The unit itself actually uses a SandForce SSD controller and draws its power from the DIMM socket directly but still connects to the computer through a SATA connection — nothing fancy like using the memory bus, etc.
and the article even have photos of the thing with a SATA cable coming out of it.
I just wish the US entered a serious recession, one where they have to actually cut their spending on stupid things, like protecting Israel. Let's see how much Israel lasts doing Krav Maga only.
Big carriers are the first one to place caps. Mom & Pop ISPs usually give you much better service for a price that's just a bit higher.
Besides, you have no idea how BIG companies work. It's not about upfront cost, investments, etc. Not like that at all.
ALL large companies work like this: take a loan, buy LOTS of stuff, sell it, make a profit and pay the bank. Need a new building? take a new loan, refinance the debt, and so on. Everything went to hell? Take the money and run. File for bankruptcy, bank owns the company, you get your CEO awards and no one loses their jobs. Nice, isnt it? That's how China has bought the US.
I thought networking technology also evolved. I mean 15 years ago I had a 166 pentium MMX and now I have a 3GHz Core i7. 15 years ago my LAN was 10mbit on Coax but now I have Gigabit.
But for some reason, ISP gear doesn't seem to grow as fast as consumer stuff? Cause I keep hearing about T3s and OC-3s and 622mbps. How much fibre capacity unused out there,d ont you think? I mean, a 12-core fibre carries 144 strands, or 72 full-duplex connections. Almost 10 years ago, a Cisco 12000 series router could push 40gbps in each of those. 6 years ago, Cisco introduced the CRS-1 router which could switch 92Tbps, and they have the CRS-3 now (last time I checked).
I thought the largest carriers didn't even PAY for bandwidth, as the traffic was kept inside their own network most of the time? And when it reached another network, they usually had a peering agreement for a VERY low price?
Well, I hope so! I live 27.27 degrees south, I got plenty of sun and a tin roof that could really use some shadow from panels on top of it. But I've been waiting for years for these to become cheap enough. I don't have $20.000 to spend, and my electricity bill is $100 a month average (3 air conditioners, electric rice cooker or oven, and some electronics here and there make it $200 in summer - 42 degrees celsius is common, 50 is not unheard of).
I guess it depends on where you place the windmills. If next to the shoreline, they're likely to kill lots of birds. But my country has the huge Patagonia. Vast extensions of Nothing. Only grass can grow there because of how cold and dry the wind is. Almost no birds, so it would be a great place to use windmills - just that it's so far away from anything it's not even worth the try.
Solar is OK but I remember reading it requires so much rare earth stuff that we're going to run out of those materials even before making solar panels for 10% of the world's energy needs.
I live in Argentina. We've had cars running on natural gas for over a decade. Paraguay and Brazil have Ethanol since even longer.
Fusion power is the only real answer to the world's energy needs. Period. It's going to take about 50 more years, but it's doable. Logically-inconsistent pipe dreams like flying with a machine heavier than air, or going to the moon were made true by people really wanting it to happen - not by people NOT wanting it to happen (oil companies).
No. Even if we make more efficient engines, we still have the oil dependency. Maybe when we're really low on oil, we can have fusion power (not Mr. Fusion...) and be done with fossile fuels and "eco-friendly" energies like bird-killing windmills.
This may be just a short-term solution, but not the real answer.
Trailers? My dad recently bought a Rolling Stones DVD. You have to wait until the ADs finish in order to get to the menu. Yes, advertisements. It starts with a 1-minute-long credit card commercial, which you can't skip. Seriously, what's the point of paying for a DVD if you still have to watch a commercial EVERY FUCKING TIME you want to watch the DVD?
I said it before and I say it again: THANK GOD WE HAVE PIRACY.
Games that needed save had it (SNES cartridges with batteries). And consoles have had support for saving for over a decade. The original PS already had Memory Card support, and the PS2 needs one for any game (I wonder how many kids get disappointed every christmas after finding out they can't save their game). Some PS2 games even feature autosave, so it's not that difficult to do.
A game in which a save can't be loaded more than once would fix your use case.
What? So if I lose I have to start the game again? I think you're confusing "save game" with "save state" or more like "save state exploit". I've done that a couple of times. Last time was when replaying Super Mario World. In the final battle vs. Koopa, I saved every time I hit him cause I wanted to finish it already. It's kinda annoying to die cause his... fire or ship or something touches you right and the turtle shell you throwed is in mid-air right about to hit him.
It's 2010 (or 2005 if you want to freeze it at the console's date). 7th generation of consoles. No, I don't take your argument... or excuse. I just want to be able to turn off my console at any point I want, and go to sleep, school, work, whatever. I don't want to be forced by Rockstar to play until they decided it's enough and I've "earned" my right to save the game.
Assassin's Creed 2 is such an awesome game. I mean it took me a couple of weeks to complete, because I took my time. Yes, I could have rushed through all the missions and get it done, but what's the fun in that?
Besides, Assasin's Creed FINALLY figured out how to use autosave, and not that BULLSHIT Rockstar is still pulling, the stupid "save point". You know why I don't like GTA4 or Red Dead? Because you can't just simply turn off your console and go back to real life. You have to finish the mission, get a car, and go home and save your game. And missions are LONG and save point is always a couple of minutes away. Please, Rockstar, get over it already. GTA4 has an autosave feature that beats me. I finished the first mission (a date with some chick), went home and saved, only to find that in the next sessions it wanted me to do the mission again... what the hell?
Free bash at assasins creed tho: Out of curiosity, I picked up all the hidden treasures from one level, I was hoping I'd get some Achievement or something in the 360..but no. Nothing. No points for getting all the packages in one map. But you get points for throwing coins around, or running like crazy. WTF?
I don't see á printed on the Spanish or Latin american keyboards I've seen. People learned to type ' then a to make an á. Why can't they learn to type ~ and n to make an ñ? Typewriters were like that.
Turned out for the best? I think you're being a little TOO optimistic. You see, once you use the US-International layout, you can do ALL the needed glyphs: áéíóúüñ and even ç should you want it. Do we really, honestly need to type the ñ in a single keystroke? I don't think so.
With a spanish keyboard you never know if you're in the Spanish or the Latin-America sort. You might have one layout in the physical keyboard and windows is configured to use the other. You never know which is which, and you go to someone else's house and find another keyboard layout (even though both are "Spanish"). I'm sorry, but no, it didn't turn out for the best.
Sure. You can write all English glyphs on a keyboard with Spanish layout, and Spanish has always been by far the country's primary language
Sure. And PAL-N is been the contry's primary TV standard. Yet, all game consoles, microcomputers (Commodores), DirecTV tuners and DVD players ever sold here were NTSC.
The 45-degree-opposed 3-pin plug is the standard, yet a lot of round-pin adapters are common.
220V has been the country's primary line voltage, but that doesn't keep lots of 110V equipment to be sold (that's illegal BTW).
And you must be 15 years old or something, but 20 years ago, only IBM sold Spanish keyboards. All the rest was US keyboards. You probably don't even know what Alt-164 was for.
Well, maybe I shouldn't have said "hard". But they have many more PS/2 models than USB models. Maybe it's not that way in "high tech" places (MercadoLibre or Galería Jardin), but in regular computer stores. Also, the PS2 are always cheaper.
What's hard (or impossible) to find is a cheap, new, US-layout keyboard. Only very expensive models (I had to get an Apple one), or gamer keyboards come in US layout.
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I don't know about US banks, but here in Argentina, "using" a human teller costs you about USD 1-2 per operation.
Nice going there, completely ignoring the rest of the OP's point.
ZFS L2ARC
FTFS (From the fucking SUMMARY!):
and the article even have photos of the thing with a SATA cable coming out of it.
Sheesh!
If you state it, you're agreeing with it.
I just wish the US entered a serious recession, one where they have to actually cut their spending on stupid things, like protecting Israel. Let's see how much Israel lasts doing Krav Maga only.
FUCK YOU. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you.
SERIOUSLY DUDE, FUCK YOU!
Hint 1: WHO THE FUCK IS ISRAEL?
Hint 2: Look up the dictionary for SOVEREIGNITY
Hint 3: FUCK YOU.
Isn't "throw money at the problem" the whole point of "extensible" cloud computing?
Big carriers are the first one to place caps. Mom & Pop ISPs usually give you much better service for a price that's just a bit higher.
Besides, you have no idea how BIG companies work. It's not about upfront cost, investments, etc. Not like that at all.
ALL large companies work like this: take a loan, buy LOTS of stuff, sell it, make a profit and pay the bank. Need a new building? take a new loan, refinance the debt, and so on. Everything went to hell? Take the money and run. File for bankruptcy, bank owns the company, you get your CEO awards and no one loses their jobs. Nice, isnt it? That's how China has bought the US.
I thought networking technology also evolved. I mean 15 years ago I had a 166 pentium MMX and now I have a 3GHz Core i7. 15 years ago my LAN was 10mbit on Coax but now I have Gigabit.
But for some reason, ISP gear doesn't seem to grow as fast as consumer stuff? Cause I keep hearing about T3s and OC-3s and 622mbps. How much fibre capacity unused out there,d ont you think? I mean, a 12-core fibre carries 144 strands, or 72 full-duplex connections. Almost 10 years ago, a Cisco 12000 series router could push 40gbps in each of those. 6 years ago, Cisco introduced the CRS-1 router which could switch 92Tbps, and they have the CRS-3 now (last time I checked).
I thought the largest carriers didn't even PAY for bandwidth, as the traffic was kept inside their own network most of the time? And when it reached another network, they usually had a peering agreement for a VERY low price?
Now I'm comfused
(Sarcasm)
Well, I hope so! I live 27.27 degrees south, I got plenty of sun and a tin roof that could really use some shadow from panels on top of it. But I've been waiting for years for these to become cheap enough. I don't have $20.000 to spend, and my electricity bill is $100 a month average (3 air conditioners, electric rice cooker or oven, and some electronics here and there make it $200 in summer - 42 degrees celsius is common, 50 is not unheard of).
I guess it depends on where you place the windmills. If next to the shoreline, they're likely to kill lots of birds. But my country has the huge Patagonia. Vast extensions of Nothing. Only grass can grow there because of how cold and dry the wind is. Almost no birds, so it would be a great place to use windmills - just that it's so far away from anything it's not even worth the try.
Solar is OK but I remember reading it requires so much rare earth stuff that we're going to run out of those materials even before making solar panels for 10% of the world's energy needs.
Thats cause you're an anonymous cunt who got it all backwards. I meant that oil companies don't want FUSION POWER.
Asshole.
I live in Argentina. We've had cars running on natural gas for over a decade. Paraguay and Brazil have Ethanol since even longer.
Fusion power is the only real answer to the world's energy needs. Period. It's going to take about 50 more years, but it's doable. Logically-inconsistent pipe dreams like flying with a machine heavier than air, or going to the moon were made true by people really wanting it to happen - not by people NOT wanting it to happen (oil companies).
No. Even if we make more efficient engines, we still have the oil dependency. Maybe when we're really low on oil, we can have fusion power (not Mr. Fusion...) and be done with fossile fuels and "eco-friendly" energies like bird-killing windmills.
This may be just a short-term solution, but not the real answer.
Trailers? My dad recently bought a Rolling Stones DVD. You have to wait until the ADs finish in order to get to the menu. Yes, advertisements. It starts with a 1-minute-long credit card commercial, which you can't skip. Seriously, what's the point of paying for a DVD if you still have to watch a commercial EVERY FUCKING TIME you want to watch the DVD?
I said it before and I say it again: THANK GOD WE HAVE PIRACY.
This is slashdot, we're computer nerds. Guys here seem to think about law as "orthogonal", cause-and-effect, etc.
Guess what guys: it's not. It's quite subjective. That's why there are appeals.
Luckily we've come a long way since Super Mario Bros, and games have gotten longer and more complex since then.
To avoid "save-scum", just dont let the player save in the middle of a boss fight and thats it. I don't see why it can be so hard.
Also, I didn't say the final boss in SMW was hard. I just said I wanted to finish it already.
Games that needed save had it (SNES cartridges with batteries). And consoles have had support for saving for over a decade. The original PS already had Memory Card support, and the PS2 needs one for any game (I wonder how many kids get disappointed every christmas after finding out they can't save their game). Some PS2 games even feature autosave, so it's not that difficult to do.
What? So if I lose I have to start the game again? I think you're confusing "save game" with "save state" or more like "save state exploit". I've done that a couple of times. Last time was when replaying Super Mario World. In the final battle vs. Koopa, I saved every time I hit him cause I wanted to finish it already. It's kinda annoying to die cause his... fire or ship or something touches you right and the turtle shell you throwed is in mid-air right about to hit him.
It's 2010 (or 2005 if you want to freeze it at the console's date). 7th generation of consoles. No, I don't take your argument... or excuse. I just want to be able to turn off my console at any point I want, and go to sleep, school, work, whatever. I don't want to be forced by Rockstar to play until they decided it's enough and I've "earned" my right to save the game.
Assassin's Creed 2 is such an awesome game. I mean it took me a couple of weeks to complete, because I took my time. Yes, I could have rushed through all the missions and get it done, but what's the fun in that?
Besides, Assasin's Creed FINALLY figured out how to use autosave, and not that BULLSHIT Rockstar is still pulling, the stupid "save point". You know why I don't like GTA4 or Red Dead? Because you can't just simply turn off your console and go back to real life. You have to finish the mission, get a car, and go home and save your game. And missions are LONG and save point is always a couple of minutes away. Please, Rockstar, get over it already. GTA4 has an autosave feature that beats me. I finished the first mission (a date with some chick), went home and saved, only to find that in the next sessions it wanted me to do the mission again... what the hell?
Free bash at assasins creed tho: Out of curiosity, I picked up all the hidden treasures from one level, I was hoping I'd get some Achievement or something in the 360..but no. Nothing. No points for getting all the packages in one map. But you get points for throwing coins around, or running like crazy. WTF?
I don't see á printed on the Spanish or Latin american keyboards I've seen. People learned to type ' then a to make an á. Why can't they learn to type ~ and n to make an ñ? Typewriters were like that.
Turned out for the best? I think you're being a little TOO optimistic. You see, once you use the US-International layout, you can do ALL the needed glyphs: áéíóúüñ and even ç should you want it. Do we really, honestly need to type the ñ in a single keystroke? I don't think so.
With a spanish keyboard you never know if you're in the Spanish or the Latin-America sort. You might have one layout in the physical keyboard and windows is configured to use the other. You never know which is which, and you go to someone else's house and find another keyboard layout (even though both are "Spanish"). I'm sorry, but no, it didn't turn out for the best.
Sure. And PAL-N is been the contry's primary TV standard. Yet, all game consoles, microcomputers (Commodores), DirecTV tuners and DVD players ever sold here were NTSC.
The 45-degree-opposed 3-pin plug is the standard, yet a lot of round-pin adapters are common.
220V has been the country's primary line voltage, but that doesn't keep lots of 110V equipment to be sold (that's illegal BTW).
And you must be 15 years old or something, but 20 years ago, only IBM sold Spanish keyboards. All the rest was US keyboards. You probably don't even know what Alt-164 was for.
Well, maybe I shouldn't have said "hard". But they have many more PS/2 models than USB models. Maybe it's not that way in "high tech" places (MercadoLibre or Galería Jardin), but in regular computer stores. Also, the PS2 are always cheaper.
What's hard (or impossible) to find is a cheap, new, US-layout keyboard. Only very expensive models (I had to get an Apple one), or gamer keyboards come in US layout.