I almost bit the bullet recently to buy one of the new OCZ Core SSD's. If you read any reviews, they're pretty much the first SSD princed anywhere close to what an enthusiast might pay. That's ~$250 for 64GB. They've got a 32 and a 128GB in the lineup as well, but really for an OS+ a few key apps HD, 64GB would be the sweet spot for price/performance.
So, why would you pay $4 per GB for this when you can get a 1TB drive for around $140ish or so? Practically 0 seek time AND ~120MB/sec reads and ~90MB/sec writes. Hence WD upping the RPM's to 20K. SSD's, while pretty much in infancy for the consumer market, are already the fastest thing out there. It won't be long until they catch up on capacity.
Now, the only thing that stopped me from picking one of these bad boys up was checking out their support forums. It looks like these things have some pretty serious problems for at least some chipsets. While I realize that support forums represent the voiced minority, just running through those posts show some major issues at least with certain system combinations. Not to mention, these SSD's are pretty new, yet OCZ just announced a new rev for the lineup, now complete with a USB interface built into the drive to allow for firmware upgrades? I know this is bleeding edge stuff, but wow.
Anyway, I really wanted to upgrade with one of these because the hard drive is the slowest component in the system usually and I didn't see the VelociRaptor as a big enough upgrade for the $$. However, after all these reported problems, I think I'll wait to see how things are in 6 months or so.
As some of the other people who have replied to your comment have pointed out, I think you're missing the point.
From working in electronics manufacturing I can tell you that the whole RoHS thing is a pain in the ass. If it were "better", then yes, it would be worth the trouble. But from what I can tell, the theory behind it (relating to this subject) was: Lead=poison, poison=bad, therefore let's stop using lead!
However, if you look into the trouble with non-leaded solder, you'll see it's not all rainbows and kittens. As someone else pointed out, even the military is exempt from RoHS stipulations due to the fact that the shit just doesn't hold up as well. The solder isn't as "flexible" and tin-whiskers actually grow out of the joins and short adjacent circuits.
Now, you can even take the angle of some big electronics company. This isn't such a bad thing. If your products randomly fail shortly after the warranty period and people need to buy new stuff every 3-5 years, what more could you ask for?
In the end, we'll know the outcome in about a decade or two. My bet will be: Stupid idea, but it had good intentions. Maybe.
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I think their conclusion is still applicable: wait on DDR3 to come down in price before you jump. Although the price won't come down much if no one is buying it because they're waiting for the price to come down and well you see the problem.
i think i speak for everyone when i say "what the fuck??"
when did OPERATING SYSTEMS become billboards?
so when the next MS OS comes out, instead of everyone looking for activation cracks they'll be looking first for how the hell to get the adds off of their desktop? asking people to view shit at the bottom of msn messenger is one thing, but there is a line.
Hofmann, a professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia, solved the 3 dimensional version of the 'Kato problem for divergence form elliptic operators with Gaussian heat kernel bounds'
Now if that doesn't give him a good pickup line, I don't know what will.
Given that the peak population on one of the 2 major North American servers was guessed to be at about 400-500, this doesn't come as a suprise. Since the release of the last patch near the beginning of August, there's been rumblings from the playerbase that things were on the decline.
I played AC2 while it was in beta, I purchased it about 4 months after it went live, I cancelled after about 6 months of play, but I re-subscribed about 4 or 5 months ago. It's a fun game, and it has something for everyone. It never took off because Turbine doesn't know how to advertise, and with WoW and EQ2, it seems dated to any newcomers.
We were hoping Turbine would combine the last 4 servers into one, giving it a decent popultion. With AC1 still running, and their 2 new MMORPG's set to release, it would probably be not the dumbest move. But instead, they pissed off a portion of their fanbase, and killed a game that a lot of work went into. With all the artwork, lore, class balancing, just everything, it really seems like a waste instead of putting the game on the backburner while their other projects launch.
Oh well, I guess I'll join the WoW croud after I come back from my Real Life break from MMORPGS.
Just a few questions:
Assuming (just go with me) this was a nuke, given the mushroom cloud measurments given in the news story, is it possible to guestimate at the size of the bomb used, and if so, could someone compare it to some US / USSR nuke info? Kinda curious.
A number of years ago I was working in a computer store. We got a bunch of Diamond Sonic Impact sound cards in, which were a really cheap pci sound card while isa was phasing out. Now the thing with these cards was that, depending on the board revision, there were a different set of drivers for them. A lot of the time the install cd's that shipped with them didn't have the correct drivers, so you'd have to attempt to find suitable ones on the net.
Well, we got a batch that we just couldn't get installed. Tried the cards on a few different systems, different bios settings trying to force irq's and whatnot, but not a thing. We declared them all defective (being a 17 year old kid working as a co-op student mind you), and decided to go with the tried and true Sound Blaster pci's instead. We then proceeded to take some of the Sonic Impacts and play frisbee, use them as coasters and ridiculously large keychain items.
Years later I'm assembling spare parts to make a secondary system, and realize I have no sound card to put in it. All I have are isa cards, and this motherboard is without an isa slot. So I go rummaging in my room and of course what do I find but a well worn Diamond Sonic Impact. I figure what the hell, and toss the thing into the box. On first reboot XP found the card, and proceeded to lock up while installing it's drivers.. On second reboot the drivers completed, but windows core dumped shortly after. Third time was a charm though, and I still can't believe this thing produces sound after what I did to it.
unless you're using the built in adapter on an ipaq and are running ppc 2003.
then your best bet is either pocket winc or a new AWESOME piece of software: wififofum -- donate to this dude, he rocks
For the longest time I was capped at 150KB/s down, but that was recently raised to about 250-275KB/s. I didn't mind the 150KB/s down, I only wish my upstream had a little more power (still 20KB/s).
Yeah, that's all well and good, but I was just questioning your "it could happen by the end of this century" thought.. Which you also just contradicted.. Nevermind.
If we move fast enough, perhaps the first intersteller colony will be established in this century
You do know that the next closest start is about 4 light years away, and IIRC we haven't detected any planets in the system. Unless we develop something like warp technology or the like, i doubt wel'll see intersteller travel for a long, long while. Hell, they're thinking of ditching the space station for a while. Baby steps.
simple answer: rad detectors are a lot easier to implement. i'm not sure of any cheap and effective "convential weapons" detectors, aside from sniffing dogs? so using radiation detectors shows the public that something is being done, even if it's not as useful as being able to detect more common explosives.
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it's not up on their site yet, so until then here's the launch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To-XOPgaGsQ
So, why would you pay $4 per GB for this when you can get a 1TB drive for around $140ish or so? Practically 0 seek time AND ~120MB/sec reads and ~90MB/sec writes. Hence WD upping the RPM's to 20K. SSD's, while pretty much in infancy for the consumer market, are already the fastest thing out there. It won't be long until they catch up on capacity.
Now, the only thing that stopped me from picking one of these bad boys up was checking out their support forums. It looks like these things have some pretty serious problems for at least some chipsets. While I realize that support forums represent the voiced minority, just running through those posts show some major issues at least with certain system combinations. Not to mention, these SSD's are pretty new, yet OCZ just announced a new rev for the lineup, now complete with a USB interface built into the drive to allow for firmware upgrades? I know this is bleeding edge stuff, but wow.
Anyway, I really wanted to upgrade with one of these because the hard drive is the slowest component in the system usually and I didn't see the VelociRaptor as a big enough upgrade for the $$. However, after all these reported problems, I think I'll wait to see how things are in 6 months or so.
As some of the other people who have replied to your comment have pointed out, I think you're missing the point.
From working in electronics manufacturing I can tell you that the whole RoHS thing is a pain in the ass. If it were "better", then yes, it would be worth the trouble. But from what I can tell, the theory behind it (relating to this subject) was: Lead=poison, poison=bad, therefore let's stop using lead!
However, if you look into the trouble with non-leaded solder, you'll see it's not all rainbows and kittens. As someone else pointed out, even the military is exempt from RoHS stipulations due to the fact that the shit just doesn't hold up as well. The solder isn't as "flexible" and tin-whiskers actually grow out of the joins and short adjacent circuits.
Now, you can even take the angle of some big electronics company. This isn't such a bad thing. If your products randomly fail shortly after the warranty period and people need to buy new stuff every 3-5 years, what more could you ask for?
In the end, we'll know the outcome in about a decade or two. My bet will be: Stupid idea, but it had good intentions. Maybe.
I think their conclusion is still applicable: wait on DDR3 to come down in price before you jump. Although the price won't come down much if no one is buying it because they're waiting for the price to come down and well you see the problem.
where's the 'ohnoitsroland' tag? would have saved me a couple minutes.
i think i speak for everyone when i say "what the fuck??" when did OPERATING SYSTEMS become billboards? so when the next MS OS comes out, instead of everyone looking for activation cracks they'll be looking first for how the hell to get the adds off of their desktop? asking people to view shit at the bottom of msn messenger is one thing, but there is a line.
the word mongo is so under used these days. +1 mongo
your wish is their command: http://www.600673.com/
Now if that doesn't give him a good pickup line, I don't know what will.
I played AC2 while it was in beta, I purchased it about 4 months after it went live, I cancelled after about 6 months of play, but I re-subscribed about 4 or 5 months ago. It's a fun game, and it has something for everyone. It never took off because Turbine doesn't know how to advertise, and with WoW and EQ2, it seems dated to any newcomers.
We were hoping Turbine would combine the last 4 servers into one, giving it a decent popultion. With AC1 still running, and their 2 new MMORPG's set to release, it would probably be not the dumbest move. But instead, they pissed off a portion of their fanbase, and killed a game that a lot of work went into. With all the artwork, lore, class balancing, just everything, it really seems like a waste instead of putting the game on the backburner while their other projects launch.
Oh well, I guess I'll join the WoW croud after I come back from my Real Life break from MMORPGS.
Here ya go buddy, Looks like that might come in handy one day!
You are SO right. I demand a new section: Your Rights Offline. We can short form it to... Oh.. Shit.
the viagra add clearly belongs on one of the necells....
why is this modded funny? all of what he said is true! it's good to be canadian. fuck its cold out today.
Just a few questions: Assuming (just go with me) this was a nuke, given the mushroom cloud measurments given in the news story, is it possible to guestimate at the size of the bomb used, and if so, could someone compare it to some US / USSR nuke info? Kinda curious.
plainly: multi theft auto adds multiplayer capibilities to GTA3 for pc, which doesn't support multi out of the box.
if we were 10 light years, we'd still have a tough time.
Well, we got a batch that we just couldn't get installed. Tried the cards on a few different systems, different bios settings trying to force irq's and whatnot, but not a thing. We declared them all defective (being a 17 year old kid working as a co-op student mind you), and decided to go with the tried and true Sound Blaster pci's instead. We then proceeded to take some of the Sonic Impacts and play frisbee, use them as coasters and ridiculously large keychain items.
Years later I'm assembling spare parts to make a secondary system, and realize I have no sound card to put in it. All I have are isa cards, and this motherboard is without an isa slot. So I go rummaging in my room and of course what do I find but a well worn Diamond Sonic Impact. I figure what the hell, and toss the thing into the box. On first reboot XP found the card, and proceeded to lock up while installing it's drivers.. On second reboot the drivers completed, but windows core dumped shortly after. Third time was a charm though, and I still can't believe this thing produces sound after what I did to it.
you go, bacteria
unless you're using the built in adapter on an ipaq and are running ppc 2003. then your best bet is either pocket winc or a new AWESOME piece of software: wififofum -- donate to this dude, he rocks
i was SO expecting something along the lines of: In Moscow Russia, Broadband pays YOU!
For the longest time I was capped at 150KB/s down, but that was recently raised to about 250-275KB/s. I didn't mind the 150KB/s down, I only wish my upstream had a little more power (still 20KB/s).
Yeah, that's all well and good, but I was just questioning your "it could happen by the end of this century" thought.. Which you also just contradicted.. Nevermind.
If we move fast enough, perhaps the first intersteller colony will be established in this century
You do know that the next closest start is about 4 light years away, and IIRC we haven't detected any planets in the system. Unless we develop something like warp technology or the like, i doubt wel'll see intersteller travel for a long, long while. Hell, they're thinking of ditching the space station for a while. Baby steps.
simple answer: rad detectors are a lot easier to implement. i'm not sure of any cheap and effective "convential weapons" detectors, aside from sniffing dogs? so using radiation detectors shows the public that something is being done, even if it's not as useful as being able to detect more common explosives.