They are getting $100 mil and they probably dont leave their parents basements all that much anyway.
Yeah, but now they can afford to buy their parents a house with a 10,000 sq ft basement!
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You mean the original Odyssey with the static-cling TV overlays? Yeah, we had one of those, too! I mostly recall the Simon Says game with the (as I recall) translucent drawings of kids on the screen and you had to move your square to the appropriate clear window on the overlay when that body part was called out. And keeping score on paper!
I know what you mean about being old. My kids would never understand not being able to play their Odyssey on an odyssey in our Odyssey!
I'd rather wait for the flash-only solid state disks to become affordable than buy one of these.
Yes, but buying one of these is what will help ramp up the production processes and generate the economy of scale that makes the flash-only drive you want more affordable in the future.
What's worse, would EZ-Pass or On*Star (I have neither system - I'd rather bleed to death at the side of the road after an accident than lose my privacy 100% of the time)
Apparently, you are not aware that On*Star can give restaurant recommendations in times of dire emergency or you'd have never made your comment.
Running power over tiny 24 gauge wires is very inefficient too. Try again.
If the current draw is small enough, there is very little power wasted. If the current draw was high enough to waste significant power, the wasted power would be turned into heat in the wire - how hot do you really think PoE wiring gets? Not much heat == not much power wasted. Now compare that to a wall-wart - even when disconnected from a load, they get warm.
But to the original poster's point - the vast majority of network equipment is already powered externally - PCs, switches, routers, etc. PoE is not going to power devices like that and what's left over (access points, etc) is probably not significant.
Until they perceive a "non-payment".. What happens then when the lights go out? Do the DNS servers stop working, do the samba servers get rm'ed? Or does the master-password holders (READ google) just shut down every network appliance you all are using?
As opposed to what...Product Activation?
And maybe you "owned" a copy of Wordstar at some point - are you still able to do business with it? The world marches on and you will have to march along with it. Maybe you can afford to be a step behind but there is a limit to the number of steps you can lag without it becoming a show-stopper.
Software pay-per-use, -feature, or -month is coming. Inevitably.
It's possible that Seagate could, in the future, come out with a SATA version of this drive, but I don't think it's likely given the power consumption and heat characteristics of 15K RPM drives
How, exactly, does the power and heat of the drive rule out a certain interface? I run some extensive SATA(big)- and SCSI(fast)-based arrays and they're built on exactly the same platform, the only difference being the backplane PCB.
I had a 1978 Dodge Omni that got 36 to 38 mpg when it was out of tune and half dead, it got much better mileage new. I'm not talking EPA I'm talking real world miles. Based on the revised EPA estimates that 30 year old technology would compete with the hybrids. Something is seriously wrong here. For all the R&D they are going backwards.
Take your Omni and add a ton of safety features (airbags, side-impact beams, and a chassis that performs WAY better at protecting you in a collision).
And add a bunch of features - power windows, door locks, steering, brakes were not as common in high-mileage vehicles in 1978. You'll have to invent and install ABS and stability control, too. Make the car much quieter, handle better, and ride smoother. Most of these either require power or add weight or both.
Now reduce the emissions of your Omni by 90% or more. Keep the power the same. No, wait, add 30HP.
NOW tell me how many miles per gallon you get with your 70's engine tech while matching ALL aspects of modern-car performance.
And ISP's really should be looking at blocking... port 25
As the keeper of a corporate network that includes laptop-wielding field personnell, this is a major PITA. I currently have them hitting our corporate SMTP server with SMTP authentication. Until someone's ISP starts blocking or redirecting port 25, then I have to instruct the user to change their outbound SMTP server to that of their ISP (which they never know but expect me to, or to find out). Now they take the laptop out into the wild and want to send an email. It tries to send it through their home ISP's email server but it won't accept that because they are outside the ISP's network. Now I have to tell them to put the corp SMTP server back in their Outlook setup. It's even worse when the "road isp" blocks - yep, another SMTP setup they have to manage.
Email is becoming ruined as a reliable business tool. The only reasonable option I see is to go to 100% HTML email.
Hmm, is that the cycle where we see one day of the Sun's life, and during that day the sun gets shot multiple times, saves the president, arrests the president later, gets beaten mercilessly, heals completely, and saves the girl, all in one day.. Or am I confusing this with something else...?
No, this solar cycle is the one with three wheels.
what uses more power -- your hair dryer or wireless router, you can do this simple test. put your hand on the hair dryer -- in just a few seconds, it will burn. perhaps a 1st degree burn. now, put your hand on your wireless router. warm, but not burn
Now this explains my electric bill! I know that if I touch my soldering iron, I will get a nasty 2nd or 3rd degree burn almost instantly but if I put my hand near the heater outlet in my house, it's quite comfortable.
Who knew that my soldering iron was using SO MUCH power yet my central heating almost nothing at all!
i dunno. i thought every self-respecting nerd had a handle on basic home power and loading.
which makes database probramming a royal pain in the arse.
No! They are one of the most useful terms you can have. It means "undefined". Say you have a boolean field, 0 or 1. If the field is Null, I can tell that data has not been provided. Without Nulls, you can't tell if data has been provided because you have to default to 0 or 1 - and that's an answer that you may not have. Same thing with dates - if you want to show that no date has been provided you have to start making "magic" values (like 01/01/80 or 12/31/1999 - wait, never mind that one!) that signify "no data". Move that to another system or try to exchange data with another system and they will not likely make the same assumptions - kablammo!
One of my biggest frustrations of programming in.NET vs. VB6 is that I can't Null non-reference types and therefore have to resort to magic values and other hacks like wrapping. UGH! Yeah, that's not database programming but how many projects do not have to interface with a database at some point?
Nulls have a place - Like the song says, "If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice!"
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Movie piracy is at an all time high! Even in the theatres, piracy has increased by orders of magnitude over the last couple weeks!
They are getting $100 mil and they probably dont leave their parents basements all that much anyway.
Yeah, but now they can afford to buy their parents a house with a 10,000 sq ft basement!
You mean the original Odyssey with the static-cling TV overlays? Yeah, we had one of those, too! I mostly recall the Simon Says game with the (as I recall) translucent drawings of kids on the screen and you had to move your square to the appropriate clear window on the overlay when that body part was called out. And keeping score on paper!
I know what you mean about being old. My kids would never understand not being able to play their Odyssey on an odyssey in our Odyssey!
I'd rather wait for the flash-only solid state disks to become affordable than buy one of these.
Yes, but buying one of these is what will help ramp up the production processes and generate the economy of scale that makes the flash-only drive you want more affordable in the future.
After all, we're supposed to replicate data 3 times, right?
:^)
That's why my server has "New Folder", "New Folder(2)", and "New Folder(3)" on it.
What's worse, would EZ-Pass or On*Star (I have neither system - I'd rather bleed to death at the side of the road after an accident than lose my privacy 100% of the time)
Apparently, you are not aware that On*Star can give restaurant recommendations in times of dire emergency or you'd have never made your comment.
Running power over tiny 24 gauge wires is very inefficient too. Try again.
If the current draw is small enough, there is very little power wasted. If the current draw was high enough to waste significant power, the wasted power would be turned into heat in the wire - how hot do you really think PoE wiring gets? Not much heat == not much power wasted. Now compare that to a wall-wart - even when disconnected from a load, they get warm.
But to the original poster's point - the vast majority of network equipment is already powered externally - PCs, switches, routers, etc. PoE is not going to power devices like that and what's left over (access points, etc) is probably not significant.
Until they perceive a "non-payment".. What happens then when the lights go out? Do the DNS servers stop working, do the samba servers get rm'ed? Or does the master-password holders (READ google) just shut down every network appliance you all are using?
As opposed to what...Product Activation?
And maybe you "owned" a copy of Wordstar at some point - are you still able to do business with it? The world marches on and you will have to march along with it. Maybe you can afford to be a step behind but there is a limit to the number of steps you can lag without it becoming a show-stopper.
Software pay-per-use, -feature, or -month is coming. Inevitably.
It's possible that Seagate could, in the future, come out with a SATA version of this drive, but I don't think it's likely given the power consumption and heat characteristics of 15K RPM drives
How, exactly, does the power and heat of the drive rule out a certain interface? I run some extensive SATA(big)- and SCSI(fast)-based arrays and they're built on exactly the same platform, the only difference being the backplane PCB.
I'm with ya on the laptop power issue, tho.
At 7cm, it appears that you've measured your "middle testicle".
...I probably would have been a math or physics major instead. They are a million times nicer to girls over there. They are desperate to have them.
You can't expect the IT guys to be so accomodating to you when they have way so many women after them as it is.
you were probably a fan of storing dates as 2 characters in the 90s a well...
I assume you mean the 1790s....
Is is a broad range of implementations that manages a variety of processes to enhance the upside of productive output.
It really doesn't get much more clear than that, it's right in the brochure.
Urasshole
You know what they say:
You give 'em an inch, and they take a kilometer!
...but laziness always pays off now. http://www.despair.com/proc24x30pri.html
I had a 1978 Dodge Omni that got 36 to 38 mpg when it was out of tune and half dead, it got much better mileage new. I'm not talking EPA I'm talking real world miles. Based on the revised EPA estimates that 30 year old technology would compete with the hybrids. Something is seriously wrong here. For all the R&D they are going backwards.
Take your Omni and add a ton of safety features (airbags, side-impact beams, and a chassis that performs WAY better at protecting you in a collision).
And add a bunch of features - power windows, door locks, steering, brakes were not as common in high-mileage vehicles in 1978. You'll have to invent and install ABS and stability control, too. Make the car much quieter, handle better, and ride smoother. Most of these either require power or add weight or both.
Now reduce the emissions of your Omni by 90% or more. Keep the power the same. No, wait, add 30HP.
NOW tell me how many miles per gallon you get with your 70's engine tech while matching ALL aspects of modern-car performance.
And ISP's really should be looking at blocking ... port 25
As the keeper of a corporate network that includes laptop-wielding field personnell, this is a major PITA. I currently have them hitting our corporate SMTP server with SMTP authentication. Until someone's ISP starts blocking or redirecting port 25, then I have to instruct the user to change their outbound SMTP server to that of their ISP (which they never know but expect me to, or to find out). Now they take the laptop out into the wild and want to send an email. It tries to send it through their home ISP's email server but it won't accept that because they are outside the ISP's network. Now I have to tell them to put the corp SMTP server back in their Outlook setup. It's even worse when the "road isp" blocks - yep, another SMTP setup they have to manage.
Email is becoming ruined as a reliable business tool. The only reasonable option I see is to go to 100% HTML email.
Hmm, is that the cycle where we see one day of the Sun's life, and during that day the sun gets shot multiple times, saves the president, arrests the president later, gets beaten mercilessly, heals completely, and saves the girl, all in one day.. Or am I confusing this with something else...?
No, this solar cycle is the one with three wheels.
Out of interest, how do they define an "eastern" side of the sun?
It's driectly opposite the "Western" side?
i was going for the joke. .
:^P
what i really should have known better than was to forget that nerds aren't known for their sense of humor. .
That explains it... I'm a geek and on this side of the tracks, humor is proportional to the square of the sarcasm...
what uses more power -- your hair dryer or wireless router, you can do this simple test. put your hand on the hair dryer -- in just a few seconds, it will burn. perhaps a 1st degree burn. now, put your hand on your wireless router. warm, but not burn
:rolleyes:
Now this explains my electric bill! I know that if I touch my soldering iron, I will get a nasty 2nd or 3rd degree burn almost instantly but if I put my hand near the heater outlet in my house, it's quite comfortable.
Who knew that my soldering iron was using SO MUCH power yet my central heating almost nothing at all!
i dunno. i thought every self-respecting nerd had a handle on basic home power and loading.
Yeah, me too!
found that the average password was 6.4 characters long
6.4 character-long passwords are extremely secure!
Every password-cracking scheme that I've seen goes right from 6 character strings to 7 character strings.
which makes database probramming a royal pain in the arse.
.NET vs. VB6 is that I can't Null non-reference types and therefore have to resort to magic values and other hacks like wrapping. UGH! Yeah, that's not database programming but how many projects do not have to interface with a database at some point?
No! They are one of the most useful terms you can have. It means "undefined". Say you have a boolean field, 0 or 1. If the field is Null, I can tell that data has not been provided. Without Nulls, you can't tell if data has been provided because you have to default to 0 or 1 - and that's an answer that you may not have. Same thing with dates - if you want to show that no date has been provided you have to start making "magic" values (like 01/01/80 or 12/31/1999 - wait, never mind that one!) that signify "no data". Move that to another system or try to exchange data with another system and they will not likely make the same assumptions - kablammo!
One of my biggest frustrations of programming in
Nulls have a place - Like the song says, "If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice!"