No, but Linux lets you hot-swap firewire ATA drives. Personally I'm going to just skip the extra cost of SATA and get regular IDE drives with a good 1394->EIDE converter for each one. Hook those up to $30 firewire cards and you can get around 20MB/s dedicated bandwidth to each drive, but it will cost you a little extra CPU overhead. So I'm probably going to throw all that in a dual proc box and use software RAID to manage it. I figure I could build a hot swappable 1TB array for less than $2000 today. Just waiting for 120GB disks to fall under $100.
How much will all those old EIDEs be worth when SATA is the new thing? I love it when everyone decides they need something new, better, faster, whatever. I know they aren't even using what they got, but at least it makes all the old stuff I use that much cheaper.
I sure hope you're right. Er, well, no I don't. I wouldn't mind the US maintaining its economic superiority over the rest of the world, but honestly I just don't trust most Americans or Capitalists to do what is right whenever the choice involves money. So although the alternative may be chaos for a few years, perhaps even decades, I'm more willing to give it a try than accept the word of these old politicians and CEOs who can't even think creatively enough to make use of all the technology developed in the last two years. I can only imagine how draconian our laws will get when tomorrow's technology becomes available to the public.
Wireless networks have almost all ISPs and media companies extremely confused. They just don't know what to do with it or how. Its not their fault, they're just old an obsolete. I say it is time for them to be replaced by new groups of communists and teams and people working together to learn and teach and solve problems without a heirarchy, without a class system.
Maybe something good for a change, instead of business as usual. Because there's just no love in capitalism. AOL will NEVER, AT&T will NEVER, SBC will NEVER provide broadband up and down until it is forced to by its competition, Free Software, Open Source, Communism, good people that want to share, whatever you want to call it.
Let me guess. You still think its not possible to feed everyone on the planet using modern technology. Right?
Did you know that everyone alive today is eating, which in turn keeps them alive. If a single copy of an operating system is worth the same amount of money as what it costs to feed a family for a month then by copying Linux I should be able feed myself and all my friends. If money is really worth that value, that price we place on things.
But I got some news for ya, its not. Money isn't worth anything. And when all these capitalists and economists finally figure that out the proverbial shit will hit the fan.
That only works until they turn into a teenager. Then you have a problem on your hands far worse than any child that watches the news, trusts you, etc. If you're lucky they won't break the law just in spite of you.
Bad things also happen when parents are not responsible guardians and guiding friends. When you are the "parent" in a position of authority, where your children are told to be seen and not heard, you lose a bond between you that could prevent almost all the problems we encounter with teens and young adults acting irresponsibly.
Sure, but I think our main problems stem from how we teach war, sex, and violence in schools. We don't cover all aspects of war. We barely cover the factual dates and events. We don't talk in depth about relationships and sex because that is a topic we are uncomfortable with, because of the censorship. Its taboo to talk to children about sex. So, instead, they discover it for themselves just as we all did.
How would you feel if your child was talking with their friends about homosexuality and decided they wanted to be gay? What reasons are there not to be? This is one topic that I think needs a lot more discussion, not less.
And censorship is always wrong, in any case. No amount of censorship hid the real world from me. But it did make me far less trusting towards most adults. Tradition is one thing, but attempting to force your system of beliefs on your kids is something completely different. It'll bite you in the ass one of these days. It bit my parents.
Oh yeah? Well I predict 2/3rds of the US programming market will dry up within the next 3 years because of Free Software. Capitalism just can't compete with freedom.
This is so typical of that greedy form of American Capitalism. Use your power to kick the "good" guys off the board, then corrupt the business to increase profits until you run it into the ground. Rinse, repeat.
I want an automated domain registration system. Everyone gets one domain name for free. Your second domain name costs something reasonable, similar to current prices, but everything after that increases is price exponentially. If you want 3 domain name its going to cost you like $20 a month. If you want 50, it'll cost you possibly millions. That sort of thing.
Its a big disappointment, for me. The disappointment is not the technology, its that almost no one is interested in it or knows how to use it. And our leaders don't want to give up control to allow our technology leaders (no, not the CEOs of technology companies) to completely automate the system. It will take decades to develope robotic technology that we're capable of building today. And here I thought the whole point of computers and networks and stuff was to cut down on the paperwork. We're so stoopid.
But in reality we have this thing called Linux. Its a whole operating system, already written. And available for free. So you not only don't have to write your own, you can save $300 in the process and possibly learn some things, too.
What makes an hour of music worth $15? Most music I have heard could never be recreated by me or anyone I know. So in a sense its value is priceless. Just like every other creative work any being of intelligence has ever created.
The question you should be asking is how much is your dollar worth? Its value used to be based on gold and/or labor. But now that labor can be automated the value of the dollar has no real definition anymore. Its worth 1/15th the value of a plastic disc inside a plastic case with a paper label. Its worth whatever YOU think its worth.
And since I just saw my country work so hard to destroy its economy I have completely devalued the dollar. I don't want money or most things I could buy with it. I won't ever ask for credit and won't ever consider paying for a new car. My time is worth more money than any corporation could ever afford to pay me. And that is unfortunate.
I could be just as happy as I am now, making pre-dot-com wages, when I'm working at Taco Bell for minimum wage in a couple years. At least I could spend all day at Taco Bell thinking about the neat open source software I get to write all night long while daydreaming about all those greedy jobless capitalists I helped become loyal Taco Bell employees like myself.:)
Well, duh. Its obviously not a conspiracy of this magnitude. It is human nature, plain and simple. When we put people in an environment that teaches them that money makes the world go around, teaches them how to make money by managing people, markets and resources like they are objects. Then we complain when they act acordingly. We're just being hypocritical. So then if we're all nothing but a bunch of hypocritical greedy professionals, what's the problem?
Now I'm confused. Are you saying patents do or do not encourage R&D? If they do all is fine. If they don't I'm saying there's too much inertia of greedy rich people who say they do to possibly make any changes to the system. Call it a conspiracy if you want, but it doesn't change the reality of the situation.
That's exactly what bothers me so much about America.
We trust people who tell us things like patents incourage R & D. But these statements never pan out and almost feel like flat out lies. Personally I feel like I am being lied to by every economist, capitalist and politician so they can benefit out of my confusion.
Its sad. And it can't be changed. Its like walking upstream against a raging river of ignorance and lies being echoed back to me a thousand fold louder than my own small weak voice. I'm gonna drown.
Actually the US gov't is currently in the process of spending how hard earned tax dollars to prevent it from releasing information under the Freedom of Information Act, with the excuse that the information is copyrighted and owned by a third party and thus is not theirs to give, such as the very video tape they made to demonstrate this new concept for all government employees.
Maybe someone can provide some links or I'm sure you'll find it on google.
Actually I think I read that decapitation store on CNN...
What I would like to see is a News website that reports what the other News sites think about certain articles. Such as what statistics they report, what information they edit, or general tone/slant as well as all the facts. If someone made a website like that I'd read it.:)
The media is too distracted with bombing Iraq among other national crisis, so we're not hearing about kids attacking eachother. In case you missed it, not too long ago a couple children decapitated their mother. And I'm sure a lot of other things have happened since. But that's not News worthy, says CNN, while it deletes sections of UN transcripts to help Americans decide to Attack!!!
What's interesting is when you find out that those kids who study computers and science end up being "cooler" because they hang out with the "stoners" all day, doing "drugs" and other naughty things, while they basicly ignore pop culture.
The rebelious kids are always the cool ones, when everyone else finally grows up and catches on to the funner side of life, like parties and stuff.
I guess the irony hit me when I went to that party and saw that computer nerd spinning records while tripping on E. The light show was amazing.
Wow, you sound awefully passionate about minidiscs. How much is a minidisc recorder/player today? Does it allow you to extract the digital information to a computer or copy it back onto the minidisc for lossless data storage? Just curious.
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No, but Linux lets you hot-swap firewire ATA drives. Personally I'm going to just skip the extra cost of SATA and get regular IDE drives with a good 1394->EIDE converter for each one. Hook those up to $30 firewire cards and you can get around 20MB/s dedicated bandwidth to each drive, but it will cost you a little extra CPU overhead. So I'm probably going to throw all that in a dual proc box and use software RAID to manage it. I figure I could build a hot swappable 1TB array for less than $2000 today. Just waiting for 120GB disks to fall under $100.
How much will all those old EIDEs be worth when SATA is the new thing? I love it when everyone decides they need something new, better, faster, whatever. I know they aren't even using what they got, but at least it makes all the old stuff I use that much cheaper.
I sure hope you're right. Er, well, no I don't. I wouldn't mind the US maintaining its economic superiority over the rest of the world, but honestly I just don't trust most Americans or Capitalists to do what is right whenever the choice involves money. So although the alternative may be chaos for a few years, perhaps even decades, I'm more willing to give it a try than accept the word of these old politicians and CEOs who can't even think creatively enough to make use of all the technology developed in the last two years. I can only imagine how draconian our laws will get when tomorrow's technology becomes available to the public.
Wireless networks have almost all ISPs and media companies extremely confused. They just don't know what to do with it or how. Its not their fault, they're just old an obsolete. I say it is time for them to be replaced by new groups of communists and teams and people working together to learn and teach and solve problems without a heirarchy, without a class system.
Maybe something good for a change, instead of business as usual. Because there's just no love in capitalism. AOL will NEVER, AT&T will NEVER, SBC will NEVER provide broadband up and down until it is forced to by its competition, Free Software, Open Source, Communism, good people that want to share, whatever you want to call it.
Let me guess. You still think its not possible to feed everyone on the planet using modern technology. Right?
Did you know that everyone alive today is eating, which in turn keeps them alive. If a single copy of an operating system is worth the same amount of money as what it costs to feed a family for a month then by copying Linux I should be able feed myself and all my friends. If money is really worth that value, that price we place on things.
But I got some news for ya, its not. Money isn't worth anything. And when all these capitalists and economists finally figure that out the proverbial shit will hit the fan.
Ahhh, facist parenting at its best.
That only works until they turn into a teenager. Then you have a problem on your hands far worse than any child that watches the news, trusts you, etc. If you're lucky they won't break the law just in spite of you.
Bad things also happen when parents are not responsible guardians and guiding friends. When you are the "parent" in a position of authority, where your children are told to be seen and not heard, you lose a bond between you that could prevent almost all the problems we encounter with teens and young adults acting irresponsibly.
Or at least that's my opinion. But YMMV.
Sure, but I think our main problems stem from how we teach war, sex, and violence in schools. We don't cover all aspects of war. We barely cover the factual dates and events. We don't talk in depth about relationships and sex because that is a topic we are uncomfortable with, because of the censorship. Its taboo to talk to children about sex. So, instead, they discover it for themselves just as we all did.
How would you feel if your child was talking with their friends about homosexuality and decided they wanted to be gay? What reasons are there not to be? This is one topic that I think needs a lot more discussion, not less.
And censorship is always wrong, in any case. No amount of censorship hid the real world from me. But it did make me far less trusting towards most adults. Tradition is one thing, but attempting to force your system of beliefs on your kids is something completely different. It'll bite you in the ass one of these days. It bit my parents.
Oh yeah? Well I predict 2/3rds of the US programming market will dry up within the next 3 years because of Free Software. Capitalism just can't compete with freedom.
This is so typical of that greedy form of American Capitalism. Use your power to kick the "good" guys off the board, then corrupt the business to increase profits until you run it into the ground. Rinse, repeat.
I want an automated domain registration system. Everyone gets one domain name for free. Your second domain name costs something reasonable, similar to current prices, but everything after that increases is price exponentially. If you want 3 domain name its going to cost you like $20 a month. If you want 50, it'll cost you possibly millions. That sort of thing.
Its a big disappointment, for me. The disappointment is not the technology, its that almost no one is interested in it or knows how to use it. And our leaders don't want to give up control to allow our technology leaders (no, not the CEOs of technology companies) to completely automate the system. It will take decades to develope robotic technology that we're capable of building today. And here I thought the whole point of computers and networks and stuff was to cut down on the paperwork. We're so stoopid.
But in reality we have this thing called Linux. Its a whole operating system, already written. And available for free. So you not only don't have to write your own, you can save $300 in the process and possibly learn some things, too.
:)
What makes an hour of music worth $15? Most music I have heard could never be recreated by me or anyone I know. So in a sense its value is priceless. Just like every other creative work any being of intelligence has ever created.
The question you should be asking is how much is your dollar worth? Its value used to be based on gold and/or labor. But now that labor can be automated the value of the dollar has no real definition anymore. Its worth 1/15th the value of a plastic disc inside a plastic case with a paper label. Its worth whatever YOU think its worth.
And since I just saw my country work so hard to destroy its economy I have completely devalued the dollar. I don't want money or most things I could buy with it. I won't ever ask for credit and won't ever consider paying for a new car. My time is worth more money than any corporation could ever afford to pay me. And that is unfortunate.
I could be just as happy as I am now, making pre-dot-com wages, when I'm working at Taco Bell for minimum wage in a couple years. At least I could spend all day at Taco Bell thinking about the neat open source software I get to write all night long while daydreaming about all those greedy jobless capitalists I helped become loyal Taco Bell employees like myself.
Well, duh. Its obviously not a conspiracy of this magnitude. It is human nature, plain and simple. When we put people in an environment that teaches them that money makes the world go around, teaches them how to make money by managing people, markets and resources like they are objects. Then we complain when they act acordingly. We're just being hypocritical. So then if we're all nothing but a bunch of hypocritical greedy professionals, what's the problem?
Now I'm confused. Are you saying patents do or do not encourage R&D? If they do all is fine. If they don't I'm saying there's too much inertia of greedy rich people who say they do to possibly make any changes to the system. Call it a conspiracy if you want, but it doesn't change the reality of the situation.
Very nice comparison. :)
That's funny. That's exactly what people find so attractive about the US. It has so much opportunity. So much potential.
Wasted.
That's exactly what bothers me so much about America.
We trust people who tell us things like patents incourage R & D. But these statements never pan out and almost feel like flat out lies. Personally I feel like I am being lied to by every economist, capitalist and politician so they can benefit out of my confusion.
Its sad. And it can't be changed. Its like walking upstream against a raging river of ignorance and lies being echoed back to me a thousand fold louder than my own small weak voice. I'm gonna drown.
Why did SGI sell the patents to MS in the first place? I wonder who was President of SGI around that time..
You honestly still think terrorists are going to fly the friendly skys.
Well, you know what? I think you're a terrorist. Now strip and grab your toes!
Maybe with the help of Sunny Bono or Disney we can get that extended to 70 years. ;)
Actually the US gov't is currently in the process of spending how hard earned tax dollars to prevent it from releasing information under the Freedom of Information Act, with the excuse that the information is copyrighted and owned by a third party and thus is not theirs to give, such as the very video tape they made to demonstrate this new concept for all government employees.
Maybe someone can provide some links or I'm sure you'll find it on google.
Actually I think I read that decapitation store on CNN...
:)
What I would like to see is a News website that reports what the other News sites think about certain articles. Such as what statistics they report, what information they edit, or general tone/slant as well as all the facts. If someone made a website like that I'd read it.
The media is too distracted with bombing Iraq among other national crisis, so we're not hearing about kids attacking eachother. In case you missed it, not too long ago a couple children decapitated their mother. And I'm sure a lot of other things have happened since. But that's not News worthy, says CNN, while it deletes sections of UN transcripts to help Americans decide to Attack!!!
What's interesting is when you find out that those kids who study computers and science end up being "cooler" because they hang out with the "stoners" all day, doing "drugs" and other naughty things, while they basicly ignore pop culture.
The rebelious kids are always the cool ones, when everyone else finally grows up and catches on to the funner side of life, like parties and stuff.
I guess the irony hit me when I went to that party and saw that computer nerd spinning records while tripping on E. The light show was amazing.
People? Or Terrorists?
with my government using open source software to fight terrorists...
as long as they...
don't call me a terrorist.
Microsoft needs more money.
Wow, you sound awefully passionate about minidiscs. How much is a minidisc recorder/player today? Does it allow you to extract the digital information to a computer or copy it back onto the minidisc for lossless data storage? Just curious.