So i need to swap discs about 40 times to back up one of my drives? At pa for $40 worth of disks? Rather than just buy a portable hard drive of 2tb in size for not much more, especially when you consider the wasted time in being disk jockey... BD for backup = pointless.
I had a had drive failure 2 months ago. Maybe i should give up hard drives and badmouth them as being faulty technology? Luckily it was my backup drive. Shit happens, if you don't have backups you deserve whatever failure you get, whether your primary drive is mechanical or flash.
Becuase of course flash prices are going to stay as they are forever. Wake up. Mechanical media is goign to die, and its going to happen pretty rapidly. At best, hard drives will be reduced to backup/archival media because they're simply far too slow. The biggest bang for buck i have ever seen in 25 yrs of computing is moving to SSD - and the sizes are such now that they are plenty big enough for the data that people actually need. High speed internet will only help that even more as people no longer need to hoard media and can stream it on demand.
You know 10 core xeons have been out for like... ages now. And given that 4 intel cores can beat 8 AMD cores, then 10 should quite handily beat an AMD 16 core machine.
Yup. Bulldozer's big problem is that AMD kinda fucked up. 3x as many transistors and intel, for what exactly? A nice big heap of fail.
I'm sure they must be scratching their heads wondering what happened - and i'm equally sure that the successor to bulldozer will fix whatever glitch is currently hobbling the machine.
Well, at least they better do, or AMD is going to go broke. They haven't had a CPU worth shit for years now - ever since the core2 came out, intel has spanked them quite handily.
Nah, they'll just spend a grand on water cooling, power supplies, fans and electricity instead.
Back in the real world, if someone needs the cpu power today, they will spend the money. If they NEED the cpu, they will not be going down the over clocking path, because if it is in any way used for anything serious all guarantees of correct cpu operation go out the window.
What exactly are you missing with the lack of USB 3? The LAST thing i want is a brain damaged high speed bus that needs my CPU to supervise it. USB is for cheap shitty peripherals. Trying to apply it to multi-gigabit connections is just stupid.
You're assuming there is a benefit to running video over 16 pci lanes. News flash: PCI x16 is still slow for video. Get a video card with an appropriate amount of memory and you should not be hitting the PCI bus enough to matter. If you're hitting the PCI bus constantly your performance is already fucked, whether it is x4, x8, or x16. AMD may win the PCI bus race, but they lose in CPU speed, heat, stability and power consumption.
Also, we're presuming that my system is not going going to be handed down/on to someone who isn't as demanding on the machine. I go through work machines every 12 months or so, it doesn't mean they go in the bin - they just get handed onto users who don't need anything even remotely special.
Bad luck. However this is drastically different to firefox breaking every single person's copy of extension foo. Also, IE9 is not an automatically deployed update, you need to select to install it.
This will not happen. I see this bullshit paranoia all the time. The mac will NOT be app-store only. However, if you CHOOSE to run app store only apps, you get sandboxed, vetted apps from a trusted vendor. Windows 8 is going the same way.
If you or i were to let people download music from sony or warner, we get raked over the coals. And thats not even if we're making money from it by selling it.
What the fuck is google doing here, and how do they expect to get away with it?
The firefox release stories are newsworthy because the releases break shit. Consider them a heads up. No one cares about a new chrome release because they are SEAMLESS.
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So i need to swap discs about 40 times to back up one of my drives? At pa for $40 worth of disks? Rather than just buy a portable hard drive of 2tb in size for not much more, especially when you consider the wasted time in being disk jockey... BD for backup = pointless.
I had a had drive failure 2 months ago. Maybe i should give up hard drives and badmouth them as being faulty technology? Luckily it was my backup drive. Shit happens, if you don't have backups you deserve whatever failure you get, whether your primary drive is mechanical or flash.
Becuase of course flash prices are going to stay as they are forever. Wake up. Mechanical media is goign to die, and its going to happen pretty rapidly. At best, hard drives will be reduced to backup/archival media because they're simply far too slow. The biggest bang for buck i have ever seen in 25 yrs of computing is moving to SSD - and the sizes are such now that they are plenty big enough for the data that people actually need. High speed internet will only help that even more as people no longer need to hoard media and can stream it on demand.
Actually, they replaced it with free storage on .mac. You know... "cloud storage" before the world knew what cloud storage was.
Create .iso file. Move on.
THey also tend to generally not support software which is not available on optical media.
OS install = net boot or USB flash. Application installs = USB flash.
Exactly. Optical drives have been replaced by USB flash. Hard drives are next.
Because if course all optical media is and always has been DRM free.
Idiot.
a brain and a mobile phone.
Not = works fine
Oh btw. I've rolled IE9 to over 30 machines without issue. Your machine is broken.
You know 10 core xeons have been out for like... ages now. And given that 4 intel cores can beat 8 AMD cores, then 10 should quite handily beat an AMD 16 core machine.
I'm sure they must be scratching their heads wondering what happened - and i'm equally sure that the successor to bulldozer will fix whatever glitch is currently hobbling the machine.
Well, at least they better do, or AMD is going to go broke. They haven't had a CPU worth shit for years now - ever since the core2 came out, intel has spanked them quite handily.
Nah, they'll just spend a grand on water cooling, power supplies, fans and electricity instead.
Back in the real world, if someone needs the cpu power today, they will spend the money. If they NEED the cpu, they will not be going down the over clocking path, because if it is in any way used for anything serious all guarantees of correct cpu operation go out the window.
What exactly are you missing with the lack of USB 3? The LAST thing i want is a brain damaged high speed bus that needs my CPU to supervise it. USB is for cheap shitty peripherals. Trying to apply it to multi-gigabit connections is just stupid.
saves dealing with idiots who try and put it in a machine with a chipset that can't handle it.
You're assuming there is a benefit to running video over 16 pci lanes. News flash: PCI x16 is still slow for video. Get a video card with an appropriate amount of memory and you should not be hitting the PCI bus enough to matter. If you're hitting the PCI bus constantly your performance is already fucked, whether it is x4, x8, or x16. AMD may win the PCI bus race, but they lose in CPU speed, heat, stability and power consumption.
Also, we're presuming that my system is not going going to be handed down/on to someone who isn't as demanding on the machine. I go through work machines every 12 months or so, it doesn't mean they go in the bin - they just get handed onto users who don't need anything even remotely special.
Bad luck. However this is drastically different to firefox breaking every single person's copy of extension foo. Also, IE9 is not an automatically deployed update, you need to select to install it.
This will not happen. I see this bullshit paranoia all the time. The mac will NOT be app-store only. However, if you CHOOSE to run app store only apps, you get sandboxed, vetted apps from a trusted vendor. Windows 8 is going the same way.
If you or i were to let people download music from sony or warner, we get raked over the coals. And thats not even if we're making money from it by selling it.
What the fuck is google doing here, and how do they expect to get away with it?
In 15 years of dealing with internet explorer, i've never seen an IE update break a windows install that wasn't seriously broken already.
Sounds like you want a mac.
The firefox release stories are newsworthy because the releases break shit. Consider them a heads up. No one cares about a new chrome release because they are SEAMLESS.