Except the smallest USIV box they make is the 490, 4RU and non-hs power supplies. Get me a 240 replacement with a USIV and I'll be all over it. Or better yet figure out how to add HS dual power and the USIV to the 210.
This is FUD plain and simple. The V490 was based on the V480 and both of these products have had HS power supplies since their release. The 440 came out later which has decent processor speed but a little less memory bandwidth than the full-fledged V490.
RAS features include hot-pluggable disk drives; redundant, hot-swappable power supplies; environmental monitoring and fault detection; automatic failover capability; and error correction and parity checking for improved data integrity.
MOD PARENT UP!!! I finally played God of War on the PS2 and it was one of the best 20 hour gaming experiences I've had in a while. This is coming from a die-hard, 8 hour a day, PC gamer...
I hate to say it, but from what I've read about the PS3 and it's cost components, it seems to me that Sony should have followed Microsofts lead and released the 1st gen PS3 without Blue-Ray. As I understand it, that alone would have allowed a several hundred dollar price cut and would make it competitive with the 360.
What you said is really insightful because it made me think that Microsoft got to market first because they had the flexibility to choose to use an existing, working format like DVD, where the hybrid Sony, part media giant and part electronics/gaming company, thought they could not make their media business unit profitable without including Blu-Ray.
Even though I consider myself a vi person, I've found emacs to be a very good environment for editing source files.
Congratulations! You just made a religious argument for both sides of the UNIX world's longest running argument! Long live Vimacs! Now bob, tell this man what Slashdot prize he's won....
So one-day I tried AOL 2.something. It had a windows interface, so I could have multiple tasks open (i.e. one with the news, another with the weather, and another with a browser). I had a real username that was memorable and that approximated my own (along with a few other screennames for chat). And they had IM (no buddy list yet, that would be another year or two away), so I could send private messages in chat.
I remember back in 95. Do you remember, Windows 95 had this thing built-in called "Dial Up Networking" that gave me a real IP address and I could use any applications I chose with it? Do you remember we could use Netscape for our web browser, IRC for chat/instant messaging, and an FTP client to download all the software your heart desired?
I guess AOL proved there was a market for people like yourself that were incapable of figuring out how to do this on your own (hint: Dial-up networking is so easy to use it has a wizard), but for the vast majority of us, AOL, and the lusers that came with it were a plague on the internet. Hell, I was using the internet for years before that through an ISP without a PPP connection: I had a shell account and that was all I needed. I wouldn't expect that shell access would be useable by the average human (without an understanding of Unix), but when Windows 95 came out with DUN, that changed things for everyone. Of course, there were still people that couldn't figure it out like you and for those people AOL filled the niche. Sometimes I wonder if we would have been better off without them.... [ducks]
Gartner analysts: We predict Microsoft will start making OS'es like this. Microsoft: Umm, no - there are a ton of problems with doing things that way (even more than with the way we do things now!!!11) Gartner analysts: Pffft, what would you know.
The fact of the matter is that MS has been late to the virtualization game just like they were late to the internet game. I read an article a little while ago (can't find the link) that talked about VMware and how VMware is delivering Microsoft's operating systems in the way their customers want, not the way that MS wants to deliver them. Microsoft's vision of Virtualization is big boxes running Windows Vista Server edition and MS Virtual Server. VMware allows you to run Linux and other OSes on your boxes, which the customers like better. So, once again, MS will be dragged kicking and screaming into the virtual world, just like 10 years ago they were dragged kicking and screaming into the Internet world.
Don't discount Gartner. A lot of these analysts talk out of their ass, but Gartner does have good analysis. Look at their magic quadrants for industry leaders in various market segments. They know what they're talking about, and a lot of good CIOs and CTOs take their advice.
Doesn't MS sell points cards? I swear I've seen them at EB, although maybe I'm mistaken (maybe those were Live Gold prepayments?)
Yes, they do. The point I was trying to make is that they sell them in point values, not like a Best Buy gift card with a dollar amount on it, to hide the true cost of games. If they wanted to they could eliminate the point system and make everything have a real dollar price tag on it, but they don't.
I have a prediction to make (putting stupid pundit hat on and ducking =)
I predict that when Vista, with "improved DRM" (TM) ships it will automatically share all of your MP3s out to your Zune. What's more, it will be be Windows Media Player sharing it's MP3 library the same way iTunes shares it's library. Only you'll be able to listen to your entire library on your Zune or anyone elses library that's on the same wireless or wired LAN with you.
What's even scarier than this prediction: Wait until the first MP3 shared viruses!!!!1!1!1!one!!1
It will be like that Code Red shit all over again, only handheld MP3 players are the new spam relays... man, what kind of wierd alter-universe will that be...
The big reason to use points, if you're MS, is that it allows them to sell points outside the Live system. You can buy redeemable cards in Best Buy et al, which makes them convenient stocking stuffers.
No, the real reason to use points instead of real dollars is to hide the costs. Otherwise, they would just sell them like any other gift card you buy at Best Buy or any other big box retailer which can be charged up with money and spent like money. Look at what iTunes Music store does. They charge 99 cents, not 1000 points, for a song. They don't feel the need to hide the cost behind an arbitrary number like Microsoft does. And iTunes Music Store does sell cards at Best Buy with real dollar amounts on them, so your argument doesn't make that much sense to me.
So basically, it seems to me that MS is admitting that their new operating system has just as many security holes as their current versions do:
This is a decision that the Media Player folks made because there are just too many ways right now for unsigned kernel mode code [to compromise content protection].
So your OS has more security holes than a block of swiss cheese, and you're going to "protect" media companies by not allowing full HD playback at all in 32-bit versions? I guess I just have one more reason not to buy Vista. I'm guessing that Apple won't have these restrictions at all, and that Linux and other player companies like WinDVD and PowerDVD will come out with a version that will work just fine in current Windows XP, so this will be a non-issue, except for all those fools that upgrade to Vista and don't know any better, but most of them can't even tell the difference between 480p and 1080p in the first place.
Ok, I'm in total agreement with everyone that the KillerNIC is smoke and mirrors. From my linux host, pinging my default gateway, I'm getting times of roughly 0.135ms... that's 135 micro-seconds. How in the hell is there any way to improve that? My Windows gaming box reports 1ms, but that's probably because it doesn't get any more granular than that. Even if they could reduce that latency to zero (impossible, because electricity/light doesn't travel that fast), no human can respond that fast anyway, so what's the use?
I especially like this part of one of their answers:
Simply running the 'ping' program is not sufficient, because it does not use your Network stack which can introduce tons of added latency.
WTF? The ping program does use the network stack; how else would it talk with the network? ICMP is still a protocol that needs to be encapsulated with a header and traverse down through your stack to the wire...
The only people that will be using this card are losers that have more money than brains, and cheaters. Yes, that's right, once again, cheating is the REAL killer app for the KillerNIC. You see, after playing a lot of PvP on Guild Wars I realized one thing about lag: Game designers intentionally account for player lag and compensate for it in interesting ways. Guild Wars PvP becomes a very serious game about skill interruption. An enemy spell caster could be casting a spell that will take 1 second to cast and obliterate you when it lands. You have a skill that will interrupt their spell if you click the button fast enough, during that 1 second time period. Well, the server has to accomodate dialup users and those users that are on laggy connections, so there are times when I've casted a spell, had the progress bar go all the way to completion, and then half a second later, the spell is interrupted (after it was done casting on my end). This is because the person on the other end actually interrupted the spell in time according to their game client, but because of network lag (they're on a slow connection), the interrupt didn't get to the server for a while. The server still honored their interrupt, and eventually my spell failed. By increasing their lag, the server has to give them "extra time", which means their reaction time doesn't need to be as good to win. People will write custom FNapps or whatever they're called to do this.
I can foresee cheaters intentionally increasing in game lag just to trigger this kind of a cheating mechanism. If you could add 100-200 ms of latency to your line, you could actually gain an advantage in games like this. I'm thinking WoW PvP is probably the same, although I'm not sure if skill interruption is a big part of that or not. If I remember correctly, WoW has a lot of insta-cast spells.
I wish there was a footnote when acronyms are used. This is an ongoing problem with Slashdot. What does "RP" stand for -- can someone please define it? I tried to trace the articles but that cleared up nothing.
RP stands for "Rating Pending", and is the term used by the software company to indicate that the game has not yet been rated by the ESRB (Entertainment Software Ratings Board). It's pretty much the equivelant of that big "This film has not yet been rated" message you get when you're watching a film trailer of a film that's still in production or far in the future.
Christina Noren, vice president of product management with Splunk, gave a talk entitled 'Troubleshooting Linux and the Open Source Software Stack.'
Look, we know that Splunk bought several metric tons worth of banners from Slashdot a while ago, because I've been seeing their banners for days. Looks like a "slashvertisement" to me...
Among her suggestions were the use of centralized logging systems, allowing users access to logs for researching their own problems, and logging successes and failures to establish a baseline.
Well duh, logging software vendor recommends a central logging system! News at 11... In other news, Mcdonalds recommends a healthy hamburger, and Coca-Cola recommends sugary carbonated beverages...
I've tried Splunk... downloaded the free demo and put it on my central syslog server. I was pretty unimpressed. Their AJAX interface, while it does allow Firefox style "real-time" log parsing, was clunky and bloated and makes browsers slow to a crawl, even on a fairly decent 2 ghz Centrino laptop with a gig of memory. No thanks... I've been using a free log parser called php-syslog-ng for a while now and it works great... I dump all of my log files using syslog-ng to a MySQL database and I can query them however I want with php-syslog-ng, or at the mysql client command line interface if I feel like being a real masochist...
Splunk is a problem looking for a solution. Centralized logging has been solved many years ago by many free and commercial products. Just bolting an AJAX interface on the front of your log collecting machine does not make you worthy of thousands of dollars of my money... [/rant mode]
Tell me about it. That's one of my biggest gripes against Lieberman. He reminds me of all the things I dislike about Tipper Gore. Even though Al Gore is a pretty cool guy; why did he have to marry such a bitch of a wife...:-)
did you know there was white hot molten metal in the rubble of 9/11? no im not exagerating. And electron microprobe results for it show all the markers of thermate? even the gel used to make explosive nanothermate for blasting?
I did know that, but thanks for pointing it out to others. Not enough people are aware that there are serious unanswered questions about 9/11. I'm not a conspiracy nut, but when a conservative BYU physics professor from the heart of a red state is questioning the official story, it really makes you wonder...
Ok, I found this document which is a transcript of Attorney General Gonzales' statement before congress, where he says:
First, only international communications are authorized for interception under this program. That is communications between a foreign country and this country.
Second, the program is triggered only when a career professional at the NSA has reasonable grounds to believe that one of the parties to a communication is a member or agent of Al Qaida or an affiliated terrorist organization. As the president has said, if you're talking with Al Qaida, we want to know what you're saying.
I'll give you the fact that he says the program is only triggered on reasonable grounds, but they are capturing all traffic regardless (how else could you do it?).
Does anybody else find it suspicious that this story was leaked to the media the day after Joe Lieberman lost the democratic primary in Connecticut? This was one of the key primaries that seems to have indicated to everybody in the Republican party that they were definitely going to lose big in November. Joe Lieberman was with Bush on the war, and this was not only the democrats in his party telling him he was wrong on the war; 15,000 Connecticut voters switched parties from independent or republican, just so that they could tell Joe Lieberman to get lost...
The republicans are losing support big time over here. Finally the majority of people in this country do see through their bullshit, and short of another 9/11, there is no way the republicans can stop it.
From what I understand, in this case, the government got international phone numbers that were stored in cell phones they found in Al Qaeda hideouts in Afghanistan. These are the numbers they were tapping (on the U.S. side, so calls out to and in from these numbers were tapped). If that's the case, I have no problem with it...
Not true. The government admitted to tapping all phone calls that had an end-point in any foreign country. Not only that, they were tapping the phone calls of foreign countries that just happened to pass through a US exchange. While they may have a right to tap calls with two foreign end-points, without probable cause, they never had a right to tap the phone calls of any American citizens without a warrant or probable cause, which is what they were doing here.
Also, the phrase "Domestic Wiretap", in this case, is a blatant mischaracterization of what was being done.
The phrase "domestic wiretap" is exactly what they were doing here.
Support? Support!? We don't need no steenkin' support...
Tee hee! I've just worked in too many environments like that in the past... totally unsupported and the boss couldn't give a shit. After all, that's what he hired IT people for, to fix shit. If they have to call support to do their job they must not be good IT people...
A credit rating can only be held over your head if you insist on living on credit. The simple fact of the matter is that by avoiding using credit you don't really have to worry about "identity theft", one of the Big Three screwing up, and you don't have Big Brother watching your every move.
That's fine and everything. I agree with you; don't have any credit cards, buy cars with cash, only use my Visa check card to make purchases with money I have in the bank. But what about when I want to buy a house? Most people don't have enough disposable income to buy a house, even if they can afford most of their other daily expenses without going into debt.
Also, what if I want to simply rent a place to live? Most landlords now require a credit check before they will even let me sign the lease. If my credit is poor, or I don't have enough credit (I actually had a banker once tell me that since I didn't have any credit cards, that lowered my rating by a number of points, and that I should get a no annual fee credit card and not use it much just to prove that I actually had credit) I might end up homeless just for lack of credit.
The credit system is setup so that everyone that wants to be part of society has to participate, unless of course you don't mind being homeless. This is the scam the big credit agencies have perpetrated on the american public.
Of course, the alternative is to live in a third-world country without a credit rating system where nobody can get a loan because there is too much risk involved. I guess I'll take our corporate-ruled and governed society over living in a mud-hut somewhere any day. That's the price we pay for progress, but sometimes it makes me wonder if the progress is really worth it...
You're paying a hefty premium to get quad cores - great for high-end graphics, video and (non-real-time) rendering using pro applications written for multiprocessor systems, probably not money well spent for gaming.
I use my Mac for music. It would be money well-spent if I could run Logic Pro and then dual-boot to play a few games.
not yet. The OS doesnt support it, but the ahrdware should. They actually ahve 4 x16 PCIe slots in the machine and even let you run 2 of the bigger cards, or 4 of the smaller (7300s) cards all at the same time. As of yet you cannot use crossfire or SLI, they run as seprate cards for many monitors.
From the graphics card options available it looks like the hardware might not support it. SLI also has to have hardware support (some type of cross-connector bus the graphics cards can share information on).
Another question I have is whether PC graphics cards will work in the new Mac Pros. It used to be Mac had a different BIOS on their cards, but now that they are using standard Intel chipsets this is most likely a thing of the past. I would love to be able to pop my own Nvidia 7900GTX 512MB card in there.
First of all I have to say that the specs on the new Mac Pros are great, but as I've been looking at replacing my gaming machine with a Mac Pro, I'm a little disappointed by the lack of SLI graphics support... How come Apple doesn't have an SLI or Crossfire option? This is 2006 and users want the capability of running two graphics cards, if for no other reason than the ability to dual-boot into Windows and play some games every now and then.
Too bad; I was hoping to replace my gaming machine and my Mac with a single machine that would be the best of both worlds... Looks like I'll have to wait for rev. B and hope that Apple wakes up and includes this technology.
Please note that I said no such thing; you invented words and stuck them in quotation marks.
I could have left the quotation marks off and it would have meant the same thing. In any case, I didn't mean to attribute those words to you... You merely said something about the media trying to damage the Bush administration.
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MOD PARENT UP!!! I finally played God of War on the PS2 and it was one of the best 20 hour gaming experiences I've had in a while. This is coming from a die-hard, 8 hour a day, PC gamer...
I guess AOL proved there was a market for people like yourself that were incapable of figuring out how to do this on your own (hint: Dial-up networking is so easy to use it has a wizard), but for the vast majority of us, AOL, and the lusers that came with it were a plague on the internet. Hell, I was using the internet for years before that through an ISP without a PPP connection: I had a shell account and that was all I needed. I wouldn't expect that shell access would be useable by the average human (without an understanding of Unix), but when Windows 95 came out with DUN, that changed things for everyone. Of course, there were still people that couldn't figure it out like you and for those people AOL filled the niche. Sometimes I wonder if we would have been better off without them.... [ducks]
Don't discount Gartner. A lot of these analysts talk out of their ass, but Gartner does have good analysis. Look at their magic quadrants for industry leaders in various market segments. They know what they're talking about, and a lot of good CIOs and CTOs take their advice.
I have a prediction to make (putting stupid pundit hat on and ducking =)
I predict that when Vista, with "improved DRM" (TM) ships it will automatically share all of your MP3s out to your Zune. What's more, it will be be Windows Media Player sharing it's MP3 library the same way iTunes shares it's library. Only you'll be able to listen to your entire library on your Zune or anyone elses library that's on the same wireless or wired LAN with you.
What's even scarier than this prediction: Wait until the first MP3 shared viruses!!!!1!1!1!one!!1
It will be like that Code Red shit all over again, only handheld MP3 players are the new spam relays... man, what kind of wierd alter-universe will that be...
So your OS has more security holes than a block of swiss cheese, and you're going to "protect" media companies by not allowing full HD playback at all in 32-bit versions? I guess I just have one more reason not to buy Vista. I'm guessing that Apple won't have these restrictions at all, and that Linux and other player companies like WinDVD and PowerDVD will come out with a version that will work just fine in current Windows XP, so this will be a non-issue, except for all those fools that upgrade to Vista and don't know any better, but most of them can't even tell the difference between 480p and 1080p in the first place.
I especially like this part of one of their answers:
WTF? The ping program does use the network stack; how else would it talk with the network? ICMP is still a protocol that needs to be encapsulated with a header and traverse down through your stack to the wire...
The only people that will be using this card are losers that have more money than brains, and cheaters. Yes, that's right, once again, cheating is the REAL killer app for the KillerNIC. You see, after playing a lot of PvP on Guild Wars I realized one thing about lag: Game designers intentionally account for player lag and compensate for it in interesting ways. Guild Wars PvP becomes a very serious game about skill interruption. An enemy spell caster could be casting a spell that will take 1 second to cast and obliterate you when it lands. You have a skill that will interrupt their spell if you click the button fast enough, during that 1 second time period. Well, the server has to accomodate dialup users and those users that are on laggy connections, so there are times when I've casted a spell, had the progress bar go all the way to completion, and then half a second later, the spell is interrupted (after it was done casting on my end). This is because the person on the other end actually interrupted the spell in time according to their game client, but because of network lag (they're on a slow connection), the interrupt didn't get to the server for a while. The server still honored their interrupt, and eventually my spell failed. By increasing their lag, the server has to give them "extra time", which means their reaction time doesn't need to be as good to win. People will write custom FNapps or whatever they're called to do this.
I can foresee cheaters intentionally increasing in game lag just to trigger this kind of a cheating mechanism. If you could add 100-200 ms of latency to your line, you could actually gain an advantage in games like this. I'm thinking WoW PvP is probably the same, although I'm not sure if skill interruption is a big part of that or not. If I remember correctly, WoW has a lot of insta-cast spells.
Well duh, logging software vendor recommends a central logging system! News at 11... In other news, Mcdonalds recommends a healthy hamburger, and Coca-Cola recommends sugary carbonated beverages...
I've tried Splunk... downloaded the free demo and put it on my central syslog server. I was pretty unimpressed. Their AJAX interface, while it does allow Firefox style "real-time" log parsing, was clunky and bloated and makes browsers slow to a crawl, even on a fairly decent 2 ghz Centrino laptop with a gig of memory. No thanks... I've been using a free log parser called php-syslog-ng for a while now and it works great... I dump all of my log files using syslog-ng to a MySQL database and I can query them however I want with php-syslog-ng, or at the mysql client command line interface if I feel like being a real masochist...
Splunk is a problem looking for a solution. Centralized logging has been solved many years ago by many free and commercial products. Just bolting an AJAX interface on the front of your log collecting machine does not make you worthy of thousands of dollars of my money...
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The republicans are losing support big time over here. Finally the majority of people in this country do see through their bullshit, and short of another 9/11, there is no way the republicans can stop it.
The phrase "domestic wiretap" is exactly what they were doing here.
Tee hee! I've just worked in too many environments like that in the past... totally unsupported and the boss couldn't give a shit. After all, that's what he hired IT people for, to fix shit. If they have to call support to do their job they must not be good IT people...
Also, what if I want to simply rent a place to live? Most landlords now require a credit check before they will even let me sign the lease. If my credit is poor, or I don't have enough credit (I actually had a banker once tell me that since I didn't have any credit cards, that lowered my rating by a number of points, and that I should get a no annual fee credit card and not use it much just to prove that I actually had credit) I might end up homeless just for lack of credit.
The credit system is setup so that everyone that wants to be part of society has to participate, unless of course you don't mind being homeless. This is the scam the big credit agencies have perpetrated on the american public.
Of course, the alternative is to live in a third-world country without a credit rating system where nobody can get a loan because there is too much risk involved. I guess I'll take our corporate-ruled and governed society over living in a mud-hut somewhere any day. That's the price we pay for progress, but sometimes it makes me wonder if the progress is really worth it...
From the graphics card options available it looks like the hardware might not support it. SLI also has to have hardware support (some type of cross-connector bus the graphics cards can share information on).
Another question I have is whether PC graphics cards will work in the new Mac Pros. It used to be Mac had a different BIOS on their cards, but now that they are using standard Intel chipsets this is most likely a thing of the past. I would love to be able to pop my own Nvidia 7900GTX 512MB card in there.
First of all I have to say that the specs on the new Mac Pros are great, but as I've been looking at replacing my gaming machine with a Mac Pro, I'm a little disappointed by the lack of SLI graphics support... How come Apple doesn't have an SLI or Crossfire option? This is 2006 and users want the capability of running two graphics cards, if for no other reason than the ability to dual-boot into Windows and play some games every now and then.
Too bad; I was hoping to replace my gaming machine and my Mac with a single machine that would be the best of both worlds... Looks like I'll have to wait for rev. B and hope that Apple wakes up and includes this technology.
I could have left the quotation marks off and it would have meant the same thing. In any case, I didn't mean to attribute those words to you... You merely said something about the media trying to damage the Bush administration.