Are there any good blogs that Slashdotters read about corporate life, or directories that break down blogs by company? I don't have any businesses specifically in mind, I'm just looking for funny and juicy stories about how companies fare.
That and you'd go out of business if you commoditize your "best effort" when you have many years of research before another advance in technology becomes a workable product. Especially in the HD market where margins are extremely thin to begin with.
In other news, a gentleman by the name of Due Diligence was found dead on a downtown street, apparently trampled to death.
When asked about it Angry Mob (currently confined at digg.com) replied "Never let the truth get in the way of a good story".
Seriously, this was a pretty big fuckup regurgitating some random assholes blog entry without checking *anything*. I expect this at digg.com where inflamitory and baseless rule the day. Slashdot can claim to merely be a discussion of "news" and not necessarily journalism itself. Ars, I expected more.
You are right, but now in 2006 you'll be able to buy hardware that will actually allow you to turn all of those features on and still have a playable game.
Everquest 2 for instance, if you want to play with all of the options turned on, you'd need 2 gig of ram an uber video card with at least 512MB ram and it still doesn't run that great. 2006 may bring those people viable performance on the settings you see in screen shots.
You're making the same mistake most people do. Flash drives are only going to be as fast as the MFR's implementation of the USB interface. Just as external hard disks are far faster than that bus (firewire or USB) permits. Toshiba's current generation, for instance, MLC NAND chips are rated at 108/45 MB per second. But you'll need a proper interface, which a USB device chain is not.
Flash memory may have an indefinite SHELF lifespan but you can only write to them X number of times before they fail and they are slow.
Yes, because 1 million writes is so not worth the 100+ MB per second read/ 50 MB per second write speed. That's the industry standard. For some extra money you can bump that to 5 million with a 5 year warranty.
What does my brand new laptop do? About 20. Even the newest fancy pants Raptors peak at 80 MB per second at the edge of the disk.
Considering how late your comment is, you should have read all of the above by now. Even still, if you didn't know these things you should know better than to spout off like some kind of funduhmentalist christian. Do you really believe the scientists and business people with all of their learning and experience have missed out on an obvious truth that only you know about.
Know what?
Digg.com called, they want their "conversation" back.
I think it's worth mentioning that the bottleneck in reading/writing large files is an interface problem (usb et.al.) and not actually an issue with the ram. Currently the thing spinning drives have going for them is cost per GB.
100+MB read and about 50 MB write last I read.
For comparison, a Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 3.5" desktop drive will do about ~47 MB per second.
It depends on who made it and how much you want to pay. Twenty years ago NAND was good for 100,000 write cycles. Now most manufacturers claim about 1 million for comodity chips and bandwidth around 100/50 MB read/write per second.
With some memory management changes (swap is a crutch anyway;) it shouldn't be an issue for the vast majority of people to move to a fully flash based system.
Yep, no need to keep looking for an explanation. Obviously the divine creator has confounded modern science once again. Woe be to those who persist, lest their own homes be erupted upon.
Tom's as well as many other sites have found that regular updates, even if they are of questionable quality, are important to keep readers comming back.
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'scuse me, that's 20 dollars, $10 per show per month.
What am I paying 10 bucks for again?
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10 Dollars to play it on my iPod instead of my PC?
Seems to me, this is NPR doing its job of presenting an issue in a balanced manner. No, they're not advocating anything here. They're just informing.
That's the trouble with balanced journalism, a great many people find listening to an opposing point of view unbearable.
Are there any good blogs that Slashdotters read about corporate life, or directories that break down blogs by company? I don't have any businesses specifically in mind, I'm just looking for funny and juicy stories about how companies fare.
http://www.fuckedcompany.com/
Not a blog so much, but if you want to read about who's fucking up this week it's a good place to start.
Is anyone keeping track of which of his write ups wind up being accurate?
According to the man's own review he does a reasonable job at around 73-80 percent depending on how critical you want to be.
When did a healthy mis-trust of government suddenly get you tin-foil hat status, and a visit from the FBI?
Since people forgot about the things the FBI and CIA et. al. do when they aren't chained and muzzled.
That and you'd go out of business if you commoditize your "best effort" when you have many years of research before another advance in technology becomes a workable product. Especially in the HD market where margins are extremely thin to begin with.
Not wholly on topic, but this BBC article discusses the theoretical maximum speed of (modern) magnetic media.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3647055.stm
2.3 picoseconds is pretty quick, at least until someone makes a faster material.
In other news, a gentleman by the name of Due Diligence was found dead on a downtown street, apparently trampled to death.
When asked about it Angry Mob (currently confined at digg.com) replied "Never let the truth get in the way of a good story".
Seriously, this was a pretty big fuckup regurgitating some random assholes blog entry without checking *anything*. I expect this at digg.com where inflamitory and baseless rule the day. Slashdot can claim to merely be a discussion of "news" and not necessarily journalism itself. Ars, I expected more.
is a decent card for under $100. I shouldn't need a $150-$200 card to play 8 month old games.
The chintzy integrated video will play all of those games well enough. But you're going to have to back off from "11" on the display options.
You are right, but now in 2006 you'll be able to buy hardware that will actually allow you to turn all of those features on and still have a playable game.
Everquest 2 for instance, if you want to play with all of the options turned on, you'd need 2 gig of ram an uber video card with at least 512MB ram and it still doesn't run that great. 2006 may bring those people viable performance on the settings you see in screen shots.
You're making the same mistake most people do. Flash drives are only going to be as fast as the MFR's implementation of the USB interface. Just as external hard disks are far faster than that bus (firewire or USB) permits. Toshiba's current generation, for instance, MLC NAND chips are rated at 108/45 MB per second. But you'll need a proper interface, which a USB device chain is not.
Yes, because 1 million writes is so not worth the 100+ MB per second read/ 50 MB per second write speed. That's the industry standard. For some extra money you can bump that to 5 million with a 5 year warranty.
What does my brand new laptop do? About 20. Even the newest fancy pants Raptors peak at 80 MB per second at the edge of the disk.
Considering how late your comment is, you should have read all of the above by now. Even still, if you didn't know these things you should know better than to spout off like some kind of funduhmentalist christian. Do you really believe the scientists and business people with all of their learning and experience have missed out on an obvious truth that only you know about.
Know what?
Digg.com called, they want their "conversation" back.
100+MB read and about 50 MB write last I read.
For comparison, a Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 3.5" desktop drive will do about ~47 MB per second.
It depends on who made it and how much you want to pay. Twenty years ago NAND was good for 100,000 write cycles. Now most manufacturers claim about 1 million for comodity chips and bandwidth around 100/50 MB read/write per second.
;) it shouldn't be an issue for the vast majority of people to move to a fully flash based system.
With some memory management changes (swap is a crutch anyway
Apple sues Yahoo! for trademark infringement.
I know a few Everquest 2 players that would love to have that machine. Might even be able to adjust the display settings to "Extreme".
Of course what with playing EQ2 all day they can barely afford the electricity to run the thing.
Yep, no need to keep looking for an explanation. Obviously the divine creator has confounded modern science once again.
Woe be to those who persist, lest their own homes be erupted upon.
It was, they were the finest two dozen pixels ever.
I'm not sure they'd even keep up with the maintenance costs.
Or the energy conversion costs since you're burining fuel to power them instead of whatever the grid sources from.
Or.. wait a minute, "10kW" that's not even sensical is it? I'm not an electrical engineer but that seems fishy as well.
The new monorail?
That was the point, he doesn't do it "all of the time". When he did do it, it was a lousy experience. And it is.
If you're really inclined you rip it to a virtual disk and back to whatever you want without wasting a cd(s).
You can bet the remaining engineering courses will get cut eventually.
You don't really want to graduate with an engineering degree from a school who's claim to fame is their "awesome" womens studies major.
What does it matter if the results look like that.
Tom's as well as many other sites have found that regular updates, even if they are of questionable quality, are important to keep readers comming back.
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