I know Bob is considered one of the worst failing designs for a... whatever it was... ever. BUT, I applaud Microsoft for trying something new like that. They surely analyzed the market and thought this would solve a problem.The people here are not going to use bob, but for new users, maybe bob helped a bit. I kinda feel it's like bashing apple for learning about touchpads in the newton.
Any news on how the busses will be shared? This is an issue that most CPU manufacturers will look away from. Remember FB-DDRram? I can actually imagine an arbitrator bigger than the CPU in this multi-core architecture. You need something to help it scale.
To explain my point a bit better: Imaging you have 100 computer all hooked up to a 10 / 100 hub (not switch ) and every computer has a bit torrent client opened. Same thing with the CPU and most modern buses. Your potential lag time to the bus is 99 other CPUs doing their shtick.
In TFA they mention blocks sharing switch points. Does that mean people will be encouraged to set affinities for data locality? Consider me to be an old fart, but I really would like some real world junk thrown at this or disclosure on the design.
There are a lot of things to mention in this article. They are using VERY high end hardware that can interpolate the sound and cause sound clipping (which makes things sound metallic) to be minimized. They also didn't mention what songs were chosen. A lot of music is mastered to sound good on poor quality speakers and thus the 48 Kbps may actually not be the limiting factor. At least there going to be a new reason to sell audio snake oil now.
In the older wing commander games (WC1) there was a caucasian pilgrim, a scott, a canuck, a japanese woman, a beligian woman, an angolan, an aussie, a maori... it was pretty diverse.
Then in wing commander 2, they added more flavour.
Unfortunately, come wc3, the cast was whitewashed. I admit, I missed it, but I understand that 1 char of each race ends up being cliched and a circus look
Basically the trope of the pudgy middle class man and his hot wife is true.
Also, there aren't that many man makeup things. And my wife... gasp... spends 45 minutes getting her face on, I take 3. there's probably something there.
Now maybe some networking companies can start releasing wireless N products.
On another note, imagine how much the nerd herd is going to have to work to sell a netowrk product now.
Chuck: "OK, you can get this router which is a draft N, but this new N product will do everything the draft N product does for 20$ more"
Client: "All these letters confuse me and make me belligerent. Can't we only use one letter? "
Chuck: "Ok, howabout N?"
Client: "Why not something simpler, like A, A is the best you know."
Chuck: "Just give me 150$ for the router a 75$ for an extended warranty."
Client: "Here you go, I am easily parted from my money."
Their weather (if you can call it that) is just a wee bit different as well. One of those little SMART cars would be the dumbest choice you could make for winter driving here.
My friend has a smart. My boss has a mini. We live in sunny Montreal. Here we hit 30 degrees in summer and -30 in winter. That's a 60 degree c swing yearly and in 2007-2008, we had 3 (three) meters of snowfall. In winter they put on winter tires and driver very comfortably through snow. Moreover, my boss had a jeep explorer beforehand, and he had a harder time driving it on ice than the mini.
I think countries like Norway may actually know what snow is, ice and black ice are. I understand that from an intuitive point of view, it looks weird as it seems natural that a hummer with huge tires would get a better grip on the street than a dinky little car, but the issue of sliding is more a question of friction, and these car were designed to grip the road. Their wheels are placed "SMART"ly and the weight is "SMART"ly distributed.
I've had nothing but success with EZPCB.
They charged around 150$ for 36 boards... They design, routing and assembly services too.
The way I coordinated with them, because they are in china, is by MSN instant messenger when I was about to go to bed.
They are courteous, they make a good product, and are inexpensive.
expect a 2 week delay from order to reception.
I can vouch for taking interest in your kids activities combined with noscipt or adblock doing a great job.
Your daughter will probably become savy to understand what to type in a google query and what not to type very fast. You may wish to teach her also how to read the URL name in google results and avoid the funky ones.
I was lucky enough to spend time in my last three weeks being shipped to different timezones on a glorified roadtrip to unfold network cables in poorly lit basements. I am a developer that was hired as a dev and never actually got to dev in 2 years there, until my group was closing and I was offered a job with less pay and more responsibility. I wrote my farewell email in 4 languages to make sure that all my contacts could read it.
The summaries
French (the language of managers) : Thank you for the chance to help me find myself. I wish you the best of luck with your future projects. (I was on a few failed projects)
English (the language of my peers) : So long and thanks for all the fish.
German (part of my roadtrip ) : Some google translated gibberish of how chocolate rain will purge the servers and that one day our company will learn that europe is on 230v and stop sending you 110 v transformers.
Klingon ( I was labeled as a trekkie so why not go out with a ka'plah) : Death to our enemies and long live us. (basically what our management was telling us to try to motivate us)
PS. I was leaving full in a poor emotional state. More or less astray dog with a heart full of napalm
Wouldn't you be able to get a second job? A little consulting work or something if you want to spend more?
I feel the government should looks at e-taxes. If they come up with a good solution, cool, if not, then it won't fly. Then again, I consider music and videos to be a luxury item. I also consider the net to be a luxury item I gladly will shell out money for. I know I'm not in the majority here, I also know I cannot think of a proper way of getting the taxes to work, but hey, tiered (not fixed) income taxes weren't always around and it is now considered a given and a social equalizer.
A little background info. I am in Canada, I give approx 45% of my income to the government, and I know a lot of it is squandered. I understand though that the remainder winds up helping out a lot of people less fortunate than me.
Just a heads up, if you're looking for an open source routing software, gEDA and Oregano are good options. The UI is no where near as nice as eagle's. I kind of enjoyed gEDA though. They also has rather anemic libraries if you deviate from standard issue parts, just like eagle. I think these should be a good start on that front.
On to matlab, have you tried scilab? Once again, not quite what you're asking for but it is open-source and can calculate matrices.
In general, I cannot recommend open-source physics stuff to people due to UI issues. Physics students want results and many are not all that comfortable with a computer. I am not trying to flamebait, I actually applaud you in your interest in these products. I feel that need a bit more polish before being able to seriously threaten the big boys.
A simple suggestion or two: if you're using ubuntu/debian, apt-get the packages, they are friendly and install nicely. Also, www.osalt.com is an interesting site to see if there are good open-source projects out there.
Here's a heads up on how LEDs work (not just for you, but in general). If you look at the frequency response of most leds, it will resemble an impulse function. Here's a pdf, on page 4 you see 4 peaks. You add them up, it makes a very uneven spectral response. http://media.digikey.com/pdf/Data%20Sheets/Optek%20PDFs/OVTL09LGAx.pdf
The way I can see it working is by using a phosphorescent surface. It could even out the frequencies a bit by adding harmonics. Still not as nice as a warm fire light though. You can make leds work and make the most perfect white light measured by a colorimeter. The main issue is that its frequency response will be empty still and it will make your world look at best, askew and at worst like it's trapped i the uncanny valley.
These are going to be awesome in an office environment. Especially since the ceilings are so high and nobody likes changing the lights. But I have yet to find truly warm non-tungsten/halogen/mercury/fire/quartz/evil light for home use. I could not picture LEDs (which are basically antennas radiating a frequency that we happen to see) overtaking the other lights (heat sources that coincidentally give off visible light) in terms of color richness.
That is true. IMO in most cases this hard drive looks great.
My only issue is that most examples of hard disk bottlenecks I've seen were due to concurrent file access. Raiding is great for bandwidth... not so much for access time. Let's say someone is watching a video while you're doing some background re-encoding. A very common task btw. The movie may stutter. Now let's throw in some other tasks all with auto-save enabled, like word and a driver / antivirus program. Your seek time will become the limiting factor very very fast. The seek time on 5400 rpm drives is not that of an equivalent 7200. NCQ helps, but ncq shines even more on a pure 7200.
As for your statements:
1) Less heat production
2) Less noise
3) Less wear (more reliability)
4) Less power consumption (the "green" part)
They are true while talking about similar technologies. IIRC seagate stated using a fluid bearing on their 7200 line that made them produce less heat, noise, wear and consequently lowered their power requirements. I am not convinced without seeing tested results that a fluidic bearing would actually decrease it's friction at lower temperatures. It is supposedly non-newtonian.
As for the drive manufacturer's goals of speed/reliability and cost (important and not mentioned I think) most companies have several lines of products. An enterprise or business line for reliability and a gamer / home series for cost. In all seriousness WD/Seagate (re / es respectively) have a line of drives made for raiding. Those are the ones that should be used, they are tested and have higher tolerances. Think of them as the center cpus in a wafer. Then again, isn't the premise of most non-zero raids to kinda expect a hard drive to die, so you add a layer of redundancy?
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I know Bob is considered one of the worst failing designs for a ... whatever it was... ever. BUT, I applaud Microsoft for trying something new like that. They surely analyzed the market and thought this would solve a problem.The people here are not going to use bob, but for new users, maybe bob helped a bit.
I kinda feel it's like bashing apple for learning about touchpads in the newton.
Any news on how the busses will be shared? This is an issue that most CPU manufacturers will look away from. Remember FB-DDRram? I can actually imagine an arbitrator bigger than the CPU in this multi-core architecture. You need something to help it scale.
To explain my point a bit better: Imaging you have 100 computer all hooked up to a 10 / 100 hub (not switch ) and every computer has a bit torrent client opened. Same thing with the CPU and most modern buses. Your potential lag time to the bus is 99 other CPUs doing their shtick.
In TFA they mention blocks sharing switch points. Does that mean people will be encouraged to set affinities for data locality? Consider me to be an old fart, but I really would like some real world junk thrown at this or disclosure on the design.
There are a lot of things to mention in this article. They are using VERY high end hardware that can interpolate the sound and cause sound clipping (which makes things sound metallic) to be minimized. They also didn't mention what songs were chosen. A lot of music is mastered to sound good on poor quality speakers and thus the 48 Kbps may actually not be the limiting factor.
At least there going to be a new reason to sell audio snake oil now.
I hope they don't "find" water in comets now just to do the hat trick.
In the older wing commander games (WC1) there was a caucasian pilgrim, a scott, a canuck, a japanese woman, a beligian woman, an angolan, an aussie, a maori... it was pretty diverse.
Then in wing commander 2, they added more flavour.
Unfortunately, come wc3, the cast was whitewashed. I admit, I missed it, but I understand that 1 char of each race ends up being cliched and a circus look
Basically the trope of the pudgy middle class man and his hot wife is true.
Also, there aren't that many man makeup things. And my wife... gasp... spends 45 minutes getting her face on, I take 3. there's probably something there.
Now maybe some networking companies can start releasing wireless N products.
On another note, imagine how much the nerd herd is going to have to work to sell a netowrk product now.
Chuck: "OK, you can get this router which is a draft N, but this new N product will do everything the draft N product does for 20$ more"
Client: "All these letters confuse me and make me belligerent. Can't we only use one letter? "
Chuck: "Ok, howabout N?"
Client: "Why not something simpler, like A, A is the best you know."
Chuck: "Just give me 150$ for the router a 75$ for an extended warranty."
Client: "Here you go, I am easily parted from my money."
Their weather (if you can call it that) is just a wee bit different as well. One of those little SMART cars would be the dumbest choice you could make for winter driving here.
My friend has a smart. My boss has a mini. We live in sunny Montreal. Here we hit 30 degrees in summer and -30 in winter. That's a 60 degree c swing yearly and in 2007-2008, we had 3 (three) meters of snowfall. In winter they put on winter tires and driver very comfortably through snow. Moreover, my boss had a jeep explorer beforehand, and he had a harder time driving it on ice than the mini.
I think countries like Norway may actually know what snow is, ice and black ice are. I understand that from an intuitive point of view, it looks weird as it seems natural that a hummer with huge tires would get a better grip on the street than a dinky little car, but the issue of sliding is more a question of friction, and these car were designed to grip the road. Their wheels are placed "SMART"ly and the weight is "SMART"ly distributed.
Double post. A selling point of EZpcb is impeccable English.
I've had nothing but success with EZPCB. They charged around 150$ for 36 boards... They design, routing and assembly services too.
The way I coordinated with them, because they are in china, is by MSN instant messenger when I was about to go to bed.
They are courteous, they make a good product, and are inexpensive.
expect a 2 week delay from order to reception.
Firewall?
Found it.
Antitrust.
looked up wiki's list.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Computers_in_film
Not that many movies glorifying the career.
I can think of
The matrix
Tron
That movie with ryan philippe that was a programmer and bill gates ate chips.
Can I have some help completing the list please?
I can vouch for taking interest in your kids activities combined with noscipt or adblock doing a great job.
Your daughter will probably become savy to understand what to type in a google query and what not to type very fast. You may wish to teach her also how to read the URL name in google results and avoid the funky ones.
We should all pray that pluto be re-instated to a dwarf status.
Heh... was I the only one who misread this as something to do with Steve Jobs? (And subsequently went "Murrrrrh?")
Well, blame the english language for that one.
"Without Jobs, Will Open Souce Suffer? "
vs
"Without jobs and or employment, will open source suffer?"
Oops, you're absolutely right.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dilbert_Principle is not http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle
I am more of a believer in the dilbert principle. People will just get promoted until they suck at their job and become angry and resentful.
The summaries
PS. I was leaving full in a poor emotional state. More or less astray dog with a heart full of napalm
Kosher pork though, or was it halal?
I feel the government should looks at e-taxes. If they come up with a good solution, cool, if not, then it won't fly. Then again, I consider music and videos to be a luxury item. I also consider the net to be a luxury item I gladly will shell out money for. I know I'm not in the majority here, I also know I cannot think of a proper way of getting the taxes to work, but hey, tiered (not fixed) income taxes weren't always around and it is now considered a given and a social equalizer.
A little background info. I am in Canada, I give approx 45% of my income to the government, and I know a lot of it is squandered. I understand though that the remainder winds up helping out a lot of people less fortunate than me.
Just a heads up, if you're looking for an open source routing software, gEDA and Oregano are good options. The UI is no where near as nice as eagle's. I kind of enjoyed gEDA though. They also has rather anemic libraries if you deviate from standard issue parts, just like eagle. I think these should be a good start on that front.
On to matlab, have you tried scilab? Once again, not quite what you're asking for but it is open-source and can calculate matrices.
In general, I cannot recommend open-source physics stuff to people due to UI issues. Physics students want results and many are not all that comfortable with a computer. I am not trying to flamebait, I actually applaud you in your interest in these products. I feel that need a bit more polish before being able to seriously threaten the big boys.
A simple suggestion or two: if you're using ubuntu/debian, apt-get the packages, they are friendly and install nicely. Also, www.osalt.com is an interesting site to see if there are good open-source projects out there.
with enough hardware, anything is possible.
Here's a heads up on how LEDs work (not just for you, but in general). If you look at the frequency response of most leds, it will resemble an impulse function. Here's a pdf, on page 4 you see 4 peaks. You add them up, it makes a very uneven spectral response. http://media.digikey.com/pdf/Data%20Sheets/Optek%20PDFs/OVTL09LGAx.pdf
The way I can see it working is by using a phosphorescent surface. It could even out the frequencies a bit by adding harmonics. Still not as nice as a warm fire light though. You can make leds work and make the most perfect white light measured by a colorimeter. The main issue is that its frequency response will be empty still and it will make your world look at best, askew and at worst like it's trapped i the uncanny valley.
I'm luckily in Quebec and running on clean caribou killing hydro power.
These are going to be awesome in an office environment. Especially since the ceilings are so high and nobody likes changing the lights. But I have yet to find truly warm non-tungsten/halogen/mercury/fire/quartz/evil light for home use. I could not picture LEDs (which are basically antennas radiating a frequency that we happen to see) overtaking the other lights (heat sources that coincidentally give off visible light) in terms of color richness.
That is true. IMO in most cases this hard drive looks great.
My only issue is that most examples of hard disk bottlenecks I've seen were due to concurrent file access. Raiding is great for bandwidth... not so much for access time. Let's say someone is watching a video while you're doing some background re-encoding. A very common task btw. The movie may stutter. Now let's throw in some other tasks all with auto-save enabled, like word and a driver / antivirus program. Your seek time will become the limiting factor very very fast. The seek time on 5400 rpm drives is not that of an equivalent 7200. NCQ helps, but ncq shines even more on a pure 7200.
As for your statements:
1) Less heat production
2) Less noise
3) Less wear (more reliability)
4) Less power consumption (the "green" part)
They are true while talking about similar technologies. IIRC seagate stated using a fluid bearing on their 7200 line that made them produce less heat, noise, wear and consequently lowered their power requirements. I am not convinced without seeing tested results that a fluidic bearing would actually decrease it's friction at lower temperatures. It is supposedly non-newtonian.
As for the drive manufacturer's goals of speed/reliability and cost (important and not mentioned I think) most companies have several lines of products. An enterprise or business line for reliability and a gamer / home series for cost. In all seriousness WD/Seagate (re / es respectively) have a line of drives made for raiding. Those are the ones that should be used, they are tested and have higher tolerances. Think of them as the center cpus in a wafer. Then again, isn't the premise of most non-zero raids to kinda expect a hard drive to die, so you add a layer of redundancy?