After I read about Silk, I began wondering if the Fire is actually just a trojan for Silk.

Imagine the power of knowing every click. Knowing what Adverts are clicked, every product that is viewed. Amazon can target the client in a way that will make Google jealous. Will they start selling adverts next? Will they add or change adverts on your page?

Silk is indeed scary.

Actually no,
Yes, straw bales CAN be used as infill, but, it is not the way a real straw home is done.

You build the walls by stacking the bales, compress them a bit - then coat the bales on both sides with mud, shotcrete or whatever. They are very strong, have some thermal mass, and because of the great thickness they have a good R value

The misuse of the term battery is so pervasive that 99.99% of people do not understand what a battery is, or where the term comes from.
A Battery is created when multiple cells are connected together. (AA is a cell, a 9V battery has 6 cells in it)

So, there can be 4 cells in a remote, but it is only one battery.

A better title would be "The desktop lost the battle to Linux". With Android, more personal computing devices ship with Linux than any other OS.

Yes, and Canada has even more space and fewer people than the U.S. The poster could of helped us by identifying the island. After all, one of the estimated 30000 islands in Georgian bay is very different than one up north, and even more different than Toronto Island.

Is slashdot trying to chase away customers by posting more and more troll pieces?

I didn't know that users were forced to decide to switch (or not) in 2009, I thought they could do it in other years as well and for a variety of reasons.

The real point remains, if they wanted the iPhone they are already long gone. T-mobile not having the IPhone for another year is not going to cause the remaining customers grief, especially since i-os is no longer the dominant smartphone platform in the US (or anywhere)

"ironically, AT&T's acquisition won't help T-Mobile customers get access to the iPhone anytime soon"

Anyone who really cared about the IPhone, has long ago defected. Those smartphone users who stayed likely have other priorities (like having an antenna that works?).

If you repeat this thought enough times, people will start to believe it. Too bad it is a big lie, what Richard wants is for free to remain free, that is all.

I think they said they were sorry... is that the same as an apology?

I really think they are only sorry that this is a big black eye, and is going to hurt in the morning.

"The response does not reflect the views of Motorola." can be translated as "our responses should not piss off customers"

This just seems like damage control to me, an apology means they are sorry about What they have done, not just sorry about the consequences of a poorly worded but truthful response.

Please see my reply to a previous poster.

The guy is throwing out meaningless figures. All the SAS controllers I looked at had 8-16 SAS lanes.

If he was to be accurate, he would point out that FC is only 8Gb/s, that is why they aggregate them on one card just like the SAS controllers do.

He either does not know his material, or he is snowing us

Sorry if I wasn't clear.

1 - HP Server
6 - SAS 2.0 cards with 8 SAS lanes each
6 - HP D2000 enclosures with 25 drives each.

OK, I read the article now. I call BULL!

This guy only has an 8 lane PCIe which means he can only get 3 GB/s real throughput.

And he is dissing SAS, and with most SAS 2.0 cards you get 8 to 16 lanes of 6 Gb/s.

That means that the sas card has a 6-12 GB/s theoretical throughput. (Which is meaningless because it is limited by the same cruddy PCIe v2 bus which limits the FC cards. The 8 lanes maxing at 4GB/s theoretical, 3GB/s in real life.)

BTW, SAS 2.0 has lower latency than FC, I've checked it out, so if going for raw speed, I will take the SAS over FC anyday.

We used an HP server with all sockets filled. We stuck in 6 SAS cards, and a couple of FC for talking to the SANS for backup. All 150 drives were DAS (connected to the 6 SAS cards).

I think you could replicate this on either HP server (DL585-g7 or DL980). I like them in that they give enough PCI-e slots. (11 in total)

As I was mentioning earlier, test your hardware before you buy it, we found a hardware bug one vendor was not aware of when we put this thing together. Benchmark, Benchmark Benchmark!

Oh ya, the drives sat in 6 HP D2000 enclosures

It is hard to know anything for sure with this limited amount of info. But it appears to me that they have not accomplished such a great feat.

I put together a server this year that pushes over 9 GB/s. I did this with a mere 150 2.5 inch drives. (144 raid 10 + 6 live spares). This was SAS 2.0 of course, because in the real world SAS kicks FC's A**.

We found that the real bottleneck to throughput is not the drives and not the SAS cards. We have 8 SAS 2.0 lanes coming into each card, multiply that by 6 cards, and you have a heck of a lot of potential.

No, the real problem is you saturate your PCIe slots, and chipsets sometimes choke when you feed this much data. So, the chipset and PCI-e bus tend to be the restraining factor, not the archaic rotating platters.