Unfortunately, Intel still hasn't resolved the performance scaling issue we found in its latest storage controller drivers for the P55 chipset. As a result, The Twins are still running the Microsoft AHCI driver built into Windows 7.
I'm not sure I would call that 'ignoring' the Intel driver.
Overall, it seems that they have done a fairly thorough review - though my reading was by no means terribly in depth, as I'm not in the market right now.
TFA is pretty short - mostly a list, with a short paragraph above it. The link posted in the summary isn't the original, and they don't have links to the articles, just to the/original/ article, which then has links to more on each paper.
Optimising the sensory characteristics and acceptance of canned cat food: use of a human taste panel. (Journal of Animal Physiology and Animal Nutrition)
Effects of cocaine on honeybee dance behaviour. (Journal of Experimental Biology)
Swearing as a response to pain. (NeuroReport)
Pigeons can discriminate "good" and "bad" paintings by children. (Animal Cognition)
The "booty call": a compromise between men's and women's ideal mating strategies. (The Journal of Sex Research)
Intermittent access to beer promotes binge-like drinking in adolescent but not adult Wistar rats. (Alcohol)
Fellatio by fruit bats prolongs copulation time. (PLoS One)
More information than you ever wanted: does Facebook bring out the green-eyed monster of jealousy? (Cyberpsychology and Behavior)
Are full or empty beer bottles sturdier and does their fracture-threshold suffice to break the human skull? (Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine)
You know, I just realized that Windows 7 being the 7th version of Windows isn't too far from the truth: Assuming we only look at major home versions (skipping NT and 2000), I see 8. I'm left wondering which OS they skipped.
Perhaps they merged 95 with 98 or Vista with 7? On second thought, it's definitely ME. There is no way that thing ever existed, kind of like MS Bob...
Windows 1 Windows 2 Windows 3 Windows 95 Windows 98 Windows ME Windows XP Windows Vista Windows 7
Actually, we know that it's based off of the NT tree, leaving us with:
Windows NT 3.x Windows NT 4 Windows 2000 (NT 5) Windows XP (NT 5.1) Windows Vista (NT 6) Windows 7 (NT 6.1)
Well, that's not quite as productive as I had hoped, but I think you see the point: There is definitely a reason that MS chose to call Windows 7 "Windows 7".
Legally blind = no better than 20/200 when best corrected (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindness)
Uncorrected, my vision is about twice that bad, and I can function well enough without correction - as long as I don't have to read anything (12 point font at more than 10 inches is too blurry to read).
If you need continuous monitoring, you probably need more accuracy than non-invasive means will get you.
As of 2003 (when I spent a summer internship at Sensys Medical), the best non-invasive method (near-infrared spectroscopy) would get you within 20% of the actual value - and that's with an initial blood sample for calibration. IIRC, most consumer devices are accurate to 10-15%, with cheaper clinical devices being accurate to 5%.
Knowing the hardware necessary for even that degree of accuracy as well as the difficulties we had getting a clean signal while trying to shrink stuff down to shoebox size, there's no way that this would work - not with IR, anyway.
The accuracy should have improved since then, and these numbers are purely from memory. That said, you are right. That would be something - but given accuracy and demand, don't plan on it in your lifetime.
Google just gave a bunch of Android phones to a bunch of competent devs.
I'm not very familiar with the app situation, but if/I/ were a dev with ~20% time for personal projects, and I just got handed a shiny new toy (and a shiny new toy that everyone around me had) I would definitely consider developing for it.
With a 1x2-disk mirror using ZFS, MTTDL is over 10,000 years. I'd say that's pretty good - and of course, you would definitely want to compliment that with off-site backup.
I suspect that that is long enough for most people.
Though karma does perfectly correlate to post quality, there is some relationship.
If AC's karma is better than yours, that might tell you something. Perhaps you should consider taking a persuasive writing course? Or thinking a little bit before you post - sometimes, at least? Obviously, I can't say for sure as I don't know what your account is.
That said, having some idea of how your idea will be received is an/extremely/ useful skill, as is being able to decide when to post anyway.
Look at the 4850. When it was brand new, it cost $199, and it could run ANY game on the market at full resolution and detail with a smooth, sustained framerate. Flash back to the year 2000. Try to find me a $200 card back then that could do the same. Hell, I challange you to do the same thing just 5 years ago, back in 2004.
Does this mean that we're hitting a software complexity wall?
It's now the devs turn to play catch up... I hope nobody cheats by adding idle loops (looks around menacingly).
Please, call them 'communicators'. It makes me feel like I'm living in an incredibly advanced society (technologically, anyway). Which, let's face it, is the truth.
Our technological capabilities constantly change, but will we ever live up to what we can achieve? Stupid UIs and bad integration are one thing that will never disappear, but a great UI with seamless integration into life is what really matters. That's why/I/ use emacs. So powerful, it was used in the creation of the universe, or so I hear.
Long live emacs! Long live BeOS! Long live the Newton! Long live ssh!
And that's why ChromeOS will be successful. I really am not very interested in it, but it is certainly following the restrictiveness of Apple, and one-upping it.
I hate restrictions, but restriction is what allows for excellence. You must make a choice, and stick with it to excel.
Unfortunately, I'm more of a generalist. Computers, music, ultimate, and cooking. My only hope for achievement is to bring insights of one field to another. How depressing!
Agreed - but if rsync works fits, it is preferable.
That said, the constraints where rsync works flawlessly are pretty strict:
1. You always rsync down at the start of a session 2. You always rsync up at the end of a session 3. You never have more than 1 session
Just make sure you use the best settings - don't forget --delete or whatever it is to handle removed directories.
Unison works much better due to its 2-way change propogation, but it is only designed to handle 2 sources of documents, not 3.
I've never had to handle this sort of thing with unison, so though it may work, I'm not sure of the mechanisms it uses to handle resolution in batch mode. If it's timestamp based, you could hose yourself.
If you make the Mac and XP boxes share your data over nfs, you restrict yourself to the 2 source case, and Unison should work fine.
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Unfortunately, Intel still hasn't resolved the performance scaling issue we found in its latest storage controller drivers for the P55 chipset. As a result, The Twins are still running the Microsoft AHCI driver built into Windows 7.
I'm not sure I would call that 'ignoring' the Intel driver.
Overall, it seems that they have done a fairly thorough review - though my reading was by no means terribly in depth, as I'm not in the market right now.
TFA mentions that this was done on April 1st.
I don't usually consider April fools jokes publicity stunts, but I suppose I can see how they could be taken that way.
According to TFA, the gun had been taken out to investigate something, but the father forgot about it afterwords. His family is now paying the price.
More accurately, http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2010/03/10/ncbi-rofl-top-10-absurd-papers-from-2009/
TFA is pretty short - mostly a list, with a short paragraph above it. The link posted in the summary isn't the original, and they don't have links to the articles, just to the /original/ article, which then has links to more on each paper.
Optimising the sensory characteristics and acceptance of canned cat food: use of a human taste panel. (Journal of Animal Physiology and Animal Nutrition)
Effects of cocaine on honeybee dance behaviour. (Journal of Experimental Biology)
Swearing as a response to pain. (NeuroReport)
Pigeons can discriminate "good" and "bad" paintings by children. (Animal Cognition)
The "booty call": a compromise between men's and women's ideal mating strategies. (The Journal of Sex Research)
Intermittent access to beer promotes binge-like drinking in adolescent but not adult Wistar rats. (Alcohol)
Fellatio by fruit bats prolongs copulation time. (PLoS One)
More information than you ever wanted: does Facebook bring out the green-eyed monster of jealousy? (Cyberpsychology and Behavior)
Are full or empty beer bottles sturdier and does their fracture-threshold suffice to break the human skull? (Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine)
The nature of navel fluff. (Medical Hypotheses)
If any of those look interesting, here's the link that actually links: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/category/ncbi-rofl/
You know, I just realized that Windows 7 being the 7th version of Windows isn't too far from the truth: Assuming we only look at major home versions (skipping NT and 2000), I see 8. I'm left wondering which OS they skipped.
Perhaps they merged 95 with 98 or Vista with 7? On second thought, it's definitely ME. There is no way that thing ever existed, kind of like MS Bob...
Windows 1
Windows 2
Windows 3
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows ME
Windows XP
Windows Vista
Windows 7
Actually, we know that it's based off of the NT tree, leaving us with:
Windows NT 3.x
Windows NT 4
Windows 2000 (NT 5)
Windows XP (NT 5.1)
Windows Vista (NT 6)
Windows 7 (NT 6.1)
Well, that's not quite as productive as I had hoped, but I think you see the point: There is definitely a reason that MS chose to call Windows 7 "Windows 7".
I just have no idea as to what it is.
X-Plane supports Mars flight simulations, and has for a while...
http://www.x-plane.com/adventures/mars.html
http://www.dreamsenses.com/mars/marsx.html
I don't know how much effort is required to use it nowadays, but the install cds come with two mars craft:
http://www.x-plane.com/pg_Meet_X-Plane.html
What, they didn't open it?
Legally blind = no better than 20/200 when best corrected (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindness)
Uncorrected, my vision is about twice that bad, and I can function well enough without correction - as long as I don't have to read anything (12 point font at more than 10 inches is too blurry to read).
Don't you hate it when you post to the wrong thread?
Have you ever seeen any bollywood films? Those plots are generally quite involved - and frequently fantastically far-fetched.
If you need continuous monitoring, you probably need more accuracy than non-invasive means will get you.
As of 2003 (when I spent a summer internship at Sensys Medical), the best non-invasive method (near-infrared spectroscopy) would get you within 20% of the actual value - and that's with an initial blood sample for calibration. IIRC, most consumer devices are accurate to 10-15%, with cheaper clinical devices being accurate to 5%.
Knowing the hardware necessary for even that degree of accuracy as well as the difficulties we had getting a clean signal while trying to shrink stuff down to shoebox size, there's no way that this would work - not with IR, anyway.
The accuracy should have improved since then, and these numbers are purely from memory. That said, you are right. That would be something - but given accuracy and demand, don't plan on it in your lifetime.
Yes, it does look that way, but it's a one-shot deal.
Anyone who buys it has exactly the same rights as you do - including selling the binaries or source at half price.
Google just gave a bunch of Android phones to a bunch of competent devs.
I'm not very familiar with the app situation, but if /I/ were a dev with ~20% time for personal projects, and I just got handed a shiny new toy (and a shiny new toy that everyone around me had) I would definitely consider developing for it.
definitely...
Here are some MTTDL charts that, though tailored for thumpers, are still useful.
http://blogs.sun.com/relling/entry/zfs_raid_recommendations_space_performance
http://blogs.sun.com/relling/entry/raid_recommendations_space_vs_mttdl
With a 1x2-disk mirror using ZFS, MTTDL is over 10,000 years. I'd say that's pretty good - and of course, you would definitely want to compliment that with off-site backup.
I suspect that that is long enough for most people.
Posting anon because my karma is BAD
Though karma does perfectly correlate to post quality, there is some relationship.
If AC's karma is better than yours, that might tell you something. Perhaps you should consider taking a persuasive writing course? Or thinking a little bit before you post - sometimes, at least? Obviously, I can't say for sure as I don't know what your account is.
That said, having some idea of how your idea will be received is an /extremely/ useful skill, as is being able to decide when to post anyway.
Good luck!
I'm gonna have to disagree with you there.
Look at the 4850. When it was brand new, it cost $199, and it could run ANY game on the market at full resolution and detail with a smooth, sustained framerate. Flash back to the year 2000. Try to find me a $200 card back then that could do the same. Hell, I challange you to do the same thing just 5 years ago, back in 2004.
Does this mean that we're hitting a software complexity wall?
It's now the devs turn to play catch up... I hope nobody cheats by adding idle loops (looks around menacingly).
I wouldn't expect the Spanish Inquisition even after I saw them.
Who expects to be tortured mercilessly and pointlessly?
I sure don't.
Who expects to sit in the comfy chair?
I sure don't (not at work, anyway).
Please, call them 'communicators'. It makes me feel like I'm living in an incredibly advanced society (technologically, anyway). Which, let's face it, is the truth.
Our technological capabilities constantly change, but will we ever live up to what we can achieve? Stupid UIs and bad integration are one thing that will never disappear, but a great UI with seamless integration into life is what really matters. That's why /I/ use emacs. So powerful, it was used in the creation of the universe, or so I hear.
Long live emacs!
Long live BeOS!
Long live the Newton!
Long live ssh!
And that's why ChromeOS will be successful. I really am not very interested in it, but it is certainly following the restrictiveness of Apple, and one-upping it.
I hate restrictions, but restriction is what allows for excellence. You must make a choice, and stick with it to excel.
Unfortunately, I'm more of a generalist. Computers, music, ultimate, and cooking. My only hope for achievement is to bring insights of one field to another. How depressing!
Could you trim next time?
I love the sig!
Agreed - but if rsync works fits, it is preferable.
That said, the constraints where rsync works flawlessly are pretty strict:
1. You always rsync down at the start of a session
2. You always rsync up at the end of a session
3. You never have more than 1 session
Just make sure you use the best settings - don't forget --delete or whatever it is to handle removed directories.
Unison works much better due to its 2-way change propogation, but it is only designed to handle 2 sources of documents, not 3.
I've never had to handle this sort of thing with unison, so though it may work, I'm not sure of the mechanisms it uses to handle resolution in batch mode. If it's timestamp based, you could hose yourself.
If you make the Mac and XP boxes share your data over nfs, you restrict yourself to the 2 source case, and Unison should work fine.
I'm not quite sure what you mean.
From my understanding, increased spending for WWII was a large portion of what got us out of the depression, while the New Deal was more of a stopgap.
You just slightly misread the charts - 28 min FPS might be a little slow.
Of course, that's at 1920x1200...
And we'll like it, all except for the tin-foil-hatters.