900mhz is a pretty good spot for cordless. The higher frequencies tend to bounce around and get absorbed by walls and structures. People forget that bigger numbers aren't always better.
Personally I miss the days of 3-5watt analog cell phones. Range was about 10x what the little 800mW ones we carry around today. The networks are also about 10x more crowded. The reason they went to digital in the first place was just to get more people in the same amount of spectrum...
IANAL, so I'm not sure i quite understand, but it reads to me that "This Land" IS STILL COPYRIGHTED...or at least you are at risk from being sued if you use it.
" Ludlow believes its copyright -- initially filed in 1956 and renewed in 1984 -- remains valid and disputes EFF's claims."... "JibJab dismissed its suit against Ludlow today. As part of the settlement of the case, JibJab will remain free to continue distributing the "This Land" animation without further interference from Ludlow."
So they settled out of court and only agreed not to sue JibJab. Which means if you used the song, they retain the right to sue you...
Its just increasing the useful SN ratio...its out of control.
Picture of the day November 2000... look familiar? http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap0011 27.html
I can understand if an editor doesn't remember something. But don't you have some responsibility even MILDY fact check things? A quick google search would have been SO EASY....
1. Typical industrial flash will do 300k/cycles, higher end stuff is in the million+ range.
2. Just because its rated at lets say 1000000 cycles, doesn't mean at 1000001 cycles its going to die. It means that a certain percentage (i've seen it quoted as 0.02%) will fail at roughly that many cycles.
3. The manufactures aren't dumb. The better ones use several methods to distribute the load evenly as to get the most life out of the write/erase cycles. They distribute the load, they balance the number of write cycles, and many use some RAM to handle 'thrashing' situations where a single block gets continuously rewritten.
With current tech. (barring unusual circumstances) you can expect these drives to last decades if not longer.
As for the BitMicro: 27 years at 100GB/day for the 1GB model 123 years at 100GB/day for the 4.6GB model
Way more information can be found at http://www.storagesearch.com/ssdarticles.html
Do we have to argue about swap vs. no swap!?
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It seems fairly clear. In many circumstances swap can be beneficial. But, there are plenty of cases where users would PREFER a message like...
"You're out of physical RAM, I can either waste 5 minutes swapping until you quit programs, or I can put this process on hold until you quick programs or get back from Fry's with more RAM"
I think between that and the 'swappieness' setting in the latest kernel and IF that system message was real, I would bitch a lot less about swap. I'm all for VM and OS managed memory, I'm just against using a HardDisk as the medium. HD's are several orders of magnitude slower than RAM.
I've been following this company for years. I hate to bitch about slow development (cause I'm the pot calling the kettle black), but they've been developing this thing for YEARS AND YEARS. After their IPO in 1996 I was really excited about it. Since then they've only managed the first initial nomad (really big and bulky) to this new model. 8 years and no color, no higher resolution.
I always find it awkward telling people I have PVR. Usually it goes like this:
Them: "What do you think of Tivo?" Me: "Tivo's are great, I love mine" Me: "Well, actually I don't have an actual tivo, I built my own, its called SageTV, its pretty much the same as a real Tivo, but I can access my TV from any computer in the house, save stuff on DVD, no monthly fee, etc..." Them: "you built a Tivo?" Me: "Uh, well its a thing for your computer" Them: "Oh..." (blank stare) Me: "Tivo's kick ass!" Them: =)
Hardware: Linksys EG008W Intel PRO/1000MT Network Adapters (except the mac which is built in) Various IDE HD's, CPU's and motherboards
Bottlenecks: 32bit 33Mhz PCI - ~100MBytes/sec Hard Disks - 5-30MBytes/sec (varies widely 15-20 is typical) CPU - Stats are from receiving machine copying TO the local machine 55% - G4 733Mhz ~18.5MB/sec 36% - Athlon 1.46Hgz 17.6MB/sec
Its definitely the disks at this point. Fragmentation and even more so multiple disk accesses at once both make a huge difference in performance. Simultaneously accessing multiple files on the same disk seem to throw most consumer IDE drives for a loop. 10-20 Milliseconds is just too long to wait...
After the disks, the slower machines (ie 1ghz) is going to be the next limiting factor.
Why do I have the feeling that even if they do drop all these stations, that Dish Network's subscribers won't get a discount for the missing stations that they are no longer getting and Dish is no longer paying for?
Using the federalreserve.gov website to answer the question who owns the federal reserve is like asking a politician if he ever committed an act of indecency. Its certainly a topic up for debate, i've read several books on the topic and seen a few documentaries on it, and I still haven't made complete sense of the situation. Although, I would tend to lean towards reforming the system.
A few google links on "who owns the federal reserve" http://www.save-a-patriot.org/files/view /whofed.ht ml http://www.floodlight.org/theory/flaherty9.htm http://weholdthesetruths.org/Dollars%20&%20$en$e /A rticles/testyourfediq.htm
I suppose if you have a lot of big physical debris this could be a problem. I think most people just have dirt, dog hair, etc...
The directions do say to empty the compartment every time you do a room. Its hard to imagine a room with so much debris that the compartment would fill in one session. Although, I admit I did fill it once like that when it got under the x-mas tree and started sucking up all the pine needles...
I agree fundamentally that a bigger compartment would be nice, but on the other hand, it seems to work for most of the people most of the time. I don't think its a bad design.
Personally I think everyone should just stop buying any music from the major Labels. Give them a quick and painless death.
When I want music, why not just go directly to an artists website and grab the albums MP3's? If the artist want's to charge? That's their choice. They collect 100% of the money if they do, and they deal with a bit of piracy as a result. The more they charge, the greater the piracy, the less they charge, the more people who will just pay up. The more endearing a band, they more people will pay...
A laptop, some software, a net connection and some talent is all it takes to create music these days.
We have no need for the traditional labels as they were in the 20th century.
I hate to ask a stupid question and in no way am I casting judgment either way. But, how big was this hosting site? With todays large disks, "a few terabytes" might be a single box under someone's desk...
So, how big was this hosting center? less than 5 computers? less than 10? 20? 50? 100+?
I can just see why the FBI might consider taking them, if after searching for awhile, it was only a few machines to pick up and throw in a van.
OTOH I can see why owners of some data centers with hundreds of computers heads might be spinning just thinking about how big a disaster it would be if they were shut down.
"...good ol' photographic film, which offers a resolution far higher than any existing digitised video format..."
Ok, i'll give you the benefit of the doubt here and assume you mean physical medium formats (e.g. DVD, etc...)
But here, you're WAY wrong. "Same goes for digital cameras - even the best still don't match the resolution of a decent 35mm film."
First, standard DSLR's have advanced a LOT in the past few years. Although megapixels are fast becoming irrelevant (color depth, CCD sensitivity, etc... are becoming much more important) the top of the line cameras are much higher resolution than they used to be. The Kodak DCS 14n which isn't even new is 13.8Megapixels. As mentioned the Canon EOS-1Ds is 11MP.
But if you want to compare against the high end, how about a PhaseOne H25 22Megapixel 4x5 scanback?
Or how about a 140.76Megapixel Super10K-2 from BetterLight.com?
Super10K-2 10200 x 13800 pixels - Native CCD resolution 402 MB max. file 24-bit RGB (804 MB in 48-bit RGB)
Now you may argue I'm comparing apples and oranges (4x5 vs. 35MM), but your comment was that the best digital cameras don't match 35MM...which IMHO is wrong when compared to the best format digital cameras.
I've always been a big fan of front projection. Nice cinema feel...
With the advances in DLP (SRC color wheels, etc...) they are looking really tempting.
They advertised 128Kbits and I often got more than double that. I remember being in a hotel room in San Francisco and was able to get bother 32KBytes (256kbits) in BOTH directions UP and DOWN.
I call that delivering on their promise. Too bad they've had so many business related issues.
I could have found out faster reading a print weekly...
Seriously folks, I'm not trying to be a Troll but its been up since at least the 1st of the month. The 3rd hour went up shortly after the last one aired on TV on the 4th.
Requirements (in this order) #1 Cheap #2 Bulk Storage #3 Reliability
This is what I paid at the time...prices may be better now... 1. 7 120Gig Drives $100 each $700 2. Enermax 465Watt power supply $85 3. Cheap case lots of bays $30 4. 800Mhz Duron+MB $FREE 5. 3DFX Voodoo 3 card $FREE 6. Crappy old Keyboard + Mouse $FREE 7. Extra fan $5 8. Random CDR $FREE 9. 100Mbit Ethernet $FREE 10. 20Gig boot drive $FREE 11. Additional IDE Controllers $60 12. OS Slackware Linux $FREE
Total Price $880 + (some tax, some shipping) ~$950
I run software RAID, get about 15-20MB/sec read and about half that writing. Totally fit my needs, totally cheap...The only thing I am probably going to do differently next time is spring for the cheap 3Ware 8 Port RAID card (under $300 on pricewatch).
Personally I think this should automatically disqualify them for making any sort of voting systems, but I guess I don't really understand the system that well.
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900mhz is a pretty good spot for cordless. The higher frequencies tend to bounce around and get absorbed by walls and structures. People forget that bigger numbers aren't always better.
Personally I miss the days of 3-5watt analog cell phones. Range was about 10x what the little 800mW ones we carry around today. The networks are also about 10x more crowded. The reason they went to digital in the first place was just to get more people in the same amount of spectrum...
IANAL, so I'm not sure i quite understand, but it reads to me that "This Land" IS STILL COPYRIGHTED...or at least you are at risk from being sued if you use it.
...
" Ludlow believes its copyright -- initially filed in 1956 and renewed in 1984 -- remains valid and disputes EFF's claims."
"JibJab dismissed its suit against Ludlow today. As part of the settlement of the case, JibJab will remain free to continue distributing the "This Land" animation without further interference from Ludlow."
So they settled out of court and only agreed not to sue JibJab. Which means if you used the song, they retain the right to sue you...
1. Smallest size + smallest capacity + Most durable + expensive == USB thumb drive
2. 2nd smallest size + bigger capacity + expensive + mp3 player == iPod
3. Biggest size + biggest capacity + cheap == external 2.5" USB drive
4. Disposable 4.4GB/8.5GB + needs drive to write + cheap == DVDR
5. Syquest/zip/floppy == silly
Its just increasing the useful SN ratio...its out of control.
1 27.html
Picture of the day November 2000... look familiar?
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap001
I can understand if an editor doesn't remember something. But don't you have some responsibility even MILDY fact check things? A quick google search would have been SO EASY....
1. Typical industrial flash will do 300k/cycles, higher end stuff is in the million+ range.
2. Just because its rated at lets say 1000000 cycles, doesn't mean at 1000001 cycles its going to die. It means that a certain percentage (i've seen it quoted as 0.02%) will fail at roughly that many cycles.
3. The manufactures aren't dumb. The better ones use several methods to distribute the load evenly as to get the most life out of the write/erase cycles. They distribute the load, they balance the number of write cycles, and many use some RAM to handle 'thrashing' situations where a single block gets continuously rewritten.
With current tech. (barring unusual circumstances) you can expect these drives to last decades if not longer.
As for the BitMicro:
27 years at 100GB/day for the 1GB model
123 years at 100GB/day for the 4.6GB model
Way more information can be found at
http://www.storagesearch.com/ssdarticles.html
It seems fairly clear. In many circumstances swap can be beneficial. But, there are plenty of cases where users would PREFER a message like...
"You're out of physical RAM, I can either waste 5 minutes swapping until you quit programs, or I can put this process on hold until you quick programs or get back from Fry's with more RAM"
I think between that and the 'swappieness' setting in the latest kernel and IF that system message was real, I would bitch a lot less about swap. I'm all for VM and OS managed memory, I'm just against using a HardDisk as the medium. HD's are several orders of magnitude slower than RAM.
I haven't seen one of those in a loooooooong time!
(note to self, save open documents before running experimental software)
I've been following this company for years. I hate to bitch about slow development (cause I'm the pot calling the kettle black), but they've been developing this thing for YEARS AND YEARS. After their IPO in 1996 I was really excited about it. Since then they've only managed the first initial nomad (really big and bulky) to this new model. 8 years and no color, no higher resolution.
Maybe I'm just too demanding...
Both examples loaded fine in Safari with images and javascript off.
Odd...
I always find it awkward telling people I have PVR. Usually it goes like this:
Them: "What do you think of Tivo?"
Me: "Tivo's are great, I love mine"
Me: "Well, actually I don't have an actual tivo, I built my own, its called SageTV, its pretty much the same as a real Tivo, but I can access my TV from any computer in the house, save stuff on DVD, no monthly fee, etc..."
Them: "you built a Tivo?"
Me: "Uh, well its a thing for your computer"
Them: "Oh..." (blank stare)
Me: "Tivo's kick ass!"
Them: =)
and people will take their research off shore. Just to make things easier and less controversial.
(ie the ones 1ghz)...
Hardware:
Linksys EG008W
Intel PRO/1000MT Network Adapters (except the mac which is built in)
Various IDE HD's, CPU's and motherboards
Bottlenecks:
32bit 33Mhz PCI - ~100MBytes/sec
Hard Disks - 5-30MBytes/sec (varies widely 15-20 is typical)
CPU - Stats are from receiving machine copying TO the local machine
55% - G4 733Mhz ~18.5MB/sec
36% - Athlon 1.46Hgz 17.6MB/sec
Its definitely the disks at this point. Fragmentation and even more so multiple disk accesses at once both make a huge difference in performance. Simultaneously accessing multiple files on the same disk seem to throw most consumer IDE drives for a loop. 10-20 Milliseconds is just too long to wait...
After the disks, the slower machines (ie 1ghz) is going to be the next limiting factor.
Someone tell me I'm wrong...but i read they would be 8x and 16x....45minutes would be a huge step back...
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http://www.press.ce.philips.com/press/documents
Why do I have the feeling that even if they do drop all these stations, that Dish Network's subscribers won't get a discount for the missing stations that they are no longer getting and Dish is no longer paying for?
Just food for thought...
Using the federalreserve.gov website to answer the question who owns the federal reserve is like asking a politician if he ever committed an act of indecency. Its certainly a topic up for debate, i've read several books on the topic and seen a few documentaries on it, and I still haven't made complete sense of the situation. Although, I would tend to lean towards reforming the system.
w /whofed.ht mlm e /A rticles/testyourfediq.htm
/. put in spaces in html links?
A few google links on "who owns the federal reserve"
http://www.save-a-patriot.org/files/vie
http://www.floodlight.org/theory/flaherty9.ht
http://weholdthesetruths.org/Dollars%20&%20$en$
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I suppose if you have a lot of big physical debris this could be a problem. I think most people just have dirt, dog hair, etc...
The directions do say to empty the compartment every time you do a room. Its hard to imagine a room with so much debris that the compartment would fill in one session. Although, I admit I did fill it once like that when it got under the x-mas tree and started sucking up all the pine needles...
I agree fundamentally that a bigger compartment would be nice, but on the other hand, it seems to work for most of the people most of the time. I don't think its a bad design.
Personally I think everyone should just stop buying any music from the major Labels. Give them a quick and painless death.
When I want music, why not just go directly to an artists website and grab the albums MP3's? If the artist want's to charge? That's their choice. They collect 100% of the money if they do, and they deal with a bit of piracy as a result. The more they charge, the greater the piracy, the less they charge, the more people who will just pay up. The more endearing a band, they more people will pay...
A laptop, some software, a net connection and some talent is all it takes to create music these days.
We have no need for the traditional labels as they were in the 20th century.
Lets just move on and not look back.
I hate to ask a stupid question and in no way am I casting judgment either way. But, how big was this hosting site? With todays large disks, "a few terabytes" might be a single box under someone's desk...
So, how big was this hosting center? less than 5 computers? less than 10? 20? 50? 100+?
I can just see why the FBI might consider taking them, if after searching for awhile, it was only a few machines to pick up and throw in a van.
OTOH I can see why owners of some data centers with hundreds of computers heads might be spinning just thinking about how big a disaster it would be if they were shut down.
"...good ol' photographic film, which offers a resolution far higher than any existing digitised video format..."
Ok, i'll give you the benefit of the doubt here and assume you mean physical medium formats (e.g. DVD, etc...)
But here, you're WAY wrong.
"Same goes for digital cameras - even the best still don't match the resolution of a decent 35mm film."
First, standard DSLR's have advanced a LOT in the past few years. Although megapixels are fast becoming irrelevant (color depth, CCD sensitivity, etc... are becoming much more important) the top of the line cameras are much higher resolution than they used to be. The Kodak DCS 14n which isn't even new is 13.8Megapixels. As mentioned the Canon EOS-1Ds is 11MP.
But if you want to compare against the high end, how about a PhaseOne H25 22Megapixel 4x5 scanback?
Or how about a 140.76Megapixel Super10K-2 from BetterLight.com?
Super10K-2
10200 x 13800 pixels - Native CCD resolution
402 MB max. file 24-bit RGB (804 MB in 48-bit RGB)
Now you may argue I'm comparing apples and oranges (4x5 vs. 35MM), but your comment was that the best digital cameras don't match 35MM...which IMHO is wrong when compared to the best format digital cameras.
I've always been a big fan of front projection. Nice cinema feel...
With the advances in DLP (SRC color wheels, etc...) they are looking really tempting.
Lots of good info can be found here...
http://www.projectorcentral.com/
They advertised 128Kbits and I often got more than double that. I remember being in a hotel room in San Francisco and was able to get bother 32KBytes (256kbits) in BOTH directions UP and DOWN.
I call that delivering on their promise. Too bad they've had so many business related issues.
Man this comment feels like a Beowolf cluster.
I could have found out faster reading a print weekly...
Seriously folks, I'm not trying to be a Troll but its been up since at least the 1st of the month. The 3rd hour went up shortly after the last one aired on TV on the 4th.
Requirements (in this order)
#1 Cheap
#2 Bulk Storage
#3 Reliability
This is what I paid at the time...prices may be better now...
1. 7 120Gig Drives $100 each $700
2. Enermax 465Watt power supply $85
3. Cheap case lots of bays $30
4. 800Mhz Duron+MB $FREE
5. 3DFX Voodoo 3 card $FREE
6. Crappy old Keyboard + Mouse $FREE
7. Extra fan $5
8. Random CDR $FREE
9. 100Mbit Ethernet $FREE
10. 20Gig boot drive $FREE
11. Additional IDE Controllers $60
12. OS Slackware Linux $FREE
Total Price $880 + (some tax, some shipping) ~$950
I run software RAID, get about 15-20MB/sec read and about half that writing. Totally fit my needs, totally cheap...The only thing I am probably going to do differently next time is spring for the cheap 3Ware 8 Port RAID card (under $300 on pricewatch).
Am I totally off base being suspecious of this?
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Diebold gives $200,965 to the Republicans...
http://www.opensecrets.org/softmoney/softcomp1.as
Personally I think this should automatically disqualify them for making any sort of voting systems, but I guess I don't really understand the system that well.