You misunderstand, I was WISHING for $5/GB flash. Currently, its about $70-$90/GB. I did a factor of two for the controller (which would have to be beefy for 30 flash chips, and manufaturing, and all the other various things that going into a product's sale price.
You would be supprised. Although linux can be built to use a flash (ie minimum writes to firmware) drive, Windows cant, without using Windows CE. It would be nice if Vista supported such ideas. The problem with windows is that many programs install system files. I installed XP on a 9.1 GB scsi disk, with an 80 GB IDE disk for everything but the OS. Even though I installed all programs on the 80GB disk, the 9.1GB disk was full within a year, as MS Office, Photoshop, and other stick stuff into your windows install.
The problem as I see it is not really chip density, but cost. If you think of the size of each of these chips, you could easily fit 60 or so GB into a 2.5" drive shaped device, and 100's of gigs into a device the size of a 3.5" drive. The problem is that these devices would cost astronomical ammounts. If we could make 1GB flash chips that cost $5, then you could have $300 30GB flash drives.
Very true, pretty much all metals are made using a horribly energy inefficient process, basically similar to how your toaster prepares bagels, but with a hell of a lot bigger heating element, and big ceramic lined pits. In fact, you can pretty easily melt steel if you make a brick oven and stick a powered electrode in it for a couple of hours. I believe something like 30% of the electricy generated in the US goes to manufacturing metal products, compaired to 17% for ALL residential use.
This requries you to forge press passes, or kill members of the press, both of which can be unpleasant or time consuming. This guy didn't pretend to be anything, he was just agressive in asking for stuff.
Isn't futurama a bit mature for a 3 year old girl? Its a great show, but there is no shortage of swearing, adult situations, and even some nudity. Plus, bender isn't really much of a role model (you remember the episode where he became a star on all my circuits).
Different set of laywers. These ones are special ones from a contracted law firm expressly for the purpose of keeping the "napster" lawsuit mill running.
I agree. With my iPod and "earmuff" headphones, 1/4 volume is all I need, even on an airplane. With my old Sony Minidisk Player and the same headphones, cracking it to max would still be too quiet.
Heat. Intel invented the P4's netburst architecture with the sole plan of making it almost infinitely clockable (they were predicting 10GHz when the top of the line P3 of the time ran at 1.0 GHz). They were right about its clocking ability, but forgot about heat dissipation. Even the early P4s were heat monsters compaired to the cool running P3s and Athlons of the day, and today's Prescott cores are simply insane. You can go to any decent gamer site and find a how to on getting a P4 to run at 4-5 GHz, but all require elaborate cooling.
Luckily, several recent developements (including 65nm fabrication) are making the next couple of years look pretty good in terms of performance increases.
I haven't seen any recent Dells with this problem. Of course, I have seen a 500MHz PIII Dell server that overheated because they put 3 10,000 RPM SCSI drives in the uncooled hard drive bays, but the new Dell servers are definitely cooled up expectable standards. It is good to remember that just like any server, a $500 bargain basement Dell server probably isn't speced to cool 15 SCSI drives. In general, most of the servers I see are dells (I am an IT contractor for Biotech companies), and most of them are going strong from 4 or 5 years ago. The only problems with them I see are that their PIII processors and 9.1 GB hard drives are starting to look a little low end by today's standards. Usually, I replace them with newer Dells, as building a custom system with specs similar to Dell's latest bargain server would cost way more, if not in components, in assembly time.
No, but their internet connection is with with a "0&1" nixie tube shining into a fiber cable, then transcribed by a kindly elderly gentleman and mailed to their ISP.
Actually, its mostly javascript, although it is really a mutant combonation of the two. XML is not really all that necissary. Basically, layout stuff is done in XML (ie images, texts, colors, ect...), whereas the actual funtion, which is written in javascript. However, if you want, you can get away with writing almost the entire widget in javascript, and generate windows and content through that (which is how many of the really complicated and felexable widgets work).
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You misunderstand, I was WISHING for $5/GB flash. Currently, its about $70-$90/GB. I did a factor of two for the controller (which would have to be beefy for 30 flash chips, and manufaturing, and all the other various things that going into a product's sale price.
You would be supprised. Although linux can be built to use a flash (ie minimum writes to firmware) drive, Windows cant, without using Windows CE. It would be nice if Vista supported such ideas. The problem with windows is that many programs install system files. I installed XP on a 9.1 GB scsi disk, with an 80 GB IDE disk for everything but the OS. Even though I installed all programs on the 80GB disk, the 9.1GB disk was full within a year, as MS Office, Photoshop, and other stick stuff into your windows install.
The problem as I see it is not really chip density, but cost. If you think of the size of each of these chips, you could easily fit 60 or so GB into a 2.5" drive shaped device, and 100's of gigs into a device the size of a 3.5" drive. The problem is that these devices would cost astronomical ammounts. If we could make 1GB flash chips that cost $5, then you could have $300 30GB flash drives.
Very true, pretty much all metals are made using a horribly energy inefficient process, basically similar to how your toaster prepares bagels, but with a hell of a lot bigger heating element, and big ceramic lined pits. In fact, you can pretty easily melt steel if you make a brick oven and stick a powered electrode in it for a couple of hours. I believe something like 30% of the electricy generated in the US goes to manufacturing metal products, compaired to 17% for ALL residential use.
This requries you to forge press passes, or kill members of the press, both of which can be unpleasant or time consuming. This guy didn't pretend to be anything, he was just agressive in asking for stuff.
Makes sense to me.
Shouldn't this article be called "NASA sits around while a poor graduate student builds quiet Mach 6 wind tunnel."
Wrong, at some point he was defeated by either Jack Johnson or John Jackson, the clones.
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Isn't futurama a bit mature for a 3 year old girl? Its a great show, but there is no shortage of swearing, adult situations, and even some nudity. Plus, bender isn't really much of a role model (you remember the episode where he became a star on all my circuits).
Actually, not true.
Very little atmosphere
+ massive heat dissipation
+ small die surface area
= Quick overheating
Different set of laywers. These ones are special ones from a contracted law firm expressly for the purpose of keeping the "napster" lawsuit mill running.
I agree. With my iPod and "earmuff" headphones, 1/4 volume is all I need, even on an airplane. With my old Sony Minidisk Player and the same headphones, cracking it to max would still be too quiet.
Ever tried taking a screenshot, or using alt-tab? It just doesn't work right.
PLEASE! If you are writing a windows program, or a program you plan to port to windows, do not use GTK+. It works terribly on that platform.
Heat. Intel invented the P4's netburst architecture with the sole plan of making it almost infinitely clockable (they were predicting 10GHz when the top of the line P3 of the time ran at 1.0 GHz). They were right about its clocking ability, but forgot about heat dissipation. Even the early P4s were heat monsters compaired to the cool running P3s and Athlons of the day, and today's Prescott cores are simply insane. You can go to any decent gamer site and find a how to on getting a P4 to run at 4-5 GHz, but all require elaborate cooling.
Luckily, several recent developements (including 65nm fabrication) are making the next couple of years look pretty good in terms of performance increases.
Then people would bitch that they couldn't talk to the developers of open source code.
Remember, these weren't 1.44mb floppies. You should probably use 380K floppies for compatability.
I haven't seen any recent Dells with this problem. Of course, I have seen a 500MHz PIII Dell server that overheated because they put 3 10,000 RPM SCSI drives in the uncooled hard drive bays, but the new Dell servers are definitely cooled up expectable standards. It is good to remember that just like any server, a $500 bargain basement Dell server probably isn't speced to cool 15 SCSI drives. In general, most of the servers I see are dells (I am an IT contractor for Biotech companies), and most of them are going strong from 4 or 5 years ago. The only problems with them I see are that their PIII processors and 9.1 GB hard drives are starting to look a little low end by today's standards. Usually, I replace them with newer Dells, as building a custom system with specs similar to Dell's latest bargain server would cost way more, if not in components, in assembly time.
To the world at large: "Use open source software, we are all about setting standards and community." To other *nixers: "STFU you Gnome nazi!"
No, but their internet connection is with with a "0&1" nixie tube shining into a fiber cable, then transcribed by a kindly elderly gentleman and mailed to their ISP.
No, its the same as ever. All the fixes were minor, none of the fun problems were fixed.
Leave your comp on for a couple of hours, and weather will use 38mb. I use WinXP MCE 2005 SP2 with a P4, pretty common stuff.
Actually, its mostly javascript, although it is really a mutant combonation of the two. XML is not really all that necissary. Basically, layout stuff is done in XML (ie images, texts, colors, ect...), whereas the actual funtion, which is written in javascript. However, if you want, you can get away with writing almost the entire widget in javascript, and generate windows and content through that (which is how many of the really complicated and felexable widgets work).
It uses lots of resources, especially RAM. Each widget uses between 5mb and 40mb of RAM (the 40MB ones are mostly the horrible yahoo made ones).