Just because expensive mobile gadgets use expensive solid-state drives does not mean hard drives are dead, dying, or even decayin
True, but mechanical hard drives usually the bottle necks for many systems who need raw speed for power applications and games.
Its not something as trivial as mobile gadgets, but many gamers have reported amazing results on their system using SSD. Soon most desktop publishing and video production houses will have SSD as their primary hard drive because they go the bick bucks to spend (no more waiting 12 hours for video to compress).
I do believe mechanical hard drives will be used in tandem with SSD for a while because sometimes you just need archiving.
Next year when I build a new gaming system I plan on using an SSD as my primary hard drive (hopefully prices will have gone done) and then an old HDD as archive purposes.
If SSD ever gets cheap enough I'll just use that as my primary drive once it gets beyond 125 GB.
(I only use a 100gb partition for my primary drive that I currently use for games because I tend to format it a lot)
Find a medium-sized 3'rd party tech support operation - go to school too - but contemplate broadening your skill set beyond pure IT - take a year to go to the Vancouver Film School and earn one of their computer-based degrees (animation, sound recording/transformation) and lateral into the production industry.
As a person who went to school for computer animation and now works in IT...
Good luck with that!
Really, unless you are doing animation for yourself or live in California, then you're not going to make a living on it.
However, you could learn video and go into taping weddings... There is never a shortage of work for that.
.web advertising rates have risen to the point where they accurately reflect the value they can provide clients rather than being bogged down by the dinosaur media forms of print and tv commanding increasingly outdated and thus artificially inflated prices.
If this isn't a "sell" signal, I don't know what is.
If you happen to be a investor on the stock market, you can buy ProShares UltraShort Gold (ETF) on ticker GLL which is a leveraged short fund on gold. I've been thinking on putting something in it but Gold has been dropping due to the unexpected dollar strength so its a bit high right now.
If you want to buy gold at any reasonable rate, you pretty much have to do it well before you actually need it(or you have to be buying in some other apocalypse currency, like dog food or ammunition).
See. I don't understand the gold bugs. Most of their hyper-inflation apocalypse scenarios they state that gold will be the new currency, but time and time again nations that have went through hyper-inflation have reverted to bartering instead.
When people are in times to need, they look to commodities with utility rather than value.
So in the wastelands in the future people will value gas, water, canned food, guns and ammo and not a pretty metal.
Secondly, if anarchy does set in, you can always use your gun to take someone else's gold if you wanna bother lugging that around.
I don't own any of these devices, but how do these games compare? Is a top-of-the-line iPhone game as cool or complex as a top-of-the-line DS game? Isn't it a different kind of game -- certainly a different game experience?
I played Cooking Mama lite on the iPhone and couldn't really tell a difference between it and the DS version. Same for the "My Little Pony" ports.
We've seen this with so many things, including solar cells - Constant assurance that they are getting cheaper easier to make, more efficient, etc; people ranting about how it is finally feasible and will be seen in mass quantities soon
Have you been living under a rock? Solar cells are flying off the shelves as soon as the manufactures can make them. They are putting them on top of cars (have you seen that Prius commercial?) and cramming them into every other device possible.
It sort of like SSDs as well which are rapidly changing.
I know you are being humorous, but they featured a self milking cow turnstyle on "Dirty Jobs". Cows would walk on this slowly turning merry go round and a robot would attach milking devices to them and they would ride around to the other side of the room where it would let them off when they are finished.
Apparently the cows liked it and pretty much knew what to do to get on and off the platform.
Mike still had to clean the poo which no one had built a robot to clean up.
I think the problem with nanotechnology is that people make the assumption that it has to be a miniature self aware all purpose robot.
Where really we already have nanotechnology being used in the real world today.
I think we should call it "nanorobotics" instead of nanotechnology to make it more clear to people.
That said, they do have nanobots out there in the research phase which are very promising for chemical delivery for tumors at this point so we are going to see something in 5 to 10 years.
Yeah. I remember the PC jr keyboard issue but it wasn't bothering me because I was a young'un playing games back then and I remember dad getting the sidebar expansion so we'd have 640K.
Those were the days... I remember playing Ghostbusters, Jumpman, Bar Tap, Spacewars, Kings Quest II, and countless other games I can't remember off the top of my head.
It was fun for the time at least for me and I'm sure plenty others. I really don't think you should have used a PCjr for business, but I think for most of us used it for gaming because our parents weren't going to buy the top of the line systems.
Second, if a "pea-sized piece of rock" is going fast enough to make "a foot wide crater in the ground," it's not going to be "bouncing off" shit, least of all this kid's hand. It would tear through him like a shotgun slug.
I responded to this question on dig and I have simple answer because the same thing happens with full metal jackets ammunition on soft targets.
First the idea that bullets or any objects that pierce flesh will cause blow back is false.
Secondly, the US forces in Mogadishu (you know Black Hawk down) discovered that the their current model of M16s had no stopping power on drug crazed militia men who felt no pain. Their bullets were designed to pierce armored targets and would basically go through the attackers without causing much to the attacker who kept fighting. The bullet would simply pass through the attacker without mushrooming or fragmenting and does not knock them down.
The AK-47 on the other hand does not have this problem and causes massive flesh damage as it not only mushrooms but also spirals through the human body.
You might have trouble punching through Kevlar though...
So if we assume that the meteor burnt off any material that would have "mushroomed" like a hallow point bullet it is safe to assume that it would have pierced the flesh and went on through at that high of a speed without affecting the surrounding hand.
Had it of course hit something harder than bone then it might have shattered and caused more damage.
Don't get me wrong, we are happy enough with the iPhones that we will stay with AT&T as long as the exclusive agreement lasts, but listen up AT&T, you are expendable and we would GLADLY drop your ass. We and everyone else is fed up with your BS.
I would like to have an iPhone on the Verizon network, but I doubt Verizon would ever let the device on because they can't lock it down.
Money laundering is all about getting suckers to do your banking.
I got a spam email a few months back that sounded something to this effect. Basically they were looking to hire someone to deposit checks into someone else's bank accounts.
Can't seem to find it so must have deleted it, but I thought it amusing because it basically was money laundering.
I'm confused. So if I get a copy of Windows in Europe and do a full reinstall, how am I supposed to use my already-active internet connection to get Firefox?
And thus Microsoft proves it's point to the EU.
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When you kill someone face to face, you experience it more directly, and you put yourself more directly at risk. When you use tools to kill from a distance, the risks are less obvious and wrongs are easier to deny.
World War I just sent a telegram and tells you are 95 years late but it wants you to keep the poisonous gas, machine guns, and 10km range artillery.
Machines don't need sentience to kill. They might need it to refrain from killing though...
Actually the author of Bolo had a different point to the idea why people needed humans in war.
In his future (read the wiki link) super intelligence tanks rule the battlefield but they are still piloted by humans that oversea them and it debates why the need for the humans.
*spoiler*
At the end one of the short stories a Bolo come to the conclusion that humans were required to make sure that the AI had enough hate to commit genocide on the enemy and that a truly logical being would object to the violence.
Humans think too highly of themselves to think them above mass murder with or without AI. Perhaps tanking the human out of the question would result in less retribution attacks.
There's no penalty only if your time is worthless. Say you were on your way somewhere and then BAM you're a ghost 10 minutes from your corpse. Run back to your corpse and BAM you're a ghost for 10 more minutes. You get the idea.
Ghost? Who plays Ultima Online anymore?;)
(I mean all other games don't have the ghost system as far as I know but instant respawn at your bind point)
History - at least in my school, we almost never covered anything more current than world war II. I don't think what happened in the American Revolution has changed significantly in five years. And really current events should be using current journalism rather than a textbook anyway.
I'm not sure how old you are, but I had a recent conversation that reminds me of how things change even with history.
I was sitting on the couch watching history channel with my significant other about the meteor that killed the dinosaurs, and she turns to me and says "Do you remember growing up that they taught us in school they really didn't know what happened to the dinosaurs?"
And I thought to myself since it had been a few decades and I said "Wow. You're right. All I can remember is them saying they thought it might have been an ice age, but no one really knew what happened to them."
So yes, even history can change dramatically as we find out more information down the road.
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Just because expensive mobile gadgets use expensive solid-state drives does not mean hard drives are dead, dying, or even decaying.
Oh and SSD vs HDD reminds me of CRT versus LCD about 5 years ago.
Many people said LCDs screens were too expensive but...
Do you see any CRTs for sale today?
Just because expensive mobile gadgets use expensive solid-state drives does not mean hard drives are dead, dying, or even decayin
True, but mechanical hard drives usually the bottle necks for many systems who need raw speed for power applications and games.
Its not something as trivial as mobile gadgets, but many gamers have reported amazing results on their system using SSD. Soon most desktop publishing and video production houses will have SSD as their primary hard drive because they go the bick bucks to spend (no more waiting 12 hours for video to compress).
I do believe mechanical hard drives will be used in tandem with SSD for a while because sometimes you just need archiving.
Next year when I build a new gaming system I plan on using an SSD as my primary hard drive (hopefully prices will have gone done) and then an old HDD as archive purposes.
If SSD ever gets cheap enough I'll just use that as my primary drive once it gets beyond 125 GB.
(I only use a 100gb partition for my primary drive that I currently use for games because I tend to format it a lot)
Find a medium-sized 3'rd party tech support operation - go to school too - but contemplate broadening your skill set beyond pure IT - take a year to go to the Vancouver Film School and earn one of their computer-based degrees (animation, sound recording/transformation) and lateral into the production industry.
As a person who went to school for computer animation and now works in IT...
Good luck with that!
Really, unless you are doing animation for yourself or live in California, then you're not going to make a living on it.
However, you could learn video and go into taping weddings... There is never a shortage of work for that.
.web advertising rates have risen to the point where they accurately reflect the value they can provide clients rather than being bogged down by the dinosaur media forms of print and tv commanding increasingly outdated and thus artificially inflated prices.
That and lack of a decent micropayment solution.
According to that link posted in a few posts above...
Tungsten
...because it's the right thing to do.
Gold seems too arbitrary and no man can produce it except miners no matter how hard they work.
Not only that but we don't really need it in day to day activities other than gold fillings and wires.
Why not create an energy based currency?
If this isn't a "sell" signal, I don't know what is.
If you happen to be a investor on the stock market, you can buy ProShares UltraShort Gold (ETF) on ticker GLL which is a leveraged short fund on gold. I've been thinking on putting something in it but Gold has been dropping due to the unexpected dollar strength so its a bit high right now.
If you want to buy gold at any reasonable rate, you pretty much have to do it well before you actually need it(or you have to be buying in some other apocalypse currency, like dog food or ammunition).
See. I don't understand the gold bugs. Most of their hyper-inflation apocalypse scenarios they state that gold will be the new currency, but time and time again nations that have went through hyper-inflation have reverted to bartering instead.
When people are in times to need, they look to commodities with utility rather than value.
So in the wastelands in the future people will value gas, water, canned food, guns and ammo and not a pretty metal.
Secondly, if anarchy does set in, you can always use your gun to take someone else's gold if you wanna bother lugging that around.
I never considered games on a cell phone before.
Besides the net hack, tetris, and brick buster clones on previous models I never thought about playing games on my Phone either.
I did download Wolfenstein3d for nostalgias sake (in fact the only game I've bought for the iPhone) and have to say its pretty fun.
I wonder if they do have a nethack clone for free out there in the iPhone store.
I don't own any of these devices, but how do these games compare? Is a top-of-the-line iPhone game as cool or complex as a top-of-the-line DS game? Isn't it a different kind of game -- certainly a different game experience?
I played Cooking Mama lite on the iPhone and couldn't really tell a difference between it and the DS version. Same for the "My Little Pony" ports.
What? Why is everyone looking at me?
We've seen this with so many things, including solar cells - Constant assurance that they are getting cheaper easier to make, more efficient, etc; people ranting about how it is finally feasible and will be seen in mass quantities soon
Have you been living under a rock? Solar cells are flying off the shelves as soon as the manufactures can make them. They are putting them on top of cars (have you seen that Prius commercial?) and cramming them into every other device possible.
It sort of like SSDs as well which are rapidly changing.
Self milking cows?
I know you are being humorous, but they featured a self milking cow turnstyle on "Dirty Jobs". Cows would walk on this slowly turning merry go round and a robot would attach milking devices to them and they would ride around to the other side of the room where it would let them off when they are finished.
Apparently the cows liked it and pretty much knew what to do to get on and off the platform.
Mike still had to clean the poo which no one had built a robot to clean up.
Just around the corner! No, really!
I think the problem with nanotechnology is that people make the assumption that it has to be a miniature self aware all purpose robot.
Where really we already have nanotechnology being used in the real world today.
I think we should call it "nanorobotics" instead of nanotechnology to make it more clear to people.
That said, they do have nanobots out there in the research phase which are very promising for chemical delivery for tumors at this point so we are going to see something in 5 to 10 years.
Yeah. I remember the PC jr keyboard issue but it wasn't bothering me because I was a young'un playing games back then and I remember dad getting the sidebar expansion so we'd have 640K.
Those were the days... I remember playing Ghostbusters, Jumpman, Bar Tap, Spacewars, Kings Quest II, and countless other games I can't remember off the top of my head.
It was fun for the time at least for me and I'm sure plenty others. I really don't think you should have used a PCjr for business, but I think for most of us used it for gaming because our parents weren't going to buy the top of the line systems.
Then came the IBM PS/1 and PS/2.
Remember those?
The article never says it bounced off his hand... Though if we take his word for it:
"When it hit me it knocked me flying and then was still going fast enough to bury itself into the road," he explained.
I think feel down from the shock of the injury rather the meteor knocking him down.
I don't know why they don't tell the details but if I don't think something going that fast is going to bounce off his hand.
Now if they'd only let us see his hand, we could be sure.
Second, if a "pea-sized piece of rock" is going fast enough to make "a foot wide crater in the ground," it's not going to be "bouncing off" shit, least of all this kid's hand. It would tear through him like a shotgun slug.
I responded to this question on dig and I have simple answer because the same thing happens with full metal jackets ammunition on soft targets.
First the idea that bullets or any objects that pierce flesh will cause blow back is false.
Secondly, the US forces in Mogadishu (you know Black Hawk down) discovered that the their current model of M16s had no stopping power on drug crazed militia men who felt no pain. Their bullets were designed to pierce armored targets and would basically go through the attackers without causing much to the attacker who kept fighting. The bullet would simply pass through the attacker without mushrooming or fragmenting and does not knock them down.
The AK-47 on the other hand does not have this problem and causes massive flesh damage as it not only mushrooms but also spirals through the human body.
You might have trouble punching through Kevlar though...
So if we assume that the meteor burnt off any material that would have "mushroomed" like a hallow point bullet it is safe to assume that it would have pierced the flesh and went on through at that high of a speed without affecting the surrounding hand.
Had it of course hit something harder than bone then it might have shattered and caused more damage.
Don't get me wrong, we are happy enough with the iPhones that we will stay with AT&T as long as the exclusive agreement lasts, but listen up AT&T, you are expendable and we would GLADLY drop your ass. We and everyone else is fed up with your BS.
I would like to have an iPhone on the Verizon network, but I doubt Verizon would ever let the device on because they can't lock it down.
Maybe it's not a conspiracy to deprive you.
Yeah, its public knowledge on the minutes from the last shareholder meeting.
Money laundering is all about getting suckers to do your banking.
I got a spam email a few months back that sounded something to this effect. Basically they were looking to hire someone to deposit checks into someone else's bank accounts.
Can't seem to find it so must have deleted it, but I thought it amusing because it basically was money laundering.
I'm confused. So if I get a copy of Windows in Europe and do a full reinstall, how am I supposed to use my already-active internet connection to get Firefox?
And thus Microsoft proves it's point to the EU.
When you kill someone face to face, you experience it more directly, and you put yourself more directly at risk. When you use tools to kill from a distance, the risks are less obvious and wrongs are easier to deny.
World War I just sent a telegram and tells you are 95 years late but it wants you to keep the poisonous gas, machine guns, and 10km range artillery.
They've had enough as it is.
Machines don't need sentience to kill. They might need it to refrain from killing though...
Actually the author of Bolo had a different point to the idea why people needed humans in war.
In his future (read the wiki link) super intelligence tanks rule the battlefield but they are still piloted by humans that oversea them and it debates why the need for the humans.
*spoiler*
At the end one of the short stories a Bolo come to the conclusion that humans were required to make sure that the AI had enough hate to commit genocide on the enemy and that a truly logical being would object to the violence.
Humans think too highly of themselves to think them above mass murder with or without AI. Perhaps tanking the human out of the question would result in less retribution attacks.
There's no penalty only if your time is worthless. Say you were on your way somewhere and then BAM you're a ghost 10 minutes from your corpse. Run back to your corpse and BAM you're a ghost for 10 more minutes. You get the idea.
Ghost? Who plays Ultima Online anymore? ;)
(I mean all other games don't have the ghost system as far as I know but instant respawn at your bind point)
History - at least in my school, we almost never covered anything more current than world war II. I don't think what happened in the American Revolution has changed significantly in five years. And really current events should be using current journalism rather than a textbook anyway.
I'm not sure how old you are, but I had a recent conversation that reminds me of how things change even with history.
I was sitting on the couch watching history channel with my significant other about the meteor that killed the dinosaurs, and she turns to me and says "Do you remember growing up that they taught us in school they really didn't know what happened to the dinosaurs?"
And I thought to myself since it had been a few decades and I said "Wow. You're right. All I can remember is them saying they thought it might have been an ice age, but no one really knew what happened to them."
So yes, even history can change dramatically as we find out more information down the road.
Horribly childish, and just gives the opposition more ammo, and reinforces the childish stereotype.
But hey... They got a seat on the EU parliament.