Well then you are clearly not the target user for it.
It's a coffee-shop computer, designed to impress. It's not for film-makers to offline with Final Cut, or for photographers to run Aperture on, or for developers to code on, unless you are doing all that in the coffee shop with the data stored locally, or available via wireless or Bluetooth.
It's a presentation device - and women will love it. ( And they are a huge part of the target market)
Personally I love the fact that the remote CD software is supplied on a CD. And it's said that there's no irony in the American psyche.
Um, all you need is an Apple TV hooked up to your television and wireless/lan to the internet.
So, no computer required. You browse, select, download and watch. You can also sync the movies to your iTunes and therefore to your iPhone, iPod and iTouch.
All the UK Costco stores had Vista in stock and on-sale on release day. The local store tech was unboxing new desktops and laptops and configuring OEM Vista on each that day too.
Not quite correct. My Acer from April 2005 (TravelMate 4600) came with a C and D drive pre-imaged. The restore DVD only replaces the primary partition (C drive) and leaves the D drive intact. Very useful if you feel the need to restore Windows (after trying out Linux on the primary) but keep all your data on the D drive intact (and on external backup media too, of course...)
In case of a natural disaster, they are on a server
No, mine aren't. They are on multiple site, geographically dispersed, diverse routed synchronous data arrays in secure and hardened data centres.
who has the proper copy and what data gets lost during automatic updates
There are 16 "proper copies" of each instance. Each instance represents a doctors surgery, a hospital trust*, an ambulance trust etc. There are no losses during updates, it's designed to be fully available and resilient in the event of the total loss of a datacentre.
(*trust is UK medical system speak for a local area and may contain one or all of the above)
I seriously doubt they can even call this a method to save storage space
Agreed. Last time I looked it was projected to be +9Pb. I have around 1Pb to look after here.
the weekly/monthly backups would take nearly as much space
The datacentres are synchronised. No old-fashioned "backups" take place. See my first point. However, non-patient related data is taken to tape daily and offsited.
It's a serious undertaking.;-)
I laughed out loud when I saw that Bush had allocated $125m for EMR in the USA. This will cost BILLIONS.
I've been shooting stills in TV studios and on location movie sets and sound stages for years, usually during live takes and no sound recordist has ever looked up from his desk and snarled at me.
And I've shot with very loud SLRs both film and now digital, sometimes standing next to the main camera to match the eyelines.
but what about Dark Star? Come on people, it was co-written by Dan O'Bannon, who later reused the "alien mascot" section of the film as the basis of his script for Alien FFS!!
Directed by (the) John Carpenter as well.
And then there's Silent Running, although wabbits being nuked is probably not a big vote winner among the majority of popcorn-crunchers.
Lose the CRT and wall mount the 3 new LCD panels (you are getting 3 new LCD panels, right?)
Two more 4 port KVMs would then fit right in. Wall mount those as well. Keep as much bench top space as you can free. The overhead bins are a GREAT idea.
Also several drawers running along the front. Norm (New Yankee Workshop) has a plan for a storage/workbench that would adapt really well for your requirements. Flush mount the power outlets (double the amount you think you will ever need) either to the bench surface or the wall. Beware static!;-)
Why the hell are the reports of these guys so far from what the accepted industry practice is, according to IT magazines?
GOK, I have 3Pb of storage syncronised across two data centres here, all in 7+1 RAID5. Mostly self healing too, if a drive pops, then a spare drive in the same array builds itself into that stripe set, enabling hot replacement of the dead drive.
I would love to know what their "painful experience" was!
Using JBOD for this seems a tad courageous, to say the least.
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That's an elitist view. There is no need for any sort of special professional to press a button on a handled camera device, DSLR or not.
The photographs involved needn't be art, it's for a disposable newspaper.
You win the "complete jackass" comment award. Press photographers don't make "art". They record history. Do some research. Fucking idiot.
Getting into Israel is no more difficult than anywhere else. Leaving is another story altogether ...
I've tried to do this live and it's almost impossible. You stop listening to the song and only listen to the click. No soul, emotion or feel. Tim
Well then you are clearly not the target user for it.
It's a coffee-shop computer, designed to impress. It's not for film-makers to offline with Final Cut, or for photographers to run Aperture on, or for developers to code on, unless you are doing all that in the coffee shop with the data stored locally, or available via wireless or Bluetooth.
It's a presentation device - and women will love it. ( And they are a huge part of the target market)
Personally I love the fact that the remote CD software is supplied on a CD. And it's said that there's no irony in the American psyche.
Tim
Um, all you need is an Apple TV hooked up to your television and wireless/lan to the internet.
So, no computer required. You browse, select, download and watch. You can also sync the movies to your iTunes and therefore to your iPhone, iPod and iTouch.
It's not hard. Do keep up.
Tim
Yes there was "Genesis" group in the 70s, they don't play anymore.
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I must have imagined them at Manchester two weeks ago then
(along with 20,000 other people)
We can't test a restore to one of the systems with the backup software because it doesn't understand the concept of restoring to a different location.
What POS backup software are you using? And you say it cost 200K???
All the UK Costco stores had Vista in stock and on-sale on release day. The local store tech was unboxing new desktops and laptops and configuring OEM Vista on each that day too.
You hope the person labeling them did it clearly and actually kept records of what the labels meant.
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No, that what barcodes and enterprise level backup software is for
Not quite correct. My Acer from April 2005 (TravelMate 4600) came with a C and D drive pre-imaged. The restore DVD only replaces the primary partition (C drive) and leaves the D drive intact. Very useful if you feel the need to restore Windows (after trying out Linux on the primary) but keep all your data on the D drive intact (and on external backup media too, of course...)
It's just as well that none of us lucky smudgers could give a flying fuck about your opinion then. Moron.
Our women ...
And that's where I stopped reading.
(and may not actually be valid, as I am AT work and this URL is from, cough, memory
I imagine this is more closely described as "geobedding" ...
Basically what we have here is a monarchy.
You wish. What the USA has is closer to a dictatorship, supported by big business and the military.
You rang Milady?
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Some of us don't get out of bed for less than a Petabyte
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I have six. You have to love 2Gb fibre channel. I like using RAIDSilly (Redundant Array of Independent Datacentres)
The risk of stolen EMR's is not at the data level, it's at the end user level. That's much harder to prevent.
In case of a natural disaster, they are on a server
No, mine aren't. They are on multiple site, geographically dispersed, diverse routed synchronous data arrays in secure and hardened data centres.
who has the proper copy and what data gets lost during automatic updates
There are 16 "proper copies" of each instance. Each instance represents a doctors surgery, a hospital trust*, an ambulance trust etc. There are no losses during updates, it's designed to be fully available and resilient in the event of the total loss of a datacentre.
(*trust is UK medical system speak for a local area and may contain one or all of the above)
I seriously doubt they can even call this a method to save storage space
Agreed. Last time I looked it was projected to be +9Pb. I have around 1Pb to look after here.
the weekly/monthly backups would take nearly as much space
The datacentres are synchronised. No old-fashioned "backups" take place. See my first point. However, non-patient related data is taken to tape daily and offsited.
It's a serious undertaking. ;-)
I laughed out loud when I saw that Bush had allocated $125m for EMR in the USA. This will cost BILLIONS.
it tells you nothing about depth of field, which depends on the actual physical focal length and the distance to the subject.
Not entirely. It is primarity dependent on the aperture in use.
Use a blimp.
I've been shooting stills in TV studios and on location movie sets and sound stages for years, usually during live takes and no sound recordist has ever looked up from his desk and snarled at me.
And I've shot with very loud SLRs both film and now digital, sometimes standing next to the main camera to match the eyelines.
but what about Dark Star? Come on people, it was co-written by Dan O'Bannon, who later reused the "alien mascot" section of the film as the basis of his script for Alien FFS!!
Directed by (the) John Carpenter as well.
And then there's Silent Running, although wabbits being nuked is probably not a big vote winner among the majority of popcorn-crunchers.
Spaceballs forever!
I paid £100 +VAT for a 17in LCD last month. Buying three would have knocked that price down further.
It's nothing fancy, but it doesn't need to be.
$200 each is a lot? Wow. I guess it must still be 1998 outside...
Two more 4 port KVMs would then fit right in. Wall mount those as well. Keep as much bench top space as you can free. The overhead bins are a GREAT idea.
Also several drawers running along the front. Norm (New Yankee Workshop) has a plan for a storage/workbench that would adapt really well for your requirements. Flush mount the power outlets (double the amount you think you will ever need) either to the bench surface or the wall. Beware static! ;-)
GOK, I have 3Pb of storage syncronised across two data centres here, all in 7+1 RAID5. Mostly self healing too, if a drive pops, then a spare drive in the same array builds itself into that stripe set, enabling hot replacement of the dead drive.
I would love to know what their "painful experience" was!
Using JBOD for this seems a tad courageous, to say the least.
And then, of course, there's backup...
Take two pictures of a girl who is wearing a red swimsuit. One in colour, one in black and while.
In the colour picture, you look at the swimsuit. In the b/w shot, you look at the girl. QED.