You're right. If you need 1 TB of storage, you won't be buying an SSD soon. But if you need only 64 GB or 128 GB, as many desktops and laptops do, the situation is different. Newegg is listing a 64 GB SSD for $140, and many buyers will opt to pay an extra $100 for a faster disk.
Scoring 100/100 on the JavaScript subtests is only part of passing Acid3. A browser also has to render the page correctly (including the proper favicon) and complete each subtest within a certain amount of time. From reports in the Opera forums, it looks like Opera 10 still isn't passing the performance aspect of Acid3. I think Safari 4 is still the only browser to fully pass Acid3.
True. The backup system I bought last year is external hard disks connected to the file server by an eSATA interface. It's much faster and cheaper than tapes up to at least a few TBs. I suppose if you have many terabytes of data, or already have access to a good tape drive, tapes are still cheaper for backups.
I searched for the lowest priced hard disk at newegg, and it turned out to be an 80 GB hard disk for $36. For most laptop and desktop computers, several tens of gigabytes of storage is plenty. When 64 GB SSDs get down to about $40, they should become the standard drives on low-end computers.
SSDs are still over 25 times as expensive for 1 TB of storage. Fixed that for you.
64 GB SSD today = $150. 80 GB hard disk = $40. If you need only 64 GB of storage, as most handhelds, laptops, and desktops do, SSDs are only about four times more expensive today. You can expect SSDs to become cheaper than hard disks in about two years, at least for the smaller capacity drives.
Putting a 128 GB Samsung SSD into a Lenovo laptop (instead of the stock 80 GB 5400 RPM hard disk drive) costs $499 today. You could expect to pay at least $1000 to get a 256 GB Samsung SSD right away. Of course, the price will drop to reasonable levels in a year or two.
Spinning media already is dead. It's just that no one's told it yet.
Actually, spinning media will continue to be used in servers that need huge capacities of storage. But for cheaper devices, the speed, energy efficiency, durability, and price of solid state drives will effectively make using spinning media obsolete in the next few years.
I used to use jEdit. It's a decent text editor, but now I use Notepad++. I'm also trying Komodo Edit as a possible replacement to Notepad++. All three editors are open source, but Notepad++ is Windows only.
That sucks. At least I haven't seen that yet. The biggest offenders I've seen so far have been in-state calls. I got a telemarketing call from an area code in Florida last week. And I've lived within 50 miles of Canada for years.
I simply signed up on the National Do Not Call Registry (US only). That cut the telemarketing calls from several per day to once a month or two. For those that I still receive, I ask them not to call again. Then I file a complaint on the Do Not Call website because they shouldn't have called in the first place.
I agree that people will often write opinion in Wikipedia article and present it as fact. When I catch someone doing so, I rip it out immediately. That's the beauty of Wikipedia!
If you're not so bold, you can stick a {{fact}} template on it, and it will indicate that a citation is needed. If no one adds one, any editor can remove the unverified claim.
For me, Wikipedia replaces a Google search. Or, more accurately, when I do a Google search I usually get a Wikipedia article that has the information I want. If the Wikipedia article doesn't come up, I usually end up searching on Wikipedia, then possibly adding the results of my findings if it isn't already there. Wikipedia should be compared to the other results from a Google search, not compared to an encyclopedia. As such, I find it a generally useful and comprehensive source of basic information.
Wikipedia acknowledges that it is not suited for predicting the future. Wikipedia is not a crystal ball. Wikipedia should and does remove topics where well-supported facts cannot be found. To include anything in Wikipedia, you must be able to verify it in a reliable source. Perhaps they could require two reliable sources, but it's already pretty hard to put in facts that are not well supported.
In a big company it makes a lot more sense to have one large cluster in a data center. Then everyone can have more computing power at lower cost, assuming that not everyone needs to use the cluster at the same time. Having a desktop cluster on each desk makes about as much sense as a file server on each desk or a mail server on each desk.
I suppose this is good news for those that don't want to get their hands dirty building their own cluster. You could just network several servers together and simply install Rocks or UniCluster or any number of other cluster packages.
Exactly. That's why asking for IE6 to retire is stupid and pointless. This is what developers do. They make sites work in IE6, then lament that users still use it. Well, of course they do, stupidheads!
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You're right. If you need 1 TB of storage, you won't be buying an SSD soon. But if you need only 64 GB or 128 GB, as many desktops and laptops do, the situation is different. Newegg is listing a 64 GB SSD for $140, and many buyers will opt to pay an extra $100 for a faster disk.
Well, to be fair, Opera had the idea first and those Firefox dudes stole it!!!
Scoring 100/100 on the JavaScript subtests is only part of passing Acid3. A browser also has to render the page correctly (including the proper favicon) and complete each subtest within a certain amount of time. From reports in the Opera forums, it looks like Opera 10 still isn't passing the performance aspect of Acid3. I think Safari 4 is still the only browser to fully pass Acid3.
True. The backup system I bought last year is external hard disks connected to the file server by an eSATA interface. It's much faster and cheaper than tapes up to at least a few TBs. I suppose if you have many terabytes of data, or already have access to a good tape drive, tapes are still cheaper for backups.
Where I work we use a file server to store files. Are you from the past?
I searched for the lowest priced hard disk at newegg, and it turned out to be an 80 GB hard disk for $36. For most laptop and desktop computers, several tens of gigabytes of storage is plenty. When 64 GB SSDs get down to about $40, they should become the standard drives on low-end computers.
"Same sh*t, different"?
SSDs are still over 25 times as expensive for 1 TB of storage. Fixed that for you.
64 GB SSD today = $150.
80 GB hard disk = $40.
If you need only 64 GB of storage, as most handhelds, laptops, and desktops do, SSDs are only about four times more expensive today. You can expect SSDs to become cheaper than hard disks in about two years, at least for the smaller capacity drives.
Putting a 128 GB Samsung SSD into a Lenovo laptop (instead of the stock 80 GB 5400 RPM hard disk drive) costs $499 today. You could expect to pay at least $1000 to get a 256 GB Samsung SSD right away. Of course, the price will drop to reasonable levels in a year or two.
Spinning media already is dead. It's just that no one's told it yet.
Actually, spinning media will continue to be used in servers that need huge capacities of storage. But for cheaper devices, the speed, energy efficiency, durability, and price of solid state drives will effectively make using spinning media obsolete in the next few years.
Die flipperwaldt gersput? Bwahahahahahahahaha! Clunk!
The damage has already been done? Huh? You are aware that in most cases arrests occur after the commission of a crime, right?
I used to use jEdit. It's a decent text editor, but now I use Notepad++. I'm also trying Komodo Edit as a possible replacement to Notepad++. All three editors are open source, but Notepad++ is Windows only.
Too late. You're caught in a tractor beam!
You're thinking of science. You can only disprove a hypothesis, never prove it true. In math, you can prove or disprove a conjecture.
That sucks. At least I haven't seen that yet. The biggest offenders I've seen so far have been in-state calls. I got a telemarketing call from an area code in Florida last week. And I've lived within 50 miles of Canada for years.
I simply signed up on the National Do Not Call Registry (US only). That cut the telemarketing calls from several per day to once a month or two. For those that I still receive, I ask them not to call again. Then I file a complaint on the Do Not Call website because they shouldn't have called in the first place.
I agree that people will often write opinion in Wikipedia article and present it as fact. When I catch someone doing so, I rip it out immediately. That's the beauty of Wikipedia!
If you're not so bold, you can stick a {{fact}} template on it, and it will indicate that a citation is needed. If no one adds one, any editor can remove the unverified claim.
For me, Wikipedia replaces a Google search. Or, more accurately, when I do a Google search I usually get a Wikipedia article that has the information I want. If the Wikipedia article doesn't come up, I usually end up searching on Wikipedia, then possibly adding the results of my findings if it isn't already there. Wikipedia should be compared to the other results from a Google search, not compared to an encyclopedia. As such, I find it a generally useful and comprehensive source of basic information.
Wikipedia acknowledges that it is not suited for predicting the future. Wikipedia is not a crystal ball. Wikipedia should and does remove topics where well-supported facts cannot be found. To include anything in Wikipedia, you must be able to verify it in a reliable source. Perhaps they could require two reliable sources, but it's already pretty hard to put in facts that are not well supported.
You have that backwards. The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth.
In a big company it makes a lot more sense to have one large cluster in a data center. Then everyone can have more computing power at lower cost, assuming that not everyone needs to use the cluster at the same time. Having a desktop cluster on each desk makes about as much sense as a file server on each desk or a mail server on each desk.
Yeah, clusters used to be called Beowulfs. Now that term is reserved for those posters on Slashdot that continue to repeat that stupid meme.
I suppose this is good news for those that don't want to get their hands dirty building their own cluster. You could just network several servers together and simply install Rocks or UniCluster or any number of other cluster packages.
Exactly. That's why asking for IE6 to retire is stupid and pointless. This is what developers do. They make sites work in IE6, then lament that users still use it. Well, of course they do, stupidheads!