No. I have an OCZ 30GB MLC too, and the read speed is exceptional. OS startup is *fast* on both XP and Ubuntu.
The write speed is poor (I agree with you there), but that is not the fault of SSDs in general. The problem is that you and I are both cheap and spent only things that HDD have on SSDs is capacity and price.
Someone who shoots photos or videos on the road might use a laptop for storing and editing them.
Firstly, let's be a little more specific. Shooting photos on the road is not exactly a space intensive task for most people. At 2 megabytes a jpeg for your average ultra-portable, you'd have to try pretty hard to fill up 16 gigabytes. On the other hand, if you're the guy shooting in raw making 60 megapixel landscapes, a laptop probably isn't the best tool for the job anyway. Photos aside, I'll grant your point with video which does tend to be very space intensive.
Secondly, somebody who needs that kind of space on the road would be well advised to keep an SSD in the laptop and buy an external USB hard drive. This model offers several advantages:
SSDs are great laptop companions because they have lower heat, power, ambient noise, and use less battery.
A 3.5" USB drive will offer much higher capacities at a similar price vs laptop internal 2.5" drives.
One can maintain the Application/Data dichotomy even while on the road apart from a file server.
I do think we agree here - if you don't have at least 100 megabit to the fileserver, it isn't practical to pull large files from that server.
Will you? Even when your primary objective is one of the following?
Speed (Reading)
Low Power
Low [No] Noise
Low Heat
Robustness
Longevity (debatable)
If you just need storage, I would agree with you. My file server uses an array of traditional 1TB HDD like everybody else, but when you have a file server with all your data, none of the other computers in your house will need significant amounts of their own capacity. Why target capacity on basically a thin client when you can get something smaller with so many better attributes?
Well, I hope my government is this vocal and helpful in getting everyone coordinated to switch to IPv6 and HTML5.
I will grant you that the government (and the FCC in particular) is greedy. However, do you really want the government to mandate [more] protocols on the internet? If the government started to control the internet more tightly, how long would it be before lobbyists convinced them to mandate DRM? Or before we get truly invasive agency monitoring (worse than now). Or before we start getting the crap taxed out of our packets (and yes, this is coming anyway eventually)? Don't invite the wolf in, even if he's offering candy.
The goal, authorities say, is to protect children from pornography
Of course, that morsel isn't for the Chinese people. They could tell their own people "we're creating a botnet to terrorize you", and nothing would happen. In fact, it's for the benefit of people in other countries. Social conservatives everywhere will exclaim "what an excellent goal!" Those people have simply failed to realize that governments will use whatever power they have for whatever they want, and never exclusively for its "intended purpose". The US does this too, but they've been moving more slowly because more people fail to notice when the power shift is gradual.
I'm no Republican, and I happen to hate the party. But, I do find it amazing that an AC making a fairly uninteresting anti-Republican comment can be modded up so quickly. Are you people so anxious to show off our political viewpoint? Are you not aware that liberals have been just as guilty of courting the RIAA and MPAA and conservatives? Who can remember Senator Disney?
Windows - As another poster mentioned, there have been significant amounts of BSD-Unix networking code in Windows over the years.
QNX - A "Unix-Like" OS.
Reactos - The userland is primarily based on Wine, a Windows compatibility layer for Unix-Like OSes.
Plan9 - "Unix-Like". The planned success to Unix, and developed by Bell.
zOS,VMS - These do appear to not be Unixy.
TRON - I look for good information in vain. The Wikipedia article on it was deeply suspect, and the outside references looked like they were made by high-schoolers in 1997. Perhaps you would be kind enough to [anonymously] provide some?
Not true - for example, if shown the first 3 cycles of a sinusoidal wave, I'm sure you could predict the next cycle. There are lots of non-linear numeric sequences that allow for relatively accurate predictions.
Obviously, history is more complicated, but idea is the same.
Speaker for the Dead is certainly significantly more cerebral, and I can understand why people like it less - in fact, I liked it less at first too. Frankly, it's a very different book than EG, and from what I understand, they weren't originally intended to be paired.
However, after thinking about it off and on for several years and then re-reading it, I began to really understand it. Some of the ideas in the book are really quite profound IMHO, and a more complete understanding of the book radically increased my enjoyment. If you ever get a chance a few years down the road, give it another try - you might be surprised.
I never said that. Moreover, I never gave my opinion about the book itself. For all you know, I could despise it and love First Blood (why else would I have recommended it?). The only opinion that I provided in my post is that "Truly excellent Sci-Fi is powerful because it provokes thought." An intelligent person can certainly disagree, but I would hope that he would make a case for himself.
Regardless, even my subjective opinions on the book have more merit than Viol8's because I read the whole book.
I made it halfway and gave up.... Hardly anything happens, just a lot of Ender self reflecting.
So, you don't really know if anything happens because you only read half. From what I can tell, you don't like Sci-Fi. You like action. Ender's Game is one of the most lauded Sci-Fi books of all time - it won both the Hugo and Nebula award for best novel, a rare honor. Wikipedia has a great list of join winners (19 join winners for Novel by my count). Truly excellent Sci-Fi is powerful because it provokes thought, not because it increases your adrenaline.
Perhaps you should try First Blood for less "naval gazing". It has Rambo - you'll like that.
True enough. The endowment was only meant to demonstrate that their cash-on-hand dwarfs the $10m figure that the OP mentioned. My point was that a $10m fee could not cripple the university by itself (though I acknowledge that it could have been "the straw that broke the camel's back").
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Absolutely, and just like the RIAA, they are now out not only the lawyer costs and the goodwill of the public, but also a customer. From the Chronicle article:
George Mason University said in November it had not renewed a site license for EndNote
I agree, but don't overstate it - they're a large, public university with a 9 figure endowment. Even if the case had ended with a $10M judgement, I don't think that would have "crippled" them.
In my experience, one can also say this of wifi at many airports. For example, the last time I flew into DFW (about a year ago), they used T-Mobile for wifi. It cost $10 a day for bandwidth that was none too awesome.
then it is to pack a WiFi base station
I'm sure you're just making a joke here, but an access point is actually quite easy to pack. The hard part is getting it to work without an upstream connection to the internet.
Mods: Flamebait, really? I resonate so much with this sentiment. Some mortal sins of flash:
Proprietary
*Extremely* poor client support from Adobe. Example: still no stable version of native 64-bit flash for all platforms. Seriously, it's 2009 people.
Often, the lack copy/paste using the browser
Often, the lack of the ability to save presented media (images,videos) using the browser
The difficulty of crawling/indexing sites with flash content
One might argue that Adobe should just solve these problems. However, Flash has been around for quite a while - if they haven't fixed these things by now, are they really ever going to? I think not. So, I agree with Gary: can we please start killing it now?
It doesn't look like a dupe to me. The articles that are linked to this time around concern a broadband stimulus package that the Obama administration is mulling over. They both do seem to be based on the same research though.
Let's go a little deeper - what we really need is bendy circuit boards so our electronics can wobble. Just imagine Gummy brand cell phones: they wriggle away from you as you talk.
it's not strictly anti-Microsoft as per slashdot forum opinion requirements
Seems like you've answered your own question...
Seriously though, you're right that it shouldn't have been modded flamebait (this has already been fixed apparently). However, it should have been modded "offtopic" since the great-grandparent was talking about popularity, not enjoyability. The Zune is indeed unpopular for whatever reason.
Funny you should mention this - I was about to comment about how impressed I was with just how respectful the entire Slashdot crowd has been so far. There have been plenty of jokes, but every one that I've seen is in good taste, and there have been no specifically defamatory comments (as there so often are).
I don't think that people should necessarily hold off on the jokes - just imagine that Magel and her family were reading your post, and you should be good to go. In other words, don't write anything that you wouldn't want the departed or her family to read.
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No. I have an OCZ 30GB MLC too, and the read speed is exceptional. OS startup is *fast* on both XP and Ubuntu.
The write speed is poor (I agree with you there), but that is not the fault of SSDs in general. The problem is that you and I are both cheap and spent only things that HDD have on SSDs is capacity and price.
Someone who shoots photos or videos on the road might use a laptop for storing and editing them.
Firstly, let's be a little more specific. Shooting photos on the road is not exactly a space intensive task for most people. At 2 megabytes a jpeg for your average ultra-portable, you'd have to try pretty hard to fill up 16 gigabytes. On the other hand, if you're the guy shooting in raw making 60 megapixel landscapes, a laptop probably isn't the best tool for the job anyway. Photos aside, I'll grant your point with video which does tend to be very space intensive.
Secondly, somebody who needs that kind of space on the road would be well advised to keep an SSD in the laptop and buy an external USB hard drive. This model offers several advantages:
I do think we agree here - if you don't have at least 100 megabit to the fileserver, it isn't practical to pull large files from that server.
a tethering clause on their cell phone plan
Is that actually stopping you?
I'll go for capacity every time
Will you? Even when your primary objective is one of the following?
If you just need storage, I would agree with you. My file server uses an array of traditional 1TB HDD like everybody else, but when you have a file server with all your data, none of the other computers in your house will need significant amounts of their own capacity. Why target capacity on basically a thin client when you can get something smaller with so many better attributes?
I haven't upgraded for that same reason - however, keep in mind DVDs had DRM too. It just sucked.
Well, I hope my government is this vocal and helpful in getting everyone coordinated to switch to IPv6 and HTML5.
I will grant you that the government (and the FCC in particular) is greedy. However, do you really want the government to mandate [more] protocols on the internet? If the government started to control the internet more tightly, how long would it be before lobbyists convinced them to mandate DRM? Or before we get truly invasive agency monitoring (worse than now). Or before we start getting the crap taxed out of our packets (and yes, this is coming anyway eventually)? Don't invite the wolf in, even if he's offering candy.
It sounds like your Grandma is the demanding love.
The goal, authorities say, is to protect children from pornography
Of course, that morsel isn't for the Chinese people. They could tell their own people "we're creating a botnet to terrorize you", and nothing would happen. In fact, it's for the benefit of people in other countries. Social conservatives everywhere will exclaim "what an excellent goal!" Those people have simply failed to realize that governments will use whatever power they have for whatever they want, and never exclusively for its "intended purpose". The US does this too, but they've been moving more slowly because more people fail to notice when the power shift is gradual.
I'm no Republican, and I happen to hate the party. But, I do find it amazing that an AC making a fairly uninteresting anti-Republican comment can be modded up so quickly. Are you people so anxious to show off our political viewpoint? Are you not aware that liberals have been just as guilty of courting the RIAA and MPAA and conservatives? Who can remember Senator Disney?
Not true - for example, if shown the first 3 cycles of a sinusoidal wave, I'm sure you could predict the next cycle. There are lots of non-linear numeric sequences that allow for relatively accurate predictions.
Obviously, history is more complicated, but idea is the same.
Speaker for the Dead is certainly significantly more cerebral, and I can understand why people like it less - in fact, I liked it less at first too. Frankly, it's a very different book than EG, and from what I understand, they weren't originally intended to be paired.
However, after thinking about it off and on for several years and then re-reading it, I began to really understand it. Some of the ideas in the book are really quite profound IMHO, and a more complete understanding of the book radically increased my enjoyment. If you ever get a chance a few years down the road, give it another try - you might be surprised.
Of course, whether it deserves that celebration can be questioned.
Granted. Would you grant that while it can (and should) be questioned, it probably should not be questioned by Slashdot trolls who couldn't be bothered to read more than half?
That looks like an interesting article by the way - I'll need to finish it when I'm not at work. Thanks for the link.
I never said that. Moreover, I never gave my opinion about the book itself. For all you know, I could despise it and love First Blood (why else would I have recommended it?). The only opinion that I provided in my post is that "Truly excellent Sci-Fi is powerful because it provokes thought." An intelligent person can certainly disagree, but I would hope that he would make a case for himself.
Regardless, even my subjective opinions on the book have more merit than Viol8's because I read the whole book.
I made it halfway and gave up. ... Hardly anything happens, just a lot of Ender self reflecting.
So, you don't really know if anything happens because you only read half. From what I can tell, you don't like Sci-Fi. You like action. Ender's Game is one of the most lauded Sci-Fi books of all time - it won both the Hugo and Nebula award for best novel, a rare honor. Wikipedia has a great list of join winners (19 join winners for Novel by my count). Truly excellent Sci-Fi is powerful because it provokes thought, not because it increases your adrenaline.
Perhaps you should try First Blood for less "naval gazing". It has Rambo - you'll like that.
Point taken, thanks for correcting that.
True enough. The endowment was only meant to demonstrate that their cash-on-hand dwarfs the $10m figure that the OP mentioned. My point was that a $10m fee could not cripple the university by itself (though I acknowledge that it could have been "the straw that broke the camel's back").
George Mason University said in November it had not renewed a site license for EndNote
This is what happens when you fsck a client.
I agree, but don't overstate it - they're a large, public university with a 9 figure endowment. Even if the case had ended with a $10M judgement, I don't think that would have "crippled" them.
Airport food is expensive and usually bad.
In my experience, one can also say this of wifi at many airports. For example, the last time I flew into DFW (about a year ago), they used T-Mobile for wifi. It cost $10 a day for bandwidth that was none too awesome.
then it is to pack a WiFi base station
I'm sure you're just making a joke here, but an access point is actually quite easy to pack. The hard part is getting it to work without an upstream connection to the internet.
One might argue that Adobe should just solve these problems. However, Flash has been around for quite a while - if they haven't fixed these things by now, are they really ever going to? I think not. So, I agree with Gary: can we please start killing it now?
It doesn't look like a dupe to me. The articles that are linked to this time around concern a broadband stimulus package that the Obama administration is mulling over. They both do seem to be based on the same research though.
Let's go a little deeper - what we really need is bendy circuit boards so our electronics can wobble. Just imagine Gummy brand cell phones: they wriggle away from you as you talk.
it's not strictly anti-Microsoft as per slashdot forum opinion requirements
Seems like you've answered your own question...
Seriously though, you're right that it shouldn't have been modded flamebait (this has already been fixed apparently). However, it should have been modded "offtopic" since the great-grandparent was talking about popularity, not enjoyability. The Zune is indeed unpopular for whatever reason.
Funny you should mention this - I was about to comment about how impressed I was with just how respectful the entire Slashdot crowd has been so far. There have been plenty of jokes, but every one that I've seen is in good taste, and there have been no specifically defamatory comments (as there so often are).
I don't think that people should necessarily hold off on the jokes - just imagine that Magel and her family were reading your post, and you should be good to go. In other words, don't write anything that you wouldn't want the departed or her family to read.
He isn't complaining. It isn't wrong to ask questions when things unexpectedly go well.