I read all the bits. For the edification of other readers, I need to point out the differences between "capacitors" and "batteries".
First, there isn't much conceptual difference. A 2,000 F capacitor that didn't leak would be one helluva good "battery". Likewise, a 2000 mAh battery that could be discharged or charged almost instantly, and had near zero internal resistance (what we're talking about here) might make on OK capacitor. But it sure as heck makes a better battery than it ever will a capacitor.
And the little "bit" about lead acid batteries states that it "provides 10 times the power of double-layer capacitors and matches that of lead batteries." The article then goes on to suggest use in on board power supply and battery backup applications.
The things it doesn't say is how badly these things leak and how much internal resistance (e.g. how bad they heat up) they have, but it sounds like pretty little.
There is some "new" technology in batteries out there. I read about this 2 years ago (I think right here on/.) and I haven't heard a thing since. NEC published this press release about an AMAZING "Polymer Proton" battery. This indole/quinoxaline polymer electrode technology looks like it would blow lithium ion out of the water. The article says they were planning commerical availibility for October 2000. Anybody hear anything more on this?
Umm.. interesting that a candidate for governor would violate his state's own laws in such and open way. The California anti-spam law expressly prohibits forging e-mail headers as I read it.
Wouldn't such blatant disregard for the law disqualify him from the race?
I'd much rather say, "eh?" than say: "EARTHQUAKE!!" Ever since I graduated from college, I've lamented that so many of the bleeding edge technology jobs are on the west coast and I am (happily) stuck in the midwest, ultra-conservative as it is.
The fact that all of San Francisco and the Bay Area WILL be destroyed by earth quakes is a REAL reason that I haven't moved there.
If you think the destruction of the WTC hurt US economy, wait until Silicon Valley plunges into the Pacific Ocean. Maybe people over there are finally saying to themselves, "Gee.. we're on a fault here. Everything is super expensive - epsecially housing. This sucks. See ya!"
I know some folks who had a house in San Jose. They sold it for over $800,000. They moved to South Carolina, bought a house just a tad smaller for under $100,000 and are enjoying retirement with the remainder.
"Surf's up, dude!"
...eh?
Vortran out
They will find a way.. if it's worth it
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SSSCA Hearing
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Good grief.. I think there's really 2 possible outcomes here. We can continue to wage the IP seller vs. consumer war or...
Pirates only pirate things when it's perceived as less convenient to purchase them. Today, it is more convenient for those so inclined to pirate something that costs $25 a copy and face the possible consequences than it is to pay the $25.
Now, if the same IP didn't come with 4 pounds of land-fillable packaging and permanently scribed onto its own read-only media and was made available online for say $5... then it might be more convenient for those same individuals to just chuck out the $5 and download the thing. Seems like a pretty simple solution to me.
Of course, you could fiddle with the other side and make the penalty for violating SSSCA (or any other copy prevention law) be instant death.. and what with the micro chip implants and all, that would be easily enforcable.
and for what it's worth: My "car" analogy on the SSSCA... Imagine what it would be like if it were illegal to build a car that could go more than 65 MPH? Good bye F1, Indy, CART, etc.
Ok. What about after you sell 13,000 hamburgers? How about after you sell 26,000? 100,000? When does it stop? Should it ever stop? That's the question I'm concerned with getting opinions on.
Sorry to keep this going so much, but I'm really curious about what other folks think on this.
I do like your idea. If 20,000 fans like me each bid $5 for the rest of the CD, then our favorite artist could get a cool $100K and we could get our music. Interesting. Maybe something like that will emerge. Who knows? Modern society is in uncharted territory, I think.
You talk about making stuff, and covering the cost of mistakes. Allow me to over simplify...
If I make a hamburger.. the best hamburger in the world... and it costs $200, I'll charge $225 for it, OK?
Now, after I've gotten my $225 how many more times should I charge for it? Should I charge for each burp the original eater gets later in the day? Should I charge the bacteria that digest the burger? Six months later, should I be collecting royalties from the cows that ate the grass that was fertilized by the hamburger?
My point is, that once I've done something and gotten paid for it, I need to do something else to get paid more... except when I am a record label or a movie studio.
What if I make a crappy hamburger? I don't get paid for it.
How many times over should anyone get paid for creating something?
Umm.. how do you "properly dispose" of useless electronic equipment? We have horrendous amounts of this stuff. Big industry continues to bury the planet in things like inkjet cartridges and mini CD-Rs, not to mention things like old CRTs (lotsa lead) and hard disk drives.
You make a valid criticism, but do you have a better solution?
What does it take to break down an old PC into its constituent parts (iron, aluminum, plastic, copper, etc..) so that it can be re-used? Is it possible? Is it practical? What about smelting?
I guess my concern would be that there may not be a good target for the money, so they'd collect it, but never setup a nationwide recycling system.. so where would the money go? I shudder to think. I'd say "go for it" if they have a very solid plan to setup (the very costly) infrastructure to ACTUALLY recycle discarded consumer electronic devices.
Allegorically, imagine holding a stationary photon in your hand.
For the sake of argument (and avoiding wave theory discussion) let's assume that photons and electrons are 100% interchangable. In this case our "light" will be an electron which just happens to be orbiting the nucleus of an atom.
The closest experiment that I am aware of that approaches "stopping light" in this fashion is called 'Bose condensation' where isolated atoms are super-cooled with lasers. AFAIK, complete cessation of kinetic activity at the atomic level has not been achieved. However I believe we've come really close... in the 21st century.
I'm not sure that quantum computing couldn't somehow benefit from this technology. Typically, you would need the emission (or not) of a photon to represent/detect a quantum state. At some point the system has to resolve and interface to us. I believe that medium is a photon, or series of photons.
The truth is, I'm guessing here, but how else do you build a human interface to a quantum system?
You guys don't get this, do you? It is not a "light capacitor" or a new twist on "glowies". What has been done here is to use subatomic particles to store information about coherent light signals.
Perhaps some of the enlightened/. geeks remember stirrings that show up from time to time in cyberspace regarding holographic 3D memory. The premise is that, using holographic media, it is theoretically possible to store massive (a terabye in 10 sq. cm) amounts of data in an extraordinarily small space without electron lag which is a problem in high-speed microelectronics.
In optoelectronic computing systems and quantum computing systems the ability to store photons and photon signals is tantamount to the realization of full scale optoectronic (and quantum-based) computing.
I digress. This is awesome and I am very enthusiastic. Once again, it doesn't stop light, bend time, slow light, warp space or anything else like it. And it doesn't glow in the dark. It's like a single-channel holographic buffer and it is absolutely wonderful!
Damn straight the money was never there in the first place. If the pirates stop supplying free games there will be some folks who buy even less since they don't get to check them out first anymore.
I don't mean to imply anything, but the only games I've ever bought are ones that I played for a week or two first or sequels to games I already have.
The same goes for music, movies, and a lot of other software. I have bought software we use at work, and recommended we purchase software at work that I tried at home first. I could never have done that with a 30 day eval or money-back program.
Is piracy right? Is it wrong? I'm not here to debate that, but I'm not sure it's all one or the other. I _am_ sure I don't like to be told I can't buy a DVD/game on a trip and expect it to play when I get home or send a DVD to a friend in Canada and expect he'll be able to enjoy it.
Sony can take their "regional" restrictions and...
Vortan out
Of course it's been pirated. duh.
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If the idiots that were selling the bootlegged copies had time to make 5,000 of them how long does anyone think it took for folks that AREN'T interested in profit mongering to see the movie?
Everyone that I know in the U.S. who is interested has already seen it. I was even offered a DVD of the movie on 3 separate occasions last week. I'm much more interested in Stephen R. Donaldson's "Chronicles of Thomas Covenant," and I've never read Tolkien so I politely declined the offers.
The point is that it makes no sense to "release" the movie in UK while we wait in the USA. Wouldn't it make more sense to just "release" it in all theaters everywhere on the planet? Why go around wasting money busting pirates, when you could possibly MAKE money by releasing it in different ways? Beat the pirates at their own game.
People are more than willing to be relieved of their cash. They are much less welling to submit to the perceived control of someone who says, "You guys over there can't have this yet." People, especially Americans, HATE feeling like their being controlled... told what they can and cannot do.
As a programmer, and a user I am sick to death of feature rich software that doesn't work. I don't care if you have to re-write the whole thing or just part of it, but market driven software development does not make me productive in my daily work.
When software vendors throw basic funtionality to the wind and rush to market with new features and new versions and the new software STILL doesn't work, I get very frustrated.
I just want software that works. All the time. 100% as advertised and according to the documentation. I don't need features. I need basic functionality.. bedrock. More and more I am finding that I have to write things myself to get that. The commercial software quality just isn't there... and how can it be?
The quality isn't there in the development tools or the operating system or the firmware. I frequently come across situations where documented functionality simply does not work as documented or doesn't work at all or locks up something else. This is a case where, in my opinion, business interests (e.g. making a profit) have occluded the central purpose of writing software: to make information systems into useful, reliable tools.
Please.. just give me software that WORKS. I'll gladly pay top dollar. We can worry about the "features" later.
Once again, the commercial greed machine is attempting to tread on the Internet. Perhaps I'm just a luddite, but wasn't the Internet developed so that people could FREELY share information with eachother?
Let's see.. at my current rate, this would cost about $300 per month, assuming an average 1000 pages loaded per day. Now, since my web server gets about 1000 hits per day, this should all balance out, right?
Not quite, because I'll have to pay the pay service provider for transaction processing, etc. as will the other web site operators. So I'll probably net about $50 per month and the other $250 will line someone else's pockets along with a righteously moderate stipend to various government agencies, I'm sure. Also, since I am lower volume, my cost per transaction will likely be higher and my profit margins lower. And I have now become what I despise: a greed mongering profiteer.
Would people please stop trying to capitalize on the Internet? Go back to Wall Street and leave me and my network alone! Don't get me wrong, I'm not against commerce when it comes to durable goods, but to me this is blatantly antithetical to the spirit of the Internet: free and open information exchange.
Finally, if CmdrTaco or VA think for a tiny fraction of a nanosecond in their wildest fatigue-induced late-night hallucinations that I will pay to read/. then I have highly overestimated their reasoning ability.
Seems that IDE/EIDE drives are the choice for cheap and large. I'm certainly guilty of buying a few. However, I am wondering why fibre channel and SCSI aren't more popular for the desktop?
For application installs and OS install/cache, a 10,000 rpm LVD Ultra160 is hardly fast enough for me. Also, I have 9 drives on this system. I can only do 4 with IDE, and if I put in a second controller, I blow another IRQ (of which there are only 10 available of 16 - sad commentary on PC architecture). Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong on this.
Allow me to extoll the virtues of SCSI/LVD:
-15 drives/devices per IRQ
-Lightning fast.. 320 mbyte/sec now
-Doesn't slow down your CPU when moving or copying files from one drive to another
-The above applies to burning CDs as well (a major bonus)
Basically, with all this going for it, why isn't SCSI more popular (and less expensive)?
And what about fiber channel? Seems there was a story on/. a few months ago about an interface gadget that let's you chain them with CAT-5 ethernet cable. That would rock!
Why is everyone buying IDE? Or are they? Just curious.
Vortran out
DNS is not ready for gajillion TLDs
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.biz Open For Biz
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Is it just me, or is the commercial greed machine putting the cart before the horse, here? DNS was never meant to support a plethora of TLDs. The push for 20, 30.. or 300 new TLDs will require a directory service (which I'm sure M$ will be MORE than happy to provide).
Don't you think we should hold off on creating new TLDs until AFTER we've created an Internet Directory System (or something) to replace DNS?
And I should also mention that if you are looking for someone's web site, you really only have a few choices today. What is National Semiconductor's main web site URL? Anyone care to guess? How many guesses will it take if we have 30 more TLDs?
Needless to say, I really think adding TLDs is not a good idea for DNS.
Hrmm.. I suppose our military is part of the reason. Perhaps another part is that 1 in 50 of the "soft" and "lame" civilians (non military) living as citizens in the U.S. are legally armed.
It is this process (what you see here in/. and what a number of senators are seeing in their mailboxes), flawed as it is, that allows our populace the tiny freedoms it enjoys. Public and direct criticism of our government is a freedom that those of us who make the effort enjoy and exercise to its fullest. Even those who don't write to their representatives 10 to 15 times each year tend to vote from time to time.
No Thanks to No Device Manager
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I'm all for getting away from the device manager for most every day things AS LONG AS we can still get TO it. If I plug in a device and want to re-config the driver or use something other than the "vendor default" driver (e.g. my own) I want to still be able to do that. That's the beauty of LINUX.
If "plug 'n play" in LINUX ever ends up keeping me away from having the freedom to setup the devices and drivers the way I want them, then I'm deadset against it. I don't want to have to hack kernel code to make devices use the drivers I prefer.
No wonder I've always thought (and told people) that coin-op PONG! was the 'first' coin-op video game. I can still picture the black on yellow graphics.
Slashdot Mirror
I read all the bits. For the edification of other readers, I need to point out the differences between "capacitors" and "batteries".
First, there isn't much conceptual difference. A 2,000 F capacitor that didn't leak would be one helluva good "battery". Likewise, a 2000 mAh battery that could be discharged or charged almost instantly, and had near zero internal resistance (what we're talking about here) might make on OK capacitor. But it sure as heck makes a better battery than it ever will a capacitor.
And the little "bit" about lead acid batteries states that it "provides 10 times the power of double-layer capacitors and matches that of lead batteries." The article then goes on to suggest use in on board power supply and battery backup applications.
The things it doesn't say is how badly these things leak and how much internal resistance (e.g. how bad they heat up) they have, but it sounds like pretty little.
There is some "new" technology in batteries out there. I read about this 2 years ago (I think right here on /.) and I haven't heard a thing since. NEC published this press release about an AMAZING "Polymer Proton" battery. This indole/quinoxaline polymer electrode technology looks like it would blow lithium ion out of the water. The article says they were planning commerical availibility for October 2000. Anybody hear anything more on this?
Umm.. interesting that a candidate for governor would violate his state's own laws in such and open way. The California anti-spam law expressly prohibits forging e-mail headers as I read it.
Wouldn't such blatant disregard for the law disqualify him from the race?
Vortran out
I'd much rather say, "eh?" than say: "EARTHQUAKE!!" Ever since I graduated from college, I've lamented that so many of the bleeding edge technology jobs are on the west coast and I am (happily) stuck in the midwest, ultra-conservative as it is.
The fact that all of San Francisco and the Bay Area WILL be destroyed by earth quakes is a REAL reason that I haven't moved there.
If you think the destruction of the WTC hurt US economy, wait until Silicon Valley plunges into the Pacific Ocean. Maybe people over there are finally saying to themselves, "Gee.. we're on a fault here. Everything is super expensive - epsecially housing. This sucks. See ya!"
I know some folks who had a house in San Jose. They sold it for over $800,000. They moved to South Carolina, bought a house just a tad smaller for under $100,000 and are enjoying retirement with the remainder.
"Surf's up, dude!"
...eh?
Vortran out
Good grief.. I think there's really 2 possible outcomes here. We can continue to wage the IP seller vs. consumer war or...
Pirates only pirate things when it's perceived as less convenient to purchase them. Today, it is more convenient for those so inclined to pirate something that costs $25 a copy and face the possible consequences than it is to pay the $25.
Now, if the same IP didn't come with 4 pounds of land-fillable packaging and permanently scribed onto its own read-only media and was made available online for say $5... then it might be more convenient for those same individuals to just chuck out the $5 and download the thing. Seems like a pretty simple solution to me.
Of course, you could fiddle with the other side and make the penalty for violating SSSCA (or any other copy prevention law) be instant death.. and what with the micro chip implants and all, that would be easily enforcable.
and for what it's worth: My "car" analogy on the SSSCA... Imagine what it would be like if it were illegal to build a car that could go more than 65 MPH? Good bye F1, Indy, CART, etc.
Vortran out
Ok. What about after you sell 13,000 hamburgers? How about after you sell 26,000? 100,000? When does it stop? Should it ever stop? That's the question I'm concerned with getting opinions on.
Sorry to keep this going so much, but I'm really curious about what other folks think on this.
I do like your idea. If 20,000 fans like me each bid $5 for the rest of the CD, then our favorite artist could get a cool $100K and we could get our music. Interesting. Maybe something like that will emerge. Who knows? Modern society is in uncharted territory, I think.
Vortran
You talk about making stuff, and covering the cost of mistakes. Allow me to over simplify...
If I make a hamburger.. the best hamburger in the world... and it costs $200, I'll charge $225 for it, OK?
Now, after I've gotten my $225 how many more times should I charge for it? Should I charge for each burp the original eater gets later in the day? Should I charge the bacteria that digest the burger? Six months later, should I be collecting royalties from the cows that ate the grass that was fertilized by the hamburger?
My point is, that once I've done something and gotten paid for it, I need to do something else to get paid more... except when I am a record label or a movie studio.
What if I make a crappy hamburger? I don't get paid for it.
How many times over should anyone get paid for creating something?
Vortran out
Umm.. how do you "properly dispose" of useless electronic equipment? We have horrendous amounts of this stuff. Big industry continues to bury the planet in things like inkjet cartridges and mini CD-Rs, not to mention things like old CRTs (lotsa lead) and hard disk drives.
You make a valid criticism, but do you have a better solution?
What does it take to break down an old PC into its constituent parts (iron, aluminum, plastic, copper, etc..) so that it can be re-used? Is it possible? Is it practical? What about smelting?
I guess my concern would be that there may not be a good target for the money, so they'd collect it, but never setup a nationwide recycling system.. so where would the money go? I shudder to think. I'd say "go for it" if they have a very solid plan to setup (the very costly) infrastructure to ACTUALLY recycle discarded consumer electronic devices.
Vortran out
Is this a sim game?
Seems the Sharper Image catalog from some time ago had a pair of spectacles with a translucent video screen embedded.
These were for TV, of course, not hi-res computer displays, but I have always fancied the technology for wearable computers.
Anyone know what became of this "TV glasses" concept and if it would be feasible display technology for a wearable PC?
Vortran out
Damn skippy! We're not trying to extend and perpetuate our hegemony through elitist imperialism and antagonism.
MS Linux XP... hmmmm
If I had gone to the show, the one thing I would be (and still am) most interested in is OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diode) displays.
Can someone who was there tell me if there was anythihg at the show on OLED displays, and if so what?
I am anxiously awaiting the arrival of OLED desktop monitors and laptop dislays.
Vortran out
Allegorically, imagine holding a stationary photon in your hand.
For the sake of argument (and avoiding wave theory discussion) let's assume that photons and electrons are 100% interchangable. In this case our "light" will be an electron which just happens to be orbiting the nucleus of an atom.
The closest experiment that I am aware of that approaches "stopping light" in this fashion is called 'Bose condensation' where isolated atoms are super-cooled with lasers. AFAIK, complete cessation of kinetic activity at the atomic level has not been achieved. However I believe we've come really close... in the 21st century.
Vortran out
I'm not sure that quantum computing couldn't somehow benefit from this technology. Typically, you would need the emission (or not) of a photon to represent/detect a quantum state. At some point the system has to resolve and interface to us. I believe that medium is a photon, or series of photons.
The truth is, I'm guessing here, but how else do you build a human interface to a quantum system?
You guys don't get this, do you? It is not a "light capacitor" or a new twist on "glowies". What has been done here is to use subatomic particles to store information about coherent light signals.
/. geeks remember stirrings that show up from time to time in cyberspace regarding holographic 3D memory. The premise is that, using holographic media, it is theoretically possible to store massive (a terabye in 10 sq. cm) amounts of data in an extraordinarily small space without electron lag which is a problem in high-speed microelectronics.
Perhaps some of the enlightened
In optoelectronic computing systems and quantum computing systems the ability to store photons and photon signals is tantamount to the realization of full scale optoectronic (and quantum-based) computing.
I digress. This is awesome and I am very enthusiastic. Once again, it doesn't stop light, bend time, slow light, warp space or anything else like it. And it doesn't glow in the dark. It's like a single-channel holographic buffer and it is absolutely wonderful!
Vortan out
Damn straight the money was never there in the first place. If the pirates stop supplying free games there will be some folks who buy even less since they don't get to check them out first anymore.
I don't mean to imply anything, but the only games I've ever bought are ones that I played for a week or two first or sequels to games I already have.
The same goes for music, movies, and a lot of other software. I have bought software we use at work, and recommended we purchase software at work that I tried at home first. I could never have done that with a 30 day eval or money-back program.
Is piracy right? Is it wrong? I'm not here to debate that, but I'm not sure it's all one or the other. I _am_ sure I don't like to be told I can't buy a DVD/game on a trip and expect it to play when I get home or send a DVD to a friend in Canada and expect he'll be able to enjoy it.
Sony can take their "regional" restrictions and...
Vortan out
If the idiots that were selling the bootlegged copies had time to make 5,000 of them how long does anyone think it took for folks that AREN'T interested in profit mongering to see the movie?
Everyone that I know in the U.S. who is interested has already seen it. I was even offered a DVD of the movie on 3 separate occasions last week. I'm much more interested in Stephen R. Donaldson's "Chronicles of Thomas Covenant," and I've never read Tolkien so I politely declined the offers.
The point is that it makes no sense to "release" the movie in UK while we wait in the USA. Wouldn't it make more sense to just "release" it in all theaters everywhere on the planet? Why go around wasting money busting pirates, when you could possibly MAKE money by releasing it in different ways? Beat the pirates at their own game.
People are more than willing to be relieved of their cash. They are much less welling to submit to the perceived control of someone who says, "You guys over there can't have this yet." People, especially Americans, HATE feeling like their being controlled... told what they can and cannot do.
As a programmer, and a user I am sick to death of feature rich software that doesn't work. I don't care if you have to re-write the whole thing or just part of it, but market driven software development does not make me productive in my daily work.
When software vendors throw basic funtionality to the wind and rush to market with new features and new versions and the new software STILL doesn't work, I get very frustrated.
I just want software that works. All the time. 100% as advertised and according to the documentation. I don't need features. I need basic functionality.. bedrock. More and more I am finding that I have to write things myself to get that. The commercial software quality just isn't there... and how can it be?
The quality isn't there in the development tools or the operating system or the firmware. I frequently come across situations where documented functionality simply does not work as documented or doesn't work at all or locks up something else. This is a case where, in my opinion, business interests (e.g. making a profit) have occluded the central purpose of writing software: to make information systems into useful, reliable tools.
Please.. just give me software that WORKS. I'll gladly pay top dollar. We can worry about the "features" later.
Once again, the commercial greed machine is attempting to tread on the Internet. Perhaps I'm just a luddite, but wasn't the Internet developed so that people could FREELY share information with eachother?
/. then I have highly overestimated their reasoning ability.
Let's see.. at my current rate, this would cost about $300 per month, assuming an average 1000 pages loaded per day. Now, since my web server gets about 1000 hits per day, this should all balance out, right?
Not quite, because I'll have to pay the pay service provider for transaction processing, etc. as will the other web site operators. So I'll probably net about $50 per month and the other $250 will line someone else's pockets along with a righteously moderate stipend to various government agencies, I'm sure. Also, since I am lower volume, my cost per transaction will likely be higher and my profit margins lower. And I have now become what I despise: a greed mongering profiteer.
Would people please stop trying to capitalize on the Internet? Go back to Wall Street and leave me and my network alone! Don't get me wrong, I'm not against commerce when it comes to durable goods, but to me this is blatantly antithetical to the spirit of the Internet: free and open information exchange.
Finally, if CmdrTaco or VA think for a tiny fraction of a nanosecond in their wildest fatigue-induced late-night hallucinations that I will pay to read
Vortran out
Ok.. ok.. so does anyone work for that OTHER company where things are wonderful? Does such a place exist and are they hiring?
Seems that IDE/EIDE drives are the choice for cheap and large. I'm certainly guilty of buying a few. However, I am wondering why fibre channel and SCSI aren't more popular for the desktop?
/. a few months ago about an interface gadget that let's you chain them with CAT-5 ethernet cable. That would rock!
For application installs and OS install/cache, a 10,000 rpm LVD Ultra160 is hardly fast enough for me. Also, I have 9 drives on this system. I can only do 4 with IDE, and if I put in a second controller, I blow another IRQ (of which there are only 10 available of 16 - sad commentary on PC architecture). Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong on this.
Allow me to extoll the virtues of SCSI/LVD:
-15 drives/devices per IRQ
-Lightning fast.. 320 mbyte/sec now
-Doesn't slow down your CPU when moving or copying files from one drive to another
-The above applies to burning CDs as well (a major bonus)
Basically, with all this going for it, why isn't SCSI more popular (and less expensive)?
And what about fiber channel? Seems there was a story on
Why is everyone buying IDE? Or are they? Just curious.
Vortran out
Is it just me, or is the commercial greed machine putting the cart before the horse, here? DNS was never meant to support a plethora of TLDs. The push for 20, 30.. or 300 new TLDs will require a directory service (which I'm sure M$ will be MORE than happy to provide).
Don't you think we should hold off on creating new TLDs until AFTER we've created an Internet Directory System (or something) to replace DNS?
And I should also mention that if you are looking for someone's web site, you really only have a few choices today. What is National Semiconductor's main web site URL? Anyone care to guess? How many guesses will it take if we have 30 more TLDs?
Needless to say, I really think adding TLDs is not a good idea for DNS.
Vortran out
Hrmm.. I suppose our military is part of the reason. Perhaps another part is that 1 in 50 of the "soft" and "lame" civilians (non military) living as citizens in the U.S. are legally armed.
/. and what a number of senators are seeing in their mailboxes), flawed as it is, that allows our populace the tiny freedoms it enjoys. Public and direct criticism of our government is a freedom that those of us who make the effort enjoy and exercise to its fullest. Even those who don't write to their representatives 10 to 15 times each year tend to vote from time to time.
It is this process (what you see here in
I'm all for getting away from the device manager for most every day things AS LONG AS we can still get TO it. If I plug in a device and want to re-config the driver or use something other than the "vendor default" driver (e.g. my own) I want to still be able to do that. That's the beauty of LINUX.
If "plug 'n play" in LINUX ever ends up keeping me away from having the freedom to setup the devices and drivers the way I want them, then I'm deadset against it. I don't want to have to hack kernel code to make devices use the drivers I prefer.
No wonder I've always thought (and told people) that coin-op PONG! was the 'first' coin-op video game. I can still picture the black on yellow graphics.