Benchmarks of 120gb vs 120gb are not relevant. Benchmarks of 200 gb perp vs a 100 gb non-perp with same number of platters and tracks are what matter.
If you has 2 drives both at the same RPM, the 200 gig perp drive has twice as many bits per second going past the heads.
So a 200g 4200 RPM perp drive would be the same head bit rate as a theoretical 100g 8400 rpm drive.
This comparison is of course only valid when both disk drives have the same number of platters and tracks on each platter and the data rate is not limited by the interface to the computer.
In general, a 200 gig 4200 rpm drive is faster than a 7200 rpm 100 gig drive. Same number of platters, more data bandwidth across the head. The difference is because the 200 gig drive uses perpendicular magnetic domains.
I guess I'd have to install an advertising blocker. The majority of bandwidth that I use is all these flash-video advertisements when I am trying to read simple text based sites, like slashdot. So in the event of a "bandwidth shortage", advertising revenue to websites would decrease...
Besides all the problems that this bill has, a glaring stupid one is that they have clear definitions of what a "Public Library", a "School", and a "School Board" is, but they do not define what a "Social Networking Website" is. Is slashdot a social networking website? I think it is...
Maybe the vision of the world 'where only the priesthood are granted programming licenses' is where we are going. Not really a priesthood, but authorized, approved, educated and vetted by the regime-of-the-day, "Programmers".
People as consumers and workers, not as citizens or producers.
Especially those third world coloured kids who need to be taught how to 'plug in to the net' and 'consume information' - but giving them the freedom to create or extend technology is too scary for 'us'.
Okay, so then can I notify the internet provider for disney.com and tell them that their new cartoon is violating my copyright because I say that they stole the character from my demo reels? Will Disney's internet provider follow the DMCA and shut off the relevant part of www.disney.com? Do they have to under the DMCA? If so, this could be fun...
What really pissed me off in the late eighties was that because of that lawsuit with Apple records, Apple Computers decided that their "MidiManager" system put them into the music industry, so they had to kill it. Then various competing systems were created (OMS, FreeMidi), fracturing the nice, ground breaking MIDI system that was in place in the beginning.
Watch closely as exploits like these force the government to enforce Trusted Computing TCM Modules on to every computer system. "Trusted Computing" means that you can't trust your computer anymore, as you would not be allowed to have full control over it - Because if you did you might figure out how to run a debugger tool to extract these very kinds of keys!
In The Right To Read, Stallman writes, "...Frank was in prison, not for pirate reading, but for possessing a debugger...," - TCM allows for this kind of system to be implemented now.
One problem with the disposable camera is that after you take an important picture, the camera can be 'confiscated' and your picture is gone too. With a camera phone, the picture can be emailed to the world before the 'bad guy' can take your phone away....
One of the things that bugs me are these 'enormous specifications' that are inconsistent. What we need is not just a document, but the tools necessary to verify a generated file. Not just for valid XML, but for all the little microsofty-bits hidden inside.
This story somehow reminds me of a story about how a high-upper-class wife of a CEO in California would run a charity. This charity would have fund raising events to raise money for starving children in Africa. The events typically would be a big dinner and dance. They would charge $1000.00 per plate for the dinner. 50 people would come and they would raise $50,000.00 for charity!
But in reality 98% of the $50,000.00 went to her friend's catering companies, security companies, and florists. They end up raising $2,000.00 for starving children, they get to make huge tax deductible donations, and their friend's companies make profit. The next time around the friends rotate the roles so everyone gets to roll in the profit.
If the Gates foundation has many billions of dollars, this money can't just be put into a single bank account. It must be invested. They also must give away some of the money every year. But the key here is that they get to control which companies get the investment money, and they get to pay less tax on this money in order to exert this control over other companies, plus they get to play philanthropy.
Playing philanthropy is just the extension of the need for personal power.
btw IANAA (I Am Not An Accountant) but I watched on on TV.
I watched law & order too... And therefore I think if you are on a p2p network, you are both downloading and uploading something that you THINK is a specific movie.... And then therefore my previous example stands; The fake drug dealer is put in jail for being a drug dealer, even if he never touched real drugs in his life.
Not that I am agreeing with the concept of 'thought crime', but I think there is a precedent already....
I used to smoke. I notice now that second-hand smoke really bothers me a lot, yet it did not bother me as much before I smoked. However, I am certain that I get more carcinogens breathing in the automobile pollution when I go for a walk than any second hand cigarette smoke! It seems that most of the old trucks and cars in this area spew out really horrible stuff!
It would be fine for me if smoking was stopped everywhere, but it is kind of pointless as long as many areas still do not have mandatory automobile emissions testing.
The first borland product I used was in 1986... I followed them through Borland C++ 3.0, 3.1, 4.0, Delphi 1,2,3, BC++Builder 4, 5. I bought them all. I stopped using them after that as I found the quality seemed to be reducing over the years and the prices were going through the roof, and all the code was 'locked in' to their environment - not just their environment but each specific version of their environment... I tried Kylix and was excited at first, but then I realized that it still locked me in. The real issue is shown by Borland killing Kylix... I am glad I did not base all my code around a system that could so easily be killed off!
The price is not the factor for me, the freedom and guaranteed availability is.
I must agree, the RAZR looks cool but is such a pain to use! So many things are wrong with the UI design, it is depressing! can't they get it right? Even my old Motorol Star-Tac in 1997 was better!! I have a Sony-Ericsson phone specifically because of Romeo which lets me use it as a scriptable bluetooth remote control for my Mac, but I hate the form factor of the phone.
--jeffk++
Slashdot Mirror
Soon, when Vista gets as many drivers as linux already has, perhaps Vista will be ready for the desktop!
--jeffk++
Your comment is pretty good proof that windows XP is not really ready for the desktop yet..
--jeffk++
Benchmarks of 120gb vs 120gb are not relevant. Benchmarks of 200 gb perp vs a 100 gb non-perp with same number of platters and tracks are what matter.
If you has 2 drives both at the same RPM, the 200 gig perp drive has twice as many bits per second going past the heads.
So a 200g 4200 RPM perp drive would be the same head bit rate as a theoretical 100g 8400 rpm drive.
This comparison is of course only valid when both disk drives have the same number of platters and tracks on each platter and the data rate is not limited by the interface to the computer.
Measure it!
--jeffk++
In general, a 200 gig 4200 rpm drive is faster than a 7200 rpm 100 gig drive. Same number of platters, more data bandwidth across the head. The difference is because the 200 gig drive uses perpendicular magnetic domains.
--jeffk++
I guess I'd have to install an advertising blocker. The majority of bandwidth that I use is all these flash-video advertisements when I am trying to read simple text based sites, like slashdot. So in the event of a "bandwidth shortage", advertising revenue to websites would decrease...
--jeffk++
Why are all the responses to your post truncated???
--jeffk++
Besides all the problems that this bill has, a glaring stupid one is that they have clear definitions of what a "Public Library", a "School", and a "School Board" is, but they do not define what a "Social Networking Website" is. Is slashdot a social networking website? I think it is...
--jeffk++
Maybe the vision of the world 'where only the priesthood are granted programming licenses' is where we are going. Not really a priesthood, but authorized, approved, educated and vetted by the regime-of-the-day, "Programmers".
People as consumers and workers, not as citizens or producers.
Especially those third world coloured kids who need to be taught how to 'plug in to the net' and 'consume information' - but giving them the freedom to create or extend technology is too scary for 'us'.
--jeffk++
Okay, so then can I notify the internet provider for disney.com and tell them that their new cartoon is violating my copyright because I say that they stole the character from my demo reels? Will Disney's internet provider follow the DMCA and shut off the relevant part of www.disney.com? Do they have to under the DMCA? If so, this could be fun...
--jeffk++
What really pissed me off in the late eighties was that because of that lawsuit with Apple records, Apple Computers decided that their "MidiManager" system put them into the music industry, so they had to kill it. Then various competing systems were created (OMS, FreeMidi), fracturing the nice, ground breaking MIDI system that was in place in the beginning.
--jeffk++
Tivo is under no obligation to lower prices to the consumer. The only thing that lowers them is competition.
jeffk
The problem part of this story is that google got the politicians to sign NDA's.
;-)
jeffk
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if they were not doing anything wrong then what are they trying to hide?
Most USB chipsets connect via PCI to a bridge to the PCI express port nowadays... So PCI would be involved, I believe...
jeffk
Watch closely as exploits like these force the government to enforce Trusted Computing TCM Modules on to every computer system. "Trusted Computing" means that you can't trust your computer anymore, as you would not be allowed to have full control over it - Because if you did you might figure out how to run a debugger tool to extract these very kinds of keys!
In The Right To Read, Stallman writes, "...Frank was in prison, not for pirate reading, but for possessing a debugger...," - TCM allows for this kind of system to be implemented now.
--jeffk++
One problem with the disposable camera is that after you take an important picture, the camera can be 'confiscated' and your picture is gone too. With a camera phone, the picture can be emailed to the world before the 'bad guy' can take your phone away....
--jeffk++
One of the things that bugs me are these 'enormous specifications' that are inconsistent. What we need is not just a document, but the tools necessary to verify a generated file. Not just for valid XML, but for all the little microsofty-bits hidden inside.
--jeffk++
NeXT was very much a success! In fact NeXT purchased Apple, for something like Negative 300 Million Dollars! Now NeXT continues in Apple form.
--jeffk++
This story somehow reminds me of a story about how a high-upper-class wife of a CEO in California would run a charity. This charity would have fund raising events to raise money for starving children in Africa. The events typically would be a big dinner and dance. They would charge $1000.00 per plate for the dinner. 50 people would come and they would raise $50,000.00 for charity!
But in reality 98% of the $50,000.00 went to her friend's catering companies, security companies, and florists. They end up raising $2,000.00 for starving children, they get to make huge tax deductible donations, and their friend's companies make profit. The next time around the friends rotate the roles so everyone gets to roll in the profit.
If the Gates foundation has many billions of dollars, this money can't just be put into a single bank account. It must be invested. They also must give away some of the money every year. But the key here is that they get to control which companies get the investment money, and they get to pay less tax on this money in order to exert this control over other companies, plus they get to play philanthropy.
Playing philanthropy is just the extension of the need for personal power.
btw IANAA (I Am Not An Accountant) but I watched on on TV.
--jeffk++
I watched law & order too... And therefore I think if you are on a p2p network, you are both downloading and uploading something that you THINK is a specific movie.... And then therefore my previous example stands; The fake drug dealer is put in jail for being a drug dealer, even if he never touched real drugs in his life.
Not that I am agreeing with the concept of 'thought crime', but I think there is a precedent already....
--jeffk++
Hmm.. Police can arrest people for drug dealing even if the white powder that they were representing and selling as drugs was really just baking soda.
--jeffk++
If 70% of the pollution that I inhale comes from cars, and 3% comes from second hand cigarette smoke, why bother with the cigarette smoke at all?
--jeffk++
I used to smoke. I notice now that second-hand smoke really bothers me a lot, yet it did not bother me as much before I smoked. However, I am certain that I get more carcinogens breathing in the automobile pollution when I go for a walk than any second hand cigarette smoke! It seems that most of the old trucks and cars in this area spew out really horrible stuff!
It would be fine for me if smoking was stopped everywhere, but it is kind of pointless as long as many areas still do not have mandatory automobile emissions testing.
--jeffk++
The first borland product I used was in 1986... I followed them through Borland C++ 3.0, 3.1, 4.0, Delphi 1,2,3, BC++Builder 4, 5. I bought them all. I stopped using them after that as I found the quality seemed to be reducing over the years and the prices were going through the roof, and all the code was 'locked in' to their environment - not just their environment but each specific version of their environment... I tried Kylix and was excited at first, but then I realized that it still locked me in. The real issue is shown by Borland killing Kylix... I am glad I did not base all my code around a system that could so easily be killed off!
The price is not the factor for me, the freedom and guaranteed availability is.
--jeffk++
I must agree, the RAZR looks cool but is such a pain to use! So many things are wrong with the UI design, it is depressing! can't they get it right? Even my old Motorol Star-Tac in 1997 was better!! I have a Sony-Ericsson phone specifically because of Romeo which lets me use it as a scriptable bluetooth remote control for my Mac, but I hate the form factor of the phone.
--jeffk++
Exactly, this is why I 'tagged' this article with 'linux'.
jeffk