The X-25M had a write endurance of 7.5 TB for the 80 GB, and 15 TB for the 160 GB. If you've got the 160 and write an average of 100 MB per day, that's only 0.18 TB in 5 years, or barely more than 1% of the endurance. If on the other hand you wrote 10 GB a day (about two DVDs' worth), that would be 18 TB, and the drive would be likely shot. An HDD has infinite endurance. It can die from various failure modes, but not from "using up" the magnetic storage medium.
Personally I couldn't care less if the write throughput is 300, 400 or 500 MBps, but the write endurance of 80 TB, combined with the pseudo-SLC intermediate cache look pretty promising for home use. Intel 335 only specs 18 TB endurance.
I don't want to sound like grandpa Elmer, but why don't you mention books? Books are to me the most significant application of copyright.
Anyway, why not make copyright for all protected works be 25 or 30 years with no extensions, end of story? That would make all kinds of things public domain. In addition to the birthday song, the films Lawrence of Arabia and Blade Runner, albums all the Beatles' work and Jackson's Thriller, etc.
I think source code copyright is completely unlike the other things. First, if proprietary, it is protected by being kept secret and unpublished, anyway. And second, for open source the GPL actually harnesses copyright for public good and freedom, and in fact depends on copyright being in effect. You could argue that software should be 10 years (5 is pretty extreme, but hey), because it evolves so rapidly, but what would you be gaining? Windows XP for example would then be public domain, except for one thing. Nobody is going to let you see the source code anyway. You can't FORCE anyone to publish, copyright or no. Sure, you could dupe the binaries freely, but how are you going to get security patches and new hardware support?
That's most likely several orders of magnitude less than a FTE.
Several orders of magnitude? Several is greater than two; at least three. But lets just take two orders of magnitude. That's 1/100. So if the FTE is paid $100,000, you would pay the intern $1000? That's not pay. That's throwing table scraps on the floor. It's also far below minimum wage. I think you've got a problem there.
We get it. I believe the reason that there is no right to privacy, the right to be left the hell alone, guaranteed in the Constitution including the original Bill of Rights is that no one of that time could have been reasonably expected to foresee that it would ever become an issue. The technical means for mass gross intrusion, and the present extreme degree of police state, could not possibly have been imagined at that time. One can criticise the oversight as a failure of imagination, but nobody is perfect.
OTOH, the failure to recognize the problem and provide a new Amendment to banish it in modern times is an egregious failure of the system.
Sorry, I couldn't imagine what you meant by m/hr; wasn't trying to be snippy.
And no, "they" are not going after largest return. They are going after a completely inconsequential return. As I made vividly clear, the amount of TEL involved is inconsequential. They are talking about a huge expenditure of effort that will not improve or save anyone's life. The problem with all obsessive initiatives is that they do not know when to stop. As an example, when in the 1970s they reduced air pollution caused by each new automobile by maybe 90%, that was a significant gain. Improving that to 99% via vast expenditure was MAYBE justified. Pushing it to 99.999% at damn-the-cost is the definition of clinical insanity.
If general aviation represents nearly all the TEL release in the country, SO WHAT, if it's not a significant amount?
Spend the effort in some other department on some issue where it could actually do some good.
Ethanol or any type of alcohol in any more than trace amount as "drygas" is a shitty thing to put in ANY gasoline. Since it has become literally impossible to avoid, I have switched to driving diesel exclusively for the last 14 years (and the 18 years before that I drove more than half my miles in diesel powered vehicles).
I saw an estimate that there were 100,000,000 miles done by GA in an average year. at about 10 g/hr and 100 m/hr (yes, round guesses, but there isn't a good source I could find for those), that's about ten million gallons of avgas burned every year.
Are you saying that 10 million gallons is approximately zero, or do you have issues with any of the numbers I used (And if so, please supply an alternative).
You lost me there. What is m/hr? Meters per hour?
Here's what I come up with, very roughly. 100,000,000 miles at 130 mph (miles/h) = 770,000 h; using your 10 gph (gal/h) gives 7,700,000 gallons per year. Close enough to the 10 million gallons you ended up with.
But the U.S. consumed 134 billion gallons of gasoline in 2011 for road use.
So yes; to answer your question, 7.7 million gallons _IS_ approximately zero compared to 134 billion gallons. It represents 0.0057%, or 57 MILLIONTHS, of the total. Another way to look at it is that it represents 3.1 OUNCES of 100LL per year per man, woman, and child in the US. Now, there are 1.2-2 GRAMS of TEL per gallon of TEL, so that's aless than 2 THOUSANDS of an ounce per person.
Sense of proportion matters. Don't go after the completely negligible stuff. The effort is better spent where you get some sinificant degree of return. Worrying about the effects of Avgas is clinical insanity.
For $2070.99 and 14 watts and a GIGANTIC size for just 300 GB, it bloody well BETTER be the fastest. And I personally think the reviewer who claims to have installed 15 of them in his own personal server is having us on.
Hell, one of the tablet/notebook convertible things (HP envy I think?) I tested recently was trying to run Windows 8 Pro on SD based flash. Took me a while to figure out why it was so slow and unresponsive...
There is SD, and then there is SD. SD can be as slow as 1-2 MBps; Class 10 is 10 MBps or greater; and there are available both SDHC and SDXC with 95 MBps read and 90 MBps write. The latter are close enough to notebook HDD throughput that you could never tell the difference. And even the slowest SD has a seek time many times faster than an HDD. Sure, none of them can match a good SATA SSD, but the fastest can come pretty close.
I've seen a few comments yesterday and today though claiming some of these mini PCIe form-factor SSDs are not *really* following the standards for the PCIe connector? So in effect, they perform with a lot less throughput, the same as any existing SSD drive, except just using that type of physical connector.
I think you/they are thinking of mSATA. MSATA is spectacularly offensive intellectually. It is pin and electrically compatible with Mini PCIe, but the use of some of the pins is completely different. The connector is connected to a SATA controller in the host rather than a PCIe controller. Obviously, the throughput is SATA rather than PCIe.
Offensive as it is, mSATA makes sense economically because it uses a cheap, mass market connector and silicon.
Fuck polarization. Find me ANYONE in the general population who doesn't see this happy horseshit for the ugly corruption that it is. On this matter there is no disagreement. It's been going on for a bare minimum of 12 years now; both parties are as dirty as pigs wallowing in filth.
I am not seeing a strong indication of that from the image I THINK that link is directing me to. I found this image which shows that at least 135 Mya Canada was pretty much where it is today (very roughl;y - it wasn't even the same size and shape). Jurassic ended about 145 Mya, (and began about 201 Mya) so I would interpret late Jurassic as being presumably around 150-145 Mya. Does this sound right?
Unfortunately, I haven't found a map covering exactly 150-145 Mya, so I can't judge exactly how close it was to where it was 135 Mya. I'm thinking such projections as to size, shape and location aren't likely to be very exact anyway.
It is also interesting to me that there have been warmer periods in the past during which, at least to my understanding, CO2 was lower than it is presently.
No it wasn't.
Right, I wasn't paying close enough attention to close_wait's specification of 0.5 Mya. However, that still raises the question of how one explains the verdant Greenland of the Norse settlement of about 1000 years ago; the medieval warm period.
Whoever told you "there is no such thing as a stupid question" is wrong.
"There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question." -- Carl Sagan
I hope you don't take it as insulting, but on this matter I'm going to side with the adviser to NASA, PhD in astrophysics, accomplished author of works which made sciencific knowledge accessable to and popular with the public.
If I may impose, could you explain how it is known that CO2 drives warming, and not vice versa?
Regarding the assertion that the temperature rise in the last century has been exceptional: should I presume that it is rate of rise that is being discussed, not the level? Because there were far warmer periods in the past; for example the late Jurassic, when Dinosaurs roamed Canada in tropical conditions. Do we have any reliable basis for CO2 measurements during this period?
It is also interesting to me that there have been warmer periods in the past during which, at least to my understanding, CO2 was lower than it is presently. Presumably there is a lot more involved than CO2 level. That suggests to me that at this time the situation needs further study more than it needs extreme and precipitous action. I would be receptive to having any faults in this reasoning pointed out.
The average person is simply not even qualified to ask questions.
[holding back the expletives I feel] That is the most demeaning and supercilious thing you could possibly say. There are no unqualified questions. There are no stupid questions; only condescending and stupid answers. You better the hell believe questioning F=MA deserves a meaningful answer, and that one is dead simple to illustrate. When the fucking car hits the tree at speed, M times A of the occupant becomes very large, and the resultant F tends to break bones.
Yes, it is HARD and tiresome answering questions, and you can only tutor the questioner so much. But it's not anyone's place to presuppose the questioner doesn't want "real answers". If he rejects the answer, well, at least you tried.
Just one honest question: what happens if they literally don't have £1000 to piss away paying an organization of menacing, thieving thugs? I would honestly like to know. Do you seize money they need to support their family?
If I sound a trifle petulant, it's because in my world you punish the actual crime (e.g., reckless negligence, only in the case someone is ACTUALLY HARMED), not taking actions that are PRESUMED by some asshole to make you more LIKELY to commit a crime.
Keep voting Democrat, folks. They will regulate us to death and tax us into the poor house to staff all the new agencies they create to tell us how to live our lives.
Or you could vote Republican. They will regulate us to death and tax us into the poor house to staff all the new agencies they create to tell us how to live our lives.
Hint: to which party did the president belong who actually created the DHS and TSA monsters and started a bunch of warrantless shit after 9/11? The Democrats were actually useful to me personally in helping to see what worthless slimeballs the assholes I used to be inclined to support were. Not that that makes them any better on balance.
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You keep using that word. I do not believe it means what you think it means.
The X-25M had a write endurance of 7.5 TB for the 80 GB, and 15 TB for the 160 GB. If you've got the 160 and write an average of 100 MB per day, that's only 0.18 TB in 5 years, or barely more than 1% of the endurance. If on the other hand you wrote 10 GB a day (about two DVDs' worth), that would be 18 TB, and the drive would be likely shot. An HDD has infinite endurance. It can die from various failure modes, but not from "using up" the magnetic storage medium.
It completely depends on how much data you write.
Personally I couldn't care less if the write throughput is 300, 400 or 500 MBps, but the write endurance of 80 TB, combined with the pseudo-SLC intermediate cache look pretty promising for home use. Intel 335 only specs 18 TB endurance.
Quite informative piece, but Hothardware spells it "terra-bytes".
Cement is not concrete. Concrete is made of cement plus aggregate.
I don't want to sound like grandpa Elmer, but why don't you mention books? Books are to me the most significant application of copyright.
Anyway, why not make copyright for all protected works be 25 or 30 years with no extensions, end of story? That would make all kinds of things public domain. In addition to the birthday song, the films Lawrence of Arabia and Blade Runner, albums all the Beatles' work and Jackson's Thriller, etc.
I think source code copyright is completely unlike the other things. First, if proprietary, it is protected by being kept secret and unpublished, anyway. And second, for open source the GPL actually harnesses copyright for public good and freedom, and in fact depends on copyright being in effect. You could argue that software should be 10 years (5 is pretty extreme, but hey), because it evolves so rapidly, but what would you be gaining? Windows XP for example would then be public domain, except for one thing. Nobody is going to let you see the source code anyway. You can't FORCE anyone to publish, copyright or no. Sure, you could dupe the binaries freely, but how are you going to get security patches and new hardware support?
Several orders of magnitude? Several is greater than two; at least three. But lets just take two orders of magnitude. That's 1/100. So if the FTE is paid $100,000, you would pay the intern $1000? That's not pay. That's throwing table scraps on the floor. It's also far below minimum wage. I think you've got a problem there.
We get it. I believe the reason that there is no right to privacy, the right to be left the hell alone, guaranteed in the Constitution including the original Bill of Rights is that no one of that time could have been reasonably expected to foresee that it would ever become an issue. The technical means for mass gross intrusion, and the present extreme degree of police state, could not possibly have been imagined at that time. One can criticise the oversight as a failure of imagination, but nobody is perfect.
OTOH, the failure to recognize the problem and provide a new Amendment to banish it in modern times is an egregious failure of the system.
Sorry, I couldn't imagine what you meant by m/hr; wasn't trying to be snippy.
And no, "they" are not going after largest return. They are going after a completely inconsequential return. As I made vividly clear, the amount of TEL involved is inconsequential. They are talking about a huge expenditure of effort that will not improve or save anyone's life. The problem with all obsessive initiatives is that they do not know when to stop. As an example, when in the 1970s they reduced air pollution caused by each new automobile by maybe 90%, that was a significant gain. Improving that to 99% via vast expenditure was MAYBE justified. Pushing it to 99.999% at damn-the-cost is the definition of clinical insanity.
If general aviation represents nearly all the TEL release in the country, SO WHAT, if it's not a significant amount?
Spend the effort in some other department on some issue where it could actually do some good.
Bwahahahaha. Excuse me for laughing at something that is ludicrous.
Ethanol or any type of alcohol in any more than trace amount as "drygas" is a shitty thing to put in ANY gasoline. Since it has become literally impossible to avoid, I have switched to driving diesel exclusively for the last 14 years (and the 18 years before that I drove more than half my miles in diesel powered vehicles).
I saw an estimate that there were 100,000,000 miles done by GA in an average year. at about 10 g/hr and 100 m/hr (yes, round guesses, but there isn't a good source I could find for those), that's about ten million gallons of avgas burned every year.
Are you saying that 10 million gallons is approximately zero, or do you have issues with any of the numbers I used (And if so, please supply an alternative).
You lost me there. What is m/hr? Meters per hour?
Here's what I come up with, very roughly. 100,000,000 miles at 130 mph (miles/h) = 770,000 h; using your 10 gph (gal/h) gives 7,700,000 gallons per year. Close enough to the 10 million gallons you ended up with.
But the U.S. consumed 134 billion gallons of gasoline in 2011 for road use.
So yes; to answer your question, 7.7 million gallons _IS_ approximately zero compared to 134 billion gallons. It represents 0.0057%, or 57 MILLIONTHS, of the total. Another way to look at it is that it represents 3.1 OUNCES of 100LL per year per man, woman, and child in the US. Now, there are 1.2-2 GRAMS of TEL per gallon of TEL, so that's aless than 2 THOUSANDS of an ounce per person.
Sense of proportion matters. Don't go after the completely negligible stuff. The effort is better spent where you get some sinificant degree of return. Worrying about the effects of Avgas is clinical insanity.
For $2070.99 and 14 watts and a GIGANTIC size for just 300 GB, it bloody well BETTER be the fastest. And I personally think the reviewer who claims to have installed 15 of them in his own personal server is having us on.
There is SD, and then there is SD. SD can be as slow as 1-2 MBps; Class 10 is 10 MBps or greater; and there are available both SDHC and SDXC with 95 MBps read and 90 MBps write. The latter are close enough to notebook HDD throughput that you could never tell the difference. And even the slowest SD has a seek time many times faster than an HDD. Sure, none of them can match a good SATA SSD, but the fastest can come pretty close.
I think you/they are thinking of mSATA. MSATA is spectacularly offensive intellectually. It is pin and electrically compatible with Mini PCIe, but the use of some of the pins is completely different. The connector is connected to a SATA controller in the host rather than a PCIe controller. Obviously, the throughput is SATA rather than PCIe.
Offensive as it is, mSATA makes sense economically because it uses a cheap, mass market connector and silicon.
Fuck polarization. Find me ANYONE in the general population who doesn't see this happy horseshit for the ugly corruption that it is. On this matter there is no disagreement. It's been going on for a bare minimum of 12 years now; both parties are as dirty as pigs wallowing in filth.
Thank you. Most helpful and constructive.
I am not seeing a strong indication of that from the image I THINK that link is directing me to. I found this image which shows that at least 135 Mya Canada was pretty much where it is today (very roughl;y - it wasn't even the same size and shape). Jurassic ended about 145 Mya, (and began about 201 Mya) so I would interpret late Jurassic as being presumably around 150-145 Mya. Does this sound right?
Unfortunately, I haven't found a map covering exactly 150-145 Mya, so I can't judge exactly how close it was to where it was 135 Mya. I'm thinking such projections as to size, shape and location aren't likely to be very exact anyway.
Right, I wasn't paying close enough attention to close_wait's specification of 0.5 Mya. However, that still raises the question of how one explains the verdant Greenland of the Norse settlement of about 1000 years ago; the medieval warm period.
Wha? Non sequitur much?
I rest my case.
"There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question." -- Carl Sagan
I hope you don't take it as insulting, but on this matter I'm going to side with the adviser to NASA, PhD in astrophysics, accomplished author of works which made sciencific knowledge accessable to and popular with the public.
If I may impose, could you explain how it is known that CO2 drives warming, and not vice versa?
Regarding the assertion that the temperature rise in the last century has been exceptional: should I presume that it is rate of rise that is being discussed, not the level? Because there were far warmer periods in the past; for example the late Jurassic, when Dinosaurs roamed Canada in tropical conditions. Do we have any reliable basis for CO2 measurements during this period?
It is also interesting to me that there have been warmer periods in the past during which, at least to my understanding, CO2 was lower than it is presently. Presumably there is a lot more involved than CO2 level. That suggests to me that at this time the situation needs further study more than it needs extreme and precipitous action. I would be receptive to having any faults in this reasoning pointed out.
[holding back the expletives I feel] That is the most demeaning and supercilious thing you could possibly say. There are no unqualified questions. There are no stupid questions; only condescending and stupid answers. You better the hell believe questioning F=MA deserves a meaningful answer, and that one is dead simple to illustrate. When the fucking car hits the tree at speed, M times A of the occupant becomes very large, and the resultant F tends to break bones.
Yes, it is HARD and tiresome answering questions, and you can only tutor the questioner so much. But it's not anyone's place to presuppose the questioner doesn't want "real answers". If he rejects the answer, well, at least you tried.
Just one honest question: what happens if they literally don't have £1000 to piss away paying an organization of menacing, thieving thugs? I would honestly like to know. Do you seize money they need to support their family?
If I sound a trifle petulant, it's because in my world you punish the actual crime (e.g., reckless negligence, only in the case someone is ACTUALLY HARMED), not taking actions that are PRESUMED by some asshole to make you more LIKELY to commit a crime.
Nobody thinks they have actually thought this through logically. IOW, of course not.
Or you could vote Republican. They will regulate us to death and tax us into the poor house to staff all the new agencies they create to tell us how to live our lives.
Hint: to which party did the president belong who actually created the DHS and TSA monsters and started a bunch of warrantless shit after 9/11? The Democrats were actually useful to me personally in helping to see what worthless slimeballs the assholes I used to be inclined to support were. Not that that makes them any better on balance.