I think the most impressive thing I saw in the review is that Lindows installed in about 7 minutes. My old Windows computer used to take about a third of that to boot up...
The Spirit of Oklahoma electric car can go over 200mph. Granted, it's a formula race car built for speed and definitely can't carry 8 passengers, but it is faster... Here are it's specs.
Oh, and I don't want to give X-10 any of my money. The last thing I want to do is encourage their ads.
I'll second that one...
And regarding your question: I have seen a few remote control fireplaces, I don't have one but I've seen a few and they seem pretty neat. I don't know if it was just the novelty, but it seems it would be convienent.
A bunch of people buy Seagate drives. Not home/personal users, big companies. Sun, Dell, IBM, EMC and Compaq/HP are some of Seagate's biggest customers. Seagate doesn't make their money in personal storage, there isn't much money there when you sell a drive for $60-$100, but when you sell a SCSI drive for $300-$1,500 you make a little bit of money.
From Seagate's website:
Did You Know?
In FY2002 Seagate shipped:
1,959 Petabytes of ESG/PSG storage
10.2 million Enterprise drives, the share leader by 6.2 million drives
More Enterprise drives than Maxtor, Fujitsu and IBM combined
1.2 million 15,000 RPM drives
44.8 million personal storage drives
Over 2.4 million drives into CE applications
Seagate's ESG/PSG storage revenue in FY2002 was: 33% greater than Maxtor
178% greater than Western Digital
More than IBM, Fujitsu, and Samsung combined
BUZZZZZZZZZ! WRONG! HP/Compaq is one of the "big six" cusomers for Seagate. Not for desktop drives, that's not where Seagate leads, it's the enterprise drives, the 10K and 15K RPM SCSI drives. They own a majority of the market in "Enterprise Storage", about 52% last I heard. Another interesting note: IBM is one of Seagate's biggest cusotmers also, they will actually buy Seagate drives over their own...
It says they run on Windows... Why they picked Windows, I have no idea. Yeah, I use Windows, but I am definitely not surprised when it locks up/needs to be rebooted/etc, and I wouldn't use it for something like this...
The only counter-measure I can see is if spammers start mutating their words: "un-subscribe", "cl1ck", "t33n", etc.
I saw the same article, and it addressed that concern. Basically, the author suggested that the e-mail client have two delete buttons, "Delete" and "Delete as Spam". So the first mail that gets through with one of those words gets deleted and analyzed as spam. It would actually be more of a red-flag that the message was spam if it contained "cl1ck" rather than "click" because very few (if any) legitimate e-mails would contain "cl1ck".
Encryption takes a whole lot of time to do, especially on the monster hard drives available today. What might be a better way would be to have the system already encrypted, and just delete any cached keys, etc. when the laptop goes out of range.
The article states that the encrytion/decryption only adds about a 6 second lag to normal operation. Most of the data on the computer is kept encrypted except for a cached version of the data currently being used (the lag in encrypting/decrypting that).
I thought so too, but I just got some software that had a "limited warranty" on it. It came with my 3Com 802.11b card, and I was a little shocked when I found there was a "Software" section on the limited warranty card. The software did also come with a EULA, but the warranty actually said the software was guaranteed to provide reasonable functionality to the user (which is pretty basic, but at least they "guarantee" it). It's not much, but it's better than nothing.
The Segate Baracudda ATA V, Serial ATA version is going to be released "this fall" according to a press release I read somewhere. It has a 8MB cache and comes in sizes up to 120GB.
As the Serial ATA PDF points out: Serial ATA is also expected to be a viable alternative for cost-sensitive entry-level and mid-range server and network storage applications.... some of the advanced features of the SCSI protocol were not implemented.
So for some or most high-end storage applications, SAS and Fibre Channel will still beat out Serial ATA because you can do a lot more things with the SCSI protocol. Another big advantage of SCSI (in either SAS or Fibre Channel form) is the advantage of many targets to one initiator, or multiple initiators, with current parallel SCSI it's 15/1 and for Fibre Channel it's over 100 to 1 (I forgot the exact number). Multiple initiators aren't supported in Serial ATA II until phase 2, and Ultra 320 SCSI is already faster than the projected 300MBps of phase 2.
The Serial ATA cables can be at least a meter (I'm not sure of the exact spec). There are also bridges/hubs/whatever that will be available to increase that.
The Serial ATA standard supports hot-swapping not just because of drivers/software/etc, but mostly just because the ground wires on the connection are slightly longer than the others (so the grounds connect first or last when you plug it in/unplug it, so you're less likely to blow something up). As far as Windows knowing the drive isn't there anymore, that's a driver/software issue.
How much does a 256M USB NVRAM "drive" cost today?
The main reason hard disc drives are still around and will be around for a while is because they're cheap. A 128MB USB "drive" from Sony that uses solid-state storage costs about $100... that is about 78 cents/MB. A low-end (7200rpm) 80GB desktop drive costs about $140, that is less than 0.2 cents/MB! Even 15K RPM SCSI drives cost only about 1.2 cents/MB. There are many emerging technologies that will let hard drives grow larger and faster and cheaper.
One reason is because, as mentioned in the MSNBC article, "the U.S. and several dozen other nations declared Antarctica essentially off limits to all but peaceful scientific research in a 1959 treaty." I guess that doesn't rule out countries that didn't sign the treaty, but I'm guessing most of the countries who could afford developing Antartica signed it.
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So, if a bunch of people join hands, do they become a Beowolf cluster?
I think the most impressive thing I saw in the review is that Lindows installed in about 7 minutes. My old Windows computer used to take about a third of that to boot up...
The Spirit of Oklahoma electric car can go over 200mph. Granted, it's a formula race car built for speed and definitely can't carry 8 passengers, but it is faster...
Here are it's specs.
Oh, and I don't want to give X-10 any of my money. The last thing I want to do is encourage their ads.
I'll second that one...
And regarding your question: I have seen a few remote control fireplaces, I don't have one but I've seen a few and they seem pretty neat. I don't know if it was just the novelty, but it seems it would be convienent.
Great... now my cell phone/PDA can get stuck in the couch.
A bunch of people buy Seagate drives. Not home/personal users, big companies. Sun, Dell, IBM, EMC and Compaq/HP are some of Seagate's biggest customers. Seagate doesn't make their money in personal storage, there isn't much money there when you sell a drive for $60-$100, but when you sell a SCSI drive for $300-$1,500 you make a little bit of money.
From Seagate's website:
Did You Know?
In FY2002 Seagate shipped:
1,959 Petabytes of ESG/PSG storage
10.2 million Enterprise drives, the share leader by 6.2 million drives
More Enterprise drives than Maxtor, Fujitsu and IBM combined
1.2 million 15,000 RPM drives
44.8 million personal storage drives
Over 2.4 million drives into CE applications
Seagate's ESG/PSG storage revenue in FY2002 was:
33% greater than Maxtor
178% greater than Western Digital
More than IBM, Fujitsu, and Samsung combined
BUZZZZZZZZZ! WRONG! HP/Compaq is one of the "big six" cusomers for Seagate. Not for desktop drives, that's not where Seagate leads, it's the enterprise drives, the 10K and 15K RPM SCSI drives. They own a majority of the market in "Enterprise Storage", about 52% last I heard. Another interesting note: IBM is one of Seagate's biggest cusotmers also, they will actually buy Seagate drives over their own...
It says they run on Windows... Why they picked Windows, I have no idea. Yeah, I use Windows, but I am definitely not surprised when it locks up/needs to be rebooted/etc, and I wouldn't use it for something like this...
The only counter-measure I can see is if spammers start mutating their words: "un-subscribe", "cl1ck", "t33n", etc.
I saw the same article, and it addressed that concern. Basically, the author suggested that the e-mail client have two delete buttons, "Delete" and "Delete as Spam". So the first mail that gets through with one of those words gets deleted and analyzed as spam. It would actually be more of a red-flag that the message was spam if it contained "cl1ck" rather than "click" because very few (if any) legitimate e-mails would contain "cl1ck".
Encryption takes a whole lot of time to do, especially on the monster hard drives available today. What might be a better way would be to have the system already encrypted, and just delete any cached keys, etc. when the laptop goes out of range.
The article states that the encrytion/decryption only adds about a 6 second lag to normal operation. Most of the data on the computer is kept encrypted except for a cached version of the data currently being used (the lag in encrypting/decrypting that).
AFAIK, most software is without warranty.
I thought so too, but I just got some software that had a "limited warranty" on it. It came with my 3Com 802.11b card, and I was a little shocked when I found there was a "Software" section on the limited warranty card. The software did also come with a EULA, but the warranty actually said the software was guaranteed to provide reasonable functionality to the user (which is pretty basic, but at least they "guarantee" it). It's not much, but it's better than nothing.
How much longer will it be before unscrupulous 900 number operators enlist people to alter this virus to make it dial their numbers?
...or dialing some foreign country where they have a deal with the long distance company (like some unreputable companies do with software now).
The Segate Baracudda ATA V, Serial ATA version is going to be released "this fall" according to a press release I read somewhere. It has a 8MB cache and comes in sizes up to 120GB.
As the Serial ATA PDF points out: ... some of the advanced features of the SCSI protocol were not implemented.
Serial ATA is also expected to be a viable alternative for cost-sensitive entry-level and mid-range server and network storage applications.
So for some or most high-end storage applications, SAS and Fibre Channel will still beat out Serial ATA because you can do a lot more things with the SCSI protocol. Another big advantage of SCSI (in either SAS or Fibre Channel form) is the advantage of many targets to one initiator, or multiple initiators, with current parallel SCSI it's 15/1 and for Fibre Channel it's over 100 to 1 (I forgot the exact number). Multiple initiators aren't supported in Serial ATA II until phase 2, and Ultra 320 SCSI is already faster than the projected 300MBps of phase 2.
The Serial ATA cables can be at least a meter (I'm not sure of the exact spec). There are also bridges/hubs/whatever that will be available to increase that.
The Serial ATA standard supports hot-swapping not just because of drivers/software/etc, but mostly just because the ground wires on the connection are slightly longer than the others (so the grounds connect first or last when you plug it in/unplug it, so you're less likely to blow something up). As far as Windows knowing the drive isn't there anymore, that's a driver/software issue.
How much does a 256M USB NVRAM "drive" cost today?
The main reason hard disc drives are still around and will be around for a while is because they're cheap. A 128MB USB "drive" from Sony that uses solid-state storage costs about $100... that is about 78 cents/MB. A low-end (7200rpm) 80GB desktop drive costs about $140, that is less than 0.2 cents/MB! Even 15K RPM SCSI drives cost only about 1.2 cents/MB. There are many emerging technologies that will let hard drives grow larger and faster and cheaper.
My attitude is, everybody should try competing with Microsoft once in their life. Once.
Actually, my goal is to be able to sucessfully sue M$ for a lot of money someday...
why don't we develop Antartica as well?
One reason is because, as mentioned in the MSNBC article, "the U.S. and several dozen other nations declared Antarctica essentially off limits to all but peaceful scientific research in a 1959 treaty." I guess that doesn't rule out countries that didn't sign the treaty, but I'm guessing most of the countries who could afford developing Antartica signed it.
"We don't want to create addicts," he said.
If they do it well they just might, but if it can get really boring like the other games I don't think they have to worry about it.
So if the Chick-fil-A and Gateway cows did team up, would we see ads like this?