From the first hit on Google for "first 1gb drive":
World's first 1GB disk drive (IBM 3380) introduced 1980, was the size of a refrigerator, weighed about 250 kg and cost $40,000 link
Then there was this tidbit: in 1982, Hitachi shipped the first drive with more than 1GB of storage. The 1.2GB H-8598, seen here, consisted of 10 14-inch platters and two read-write heads.... kilogram-to-gigabyte ratio from 121 kilograms per gigabyte...link.
Assuming it was ~18 months later do we have another close analog to Moore's law? A 1.5TB HDD weighs only.72kg or.00048Kg/GB which is EXACTLY the predicted value (250Kg * (1/2)^19) so it would appear so!
Uh, it WAS banned and after industry cried that the government had gone and made a standard identifier and was keeping it to themselves they went and unbanned it! In fact from my reading the social security act might never have passed if an amendment hadn't been added to require that the SS number be used only for the administration of SS benefits. It was another case of wise men seeing the future coming and almost heading it off, but failing by assuming that the men that would follow them would be as wise.
authorize.net are apparently complete idiots, if they are that large and all their equipment is in one datacenter then that's bordering on insane. Heck, my little company of under 1k employees has two facilities. Anyone who's should be running a site with 100k+ customers knows better.
How is this a broken window problem? A desired good was produced and people were gainfully employed to produce that good. Engineering advances were made which will likely help advance the state of the art in automotive design and manufacture which will eventually trickle down to more mundane cars. There was a time where aluminium blocks and multiple valves were the exclusive territory of exotic sports cars, today they are fairly standard issue and increase fuel economy even as we increase weight in other areas to increase safety and comfort.
Building that $2M car gave jobs to how many middle/upper middle income engineers, fabricators, machinists, etc. In fact since the Veyron project will likely earn VW very little money that's ALL it did, that and use a bit of physical resources (not much for the entire run of 300 vehicles).
My run was made in the middle of the night which is the best time due to lower traffic and the fact that your quickly approaching headlights which are constantly flashing (if you are sane you flick them whenever you see taillights and have a spare half second) is generally enough to keep the few cars on the road out of your way. The end to my run came when I approached a cure that was more than about 5 degrees. I had little doubt the car could handle it but I don't think I could have.
Having been up to 185 on the autobahn I have to say it is a VERY scary experience that I will always wish I could repeat. I was driving one of the first supercars (Ferrari F40) and while it was capable of 201mph I ran out of straight road before I got to top speed. The smallest breeze at those speeds will push you half way across the lane despite the low profile and it takes a while (distance wise) to get back in the center! Where I think would be much less scary to hit those speeds would be I15 way out in the desert, majorly long straightaways and most of the time not a lot of wind or animals.
Uh, no, it's not unless you are referring to lap times which is not what the Veyron is about. The Veyron is not a race car, it is a supercar with the singular goal of being the fastest production car in the world. Both cars get to 60 in 2.8s but the Veyron has a faster 0-100-0 by a large amount (9.9 vs 11 seconds). The upgraded Fxx is estimated to go to 230mph, well short of this Veyron.
It took an eternity on my 486 SX25 because of the lack of coprocessor. That's when I discovered a program that I use to this day ACDSee, it was by FAR the fastest JPEG engine available. It's still faster than most if you want to very rapidly flick through a ton of 8MP JPEG's that are being resized to screen size on the fly.
Antivirus software would be required on WHATEVER was the popular platform, because not being able to run code makes a computer worthless and sheeple can easily be tricked into running bad code.
You're married to the wrong women who also happens to be a water buffalo? Seriously I can't imagine the amount of force it would take to harm an LED Maglite, cops routinely use them as weapons except on forces where that's been banned due to the potential to kill people.
What could you possibly break on a LED Maglite? The only thing I have ever seen is the top of the rubber cover for the switch being torn off and even then the switch still works, it's just not as water resistant. If you're saying you broke the bulb on a filament Maglite, that's nothing special.
SQL Server enterprise is now significantly cheaper than Oracle Enterprise. Back in 2006 we got Oracle for a price that MS wouldn't match, but Oracle is licensed per core while MS is licensed per socket so as hardware advances the MS solution is now much cheaper. Heck the list price for a quad core box (about all you can buy today) is $50k for Oracle vs $25k for MS. SQL Server 2005/2008 are definitely good for all but the biggest of workloads and support all the normal enterprise features.
We run into cross database links all the time, from a data consistency perspective it's much better to have one system be the system of record and all others pull from that master server. We even do cross platform links (SQL Server to Oracle) with no problems. Of course db-link and dbi-link seem to fulfill that need just fine. We also have a function where we export a CSV file and an outside vendor uses similar functionality to pull the data in by treating the file as a source table.
Sure it will, the energy density and ease of recharge advantage of liquid fuels is huge so it will probably make sense to use them for the foreseeable future. We might make them from renewable sources at some point instead of using dino-gas but that doesn't mean we have to eliminate the tax as it will still correlate well to vehicle weight.
We are coming up with all sorts of expensive plans to try to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reduce the consumption of foreign oil, so why are we also trying to come up with a way to reduce the incentive to get a more fuel efficient car? Instead we should be massively increasing the tax on gasoline and possibly offering a flat rebate to counteract the regressive nature of use based taxes. That way tax revenue would keep up with decreasing demand and we would actually be naturally moving the market towards our long term goals.
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Not true, information takes energy and hence mass to create.
From the first hit on Google for "first 1gb drive":
... kilogram-to-gigabyte ratio from 121 kilograms per gigabyte... link.
.72kg or .00048Kg/GB which is EXACTLY the predicted value (250Kg * (1/2)^19) so it would appear so!
World's first 1GB disk drive (IBM 3380) introduced 1980, was the size of a refrigerator, weighed about 250 kg and cost $40,000 link
Then there was this tidbit:
in 1982, Hitachi shipped the first drive with more than 1GB of storage. The 1.2GB H-8598, seen here, consisted of 10 14-inch platters and two read-write heads.
Assuming it was ~18 months later do we have another close analog to Moore's law? A 1.5TB HDD weighs only
If you get that much value out of the service why not just pay the $1/month?
It's $3/month with no ads, higher quality streams, and unlimited use.
Uh, it WAS banned and after industry cried that the government had gone and made a standard identifier and was keeping it to themselves they went and unbanned it! In fact from my reading the social security act might never have passed if an amendment hadn't been added to require that the SS number be used only for the administration of SS benefits. It was another case of wise men seeing the future coming and almost heading it off, but failing by assuming that the men that would follow them would be as wise.
Emerson or APC?
authorize.net are apparently complete idiots, if they are that large and all their equipment is in one datacenter then that's bordering on insane. Heck, my little company of under 1k employees has two facilities. Anyone who's should be running a site with 100k+ customers knows better.
So you don't think there will be a future need for strong, light materials and methods of using said materials to manufacture automobiles? Really?
How is this a broken window problem? A desired good was produced and people were gainfully employed to produce that good. Engineering advances were made which will likely help advance the state of the art in automotive design and manufacture which will eventually trickle down to more mundane cars. There was a time where aluminium blocks and multiple valves were the exclusive territory of exotic sports cars, today they are fairly standard issue and increase fuel economy even as we increase weight in other areas to increase safety and comfort.
Building that $2M car gave jobs to how many middle/upper middle income engineers, fabricators, machinists, etc. In fact since the Veyron project will likely earn VW very little money that's ALL it did, that and use a bit of physical resources (not much for the entire run of 300 vehicles).
My run was made in the middle of the night which is the best time due to lower traffic and the fact that your quickly approaching headlights which are constantly flashing (if you are sane you flick them whenever you see taillights and have a spare half second) is generally enough to keep the few cars on the road out of your way. The end to my run came when I approached a cure that was more than about 5 degrees. I had little doubt the car could handle it but I don't think I could have.
Having been up to 185 on the autobahn I have to say it is a VERY scary experience that I will always wish I could repeat. I was driving one of the first supercars (Ferrari F40) and while it was capable of 201mph I ran out of straight road before I got to top speed. The smallest breeze at those speeds will push you half way across the lane despite the low profile and it takes a while (distance wise) to get back in the center! Where I think would be much less scary to hit those speeds would be I15 way out in the desert, majorly long straightaways and most of the time not a lot of wind or animals.
And the way they cornered the market on the options and squeezed the short sellers was the most beautiful bit of financial artistry I have ever seen.
Note that the two airlines had a maintenance agreement so it's likely he could have worked on the plane unless the union rules were particularly bad.
Uh, no, it's not unless you are referring to lap times which is not what the Veyron is about. The Veyron is not a race car, it is a supercar with the singular goal of being the fastest production car in the world. Both cars get to 60 in 2.8s but the Veyron has a faster 0-100-0 by a large amount (9.9 vs 11 seconds). The upgraded Fxx is estimated to go to 230mph, well short of this Veyron.
It took an eternity on my 486 SX25 because of the lack of coprocessor. That's when I discovered a program that I use to this day ACDSee, it was by FAR the fastest JPEG engine available. It's still faster than most if you want to very rapidly flick through a ton of 8MP JPEG's that are being resized to screen size on the fly.
Antivirus software would be required on WHATEVER was the popular platform, because not being able to run code makes a computer worthless and sheeple can easily be tricked into running bad code.
You're married to the wrong women who also happens to be a water buffalo? Seriously I can't imagine the amount of force it would take to harm an LED Maglite, cops routinely use them as weapons except on forces where that's been banned due to the potential to kill people.
What could you possibly break on a LED Maglite? The only thing I have ever seen is the top of the rubber cover for the switch being torn off and even then the switch still works, it's just not as water resistant. If you're saying you broke the bulb on a filament Maglite, that's nothing special.
SQL Server enterprise is now significantly cheaper than Oracle Enterprise. Back in 2006 we got Oracle for a price that MS wouldn't match, but Oracle is licensed per core while MS is licensed per socket so as hardware advances the MS solution is now much cheaper. Heck the list price for a quad core box (about all you can buy today) is $50k for Oracle vs $25k for MS. SQL Server 2005/2008 are definitely good for all but the biggest of workloads and support all the normal enterprise features.
Simple answer, SQL 2000 is EOL, no support unless you bought an extended hotfix agreement back in Q2 2008.
We run into cross database links all the time, from a data consistency perspective it's much better to have one system be the system of record and all others pull from that master server. We even do cross platform links (SQL Server to Oracle) with no problems. Of course db-link and dbi-link seem to fulfill that need just fine. We also have a function where we export a CSV file and an outside vendor uses similar functionality to pull the data in by treating the file as a source table.
Auto explain sounds like a killer feature, I wish Oracle had that (auto trace is NOT the same).
Sure it will, the energy density and ease of recharge advantage of liquid fuels is huge so it will probably make sense to use them for the foreseeable future. We might make them from renewable sources at some point instead of using dino-gas but that doesn't mean we have to eliminate the tax as it will still correlate well to vehicle weight.
We are coming up with all sorts of expensive plans to try to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reduce the consumption of foreign oil, so why are we also trying to come up with a way to reduce the incentive to get a more fuel efficient car? Instead we should be massively increasing the tax on gasoline and possibly offering a flat rebate to counteract the regressive nature of use based taxes. That way tax revenue would keep up with decreasing demand and we would actually be naturally moving the market towards our long term goals.