Do you know what is the price of the most expensive potato in the world? Or would you take a ride in most expensive car in a world? If you couldn’t get that opportunity, you can see here the list of most expensive things in the world.
Most expensive woman in the world is - Jennifer Lopez
Why? Her gorgeous body is insured at one of New York’s insurance companies for a sum of 1 billion euros.
Most expensive movie is – “Titanic”
For his filming they spent more than 200 million dollars
Most expensive advertising campaign is for – “Pepsi”
In the year 2002, “Pepsi” hired Britney Spears to advertise its products. Commercial that was 90 seconds long, was paid 7.53 million dollars
Most expensive election campaign is for – Mayor of New York
That record was set by Michael Bloomberg, while he was running for mayor of New York City in 2001. Each of 744757 votes for him cost 92 dollars 60 cents. The whole election campaign cost Blumberg 62 millions dollars.
Most expensive city in the world is – Tokyo
Life is nowhere that expensive as in Tokyo.
Most expensive car in the world in serial production is – “Maybach 62”
Everything that you need is in this car. Such luxury has a price, and that is 360000 euros.
Most expensive shoes are – high heel shoes
That was created by Stuart Weitzman, famous designer of the internationally famous, high-end shoe company, Stuart Weitzman Inc. They have 642 carat rubies on them, and theur price is 1.6 million Euros.
Most expensive lunch is - a lunch with billionaire
And it was paid by David Einhorn of “Greenlight Capital”. On an auction he paid 250100 dollars for a lunch with his idol Warren Buffett.
Most expensive painting is - Slaughter of the Innocents by Rubens
In 2002 it was bought for 75.3 million euros.
Most expensive cigarettes in are – “Treasurer”
One pack of this brand is approximately 24 euros. It is sold only in specialized stores.
Most expensive potato is – “La Bonnotte”
Sort "La Bonnotte" from France, 1 kg costs about 500 euro.
Most expensive coffee is - "Kopi Luwak"
Sort "Kopi Luwak" from Sumatra. A quarter of a pound costs about 75 dollars. An unusual small animal lives on Java and Sumatra coffee plantation – its name Luwak (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus). It eats only ripe coffee-beans. Luwak cannot digest a coffee seed and gets rid of it naturally. Local aborigines gather such coffee seeds carefully and the most expensive coffee in the world is prepared of them. This drink’s rich taste is explained by special qualities of an animal’s digestive juices.
Most expensive suit is - American astronaut costume
It costs 9 million dollars and is at the same time the most expensive piece of clothing in the world.
Most expensive stock share is - "Berkshire Hathaway"
One share of an American investment company "Berkshire Hathaway" costs more than 64 thousands Euro. "Berkshire Hathaway" controls lots of companies, working in different branches of traditional economics, including financial services, candy manufacture, publishing industry, jewellery business, manufacture of furniture and carpets, manufacture of building materials and many others. "Berkshire Hathaway" holds large share holding of «Coca-Cola", "American Express", "Gillette", "The Washington Post" companies.
Most expensive hotel is - "Burj Al Arab"
7 stars hotel "Burj Al Arab" in Dubai. You will have to pay 770 Euro for the most modest room, and royal apartments will cost you 7700 Euro.
Most expensive stadium is - "Stade de France"
"Stade de France" near Paris. In 1998 a national French team won world Championship here. Its construction cost 460 millions Euro.
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In 2001 a French player passed to from “Juventus” to “Real Madrid” for a record sum of 68.7 million Euros.
Most expensive bra is - Victoria's Secret
It costs 15 million dollars. A German cover girl Heidi Klum showed it on one of fashion shows in New York.
Most expensive comic is – about Tim and his dog
Comics about a boy named Tim and his dog. One collector paid 100 thousands Euro for an original of a title picture of “Black Island” edition.
Most expensive brand is – “Coca-Cola”
Its value is 68.9 billion dollars, what is almost 60% of the whole company’s value.
Most expensive doll is – “Barbie”
Price is 100 thousands Euro. She wears a dress, decorated by real diamonds.
Most expensive book is - “Codex Leicester”
By Leonardo da Vinci, written in mirror writing on expensive paper with lawn finish. Bill Gates bought it for 24 millions dollars.
Most expensive travel is to – Space
American businessman, Dennis Tito, and computer millionaire from South Africa, Mark Shuttleworth, paid 20 million dollars to be on International Space Station.
Unboxing Apple's New $99 Apple TV
It's hard to believe that Apple announced the Apple TV (iTV) back in 2006 and then released their first player back on March 21, 2007. Apple has finally started shipping their second generation Apple TV this week and we got a pair of them that just arrived from Shenzen China today. This player is rather interesting from a cost perspective alone as it retails for just $99. This is a far cry from the original $299 price tag brought by the first generation player. To help cut costs Apple removed the built-in storage feature, but as a result the new Apple TV is a quarter the size of its predecessor and is all black. The new Apple TV is all about streaming data (think Apple AirPlay) and it has built-in 802.11n wireless networking and a 10/100 base-T ethernet port to help keep they 720p content flowing smoothly. Unfortunately, the Apple TV has still has a maximum video output of 720p, which means that you won't be able to do 1080p streams from iTunes or Netflix. For most people 720p is just fine, but remember the Apple TV supports just HDMI video out only. In fact the Apple TV has just five ports on it: HDMI, power, optical audio, mini-USB (diagnostics only) and ethernet ports. Also remember without a hard drive being built-in, there's no way to sync content from your computer to the Apple TV, so playback requires a Mac or PC with iTunes 10.0.1 or later to be running to watch anything not coming from the Internet this also includes video content on your networked attached storage server (NAS). We will go more into the details of the player when we review it, so let's take a look at the pair of players that we just got from Fedex. We've been busy taking photos and doing an unboxing video for you, so let's get to it.
First up is the unboxing video for those that like to check out the packaging and initial set up. We'll post some pictures and a bit more detail via text after that.
The key changes in the SF-2000 series controller is most obviously the updated SATA III 6Gb/s interface, which helps push performance up to 60,000 IOPS for 4K Random Read and Write data transfers. It also pushed the sequential Read and Write performance numbers up to 500MB/s and SandForce confirms they have hit those numbers in their test lab just this week with their first production run silicon that they just recently got in from overseas. SandForce will have three model numbers in the SF-2000 series; the SF-2600, SF-2500 and the SF-2300.
SandForce SF-2000 Series Controllers:
- SF-2600: For SAS Drives
- SF-2500: For SATA Drives
- SF-2300: For High Heat Industrial & Military Applications w/ quick Secure Erase functionality
SandForce also increased the incoming encryption on the SF-2000 series controllers by keeping the existing AES-128 engine in CTR mode and adding in an additional AES-256 engine in XTS mode. They also have improved SAS support and are able to run non-512B (byte) sectors through the controller without any issues. Before it used to create a problem with the bridge chip as the host has to write to two different sectors. This requires more time and cuts performance by up to half. This is why most people don't use bridges in current designs. SandForce was able to let the data pass through and be written in one step, which is a big deal for Enterprise users. The SandForce SF-1000 series also didn't support Asych/Toggle/ONFi2 specifications/interfaces and those have been added in the SF-2000 series. SandForce says that the SF-2000 series controller can do 166 Mega Transfers (MT), which is 4 times on what today's SandForce drives can do. Last, but not least is the power management improvements that SandForce did on the SF-2000 series controllers. They have more options in the firmware for their partners to set that allows throttling and so on. Moving down to 25nm MLC NAND Flash offers a power savings, but moving up to the faster SATA III 6Gb/s interface uses more power according to SandForce. They said that an SSD with an SF-2000 series controller will use roughly the same amount of power as an existing SF-1000 series based SSD. No changes were done to DuraClass technology in the SF-2000 series controller.