Assuming you keep your laptop plugged in so it is charged 100%
When you use a laptop it warms up so it dies at 35-40% per year, when it is off and at room temperature maybe 20%. A 40% charged battery in the fridge will only lose 2% per year.
Look at it from Tony Martin's point of view. The only person the law went after was him, the burglars even got legal aid to sue him when he got out of prison until the press embarassed the courts into stopping the case, just like it was only public outcry that got his sentence reduced. He'd have been better off it there were no police, just him and his shotgun and the burglars. And the burglars would have been worse off.
Any legal system that puts the rights of criminals over the law abiding has something evil about it. Just call me old fashioned.
In England there was a case where Tony Martin, who'd been burgled lots of times killed a burglar. In English law it's not necessarily illegal to kill burglars in self defense. So if you had a shotgun and an unarmed burglar walked in and you shot him dead you might get away with it as self defense. The force was excessive, but since you were only defending yourself it would be ok. The problem with Tony Martin is that he apparently sat in bed with his boots on and a loaded shotgun waiting for the burglar and then chased them off the premises firing his shotgun. That seems like premeditation and it makes the excessive force illegal. Tony Martin went to prison for life, but appealed and in the end only served 3 years.
Anyhow in the middle of this case they interviewed a Texan lawyer who said something along the lines of "in Texas walking down the street you have certain rights but as soon as you break into someone's house you lose some rights, including the right to life". Texas rocks!
But your average Peter Pint doesn't know enough to know better. (Hey, I'm not putting down you folks over the pond--the average Joe Sixpack thinks broadband is a woman's belt)
Just my two cents
"Peter Pint" is cool but shouldn't you have said 1 pence or £0.01?
But, i'll likely someday get burned just for saying this: NO, goddammit, it's NOT all about business decisions based on customer preferences. I have PLENTY of awareness of Koreans and Japanese using Apple laptops with Firefox. Hell, I can see 5-10 at a time on any given visit to Borders in SF. Too bad most of them are on windoze. But, i make sure people can see Mandriva running, and Opera opening up saved HTML pages (I don't, won't and can't surf wirelessly...)
Killer sales pitch dude. You should get commission on the copies of Opera and Mandriva you sell.
Actually Scandinavia doesn't have particularly strict gun laws. At least hand guns are legal for private ownership, unlike the UK.
Mind you I'm skeptical that the UK murder rate would drop if handguns were legalised or that it would rise in Scandinavia if they were banned. For guns to have a deterrent effect you'd pretty much have to make them ubiquitous and give people concealed carry permits. Of course there'd be a rise in the homicide rate for a few decades as the rash people killed each other, but eventually society would be peaceful, if a bit jumpy.
Although the HP memristor is a major discovery for electrical engineering theory, it has yet to be demonstrated in operation at practical speeds and densities. Graphs in Williams' original report show switching operation at only ~1 Hz. Although the small dimension of the device seem to imply fast operation, the charge carriers move very slowly, with an ion mobility of 10E-10 cm2/(V s). In comparison, the highest known drift ionic mobilities occur in advanced superionic conductors, such as rubidium silver iodide with about 2*10E-4 cm^2/(V s) conducting silver ions at room temperature. Electrons and holes in silicon have a mobility ~1000 cm^2/(V s), a figure which is essential to the performance of transistors. However, a relatively low bias of 1 volt was used, and the plots appear to be generated by a mathematical model rather than a laboratory experiment.[8]
I'm a consultant ethicist that could advise you on this.
I have a base package where I look very vaguely at the surface of things and decide most things are immoral. I also have a premium package where I look much deeper into the history of the issues and decided that what your asking is actually ethically ok.
Actually even if you do do use it for swap, or some application that writes to out absolutely flat out the lifetime is less than Intel quotes. If I use the formula here
2 million (write endurance) x 64G (capacity) divided by 80M bytes / sec gives the endurance limited life in seconds.
I can work out how much less.
If you substitute the figures Intel gives for write endurance (100000), capacity(80GB) and write speed(170MB/sec) you only get 1.5 years. Bear in mind that's for an application that writes flat out at 170MB/sec 24 hours a day.
The odd thing is if you compare it to the X25-M. Write endurance is 10x less at 10000, write speed is lower at 70MB/sec. There I get 0,37 years. Mind you with SLC memory being 1/3 the price you could just buy three times as much of it. That way you get 3x the storage and a lifesapce of 1 year absolute worst case. SLC actually seems like a better choice for most people.
Incidentally, this really is a worst case, hopefully no real world application can saturate write bandwidth like this.
It would also make sense to gradually decrease the write bandwidth so the drive slows down in its old age but takes longer to die. Throttling write bandwidth to 70MB/sec on the SLC drive would give a life of 3.7 years. Throttling to 70MB/sec after half the writes were used up for an average write rate of 120MB/sec would give you 2.16 years. You could imagine a sort of Zeno's throttling algorithm (50% bandwidth at 50% life, 25% bandwidth at 75% life and so on) where the write bandwidth keeps dropping so the drive slows down but never actually dies.
That would certainly help them, but I think they're really going for the "ink jet" model - give the hardware away below cost and make the money back on consumables.
All games consoles use that model initially, but the PS2 was profitable in the end. The XBox never was, that's the reason it was replaced with the XBox 360. At some point that will be profitable too if there plan works out.
I read that the Valhalla motherboard will have the integrated CPU and GPU. At that point the reductions in build costs will make it profitable. Of course having to cut the price might prevent that, but the plan from the start was to make something which was loss making at the start but after a few motherboard revisions becomes profitable to sell.
you need to go to a movie in detroit. you will have at least 3 very loud ethnic women talking away on their cellphone. If not on the phone they are talking to the screen...
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A lot of it depends on temperature
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium-ion_battery#Storage_temperature_and_charge
Assuming you keep your laptop plugged in so it is charged 100%
When you use a laptop it warms up so it dies at 35-40% per year, when it is off and at room temperature maybe 20%. A 40% charged battery in the fridge will only lose 2% per year.
Look at it from Tony Martin's point of view. The only person the law went after was him, the burglars even got legal aid to sue him when he got out of prison until the press embarassed the courts into stopping the case, just like it was only public outcry that got his sentence reduced. He'd have been better off it there were no police, just him and his shotgun and the burglars. And the burglars would have been worse off.
Any legal system that puts the rights of criminals over the law abiding has something evil about it. Just call me old fashioned.
In England there was a case where Tony Martin, who'd been burgled lots of times killed a burglar. In English law it's not necessarily illegal to kill burglars in self defense. So if you had a shotgun and an unarmed burglar walked in and you shot him dead you might get away with it as self defense. The force was excessive, but since you were only defending yourself it would be ok. The problem with Tony Martin is that he apparently sat in bed with his boots on and a loaded shotgun waiting for the burglar and then chased them off the premises firing his shotgun. That seems like premeditation and it makes the excessive force illegal. Tony Martin went to prison for life, but appealed and in the end only served 3 years.
Anyhow in the middle of this case they interviewed a Texan lawyer who said something along the lines of "in Texas walking down the street you have certain rights but as soon as you break into someone's house you lose some rights, including the right to life". Texas rocks!
And then disappear in a puff of logic?
But your average Peter Pint doesn't know enough to know better. (Hey, I'm not putting down you folks over the pond--the average Joe Sixpack thinks broadband is a woman's belt)
Just my two cents
"Peter Pint" is cool but shouldn't you have said 1 pence or £0.01?
I've always wondered how Dawkins Himself would react if you got the front row in one of his lectures to wear "Dawkins is God" T shirts.
If on the other hand you like jumping through hoops, clicking here is better.
But, i'll likely someday get burned just for saying this: NO, goddammit, it's NOT all about business decisions based on customer preferences. I have PLENTY of awareness of Koreans and Japanese using Apple laptops with Firefox. Hell, I can see 5-10 at a time on any given visit to Borders in SF. Too bad most of them are on windoze. But, i make sure people can see Mandriva running, and Opera opening up saved HTML pages (I don't, won't and can't surf wirelessly...)
Killer sales pitch dude. You should get commission on the copies of Opera and Mandriva you sell.
Come to think of it, you do ;-)
So you're saying California is ahead of the curve?
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<type>DDOS</type>
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</attack>
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In your Preferences, click the Suck? tab and uncheck the kdawson checkbox.
Actually Scandinavia doesn't have particularly strict gun laws. At least hand guns are legal for private ownership, unlike the UK.
Mind you I'm skeptical that the UK murder rate would drop if handguns were legalised or that it would rise in Scandinavia if they were banned. For guns to have a deterrent effect you'd pretty much have to make them ubiquitous and give people concealed carry permits. Of course there'd be a rise in the homicide rate for a few decades as the rash people killed each other, but eventually society would be peaceful, if a bit jumpy.
You joke but look at this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memristor#Titanium_dioxide_memristor
Although the HP memristor is a major discovery for electrical engineering theory, it has yet to be demonstrated in operation at practical speeds and densities. Graphs in Williams' original report show switching operation at only ~1 Hz. Although the small dimension of the device seem to imply fast operation, the charge carriers move very slowly, with an ion mobility of 10E-10 cm2/(V s). In comparison, the highest known drift ionic mobilities occur in advanced superionic conductors, such as rubidium silver iodide with about 2*10E-4 cm^2/(V s) conducting silver ions at room temperature. Electrons and holes in silicon have a mobility ~1000 cm^2/(V s), a figure which is essential to the performance of transistors. However, a relatively low bias of 1 volt was used, and the plots appear to be generated by a mathematical model rather than a laboratory experiment.[8]
1Hz? Next!
If I did, I just got modded up for it. On slashdot. Yay me!
its like myspace but for posh peeple I fink.
What would the ethical ramification of this be?
I'm a consultant ethicist that could advise you on this.
I have a base package where I look very vaguely at the surface of things and decide most things are immoral. I also have a premium package where I look much deeper into the history of the issues and decided that what your asking is actually ethically ok.
The electoral success of the Republican party in the US and the Conservatives in the UK show that it is better to be mean than smart.
Actually even if you do do use it for swap, or some application that writes to out absolutely flat out the lifetime is less than Intel quotes. If I use the formula here
http://www.storagesearch.com/ssdmyths-endurance.html
2 million (write endurance) x 64G (capacity) divided by 80M bytes / sec gives the endurance limited life in seconds.
I can work out how much less.
If you substitute the figures Intel gives for write endurance (100000), capacity(80GB) and write speed(170MB/sec) you only get 1.5 years. Bear in mind that's for an application that writes flat out at 170MB/sec 24 hours a day.
The odd thing is if you compare it to the X25-M. Write endurance is 10x less at 10000, write speed is lower at 70MB/sec. There I get 0,37 years. Mind you with SLC memory being 1/3 the price you could just buy three times as much of it. That way you get 3x the storage and a lifesapce of 1 year absolute worst case. SLC actually seems like a better choice for most people.
Incidentally, this really is a worst case, hopefully no real world application can saturate write bandwidth like this.
It would also make sense to gradually decrease the write bandwidth so the drive slows down in its old age but takes longer to die. Throttling write bandwidth to 70MB/sec on the SLC drive would give a life of 3.7 years. Throttling to 70MB/sec after half the writes were used up for an average write rate of 120MB/sec would give you 2.16 years. You could imagine a sort of Zeno's throttling algorithm (50% bandwidth at 50% life, 25% bandwidth at 75% life and so on) where the write bandwidth keeps dropping so the drive slows down but never actually dies.
Yup, and it uses SLC chips so it has an enormously long lifetime, around 70 years according to Intel.
That would certainly help them, but I think they're really going for the "ink jet" model - give the hardware away below cost and make the money back on consumables.
All games consoles use that model initially, but the PS2 was profitable in the end. The XBox never was, that's the reason it was replaced with the XBox 360. At some point that will be profitable too if there plan works out.
I read that the Valhalla motherboard will have the integrated CPU and GPU. At that point the reductions in build costs will make it profitable. Of course having to cut the price might prevent that, but the plan from the start was to make something which was loss making at the start but after a few motherboard revisions becomes profitable to sell.
(keep your friends close, and your enemies closer).
What if your enemies have FUCKING SWORDS?
Dude, that's beautiful.
THIS comment is offtopic.
The mods got it right this time. Actually I think the moderators are doing a very good job, under very difficult circumstances.
you need to go to a movie in detroit. you will have at least 3 very loud ethnic women talking away on their cellphone. If not on the phone they are talking to the screen...
"Dont go in there! OH MY! DONT DO IT! LORDY!"
I stopped going to the theater because of it.
OH NO YOU DI'NT JUST SAY THAT!
Maybe he read about them on girlsaresilly.net.