He actually means the Sex Offender Registry. (well, that's what we call it in Canada)
Sex Offender - Quite a harsh title for someone that had to take a leak. And you get to share the title with some guy in the news that raped 100 children.
Only half the market is going to be able to take advantage of it after all.
1) PhysX runs on the CPU if no nVidia GPU is present. A $100 quad-core CPU easily handles it for most games. 2) According to the Steam Survey, nVidia is approximately 66% of the PC gaming market. Two thirds.
Steam isn't perfect, but it is better than a lot of alternatives. I just wish game studios would stop forcing account creation for their own single-player games. It annoys me when I have to login to steam to play a game, then once I start the game, I have to login to (for example) EA's servers with another login/password.
I've met many people with clocks like yours. I prefer to stay awake for ~18 hours, but 6 hours sleep isn't enough for me. (9 is about perfect) Usually I compromise on 17/7. It's an unfortunate necessity to match a work schedule.
Don't worry though - in 2 centuries, when we're in space, you'll be the norm. Everyone will look back and think how crazy we were to synchronize ourselves to the sun, rather than what our bodies demand.
It's actually just barely enough for youtube HD streams.
I would say 1.5mbit/512kbit is the cutoff point. Below that, you have a severely degraded experience. Many sites won't work with less downstream bandwidth than that. Many games won't work with less upstream.
I'm in Canada. I like my ISP - 3mbit/640kbit with 200GB cap for $27/mo. Quite affordable!
There aren't a lot of options cheaper than that, which don't sacrifice in some way. I could get 10mbit cable for a bit more, but then my cap goes down. I already use close to 100GB/mo, so that isn't really an option.
My god. What are your shipping policies down there? Oh right - Newegg uses UPS.
I'm Canadian, and I order off NCIX. Everything comes via Purolator. I gave up on UPS when they started shipping in packages missing sides of boxes. Some of my American friends finally gave up after well packaged lamps and stuff got trashed during transit. I don't know what they do, but whatever it is, it's far harsher than anything the airlines put your cargo through.
I have never had a DOA HDD, and in the past year I've probably ordered two dozen. They come in an anti-static bag inside that single-layer orange bubblewrap. The boxes, as always with Purolator, have no dents or missing sides. Inside the box, the extra space is filled with air bags or recycled paper. (recycled paper is more common, and seems to work well)
Out of these drives, approximately half are Seagates, and half are Western Digital. 6 Seagates failed within 1 year. Of course, after being RMA'd, some failed again. And then one a third time. All the WD drives are still going strong.
At home, my old Seagate drives from ~2005 finally crapped out, but I have Raptors from around then that are still going, and other WD drives that are fine.
Seagate drives seem more trauma resistant - it was high-pitch chirping noises that finally killed mine. WD drives seem more reliable if you don't get a dud - which I haven't, thus far.
I have good news though. The last time I received something from UPS, it actually came via Purolator! Looks like they finally gave up on servicing my area, and now contract out to the better company. Hurray! I still always ship via Purolator, though - I wouldn't want to encourage UPS to come back.
Right - for an ISP, there probably isn't much benefit.
But stick a few ioDrives in a system, and it'll be able to pump out close to 600k IOPS. For specific use scenarios - maybe highly active forums, with millions of users - so many IOPS could be put to use.
And for a fileserver, the gigabytes of bandwidth you get would saturate a whole bunch of 10 GigE lines.
Up here in Canada, our banks are on a much tighter leash.
As soon as our current PM (Harper) got in, he set about righting things - as in, granting more leeway, and doing it the American way. That was right in time for the economy to collapse, so he then bailed the banks out to the tune of 60 billion.
It's certainly less than your trillions, but it's moments like this where I'm glad we have minor left-wing parties blocking all the bad shit he's trying to pass.
The big problem about American companies is they're shortsighted, and they go after potential profits and potential losses more than real profits and real losses.
I agree. You shouldn't be using consumer grade SSDs for servers - unless it's a game server or something. (Ex: TF2)
Do you know why RE (RAID Edition) HDDs exist? They strip out all the write recovery and stuff, which could mess up speeds, IOPS, and seek times, and instead streamline the drives for performance predictability. That makes it far easier for RAID controllers to manage dozens of them.
SSDs have a similar thing going. You're an enterprise and need massive IOPS? Buy enterprise-level SSDs - like the ioDrive, with built-in RAID capabilities, piped right through the PCIe bus. Magnitudes faster than a consumer grade SSD, and magnitudes more efficient. The IOPS you get vs CPU usage is amazing. Toss a couple together, and you can literally get hundreds of thousands of IOPS with gigabytes per second of read/write bandwidth. It'll hammer your CPU, but CPUs are cheap compared to these RAID cards.
You're an enterprise. Buy enterprise level stuff. Don't just go with "Intel" because you heard Intel SSDs are the fastest. They aren't. They're just the best affordable ones for us little guys.
Sunspider is a bigger facepalm. When it first came out, it re-downloaded scripts every time it used them, and factored that into the scores. I recall trying it on ADSL, and getting amazingly better results than anyone on dialup or slow broadband.
It seems to be okay now, but back then it was a noob benchmark.
I had an 8800GS that overheated with all recent drivers. I had to underclock its memory with Rivatuner by about 10%.
I recently picked up a GTS 250, which also overheats. I had to underclock its memory by about 30%, bringing it in line with the 8800GS's memory speed.
The culprit seems to be inadequate GDDR3 cooling. Frankly, I'm glad their new drivers are more efficient, and stress the card more. I just wish they didn't half-ass the heatsinks.
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Chemical reactions are very hot, but the heat dissipates (spreads out) quickly.
This sounds like it'd be good for car batteries, where capacity vs weight vs drain/charge speed are all important considerations.
He actually means the Sex Offender Registry. (well, that's what we call it in Canada)
Sex Offender - Quite a harsh title for someone that had to take a leak. And you get to share the title with some guy in the news that raped 100 children.
Only half the market is going to be able to take advantage of it after all.
1) PhysX runs on the CPU if no nVidia GPU is present. A $100 quad-core CPU easily handles it for most games.
2) According to the Steam Survey, nVidia is approximately 66% of the PC gaming market. Two thirds.
I've had the unfortune to experience this myself.
That's too bad. It worked fine for me.
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Steam isn't perfect, but it is better than a lot of alternatives. I just wish game studios would stop forcing account creation for their own single-player games. It annoys me when I have to login to steam to play a game, then once I start the game, I have to login to (for example) EA's servers with another login/password.
roflbullshit.
You must've never tried it.
Here, this makes it easy: http://www.playonlinux.com/en/
You're half right.
I'd be trivial porting Steam to Linux.
But every single DirectX engine would have to be ported to OpenGL, which is not trivial. Source supporting OpenGL in the future is good news!
Every thing leaving the country is an export. The question is whether it's a taxable export, and whether your post office workers care.
This seems like a good thing to me. I know programs like Ventrilo were a restricted export.
Oh right. Yes, follow the Captain's orders. :P
As an example, did you ever think that it's entirely possible that ubisoft DDOS'd themselves with their connection checking?
That's quite possible. If the DRM resulted in the sales volume they desire, they wouldn't have the capacity to deal with it.
I know people that have gotten jerked around when flipping ISPs, and lost their internet for weeks.
Hell, it took 6 weeks for my ADSL to flip on, because my old ISP took a damn long time deactivating my line.
Keep in mind that when Ubisoft shuts off the DRM servers in 5 years, you can no longer play.
I've met many people with clocks like yours. I prefer to stay awake for ~18 hours, but 6 hours sleep isn't enough for me. (9 is about perfect) Usually I compromise on 17/7. It's an unfortunate necessity to match a work schedule.
Don't worry though - in 2 centuries, when we're in space, you'll be the norm. Everyone will look back and think how crazy we were to synchronize ourselves to the sun, rather than what our bodies demand.
Not to mention, a lot of titles (like Fable II) only show up on XBox360 regardless of how easy PC-XBox360 development is.
This really doesn't signal anything.
Bell Canada provides shitty connection speeds. Over subscription and throttling to the max!
Hey, I'm on 3mbit/640kbit, you insensitive clod!
It's actually just barely enough for youtube HD streams.
I would say 1.5mbit/512kbit is the cutoff point. Below that, you have a severely degraded experience. Many sites won't work with less downstream bandwidth than that. Many games won't work with less upstream.
I'm in Canada. I like my ISP - 3mbit/640kbit with 200GB cap for $27/mo. Quite affordable!
There aren't a lot of options cheaper than that, which don't sacrifice in some way. I could get 10mbit cable for a bit more, but then my cap goes down. I already use close to 100GB/mo, so that isn't really an option.
He's obviously a philosopher.
My god. What are your shipping policies down there? Oh right - Newegg uses UPS.
I'm Canadian, and I order off NCIX. Everything comes via Purolator. I gave up on UPS when they started shipping in packages missing sides of boxes. Some of my American friends finally gave up after well packaged lamps and stuff got trashed during transit. I don't know what they do, but whatever it is, it's far harsher than anything the airlines put your cargo through.
I have never had a DOA HDD, and in the past year I've probably ordered two dozen. They come in an anti-static bag inside that single-layer orange bubblewrap. The boxes, as always with Purolator, have no dents or missing sides. Inside the box, the extra space is filled with air bags or recycled paper. (recycled paper is more common, and seems to work well)
Out of these drives, approximately half are Seagates, and half are Western Digital. 6 Seagates failed within 1 year. Of course, after being RMA'd, some failed again. And then one a third time. All the WD drives are still going strong.
At home, my old Seagate drives from ~2005 finally crapped out, but I have Raptors from around then that are still going, and other WD drives that are fine.
Seagate drives seem more trauma resistant - it was high-pitch chirping noises that finally killed mine. WD drives seem more reliable if you don't get a dud - which I haven't, thus far.
I have good news though. The last time I received something from UPS, it actually came via Purolator! Looks like they finally gave up on servicing my area, and now contract out to the better company. Hurray! I still always ship via Purolator, though - I wouldn't want to encourage UPS to come back.
Right - for an ISP, there probably isn't much benefit.
But stick a few ioDrives in a system, and it'll be able to pump out close to 600k IOPS. For specific use scenarios - maybe highly active forums, with millions of users - so many IOPS could be put to use.
And for a fileserver, the gigabytes of bandwidth you get would saturate a whole bunch of 10 GigE lines.
True, but ioDrives have an IOPS edge that is massive. If that's what you need, then find a way to make it work.
Heh... Sun... how typical. :P
Up here in Canada, our banks are on a much tighter leash.
As soon as our current PM (Harper) got in, he set about righting things - as in, granting more leeway, and doing it the American way. That was right in time for the economy to collapse, so he then bailed the banks out to the tune of 60 billion.
It's certainly less than your trillions, but it's moments like this where I'm glad we have minor left-wing parties blocking all the bad shit he's trying to pass.
The big problem about American companies is they're shortsighted, and they go after potential profits and potential losses more than real profits and real losses.
The new 64MB cache WD Black drives have wicked sustained read speeds. Close to 140MB/sec.
But when dealing with small files, you still notice the IOPS limit.
The cheaper SSDs won't do as well with a sustained write situation (Ex: Recording 12 security camera feeds) as a traditional HDD will.
I agree. You shouldn't be using consumer grade SSDs for servers - unless it's a game server or something. (Ex: TF2)
Do you know why RE (RAID Edition) HDDs exist? They strip out all the write recovery and stuff, which could mess up speeds, IOPS, and seek times, and instead streamline the drives for performance predictability. That makes it far easier for RAID controllers to manage dozens of them.
SSDs have a similar thing going. You're an enterprise and need massive IOPS? Buy enterprise-level SSDs - like the ioDrive, with built-in RAID capabilities, piped right through the PCIe bus. Magnitudes faster than a consumer grade SSD, and magnitudes more efficient. The IOPS you get vs CPU usage is amazing. Toss a couple together, and you can literally get hundreds of thousands of IOPS with gigabytes per second of read/write bandwidth. It'll hammer your CPU, but CPUs are cheap compared to these RAID cards.
You're an enterprise. Buy enterprise level stuff. Don't just go with "Intel" because you heard Intel SSDs are the fastest. They aren't. They're just the best affordable ones for us little guys.
Firefox re-renders while loading. That it scored best indicates quite a superior experience as far as page load times.
Sunspider is a bigger facepalm. When it first came out, it re-downloaded scripts every time it used them, and factored that into the scores. I recall trying it on ADSL, and getting amazingly better results than anyone on dialup or slow broadband.
It seems to be okay now, but back then it was a noob benchmark.
I had an 8800GS that overheated with all recent drivers. I had to underclock its memory with Rivatuner by about 10%.
I recently picked up a GTS 250, which also overheats. I had to underclock its memory by about 30%, bringing it in line with the 8800GS's memory speed.
The culprit seems to be inadequate GDDR3 cooling. Frankly, I'm glad their new drivers are more efficient, and stress the card more. I just wish they didn't half-ass the heatsinks.