Maybe eventually SSD will replace mechanical storage, but not until you can go to a store and get a 3TB external for like a hundred bucks.
Don't be silly, people aren't going to buy 3TB disks once SSDs become affordable in the 1TB size.
Absurd non sequitur, AC. It doesn't matter a whit what the size of the SSDs is; what matters is the total cost of storage device plus driving hardware per GB.
1) And when will that be when 1TB SSDs reach 1/3 the cost of 3TB HDs, eh? They are currently over 3X, and it has taken a long time to come from 5X to 3X. I currently have ZFS storage in several RAIDZ2 pools on a total of 18 3TB HD's. It cost me about $2200 for the drives. Yeah, I could have used 54 1TB SSDs (plus a hell of a lot more SATA ports, which would mean a vastly more expensive motherboard plus more expensive HBAs) instead, but that would have cost me at least $27,000.
2) People who have a clue about endurance and data retention and need a lot of both are going to use HDs even if the cost of SSDs ever reached parity. It is ignorant to suggest otherwise.
Is that per month? It seems expensive. It depends on your needs, of course, but as I'm a light mobile user I end up paying about $60 AUD per year for my mobile service. For my usage it's a really good fit. Sadly the plan I'm on is no longer offered to new customers.
Does your plan give you unlimited texts, unlimited data, and 300 minutes of talk? I thought not. For most users, VM at $35 is a good fit.
Well, it's utterly irrelevant for server use, so it can't be THAT important, but it is definitely right up there for Desktop linux, which COULD potentially have a whole hell of a lot more penetration than it does now.
I think I can describe what was behind my rather rude description. The only reason I mentioned it is that there isn't that much to find fault with in KDE.
I compare the applet to the GNOME2 weather applet, which to me is perfect.
GNOME2: everything I care about is right there. Current temperature, wind speed and direction, dew point, whether it is fair or stormy. A nice succinct text forecast that includes expected snow accumulation if relevant. Weather radar. I think that's pretty much it; I haven't seen the thing in six weeks now. So I don't have to click anything at all to see the current temperature, and the rest is all available instantly.
KDE: it shows nothing at all until I click on it; just a huge yellow ball. When I click, all I see is cryptic numbers. Top line, "Day", "Night", "28" and "1". I assume the first two are for today and the last two are the upcoming two days. So far, so good. Second line, 4 pictographs showing sunny, dark, cloudy, etc. Nothing wrong with that line. Third line: 4 temperature figures. The first two look like today's high and low. The last two seem, forgive me, to be pulled out of someone's ass. I want to think they are the predicted highs for the upcoming two days, but they aren't even close. Last line: 4 more temperature figures. The first two I can't figure out what they are for. The last two seem, lacking insight, seem to be more ass-pulling. They bear no relation to the expected lows of the upcoming two days.
My phone actually shows me much more right on the main screen, without even running anything discretely.
P.S., maybe I have the wrong weather applet installed in KDE. It's the one that says "powered by wetter.com". It's kind of hard to say which one I installed, becauser there is no "Help, About". It's the only one I happened to see without maybe going to a lot of trouble.
Not quite sure what you're on about. I was pretty careful not to put any hate whatsoever into the comment. I'm past anything like that, personally. I didn't (and don't) even recommend that no one else use it, or touch on any pros and cons. All I said is I am done with it. It is irrelevant to me.
You could say this is quibbling, but you can't "keep contained" that which has been wildly uncontained for 3 years. The phrase does not make sense. Rather one should say "contain further release of contamination within specified boundaries, and specify what is to be done about the vast contamination which has alrteady escaped those boundaries, at least some of it to the 4 corners of the earth's oceans".
I don't care what happens with GNOME at this point. I will be using either KDE or Xfce. I have been GNOME free for long enough to know that I am not going back. I evaluated Xfce long enough to know that it is quite satisfactory, if not as perfect as GNOME2 was. Now I have been on KDE for five weeks. I have issues with the control over icon placement on desktop and taskbar, and the putrid weather applet - otherwise, absolutely no issues whatever.
I'm afraid the MATE DE is not yet good enough to live with. I evaluated it; it is very promising; I support the effort, but it's no replacement for GNOME2 yet. I'm not sure anything will ever be, but that's life. No car is anywhere near as perfect as the glorious 1978-1982 Audi 5000 either, and nothing has come along to equal the late Icom IC-R75.
Somebody give it to these bird brains. Their head is so far up their ass, they don't have a single clue what the internet can do to them. I just checked whois for gemasucks.com, and looks to me like it is available.
That old piece of paper circumscribes the governing law of the land. The Supreme Court absolutely is bound by it. In fact their authority comes from it and it is their solemn duty to interpret it and use it to throw out improper legislation.
Even if that weren't the case, I hold this particular old piece of paper penned by brilliant great men in much higher esteem than nine cynical bought and paid-for buffoons sitting in black robes shitting on the Republic.
Actually the Magna Carta is a lot older than the US Constitution, yet it is still considered one of the greatest constitutional documents of all time, and forms part of the uncodified constitution of that strange and wondeful society across the pond. Three important clauses are still statutorally in effect. The mechanisms in place for altering the US Constitution are much more formal and procedural, and every single word in the US Cinstitution that has not been formally amended is still the supreme authority.
To all those who would cavalierly tear up the Constitution, beware the wrath of patriots.
Strontium 90 has a half-life of 30 years, genius. So if for example it's 100 times natural now, it will decay to 50x in 30 years, 25x in 60 years, 13x in 90 years, 6x in 120 years, 3x in 150 years, 1.6x in 180 years.
Cesium 137 has the same half-life: 30 years.
I suppose 180 years is "decades". Just as much as it is also "centuries".
There are some things that just don't work as files... [for example] sockets...
Oh bullshit. Sockets (and named pipes and serial ports; heck, even anonymous pipes) are the best example of leveraging files. Sockets ARE files. Files with funny names, a necessarily special way to open, and what amount to a bunch of ioctls to tend to details. The main interaction is by read() and write(), exactly the same as files. Monitoring for data to appear is done by select(), the same as for any "file" whose input data shows up by "magic" - for example, serial ports.
Curses is highly successful as a text character presentation mechanism where you can do random access by talking to a file. It is self evident to me that you could do similar things for graphics.
Wake up. CO2 is not "pollution" by any rational reckoning. CO2 is plant food.
Abolish the unaccountable EPA[*] as it is presently constituted. If you want to set policy about how much of the people's money to throw away on various pie in the sky feel-good fantasies, do it through the people's representatives, as the constitution sets forth. If you want to guard against acts of selfish defiance in the form of real pollution as duly legislated by the people's representatives, keep a small part of the EPA, the activities that are legitimate, in the form of pollution police.
[*] Get rid of ALL governmental unelected and unaccountable authorities. I do not recognize any apparatchik as having arbitrary authority over the people.
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How is this comment not scored 5 yet? Page after page of drivel and misconceptions, and this comment nails it.
Too not much enough coffee happens to all of us.
Ten times or more is not "a bit", twit.
Wrong as a blanket statement. For some specific usages, maybe. For a lot of others, no. Just no. Not worth 10X more $; often not worth ANY more $.
Absurd non sequitur, AC. It doesn't matter a whit what the size of the SSDs is; what matters is the total cost of storage device plus driving hardware per GB.
1) And when will that be when 1TB SSDs reach 1/3 the cost of 3TB HDs, eh? They are currently over 3X, and it has taken a long time to come from 5X to 3X. I currently have ZFS storage in several RAIDZ2 pools on a total of 18 3TB HD's. It cost me about $2200 for the drives. Yeah, I could have used 54 1TB SSDs (plus a hell of a lot more SATA ports, which would mean a vastly more expensive motherboard plus more expensive HBAs) instead, but that would have cost me at least $27,000.
2) People who have a clue about endurance and data retention and need a lot of both are going to use HDs even if the cost of SSDs ever reached parity. It is ignorant to suggest otherwise.
Does your plan give you unlimited texts, unlimited data, and 300 minutes of talk? I thought not. For most users, VM at $35 is a good fit.
Calligra Flow is definitely the most useful of the apps in the sense of being irreplaceable.
Well, it's utterly irrelevant for server use, so it can't be THAT important, but it is definitely right up there for Desktop linux, which COULD potentially have a whole hell of a lot more penetration than it does now.
I would like to know this too. And not just with megabuck megawatt GPUs, but with something reasonable like Intel HD2000, 3000, and 4000.
That means LibreOffice Impress is fine, right?
But I do know ...
It's easier at 30 than at 40.
Which is easier than at 50.
Which is easier than at 60, since no one has done it at 60 yet.
Stupid people and people in loser countries do, evidently. The rest of us are on no-contract Virgin Mobile.
I think I can describe what was behind my rather rude description. The only reason I mentioned it is that there isn't that much to find fault with in KDE.
I compare the applet to the GNOME2 weather applet, which to me is perfect.
GNOME2: everything I care about is right there. Current temperature, wind speed and direction, dew point, whether it is fair or stormy. A nice succinct text forecast that includes expected snow accumulation if relevant. Weather radar. I think that's pretty much it; I haven't seen the thing in six weeks now. So I don't have to click anything at all to see the current temperature, and the rest is all available instantly.
KDE: it shows nothing at all until I click on it; just a huge yellow ball. When I click, all I see is cryptic numbers. Top line, "Day", "Night", "28" and "1". I assume the first two are for today and the last two are the upcoming two days. So far, so good. Second line, 4 pictographs showing sunny, dark, cloudy, etc. Nothing wrong with that line. Third line: 4 temperature figures. The first two look like today's high and low. The last two seem, forgive me, to be pulled out of someone's ass. I want to think they are the predicted highs for the upcoming two days, but they aren't even close. Last line: 4 more temperature figures. The first two I can't figure out what they are for. The last two seem, lacking insight, seem to be more ass-pulling. They bear no relation to the expected lows of the upcoming two days.
My phone actually shows me much more right on the main screen, without even running anything discretely.
P.S., maybe I have the wrong weather applet installed in KDE. It's the one that says "powered by wetter.com". It's kind of hard to say which one I installed, becauser there is no "Help, About". It's the only one I happened to see without maybe going to a lot of trouble.
Not quite sure what you're on about. I was pretty careful not to put any hate whatsoever into the comment. I'm past anything like that, personally. I didn't (and don't) even recommend that no one else use it, or touch on any pros and cons. All I said is I am done with it. It is irrelevant to me.
It's not faith. It's necessity.
You could say this is quibbling, but you can't "keep contained" that which has been wildly uncontained for 3 years. The phrase does not make sense. Rather one should say "contain further release of contamination within specified boundaries, and specify what is to be done about the vast contamination which has alrteady escaped those boundaries, at least some of it to the 4 corners of the earth's oceans".
I don't care what happens with GNOME at this point. I will be using either KDE or Xfce. I have been GNOME free for long enough to know that I am not going back. I evaluated Xfce long enough to know that it is quite satisfactory, if not as perfect as GNOME2 was. Now I have been on KDE for five weeks. I have issues with the control over icon placement on desktop and taskbar, and the putrid weather applet - otherwise, absolutely no issues whatever.
I'm afraid the MATE DE is not yet good enough to live with. I evaluated it; it is very promising; I support the effort, but it's no replacement for GNOME2 yet. I'm not sure anything will ever be, but that's life. No car is anywhere near as perfect as the glorious 1978-1982 Audi 5000 either, and nothing has come along to equal the late Icom IC-R75.
Somebody give it to these bird brains. Their head is so far up their ass, they don't have a single clue what the internet can do to them. I just checked whois for gemasucks.com, and looks to me like it is available.
That old piece of paper circumscribes the governing law of the land. The Supreme Court absolutely is bound by it. In fact their authority comes from it and it is their solemn duty to interpret it and use it to throw out improper legislation.
Even if that weren't the case, I hold this particular old piece of paper penned by brilliant great men in much higher esteem than nine cynical bought and paid-for buffoons sitting in black robes shitting on the Republic.
Actually the Magna Carta is a lot older than the US Constitution, yet it is still considered one of the greatest constitutional documents of all time, and forms part of the uncodified constitution of that strange and wondeful society across the pond. Three important clauses are still statutorally in effect. The mechanisms in place for altering the US Constitution are much more formal and procedural, and every single word in the US Cinstitution that has not been formally amended is still the supreme authority.
To all those who would cavalierly tear up the Constitution, beware the wrath of patriots.
Distributism. Look it up.
Strontium 90 has a half-life of 30 years, genius. So if for example it's 100 times natural now, it will decay to 50x in 30 years, 25x in 60 years, 13x in 90 years, 6x in 120 years, 3x in 150 years, 1.6x in 180 years.
Cesium 137 has the same half-life: 30 years.
I suppose 180 years is "decades". Just as much as it is also "centuries".
Hell, a million years is 100,000 "decades".
Unnacountable industry? Industry is accountable to the law, idiot. Do you have a single thought in your head not planted there by propaganda?
And that's how you change minds. The more I learn about systemd and journald, the less my knee jerks against them.
Oh bullshit. Sockets (and named pipes and serial ports; heck, even anonymous pipes) are the best example of leveraging files. Sockets ARE files. Files with funny names, a necessarily special way to open, and what amount to a bunch of ioctls to tend to details. The main interaction is by read() and write(), exactly the same as files. Monitoring for data to appear is done by select(), the same as for any "file" whose input data shows up by "magic" - for example, serial ports.
Curses is highly successful as a text character presentation mechanism where you can do random access by talking to a file. It is self evident to me that you could do similar things for graphics.
Comments that actually make you THINK. Thank you.
Wake up. CO2 is not "pollution" by any rational reckoning. CO2 is plant food.
Abolish the unaccountable EPA[*] as it is presently constituted. If you want to set policy about how much of the people's money to throw away on various pie in the sky feel-good fantasies, do it through the people's representatives, as the constitution sets forth. If you want to guard against acts of selfish defiance in the form of real pollution as duly legislated by the people's representatives, keep a small part of the EPA, the activities that are legitimate, in the form of pollution police.
[*] Get rid of ALL governmental unelected and unaccountable authorities. I do not recognize any apparatchik as having arbitrary authority over the people.