I don't want to have swappable USB drives, I want all hard drives available all the time on my network.
I use daisy-chained FireWire 800 externals as I only have a laptop. Mine is good for 16 devices per port, of which I have one 800 and one 400. So I'm good for 64TB, although that'd be 32 little PSUs, and FireWire externals tend to be quite a bit more expensive per unit than USB externals and of course raw internal drives.
And what American advertiser is going to want to place ads for videos that are seen in countries where they may not even have an establishment?
There's a huge opportunity being missed here - international targeted ads based on your locality using IP geolocation. McDonald's could pay megabucks for generic worldwide ads, while Tony's Steak House could pay a few thousand dollars for highly targeted ads in Rochester MN. That would really throw the Internet cat amongst the TV network pigeons.
The Sydney Opera House has closed loop saltwater cooling for their A/C - they feed the saltwater pipes a plate of zinc every year, which is used as a sacrificial metal to avoid corrosion. Pretty clever:)
32 GB Intel SSD, and that would be more then enough for your average laptop
I work and play on my laptop. It's my only computer - a fact that makes my life easier. Here's my storage requirements on top of OS/apps:
Photos: 40GB
Music: 50GB
VMs: 100GB (work-related)
Client data (encrypted, but no personal data): 30GB
Video: 1,200GB
My laptop drive lets me carry everything but video without an external HD. Back at home, I have full-size external drives for the video and for backups. Let me know when 512GB SSDs cost less than a Burton Custom.
And name 3 people you know who run raid-5 on their personal PCs, and I'll show you 3 guys who can't afford an SSD drive.
Yeah, every time an article on storage catches my eye, I have to check laptop SSD prices. So far, each time I do this, for the cost of a drive the size I need, I could buy a new snowboard, or a laptop, bike, half a holiday, room full of beer... etc. I really want one, but so far I haven't been able to look at that list and say "I'd rather have an SSD!"
When I saw "Google submitted to the Newspaper Association of America (NAA)", my immediate thought was that Slashdot had been hacked by a certain troll organisation. I guess that serves me for browsing at -1.
Apple ALREADY had a 160 GB IPod Classic. How about a 250GB?! Cause this is really stupid to remove it from the market and then bring it back again, because nobody wants the 120 GB. Of course they don't want the 120GB. As much as I like and respect Apple, this particular move just seems like a throwback to me.
As a 160GB owner, I sympathise with your point of view, but I'm sure it was a sound business decision on Apple's part. The classic is now the least popular iPod model, so they dropped the least popular flavour of their least popular model. Most people bought the 120, which also happens to be considerably thinner, lighter and feels less clumsy than the original 160. The new classic has the same physical characteristics as the 120, so it's better than my 160.
I only bought the 160 because I got fed up with running out of storage on my ipods; the biggest classic was a sledgehammer solution.
You don't decide what you want. Apple decides what you want.
That's a bit harsh, but actually there is some truth to this and it's one of the reasons for Apple's success. Instead of working through feature request lists from focus groups and customer feedback, they do a little something called innovation. This free thinking allows them to build products and features customers didn't realise they wanted until they saw them.
Sounds like fanboy speak, but I've worked on products which have suffered from listening to customers too much. "Oh, can we have another tickbox for this option?" and so on. If you're not careful, you can end up with products that tick all the boxes, that "do everything", but are cluttered, confused and don't do a single thing particularly well.
Very few homes in (North-)Western Europe have air conditioning
There are also washing machines and dish washers nowadays that can take warm water as "input" rather than cold water that is subsequently heated using electricity.
Our UK home has air conditioning, but it is ridiculously expensive to run. Electricity bills are US$8K/year and we use gas for heating. Electricity is just really expensive here, with natural gas being a much cheaper energy source, which is why warm-water-input devices are popular.
Some thieves broke into my college's computer labs and stole all the four-year-old iMacs. They turned their noses up at the brand new Dell Precisions in the same lab...
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I don't want to have swappable USB drives, I want all hard drives available all the time on my network.
I use daisy-chained FireWire 800 externals as I only have a laptop. Mine is good for 16 devices per port, of which I have one 800 and one 400. So I'm good for 64TB, although that'd be 32 little PSUs, and FireWire externals tend to be quite a bit more expensive per unit than USB externals and of course raw internal drives.
LOLcats? srsly? I guess you're one of those oldies who still says ROTFL instead of rofl or pastes a link to the roflcopter...
With ISP cooperation you can narrow an IP down to a physical address. At that point, you're screwed.
Speak for yourself. I do all my bittorrenting from open wireless networks ;)
With ISP cooperation you can narrow an IP down to a physical address. At that point, your neighbours are screwed.
Fixed.
We have to pay for our shiny devices somehow :P
You beat me to it. Just like when I tried to nab the last space in the car park, but someone else took it first.
Bollocks - misread the summary. I thought it was saying they're building a wind farm in China.
providing enough power to meet the electrical needs of around 150,000 American homes.
California really are getting desperate. Also, that's a long cable; they'd better crank the voltage to reduce resistive loss...
And what American advertiser is going to want to place ads for videos that are seen in countries where they may not even have an establishment?
There's a huge opportunity being missed here - international targeted ads based on your locality using IP geolocation. McDonald's could pay megabucks for generic worldwide ads, while Tony's Steak House could pay a few thousand dollars for highly targeted ads in Rochester MN. That would really throw the Internet cat amongst the TV network pigeons.
Metallica make music? When did that start then?
I thought they were just a copyright lobby group?
Me too. I was going to paste my letter here, but since I have sent it now, I am frightened of peer review :)
service generally also being taken to be a good thing.
Clearly you don't own a BMW, where service is generally considered an assault (on your wallet).
...or sending about 400 DVDs per second
That's just about enough to cope with today's worldwide porn output, but what happens when the industry switches to Blu-Ray?
I'm in a certain mode before I see some movies I'd rate them quite a bit differently
Absolutely. Every single film I first saw on a plane ranks very low for me.
The Sydney Opera House has closed loop saltwater cooling for their A/C - they feed the saltwater pipes a plate of zinc every year, which is used as a sacrificial metal to avoid corrosion. Pretty clever :)
32 GB Intel SSD, and that would be more then enough for your average laptop
I work and play on my laptop. It's my only computer - a fact that makes my life easier. Here's my storage requirements on top of OS/apps:
My laptop drive lets me carry everything but video without an external HD. Back at home, I have full-size external drives for the video and for backups. Let me know when 512GB SSDs cost less than a Burton Custom.
When I built my storage server, the comparisons were things like "new car"... I instead spent $500 for five 1TB drives in a RAID-6 array.
What good is a new house and a new car if you can't enjoy them because you're worrying about your RAID rebuild times? Choose life: choose SSD!
Should bluray players that don't include an hdmi cable also say that?
Yes, if the blu-ray player also didn't include a blu-ray laser pickup. Then it would be:
Blu-Ray* Player
*Blu-Ray laser sold separately
GCD figures out how to manage things so you don't get a spinning beachball
For non-Mac OS X users who haven't heard that before, the spinning beachball is a cursor a bit like the hourglass.
allowing it to play 720p video through the optional HDMI Zune dock
So really it should be Zune HD*
*HD sold separately
And name 3 people you know who run raid-5 on their personal PCs, and I'll show you 3 guys who can't afford an SSD drive.
Yeah, every time an article on storage catches my eye, I have to check laptop SSD prices. So far, each time I do this, for the cost of a drive the size I need, I could buy a new snowboard, or a laptop, bike, half a holiday, room full of beer... etc. I really want one, but so far I haven't been able to look at that list and say "I'd rather have an SSD!"
When I saw "Google submitted to the Newspaper Association of America (NAA)", my immediate thought was that Slashdot had been hacked by a certain troll organisation. I guess that serves me for browsing at -1.
Apple ALREADY had a 160 GB IPod Classic. How about a 250GB?! Cause this is really stupid to remove it from the market and then bring it back again, because nobody wants the 120 GB. Of course they don't want the 120GB. As much as I like and respect Apple, this particular move just seems like a throwback to me.
As a 160GB owner, I sympathise with your point of view, but I'm sure it was a sound business decision on Apple's part. The classic is now the least popular iPod model, so they dropped the least popular flavour of their least popular model. Most people bought the 120, which also happens to be considerably thinner, lighter and feels less clumsy than the original 160. The new classic has the same physical characteristics as the 120, so it's better than my 160.
I only bought the 160 because I got fed up with running out of storage on my ipods; the biggest classic was a sledgehammer solution.
You don't decide what you want. Apple decides what you want.
That's a bit harsh, but actually there is some truth to this and it's one of the reasons for Apple's success. Instead of working through feature request lists from focus groups and customer feedback, they do a little something called innovation. This free thinking allows them to build products and features customers didn't realise they wanted until they saw them.
Sounds like fanboy speak, but I've worked on products which have suffered from listening to customers too much. "Oh, can we have another tickbox for this option?" and so on. If you're not careful, you can end up with products that tick all the boxes, that "do everything", but are cluttered, confused and don't do a single thing particularly well.
Very few homes in (North-)Western Europe have air conditioning
There are also washing machines and dish washers nowadays that can take warm water as "input" rather than cold water that is subsequently heated using electricity.
Our UK home has air conditioning, but it is ridiculously expensive to run. Electricity bills are US$8K/year and we use gas for heating. Electricity is just really expensive here, with natural gas being a much cheaper energy source, which is why warm-water-input devices are popular.
Some thieves broke into my college's computer labs and stole all the four-year-old iMacs. They turned their noses up at the brand new Dell Precisions in the same lab...