5 years ago, it was esimated that we would have plenty of money and could start paying down debts.
As far as I can tell, none of that ever happened.
Oh, and you know, when someone blows up "The World Trade Center", that slows down your economy. Taxes go down, but the debts don't go away because you're having a bad year.
For the two months of campaigning, I can slap down less than a grand and get a dual zeon server with 2TB of bandwidth. That's a far cry from "Very Rich".
"What you've got in the moon is the potential for a small base that will forever be completely dependant on Earth for supplies."
Unless, you build a huge base, able to grow it's own food and keep huge supplies of raw materials on hand. I'm picturing an actual city of thousands of people.
After all, if you're mining asteriods for milions of tons of water, ore, and other materials, you'll end up sending it to the moon, not the Earth. Earth already has all the materials it needs at the bottom of the gravity well.
You believe drive performance is dominated by seek time, or you know drive performance is dominated by seek time?
Smaller disks=less area to cover to get to the data.
Faster spin time=less waiting for the data to come back under the head.
A drive that can only put out 60MB/s will put out 120MB/s if you can spin the platters twice as fast.
Put out a drive with smaller platters that can go 30,000RPM, you will have the best performing mechanical drive on the market.
So, is there a HD engineer in the house? 15,000RPM drives get pretty hot, are we able to go much faster? Or are we going to have to completely redesign them?
So, how much faster can they spin the drives now with this improvement?
The 15k drives use smaller platters so they can withstand the stress of the high RPMs.
So what if you make them even smaller. The 36.6GB HD can potentially go up to 366GB now, but I think people would be very interested in a drive with smaller platters that goes 30,000rpm and is still 36.6GB.
Considering all the fuss people put up about spotted owls, I would think there would be more concern over the only know sentient lifeform in the universe.
My little forum that I run, has a bank of animated GIF smileys you can choose from. When you open the page that gives you all of them at once to pick from, my CPU pegs 100%.
Animated. GIF. Smileys.
Other people use their processing cycles to find puslars. Me? I use mine to have little yellow smiley faces chase each other around with machine guns.
Although it's far less than 70$ an hour, I don't see why you can't compete with that. 22$ an hour is still more than what I'm making now. 45k a year is a decent salary.
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Feh. EMP guns are for people who aren't serious about security. Real men use Tesla Coils.
I was part of "The Lunar Society" until I got a poster of their idea of a moon base.
Looked like a trailer park on the moon. A small one.
I also see a moon base as a large industrial city, with thousands of people.
Why stop at 30% then? Why not 50%? Or 100%?
5 years ago, it was esimated that we would have plenty of money and could start paying down debts.
As far as I can tell, none of that ever happened.
Oh, and you know, when someone blows up "The World Trade Center", that slows down your economy. Taxes go down, but the debts don't go away because you're having a bad year.
*sputter*
Low priced products? LOW PRICED PRODUCTS?
Apple?!?
The Ipod may be many things, but "Low priced" isn't one of them.
Are you kidding me?
For the two months of campaigning, I can slap down less than a grand and get a dual zeon server with 2TB of bandwidth. That's a far cry from "Very Rich".
Right next to the part where dancing topless is.
"What you've got in the moon is the potential for a small base that will forever be completely dependant on Earth for supplies."
Unless, you build a huge base, able to grow it's own food and keep huge supplies of raw materials on hand. I'm picturing an actual city of thousands of people.
After all, if you're mining asteriods for milions of tons of water, ore, and other materials, you'll end up sending it to the moon, not the Earth. Earth already has all the materials it needs at the bottom of the gravity well.
I think you misunderstand...
To be able to jump 6 feet means your feet are 6 feet off the ground. Your center of gravity is about 3 feet above your feet.
So, when you jump 6 feet, your center of gravity is 9 feet up.
If they're so smart, why is it so hard for them to communicate simply?
I have to do it every day when explaining technical things to people. I find some people like to hide behind big words when they're trying to BS you.
You believe drive performance is dominated by seek time, or you know drive performance is dominated by seek time?
Smaller disks=less area to cover to get to the data.
Faster spin time=less waiting for the data to come back under the head.
A drive that can only put out 60MB/s will put out 120MB/s if you can spin the platters twice as fast.
Put out a drive with smaller platters that can go 30,000RPM, you will have the best performing mechanical drive on the market.
So, is there a HD engineer in the house? 15,000RPM drives get pretty hot, are we able to go much faster? Or are we going to have to completely redesign them?
They can turn a 300GB drive to a 3TB drive.
As far as I'm concerned, they're cutting edge.
So, how much faster can they spin the drives now with this improvement?
The 15k drives use smaller platters so they can withstand the stress of the high RPMs.
So what if you make them even smaller. The 36.6GB HD can potentially go up to 366GB now, but I think people would be very interested in a drive with smaller platters that goes 30,000rpm and is still 36.6GB.
I like the naming scheme. It quickly tells me if the app is designed for KDE.
Did you just get the 10$ plus court costs, or the 199$ plus court costs?
Great post BTW.
I'll do it.
I can't remember the last time I saw an ad for a bank going "Looking for programmers, will train!"
It's usually along the lines of "Must have experience programming on a mainframe. And know exotic technologies that went out of date 20 years ago."
As far as I'm concerned, programming is programming, if I want to do something new and exciting I'll join the Marines.
But if there's anyone in Denver looking for a new guy to take the place of their dead guy, send me a note. erik.zolan@gmail.com
I was thinking back to my student days. Everyone I knew didn't have much money, and they had budgeting things down very closely.
Maybe that's unusual. But that's what I've experenced.
Great. Where are the job ads for "Unskilled Admins"?
Considering all the fuss people put up about spotted owls, I would think there would be more concern over the only know sentient lifeform in the universe.
My little forum that I run, has a bank of animated GIF smileys you can choose from. When you open the page that gives you all of them at once to pick from, my CPU pegs 100%.
Animated. GIF. Smileys.
Other people use their processing cycles to find puslars. Me? I use mine to have little yellow smiley faces chase each other around with machine guns.
The people with the least money will notice 9$ missing. They usually are budgeting things very closely.
Woah, you can make 22$ an hour?
Although it's far less than 70$ an hour, I don't see why you can't compete with that. 22$ an hour is still more than what I'm making now. 45k a year is a decent salary.
I would of thought the type of printer you use would be more important. Or do you have your work sent to a print house?
What does HR have to do with meeting payroll? I would assume that's an accounting role.
So then come up with password rules that would take the CIA decades to guess at.
IT and the users shouldn't be wasting their time on passwords. Period.