Did it occur to them that most of the software on Linux don't require purchasing? Groupware servers, Web servers, FTP servers... IRC servers... all free.
Thats right ~8% of the available space would be used to pile up hard drives. Of course this completely disregards space for controllers and cable and airspace for venting, but you see my point. Its entirely possible.
You should see Blockbuster and Netflix as competitors with their monthly flat rate and delivery services. Perhaps instead of charging $20 for 10 movies a month, maybe limit it per day or week. Currently I get 6-9 movies per week with Blockbuster btw.
Its not that Linux doesn't support the cards, its that the card vendors don't support linux. If they were smart they'd supply linux drivers, or follow a standard that allows current drivers to work with their cards.
But isn't one of the main points of running Linux to have a choice? "Throwing down the line" and choosing one desktop gets rid of that. -prods with a fish- You definitely/are/ a Gnome user.
Go to your comment preferences, and change all the "Reason Modifiers" to +1, then set the Anonymous Modifier to -6. Then browse @ 0 and you should see everything except Anon Cows.
For this I am assuming 1cmx1cmx5mm for the size of Samsung's 16Gbit flash chip. This is probably slightly larger, but we must include the board on which they are soldered
People made do with huge VHS tapes for years, right?
So lets see how much storage we can cram into a VHS tape using flash.
first lets gets the area of a VHS tape... 7 3/8 x 4 1/16 x 1. Thats in inches. So, lets use Google to calculate that into cubic centimeters. Thats about 491 Cubic centimeters.
Now lets see how many cubic centimeters a single flash chip is. Thats 0.5 cubic centimeters. Now lets divide 491 by 0.5. Thats a whopping 982 flash chips!
Now, how many gigabits of storage is that? 15,712 Gigabits of storage space in a single VHS tape filled with 16Gbit flash. Wow. What is that in GB? 1,964 gigabytes
Ok, so we'd need 10 of those for a 2-hour movie. But you have to remember, thats uncompressed. If we compress it, we just may get a single movie into a 1,964GB flassette (flash-cassette, something i just made up).
You wouldn't need multiple channels, just have the reciever send a request for a certain channel to the distribution server and it servers only that channel down the pipe. At most you'd want what, 4 TVs in your house? So you'd only need bandwidth for at most 4 channels at once.
probably 4, 8MP CCDs in a 2x2 grid. The "new development" is probably that the image surface takes up the entire CCD, so they managed to create a 32MP sensor from 8MP chips with no borders.
Its not a matter of being mistaken as to the book title, its a simple matter of misreading the title on the first pass. Nobody is saying that it is indeed a Cisco book, I'm saying at first glance I thought thats what the article title was.
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Did it occur to them that most of the software on Linux don't require purchasing? Groupware servers, Web servers, FTP servers... IRC servers... all free.
Its very odd you say 20 cubic feet... its actuall 20*8*8 cubic feet... 1280 cubic feet to be more exact.
Ok, so lets do new calculations.
Drive Height (mm) 25.4
Drive Width (mm) 101.6
Drive Depth (mm) 146
25.4mm*101.6mm*146mm = 376.77344 milliliters (aka 1cm^3)
376.77344 milliliters = 0.0133056285 cubic feet
1 280 (cubic feet)) / (0.0133056285 (cubic feet) = 96,199.8901 hard drives.
96 199.8901 * 500 gigabytes = 45.8716822 petabytes
Thats much more than the expected 3.5PB/unit. So lets see what percentage my 7340 drives would actually take up in the correct amount of space.
7 340 * 0.0133056285 = 97.6633132 cubic feet
97.6633132 / 1 280 = 0.0762994634%
Thats right ~8% of the available space would be used to pile up hard drives. Of course this completely disregards space for controllers and cable and airspace for venting, but you see my point. Its entirely possible.
(1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 3.5) / 2666
1409638.5536384096024006001500375 GMail accounts at the current storage capacity per account. In 3.5 PB.
With 500GB drives, it would take 7340.032 drives to attain 3.5PB... with NO redundancy.
So then you do the same thing nuclear power plants do and pump the cooler through small cooling stacks on the top of the portable.
You should see Blockbuster and Netflix as competitors with their monthly flat rate and delivery services. Perhaps instead of charging $20 for 10 movies a month, maybe limit it per day or week. Currently I get 6-9 movies per week with Blockbuster btw.
Its not that Linux doesn't support the cards, its that the card vendors don't support linux. If they were smart they'd supply linux drivers, or follow a standard that allows current drivers to work with their cards.
Wow, you can tell how amazingly enlightening this article is. A whopping 2 comments in 30 minutes. Must be a slashdot record. ;-)
For on-demand content, I want to push a button and have some guy named Joe hand me a DVD of the content within 300ms.
Yes, but with lots of Unix software, they're licensed in such a way as to say "Dupe me! Comeeee on baby dupe me!"
Innovation in Unix is expected to be duplicated and improved upon, and is licensed as such.
MS says "Oh, ya, we have that too now." And copies it.
Ecologies.
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Actually,I'd compare spoken language to COBOL. Seriously, have you looked at a piece of COBOL?
Actually, it does
Subliminal:
"below the threshold of conscious perception"
Reference: wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
The association would be on an unconcious level.
But isn't one of the main points of running Linux to have a choice? "Throwing down the line" and choosing one desktop gets rid of that. -prods with a fish- You definitely /are/ a Gnome user.
That won't work, because the system won't let anything go below -1... thus Anon Cows simply stay at -1, don't go to -2/-3/etc.
Go to your comment preferences, and change all the "Reason Modifiers" to +1, then set the Anonymous Modifier to -6. Then browse @ 0 and you should see everything except Anon Cows.
You're telling the parent not to give them any ideas, and yet you just spelled it out for them. Smart one, numbnuts :-p
And how fast can they crack my 4096-bit encryption scheme?
Check out what I said here: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=167320&cid=139 54999
For this I am assuming 1cmx1cmx5mm for the size of Samsung's 16Gbit flash chip. This is probably slightly larger, but we must include the board on which they are soldered
People made do with huge VHS tapes for years, right?
So lets see how much storage we can cram into a VHS tape using flash.
first lets gets the area of a VHS tape... 7 3/8 x 4 1/16 x 1. Thats in inches. So, lets use Google to calculate that into cubic centimeters.
Thats about 491 Cubic centimeters.
Now lets see how many cubic centimeters a single flash chip is.
Thats 0.5 cubic centimeters. Now lets divide 491 by 0.5.
Thats a whopping 982 flash chips!
Now, how many gigabits of storage is that?
15,712 Gigabits of storage space in a single VHS tape filled with 16Gbit flash. Wow. What is that in GB?
1,964 gigabytes
Ok, so we'd need 10 of those for a 2-hour movie. But you have to remember, thats uncompressed. If we compress it, we just may get a single movie into a 1,964GB flassette (flash-cassette, something i just made up).
Woot.
You wouldn't need multiple channels, just have the reciever send a request for a certain channel to the distribution server and it servers only that channel down the pipe. At most you'd want what, 4 TVs in your house? So you'd only need bandwidth for at most 4 channels at once.
probably 4, 8MP CCDs in a 2x2 grid. The "new development" is probably that the image surface takes up the entire CCD, so they managed to create a 32MP sensor from 8MP chips with no borders.
24 (gigabits / sec) = 10.546875 terabytes / hour
Thats 21TB for a standard-length movie! ~21,000GB! Foly Huck!
Its not a matter of being mistaken as to the book title, its a simple matter of misreading the title on the first pass. Nobody is saying that it is indeed a Cisco book, I'm saying at first glance I thought thats what the article title was.
Darn you, now I want to bake brownies. Do you have any idea how disastrous that would be? I'd burn the bloody house down, thats how.