Well, neither has your IPOD the right format for a 2.5" drive. Fact is that SSDs have VASTLY higher performance demands than an mp3 player (by orders of magnitues), and sell less. Thats why they are cheaper.
A better comparison would be a 32Gbyte USB stick. And those are already here for $150
Here in germany, its more or less like that. Meaning there is a coexistence between "real" flatrates (meaning NO limit, soft or hard) and volume based offers.
I pay about 30 Euros for 6Mbit/640k, and even creating 350Gbyte of traffic per month (i learned thats a bad idea even to try mirroring nasas archvies) doesnt care anybody. My brother in law used the web only for Email/ect, so he got a DSL with a 1Gbyte limit for 7.50 or something like that. He told me he never really broke thats limit, so those 22.5 more per month would have been waste.
Just because one of this concepts is offered doesnt mean the other is doomed to fail. The two biggerst ones over here both have both options available. And it didnt cause the flatsrates to rise, either.
The thing is, opposed to XP i REALLY like the vista indexing service (and its integreation into the start menue).
The old start-menue (with 4-tiered menue hierarchy), i.e. the shit every linux gui copied, got old pretty quickly. Now you can just type into that box and use autocomplete. Not only for startmenue items, but also for the document index, with results as two seperate lists.
While i was always pretty serious about using the explorer and folder hierarchies to organise stuff, but after upgrating i feel this as a real benefit to user experience.
I have it for a week now, and already i couldnt think about going back to xp.
Also, under "Energy Options", you can select the priority of the index service. Also IOs of the index service run with low priority. Looking at the Ressource Monitor, i can see them defered and having 100s of miliseconds of latency while app requests are in the 10s (because they are priorized).
So I cannot really see a way how the indexer should block any recent system (maybe if the HD had a million doc files on it or something...)
I dont think so. In fact i could imagine that microsoft could profit from supporting BSD. It would help against the viral GPL (see again that just this week they decided only GPL USB drivers are "legal", and adviced posters that claimed otherwise in the kernel mailing list to "get a lawyer". Yehaa. Freedom that is). It would appease many critics. And they still could use it inside Windows (like the TCP/IP stack) without any conflicts, thanks to the free license.
As BSD it not winning anything against anybody, its a win/win situation.
Ad hominem is perfectly OK if the relevant party is a dickhead. OTOH, i see this nice trend of anti-ad hominem (in the line of: he is a nutcase, so dont dare to dismiss him!). Just like your post.
Please, dont put/a/nomymous amoung such shady groups like./ (FOSS jihad!) or digg (FOX for Web2.0 (yesterday i looked there and they had 5 Bash-Hillary stories on the frontpage)). We are all just average people. With a little bit of shitcock syndrome now or then, but still.
Really, there are two scenarios for getting Vista: a) New PC. Has at least 400Gbyte HD (ok, maybe 120 if its a laptop). 15Gbyte is a very minor fraction. Windows 3.1 used a larger part of the 120Mbyte HD my first PC had.
b) You buy it, and pay $$$ for it: 15Gbyte right now is the equivalent of 3 bucks. Thats about 1% of what you payed for the OS. Neglectable.
I rather have the convinience of never having to touch the install medium again, _and_ shadow copies of system files, ect, than having a 99.5% instead of 98.5% empty hd.
Wrong. VERY VERY wrong. Supernova was >75% of torrents back then.
And i dont know the total for supernove, but even a.scarywater.net, one of a lot of anime trackers, had many Gbit of peer trafic back then. And supernova had 1000s of peers for just about any big movie/game. They have several 100 to 1000 new torrent per day, and a LOT of them were => an CD-ISO, and got 4 digit downloads before the first day was over.
Seriously, its not a big issue. Due to my medical history, i have to do them every year or two. There are special anaesthetics that are MUCH less severe then the operation once that work like a charm. Lay down, get an injection, wake up 30 minutes later, and its done. No pain or anything (besides mild discomfort, as they inflate your colon with air, which want to get out again).
What really _is_ annoying, and thats the same for all coloscopies, even those with computer tomography, is the need to get everything out... Those laxatives arent really nice, and you normally have to flush through with 2-3 liter of it, followed by a few liter water to get it clean enough...
I know, of course. But thats no cure. Its just the same result than taking the usual immune-suppressors: Its just that the effect is caused by the worms.
Its rather good in double blinds (but of course double blind is difficult with such a method, because the patient will always be able to determine if he has "real" worms during the duration of the trial...
The "switch the immune system" approach has the elegance that it would be once and for all.
Simply put: Clap skates are shoes with metal parts beneath. Normal skates are shoes with metal parts beneath. Thats something thats connected.
Legs are meat and bones, stuff people are born with. Those protetic legs are more or less supertec-pogo sticks for jumping around on springs. Thats something a bit different.
So just changing the style of something (different built of skates) is ok. Replacing a body part by a machine isnt.
I have to agree to this. The use of AC i encountered in the US is horrible. Made a mental marker to always bring a jacket as i was constantly getting cold insides.
My main guess its something to do with the dresscode: Without 20C even in the middle of the summer, somebody might sweat with his long-sleeved shirt and tie. So instead of dressing according to the season, its energy-waste time.
25 ml of gasoline and a camping stove, that would be _more_ than enough. Just because the iron-platinum compounds used in modern HDs have a very high curie-temperature doesnt mean that the tiny magnetic domains dont become superparamagnetic at a few 100C at most.
Otherwise, just erase them. All this "we can real deleted files because of remanent magnetisation" is _CRAP_ . This was possible 15 years ago, when servos were misaligning over time. And may 10 years ago, when bits were still sized in um. Nowadays, the spatial resolution of HD heads is in the same order of magnitude as magnetic force microscopy. I know a scientist working with magnetic materials who is actually trying to use perpenticular recording HD heads in a scanning microscopy, just because the technique is so fast. Reading even a non-deleted hd is a long, hard experience with MFMs. Take your second per byte. Deleted is just impossible (superparamagnetic limit again. If the domain is polarized in a way the drive reads 0, there is simply not enough magnetic moment left to form any kind of "1" near it thats not thermally fluctuating). Even if it _were_ possible, we would be talking about days per kbyte with expensive instruments. Even _finding_ a file could take months.
Sorry, but maybe you should come into this century. Your nice old f*I^2 is not true at all anymore. ESPECIALLY for laptop chips. And hasnt been since we reached 90nm.
Check out Wikipedia and read up on leakage currents and the way to deal with them (and realize that your hypothetical laptop cell would use those 15W for leakage alone... tons of ugly logic transitors and little cache that can be efficiently power-managed)
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Well, neither has your IPOD the right format for a 2.5" drive.
Fact is that SSDs have VASTLY higher performance demands than an mp3 player (by orders of magnitues), and sell less.
Thats why they are cheaper.
A better comparison would be a 32Gbyte USB stick. And those are already here for $150
Here in germany, its more or less like that.
Meaning there is a coexistence between "real" flatrates (meaning NO limit, soft or hard) and volume based offers.
I pay about 30 Euros for 6Mbit/640k, and even creating 350Gbyte of traffic per month (i learned thats a bad idea even to try mirroring nasas archvies) doesnt care anybody.
My brother in law used the web only for Email/ect, so he got a DSL with a 1Gbyte limit for 7.50 or something like that. He told me he never really broke thats limit, so those 22.5 more per month would have been waste.
Just because one of this concepts is offered doesnt mean the other is doomed to fail. The two biggerst ones over here both have both options available. And it didnt cause the flatsrates to rise, either.
The thing is, opposed to XP i REALLY like the vista indexing service (and its integreation into the start menue).
The old start-menue (with 4-tiered menue hierarchy), i.e. the shit every linux gui copied, got old pretty quickly. Now you can just type into that box and use autocomplete. Not only for startmenue items, but also for the document index, with results as two seperate lists.
While i was always pretty serious about using the explorer and folder hierarchies to organise stuff, but after upgrating i feel this as a real benefit to user experience.
I have it for a week now, and already i couldnt think about going back to xp.
Also, under "Energy Options", you can select the priority of the index service. Also IOs of the index service run with low priority. Looking at the Ressource Monitor, i can see them defered and having 100s of miliseconds of latency while app requests are in the 10s (because they are priorized).
So I cannot really see a way how the indexer should block any recent system (maybe if the HD had a million doc files on it or something...)
I dont think so.
In fact i could imagine that microsoft could profit from supporting BSD.
It would help against the viral GPL (see again that just this week they decided only GPL USB drivers are "legal", and adviced posters that claimed otherwise in the kernel mailing list to "get a lawyer". Yehaa. Freedom that is).
It would appease many critics.
And they still could use it inside Windows (like the TCP/IP stack) without any conflicts, thanks to the free license.
As BSD it not winning anything against anybody, its a win/win situation.
Ad hominem is perfectly OK if the relevant party is a dickhead.
OTOH, i see this nice trend of anti-ad hominem (in the line of: he is a nutcase, so dont dare to dismiss him!). Just like your post.
Please, dont put /a/nomymous amoung such shady groups like ./ (FOSS jihad!) or digg (FOX for Web2.0 (yesterday i looked there and they had 5 Bash-Hillary stories on the frontpage)).
We are all just average people. With a little bit of shitcock syndrome now or then, but still.
Does is require the DVD?
No?
That was my point.
They could make all those "knobs" coaxial connectors with ground outside and lets say 5V inside, recessed.
That way, a single PSU-Brick could power the whole chain.
Really, there are two scenarios for getting Vista:
a) New PC. Has at least 400Gbyte HD (ok, maybe 120 if its a laptop). 15Gbyte is a very minor fraction.
Windows 3.1 used a larger part of the 120Mbyte HD my first PC had.
b) You buy it, and pay $$$ for it: 15Gbyte right now is the equivalent of 3 bucks. Thats about 1% of what you payed for the OS. Neglectable.
I rather have the convinience of never having to touch the install medium again, _and_ shadow copies of system files, ect, than having a 99.5% instead of 98.5% empty hd.
Wrong. VERY VERY wrong.
Supernova was >75% of torrents back then.
And i dont know the total for supernove, but even a.scarywater.net, one of a lot of anime trackers, had many Gbit of peer trafic back then.
And supernova had 1000s of peers for just about any big movie/game.
They have several 100 to 1000 new torrent per day, and a LOT of them were => an CD-ISO, and got 4 digit downloads before the first day was over.
Just do the math.
Seriously, its not a big issue.
Due to my medical history, i have to do them every year or two.
There are special anaesthetics that are MUCH less severe then the operation once that work like a charm.
Lay down, get an injection, wake up 30 minutes later, and its done. No pain or anything (besides mild discomfort, as they inflate your colon with air, which want to get out again).
What really _is_ annoying, and thats the same for all coloscopies, even those with computer tomography, is the need to get everything out...
Those laxatives arent really nice, and you normally have to flush through with 2-3 liter of it, followed by a few liter water to get it clean enough...
I know, of course.
But thats no cure.
Its just the same result than taking the usual immune-suppressors: Its just that the effect is caused by the worms.
Its rather good in double blinds (but of course double blind is difficult with such a method, because the patient will always be able to determine if he has "real" worms during the duration of the trial...
The "switch the immune system" approach has the elegance that it would be once and for all.
... i wouldnt mind at all changing my immune system to something a little bit more sane.
Simply put: Clap skates are shoes with metal parts beneath.
Normal skates are shoes with metal parts beneath.
Thats something thats connected.
Legs are meat and bones, stuff people are born with.
Those protetic legs are more or less supertec-pogo sticks for jumping around on springs.
Thats something a bit different.
So just changing the style of something (different built of skates) is ok.
Replacing a body part by a machine isnt.
But if a 15-year old has 1000 _records_, i would just think that he raided a junkjard.
I have to agree to this.
The use of AC i encountered in the US is horrible. Made a mental marker to always bring a jacket as i was constantly getting cold insides.
My main guess its something to do with the dresscode: Without 20C even in the middle of the summer, somebody might sweat with his long-sleeved shirt and tie. So instead of dressing according to the season, its energy-waste time.
Of course you ignore the fact that the us did anti-sat weapon tests before, and nobody complained.
25 ml of gasoline and a camping stove, that would be _more_ than enough.
Just because the iron-platinum compounds used in modern HDs have a very high curie-temperature doesnt mean that the tiny magnetic domains dont become superparamagnetic at a few 100C at most.
Otherwise, just erase them.
All this "we can real deleted files because of remanent magnetisation" is _CRAP_ . This was possible 15 years ago, when servos were misaligning over time.
And may 10 years ago, when bits were still sized in um. Nowadays, the spatial resolution of HD heads is in the same order of magnitude as magnetic force microscopy.
I know a scientist working with magnetic materials who is actually trying to use perpenticular recording HD heads in a scanning microscopy, just because the technique is so fast.
Reading even a non-deleted hd is a long, hard experience with MFMs. Take your second per byte. Deleted is just impossible (superparamagnetic limit again. If the domain is polarized in a way the drive reads 0, there is simply not enough magnetic moment left to form any kind of "1" near it thats not thermally fluctuating). Even if it _were_ possible, we would be talking about days per kbyte with expensive instruments. Even _finding_ a file could take months.
Or didnt you notice that foreigners HAVE to show electronically readable passports for years now?
No passport with chip, no passing through immigration.
SD TV IS VGA
Reminder:
VGA 640x480
SVGA 800x600
XGA 1024x786
Sorry, but maybe you should come into this century. Your nice old f*I^2 is not true at all anymore. ESPECIALLY for laptop chips.
And hasnt been since we reached 90nm.
Check out Wikipedia and read up on leakage currents and the way to deal with them (and realize that your hypothetical laptop cell would use those 15W for leakage alone... tons of ugly logic transitors and little cache that can be efficiently power-managed)
Switch while tram crosses= front goes right, back goes left...
88% off are 88% off.
No matter if that base was 10c or $10 billion.
How to trust somebody doing calculations if he is nearly off by a factor of two?
Before i cry foul play i would like to know a little more about the distribution of voting machines.
For example, if the 20% are mostly rural, and the 80% the urban centers, such a small difference would be perfectly expectable.
Wow.
That just really suprised me. I havent seen my gameboy in over a decade, and _never_ considered the similarity.