When Gmail first premiered, the only option was to 'archive' your email. As a result of the uproar there is now an explicit 'Delete forever' option in the action pulldown in the Trash and Spam folders.
I think the exciting thing here is the excellent (not just neat, but surprisingly useful/usable) implementation of a treemap pulling from publicly available data.
Also, while treemaps aren't new (see Smart Money's Market Map, MSR Netscan), they are qualitatively different visualizations than the heatmaps you mention.
(Also, the Flash loads much more transparently and the overall design is much slicker and well designed than most of the Java versions out there)
I think a lot of the bias has to do w/ network/internet streaming. MPEG-1 doesn't offering resolution scalability and doesn't deal well w/ packet loss (dependencies on P and B frames). Also the B frames add latency so it's not good for video conferencing either.
Also, bit for bit, MPEG-1 has long since been superceded, quality-wise.
There are plenty of retro themes out there. I've personally found Max Rudbergs's themes to be some of my favorites. Check out his Rhapsodized and Classic Platinum skins at his site.
MacThemes.net is a good site w/ both theme reviews, news, and links to theming software.
I've been stunningly underwhelmed with the general sturdiness of Apple's laptops.
I can't speak from an authoritative standpoint, but while most of our work TiBooks have been in and out of the shop over the years, a lot of friends with Pismo's, WallStreets, and IceBooks are humming along fine. I carried around a two year old 1st gen TiBook for a year. Scuffed as hell, but everything remained functional. I've been carrying around a 12" AlBook everywhere for about half a year now. Kept in a Booq bag, no marks, problems (except for the power pin of an old power adapter breaking off).
On the up side, Apple laptops had chronic problems for *years* with the port-covering panel breaking off. Apple seems to have fixed this, as the panel is firmly attached on his Mac.
The new Apple laptops don't suffer these problems at all as all the ports are on the sides now.
OS X is usable without being incredibly irritating, a la Windows, but it still isn't Linux. You are stuck with a single mouse button trackpad, and you should be aware that purchasing a Mac is more than the initial purchase price -- software and hardware from Apple is pricy and a lot of software that Linux folks take for granted as free are quite expensive packages on the Mac. Finally, the PowerPC isn't what it once was -- the PPC used to be an incredibly cool (thermally cool) processor back in the day, but it's steadily consumed more and more power.
The single button trackpad is my biggest bane in day to day use. It's one of the prices you pay. Software however, isn't one of the prices you need to pay if you don't want to. Just about every major piece of open source software runs on OS X, if not natively (Mozilla) then on X. I run Apache, MySQL, gVim, etc. fine. There's also lots of free and Free software available only on OS X (ie, I could run Gaim if I wanted to, but I run iChat or Adium instead). Agree w/ the PPC comment, however Apple's power management still beats the pants off of any Windows/Linux laptop. Apple laptops go to/come out of sleep pretty much as you open it. Whenever I'm stuck on a PC laptop, I really feel the difference. Those extra 5-10 seconds really add up over the course of a day.
While it *does* have a CLI, it lacks the GNU utilities, which is *incredibly* annoying to anyone who has gotten familiar with them. If Solaris or BSD (well, sans GNU utils) drives you nuts with the more limited featureset in the CLI utilities, you are going to be equally irritated with the Mac OS.
The first thing one should install before using the OS X CLI is Fink (well, actually Apple's X11 packages, but then Fink). Fink is also the easiest way to get GNOME and KDE up and running, all with an easy to use apt-get interface.
If you're aware of what you're getting into, Macs can be a good deal.
Agreed.
Note that, before people get crabby about me bashing Apple, I have a Mac right next to me at the moment, and I've used and coded on Macs for years in the past. I think Apple's done some good stuff, but that people also tend to get an overly rosy view of their
I agree that some people can get... overly enthusiastic. And there are bad things about the Macs. But I think a lot of the caveats you mention, while perhaps once were issues, aren't really anymore.
One thing to consider, and this is coming from someone's who used to love tinkering/building his own systems and who currently hacks in front of xterms all day and administers half-a-dozen linux boxes, is that it's quite a refreshing experience to have a laptop that does everything you want and 'just works' (for me, that's letting me do all my development and use all my accustomed Unix tools, but at the same time, handling stuff like attaching to wi-fi networks, projectors, waking/sleeping etc seamlessly).
Also refreshing is that I've literally never had to do a clean OS reinstall on any of my Macs (well, except for that OS X Server that I converted to Gentoo;)
Hmm, not trying to put this guy down or anything, but Mac-to-PC total conversions have been done better. Here's a step-by-step of one from a couple years ago.
For those who'd like to run a newer Mac in an all-in-one form factor, it's apparently pretty straightforward to drop a cube straight into a Color Classic (hmmm, two obsolete systems in one!) Alternatively, it'd be a pretty neat project to put together one of these with say the guts of a 12" PowerBook.
I think you missed the point. Yes, the author clearly states that while the iPod remains a favorite, that people with specific needs may want to consider other players where the iPod has shortcomings. That's why he brings those to lights and offers alternatives if those shortcomings are really important to you. This seems like a perfectly reasonable and useful article for Joe Consumer. (in the interest of full disclosure: I own a 15GB iPod)
Personally, I find the tone of your response much more disagreeable. You discount or dismiss the shortcomings because 'obviously' people don't need it, or they can work around it by changing their lifestyle or requirements.
Having more than 6 hours of battery life *is* important if you're on a 12-hour plane flight. If you *have a limited price point*, then no, the iPod won't do you any good regardless of how great a value it is. You probably *don't* want to be carrying around a HD when there are much lighter and stable flash devices available if all you want is music to jog to, and if you want a portable MP3 recorder, no, I'm sorry buying a Powerbook, mic, and amp seems quite back-assward when there are alternative recorders that will work just fine.
Although a port would be improbable, based on a post by Andrew Meggs (originally hired by Valve to do the Mac port of the first Half-Life; currently working as the lead programmer for the upcoming PC version of Vampire, which he notes is based on the Source Engine):
From a purely technical point of view, there's no reason Half-Life 2 couldn't make it to the Mac. The new code is far more modular than the original, to the point where maintaining a Mac version alongside the updates and changes to the PC version could be fairly trivial. Mods and even commercial titles like Vampire could be ported over very rapidly based off the initial work to port Half-Life 2.
Now, while there's been some talk about the possibility of porting, it probably doesn't really make strong financial sense (although who knows, maybe the good will / low effort of porting works out). I'm not holding my breath and will be picking up a copy of HL2 for my PC when it hits shelves. (In any case, I've found even ports of several year old games to run quite sluggishly on my 12" Powerbook so there really wouldn't be much hope of it running on my current Apple hardware).
"Valve is certainly going to wait and see if the Mac market share looks better in early 2004 before making any announcement of the port of Half Life 2 on the Mac platform. They don't want to disappoint Mac gamers as they did with Half Life" says one anonymous source but he also adds that it is just his opinion and that an announcement might happen at any time.
While there's been quite some discussion on the subject matter, and of course you're free to pronounce it however the hell you want, I think most people pronounce it the way Linus himself does (short i):
Check out Helix's helix-client site. There've been some early developer release binaries available for quite some time.
For real world use, you're probably better off using something like mplayer w/ the realplayer-codecs or if you're using Windows, something like JetAudio, or as others have mentioned, Media Player Classic + Real codecs
Changes in sound pressure level (measured in dB) do *not* correspond with perceived volume (loudness). The parent poster is correct; a 10dB increase is twice as loud.
The nature of the decibel scale is such that the individual sound levels for different sound sources cannot be added directly to give the combined sound level of these sources. Two sound sources producing equal sound levels at a given location will produce a composite sound level that is 3 dB greater than either sound alone. When two sound sources differ by 10 dB, the composite sound level will be only 0.4 dB greater than the louder source alone.
a 3-dB change is just perceptible,
a 5-dB change is clearly perceptible, and
a 10-dB change is perceived as being twice or half as loud.
A doubling or halving of acoustic energy will change the resulting sound level by 3 dB, which corresponds to a change that is just perceptible. In practice, this means that a doubling of traffic volume on a roadway, doubling the number of people in a stadium, or doubling the number of wind turbines in a wind farm will, as a general rule, only result in a 3-dB, or just perceptible, increase in noise.
There are a number of factors that affect how sound propagates outdoors. These factors, described by Hoover and Keith (1996) , are summarized below.
Re:Still re-coding for register_global_variables..
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Any site that stores auth data in an unsigned cookie is asking for trouble anyway , of course 'register_globals off' can't protect against that. It will, however, protect you against variable injection w/ uninitialized variables, which is definitely a *good* thing. Even the most careful of us can make mistakes. One less thing to worry about.
Languages/APIs are meant to make it easier to do useful stuff and harder to do stupid things.
Just thought I'd ask here and see if anyone knew if there's an SSHv2 terminal availabe for the Palms/Treos? The only SSH terminal I'm aware of for the Palm is Top Gun SSH, which is SSHv1 only.
That being said, the Treo 600 looks like the best communicator coming in the near future. The only real disappointments are with the low-res screen, lack of built-in BT (although Handspring is committed to getting full BT (data and handset) support via the SDIO slot) and no AMPS fallback (inconvenient if you're stuck out in the booneys w/o digital coverage).
Until you figure in film costs. A decent roll of color neg will cost you ~$5/roll, and decent processing, at least another $6/roll. [Conceivably, you can go super-cheap on film and processing, but I suspect you'd still be hard pressed to go under $6-7/roll total]
If you're a professional, going digital will pay itself off within the first month (not to mention the instant review and 0-hour turnaround).
Even as an amateur, I clocked in about 8,000 shots in the first year that I got my first digital Nikon. That's a little over 200 rolls of film, the consumables alone would have accounted for more than the price of the camera, and the real-time preview was invaluable in improving my shooting.
Nit: Palm OS5 is built for ARM cores. While Motorola is marketing their new i.MX chips as part of the DragonBall family, it has to be emphasized that it's completely different from the older 68K based DragonBall chips that Palm was using before.
In fact, Palm Hardware isn't even using Dragonballs anymore, but rather have seem to have picked the TI OMAP ARM chips instead, and Sony has is using Intel XScales for their OS5 PDAs. I believe Garmin is using a Dragonball MXL for their new GPS/Palm doohickey though.
In general, however, I agree: OS5 really makes legacy apps fly. All these hacks of course are stopgaps until the transition to OS6. That'll be a very tricky thing to pull off. I do hope they can though (and that PalmSource manages to learn from their previous architectural mistakes). The involvement of the Be contingent gives me hope, at least on the second count.
It's not on their website, but via emailed, I was informed the OGG code was being worked on and would be available for the II and the ia.
Having my NEX II conveniently disassembled right now, it looks like it's using a TI TMS320VC5416 (C54xx series) 16-Bit 144-pin Fixed-Point DSP with Boundary Scan.
I just pre-ordered my NEX ia a few days ago (it doesn't ship for a few more days; $130 + s/h for a NEX ia + 128MB CF) - my NEX II served me well for two years and just recently died. One neat feature is that it does do 64kbps MP3 recording w/ an internal mic. I was originally looking for a decent MP3 recorder, but unfortunately, one doesn't exist (the only ones that have level meters for example are $1000+ bulky pro units).
My old NEX II MP3 player just recently died on me. I started taking it apart, and it looks like I might
be able to do some soldering to possibly get it working, but chances are
slim (approximately corresponding to my soldering skills). It looks
like the new NEX ia
is coming out though, with voice/FM recording, better firmware, and
possible Ogg Vorbis support, among other things. I sent an email to
see what the recording quality is (hopefully with line-in
capabilities), and to see if some slightly annoying NEX II bugs have
been fixed.
improvements: multiple folder support, alphabetical song
listing, more buffering, improved shuffle (but no m3u support, so
you'll want to keep your CopyNex handy - see also: FATSort, PlaylistExpander)
Ogg Vorbis is actually being worked on, for the NEX II's as well as the NEX ia and will be released as a firmware upgrade
64Kbps recording (can record at higher bitrates, but no selection mechanism in the firmware right now)
No (recording) level-meter
No line-in, the only external input is the built-in voice recording microphone
Can play back MP3 files at the same time as recording
Perception Digital has a PD-095-01 Portable MP3 player which has a can record from an internal mic, FM, or a line-in at 13Kbps voice or 48-320kbps MP3
(!). That's pretty frickin' awesome. It's a little bit on the chunkier
side, and only accepts SmartMedia, no Compact Flash though. Still,
tempting, if I could find some user reviews...
Biological anthropology is certainly an interesting topic. Craig Stanford wrote a book entitled The Hunting Apes that examines meat eating (primarily about its role social development), but which does map out what's known about diets of various primates, aboriginal societies, and historical extrapolations. Well worth checking out.
FWIW, it appears that for most of human history, meat consumption was much less common than caveman cartoons would have us believe.
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I just saw a presentation Doug Lenat gave about Cyc a few weeks ago that seemed fairly impressive. Even better, all developments in Cyc have been committed to eventually flowing into OpenCyc. Just wondering if you (or anyone else) had thoughts on the promise of Cyc technology.
While I'm not sure if this will lead directly to Strong AI, it seems that having some sort of ontology would be a prerequisite (and quite useful in the short term to boot)
The main problem w/ the 3ware 8500's is that they're actually 7500's w/ SATA converters (actually a hair slower due to the conversion overhead), and still PCI 64/33. A whole slew of PCI-X true SATA RAID controllers (one from 3ware is supposed to be out late this quarter) will be coming out in the next few months. Should be interesting.
The sequential transfer rates being quoted are likely RAID 5 for reads. It's not unheard of for modern U320 arrays to top 500MB/s in sequential reads and >20,000 IOPs. (the 3ware 7500-12 clocks in at 190MB/s and ~700 IOPs according to their benchmarks.
(note that PCI 64/33 maxes out at 264MB/s, PCI 64/66 at 528MB/s. With the recent 2.0 specs, PCI-X will take you up to a ridiculous 4.2GB/s)
For major speed, check out this Ram San. 700MB/s bandwidth and 200,000 IOP?!?! Yowza!
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I didn't notice a price specified. Am I just not seeing it? Anyone in a position to give details?
When Gmail first premiered, the only option was to 'archive' your email. As a result of the uproar there is now an explicit 'Delete forever' option in the action pulldown in the Trash and Spam folders.
I think the exciting thing here is the excellent (not just neat, but surprisingly useful/usable) implementation of a treemap pulling from publicly available data.
Also, while treemaps aren't new (see Smart Money's Market Map, MSR Netscan), they are qualitatively different visualizations than the heatmaps you mention.
(Also, the Flash loads much more transparently and the overall design is much slicker and well designed than most of the Java versions out there)
I think a lot of the bias has to do w/ network/internet streaming. MPEG-1 doesn't offering resolution scalability and doesn't deal well w/ packet loss (dependencies on P and B frames). Also the B frames add latency so it's not good for video conferencing either.
Also, bit for bit, MPEG-1 has long since been superceded, quality-wise.
There are plenty of retro themes out there. I've personally found Max Rudbergs's themes to be some of my favorites. Check out his Rhapsodized and Classic Platinum skins at his site.
MacThemes.net is a good site w/ both theme reviews, news, and links to theming software.
I can't speak from an authoritative standpoint, but while most of our work TiBooks have been in and out of the shop over the years, a lot of friends with Pismo's, WallStreets, and IceBooks are humming along fine. I carried around a two year old 1st gen TiBook for a year. Scuffed as hell, but everything remained functional. I've been carrying around a 12" AlBook everywhere for about half a year now. Kept in a Booq bag, no marks, problems (except for the power pin of an old power adapter breaking off).
The new Apple laptops don't suffer these problems at all as all the ports are on the sides now.
The single button trackpad is my biggest bane in day to day use. It's one of the prices you pay. Software however, isn't one of the prices you need to pay if you don't want to. Just about every major piece of open source software runs on OS X, if not natively (Mozilla) then on X. I run Apache, MySQL, gVim, etc. fine. There's also lots of free and Free software available only on OS X (ie, I could run Gaim if I wanted to, but I run iChat or Adium instead). Agree w/ the PPC comment, however Apple's power management still beats the pants off of any Windows/Linux laptop. Apple laptops go to/come out of sleep pretty much as you open it. Whenever I'm stuck on a PC laptop, I really feel the difference. Those extra 5-10 seconds really add up over the course of a day.
The first thing one should install before using the OS X CLI is Fink (well, actually Apple's X11 packages, but then Fink). Fink is also the easiest way to get GNOME and KDE up and running, all with an easy to use apt-get interface.
Agreed.
I agree that some people can get... overly enthusiastic. And there are bad things about the Macs. But I think a lot of the caveats you mention, while perhaps once were issues, aren't really anymore.
One thing to consider, and this is coming from someone's who used to love tinkering/building his own systems and who currently hacks in front of xterms all day and administers half-a-dozen linux boxes, is that it's quite a refreshing experience to have a laptop that does everything you want and 'just works' (for me, that's letting me do all my development and use all my accustomed Unix tools, but at the same time, handling stuff like attaching to wi-fi networks, projectors, waking/sleeping etc seamlessly).
Also refreshing is that I've literally never had to do a clean OS reinstall on any of my Macs (well, except for that OS X Server that I converted to Gentoo ;)
Hmm, not trying to put this guy down or anything, but Mac-to-PC total conversions have been done better. Here's a step-by-step of one from a couple years ago.
For those who'd like to run a newer Mac in an all-in-one form factor, it's apparently pretty straightforward to drop a cube straight into a Color Classic (hmmm, two obsolete systems in one!) Alternatively, it'd be a pretty neat project to put together one of these with say the guts of a 12" PowerBook.
In case anyone isn't aware, Season 3 (unaired) of the Sifl and Olly show is available online: http://www.sifl-n-olly.com/merch/.
The rest, sadly, is still unavailable except via P2P/VHS (I guess MTV controls the rights for those).
I think you missed the point. Yes, the author clearly states that while the iPod remains a favorite, that people with specific needs may want to consider other players where the iPod has shortcomings. That's why he brings those to lights and offers alternatives if those shortcomings are really important to you. This seems like a perfectly reasonable and useful article for Joe Consumer. (in the interest of full disclosure: I own a 15GB iPod)
Personally, I find the tone of your response much more disagreeable. You discount or dismiss the shortcomings because 'obviously' people don't need it, or they can work around it by changing their lifestyle or requirements.
Having more than 6 hours of battery life *is* important if you're on a 12-hour plane flight. If you *have a limited price point*, then no, the iPod won't do you any good regardless of how great a value it is. You probably *don't* want to be carrying around a HD when there are much lighter and stable flash devices available if all you want is music to jog to, and if you want a portable MP3 recorder, no, I'm sorry buying a Powerbook, mic, and amp seems quite back-assward when there are alternative recorders that will work just fine.
Although a port would be improbable, based on a post by Andrew Meggs (originally hired by Valve to do the Mac port of the first Half-Life; currently working as the lead programmer for the upcoming PC version of Vampire, which he notes is based on the Source Engine):
Now, while there's been some talk about the possibility of porting, it probably doesn't really make strong financial sense (although who knows, maybe the good will / low effort of porting works out). I'm not holding my breath and will be picking up a copy of HL2 for my PC when it hits shelves. (In any case, I've found even ports of several year old games to run quite sluggishly on my 12" Powerbook so there really wouldn't be much hope of it running on my current Apple hardware).
While there's been quite some discussion on the subject matter, and of course you're free to pronounce it however the hell you want, I think most people pronounce it the way Linus himself does (short i):
"Hello, this is Linus Torvalds, and I pronounce Linux as Linux!"
Check out Helix's helix-client site. There've been some early developer release binaries available for quite some time.
For real world use, you're probably better off using something like mplayer w/ the realplayer-codecs or if you're using Windows, something like JetAudio, or as others have mentioned, Media Player Classic + Real codecs
Changes in sound pressure level (measured in dB) do *not* correspond with perceived volume (loudness). The parent poster is correct; a 10dB increase is twice as loud.
A Google search for 'double loudness decibel' or something similar will turn up dozens of links, here's one from the Army Corps of Engineers:
Any site that stores auth data in an unsigned cookie is asking for trouble anyway , of course 'register_globals off' can't protect against that. It will, however, protect you against variable injection w/ uninitialized variables, which is definitely a *good* thing. Even the most careful of us can make mistakes. One less thing to worry about.
Languages/APIs are meant to make it easier to do useful stuff and harder to do stupid things.
Denmark was the first country to adopt the EUCD (DMCA++). Here's a good EUCD status page. It has the same broad anti-circumvention tool proscriptions as the DMCA.
Thanks for the tips. I'll definitely take a look at VeriChat as well (looks great). I did some searching and found a good discussion on SSH terminals at TreoCentral.
Just thought I'd ask here and see if anyone knew if there's an SSHv2 terminal availabe for the Palms/Treos? The only SSH terminal I'm aware of for the Palm is Top Gun SSH, which is SSHv1 only.
That being said, the Treo 600 looks like the best communicator coming in the near future. The only real disappointments are with the low-res screen, lack of built-in BT (although Handspring is committed to getting full BT (data and handset) support via the SDIO slot) and no AMPS fallback (inconvenient if you're stuck out in the booneys w/o digital coverage).
Until you figure in film costs. A decent roll of color neg will cost you ~$5/roll, and decent processing, at least another $6/roll. [Conceivably, you can go super-cheap on film and processing, but I suspect you'd still be hard pressed to go under $6-7/roll total]
If you're a professional, going digital will pay itself off within the first month (not to mention the instant review and 0-hour turnaround).
Even as an amateur, I clocked in about 8,000 shots in the first year that I got my first digital Nikon. That's a little over 200 rolls of film, the consumables alone would have accounted for more than the price of the camera, and the real-time preview was invaluable in improving my shooting.
Nit: Palm OS5 is built for ARM cores. While Motorola is marketing their new i.MX chips as part of the DragonBall family, it has to be emphasized that it's completely different from the older 68K based DragonBall chips that Palm was using before.
In fact, Palm Hardware isn't even using Dragonballs anymore, but rather have seem to have picked the TI OMAP ARM chips instead, and Sony has is using Intel XScales for their OS5 PDAs. I believe Garmin is using a Dragonball MXL for their new GPS/Palm doohickey though.
In general, however, I agree: OS5 really makes legacy apps fly. All these hacks of course are stopgaps until the transition to OS6. That'll be a very tricky thing to pull off. I do hope they can though (and that PalmSource manages to learn from their previous architectural mistakes). The involvement of the Be contingent gives me hope, at least on the second count.
It's not on their website, but via emailed, I was informed the OGG code was being worked on and would be available for the II and the ia.
Having my NEX II conveniently disassembled right now, it looks like it's using a TI TMS320VC5416 (C54xx series) 16-Bit 144-pin Fixed-Point DSP with Boundary Scan.
A quick Ogg search shows that someone was working on porting the Tremor code to the TI C54s last year. Interesting stuff.
BTW, I'm been using Mozilla v1.3+ (currently running a 1.4b build) and the site hasn't been giving me any problems.
I just pre-ordered my NEX ia a few days ago (it doesn't ship for a few more days; $130 + s/h for a NEX ia + 128MB CF) - my NEX II served me well for two years and just recently died. One neat feature is that it does do 64kbps MP3 recording w/ an internal mic. I was originally looking for a decent MP3 recorder, but unfortunately, one doesn't exist (the only ones that have level meters for example are $1000+ bulky pro units).
Anyway, I posted some research on my blog which might be of interest:
Biological anthropology is certainly an interesting topic. Craig Stanford wrote a book entitled The Hunting Apes that examines meat eating (primarily about its role social development), but which does map out what's known about diets of various primates, aboriginal societies, and historical extrapolations. Well worth checking out.
FWIW, it appears that for most of human history, meat consumption was much less common than caveman cartoons would have us believe.
While I'm not sure if this will lead directly to Strong AI, it seems that having some sort of ontology would be a prerequisite (and quite useful in the short term to boot)
SCSI HOW-TO: 9.3 Tape driver (st)
The main problem w/ the 3ware 8500's is that they're actually 7500's w/ SATA converters (actually a hair slower due to the conversion overhead), and still PCI 64/33. A whole slew of PCI-X true SATA RAID controllers (one from 3ware is supposed to be out late this quarter) will be coming out in the next few months. Should be interesting.
The sequential transfer rates being quoted are likely RAID 5 for reads. It's not unheard of for modern U320 arrays to top 500MB/s in sequential reads and >20,000 IOPs. (the 3ware 7500-12 clocks in at 190MB/s and ~700 IOPs according to their benchmarks.
(note that PCI 64/33 maxes out at 264MB/s, PCI 64/66 at 528MB/s. With the recent 2.0 specs, PCI-X will take you up to a ridiculous 4.2GB/s)
For major speed, check out this Ram San. 700MB/s bandwidth and 200,000 IOP?!?! Yowza!