Heck Cuyahoga valley national park is the second most visited park after Grand Canyon national park. We have a low cost of living here so if you do have a good IT job your buying power is plenty strong. An example of that buying power that blows some of my west coast colleagues minds is I have a 1200sq ft place on 1 acre in one of the best school districts in the state and my mortgage+insurance+taxes is just over $900/month.
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No, I'm saying that the G10 (a p&s with raw capabilities) goes for $450 on up from a reputable dealer and that you can get an alternate product in a different category (entry dSLR) from Adorama which is certainly a reputable dealer for less. Did you miss some punctuation or something?
Mozy is NOT a startup, it's owned by EMC (THE storage company). As to the rest of your objections, photo albums get lost in attics, eaten by mold, thrown away, etc. I'll trust two live local copies and an offsite backup a heck of a lot more than just a print and a negative stored locally.
Get an LCD with a decent scalar chip, just as good if not better than a CRT for low resolution and of course HD when the source material is available.
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AFAIK the cheapest P&S with RAW from the factory are the Powershot G10 which will run you ~$450 new from a reputable dealer. Of course for much less you can get a D40 with the 18-55 kit lens ($375 at Adorama.
And since there is about 10000x as many photos taken today with digital even if only.1% survive there will be more information for them to sort through.
So what, having a debt:GDP ratio under 1 during a severe economic downturn just means we are REALLY wealthy. Also this is hardly an unprecedented level of debt for the US, we just recently surpassed the percentage we were at during the early 1960's. All of that is beside the point that we already spend WAY more than anyone else on healthcare as a percentage of GDP so it's likely updating our system would reduce our expenditures. Oh and reducing military expenditures from 20% more than the rest of the world combined to only equal to the rest of the world combined sure would free up some cash for other programs....
To put it in another light, would you give up some life-saving operation for a family member, in exchange for distributing 100 cold-&-flu medications to bums on the street?
This country is CERTAINLY rich enough to do both! And by distributing the flue shots to the bums we avoid having to pay for treating them for pneumonia or other respiratory problems acquired by having the flue untreated.
It's only mitigated by consumer demand if the consumer actually has some sway over the insurance company which we clearly do not in our current free market system (few large insurers and the disconnect between consumers and insurance through the employer middle man).
As opposed to whom? The actuaries at the insurance companies and HMO's?!? Not sure about you but I'd rather have government indifference than corporate greed deciding
My reply text is being squashed into a 25 character wide column to the right of a mass of grey. It would be great if Slashdot rendered properly these days.
If a write request come and there is no space to write data to, the drive can READ/ERASE/MODIFY/WRITE the block with most TRIMed space, which will speed up the next few writes.
I believe that is exactly the wrong strategy, if 15/16 4KB 'sectors' in a 256KB block are TRIMMED you would NOT want to use that block as the one to overwrite because it will soon be freed and can be background erased.
Uh, think again. If you need lots of IOPS and not tons of storage SSD's are great. The Intel x-25e and FusionI/O drives are enterprise class. I can get nearly the same IOPS out of a $800 x-25e as I can out of a quarter million dollars worth of disks and controllers. If you have certain classes of problems (hot log volumes, data cache where latency matters, etc) then SSD's are great today and the technology is getting better by the quarter.
super-rich? Virgin Galactic is targeting low 5 figures within a decade. Considering some people I work with spend nearly that much on cruises I would consider it well within many slashdotters reach for a once in a lifetime trip.
You're assuming all SSD's are create equal which is FAR from the truth. Most of the really cheap ones use crap chips that can make writes MUCH slower than even normal HDD's. If you buy a decent one you will pay more per GB but you will actually see an advantage vs traditional HDD's, cheap ones can often lose in every category except noise.
Actually internet access can be used to *shock* improve peoples standard of living. By allowing access to weather, news, and market information rural farmers can better prepare their crops and time the sale of their goods.
Considering I stream radio from my Blackberry and we push quite a bit of data to our devices on a daily basis (business intelligence reports) they probably have a point.
Buy a Blackberry then, we see no hampering of functionality on the Verizon Blackberries we own for people with poor AT&T reception. They are subsidized just like other phones too, they just have a little higher starting price than some of the non-smartphones (though the 8830 world is $50 online with 2 year contract).
Uh, AT&T's network is substantially better than T-Mobiles in all but the most crowded of markets (AT&T is too successful for the amount of bandwidth they have in a few markets). They also use GSM which makes them better for international travelers than Verizon (though Verizon now offers Blackberry's with a GSM radio). I've found everyone elses network to be crap unless you are in a very rare circumstance (I have a friend that lives on the edge of AT&T and Verizon coverage zones but has good coverage through Alltel). Also you can buy unbundled iPhones from Apple, they are simply expensive ($499 for the 8GB 3G - $699 for the 32GB 3Gs.) but I'm not sure about the ability to unlock it as it says it's designed only for AT&T's network (untrue since it's a GSM device that's sold internationally on all sorts of networks).
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Heck Cuyahoga valley national park is the second most visited park after Grand Canyon national park. We have a low cost of living here so if you do have a good IT job your buying power is plenty strong. An example of that buying power that blows some of my west coast colleagues minds is I have a 1200sq ft place on 1 acre in one of the best school districts in the state and my mortgage+insurance+taxes is just over $900/month.
No, I'm saying that the G10 (a p&s with raw capabilities) goes for $450 on up from a reputable dealer and that you can get an alternate product in a different category (entry dSLR) from Adorama which is certainly a reputable dealer for less. Did you miss some punctuation or something?
Mozy is NOT a startup, it's owned by EMC (THE storage company). As to the rest of your objections, photo albums get lost in attics, eaten by mold, thrown away, etc. I'll trust two live local copies and an offsite backup a heck of a lot more than just a print and a negative stored locally.
Get an LCD with a decent scalar chip, just as good if not better than a CRT for low resolution and of course HD when the source material is available.
AFAIK the cheapest P&S with RAW from the factory are the Powershot G10 which will run you ~$450 new from a reputable dealer. Of course for much less you can get a D40 with the 18-55 kit lens ($375 at Adorama.
And you can recreate them in the digital world =)
But Mozy or your offsite digital storage of choice IS.
And since there is about 10000x as many photos taken today with digital even if only .1% survive there will be more information for them to sort through.
So what, having a debt:GDP ratio under 1 during a severe economic downturn just means we are REALLY wealthy. Also this is hardly an unprecedented level of debt for the US, we just recently surpassed the percentage we were at during the early 1960's. All of that is beside the point that we already spend WAY more than anyone else on healthcare as a percentage of GDP so it's likely updating our system would reduce our expenditures. Oh and reducing military expenditures from 20% more than the rest of the world combined to only equal to the rest of the world combined sure would free up some cash for other programs....
To put it in another light, would you give up some life-saving operation for a family member, in exchange for distributing 100 cold-&-flu medications to bums on the street?
This country is CERTAINLY rich enough to do both! And by distributing the flue shots to the bums we avoid having to pay for treating them for pneumonia or other respiratory problems acquired by having the flue untreated.
It's only mitigated by consumer demand if the consumer actually has some sway over the insurance company which we clearly do not in our current free market system (few large insurers and the disconnect between consumers and insurance through the employer middle man).
As opposed to whom? The actuaries at the insurance companies and HMO's?!? Not sure about you but I'd rather have government indifference than corporate greed deciding
Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V will be supported until 2018 at least, do you think VMWare will be supporting ESX3.5 then?
My reply text is being squashed into a 25 character wide column to the right of a mass of grey. It would be great if Slashdot rendered properly these days.
Looks fine in FF3.5b99 XP at 1024*768.
If a write request come and there is no space to write data to, the drive can READ/ERASE/MODIFY/WRITE the block with most TRIMed space, which will speed up the next few writes.
I believe that is exactly the wrong strategy, if 15/16 4KB 'sectors' in a 256KB block are TRIMMED you would NOT want to use that block as the one to overwrite because it will soon be freed and can be background erased.
Uh, think again. If you need lots of IOPS and not tons of storage SSD's are great. The Intel x-25e and FusionI/O drives are enterprise class. I can get nearly the same IOPS out of a $800 x-25e as I can out of a quarter million dollars worth of disks and controllers. If you have certain classes of problems (hot log volumes, data cache where latency matters, etc) then SSD's are great today and the technology is getting better by the quarter.
super-rich? Virgin Galactic is targeting low 5 figures within a decade. Considering some people I work with spend nearly that much on cruises I would consider it well within many slashdotters reach for a once in a lifetime trip.
Yep, HP has a 2.5" 15K drive that has a MAX seek latency of 4.85ms, average is 2.58ms.
You're assuming all SSD's are create equal which is FAR from the truth. Most of the really cheap ones use crap chips that can make writes MUCH slower than even normal HDD's. If you buy a decent one you will pay more per GB but you will actually see an advantage vs traditional HDD's, cheap ones can often lose in every category except noise.
Actually internet access can be used to *shock* improve peoples standard of living. By allowing access to weather, news, and market information rural farmers can better prepare their crops and time the sale of their goods.
Ha, like the NSA isn't being fed a direct link from the CCTV cameras....
Considering I stream radio from my Blackberry and we push quite a bit of data to our devices on a daily basis (business intelligence reports) they probably have a point.
Nope, Google maps and wifi work fine on our 8830's, perhaps business accounts are handled differently than consumer devices?
Buy a Blackberry then, we see no hampering of functionality on the Verizon Blackberries we own for people with poor AT&T reception. They are subsidized just like other phones too, they just have a little higher starting price than some of the non-smartphones (though the 8830 world is $50 online with 2 year contract).
Uh, AT&T's network is substantially better than T-Mobiles in all but the most crowded of markets (AT&T is too successful for the amount of bandwidth they have in a few markets). They also use GSM which makes them better for international travelers than Verizon (though Verizon now offers Blackberry's with a GSM radio). I've found everyone elses network to be crap unless you are in a very rare circumstance (I have a friend that lives on the edge of AT&T and Verizon coverage zones but has good coverage through Alltel). Also you can buy unbundled iPhones from Apple, they are simply expensive ($499 for the 8GB 3G - $699 for the 32GB 3Gs.) but I'm not sure about the ability to unlock it as it says it's designed only for AT&T's network (untrue since it's a GSM device that's sold internationally on all sorts of networks).