I wonder if I can trade in some Cardassian Yamak sauce for a space flight, say 45 kilograms of it for a one way ticket to space? It's high in sugar content though. (I think they are coming out with the sugar-free version though. Perhaps that will be worth more.)
Yea, how is this technology supposed to help the hard drive industry? There is still the latency with waiting for the desired section of a track to come around, not to mention the Servo seek time delays! How does it benefit? Read/write heads can already read and write data off a track as fast as the platter can spin!
I wouldn't steal a car unless it was an EV1 from General Motors, in which they were about to send to the crusher instead of giving it to a university or something.
The turbo memory is not 'turbo' memory, until air is forced across the memory to allow more cooling, then it can be overclocked without stability issues. Its a blower that runs from a belt, off the spindle motor of the hard drive.
Oh wait...
As we all know part of the reason why we want a new machine every few years (or sooner) is obviously because we see our friends with newer machines and we desire to have something better... Furthermore it is apparent that software tends to get more complex from newer versions of a given piece of software. Today's desktops and laptops are getting so quick, that well, there really isn't any delay with loading any sort of basic business software, especially if you have a fast storage system for your computer (FLASH hard drive anyone?). So, then the improvements of getting quicker and quicker computers kind of diminish, because, who needs 16 cores to load OpenOffice 2.2? I know that I would run seti@home on it, but still, I think computer hardware is really coming ahead of the increased complexities of software. Of course video editing, and running compression algorithms and other intensive tasks will obviously be noticeably faster with a new 8-core system, even if the software doesn't take advantage of multiple processors, because each core will be faster. Bottom line is that we will always find a reason of how and/or why we can take advantage of increased processing power, even if the return is diminishing more and more, by having web pages load.1 seconds faster than before..., or having Openoffice 2.2 load.5 seconds faster, from a load time of 1.5 seconds...
In the year 2015, do you think the average consumer would even think about buying a new PC!? -- provided they have a system built in 2012?
Since when is running a computer 24/7 unethical? I think the 150watts of electricity usage from a computer is far from a waste when your computer is Folding, or any other distributed computing project. Just my.02 dollars
Your so right!
My system keeps my room a few degrees warmer than the rest of the apartment, which I would otherwise tap on the oil heat to keep my room a comfortable temperature.
Yes, that is a great idea!
Driveshield is a good software programs that provides the same functionality, filesystem timestamps (I think), everything gets reset upon reboot... so if this ever starts happening and it says '25 days remaining' set the clock back 5 days and reboot right? Easy enough.
What about computers that have Driveshield or Deepfreeze on them to prevent any changes to the filesystem after a reboot? Will the adminstrators of the schools and businesses that have this protection have to unlock each machine, restart, and update the WGA utility each time Microsoft comes out with a new version!? SOunds a bit annoying to me..
At any rate, for my computers, I have zonealarm locking up the internet connection tight, and I have automatic updates set to download but not install. I suppose I may eventually block traffic to www.microsoft.com as well, to prevent the possibility of my pirated copy of XP from quitting on me..
And a backup of my system..
So guess what:: Download it via Emule, bearshare, bittorrent (when someone posts/seeds it onto those p2p networks.)
don't pay for it, download it for free!
Dudes, i use a program called DVDshrink. It simply hacks through all the encryption, including the region encoding. I just insert the random DVD movie into my laptop, and press 'Backup' on DVDshrink, and it rips it to my hard drive to a customized size. It simply, crunches through the encryption in a reasonably amount of time. I am sure that most of you have heard of this program before, but anyways that is your solution to the problem! For everything else, there's e-mule
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Yeah, I guess it will. It could hinder the speed in which SSDs are getting cheaper. That sucks.
How about a 100-pack of R-F modulators?
Yeah, until I looked at the pictures, I thought it was about a new terminal in space, not a terminal-to-space in Mexico. Pleh
I wonder if I can trade in some Cardassian Yamak sauce for a space flight, say 45 kilograms of it for a one way ticket to space? It's high in sugar content though. (I think they are coming out with the sugar-free version though. Perhaps that will be worth more.)
Yea, how is this technology supposed to help the hard drive industry? There is still the latency with waiting for the desired section of a track to come around, not to mention the Servo seek time delays! How does it benefit? Read/write heads can already read and write data off a track as fast as the platter can spin!
I wouldn't steal a car unless it was an EV1 from General Motors, in which they were about to send to the crusher instead of giving it to a university or something.
The turbo memory is not 'turbo' memory, until air is forced across the memory to allow more cooling, then it can be overclocked without stability issues. Its a blower that runs from a belt, off the spindle motor of the hard drive. Oh wait...
Ahem... 1500 to 6,000 HP for the Diesel engines.
Airplane 2 (william shatner)? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083530/
Or you could get an internal FLASH drive, and its read speed is at 49MB/s (according to http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/09/20/conventiona l_hard_drive_obsoletism/)
and then just get a 3.5" to 2.5" adapter
As we all know part of the reason why we want a new machine every few years (or sooner) is obviously because we see our friends with newer machines and we desire to have something better... Furthermore it is apparent that software tends to get more complex from newer versions of a given piece of software. Today's desktops and laptops are getting so quick, that well, there really isn't any delay with loading any sort of basic business software, especially if you have a fast storage system for your computer (FLASH hard drive anyone?). So, then the improvements of getting quicker and quicker computers kind of diminish, because, who needs 16 cores to load OpenOffice 2.2? I know that I would run seti@home on it, but still, I think computer hardware is really coming ahead of the increased complexities of software. Of course video editing, and running compression algorithms and other intensive tasks will obviously be noticeably faster with a new 8-core system, even if the software doesn't take advantage of multiple processors, because each core will be faster. Bottom line is that we will always find a reason of how and/or why we can take advantage of increased processing power, even if the return is diminishing more and more, by having web pages load .1 seconds faster than before..., or having Openoffice 2.2 load .5 seconds faster, from a load time of 1.5 seconds...
In the year 2015, do you think the average consumer would even think about buying a new PC!? -- provided they have a system built in 2012?
Since when is running a computer 24/7 unethical? I think the 150watts of electricity usage from a computer is far from a waste when your computer is Folding, or any other distributed computing project. Just my .02 dollars
Your so right! My system keeps my room a few degrees warmer than the rest of the apartment, which I would otherwise tap on the oil heat to keep my room a comfortable temperature.
So, i guess you haven't heard of a reasonable Distributed Computing project to run?
Yes, that is a great idea! Driveshield is a good software programs that provides the same functionality, filesystem timestamps (I think), everything gets reset upon reboot... so if this ever starts happening and it says '25 days remaining' set the clock back 5 days and reboot right? Easy enough.
What about computers that have Driveshield or Deepfreeze on them to prevent any changes to the filesystem after a reboot? Will the adminstrators of the schools and businesses that have this protection have to unlock each machine, restart, and update the WGA utility each time Microsoft comes out with a new version!? SOunds a bit annoying to me.. At any rate, for my computers, I have zonealarm locking up the internet connection tight, and I have automatic updates set to download but not install. I suppose I may eventually block traffic to www.microsoft.com as well, to prevent the possibility of my pirated copy of XP from quitting on me.. And a backup of my system..
So guess what:: Download it via Emule, bearshare, bittorrent (when someone posts/seeds it onto those p2p networks.) don't pay for it, download it for free!
Dudes, i use a program called DVDshrink. It simply hacks through all the encryption, including the region encoding. I just insert the random DVD movie into my laptop, and press 'Backup' on DVDshrink, and it rips it to my hard drive to a customized size. It simply, crunches through the encryption in a reasonably amount of time. I am sure that most of you have heard of this program before, but anyways that is your solution to the problem! For everything else, there's e-mule