Comment Re:I was there Gandalf (Score 1) 126
oh wize Wizard - LOVED your post. and when, at the end, you had Sherman set the WAYBAC machine to 1972 ... my mind wandered back to my APL and Fortran classes. Saruman, out!
Comment Re:Not sure what a gamer would do with it (Score 1) 184
other articles i've read say Chipzilla is targeting 4K VR w/ this puppy ... but what do i know (as i sit, very happy, running a water-cooled Xeon E165- v2)
Comment Re:Ergo! (Score 1) 452
lol ... "collaborated" or "back-stabbed" ??? ... i started w/ v 1.1 in ... 87 or 88? ... regardless, i'd probably still be using OS/2 if not for the damn single-threaded message queue ... the object oriented PM was awesome again, besides the SIQ ...never really had a problem w/ device drivers ... early SCSI devices ran great (i even had a 6250 bpi reel-to-reel hung off my desktop) ... BUT ... not wanting to be an OS zealot (the IBM PC. Company ran a BBS out of RTP way back then and the Windows trolls loved to cause trouble :-) ) i finally gave NT a try (i've been coding SAS since the mid 70's and that was main reason i went w/ OS/2 vs. DOS and or/or Win3.1, et. al.) and switched over right before Win 2K came out
Comment another take on the impetus for this (Score 1) 85
Comment Re:sequential transfer (Score 1) 111
Pretty much this. Vast majority of SSDs on the market today are very similar in terms of speed in normal usage, because the bottleneck is now in SATA. You can overclock it all you want, but you'll need to start pushing disks to PCI-E or similar bus for it to start to matter.
And then there's the whole issue of "does it really matter when it's this fast on desktop?"
Although i'm running 840 Pros (b/c of cost), i did contemplate grabbing some hard-to-get Hitachi SAS (6Gbs) SSD's to run off my current LSI 9300-8i 12Gbs SAS HBA... don't have the link handy, but read one write-up where these Hitachi's were running near as fast as the PCI-e stuff Apple is running in their new Mac Pro
Comment i did one for $6158 (Score 1) 804
interesting article ... in October i got a new box to replace a 2007 2P Opteron dual-core box (w/ 16GB of ram, 2 LSI SAS HBA's and all Seagate Cheetahs) that had cost me over $5K back then ... when i ordered the new box, i told friends that i was basically getting the new Apple Mac Pro ... i.e., my new box runs an E5-1650 v2 off a SuperMicro X9SRA mobo w/ 128GB of Kingston ECC ram, two new LSI 12Gbs SAS HBA's (9300-8i and a 8e) and is stuffed in a Corsair Obsidian 650D case, and runs their Hyrdo H100i water cooled CPU cooler and one of their AX860i psu's ... as the case only has 6 internal drive bays, i also added an Icy Dock ToughArmor 4 x 2.5" SAS/SATA cage module ... the 650D case is cool b/c it has a SATA docking station built into its top ... i have all Samsung 840 Pro SSDs ... a 256GB one as C: (for Win 7 Pro) hung off one of the mobo's 6Gbs ports (the other mobo port is used for the SATA docking station) ... all other SSD's are hung off the 9300-8i: 2 128GB 840 Pro's as a RAID 0 D: (for a remapped Temp space), another 128GB as E: (for all my programs/code -- i've been coding SAS [the software] since the 70's) and a 512GB 840 Pro as F: (where i relocate My Documents to) ... and i scored this for $6158 from a firm in Fairport NY (i'm in Sacramento) ... i then added 4 more SSD's that i already had in hand: 3 256GB 840 Pro's as G:, H: and J: (I: is another 128GB 840 Pro) .. all for SAS datasets (i do hospital/healthcare consulting) ... lastly ... the 9300-8e is connected to 4 of my older Seagate SAS drives: two 300GB 15.7 Cheetahs and two 2GB 6Gbs Seagate Constellation ES (7200 rpm) ... so far this new box is GOLD ... an amazing beast
Comment Re:Daniel Tosh was right (Score 1) 440
"In rich countries, only the rich can afford to stay thin."
Bullshit. You can eat a healthy diet and control calories cheaply. I shop at Walmart and local grocery stores (all that's available where I live), and since I quit all soda, all refined starches, all sweets, all juices (if I want juice I eat fruit) my grocery bill has dropped considerably. I eat about 1300 calories/day, including meat, fruit, fish and veggies. I no longer eat out, at all. No need, and because I don't eat vending machine food that's more money saved and less shit ingested.
I dropped over 50lbs since July and feel great.
The Americans who CHOOSE to stop being fatasses have an option. It's called PUT DOWN THE FUCKING FORK. Used exercise bikes are dirt cheap on Craigslist (expect a flood after every holiday season) and make for convenient cardio at home.
If I can do it so can anyone else because I'm not special.
LIKE!!
Comment Re:On the upside though (Score 1) 257
your post reminds me of Jack Vance's Tales of the DYING EARTH ... great tome; give it a whirl if you've time
Comment Re:Sounds a bit like Tesla (Score 1) 203
i actually met him back in 72-73 as our sci-fi lit class at Orange Coast College (Costa Mesa, CA) hosted a talk by him when he was doing a west coast tour (a year later, i went to UCSB and there was this one house on Del Playa [the beach front street in Isla Vista] that was a geodesic dome-deja vu!) ... one trippy thing i remember was that he asked for an empty class room an hour or so before his talk ... evidently he was into power naps ... he could quickly REM, just about anywhere, for 20 minutes ... he credited his naps for his vitality... very interesting dude he was
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