systems, which makes Microsoft their chief competitor, does that mean they'll take out MS next? Would seem incredibly ironic, considering both companies have shown dubious and questionable business practices...
So when that next war comes down, will/.ers be praising Microsoft, or Walmart?
Don't they already do that, with the networks that have the black bar on the bottom of the screen, advertising different shows and squashing part of the screen (TNN and Oxygen networks come to mind), not to mention whenever they squash the end credits of shows and movies to the side so you can no longer read the credits (there's something patently illegal in that as well, robbing the folks who made the show of their screen credits, not to mention valuable copyright information, which aids and abets in the copying they constantly decry... An illegible copyright notice basically makes the copyright info invalid), while they run ads for other shows on the side?
Makes me flash back on the SNL sketch where they were making fun of the onscreen bugs, "Lets put a picture of the Terminator up on the screen, just because it looks cool!"...
Why yes, but it was an established part of Ford history, back when Henry Ford was supporting nazi Germany... Hemp fibers are, in fact, able to be formed into resinated panels, due to their tensile strength, possibly even stronger than glass (but no way stronger than steel, lets be reasonable)...
See http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=33571&cid=3629 298 , to see the point of the post, because some people are too godd@mned stupid to use their moderation scores properly...
BTW, mark this as troll if you want, but thwe folks who moderate the posts here REALLY need to read the rules of postings... The default for posting is 2 points, got that? The postings are ue to that, to show beyond filters set to under 1 ratings, due to anonymous cowards and such who post dumbassed Something Awful'esque posts... NOT DUE TO PEOPLE WHO POST EITHER THEIR OPINIONS OR FRIGGING ATTEMPT HUMOR IN A WAY THAT DIRECTLY APPLIES TO THE SUBJECT OF THE SOURCE POST THAT THEY ARE REPLYING TO!!!
Gods, it's so annoying to have people dragging down the site due to either cluelessness or a lack of a sense of humor, get it right already, dammit, or smash your computer, because you obviously lack the intelligence to use it...
A suggestion: Include this on antivirus software in the future... The amount of users out there who are sufficiently paranoid of unusual file attachments can send along heuristic records of the file attachments so that the folks on your end could analyze and find a solution to various viruses before they become a problem... If you had enough folks on the outside who had similarly protected systems, finding solutions could be more efficient, kind of like a bucket brigade as it were...
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In answer to your first question: "HOLYSH!T I MADE IT! YAY! I CAN'T BELIEVE IT WORKED!", or, "My Blue Cross number? Sure, it's 398-88293-59. Yeah, better pack that in ice, they might be able to reattach it..."
In answer to your second: The rest of me, I hope.
In answer to your third: The rest of me, I hope.
Well, call this a silly thought, but what if a comb was made out of nanofibers, kind of like a microscopic rake? That could be used to align the pyramids properly...
These are all hypothetical questions, however...
What about using molecular assembly methods rather than lithography to begin with? Sure, it's expensive, but you can make it in bulk, and really, are we going to expect TB HD technology to be cheap in the short term... Oh, as an alternative, you could make the individual particles separately from the disc strata, with one compund at the base favoring an ionic attraction to the disc... When "dipped", the particles would bond electrostatically to the disc, after which a quick heat bonding could be used to permanently fix said particles to the disc, much like how toner bonds to an imaging drum and subsequently the paper that rolls across it... Just a thought...
I hope they aren't thinking of using the design that the example shows, it's an awfully inefficient use of space... Would be more effective to either make the particles pyramidic, that way you could have an even smaller point for magnetic fields and since it tapers at the tip, less chance for "crosstalk" from one particle to the next... Since we're talking something on a molecular scale, there would probably be less in the way of drag or heat buildup, whereas the cylindrical design is just begging for it...
Does this mean anyone who communicates with the satellite is a necromancer?
The unnessesarily slow dipping device? Or Fembots? I could use an army of them...
They weren't really "bad" numbers per se, but averages based on what I've researched online... What you quoted were from specific sources, specific deals going on currently, on pricing specials that would inevitably end... If I was to go around the Puget Sound, purchasing each component at the street prices, they would have been in the range I described (for example, a 40Gb drive cost me $89 at the same store I purchased the PC at)...
If you go to one store and find a component for $59, another and find it's regular non sale price at $65, and another at $49, then your average price would be roughly $55, irregardless of what lower pricing shows up in a special... It doesn't mean that the $65 price example is a bad number, nor the $49 or even the $59, that's the range of variables in the market, and the average of $55 (est) is a final average representative of the going rate on the market...
As said, there could be better and faster components found for the same, if not cheaper prices, but the experiences I speak of are my own, relying largely on PriceWatch as a litmus test for existing "street" pricing (which basically means what you would pay if you went to a brick and mortar PC parts store), similarly you could wind up spending more...
In the Puget Sound in particular, a lot of the brick and mortar stores are price gouging...
Recently I bought a prebuilt system, to be precise, a eMachines T4155, for $549 at Office Depot (a floor model discount on a clearance item, so at least I knew it was burned in for a considerable time)...
The reasons were simple, my car died on me some months back, so I needed to get something from a local retailer as opposed to running all over the Puget Sound looking for decent bargains, didn't feel like waiting a week for miscellaneous components purchased through PriceWatch, and didn't have a check card/credit card to make the purchase with otherwise... Considering the area the Puget Sound covers, I would have wasted a couple of days running about, which, if you prorated the time spent @around $10 an hour (because that is the minimum you would charge if you were building a system for someone else), then you're talking $160... And now the specs:
FIC VC31 motherboard - Usually around $90 on average...
Pentium 4, 1.5Ghz - Usually another $80-$100, depending on street prices at the time...
Maxtor 60 Gb ATA 100 - About $120 average...
LG CD-R/W, 12x8x32 - Usually about $50-$60...
Samsung 12 DVD ROM - Approximately $40-$50...
256 MB PC133 SDRAM - $30-$40...
Reference Geforce2 MX card - $40...
Micro ATX case/PS - $30 for a good run of the mill case...
Since most who buy their hardware also have to go to several different retailers to pinch every penny, lets assume each one, if you pick the cheapest rates, charges you about $8-$12 for UPS ground, leaving you waiting about a week for you to recieve your components... Total would come to about $30-$50
Total cost (based on average street price): $490, add shipping and you have almost the same price I paid for the prebuilt model, which for all intents and purposes uses the cheapest "passable" hardware...
Sure, some can build for cheaper, with better components, but you probably would wind up spending more (unless you know where I can get a nice Geforce4 card for under $50, which I doubt)...
However, for a starting foundation, it's more than adequate... In either case, it's a tossup, between convenient and quick, and marginal savings VS inconvenient waits...
The bottom line for PC hardware has finally reached bottom, you can't really get it any cheaper, unless the company that made it is going to declare Chapter 13 and vanish off the face of the earth...
Sure you can, it's called buffer underrun protection (such as BurnProof), a feature included in many, if not all, current CD-R/W drives... Since I finally bought a drive with such a feature, I've been able to browse, download, listen to MP3s and chat online without the CD-R/W making a single coaster...
They did, the folks making this storage tech are also pushing for a new blue laser standard for standard size CDs, allowing them to hold up to 27Gb worth of data...
FF7, FF8, and FF9 were released for the PS1, FFX and FF Online were designed for the PS2... Hence why they were released so quickly for the PC (less optimizing for the emotion engine of the PS2, the systems were largely set up for PC emulation, hence why they seemed to run slower than the original PS1 games would run on Bleem! and other PS1 emulators)...
Nah, that's why they drive SUVs... Warning, completely humorless small penised /. mods a'coming, act busy, you've seen NOTHINNNNG!
Ahhhyes, the moderator in question must (a) have a truly microscopic penis, and/or (b) one of the lightsabers written about in the article, because he modded me down even more! Wow, Slashdot hecklers are worse than those in Vegas! When you die at the Palace, you DIE at the Palace... But hey, you have oh, 2 mod points left, and I can keep posting so it'll keep showing, try and silence me, slug! And I have karma to burn too! So NYAH!
Ooooh, must have struck a nerve in one of the mods to get modded down as a troll for making what most normal folks would see as a joke... A JOKE... Repeat after me, a JOKE... Yeesh...
"Why do women like jewelry?" Parks asks. "The light saber reaches an emotional need to feel like a hero."
More like the light saber reaches an emotional need to overcompensate for having a teeny tiny eensy weensy penis...
Wow, I think this will be the first time the Slashdot effect ever effected a snail mailbox...
Who give these events the most credibility... They're the ones who run every attachment in e-mail, and don't even know how to enable the "show known extensions" feature in their folder properties, and often run attachments with hidden shortcut properties (such as picture.jpg.pif, et al, which exectutes the viral code)... The antivirus folks are capitalizing on this, of course...
Frankly, it's getting to the point where requiring people to take a one year course and get a license to operate a computer seems all the more feasable and even nessesary...
Well, technically it *can*... But the problem is, do you know of *any* software company that produces Windows software, who distributes instructions describing how to install their apps under WINE, etc?
Every competitor they've faced down, including the once mighty Kmart, has been summarily wiped from the planet... Since they're marketing Lindows systems, which makes Microsoft their chief competitor, does that mean they'll take out MS next? Would seem incredibly ironic, considering both companies have shown dubious and questionable business practices...
/.ers be praising Microsoft, or Walmart?
So when that next war comes down, will
Don't they already do that, with the networks that have the black bar on the bottom of the screen, advertising different shows and squashing part of the screen (TNN and Oxygen networks come to mind), not to mention whenever they squash the end credits of shows and movies to the side so you can no longer read the credits (there's something patently illegal in that as well, robbing the folks who made the show of their screen credits, not to mention valuable copyright information, which aids and abets in the copying they constantly decry... An illegible copyright notice basically makes the copyright info invalid), while they run ads for other shows on the side?
Makes me flash back on the SNL sketch where they were making fun of the onscreen bugs, "Lets put a picture of the Terminator up on the screen, just because it looks cool!"...
Now they can use their popups as blackmail, anyone who closes them without clicking the ad can be labeled as a terrorist...
Why yes, but it was an established part of Ford history, back when Henry Ford was supporting nazi Germany... Hemp fibers are, in fact, able to be formed into resinated panels, due to their tensile strength, possibly even stronger than glass (but no way stronger than steel, lets be reasonable)...
See http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=33571&cid=3629 298 , to see the point of the post, because some people are too godd@mned stupid to use their moderation scores properly...
BTW, mark this as troll if you want, but thwe folks who moderate the posts here REALLY need to read the rules of postings... The default for posting is 2 points, got that? The postings are ue to that, to show beyond filters set to under 1 ratings, due to anonymous cowards and such who post dumbassed Something Awful'esque posts... NOT DUE TO PEOPLE WHO POST EITHER THEIR OPINIONS OR FRIGGING ATTEMPT HUMOR IN A WAY THAT DIRECTLY APPLIES TO THE SUBJECT OF THE SOURCE POST THAT THEY ARE REPLYING TO!!!
Gods, it's so annoying to have people dragging down the site due to either cluelessness or a lack of a sense of humor, get it right already, dammit, or smash your computer, because you obviously lack the intelligence to use it...
A suggestion: Include this on antivirus software in the future... The amount of users out there who are sufficiently paranoid of unusual file attachments can send along heuristic records of the file attachments so that the folks on your end could analyze and find a solution to various viruses before they become a problem... If you had enough folks on the outside who had similarly protected systems, finding solutions could be more efficient, kind of like a bucket brigade as it were...