So wear piezo-electric clothing and go for a stroll.
Or, get one of those LED flashlights that work simply by shaking them for a minute or two, hook up the charging device to your arm, shake a bit, turn it on.
"Actually I imagined hooking up a super powerful LED to some nerve endings on the tips of my finger, then using it as a flashlight at any moment by training my brain to trigger the on-off switch like a muscle reaction."
Enjoy frying your finger as the diodes, without any active cooling or heat sink besides your body, heats up to a temperature hot enough to slag the diode after about 10 seconds of operation.
Speculation wouldn't happen to involve Microsoft directly contacting my company and asking if we had interest in a 'higher than 64-bit system' for our computing cluster, would it?
I don't see a reason for Microsoft to market it directly if it's not coming out.
Remember the Gigahertz wars and Cache wars, and how now it's on the core wars? Bit wars is the next level. To think otherwise is foolish.
128-bit windows is coming, either in 8 or 9, you can BET on that. The marketing bullshit trade winds are blowing in that direction.
"8GB is insufficient to replace a modern hard drive."
But MORE than enough for console games, which was the whole point, and you don't NEED a hard drive when you can have faster access from a solid-state storage device. Have you even been paying attention to the new SDXC cards coming out? ONE TERABYTE ON MY PINKY NAIL. SCREW your spinning platters.
As you said (if you fail to recall,) "Solid-state drives have about as much chance of replacing disk drives, as solid-state cartridges replacing discs in Gaming"
My prior Vista machine was a dual-core 3.2 GHz laptop with 6GB of RAM. I'm on a 2.5 GHz dual-core with 4GB RAM laptop now, with Windows 7, and it's MUCH, MUCH faster.
No way in hell would Japan allow it, and most likely no way in hell could Apple afford it. Casio is a HUGE part of Japan's $400+ billion/year electronics economy.
"Of course you can tell the difference, as long as you wear special glasses with solid gold lenses as these conduct the photons better."
Actually you would NOT be that far from the truth, even though you are joking.
We used to coat magnifying and telescopic lenses with a type of silver to act as a photon guide and cut down the amount of scatter when we were trying to resolve highly-magnified objects. This was done back in the earlier 1900s.
"There will always be someone who will claim to be able to tell the difference, and as long as that someone is as crazy as the average audiophile you'll see companies trying to develop 1200 dpi displays that you can wear on your wrist."
Except my vision AND hearing are tested yearly for my insurance, and I'm still a bit more capable in hearing and vision than most humans, with the ability to hear up to 28,000Hz (with a TOTALLY dead gap at 17,000-18,500Hz, total silence,) and my cone/rod retinal density is about 4% higher than typical, with my vision being 20/18. The bad part of this is color becomes slightly oversaturated for me, but I resolve slightly higher detail, which is nice when I have to look at diodes under microscopes to check for flaws or separation from the base substrate, as is part of my job.
Same things that pissed me off about pre-SP2 Windows 2000:
1. Constantly losing NTLDR and forcing either a system repair or full reinstall 2. HUGE lag in the audio interface (Present in Vista, not windows 2000, still present in 7) 3. Vista was a resource HOG and had HORRIBLE driver support, wireless was wonky as shit (just like Windows 2000.)
My XP machine, on a far weaker system than my Windows 7 laptop, runs about 30x faster.
Excuse me, but the 128-bit rumor came directly from a MS employee's LinkedIn profile - Robert Morgan - before it was quickly erased. Thank goodness caches and copies of the statement are ALL OVER THE WEB AND TAKE TWO SECONDS WITH A GOOGLE SEARCH TO FIND.
"Working in high security department for research and development involving strategic planning for medium and longterm projects. Research & Development projects including 128-bit architecture compatibility with the Windows 8 kernel and Windows 9 project plan. Forming relationships with major partners: Intel, AMD, HP and IBM."
Psh, $13 bucks for an 8GB stable, unscratchable, and likely usable for my lifetime memory card is WELL worth the cost.
People all-too-often forget about the Mohs hardness scale and how that would apply to current optical media. As for magnetic, well, all it takes is some moron with a powerful enough magnet to bypass the shielding and that's the end of that, or simply bumping the thing while it's reading/writing and making the head scratch or bounce off of the media patter.
"What ever happened to transition technology? Most PCs and laptops have media card readers, PC card slots. Put the OS and Apps on a SSD card and save the spinning disk for personal storage."
Funny you mention that, Apple's new MBA comes with the reinstall OS on a USB drive the thickness of a few business cards.
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Just FYI we're using piezo-electrics in new power generating wind stations. Looks like long hairs sticking up into the wind.
So wear piezo-electric clothing and go for a stroll.
Or, get one of those LED flashlights that work simply by shaking them for a minute or two, hook up the charging device to your arm, shake a bit, turn it on.
"Actually I imagined hooking up a super powerful LED to some nerve endings on the tips of my finger, then using it as a flashlight at any moment by training my brain to trigger the on-off switch like a muscle reaction."
Enjoy frying your finger as the diodes, without any active cooling or heat sink besides your body, heats up to a temperature hot enough to slag the diode after about 10 seconds of operation.
"Starting with Windows Vista all services are no longer allowed to have a GUI interface."
Hi, my name is Windows Godmode, and I'd like to say YOU'RE BLIND AS A BAT.
Speculation wouldn't happen to involve Microsoft directly contacting my company and asking if we had interest in a 'higher than 64-bit system' for our computing cluster, would it?
I don't see a reason for Microsoft to market it directly if it's not coming out.
Remember the Gigahertz wars and Cache wars, and how now it's on the core wars? Bit wars is the next level. To think otherwise is foolish.
128-bit windows is coming, either in 8 or 9, you can BET on that. The marketing bullshit trade winds are blowing in that direction.
I've done 2560x1600 on my Mitsubishi Diamond Pro. Looks just fine and I used a crap cable from RadioShack.
"8GB is insufficient to replace a modern hard drive."
But MORE than enough for console games, which was the whole point, and you don't NEED a hard drive when you can have faster access from a solid-state storage device. Have you even been paying attention to the new SDXC cards coming out? ONE TERABYTE ON MY PINKY NAIL. SCREW your spinning platters.
As you said (if you fail to recall,) "Solid-state drives have about as much chance of replacing disk drives, as solid-state cartridges replacing discs in Gaming"
To which I say BULLSHIT.
"Do you seriously believe corporations don't know the capabilities of Windows 7?"
Yes, because otherwise they'd be almost ready to deploy out into space, like my company is working on doing right now with our new farming technology.
Move ahead or get left behind, your choice!
My prior Vista machine was a dual-core 3.2 GHz laptop with 6GB of RAM. I'm on a 2.5 GHz dual-core with 4GB RAM laptop now, with Windows 7, and it's MUCH, MUCH faster.
Apple, buy Casio.
No way in hell would Japan allow it, and most likely no way in hell could Apple afford it. Casio is a HUGE part of Japan's $400+ billion/year electronics economy.
"A Dual-Link DVI or a DisplayPort interface can only drive up to 2560x1600."
Which is sad because a single VGA cable can handle that without thinking about it. You need dual-link DVI for that resolution otherwise? What a joke.
And still causing headaches as we try to do 3d focus on a fixed-distance 2d plane.
No thanks.
"Of course you can tell the difference, as long as you wear special glasses with solid gold lenses as these conduct the photons better."
Actually you would NOT be that far from the truth, even though you are joking.
We used to coat magnifying and telescopic lenses with a type of silver to act as a photon guide and cut down the amount of scatter when we were trying to resolve highly-magnified objects. This was done back in the earlier 1900s.
"There will always be someone who will claim to be able to tell the difference, and as long as that someone is as crazy as the average audiophile you'll see companies trying to develop 1200 dpi displays that you can wear on your wrist."
Except my vision AND hearing are tested yearly for my insurance, and I'm still a bit more capable in hearing and vision than most humans, with the ability to hear up to 28,000Hz (with a TOTALLY dead gap at 17,000-18,500Hz, total silence,) and my cone/rod retinal density is about 4% higher than typical, with my vision being 20/18. The bad part of this is color becomes slightly oversaturated for me, but I resolve slightly higher detail, which is nice when I have to look at diodes under microscopes to check for flaws or separation from the base substrate, as is part of my job.
(And no, current HD is about 2-3 times too rough to do the really fine observations I need on a daily basis.)
No, your magnification isn't high enough to give you the detail resolution you need on a lower-resolution monitor.
640x480 not good enough? Increase your magnification 100x. Suddenly what you couldn't see is visible.
You're limited by your own optics, not the output hardware.
Steve Jobs is full of shit. I still see jaggies on the retina display, a full 65cm from my face.
But then again I've got some killer vision.
"But, what exactly about Vista sucked horribly?"
Same things that pissed me off about pre-SP2 Windows 2000:
1. Constantly losing NTLDR and forcing either a system repair or full reinstall
2. HUGE lag in the audio interface (Present in Vista, not windows 2000, still present in 7)
3. Vista was a resource HOG and had HORRIBLE driver support, wireless was wonky as shit (just like Windows 2000.)
My XP machine, on a far weaker system than my Windows 7 laptop, runs about 30x faster.
"ME was 4.90. Same basic OS with minor revisions"
Me was NOTHING minor. Trying to mix VXD with WDM was the biggest piece of shit ever thought of.
Excuse me, but the 128-bit rumor came directly from a MS employee's LinkedIn profile - Robert Morgan - before it was quickly erased. Thank goodness caches and copies of the statement are ALL OVER THE WEB AND TAKE TWO SECONDS WITH A GOOGLE SEARCH TO FIND.
"Working in high security department for research and development involving strategic planning for medium and longterm projects. Research & Development projects including 128-bit architecture compatibility with the Windows 8 kernel and Windows 9 project plan. Forming relationships with major partners: Intel, AMD, HP and IBM."
Who's the clueless one, here?
"There are too many legacy dependencies, as well as testing for existing apps that has to happen before they can even being to roll out Windows 7.'
If those nimrods haven't seen the joys of 7's XP Mode, then they should be fired, kicked out of the building, and shot.
50,000 station deployment and NOT ONE SINGLE LEGACY ISSUE.
Because XP Mode uses an ACTUAL XP SERVICE PACK 3 IMAGE.
It's as if nobody pay attention to the features and only focuses on the Windows name.
Psh, $13 bucks for an 8GB stable, unscratchable, and likely usable for my lifetime memory card is WELL worth the cost.
People all-too-often forget about the Mohs hardness scale and how that would apply to current optical media. As for magnetic, well, all it takes is some moron with a powerful enough magnet to bypass the shielding and that's the end of that, or simply bumping the thing while it's reading/writing and making the head scratch or bounce off of the media patter.
"It does no good to try and base things on something that's not even OUT yet."
If you're talking about hybrid drives not being out yet....
http://www.superbiiz.com/detail.php?p=S9500620AS&c=pw&hash=89dbfBmM8%2BfH8gsF5GaCHmYhTGE4GdrIE1nJOr9ElyZuhIO6Iwr7nONeOQ8FXoEEIjR6%2FaJsR6WNXg%2BoDZXnffncStSU5XWJAdnzvGpyBRouj5uCAyGZE5bg%2FXPm
"What ever happened to transition technology? Most PCs and laptops have media card readers, PC card slots. Put the OS and Apps on a SSD card and save the spinning disk for personal storage."
Funny you mention that, Apple's new MBA comes with the reinstall OS on a USB drive the thickness of a few business cards.
"don't worry about secure erasing a flash drive - it can't be done."
First you full format it as FAT16, then NTFS, then FAT32, then any other FS you want.
No quick formats and you've got a blank drive assuming all of the cells are fine.
"If
- said SSD is MLC,
- you are into video editing or other high-IO applications, and
- write failures, not just read failures, count as a failure,"
None of those true in OUM/OVM-based SLC/MLC.
I dunno how much I gotta beat this horse but quit looking at silicon flash and look towards various phase-change technologies.