just to clarify, this is good for fitting content into spaces where it would not fit otherwise, not just a method to reduct image size. on a pda phone for instance, one might prefer to see the modified image of a football scene rather than not be able to see it at all for lack of screen real-estate.
so my comment to this is, how is the new digital world worse than the old way of 'bar life', late gigs for $50 a night in smoke filled rooms playing to drunkards? I just happen to be a formerly aspiring musician and the digital age has pulled me right out of the bar sceen. in fact, youtube and p2p file sharing has given me more connections and a more appreciative audience! i certainly dont feel the digital age is a 'cold' play for a new musician.
I guess that the only way I can agree is that if you are an older musician, and computers are intimidating, then it may be disheartening.
I'd rather say that AMD likely wont produce the premier chips like they did when the hammers first came out. AMD had such dominant chips then and it really woke Intel up. a japanese commander said something to the effect of "I fear we have woken a sleeping giant" when they attacked pearl harbor, and i think that is exactly what AMD did with intel when they lead the market..
i certainly hope AMD stays in the game but i doubt they will lead it with barcelona.
No doubt that from a design perspective the barcelona is superior to an intel dual/dual core design. The problems is of course yields and bins. barcelona is a more expensive design because of lower yields from larger slabs of silicone. The only way to overcome that is to make much less complex, lower transistor count cores to up yields. otherwise, make a point-2-point bus working at much higher bandwidths and make seperate cores and glue them together(Intel). Intel will win this game because of better yields and higher profits per CPU because of both yields and higher bins. this is without considering smaller processes and no SOI problems.
it is completely open source and completely open. it has no restrictions in use period.. have you read the license? the GPL is the less open of the two, by virtue of forcing any GPL'd code into remaining GPL.
ANALOGY WARNING: this is like the difference in having free beer until you grab it, then it becomes your beer(CDL) VS. having free beer that is still everyones beer even after you have pissed it out, then some barley soaks it up, then it is brewed back into beer and it is still everyones beer.(GPL). in fact, the analogy would be better to say the the GPL forces you to save your pee, then poor that pee on some barley and tag the barley as 'beer barley per GPLv2', then harvesting and brewing that into beer which then needs to be labeled 'beer brewed in accordance with GPLv2' and then must be given away OR the recipe must be given away via the internet or for the cost of delivering the formula on CD.
i like the GPL, but the other OSS licenses are also quite good
i have just rebuilt my setup and am having good luck with it. this might be an option for you.
i had this same kind of issue a few years back and started with a 'hardware' raid card(aka bootable software card). when the raid card failed, i replaced it with an exact duplicate but could not recover my array as the firmware was not identical and the chipset revision had changed! in short i lost all my media that had not hit DVD!. next i went software raid on linux with mythtv and that worked quite well though expanding the raid became difficult and multiple logical drives did not suite me well.
so i went with 2 boxes! one is on an old BP6 dual celery500@600mhz with just 256mb ram running solaris for ZFS. i had read about ZFS a bit and had some old 40GB drives lying around so i built it and did a z-raid on the 3 drives and ZFS rocks! so easy to add drives and i can mix and match sizes and pull out old drives when they arent worth having anymore! im not running opensolaris as ZFS wasnt ready on that platform yet. so now i have 2x120gb, 4x200gb and 1x320gb in the array/ZFS set. i export the drives on gigabit(pci33mhz so im really at about 1/2gigabit cause the pci bus sucks!) and i have better drive performance on my mythtv box via the network than i do with the 4x100GB drives in the mythbox. i am using samba on solaris as NFS was slower and i have not played with iscsi on solaris enough though i plan to implement it.
solaris and ZFS suit this purpose very well and i dont think i would go back to running a software raid on linux if i can run free solaris and ZFS!
i am not using the inbuilt disk compression as the media files are already compressed and the celeron processors i think would be limiting.
i can also access the ZFS samba resource from my windows xp machine and watch the media from their though i had a bit of trouble finding the right codec to play the mythtv format.
this is supposed to be a universal disk, one should not have to install drivers for a universal disk. just like a memory key, these things need to be plugged in and work. also, if you change the file access system, they will not work in existing products. brand new formats tend to fail if they dont have backwards compatibility
actually, i dont believe that each host should control file access at a raw level. a camera with some bad circuitry could corrupt the card much more easily via raw access vs a file system. a memory card filesystem should control how data is writen to insure reliability and also for techniques like evenly writing to all memory cells to avoid cell burnout as memory cells have a finity cycle count. if each host controls this then their is no consistency and curruption is almost guaranteed as cameras and devices tend to get abused and moisture and dust can make them mis-behave
true enough, but if you cannot format a drive larger then functionally that limit is true. linux or osx will format high capacities but windows would need a 3rd party utility or a patch.
really, the initial disks @ 8gb wont have any issues and im not entirely sure why a current standard would have memory cards higher than 32gb anyway. by the time 32+ gb drivers are commonplace this standard SHOULD be replaced. IMHO
though AMD has lost a bit of thunder recently with the core2 line kicking butt, this multiple core phase the industry is moving towards is going to help AMD. They made a decision to change the bus for multi-core systems a while ago and this chip is the first one to really show off that bus. I think that Intel will have faster individual cores for a while and barcellona wont challenge that but AMD has a much better multi-core multi-processor bus so multi-core scaling will be much much better for AMD. an 8 core AMD will likely stomp an 8 core Intel chip though the Intel chips will be better per individual core.
I just hope that AMD can make a big enough improvement on their cores before Intel can get thier cpu to cpu speeds up to par. I have an Intel dual CPU/dual core Xeon server at work that is fast but i cannot tell the difference in most things between a single 2core and the dual 2core setup because of the week bus.
to clarify for those not up to speed on the current platforms, AMD has a high speed dedication point to point bus for each CPU and each CPU has a direct dedicated link to its own memory while intel has a fast shared bus that can get saturate especially when only running at 533 or 800 mhz giving AMD the advantage in that regard.
cat 5e is capable of carrying gigabit BUT it is at it's limits and if you have any sever crimps or nicks in the cable OR you have not been very careful when jacking the ends you can have a 'gigabit' connection that will switch down to 100 speed as soon as you start transferring data. you will pay no more than 10% more for cat 6 and it is less picky about running gigabit as its pair winding is better suited to higher megahertz(cat5 had a 100mhz target and gigabit is something like 155mhz though i cannot remember exactly) cat 6 will also support 10gigabit which is a currect standard.
i would not aim for anything higher than that with your current wiring as predicted standards change quickly.
conclusion? : use cat6, run 2 wires to each outlet and use conduit if you can as you can pull new wires later AND it will help keep your wires away from the AC wiring which can interfere. if you want speakers all around the room then run 3 cables as cat6 will carry enough speaker current on a single pair for surrounds. you need a little bigger gage for fronts though i have just used 2 pair for each polarity on cat5e and it works quite well. cat5/6 will also carry a cable tv signal a short distance but i would only use multiple pairs on a digital signal as an analog signal may give you some ghosting or noise as the pairs have different lengths because of their twists(blue pair is about 30% longer than the brown pair as it is twisted more)
the make this clear, the USB interface does not have the plug casing and is therefore very small. this is the same thickness as an sd/mmc card. it is electronically compatible with sd/mmc via contacts on the card as well as with USB by a seperate set of contacts. this is essentially MMC2.0(it is lacking the 'secure' part of the SD name, no 'write protect' switch) and looks to use the same type of logic for memory access as mmc rather than sd. the idea here is that this card will fit in a modern digital camera with an sd/mmc slot AND fit in the USB port on a pc. this is a reverse adapter system where the card needs a 'guide' to fit in SD/MMC slots but not for USB.
MMC is the same physical layer as SD but has different logic for memory access. SD has typically been much faster. this is essentially MMC2.0. doesnt look like it has the "secure" part aka 'write protect switch' but has improved on the speed to be the newest and consiquently the fastest memory card.
true! and if you look at the pictures, this is exactly what is being done. in fact, sandisk has what could be considered the predicessor to this with those SD cards than hinge in the middle and the business end of the card becomes USB without the plug casing.
unfortunately, to be universally accessable it needs to be fat. ntfs for windows would work but write support is not complete across platforms or is in a functional beta state. ext2 would work but drivers would need installed on a number of OSs to use it. if this is released @ 8GB, i wonder what system then plan on using?
not true. microsoft gets stuff right at version 3 and then goes down hill from there. windows 3(3.11 actually) we the best, most stable version of windows. from then on windows got more unstable, heavier, and buggier. zune 3.0 and xbox 3 will rock but zune 4 and 5 with suck hind tit and xbox 3 will get destroyed by wii2!
data from the past is readable because of 3 or 4 things.
first: the data is physical and that means lasting. head and sun and rain take a very long time to destroy words is stone
second: oral history and evolution of languages allows us to extrapolate much of a language based on similar languages.
third: context keys like a rosetta stone that allows us to put actions and words together a build our knowledge upon that.
fourth: pure analysis of structure and reoccuring symbols. taking just the smallest parts of language and searching for them by how common they are and building sentance patterns from that data.
as long as we provide some physical medium then the data can be recovered in time. our best bet would be to print our own rosetta stones on stainless steel or other medium that would last for ages.
these keys could allow future generations to build workable mechanisms to read the data. images could be used to show direction and the corrisponding words to build vocabulary. each translation would allow the next level of data to be read. even the organization on the data mediums like tapes or dvds could be shown so the significan bits and bit counts would be known and the ansii character set would be known from previous keys.
since most of this data would still be stored digitally, it wouldnt take very many keys to get your started.
the only problem is that dvds and cds dont store data indefinitely as the dies degrade in time. tapes loose thier magnetic charge and the plastics decay.
we need a more permanent medium. something more like laser disks where the data is burned physically to the disk and not just a die being altered. maybe have the disks also be steel and have them laser etched when technology can do it for a reasonable price(which is not far off) steel isnt going to degrade anytime soon and by the time it does people wont care what happened in politics as they would probably only be interested in the genomes present at that period in history and climate, solar flare activity etc etc.
i can agree to this as the large multi-lane round-abouts do slow traffic(though it is still orderly!).
the solution is less primary roads such as freeways and more smaller highways so that efficient traffic handling methods will work and not be pushed over capacity. denmark is a good example as their is just one real major freeway from copenhagen to helsingoer. it is just 2x2 lanes seperated but that could be two 1x1 highways with some seperation as many travelers out of copenhagen take the eastern coast up to fredericksberg and then head inland where an inland highway would serve them better.
yes, in many parts of denmark the streets are regulated by round-abouts and it works quite well for the medium-population areas around copenhagen. copenhagen itself doesnt really have the same level of strict traffic regulation as london but still can fairly smooth flow and few accidents(as far as my experience goes anyways)
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just to clarify, this is good for fitting content into spaces where it would not fit otherwise, not just a method to reduct image size. on a pda phone for instance, one might prefer to see the modified image of a football scene rather than not be able to see it at all for lack of screen real-estate.
so my comment to this is, how is the new digital world worse than the old way of 'bar life', late gigs for $50 a night in smoke filled rooms playing to drunkards? I just happen to be a formerly aspiring musician and the digital age has pulled me right out of the bar sceen. in fact, youtube and p2p file sharing has given me more connections and a more appreciative audience! i certainly dont feel the digital age is a 'cold' play for a new musician.
I guess that the only way I can agree is that if you are an older musician, and computers are intimidating, then it may be disheartening.
I'd rather say that AMD likely wont produce the premier chips like they did when the hammers first came out. AMD had such dominant chips then and it really woke Intel up. a japanese commander said something to the effect of "I fear we have woken a sleeping giant" when they attacked pearl harbor, and i think that is exactly what AMD did with intel when they lead the market..
i certainly hope AMD stays in the game but i doubt they will lead it with barcelona.
silicon! so i can't spell!
No doubt that from a design perspective the barcelona is superior to an intel dual/dual core design. The problems is of course yields and bins. barcelona is a more expensive design because of lower yields from larger slabs of silicone. The only way to overcome that is to make much less complex, lower transistor count cores to up yields. otherwise, make a point-2-point bus working at much higher bandwidths and make seperate cores and glue them together(Intel). Intel will win this game because of better yields and higher profits per CPU because of both yields and higher bins. this is without considering smaller processes and no SOI problems.
i believe the point is that there are no real filesystem limitations to worry about and the point is being made with some emphasis
it is completely open source and completely open. it has no restrictions in use period.. have you read the license? the GPL is the less open of the two, by virtue of forcing any GPL'd code into remaining GPL.
ANALOGY WARNING:
this is like the difference in having free beer until you grab it, then it becomes your beer(CDL)
VS.
having free beer that is still everyones beer even after you have pissed it out, then some barley soaks it up, then it is brewed back into beer and it is still everyones beer.(GPL). in fact, the analogy would be better to say the the GPL forces you to save your pee, then poor that pee on some barley and tag the barley as 'beer barley per GPLv2', then harvesting and brewing that into beer which then needs to be labeled 'beer brewed in accordance with GPLv2' and then must be given away OR the recipe must be given away via the internet or for the cost of delivering the formula on CD.
i like the GPL, but the other OSS licenses are also quite good
i have just rebuilt my setup and am having good luck with it. this might be an option for you.
i had this same kind of issue a few years back and started with a 'hardware' raid card(aka bootable software card). when the raid card failed, i replaced it with an exact duplicate but could not recover my array as the firmware was not identical and the chipset revision had changed! in short i lost all my media that had not hit DVD!. next i went software raid on linux with mythtv and that worked quite well though expanding the raid became difficult and multiple logical drives did not suite me well.
so i went with 2 boxes! one is on an old BP6 dual celery500@600mhz with just 256mb ram running solaris for ZFS. i had read about ZFS a bit and had some old 40GB drives lying around so i built it and did a z-raid on the 3 drives and ZFS rocks! so easy to add drives and i can mix and match sizes and pull out old drives when they arent worth having anymore! im not running opensolaris as ZFS wasnt ready on that platform yet. so now i have 2x120gb, 4x200gb and 1x320gb in the array/ZFS set. i export the drives on gigabit(pci33mhz so im really at about 1/2gigabit cause the pci bus sucks!) and i have better drive performance on my mythtv box via the network than i do with the 4x100GB drives in the mythbox. i am using samba on solaris as NFS was slower and i have not played with iscsi on solaris enough though i plan to implement it.
solaris and ZFS suit this purpose very well and i dont think i would go back to running a software raid on linux if i can run free solaris and ZFS!
i am not using the inbuilt disk compression as the media files are already compressed and the celeron processors i think would be limiting.
i can also access the ZFS samba resource from my windows xp machine and watch the media from their though i had a bit of trouble finding the right codec to play the mythtv format.
this is supposed to be a universal disk, one should not have to install drivers for a universal disk. just like a memory key, these things need to be plugged in and work. also, if you change the file access system, they will not work in existing products. brand new formats tend to fail if they dont have backwards compatibility
actually, i dont believe that each host should control file access at a raw level. a camera with some bad circuitry could corrupt the card much more easily via raw access vs a file system. a memory card filesystem should control how data is writen to insure reliability and also for techniques like evenly writing to all memory cells to avoid cell burnout as memory cells have a finity cycle count. if each host controls this then their is no consistency and curruption is almost guaranteed as cameras and devices tend to get abused and moisture and dust can make them mis-behave
true enough, but if you cannot format a drive larger then functionally that limit is true. linux or osx will format high capacities but windows would need a 3rd party utility or a patch.
really, the initial disks @ 8gb wont have any issues and im not entirely sure why a current standard would have memory cards higher than 32gb anyway. by the time 32+ gb drivers are commonplace this standard SHOULD be replaced. IMHO
current rates in my area is ab out $155/1000 for cat5e and $170/1000 for cat6
the cost of networking cable is like gas. when copper goes up so does cable but when copper goes down, cable only goes down a little bit.
though AMD has lost a bit of thunder recently with the core2 line kicking butt, this multiple core phase the industry is moving towards is going to help AMD. They made a decision to change the bus for multi-core systems a while ago and this chip is the first one to really show off that bus. I think that Intel will have faster individual cores for a while and barcellona wont challenge that but AMD has a much better multi-core multi-processor bus so multi-core scaling will be much much better for AMD. an 8 core AMD will likely stomp an 8 core Intel chip though the Intel chips will be better per individual core.
I just hope that AMD can make a big enough improvement on their cores before Intel can get thier cpu to cpu speeds up to par. I have an Intel dual CPU/dual core Xeon server at work that is fast but i cannot tell the difference in most things between a single 2core and the dual 2core setup because of the week bus.
to clarify for those not up to speed on the current platforms, AMD has a high speed dedication point to point bus for each CPU and each CPU has a direct dedicated link to its own memory while intel has a fast shared bus that can get saturate especially when only running at 533 or 800 mhz giving AMD the advantage in that regard.
wouldn't this be more appropriate as a 'power off' button? isn't that the typical use of a big red panic button?
maybe rig it up to kill your ethernet so you can conveniently loose connection when getting your butt stomped in a C&C3 match!
cat 5e is capable of carrying gigabit BUT it is at it's limits and if you have any sever crimps or nicks in the cable OR you have not been very careful when jacking the ends you can have a 'gigabit' connection that will switch down to 100 speed as soon as you start transferring data. you will pay no more than 10% more for cat 6 and it is less picky about running gigabit as its pair winding is better suited to higher megahertz(cat5 had a 100mhz target and gigabit is something like 155mhz though i cannot remember exactly) cat 6 will also support 10gigabit which is a currect standard.
i would not aim for anything higher than that with your current wiring as predicted standards change quickly.
conclusion? : use cat6, run 2 wires to each outlet and use conduit if you can as you can pull new wires later AND it will help keep your wires away from the AC wiring which can interfere. if you want speakers all around the room then run 3 cables as cat6 will carry enough speaker current on a single pair for surrounds. you need a little bigger gage for fronts though i have just used 2 pair for each polarity on cat5e and it works quite well. cat5/6 will also carry a cable tv signal a short distance but i would only use multiple pairs on a digital signal as an analog signal may give you some ghosting or noise as the pairs have different lengths because of their twists(blue pair is about 30% longer than the brown pair as it is twisted more)
the make this clear, the USB interface does not have the plug casing and is therefore very small. this is the same thickness as an sd/mmc card. it is electronically compatible with sd/mmc via contacts on the card as well as with USB by a seperate set of contacts. this is essentially MMC2.0(it is lacking the 'secure' part of the SD name, no 'write protect' switch) and looks to use the same type of logic for memory access as mmc rather than sd. the idea here is that this card will fit in a modern digital camera with an sd/mmc slot AND fit in the USB port on a pc. this is a reverse adapter system where the card needs a 'guide' to fit in SD/MMC slots but not for USB.
MMC is the same physical layer as SD but has different logic for memory access. SD has typically been much faster. this is essentially MMC2.0. doesnt look like it has the "secure" part aka 'write protect switch' but has improved on the speed to be the newest and consiquently the fastest memory card.
true! and if you look at the pictures, this is exactly what is being done. in fact, sandisk has what could be considered the predicessor to this with those SD cards than hinge in the middle and the business end of the card becomes USB without the plug casing.
unfortunately, to be universally accessable it needs to be fat. ntfs for windows would work but write support is not complete across platforms or is in a functional beta state. ext2 would work but drivers would need installed on a number of OSs to use it. if this is released @ 8GB, i wonder what system then plan on using?
not true. microsoft gets stuff right at version 3 and then goes down hill from there. windows 3(3.11 actually) we the best, most stable version of windows. from then on windows got more unstable, heavier, and buggier. zune 3.0 and xbox 3 will rock but zune 4 and 5 with suck hind tit and xbox 3 will get destroyed by wii2!
data from the past is readable because of 3 or 4 things.
first: the data is physical and that means lasting. head and sun and rain take a very long time to destroy words is stone
second: oral history and evolution of languages allows us to extrapolate much of a language based on similar languages.
third: context keys like a rosetta stone that allows us to put actions and words together a build our knowledge upon that.
fourth: pure analysis of structure and reoccuring symbols. taking just the smallest parts of language and searching for them by how common they are and building sentance patterns from that data.
as long as we provide some physical medium then the data can be recovered in time. our best bet would be to print our own rosetta stones on stainless steel or other medium that would last for ages.
these keys could allow future generations to build workable mechanisms to read the data. images could be used to show direction and the corrisponding words to build vocabulary. each translation would allow the next level of data to be read. even the organization on the data mediums like tapes or dvds could be shown so the significan bits and bit counts would be known and the ansii character set would be known from previous keys.
since most of this data would still be stored digitally, it wouldnt take very many keys to get your started.
the only problem is that dvds and cds dont store data indefinitely as the dies degrade in time. tapes loose thier magnetic charge and the plastics decay.
we need a more permanent medium. something more like laser disks where the data is burned physically to the disk and not just a die being altered. maybe have the disks also be steel and have them laser etched when technology can do it for a reasonable price(which is not far off) steel isnt going to degrade anytime soon and by the time it does people wont care what happened in politics as they would probably only be interested in the genomes present at that period in history and climate, solar flare activity etc etc.
i would say it's that you are not trained to use them. when people understand them they work very well in low to medium traffic flows.
i can agree to this as the large multi-lane round-abouts do slow traffic(though it is still orderly!).
the solution is less primary roads such as freeways and more smaller highways so that efficient traffic handling methods will work and not be pushed over capacity. denmark is a good example as their is just one real major freeway from copenhagen to helsingoer. it is just 2x2 lanes seperated but that could be two 1x1 highways with some seperation as many travelers out of copenhagen take the eastern coast up to fredericksberg and then head inland where an inland highway would serve them better.
yes, in many parts of denmark the streets are regulated by round-abouts and it works quite well for the medium-population areas around copenhagen. copenhagen itself doesnt really have the same level of strict traffic regulation as london but still can fairly smooth flow and few accidents(as far as my experience goes anyways)
excuse me, but a copy IS a backup.. and a direct copy of a hard disk to another disk is both a copy AND a backup.