A 100 GB drive would not have 100 users, it would be several thousand users due to whatever sort of redundant array the system would be running. Essentially, every hard disk on the array would be in constant use. Think about defragging your home hard drive for 23 out of 24 hours in a day. Due to the setup, the drives would be constantly read from and written to.
because as I said, the entire Raid-5 array, if done with cheap drives, will fail in about a week. Think about the disk access for just a moment. Also think about whether Google, a company with some of the brightest scientists, engineers, and others, would use a simple Raid-5 array to store their data. They write their own OS's, search algorithms, etc. Do you think they'd be using consumer level hard drives with a consumer level raid controller, to work with data at super enterprise level?
Umm, dude? And $80 hard drive would be shredded to pieces in less than a day by the abuse the drive would go under. Do you really think they pay less than $1000 per drive even with volume discounts? Then you have to talk about hot swap capabilities, then the number of live spares, then the cooling of these high performance drives, then.....
I'm thinking I'm going to patent the business practice of operating a data center off an iceberg. Ventilation? Cooling? All taken care of. Cluster processing? Just snag a few mor icebergs. And the land rental cost is probably rock bottom. And since not even the titanic could sink an iceberg, I'd say data security is probably pretty good too...
You can pick up used 2-4 GB hard drives for like, $10-15 at your local computer store. Considering the state of the laptop, anything used that was bought would probably last longer as well.
C'mon mods. This is not interesting or insightful. This is at best flamebait. If a Windows user replaced Window's (which by the way, is not punctuated correctly) with Linux, this would be marked flamebait.
At least don't let it get more points than it already has.
what happens when you take everything to the extreme? Anything relating to law, or regulations which govern how we interact with breaks down if you push it far enough. It's simple to avoid getting thrown in jail for recording a movie with a camera in a theatre...don't do it. Give a reason besides "backing" for recording a movie in a theatre with a cam.
Umm, dude, you don't have the right to take the camcorder to the theatre. You pay for a ticket...why? so you can watch the movie in a theatre. What you're saying is that we have the right to "backup" what we take in with our eyes? That's breaking copyright. Why do you think they don't want people taking pictures of some of the most famous paintings or things. Because it will devalue the item. The creator has exclusive rights to reproduce something IN ANY FORM. Sure you could start spouting the "fair use" policies. But really, who is actually recording a cam, so they can take it home and play it in their VCR? That could be argued fair use. But ANY cam work that is going on, is for the sole purpose of piracy.
Correction: You can always reuse a frisbee! I guess maybe that's the new business model?
1. Open up DVD "recyclying" depot 2. Collect tons of DVDs 3. Sell DVD's as "novelty flying discs" to prevent some sort of copyright infringement 4. Watch **AA cry because you're making money that they *could* have made. 5. ??? 6. Profit!!!
So much hype, yet so little reality. I guess it's just the cynic in me...but all these technologies are great, but they are worth nothing if they don't show themselves in a meaningful time frame.
Take CD burners for example. When they first came out (as WORM drives) it was all, "ooh, you have a drive that can WRITE cds! wow!! It took a decent bit of time as it progressed from the SCSI writers to the 1x then 2x then 4x IDE writers. When DVD writers came out, they were quite unique as well. Now only a short while later, grandma and grandpa have one on their pc they bought to send email to their grandkids.
Unless these new techs make a debut soon, it'll become old hat, and all energy that went into development will be useless. They'd be better off keeping these "proof of concept" techs in the confines of the test lab, till they are actually able to get this thing into production. (A la, Duke Nukem Forever, which if they just kept their mouth shut, wouldn't make them the laughing stock of the gaming industry).
Use DooM Remake...it's sweet. Has IP and server configs all built in. It's actually quite good. You can also revert to make it look and feel exactly like the old Doom. I like it.
I still wish I had my 486/100 sitting around (and functioning). No emulator or DOS alternative or cpu slowdown can compare to the real thing. I've tried DOSBox and VDM Sound, but they just still don't do it.
I don't think we will see a reduced price of drugs because there is still money to be had, and a good portion of these critical new drugs are just that...critical. People will pay whatever the drug companies charge for them. Call me cynical, but isn't that how so many things in fact ARE these days? I agree that "opensource" science is a cool idea and a good one. But I don't really see end user cost lowering appreciably.
I have put my email address into numerous websites for ecards, and never once have I gotten spam from that address that I use. I just setup an address which I use for posting on websites. That's all you do.
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Powdered plutonium is a serious carcinogen.
What was your first clue?
A 100 GB drive would not have 100 users, it would be several thousand users due to whatever sort of redundant array the system would be running. Essentially, every hard disk on the array would be in constant use. Think about defragging your home hard drive for 23 out of 24 hours in a day. Due to the setup, the drives would be constantly read from and written to.
because as I said, the entire Raid-5 array, if done with cheap drives, will fail in about a week. Think about the disk access for just a moment. Also think about whether Google, a company with some of the brightest scientists, engineers, and others, would use a simple Raid-5 array to store their data. They write their own OS's, search algorithms, etc. Do you think they'd be using consumer level hard drives with a consumer level raid controller, to work with data at super enterprise level?
Umm, dude? And $80 hard drive would be shredded to pieces in less than a day by the abuse the drive would go under. Do you really think they pay less than $1000 per drive even with volume discounts? Then you have to talk about hot swap capabilities, then the number of live spares, then the cooling of these high performance drives, then.....
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I'm thinking I'm going to patent the business practice of operating a data center off an iceberg. Ventilation? Cooling? All taken care of. Cluster processing? Just snag a few mor icebergs. And the land rental cost is probably rock bottom. And since not even the titanic could sink an iceberg, I'd say data security is probably pretty good too...
You can pick up used 2-4 GB hard drives for like, $10-15 at your local computer store. Considering the state of the laptop, anything used that was bought would probably last longer as well.
C'mon mods. This is not interesting or insightful. This is at best flamebait. If a Windows user replaced Window's (which by the way, is not punctuated correctly) with Linux, this would be marked flamebait.
At least don't let it get more points than it already has.
what happens when you take everything to the extreme? Anything relating to law, or regulations which govern how we interact with breaks down if you push it far enough. It's simple to avoid getting thrown in jail for recording a movie with a camera in a theatre...don't do it. Give a reason besides "backing" for recording a movie in a theatre with a cam.
Umm, dude, you don't have the right to take the camcorder to the theatre. You pay for a ticket...why? so you can watch the movie in a theatre. What you're saying is that we have the right to "backup" what we take in with our eyes? That's breaking copyright. Why do you think they don't want people taking pictures of some of the most famous paintings or things. Because it will devalue the item. The creator has exclusive rights to reproduce something IN ANY FORM. Sure you could start spouting the "fair use" policies. But really, who is actually recording a cam, so they can take it home and play it in their VCR? That could be argued fair use. But ANY cam work that is going on, is for the sole purpose of piracy.
My understanding of "obsolete" is that if it's "plain jane" as compared to others, it's already obsolete.
Correction: You can always reuse a frisbee! I guess maybe that's the new business model?
1. Open up DVD "recyclying" depot
2. Collect tons of DVDs
3. Sell DVD's as "novelty flying discs" to prevent some sort of copyright infringement
4. Watch **AA cry because you're making money that they *could* have made.
5. ???
6. Profit!!!
Aren't viruses created and implemented rather than just being discovered wrecking havoc on phones?
So much hype, yet so little reality. I guess it's just the cynic in me...but all these technologies are great, but they are worth nothing if they don't show themselves in a meaningful time frame.
Take CD burners for example. When they first came out (as WORM drives) it was all, "ooh, you have a drive that can WRITE cds! wow!! It took a decent bit of time as it progressed from the SCSI writers to the 1x then 2x then 4x IDE writers. When DVD writers came out, they were quite unique as well. Now only a short while later, grandma and grandpa have one on their pc they bought to send email to their grandkids.
Unless these new techs make a debut soon, it'll become old hat, and all energy that went into development will be useless. They'd be better off keeping these "proof of concept" techs in the confines of the test lab, till they are actually able to get this thing into production. (A la, Duke Nukem Forever, which if they just kept their mouth shut, wouldn't make them the laughing stock of the gaming industry).
My 2 bits.
who couldn't post a link correctly? Check your links before you post sparky.
You mean one percent?
since 12Mbps > 11Mbps
Damn it! I've had it backwards all along!
Um dude...read my post BIOS. If the bios cannot detect the hardware, then it doesn't matter what software you use, you're fubar'd.
Use DooM Remake...it's sweet. Has IP and server configs all built in. It's actually quite good. You can also revert to make it look and feel exactly like the old Doom. I like it.
the didn't have many drives over 512 MB...the bios couldn't support them....nevermind 60 gigs.
That a DEC PC Lpx 486/66 dx2??
I still wish I had my 486/100 sitting around (and functioning). No emulator or DOS alternative or cpu slowdown can compare to the real thing. I've tried DOSBox and VDM Sound, but they just still don't do it.
I don't think we will see a reduced price of drugs because there is still money to be had, and a good portion of these critical new drugs are just that...critical. People will pay whatever the drug companies charge for them. Call me cynical, but isn't that how so many things in fact ARE these days? I agree that "opensource" science is a cool idea and a good one. But I don't really see end user cost lowering appreciably.
You COULD just unplug all your hard drives if you want to take it that far.
Wow, a Linux brand laptop? that's pretty cool. Where can I get one? Oh wait, you mean a laptop with Linux installed? Oh I get it....
I have put my email address into numerous websites for ecards, and never once have I gotten spam from that address that I use. I just setup an address which I use for posting on websites. That's all you do.