Orange screen VT100's hooked up to the local time-share in the university basement?
But if you had those Orange Screen VT100's, you'd be running lynx anyway, and your browsing speeds would be stunningly fast anyway.
Of course not. The example was just there in order to show that there are situations where the honest curse of action is to say "no".
Wow, that was probably one of the best cases of bad typing I've ever seen. I suppose that's the net result of "No good deed goes unpunished".
I don't see how your comment is relevant to what I said.
The response I was posting about was how their proposed non-NAND option isn't an option at all, suggesting that perhaps Intel had done their homework to use NAND memory, and not DDR (or some newer version of it) memory.
Apparently, you didn't read my comment in the context of the OP at all.
Sure you can. But you can't get 16 gigabytes of DDR2 RAM for 40-ish dollars. The OP was talking about DDR2, not flash memory.
Sounds like a good plan. Throw cheap battery backed memory, 4-16Gb onboard to act as a transparent buffer between harddrive(s) and system.
Do you mean gigabit or gigabyte? Also, 16 gigabytes of RAM right now isn't very cheap at all. The cheapest DDR2 memory I've seen is about 12.50 dollars per gigabyte, so that's an additional 200 dollars per 16 gigabytes. Is that a good price to pay for some potential increase in speed? IMO, that's what I'd call "extremely hard to justify" for a consumer.
RAID cards have done this for ages, but it's becoming real option for desktops as memory price keeps declining.
Meh, even the most expensive RAID cards loaded up with tons of RAM aren't as fast as a couple of Intel SSD's right now, so why bother with the expense?
First of all, DDR RAM is not cheap (at least, not compared to NAND RAM). It costs significantly more per gigabyte than even the most expensive of Intel's offerings for SSD's. While it should provide more theoretical throughput than any SSD, benchmarks at various places (http://techreport.com/articles.x/16255/1) haven't shown that to be significant yet, at least from the end user perspective (some synthetic benchmarks show that the RAM based disks can be faster than SSD's, but translating that to real world usage scenarios by consumers doesn't quite show any tangible benefits).
DDR RAM uses up a very large amount of power per stick compared to SSD's do. I remember seeing the power consumption of one of the DDR2 based "volatile hard drives", and it was higher than spinning drives (at least at idle), and wasn't particularly faster than the best of intel's SSD's.
So sounds like DDR RAM on board is expensive, power hungry, and doesn't provide that much of a tangible benefit to consumers. Tell me again why it's a good idea?
"buh-kuh buh-kuh" has become standard words in my vocabulary.
"Where's the buh-kuh buh-kuh" (where's the Tivo Remote).
"Buh-kuh buh-kuh" ("This commercial is stupid, fast forward please", or "Where's the Tivo Remote? I want to fast forward through this commercial/lame part of the show right now" or "whoa, did I see that right? Please rewind a few seconds").
"You buh-kuh buh-kuh'ed" ("You fast forwarded through the commercials too far into the show, please rewind a bit").
Reading a bit more about the patent dispute between Curtiss and the Wright company, it becomes clear that the Wright brothers wound up not being a financial success not because of lack of patent collections, but on moneys spent on defending the patents.
If that's the case, then that spells the doom of TiVO.
Having been through the patent process, it became clear to me that filing a patent does one and only one thing - it means that you can use your patent. Defending your patent (by litigation) ultimately will bankrupt you, unless you have a law firm on retainer (which in and of it self can bankrupt you if you're a very very very small business of one or two).
Things probably would have wound up being a bit different for the Wright Brothers had they simply accepted Toulmin's initial offer of being on retainer...
The ONLY thing FOIS had over Tivo was the multi-room DVR feature worked, and worked fairly well. Tivo definitely has room to improve in this area.
Interesting - I had thought that the Tivo HD that I bought has that as a selling point - it provides multi-room DVR features (albeit with other Tivo's or any generic computer running Windows/MacOSX).
If only there was some sort of small, removable storage media that you could plug into portable devices like the iPhone. I wonder when they're going to invent something like that... Then I wouldn't need to worry about this application eating up 1/8 of the total storage on the iPhone.
I'm the same way with a lotta stuff. Even though I had Cartographer in WoW, I had to open up all those zones completely.
WoW does that now. By exploring every spot on the map (actually, just removing all of the fog of war), you gain an achievement, and a new title "the Explorer" that you cahttp://games.slashdot.org/story/09/08/08/0345231/Finding-New-and-Unintended-Ways-of-Playing-Games?from=rss#n add to your name.
Ultima 3 was the last Ultima I did anythingn like that for. I killed a monster in EVERY square, populating the entire map with treasure chests. I suppose you could say that it eliminated all random encounters (since monsters were boxed in by the treasure chests) and helped me to focus on playing the rest of the game, but it took a really really really long time to actually get to that point.
Or to be more correct: There are four things in games: mechanics, story, aesthetics, and technology.
I disagree. There's really only 3 - mechanics, story, and aesthetics. A new technology is strictly a method for delivering the other 3. I therefore don't think that it's one of the core aspects of the game. In other words, the technology doesn't manifest itself unless through at least 1 of the other things. I'd conjecture that you can get any of the others without requiring the others...
All I have to do is provide the skills and expertise to entice them to give it to me. And thats one part training, and two parts marketing.
And soon, you'll realize that it's really 3 parts marketing, and we have yet another marketeer in the workforce. My day died just a little more today.
Yeah, I love this part. Your salary infomation is a secret, don't share with your coworkers, meanwhile HR is spreading it to every Tom, Dick, and Harry who has HR in his title in your local area.
YOUR salary is secret. However, the company can very easily say that "we have 15 managers in this field that make between y and z per month" and still not divulge YOUR salary. Provided they don't specify what each person makes (ie connecting you with your salary), there's no problem.
"When the going gets tough, the tough get empirical." -- Jon Carroll
