I might get lynched by the Linux crowd, but Windows Server 2012 R2 has 'Work folders' which is basically private Dropbox you host yourself. Nothing leaves your servers/clients. You can even access the work folders via SMB (drive mapping) when in the office, and the remote function kicks in when out of network. seamless for the end users as well.
Wow. Still on that bandwagon eh? I haven't heard the 'It's just marketing 'cry in a while. Thanks for the laugh. It is odd that in nearly 13 years since iPod no one else has hired the same advertising company, huh? Weird.
My guess is the overlap between "people who complained Siri wasn't accurate" and "people who dont want apple keeping any Siri data so they can make it better" is pretty close to perfect.
Google reads your mail. Apple listens to your ravings. Don't like it, don't use it. And they only keep 'your' (ie identifable) data 6 months.
And don't even think about recording 1080p or 720p@60 without a class10 UHS1 type card
Erm no. 1080p video or 720p@60 comes out to under 3mb/second. A class 4 card can theoretically do the job. Nikon recommends a maximum class 6 for unimpeded performance on their top of the line video cards. Also my new prosumer camera supports 13 frames in the buffer and my 6 year old DSLR supported far more as well and even with a piss-poor cards of yesteryear behaved admirably when taking fast action shots at sporting events in continuous release.
The reality is that we were taking 1080p videos and shooting fast paced sporting events long before Class10 cards started coming out. Your comment is similar to those "professionals" who say that you can't photograph sports without vibration reduction, and piezoelectric focusing drives. Well I have sporting photographs from 40 years ago that prove otherwise.
Erm, yes. Sorry, but it's just math. Bitrate*compression*framesize*FPS. Raw reate at 1080p is 6.22M/s w/o compression. There is a little overhead so use 6.5 to be safe
1) Short of a very intense 60% compression you won't get down to 3M. Post processing yes, but in the camera on the fly? Pretty rare. In most cases you are looking at about 5.0M/s for 1080p. That is why many cameras have a 12minute limit on HD recording - at 12Min you've hit the 4G maximum file size. The Canon line which I am most familiar with has this limit. Many P&S cameras do as well.
2) We weren't shooting 1080p video on class 10 cards "long before they came out". There weren't even consumer grade cameras capable of shooting 1080p at usable bitrate/frame rate until a few years ago. The SD Association *specifically developed* Class 10 cards for FullHD video in alignment with the introduction of 1080p capable cameras. At the same time. Class10=FullHD=10M/s target write. That's what they are for. It's on their website: https://www.sdcard.org/developers/overview/speed_class/ I'd love to see the link wherein Nikon specifically ignores the very public, published SD standard.
That said, some premium manufactures switched to higher speed for all their manufacturing while continuing to label them seperately. SanDisk was notable for this. There are a lot of lesser labelled SanDisk that perform above their rated class speed. My advice stands: do not to try and get lucky with a class6. If you are going to shoot at 1080p@30 or 720p@60 just get the 10+UHS1 as recommended by the good folks who design them and don't waste your time.
Finally, the newer PZ lenses are just phenomenal. Stick with the old lenses if you like, but I just plain get better shots with USM +IS then I was 40 years ago on my 35m Program AE-1 without either. Stop missing opportunities and get a faster focusing lens, and we'll have to agree to get off each other's lawn!
"However, with the buffer on modern DSLRs able to handle 20 full-res shots or more, it's unlikely an expensive card will make any difference to anyone other than professionals shooting bursts of fast-action shots"
UHm, no. Top of the line SLR can't handle 20 shots in buffer, and any consumer grade is 1-2 max. You won't get you 3-5 FPS (mid tier) or 5-9FPS (high end) without a fast card. And don't even think about recording 1080p or 720p@60 without a class10 UHS1 type card. The whole PC PRo exercise is a useless article apparently trying to convince consumers to buy slower things because 640k is enough for anyo....oh wait we've heard this before, haven't we:). I'd love to see them record HD video on Class4 card. Not happening.
Buying a class 4 or 6 card is just stupid these days. That is the PC equivalent of actively seeking out a USB1.1 portable HDD instead of USB3. Because USb 1.1 is all the speed you'll ever need really.
You will never regret buying class 10, but you will almost certainly regret a class 6 so why bother? Heck, in a year or two there won't be any class 6 available anyway - it is too slow...
This. Forget unsupported weirdness of chromebook. You need Angry Birds!
Just moved my dad (72) from original 20" imac with some weird HDD issues to an Asus transformer with official keyboard. He uses the keyboard when doing email at the desk, otherwise browsing, reading, gaming are all touch.
We got his P&S camera to upload pics directly to the tablet. The only thing he can't do (so far) is print. He fires up the mac for that.
I have an old 5.25" lockable, swappable, IDE caddy. Since USB drives came out and are way better at hot plugging than IDE I no longer have a drive in it. I use it to store usb sticks, password list on paper, other bits of things. Keeps the PC stuff out of the desk drawer. I just checked and it doesn't fit DVD's. It normally hold a 3.5" drive and the area where the lock is is 'fixed' so a DVD can't be inserted.
I did my undergrad (upgrading from college) at UoP from 2000-2004. When I started they had something like 35,000 students. I met many of the same people as we progressed through the B.Science Business major. I learned TONS as I had never taken business before. It was all good and I really advanced my position in my firm by knowing HR, finance, accounting, etc. (Why would anyone study things they already know? I already knew IT, so I took business) As a Canadian living in the US I didn't qualify for any loans so paid cash for each course.
I took a 1st yr course in my last year to put me over the credit requirements. I was appalled. The students were lazy, couldn't read/write and were all given A's. The new UoP was 'pay your fees, and pass'. They expected to do nothing and pass. I was really annoyed that all my hard work was being wasted as UoP pursued expansion at all costs. They hit 250k students in 2006 I think.
I covered up my UoP BSB with a big buck MBA and haven't looked back. Am I happy with what I got from UoP? Yes. Would I enroll there today? Doubtful. Too bad, they took a great concept an ruined it for everyone...
The msft cost is probably amost free. They like lockin that way, until you have everything, then you get to pay full price.
In health care the individual departments often buy their own PC's (and pay for support)
The sad part here is that Microsoft has convinced most of IT that going with all Microsoft stack is an 'IT strategy'. They have succesfully perverted the entire 'business strategy aligns wtih IT strategy' that IT has been working for the last few decades. I see no need for the CIO of this organization to be 'at the table' when major business decisions are being made. After all, the IT 'strategy' is already set, right? No need for updating of for any correlation to the business strategy, ever.
The clowns running this organization should be ashaed of themselves for making such a clueless statement. Then again, welcome to public healthcare....
Do some basic research on IT strategy (hint: look for a pyramid shaped thingy) and ask the masters how 'windows shop' aligns with Business goals? Watch them struggle with the basic concepts....
lol, yeah, shut yourself off from the rest of the world. Screw internationl agreements. It's every country for themsleves now! That will definetly help security!
Americans generally can't get to Europe or Asia without flying over Canada. So does Canada get your name, address, phone number and drivers license number when you go to Europe? Great!
This will be settled ASAP by CRIA. They simply can't risk this case coming anywhere close to a decision. If they 'win' they set a precedent that borrwing files is OK. If they lose, well, they lose big!
When they settle, they will have strong 'proof' that they 'represent the artists' and will use that to help their cause. This will be over in weeks, the actualy lawsuit is just a bargaining tactic.
Having a 100Mbps link speed, doesn't mean you are passing data at 100Mpbs. The test here is, with NAT enabled (and other traffic shaping as desired), sustain a throughput of 50+ Mbps.
No way your 1Ghz Via can handle that. Once your CPU is pegged, your throughput is pegged...
everything has a PS option these days. I replaced an aging lexmark model K tank with a lightweight, fast lexmark 250dn duplex/network. Of course it has 16M, PS3, PCL6 etc.
The real problem with the K was the ports - it has a paralell port and an optional, wonky, lexmark 10Mpbs tcp/ip adapter. that worked sometimes.
Are we all sure USB and 100M will be the standard in ten years?
Never used the offical lexmark drivers with the 250dn. it just works. I'm at 7000 pages over last two years. Shrugh.
No, the prius is a paralell hybrid with electrical and fuel storage. The gas engine can drive the wheels directly. The electric motor can also drive the wheels directly without the gas engine running.
Locomotives wheels are only driven by electric motors, and the electricity comes from the gas engine. There is no direct connection between diesel and wheels. There is also almost no electric storage between diesel and electric motors, so if the diesel engine stops, the electric motors stop.
The prius real advance is the ability to manage and smoothly use whatever power source is best suited at any time.
Fifty years of the most luxurious lifestyle imaginable, every financial dream at your dospaoals, walthy than the ealthiest kings - without all the hassle.
Sweet lord is SD ever slow. Preview is like torture. I skipped it. Can you tell. Still took 4 minutes to post this...
Fifty years of the most luxurious lifestyle imaginable, every financial dream at your dospaoals, walthy than the ealthiest kings - without all the hassle.
Followed by 2-5 years in prison and a quiet death?
I'll take it. Where do I sign up?
Real punishment would be making him work to pay something - ANYTHING- back. Not to the people he fleeced, who were almost as greedy, but to soceity as whole. Now taxpayers have to pay to house and feed this guy! Make him work as a waiter, or cold call salesman or some other crap drop until he drops dead. Every penny gets invested into a trust fund for children's education or some other noble cause.
So you are getting a bachelors degree....in Windows? Go for the PhD in Windows Server. And how did you manage to avoid linux and java for four years? Is the school in Redmond?!?
Wow, does PC Pro have the slowest wi-fi I have ever seen. My 2G iphone handily outruns their 3G/wi-fi setup.
Also I saw an ad for Viagra today. It showed a guy sailing a yacht, driving a convertible down a twisty lane, and golfing all in 30 seconds. Pretty frickin amazing what those pills can do, huh?
I have had a 'flat rate' unlocked, unmolested iPhone for nearly a year now. My bill is exactly the same every month.
There are, in fact, only TWO line items on the iPhone bill:
1) The voice portion (for me that is 39.99. Every month. Always. Just like I signed up for!)
2) The second part is for data. (for me that is $20. Every month. Just like I agreed to.)
Then they add taxes, and total it up.
I am completely at a loss as to how AT&T could make this any simpler? You really think having both a voice plan and a data plan on there is 'entirely too complicated'?
What? Dell's Optiplexs come with XP by default. No extra charge. You get a Vista upgrade CD with it.
How freakin hard is it for slashdottters to visit www.dell.com? Does it not work in Firefox or something?!? This whole thread is hilarious.
Let me summarize: Anyone, no matter where they work, or what they do, can easily order a PC with XP on it, especially from Dell. Heck I was browsing Optiplex 755 order specs yesterday (on a freaking iPhone for crying out loud) and was happy to see XP was the default OS...
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I might get lynched by the Linux crowd, but Windows Server 2012 R2 has 'Work folders' which is basically private Dropbox you host yourself. Nothing leaves your servers/clients. You can even access the work folders via SMB (drive mapping) when in the office, and the remote function kicks in when out of network. seamless for the end users as well.
Wow. Still on that bandwagon eh? I haven't heard the 'It's just marketing 'cry in a while. Thanks for the laugh. It is odd that in nearly 13 years since iPod no one else has hired the same advertising company, huh? Weird.
My guess is the overlap between "people who complained Siri wasn't accurate" and "people who dont want apple keeping any Siri data so they can make it better" is pretty close to perfect.
Google reads your mail. Apple listens to your ravings. Don't like it, don't use it. And they only keep 'your' (ie identifable) data 6 months.
And don't even think about recording 1080p or 720p@60 without a class10 UHS1 type card
Erm no. 1080p video or 720p@60 comes out to under 3mb/second. A class 4 card can theoretically do the job. Nikon recommends a maximum class 6 for unimpeded performance on their top of the line video cards. Also my new prosumer camera supports 13 frames in the buffer and my 6 year old DSLR supported far more as well and even with a piss-poor cards of yesteryear behaved admirably when taking fast action shots at sporting events in continuous release.
The reality is that we were taking 1080p videos and shooting fast paced sporting events long before Class10 cards started coming out. Your comment is similar to those "professionals" who say that you can't photograph sports without vibration reduction, and piezoelectric focusing drives. Well I have sporting photographs from 40 years ago that prove otherwise.
Erm, yes. Sorry, but it's just math. Bitrate*compression*framesize*FPS. Raw reate at 1080p is 6.22M/s w/o compression. There is a little overhead so use 6.5 to be safe
1) Short of a very intense 60% compression you won't get down to 3M. Post processing yes, but in the camera on the fly? Pretty rare. In most cases you are looking at about 5.0M/s for 1080p. That is why many cameras have a 12minute limit on HD recording - at 12Min you've hit the 4G maximum file size. The Canon line which I am most familiar with has this limit. Many P&S cameras do as well.
2) We weren't shooting 1080p video on class 10 cards "long before they came out". There weren't even consumer grade cameras capable of shooting 1080p at usable bitrate/frame rate until a few years ago. The SD Association *specifically developed* Class 10 cards for FullHD video in alignment with the introduction of 1080p capable cameras. At the same time. Class10=FullHD=10M/s target write. That's what they are for. It's on their website: https://www.sdcard.org/developers/overview/speed_class/ I'd love to see the link wherein Nikon specifically ignores the very public, published SD standard.
That said, some premium manufactures switched to higher speed for all their manufacturing while continuing to label them seperately. SanDisk was notable for this. There are a lot of lesser labelled SanDisk that perform above their rated class speed. My advice stands: do not to try and get lucky with a class6. If you are going to shoot at 1080p@30 or 720p@60 just get the 10+UHS1 as recommended by the good folks who design them and don't waste your time.
Finally, the newer PZ lenses are just phenomenal. Stick with the old lenses if you like, but I just plain get better shots with USM +IS then I was 40 years ago on my 35m Program AE-1 without either. Stop missing opportunities and get a faster focusing lens, and we'll have to agree to get off each other's lawn!
"However, with the buffer on modern DSLRs able to handle 20 full-res shots or more, it's unlikely an expensive card will make any difference to anyone other than professionals shooting bursts of fast-action shots"
UHm, no. Top of the line SLR can't handle 20 shots in buffer, and any consumer grade is 1-2 max. You won't get you 3-5 FPS (mid tier) or 5-9FPS (high end) without a fast card. And don't even think about recording 1080p or 720p@60 without a class10 UHS1 type card. The whole PC PRo exercise is a useless article apparently trying to convince consumers to buy slower things because 640k is enough for anyo....oh wait we've heard this before, haven't we :). I'd love to see them record HD video on Class4 card. Not happening.
Buying a class 4 or 6 card is just stupid these days. That is the PC equivalent of actively seeking out a USB1.1 portable HDD instead of USB3. Because USb 1.1 is all the speed you'll ever need really.
You will never regret buying class 10, but you will almost certainly regret a class 6 so why bother? Heck, in a year or two there won't be any class 6 available anyway - it is too slow...
Cameras: Canon EOS550d, S90.
This. Forget unsupported weirdness of chromebook. You need Angry Birds!
Just moved my dad (72) from original 20" imac with some weird HDD issues to an Asus transformer with official keyboard. He uses the keyboard when doing email at the desk, otherwise browsing, reading, gaming are all touch.
We got his P&S camera to upload pics directly to the tablet. The only thing he can't do (so far) is print. He fires up the mac for that.
So far so good - 4 months no complaints.
I have an old 5.25" lockable, swappable, IDE caddy. Since USB drives came out and are way better at hot plugging than IDE I no longer have a drive in it. I use it to store usb sticks, password list on paper, other bits of things. Keeps the PC stuff out of the desk drawer. I just checked and it doesn't fit DVD's. It normally hold a 3.5" drive and the area where the lock is is 'fixed' so a DVD can't be inserted.
I did my undergrad (upgrading from college) at UoP from 2000-2004. When I started they had something like 35,000 students. I met many of the same people as we progressed through the B.Science Business major. I learned TONS as I had never taken business before. It was all good and I really advanced my position in my firm by knowing HR, finance, accounting, etc. (Why would anyone study things they already know? I already knew IT, so I took business) As a Canadian living in the US I didn't qualify for any loans so paid cash for each course.
I took a 1st yr course in my last year to put me over the credit requirements. I was appalled. The students were lazy, couldn't read/write and were all given A's. The new UoP was 'pay your fees, and pass'. They expected to do nothing and pass. I was really annoyed that all my hard work was being wasted as UoP pursued expansion at all costs. They hit 250k students in 2006 I think.
I covered up my UoP BSB with a big buck MBA and haven't looked back. Am I happy with what I got from UoP? Yes. Would I enroll there today? Doubtful. Too bad, they took a great concept an ruined it for everyone...
The msft cost is probably amost free. They like lockin that way, until you have everything, then you get to pay full price.
In health care the individual departments often buy their own PC's (and pay for support)
The sad part here is that Microsoft has convinced most of IT that going with all Microsoft stack is an 'IT strategy'. They have succesfully perverted the entire 'business strategy aligns wtih IT strategy' that IT has been working for the last few decades. I see no need for the CIO of this organization to be 'at the table' when major business decisions are being made. After all, the IT 'strategy' is already set, right? No need for updating of for any correlation to the business strategy, ever.
The clowns running this organization should be ashaed of themselves for making such a clueless statement. Then again, welcome to public healthcare....
Do some basic research on IT strategy (hint: look for a pyramid shaped thingy) and ask the masters how 'windows shop' aligns with Business goals? Watch them struggle with the basic concepts....
Ultramon is not crap, and it does exactly what the OP wants.
So the question becomes: Is there a Linux tool like Ultramon?
lol, yeah, shut yourself off from the rest of the world. Screw internationl agreements. It's every country for themsleves now! That will definetly help security!
Americans generally can't get to Europe or Asia without flying over Canada. So does Canada get your name, address, phone number and drivers license number when you go to Europe? Great!
This will be settled ASAP by CRIA. They simply can't risk this case coming anywhere close to a decision. If they 'win' they set a precedent that borrwing files is OK. If they lose, well, they lose big!
When they settle, they will have strong 'proof' that they 'represent the artists' and will use that to help their cause. This will be over in weeks, the actualy lawsuit is just a bargaining tactic.
Moving on...
Having a 100Mbps link speed, doesn't mean you are passing data at 100Mpbs. The test here is, with NAT enabled (and other traffic shaping as desired), sustain a throughput of 50+ Mbps.
No way your 1Ghz Via can handle that. Once your CPU is pegged, your throughput is pegged...
I second the 'your are buying junk drives' issue. I will even use my own anecdote, per Slashdot tradition, to back it up:
We have hundreds of IBm X300 laptops with 64G Samsungs in them. zero failures so far.
everything has a PS option these days. I replaced an aging lexmark model K tank with a lightweight, fast lexmark 250dn duplex/network. Of course it has 16M, PS3, PCL6 etc.
The real problem with the K was the ports - it has a paralell port and an optional, wonky, lexmark 10Mpbs tcp/ip adapter. that worked sometimes.
Are we all sure USB and 100M will be the standard in ten years?
Never used the offical lexmark drivers with the 250dn. it just works. I'm at 7000 pages over last two years. Shrugh.
Someone plaase archive this thread. We had the same conversation in 1987, 1991, 1996, 2001, 2002, 2006 and 2008. We'll have it again.
The answer , by the way, is 'why not?'. If gameplays is identical, I'll take the better looking game. Why not? Duh. There is no trade off.
No, the prius is a paralell hybrid with electrical and fuel storage. The gas engine can drive the wheels directly. The electric motor can also drive the wheels directly without the gas engine running.
Locomotives wheels are only driven by electric motors, and the electricity comes from the gas engine. There is no direct connection between diesel and wheels. There is also almost no electric storage between diesel and electric motors, so if the diesel engine stops, the electric motors stop.
The prius real advance is the ability to manage and smoothly use whatever power source is best suited at any time.
So it's a fact that Toyota's goal is to prevent any one else from making hybrids without licensing?
Or maybe their goal is to protect their hard earned IP that they spent ten years working on while the rest of the world laughed at them?
Good work , Toyota. you deserve those patents.
Fifty years of the most luxurious lifestyle imaginable, every financial dream at your dospaoals, walthy than the ealthiest kings - without all the hassle.
Sweet lord is SD ever slow. Preview is like torture. I skipped it. Can you tell. Still took 4 minutes to post this...
Fifty years of the most luxurious lifestyle imaginable, every financial dream at your dospaoals, walthy than the ealthiest kings - without all the hassle.
Followed by 2-5 years in prison and a quiet death?
I'll take it. Where do I sign up?
Real punishment would be making him work to pay something - ANYTHING- back. Not to the people he fleeced, who were almost as greedy, but to soceity as whole. Now taxpayers have to pay to house and feed this guy! Make him work as a waiter, or cold call salesman or some other crap drop until he drops dead. Every penny gets invested into a trust fund for children's education or some other noble cause.
You are comparing the PS3 CONSTANT speed, to the MAXIMUM speed of the 360.
The 360 DVD, like most DVD reads tracks on the outer edge of the DVD faster than it reads them on the inside.
BD discs are read at a constant speed, from start to finish.
The 360 *average*, on a full disk, around 64Mbps.
and finally, Xbox uses 12xDVD, not 16 as you used.
http://forum.beyond3d.com/showthread.php?t=42157
So you are getting a bachelors degree....in Windows? Go for the PhD in Windows Server. And how did you manage to avoid linux and java for four years? Is the school in Redmond?!?
Wow, does PC Pro have the slowest wi-fi I have ever seen. My 2G iphone handily outruns their 3G/wi-fi setup.
Also I saw an ad for Viagra today. It showed a guy sailing a yacht, driving a convertible down a twisty lane, and golfing all in 30 seconds. Pretty frickin amazing what those pills can do, huh?
I have had a 'flat rate' unlocked, unmolested iPhone for nearly a year now. My bill is exactly the same every month.
There are, in fact, only TWO line items on the iPhone bill:
1) The voice portion (for me that is 39.99. Every month. Always. Just like I signed up for!)
2) The second part is for data. (for me that is $20. Every month. Just like I agreed to.)
Then they add taxes, and total it up.
I am completely at a loss as to how AT&T could make this any simpler? You really think having both a voice plan and a data plan on there is 'entirely too complicated'?
What? Dell's Optiplexs come with XP by default. No extra charge. You get a Vista upgrade CD with it.
How freakin hard is it for slashdottters to visit www.dell.com? Does it not work in Firefox or something?!? This whole thread is hilarious.
Let me summarize: Anyone, no matter where they work, or what they do, can easily order a PC with XP on it, especially from Dell. Heck I was browsing Optiplex 755 order specs yesterday (on a freaking iPhone for crying out loud) and was happy to see XP was the default OS...