Umm, he was talking about the power redundancy. Also those are not 2 cheap ATX supplies, they are top quality server grade power supplies just no redundant. Though if you provide redundant power, you really shouldn't need battery backup on the sata cards as the datacenter would certainly have a UPS. I guess the motherboard could blow and battery backup could protect against that.
Do the sata card they are using support hotswap? When we were designing NAS devices back in 2005, only the actual SATA raid cards supported true hotswap. That's why we used them even when building software raid boxes.
These are pretty impressive and a good start but there's a few of things I would do differently. I use to build NAS boxes for a living and there are some issues with this design. I think they have cut too many corners
1) Their choice of RAID cards is somewhat questionable. What 4 cards can you get for $175 total which will support proper hotswap? Even running software raid, I would still want cards that provide proper monitoring and drive management like 3ware. Yeah maybe it would have cost you a fair bit more $175 per box but it would be worth the difference. You would still be saving a ton. Also I am not sure I would put more than one drive on a cable with a multiplexer. You can get 16 port 3ware cards that use multiport cables that break out at the back plane. Now you would also have to upgrade to a server class motherboard with at least 3 PCIe slots.
2) I haven't checked recently but is software raid 6 even recommended yet. I know the 2.6 kernel has been supporting for a while but it was still listed as experimental last I checked. I might stick with raid 5 here.
3) While using Zippy power supplies is an excellent choice, I would definitely want redundant power in these boxes.
Math is the short form of the word "Mathematics" so it is already plural. No need for an 'S'.
The reason they spend so much money on marketing isn't because the game wouldn't necessarily sell without it it's so they can make a profit faster. Just like movies that want to see a profit in domestic numbers and not 2 years later in DVD sales.
They use to have an NFL title. They probably dropped it because Madden is just that much better and the EA purchased every NFL related right they could. However Midway does make an NFL title.
I think you will find that will most movies, it isn't if the movie will make money but how quickly. (I am sure some big budget blunders for example may never make a profit.) Most Movie success is measured on the domestic numbers. If you don't turn a profit before counting the overseas and dvd sales, you're a failure.
Umm, The Sims is most certainly an EA game. EA bought Maxis in 1997 and the sims wasn't released until 2000. Maybe Maxis was developing the game before the purchase but that really doesn't change much.
Noting the success of the DS, PSP and iPhone, Hilleman slammed the price of producing console games has rocketed, with marketing costing up to three times more than the development of a title.
While the article is about handheld sales now being double that of consoles, it most certainly talks about the marketing costs. Read the whole article Sparky.
Umm, no decent games. Their sports titles are often the best. They get the best reviews and most sales. You can't say that games like NHL, Madden, MLB The Show aren't quality games. Also EA develops and sells the top selling video game series of all time, the SIMS.
While marketing is definitely important, is it really necessary to spend 3 times your development costs? Do they spend that kind of money on annual titles like Madden, MLB, NHL, etc? Or just when they are new like TOR, Sims 3, Spore?
The product name and manufacturer's name are not necessarily the information they need. Most manufacturer's don't distribute their products themselves so it won't be them hiring the telemarketers. Now they should have a list of distributors for the FCC to investigate. Also the companies can be just importing the stuff. Now you could block that company from importing but they would just start another.
It's a no win battle as long as consumers continue to buy from telemarkers and spammers. They wouldn't do it if there was no money involved.
So the real problem isn't consumer apathy but consumer purchasing.
Big buyers can (and the technically literate will) request to remove or add devices as needed.
If you think Dell or HP will say no to a request from one of the big banks, as LB was back then, then I think you have not worked at that level, or your company didn't have enough cloud to force th issue on their favour.
The companies don't have to have clout to force a removal of cd burners just a big order. And the company I worked for was a Billion Dollar company and it has the clout if it wants to use it. Also the environments are mixed so some people in marketing or other departments that do presentations will need the burners. It's easier just to order them with burners. Remember most purchasers aren't computer savy.
And accepting without conceding that what you say is truth, how difficult is to pay a temp technician to remove all the DVD burners and auction them on eBay to make back some of the money?
Well ask the finance department? You would probably be adding upto 50 dollars to the price of every laptop.
Top quality DVD+/-Rs will last upto 100 years, theoretically. Top quality CD-Rs upto 200. Even lesser quality DVD+/-Rs and good DVD-R/Ws should last 30 years. No problem using them in this case.
Why not put a media player in the time capsule? a used IPOD or PSP? Put the media on the player and maybe a dvd as backup just in case the player no longer works. (Hardware can have a shelf life some times)
I mean is it the employers fault that the employee was surfing porn at work because the sites he visited wasn't blocked by the content controls?
Yes it is. If they are going to enforce content filtering then anything the filter lets through is by definition permitted. If the users have to suffer all the damn stupid false positives in the system then the people runing the system deserve to suffer from any false negatives. Goose and gander.
I am sure when the employee gets sued for sexual harashment that the argument "Well it must be permitted because the content filter didn't caught it." will fly really well with the jury.
I worked for their biggest competitor. Believe me just because they should do something some way doesn't mean that it's done that way in practise in even Billion dollar enterprises on wall street. They probably bought all the computers with CD burners because that's what dell or hp sold the idiot purchaser.
There's no mystery here. I wouldn't be surprised that upon learning that the defendant is a student, it was decided that any chance for fiancial gain was lost and the case was dropped to save legal costs.
[quote]XP will use dual and quad core processors fine[/quote]
XP will not use dual and quad core processors. It's a single processor OS and doesn't move processes between processors. Some software like PhotoShop and the like will use multiple processors but that's all.
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Umm, he was talking about the power redundancy. Also those are not 2 cheap ATX supplies, they are top quality server grade power supplies just no redundant. Though if you provide redundant power, you really shouldn't need battery backup on the sata cards as the datacenter would certainly have a UPS. I guess the motherboard could blow and battery backup could protect against that.
Do the sata card they are using support hotswap? When we were designing NAS devices back in 2005, only the actual SATA raid cards supported true hotswap. That's why we used them even when building software raid boxes.
These are pretty impressive and a good start but there's a few of things I would do differently. I use to build NAS boxes for a living and there are some issues with this design. I think they have cut too many corners
1) Their choice of RAID cards is somewhat questionable. What 4 cards can you get for $175 total which will support proper hotswap? Even running software raid, I would still want cards that provide proper monitoring and drive management like 3ware. Yeah maybe it would have cost you a fair bit more $175 per box but it would be worth the difference. You would still be saving a ton. Also I am not sure I would put more than one drive on a cable with a multiplexer. You can get 16 port 3ware cards that use multiport cables that break out at the back plane. Now you would also have to upgrade to a server class motherboard with at least 3 PCIe slots.
2) I haven't checked recently but is software raid 6 even recommended yet. I know the 2.6 kernel has been supporting for a while but it was still listed as experimental last I checked. I might stick with raid 5 here.
3) While using Zippy power supplies is an excellent choice, I would definitely want redundant power in these boxes.
Math is the short form of the word "Mathematics" so it is already plural. No need for an 'S'.
The reason they spend so much money on marketing isn't because the game wouldn't necessarily sell without it it's so they can make a profit faster. Just like movies that want to see a profit in domestic numbers and not 2 years later in DVD sales.
They use to have an NFL title. They probably dropped it because Madden is just that much better and the EA purchased every NFL related right they could. However Midway does make an NFL title.
http://www.midway.com/us/Game_BlitzTheLeagueII.html
I think you will find that will most movies, it isn't if the movie will make money but how quickly. (I am sure some big budget blunders for example may never make a profit.) Most Movie success is measured on the domestic numbers. If you don't turn a profit before counting the overseas and dvd sales, you're a failure.
Umm, The Sims is most certainly an EA game. EA bought Maxis in 1997 and the sims wasn't released until 2000. Maybe Maxis was developing the game before the purchase but that really doesn't change much.
Monopoly? Hardly what about 2K Sports.
http://2ksports.com/
Noting the success of the DS, PSP and iPhone, Hilleman slammed the price of producing console games has rocketed, with marketing costing up to three times more than the development of a title.
While the article is about handheld sales now being double that of consoles, it most certainly talks about the marketing costs. Read the whole article Sparky.
Umm, no decent games. Their sports titles are often the best. They get the best reviews and most sales. You can't say that games like NHL, Madden, MLB The Show aren't quality games. Also EA develops and sells the top selling video game series of all time, the SIMS.
While marketing is definitely important, is it really necessary to spend 3 times your development costs? Do they spend that kind of money on annual titles like Madden, MLB, NHL, etc? Or just when they are new like TOR, Sims 3, Spore?
The product name and manufacturer's name are not necessarily the information they need. Most manufacturer's don't distribute their products themselves so it won't be them hiring the telemarketers. Now they should have a list of distributors for the FCC to investigate. Also the companies can be just importing the stuff. Now you could block that company from importing but they would just start another.
It's a no win battle as long as consumers continue to buy from telemarkers and spammers. They wouldn't do it if there was no money involved.
So the real problem isn't consumer apathy but consumer purchasing.
If they already have a call center in the cheapest place, I can guarrantee they don't care about the pre-recorded law as they aren't in the US.
They just call from another country to get around the no call lists anyway so you're right.
If you have an AGP video card you will not be able to access all the memory. AGP video is memory mapped just below the 4GB mark.
I have CD-Rs that are 10 years old that still work. In a sealed container like time capsule, you won't have to worry about mold or water.
Big buyers can (and the technically literate will) request to remove or add devices as needed.
If you think Dell or HP will say no to a request from one of the big banks, as LB was back then, then I think you have not worked at that level, or your company didn't have enough cloud to force th issue on their favour.
The companies don't have to have clout to force a removal of cd burners just a big order. And the company I worked for was a Billion Dollar company and it has the clout if it wants to use it. Also the environments are mixed so some people in marketing or other departments that do presentations will need the burners. It's easier just to order them with burners. Remember most purchasers aren't computer savy.
And accepting without conceding that what you say is truth, how difficult is to pay a temp technician to remove all the DVD burners and auction them on eBay to make back some of the money?
Well ask the finance department? You would probably be adding upto 50 dollars to the price of every laptop.
Top quality DVD+/-Rs will last upto 100 years, theoretically. Top quality CD-Rs upto 200. Even lesser quality DVD+/-Rs and good DVD-R/Ws should last 30 years. No problem using them in this case.
http://www.osta.org/technology/dvdqa/dvdqa11.htm
Why not put a media player in the time capsule? a used IPOD or PSP? Put the media on the player and maybe a dvd as backup just in case the player no longer works. (Hardware can have a shelf life some times)
I mean is it the employers fault that the employee was surfing porn at work because the sites he visited wasn't blocked by the content controls?
Yes it is. If they are going to enforce content filtering then anything the filter lets through is by definition permitted.
If the users have to suffer all the damn stupid false positives in the system then the people runing the system deserve to suffer from any false negatives.
Goose and gander.
I am sure when the employee gets sued for sexual harashment that the argument "Well it must be permitted because the content filter didn't caught it." will fly really well with the jury.
Because that's how dell and hp sell them. Purchasers don't care about IT security.
I worked for their biggest competitor. Believe me just because they should do something some way doesn't mean that it's done that way in practise in even Billion dollar enterprises on wall street. They probably bought all the computers with CD burners because that's what dell or hp sold the idiot purchaser.
There's no mystery here. I wouldn't be surprised that upon learning that the defendant is a student, it was decided that any chance for fiancial gain was lost and the case was dropped to save legal costs.
I said it won't use dual or quad core processors, I didn't say it wouldn't recognize them. XP doesn't make use of multiple cores.
[quote]XP will use dual and quad core processors fine[/quote]
XP will not use dual and quad core processors. It's a single processor OS and doesn't move processes between processors. Some software like PhotoShop and the like will use multiple processors but that's all.