Thanks, as a Rackspace Email linux engineer, I came here to say "...but but but we do!". Should have known a customer would beat me to the punch =). 'S what I love about this company - when you're customer focused, not only does it keep your business priorities in check, but it cuts your required advertising budget.
Not to mention the nickle and dime to death that you get as an owner of, oh, i dunno, Little Big Planet, or Guitar Hero.
The Rock Band Beatles doesn't come with Help! or Let It Be or Eleanor Rigby - but they'll be released later in downloadable content.
Don't believe them for a second when they're like "prices are going down" or "prices are not going up". What's happening in the future is that you are paying $60 for the game now, but soon you're going to be paying $60 for "most of the game", and it's going to cost you another $60 to get the whole thing.
Ah, that's another brilliant piece of marketese, everyone assumes it has something to do with HD video. In reality, it refers to the Hybrid Digital FM radio.
Yes, really.
Do you really have to spread your fud? I'm not a microsoft fan, but at least be honest.
"The Zune HD utilizes the Nvidia Tegra 600 chip [3], allowing it to play 720p video through the optional HDMI Zune dock on a high-definition television. Otherwise, content will be scaled down to 480x272 pixels on the player's OLED screen.[5]" From wikipedia.
Also from wikipedia: # Video support: [14]
* DVD resolution and frame rate, up to 10 Mbps bit rate, CBR or VBR for:
o H.264, Baseline profile up to Level 3.1 + B-frames support [14]
o WMV Main and Simple Profile, Advanced profile up to Level 2.
* 720p HD resolution and up to 14 Mbps bit rate, CBR or VBR for above supported video profles
* MPEG-4 Part 2 Simple Profile up to 4.0 Mbps bit rate
# 720p high definition video output - HDMI or Composite (additional dock required for both)
The worst thing is the doublespeak even in the naming convention. Agile development isn't.
I could write a book on how not to do scrum. But honestly, it'd be 50 pages, with the first page consisting of "Don't use scrum" in 42 point font, centered, the second page saying "If you have good developers, you produce good code.", and then 48 pages that are blank, except for "Notes" written at the top.
The ps2 is in a cardboard box, even though I still want to play games on it occasionally (the dragonquest VIII game that I never finished). There are two major reasons it's not plugged in right now.
1.) No HDMI. I'm sick of extra cables. I don't want to do the optical + svideo thing. 2.) No wireless controllers. The PS3 controller was kinda weird for the first 2 hours I owned the PS3 - after I was done, I was used to winding up the cable and putting the controller up by the console. Then, I got used to it, and now, I'm convinced that the PS3 controller is the greatest thing since sliced bread.
I recently bought a house, and my living room is about 15 feet across. I can't imagine stringing a controller cable across the room like that, with an extension cable and everything. Ugh.
In short, the PS3 functions as my dvd and blu ray player, my media center (with TVersity), and my console for gaming. It is a utility box; it sits in the entertainment center, and I interact with it remotely, wirelessly, except when changing discs. The PS2 honestly at this point feels like an NES - you plug it in, then it sits on the floor in front of the TV and there are cables everywhere.
I really wish they'd release PS2 compatibility via PSN. Even if it was like $30 from the store, I'd buy it.
Second this; as another poster pointed out, it's not as "hands on" as some other aerospace museums. But, it's FRIGGIN HUGE, like, there's 163 aircraft and over 100 large space objects.
Like, if you ever needed to actually *SEE* a space shuttle or an SR-71, they've got them there. Plus, the Imax sometimes plays movie-movies, it played star trek.
Caution: Museum free, parking $10 unless it's late evening. It's close to dulles airport (that's how they get the planes there), and they do that to prevent airport customers freeloading.
It was done informally with odd rules for a long time. The addition of the in-game item, the "PLEX", pilot license extension, was recent.
But years ago, you could go on the forums, and send someone isk, and they'd evemail you a code from Shattered Crystal. Eventually they made a system by which you could directly apply the time code to another account, to cut down fraud, and now it's strictly plex items, which is handled entirely in game.
America is the ONLY country in the first world that doesn't have nationalized health care.
The funny thing is, we DO have nationalized health care. 66% of the cost of health care in this country is paid for by medicaid, medicare, or federal government health care plans.
I DO NOT understand why people are so against nationalized health care here. It's already here. They play it up to be some sort of slippery slope, a plague that will infest every part of our lives and culture. Let me clue you in: the system is ALREADY IN PLACE, and the only people who benefit from the way things are now are the insurance and pharmaceutical companies.
Really, from my research, Adaptec and 3ware both make ok-but-not-really-enterprise cards. For the money you'd pay to actually get a controller-based chip from one of those brands, you might as well spend a little more on an LSI. The Megaraids are pretty hot, the 8708 is a good card.
I quite like the dell PERC ones, too. I haven't seen many problems with them at all, and they are easy to manage / poll (for monitoring, etc).
Hardware needed for running linux:
- 386 AT
- VGA/EGA screen
- AT-type harddisk controller (IDE is fine)
- Finnish keyboard (oh, you can use a US keyboard, but not
without some practise:-)
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For me, it's not the widescreen part of it that I hate. It's the 16x9 part.
I want a 1920x1200 monitor. I've been in the market for one for 4 years, and they've been $600 for four years, with no or minimal drops in price.
If you want a 1920x1080 monitor, those are way cheap! But if you want those extra 120 vertical pixels? Sorry, screw you, pay TWICE AS MUCH!!!!LOL.
I don't get it. I really don't. I want the widescreen aspect ratio (16x10, thankyouverymuch). But I want to be able to use windowed applications that are taller than 1024 pixels. I currently have a 1600x1200 monitor, and if I wanted to dual monitor, the vertical heighs won't match up. Plus, I play a game in a windowed 1280x1024 setting (cause I have multiple windows open). If I only have 1080 vertical pixels, I'll lose about 50-60 between the title bar and the taskbar, meaning I won't be able to see the whole window, or I'll have to slide the title bar off the top of the screen.
I know these sound like minor gripes, but I'm very particular. And I can't believe that there haven't been any price drops in 16x10 monitors in so long, when 4:3 and 16:9 LCDs have dropped through the floor.
What major discrepancies? Yes, there have been a few changes over the years by different translators, typos, etc. But I don't think any of them could be considered major.
The establishment of the Trinity didn't show up really until the Textus Receptus, the bastardized text based on many, many later manuscripts, and the text on which the King James Version was based. Prior to this (and ALL, WITHOUT EXCEPTION, old manuscripts agree), the passage: 1 John 5:7-8 5:7 "[...] in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. 5:8 And there are three that bear witness in earth, [...]" simply does not exist.
At Rackspace Email, we market ourselves as part of Rackspace's overall cloud offering.
Aside from exchange (which admittedly is a black box, but it's the same black box no matter where you're doing it), we're using dovecot for rfc-compliant imap access, postfix for rfc-compliant smtp communication (we're extremely strict about rfc compliance for smtp), and our customers' mail storage uses an open source, industry standard message storage system on an industry standard, open source file system, running on linux.
Not to mention, we use hadoop and map reduce for our logging and analysis tools, some of our clustering is done with ipvs/lvs-nat/keepalived, we use linux-ha (heartbeat) for some failover redundant stuff, and any number of other open source projects in dev or in other small cases.
This is all public knowledge, we've had open tech talks about this and put the videos up on youtube or yahoo video, and we've had press releases and presented on this stuff at Lisa or published papers on it. I'm not suggesting you should have heard of us or anything, just that there's plenty of open source in the cloud, and no one is trying to hide it.
Yep; I'm a sysadmin at Rackspace, and interact regularly with our Cloud infrastructure. Without going into detail, we're a Redhat shop. The framework is all proprietary; and that's what the article is talking about - there's not a (good) open cloud framework. But, it wouldn't be possible without open source at the foundation.
This basically say that the more diverse the gene pool, the more likelyhood of wacky combinations that are advantageous. It's more complicated than that, and I don't really get it all (my wife is in vet school, so she explained it somewhat to me). But basically, introducing foreign genes into the reproductive pool benefits the population as a whole significantly.
My 42" 720p tv is about 13 feet from the couch, and I have Direct TV. If you can't see the difference between a high-def football game, and flipping over to a non-hd channel for the same game, you're freaking blind, and that's 480p vs. 720p.
I can see the difference in DVD's and blu rays quite clearly on my TV.
Ok, we may have gotten our currencies crossed here. $7000 Anzac dollars is $5600 yank dollars. And I could see spending $15k every 3 years on hardware and software licensing, easily, before you pay anyone to support the system. A good rackmount on Dell - say an R710 with 4 cores and 16gb of ram, with 4x 450GB SAS drives in Raid 10, is about $7,000 before adding CALs for exchange. If you're talking every 3 years, that's a significant chunk of your budget, and that's before allowing anything for backup or high availability.
But I see your point. I think that some day there will be a time when people just don't have in house servers - the same way very few people generate their own power today, I think the IT world is moving towards a centralized, SaaS model.
Anyway, I'm not an exchange engineer, I work with the dovecot/postfix homegrown email product we have.
The "Undo" option (along with "redo" and "save") are in the Title bar of the application. They're on by default, always visible no matter what tab of the ribbon you're on.
Where my firefox browser now says 'Slashdot Comments | Windows 7 Licensing a "Disaster" for XP Shops - Mozilla Firefox', my open excel2007 has the big office button, and just to the right of that, there's a Disk icon (for "save"), a backwards arrow (for "undo"), and a forwards arrow (for "redo). Right next to that, there's a drop down menu where I can customize the Title bar with additional commands like New, Open, Quick Print, Print Preview, etc.
I actually find the office 2007 ribbon to be a huge improvement in usability, if you are willing to throw out your preconceived notions of where things are "supposed" to be - I usually find things where they would logically be.
Headline: Operating system that is 2 months old has more recent drivers than operating system that is 8 years old and has been attempted to be patched into the slipstream by a random 3rd party.
To be fair, I work for Rackspace's email division, and we resell exchange. I really can't possibly see how you can run an exchange server for 100 people on $7000 per year. In fact, I could see simply the cost of the hardware going over $7000 per year. A $500 desktop and a copy of Small Business Server really isn't going to cut it; not if you need enterprise-level high availability and redundancy.
When you start throwing things out there like BES for people with Blackberrys, Enterprise level spam filtering (we block 30+ million spams a day), backups (we backup into two different clouds), archiving, OWA, power costs for 5 or 6 beefy servers (and maybe a SAN), network transport, sql-server enterprise (which is $7k+/year by its self for licensing), etc... I just don't see how it's feasible at $7k/yr, and that's before you are paying anyone to support it.
This isn't a Rah-Rah GO TEAM post. We put a lot of effort into this stuff. We think that what we provide is about the most kick-ass email hosting on the planet, and that it's worth what we charge for it. Trust me, seeing what happens on the back end to make all of it work, how many insanely smart people we've hired (Timo, the developer of dovecot, sits about 30 feet from me, for one), and how many different systems have to work in perfect sync to make it all happen... it blows my mind sometimes.
And in the end, I think it makes the life of the in-house sysadmin easier, because email is one of those things that the suits think is really simplistic and always expect to work - when anyone who's done an enterprise level email system knows that it takes a huge amount of effort.
Off the record and away from the suits, if you have questions, email me at slashdot-nospam@mailtrust.com and I'll answer any that I can without giving away any secrets. I can also put you in touch with the right people for any non-technical stuff - good people, people I have worked with for a long time. The guy who was the best man at my wedding is the team lead of the Transition team, and also manages new customer migrations. I'm not some nameless, faceless corporate drone - the people who work here are *us*.
"If we make lazier games, no one will notice that they're not high def!"
Aside from that, Wii Bowling is a tech demo. Resident Evil and House of the Dead Overkill and Mario Kart would all look better in HD (720). But the console *CAN'T* do it, it's incapable.
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Thanks, as a Rackspace Email linux engineer, I came here to say "...but but but we do!". Should have known a customer would beat me to the punch =). 'S what I love about this company - when you're customer focused, not only does it keep your business priorities in check, but it cuts your required advertising budget.
Not to mention the nickle and dime to death that you get as an owner of, oh, i dunno, Little Big Planet, or Guitar Hero.
The Rock Band Beatles doesn't come with Help! or Let It Be or Eleanor Rigby - but they'll be released later in downloadable content.
Don't believe them for a second when they're like "prices are going down" or "prices are not going up". What's happening in the future is that you are paying $60 for the game now, but soon you're going to be paying $60 for "most of the game", and it's going to cost you another $60 to get the whole thing.
~X
Blu-ray player, new (not refurbished). $149.99
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9245514&type=product&id=1218067604633
"Reasonable" HD cable: $29.99
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8427106&type=product&id=1181832627516
Percentage of price: 20%. Is that significant?
Do you really have to spread your fud? I'm not a microsoft fan, but at least be honest.
"The Zune HD utilizes the Nvidia Tegra 600 chip [3], allowing it to play 720p video through the optional HDMI Zune dock on a high-definition television. Otherwise, content will be scaled down to 480x272 pixels on the player's OLED screen.[5]" From wikipedia.
Also from wikipedia:
# Video support: [14]
* DVD resolution and frame rate, up to 10 Mbps bit rate, CBR or VBR for:
o H.264, Baseline profile up to Level 3.1 + B-frames support [14]
o WMV Main and Simple Profile, Advanced profile up to Level 2.
* 720p HD resolution and up to 14 Mbps bit rate, CBR or VBR for above supported video profles
* MPEG-4 Part 2 Simple Profile up to 4.0 Mbps bit rate
# 720p high definition video output - HDMI or Composite (additional dock required for both)
HP's netbooks now come with an (optional $80) HD video accelerator, which plugs into some standard port on the motherboard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXohElvVk4I
~X
The worst thing is the doublespeak even in the naming convention. Agile development isn't.
I could write a book on how not to do scrum. But honestly, it'd be 50 pages, with the first page consisting of "Don't use scrum" in 42 point font, centered, the second page saying "If you have good developers, you produce good code.", and then 48 pages that are blank, except for "Notes" written at the top.
I own a slim PS2 and a PS3.
The ps2 is in a cardboard box, even though I still want to play games on it occasionally (the dragonquest VIII game that I never finished). There are two major reasons it's not plugged in right now.
1.) No HDMI. I'm sick of extra cables. I don't want to do the optical + svideo thing.
2.) No wireless controllers. The PS3 controller was kinda weird for the first 2 hours I owned the PS3 - after I was done, I was used to winding up the cable and putting the controller up by the console. Then, I got used to it, and now, I'm convinced that the PS3 controller is the greatest thing since sliced bread.
I recently bought a house, and my living room is about 15 feet across. I can't imagine stringing a controller cable across the room like that, with an extension cable and everything. Ugh.
In short, the PS3 functions as my dvd and blu ray player, my media center (with TVersity), and my console for gaming. It is a utility box; it sits in the entertainment center, and I interact with it remotely, wirelessly, except when changing discs. The PS2 honestly at this point feels like an NES - you plug it in, then it sits on the floor in front of the TV and there are cables everywhere.
I really wish they'd release PS2 compatibility via PSN. Even if it was like $30 from the store, I'd buy it.
~X
Second this; as another poster pointed out, it's not as "hands on" as some other aerospace museums. But, it's FRIGGIN HUGE, like, there's 163 aircraft and over 100 large space objects.
Like, if you ever needed to actually *SEE* a space shuttle or an SR-71, they've got them there. Plus, the Imax sometimes plays movie-movies, it played star trek.
Caution: Museum free, parking $10 unless it's late evening. It's close to dulles airport (that's how they get the planes there), and they do that to prevent airport customers freeloading.
~W
It was done informally with odd rules for a long time. The addition of the in-game item, the "PLEX", pilot license extension, was recent.
But years ago, you could go on the forums, and send someone isk, and they'd evemail you a code from Shattered Crystal. Eventually they made a system by which you could directly apply the time code to another account, to cut down fraud, and now it's strictly plex items, which is handled entirely in game.
America is the ONLY country in the first world that doesn't have nationalized health care.
The funny thing is, we DO have nationalized health care. 66% of the cost of health care in this country is paid for by medicaid, medicare, or federal government health care plans.
I DO NOT understand why people are so against nationalized health care here. It's already here. They play it up to be some sort of slippery slope, a plague that will infest every part of our lives and culture. Let me clue you in: the system is ALREADY IN PLACE, and the only people who benefit from the way things are now are the insurance and pharmaceutical companies.
~X
Really, from my research, Adaptec and 3ware both make ok-but-not-really-enterprise cards. For the money you'd pay to actually get a controller-based chip from one of those brands, you might as well spend a little more on an LSI. The Megaraids are pretty hot, the 8708 is a good card.
I quite like the dell PERC ones, too. I haven't seen many problems with them at all, and they are easy to manage / poll (for monitoring, etc).
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/old-versions/RELNOTES-0.01
Hardware needed for running linux: :-)
- 386 AT
- VGA/EGA screen
- AT-type harddisk controller (IDE is fine)
- Finnish keyboard (oh, you can use a US keyboard, but not
without some practise
Yep.
(replying to my own post)
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I mean, seriously, WTF.
For me, it's not the widescreen part of it that I hate. It's the 16x9 part.
I want a 1920x1200 monitor. I've been in the market for one for 4 years, and they've been $600 for four years, with no or minimal drops in price.
If you want a 1920x1080 monitor, those are way cheap! But if you want those extra 120 vertical pixels? Sorry, screw you, pay TWICE AS MUCH!!!!LOL.
I don't get it. I really don't. I want the widescreen aspect ratio (16x10, thankyouverymuch). But I want to be able to use windowed applications that are taller than 1024 pixels. I currently have a 1600x1200 monitor, and if I wanted to dual monitor, the vertical heighs won't match up. Plus, I play a game in a windowed 1280x1024 setting (cause I have multiple windows open). If I only have 1080 vertical pixels, I'll lose about 50-60 between the title bar and the taskbar, meaning I won't be able to see the whole window, or I'll have to slide the title bar off the top of the screen.
I know these sound like minor gripes, but I'm very particular. And I can't believe that there haven't been any price drops in 16x10 monitors in so long, when 4:3 and 16:9 LCDs have dropped through the floor.
~X
The Johanneum Comma, for one.
The establishment of the Trinity didn't show up really until the Textus Receptus, the bastardized text based on many, many later manuscripts, and the text on which the King James Version was based. Prior to this (and ALL, WITHOUT EXCEPTION, old manuscripts agree), the passage:
1 John 5:7-8
5:7 "[...] in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
5:8 And there are three that bear witness in earth, [...]"
simply does not exist.
Gosh, that's a pretty paranoid view.
At Rackspace Email, we market ourselves as part of Rackspace's overall cloud offering.
Aside from exchange (which admittedly is a black box, but it's the same black box no matter where you're doing it), we're using dovecot for rfc-compliant imap access, postfix for rfc-compliant smtp communication (we're extremely strict about rfc compliance for smtp), and our customers' mail storage uses an open source, industry standard message storage system on an industry standard, open source file system, running on linux.
Not to mention, we use hadoop and map reduce for our logging and analysis tools, some of our clustering is done with ipvs/lvs-nat/keepalived, we use linux-ha (heartbeat) for some failover redundant stuff, and any number of other open source projects in dev or in other small cases.
This is all public knowledge, we've had open tech talks about this and put the videos up on youtube or yahoo video, and we've had press releases and presented on this stuff at Lisa or published papers on it. I'm not suggesting you should have heard of us or anything, just that there's plenty of open source in the cloud, and no one is trying to hide it.
Yep; I'm a sysadmin at Rackspace, and interact regularly with our Cloud infrastructure. Without going into detail, we're a Redhat shop. The framework is all proprietary; and that's what the article is talking about - there's not a (good) open cloud framework. But, it wouldn't be possible without open source at the foundation.
Close.
Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterozygous_advantage.
This basically say that the more diverse the gene pool, the more likelyhood of wacky combinations that are advantageous. It's more complicated than that, and I don't really get it all (my wife is in vet school, so she explained it somewhat to me). But basically, introducing foreign genes into the reproductive pool benefits the population as a whole significantly.
I can't take that chart seriously.
My 42" 720p tv is about 13 feet from the couch, and I have Direct TV. If you can't see the difference between a high-def football game, and flipping over to a non-hd channel for the same game, you're freaking blind, and that's 480p vs. 720p.
I can see the difference in DVD's and blu rays quite clearly on my TV.
Ok, we may have gotten our currencies crossed here. $7000 Anzac dollars is $5600 yank dollars. And I could see spending $15k every 3 years on hardware and software licensing, easily, before you pay anyone to support the system. A good rackmount on Dell - say an R710 with 4 cores and 16gb of ram, with 4x 450GB SAS drives in Raid 10, is about $7,000 before adding CALs for exchange. If you're talking every 3 years, that's a significant chunk of your budget, and that's before allowing anything for backup or high availability.
But I see your point. I think that some day there will be a time when people just don't have in house servers - the same way very few people generate their own power today, I think the IT world is moving towards a centralized, SaaS model.
Anyway, I'm not an exchange engineer, I work with the dovecot/postfix homegrown email product we have.
~W
For those who wondered, but didn't bother to look it up, the GDP of the United States is 11 trillion.
The "Undo" option (along with "redo" and "save") are in the Title bar of the application. They're on by default, always visible no matter what tab of the ribbon you're on.
Where my firefox browser now says 'Slashdot Comments | Windows 7 Licensing a "Disaster" for XP Shops - Mozilla Firefox', my open excel2007 has the big office button, and just to the right of that, there's a Disk icon (for "save"), a backwards arrow (for "undo"), and a forwards arrow (for "redo). Right next to that, there's a drop down menu where I can customize the Title bar with additional commands like New, Open, Quick Print, Print Preview, etc.
I actually find the office 2007 ribbon to be a huge improvement in usability, if you are willing to throw out your preconceived notions of where things are "supposed" to be - I usually find things where they would logically be.
Headline:
Operating system that is 2 months old has more recent drivers than operating system that is 8 years old and has been attempted to be patched into the slipstream by a random 3rd party.
News at 11.
To be fair, I work for Rackspace's email division, and we resell exchange. I really can't possibly see how you can run an exchange server for 100 people on $7000 per year. In fact, I could see simply the cost of the hardware going over $7000 per year. A $500 desktop and a copy of Small Business Server really isn't going to cut it; not if you need enterprise-level high availability and redundancy.
When you start throwing things out there like BES for people with Blackberrys, Enterprise level spam filtering (we block 30+ million spams a day), backups (we backup into two different clouds), archiving, OWA, power costs for 5 or 6 beefy servers (and maybe a SAN), network transport, sql-server enterprise (which is $7k+/year by its self for licensing), etc... I just don't see how it's feasible at $7k/yr, and that's before you are paying anyone to support it.
This isn't a Rah-Rah GO TEAM post. We put a lot of effort into this stuff. We think that what we provide is about the most kick-ass email hosting on the planet, and that it's worth what we charge for it. Trust me, seeing what happens on the back end to make all of it work, how many insanely smart people we've hired (Timo, the developer of dovecot, sits about 30 feet from me, for one), and how many different systems have to work in perfect sync to make it all happen... it blows my mind sometimes.
And in the end, I think it makes the life of the in-house sysadmin easier, because email is one of those things that the suits think is really simplistic and always expect to work - when anyone who's done an enterprise level email system knows that it takes a huge amount of effort.
Off the record and away from the suits, if you have questions, email me at slashdot-nospam@mailtrust.com and I'll answer any that I can without giving away any secrets. I can also put you in touch with the right people for any non-technical stuff - good people, people I have worked with for a long time. The guy who was the best man at my wedding is the team lead of the Transition team, and also manages new customer migrations. I'm not some nameless, faceless corporate drone - the people who work here are *us*.
~X
"If we make lazier games, no one will notice that they're not high def!"
Aside from that, Wii Bowling is a tech demo. Resident Evil and House of the Dead Overkill and Mario Kart would all look better in HD (720). But the console *CAN'T* do it, it's incapable.