due to the limitations of 32bit PCI, this effectively makes my ultra160 SCSI controller and hard drives obsolete as far as transfer speeds are concerned (and i assume the ata133 will be considerably cheaper than u160 devices of the same size based on past experience with IDE vs. SCSI). well, 15,000rpm is still nice though:)
anyone have good reason now (other than slightly superior seek times) to stay with SCSI solutions?
Sure, I suppose Telco redundancy for protection would be helpful to safeguard against risks like this...but (a) who can forsee such an event? and (b) is protecting the Telco systems any kind of priority in relation to the neccessary defense of life and peace of mind?
The main item to be gleaned from this I think is simply that there is widespread and not readily obvious impact in many sectors from this catastrophe. But reworking national infrastructures out of paranoia may be overdoing it...
It makes sense, because the market uses $$$ as the optimal means of conveying the value of performance!
that doesn't even BEGIN to be true. the high-clock P4s cost VASTLY more than high-clock tbirds, and lose in both benchmarks and real world applications. the only thing the P4 does better than the athlon is certain multimedia apps that take advantage of the new instruction set, but because of it's "guessing" method of performing normal calculations (which too often fails, causing the cpu to have to redo the same operation) the P4 lags behind in almost every other application and in overall speed.
the tbird athlon is a much better chip, even at a lower clock speed, and for an enormously better price.
the only reason intel does so well is because everyone has been spoon-fed intel forever and consumers that don't know anything buy what they know. go check out the opinions of real hardware enthusiasts at some place like the [H]ard|OCP forums and you'll find that there is NO SUPPORT WHATSOEVER for the P4. it's shunned like the iMac. everyone has a thunderbird. period.
i'd much rather see more work in lab-grown replacement organs and limbs
right, see the problem is that growing organs and tissues in a lab independantly (rather than growing a whole human and harvesting the organs) would use approximately the same technology, so it would have the same problems with premature cell aging, etc. the organs might stop functioning suddenly and before they should. this would be bad.
some games actually have a real cohesive plot, but many don't -- they're more flexible choose-your-own-adventure-like (such as D&D). choosing D&D to make a movie out of doesn't make a lot of sense because there isn't really an overall plot, it's different every time. if producers would choose a game with a true central plot (like magic the gathering with the brothers war, or something of the like) it *could* make for a good movie. otherwise it just pisses all the hardcore gamers off for not being true to the game and makes all the people who don't play say "what the hell?"
here's to hoping the doom movie will be good, and that maybe they'll make a half-life movie. that could own.
i'm beginning to wonder, now that it's at about 18 grand, what his reserve price is. perhaps he drafted up this list with no intent of actually selling the games, but just wanted some publicity or something. to do so he set some ridiculous reserve like $11 million or something. is there a limit on the reserve for eBay? i bet not...
the turbographics was a great little system, and it's portable unit was pretty revolutionary for the time. i'm surprised that's not there, and it sure ought to be. can't even count how many hours i wasted on BONK, still the greatest game of all time;-)
9 times in the history of the U.S. electors have changed their vote. thats out of the hundreds of electors *per* election...only 9 (and it's never changed the outcome of an election). so with a very small electoral margin (as there is in this election) it is conceivable that elector swings *could* change the outcome, but that's really not likely. not to mention that knowing the effect it could have, electors are probably sticking even more tightly to the promises they made.
obviously you can't cut utlra160 scsi cable because it's already separated and all twisted up. i'm wondering if interference would occur if i were to zip tie the cable, and perhaps just fold it (without cutting anything) to reduce the space. is there a reason not to do this? cuz that thing takes up WAY too much space in my case...
for one thing, this isn't news. i just thought i'd point that out. there have been tutorials on how to do this forever on enthusiast sites like virtualhideout, etc. not to mention plycon sells pre rounded cables. but anyway, as long as you have a sharp enough blade ata66 is equally possible (but if you're scared you can always pay $30 to have someone else do it for you...)
of course everyone must agree that in general people are not inclined to compliment when things go smoothly but are very likely to complain when they don't. the problem is, DSL has a very high rate of not going smoothly. i don't know all the legal details, but a class-action lawsuit was filed against pacific bell (my local DSL provider) because of how bad their service is/was.
that isn't just a few dissatisfied customers complaining. that doesn't happen to cable providers.
my personal experience with DSL was quite horrendous. i signed up in december and was given a january installation date. i was under the impression that my service would be a 128/384-1.5 line with one static IP and one email address, and would come with an alcatel DSL modem (according to their website). after the installation (for which i was not present) i returned to my computer to find some very unexpected things. the first thing i noticed was that the modem was not only not an alcatel, it wasn't even plugged into my NIC. it was USB. i then noticed a new icon on my desktop labeled "DSL Connect." that's right, i was given dynamic IP dial-up DSL. they never told me that. it wasn't announced. they secretly changed the service without telling anyone on january 1st. over the next week the service disconnected continuously while i was using it, not to mention it automatically disconnected after a rather short period of idle time (making FTP hosting and other such activities impossible). i was outraged. i demanded to have the service revoked due to being completely duped, and after about six one-hour-long phone calls they seemed to relent. but i was still charged on my phone bill for the installation and first month's service. i'm sorry, but that is just simply ridiculous. (i was able to get those charges dropped from the bill eventually).
i'm now back on 56k (cable is *still* not available here, though they claimed it would be in three weeks about 14 months ago) and i can't say i'm sorry. the outright shitty service offered by pacbell is not worth $50 a month by anyone's standards.
the real issue is that pacbell (and probably other dsl providers) are completely overloading their capacities. on top of that, they continue to advertise ("always fast, never shared" my pasty ass) and try to bring in new business when they can't even begin to deal with the customers they already have. if that isn't illegal, it damn well should be.
this is not a new problem, and history shows that any who choose to fight against it might think twice. As many will recall there used to be a frozen yogurt franchise called "I Can't Believe It's Yogurt" which was rather popular. Along came a competitor which used the former's brand name to its own advantage: This Can't Be Yogurt. I Can't Believe It's Yogurt sued This Can't Be Yogurt, which was forced to change its name to TCBY. Interestingly, public opinion turned against I Can't Believe It's Yogurt because of this (and probably some other factors) and that franchise disappeared, leaving the newcomer TCBY in tact (still quite popular). Just something to consider...
...i suppose. usually people are too drunk at parties to care. or maybe just the parties i go to =]
of course there are often problems with floor bouncing (the detection method it uses) incurring cd skipping...so is that so great? oh well mp3s are better for playing at parties anyway, especially because if you get a request and don't have the song, you will in a matter of seconds.
my school newspaper has certainly had it's issues with printing articles of which the administration did not approve. sometimes we are forced to censor, but generally we have a lot of freedom. we had an article about the school's domestic partners policy which made the P.E. department look like a bunch of right-wing christian radicals and it was printed.
however, we are moving to the web this year (for real this time, we had a website last year but it never really took off. however our purpose in publishing online is that it is a whole lot easier and faster. we are lucky to get a regular issue of the newspaper out every four weeks. we plan to update the main articles on the website weekly. this gives us a great deal more ability to be an actual news source, unlike our current situation in which we are mostly a features magazine because of the time issues. by the time we print news no one cares about it. and sports? that's the hardest because we can't print scores for individual games that happened three weeks before. that would be ridiculous. on the web we can because they won't yet be out of date.
so i welcome this idea, but for entirely different reasons.
alright mr. "i'm the president of the riaa's personal cocksucking slave," did you happen to notice that the individual student targeted here is also not a service? the riaa may have never gone after software vendors specifically because of their software, but they hadn't gone after individuals before either. their attack plan was against, as you said, the servers allowing the connection between users and subsequent distribution of "their" property. harassing individuals is a new step. who's to say that the next step isn't attacking software?
i admit that i would use this, potentially quite a bit. of course it would be illegal (the way i would do it) but that's for me to decide, and it's no different from what i already do with cds. when my friends or i buy cds we often burn multiple copies of them and distribute (or at least rip mp3s and share those). the fact is, i bought 50 cds at compusa a couple weeks ago for 20 cents each. that's ridiculously cheap. there's no reason if a friend of mine bought a dvd that i wouldn't ask for a copy and i'd certainly be willing to drop 20 cents on it. the issue is not, IMO, making dvds available to those without dvd players. it is making copies of dvds very very cheaply.
it's good that that works and that it's that simple, but the fact remains that the vast majority of computer users never change the defaults on any of their applications. if something doesn't work quite the way the want it to, they don't bother poking around in the preferences to fix it. my father complains about the recent versions of microsoft word because of those "annoying red and green squiggly lines all over the place." i say "dad, you can get rid of those in two steps." he doesn't bother. with respect to something like this, where you can't even tell that it's happening, i would wager that next to no one (outside of those reading this forum) are going to do anything about it.
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due to the limitations of 32bit PCI, this effectively makes my ultra160 SCSI controller and hard drives obsolete as far as transfer speeds are concerned (and i assume the ata133 will be considerably cheaper than u160 devices of the same size based on past experience with IDE vs. SCSI). well, 15,000rpm is still nice though :)
anyone have good reason now (other than slightly superior seek times) to stay with SCSI solutions?
setting up a NYTimes account is free. you can set one up very quickly; there's no reason not to have one of your own.
Sure, I suppose Telco redundancy for protection would be helpful to safeguard against risks like this...but (a) who can forsee such an event? and (b) is protecting the Telco systems any kind of priority in relation to the neccessary defense of life and peace of mind?
The main item to be gleaned from this I think is simply that there is widespread and not readily obvious impact in many sectors from this catastrophe. But reworking national infrastructures out of paranoia may be overdoing it...
does "TM6000" mean it's going to perform equivalent to a 6000mhz P4? ;-)
Ursa Major aka the Great Bear is the same thing as the Big Dipper.
it says it is 45 light years away, equivalent to 200 trillion miles. read before posting?
WindowsXP final will be skinnable. just thought i'd point that out...
It makes sense, because the market uses $$$ as the optimal means of conveying the value of performance! that doesn't even BEGIN to be true. the high-clock P4s cost VASTLY more than high-clock tbirds, and lose in both benchmarks and real world applications. the only thing the P4 does better than the athlon is certain multimedia apps that take advantage of the new instruction set, but because of it's "guessing" method of performing normal calculations (which too often fails, causing the cpu to have to redo the same operation) the P4 lags behind in almost every other application and in overall speed. the tbird athlon is a much better chip, even at a lower clock speed, and for an enormously better price. the only reason intel does so well is because everyone has been spoon-fed intel forever and consumers that don't know anything buy what they know. go check out the opinions of real hardware enthusiasts at some place like the [H]ard|OCP forums and you'll find that there is NO SUPPORT WHATSOEVER for the P4. it's shunned like the iMac. everyone has a thunderbird. period.
i'd much rather see more work in lab-grown replacement organs and limbs right, see the problem is that growing organs and tissues in a lab independantly (rather than growing a whole human and harvesting the organs) would use approximately the same technology, so it would have the same problems with premature cell aging, etc. the organs might stop functioning suddenly and before they should. this would be bad.
can anyone say "by your powers combined...i am captain planet!"
some games actually have a real cohesive plot, but many don't -- they're more flexible choose-your-own-adventure-like (such as D&D). choosing D&D to make a movie out of doesn't make a lot of sense because there isn't really an overall plot, it's different every time. if producers would choose a game with a true central plot (like magic the gathering with the brothers war, or something of the like) it *could* make for a good movie. otherwise it just pisses all the hardcore gamers off for not being true to the game and makes all the people who don't play say "what the hell?" here's to hoping the doom movie will be good, and that maybe they'll make a half-life movie. that could own.
i'm beginning to wonder, now that it's at about 18 grand, what his reserve price is. perhaps he drafted up this list with no intent of actually selling the games, but just wanted some publicity or something. to do so he set some ridiculous reserve like $11 million or something. is there a limit on the reserve for eBay? i bet not...
the turbographics was a great little system, and it's portable unit was pretty revolutionary for the time. i'm surprised that's not there, and it sure ought to be. can't even count how many hours i wasted on BONK, still the greatest game of all time ;-)
9 times in the history of the U.S. electors have changed their vote. thats out of the hundreds of electors *per* election...only 9 (and it's never changed the outcome of an election). so with a very small electoral margin (as there is in this election) it is conceivable that elector swings *could* change the outcome, but that's really not likely. not to mention that knowing the effect it could have, electors are probably sticking even more tightly to the promises they made.
you're aware that the euro has been under a dollar for months now, right? so actually €10 is more like $8.50
obviously you can't cut utlra160 scsi cable because it's already separated and all twisted up. i'm wondering if interference would occur if i were to zip tie the cable, and perhaps just fold it (without cutting anything) to reduce the space. is there a reason not to do this? cuz that thing takes up WAY too much space in my case...
for one thing, this isn't news. i just thought i'd point that out. there have been tutorials on how to do this forever on enthusiast sites like virtualhideout, etc. not to mention plycon sells pre rounded cables. but anyway, as long as you have a sharp enough blade ata66 is equally possible (but if you're scared you can always pay $30 to have someone else do it for you...)
is it irrelevant that red hat is expensive as hell?
of course everyone must agree that in general people are not inclined to compliment when things go smoothly but are very likely to complain when they don't. the problem is, DSL has a very high rate of not going smoothly. i don't know all the legal details, but a class-action lawsuit was filed against pacific bell (my local DSL provider) because of how bad their service is/was. that isn't just a few dissatisfied customers complaining. that doesn't happen to cable providers.
my personal experience with DSL was quite horrendous. i signed up in december and was given a january installation date. i was under the impression that my service would be a 128/384-1.5 line with one static IP and one email address, and would come with an alcatel DSL modem (according to their website). after the installation (for which i was not present) i returned to my computer to find some very unexpected things. the first thing i noticed was that the modem was not only not an alcatel, it wasn't even plugged into my NIC. it was USB. i then noticed a new icon on my desktop labeled "DSL Connect." that's right, i was given dynamic IP dial-up DSL. they never told me that. it wasn't announced. they secretly changed the service without telling anyone on january 1st. over the next week the service disconnected continuously while i was using it, not to mention it automatically disconnected after a rather short period of idle time (making FTP hosting and other such activities impossible). i was outraged. i demanded to have the service revoked due to being completely duped, and after about six one-hour-long phone calls they seemed to relent. but i was still charged on my phone bill for the installation and first month's service. i'm sorry, but that is just simply ridiculous. (i was able to get those charges dropped from the bill eventually).
i'm now back on 56k (cable is *still* not available here, though they claimed it would be in three weeks about 14 months ago) and i can't say i'm sorry. the outright shitty service offered by pacbell is not worth $50 a month by anyone's standards.
the real issue is that pacbell (and probably other dsl providers) are completely overloading their capacities. on top of that, they continue to advertise ("always fast, never shared" my pasty ass) and try to bring in new business when they can't even begin to deal with the customers they already have. if that isn't illegal, it damn well should be.
this is not a new problem, and history shows that any who choose to fight against it might think twice. As many will recall there used to be a frozen yogurt franchise called "I Can't Believe It's Yogurt" which was rather popular. Along came a competitor which used the former's brand name to its own advantage: This Can't Be Yogurt. I Can't Believe It's Yogurt sued This Can't Be Yogurt, which was forced to change its name to TCBY. Interestingly, public opinion turned against I Can't Believe It's Yogurt because of this (and probably some other factors) and that franchise disappeared, leaving the newcomer TCBY in tact (still quite popular). Just something to consider...
...i suppose. usually people are too drunk at parties to care. or maybe just the parties i go to =] of course there are often problems with floor bouncing (the detection method it uses) incurring cd skipping...so is that so great? oh well mp3s are better for playing at parties anyway, especially because if you get a request and don't have the song, you will in a matter of seconds.
my school newspaper has certainly had it's issues with printing articles of which the administration did not approve. sometimes we are forced to censor, but generally we have a lot of freedom. we had an article about the school's domestic partners policy which made the P.E. department look like a bunch of right-wing christian radicals and it was printed. however, we are moving to the web this year (for real this time, we had a website last year but it never really took off. however our purpose in publishing online is that it is a whole lot easier and faster. we are lucky to get a regular issue of the newspaper out every four weeks. we plan to update the main articles on the website weekly. this gives us a great deal more ability to be an actual news source, unlike our current situation in which we are mostly a features magazine because of the time issues. by the time we print news no one cares about it. and sports? that's the hardest because we can't print scores for individual games that happened three weeks before. that would be ridiculous. on the web we can because they won't yet be out of date. so i welcome this idea, but for entirely different reasons.
alright mr. "i'm the president of the riaa's personal cocksucking slave," did you happen to notice that the individual student targeted here is also not a service? the riaa may have never gone after software vendors specifically because of their software, but they hadn't gone after individuals before either. their attack plan was against, as you said, the servers allowing the connection between users and subsequent distribution of "their" property. harassing individuals is a new step. who's to say that the next step isn't attacking software?
i admit that i would use this, potentially quite a bit. of course it would be illegal (the way i would do it) but that's for me to decide, and it's no different from what i already do with cds. when my friends or i buy cds we often burn multiple copies of them and distribute (or at least rip mp3s and share those). the fact is, i bought 50 cds at compusa a couple weeks ago for 20 cents each. that's ridiculously cheap. there's no reason if a friend of mine bought a dvd that i wouldn't ask for a copy and i'd certainly be willing to drop 20 cents on it. the issue is not, IMO, making dvds available to those without dvd players. it is making copies of dvds very very cheaply.
it's good that that works and that it's that simple, but the fact remains that the vast majority of computer users never change the defaults on any of their applications. if something doesn't work quite the way the want it to, they don't bother poking around in the preferences to fix it. my father complains about the recent versions of microsoft word because of those "annoying red and green squiggly lines all over the place." i say "dad, you can get rid of those in two steps." he doesn't bother. with respect to something like this, where you can't even tell that it's happening, i would wager that next to no one (outside of those reading this forum) are going to do anything about it.