I wonder if they used FAT32 for the SSD and NTFS for the HDD. I think a lot of the potential efficiency in SSD is being pissed away by file system drivers optimized for HDD.
You're greatly underestimating the increase in the cost of housing in 30 years. One need only look back at the cost of houses 30 years ago. Renters are paying landlords mortgages they got just 5 years ago not 20-30 years ago. The only way the rent argument makes any sense is when you skew a dozen different data points.
In 30 years, just buy the property outright (or pretty close to outright)
This notion is laughable. How much do you think the property will cost in 30 years? And do you really want to live in a tiny apartment for 30 years - or are you suggesting he rent a house in which case he'd probably just be paying someone else's mortgage anyways!
I see these rent vs buy arguments pop up occasionally and the argument for renting is just preposterous. There are plenty of circumstances when it makes sense to rent and not being able to afford to buy is one of them - but if you're renting your main residence and you intend to stay there indefinitely and you can afford to buy it - not buying it is a mistake.
extension's really aren't the nuggets of gold a lot of slashdotters say they are.
I respectfully disagree. The web developer extension is solid gold - find me a web developer who disagrees. Here are just a few extensions I can't live without: Adblock Plus (better than your hosts file believe me), DownThemAll!, Dictionary Tooltip, BugMeNot, Google Browser Sync and IE Tab
..but the google browser sync extension is not being ported. And I can't live without google browser sync! Does anyone know of a reasonable replacement? I could live with just syncing my stored passwords since there are other extensions that do only bookmarks.
IE7 and Firefox are basically equal in terms of features, unless you care about add-ons (and personally, I have yet to see one FF addon.......
There is no way this is not a troll. If not, I am thoroughly dumbfounded how anyone can fail to find value in the pure nuggets of gold that are ff extensions.
I quite like this theory. Even after dissecting the brain and improving on its components you could get something with a perfect memory, flawless deductive and inductive reasoning, completely knowledgeable in every discipline, wildly creative, etc. If we built such a mind it wouldn't necessarily lead us to the singularity - it would just be very good at scoring chicks.
Never say never - the reason existing storage abstractions fail is because the ridiculously bad performance of random IO on a mechanical disk drive. Hiding that bottleneck from the developer is a bad idea especially in retrospect when you consider that it's a bottleneck that's been with us for over 50 years.
If you think that won't be true in the future implicit in your thought is that the problems being solved (or at least crunched on) will not keep up with hardware in complexity. I could not parse that sentence, come again?
Do you think that after another billion years or so of evolution that you could find organisms with natural abilities that would be identified as advanced technology today? Like animals that use rocket power or some form of anti-gravity for propulsion or small critters that project holographic replicas of themselves to escape predators?
SSD hasn't changed the whole seek/read/write paradigm because the current batch are tailored to be retrofit to existing HBA/RAID storage systems. Once the IO drive is here we'll have a true random access to nonvolatile storage with latency measured in nanoseconds.
I'm sure he meant the 'implementation of' Relational algebra has nothing to do with random IO however building a relational database system has everything to do with random IO because it is by and large the worst bottleneck in the system. The best performing RDBMSs are the ones completely designed around avoiding random IO. That's why TFA says a new RDBMS could be created from scratch and blow the existing players out of the water in the new SSD world.
Volatile, nonvolatile, expensive, cheap are all hardware concepts not applicable to software. Applications in the future will just use 'memory' and assume it's persistent and as fast as possible.
The only reason applications are forced to account for slow storage is because hard disk drives have been our biggest bottleneck for 50 years!
seriously - holy shit, what the fuck is it that motivates people to post absolute, made-up, bullshit, nonsense? It's scary because on the surface it actually sounds like the poster knows what they're talking about.. I see this sort of thing all the time on/. most of the time some Anonymous Coward calls them out.
The thing I don't understand is why Creative doesn't own the on-board market. They can't compete with Taiwan and their 5 cent 7.1+2-channel-good-enough-for-most-anyone chips. And doesn't NVidia's northbridge just have audio integrated?
Q: Did you ever post something that Microsoft wished you hadn't?
A: The first post I put up was on the use of BitTorrents to distribute Beta 2, and I gave it a rather sensationalistic title. It got senior management's attention, and from there we had a blank check to engage anyone we needed in order to get the story in time for it to be relevant to our readers.
If Japanese Anime has any basis in reality I would expect the cable to become super-heated on the way back and pass completely through our planet, whip the base station through the center of the earth and out into space with the cable following. Then, moments after, the entire planet splits in half.. the two halves drift away from each other slowly exposing the earth's core which violently explodes, engulfing the two halves of earth and finally disappearing completely into a gaseous haze.
I was playing phantom hourglass on a jet while traveling for work. I was really enjoying the game until I got stuck at this part where I was supposed to actually yell out. I didn't want to do that cause the people around me were sleeping and I'd feel like a weirdo talking to my DS. I ended up playing something else the rest of the flight (thank god for R4)
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I wonder if they used FAT32 for the SSD and NTFS for the HDD. I think a lot of the potential efficiency in SSD is being pissed away by file system drivers optimized for HDD.
You're greatly underestimating the increase in the cost of housing in 30 years. One need only look back at the cost of houses 30 years ago. Renters are paying landlords mortgages they got just 5 years ago not 20-30 years ago. The only way the rent argument makes any sense is when you skew a dozen different data points.
In 30 years, just buy the property outright (or pretty close to outright)
This notion is laughable. How much do you think the property will cost in 30 years? And do you really want to live in a tiny apartment for 30 years - or are you suggesting he rent a house in which case he'd probably just be paying someone else's mortgage anyways!
I see these rent vs buy arguments pop up occasionally and the argument for renting is just preposterous. There are plenty of circumstances when it makes sense to rent and not being able to afford to buy is one of them - but if you're renting your main residence and you intend to stay there indefinitely and you can afford to buy it - not buying it is a mistake.
extension's really aren't the nuggets of gold a lot of slashdotters say they are.
I respectfully disagree. The web developer extension is solid gold - find me a web developer who disagrees. Here are just a few extensions I can't live without: Adblock Plus (better than your hosts file believe me), DownThemAll!, Dictionary Tooltip, BugMeNot, Google Browser Sync and IE Tab
..but the google browser sync extension is not being ported. And I can't live without google browser sync! Does anyone know of a reasonable replacement? I could live with just syncing my stored passwords since there are other extensions that do only bookmarks.
IE7 and Firefox are basically equal in terms of features, unless you care about add-ons (and personally, I have yet to see one FF addon.......
There is no way this is not a troll. If not, I am thoroughly dumbfounded how anyone can fail to find value in the pure nuggets of gold that are ff extensions.
What about cognitive science. Using logic isn't cognition - "you're not thinking you're using logic"
I quite like this theory. Even after dissecting the brain and improving on its components you could get something with a perfect memory, flawless deductive and inductive reasoning, completely knowledgeable in every discipline, wildly creative, etc. If we built such a mind it wouldn't necessarily lead us to the singularity - it would just be very good at scoring chicks.
It looks like they're doing what this guy did 6 months ago with a Wii
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw
His examples are more impressive than this - and he never called his stuff "holodeck v1.0"
Mexico actually. Still the North American Union either way.
Do you think that after another billion years or so of evolution that you could find organisms with natural abilities that would be identified as advanced technology today? Like animals that use rocket power or some form of anti-gravity for propulsion or small critters that project holographic replicas of themselves to escape predators?
SSD hasn't changed the whole seek/read/write paradigm because the current batch are tailored to be retrofit to existing HBA/RAID storage systems.
Once the IO drive is here we'll have a true random access to nonvolatile storage with latency measured in nanoseconds.
I'm sure he meant the 'implementation of'
Relational algebra has nothing to do with random IO however building a relational database system has everything to do with random IO because it is by and large the worst bottleneck in the system. The best performing RDBMSs are the ones completely designed around avoiding random IO. That's why TFA says a new RDBMS could be created from scratch and blow the existing players out of the water in the new SSD world.
Volatile, nonvolatile, expensive, cheap are all hardware concepts not applicable to software. Applications in the future will just use 'memory' and assume it's persistent and as fast as possible.
The only reason applications are forced to account for slow storage is because hard disk drives have been our biggest bottleneck for 50 years!
You were actually being sarcastic. There's a difference.
"TTIWWOP"
... And yes, I can afford the legal costs. You can afford to vanish without a trace?Those things were featured in the 1992 movie "Toys" starring Robin Williams
brain tumor!
seriously - holy shit, what the fuck is it that motivates people to post absolute, made-up, bullshit, nonsense? It's scary because on the surface it actually sounds like the poster knows what they're talking about.. I see this sort of thing all the time on /. most of the time some Anonymous Coward calls them out.
Thank god for Anonymous Cowards!
Q: Did you ever post something that Microsoft wished you hadn't?
A: The first post I put up was on the use of BitTorrents to distribute Beta 2, and I gave it a rather sensationalistic title. It got senior management's attention, and from there we had a blank check to engage anyone we needed in order to get the story in time for it to be relevant to our readers.
If Japanese Anime has any basis in reality I would expect the cable to become super-heated on the way back and pass completely through our planet, whip the base station through the center of the earth and out into space with the cable following. Then, moments after, the entire planet splits in half.. the two halves drift away from each other slowly exposing the earth's core which violently explodes, engulfing the two halves of earth and finally disappearing completely into a gaseous haze.
I was playing phantom hourglass on a jet while traveling for work. I was really enjoying the game until I got stuck at this part where I was supposed to actually yell out. I didn't want to do that cause the people around me were sleeping and I'd feel like a weirdo talking to my DS. I ended up playing something else the rest of the flight (thank god for R4)