Lets say for a moment that I'm that rube. I have a Windows box running Quickbooks, Office, and maybe another productivity app. Lets say I'm also a iTunes user and have downloaded bought a number of HD movies.
The HD movies need a large amount of space, but they arent making the disk do interesting work. Why pay $1GB to keep them on the disk.
Office/apps are doing interesting work but don't have a huge working set size, keeping them in the small SSD cache greatly increases their performance.
Now you get the best of both worlds, fast access and large amounts of space.
Oh, and god forbid the user ever fill up that cheap, small SSD, because the performance goes to dogshit.
It goes the other way too. If you need someone to look like an idiot on a show or commercial, in recent history it's far more likely that the man will look stupid then the woman, to the point the only 'dumb' actor was the man.
>Banning ads for sex tourism should be a no-brainier I would hope.
Why? Do you have any scientific evidence to back this up? What would banning advertising to a regulated industry (aka Netherlands) stop? My assumption is it would create a more unregulated and illegal black market, where people are hurt and have no legal recourse.
What feminists seem to want is all the benefits of being a man, err pretty much higher pay without the side effects, lower life span, higher chance of an act of violence occurring to, much higher risk of heart disease.
The problem appears later on, when women try to get themselves taken more seriously then the 'norm' created by the beer-swillers. Ask a waitress about this problem. Any waitress will do.
I think this problem has been around far longer then TV has existed. In fact I would go as far and say that women getting themselves taken seriously has nothing to do with orange juice drinking lesbians on late night TV. Every time a parent hands their son Billy a toy that teaches them to build and create then give their daughter Sally a Barbie and some dress up clothes reinforces long standing cultural stereotypes. One is learning value in what they do the other in how they look. From the youngest ages of their life.
It's easy to point at taboo things and blame them, it's much harder to point at general culture and tell it to change.
>Granted they're faster than most peoples 5400rpm drive running in their laptops,
Not just faster, way faster. I've upgraded a number of clients computers from the crap HP comes with by default to XTs with the 8GB cache. Unless they have a very large working set of data they commonly use, the user will not notice a significant difference between the SSHD and an SSD.
If you tell most consumers do you want a 500GB SSD for around $500 or a 500GB SSHD for $79 where the $79 drive makes most, but not all things faster, most people will go with the second option, and most people will have made the right choice going with the second option.
Lets make a bet, we'll take the same computer spec wise, mine with an SSD and yours with a regular HDD and we'll compile a large program; gcc or the entire FreeBSD ports. And you can pay me a dollar for every minute longer yours takes.
> and edit video. Video editing is a different ball game though. You don't do much random IO, its mostly a streaming workload with very few head repositions. This is something that regular hard drives are good at.
>How about those typical client workloads where almost every day is needed to manage 16-30 gigabytes of new data,
That's not a typical client workload. Go buy a large SSD or some type of SSD accelerator. Quit bitching this product doesn't fill your needs when it's better then the previous product at the same price point. If you want fast speeds with large data sets, open your wallet not your mouth.
I have a few family members that work in the Texas justice system. The number of people that have sat in jail for years to later be exonerated by DNA or new modern evidence methods are staggering. Put to death even when there was only the most circumstantial evidence that they were even involved (or other evidence that suggested they were not).
Though adding the cold case site is a good measure, over time people who commit crimes do think they have gotten away with them and may give up information they shouldn't have (to stay free).
Yes, SSDs are faster but there are other bottlenecks in the system so the difference is not always apparent to users.
WTF are you on? Unless you are network bound the boost in random IO you get from an SSD are by far the biggest benefit a desktop user can get. What other bottlenecks? CPU, processing cores, memory? They have exploded in speed, network and disk are the only ones that haven't.
I had a client hit his notebook while running. The ceramic platters in the HDD shattered. The Intel and Samsung SSDs I've used so far are all working (knock on wood). I've seen a few OCZs of other peoples die rather randomly though.
Diamonds burn. Longevity wise, Iron is your best choice, everything will quantum tunnel to iron eventually. Keeping the lighter elements from rusting it before then will be the biggest issue.
General safety. Idiot + insanely fast car = 'oh the humanity'. There thinking is the end user mods the car that it's not really their fault when the user plows in to a school bus at 200MPH.
Should be pretty easy to make a inline adapter over the SATA power connecter with some supercaps in it for desktop use. What I don't know is the ramifications of always (or at least till the cap runs out) having power on to the drive itself. A more complicated device could turn off after a few minutes of no power on the SATA input.
The problem was any $100 UPS isn't a good UPS. Most decent UPS's are going to be closer to $300, which is pretty expensive for many users (though not business users who could easily lose $300 worth of work in the blink of the lights). More expensive battery backups monitor your batteries and perform tests on them and give you very good performance metrics. Closer to the $500 range an you'll get in to the 'online' UPS range that conditions all power to the device. Oh, and make sure the electrical system you are plugging in to has a proper, low resistance ground.
What to take from this. 1. A $100 UPS is not a good UPS, doesn't matter who makes it. 2. Like any component, look at the cost of downtime and restoration caused by UPS failure and price the unit you get accordingly.
How bad does text to speech suck in comparison to voice to ear? A simple game of telephone shows that people probably miss a very large amount of what they hear, but have learned to compensate by not acting on what they hear as quickly or decisively as what they see. How many times have you verbally told someone to do something and later found out they did the wrong thing? How many times has someone told you to do something and you only really figured it out later when taking in other information on the situation?
In those terms, I don't think voice recognition will ever work right until the computer can rightly say back "speak clearly you mushed mouth meatbag, I can't understand the wet slapping noises your flesh is making."
> If I'm seen a morally questionable establishment, what's the problem? As long as it's not illegal (and even, then, YMMV) I don't believe there should be a reason for anybody to record it, and if recorded, nobody should pay attention to it. Sadly, things aren't like I would want them to be.
The problem is the other half (or some significant percent) that seeks to ban vice and considers it sin. They will trumpet their morals and show the world your flaws, which in a rational world wouldn't be a problem, but in our irrational world it can cause you to lose your job or worse.
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Lets say for a moment that I'm that rube. I have a Windows box running Quickbooks, Office, and maybe another productivity app. Lets say I'm also a iTunes user and have downloaded bought a number of HD movies.
The HD movies need a large amount of space, but they arent making the disk do interesting work. Why pay $1GB to keep them on the disk.
Office/apps are doing interesting work but don't have a huge working set size, keeping them in the small SSD cache greatly increases their performance.
Now you get the best of both worlds, fast access and large amounts of space.
Oh, and god forbid the user ever fill up that cheap, small SSD, because the performance goes to dogshit.
It goes the other way too. If you need someone to look like an idiot on a show or commercial, in recent history it's far more likely that the man will look stupid then the woman, to the point the only 'dumb' actor was the man.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1290144/Why-DOES-TV-love-portray-men-idle-feckless-idiots.html
http://www.modernman.com/why-do-commercials-think-men-are-idiots/
http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-reasons-commercials-are-sexist-against-men/
>Banning ads for sex tourism should be a no-brainier I would hope.
Why? Do you have any scientific evidence to back this up? What would banning advertising to a regulated industry (aka Netherlands) stop? My assumption is it would create a more unregulated and illegal black market, where people are hurt and have no legal recourse.
Yes.
>it doesn't change the fact that covert subliminal pornography will exist.
That's the first thing I thought when I saw the DirecTV rape ad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT77GofLYZE
What feminists seem to want is all the benefits of being a man, err pretty much higher pay without the side effects, lower life span, higher chance of an act of violence occurring to, much higher risk of heart disease.
The problem appears later on, when women try to get themselves taken more seriously then the 'norm' created by the beer-swillers. Ask a waitress about this problem. Any waitress will do.
I think this problem has been around far longer then TV has existed. In fact I would go as far and say that women getting themselves taken seriously has nothing to do with orange juice drinking lesbians on late night TV. Every time a parent hands their son Billy a toy that teaches them to build and create then give their daughter Sally a Barbie and some dress up clothes reinforces long standing cultural stereotypes. One is learning value in what they do the other in how they look. From the youngest ages of their life.
It's easy to point at taboo things and blame them, it's much harder to point at general culture and tell it to change.
I if you read the article, they feel pornography encourages the culture that allows women to make less money than men.
Which is ironic, being that women in porn earn far more then men.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_average_porn_star_salary
>Granted they're faster than most peoples 5400rpm drive running in their laptops,
Not just faster, way faster. I've upgraded a number of clients computers from the crap HP comes with by default to XTs with the 8GB cache. Unless they have a very large working set of data they commonly use, the user will not notice a significant difference between the SSHD and an SSD.
If you tell most consumers do you want a 500GB SSD for around $500 or a 500GB SSHD for $79 where the $79 drive makes most, but not all things faster, most people will go with the second option, and most people will have made the right choice going with the second option.
>Yes I do, I compile large programs,
Lets make a bet, we'll take the same computer spec wise, mine with an SSD and yours with a regular HDD and we'll compile a large program; gcc or the entire FreeBSD ports. And you can pay me a dollar for every minute longer yours takes.
> and edit video.
Video editing is a different ball game though. You don't do much random IO, its mostly a streaming workload with very few head repositions. This is something that regular hard drives are good at.
>How about those typical client workloads where almost every day is needed to manage 16-30 gigabytes of new data,
That's not a typical client workload. Go buy a large SSD or some type of SSD accelerator. Quit bitching this product doesn't fill your needs when it's better then the previous product at the same price point. If you want fast speeds with large data sets, open your wallet not your mouth.
You stated it wrong, Water vapor IS the greenhouse gas, and does the biggest contribution to keeping us warm.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas#Role_of_water_vapor
I have a few family members that work in the Texas justice system. The number of people that have sat in jail for years to later be exonerated by DNA or new modern evidence methods are staggering. Put to death even when there was only the most circumstantial evidence that they were even involved (or other evidence that suggested they were not).
Though adding the cold case site is a good measure, over time people who commit crimes do think they have gotten away with them and may give up information they shouldn't have (to stay free).
Yes, SSDs are faster but there are other bottlenecks in the system so the difference is not always apparent to users.
WTF are you on? Unless you are network bound the boost in random IO you get from an SSD are by far the biggest benefit a desktop user can get. What other bottlenecks? CPU, processing cores, memory? They have exploded in speed, network and disk are the only ones that haven't.
I had a client hit his notebook while running. The ceramic platters in the HDD shattered. The Intel and Samsung SSDs I've used so far are all working (knock on wood). I've seen a few OCZs of other peoples die rather randomly though.
All things die. Professionals backup.
Nope that stuff decays too.
Make everything from diamond.
Diamonds burn. Longevity wise, Iron is your best choice, everything will quantum tunnel to iron eventually. Keeping the lighter elements from rusting it before then will be the biggest issue.
General safety. Idiot + insanely fast car = 'oh the humanity'. There thinking is the end user mods the car that it's not really their fault when the user plows in to a school bus at 200MPH.
Working for a lot of offices there is another common item that gets plugged in to UPSs and kills them with a double whammy.
Little space heaters.
People find the first plug under their desk and stick a 1500W heater that kicks on and off, generally right beside the UPS heating it up like an oven!
I'm assuming that hitting reset will cause the board to send the drives a reset and initialize command pretty quickly.
The SysRq key sounds like the best option (though if you don't have PS2, usb locks up with the board way more often).
Should be pretty easy to make a inline adapter over the SATA power connecter with some supercaps in it for desktop use. What I don't know is the ramifications of always (or at least till the cap runs out) having power on to the drive itself. A more complicated device could turn off after a few minutes of no power on the SATA input.
What I want is a pot computer, so when I let the magic smoke out, it really is magic smoke.
The problem was any $100 UPS isn't a good UPS. Most decent UPS's are going to be closer to $300, which is pretty expensive for many users (though not business users who could easily lose $300 worth of work in the blink of the lights). More expensive battery backups monitor your batteries and perform tests on them and give you very good performance metrics. Closer to the $500 range an you'll get in to the 'online' UPS range that conditions all power to the device. Oh, and make sure the electrical system you are plugging in to has a proper, low resistance ground.
What to take from this.
1. A $100 UPS is not a good UPS, doesn't matter who makes it.
2. Like any component, look at the cost of downtime and restoration caused by UPS failure and price the unit you get accordingly.
Then they would cut the drive out of the notebook/largepad market.
Once it can throw chairs, Balmer should worry about keeping his job.
How bad does text to speech suck in comparison to voice to ear? A simple game of telephone shows that people probably miss a very large amount of what they hear, but have learned to compensate by not acting on what they hear as quickly or decisively as what they see. How many times have you verbally told someone to do something and later found out they did the wrong thing? How many times has someone told you to do something and you only really figured it out later when taking in other information on the situation?
In those terms, I don't think voice recognition will ever work right until the computer can rightly say back "speak clearly you mushed mouth meatbag, I can't understand the wet slapping noises your flesh is making."
> If I'm seen a morally questionable establishment, what's the problem? As long as it's not illegal (and even, then, YMMV) I don't believe there should be a reason for anybody to record it, and if recorded, nobody should pay attention to it. Sadly, things aren't like I would want them to be.
The problem is the other half (or some significant percent) that seeks to ban vice and considers it sin. They will trumpet their morals and show the world your flaws, which in a rational world wouldn't be a problem, but in our irrational world it can cause you to lose your job or worse.