Pah.. the transport cost was not approximated based on sending it by air. Well anyway, even if the cost increases to $10/kg it doesn't change much (result is about 0.05 $/Gbyte I guess)
Cargo capacity of a 747-400 is 53000 kg and 160 m3 I assume around the same size and weight of a blueray disc as of a DVD disc which is 1.2 mm thick, 12cm in diameter and weighs a maximum of 20 grams. Also consider a plastic sleeve which maybe adds.2 mm and 3 grams. Space needs for a disc with sleeve is thus 120x120x1.4mm = 20160 mm^3 = 0,00002016 m^3 Weight is 23 grams = 0,023 kg. Thus: discs/plane (volume) = 160 / 0,00002016 ~ 7936500 pcs discs/plane (weight) = 53000 / 0,023 ~ 2304300 pcs maximum discs per plane is then about 2300000 pcs Blueray stores 50GB = 400 Gbit Plane stores 400*2300000 Gbit = 920'000'000 Gbit
Not counting the time to load, burn and read the discs, a non-stop flight from Pittsburgh to LA takes around 5 hours = 18000 seconds This amounts to 920000000/18000 =~ 51000 Gbit/sec
Considering a very approximate cost of $1/kg for the transport, and $2 for each disc it amounts to around $4653000 total. Which is about 0.04 $/Gbyte, or around the same price per GB as a cheap 160GB Hard drive.
What linux needs to be competitive...
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I believe there are two things that linux desktop needs YESTERDAY:
* Crash proof GUI's
Even in the latest distros, I've been able to crash almost all kinds of configuration "centers" and most GUI apps)
* Configuration GUIs that can do *almost everything*.
I am sick of Linux config GUIs with big emty white spaces and one textfield where you can write "yes" "no" or some obscure string like "eth2". For example, the firewall configuration should have an advanced button where you can do all kinds of portmapping, redirecting etc.
Another example is the Mandrake security center... it has several "uneditable" settings. For example I need the/proc tree to be world-readable.. impossible to change without either a) lowering security level as a whole or b) edit the "default settings" config file in some hard-to-find location.
And don't tell me to write it myself... I'm already working on a comprehensive iptables & Shorewall editor.
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These 'flaws' are of the same type as posting a script in your.sig that executes "rm -rf/" on a *nix system.
The best security measure would be some device that read the mind of the user and warned if you were too stupid. Or maybe even easier:
Forgive a Fedora rookie, but how can I get updates for my RedHat 9 system? I'm guessing the Fedora project has some kind of "backporting" to RedHat 9, no?
I'm running some kind of yum-thing to update, but I've forgot what settings I have in it.
Ok, maybe not as bad as B&W, but clearly all the first reviews are overrating the game... badly.
The game is more linear than y=kx+m and AI is yet to be seen. Some say it's a sneaking game, but then how is it you are unable to hide from enemies? (except running away half the level).
Graphics and shadows are nice but in my opinion Thief III was a much scarier game (Asylum? did you *really* play with sound on all the time?).
Same thing happened when I went from VS.NET 2002 to 2003. It did hamper my interaction with the other devs for a week, mostly because VS.NET takes f-ing ages to install (one full working day on one of the computers).
Well I wanted an invite and after around 20 minutes of googling I found a person giving away invites. Later that day I had a Gmail account. Soon there will be so many Gmail invites that you'll have no problem at all getting one.
You can notice Gmail is in beta though (some minor but often-used features such as remote access and simple blocking are missing), but its still much better than anything out there. I think the beta stage is mostly about training their spam classifier.
Hint: What's "gmail invite" in icelandic? finnish?...
What's the fuss? I can put up a similar system in half a day, and it will probably be more secure than this one.
Sure, if I want to be spammed and have my personal info out in the open, I'd go sign up on this site. And the three gmail accounts screams "lameness alert".
Forgive me, but I trust MS Passport infinitely more than this site.
Seems from the many "you can manage with landline" comments that the US isn't near to Sweden (and probably other northern Europe countries) in cell-phone usage. Actually, it's not uncommon here that young people skip the "landline" completely and go for cellular instead. Also, many companies are switching from stationary phones to exclusive use of cellular phones for the employees.
Say you have a 3MP camera. That (roughly) means 1 million "triples" of R+B+G receptors. So essentially you get 1/3 of the resolution.
Imagine NASA wants to see a spectra composed of red, green, blue, two kinds of infrared and two kinds of ultraviolet light. So that makes 7 "pixels-per-pixel" meaning you get 1/7 of the resolution. Not very good from a scientific point of view.
Microsoft wants developer writing Windows-only applications..NET is one tool they are using to accomplish this.
And what, exactly, is wrong with that? Right now I'm developing two.NET applications which are specified by my customers to run only in Windows (98 and upwards). I'm using Access for data storage and with all the ease of.NET I'm getting time for my hobbies too, which includes writing a Java-based "WWW" game.
Microsoft is the King Midas of bloatware - they will create the best friggin' search engine in the universe, then they will add.NET passport logon, searching of RTF news messages by font size & color and finally Microsoft products will always come in first place whatever you search for. "Buy Microsoft porn sex latina Simulator 2006 NOW!".
I think Google will "win" because it's clean and fast and turns out predictable results.
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Pah.. the transport cost was not approximated based on sending it by air. Well anyway, even if the cost increases to $10/kg it doesn't change much (result is about 0.05 $/Gbyte I guess)
Cargo capacity of a 747-400 is 53000 kg and 160 m3 .2 mm and 3 grams.
I assume around the same size and weight of a blueray disc as of a DVD disc which is 1.2 mm thick, 12cm in diameter and weighs a maximum of 20 grams. Also consider a plastic sleeve which maybe adds
Space needs for a disc with sleeve is thus 120x120x1.4mm = 20160 mm^3 = 0,00002016 m^3
Weight is 23 grams = 0,023 kg.
Thus:
discs/plane (volume) = 160 / 0,00002016 ~ 7936500 pcs
discs/plane (weight) = 53000 / 0,023 ~ 2304300 pcs
maximum discs per plane is then about 2300000 pcs
Blueray stores 50GB = 400 Gbit
Plane stores 400*2300000 Gbit = 920'000'000 Gbit
Not counting the time to load, burn and read the discs, a non-stop flight from Pittsburgh to LA takes around 5 hours = 18000 seconds
This amounts to 920000000/18000 =~ 51000 Gbit/sec
Considering a very approximate cost of $1/kg for the transport, and $2 for each disc it amounts to around
$4653000 total.
Which is about 0.04 $/Gbyte, or around the same price per GB as a cheap 160GB Hard drive.
Doesn't RAID5+1 normally mean RAID5 with one hot spare?
I get around 30 spam a day and about 5 a day gets through the filter.
Apart from spam, have you actually received any *mail* to your account?
Well actually we use three-phase 400/230V for our stoves, washing machines etc. (but you usually can run them on 220V also).
And we use 380V special plugs instead of measly 240V... you sissies!
...they build a 40075 km collider.
I believe there are two things that linux desktop needs YESTERDAY:
/proc tree to be world-readable.. impossible to change without either a) lowering security level as a whole or b) edit the "default settings" config file in some hard-to-find location.
* Crash proof GUI's
Even in the latest distros, I've been able to crash almost all kinds of configuration "centers" and most GUI apps)
* Configuration GUIs that can do *almost everything*.
I am sick of Linux config GUIs with big emty white spaces and one textfield where you can write "yes" "no" or some obscure string like "eth2". For example, the firewall configuration should have an advanced button where you can do all kinds of portmapping, redirecting etc.
Another example is the Mandrake security center... it has several "uneditable" settings. For example I need the
And don't tell me to write it myself... I'm already working on a comprehensive iptables & Shorewall editor.
These 'flaws' are of the same type as posting a script in your .sig that executes "rm -rf /" on a *nix system.
The best security measure would be some device that read the mind of the user and warned if you were too stupid. Or maybe even easier:
if(spywareCount > 20) stupidUser = true;
So if MPEG is based on JPEG, couldn't "someone" make an image compression based on Xvid? XPEG?
Forgive a Fedora rookie, but how can I get updates for my RedHat 9 system? I'm guessing the Fedora project has some kind of "backporting" to RedHat 9, no?
I'm running some kind of yum-thing to update, but I've forgot what settings I have in it.
Ok, maybe not as bad as B&W, but clearly all the first reviews are overrating the game... badly.
The game is more linear than y=kx+m and AI is yet to be seen. Some say it's a sneaking game, but then how is it you are unable to hide from enemies? (except running away half the level).
Graphics and shadows are nice but in my opinion Thief III was a much scarier game (Asylum? did you *really* play with sound on all the time?).
Same thing happened when I went from VS.NET 2002 to 2003. It did hamper my interaction with the other devs for a week, mostly because VS.NET takes f-ing ages to install (one full working day on one of the computers).
Well I wanted an invite and after around 20 minutes of googling I found a person giving away invites. Later that day I had a Gmail account. Soon there will be so many Gmail invites that you'll have no problem at all getting one.
...
You can notice Gmail is in beta though (some minor but often-used features such as remote access and simple blocking are missing), but its still much better than anything out there. I think the beta stage is mostly about training their spam classifier.
Hint: What's "gmail invite" in icelandic? finnish?
What's the fuss? I can put up a similar system in half a day, and it will probably be more secure than this one.
Sure, if I want to be spammed and have my personal info out in the open, I'd go sign up on this site. And the three gmail accounts screams "lameness alert".
Forgive me, but I trust MS Passport infinitely more than this site.
Seems from the many "you can manage with landline" comments that the US isn't near to Sweden (and probably other northern Europe countries) in cell-phone usage. Actually, it's not uncommon here that young people skip the "landline" completely and go for cellular instead. Also, many companies are switching from stationary phones to exclusive use of cellular phones for the employees.
If i started on something like that, I'd be divorced in a week!
...welcome our new case-mod overlord! (Also I bow in awe of his server)
Company X buys patent slot for product Y for $100 million. They will of course get their investment back because product Y is... "water"
MOD PARENT UP! I'm setting up a VIC-20 spam network NOW!
Say you have a 3MP camera. That (roughly) means 1 million "triples" of R+B+G receptors. So essentially you get 1/3 of the resolution.
Imagine NASA wants to see a spectra composed of red, green, blue, two kinds of infrared and two kinds of ultraviolet light. So that makes 7 "pixels-per-pixel" meaning you get 1/7 of the resolution. Not very good from a scientific point of view.
Microsoft wants developer writing Windows-only applications. .NET is one tool they are using to accomplish this.
And what, exactly, is wrong with that? Right now I'm developing two .NET applications which are specified by my customers to run only in Windows (98 and upwards). I'm using Access for data storage and with all the ease of .NET I'm getting time for my hobbies too, which includes writing a Java-based "WWW" game.
Add this path to yum:
http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.6/
Kernel 2.6! Works!
I thought about using this scheme to mask the SSH port when I realized that the reason I have the server is because I'm running a website on it...
Next method please.
Microsoft is the King Midas of bloatware - they will create the best friggin' search engine in the universe, then they will add .NET passport logon, searching of RTF news messages by font size & color and finally Microsoft products will always come in first place whatever you search for. "Buy Microsoft porn sex latina Simulator 2006 NOW!".
I think Google will "win" because it's clean and fast and turns out predictable results.