What is with the constant America and Europe are evil scumbag overlords crap on slashdot? Come down off it you paranoid moron. The US censors like 1 thing and you go all Glen Beck and compare them to China as if it's the same caliber. Yeah, the US's free speech availability is the exact same as China. You're right. Ugh, keep dreaming, idiot.
Nobody ever said these weren't fast or cheap. What they did say was massive data corruption, nonstop blue screening, and completely inconsistent performance. Also, if the drives lose power, you're screwed even if it was idle because it wasn't idle. It was moving data between the cache and main storage based on usage counts. Those constant writes, by the way, kill the flash memory very quickly. Plus, you can have a mechanical failure. Forget any kind of data recovery too. These are a terrible idea. RAID arrays of SSDs for large storage of a 120GB boot drive with a 1TB secondary are both very cost effective solutions and are both much safer. 4x60GB Intel 330 drives in raid5 take up like 15 watts, cost under $300, and run at around 1GB/s read speed in real world tests. Even RAID0 2x60GB ones I've tested at 800MB/s read. 3x120GB drives in RAID5 is sometimes even cheaper and almost as fast.
Wow, that's an awfully high fine for MS to pay considering it DOESN'T MAKE A PENNY ON ITS BROWSER! Seriously! So it by default might convince a small percentage of people to use Bing. So what? I use Google in IE. Deal with it. I can see them paying a fine for including a movie editor in Windows because they make money on Windows. With the alleged browser wars, it's just an idiotic waste of time. It's such a non-money-maker for them, it's just idiotic. I can't believe all 3-ish sides are spending billions in marketing and fines and development to release a free product. What next, are Linux distros going to buy a Superbowl ad to try and compete with each other?
Why doesn't someone just threaten this asshole company's asshole employee's families or attack their car or house until they give up or all their employees quit? They deserve it. They're turning the legal system into a circus and it's failing completely to do its job. So, I say vigilante time.
If they're not going to actually land, what exactly is the point of manning it? To reduce the couple minute delay on controls by having a human on location? Well, a robot can stay there for years so time isn't a real big thing unless everyone's just that impatient.
I can go get 3 megabits at an Arby's. WTF are they talking about? If you want to attend online courses, it's your own dumb fault if you live out in the middle of nowhere. How about you complain about gas prices and the long drive time some more too? Other than rural areas, you can go take online courses by taking a laptop and walking outside and then standing basically anywhere.
No bosses? Then none of them are "too good" to get on there, watch some matches, and ban cheaters. I used to be a content moderator for a gigantic corporation in the US and I can tell you I could easily ban 30 people per hour. The average cheater seems to play over 1000 hours of a game so I'd eliminate 30,000 hours of cheating. Seriously, someone should get bored and hop on and start a ban-fest. That could be the official office downtime activity. Oh well, I guess no bosses doesn't get anything done.
I've noticed a trend in all the 7200 RPM drives I've seen. A lot don't get a WEI rating of 5.9. A lot fail. A lot get way too hot. A lot have good seek times but terrible sequential throughput. So they needed to go regardless.
To all you assholes who constantly posted clueless bullshit about pretend money and how we're all idiots and it's all going to fail, let me be the first to say FUCK YOU
And cue the bitcoin enthusiast vs arrogant slashdot asshole modding wars.
What the hell is all this crap I keep hearing about "investors?" Have they ever heard of a long or a bank? My company's credit SUCKS and we just financed $150,000 worth of equipment from Wells Fargo and another $30,000 from GE Capital. Either you have actual investors as in stock holders and then the money you need is just there (in theory) or you're private and then just get a loan. That's what banks do, they give loans. If you're going after some venture capitalist, it's because your idea sucked and your company has no history. But no, this article is about scaling up. If you've been solid for 5+ years and now you're doing so good you need to expand, what exactly is stopping a bank from giving you a loan? Either your business isn't as stable as you think, you're going too big too fast, or you're not actually all that profitable. Normal, good businesses get approved for loans in the millions for expansions.
and consumers are enjoying and embracing that way of the business
Nope! By the way, the magic rule of in-game stores is cosmetic and convenience only. You let someone level twice as fast or buy a better weapon than you that you can't get in game naturally and you're going to have some very angry customer. Just kidding, they won't have any customers.
Old people with bad vision just need to spend some money and go to the eye doctor for modified glasses. That aside, the real solution is the same size or smaller screen with a physic keyboard on a slider type of assembly underneath it. My Samsung Character R640 has that and I can type faster than any touch-based one including a full sized iPad. Once you can type on it and see it, save the battery life and stop making the screen (and GPU) bigger.
I'm a residential and business customer of theirs. I have 10x1Mbps at my apartment for around $30/mo. At my business I have 7x0.75Mbps for $69/mo. A business 10x2Mbps is $270. That's why there's no demand for gigabit. It would be like $10,000/mo at their ridiculous prices and I really don't need it at my house.
Work slowed down quite a bit here today because there's a snow storm. So if it was 40 degrees out instead, our productivity and workload would go up. In fact, this is a landscaping company so it would go way up. So hotter places that are so hot and swampy and miserable and unbearable that nobody should be living there right now (aka Mexico, Florida, Georgia, etc) will go down in productivity but places like this will go up.
Obviously their original Wii was bought by A TON of non-gamers who had never bought a console. That means a console budget of $0. So it was already a stretch and now they're expecting a lot of them to upgrade to a much more expensive version when the added features are very gamer-oriented? Hell no! That's what's really killing it.
Al Jazeera English is one of the most respected and most neutral networks in the world. Yeah, they are biased about Qatar and Syria (everybody knows that). But Al Gore didn't sell his TV Station to a Jihadist Network. It is a well respected organization that has guests like Neil de Grasse Thyson or Gary Johnson (which are not known for supporting Anti-Americanism).
Then why do they come astroturf bullshit on slashdot?
According to the article, they entire civilization was using Windows 8 right before it sunk. Their continental IT department tried to roll out touchscreens and then the whole place sank into the sea. Strange, but not unexpected.
Someone should tell CNN to cover this. It would really ruin their stupid "Islam is peace. They're just like you and me" documentary barrage. Islam is violent EVERYWHERE in the world. Get over it and stop pretending it's something else.
I've received several e-mails from Paypal that were textbook phishing attempts and then all the links and the sending server are actually Paypal-owned. So they're not the only ones sending out suspicious and badly arranged e-mails.
Hey, if we get attacked by floating metal balls, cartoon bullseyes, and aliens at Area 51, I want kids covering my back with covering fire if there's no adults around.
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What is with the constant America and Europe are evil scumbag overlords crap on slashdot? Come down off it you paranoid moron. The US censors like 1 thing and you go all Glen Beck and compare them to China as if it's the same caliber. Yeah, the US's free speech availability is the exact same as China. You're right. Ugh, keep dreaming, idiot.
Nobody ever said these weren't fast or cheap. What they did say was massive data corruption, nonstop blue screening, and completely inconsistent performance. Also, if the drives lose power, you're screwed even if it was idle because it wasn't idle. It was moving data between the cache and main storage based on usage counts. Those constant writes, by the way, kill the flash memory very quickly. Plus, you can have a mechanical failure. Forget any kind of data recovery too. These are a terrible idea. RAID arrays of SSDs for large storage of a 120GB boot drive with a 1TB secondary are both very cost effective solutions and are both much safer. 4x60GB Intel 330 drives in raid5 take up like 15 watts, cost under $300, and run at around 1GB/s read speed in real world tests. Even RAID0 2x60GB ones I've tested at 800MB/s read. 3x120GB drives in RAID5 is sometimes even cheaper and almost as fast.
Wow, that's an awfully high fine for MS to pay considering it DOESN'T MAKE A PENNY ON ITS BROWSER! Seriously! So it by default might convince a small percentage of people to use Bing. So what? I use Google in IE. Deal with it. I can see them paying a fine for including a movie editor in Windows because they make money on Windows. With the alleged browser wars, it's just an idiotic waste of time. It's such a non-money-maker for them, it's just idiotic. I can't believe all 3-ish sides are spending billions in marketing and fines and development to release a free product. What next, are Linux distros going to buy a Superbowl ad to try and compete with each other?
Why doesn't someone just threaten this asshole company's asshole employee's families or attack their car or house until they give up or all their employees quit? They deserve it. They're turning the legal system into a circus and it's failing completely to do its job. So, I say vigilante time.
Not for illegal activities but being persecuted for beliefs of freedom of information
Nope, that's not true.
If they're not going to actually land, what exactly is the point of manning it? To reduce the couple minute delay on controls by having a human on location? Well, a robot can stay there for years so time isn't a real big thing unless everyone's just that impatient.
I can go get 3 megabits at an Arby's. WTF are they talking about? If you want to attend online courses, it's your own dumb fault if you live out in the middle of nowhere. How about you complain about gas prices and the long drive time some more too? Other than rural areas, you can go take online courses by taking a laptop and walking outside and then standing basically anywhere.
No bosses? Then none of them are "too good" to get on there, watch some matches, and ban cheaters. I used to be a content moderator for a gigantic corporation in the US and I can tell you I could easily ban 30 people per hour. The average cheater seems to play over 1000 hours of a game so I'd eliminate 30,000 hours of cheating. Seriously, someone should get bored and hop on and start a ban-fest. That could be the official office downtime activity. Oh well, I guess no bosses doesn't get anything done.
I've noticed a trend in all the 7200 RPM drives I've seen. A lot don't get a WEI rating of 5.9. A lot fail. A lot get way too hot. A lot have good seek times but terrible sequential throughput. So they needed to go regardless.
To all you assholes who constantly posted clueless bullshit about pretend money and how we're all idiots and it's all going to fail, let me be the first to say
FUCK YOU
And cue the bitcoin enthusiast vs arrogant slashdot asshole modding wars.
What the hell is all this crap I keep hearing about "investors?" Have they ever heard of a long or a bank? My company's credit SUCKS and we just financed $150,000 worth of equipment from Wells Fargo and another $30,000 from GE Capital. Either you have actual investors as in stock holders and then the money you need is just there (in theory) or you're private and then just get a loan. That's what banks do, they give loans. If you're going after some venture capitalist, it's because your idea sucked and your company has no history. But no, this article is about scaling up. If you've been solid for 5+ years and now you're doing so good you need to expand, what exactly is stopping a bank from giving you a loan? Either your business isn't as stable as you think, you're going too big too fast, or you're not actually all that profitable. Normal, good businesses get approved for loans in the millions for expansions.
and consumers are enjoying and embracing that way of the business Nope! By the way, the magic rule of in-game stores is cosmetic and convenience only. You let someone level twice as fast or buy a better weapon than you that you can't get in game naturally and you're going to have some very angry customer. Just kidding, they won't have any customers.
Old people with bad vision just need to spend some money and go to the eye doctor for modified glasses. That aside, the real solution is the same size or smaller screen with a physic keyboard on a slider type of assembly underneath it. My Samsung Character R640 has that and I can type faster than any touch-based one including a full sized iPad. Once you can type on it and see it, save the battery life and stop making the screen (and GPU) bigger.
I'm a residential and business customer of theirs. I have 10x1Mbps at my apartment for around $30/mo. At my business I have 7x0.75Mbps for $69/mo. A business 10x2Mbps is $270. That's why there's no demand for gigabit. It would be like $10,000/mo at their ridiculous prices and I really don't need it at my house.
Work slowed down quite a bit here today because there's a snow storm. So if it was 40 degrees out instead, our productivity and workload would go up. In fact, this is a landscaping company so it would go way up. So hotter places that are so hot and swampy and miserable and unbearable that nobody should be living there right now (aka Mexico, Florida, Georgia, etc) will go down in productivity but places like this will go up.
What about sick sticks? Those would be awesome! They're actually a stupidly bad and ineffective idea but it'd be funny.
Obviously their original Wii was bought by A TON of non-gamers who had never bought a console. That means a console budget of $0. So it was already a stretch and now they're expecting a lot of them to upgrade to a much more expensive version when the added features are very gamer-oriented? Hell no! That's what's really killing it.
Summary: pathetic vs a real processor, buy a real computer.
Al Jazeera English is one of the most respected and most neutral networks in the world. Yeah, they are biased about Qatar and Syria (everybody knows that). But Al Gore didn't sell his TV Station to a Jihadist Network. It is a well respected organization that has guests like Neil de Grasse Thyson or Gary Johnson (which are not known for supporting Anti-Americanism).
Then why do they come astroturf bullshit on slashdot?
Nope, it's the long lost city of Atlanta; home of the coca cola bottling plant and other things than the gigantic airport hub.
According to the article, they entire civilization was using Windows 8 right before it sunk. Their continental IT department tried to roll out touchscreens and then the whole place sank into the sea. Strange, but not unexpected.
Someone should tell CNN to cover this. It would really ruin their stupid "Islam is peace. They're just like you and me" documentary barrage. Islam is violent EVERYWHERE in the world. Get over it and stop pretending it's something else.
Well, that bitch is fired
I've received several e-mails from Paypal that were textbook phishing attempts and then all the links and the sending server are actually Paypal-owned. So they're not the only ones sending out suspicious and badly arranged e-mails.
Hey, if we get attacked by floating metal balls, cartoon bullseyes, and aliens at Area 51, I want kids covering my back with covering fire if there's no adults around.