I used to have a 4-year upgrade cycle on my gaming desktop. Last time I've upgraded it was in 2008, with a Core 2 Duo E8400 and mid range GPU (6600GTS).
However, things have changed a bit, and I'm not planing on upgrading my whole system for the near future. I've bought a 128GB SSD a year or so ago, and this was amazing for the overall performance of the system, but as my games are not installed on the SSD itself, it didn't do much for them.
So I'm considering a new GPU, in the 200 € range, to improve my gaming experience, but without breaking the bank... Any ideas?:)
Any word on having the Half Life / Portal / Left 4 Dead games working on Linux? These are part of my "must have installed" games, that I go back to from time to time, so I'll need them working on Linux as well, thank you:)
Humm from my experience with some laptops, usually its not a good idea to have a screen directly over keys (or buttons). I've seen a couple of screens with "marks" from the keys, although this might be due to the quality or age of the laptops in question... Perhaps the SHIELD has the buttons below the level of the screen when closed? I'm nitpicking, I know, but that was the first thing that crossed my mind while looking at the pictures:)
Agree! Currently I'm using a Corsair F120 for my SO and main games and apps. The rest of my stuff goes to normal, run of the mill HDD. This SSD was probably the most effective upgrade I've ever done, both in terms of value for money (payed around 120 € more than a year ago) as well as pure performance. I think that having a main SSD drive (a 120 GB one will be enough for having the SO + some stuff), along with one or more additional standard HDD should be next "unofficial" mandatory config any new computer nowadays.
Do you want to run a pure virtual environment? Or do you want to boot an OS, and inside that, boot a VM with the other OS? do you have the ability to have a dedicated computer to be the "hypervisor" (so that it can manage the VMs)?
VMware 7 offers great graphical capabilities, altough you should be aware that right now no VM solution offers an 100% seemless graphical experience (altough we are getting there).
Anyways, XenClient might be the thing for you, as it claims to offer full HD graphics usage inside VMs. However, it's in an early stage, and they seem to be marketing it as mostly laptop oriented (if not laptop exclusive).
I have experience with virtualization, so I might help you out:)
That's the exact, pinpoint moment when they switch sides from the "let's be rebellious and brake a window" attitude to the "that window is expensive and I'm gonna sue your for all you got"...
Really? Take people's homes and cars over piracy?! Wish for jail rape for copying songs?! I wonder if this "big rock star" would have the same attitude if his kids (does he even have kids?) were doing it (if?! I'm yet to meet a teen nowadays that doesn't do it).
Or perhaps, maybe, that's his exact position regarding drug abuse... How's that? Take the cars and homes and wish for jail-rape, for all the people caught with drugs, or using drugs, or selling drugs, or enjoying drugs. Now that's a crime with *real* consequences for other people, stuff that people might actually *die* from. I bet the "big rock star" agrees with me.
Isn't that the motto of the rock/metal bands? "Be rebel, fight the system", etc, etc?
So, all the "be rebel, fight the system, we are so hip and mean and evil and answer to no one, stick your tongue out, do the little horned sign with your fingers" stuff that you guys have been putting for decades is just a giant piece of fluff, hum? Is just a part of the "marketing", I presume, to get young (and not so young) people to buy your crap or watch your shows, right? That's nice. It shows a couple of things about the appreciation that some big names in music have for their fans. I understand, you don't need no fraking fans anymore, right? You're so filthy rich now that you won't need to do anything else for the rest of your life, even if you live to be 150 y.o.
It's always nice to see how big big big money and power corrupts anyone. And please, keep your dated and moldy music to yourselves. Fortunately I don't need no "big name in industry" to enjoy music, no matter what the genre.
I can't help myself but smile and nod my head in disapproval when I see someone like Gene or the guys from Metallica bashing filesharing and piracy... It's a bit like watching a Britney video, and then eventually watch her advocate "abstinence". It's called "hypocrisy".
That's why more and more I see music as an "act". It's like theater. It's make-believe. Sure, a song can be written in a moment of genuine anger, or love, or joy. But please, don't mistake the song for the emotion. Don't believe that every single time that a metal band plays a rock hard anthem that tells you to get angry at the "big man", they are actually that angry *all the time*, or that they are angry at all. In fact, changes are that they have become the "big man" themselves...
That's why I keep a prudent, skeptic distance when I sense that music is trying to "preach" something: be it something rebellious, shy/pure/happy, slutty, gangsta, or whatever.
My last CRT monitor had a maximum resolution of 1600x1200. It was launched in 2001. 10 years latter, it seems that the screen manufacturers think that "HD" (1920x1080) is a "good enough" resolution.
I don't know much about TFT/LCD low-level tech, but I have the feeling that we are getting lower resolutions that we should have, like if we were having crappy TVs instead of high-end monitors. Oh yeah, "HD resolutions" alows us to view media in a "cinematic aspect ratio" or something. Guess what: I use my monitor for more than "consume media". Try to work with big spreadsheets with a "cinematic aspect ratio". It's a monitor, not a TV, for heaven's sake!
I think that manufacturers finally "merged" the TV and monitor product. But in the process, they downgraded the experience for the computer user. The laptop and low-end monitors are a great example, having shoddy resolutions and unnecessary aspect ratios... Why would I want a "cinema" ratio for a supposedly "professional", business monitor or laptop? Not everyone is a video-editor or an "artist" or needs to "consume" media to do it's work...
Usually, for me, a "power user" is someone that doesn't go "ohhhhhhh" when I press enter, instead of clicking "ok", or when I press "tab" and the cursor "magically" changes fields...
Come on, every single day I read stories about how the games industry is not fun any more, how EA and others are "souless corporations" that grind everyone, I read people complaining about lack of creativity, about DRM... And when we have a good old-fashioned, stunt, from a very nice and solid project, people start screaming and pointing fingers...
Granted, GOG are not developers, but I think that what they are doing is class A stuff: providing us with DRM-FREE versions of rock-solid games from ages gone, for cheap-steal prices, and with the cooperation of publishers, that's an amazing work!
Every single day I read a commend about how Steam is evil and it's "DRM" will "swallow our souls", but when someone actually rolls up their sleeves and puts together a very solid collection of old games, that you can download as much as you like, install as much as you like, and basically "keep forever", people only seem to notice them when they do a harmless stunt, and everyone comes bashing them.
And yes, the stunt was harmless. Yes, the site was gone. But you are supposed to have the games on your hard drive because you downloaded them already when you bought them!! And all the games I have from GOG sitting on my hard-drive didn't stop working magically. If GOG really got out of bussiness, I would be very sad, but I would still be able to play, reinstall, enjoy all my bought games. And I know some people were mid shopping, but come on, isn't it a bit of an overreaction, screaming "zomg, we can't trust them!!!"? I bet that most of the people that said it have their nice sweet facebook pages, and are probably not as vocal about all the issues that fb have, but hey, maybe I'm just being a troll... just say'in...
Anyways, I've been with GOG ever since I first heard about them (I believe it was a Slashdot story), and I'm a very very happy customer. I believe it's a very valid project and it was probably very hard to put together (I can imagine how many negative answers they got from publishers in the beginning). We should support companies like this, and that's what I intend to keep doing.
there should be a way to restrict execution to only code signed by the owning organization's IT security.
There is such a way: it's called "Software Restriction Policies". It's been around since Windows 2000 and it can be deployed by GPO... You can restrict by signature, by file name, by path, etc. It's part of Windows, it's "free", you just need to configure it.
Oh, and you can block access to floppy, CD/DVD and USB drives as well. All with GPOs.
I'm no addressing specifically to you, but it gets on my nerves that people keep bashing MS, and they simply don't know squat about their products.
And it seems that the FBI, that would greatly benefit from this sort of security features, quite likely didn't have it implemented... "Incompetence" springs to my mind... If this incident involved linux in some way, everyone would say "it was shoddy configured, shoddy admins!", etc, etc... Since it involves MS products, the first reaction is "MS sucks". Well, I bet that, in this case, it was "soddy sysadmin" indeed.
However, I don't that having to actually look up and down for the up and down movement is very practical, at least for games. That split second that your eyes move up or down, away from the screen, can make all the difference in a game. The side movement is not a big problem, because we can easilly tilt the head side by side, keeping the eyeballs focused in front of the screen (like a guy in the video did). It's the up and down movement that is tricky.
Even so, this is really impressive, and with possible applications beyond the gaming realm, like interaction interfaces with all sorts of devices, for disabled or even healthy people. Very promising indeed.
First of all, it's not to "support you". It's to support the company, with the tools it needs to do bussiness. No, that shinny laptop that your company assigned to you is not "yours". It's the company's. I know it's a tough concept, but it's lot's of people seem to forget about it.
Second, for more and more companies, IT isn't just a SUPPORT function. It's part of the core. IT downtime due to people that don't understand that they are using company property and not using their "cute toys" from home can cause serious financial problems. Yes, the company could "bumble along somehow". Its just that it might go bankrupt with the losses. Try to stop all the IT from a logistics company and say that "it's just support, the core is the trucks that move stuff!" and see what happens.
Third, I've seen companies composed entirely of IT people. Small, medium companies. And they survive. In fact, they thrive. You know why? Because IT people usually are curious about other things, and pretty intelligent, and able to take a leap of faith and try something else, if it comes to it. We are used to be able to adapt quickly. We are used to fend for ourselves, many times without a single drop of training/appreciation. But you know what? Anyone that wants to start a business, at some point says something like "hey, who's gonna take care of the computer stuff?". Yeah. You're gonna need an IT guy somewhere along the line. Oh, you can do it yourself, of course. Just wait until you loose 5 years of archived email to and from clients (that you must *legally* have), because your email server ran out of hard disk space, because the backups keep failing and you don't know why and never cared, because, hey, IT is just support, and anyone can do this right?
Fourth. IT is probably the number one department that knows its just supporting the "core" business. Sometimes the problem is the people in the other departments that have no clue what their place in the company is. It's easy to tell an IT department "get me a softwarez that manages relations with customers", but if the department that needs it doesn't have a clue about processes, about customer care, about what do actually do when a customer rings, it's kind of hard to make things work.
Fifth, please try not to be so arrogant about other people's jobs. You never know when your own job will be turned obsolete, and you might have to swallow your own words. And you can keep your "appreciation". As long as our direct managers know we are doing a good job, and shielding us from pointless, personal, idiotic attacks like your kind, we don't need any more "appreciation".
IT people are not be perfect. IT might be "complicated", and "make your head hurt". But please don't bash people needlessly. Everything you said could be said about top management and CEOs and director's boards. But I bet that you wouldn't have the guts to tell it to their faces.
I can understand the points being made about density and scale, but I believe that between the disk drives and CPU we have a big difference: the cooling needs for flash are very different from a "classic" hard drive, or a CPU for that matter, and with flash, we are not exactly racing for the smallest form-factor.
Yes, I can understand that it would be cool to carry a SSD the size of a toenail, with at least some 500 TB of storage. However, I would be very happy to buy an SSD with tons of space, even if it takes the size of a 3,5" disk (correct me if I'm wrong, but usually SSDs are 2,5" in size, right?). The difference is that, while I don't expect my CPU to suddenly grow up to the size of a shoe-box, I already know that 3,5" is the "normal" form-factor for storage (yes, I'm only considering desktops).
My point is that in storage, we don't need to "race" to the infinitesimally big/fast, on the infinitesimally small form factor. We started with a pretty decent form-factor (3,5"), in terms of space and efficiency. I guess that it will take quite some time to drain that completely.
I know it's good to have lot's of storage, and I certainly don't want to pull a "bill gates" and say that "1 TB is enough for everyone", but how many of you have memory cards bigger than 16 GB on your mobile phones / smartphones and what not? And if you do, do you actually use all that space? And if you do, don't you, at some point, synchronize it with some other storage somewhere (a computer, the cloud, network)? If you don't, you should, it's called "backup", and you'll only miss it when it's too late:)
So, in my personal case, I'll welcome our SSD overlords with joy, when they get a bit cheaper, of course:) And yeah, I don't mind having a 3,5" SSD inside my computer.
You know how you can have the fastest browsing experience ever?
Browse with pictures and javascript turned off. In Opera, it's really easy to do it, and I use that "barebones mode" when I'm searching for info or doing "work-related browsing".
Why can't we just move on and apply the sweet R&D money on the SSDs?
I guess that the "classic" hard drives will reach some sort of physical limit sometime in the (not so distant) future.
Why won't the big boys start to work hard on the SSDs?
It's almost as reading a headline like this "New awesome floppies will be released in a new 10 MB size! - 'USB flash disks are overrated and expensive, nothing beats a good old floppy disk' a spokesperson for a floppy disk manufacturer said"
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I used to have a 4-year upgrade cycle on my gaming desktop. Last time I've upgraded it was in 2008, with a Core 2 Duo E8400 and mid range GPU (6600GTS).
However, things have changed a bit, and I'm not planing on upgrading my whole system for the near future. I've bought a 128GB SSD a year or so ago, and this was amazing for the overall performance of the system, but as my games are not installed on the SSD itself, it didn't do much for them.
So I'm considering a new GPU, in the 200 € range, to improve my gaming experience, but without breaking the bank... Any ideas? :)
Any word on having the Half Life / Portal / Left 4 Dead games working on Linux? These are part of my "must have installed" games, that I go back to from time to time, so I'll need them working on Linux as well, thank you :)
Humm from my experience with some laptops, usually its not a good idea to have a screen directly over keys (or buttons). I've seen a couple of screens with "marks" from the keys, although this might be due to the quality or age of the laptops in question... Perhaps the SHIELD has the buttons below the level of the screen when closed? :)
I'm nitpicking, I know, but that was the first thing that crossed my mind while looking at the pictures
One word: DRM. I bet that some sort of validation was date-dependent and with the year rollover, it got wrecked :)
Just my two euro-cents :)
ahahah nice! :D damn me and my awesome bilingual capabilities! xD
Anyways, yeah, you will definitely be amazed at the difference an SSD will make :)
Agree! Currently I'm using a Corsair F120 for my SO and main games and apps. The rest of my stuff goes to normal, run of the mill HDD. This SSD was probably the most effective upgrade I've ever done, both in terms of value for money (payed around 120 € more than a year ago) as well as pure performance. I think that having a main SSD drive (a 120 GB one will be enough for having the SO + some stuff), along with one or more additional standard HDD should be next "unofficial" mandatory config any new computer nowadays.
Just my 2 cents, but shouldn't the ILC be built on an area with a reduced earthquake risk?
Someone should post this on 4chan...
Do you want to run a pure virtual environment? Or do you want to boot an OS, and inside that, boot a VM with the other OS? do you have the ability to have a dedicated computer to be the "hypervisor" (so that it can manage the VMs)?
VMware 7 offers great graphical capabilities, altough you should be aware that right now no VM solution offers an 100% seemless graphical experience (altough we are getting there).
Anyways, XenClient might be the thing for you, as it claims to offer full HD graphics usage inside VMs. However, it's in an early stage, and they seem to be marketing it as mostly laptop oriented (if not laptop exclusive).
I have experience with virtualization, so I might help you out :)
That's the exact, pinpoint moment when they switch sides from the "let's be rebellious and brake a window" attitude to the "that window is expensive and I'm gonna sue your for all you got"...
Really? Take people's homes and cars over piracy?! Wish for jail rape for copying songs?! I wonder if this "big rock star" would have the same attitude if his kids (does he even have kids?) were doing it (if?! I'm yet to meet a teen nowadays that doesn't do it).
Or perhaps, maybe, that's his exact position regarding drug abuse... How's that? Take the cars and homes and wish for jail-rape, for all the people caught with drugs, or using drugs, or selling drugs, or enjoying drugs. Now that's a crime with *real* consequences for other people, stuff that people might actually *die* from. I bet the "big rock star" agrees with me.
Isn't that the motto of the rock/metal bands? "Be rebel, fight the system", etc, etc?
So, all the "be rebel, fight the system, we are so hip and mean and evil and answer to no one, stick your tongue out, do the little horned sign with your fingers" stuff that you guys have been putting for decades is just a giant piece of fluff, hum? Is just a part of the "marketing", I presume, to get young (and not so young) people to buy your crap or watch your shows, right? That's nice. It shows a couple of things about the appreciation that some big names in music have for their fans. I understand, you don't need no fraking fans anymore, right? You're so filthy rich now that you won't need to do anything else for the rest of your life, even if you live to be 150 y.o.
It's always nice to see how big big big money and power corrupts anyone. And please, keep your dated and moldy music to yourselves. Fortunately I don't need no "big name in industry" to enjoy music, no matter what the genre.
I can't help myself but smile and nod my head in disapproval when I see someone like Gene or the guys from Metallica bashing filesharing and piracy... It's a bit like watching a Britney video, and then eventually watch her advocate "abstinence". It's called "hypocrisy".
That's why more and more I see music as an "act". It's like theater. It's make-believe. Sure, a song can be written in a moment of genuine anger, or love, or joy. But please, don't mistake the song for the emotion. Don't believe that every single time that a metal band plays a rock hard anthem that tells you to get angry at the "big man", they are actually that angry *all the time*, or that they are angry at all. In fact, changes are that they have become the "big man" themselves...
That's why I keep a prudent, skeptic distance when I sense that music is trying to "preach" something: be it something rebellious, shy/pure/happy, slutty, gangsta, or whatever.
My last CRT monitor had a maximum resolution of 1600x1200. It was launched in 2001. 10 years latter, it seems that the screen manufacturers think that "HD" (1920x1080) is a "good enough" resolution.
I don't know much about TFT/LCD low-level tech, but I have the feeling that we are getting lower resolutions that we should have, like if we were having crappy TVs instead of high-end monitors. Oh yeah, "HD resolutions" alows us to view media in a "cinematic aspect ratio" or something. Guess what: I use my monitor for more than "consume media". Try to work with big spreadsheets with a "cinematic aspect ratio". It's a monitor, not a TV, for heaven's sake!
I think that manufacturers finally "merged" the TV and monitor product. But in the process, they downgraded the experience for the computer user. The laptop and low-end monitors are a great example, having shoddy resolutions and unnecessary aspect ratios... Why would I want a "cinema" ratio for a supposedly "professional", business monitor or laptop? Not everyone is a video-editor or an "artist" or needs to "consume" media to do it's work...
... what the Facebook/Twitter/media-stuff profiles of the people involved in that company look like.
What was the expression? "Eat your own dog food",was it?
Usually, for me, a "power user" is someone that doesn't go "ohhhhhhh" when I press enter, instead of clicking "ok", or when I press "tab" and the cursor "magically" changes fields...
I think people are overreacting to this...
Come on, every single day I read stories about how the games industry is not fun any more, how EA and others are "souless corporations" that grind everyone, I read people complaining about lack of creativity, about DRM... And when we have a good old-fashioned, stunt, from a very nice and solid project, people start screaming and pointing fingers...
Granted, GOG are not developers, but I think that what they are doing is class A stuff: providing us with DRM-FREE versions of rock-solid games from ages gone, for cheap-steal prices, and with the cooperation of publishers, that's an amazing work!
Every single day I read a commend about how Steam is evil and it's "DRM" will "swallow our souls", but when someone actually rolls up their sleeves and puts together a very solid collection of old games, that you can download as much as you like, install as much as you like, and basically "keep forever", people only seem to notice them when they do a harmless stunt, and everyone comes bashing them.
And yes, the stunt was harmless. Yes, the site was gone. But you are supposed to have the games on your hard drive because you downloaded them already when you bought them!! And all the games I have from GOG sitting on my hard-drive didn't stop working magically. If GOG really got out of bussiness, I would be very sad, but I would still be able to play, reinstall, enjoy all my bought games. And I know some people were mid shopping, but come on, isn't it a bit of an overreaction, screaming "zomg, we can't trust them!!!"? I bet that most of the people that said it have their nice sweet facebook pages, and are probably not as vocal about all the issues that fb have, but hey, maybe I'm just being a troll... just say'in...
Anyways, I've been with GOG ever since I first heard about them (I believe it was a Slashdot story), and I'm a very very happy customer. I believe it's a very valid project and it was probably very hard to put together (I can imagine how many negative answers they got from publishers in the beginning). We should support companies like this, and that's what I intend to keep doing.
Rock on, GOG! You are awesome!
there should be a way to restrict execution to only code signed by the owning organization's IT security.
There is such a way: it's called "Software Restriction Policies". It's been around since Windows 2000 and it can be deployed by GPO... You can restrict by signature, by file name, by path, etc. It's part of Windows, it's "free", you just need to configure it.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457006.aspx
Oh, and you can block access to floppy, CD/DVD and USB drives as well. All with GPOs.
I'm no addressing specifically to you, but it gets on my nerves that people keep bashing MS, and they simply don't know squat about their products.
And it seems that the FBI, that would greatly benefit from this sort of security features, quite likely didn't have it implemented... "Incompetence" springs to my mind... If this incident involved linux in some way, everyone would say "it was shoddy configured, shoddy admins!", etc, etc... Since it involves MS products, the first reaction is "MS sucks". Well, I bet that, in this case, it was "soddy sysadmin" indeed.
Just my 2 cents...
This sure looks great, no doubt about it!
However, I don't that having to actually look up and down for the up and down movement is very practical, at least for games. That split second that your eyes move up or down, away from the screen, can make all the difference in a game. The side movement is not a big problem, because we can easilly tilt the head side by side, keeping the eyeballs focused in front of the screen (like a guy in the video did). It's the up and down movement that is tricky.
Even so, this is really impressive, and with possible applications beyond the gaming realm, like interaction interfaces with all sorts of devices, for disabled or even healthy people. Very promising indeed.
First of all, it's not to "support you". It's to support the company, with the tools it needs to do bussiness. No, that shinny laptop that your company assigned to you is not "yours". It's the company's. I know it's a tough concept, but it's lot's of people seem to forget about it.
Second, for more and more companies, IT isn't just a SUPPORT function. It's part of the core. IT downtime due to people that don't understand that they are using company property and not using their "cute toys" from home can cause serious financial problems. Yes, the company could "bumble along somehow". Its just that it might go bankrupt with the losses. Try to stop all the IT from a logistics company and say that "it's just support, the core is the trucks that move stuff!" and see what happens.
Third, I've seen companies composed entirely of IT people. Small, medium companies. And they survive. In fact, they thrive. You know why? Because IT people usually are curious about other things, and pretty intelligent, and able to take a leap of faith and try something else, if it comes to it. We are used to be able to adapt quickly. We are used to fend for ourselves, many times without a single drop of training/appreciation. But you know what? Anyone that wants to start a business, at some point says something like "hey, who's gonna take care of the computer stuff?". Yeah. You're gonna need an IT guy somewhere along the line. Oh, you can do it yourself, of course. Just wait until you loose 5 years of archived email to and from clients (that you must *legally* have), because your email server ran out of hard disk space, because the backups keep failing and you don't know why and never cared, because, hey, IT is just support, and anyone can do this right?
Fourth. IT is probably the number one department that knows its just supporting the "core" business. Sometimes the problem is the people in the other departments that have no clue what their place in the company is. It's easy to tell an IT department "get me a softwarez that manages relations with customers", but if the department that needs it doesn't have a clue about processes, about customer care, about what do actually do when a customer rings, it's kind of hard to make things work.
Fifth, please try not to be so arrogant about other people's jobs. You never know when your own job will be turned obsolete, and you might have to swallow your own words. And you can keep your "appreciation". As long as our direct managers know we are doing a good job, and shielding us from pointless, personal, idiotic attacks like your kind, we don't need any more "appreciation".
IT people are not be perfect. IT might be "complicated", and "make your head hurt". But please don't bash people needlessly. Everything you said could be said about top management and CEOs and director's boards. But I bet that you wouldn't have the guts to tell it to their faces.
You mean "curated"
I can understand the points being made about density and scale, but I believe that between the disk drives and CPU we have a big difference: the cooling needs for flash are very different from a "classic" hard drive, or a CPU for that matter, and with flash, we are not exactly racing for the smallest form-factor.
Yes, I can understand that it would be cool to carry a SSD the size of a toenail, with at least some 500 TB of storage. However, I would be very happy to buy an SSD with tons of space, even if it takes the size of a 3,5" disk (correct me if I'm wrong, but usually SSDs are 2,5" in size, right?). The difference is that, while I don't expect my CPU to suddenly grow up to the size of a shoe-box, I already know that 3,5" is the "normal" form-factor for storage (yes, I'm only considering desktops).
My point is that in storage, we don't need to "race" to the infinitesimally big/fast, on the infinitesimally small form factor. We started with a pretty decent form-factor (3,5"), in terms of space and efficiency. I guess that it will take quite some time to drain that completely.
I know it's good to have lot's of storage, and I certainly don't want to pull a "bill gates" and say that "1 TB is enough for everyone", but how many of you have memory cards bigger than 16 GB on your mobile phones / smartphones and what not? And if you do, do you actually use all that space? And if you do, don't you, at some point, synchronize it with some other storage somewhere (a computer, the cloud, network)? If you don't, you should, it's called "backup", and you'll only miss it when it's too late :)
So, in my personal case, I'll welcome our SSD overlords with joy, when they get a bit cheaper, of course :) And yeah, I don't mind having a 3,5" SSD inside my computer.
You know how you can have the fastest browsing experience ever?
Browse with pictures and javascript turned off. In Opera, it's really easy to do it, and I use that "barebones mode" when I'm searching for info or doing "work-related browsing".
... but I just love "Warriors of the Net".
It gives a pretty good idea on how networking works, and some of the visual metaphors are quite awesome.
If this whole "Google TV" thing is in any form or way "region based", thanks, but no thanks.
I'll rather keep my "cave man" PC, and just watch whatever I want, whenever I want.
I already have enough "content providers" and "middle-men" offering me the "wonders of the world" * for a "reasonable price"...
* - availability subject to region restricions
Using Windows 7 32bits, Chrome version 6.0.401.1
Why can't we just move on and apply the sweet R&D money on the SSDs?
I guess that the "classic" hard drives will reach some sort of physical limit sometime in the (not so distant) future.
Why won't the big boys start to work hard on the SSDs?
It's almost as reading a headline like this "New awesome floppies will be released in a new 10 MB size! - 'USB flash disks are overrated and expensive, nothing beats a good old floppy disk' a spokesperson for a floppy disk manufacturer said"