photonic x86 CPU design

Evgenij Barsukov wrote:

KR Williams wrote:
Security is one of the technical problems that have to be resolved
(one along many others). But we are not discussing here _how_ to make
it happen, but rather _should we_ make it happen.


However, you clearly don't believe in property rights. The
communist has spoken.

Property rights should apply to consumables. To something that disapears
if being used, and therefore society benefits from its _concervation_.



so, my house isnt a consumable, therefor in your view it should be donated?
you want to

"I say, donating unused resources for comunity purposes should be
mandated by law for everybody" ?

Thats a contradiction in terms.
You sound like a left wing communist liberal. I suppose the law you want so
much wont apply to you?
Eric






However, knowledge is non-consumable. Society benefits from its _usage_,
whereas non-users are lazy *******s who do harm to society. So _use of
knowledge_ has to be encouraged, and non-use punished.
Intellectual property and copyright concepts, that has been created
in the 18th century and has since many times artificialy modified and
expanded to non-suitable areas, do not follow above concept.
They punish use of knowledge by requiring those who use it to pay,
and encourage non-use (e.g. anti-social behaviour) by allowing non-users
to withold payment. So as oweral result we encourage anti-social
behaviour. This is absurd and has to end.

Of cause the creation of knowledge has to be encouraged monetary,
which so far have been implemented using above scheme, which is as I
have shown is absurd. So this encouragement has to be done differently.
The overal result should be that both users and non-users of
knowledge have to pay equaly, which punishes the anti-social non-users
(they get nothing which should make them think about using more
knowledge) and encourages the society friendly users of knowledge
because they get something for their money.
So far advertizement sponsored content creation is one
good example how this can work, because obviously everybody are paying
for advertizement inderectly through the price of goods, but only
users of sponsored content (e.g. knowledge) are benefiting.
But advertizement sponsoring has limits. The concept should extend
wider, to involve other types of tax money, while parallely eliminating
the concept of intellectual property and replacing it with concept of
"society payment for content creation".

Communists incorrectly extended the rejection of property rights to
consumables. Consumbles have to be protected because giving them
for free encourages anti-social wastful behaviour.

Regards,
Evgenij

Eric wrote:
Bill Davidsen wrote:

Rob Stow wrote:
Nate Edel wrote:

In comp.sys.intel Bill Davidsen wrote:

I would guess reusable media would need to be ~$100/TB, use once no
more than $25-35/TB so you can sell it into the home/SB environments.

Blank DVDs aren't practical for backing up a whole terabyte, but they're
down to about ~$100/TB in bulk ($40-50 per 100 disks/~450gb).

In the home and SOHO markets, however, DVD is a very common backup media
- when backups are done at all.

A large part of it is due to the fact that in such places there is no
one to do backups except ordinary users - many of whom are quite
comfortable with burning a DVD, yet intimidated all to hell by tape
drives.

Forget about the fact that tape backup has been around since JC and the
boys went out for pizza - to non-techies they are new and intimidating
gadgets.
Don't forget that tape backup is expensive, that tapes are not used for
anything else while DVD is used on many systems for data transfer, the
individual media are cheap, and the cost of a 2nd drive is minimal.
Having a 2nd tape drive (or a reasonable size) is very expensive, not
having a 2nd tape drive means you don't have a backup if the 1st one
fails. I've seend that twice in 30 years, and both times the manager's
career took a major hit for not having a backup drive.

There's no help in sight, DL DVDs are too expensive (thanks to DRM for
that), and 25-30GB Blueray or HD-DVD blanks are also unlikely to be
affordable. Any tape format large enough to be useful is expensive, both
drive and media. You can put a TB of disk in for $1k, but you can't do
a decent backup system for that.

What the world needs is a cheap four bay external usb drive case, put in
four big drives as RAID-5, take a backup and put it in the safe. Don't
know of any.

Anyway, DVD is used instead of tape because you have it anyway, tape has
no other use but backup in most cases.

usb is way too slow for that, not mention that the design of usb is one of
the worst kluges in history. external SATA would be a much faster and
better option, probably cheaper too.
Eric


e-SATA is definitely better: faster with not nearly so much CPU
attention needed. However, it is just as definitely not cheaper.

USB also has the advantage of being p'n'p even for non-techies,
whereas e-SATA will require someone to install a PCI card,
install a SATA drive into the external drive caddy, and install
the SATA drivers for the PCI card.