Gigabit is adequate for the next couple years, but will soon be anemic if multiple TB are stored.
I have gigabit at home but I've been thinking about how nice ten gigabit would be; it's only because the hard drives can't support much more than gigabit speeds when copying between machines that I haven't looked at faster connections yet.
I can't imagine copying big files at 10Mbps these days.
Newegg.com offers the AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition for $189.99 right now, and that model is AMD's top desktop CPU right now.
It eats a bit too much energy for my taste (125W TDP), but in price/performance it is a pretty nice CPU.
Except an i5 will stomp on it, cost less and use only about 50W of power while doing so. I believe even a dual-core i3 typically beats the non-black edition hexacore Phenoms for not much more than $100.
Nah, the boomers were not the greatest generation -- their parents were.
The 'greatest generation' handed China and half of Europe to communists and have spent most of the last few decades voting themselves more and more benefits to be paid for by their grandchildren.
Admittedly giving China and half of Europe to the communists turned out not to be such a bad deal for the West since it kept them backwad and uncompetitive. But it was still morally wrong.
If you despise people poorer than you, vote republican. If you envy people richer than you, vot democrat.
The right don't hate people poorer than them, the left do. The right want to make everyone rich, the left want to make everyone but the commisars poor; who do you think would vote for left-wing politicians if everyone was rich?
Of course, these cut corners eventually result in huge catastrophes such as a defective main mirror on the space telescope.
What did that have to do with 'cost cutting'? It's not as though they bought a defective mirror because it was $500,000,000 cheaper, someone screwed up the measurements when building it.
Ares/Constellation. Money sink. Rebuild, rebuild, rebuild! And really, ARES looked like it suffered from NIH syndrome (maybe it should be called 'not invented by us syndrome'). And absolutely underwhelming.
The Ares problem was precisely the opposite: everything had to be shuttle-derived to 'save money' and as a result they spent more to put a fake upper stage on top of an SRB and fire it into the sea than SpaceX spent to design and build a new rocket engine and two new rockets and launch them into orbit.
This was part of the problem so frustrating about the space shuttle program. Originally, the shuttles were supposed to fly a LOT more missions and do a lot more. For one example: the fuel boosters were originally designed to be carried into space as reusable modules to add to a space station. Politics killed that part.
If I remember correctly, the Nixon administration told NASA how big a budget they could expect to have in the future and told them to design a program within that budget that they could push to Congress. NASA came back with a far more expensive program and acted surprised when they didn't get enough money.
In fact there's a campaign now for bikes to ride in the center of the lane to force cars to actually change lanes to pass because of the number of cyclists killed by drivers who don't know where there car is and try to pass without changing lanes.
I'm sure that will really work well in rush hour and really, really make drivers love cyclists.
I never bicycle, but a distract biker is only a danger to himself vs a distracted driver who is a danger to everyone on the road.
Yeah, right.
Back in the real world, the number of pedestrians killed per passenger mile by cyclists in the UK is about the same as the number killed by motorists; I've no idea about US statistics. Just because a cyclist isn't likely to kill someone in a car, that doesn't mean they're not going to kill a pedestrian.
I have fond memories of the cyclist who, just before I left the UK, barely missed me as I stepped out of a store in a 'pedestrianised' area where they were blasting along at 20mph or so with a kid sitting on their handlebars. Had they hit me, there's a good chance that I or the kid or both might have at least spent some time in hospital.
Cyclists are supposed to be riding on the shoulder and if traffic is slow enough for them to be passing you, well you're in a traffic jam and they do not have to pull out into traffic to get around you.
If I remember correctly, the most common cause of cyclist deaths in London is people who think that passing a bus or truck on the left as said bus or truck is trying to turn left is a really neat idea.
No one cared then, no one's cared in 15 years. FIFTEEN YEARS and NOT A SINGLE BOLT in space.
Indeed. For example, Bigelow Aerospace don't have two private space station modules orbiting the planet right now for long-term testing (at least I believe both are still in orbit). There's a big market for space tourism, but not at current prices... and a gap between current prices and viable prices that's hard to cross without spending lots of money on R&D without an immediate market.
But to me the more important question is: if we can put a man on the moon, why can't Slashdot build a web forum that doesn't suck?
Which means unless your rocket is astoundingly powerful, it is going to keep crossing Earth's orbit over and over to get a gravity assist to slingshot it to the sun.
Uh, no. The only remotely viable plans I've seen for shuttle-based waste disposal (if launching nuclear waste on a shuttle could ever be considered viable) were based around rotary launchers that would cancel out most of the orbital velocity and drop it into the sun.
Using a rocket would be silly when you can use some solar panels, an electric motor and a few bits of spinning metal.
If you quit getting paid in US dollars, the US government will quit asking for them.
Uh, no it won't. America is one of the few nations on Earth that expects its citizens to pay tax regardless of where on the planet they live.
And the lefties who are saying 'if you don't like paying taxes then leave!' will turn around and demand the introduction of exit visas if too many people follow their advice.
Go ahead and feel free to start writing checks to your local government if you feel you have cheated them out of taxes from buying DVDs from Amazon.
Indeed. Anyone who believes that they're not paying enough for their books and DVDs from Amazon is free to send a cheque to the British government that they can spend on hiring more 'diversity workers' or sending more 'aid' to India.
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Gigabit is adequate for the next couple years, but will soon be anemic if multiple TB are stored.
I have gigabit at home but I've been thinking about how nice ten gigabit would be; it's only because the hard drives can't support much more than gigabit speeds when copying between machines that I haven't looked at faster connections yet.
I can't imagine copying big files at 10Mbps these days.
Newegg.com offers the AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition for $189.99 right now, and that model is AMD's top desktop CPU right now.
It eats a bit too much energy for my taste (125W TDP), but in price/performance it is a pretty nice CPU.
Except an i5 will stomp on it, cost less and use only about 50W of power while doing so. I believe even a dual-core i3 typically beats the non-black edition hexacore Phenoms for not much more than $100.
Whatever your feelings are on this, it's a valid patent under the current laws because it's an improvement.
I suspect you'll find that's what people are complaining about. If this is a valid patent under current laws then current laws are absurd.
Am I the only one who doesn't want a touchscreen kindle? I do not want to see my finger prints all over the screen while I try to read a book.
Ditto. I suspect most people demanding touchscreens have never actually used one for long.
Nah, the boomers were not the greatest generation -- their parents were.
The 'greatest generation' handed China and half of Europe to communists and have spent most of the last few decades voting themselves more and more benefits to be paid for by their grandchildren.
Admittedly giving China and half of Europe to the communists turned out not to be such a bad deal for the West since it kept them backwad and uncompetitive. But it was still morally wrong.
You don't remember correctly.
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If you despise people poorer than you, vote republican. If you envy people richer than you, vot democrat.
The right don't hate people poorer than them, the left do. The right want to make everyone rich, the left want to make everyone but the commisars poor; who do you think would vote for left-wing politicians if everyone was rich?
Of course, these cut corners eventually result in huge catastrophes such as a defective main mirror on the space telescope.
What did that have to do with 'cost cutting'? It's not as though they bought a defective mirror because it was $500,000,000 cheaper, someone screwed up the measurements when building it.
Ares/Constellation. Money sink. Rebuild, rebuild, rebuild! And really, ARES looked like it suffered from NIH syndrome (maybe it should be called 'not invented by us syndrome'). And absolutely underwhelming.
The Ares problem was precisely the opposite: everything had to be shuttle-derived to 'save money' and as a result they spent more to put a fake upper stage on top of an SRB and fire it into the sea than SpaceX spent to design and build a new rocket engine and two new rockets and launch them into orbit.
This was part of the problem so frustrating about the space shuttle program. Originally, the shuttles were supposed to fly a LOT more missions and do a lot more. For one example: the fuel boosters were originally designed to be carried into space as reusable modules to add to a space station. Politics killed that part.
If I remember correctly, the Nixon administration told NASA how big a budget they could expect to have in the future and told them to design a program within that budget that they could push to Congress. NASA came back with a far more expensive program and acted surprised when they didn't get enough money.
Short version, she got her knickers in a twist and threw a hissy-fit without even a modest attempt at politely refusing.
How do you 'politely refuse' someone who's demanding to grope your children?
In fact there's a campaign now for bikes to ride in the center of the lane to force cars to actually change lanes to pass because of the number of cyclists killed by drivers who don't know where there car is and try to pass without changing lanes.
I'm sure that will really work well in rush hour and really, really make drivers love cyclists.
I never bicycle, but a distract biker is only a danger to himself vs a distracted driver who is a danger to everyone on the road.
Yeah, right.
Back in the real world, the number of pedestrians killed per passenger mile by cyclists in the UK is about the same as the number killed by motorists; I've no idea about US statistics. Just because a cyclist isn't likely to kill someone in a car, that doesn't mean they're not going to kill a pedestrian.
I have fond memories of the cyclist who, just before I left the UK, barely missed me as I stepped out of a store in a 'pedestrianised' area where they were blasting along at 20mph or so with a kid sitting on their handlebars. Had they hit me, there's a good chance that I or the kid or both might have at least spent some time in hospital.
Cyclists are supposed to be riding on the shoulder and if traffic is slow enough for them to be passing you, well you're in a traffic jam and they do not have to pull out into traffic to get around you.
If I remember correctly, the most common cause of cyclist deaths in London is people who think that passing a bus or truck on the left as said bus or truck is trying to turn left is a really neat idea.
Actually, until they get off on the ground. Shit happens...
If I was part of the cleanup crew I'd take a dump in there after they get off just so I could tell my grandkids I was the last one to do so.
No one cared then, no one's cared in 15 years. FIFTEEN YEARS and NOT A SINGLE BOLT in space.
Indeed. For example, Bigelow Aerospace don't have two private space station modules orbiting the planet right now for long-term testing (at least I believe both are still in orbit). There's a big market for space tourism, but not at current prices... and a gap between current prices and viable prices that's hard to cross without spending lots of money on R&D without an immediate market.
But to me the more important question is: if we can put a man on the moon, why can't Slashdot build a web forum that doesn't suck?
I suspect that the US will still be around and still be more relevant than you long after you're dead and dust, Tantrum.
People were saying that about the British Empire in the 1930s.
Which means unless your rocket is astoundingly powerful, it is going to keep crossing Earth's orbit over and over to get a gravity assist to slingshot it to the sun.
Uh, no. The only remotely viable plans I've seen for shuttle-based waste disposal (if launching nuclear waste on a shuttle could ever be considered viable) were based around rotary launchers that would cancel out most of the orbital velocity and drop it into the sun.
Using a rocket would be silly when you can use some solar panels, an electric motor and a few bits of spinning metal.
If you quit getting paid in US dollars, the US government will quit asking for them.
Uh, no it won't. America is one of the few nations on Earth that expects its citizens to pay tax regardless of where on the planet they live.
And the lefties who are saying 'if you don't like paying taxes then leave!' will turn around and demand the introduction of exit visas if too many people follow their advice.
The US has some of the lowest tax rates of any civilized nation.
No it doesn't. Federal income tax, perhaps, but when you add all the taxes together it's not much better than the nanny states of Europe.
Go ahead and feel free to start writing checks to your local government if you feel you have cheated them out of taxes from buying DVDs from Amazon.
Indeed. Anyone who believes that they're not paying enough for their books and DVDs from Amazon is free to send a cheque to the British government that they can spend on hiring more 'diversity workers' or sending more 'aid' to India.
It can't help XP users pass the time since it requires Vista or 7!
Does it run in Wine?
You can buy a used desktop that will run Win7 no problems for $100.
But then you have to pay another $100 for Windows 7.
How many other companies are expected to maintain 10+ year old software, even after TWO new releases (Vista, Win7) are available?
Hmm, perhaps companies that were still selling that 'ten year old software' on new systems last year?
Apps can be recompiled for different target architectures without being rewritten.
Again, why would people buy Windows to run on ARM when it won't run all their old Windows programs unless they buy them a second time?