Nothing is unbreakable. Intel's TPM works basically the same way game console lockout chips do, with some enhancements - and you'll notice that there's a thriving market in modchips and softmod hacks. Worst-case, Linus would've had to reverse-engineer and break the TPM. Best-case, you go to a jailbreakme.com-like site and disable it entirely from software.
Yeah? For $30 I can also add a nice SD/MicroSD card reader. And it would be just as beneficial to the system. Just because RAM is cheap, doesn't mean you need to cram absolutely everything full of it.
maybe but not all boards have 8 ports and some that's 6 chipset and the other from a add on sata chip also the build in software / fake raid likely will not work across 2 different chips like that. And even with 8 ports you still need 1 for the OS disk or you can mix the OS with the data drives.
Once X79 comes out, you'll have 10 ports, naturally. In any case, software RAID, at least under Linux, can handle disks on any widely incompatible set of chipsets. As well as separating the OS onto a disk partition on just one drive.
8 drives in raid 0 is a major risk. Raid 5 uses less space.
That would be relevant, if we were talking about RAID 0. RAID 5 and 6 are identical save for the number of disks used for parity, which in turn affects number of simultaneous failures it can recover from and the efficiency of space utilization.
The case needs to have room for 8 HDD's + a os disk and good cooling.
Again - how is that relevant to the section you were responding to?
You can find large cases easily. I found one in under a minute with 8 internal bays for $40.
That PSU is to cheap at least get a $50+ one and don't just go for high watts.
Uh, what? I can understanding criticizing a specific PSU brand as being too unreliable or low-quality, but come on! Just saying "any PSU less than $__ is crap, you need to spend at least $__" makes you sound like a classic Conspicuous Consumer.
get 2-4 GB ram mini should only be about $50-$60 for good 8 GB DDR 3 you want at least dual channel ram.
This is a NAS, not a server. Half a gig would be sufficient, honestly - I've run some with 256MB. One gig is plenty, unless you want to keep files on a RAMdisk.
8 sata ports you may want to get a pci-e raid card / sata card. Maybe even SAS.
When you're just building a home/small office NAS, you don't need a high-performance RAID card - software RAID is more than enough. Especially considering the price of those things.
redundancy you may want raid 6 on a raid card and not on board fake raid and most south bridges only have 6 ports any ways.
8 hard drives is not enough to justify RAID 6, unless they're EXTREMELY unreliable drives. Especially since that cuts down your storage capacity down to 12TB - not that good.
RAID 6 is only needed when it's possible for a drive to fail, and then for another to fail while the array is still recovering. There's no point in doing it with only 8 drives.
Also some low end MB only have 10/100'.
True. But then again, how many switches and computers are still only 10/100? Maybe you don't, but I still work daily with stuff that maxes out at Fast Ethernet.
Plus, a $115 mobo isn't "low-end", at least by my definition. It's a fair assumption that if it has 8 SATA ports, you're going to have 10/100/1000 Ethernet.
Probably a pretty decent chunk - the US Air Force is a massive oil user, since they fly globally (and basically act as a transport for all our allies, too, since we have the infrastructure). The Army's probably pretty bad as well - the fuel efficiency of an M1 Abrams is measured in gallons per mile, and that's of jet fuel, not gasoline or diesel. The Navy's probably the least gas-guzzling branch, since the biggest ships are nuclear, but even then, there's a ton of oil-burning boats.
From TFA: "The actress - referred to in court documents by the placeholder name Jane Doe - lives in Texas, is of Asian descent and has an Americanised stage name."
Checking Wikipedia's "List of Asian-Americans" for actresses who are under 40 but nearing it, I can put out a few decent guesses: Korinna Moon Bloodgood Tia Carrere Camille Chen Joan Chen Karin Anna Cheung Yunjin Kim Jennie Kwan Marie Matiko Grace Park Linda Park Lindsay Price Chuti Tiu Helen Wong
Hope someone else can do some more in-depth checking.
At first, Apple will refuse to do this. They may integrate it with their own apps, but no third-parties.
Later, either after enough developers wave enough money in their face or Android integrates a clone of Siri, they'll open it up and suddenly get massive amounts of credit and praise for "revolutionizing the computer interface" and all that crap, proving once again that nobody in the media has any memory for events more than a year old.
I don't think it will be as bad. Look, for example, at an industry that's already moving quickly to all-digital distribution: PC video games.
There is, currently, one clear winner as far as platforms go: Steam. However, that has not stopped others (Direct2Drive, Desura, GameTap, GOG, Impulse, Origin) from existing and being profitable.
Most crucially, however, many games are available on multiple. For one example, the indie game "VVVVVV" (yes, that's a real title) is available on Steam, Desura, Direct2Drive and Impulse. The big-name "Crysis" can be found on Origin, Impulse and Steam. The exceptions tend to be cases of the developer and the publisher being one and the same (see: Battlefield 3).
It would seem that, for whatever reason, when an industry moves online, it tends to lose retailer exclusivity. I won't speculate as to why, but it definitely seems to be the case, at least from that one data point.
Jobs was an over-perfectionist. He commissioned a logo from Paul Rand for $100,000, and then sent memos to every retail store specifying the exact colors to use and that the logo absolutely must be tilted at precisely 22 degrees. He mandated that the NeXT Cube be a perfect cube - most manufactured cubes have a shallow draft of half a degree or so so it can be removed from the mold; at the time there was only one foundry in the country capable of forming absolute perfect cubes. His market research showed that universities (his main target demographic) wanted a powerful computer for ~$6,500; the first NeXT computer was $9,999 because of all the perfectionist things Jobs demanded be added. He bought $10,000 sofas for the office and had a full-time art curator.
If any of those things sound like bad business decisions for a company that never employed more than 600 people and never had significant sales, congratulations, you're a better businessman than Steve Jobs.
I suggest you find a copy of "Steve Jobs and the NeXT Big Thing". Jobs was not a good manager, and was a downright terrible businessman. He was a good leader, very inspirational, but independently he was a failure at making a product people would buy. I believe he was successful at Apple (the second time) mainly because he was managed well, because he had people in charge who would say "no, you can't do that, that's too expensive" or "no, you don't need to do that, nobody cares about that".
If it's GPL, you can always just host it on your own server. Or maybe just run it on localhost - being run in a browser solves most of your platform-compatibility issues (assuming you don't give a shit about IE).
Oh well. I found a paper citing 60% annual RAM capacity growth, or quadrupling every three years. IIRC, the last time 512MB was common was 2005 or so, which fits that model. That would put 512GB RAM as common around 2020.
It shouldn't need to - you quite literally cannot buy new memory in less than 512GB capacity. That would be like saying "I can run Linux on a Motorola 68000, will Windows 8 do that?" - it won't, because there's very very little market demand for running a new operating system on decade-old hardware.
I used the aggregate rankings. I figure if you take the obviously-Democrat-biased ones and the obviously-Republican-biased ones and average them, you'll get something relatively accurate (if a bit harsh on the Whigs).
Eisenhower was a good manager. Remember, we didn't win WW2 because we had better equipment or better generals or better soldiers, we won because we had better production. Eisenhower was good at managing supply lines and organizing the various battlefield generals. Which is both exactly what we needed for WW2, and pretty much exactly what the President should be doing - getting together a bunch of good people, giving them a goal and enough funding, and letting them do their job.
I also think you mixed up your Roosevelts - Theodore is relatively highly-rated by conservatives, even though he was a liberal for his time. It's Franklin that the conservatives hate.
If that were the true measure, then a general would make the best president and we've seen that's not usually the case.
Surprisingly, the data does not support that. Check Wikipedia's aggregate historical rankings of Presidents of the United States. Third place comes General Washington, with Colonel Theodore Roosevelt in fifth, Major General Andrew Jackson and General of the Army Dwight Eisenhower tied for eighth, and finally Lieutenant Kennedy. That's five out of the top ten.
Now look at the bottom ten: Harrison was only a Lieutenant in the army (he was a major-general of the state militia, not sure how that counts), and Tyler, Bush Jr., Buchanan and Fillmore had only low-ranking military service. The only high-ranking ones were General Grant, Major General Taylor and Brigadier General Pierce. So only 30% of the bottom ten had significant military service.
So, looking at this data, I would definitely find a correlation between "good military leader" and "good president".
That's not the kind of "practical" I meant. I meant practical as in "being likely to be effective and applicable to a real situation; able to be put to use", not "based on practice or action rather than theory or hypothesis".
Considering my favorite show growing up was Magic School Bus, I'm pretty sure that some kids actually (GASP!) like being educated if it's entertaining.
For teaching skills, perhaps. But science, on its own, is not really a practical skill for most people (how often do you run an actual experiment?). The benefit and the purpose for teaching science is to teach people to think skeptically and logically, to learn to examine the data.
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Why is this bad? Harder for companies to use DRM.
That's not a bad thing at all.
Nothing is unbreakable. Intel's TPM works basically the same way game console lockout chips do, with some enhancements - and you'll notice that there's a thriving market in modchips and softmod hacks. Worst-case, Linus would've had to reverse-engineer and break the TPM. Best-case, you go to a jailbreakme.com-like site and disable it entirely from software.
Sure you can - just remember to take deep breaths every so often, between bouts of furious laughter. It's all in the diaphragm.
ok but for $30 you can get 2gb ram
Yeah? For $30 I can also add a nice SD/MicroSD card reader. And it would be just as beneficial to the system. Just because RAM is cheap, doesn't mean you need to cram absolutely everything full of it.
maybe but not all boards have 8 ports and some that's 6 chipset and the other from a add on sata chip also the build in software / fake raid likely will not work across 2 different chips like that. And even with 8 ports you still need 1 for the OS disk or you can mix the OS with the data drives.
Once X79 comes out, you'll have 10 ports, naturally. In any case, software RAID, at least under Linux, can handle disks on any widely incompatible set of chipsets. As well as separating the OS onto a disk partition on just one drive.
8 drives in raid 0 is a major risk. Raid 5 uses less space.
That would be relevant, if we were talking about RAID 0. RAID 5 and 6 are identical save for the number of disks used for parity, which in turn affects number of simultaneous failures it can recover from and the efficiency of space utilization.
The case needs to have room for 8 HDD's + a os disk and good cooling.
Again - how is that relevant to the section you were responding to?
You can find large cases easily. I found one in under a minute with 8 internal bays for $40.
That PSU is to cheap at least get a $50+ one and don't just go for high watts.
Uh, what? I can understanding criticizing a specific PSU brand as being too unreliable or low-quality, but come on! Just saying "any PSU less than $__ is crap, you need to spend at least $__" makes you sound like a classic Conspicuous Consumer.
get 2-4 GB ram mini should only be about $50-$60 for good 8 GB DDR 3 you want at least dual channel ram.
This is a NAS, not a server. Half a gig would be sufficient, honestly - I've run some with 256MB. One gig is plenty, unless you want to keep files on a RAMdisk.
8 sata ports you may want to get a pci-e raid card / sata card. Maybe even SAS.
When you're just building a home/small office NAS, you don't need a high-performance RAID card - software RAID is more than enough. Especially considering the price of those things.
redundancy you may want raid 6 on a raid card and not on board fake raid and most south bridges only have 6 ports any ways.
8 hard drives is not enough to justify RAID 6, unless they're EXTREMELY unreliable drives. Especially since that cuts down your storage capacity down to 12TB - not that good.
RAID 6 is only needed when it's possible for a drive to fail, and then for another to fail while the array is still recovering. There's no point in doing it with only 8 drives.
Also some low end MB only have 10/100'.
True. But then again, how many switches and computers are still only 10/100? Maybe you don't, but I still work daily with stuff that maxes out at Fast Ethernet.
Plus, a $115 mobo isn't "low-end", at least by my definition. It's a fair assumption that if it has 8 SATA ports, you're going to have 10/100/1000 Ethernet.
Probably a pretty decent chunk - the US Air Force is a massive oil user, since they fly globally (and basically act as a transport for all our allies, too, since we have the infrastructure). The Army's probably pretty bad as well - the fuel efficiency of an M1 Abrams is measured in gallons per mile, and that's of jet fuel, not gasoline or diesel. The Navy's probably the least gas-guzzling branch, since the biggest ships are nuclear, but even then, there's a ton of oil-burning boats.
There's not much money in suing Wikipedia.
From TFA: "The actress - referred to in court documents by the placeholder name Jane Doe - lives in Texas, is of Asian descent and has an Americanised stage name."
Checking Wikipedia's "List of Asian-Americans" for actresses who are under 40 but nearing it, I can put out a few decent guesses:
Korinna Moon Bloodgood
Tia Carrere
Camille Chen
Joan Chen
Karin Anna Cheung
Yunjin Kim
Jennie Kwan
Marie Matiko
Grace Park
Linda Park
Lindsay Price
Chuti Tiu
Helen Wong
Hope someone else can do some more in-depth checking.
At first, Apple will refuse to do this. They may integrate it with their own apps, but no third-parties.
Later, either after enough developers wave enough money in their face or Android integrates a clone of Siri, they'll open it up and suddenly get massive amounts of credit and praise for "revolutionizing the computer interface" and all that crap, proving once again that nobody in the media has any memory for events more than a year old.
Considering that's still nearly 200 kilowatts (or about the consumption of the UNIVAC I), I think you're going to need a lot more rug.
I don't think it will be as bad. Look, for example, at an industry that's already moving quickly to all-digital distribution: PC video games.
There is, currently, one clear winner as far as platforms go: Steam. However, that has not stopped others (Direct2Drive, Desura, GameTap, GOG, Impulse, Origin) from existing and being profitable.
Most crucially, however, many games are available on multiple. For one example, the indie game "VVVVVV" (yes, that's a real title) is available on Steam, Desura, Direct2Drive and Impulse. The big-name "Crysis" can be found on Origin, Impulse and Steam. The exceptions tend to be cases of the developer and the publisher being one and the same (see: Battlefield 3).
It would seem that, for whatever reason, when an industry moves online, it tends to lose retailer exclusivity. I won't speculate as to why, but it definitely seems to be the case, at least from that one data point.
Jobs was an over-perfectionist. He commissioned a logo from Paul Rand for $100,000, and then sent memos to every retail store specifying the exact colors to use and that the logo absolutely must be tilted at precisely 22 degrees. He mandated that the NeXT Cube be a perfect cube - most manufactured cubes have a shallow draft of half a degree or so so it can be removed from the mold; at the time there was only one foundry in the country capable of forming absolute perfect cubes. His market research showed that universities (his main target demographic) wanted a powerful computer for ~$6,500; the first NeXT computer was $9,999 because of all the perfectionist things Jobs demanded be added. He bought $10,000 sofas for the office and had a full-time art curator.
If any of those things sound like bad business decisions for a company that never employed more than 600 people and never had significant sales, congratulations, you're a better businessman than Steve Jobs.
I suggest you find a copy of "Steve Jobs and the NeXT Big Thing". Jobs was not a good manager, and was a downright terrible businessman. He was a good leader, very inspirational, but independently he was a failure at making a product people would buy. I believe he was successful at Apple (the second time) mainly because he was managed well, because he had people in charge who would say "no, you can't do that, that's too expensive" or "no, you don't need to do that, nobody cares about that".
If it's GPL, you can always just host it on your own server. Or maybe just run it on localhost - being run in a browser solves most of your platform-compatibility issues (assuming you don't give a shit about IE).
Because your boss says to.
Damn, how did I miss that?
Oh well. I found a paper citing 60% annual RAM capacity growth, or quadrupling every three years. IIRC, the last time 512MB was common was 2005 or so, which fits that model. That would put 512GB RAM as common around 2020.
It shouldn't need to - you quite literally cannot buy new memory in less than 512GB capacity. That would be like saying "I can run Linux on a Motorola 68000, will Windows 8 do that?" - it won't, because there's very very little market demand for running a new operating system on decade-old hardware.
I assume, then, that you never shut your computer down for the night. Or for the weekend.
Good luck with that.
Sincerely, the inevitable tide of change.
I used the aggregate rankings. I figure if you take the obviously-Democrat-biased ones and the obviously-Republican-biased ones and average them, you'll get something relatively accurate (if a bit harsh on the Whigs).
Eisenhower was a good manager. Remember, we didn't win WW2 because we had better equipment or better generals or better soldiers, we won because we had better production. Eisenhower was good at managing supply lines and organizing the various battlefield generals. Which is both exactly what we needed for WW2, and pretty much exactly what the President should be doing - getting together a bunch of good people, giving them a goal and enough funding, and letting them do their job.
I also think you mixed up your Roosevelts - Theodore is relatively highly-rated by conservatives, even though he was a liberal for his time. It's Franklin that the conservatives hate.
If that were the true measure, then a general would make the best president and we've seen that's not usually the case.
Surprisingly, the data does not support that. Check Wikipedia's aggregate historical rankings of Presidents of the United States. Third place comes General Washington, with Colonel Theodore Roosevelt in fifth, Major General Andrew Jackson and General of the Army Dwight Eisenhower tied for eighth, and finally Lieutenant Kennedy. That's five out of the top ten.
Now look at the bottom ten: Harrison was only a Lieutenant in the army (he was a major-general of the state militia, not sure how that counts), and Tyler, Bush Jr., Buchanan and Fillmore had only low-ranking military service. The only high-ranking ones were General Grant, Major General Taylor and Brigadier General Pierce. So only 30% of the bottom ten had significant military service.
So, looking at this data, I would definitely find a correlation between "good military leader" and "good president".
That's what I was saying.
That's not the kind of "practical" I meant. I meant practical as in "being likely to be effective and applicable to a real situation; able to be put to use", not "based on practice or action rather than theory or hypothesis".
Considering my favorite show growing up was Magic School Bus, I'm pretty sure that some kids actually (GASP!) like being educated if it's entertaining.
For teaching skills, perhaps. But science, on its own, is not really a practical skill for most people (how often do you run an actual experiment?). The benefit and the purpose for teaching science is to teach people to think skeptically and logically, to learn to examine the data.