Does the flash inside these things die after however-many thousands of writes?
It sounds to me like the life expentancy of one of these would be greatly diminished over a conventional HDD.
Has flash technology advanced to the point that the limited write cycle thing isn't an issue, or do they just expect you to replace it every few months to a year (depending on how much you use it)?
like a hybrid car? It's nothing like a hybrid car. And I would think the average slashdot reader is technically inclined enough to understand what it really is, without the retarded analogy.
Of the many experts of all things Sonic the Hedgehog?
How am I supposed to know for sure if Knuckles really is a "big fag with a boner for tails", or if Big the Cat is "totally awesome".
Wikipedia is a joke. Look up Knuckles the Echidna, then look up William Shakespeare, and see where our society ranks on an intellectual level of 1-10.
I used to think it was a great idea. At this point, I wouldn't trust anything I read in there to be true. I was looking up some stuff about hydrocarbons, alternate fuels, etc, out of pure curiosity w.r.t the science behind some of it, and found nothing but moronic defacement and rants about Bush, kyoto, etc.
Require credentials and end Wikipedia. I sincerely doubt that any of the editors or contributors have any credentials. Those types of folks tend to get published in real world journals, magazines and books.
But you can always shout down the "linux is unsecure" argument, because "linux" is just a kernel - services being on by default is a distro issue.
For instance, when I installed gentoo, nothing was on by default. It installs a marginally functional system and I have to do everything by hand.
If Debian has some security flaw, it might not be present in Fedora. Something that's goofy in Mandriva may not be a problem in Slackware.
In short, a flaw you find on one system won't be on someone elses system, so it won't be a flaw with linux, so the argument is shouted down. The flaw is YOUR FAULT for not securing your box, not that of linux.
You can't discuss linux on slashdot any more honestly than you could discuss the latest Zelda game on a Nintendo forum.
You aren't allowed to suggest that linux may not be secure, or that the desktop environments for it are kludgy and half-assed, or anything else. It cannot be sanely and calmly discussed in the "linux community".
The "linux community" is not wholy populated with, but has an overwhelming amount of straight-up zealots. People who use linux for philosophical reasons, hate proprietary software because it's proprietary, and are full of naive college-age perceptions of "good" and "evil". These people are more often than not, really not all that technical. They are willing to accept, on faith, that linux is secure and perfect in every way.
They're sort of like the Creationist who doesn't really know enough about biology or evolution to prove or disprove the matter in any way - but accepts based on faith alone that God created everything, and there is simply no room for discussion. Everyone else is wrong, and every fact they put forth just further proves how base of a bunch of liars they are.
Nobody has ever found a "dinosaur", just like nobody has ever exploited a machine running linux. They're just filthy liars spreading fud and their opinions are therefore worthless.
Linux remains on the fringe despite all its technical achievements. The community keeps it their with the sheer force of their assholetry.
What you consider "art" and what someone else considers "art" and what heckler considers "art" and what Sony considers "art" are all different, and all irrelevant.
"Too Drunk to Fuck" by the Dead Kennedies is every bit as much art as anything Mozart composed.
The Legend of Zelda is every bit as much art as Spore is.
It's irrelevant, but I have to say I have absolutely no interest in Spore. It sounds like a tech demo, and not a game at all.
Regardless of what "science"-ish crap you saw on Discovery Channel, we have no defense against a true "planet killer". Just a bunch of theoretical crap about gravity machines or huge parachutes or other fanciful stuff. Stuff that doesn't exist, stuff that we don't even know if it's possible.
There's nothing we can do about giant asteroids. There's nothing we can do to prevent another tsunami, or another hurricane Katrina. All we can do is "batten down the hatches" here at home, and hope for the best.
Of course, we expect "teh government" to save us, and the whole world expects the US government to do something about it. Part of me laughed, and part of me cried, after Katrina, reading articles that quite seriously tried to blame the hurricane itself on Bush (not the reaction to it, but the fact there was a hurricane - was the presidents fault).
Whatever, NASA is just capitalizing on this to get their budget boosted. Lately they've been launching broken satellites, blwoing up space shuttles, and having probes slam into the desert. This is just a media game: "see, we're important! we're not like those other bloated government agencies, we want to save the world!"
Giving NASA a billion dollars would not solve the problem, or even help. It's like giving a crackhead 20 bucks and expecting him to go buy a healthy meal and change of socks with it.
I'm legitimately curious. Such a device has never been built, how do these guys prove they have one? They say themselves they aren't certain if it's quantum-ing up the sudoku.
Then what incentive is there to innovate? Why invent? 3M or some other big company will just take your idea and mass produce it cheaper than you could.
"If current trends continue" is almost always followed by a fallacious argument. Current trends rarely continue. Be it world population, transistor density, climatology, and especially at the blackjack table.
Who exactly is forcing you to upgrade, to Vista, Apple, or anything else? I've felt no pressure.
Also I don't get the logic. Apple releases a new OS every year for you to buy, MS, 5 or more. Ultimately, you'll be out the same amount (well, a little more) with the Mac upgrade cycle.
Why do you feel so much better about needlessly tossing money to Apple than to Microsoft. This, I don't understand about the "switcher" mentality.
TV is a passive experience. People (like me) want to flip channels until I settle on something interesting. I do not have a list of shows I want to watch, and I don't want the experience you describe.
Movie rentals are a thing of the past. HDDVD vs BLURAY is a non issue. I already decided I needed neither - I can download HD movies on my xbox 360.
Besides, an ad supported model like this wouldn't fly. The advertising, on a global or even national scale, is too hard to sell. Watch your local fox affiliate (or whoever), notice that most of the ads are cheaply produced ads for local businesses and services? You'd cut all those little guys out of the picture - and they make up the lions share of most stations budget.
Conventional passive "push" tv is here to stay.
IPTV is going to be the next "big" thing. XBox 360 will function as an IPTV client, this year. Apple TV sounds, well, like a piece of useless shit. Too bad MSFT has it's head up it's ass. If they'd let the 360 playback Divx (or hell, anything other than WMV), it'd already do everything AppleTV does as well as do cool IPTV stuff, play games, etc.
Because they don't know if it is empty, and because it's neither possible nor at all easy to "just park it out of the way somewhere and go get it later".
Firstly, my membership (and card) is about 10 years old, they only required me to secure it with a CC the first time I rented a 360 game (about two weeks ago).
Secondly, my membership card was an addon to an existing account (my wifes).
My real name, address, phone number, is on file. But it says "gulliver" on my card. It can say whatever the fuck I want it to say. I sign reciepts "SpongeBob" all the time, and I have a Visa issued to "Peanut".
You can pretty much call yourself whatever you want.
I have no problem teaching kids computers, I just have a problem "using computers to teach" with every subject.
I'm not talking about everything has to be rote memorization, but quite frankly, it's the only effective method to teach some things.
Like mathematics. I see no other way to be able to do arithmetic in your head, without the pages and pages of problems I did as a kid. It was boring as hell (and GOD FORBID a child get bored and restless in school), but now I know how much change I'm due at McDonalds, even before the register tells the clerk. I know my times tables, I know if I buy 7 boxes, each containing 6 items, I end up with 42 items.
The problem with just showing the kid the "X" key on the calculator, is they not only don't learn how to do it, without that repetition, they have a hard time grasping the *meaning* of multiplication. Then they dont "get" why Area = Length x Width. When you say "if I buy 4 dozen eggs, how many eggs is that?" They don't know what it *means* to multiply. Go ask some random grade 5's what multiplication is. They'll describe the button on the calculator.
As far as verbal math problems of old (train A is going 60 blah blah), hell they don't even exist so far as I can tell. They not only require a knowledge of math, but an ability to read and comprehend the problem, and formulate a solution: AKA, thinking. Some kids just aren't good at thinking, and NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND means we penalize those who are.
We're shortchanging our future so the teachers unions can brag about low failure rates.
Meh, at least I got out when they were still doing a little bit of "education".
I have a Treo. I shut it off, or don't answer it, when I'm not working.
In fact, I rarely answer it at all.
I don't see how the availability of cell-phones means that anybody should be able to reach me, at any hour of the day, regardless of what I'm doing.
Fucking grow a set, people. If you don't like your job, move on. If your job expects you to carry yoru blackberry 24/7, and you don't like that, move on.
Your options are only as limited as you choose to make them. Well, mine are. You're probably a fucking retard who's lucky his uncle got him that job as "computer guy".
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No, somehow the taps in other countries are the US's fault. Watch people start saying it's because the US made them do it.
Everything wrong in the world has to be the fault of the US, or else you cant expect the US to do all the work in fixing the problems.
Ikea sucks
Does the flash inside these things die after however-many thousands of writes?
It sounds to me like the life expentancy of one of these would be greatly diminished over a conventional HDD.
Has flash technology advanced to the point that the limited write cycle thing isn't an issue, or do they just expect you to replace it every few months to a year (depending on how much you use it)?
like a hybrid car? It's nothing like a hybrid car. And I would think the average slashdot reader is technically inclined enough to understand what it really is, without the retarded analogy.
Of the many experts of all things Sonic the Hedgehog?
How am I supposed to know for sure if Knuckles really is a "big fag with a boner for tails", or if Big the Cat is "totally awesome".
Wikipedia is a joke. Look up Knuckles the Echidna, then look up William Shakespeare, and see where our society ranks on an intellectual level of 1-10.
I used to think it was a great idea. At this point, I wouldn't trust anything I read in there to be true. I was looking up some stuff about hydrocarbons, alternate fuels, etc, out of pure curiosity w.r.t the science behind some of it, and found nothing but moronic defacement and rants about Bush, kyoto, etc.
Require credentials and end Wikipedia. I sincerely doubt that any of the editors or contributors have any credentials. Those types of folks tend to get published in real world journals, magazines and books.
But you can always shout down the "linux is unsecure" argument, because "linux" is just a kernel - services being on by default is a distro issue.
For instance, when I installed gentoo, nothing was on by default. It installs a marginally functional system and I have to do everything by hand.
If Debian has some security flaw, it might not be present in Fedora. Something that's goofy in Mandriva may not be a problem in Slackware.
In short, a flaw you find on one system won't be on someone elses system, so it won't be a flaw with linux, so the argument is shouted down. The flaw is YOUR FAULT for not securing your box, not that of linux.
You can't discuss linux on slashdot any more honestly than you could discuss the latest Zelda game on a Nintendo forum.
You aren't allowed to suggest that linux may not be secure, or that the desktop environments for it are kludgy and half-assed, or anything else. It cannot be sanely and calmly discussed in the "linux community".
The "linux community" is not wholy populated with, but has an overwhelming amount of straight-up zealots. People who use linux for philosophical reasons, hate proprietary software because it's proprietary, and are full of naive college-age perceptions of "good" and "evil". These people are more often than not, really not all that technical. They are willing to accept, on faith, that linux is secure and perfect in every way.
They're sort of like the Creationist who doesn't really know enough about biology or evolution to prove or disprove the matter in any way - but accepts based on faith alone that God created everything, and there is simply no room for discussion. Everyone else is wrong, and every fact they put forth just further proves how base of a bunch of liars they are.
Nobody has ever found a "dinosaur", just like nobody has ever exploited a machine running linux. They're just filthy liars spreading fud and their opinions are therefore worthless.
Linux remains on the fringe despite all its technical achievements. The community keeps it their with the sheer force of their assholetry.
What you consider "art" and what someone else considers "art" and what heckler considers "art" and what Sony considers "art" are all different, and all irrelevant.
"Too Drunk to Fuck" by the Dead Kennedies is every bit as much art as anything Mozart composed.
The Legend of Zelda is every bit as much art as Spore is.
It's irrelevant, but I have to say I have absolutely no interest in Spore. It sounds like a tech demo, and not a game at all.
If the ads hurt a game, the game will suck and will fail.
If ads dont intrude in an otherwise good game, it will probably succeed.
In either case, there's hardly any news here. There've been ads in games (and games that were ads themselves) since the very beginning.
The only new thing is these are being sent over the internet. Big whoopty doo.
Install MSDN offline
Why are you developing for MSFT anyways?
Yeah, but you probably thought NASA should get another billion dollars of US taxpayer money to protect YOU from asteroids.
And you probably want to watch US television and movies, listen to US music, and visit american websites.
If the US left the rest of the world "alone" the rest of the world would go to complete shit, and you know it.
Regardless of what "science"-ish crap you saw on Discovery Channel, we have no defense against a true "planet killer". Just a bunch of theoretical crap about gravity machines or huge parachutes or other fanciful stuff. Stuff that doesn't exist, stuff that we don't even know if it's possible.
There's nothing we can do about giant asteroids. There's nothing we can do to prevent another tsunami, or another hurricane Katrina. All we can do is "batten down the hatches" here at home, and hope for the best.
Of course, we expect "teh government" to save us, and the whole world expects the US government to do something about it. Part of me laughed, and part of me cried, after Katrina, reading articles that quite seriously tried to blame the hurricane itself on Bush (not the reaction to it, but the fact there was a hurricane - was the presidents fault).
Whatever, NASA is just capitalizing on this to get their budget boosted. Lately they've been launching broken satellites, blwoing up space shuttles, and having probes slam into the desert. This is just a media game: "see, we're important! we're not like those other bloated government agencies, we want to save the world!"
Giving NASA a billion dollars would not solve the problem, or even help. It's like giving a crackhead 20 bucks and expecting him to go buy a healthy meal and change of socks with it.
How would you?
I'm legitimately curious. Such a device has never been built, how do these guys prove they have one? They say themselves they aren't certain if it's quantum-ing up the sudoku.
Then what incentive is there to innovate? Why invent? 3M or some other big company will just take your idea and mass produce it cheaper than you could.
And then I would patent it.
Don't worry they've assured me that they're good.
Well, not really. But they've assured me they'll try to not be evil. Thats, umm, something I guess.
"If current trends continue" is almost always followed by a fallacious argument. Current trends rarely continue. Be it world population, transistor density, climatology, and especially at the blackjack table.
Just pointing that out.
Why not just stick with XP?
Who exactly is forcing you to upgrade, to Vista, Apple, or anything else? I've felt no pressure.
Also I don't get the logic. Apple releases a new OS every year for you to buy, MS, 5 or more. Ultimately, you'll be out the same amount (well, a little more) with the Mac upgrade cycle.
Why do you feel so much better about needlessly tossing money to Apple than to Microsoft. This, I don't understand about the "switcher" mentality.
No, it will never kill TV.
TV is a passive experience. People (like me) want to flip channels until I settle on something interesting. I do not have a list of shows I want to watch, and I don't want the experience you describe.
Movie rentals are a thing of the past. HDDVD vs BLURAY is a non issue. I already decided I needed neither - I can download HD movies on my xbox 360.
Besides, an ad supported model like this wouldn't fly. The advertising, on a global or even national scale, is too hard to sell. Watch your local fox affiliate (or whoever), notice that most of the ads are cheaply produced ads for local businesses and services? You'd cut all those little guys out of the picture - and they make up the lions share of most stations budget.
Conventional passive "push" tv is here to stay.
IPTV is going to be the next "big" thing. XBox 360 will function as an IPTV client, this year. Apple TV sounds, well, like a piece of useless shit. Too bad MSFT has it's head up it's ass. If they'd let the 360 playback Divx (or hell, anything other than WMV), it'd already do everything AppleTV does as well as do cool IPTV stuff, play games, etc.
No, a migration from red hat to solaris would be a support disaster.
This is IT people using a little forethought and pacing while rolling out an upgrade.
O NOES DOOM AN GLOOM THERES ANOTHER VERSION OF WINDOWS - MS is GONNA LAP THE OSS COMMUNITY ONCE AGAIN
In which case it would not be a windfall.
If I hand the clerk at 7-11 a 10, and get back a 50 with my change as a mistake - that money is not mine.
Because they don't know if it is empty, and because it's neither possible nor at all easy to "just park it out of the way somewhere and go get it later".
Ryu Hyabusa is the Ryu from Ninja Gaiden, not related to the Ryu from Street Fighter.
Maybe we need a 40 page Wikipedia entry to clear this up.
Firstly, my membership (and card) is about 10 years old, they only required me to secure it with a CC the first time I rented a 360 game (about two weeks ago).
Secondly, my membership card was an addon to an existing account (my wifes).
My real name, address, phone number, is on file. But it says "gulliver" on my card. It can say whatever the fuck I want it to say. I sign reciepts "SpongeBob" all the time, and I have a Visa issued to "Peanut".
You can pretty much call yourself whatever you want.
I have no problem teaching kids computers, I just have a problem "using computers to teach" with every subject.
I'm not talking about everything has to be rote memorization, but quite frankly, it's the only effective method to teach some things.
Like mathematics. I see no other way to be able to do arithmetic in your head, without the pages and pages of problems I did as a kid. It was boring as hell (and GOD FORBID a child get bored and restless in school), but now I know how much change I'm due at McDonalds, even before the register tells the clerk. I know my times tables, I know if I buy 7 boxes, each containing 6 items, I end up with 42 items.
The problem with just showing the kid the "X" key on the calculator, is they not only don't learn how to do it, without that repetition, they have a hard time grasping the *meaning* of multiplication. Then they dont "get" why Area = Length x Width. When you say "if I buy 4 dozen eggs, how many eggs is that?" They don't know what it *means* to multiply. Go ask some random grade 5's what multiplication is. They'll describe the button on the calculator.
As far as verbal math problems of old (train A is going 60 blah blah), hell they don't even exist so far as I can tell. They not only require a knowledge of math, but an ability to read and comprehend the problem, and formulate a solution: AKA, thinking. Some kids just aren't good at thinking, and NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND means we penalize those who are.
We're shortchanging our future so the teachers unions can brag about low failure rates.
Meh, at least I got out when they were still doing a little bit of "education".
I have a Treo. I shut it off, or don't answer it, when I'm not working.
In fact, I rarely answer it at all.
I don't see how the availability of cell-phones means that anybody should be able to reach me, at any hour of the day, regardless of what I'm doing.
Fucking grow a set, people. If you don't like your job, move on. If your job expects you to carry yoru blackberry 24/7, and you don't like that, move on.
Your options are only as limited as you choose to make them. Well, mine are. You're probably a fucking retard who's lucky his uncle got him that job as "computer guy".