This response in Europe can be eqated to the little dance that boxers and wrestlers always do before a fight, just circling around, testing each other, somewhat afraid to hit the other.
So, if we don't hit the opponent, to the tune of billions of dollars of fast-track pharmaceutical research, and immediate and strict quarantines, we are going to get hit first, and it will cost us dearly.
These bloody poultry farmers, solely financially motivated, need to be brought down off their high horses, and realize that this isn't Mad Cow.
It was President Clinton who first refused to agree to the Kyoto Protocols. Another fact, left out so you could take a cheap shot on the President. Oh well.
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No, it should have a Karma Whore tag. He's ragging on Microsoft just to get a gig.
I predict that the winner of this epic showdown will not be determined by the number of books, or the number of pages...but instead, by who gets sued the most!
You had a pretty good argument going right until the very end.
Ford didn't not build a BMW just because he thought like...that. He built the Model T because it was an advancement from his previous production models.
I use IE nonstop. I also scan every week, using three different scanners, and all I ever find are cookies.
Are you sure that some of these things that you generally refer to as "security risks" aren't mostly in your head? I mean, I rarely hear about any of these "explots" actually being exploited anywhere outside a testing lab.
Nah, when you shred a CD, you not only separate it, but much of the metallic data-storage surface falls off. Also, right around the cut lines, it starts to peel. Any disc that goes through one of them is pretty much done for.
No. I wouldn't pay for that. Too little GBs, too much $$. But, consider: now that it's in production by a major company, we may be on the way to practically affordable solid-state storage.
Full Article Text follows:
For years now motherboard manufacturers have been struggling to find other markets to branch out to, in an attempt to diversify themselves, preparing for inevitable consolidation in the market. Every year at Computex, we'd hear more and more about how the motherboard business was getting tougher and we'd see more and more non-motherboard products from these manufacturers. For the most part, the non-motherboard products weren't anything special. Everyone got into making servers, then multimedia products, then cases, networking, security, water cooling; the list goes on and on.
This year's Computex wasn't very different, except for one thing - when Gigabyte showed us their collection of goodies for the new year, we were actually quite interested in one of them. And after we posted about it, we found that quite a few of you all were very interested in it too. Gigabyte's i-RAM was an immediate success and it wasn't so much that the product was a success, but it was the idea that piqued everyone's interests.
Pretty much every time a faster CPU is released, we always hear from a group of users that are marveled by the rate at which CPUs get faster but loathe the sluggish rate that storage evolves. We've been stuck with hard disks for decades now, and although the thought of eventually migrating to solid state storage has always been there, it's always been so very distant. These days you can easily get a multi-gigabyte solid state drive if you're willing to spend the tens of thousands of dollars it costs to get one; prices actually vary from the low $1000s to the $100K range for solid state devices, obviously making them impractical for desktop users.
The performance benefits of solid state storage have always been tempting. With no moving parts, reliability is improved tremendously, and at the same time, random accesses are no longer limited by slow and difficult to position read/write heads. While sequential transfer rates have improved tremendously over the past 5 years thanks to ever increasing platter densities among other improvements, it is the incredibly high latency that makes random accesses very expensive from a performance standpoint for conventional hard disks. A huge reduction in random access latency and increase in peak bandwidth are clear performance advantages to solid state storage, but until now they both came at a very high price.
The other issue with solid state storage is that DRAM is volatile, meaning that as soon as power is removed from the drive all of your data would be lost. More expensive solutions get around this by using a combination of a battery backup as well as a hard disk that keeps a backup of all data written to the solid state drive, just in case the battery or main power should fail.
Recognizing the allure of solid state storage, especially to performance-conscious enthusiast users, Gigabyte went about creating the first affordable solid state storage device, and they called it i-RAM.
By utilizing conventional DDR memory modules, Gigabyte's i-RAM is a lot cheaper to implement than more conventional solid state devices. Gigabyte sells you the card, and it's up to you to populate it with memory - a definite plus for those of us who happen to have a lot of older memory laying around, especially after next year's transition to DDR2 for AMD platforms.
The backup issue is solved by the use of a battery pack that is charged by your system on the fly, although there is no disk backup available for the i-RAM.
Through some custom logic, the i-RAM works and acts just like a regular SATA hard drive. But how much of a performance increase is there for desktop users? And is the i-RAM worth its still fairly high cost of entry? We've spent the past week trying to find out...
I'm planning a 800 GB (4x400GB) RAID 10 array whenever I come up with $1200. Now, I'm a total RAID newb, but even after raiding that articlem I still didn't learn anything. I'll take the Wikipedia article any day.
I agree, we're not seeing anything new here. Even bands as well-known as the Dave Matthews band have allowed and encouraged music sharing. I'm not sure where they stood on downloading, but DMB actually ran (and might still run) a bootlegging club. They'd allow fans to plug their recorders into the stadium or arena soundboards, and then the fans would trade the tapes of the concerts, copy them, and send them out again. It was a really great idea, and it really got the music and the message out to the fans.
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This response in Europe can be eqated to the little dance that boxers and wrestlers always do before a fight, just circling around, testing each other, somewhat afraid to hit the other.
So, if we don't hit the opponent, to the tune of billions of dollars of fast-track pharmaceutical research, and immediate and strict quarantines, we are going to get hit first, and it will cost us dearly.
These bloody poultry farmers, solely financially motivated, need to be brought down off their high horses, and realize that this isn't Mad Cow.
It was President Clinton who first refused to agree to the Kyoto Protocols. Another fact, left out so you could take a cheap shot on the President. Oh well.
No, it should have a Karma Whore tag. He's ragging on Microsoft just to get a gig.
I predict that the winner of this epic showdown will not be determined by the number of books, or the number of pages...but instead, by who gets sued the most!
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Microsoft is in major damage-control mode.
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You had a pretty good argument going right until the very end.
Ford didn't not build a BMW just because he thought like...that. He built the Model T because it was an advancement from his previous production models.
You do realize that the evolution of computers is just that; an evolutionary process?
Without 1980's computers, we wouldn't have 2005's computers.
Unless you really believe that we all of a sudden would have invented these sort of machines, without any prior development...
Please join my movement to overwhelm all the typical, unjustified, "Windows sucks!" arguments contained in the halls of Slashdot.
I use IE nonstop. I also scan every week, using three different scanners, and all I ever find are cookies.
Are you sure that some of these things that you generally refer to as "security risks" aren't mostly in your head? I mean, I rarely hear about any of these "explots" actually being exploited anywhere outside a testing lab.
What's even much funnier is that they somehow managed to dupe the word "for," as well.
Nah, when you shred a CD, you not only separate it, but much of the metallic data-storage surface falls off. Also, right around the cut lines, it starts to peel. Any disc that goes through one of them is pretty much done for.
When you cancel AOL, a miraculous feeling sweepes over your body...and you are free of the chains of ignorance and stupidity.
Like sex, only without the mess.
Yes, you would be quite out of line.
Hey, I made a failed FP a few posts up, and forgot to do it anonymously. I gotta make up for it.
No. I wouldn't pay for that. Too little GBs, too much $$. But, consider: now that it's in production by a major company, we may be on the way to practically affordable solid-state storage.
Full Article Text follows:
For years now motherboard manufacturers have been struggling to find other markets to branch out to, in an attempt to diversify themselves, preparing for inevitable consolidation in the market. Every year at Computex, we'd hear more and more about how the motherboard business was getting tougher and we'd see more and more non-motherboard products from these manufacturers. For the most part, the non-motherboard products weren't anything special. Everyone got into making servers, then multimedia products, then cases, networking, security, water cooling; the list goes on and on.
This year's Computex wasn't very different, except for one thing - when Gigabyte showed us their collection of goodies for the new year, we were actually quite interested in one of them. And after we posted about it, we found that quite a few of you all were very interested in it too. Gigabyte's i-RAM was an immediate success and it wasn't so much that the product was a success, but it was the idea that piqued everyone's interests.
Pretty much every time a faster CPU is released, we always hear from a group of users that are marveled by the rate at which CPUs get faster but loathe the sluggish rate that storage evolves. We've been stuck with hard disks for decades now, and although the thought of eventually migrating to solid state storage has always been there, it's always been so very distant. These days you can easily get a multi-gigabyte solid state drive if you're willing to spend the tens of thousands of dollars it costs to get one; prices actually vary from the low $1000s to the $100K range for solid state devices, obviously making them impractical for desktop users.
The performance benefits of solid state storage have always been tempting. With no moving parts, reliability is improved tremendously, and at the same time, random accesses are no longer limited by slow and difficult to position read/write heads. While sequential transfer rates have improved tremendously over the past 5 years thanks to ever increasing platter densities among other improvements, it is the incredibly high latency that makes random accesses very expensive from a performance standpoint for conventional hard disks. A huge reduction in random access latency and increase in peak bandwidth are clear performance advantages to solid state storage, but until now they both came at a very high price.
The other issue with solid state storage is that DRAM is volatile, meaning that as soon as power is removed from the drive all of your data would be lost. More expensive solutions get around this by using a combination of a battery backup as well as a hard disk that keeps a backup of all data written to the solid state drive, just in case the battery or main power should fail.
Recognizing the allure of solid state storage, especially to performance-conscious enthusiast users, Gigabyte went about creating the first affordable solid state storage device, and they called it i-RAM.
By utilizing conventional DDR memory modules, Gigabyte's i-RAM is a lot cheaper to implement than more conventional solid state devices. Gigabyte sells you the card, and it's up to you to populate it with memory - a definite plus for those of us who happen to have a lot of older memory laying around, especially after next year's transition to DDR2 for AMD platforms.
The backup issue is solved by the use of a battery pack that is charged by your system on the fly, although there is no disk backup available for the i-RAM.
Through some custom logic, the i-RAM works and acts just like a regular SATA hard drive. But how much of a performance increase is there for desktop users? And is the i-RAM worth its still fairly high cost of entry? We've spent the past week trying to find out...
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FP, SUCK ITTT
No smoke without fire? Haven't you ever tried to start a fire by rubbing two sticks together, or with wet wood?
Mod parent up. He may clearly been an idiot, but, really. Windows Vista? No. That sounds just really bad.
Like all the Slashdotters who are in Linux's pocket?
We have something other than harddrives. It's called memdisk.
And it's incredibly expensive.
I'm actually a really big fan of RAID 10 instead of RAID 0+1. What made you go for 0+1?
I'm planning a 800 GB (4x400GB) RAID 10 array whenever I come up with $1200. Now, I'm a total RAID newb, but even after raiding that articlem I still didn't learn anything. I'll take the Wikipedia article any day.
I'm actually geniunly interested. What would you classify as a "real" book?
Oh, that's right, you wouldn't know. That's because you're fucking retarded. Sorry for forgetting!
I agree, we're not seeing anything new here. Even bands as well-known as the Dave Matthews band have allowed and encouraged music sharing. I'm not sure where they stood on downloading, but DMB actually ran (and might still run) a bootlegging club. They'd allow fans to plug their recorders into the stadium or arena soundboards, and then the fans would trade the tapes of the concerts, copy them, and send them out again. It was a really great idea, and it really got the music and the message out to the fans.
No, after installation, Windows puts up a firewall-on-speed which allows connections ONLY to MS Update.
I'm sure it could be cracked...