Your good options are raid 1, raid 0+1, or raid 5, depending on what you want..
Raid 1 is the safest.. just mirroring the drives, but it results in no speed increase..
Raid 0+1 does mirrored stripe sets -- you get the speed advantages of raid 0 with the full protection of raid 1.
Raid 5 is good middle ground. Raid 5 stores 1 drive's worth of parity. When you lose a drive, your system goes down (if you don't have a hot spare), but you throw another disk in and it'll come back up. You also get some speed increase over a normal drive setup. With RAID 5, you only lose a single drive's worth of capacity no matter how many drives are in your array, whereas with raid 1, you lose 50%.
You're exactly right on this. Before the Internet, they could rely on their multi-million dollar advertising campaigns to float their sub-par movie. Now that people can easily get a hold of reviews (I like rotten tomato) quickly, they might have to change their business plan.
And big corporations have shown over and over that instead of changing their business plans, they prefer to just sue people. xbox mod chips and RIAA file swapping lawsuits come to mind.
I believe that piracy hurts bad movies (and albums). There have been plenty of movies that I haven't gone to see in the theater because I've watched a copy I downloaded and hated it. Not so much recently, but Hulk and MiB 2 both come to mind. If i hadn't downloaded them, I probably would have wasted $7 in a theater to go see them. Other movies, however, that I've seen first on my computer, I have gone to see multiple times in the theater.
Same thing goes for music. If a band I normally like releases a followup album, I'd likely go buy it -- except now I'm being smart and checking online first. If it sucks, then I don't buy it.
This move is another early attempt by Hollywood to build a business out of downloadable movies and head off the sort of piracy that has hurt the music industry.
Yep. The music business is doing so poorly. Those record label executives are going to be on welfare pretty soon. Actors, directors, and those prop guys are going to be on there next.
Wait.. didn't Harry Potter just make $90M in the US alone in its first weekend?
No offense, but, no, you couldn't. You couldn't even get 100 people organized and figure out what repsonsibilities each person would have in a year. Even if you hired 100 people FROM PeopleSoft, you still wouldn't be able to duplicate the software in a year.
Even if you had some mythical group of 100 people who could communicate flawlessly and write perfect code, you couldn't get the Stanford administrators to agree on the business logic in a year.
Your comment reflects how little you understand the problem, the environment, and software development in general. There is no group of people, of any size, that could duplicate the system in a year.
Sorry, but I'm gunna have to call the cops. Letting your kids learn VB is obvious neglect. You should have beaten the tar out of him when he installed Visual Studio -- even if he wanted to do C++. You have to nip this in the bud.
There was no HP 8L. In fact, there was never anything over a 6 in that numbering scheme. The new models are in the thousands.
I'm guessing you're thinking of a 4M/4MP. Those were similar printers to the 4L and were about double the price. They, however, had more differences than just print speed. They would do 600 DPI (4L only does 300dpb), and, I believe, had better paper tray options. The 4L holds very little paper -- 100 pages maybe?
That said, my 4L is still kicking 9 years later. Though avoid at all costs those cheap staples-brand toner cartridges. They suck.
Cheap feeling? Have you actually HELD a Digital Rebel? I guess maybe if you're used to metal cameras, it may be different, but it's in no way flimsily made. I have mine right in front of me (I already applied the patch), and just picked it up. It's solid.
That said, I don't go around dropping it all over the place.
BTW, just for everyone who thinks this is going to ruin your camera.. all it does is flip a couple bits from saying "don't display this menu" to "do display this menu". All the code for the actual features was done in-house by canon.
I'd just like to say that I've already applied the firmware, and it works as advertised. I'm not really sure what all the new stuff does, but it's definitely there.
As the article says, it's trivially demonstrated that there is a performance increase by using swap, regardless of how much RAM
I don't think you're interpretting the comment properly..
It is trivial to demonstrate the best case scenario for swap -- the case that makes a system with swap better, but not for ALL cases. The case where swap is good is when you have some amount of RAM, and a process that is using a large portion of it. Say this process hasn't been active in a week. You run another process -- you're grepping through a large source tree -- larger than the amount of RAM left over after this week-old large process. By dumping this old application out to swap, the source tree is then cached and subsequent greps are virtually instant, requiring no disk access.
This is *FAR* different from being trivially demonstrated that by using swap you always get a performance increase. The above mentioned situation, can easily backfire. If you only wanted to do that grep once, and that was the information you needed to get back to your old program, then you're going to dump the program out to ram (disk write), read the source tree in and store it to ram (disk read), and then load your program back into memory (disk read). That's 3 disk accesses. On a system with no swap, you would read the files in, grep them, and immediately discard the information from the file -- resulting in 1 disk read.
This is just to say that it's also trivial to demonstrate a situation where swap is bad.
Will you please tell both of us where we can get one for a few hundred dollars, as specified in the question?
I think the real answer is that this guy is S.O.L... he's just going to have to spend some good quality time getting to know a consumer-level scanner, and let the professor know to do his notes in software initially.
Unfortunately, spending more money is not the answer to healthcare. As long as more money is put into healthcare, health insurance companies and drug companies will just suck more out.
It hurts me a lot to think that business people consider health care just another business venture -- something to get as much money as possilbe from. But it's true. Until we do something about greedy drug companies and health insurance companies, no amount of money will properly solve the health care issues in this country.
Might as well spend the money on something else.. like space exploration -- though I'm not saying that NASA is exactly fiscally responsible. All I'm saying is that putting that money into health care would not magically fix the problem.
But our country DOES take care of its people better than China. This gives us the ability to morally spend large amounts of money on space projects.
This goes back a long ways. Hunters and gatherers couldn't spend time doing things like art, science, literature, because they didn't have the resources to do it. As soon as people realized they could farm and raise stock, we had extra resources to partake in more civilized endeavours.
I'm not saying the Chinese are hunters and gatherers, but they simply don't have the resources to take adequate care of their populus and spend the massive amounts of money for manned space missions.
We do.
Now you can move the line back and forth as to what defines "adequate" living conditions for people, but if any country has enough resources to go to space without hurting it's citizens, it's the US.
If you're going to argue that no money should be spent on space exploration, then I can't really say anything to change your mind, but many good things have come from science and research that wasn't absolutely necessary for our survival.
perhaps our country should consider doing the exact same thing.
did you not read at all what the parent said? or maybe stop after the first paragraph? Let me help you..
Yeah, you could say something similar to the US and NASA, but it's insulting to the chineese people to compare their situation with even the poorest in this country.
Before you get all up-ity about what a comment says, you should try READING it first. The parent CONCEDED that there were poor people in the US, but made the point that it doesn't compare to the poverty levels China. If you wanted to refute something, you should have started with this. Personally, I agree with the original comment.
If I had mod points, I would. Mostly for putting mod point comments in your comment.. But also for being one of those obnoxious people who comments about the stories fitness to be posted as opposed to the story itself..
Errr, if it's anonymous, doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose? The idea isn't to track usage, the idea is to find people when they're lost.
If Joe goes missing, what tag do I look for if I don't know what tag Joe has? Do I wait for everyone else to turn theirs in maybe? I'm not sure if people would be expected to do that..
Doesn't really seem to make sense.
In my mind, as long as it's optional -- TRULY optional -- then there's no problem tracking people. The other thing to be done is to not keep records of the data for extended periods of time. Not sure exactly what that definition would be, but presumably some duration longer than when people get reported missing.
Good, then you should do it. I hope none of the mozilla/firefox developers waste their time on something like this instead of adding features or fixing bugs that benefit everyone.
That said, it's completely up to the one writing code. Are you?
I wouldn't go with all the caps, but you're right on target -- though I'd argue that with the gimp, you get well more than you pay for.
From a purely pragmatic viewpoint, I'm sure an free illegal version of photoshop is more useful than a free legal version of the gimp, but if people would use gimp instead at least then we'd hear one fewer company whining about people infringing on their copyright and about how it cost them $X million a year.
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Not *NEARLY* fast enough for my tastes, though..
Your good options are raid 1, raid 0+1, or raid 5, depending on what you want..
Raid 1 is the safest.. just mirroring the drives, but it results in no speed increase..
Raid 0+1 does mirrored stripe sets -- you get the speed advantages of raid 0 with the full protection of raid 1.
Raid 5 is good middle ground. Raid 5 stores 1 drive's worth of parity. When you lose a drive, your system goes down (if you don't have a hot spare), but you throw another disk in and it'll come back up. You also get some speed increase over a normal drive setup. With RAID 5, you only lose a single drive's worth of capacity no matter how many drives are in your array, whereas with raid 1, you lose 50%.
You're exactly right on this. Before the Internet, they could rely on their multi-million dollar advertising campaigns to float their sub-par movie. Now that people can easily get a hold of reviews (I like rotten tomato) quickly, they might have to change their business plan.
And big corporations have shown over and over that instead of changing their business plans, they prefer to just sue people. xbox mod chips and RIAA file swapping lawsuits come to mind.
Because I don't watch movies for the graphics. I watch them for the story, the plot.
If the plot is good, and the story is sound, then the graphics can serve to enhance that, but when it's not, pretty pictures don't matter.
Same goes for video games.
I believe that piracy hurts bad movies (and albums). There have been plenty of movies that I haven't gone to see in the theater because I've watched a copy I downloaded and hated it. Not so much recently, but Hulk and MiB 2 both come to mind. If i hadn't downloaded them, I probably would have wasted $7 in a theater to go see them. Other movies, however, that I've seen first on my computer, I have gone to see multiple times in the theater.
Same thing goes for music. If a band I normally like releases a followup album, I'd likely go buy it -- except now I'm being smart and checking online first. If it sucks, then I don't buy it.
This move is another early attempt by Hollywood to build a business out of downloadable movies and head off the sort of piracy that has hurt the music industry.
Yep. The music business is doing so poorly. Those record label executives are going to be on welfare pretty soon. Actors, directors, and those prop guys are going to be on there next.
Wait.. didn't Harry Potter just make $90M in the US alone in its first weekend?
No offense, but, no, you couldn't. You couldn't even get 100 people organized and figure out what repsonsibilities each person would have in a year. Even if you hired 100 people FROM PeopleSoft, you still wouldn't be able to duplicate the software in a year.
Even if you had some mythical group of 100 people who could communicate flawlessly and write perfect code, you couldn't get the Stanford administrators to agree on the business logic in a year.
Your comment reflects how little you understand the problem, the environment, and software development in general. There is no group of people, of any size, that could duplicate the system in a year.
Flash click-to-view and the nuke anything plugins are your savior.
Recent versions of click to view work nearly flawlessly.
Nuke anything can remove anything from your screen that bothers you -- great for ads that are served from the same server as informational images.
Go here and get "click to view" and "nuke anything".
You'll be glad you did.
VB is an amazing productivity tool.
So is perl. So is python. Hell, people even say that about java (though I disagree).
Let the kid learn a language that won't get him/her locked into a single vendor and a single development environment.
The aforementioned languages are also far more powerful and expressive.
I suppose if you just want your kid to do drag-and-drop programming for windows, then VB is a fantastic choice.
Again.. neglect.
You. Completely. Missed. The. Point.
How quickly you Mac people for get the Newton..
Sorry, but I'm gunna have to call the cops. Letting your kids learn VB is obvious neglect. You should have beaten the tar out of him when he installed Visual Studio -- even if he wanted to do C++. You have to nip this in the bud.
I'm nitpicking your model numbers.
There was no HP 8L. In fact, there was never anything over a 6 in that numbering scheme. The new models are in the thousands.
I'm guessing you're thinking of a 4M/4MP. Those were similar printers to the 4L and were about double the price. They, however, had more differences than just print speed. They would do 600 DPI (4L only does 300dpb), and, I believe, had better paper tray options. The 4L holds very little paper -- 100 pages maybe?
That said, my 4L is still kicking 9 years later. Though avoid at all costs those cheap staples-brand toner cartridges. They suck.
Cheap feeling? Have you actually HELD a Digital Rebel? I guess maybe if you're used to metal cameras, it may be different, but it's in no way flimsily made. I have mine right in front of me (I already applied the patch), and just picked it up. It's solid.
That said, I don't go around dropping it all over the place.
BTW, just for everyone who thinks this is going to ruin your camera.. all it does is flip a couple bits from saying "don't display this menu" to "do display this menu". All the code for the actual features was done in-house by canon.
I'd just like to say that I've already applied the firmware, and it works as advertised. I'm not really sure what all the new stuff does, but it's definitely there.
As the article says, it's trivially demonstrated that there is a performance increase by using swap, regardless of how much RAM
I don't think you're interpretting the comment properly..
It is trivial to demonstrate the best case scenario for swap -- the case that makes a system with swap better, but not for ALL cases. The case where swap is good is when you have some amount of RAM, and a process that is using a large portion of it. Say this process hasn't been active in a week. You run another process -- you're grepping through a large source tree -- larger than the amount of RAM left over after this week-old large process. By dumping this old application out to swap, the source tree is then cached and subsequent greps are virtually instant, requiring no disk access.
This is *FAR* different from being trivially demonstrated that by using swap you always get a performance increase. The above mentioned situation, can easily backfire. If you only wanted to do that grep once, and that was the information you needed to get back to your old program, then you're going to dump the program out to ram (disk write), read the source tree in and store it to ram (disk read), and then load your program back into memory (disk read). That's 3 disk accesses. On a system with no swap, you would read the files in, grep them, and immediately discard the information from the file -- resulting in 1 disk read.
This is just to say that it's also trivial to demonstrate a situation where swap is bad.
Will you please tell both of us where we can get one for a few hundred dollars, as specified in the question?
.. he's just going to have to spend some good quality time getting to know a consumer-level scanner, and let the professor know to do his notes in software initially.
I think the real answer is that this guy is S.O.L.
Unfortunately, spending more money is not the answer to healthcare. As long as more money is put into healthcare, health insurance companies and drug companies will just suck more out.
It hurts me a lot to think that business people consider health care just another business venture -- something to get as much money as possilbe from. But it's true. Until we do something about greedy drug companies and health insurance companies, no amount of money will properly solve the health care issues in this country.
Might as well spend the money on something else.. like space exploration -- though I'm not saying that NASA is exactly fiscally responsible. All I'm saying is that putting that money into health care would not magically fix the problem.
But our country DOES take care of its people better than China. This gives us the ability to morally spend large amounts of money on space projects.
This goes back a long ways. Hunters and gatherers couldn't spend time doing things like art, science, literature, because they didn't have the resources to do it. As soon as people realized they could farm and raise stock, we had extra resources to partake in more civilized endeavours.
I'm not saying the Chinese are hunters and gatherers, but they simply don't have the resources to take adequate care of their populus and spend the massive amounts of money for manned space missions.
We do.
Now you can move the line back and forth as to what defines "adequate" living conditions for people, but if any country has enough resources to go to space without hurting it's citizens, it's the US.
If you're going to argue that no money should be spent on space exploration, then I can't really say anything to change your mind, but many good things have come from science and research that wasn't absolutely necessary for our survival.
perhaps our country should consider doing the exact same thing.
did you not read at all what the parent said? or maybe stop after the first paragraph? Let me help you..
Yeah, you could say something similar to the US and NASA, but it's insulting to the chineese people to compare their situation with even the poorest in this country.
Before you get all up-ity about what a comment says, you should try READING it first. The parent CONCEDED that there were poor people in the US, but made the point that it doesn't compare to the poverty levels China. If you wanted to refute something, you should have started with this. Personally, I agree with the original comment.
If I had mod points, I would. Mostly for putting mod point comments in your comment.. But also for being one of those obnoxious people who comments about the stories fitness to be posted as opposed to the story itself..
Canada is so desolate that even if everyone had a computer, it'd still only be 9%.
Errr, if it's anonymous, doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose? The idea isn't to track usage, the idea is to find people when they're lost.
If Joe goes missing, what tag do I look for if I don't know what tag Joe has? Do I wait for everyone else to turn theirs in maybe? I'm not sure if people would be expected to do that..
Doesn't really seem to make sense.
In my mind, as long as it's optional -- TRULY optional -- then there's no problem tracking people. The other thing to be done is to not keep records of the data for extended periods of time. Not sure exactly what that definition would be, but presumably some duration longer than when people get reported missing.
I would feel this would be a good move.
:)
Good, then you should do it. I hope none of the mozilla/firefox developers waste their time on something like this instead of adding features or fixing bugs that benefit everyone.
That said, it's completely up to the one writing code. Are you?
I'm not, so I'll quit bitchin'
I wouldn't go with all the caps, but you're right on target -- though I'd argue that with the gimp, you get well more than you pay for.
From a purely pragmatic viewpoint, I'm sure an free illegal version of photoshop is more useful than a free legal version of the gimp, but if people would use gimp instead at least then we'd hear one fewer company whining about people infringing on their copyright and about how it cost them $X million a year.
Here, here!