Don't fall for the error in statistics that cause human lifespans to seem short before modern times -- average lifespans were short because of massive infant mortality, not because people who survived to be adults didn't live to old ages.
There's no evidence to suggest people died earlier 5,000 or 50,000 years ago -- and there's strong counter evidence for that during historical periods of the last 3-5k years.
If your files are small enough to fit on DVDs -- I've got individual video files over 50GB.
Sure, you can split them, but then you have to make damn certain you don't lose or otherwise damage a disk, or you have to generate a parity disk or twenty...
Its good for some stuff, not for massive amounts of data.
No its not. I've produced almost 700 gig of data in the last year with home videos...
Editable HD video in an intermediate format is 40+ gigabytes per hour. Including edited versions, it can be much more.
I don't have kids and I'm planning storage and backup right now on the basis of generating 1-2 TB of data a year.
Unfortunately for the guy asking the question, in reality there is no reasonable solution these days. With the advent of consumer HD, blu-ray and DVD are no longer viable. Tape is too expensive.
My plan is initially two 4TB NAS boxes, one here and one at my parents, and I'll sync the data between them. It'll last me a few years I hope and with any luck by then there'll be an archival solution to multi-TB storage needs.
I paid a ton of money for one of the first 1x CDR drives for PCs back about 14-15 years ago. Recently I've been moving all the data I've built up over that time onto HDs for longer term storage.
What I've found is nearly all of the discs from back then I can read -- the $20 a pop gold discs.
Starting with the discs from the very late 90's, I'm getting about a 50% failure rate (on discs stored in climate controlled conditions away from light). With some brands (and not necessarily low end ones), I'm getting nearly 90% failure rates after just seven or eight years.
(And I consider failure to mean a clean disc, at least one file can't be copied anymore...)
Since he's not going to be pressing glass masters and casting pressed CDs, I'm not sure non-recordable media longevity matters one bit.
I pay for Cable only, and I get ads. I'm paying for my access to have part of the time available to watch TV used for advertisements. I can pay more and not see the ads, or I can watch the ads.
I don't expect Comcast to refund me the 20-30% of my cable bill that represents the time spent in advertisements on non-pay channels because I'm not watching HBO.
Put another way, those ads are paying for the websites you're looking at just as TV ads pay for the TV shows. Why should your provider aborb those costs? Its not their website.
No, it predated Prodigy by at least 3-4 years. There were graphical plugins for a few of the big BBS systems that could do basic graphics and GUI work a long time before Prodigy. Hell, going back to the DEC Gigi and similar terminals, you could do similar things although it wasn't a "click a graphic" metaphor. But a bunch of those BBS packages were definitely icon-clickin' a few years before Prodigy.
There's an unsubstantiated claim in the article that it appears a US patent was granted, but no evidence of that and no suggestion that the US patent office won't do the right thing when presented with it.
Yes, patents are broken, but don't assume this will impact the US patent process.
If you have a computer drawing only 100w continuous (and thats barely more than a laptop!), at 15 cents a kilowatt hour (which is less than here, at 19, but closer to the average), you're still talking almost $11 a month in electricity, and the C2D system I use in my garage, without the monitor, draws closer to 170w. If I recall correctly, if the system isn't asleep (which means its NOT 24/7), the C2D alone draws between 40-70 watts.
Thats still more than a shared server with a hundred or more gigs of storage and a few terabytes of transfer... Now maybe when you say 24/7 you mean 90% of the time its asleep, but thats a very different situation than a web-server that needs to be awake with power options disabled.
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Don't fall for the error in statistics that cause human lifespans to seem short before modern times -- average lifespans were short because of massive infant mortality, not because people who survived to be adults didn't live to old ages.
There's no evidence to suggest people died earlier 5,000 or 50,000 years ago -- and there's strong counter evidence for that during historical periods of the last 3-5k years.
If your files are small enough to fit on DVDs -- I've got individual video files over 50GB.
Sure, you can split them, but then you have to make damn certain you don't lose or otherwise damage a disk, or you have to generate a parity disk or twenty...
Its good for some stuff, not for massive amounts of data.
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply they were -- but back then they were. Even at $2 a pop, they're not viable for storing terabytes of data...
No its not. I've produced almost 700 gig of data in the last year with home videos...
Editable HD video in an intermediate format is 40+ gigabytes per hour. Including edited versions, it can be much more.
I don't have kids and I'm planning storage and backup right now on the basis of generating 1-2 TB of data a year.
Unfortunately for the guy asking the question, in reality there is no reasonable solution these days. With the advent of consumer HD, blu-ray and DVD are no longer viable. Tape is too expensive.
My plan is initially two 4TB NAS boxes, one here and one at my parents, and I'll sync the data between them. It'll last me a few years I hope and with any luck by then there'll be an archival solution to multi-TB storage needs.
CDs, perhaps. CDR's? No, they're not.
I paid a ton of money for one of the first 1x CDR drives for PCs back about 14-15 years ago. Recently I've been moving all the data I've built up over that time onto HDs for longer term storage.
What I've found is nearly all of the discs from back then I can read -- the $20 a pop gold discs.
Starting with the discs from the very late 90's, I'm getting about a 50% failure rate (on discs stored in climate controlled conditions away from light). With some brands (and not necessarily low end ones), I'm getting nearly 90% failure rates after just seven or eight years.
(And I consider failure to mean a clean disc, at least one file can't be copied anymore...)
Since he's not going to be pressing glass masters and casting pressed CDs, I'm not sure non-recordable media longevity matters one bit.
Thats what you get for using Linux in a commercial environment!
*ducks*
Wait, what? Excluding the production of Top Gear, there's a British car industry?
Does Jeremy, Richard and James know this?
My first thought was someone sued them quietly for patent infringement and they settled.
If that's the case, that's a big cost savings.
Seriously, disk space is dirt cheap these days.
You won't save much using those and may cost a lot more when you deal with replacing them as they die.
You think wrong.
I pay for Cable + HBO and I get no ads.
I pay for Cable only, and I get ads. I'm paying for my access to have part of the time available to watch TV used for advertisements. I can pay more and not see the ads, or I can watch the ads.
I don't expect Comcast to refund me the 20-30% of my cable bill that represents the time spent in advertisements on non-pay channels because I'm not watching HBO.
Put another way, those ads are paying for the websites you're looking at just as TV ads pay for the TV shows. Why should your provider aborb those costs? Its not their website.
Good question, why doesn't Comcast add up all the time in the commercials I watch and subtract that percentage of time from my bill as well?
Not after you posted it on Slashdot, it certainly doesn't.
And sadly, I'm only half joking.
Technically that was worth 18526 words, 37052 bytes, 74104 nybbles, or 296416 bits.
No, it predated Prodigy by at least 3-4 years. There were graphical plugins for a few of the big BBS systems that could do basic graphics and GUI work a long time before Prodigy. Hell, going back to the DEC Gigi and similar terminals, you could do similar things although it wasn't a "click a graphic" metaphor. But a bunch of those BBS packages were definitely icon-clickin' a few years before Prodigy.
WTF? I can get better zoom resolution on a lake in the middle of nowhere Siberia than I can get at my house!?
Somethings just not right about that.
Ack, I thought you said WINSOCK and was about to disagree strongly.
Yeah, but it takes like ten minutes to find out and as we all know, in ten minutes it can be all over.
Whose patent reform?
Not a US company, not a US patent.
There's an unsubstantiated claim in the article that it appears a US patent was granted, but no evidence of that and no suggestion that the US patent office won't do the right thing when presented with it.
Yes, patents are broken, but don't assume this will impact the US patent process.
It was pretty commonly used back well into the 80's for some of the various graphical front-ends and extensions to BBS packages.
Last I checked the six domains I have sitting on GMail, you can use your own domain name for free.
Well you did a good job of sounding authoritative. I mean, you even got mudded up Insightful, so clearly you're doing something right ;-)
I don't believe your definition has any relationship to the official definition of what dark matter is.
Eh, I know people who dislike Indian food enough they might lean towards "Yes".
Going to print the article so I can read it on the can. I'll post a response about it when I get back.
If you have a computer drawing only 100w continuous (and thats barely more than a laptop!), at 15 cents a kilowatt hour (which is less than here, at 19, but closer to the average), you're still talking almost $11 a month in electricity, and the C2D system I use in my garage, without the monitor, draws closer to 170w. If I recall correctly, if the system isn't asleep (which means its NOT 24/7), the C2D alone draws between 40-70 watts.
Thats still more than a shared server with a hundred or more gigs of storage and a few terabytes of transfer... Now maybe when you say 24/7 you mean 90% of the time its asleep, but thats a very different situation than a web-server that needs to be awake with power options disabled.