Meanwhile, a call from a landline to a mobile will generally cost a pretty penny (35p or 50p/minute), and vice-versa is normally between free (inclusive minutes) or about 10p/minute.
I take it that it must be really easy to tell mobile numbers from landline numbers just by looking at it? Otherwise, I could see some people being really surprised when they get their phone bills.
Hard drives took about 8 years to go from 1GB to 120GB.
Okay, I exaggerated a bit. But it took 8 years to jump 2 orders of magnitude in storage capacity. In the past year we have only managed to increase the storage capacity of the largest drives by a mere 20%. Things have slowed down a lot.
How about USB2 as the interface? I don't know enough about either set of specs to make a judgment.
I would forget about USB2.0 and go with a CF to PATA adaptors and hook the cards directly up to the disk drive controllers. USB 2.0 would not do very well in a RAID situation. The other option would be a firewire card reader, if such a beast actually exists.
That's not always true. I bought a 2.5" enclosure, and it came with a 2nd USB "power" cable to help provide power for the drive. I put an older IBM drive into the enclosure, and if I just use the data cable on most computers the drive can't get enough power to spin up.
Of course, once you start looking at facts instead of the media's instajudgment how-can-we-bash-Bush party line, you notice that the federal response wasn't slow. Actually, it was faster than in past storm situations.
But don't let the facts get in the way of your beliefs.
So what if the response to Katrina was faster than previous hurricanes? It's perfectly reasonable to say that it was still too slow. Fact is, all levels of government (city, state, and federal) really messed this one up big time.
How about we all try to lower our energy consumption, instead of making stupid arguements that driving SUVs is okay because computers happens to draw a couple hundred watts when they are on, okay?
New Orleans wasn't under sea level when it was founded. The reason it is sinking is that the Mississippi River can't flood and redeposit silt any more.
Actually the oldest part of New Orleans (the French Quarter) is still above sea level and mostly intact. The founders had enough sense to locate the city on the best available land in the area. It wasn't until later when we thought we could conquer the river that we started building on all the flood plains.
I looked through the summary, and it looks like you are right! Where's the corporate edition? I'm sure the IT department in large companies are going to love dealing with activation crap on hundreds and thousands of computers.
There are two types of computer users in this world. Ones that see the computer as a movies/music/media station, and those that see it as a word processing/spreadsheet/email/internet station. For the former, a 400GB drive is too small, and for the latter, a 40GB drive is more than they'll ever need. You clearly are in the latter group.
As a student who flies home at the start and end of every term, the prospect of buying an extra seat for my computer or trusting it to the postal service 6 times a year does not appeal to me. The 60GB hard drive in my laptop is woefully inadequate to the point where I keep a headless fileserver in both places.
Why don't you just get some external USB2/FireWire drives?
Well it looks like I'll be able to buy one of these for my external USB HDD interface. This technology has applications everywhere, although I think hard disk drives are about to go boom and then bust, as evidenced by the 500gb beast we just saw on/., up from a 300gb HDD. +200gb in a few months? We need a Moore's law for HDDs.
Actually harddrives already went boom and bust. From 1GB to 120GB took no time at all, but from 400GB to 500GB took almost a year.
Stop trying to change the world until you know how and what should be changed. And yes, that may mean it gets much worse before it gets better.
At what point do you think we should start acting? We aren't ever going to be completely certain of the future, so there will always be some uncertainity. Right now, I feel that we have reached that point - or in other words the models are good enough that is pretty foolish not to act upon them.
I bought a used HP Laserjet 4 Plus when I was at college (I paid something like $65 at the time). It was a network printer, so I plugged it into the network and let my roommates use it too. Went through a bunch of paper, still haven't used up the toner that it came with (must of been pretty full when I got it, no idea how to check it). Still works flawlessly, and is a much better printer than the stupid inkjets that I wasted my time with before. Whenever I wanted color (very rarely) I would just use the printing center at the library.
I have Quicktime alternative installed, and while the site doesn't work in either Firefox or Opera, it seems to work fine in IE 6.0. It seems the site doesn't like Firefox very much.
That's pretty much true for XP too. XP can boot up and run one application okay with 128MB, but any more and it really starts thrashing. Forget about running a virus scanner too.
Let's see a link to a $600 SFF PC that far outclasses the mac mini.
We all know that the Mac Mini is pretty much the most powerful computer you can buy in a package that small, so you Mac zealots can put that tired old line to rest.
However, for some people, size really doesn't matter that much. It's pretty much a fact that you can buy a heck of a lot more computer for the money if you don't mind it being the size of a breadbox rather than the size of a standard CD drive. And then there are some people who actually do like things like extra drive bays and PCI slots.
That looks like someone's wild speculation based upon vague rumors before an actual product announcement. It's a pretty common occurance when it comes to Apple.
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Meanwhile, a call from a landline to a mobile will generally cost a pretty penny (35p or 50p/minute), and vice-versa is normally between free (inclusive minutes) or about 10p/minute.
I take it that it must be really easy to tell mobile numbers from landline numbers just by looking at it? Otherwise, I could see some people being really surprised when they get their phone bills.
Obviously you missed the part about the AAA battery pack being rechargeable.
But their players are just that: cheap. Flimsy little pieces of low-grade plastic crap.
Funny you should say that, being that the Nano scratches and scuffs really easily.
"It is too small"
What kind of complaint is this?
Maybe he means not enough storage?
You're kidding, right?
Hard drives took about 8 years to go from 1GB to 120GB.
Okay, I exaggerated a bit. But it took 8 years to jump 2 orders of magnitude in storage capacity. In the past year we have only managed to increase the storage capacity of the largest drives by a mere 20%. Things have slowed down a lot.
Why not just run the server itself off of the flash drive?
How about USB2 as the interface? I don't know enough about either set of specs to make a judgment.
I would forget about USB2.0 and go with a CF to PATA adaptors and hook the cards directly up to the disk drive controllers. USB 2.0 would not do very well in a RAID situation. The other option would be a firewire card reader, if such a beast actually exists.
That's not always true. I bought a 2.5" enclosure, and it came with a 2nd USB "power" cable to help provide power for the drive. I put an older IBM drive into the enclosure, and if I just use the data cable on most computers the drive can't get enough power to spin up.
Of course, once you start looking at facts instead of the media's instajudgment how-can-we-bash-Bush party line, you notice that the federal response wasn't slow. Actually, it was faster than in past storm situations.
But don't let the facts get in the way of your beliefs.
So what if the response to Katrina was faster than previous hurricanes? It's perfectly reasonable to say that it was still too slow. Fact is, all levels of government (city, state, and federal) really messed this one up big time.
How about we all try to lower our energy consumption, instead of making stupid arguements that driving SUVs is okay because computers happens to draw a couple hundred watts when they are on, okay?
New Orleans wasn't under sea level when it was founded. The reason it is sinking is that the Mississippi River can't flood and redeposit silt any more.
Actually the oldest part of New Orleans (the French Quarter) is still above sea level and mostly intact. The founders had enough sense to locate the city on the best available land in the area. It wasn't until later when we thought we could conquer the river that we started building on all the flood plains.
I looked through the summary, and it looks like you are right! Where's the corporate edition? I'm sure the IT department in large companies are going to love dealing with activation crap on hundreds and thousands of computers.
There are two types of computer users in this world. Ones that see the computer as a movies/music/media station, and those that see it as a word processing/spreadsheet/email/internet station. For the former, a 400GB drive is too small, and for the latter, a 40GB drive is more than they'll ever need. You clearly are in the latter group.
As a student who flies home at the start and end of every term, the prospect of buying an extra seat for my computer or trusting it to the postal service 6 times a year does not appeal to me. The 60GB hard drive in my laptop is woefully inadequate to the point where I keep a headless fileserver in both places.
Why don't you just get some external USB2/FireWire drives?
Well it looks like I'll be able to buy one of these for my external USB HDD interface. This technology has applications everywhere, although I think hard disk drives are about to go boom and then bust, as evidenced by the 500gb beast we just saw on /., up from a 300gb HDD. +200gb in a few months? We need a Moore's law for HDDs.
Actually harddrives already went boom and bust. From 1GB to 120GB took no time at all, but from 400GB to 500GB took almost a year.
In your case, please replace "When you're a litle older you'll..." with "If you were a little more normal, you'd..."
It's not so much an urge, but a societal pressure to have kids. As you point out so nicely.
Stop trying to change the world until you know how and what should be changed. And yes, that may mean it gets much worse before it gets better.
At what point do you think we should start acting? We aren't ever going to be completely certain of the future, so there will always be some uncertainity. Right now, I feel that we have reached that point - or in other words the models are good enough that is pretty foolish not to act upon them.
I bought a used HP Laserjet 4 Plus when I was at college (I paid something like $65 at the time). It was a network printer, so I plugged it into the network and let my roommates use it too. Went through a bunch of paper, still haven't used up the toner that it came with (must of been pretty full when I got it, no idea how to check it). Still works flawlessly, and is a much better printer than the stupid inkjets that I wasted my time with before. Whenever I wanted color (very rarely) I would just use the printing center at the library.
I have Quicktime alternative installed, and while the site doesn't work in either Firefox or Opera, it seems to work fine in IE 6.0. It seems the site doesn't like Firefox very much.
Yeah. And how many viruses are written in assembler?
I know of a few. Usually you got them from floppies. And when you did get them, you could probably kiss your MBR and partition table goodbye.
Sometimes I do long for the olden days.
I would guess that Vista in classic mode will probably run on just about any video card you throw at it.
That's pretty much true for XP too. XP can boot up and run one application okay with 128MB, but any more and it really starts thrashing. Forget about running a virus scanner too.
Let's see a link to a $600 SFF PC that far outclasses the mac mini.
We all know that the Mac Mini is pretty much the most powerful computer you can buy in a package that small, so you Mac zealots can put that tired old line to rest.
However, for some people, size really doesn't matter that much. It's pretty much a fact that you can buy a heck of a lot more computer for the money if you don't mind it being the size of a breadbox rather than the size of a standard CD drive. And then there are some people who actually do like things like extra drive bays and PCI slots.
According to Apple the Nano uses a LCD display.
The ipod nano is a small tubular thing...
That looks like someone's wild speculation based upon vague rumors before an actual product announcement. It's a pretty common occurance when it comes to Apple.