There are means to actually match photos to the sensor that took the photo even if that EXIF information was removed, and I think that's what is being suggested.
A driver is probably needed to handle the hybrid part - to know what to do with the special features that are new to consumer drives. I think the OS has to decide what to put on the flash cache, I don't think that the drive can realistically be expected to do that on its own. With a current generic driver, I don't expect that there would be any benefit to using this type of drive.
PCs can be quietly cooled with much less extreme methods. For example, for a long time, I've owned workstation-type computers (Alpha, PPC and Xeon) that were quieter than the typical consumer or gamer desktop, despite being more power hungry than a consumer desktop, they just used better parts and better design for the cooling. For one, it takes just a little more expense to buy fans that are either better built or just larger diameter but run slower, and maybe have a thermostat so that it doesn't need to run very fast unless the air really is getting too warm. Often, they are drop-in replacements.
Sometimes I wonder if the support angle is a crutch. Any large organization should have enough people qualified enough to manage the systems without any help from Microsoft. If there is some mysterious valid reason to need support, I'm surprised they can't buy a long term support contract anyway, MS does sell support for supposedly EOL software. I think the DOD has support contracts for VAX/VMS through to 2012, so an extra three years from Microsoft isn't an unreasonable demand, and I think Microsoft can make good money on those contracts too.
I think all-in-one / system-on-a-chip have been around for a long time, but they just weren't popular because that meant a significant performance hit. They may become more common as the performance becomes "good enough" for most common tasks where a desktop or notebook computer would be unnecessary and overpowered. It hasn't been a very popular idea yet, I think in part because the cost difference wasn't much. The next mainstream computer platform just might be a phone though, I understand that a lot of people in SE Asia have been doing this for several years already.
I for one though, do not like Apple and its OSX as a platform and wonder why people say it's very good as a platform.
I don't like their hardware strategy, but I like OS X because it requires far less effort to maintain it than anything else I've used. I like it that there's no registry that can get corrupted such that one installer can ruin everything, and most programs don't need an installer or uninstaller (drop the program icon to trash & empty usually removes the program), and that there's nowhere nearly the dependency hell of any other OS I've used. I also like the fact that I can actually force a user account to have no admin priviledges and the software would actually work. This works under UNIX, but for my family, there's always one program that they need that pukes when it doesn't have admin priviledges.
I'm not sure it needs to be built into the OS. I know there are third party tools for Linux and OS X that check the SMART status, I would be surprised if XP didn't have something similar.
I'm not totally convinced that it really does anything good, and there's some indication that my gut impression is correct. The Google drive paper said that SMART data is good for statistical tracking of a population of like drives, but a SMART error on a particular drive isn't an indicator that the given drive will actually die.
The difference being whether it is all electronic or partly mechanical/optical.
I really haven't heard of a circumstance where good "electronic image stabilization" (also known as EIS, non-optical stabilization) surpasses good optical image stabilization (OIS). Another partly mechanical system that hasn't been surpassed by an electronic system is gyroscope, the best mechanical gyros have a lot less drift than an electronic gyro, at least according to an EE/aviation guy that I know. This MEMS system will simply be a continuation of this, just that the mechanical parts are smaller. It may be an improvement while giving the perception of being non-mechanical. Micro electromechanical devices are often small enough that what is known about fatigue is different vs larger mechanical devices. DLPs are electromechanical but they have lifetimes that are comparable to purely electronic devices.
Usually for food, getting twice as much doesn't cost more than 25% more, it's very rare do I see getting twice as much costs more than twice as much. At the local Chinese place, it's like $3 for a pt of a dish, $4 for a quart. It's a lot to do with incremental costs. Compared to the labor, materials and other expenses for cooking the first pt, the second pt of same dish is very, very tiny, so the extra $1 may be more profitable than the first $3. It's the same at other restraunts, a pt of beer might be $4, a quart, maybe $5 or so, it's not likely going to be $10. You want to make people think they are getting a better deal by upgrading, and they are, and the establishment still makes a lot more margins on the upgrade differential than the base price.
Quickbooks is pretty bad too. The first year of payroll is supported by one payroll table download, and I think it's $150 for the next year. The third year gets to be more expensive than buying the latest copy of the appropriate version of Quickbooks for the business. Instead, we just buy the latest version and it starts again, even years buy new, odd years update.
With giving away a home version, can disclaim away support for the free version too. If you want any support, you can either actually try searching the knowledge base for free or pay for the product.
I don't think drive reliability is that bad. I'm using more drives now (five in each of two computers, then there are external drives) than I ever have been (often just one or two drives per computer) and I am getting fewer failures than I did a decade ago. I had one drive fail a month ago, and two fail about a decade ago. I've got many drives that work but aren't worth connecting, my first drive probably would still work, but 40MB isn't worth it except for the nostalgia - to see what I ran ~15 years ago and what files I made.
I think Maxtor has had a history of poor reliability, and some think that Western Digital isn't all that great either. Unfortunately, I haven't seen any reports comparing reliability between brands (the reports chicken out, though understandable if the maker is willing to sue), so now we're stuck without quantifiable information on how much brand and model makes a difference.
Maybe it means the iPod Linux developers? Apple doesn't seem too keen on giving out an SDK for the iPod.
I don't know what it takes to get it so information can show up in the UI, but I think this "recorder" may just be using the iPod as a mass storage device. The only easy way to get information to show up on the iPod without syncing is to save a note in a particular folder.
On the downside, Amazon no longer sell electronics to Ireland as they're unwilling to collect the fees.
I suppose it's Amazon's decision, I'm curious how an overseas entity can be expected to handle that. I can understand it if it was collected by customs - that's how taxes are done. It is done this way rather than assuming it's the seller's responsibility to collect taxes for a government entity that has no jurisdiction to do so.
I don't think it's nearly that bad way. They want DRM, what they are objecting to is the closed DRM model that Apple has. If the time-to-fix supposedly in the iTunes contracts is the problem, then maybe they should allow it to be extended so that fixes to cracks.
Anyway, I'll repeat what I've said before, just support labels and bands that aren't in the RIAA. It's their legal right to protect their works and control how it is distributed, if we don't like it, we should support non-RIAA bands.
We use computers to do things that it really isn't the best at doing, but we use the computer because it is so flexible at doing so many things and cheaply, wheras a DSP in a specialized box may be better for a specific single task, the economies of scale come into play.
It's hard to say, though it does seem like an incredibly lowball estimate. Still, a major disaster that hits the US doesn't seem to cause anywhere near the same level of fatalities as it does in other areas, though a heck of a lot of damage is done.
I would have thought that a Yellowstone eruption was going to wipe out a few states, and pretty much anyone in them. The ash makes helicopter operation practically imposible and hot chunks of rubble will just sear through tires, leaving not much to evacuate with, assuming that the CO2 and sulfur emissions don't choke.
A day or a week is way too short. However, impressions like these won't help unless of course BitTorrent addresses the problems.
I think that DRM is only relevant for rented downloads, it allows people to pay for a limited time for a lower price. DRM for a personal copy is not something that I accept.
I don't know what this project does differently than ASIMO, but it seems to do it a lot more fluidly and quickly than ASIMO does in all the videos I've seen.
If it is for Windows work, that won't do it because the Windows machine is on a PCI add-in card, and Windows won't work on Sparc.
But anyway, I don't know of any Windows notebook that can do 4GB. Most of the notebooks I've seen that can accommodate 4GB don't have PAE support so that it can actually use 4GB, they often only leave a little over 3GB that the system can use.
Maybe I'd suggest lugging extra notebooks instead, rather than running oodles of VMware sessions on one, split them down a bit.
If it is run over public land, then the government has every right to dictate its leasing terms. I have no problem with other companies being charged a fair rate by DT for the use of the lines, it shouldn't be locked out or assigned prohibitive fees. Such terms were dictated to prevent excessive duplication of cables and reduce eyesores. How the fees are done in some areas is that the line owner must charge other companies the same rates that its internal units pay for the same service. Accounting rules often dictate that sub-units of a business be treated as separate businesses, and money is charged between business units.
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There are means to actually match photos to the sensor that took the photo even if that EXIF information was removed, and I think that's what is being suggested.
A driver is probably needed to handle the hybrid part - to know what to do with the special features that are new to consumer drives. I think the OS has to decide what to put on the flash cache, I don't think that the drive can realistically be expected to do that on its own. With a current generic driver, I don't expect that there would be any benefit to using this type of drive.
PCs can be quietly cooled with much less extreme methods. For example, for a long time, I've owned workstation-type computers (Alpha, PPC and Xeon) that were quieter than the typical consumer or gamer desktop, despite being more power hungry than a consumer desktop, they just used better parts and better design for the cooling. For one, it takes just a little more expense to buy fans that are either better built or just larger diameter but run slower, and maybe have a thermostat so that it doesn't need to run very fast unless the air really is getting too warm. Often, they are drop-in replacements.
It doesn't matter, I think either would reinforce the notion that Star Wars fans have too much money and not enough good sense.
Sometimes I wonder if the support angle is a crutch. Any large organization should have enough people qualified enough to manage the systems without any help from Microsoft. If there is some mysterious valid reason to need support, I'm surprised they can't buy a long term support contract anyway, MS does sell support for supposedly EOL software. I think the DOD has support contracts for VAX/VMS through to 2012, so an extra three years from Microsoft isn't an unreasonable demand, and I think Microsoft can make good money on those contracts too.
Maybe something was left out of that entry. To me, it reads like a production adviser, not an on-screen role.
I think all-in-one / system-on-a-chip have been around for a long time, but they just weren't popular because that meant a significant performance hit. They may become more common as the performance becomes "good enough" for most common tasks where a desktop or notebook computer would be unnecessary and overpowered. It hasn't been a very popular idea yet, I think in part because the cost difference wasn't much. The next mainstream computer platform just might be a phone though, I understand that a lot of people in SE Asia have been doing this for several years already.
I for one though, do not like Apple and its OSX as a platform and wonder why people say it's very good as a platform.
I don't like their hardware strategy, but I like OS X because it requires far less effort to maintain it than anything else I've used. I like it that there's no registry that can get corrupted such that one installer can ruin everything, and most programs don't need an installer or uninstaller (drop the program icon to trash & empty usually removes the program), and that there's nowhere nearly the dependency hell of any other OS I've used. I also like the fact that I can actually force a user account to have no admin priviledges and the software would actually work. This works under UNIX, but for my family, there's always one program that they need that pukes when it doesn't have admin priviledges.
I think it's a good idea, and it's easier to manage the software for multiple platforms because web pages can be made platform agnostic.
I'm not sure it needs to be built into the OS. I know there are third party tools for Linux and OS X that check the SMART status, I would be surprised if XP didn't have something similar.
I'm not totally convinced that it really does anything good, and there's some indication that my gut impression is correct. The Google drive paper said that SMART data is good for statistical tracking of a population of like drives, but a SMART error on a particular drive isn't an indicator that the given drive will actually die.
The difference being whether it is all electronic or partly mechanical/optical.
I really haven't heard of a circumstance where good "electronic image stabilization" (also known as EIS, non-optical stabilization) surpasses good optical image stabilization (OIS). Another partly mechanical system that hasn't been surpassed by an electronic system is gyroscope, the best mechanical gyros have a lot less drift than an electronic gyro, at least according to an EE/aviation guy that I know. This MEMS system will simply be a continuation of this, just that the mechanical parts are smaller. It may be an improvement while giving the perception of being non-mechanical. Micro electromechanical devices are often small enough that what is known about fatigue is different vs larger mechanical devices. DLPs are electromechanical but they have lifetimes that are comparable to purely electronic devices.
Usually for food, getting twice as much doesn't cost more than 25% more, it's very rare do I see getting twice as much costs more than twice as much. At the local Chinese place, it's like $3 for a pt of a dish, $4 for a quart. It's a lot to do with incremental costs. Compared to the labor, materials and other expenses for cooking the first pt, the second pt of same dish is very, very tiny, so the extra $1 may be more profitable than the first $3. It's the same at other restraunts, a pt of beer might be $4, a quart, maybe $5 or so, it's not likely going to be $10. You want to make people think they are getting a better deal by upgrading, and they are, and the establishment still makes a lot more margins on the upgrade differential than the base price.
Quickbooks is pretty bad too. The first year of payroll is supported by one payroll table download, and I think it's $150 for the next year. The third year gets to be more expensive than buying the latest copy of the appropriate version of Quickbooks for the business. Instead, we just buy the latest version and it starts again, even years buy new, odd years update.
With giving away a home version, can disclaim away support for the free version too. If you want any support, you can either actually try searching the knowledge base for free or pay for the product.
I don't think drive reliability is that bad. I'm using more drives now (five in each of two computers, then there are external drives) than I ever have been (often just one or two drives per computer) and I am getting fewer failures than I did a decade ago. I had one drive fail a month ago, and two fail about a decade ago. I've got many drives that work but aren't worth connecting, my first drive probably would still work, but 40MB isn't worth it except for the nostalgia - to see what I ran ~15 years ago and what files I made.
I think Maxtor has had a history of poor reliability, and some think that Western Digital isn't all that great either. Unfortunately, I haven't seen any reports comparing reliability between brands (the reports chicken out, though understandable if the maker is willing to sue), so now we're stuck without quantifiable information on how much brand and model makes a difference.
Maybe it means the iPod Linux developers? Apple doesn't seem too keen on giving out an SDK for the iPod.
I don't know what it takes to get it so information can show up in the UI, but I think this "recorder" may just be using the iPod as a mass storage device. The only easy way to get information to show up on the iPod without syncing is to save a note in a particular folder.
On the downside, Amazon no longer sell electronics to Ireland as they're unwilling to collect the fees.
I suppose it's Amazon's decision, I'm curious how an overseas entity can be expected to handle that. I can understand it if it was collected by customs - that's how taxes are done. It is done this way rather than assuming it's the seller's responsibility to collect taxes for a government entity that has no jurisdiction to do so.
I don't think it's nearly that bad way. They want DRM, what they are objecting to is the closed DRM model that Apple has. If the time-to-fix supposedly in the iTunes contracts is the problem, then maybe they should allow it to be extended so that fixes to cracks.
Anyway, I'll repeat what I've said before, just support labels and bands that aren't in the RIAA. It's their legal right to protect their works and control how it is distributed, if we don't like it, we should support non-RIAA bands.
The graphics processor is basically a DSP now.
We use computers to do things that it really isn't the best at doing, but we use the computer because it is so flexible at doing so many things and cheaply, wheras a DSP in a specialized box may be better for a specific single task, the economies of scale come into play.
It's hard to say, though it does seem like an incredibly lowball estimate. Still, a major disaster that hits the US doesn't seem to cause anywhere near the same level of fatalities as it does in other areas, though a heck of a lot of damage is done.
I would have thought that a Yellowstone eruption was going to wipe out a few states, and pretty much anyone in them. The ash makes helicopter operation practically imposible and hot chunks of rubble will just sear through tires, leaving not much to evacuate with, assuming that the CO2 and sulfur emissions don't choke.
A day or a week is way too short. However, impressions like these won't help unless of course BitTorrent addresses the problems.
I think that DRM is only relevant for rented downloads, it allows people to pay for a limited time for a lower price. DRM for a personal copy is not something that I accept.
I don't know what this project does differently than ASIMO, but it seems to do it a lot more fluidly and quickly than ASIMO does in all the videos I've seen.
If it is for Windows work, that won't do it because the Windows machine is on a PCI add-in card, and Windows won't work on Sparc.
But anyway, I don't know of any Windows notebook that can do 4GB. Most of the notebooks I've seen that can accommodate 4GB don't have PAE support so that it can actually use 4GB, they often only leave a little over 3GB that the system can use.
Maybe I'd suggest lugging extra notebooks instead, rather than running oodles of VMware sessions on one, split them down a bit.
If it is run over public land, then the government has every right to dictate its leasing terms. I have no problem with other companies being charged a fair rate by DT for the use of the lines, it shouldn't be locked out or assigned prohibitive fees. Such terms were dictated to prevent excessive duplication of cables and reduce eyesores. How the fees are done in some areas is that the line owner must charge other companies the same rates that its internal units pay for the same service. Accounting rules often dictate that sub-units of a business be treated as separate businesses, and money is charged between business units.
Risibility? Wow, that looks like a pretty obscure word. I don't think I've seen it before, I had to look it up.