Its not quite 1600% faster but its about 1300% faster than the peak transfer rate of a single SATA connection.
Then again.. if you really wanted performance for cheap, you could get 8 of the new 40 gig Kingston (intel based) drives and raid-0 them for the same price as the Fusion ioXtreme card. I'd challenge someone to come up with a better performance solution for ~$900 Note: I have no idea if there is an 8 port hardware raid 0 card available anywhere that can do 1.5GBps but if there is, I'd love to see it. Software raid-0 should still beat the pants off the fusion drive.
The most expensive year of your life is almost always your last one. The multiple 'heroic' attempts to save the life of grandma are extremely costly and have a very small benefit to society. Yes, I was extremely saddened when my grandmother passed away, but the last year of her life after her stroke was extremely costly and unjustifiable. This is not a unique event. My great aunt post-Alzheimer had the exact same costly treatments and same end result.. Uncured dementia and prolonged death at great expense to US taxpayers.
We have forgotten as a society how to die gracefully. Just because you have the technology to keep someone alive well past the time their brain has died doesnt mean you should. And it certainly doesnt mean that the government should pay for it. If you want to pay $100,000 to keep your brain dead grandmother alive, feel free. But dont expect everyone else to pay for you.
If we dont get old age expenses under control, there will be no Social Security or Medicare for the young.
Assuming the poor arent so poor as to be starving to death, the problem for the rich is not the extremely poor, it is the middle class. The poor do not have the means or motivation to revolt so long as they have a job or 2 that provides just enough to cover basic subsistance needs. The middle class on the other hand has been known to kill off all the rich people if inequality gets too great. You can argue that this type of thing causes the middle class to be worse off when its all over but humans tend to judge their position relatively not absolutely.. If all the people richer than you are dead, you are very well off indeed.
PS. Our pincer is actually a very large non-conforming mini pincer weighing around 18lbs. Getting a real german pincer in the states would be very expensive. Getting a non-conforming mini pincer is relatively cheap though.
We have a german pincer. Great dog, very loving never showed much aggression at all. Our son had a hamster who liked to get out of his cage. One night we wake up to a scurrying sound in the bedroom. The dog jumps out of bed and starts running back and forth in front of the dresser. I get out of bed and turn on the light and the hamster runs out into the open and the dog pounced on it. In what seemed like at most 2 seconds, the dog had pounced, picked it up, shook it twice and dropped it at my feet. I doubt there is a more humane way to kill a rodent than a quick severing of the spinal cord. Its a bit disturbing to watch at 4AM unprepared though.
"They also lived in homesteads where they were used to kill rats, a job they did instinctually and independently. This behavior did not need to be trained into the German Pinscher Even today you can observe German Pinschers searching for and finding rats in open areas and in homesteads."
Very much true. Get a german pincer and your rat problems will be gone. No training required.
The i-RAM is only twice as fast as the new flash based drive. That a storage device is anywhere close to ram in speed is a huge advance in the industry.
As for even read/write speeds, and other old flash drive problems, the new Intel drives are very well designed and do not have the same type of issues.
I've lived in California all my life and the state is honestly too big. Splitting into 3 states of the south (LA/OC/SD), the north(Sac/SF) and then everything else (riverside, fresno, middle of nowhere) would make the most sense. Most people who live on the east coast have no idea how huge California really is.
The size of califoria does cause major problems at the state budget level. Unfortunately the biggest problem is that we pay more to the federal government than we get in return and we have to compensate with higher state taxes to cover the shortfall in infrastructure.
California really does get screwed due to its size and those of us who know the facts are understandably a little peeved at the smaller states with their disproportionate representation and power.
Q: Why are older states smaller than west coast states?
A: Because we have only split states in the case of West Virginia in the middle of the civil war (1863).
If you want to be a little more fair, split California into 3 or more states, New York and Texas into 2 each. Then join up some of the smaller states such as north dakota and south dakota
Why big states have never been split up is beyond me. How big of an imbalance will it take before the big states revolt? When California has 100 of the 538 electoral votes will that be soon enough?
There needs to be some sort of rule in place for when a state changes from rural to urban. Something like, if a state has > 10% of the nation's population or generates > 10% of the nation's GDP, it should be split.
The electorate must complete the process begun 2 years ago of tossing out the Republicans from office who screwed things up so badly. They have abused their power and have transfered a vast sum of wealth from the poor to the rich.
The Democrats will eventually transfer too much money from the rich back to the poor at which point its time to toss them out.
Offending ip would be the external ip address that the file sharing system would have, say 64.236.91.24 (happens to be cnn.com's ip address). Combined with a port, it is the only way to make a connection on the internet. That said, just having the ip does not relate to the offending computer. In the cnn.com example, its going to hit a firewall and then connect to some different internal computer.
In your example, the isps are not even to tell the RIAA that 64.236.91.24 was pointing to cnn.com at the time in question. This does not mean they have the wrong ip (the 95% I guessed at), simply the mapping from ip to customer who is paying for the connection is not accurate. There is additional mappings such as customer to actual device such as a router and then from router to computer with the offending material and then to actual person who is making the material available.
There are ways of getting incorrect offending ips such as user error of the RIAA's software or transcription errors, etc, however nothing the isps do would cause this.
I'd guess they have a 95+% accuracy on determining the offending ip.
As for offending computer, I'd put it at 50% and offending person even lower.
The number of wireless access points and NAT devices out there really calls into question their ability to bring a case against an individual.
From my house, I have 8 different wireless access points I can use. I highly doubt that the people using these access points are always using their own.
The big problem I have with this is that it doesn't work for HTTPS requests, and I wouldn't want it to. Relying on an external website to test your secure site's performance is not a great idea.
I think the fact that all new advances in the fields of antibiotics, cars, airplanes and plastics are created by, implemented by or are implementations of computers and/or the internet shows which is more important.
Programmable, binary, turing complete computers 1940s (census adding machine was pre 1900 but I think computer requires more than that) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer Internet 1960s
Oh yes, nothing has been invented in this country for years which is why you are posting this from a US machine with US components on a US website, hosted on machines sold by a US company, with a cpu made by a US company likely running an OS created by a US company.
Computers and the internet are the 2 greatest inventions in the last 100 years and both are the fruits of the US military/industrial complex. In addition, the innovations and progress in the field is faster than any other field in the history of the world.
There is plenty of things wrong with the US, there is no need to resort to hyperbole.
The parent post seems highly suspect. I have no idea how anyone driving a Prius for 50 miles on the highway each way every day could possibly get 25.something miles to the gallon. That is highly unlikely. Even going 90 MPH up and down hills between California and Arizona I easily got 40MPG in my 2004 Prius. Typical freeway mpg at 75mph is 45. The absolute lowest mileage for a full tank that I ever got in my Prius was 35mpg during a cold Christmas vacation where I spent a large portion of the time doing short 2 mile trips with the heater full blast. I can not conceive of a way to get my Prius to perform that poorly MPG wise outside of multiple 5 minute trips around town in sub zero temperatures. The vast majority of my tanks fall in the 43-47mpg range in 10 mile each way commute situation.
For the record, I am not an environmentalist, and certainly not a hippie. I bought the car because it was gadgety and fairly underpriced for the features. But trying to claim that it gets less than 30mpg in long distance highway driving is highly unlikely.
And don't forget to search for lego pc or even previous slashdot lego pc articles. Amazing how the first link from each search ends up at the same site. Also conincidentally with a little hunting you can discover why I knew what to search for and why I'm not an impartial poster:).
PS. No I never sold it, I still use the lego pc as my main gaming rig. Its very stable and no lego's don't melt.
IANAL but I like to pretend I am one sometimes despite a lack of any formal education or training or experience in the field....
Licensing violations are a potential liability that would need to be reported. You can be sued for licensing violations and if a corporation with 1 million computers didn't have any Windows licenses for example, that would be a huge liability that the shareholders should be aware of. Of course you'd be an idiot not to just fix the situation before that you would ever report it, and then you just classify the license purchasing as a one time business expense for new equipment.
As far as GPL licensing violations go, if your only product was an illegal modification without redistribution of code, that would be a major problem.. Imagine if Microsoft had secretly created Windows off of Linux source instead of BSD.
Sorry, the world isn't going to end if cities get 10 degrees hotter. Even with a massive increase in city size, 99% of the world's surface area is not even close to urbanized and won't be any time soon if ever.
Your anecdotal evidence about local weather in cities means next to nothing for world climate.
The belief that the most adaptable of all animals will be unable to cope with climate change over hundreds of years with plenty of time to devote technical solutions if needed is a sure sign of hysteria. You can take comfort that humans have been predicting the end of the world for thousands of years though. You are in good company.
My optometrist told me that the problem is that for years, optometrists were told to undercorrect vision problems in the belief that the eye would strengthen. This was never actually studied of course but they did it anyway. What would actually happen in practice was the eye would only get worse. If you get the correct prescription this does not happen.
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You are uninformed. The drives are fast enough that they hit the cap for a single SATA connection.
Here's a review of 16 Intel drives in raid-0
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-6gb-raid,2388.html
Its not quite 1600% faster but its about 1300% faster than the peak transfer rate of a single SATA connection.
Then again.. if you really wanted performance for cheap, you could get 8 of the new 40 gig Kingston (intel based) drives and raid-0 them for the same price as the Fusion ioXtreme card. I'd challenge someone to come up with a better performance solution for ~$900
Note: I have no idea if there is an 8 port hardware raid 0 card available anywhere that can do 1.5GBps but if there is, I'd love to see it. Software raid-0 should still beat the pants off the fusion drive.
and 15 + 35 is?
California
The most expensive year of your life is almost always your last one. The multiple 'heroic' attempts to save the life of grandma are extremely costly and have a very small benefit to society. Yes, I was extremely saddened when my grandmother passed away, but the last year of her life after her stroke was extremely costly and unjustifiable. This is not a unique event. My great aunt post-Alzheimer had the exact same costly treatments and same end result.. Uncured dementia and prolonged death at great expense to US taxpayers.
We have forgotten as a society how to die gracefully. Just because you have the technology to keep someone alive well past the time their brain has died doesnt mean you should. And it certainly doesnt mean that the government should pay for it. If you want to pay $100,000 to keep your brain dead grandmother alive, feel free. But dont expect everyone else to pay for you.
If we dont get old age expenses under control, there will be no Social Security or Medicare for the young.
As for history check out what happens when you oppose free trade, or have a super-rich ruling class for too long, or neglect the poor.
You missed the wikipedia links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populism
Assuming the poor arent so poor as to be starving to death, the problem for the rich is not the extremely poor, it is the middle class. The poor do not have the means or motivation to revolt so long as they have a job or 2 that provides just enough to cover basic subsistance needs. The middle class on the other hand has been known to kill off all the rich people if inequality gets too great. You can argue that this type of thing causes the middle class to be worse off when its all over but humans tend to judge their position relatively not absolutely.. If all the people richer than you are dead, you are very well off indeed.
Oh yes, because the Republicans have done so much to help the little people from the big business RIAA.
Both parties are on the side of the RIAA. If you thought a vote for Obama would change the RIAA legal battles, you were sadly mistaken.
PS. Our pincer is actually a very large non-conforming mini pincer weighing around 18lbs. Getting a real german pincer in the states would be very expensive. Getting a non-conforming mini pincer is relatively cheap though.
We have a german pincer. Great dog, very loving never showed much aggression at all. Our son had a hamster who liked to get out of his cage. One night we wake up to a scurrying sound in the bedroom. The dog jumps out of bed and starts running back and forth in front of the dresser. I get out of bed and turn on the light and the hamster runs out into the open and the dog pounced on it. In what seemed like at most 2 seconds, the dog had pounced, picked it up, shook it twice and dropped it at my feet. I doubt there is a more humane way to kill a rodent than a quick severing of the spinal cord. Its a bit disturbing to watch at 4AM unprepared though.
The next day I looked up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Pinscher
"They also lived in homesteads where they were used to kill rats, a job they did instinctually and independently. This behavior did not need to be trained into the German Pinscher Even today you can observe German Pinschers searching for and finding rats in open areas and in homesteads."
Very much true. Get a german pincer and your rat problems will be gone. No training required.
Saying the i-RAM is in a league of its own is no longer accurate. The X25-E is directly comparable to the i-RAM.
http://techreport.com/articles.x/15931/9
The i-RAM is only twice as fast as the new flash based drive. That a storage device is anywhere close to ram in speed is a huge advance in the industry.
As for even read/write speeds, and other old flash drive problems, the new Intel drives are very well designed and do not have the same type of issues.
Yes it is obviously far superior to have states like Wyoming and Alaska dump on California and Texas.
I've lived in California all my life and the state is honestly too big. Splitting into 3 states of the south (LA/OC/SD), the north(Sac/SF) and then everything else (riverside, fresno, middle of nowhere) would make the most sense. Most people who live on the east coast have no idea how huge California really is.
The size of califoria does cause major problems at the state budget level. Unfortunately the biggest problem is that we pay more to the federal government than we get in return and we have to compensate with higher state taxes to cover the shortfall in infrastructure.
California really does get screwed due to its size and those of us who know the facts are understandably a little peeved at the smaller states with their disproportionate representation and power.
Q: Why are older states smaller than west coast states?
A: Because we have only split states in the case of West Virginia in the middle of the civil war (1863).
If you want to be a little more fair, split California into 3 or more states, New York and Texas into 2 each. Then join up some of the smaller states such as north dakota and south dakota
Why big states have never been split up is beyond me. How big of an imbalance will it take before the big states revolt? When California has 100 of the 538 electoral votes will that be soon enough?
There needs to be some sort of rule in place for when a state changes from rural to urban. Something like, if a state has > 10% of the nation's population or generates > 10% of the nation's GDP, it should be split.
Somewhere between 2 and 12 years.
The electorate must complete the process begun 2 years ago of tossing out the Republicans from office who screwed things up so badly. They have abused their power and have transfered a vast sum of wealth from the poor to the rich.
The Democrats will eventually transfer too much money from the rich back to the poor at which point its time to toss them out.
I run a forum and added a very simple question and answer that any human signing up for the forum would know the answer to.
For you, I'd suggest:
What is the name of the clan?
Then accept only those that can answer the question.
It dropped automated spam for me to zero.
Offending ip would be the external ip address that the file sharing system would have, say 64.236.91.24 (happens to be cnn.com's ip address). Combined with a port, it is the only way to make a connection on the internet. That said, just having the ip does not relate to the offending computer. In the cnn.com example, its going to hit a firewall and then connect to some different internal computer.
In your example, the isps are not even to tell the RIAA that 64.236.91.24 was pointing to cnn.com at the time in question. This does not mean they have the wrong ip (the 95% I guessed at), simply the mapping from ip to customer who is paying for the connection is not accurate. There is additional mappings such as customer to actual device such as a router and then from router to computer with the offending material and then to actual person who is making the material available.
There are ways of getting incorrect offending ips such as user error of the RIAA's software or transcription errors, etc, however nothing the isps do would cause this.
I'd guess they have a 95+% accuracy on determining the offending ip.
As for offending computer, I'd put it at 50% and offending person even lower.
The number of wireless access points and NAT devices out there really calls into question their ability to bring a case against an individual.
From my house, I have 8 different wireless access points I can use. I highly doubt that the people using these access points are always using their own.
The big problem I have with this is that it doesn't work for HTTPS requests, and I wouldn't want it to. Relying on an external website to test your secure site's performance is not a great idea.
I think the fact that all new advances in the fields of antibiotics, cars, airplanes and plastics are created by, implemented by or are implementations of computers and/or the internet shows which is more important.
In addition I said last 100 years...
Antibiotics specifically penicillin is 1897 (not counting home remedies which is 2500BC) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiotic
Gas powered automobiles 1885 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automobile
First flying model Airplanes 1803, uncontrolled human flight 1890 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airplane
Rubber, celluloid (what ping pong balls are made of) and Rayon all pre 1900 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic
Programmable, binary, turing complete computers 1940s (census adding machine was pre 1900 but I think computer requires more than that)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer
Internet 1960s
Oh yes, nothing has been invented in this country for years which is why you are posting this from a US machine with US components on a US website, hosted on machines sold by a US company, with a cpu made by a US company likely running an OS created by a US company.
Computers and the internet are the 2 greatest inventions in the last 100 years and both are the fruits of the US military/industrial complex. In addition, the innovations and progress in the field is faster than any other field in the history of the world.
There is plenty of things wrong with the US, there is no need to resort to hyperbole.
That's because Youtube videos are crap. Maybe if they were encoded at a higher bit rate and larger resolution, they wouldn't suck so often.
If you are happy with 768Kbps its because youve never had 768KBps.
PS. Yes I have FIOS and yes it is worth it, even if it is more expensive than what you can get in other countries.
The parent post seems highly suspect. I have no idea how anyone driving a Prius for 50 miles on the highway each way every day could possibly get 25.something miles to the gallon. That is highly unlikely. Even going 90 MPH up and down hills between California and Arizona I easily got 40MPG in my 2004 Prius. Typical freeway mpg at 75mph is 45. The absolute lowest mileage for a full tank that I ever got in my Prius was 35mpg during a cold Christmas vacation where I spent a large portion of the time doing short 2 mile trips with the heater full blast. I can not conceive of a way to get my Prius to perform that poorly MPG wise outside of multiple 5 minute trips around town in sub zero temperatures. The vast majority of my tanks fall in the 43-47mpg range in 10 mile each way commute situation.
For the record, I am not an environmentalist, and certainly not a hippie. I bought the car because it was gadgety and fairly underpriced for the features. But trying to claim that it gets less than 30mpg in long distance highway driving is highly unlikely.
PS. No I never sold it, I still use the lego pc as my main gaming rig. Its very stable and no lego's don't melt.
IANAL but I like to pretend I am one sometimes despite a lack of any formal education or training or experience in the field....
Licensing violations are a potential liability that would need to be reported. You can be sued for licensing violations and if a corporation with 1 million computers didn't have any Windows licenses for example, that would be a huge liability that the shareholders should be aware of. Of course you'd be an idiot not to just fix the situation before that you would ever report it, and then you just classify the license purchasing as a one time business expense for new equipment.
As far as GPL licensing violations go, if your only product was an illegal modification without redistribution of code, that would be a major problem.. Imagine if Microsoft had secretly created Windows off of Linux source instead of BSD.
People in urban areas thinking the weather is changing?
Oh no! They are correct! It IS hotter in cities, especially as city size increases!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_heat_island
Sorry, the world isn't going to end if cities get 10 degrees hotter. Even with a massive increase in city size, 99% of the world's surface area is not even close to urbanized and won't be any time soon if ever.
Your anecdotal evidence about local weather in cities means next to nothing for world climate.
The belief that the most adaptable of all animals will be unable to cope with climate change over hundreds of years with plenty of time to devote technical solutions if needed is a sure sign of hysteria. You can take comfort that humans have been predicting the end of the world for thousands of years though. You are in good company.
My optometrist told me that the problem is that for years, optometrists were told to undercorrect vision problems in the belief that the eye would strengthen. This was never actually studied of course but they did it anyway. What would actually happen in practice was the eye would only get worse. If you get the correct prescription this does not happen.