No, he's mainly upset because the exchange for the good or service hasn't occurred fully. One side gets a benefit for nothing and the other doesn't get the benefit of revenue or income, not profit for the first 150,000 copies. Until that break even mark is reached, the pirate, or more potentially a large mass of pirates in what might be your non-broken system, runs the risk of the developer making no income and not having the resources to produce a future product to be bought or pirated. You've avoided the question that's been asked several time by saying the debate isn't about what fixes the system or truly even what is broken. Currently I assume you're bitching about a highly regulated capitalist model as being insufficient to get you and others free stuff. The alternatives for free stuff that I see are socialized gaming or an anarchic system that doesn't protect the intellectual property rights of the creator at all. Either of those would be worse than current. In the latter, no creator would have any protections what-so-ever to provide even minimal chance that they could support themselves by having skills in any useful art, hence why would anyone even be motivated to learn those skills in the first place? In a government provided gaming system, the payment for the developers' services would be provided by the government, regardless of how it came to the decision that the product was worthy to be produced, and everyone in the tax base would be deprived of their money to pay for the game not only whether they intended to play it or not but even if they even knew of its existence or not. Neither of those other solutions seem any more adequate, so I'd love to know your solution to the so called broken system that is yet to be clearly defined.
Why not? He/she built a cluster for no use at all other than learning and fun. I can easily see the "use" for 1k cores with Intel's apparent interest to get into the 3d market or at least destroy Nvidia and ATI (something AMD has already done in name but that's beside the point). For clusters it's a no-brainer to keep adding cores if you can increase performance per watt ratio with each additional core. For desktops there likely will be a point where enough is enough, but I disagree that we've passed it. Software designers are still keeping up quite quickly with any headroom new hardware creates.
While the US's tax system is incredibly screwed up and complicated, it does take $20 payments into account sanely in a few places. I believe the example for 20 bucks was repayment of lunch?
Expenses paid by another. If your personal expenses are paid for by another person, such as a corporation, the payment may be taxable to you depending upon your relationship with that person and the nature of the payment. But if that payment makes up for a loss caused by that person, and only restores you to the position you were in before the loss, the paymet is not includible in your income.
Also, if it isn't reimbursing a friend but a small payment to a friend for a service, they don't have to consider the money as income if their net earnings from self employment are less than $400 for that year.
I run Gentoo on a Pentium 133mhz with 128mb ram now. But then, I'm somewhat a masochist as I like a challenge. It simply wouldn't be worth trying with only a 720mb drive though.
Since you decided to over think this just a bit, I'll take it a step further. Keeping the square net design and two crosses (the parts that catch fish) between all nodes, you need 4 nodes to catch 1 fish, 9 nodes to catch 4 fish, etc. So you see the pattern fish^2 -> nodes^2, where nodes = fish + 1. So for the 1,000,000 catching points, you need 1,001^2 = 1,002,001 bots for a megabotnet.
At that price point the real question is a basic one, do you want to build a cluster? If yes, I wouldn't build that exact setup but probably go with Athlon X2 5050e CPUs. You can also get used 1U dual cpu servers on ebay and sites like geeks.com almost all day long for $100-150 each. They did have a bunch on this page: http://www.geeks.com/products_sc.asp?Cat=821 but are currently sold out of the dirt cheap stuff. The downside of the pre-built older stuff is they'll cost more in electricity to run. Now, if you answered "No, I don't really just want to build a cluster for fun." then your best bet will be to just build an i7 based machine. With the cluster you'd be able to afford max 6 nodes with 2 cores each that will be individually slower than the i7's cores. With the i7 you'd only have 8 (logical) cores but they'd be faster and overall draw less power (cheaper to operate) than the 12 core cluster. If the application you're working with can truly be threaded easily enough to take advantage of an 8-12 cpu cluster you should look into porting it to run on a GPGPU. And that's if there's not already code to do it. A lot of scientific functions are already available written in CUDA. You can get a ton of performance out of a $200 video card if the application can be parallelized.
instead of updating our communications infrastructure to accommodate the growing number of high bandwidth applications coming into the mainstream, ISPs are trying to artificially suppress the demand for bandwidth through packet shaping, bandwidth throttling, and generally controlling how people use their internet connections.
I'm curious how similar the costs are of these 2 things. My university spent $500k in summer '05 on "new" outdated cisco routers and switches to implement QoS through bandwidth throttling and throw up a few WAPs on campus. I call it outdated because all the wired stuff was 10mbit. They couldn't even setup the throttling correctly, we ended up with ~12KB/s down and ~100KB/s up in the dorms. They advertised it as broadband to incoming students. That was my third and last year living in the dorms. My first year there ('99-00, I was in and out of school) we routinely saw speeds over 900KB/s up or down from most sites. I rarely encountered the problems many people bitched about constantly, because they only throttled Napster back then. The biggest problem then would be a router locking up on a weekend. Then you were looking at being without internet at least the rest of the day if not until Monday 8am. That happened maybe once every 2 months.
Like Isaug, if my last mod points hadn't expired a couple days ago, you'd have them. Well said.
POP3 http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=13276
IMAP http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=77659
I linked to Outlook Express because it's built in to 90% of PCs in people's homes and workplaces. Yes, even a n00b can follow instructions. The primary roadblock is getting them to want to do it. Frankly, I give them enough credit that if they're using e-mail they're literate enough to read a help file. Google used to provide an executable that would set it up for you if you were in fact just that retarded but they don't seem to anymore. Here's one, http://sites.batelnet.bs/end-users/Home/moving-to-google-apps#TOC-Using-POP-Configuration-Tool , from somewhere else that's supposed to work with "Outlook Express, Outlook 2002 or Outlook 2003". Stop walking people through things and give them something to double click if that's all the technical knowledge they have.
Also, your parent was wrong on about everything he said. Go compare the prices of WD Black (WD1001FALS 1TB $119.99) vs RE3 (WD1002FBYS 1TB $189.99) & RE2 GP (WD1000FYPS 1TB $199.99)drives, then Cuda AS (ST31000340AS 1TB $109.99) vs ES/NS (ST31000340NS 1TB $169.99) drives, and finally VR vs Savvio 15k.2 (ST9146852SS) or Cheetah 15k.6 (ST3300656SS). You're looking at a 50% premium for drives certified to just work in RAID, not even work better. And you're looking at at least 100% more/GB for an enterprise performance drive. Calling a Raptor expensive in '09 is just silly. Hell, calling a Raptor a performance drive in '09 is silly.
Even saturating 4 lanes of SATA would be much slower than DRAM. 4 x 300MB/s = 1.2GB/s vs 12.8GB/s (for DDR3 1600). Yes SSDs handle random requests better than magnetic media but still offer no where near the speed required from true "random access memory". It could work if you were still using a 486 maybe. In the future it may work, but I doubt it will be with flash memory.
You can get a socket 771 board with an Intel 5100 chipset, and it'll be compatible with DDR2 ECC memory. It does not require FB-DIMMs. Most of those boards are 32/48GB max RAM. Most newer desktop boards for AM2 and 775 "support" 16GB RAM, but the availability of 4GB non-ECC sticks is low. So you're stuck with "only" 8GB for playing 64-bit solitaire, visiting the interwebz, and listening to itunes.
If I hadn't already posted in this thread you'd get a +1 Funny for putting the image in my head of a group of kids all standing over a solid steel box as it's being opened and "hey look at this junk they left us" when they see a loose pile of 200 discs just dumped in there. I know that's how I pack my time capsules. I'm not opening them, so what do I care?
In addition to what's already been said, you also tend to get better efficiency out of 240V devices. Nothing major, but ~5%. But, I believe and someone correct me if I have it reversed, devices like motors with windings are cheaper to design and build for 120V.
You see it labeled as anywhere from 110-125V here in the US. In practice it might test anywhere from 90-135V in a house depending on the area, time of year, and age of the house and wiring. Typical is 115-120V though, and anything less than 110 is very rare. Our larger devices will be labeled 220-240V depending on age. Then of course we have the handful of odd devices like florescent bulbs needing stepped up to 600V by a ballast, the same for metal halide bulbs at 277V typically, and a lot of heavy-duty industrial equipment running at 480V (AC or DC).
Possibly. The synopsis does not say if these were hand written or printed notes. It's getting damn common for teachers to just bulk e-mail the same powerpoint presentation for 5 years or more. I've had teachers that told us we had to print them out. For "free" on the university equipment that's paid for by student fees of course. Only the worst teachers do that, but it does happen. I think it really comes down to 2 words the submitter quoted, "our work". Which turns into "my work" which would mean they belong to the student.
To the OP, I'd ask the original student asking, how did the teacher refer to the physical material. If she requested "your notes for the semester" then all else is irrelevant since she would be admitting the notes are the property of the students in her own words. Then it's theft, and the students should organize to log complaints with campus security, the dean of the college, the head of student services, and the president of the university if applicable. At that point it's just statistics as one of those people is bound to just be an asshole and in a position to screw that teacher pretty good. Forget the lawyer, look into criminal charges first. Students do have legitimate uses for notes after they've completed a class. Refreshing for graduate school exams would be the first to come to mind.
You're suggesting that Congress somehow forced private enterprise to behave stupidly, greedily, incompetently, negligently and possibly criminally? That private enterprise was unable to resist and followed each other, like lemmings, over the cliff?
A huge problem is that the thing which surprises us most about politicians is not that they're whores, but that they're cheap whores. Many seem perfectly willing to sell out their constituents, the country, and the constitution for relatively small campaign donations. I might be able to understand an expensive whore of a politician accepting payment of hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars in exchange for extending some favor. But the politician who takes a few thousand dollars in exchange for letting make millions or even billions of dollars be made at the ultimate expense of the rest of us is a cheap whore.
USB wins in the convenience over performance game. eSATA in a SATA 3.0 package will get a little closer once the SATA controller can provide power to the device over the data cable, but by then it will probably be too late. Not having to carry around a separate power brick for each and every device you plan to plug in is an extremely nice feature.
Then this, sir, is the processor for you and I both.
http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20080325comp.htm
Each of the 50watt L54x0 cpus comes in 2 retail flavors, here's what the model numbers look like:
BX80574L5420A
BX80574L5420P
The only difference is the size of the included heat sink based on the intended case size, A for 1U and P for 2U and bigger. Due to the extra room for a larger heatsink these 45nm, 12MB cache, 2.33-2.5Ghz Quad Core monsters can be passively cooled! The shit part is having to shell out $600 for a compatible motherboard. IMO, $365-425 is pretty reasonable for the CPU. I don't think we're going to have to wait 10 years for it. The mfg's are starting to realize tons of heat and energy usage just for a few more fps or opening Word.1 seconds quicker is not what the market wants or needs anymore.
Even the price is no longer a big issue, 64GB SSD drives can be gotten for $270.
Wrong. 64GB, $250, $210 after rebate. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227344 . And that's still a freaking insanely high price/GB. Here's let's do the math.
Cheetah 15k.6 450GB ~$900 so $2/GB
VelociRaptor 300GB ~$300 $1/GB
Most 500GB drives $65 $.13/GB
Any 640GB drive $85 $.13/GB
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 750GB $99 $.13/GB (see the trend?)
Seagate Barracuda ES.2 1TB (Near-line drive, the most expensive 1TB available) $235 $.24/GB
OCZ Core Series SSD 64GB $210 $3.28/GB
One of the most inexpensive/GB SSDs is over 13x more expensive than a magnetic drive that's considered enterprise entry level (The ES.2) and over 25x more expensive than drives that are considered typical mainstream.
120mb/s sustained and sequential read and write. WD Velociraptor (the new 10k rpm drive) has that value much lower at 85mb/s sustained and 68mb/s sequential.
Wrong. The Velociraptor was not included in that benchmark. In fact, pre-release engineering samples didn't hit the benchmark sites for a month and a half after that article was published. Here's one that does include it. http://hothardware.com/News/OCZ_Core_Series_SSD_Vs_VelociRaptor_Sneak_Peek/ Also, "X sustained and Y sequential" doesn't even make sense. I think you meant read and write but even got those numbers wrong.
Those benchmarks are garbage. For starters they're 6 months old and a lot has changed since then. They're comparing a "brand new" latest generation SSD versus a "performance hard drive" 74GB Raptor that is now 2 generations old.
Most of the benchmark sites just piss me off when they're doing SSD reviews. They never put them head to head with the 2 market segments for which the drives are being produced and pushed. The mfgs want the high end drives in enterprise class servers that see extreme I/O levels, and the "mainstream" drives are for laptops due to power usage and durability. A lot of the enterprise class servers are already switching to 2.5" drives anyway for lower power draw, lower access times, and higher density per unit. Very few people are going to replace their 3.5" drive in their desktop with a silly expensive piece of flash ram. I'm leaning heavily toward getting one of those 64GB OCZ drives for my laptop, and it's as much for heat as anything else. The only reasons I'd look to put one in a PC is if I'm trying to accomplish making it silent or green, but none of the reviewers ever seem to realize that.
Not in the US. Here all that is required to search a car is probable cause. A warrant is only needed for a residence and that can be easily bypassed if you rent. Swerving or the smell of alcohol is probable cause to conduct a DUI test. The smell of pot or noticing a pipe in the ashtray is probably cause to search a car for drugs. Legally you have to inform an officer if you have a firearm in the vehicle. If you don't cooperate or the cop has "suspicion" that you're lying, he has probably cause to search for a firearm.
Those things are all performed with respect to public safety. It's hard to remember at times, but most police officers pulling you over are low wage civil servants just trying to do their job with pride and dignity the best they can. 99% of them respect the rights of the individual fully. Compare the personality and courtesy of the last police officer and the last retail sales clerk you interacted with and see who comes out on top. It's that 1% of assholes that get stories written about them. Or that small number of poorly trained security staff at the mall.
And if you're really worried about your rights inside a vehicle, don't ever drive. Passengers have surprisingly more rights than drivers here. They can't demand you answer questions, they can't make you exit the vehicle, they can't search you... That is until they've arrested the driver. After that you're SOL because you're just a citizen on the side of the road or are now the driver. And you're pretty much fucked if you didn't cooperate with them before your friend was arrested. It's actually a really crappy situation if you have a designated driver. If something happens to him/her during a stop you're almost always arrested for public intoxication the moment you step out of the vehicle.
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No, he's mainly upset because the exchange for the good or service hasn't occurred fully. One side gets a benefit for nothing and the other doesn't get the benefit of revenue or income, not profit for the first 150,000 copies. Until that break even mark is reached, the pirate, or more potentially a large mass of pirates in what might be your non-broken system, runs the risk of the developer making no income and not having the resources to produce a future product to be bought or pirated. You've avoided the question that's been asked several time by saying the debate isn't about what fixes the system or truly even what is broken. Currently I assume you're bitching about a highly regulated capitalist model as being insufficient to get you and others free stuff. The alternatives for free stuff that I see are socialized gaming or an anarchic system that doesn't protect the intellectual property rights of the creator at all. Either of those would be worse than current. In the latter, no creator would have any protections what-so-ever to provide even minimal chance that they could support themselves by having skills in any useful art, hence why would anyone even be motivated to learn those skills in the first place? In a government provided gaming system, the payment for the developers' services would be provided by the government, regardless of how it came to the decision that the product was worthy to be produced, and everyone in the tax base would be deprived of their money to pay for the game not only whether they intended to play it or not but even if they even knew of its existence or not. Neither of those other solutions seem any more adequate, so I'd love to know your solution to the so called broken system that is yet to be clearly defined.
Why not? He/she built a cluster for no use at all other than learning and fun. I can easily see the "use" for 1k cores with Intel's apparent interest to get into the 3d market or at least destroy Nvidia and ATI (something AMD has already done in name but that's beside the point). For clusters it's a no-brainer to keep adding cores if you can increase performance per watt ratio with each additional core. For desktops there likely will be a point where enough is enough, but I disagree that we've passed it. Software designers are still keeping up quite quickly with any headroom new hardware creates.
While the US's tax system is incredibly screwed up and complicated, it does take $20 payments into account sanely in a few places. I believe the example for 20 bucks was repayment of lunch?
http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p525.pdf page 32.
Also, if it isn't reimbursing a friend but a small payment to a friend for a service, they don't have to consider the money as income if their net earnings from self employment are less than $400 for that year.
http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i1040.pdf Page 9, Chart C, condition 5. Also, page 170 of the pdf, page SE-1, under General Instructions.
I run Gentoo on a Pentium 133mhz with 128mb ram now. But then, I'm somewhat a masochist as I like a challenge. It simply wouldn't be worth trying with only a 720mb drive though.
So in a system that should have clocks synchronized to less than a microsecond nobody bothered to run "ntpdate" even once in hundred days ?
100 hours. 4 days-ish. 3,600,000 deciseconds.
Since you decided to over think this just a bit, I'll take it a step further. Keeping the square net design and two crosses (the parts that catch fish) between all nodes, you need 4 nodes to catch 1 fish, 9 nodes to catch 4 fish, etc. So you see the pattern fish^2 -> nodes^2, where nodes = fish + 1. So for the 1,000,000 catching points, you need 1,001^2 = 1,002,001 bots for a megabotnet.
At that price point the real question is a basic one, do you want to build a cluster? If yes, I wouldn't build that exact setup but probably go with Athlon X2 5050e CPUs. You can also get used 1U dual cpu servers on ebay and sites like geeks.com almost all day long for $100-150 each. They did have a bunch on this page: http://www.geeks.com/products_sc.asp?Cat=821 but are currently sold out of the dirt cheap stuff. The downside of the pre-built older stuff is they'll cost more in electricity to run. Now, if you answered "No, I don't really just want to build a cluster for fun." then your best bet will be to just build an i7 based machine. With the cluster you'd be able to afford max 6 nodes with 2 cores each that will be individually slower than the i7's cores. With the i7 you'd only have 8 (logical) cores but they'd be faster and overall draw less power (cheaper to operate) than the 12 core cluster. If the application you're working with can truly be threaded easily enough to take advantage of an 8-12 cpu cluster you should look into porting it to run on a GPGPU. And that's if there's not already code to do it. A lot of scientific functions are already available written in CUDA. You can get a ton of performance out of a $200 video card if the application can be parallelized.
instead of updating our communications infrastructure to accommodate the growing number of high bandwidth applications coming into the mainstream, ISPs are trying to artificially suppress the demand for bandwidth through packet shaping, bandwidth throttling, and generally controlling how people use their internet connections.
I'm curious how similar the costs are of these 2 things. My university spent $500k in summer '05 on "new" outdated cisco routers and switches to implement QoS through bandwidth throttling and throw up a few WAPs on campus. I call it outdated because all the wired stuff was 10mbit. They couldn't even setup the throttling correctly, we ended up with ~12KB/s down and ~100KB/s up in the dorms. They advertised it as broadband to incoming students. That was my third and last year living in the dorms. My first year there ('99-00, I was in and out of school) we routinely saw speeds over 900KB/s up or down from most sites. I rarely encountered the problems many people bitched about constantly, because they only throttled Napster back then. The biggest problem then would be a router locking up on a weekend. Then you were looking at being without internet at least the rest of the day if not until Monday 8am. That happened maybe once every 2 months.
Like Isaug, if my last mod points hadn't expired a couple days ago, you'd have them. Well said.
POP3
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=13276
IMAP
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=77659
I linked to Outlook Express because it's built in to 90% of PCs in people's homes and workplaces. Yes, even a n00b can follow instructions. The primary roadblock is getting them to want to do it. Frankly, I give them enough credit that if they're using e-mail they're literate enough to read a help file. Google used to provide an executable that would set it up for you if you were in fact just that retarded but they don't seem to anymore. Here's one, http://sites.batelnet.bs/end-users/Home/moving-to-google-apps#TOC-Using-POP-Configuration-Tool , from somewhere else that's supposed to work with "Outlook Express, Outlook 2002 or Outlook 2003". Stop walking people through things and give them something to double click if that's all the technical knowledge they have.
IMAP and POP3 both. It even worked on my last phone, to the extent of the phone's capabilities of holding 100 e-mails.
You mean like this? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231242 Or did you mean SLC? There's also a 256GB version for $500. Pure Si has announced a 1TB 2.5" drive. http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Puresilicon-936099.html
Also, your parent was wrong on about everything he said. Go compare the prices of WD Black (WD1001FALS 1TB $119.99) vs RE3 (WD1002FBYS 1TB $189.99) & RE2 GP (WD1000FYPS 1TB $199.99)drives, then Cuda AS (ST31000340AS 1TB $109.99) vs ES/NS (ST31000340NS 1TB $169.99) drives, and finally VR vs Savvio 15k.2 (ST9146852SS) or Cheetah 15k.6 (ST3300656SS). You're looking at a 50% premium for drives certified to just work in RAID, not even work better. And you're looking at at least 100% more/GB for an enterprise performance drive. Calling a Raptor expensive in '09 is just silly. Hell, calling a Raptor a performance drive in '09 is silly.
Even saturating 4 lanes of SATA would be much slower than DRAM. 4 x 300MB/s = 1.2GB/s vs 12.8GB/s (for DDR3 1600). Yes SSDs handle random requests better than magnetic media but still offer no where near the speed required from true "random access memory". It could work if you were still using a 486 maybe. In the future it may work, but I doubt it will be with flash memory.
You can get a socket 771 board with an Intel 5100 chipset, and it'll be compatible with DDR2 ECC memory. It does not require FB-DIMMs. Most of those boards are 32/48GB max RAM. Most newer desktop boards for AM2 and 775 "support" 16GB RAM, but the availability of 4GB non-ECC sticks is low. So you're stuck with "only" 8GB for playing 64-bit solitaire, visiting the interwebz, and listening to itunes.
If I hadn't already posted in this thread you'd get a +1 Funny for putting the image in my head of a group of kids all standing over a solid steel box as it's being opened and "hey look at this junk they left us" when they see a loose pile of 200 discs just dumped in there. I know that's how I pack my time capsules. I'm not opening them, so what do I care?
In addition to what's already been said, you also tend to get better efficiency out of 240V devices. Nothing major, but ~5%. But, I believe and someone correct me if I have it reversed, devices like motors with windings are cheaper to design and build for 120V.
You see it labeled as anywhere from 110-125V here in the US. In practice it might test anywhere from 90-135V in a house depending on the area, time of year, and age of the house and wiring. Typical is 115-120V though, and anything less than 110 is very rare. Our larger devices will be labeled 220-240V depending on age. Then of course we have the handful of odd devices like florescent bulbs needing stepped up to 600V by a ballast, the same for metal halide bulbs at 277V typically, and a lot of heavy-duty industrial equipment running at 480V (AC or DC).
Possibly. The synopsis does not say if these were hand written or printed notes. It's getting damn common for teachers to just bulk e-mail the same powerpoint presentation for 5 years or more. I've had teachers that told us we had to print them out. For "free" on the university equipment that's paid for by student fees of course. Only the worst teachers do that, but it does happen. I think it really comes down to 2 words the submitter quoted, "our work". Which turns into "my work" which would mean they belong to the student.
To the OP, I'd ask the original student asking, how did the teacher refer to the physical material. If she requested "your notes for the semester" then all else is irrelevant since she would be admitting the notes are the property of the students in her own words. Then it's theft, and the students should organize to log complaints with campus security, the dean of the college, the head of student services, and the president of the university if applicable. At that point it's just statistics as one of those people is bound to just be an asshole and in a position to screw that teacher pretty good. Forget the lawyer, look into criminal charges first. Students do have legitimate uses for notes after they've completed a class. Refreshing for graduate school exams would be the first to come to mind.
They are. Well, not extend but revise. Sata rev 3.0 should support supplying enough power to run a 2.5" hard drive.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/07/faster-sata-standard-coming-in-second-quarter-of-this-year-says/
But there's no telling when it'll actually hit market given they've been officially talking about for a year.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/15/sata-io-cranks-up-power-over-esata-initiative-not-a-moment-too/
Until I actually see it I'll think of it as vaporware and pretty much half-assed and almost useless until it can run a 3.5" drive.
You're suggesting that Congress somehow forced private enterprise to behave stupidly, greedily, incompetently, negligently and possibly criminally? That private enterprise was unable to resist and followed each other, like lemmings, over the cliff?
Yes, see Housing and Community Development Act of 1977 - Title VIII (Community Reinvestment Act) and Federal Housing Enterprises Financial Safety and Soundness Act of 1992 which forced Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to do what they did to those poor poor people.
A huge problem is that the thing which surprises us most about politicians is not that they're whores, but that they're cheap whores. Many seem perfectly willing to sell out their constituents, the country, and the constitution for relatively small campaign donations. I might be able to understand an expensive whore of a politician accepting payment of hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars in exchange for extending some favor. But the politician who takes a few thousand dollars in exchange for letting make millions or even billions of dollars be made at the ultimate expense of the rest of us is a cheap whore.
See Rod Blagojevich for what happens when they get greedy.
Like this? http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/flash_drives/ocz_throttle_esata_flash_drive http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227390&Tpk=N82E16820227390 It's about twice the cost of most USB flash drives the same size and it still requires a USB connection to power the device on most computers. You get to carry around a cable to use it... Awesome!
USB wins in the convenience over performance game. eSATA in a SATA 3.0 package will get a little closer once the SATA controller can provide power to the device over the data cable, but by then it will probably be too late. Not having to carry around a separate power brick for each and every device you plan to plug in is an extremely nice feature.
Then this, sir, is the processor for you and I both. http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20080325comp.htm Each of the 50watt L54x0 cpus comes in 2 retail flavors, here's what the model numbers look like: .1 seconds quicker is not what the market wants or needs anymore.
BX80574L5420A
BX80574L5420P
The only difference is the size of the included heat sink based on the intended case size, A for 1U and P for 2U and bigger. Due to the extra room for a larger heatsink these 45nm, 12MB cache, 2.33-2.5Ghz Quad Core monsters can be passively cooled! The shit part is having to shell out $600 for a compatible motherboard. IMO, $365-425 is pretty reasonable for the CPU. I don't think we're going to have to wait 10 years for it. The mfg's are starting to realize tons of heat and energy usage just for a few more fps or opening Word
Not true. SSDs are already faster in every aspect than magnetic drives.
Easiest way for me to say this: Wrong. Here's the current king of the hill when it comes to magnetic storage http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ultrastar-cheetah-sas,2004-3.html . No SSD can come close to touching that drive in performance or price/GB... yet.
Even the price is no longer a big issue, 64GB SSD drives can be gotten for $270.
Wrong. 64GB, $250, $210 after rebate. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227344 . And that's still a freaking insanely high price/GB. Here's let's do the math.
Cheetah 15k.6 450GB ~$900 so $2/GB
VelociRaptor 300GB ~$300 $1/GB
Most 500GB drives $65 $.13/GB
Any 640GB drive $85 $.13/GB
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 750GB $99 $.13/GB (see the trend?)
Seagate Barracuda ES.2 1TB (Near-line drive, the most expensive 1TB available) $235 $.24/GB
OCZ Core Series SSD 64GB $210 $3.28/GB
One of the most inexpensive/GB SSDs is over 13x more expensive than a magnetic drive that's considered enterprise entry level (The ES.2) and over 25x more expensive than drives that are considered typical mainstream.
120mb/s sustained and sequential read and write. WD Velociraptor (the new 10k rpm drive) has that value much lower at 85mb/s sustained and 68mb/s sequential.
Wrong. The Velociraptor was not included in that benchmark. In fact, pre-release engineering samples didn't hit the benchmark sites for a month and a half after that article was published. Here's one that does include it. http://hothardware.com/News/OCZ_Core_Series_SSD_Vs_VelociRaptor_Sneak_Peek/ Also, "X sustained and Y sequential" doesn't even make sense. I think you meant read and write but even got those numbers wrong.
http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=149&Itemid=1&limit=1&limitstart=4
Those benchmarks are garbage. For starters they're 6 months old and a lot has changed since then. They're comparing a "brand new" latest generation SSD versus a "performance hard drive" 74GB Raptor that is now 2 generations old.
Most of the benchmark sites just piss me off when they're doing SSD reviews. They never put them head to head with the 2 market segments for which the drives are being produced and pushed. The mfgs want the high end drives in enterprise class servers that see extreme I/O levels, and the "mainstream" drives are for laptops due to power usage and durability. A lot of the enterprise class servers are already switching to 2.5" drives anyway for lower power draw, lower access times, and higher density per unit. Very few people are going to replace their 3.5" drive in their desktop with a silly expensive piece of flash ram. I'm leaning heavily toward getting one of those 64GB OCZ drives for my laptop, and it's as much for heat as anything else. The only reasons I'd look to put one in a PC is if I'm trying to accomplish making it silent or green, but none of the reviewers ever seem to realize that.
Not in the US. Here all that is required to search a car is probable cause. A warrant is only needed for a residence and that can be easily bypassed if you rent. Swerving or the smell of alcohol is probable cause to conduct a DUI test. The smell of pot or noticing a pipe in the ashtray is probably cause to search a car for drugs. Legally you have to inform an officer if you have a firearm in the vehicle. If you don't cooperate or the cop has "suspicion" that you're lying, he has probably cause to search for a firearm.
Those things are all performed with respect to public safety. It's hard to remember at times, but most police officers pulling you over are low wage civil servants just trying to do their job with pride and dignity the best they can. 99% of them respect the rights of the individual fully. Compare the personality and courtesy of the last police officer and the last retail sales clerk you interacted with and see who comes out on top. It's that 1% of assholes that get stories written about them. Or that small number of poorly trained security staff at the mall.
And if you're really worried about your rights inside a vehicle, don't ever drive. Passengers have surprisingly more rights than drivers here. They can't demand you answer questions, they can't make you exit the vehicle, they can't search you... That is until they've arrested the driver. After that you're SOL because you're just a citizen on the side of the road or are now the driver. And you're pretty much fucked if you didn't cooperate with them before your friend was arrested. It's actually a really crappy situation if you have a designated driver. If something happens to him/her during a stop you're almost always arrested for public intoxication the moment you step out of the vehicle.
Remember to drink those in multiples of 8 as well. That should help your Slashdot experience.