He's predicting only a tearbyte for a $100 in 2012. Right now desktop drives are about a dollar a GB. So, he's predicting about a 10 fold increase in the next 9 YEARS!!! What have we seen in the last 9 years, about 100 fold increase?
Well I guess that I understand the desire to build your own system, but not when it seems to cost signifigantly more than buying a comparable sytem pre-built, which seems to be the case here.
the popularity of these systems. I can get a emac 800Mgz/256MB/40GB for $849, and it comes with a monitor and better graphics, and the operating system. If I was going to build a linux system, you get better bang for the buck from x86 hardware. I don't understand.
FP?
Wow! What a convincing arugement. Everything I have said in this thread promotes personal responsibility. In particular, taking responsibility for you're criminal actions. Evedently, to you that means we should all live like animals in cages in order to protect ourselves, so we don't incur any cost to society by being so stupid as to be a victim of a crime.
Well, perhaps we should do away with the whole stupid notion of a "socialized" police force. We could just have private police forces, a crime is committed against you, give them a call and they will "try real hard" to catch the perp for a moderate fee.
Well, California's law is for any felony, and I think that is a bit broad. I mean, if a person is caught shoplifting (which can be a felony over $500 IIRC) three times, that's not necessarily a thing deserving a life sentence, but three armed robberies, three rapes, sure. I was kinda focusing on violent offenders.
I agree. Perhaps "horribly broken", whould have been a better moniker. Fact is, I wonder if you let the people imprisoned on minor drug offenses out, how those numbers would change. I am in favor of harsh sentences for violent crime. And no buying your way out of it ah la O.J. I don't see how that is a bad thing, I really believe that some people can not be rehabilitated, and should not be among the general population, am I alone on that?
The focus should be on preventing crime in the first place, not punishing someone after the fact.
No. This way leads to madness. This is how police states get started. If we had armed guards and cameras on every corner, I'm sure there would be less violent crime, but I wouldn't want to live here. The best defense to lower crime AND protect liberties, is to have STRONG deterents to commiting crime. The problem in modern america, is that if you commit a crime, even if you're caught, likely you won't serve very long because we have a wussy legal system. As far as I'm concerned, if you kill someone while robbing them, and if can be proved beyond reasonable doubt, you should be put away forever. Now, the bleeding hearts will tell that young kids who do that sort of thing shold get a second chance. And I might even agree. But, if it was a well known fact that if you did the crime you WOULD do the time, I think there would be alot less of it.
Ditto. I own a 19' Trinitron, and it's great. Also, on the reliability front, this one has been on about 16 hours a day for the past 2 1/2 years with no problems.
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just because a technology is old and/or looks similar to how it used to a couple decades ago doesn't make it invalid.
That was exactly my point. My company still uses serial port devices. Just because its an old standard, its not invaild. The serial devices we use still do what they where intended to do, why replace them?
I don't mean that we shouldn't have forward progress, I just mean to imply that not all standard changes are progress.
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I knew this would happen, my intention was to make a little joke, and point out that legacy is what make some things useful. But, of course, it just started a holy war. JIHAD!!!!!
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Then install an OS based on Unix. 30 year old tech.
This is just a compression and caching scheme. I don't think it will provide the kind of speed up people are looking for where it counts, i.e P2P and such. I mean sure they can compress your 50k web page to 10k, but they can't compress your 4M mp3 to 800k. It may improve web browsing, but as we all know well, that is a SMALL part of the broadband experience. When they can compress my 700 meg Divx movie to 140 megs, let me know.
I have had at least one computer running almost 24/7 in my home for the last 4 years, and have always been looking for a way to turn that into cash. Almost everything I have found is crap, things like ProcessTree went belly up before it got started. The best thing I have found is CapCal, which manages to pay me about a dollar a month, w00t! I am very septical of this ever working.
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I see, so right now, you can only buy a Gb for $100? I was implying you could already by 100 GB for $100, which you can.
He's predicting only a tearbyte for a $100 in 2012. Right now desktop drives are about a dollar a GB. So, he's predicting about a 10 fold increase in the next 9 YEARS!!! What have we seen in the last 9 years, about 100 fold increase?
Hey, zootsuits are still cool, damnit!
Well I guess that I understand the desire to build your own system, but not when it seems to cost signifigantly more than buying a comparable sytem pre-built, which seems to be the case here.
the popularity of these systems. I can get a emac 800Mgz/256MB/40GB for $849, and it comes with a monitor and better graphics, and the operating system. If I was going to build a linux system, you get better bang for the buck from x86 hardware. I don't understand. FP?
Evidently, they should run the server on the PPC970.
Of course, when network traffic gets heavy, the network just surrenders.
Wow! What a convincing arugement. Everything I have said in this thread promotes personal responsibility. In particular, taking responsibility for you're criminal actions. Evedently, to you that means we should all live like animals in cages in order to protect ourselves, so we don't incur any cost to society by being so stupid as to be a victim of a crime.
Well, perhaps we should do away with the whole stupid notion of a "socialized" police force. We could just have private police forces, a crime is committed against you, give them a call and they will "try real hard" to catch the perp for a moderate fee.
Well, California's law is for any felony, and I think that is a bit broad. I mean, if a person is caught shoplifting (which can be a felony over $500 IIRC) three times, that's not necessarily a thing deserving a life sentence, but three armed robberies, three rapes, sure. I was kinda focusing on violent offenders.
So, you're saying if I did leave my door unlocked, and someone came in and robbed me, they shouldn't go to jail?
I agree. Perhaps "horribly broken", whould have been a better moniker. Fact is, I wonder if you let the people imprisoned on minor drug offenses out, how those numbers would change. I am in favor of harsh sentences for violent crime. And no buying your way out of it ah la O.J. I don't see how that is a bad thing, I really believe that some people can not be rehabilitated, and should not be among the general population, am I alone on that?
True. But with laws like the DMCA, is there really that much difference?
Ditto. I own a 19' Trinitron, and it's great. Also, on the reliability front, this one has been on about 16 hours a day for the past 2 1/2 years with no problems.
I'd rather take my wife to europe tonight.
just because a technology is old and/or looks similar to how it used to a couple decades ago doesn't make it invalid. That was exactly my point. My company still uses serial port devices. Just because its an old standard, its not invaild. The serial devices we use still do what they where intended to do, why replace them? I don't mean that we shouldn't have forward progress, I just mean to imply that not all standard changes are progress.
I knew this would happen, my intention was to make a little joke, and point out that legacy is what make some things useful. But, of course, it just started a holy war. JIHAD!!!!!
Then install an OS based on Unix. 30 year old tech.
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The BBC would like to apologize for the repetition in this post.
This is just a compression and caching scheme. I don't think it will provide the kind of speed up people are looking for where it counts, i.e P2P and such. I mean sure they can compress your 50k web page to 10k, but they can't compress your 4M mp3 to 800k. It may improve web browsing, but as we all know well, that is a SMALL part of the broadband experience. When they can compress my 700 meg Divx movie to 140 megs, let me know.
They last forever!
Or maybe for a loss. It is Microsoft after all.
Imagine the power they could weild if they put most of the other spammers out of buisness.
I have had at least one computer running almost 24/7 in my home for the last 4 years, and have always been looking for a way to turn that into cash. Almost everything I have found is crap, things like ProcessTree went belly up before it got started. The best thing I have found is CapCal, which manages to pay me about a dollar a month, w00t! I am very septical of this ever working.