Actually for comparison purposes you should also slam your head into a concrete floor from a similar height to see how well wetware performs under those conditions.
Guess what, although they cost WAY more than a new normal HD per GB, they are WAY cheaper than a new laptop!
Boy, the equipment manufacturers are going to hate this. Why buy new gear if you can keep the old gear running for less? In a similar vein at my last job most of the desktop systems were 2.8Ghz to 3.2Ghz Pentiums, 32 bit, single core. The desktop guys found that if you increased the RAM to 4Gb that performance really screamed with XP and that given the choice most of our users would rather have had an older system with a new, 16x9 monitor instead of a new system with a smaller monitor. We saved money and kept the users happy.
Is this going to be like that thing with electric cars being too quiet so they want to require them to make noise so people don't get run over? Will we have to require a certain minimum noise level for hard drive so that your co-workers will know that you're surfing porn and not walk in on you at a potentially embarrassing moment.
high altitude computing. I was reading an article about mountaineers with laptops, when you get up around 15 or 16 thousand feet the air pressure is so low that the Bernoulli effect no longer works properly in your hard drive, so your drive makes lots of nasty noise and is more prone to failure. With SSDs you just have to worry about the lack of oxygen damaging your brain and your internal organs, but not about endangering your data or the performance of your laptop.
I was thinking about this the other day and wishing that I could get a laptop with tiered storage. Say 4Gb of RAM, 16Gb of flash and then a 500Gb hard drive. Install the OS and your frequently used apps on the flash and use it as the boot volume. Set aside part of the flash as a storage area for your RAM for fast sleep modes. If you did it right you could have a kick ass system.
I've got a new MacBook Pro (Core I-5) on order and I ordered one of the Momentus drives for it. I'll be interested in seeing where the hybrid drives go. I want speed, but I also like hauling around a bunch of stuff with me, like three or four virtual machines, some movies, music, etc.
(Also, god help you if you put a database server on RAID 5... goodbye performance! RAID 10 or bust.)
Don't get out much do you? Ten years ago this might have been the case, but with modern storage technology you can run a lot of database loads on RAID-5 with an acceptable level of performance and as a matter of fact I've done so. Indeed the technology has improved so much that when I migrated the Oracle environment at my last job off of a SAN using RAID 1+0 volumes to a SAN using RAID-5 disk access was still around 10 times faster. I'm not sure that I'd run any kind of OLTP system on RAID-5, but a lot of other databases will run just fine.
What a fucking load of bullshit. Go out in any major city when there's a traffic accident or any other newsworthy event and you'll have three or four news helicopters orbiting to get footage of the event, at altitudes less than 3,000 feet. Now, since our cities aren't littered with the debris from falling news and police helicopters I hardly think that this would be a problem over the area of the spill.
Sixty five feet, even three hundred feet, is barely enough for a trained professional seaman - but more than close enough for an amateur to get himself hurt or killed.
Got a cite for this? Sounds to me like you're making shit up. I'd be surprised if you'd ever ridden on a boat, much less if you were anything even resembling a trained professional seaman, although I'm sure that you've gargled lots of semen. But that's not the same as being a trained seaman.
Except Daily Kos went out and admitted that Research 2000's numbers were fucked and couldn't be trusted. Who blew the whistle on Research 2000? Why Daily Kos did. Now, when has Fake Noise ever revealed that their sources are full of shit or tried to insure the reliability of the polling data they publish. Oh wait, that would be never.
No, this won't happen. Why? Because journalists aren't whining little fucks like you. Journalists are big boys, journalists know the risks they're taking. Now, if the journalists were whining little pussies like you then yeah, they'd bitch and piss and moan, but they're not, if only because they know they'd get laughed out of court for trying to sue under such circumstances. Of course you'd sue, because again, you're a whining little fuck.
Yeah, which is why tailgating is punishable by a 40k fine and a felony conviction. Oh wait, it's not. Could you fucking slashtards come up with some better analogies?
Got a cite for that? Of course not, this is slashdot, making shit up is a way of life here. Fuck Dude, if you're going to lie and make shit up why not make it interesting? "Last month photographers stole 7 trillion feet of boom, and ate babies as well!"
God you're a stupid fucking cunt. Fox Noise is all about big government, and if you weren't one of those conservative fucktards who believes that laws like the PATRIOT act, military interventions in foreign countries, domestic surveillance, Medicare Part D and No Child Left Behind are OK but regulating oil companies or finance companies like Goldman Sachs are evil big government soshulism you'd know this. Oh, and Noise Corps is all about the MPAA and RIAA as well, and Rupert Murdoch is in bed with the Chinese government as well and agreed to censor content on BSkyB in order to get access to the Chinese market. Fox Noise is corporate, fascist, big government news. They decide, you comply.
Most of the tea party people I know hate Bush only slightly less than Obama...
That's what these lying shits say, but when Bush was in office, for at least the six years of his administration they were sucking his balls like the high class whores that Elliot Spitzer likes to hire, you know, teabagging. The teabaggers remind me of the Germans, when things were going well for Nazi Germany they were all about Hitler, they loved the guy, couldn't get enough of him and said nothing when their Jewish neighbors were hauled off to the camps. But after the Allies kicked Nazi Germany's ass, after the US Army Air Corps and RAF burned their cities to the ground and the Red Army raped and pillaged it's way across the eastern half of the country, after we had our boots on their throats they were all saying "Nazis, I wasn't a Nazi, I hated Hitler. He was awful. I had no idea what was going on in those camps."
You want to drag people into the street and shoot them as traitors. Shoot the fucking teabaggers. The teabaggers are the morons who gave us the War on Some Drugs. They're the morons who are in favor of destroying our freedoms in the name of the War on Terrorism. The teabaggers are stupid, easily manipulated human garbage who hate freedom, hate individual liberty, hate the rule of law, won't and can't take responsibility for themselves and are the first ones to jump on any bandwagon or follow any leader who promises them security if they'll only give up their liberty and the liberty of others.
Yeah, the debt run up by Dubya was a pittance compared to what's going to be run up by the Democrats this cycle. The numbers they _lied_ about were ridiculously high, the real numbers will be insane. You think the cast of Dubya's 8 years was a snaggle toothed bunch of villains? Wait until you see the extent to which these current scoundrels have lied about how much all this shit they're doing is going to really cost.
Got any sources to back that up? Of course not, you're a teabagger. You're too busy massaging Glenn Beck's balls with your tongue to actually do any research, so you just repeat what you heard on his show.
It's even funnier when left wing nuts blame the Republicans for the housing meltdown than it is when right wing nuts blame the Democrats and CRA. It was a bubble - just like the Internet bubble. Sorry, lefty, government is not the solution to all of our problems.
2 unwinnable wars? Maybe. One of them was legitimate (Afghanistan), one questionable. I think Dubya was a liar too, but my viewpoint is softening on the old scoundrel a little bit. Iraq might have been some plan to create a battlefield with Al Qaeda that was well away from US civilians. Draw them to us where we can fight them at least a little more on our terms.
Or it could be that they were just a bunch of stupid bastards who saw a chance to try out a neo-conservative foreign policy. Your supposition about Iraq though is one of the stupidest fucking things I've ever read on Slashdot though. Really, if you're dumb enough to believe that then you probably have problems maintaining basic sphincter control.
I don't know - they sure as shit lied about it, whatever the real reasons. I think the "durr, it was for multinational evil corporations" screed the left wing loons rant about is a bit facile.
Well those multinational corporations have benefited quite handsomely from our middle eastern adventure, haven't they teatard?
Of course such people still enjoy the services and protections provided by government. Thus in purely financial terms, they are engaging in parasitism. This is a big step towards the welfare state, the nanny state, or whatever you prefer to call it. It works because there are large enough numbers of these people that their votes can easily sway elections and they vote in uniform blocs with little diversity of opinion among them.
Yes, and those uniform voting blocs of non-productive parasites are called Red States. If you weren't a lazy and stupid Libertard you would know that the least productive and most parasitic parts of our country happen to be the most conservative. For every dollar that ultra-liberal California sends to Washington D.C. they receive back.78 cents in federal spending. For every dollar that ultra-libertarian Alaska sends to Washington, D.C. they get back $1.84. Kentucky, home of Rand Paul, the son of Libertarian darling Ron Paul takes $1.55 in federal spending for every $1 they pay in taxes. The parasites you talk about are overwhelmingly Republicans and Libertarians. And of course Ron Paul has never, ever told any of his constituents that they need to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps and not rely on the federal government.
The number of adult voters with no federal tax liability was 38% prior to the recent stimulus bill and now sits around 47%.
What a load of Libertarded bullshit. This statistic and others like it, so casually tossed about, without any attribution ignorant and dishonest Libertards such as yourself conveniently ignores the fact that these people are still paying Social Security taxes, which make up a large portion of federal spending. The numbers that you're referring to, either disingenuously or stupidly are the numbers of Americans with no Federal Income Tax Liability. Now, these numbers might have increased after the last stimulus bill, but those people are still paying taxes, 15.4 percent of their income, and associated state and local sales and property taxes. So the myth that you're propagating is bullshit and you of course have no numbers to back it up because you're a Libertard and Libertards just make shit up or get their information from conservative e-mails that contain 20,000 Fwd: headers. Oh, and if you look at the chart I linked to you'll find that the states with the highest percentage of individuals who have no federal income tax liability are the Libertarded and Republican Red States while the state with the lowest percentage of citizens with no federal income tax liability is liberal Masschusetts.
Politically, the purpose of creating and encouraging this class of taxpayers is to engage in class warfare. The game is to get a large percentage of the population dependent on government subsidies for their day-to-day living. Those people will then defend and re-elect the politicians who feed that dependency no matter how unreasonable their policies may be.
Again, this perfectly explains the why the Libertards and Republicans who live in the red states keep electing ignorant racists and crackers to Congress such as Jim DeMint, Richard Shelby, John Cronyn and Sam Brownback. These guys are assholes, they're chock full of stupid religious beliefs and hate the idea of individual freedom. They want to use the government to shove Jesus down your throat and if you don't want Jesus shoved down your throat, well too bad. But they keep the welfare payments flowing to their constituents and are thus re-elected, even though they're stupid, corrupt, hate-filled bigots whose very existence is offensive to anyone who believes in limited government.
There is a second benefit to our rulers. The more "rich people" and "poor people" see each other as adver
Really, thanks for fucking everyone who buys ebooks up the ass. You got down on your knees and sucked off the publishing industry and now they're going to get more money for eBooks. Who's going to benefit from this? Not the authors, they probably won't see a dime of this money, but your good buddies in the publishing industry are really happy about this.
Has anyone here worked with KVM using libvirt to associate virtual cpus with physical cpus? I've always wanted to try this to see what the performance would be like.
Do you have any idea how many Bacon Double Cheeseburgers you can get out of a single pig and cow? You would throw all that deliciousness away just to get a 40-page article in Forensic Science Quarterly that comes to the final conclusion "They sink"?
No kidding. Why not, instead of using tasty pigs, round up a bunch of Tea Party members, anyone who thinks Sarah Palin is qualified to be president and everyone at Fox News, shoot them in the head and use their corpses for the testing. We'd not only end up with more tasty bacon but we'd also be improving the collective IQ of humanity by doing so, and accomplishing valuable science. It's all upside.
volunteers who are willing to undergo the process of zombification so I can have an army of the undead to do my bidding. I'll bet that my reality show is going to be way cooler than Channel 4's pathetic "mummy" reality show.
What a bunch of fucking wankers and assholes. FTA:
"With regard to the Kindle DX, it can read books aloud, but a blind person cannot independently select a book, start the read-aloud function, or navigate within the book, among other things," he added. "In other words, a blind student could only really use the device with the assistance of a sighted person."
Yeah, and how the fuck are blind students going to find books in a library without the assistance of a sighted person? Not too fucking well, because they're blind. So this is just bullshit, a bunch of blind, attention seeking assholes who are pissed off because they're blind and holding the sighted back. Of course the fact that the Kindle is more accessible to individuals with limited sight because the fonts can be resized means nothing to these assholes. Nope, unless your device is fully usable by Helen Keller you can't have it in the classroom, regardless of how much it would benefit the majority of students. Fuckers, we ought to go over to the National Federation of the Blind and the American Council of the Blind and rearrange the furniture.
I'm 44. I can remember rotary phones, black and white televisions and when it was a big deal when televisions became solid state (with the exception of the CRT) in the mid 1970s, tube testers at grocery and drug stores and going to the library to do research using card catalogs and the Reader's Periodical Guide. Christ, I'm probably going to be processed into Soylent Green soon. Either that or the Sandmen are going to come and get me.
His own father had warned the US authorities about his extremism already, but they had basically opened a file then ignored him. Perhaps they made a realistic assessment that this guy was only a threat to his own trousers?
Perhaps they looked at the fact that the guy's father was a "Nigerian banker" and blew him off because of that. I mean really, he probably sent an e-mail to the US Embassy saying "Yes, please to be depositing $10,000 in the 419th National Bank of Nigeria so I can release the millions of dollars belonging to the late dictator, General Sani Abacha to you. Oh, and by the way, my son is an Islamic nutjob, keep an eye out for him."
If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we shoot people for Apollo-related non-sequiturs?
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Actually for comparison purposes you should also slam your head into a concrete floor from a similar height to see how well wetware performs under those conditions.
Boy, the equipment manufacturers are going to hate this. Why buy new gear if you can keep the old gear running for less? In a similar vein at my last job most of the desktop systems were 2.8Ghz to 3.2Ghz Pentiums, 32 bit, single core. The desktop guys found that if you increased the RAM to 4Gb that performance really screamed with XP and that given the choice most of our users would rather have had an older system with a new, 16x9 monitor instead of a new system with a smaller monitor. We saved money and kept the users happy.
Is this going to be like that thing with electric cars being too quiet so they want to require them to make noise so people don't get run over? Will we have to require a certain minimum noise level for hard drive so that your co-workers will know that you're surfing porn and not walk in on you at a potentially embarrassing moment.
high altitude computing. I was reading an article about mountaineers with laptops, when you get up around 15 or 16 thousand feet the air pressure is so low that the Bernoulli effect no longer works properly in your hard drive, so your drive makes lots of nasty noise and is more prone to failure. With SSDs you just have to worry about the lack of oxygen damaging your brain and your internal organs, but not about endangering your data or the performance of your laptop.
I was thinking about this the other day and wishing that I could get a laptop with tiered storage. Say 4Gb of RAM, 16Gb of flash and then a 500Gb hard drive. Install the OS and your frequently used apps on the flash and use it as the boot volume. Set aside part of the flash as a storage area for your RAM for fast sleep modes. If you did it right you could have a kick ass system.
I've got a new MacBook Pro (Core I-5) on order and I ordered one of the Momentus drives for it. I'll be interested in seeing where the hybrid drives go. I want speed, but I also like hauling around a bunch of stuff with me, like three or four virtual machines, some movies, music, etc.
Don't get out much do you? Ten years ago this might have been the case, but with modern storage technology you can run a lot of database loads on RAID-5 with an acceptable level of performance and as a matter of fact I've done so. Indeed the technology has improved so much that when I migrated the Oracle environment at my last job off of a SAN using RAID 1+0 volumes to a SAN using RAID-5 disk access was still around 10 times faster. I'm not sure that I'd run any kind of OLTP system on RAID-5, but a lot of other databases will run just fine.
What a fucking load of bullshit. Go out in any major city when there's a traffic accident or any other newsworthy event and you'll have three or four news helicopters orbiting to get footage of the event, at altitudes less than 3,000 feet. Now, since our cities aren't littered with the debris from falling news and police helicopters I hardly think that this would be a problem over the area of the spill.
Got a cite for this? Sounds to me like you're making shit up. I'd be surprised if you'd ever ridden on a boat, much less if you were anything even resembling a trained professional seaman, although I'm sure that you've gargled lots of semen. But that's not the same as being a trained seaman.
Except Daily Kos went out and admitted that Research 2000's numbers were fucked and couldn't be trusted. Who blew the whistle on Research 2000? Why Daily Kos did. Now, when has Fake Noise ever revealed that their sources are full of shit or tried to insure the reliability of the polling data they publish. Oh wait, that would be never.
No, this won't happen. Why? Because journalists aren't whining little fucks like you. Journalists are big boys, journalists know the risks they're taking. Now, if the journalists were whining little pussies like you then yeah, they'd bitch and piss and moan, but they're not, if only because they know they'd get laughed out of court for trying to sue under such circumstances. Of course you'd sue, because again, you're a whining little fuck.
Yeah, which is why tailgating is punishable by a 40k fine and a felony conviction. Oh wait, it's not. Could you fucking slashtards come up with some better analogies?
Got a cite for that? Of course not, this is slashdot, making shit up is a way of life here. Fuck Dude, if you're going to lie and make shit up why not make it interesting? "Last month photographers stole 7 trillion feet of boom, and ate babies as well!"
God you're a stupid fucking cunt. Fox Noise is all about big government, and if you weren't one of those conservative fucktards who believes that laws like the PATRIOT act, military interventions in foreign countries, domestic surveillance, Medicare Part D and No Child Left Behind are OK but regulating oil companies or finance companies like Goldman Sachs are evil big government soshulism you'd know this. Oh, and Noise Corps is all about the MPAA and RIAA as well, and Rupert Murdoch is in bed with the Chinese government as well and agreed to censor content on BSkyB in order to get access to the Chinese market. Fox Noise is corporate, fascist, big government news. They decide, you comply.
That's what these lying shits say, but when Bush was in office, for at least the six years of his administration they were sucking his balls like the high class whores that Elliot Spitzer likes to hire, you know, teabagging. The teabaggers remind me of the Germans, when things were going well for Nazi Germany they were all about Hitler, they loved the guy, couldn't get enough of him and said nothing when their Jewish neighbors were hauled off to the camps. But after the Allies kicked Nazi Germany's ass, after the US Army Air Corps and RAF burned their cities to the ground and the Red Army raped and pillaged it's way across the eastern half of the country, after we had our boots on their throats they were all saying "Nazis, I wasn't a Nazi, I hated Hitler. He was awful. I had no idea what was going on in those camps."
You want to drag people into the street and shoot them as traitors. Shoot the fucking teabaggers. The teabaggers are the morons who gave us the War on Some Drugs. They're the morons who are in favor of destroying our freedoms in the name of the War on Terrorism. The teabaggers are stupid, easily manipulated human garbage who hate freedom, hate individual liberty, hate the rule of law, won't and can't take responsibility for themselves and are the first ones to jump on any bandwagon or follow any leader who promises them security if they'll only give up their liberty and the liberty of others.
Got any sources to back that up? Of course not, you're a teabagger. You're too busy massaging Glenn Beck's balls with your tongue to actually do any research, so you just repeat what you heard on his show.
Yeah, and neither is the "free market". Of course the teatards don't mind government spending when they benefit from it. Which they do, quite handsomely. In fact the most teatarded portions of America are also the portions that receive more in federal spending than they contribute in federal taxes.
Or it could be that they were just a bunch of stupid bastards who saw a chance to try out a neo-conservative foreign policy. Your supposition about Iraq though is one of the stupidest fucking things I've ever read on Slashdot though. Really, if you're dumb enough to believe that then you probably have problems maintaining basic sphincter control.
Well those multinational corporations have benefited quite handsomely from our middle eastern adventure, haven't they teatard?
Yes, and those uniform voting blocs of non-productive parasites are called Red States. If you weren't a lazy and stupid Libertard you would know that the least productive and most parasitic parts of our country happen to be the most conservative. For every dollar that ultra-liberal California sends to Washington D.C. they receive back .78 cents in federal spending. For every dollar that ultra-libertarian Alaska sends to Washington, D.C. they get back $1.84. Kentucky, home of Rand Paul, the son of Libertarian darling Ron Paul takes $1.55 in federal spending for every $1 they pay in taxes. The parasites you talk about are overwhelmingly Republicans and Libertarians. And of course Ron Paul has never, ever told any of his constituents that they need to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps and not rely on the federal government.
What a load of Libertarded bullshit. This statistic and others like it, so casually tossed about, without any attribution ignorant and dishonest Libertards such as yourself conveniently ignores the fact that these people are still paying Social Security taxes, which make up a large portion of federal spending. The numbers that you're referring to, either disingenuously or stupidly are the numbers of Americans with no Federal Income Tax Liability. Now, these numbers might have increased after the last stimulus bill, but those people are still paying taxes, 15.4 percent of their income, and associated state and local sales and property taxes. So the myth that you're propagating is bullshit and you of course have no numbers to back it up because you're a Libertard and Libertards just make shit up or get their information from conservative e-mails that contain 20,000 Fwd: headers. Oh, and if you look at the chart I linked to you'll find that the states with the highest percentage of individuals who have no federal income tax liability are the Libertarded and Republican Red States while the state with the lowest percentage of citizens with no federal income tax liability is liberal Masschusetts.
Again, this perfectly explains the why the Libertards and Republicans who live in the red states keep electing ignorant racists and crackers to Congress such as Jim DeMint, Richard Shelby, John Cronyn and Sam Brownback. These guys are assholes, they're chock full of stupid religious beliefs and hate the idea of individual freedom. They want to use the government to shove Jesus down your throat and if you don't want Jesus shoved down your throat, well too bad. But they keep the welfare payments flowing to their constituents and are thus re-elected, even though they're stupid, corrupt, hate-filled bigots whose very existence is offensive to anyone who believes in limited government.
"Do you have pornography on your computer" is to reply "Do naked pictures of your mom count?"
Really, thanks for fucking everyone who buys ebooks up the ass. You got down on your knees and sucked off the publishing industry and now they're going to get more money for eBooks. Who's going to benefit from this? Not the authors, they probably won't see a dime of this money, but your good buddies in the publishing industry are really happy about this.
Has anyone here worked with KVM using libvirt to associate virtual cpus with physical cpus? I've always wanted to try this to see what the performance would be like.
Do you have any idea how many Bacon Double Cheeseburgers you can get out of a single pig and cow? You would throw all that deliciousness away just to get a 40-page article in Forensic Science Quarterly that comes to the final conclusion "They sink"?
No kidding. Why not, instead of using tasty pigs, round up a bunch of Tea Party members, anyone who thinks Sarah Palin is qualified to be president and everyone at Fox News, shoot them in the head and use their corpses for the testing. We'd not only end up with more tasty bacon but we'd also be improving the collective IQ of humanity by doing so, and accomplishing valuable science. It's all upside.
volunteers who are willing to undergo the process of zombification so I can have an army of the undead to do my bidding. I'll bet that my reality show is going to be way cooler than Channel 4's pathetic "mummy" reality show.
Yeah, and how the fuck are blind students going to find books in a library without the assistance of a sighted person? Not too fucking well, because they're blind. So this is just bullshit, a bunch of blind, attention seeking assholes who are pissed off because they're blind and holding the sighted back. Of course the fact that the Kindle is more accessible to individuals with limited sight because the fonts can be resized means nothing to these assholes. Nope, unless your device is fully usable by Helen Keller you can't have it in the classroom, regardless of how much it would benefit the majority of students. Fuckers, we ought to go over to the National Federation of the Blind and the American Council of the Blind and rearrange the furniture.
I'm 44. I can remember rotary phones, black and white televisions and when it was a big deal when televisions became solid state (with the exception of the CRT) in the mid 1970s, tube testers at grocery and drug stores and going to the library to do research using card catalogs and the Reader's Periodical Guide. Christ, I'm probably going to be processed into Soylent Green soon. Either that or the Sandmen are going to come and get me.
Perhaps they looked at the fact that the guy's father was a "Nigerian banker" and blew him off because of that. I mean really, he probably sent an e-mail to the US Embassy saying "Yes, please to be depositing $10,000 in the 419th National Bank of Nigeria so I can release the millions of dollars belonging to the late dictator, General Sani Abacha to you. Oh, and by the way, my son is an Islamic nutjob, keep an eye out for him."
Awesome sig.