"80 mpg for the first 20 miles is great for the stay at home mom that drive to the store or around a little bit. the majority of the american public lives more than that from work."
Fine. 80mpg for the first 20 miles and 40 mpg for the second 20 miles. Total: 60mpg for 40 miles. That's still pretty darn good.
Again, from the freaking article: "Armed with a 64-bit memory controller and DDR200 memory, the i-RAM should be capable of transferring data at up to 1.6GB/s to the Xilinx chip; however, the actual transfer rate to your system is bottlenecked by the SATA bus. The i-RAM currently implements the SATA150 spec, giving it a maximum transfer rate of 150MB/s."
Someone please explain what's going on here?? Did the person that wrote the description EVEN READ THE FRICKIN ARTICLE?? 150MB/s is no where near 6x faster! Modern SATA drives easily get 80MB/s, so how is 150MB/s "up to 6x faster"??
IMHO this seems to be the biggest waste of money ever. For much cheaper I could RAID 0 two SATA drives and get the same transfer rate and have 100x more storage.
Even the article proves it:
Game Level Load Time Comparison (Lower is Better)
_________________Splinter Cell: CT___Doom 3___Battlefield 2
Gigabyte i-RAM (4GB)_______8.0s__19.6s__20.83s
Western Digital Raptor (74GB) 10.59s__25.78s__25.67s
wow, so for $500+ I can load Battlefield 2 five seconds faster?!? Yeah, that's worth it:rollseyes:
it's a shame it's not actually $100 for the whole unit
Actually I don't know where they even got $100 from because the article says: "Gigabyte has told us that the initial production run of the i-RAM will only be a quantity of 1000 cards, available in the month of August, at a street price of around $150. "
OH, and did anyone notice the price does not include RAM? So you're paying $150 for a card that can accept up to 4GBnot"$100 for a 4GB Solid State Drive ".
That's got to be the most misleading quote ever on a/. article description since u'll spend closer to $500+ for the card and four 1GB DIMMS
"Unless Telus is a monopoly or part of the government they can block access to whatever they want. A freedom of expression doesn't give you a right to be heard. "
I'm pretty sure ur wrong. If the phone company employees were on strike could the phone company block access to union phone lines? I'm thinking no. This is similar.
"Telus should be able to provide or not provide access to websites as they wish, unless they've agreed otherwise with their customers (or have been given a monopoly by the government). So no, I wouldn't say it's open shut.
exactly!!! Comcast should block all access to Yahoo (since they're partners with SBC/Yahoo DSL), Charter, and all the other broadband providers out there. In fact a search of google should just return on links back to Comcast!!
satelite TV providers should block commericals for competitors and cable, instead replaying them with other commercials.
Just like when I pick up my cellphone and call another cellphone service they should interrupt and disconnect the line... or better yet not let the call go thru at all.
This is great!! I hate having the freedom to go to whatever website I want, i'd much rather pay someone tell me what websites I get to go to.
"I can just imagine the look on people's faces when the article submitter, an IT Manager, goes to the staff and suggests gmail as a solution."
Oh you mean the IT Manager / LIFEGUARD. Yeah, i'm sooooo sure they take him seriously now...
Some of us have these things called a J O B. At most jobs, 2GB is NOT enough space to backup all the core systems.
I'm guessing you missed the whole paragraph where I explained that a 2 gigabyte upload would take about 24 hours over a standard 256 kbps upload? So unless they're shelling out serious money to get a real connection (and they're not willing to shell out money to get a real IT guy so I doubt they're gonna spend $$$$ on a real connection) even 2 gigabytes is too much to transfer.
people download movies on their broadband connections and forget how freaking slow the upload is. You can't upload at the same speed you download!! Just cuz u have 3mbps down and downloaded two CDs in a hour (1350 MByte) doesn't mean you can upload the same two CDs in a hour, it'll take over 11 hours.
also recall we're talking about a "small private club". "Small" being the optimum word here. They should be able to live on a 2 gigabyte backup of the most important records.
Don't like my solution? Fine. Either shell out extra $$$ for a real connection then more $$$ for a online storage solution or.... snail mail.
Yeah u heard me. Mail the data.
Get a 20 gigabyte backup (or 40, or 100, whatever) and send it media mail to a family member or something every other day. Media mail is cheap, like 50 cents. At 256kbps upload it would take over a week straight of uploading just to send 20 gigabytes, send it media mail and the same 20 gigabytes would get there faster. It's cheap, only need the tape drive and tapes, so you dont need to pay for a online backup solution or faster internet connection every month, and you can password protect it, and even if someone did get the tape they'd have to have a tape drive to read it anyway.
this might seem like a good idea, but if they're not using their muscles anymore and this thing does all the work what happens when they take this machine off? Or do they become so dependent on it they can't function without it?
nice..... let's get them hooked on crack while we're at it.
here's another idea. How about they get back in the gym and work on the muscles they already have. Sure they'll never win a strong man competition but at least they can get out of bed without robotic legs.
screw a online backup company, just email it to gmail. Setup your PC to backup to a file every night then email that to your gmail account. 2gB is plenty of space, anything more and it'd take way too long to transfer.
for example say you have a 56 kByte (not bit) sec upload. That's 200 mByte a hour, or 2gB every 10 hours, so basically overnight.
Most broadband providers only offer 256kbps uploads which is only 32 kB/sec, far slower than the 56 kB/sec I'm using in my example, only 1.1gB in 10 hours. There's faster upload speeds of course but they cost much more.
Hardest part will be convincing everyone to put their files in a space small enough that you only need 2gB of space. Files seem to be placed ad-hoc all over the hard drive. Windows should impliment some sort of "backup" folders with priority of backup, so like child's pics are one level of backup, scans of important docs another, programs i stayed up all nite writing are top backup priority, etc.
Tired of everything defaulting to "My Docs" and having a 6 gig My Docs folder.
"the trend of auto is going towards hybride which happen to have 5000-15000watt generators built in. Maybe they're going to be practical after all."
yeah, but that's to power the car, not a 850 watt A/C unit (170 watts each X 5)
"It would be interesting to have them installed in a vehicle with a roof covered in solar cells. They could left on to keep things from heating too much while you were gone."
oh!! I forgot to add, those amp numbers for the alternators are maximum amp, meaning high rpms put out those numbers. When you're just cruising town you wont even be putting out 100amps, so your car will die within minutes of driving with these peltiers running. Can you use weaker peltiers? Course you can! But they wont cool as well, there is no "magic peltier" that proves sub-zero temps while sucking only 1 amp or something.
In closing this is the most worthless invention ever.
"Assuming "ebay chips" are, say, 5% efficiency, we're looking at an overall system efficiency of 1-2%. Yeah, great way to save gas."
exactly. A quick search of ebay turns up several $10 peltiers, sucking down 170 watts each. That's ~14 amps each (170w divide 12 volts). Another search of ebay shows that car alternators are usually 100 to 160 amps, with 160amps being "high output" and 100 being closer to the norm. That's 100 amps to run the entire car, from radio to headlights to... well, you get the idea, in addition to charging up the car battery. Some alternators go as low as
This little "invention" (which i use losely, since all they did is reinvent the wheel) "blows hot air through five Peltier chips". That's 5 Peltiers each pulling 14+ amps each, so u got 70 amps of the car's total 100 amp alternator powering the peltiers!
So now you get to decide if you want headlights or A/C. Oh and don't forget you wont be able to start your car since these will drain your 600amp battery in no time, and with the alternator constantly powering the peltiers it sure wont be charging the battery. Everytime you turn on the headlights, radio and A/C at the same time you're sucking battery power. Carry jumper cables with you!
Obviously whoever judged the constest knows very little about peltiers.
"Obviously, if you live off campus you can enter into whatever type of Internet service contract you desire. I think the one I was using last year had a bandwidth cap but I never ran up against it."
I just hope they don't automatically charge students for the stupid mp3s.
STUDENT: What's this "music usage" fee?? CASHIER'S OFFICE: Oh, that's so you can download music from the school's servers STUDENT: But i dont want to download music from the school's servers, i got other sources CASHIER'S OFFICE: Oh, well, sorry, everyone has to pay STUDENT: WTF?? What about this "multipurpose building fee" CASHIER'S OFFICE: That's the gym STUDENT: I don't use the gym CASHIER'S OFFICE: Doesn't matter, you still have to pay STUDENT: !!#$%@#$~$@%&&#
"You mean the free internet I'm getting from my neighbors isn't legal?:("
When I first read the post I thought it was saying the owner of the wifi network was arrested. After all, isn't sharing your internet connection like sharing your cable TV, phone, etc with all your neighbors? If I paid for cable TV service then ran lines all over the neighborhood don't you think the cable company would have a small problem with that? So why do they allow people to share internet with neighbors?
"I didn't read the article, but most things are OK on modetate doses."
you're exactly right. From the article: "But many scientists believe that "safe sun" 15 minutes or so a few times a week without sunscreen is not only possible but helpful to health."
Problem with articles like this is suddenly it'll show up in every tanning bed place saying "oh ABC News said tanning is great pay us $50 a month for a tan!
i realllllly wish they'd just come right out and say "everything we said was bad for you is actually good for you in small doses"
they're referrencing an obscure "song" that came out a few years ago (late 90ish) that was really a poem put to music. See if this jars your memory:
"If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now.
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
Oh, never mind.
You will not understand the power
and beauty of your youth until they've faded.
But trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of
yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much
possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked.
You are not as fat as you imagine."
and etc....
if you graduated in the late 90s chances are you probably would have heard this song since it was suppose to sound someone like a graduation commencement address.
You're one of those hippies aint ya? When someone says "why do you use Linux when 95% of the world uses Windows?" you give an answer like "Microsoft is evil and I've never forgiven them!" Choose the best and most cost effective product. Don't judge the company that makes it. Otherwise you're just fucking up the system. Instead of the most superior products being on the shelves we'll have substandard products dominating the market share because the people who make them care about the environment or share some other wacky political ideal with the boycotting public.
"Our results on the ATI X800 XT and NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GPUs indicate better performance in comparison to the qsort routine on a 3.4 GHz Pentium IV PC....Note that in both cases, GPUSort performs considerably faster."
suddenly paying $250 for a video card doesnt seem like such a bad deal...
"In the Norse sagas, it is said that Eiríkur Rauði (Erik the Red) was exiled from Iceland for murder. He, along with his family and slaves, set out in ships to find the land that was rumoured to be to the north-west. After settling there, he named the land Greenland in order to attract more people to settle there."
"The laws prohibiting marijuana were lobbied for in the 20's and 30's by "yellow journalists". These were newspaper men who sold large quanitites of newspapers and had large stakes in wood pulp based newsprint. Hemp newsprint was cheaper to produce and did not suffer the yellowing that wood pulp newsprint suffered."
William Randolph Hearst is the reason hemp isn't used for newspaper. "He was instrumental in publicizing and orchestrating a 1937 oil-and-timber-industry-led media campaign to discredit hemp (an inexpensive petroleum and paper substitute) and marijuana, which led within months to the drug and the plant being outlawed in the United States. Hearst himself reputedly profited due to his interests in the pulp-and-paper business."
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wow, do you just love when they talk about great new technology, and then a year later it's still just talk?
Fine. 80mpg for the first 20 miles and 40 mpg for the second 20 miles. Total: 60mpg for 40 miles. That's still pretty darn good.
that doesn't sound like the Microsoft I've come to know and love...
OK WTF??
Again, from the freaking article:
"Armed with a 64-bit memory controller and DDR200 memory, the i-RAM should be capable of transferring data at up to 1.6GB/s to the Xilinx chip; however, the actual transfer rate to your system is bottlenecked by the SATA bus. The i-RAM currently implements the SATA150 spec, giving it a maximum transfer rate of 150MB/s."
Someone please explain what's going on here?? Did the person that wrote the description EVEN READ THE FRICKIN ARTICLE?? 150MB/s is no where near 6x faster! Modern SATA drives easily get 80MB/s, so how is 150MB/s "up to 6x faster"??
IMHO this seems to be the biggest waste of money ever. For much cheaper I could RAID 0 two SATA drives and get the same transfer rate and have 100x more storage.
Even the article proves it:
Game Level Load Time Comparison (Lower is Better)
_________________Splinter Cell: CT___Doom 3___Battlefield 2
Gigabyte i-RAM (4GB)_______8.0s__19.6s__20.83s
Western Digital Raptor (74GB) 10.59s__25.78s__25.67s
wow, so for $500+ I can load Battlefield 2 five seconds faster?!? Yeah, that's worth it :rollseyes:
Actually I don't know where they even got $100 from because the article says:
"Gigabyte has told us that the initial production run of the i-RAM will only be a quantity of 1000 cards, available in the month of August, at a street price of around $150. "
OH, and did anyone notice the price does not include RAM? So you're paying $150 for a card that can accept up to 4GB not "$100 for a 4GB Solid State Drive ".
That's got to be the most misleading quote ever on a /. article description since u'll spend closer to $500+ for the card and four 1GB DIMMS
just my opinion, but i think the REPLY ALL button should be buried somewhere.
putting REPLY next to REPLY ALL is like putting DELETE next to FORMAT HARD DRIVE. Not the smartest decision IMHO.
I've noticed this in other programs and windows itself but I'm told it's not a flaw, it's a feature :D
I'm pretty sure ur wrong. If the phone company employees were on strike could the phone company block access to union phone lines? I'm thinking no. This is similar.
exactly!!! Comcast should block all access to Yahoo (since they're partners with SBC/Yahoo DSL), Charter, and all the other broadband providers out there. In fact a search of google should just return on links back to Comcast!!
satelite TV providers should block commericals for competitors and cable, instead replaying them with other commercials.
Just like when I pick up my cellphone and call another cellphone service they should interrupt and disconnect the line... or better yet not let the call go thru at all.
This is great!! I hate having the freedom to go to whatever website I want, i'd much rather pay someone tell me what websites I get to go to.
Oh you mean the IT Manager / LIFEGUARD. Yeah, i'm sooooo sure they take him seriously now...
Some of us have these things called a J O B. At most jobs, 2GB is NOT enough space to backup all the core systems.
I'm guessing you missed the whole paragraph where I explained that a 2 gigabyte upload would take about 24 hours over a standard 256 kbps upload? So unless they're shelling out serious money to get a real connection (and they're not willing to shell out money to get a real IT guy so I doubt they're gonna spend $$$$ on a real connection) even 2 gigabytes is too much to transfer.
people download movies on their broadband connections and forget how freaking slow the upload is. You can't upload at the same speed you download!! Just cuz u have 3mbps down and downloaded two CDs in a hour (1350 MByte) doesn't mean you can upload the same two CDs in a hour, it'll take over 11 hours.
also recall we're talking about a "small private club". "Small" being the optimum word here. They should be able to live on a 2 gigabyte backup of the most important records.
Don't like my solution? Fine. Either shell out extra $$$ for a real connection then more $$$ for a online storage solution or.... snail mail.
Yeah u heard me. Mail the data.
Get a 20 gigabyte backup (or 40, or 100, whatever) and send it media mail to a family member or something every other day. Media mail is cheap, like 50 cents. At 256kbps upload it would take over a week straight of uploading just to send 20 gigabytes, send it media mail and the same 20 gigabytes would get there faster. It's cheap, only need the tape drive and tapes, so you dont need to pay for a online backup solution or faster internet connection every month, and you can password protect it, and even if someone did get the tape they'd have to have a tape drive to read it anyway.
nice..... let's get them hooked on crack while we're at it.
here's another idea. How about they get back in the gym and work on the muscles they already have. Sure they'll never win a strong man competition but at least they can get out of bed without robotic legs.
for example say you have a 56 kByte (not bit) sec upload. That's 200 mByte a hour, or 2gB every 10 hours, so basically overnight.
Most broadband providers only offer 256kbps uploads which is only 32 kB/sec, far slower than the 56 kB/sec I'm using in my example, only 1.1gB in 10 hours. There's faster upload speeds of course but they cost much more.
Hardest part will be convincing everyone to put their files in a space small enough that you only need 2gB of space. Files seem to be placed ad-hoc all over the hard drive. Windows should impliment some sort of "backup" folders with priority of backup, so like child's pics are one level of backup, scans of important docs another, programs i stayed up all nite writing are top backup priority, etc.
Tired of everything defaulting to "My Docs" and having a 6 gig My Docs folder.
wives and cousins dont count... unless they're 2nd cousins...
yeah, but that's to power the car, not a 850 watt A/C unit (170 watts each X 5)
"It would be interesting to have them installed in a vehicle with a roof covered in solar cells. They could left on to keep things from heating too much while you were gone."
yeah sure, cuz I could strap 850 watts worth of solar cells on my roof :rollseyes:
"A Siemens 610mm x 1321mm panel will produce 110W...weighs 25 pounds (11Kgs) and costs US$634 for 12V production".
So I just need $5000 worth of solar cells, not to mention a roof the size of half a basketball court, oh and dont forget the 200 lbs they'll weigh...
In closing this is the most worthless invention ever.
exactly. A quick search of ebay turns up several $10 peltiers, sucking down 170 watts each. That's ~14 amps each (170w divide 12 volts). Another search of ebay shows that car alternators are usually 100 to 160 amps, with 160amps being "high output" and 100 being closer to the norm. That's 100 amps to run the entire car, from radio to headlights to... well, you get the idea, in addition to charging up the car battery. Some alternators go as low as
This little "invention" (which i use losely, since all they did is reinvent the wheel) "blows hot air through five Peltier chips". That's 5 Peltiers each pulling 14+ amps each, so u got 70 amps of the car's total 100 amp alternator powering the peltiers! So now you get to decide if you want headlights or A/C. Oh and don't forget you wont be able to start your car since these will drain your 600amp battery in no time, and with the alternator constantly powering the peltiers it sure wont be charging the battery. Everytime you turn on the headlights, radio and A/C at the same time you're sucking battery power. Carry jumper cables with you!
Obviously whoever judged the constest knows very little about peltiers.
$10!!
she's be demoted to just "girl"
I just hope they don't automatically charge students for the stupid mp3s.
STUDENT: What's this "music usage" fee??
CASHIER'S OFFICE: Oh, that's so you can download music from the school's servers
STUDENT: But i dont want to download music from the school's servers, i got other sources
CASHIER'S OFFICE: Oh, well, sorry, everyone has to pay
STUDENT: WTF?? What about this "multipurpose building fee"
CASHIER'S OFFICE: That's the gym
STUDENT: I don't use the gym
CASHIER'S OFFICE: Doesn't matter, you still have to pay
STUDENT: !!#$%@#$~$@%&&#
damn universities...
When I first read the post I thought it was saying the owner of the wifi network was arrested. After all, isn't sharing your internet connection like sharing your cable TV, phone, etc with all your neighbors? If I paid for cable TV service then ran lines all over the neighborhood don't you think the cable company would have a small problem with that? So why do they allow people to share internet with neighbors?
you're exactly right. From the article:
"But many scientists believe that "safe sun" 15 minutes or so a few times a week without sunscreen is not only possible but helpful to health."
Problem with articles like this is suddenly it'll show up in every tanning bed place saying "oh ABC News said tanning is great pay us $50 a month for a tan!
i realllllly wish they'd just come right out and say "everything we said was bad for you is actually good for you in small doses"
"If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now.
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
Oh, never mind.
You will not understand the power
and beauty of your youth until they've faded.
But trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of
yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much
possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked.
You are not as fat as you imagine."
and etc....
if you graduated in the late 90s chances are you probably would have heard this song since it was suppose to sound someone like a graduation commencement address.
You're one of those hippies aint ya? When someone says "why do you use Linux when 95% of the world uses Windows?" you give an answer like " Microsoft is evil and I've never forgiven them!" Choose the best and most cost effective product. Don't judge the company that makes it. Otherwise you're just fucking up the system. Instead of the most superior products being on the shelves we'll have substandard products dominating the market share because the people who make them care about the environment or share some other wacky political ideal with the boycotting public.
suddenly paying $250 for a video card doesnt seem like such a bad deal...
Looks like we have a new videocard benchmark too.
um.... not exactly.
Actually not even close.
"In the Norse sagas, it is said that Eiríkur Rauði (Erik the Red) was exiled from Iceland for murder. He, along with his family and slaves, set out in ships to find the land that was rumoured to be to the north-west. After settling there, he named the land Greenland in order to attract more people to settle there."
You might want to mention that "yellow journalists" has nothing to do the yellowing of the wood pulp. It's used to refer to sensationalized newspaper articles
William Randolph Hearst is the reason hemp isn't used for newspaper. "He was instrumental in publicizing and orchestrating a 1937 oil-and-timber-industry-led media campaign to discredit hemp (an inexpensive petroleum and paper substitute) and marijuana, which led within months to the drug and the plant being outlawed in the United States. Hearst himself reputedly profited due to his interests in the pulp-and-paper business."
The power of newspaper...