They're not the only ones pulling numbers out of their ass. You also seem to be too, unless you're finding the absolutely most expensive drive in any given capacity class.
Those were actual prices extracted from a Google Product Search. Actual prices being charged on the web. The search term was "solid-state drive". However, I did take the search results at face value; some of those drives may have come with superb service plans good for the duration of the copyright of anything recorded on them, or only sold to government contractors AFAIK.
For example, the 80GB Intel X25-M runs around $380, so is better than any of the prices you pulled up.
Which is still 47.5 times more expensive in GB/$ than current (albeit consumer level) 1 TB drives. So you've gotten closer to the 3-factor while I sought to find something close to the 3000-factor.
Perhaps we have enough data to reverse engineer their bang-for-buck target value now?
It wouldn't be the first time somebody got +5 for linking to goatsem im just waiting for the editors to let it slip into a summary.
If the AP believes so strongly that aggregation steals their content instead of drives more visitors to them, they may yet resort to using Referrer headers to make off-site links to their stories redirect to goatse.
Besides, I think British English is more corrupt than American English, innit?
Eh, snooker or pool, it's all about the spin.
Flamebait? Perhaps the joke was too subtle? Here's a definition list which should help with the many levels of humor (or humour) that was being attempted.
pool(2)
7. Any of several games played on a six-pocket billiards table usually with 15 object balls and a cue ball. Also called pocket billiards.
snooker
1. a variety of pool played with 15 red balls and 6 balls of colors other than red, in which a player must shoot one of the red balls, each with a point value of 1, into a pocket before shooting at one of the other balls, with point values of from 2 to 7.
2. Slang. to deceive, cheat, or dupe: to be snookered by a mail order company.
1889, the game and the word said to have been invented in India by British officers as a diversion from billiards. The name is perhaps an allusion (with reference to the rawness of play by a fellow officer) to British slang snooker "newly joined cadet" (1872). Tradition ascribes the coinage to Col. Sir Neville Chamberlain (not the later prime minister of the same name), at the time subaltern in the Devonshire Regiment in Jubbulpore. The verb meaning "to cheat" is from early 1900s, probably because novices can be easily tricked in the game.
English
4. the Germanic language of the British Isles, widespread and standard also in the U.S. and most of the British Commonwealth, historically termed Old English (c450-c1150), Middle English (c1150-c1475), and Modern English (after c1475). Abbreviation: E
8. Sports. (sometimes lowercase)
a. a spinning motion imparted to a ball, esp. in billiards.
spin
4. to cause to turn around rapidly, as on an axis; twirl; whirl: to spin a coin on a table.
11. Slang. to cause to have a particular bias; influence in a certain direction: His assignment was to spin the reporters after the president's speech.
And lastly, to put english (spin) on a ball corrupts (alters) its course. Similarly, spinning a speech alters and corrupts its intended meaning.
I have a question for the neuroscientists however... what's so critically important about this work, to demand the enormous resources being sunk into this?
Do you want your ISP and potential unknown/unaccountable parties to be able to easily monitor, intercept, and record some or all of your Internet traffic? Do you want profiles built on this information that will compromise your privacy and could be used to serve advertisements or to micromanage your Internet usage? Do you feel like QoS, which will be the given reason/excuse, is such a good and desirable thing that it's worth all of these disadvantages?
The Internet will become more like an airport: all your packetages will be subject to inspection without need for a warrant or probable cause and denied travel accordingly.
Be advised that you need to allow scripts from turner.com to run in order to RTFA. You don't need to enable dl-rms.com.
I find that annoying.
I also wish enabling scripting in Noscript only affected the one tab. If I enable something for one page that is also a site wanting to run scripts on other tabs, they all reload to let beacons run on all of them. If it just included a count of open tabs that reference the disabled domain I could make a more informed choice about which host to enable, though I'd prefer it just enable for the one tab and its descendants.
RE5 is a cool game, but versus mode is just going to consist of players stationary seeing who can press the shoot button fastest (or less lagiest)
But what of 'bot accusations?
Vinni: Tarrant! Tarrant! We're wasting time, Tarrant. We could die of old age chasing each other around here. Deeta: What do you suggest we do? Draw straws? Vinni: We draw guns, Tarrant. Isn't that what you're best at? Only I'm better... and I'm going to prove it. Holster your gun -- I'll meet you out in the open, face to face. Fast man wins. What do you say? [Deeta walks up behind him, unnoticed.] Vinni: Well, have you got the stomach for it? [Deeta aims his gun at Vinni's back, but then holsters it] Vinni: What do you say, Tarrant? Deeta: All right. [Vinni spins around at the sound of his voice.] Deeta: Let's see if you're as fast with your gun as you are with your mouth.
Or in my case, cut-n-paste them literally. I know that in Windows you can hold down Alt and type the proper number code into the keypad to get a Unicode character. How can I do that in Linux?
I know Redhat 9 has an Accessory called Character Map. Other Linux may differ.
Promising full support for networked storage, automatic downloads, sharing of a USB 3G connection, and a few other perks in addition to the normal range of functionality found in the Fonera routers this package packs quite a punch.
Anyway, you should know from how long it took you to type that post just how painful entities are!
I actually just copied and pasted them.(*)
Are you really going to claim that it is the more sensible choice not to support copying and pasting in such cases?
See above.
It's more of an issue of people blindly complaining they can't do it at all. I'd be within my rights to ask people to turn in their geek cards for not knowing about entities.
(*) Actually, more time was spent getting past lameness filters just to test them all: first the garbage filter that complains on any 8-bit characters, then the compression filter about too much whitespace inherited from the tables from which they were copied. I was surprised the thorns weren't supported, but maybe someone thought:Þ was too clever of an emoticon.:Ð
Those of you with functioning brains prefer larger downloads, and waiting for full page loads before replying and after moderating? Ah, right, and having to refresh the page every time you change your threshold?
Some of us are at workplaces that treat every page fetch as 5 minutes of slacking off. Web 2.0 can make you look in the logs like you're wasting 40 hours a day.
Once while playing GTA3 (on PC) my car suddenly fell through the road and I found myself in a subway. I drove for awhile and where I came out was one of the islands I hadn't yet unlocked. I've never managed to repeat that, though I've come close.
Then there was the time I got my player stuck halfway inside a crate.
And one point where I was playing with the elevated train and for some reason it suddenly gave me a close-up shot of a traffic signal and I couldn't do anything at all.
I've also managed to glitch Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection on the Wii such that I couldn't see the playfield at all on any of the games. It took me awhile to figure out how to reset the game to work again because that glitch once triggered was persistent across all tables.
"Ya see, we signed a peace treaty with the, uh, Russians. But the translation in the copy they got said that we would get rid of our bombs, and then they would drop theirs. We did, and... they did!" -- You Can't Do That On Television
It's like 10,000 cubes, when all you need is a line
Note: This doesn't happen in modern Tetris games. They deal out pieces in groups of 7, where each group contains all seven tetrominoes. So the longest wait for an I is 12 pieces.
That really depends on the programmer. I have a Tetris-clone handheld game, purchased at Radio Shack, that can be induced to give nothing but I pieces, as long as you don't hasten their decent and that they hit the bottom of the playfield standing vertical (not atop any other pieces). You could only start it if this piece and the next piece were both I-pieces. Time of descent was apparently their randomizer for the next piece.
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They're not the only ones pulling numbers out of their ass. You also seem to be too, unless you're finding the absolutely most expensive drive in any given capacity class.
Those were actual prices extracted from a Google Product Search. Actual prices being charged on the web. The search term was "solid-state drive". However, I did take the search results at face value; some of those drives may have come with superb service plans good for the duration of the copyright of anything recorded on them, or only sold to government contractors AFAIK.
For example, the 80GB Intel X25-M runs around $380, so is better than any of the prices you pulled up.
Which is still 47.5 times more expensive in GB/$ than current (albeit consumer level) 1 TB drives. So you've gotten closer to the 3-factor while I sought to find something close to the 3000-factor.
Perhaps we have enough data to reverse engineer their bang-for-buck target value now?
"Are you alive?"
"Yes."
"Prove it."
It wouldn't be the first time somebody got +5 for linking to goatsem im just waiting for the editors to let it slip into a summary.
If the AP believes so strongly that aggregation steals their content instead of drives more visitors to them, they may yet resort to using Referrer headers to make off-site links to their stories redirect to goatse.
notice how they say 3-3000 times cheaper.
I don't notice that. The summary says "decrease by 3-3000 times". As in a number of price drops of indeterminate amount per drop.
The paper's abstract says, "the capacity per dollar of SSDs needs to increase by a factor of 3-3000," which makes more sense.
Comparing prices:
SSD prices are all over the place.
Meaning a $3000 SSD would have to cost $1 for them to consider it... Don't you love pulling numbers of your ass?
If that $3000 SSD only held 10 GB, I'd see how they'd want it down to $1.
Besides, I think British English is more corrupt than American English, innit?
Eh, snooker or pool, it's all about the spin.
Flamebait? Perhaps the joke was too subtle? Here's a definition list which should help with the many levels of humor (or humour) that was being attempted.
pool(2) 7. Any of several games played on a six-pocket billiards table usually with 15 object balls and a cue ball. Also called pocket billiards. snooker 1. a variety of pool played with 15 red balls and 6 balls of colors other than red, in which a player must shoot one of the red balls, each with a point value of 1, into a pocket before shooting at one of the other balls, with point values of from 2 to 7. 2. Slang. to deceive, cheat, or dupe: to be snookered by a mail order company. 1889, the game and the word said to have been invented in India by British officers as a diversion from billiards. The name is perhaps an allusion (with reference to the rawness of play by a fellow officer) to British slang snooker "newly joined cadet" (1872). Tradition ascribes the coinage to Col. Sir Neville Chamberlain (not the later prime minister of the same name), at the time subaltern in the Devonshire Regiment in Jubbulpore. The verb meaning "to cheat" is from early 1900s, probably because novices can be easily tricked in the game. English 4. the Germanic language of the British Isles, widespread and standard also in the U.S. and most of the British Commonwealth, historically termed Old English (c450-c1150), Middle English (c1150-c1475), and Modern English (after c1475). Abbreviation: E 8. Sports. (sometimes lowercase) a. a spinning motion imparted to a ball, esp. in billiards. spin 4. to cause to turn around rapidly, as on an axis; twirl; whirl: to spin a coin on a table. 11. Slang. to cause to have a particular bias; influence in a certain direction: His assignment was to spin the reporters after the president's speech.And lastly, to put english (spin) on a ball corrupts (alters) its course. Similarly, spinning a speech alters and corrupts its intended meaning.
Now where's the flamebait in that?
Besides, I think British English is more corrupt than American English, innit?
Eh, snooker or pool, it's all about the spin.
I have a question for the neuroscientists however... what's so critically important about this work, to demand the enormous resources being sunk into this?
Because we're there.
Do you want your ISP and potential unknown/unaccountable parties to be able to easily monitor, intercept, and record some or all of your Internet traffic? Do you want profiles built on this information that will compromise your privacy and could be used to serve advertisements or to micromanage your Internet usage? Do you feel like QoS, which will be the given reason/excuse, is such a good and desirable thing that it's worth all of these disadvantages?
The Internet will become more like an airport: all your packetages will be subject to inspection without need for a warrant or probable cause and denied travel accordingly.
Be advised that you need to allow scripts from turner.com to run in order to RTFA. You don't need to enable dl-rms.com.
I find that annoying.
I also wish enabling scripting in Noscript only affected the one tab. If I enable something for one page that is also a site wanting to run scripts on other tabs, they all reload to let beacons run on all of them. If it just included a count of open tabs that reference the disabled domain I could make a more informed choice about which host to enable, though I'd prefer it just enable for the one tab and its descendants.
RE5 is a cool game, but versus mode is just going to consist of players stationary seeing who can press the shoot button fastest (or less lagiest)
But what of 'bot accusations?
Vinni: Tarrant! Tarrant! We're wasting time, Tarrant. We could die of old age chasing each other around here.
Deeta: What do you suggest we do? Draw straws?
Vinni: We draw guns, Tarrant. Isn't that what you're best at? Only I'm better... and I'm going to prove it. Holster your gun -- I'll meet you out in the open, face to face. Fast man wins. What do you say?
[Deeta walks up behind him, unnoticed.]
Vinni: Well, have you got the stomach for it?
[Deeta aims his gun at Vinni's back, but then holsters it]
Vinni: What do you say, Tarrant?
Deeta: All right.
[Vinni spins around at the sound of his voice.]
Deeta: Let's see if you're as fast with your gun as you are with your mouth.
That's a pretty fruity idea.
Maybe, but it wasn't mine.
Or in my case, cut-n-paste them literally. I know that in Windows you can hold down Alt and type the proper number code into the keypad to get a Unicode character. How can I do that in Linux?
I know Redhat 9 has an Accessory called Character Map. Other Linux may differ.
Promising full support for networked storage, automatic downloads, sharing of a USB 3G connection, and a few other perks in addition to the normal range of functionality found in the Fonera routers this package packs quite a punch.
But will it fit inside a pineapple?
Anyway, you should know from how long it took you to type that post just how painful entities are!
I actually just copied and pasted them.(*)
Are you really going to claim that it is the more sensible choice not to support copying and pasting in such cases?
See above.
It's more of an issue of people blindly complaining they can't do it at all. I'd be within my rights to ask people to turn in their geek cards for not knowing about entities.
(*) Actually, more time was spent getting past lameness filters just to test them all: first the garbage filter that complains on any 8-bit characters, then the compression filter about too much whitespace inherited from the tables from which they were copied. I was surprised the thorns weren't supported, but maybe someone thought :Þ was too clever of an emoticon. :Ð
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"And they never let me forget it." -- William Gibson, Wild Palms
Those of you with functioning brains prefer larger downloads, and waiting for full page loads before replying and after moderating? Ah, right, and having to refresh the page every time you change your threshold?
Some of us are at workplaces that treat every page fetch as 5 minutes of slacking off. Web 2.0 can make you look in the logs like you're wasting 40 hours a day.
Only if you insist on typing them literally.
Or is there some new rule in English that under no circumstances can a non-English character appear in English text?
¥€$, åb$ø¦û±€|ý.
In general, sure. But suppose you need to mention that "A MÃÃse once bit my sister". This needs to be fixed.
Use ø: A Møøse once bit my sister.
Know your entities:
For some reason though ² nor ² work for squared, as doesn't ³ or ³ for cubed.
Other supported named entities: ¥ ¦ © ® ± ¼ ½ ¾ × ÷ À Á Â Ã Ä Å Æ Ç È É Ê Ë Ì Í Î Ï Ð Ñ Ò Ó Ô Õ Ö Ø Ù Ú Û Ü Ý ß à á â ã ä å æ ç è é ê ë ì í î ï ð ñ ò ó ô õ ö ø ù ú û ü ý ÿ.
Once while playing GTA3 (on PC) my car suddenly fell through the road and I found myself in a subway. I drove for awhile and where I came out was one of the islands I hadn't yet unlocked. I've never managed to repeat that, though I've come close.
Then there was the time I got my player stuck halfway inside a crate.
And one point where I was playing with the elevated train and for some reason it suddenly gave me a close-up shot of a traffic signal and I couldn't do anything at all.
I've also managed to glitch Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection on the Wii such that I couldn't see the playfield at all on any of the games. It took me awhile to figure out how to reset the game to work again because that glitch once triggered was persistent across all tables.
This iss your penis: 8--o
This iss your penis on drugs: 8=====O
If you're going to compare it to the ISS it should have some solar panels sticking out the sides.
BTW:
the copywriting 'skills'
"Copywriting" is not a valid compound word. This usage requires a hyphen. (It's in TFA as well.)
"Ya see, we signed a peace treaty with the, uh, Russians. But the translation in the copy they got said that we would get rid of our bombs, and then they would drop theirs. We did, and... they did!" -- You Can't Do That On Television
Anonymous Coward channeled Alanis Morissette:
It's like 10,000 cubes, when all you need is a line
Note: This doesn't happen in modern Tetris games. They deal out pieces in groups of 7, where each group contains all seven tetrominoes. So the longest wait for an I is 12 pieces.
That really depends on the programmer. I have a Tetris-clone handheld game, purchased at Radio Shack, that can be induced to give nothing but I pieces, as long as you don't hasten their decent and that they hit the bottom of the playfield standing vertical (not atop any other pieces). You could only start it if this piece and the next piece were both I-pieces. Time of descent was apparently their randomizer for the next piece.
I would think it's a matter of being able to access data which is on the Internet, regardless of protocol.
So I'm entitled to run live streaming video over carrier pigeons and social networks?