It's a flash drive. A 'real' SSD is box of high speed ram backedup with its own power supply and battery. It runs a little slower than RAM speed, accounting for error checking, redundancy and formatting. Flash is NON VOLATILE, SSD is not. Non volatile memory is far slower by its very design.
My Epson C86 is a wonderful desktop inkjet. Discount ink is $10 for extra capacity black and $8 for each of the other 3 colors. A new C88 is about $80 retail at Staples.
Does it scan? No Does it scan pictures? No Does it print w/o a computer? No
And when it breaks I toss it out and get another one.
Johnston county, NC routinely stopped average scoring kids from taking the SATs and applying to college. A few schools worked actively to get rid of low performing students completely. This was done in an effort to boost scores in order to pump up property values for the real estate market
Oh ok that works for me too. As long as some half assed, let's strap some servers on this bitch, THIS NATIONAL FUCKING PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, you know, cause, well, whatever, we didn't think that only having half of eligible voters show up was going to twist our server farm into the ground. Hey why don't we grab those boxes over there. Yeah those RNC hosts, WTF. Yeah those controls are good enough.
At least in Nigeria they just get a guy with a gun to take the ballot box and drive away with it, because well, you know, they gotta get transported and shit.
Seems to me the fact that it's not a desktop isn't an obstacle. It just has to communicate with *some* of your desktop-ish apps. Tell you what - give me a phone, ANY phone that capture my address book, group calendar, support a VPN tunnel to my corporate net, run a browser and send receive email, SMS, IM and of course be a phone and allow me to use them while I'm on a call w/o having to write down things on little scraps of paper then I'll take a serious look at it.
And in the last 11 years I have replaced a battery exactly one time instead of replacing or upgrading the phone.
Farmers running their bulldozers into McDonalds? Flaming cars? No? Then it's of no consequence. To the French, a catastrophe is when you personally are inconvenienced 30 seconds and everyone else is dropping dead.
Yeah let's make sure my mother's metal hip is completely checked out at the airport. Plans? pfffft, didn't anyone tell you that fuuriners kaint read? We deserve to get blown up at this point.
If there was a way to lock in 50% of that performance for encryption and malware scanning and all the other security gorp that's killing us, that would be great.
Please don't dump it into another golly geewhizbang video or multimedia processor subfunction on the chip.
We assume that there is no security and no privacy therefore the only sane thing to do is force anyone to prove it is you who is you in order to collect moneys, rights or some other thing from you.
There are lots of progs that wipe your disk to this Dept of Defense standard. If it doesn't work then advertise that fact that the US government is using an insecure data protection standard.
They all go boom. They always do. Why? Because at the end of the day they're all Intel COMPATIBLE not the other way around. Intel will occasionally falter and their architecture may run out of gas like the P4 but at best all any of the other companies can be is faster or cheaper following the compatibility lead of Intel. Dual or Quad core is a technical workaround for heat and power problems that brought the P4 to a screeching melting halt. AMD can only be a faster cheaper version of that. The other companies like VIA decided to build in the opposite direction and instead of competing against Intel they're building smaller slower chips that run cold with little power.
Working god awful hours was fine 10 years ago when they were shoveling money at people. But between a decade of wage stagnation, job cuts and off shoring, what is the goddamn point any more? Who needs it? Regardless of what automation tools they give you the support ratios keep climbing anyhow. They demand 10% 'efficiency' off the top automatically year over year before they even mention 'cost challenge'. Turnover is way way up and anyone who sticks around for 4 years will have trained several generations of people.
Again, as it relates to iPod, not so much. If anything, the iPod software notices are so vague as to be useless. Perhaps, as I said, their other docs are better. I sure hope so. Whether they release bundles or they dribble it out makes little difference to me.
One problem I have with Apple is that their change logs and what's new on releases and patches are poorly documented if ever. iPod is a good example. I guess you're supposed to apply the 'don't fix it if it ain't broke' approach which is good. But then why does iTunes constantly remind me of available updates? In either case I hope Apple documents their fixes on the computer side a little better. That way I can decide if I need to fix them.
And as for the MS ObiWan Kenfanboys, just because MS has a constant stream of fixes, doesn't make them better. I just saw 6 patches for code I don't use. That it's imperative for the people who do run it to apply these fixes means nothing to me. But chalk it up to at least documenting it so I don't waste time with them.
Do I care how its cheaper? Already in many large companies Pitney Bowes has some kind of volume printing deal where they own and operate the devices out on the floor. Beats the hell out of device support on my dime every time something goes wrong with these fragile mechanical devices.
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It's a flash drive. A 'real' SSD is box of high speed ram backedup with its own power supply and battery. It runs a little slower than RAM speed, accounting for error checking, redundancy and formatting. Flash is NON VOLATILE, SSD is not. Non volatile memory is far slower by its very design.
My Epson C86 is a wonderful desktop inkjet. Discount ink is $10 for extra capacity black and $8 for each of the other 3 colors. A new C88 is about $80 retail at Staples.
Does it scan? No
Does it scan pictures? No
Does it print w/o a computer? No
And when it breaks I toss it out and get another one.
Faster than the PCI bus? Seems like they need another way to plug it into the mainframe.
isn't it?
Johnston county, NC routinely stopped average scoring kids from taking the SATs and applying to college. A few schools worked actively to get rid of low performing students completely. This was done in an effort to boost scores in order to pump up property values for the real estate market
Good. I'd thought they'd have to take a legal or ethical stand on something. Had me worried there.
and make contact in Bozeman, MT?
I'm not sure you folks actually understand that. Maybe you get the government you deserve, or the one you have the attention span for, at any rate.
Oh ok that works for me too. As long as some half assed, let's strap some servers on this bitch, THIS NATIONAL FUCKING PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, you know, cause, well, whatever, we didn't think that only having half of eligible voters show up was going to twist our server farm into the ground. Hey why don't we grab those boxes over there. Yeah those RNC hosts, WTF. Yeah those controls are good enough.
At least in Nigeria they just get a guy with a gun to take the ballot box and drive away with it, because well, you know, they gotta get transported and shit.
Seems to me the fact that it's not a desktop isn't an obstacle. It just has to communicate with *some* of your desktop-ish apps. Tell you what - give me a phone, ANY phone that capture my address book, group calendar, support a VPN tunnel to my corporate net, run a browser and send receive email, SMS, IM and of course be a phone and allow me to use them while I'm on a call w/o having to write down things on little scraps of paper then I'll take a serious look at it.
And in the last 11 years I have replaced a battery exactly one time instead of replacing or upgrading the phone.
This is like Sinclair Lewis' "The Jungle".
Farmers running their bulldozers into McDonalds? Flaming cars? No? Then it's of no consequence. To the French, a catastrophe is when you personally are inconvenienced 30 seconds and everyone else is dropping dead.
Yeah let's make sure my mother's metal hip is completely checked out at the airport. Plans? pfffft, didn't anyone tell you that fuuriners kaint read? We deserve to get blown up at this point.
If there was a way to lock in 50% of that performance for encryption and malware scanning and all the other security gorp that's killing us, that would be great.
Please don't dump it into another golly geewhizbang video or multimedia processor subfunction on the chip.
We assume that there is no security and no privacy therefore the only sane thing to do is force anyone to prove it is you who is you in order to collect moneys, rights or some other thing from you.
There are lots of progs that wipe your disk to this Dept of Defense standard. If it doesn't work then advertise that fact that the US government is using an insecure data protection standard.
They all go boom. They always do. Why? Because at the end of the day they're all Intel COMPATIBLE not the other way around. Intel will occasionally falter and their architecture may run out of gas like the P4 but at best all any of the other companies can be is faster or cheaper following the compatibility lead of Intel. Dual or Quad core is a technical workaround for heat and power problems that brought the P4 to a screeching melting halt. AMD can only be a faster cheaper version of that. The other companies like VIA decided to build in the opposite direction and instead of competing against Intel they're building smaller slower chips that run cold with little power.
Working god awful hours was fine 10 years ago when they were shoveling money at people. But between a decade of wage stagnation, job cuts and off shoring, what is the goddamn point any more? Who needs it? Regardless of what automation tools they give you the support ratios keep climbing anyhow. They demand 10% 'efficiency' off the top automatically year over year before they even mention 'cost challenge'. Turnover is way way up and anyone who sticks around for 4 years will have trained several generations of people.
Again, as it relates to iPod, not so much. If anything, the iPod software notices are so vague as to be useless. Perhaps, as I said, their other docs are better. I sure hope so. Whether they release bundles or they dribble it out makes little difference to me.
One problem I have with Apple is that their change logs and what's new on releases and patches are poorly documented if ever. iPod is a good example. I guess you're supposed to apply the 'don't fix it if it ain't broke' approach which is good. But then why does iTunes constantly remind me of available updates? In either case I hope Apple documents their fixes on the computer side a little better. That way I can decide if I need to fix them.
And as for the MS ObiWan Kenfanboys, just because MS has a constant stream of fixes, doesn't make them better. I just saw 6 patches for code I don't use. That it's imperative for the people who do run it to apply these fixes means nothing to me. But chalk it up to at least documenting it so I don't waste time with them.
Which is fine too. It's not as if anything operates at higher than a C+ grade anyway.
So what. I'd rather have an SLA than the least talented support guy in my own organization getting around to it on a best effort basis.
NO it's on. RIAA will eventually reap what they sow with this bullshit and someone is getting shot from a rooftop somewhere.
Do I care how its cheaper? Already in many large companies Pitney Bowes has some kind of volume printing deal where they own and operate the devices out on the floor. Beats the hell out of device support on my dime every time something goes wrong with these fragile mechanical devices.