5ct/GB is too expensive for you?

Prices don't suddenly drop because of this announcement. I can't believe how they manage to make drives as inexpensive as they are.

A RAID array won't save you from fire, floods, system faults and your own stupidity (nobody's perfect). You need backups if you care about your data.

When he came back to Apple in '97, he put OS Classic on death row, but he had to keep it alive because it would take six years to develop a stable, workable version of OS X out of NeXT's OS and there were no alternatives to bridge those years and there was a bunch of software to support.

Let's call it 'Coaxial WiFi' :)

Because PC makers work with far lower margins. If one of the component-makers give you a $0.50 discount on their components if you put their sticker on every laptop, and if you know that all your competitors already do so and have a 50 cent advantage in their battle for the customer (or any step between you and the customer), you don't have any justification to not also add another useless sticker.

Apple has far higher margins. Part of the design-tax is the absence of stickers. Which costs them money.

Why did they develop a solution that has to be installed on the part of the infrastructure they have the least control of and that has the biggest diversity?

How will they roll this out? Forced install? For every OS? Including the OS on my media box with its crappy bittorrent client? And since the software physically runs inside the homes of people, that could open up a ton of legal troubles. What's so hard about making a law that forces ISP's to install monitoring software?

Somehow I'm happy that this seems to be a typical govenment IT-f#ckup.

A big part of efficient health care is to keep people out of hospitals. Prevent, inform and make basic health care easy, accessible and inexpensive. If this patient you're talking about had the option of going to a local doctor for a basic diagnosis and medicine for free (or a couple of dollars), I guess he would have done it. If his only option was going to a hospital where the doctor would give him unnecessary treatments and squeeze every dollar out of him while losing his insurane for the rest of his life, a first sign of a disease would mean as much as a personal bankruptcy for him. It's no wonder people are going to try to live with easy-to-cure diseases until it's too late and expensive treatment is necessary. You say he's an idiot, but actually he just decided that getting rid of a small inconvenience wasn't worth a personal bankruptcy.

Besides, the whole financial incentives system is broken. If a 400lb patient comes to the cardiologist, what is the financial incentive to just assign the patient a lifestyle coach, which is the only long term cure for his/her problems?

http://kerneltrap.org/node/6884

Hybrid drives aren't made to be first choice. They're made to be an affordable choice. If you want to assemble an affordable but fast PC nowadays, you'll probably end up with a 40GB SSD for OS+Apps with a cheap, silent and big hard disk for storage. The problem with this approach is the barrier at 40GB. What if your SSD needs more space? What if it turns out that some frequently-used data is on the hard disk? Or that 60% of the OS files are hardly used? Hybrid drives try to decide for themselves which data should be optimized.

But I'm not really sure that they're optimizing at the right level. Maybe they should expose themselves to the operating system as two separate partitions and let the filesystem implement the optimization while showing up as one single volume to the end-user.

That's the expected behaviour of this disk. Extremely fast for common tasks (booting and loading apps) and slower for less common and less performance-critical tasks. If you really need the SSD-like performance for all your tasks, buy a 500GB+ SSD, if you have the money for it.

That's because it's probably a $40 cheaper disk with an $80 SSD attached to it.

This is exactly what the current iMac needs :)

And what if I have nothing to hide for the current government but don't get the assurance that today's laws are tomorrow's laws?

With enough information in the hands of governments, it's very easy to change a law, criminalize something that was perfectly legal and find and eliminate most of the 'criminals' under those new laws.

I know I'm kind of invoking Godwin's law here, but in 1939 it was perfectly legal to be Jewish here in the Netherlands. In the 1930s the Dutch government made an almost perfect register of the whole population, so in 1940 it was very easy for the Nazis to eliminate almost all the Dutch Jews.

Yes, I know. But Eindhoven = light city = Philips. And a stupid soccer team. It's culture!

The guy in the video mentioned that the firm is based in Eindhoven, where Philips' headquarters are located. After some googling I found out that Liquivista is indeed a spinoff of this company and therefore not a 'real' startup.

Just fill an envelope with MicroSD cards :)