I didn't say it was particularly hard in a PC, just that the Mac is much easier. You slide out a little metal tray, put the drive in the tray, slide the tray back in. Tada.
Seems that the unusual connector location on the Velociraptors prevent them from being installed in a Mac Pro.
That's why they continue to use 60HP outboard motors on oil supertankers, right?
The need for a bigger engine on this class of vessel is to compensate for the enormous drag of the hull at nominal speeds (typically 20 knots), which is only indirectly related to the mass. But you need to floor the gas pedal during several hours to reach this top speed anyway;-), and this *has* to do with mass.
If the 300HP car weighed 6x as much as the 60HP one? I'd call the 60HP one "faster".
I'd call it slower.
Both will have the same acceleration until air drag is involved.
Supposing they have the same shape (formally : equal CdA), the top speed of the 300HP car is approximately sqrt(6)=2,45 times the top speed of the 60HP one, which I would then call slower.
Weight has no direct impact on top speed.
For the usual Home/Soho NAS with SATA/software RAID:
- Thecus (2 bays - 700$ ; 4 bays 950$)
- Synology (2 bays - 750$ ; 4 bays - 800$)
- QNAP (2 bays - 650$ ; 4 bays 1250$)
- Netgear (4 bays - 1300$ ; 2 bay model seems sub-par to me)
Prices are for 2x750GB and a few weeks old.
Check the specs and reviews for what is important to you.
My criteria are : Media protocols capability, BT client, rsync, throughput, software maturity, webserver : I'll go for the Synology DS207+ , that is - unless this discussion leads elsewhere.
Thanks for this refreshing pointer to Joel's article.
Java's server "shared" VM is a variation of the dreaded painter's algorithm, as is any other form of "shared environment". PHP shares nothing.
I strongly disagree. Java has Pascal-style strings, so no painter performance penalty. Java does not share things so that you can't scale by adding new servers.
Actually the session system is very similar to PHP : session variables are stored in memory, so your load-balancer has to manage session/server affinity, and if you can't afford to lose your session data, you have to activate session replication an this is a PITA (both design- and performance-wise), anyway you should not rely on session data in the first place.
Usually, Java performance mostly depends on developper culture, quantity of black-box code, and the use of XML. I've seen really awesome performance achieved in Java.
from TFP : ...have built a business on the fundamental assumption of relatively low latency bandwidth being available...
The post says it all : if they built a business out of it, they have to pay for it. At least it's the motto of ISPs salivating for their piece of content providers' cake.
Seems that here, in Europe, ISP's didn't yet get a clue 'bout this.
Good news out of this anyway : corporations looking for revenue in another corporation's pocket instead of mine. Looks like a change of mind.
Apple software sales :
500 m$ direct software sales
250 m$ bundled software sales (calculated as 5% of mac sales)
Apple software expenses :
350 m$ (caclulated as 60 % of total R&D of 489m$)
gross margin : more than 50%
that is to say,
_if_ apple on intel remains as attractive as apple on ppc and sells the same amounts,
apple could as well dump HW and become a software company in a _very_ profitable fashion.
I talked recently with one of the scientists mentioned in the article.
It was perfectly clear to him that the prices would be low, I don't remember the exact figures but it was at least 10 times cheaper than previous therapies. What drove this into his mind was (amongst other things) tests were conducted in Brazil.
An other important aspect is that they own the rights/intellectual property of this method and intend to licence it under especially tight conditions regarding the "street price".
Lastly, it is not exacly a vaccine in the common sense ; but in the scientific sense, vaccines are either prophylactic (common sense) or therapeutic (like this one). A vaccine means curing evil by evil, and this is indeed the case (dead virus being injected).
O.
Microsoft loses money on the deal, everyone is happy.
In the software industry, any additional licence you sell is just pure profit.
Even if you consider that this version has R&D and production costs comparable to those of the Windows division... Refer to the 2003 annual report and read that the "Client" division (ie : Windows) spends 20c of each dollar you pay them (exact figures are : 8.4$bn income, 10.4$bn revenue).
So this basically means that if 70$ is their mean selling price, the associated costs are 14$ ; let's say they could sell windows 20$ and still pay their other divisions's losses. So this $36 tag is all but idiot on a financial standpoint.
Further in the report they state "the cost of revenue" : the cost of the last unit sold (shipping, manufacturing, support, etc.) : 17%.
But anyway your attitude towards the XBox is OK since this is hardware.
Yeah, USB/Firewire enclosure gives you a dirt cheap solution (especially 3.5"), no driver required. Now you sit in the "backup" segment (ie not to be compared to a keychain or even a ipod).
However experience taught me something : the USB/IDE enclosure is only tunnelling a low-level OS protocol. Result : the way I did it, it is not truly portable, because the HD was formatted in NTFS by W2K so that MacOSX and Linux (disclaimer : only tried one box) only manage to read from the device, and cannot write.
Just my.02
I had this as a rental car... the oil signal lighted up... It took me a deep dive into the manual to understand this "sealed hood + service module" concept.
Found an photo - here we go : http://www.audi-a2.co.uk/bonnet1.jpg
Slashdot Mirror
Seems that the unusual connector location on the Velociraptors prevent them from being installed in a Mac Pro.
That's why they continue to use 60HP outboard motors on oil supertankers, right? ;-), and this *has* to do with mass.
The need for a bigger engine on this class of vessel is to compensate for the enormous drag of the hull at nominal speeds (typically 20 knots), which is only indirectly related to the mass. But you need to floor the gas pedal during several hours to reach this top speed anyway
If the 300HP car weighed 6x as much as the 60HP one? I'd call the 60HP one "faster".
I'd call it slower.
Both will have the same acceleration until air drag is involved.
Supposing they have the same shape (formally : equal CdA), the top speed of the 300HP car is approximately sqrt(6)=2,45 times the top speed of the 60HP one, which I would then call slower.
Weight has no direct impact on top speed.
For the usual Home/Soho NAS with SATA/software RAID :
- Thecus (2 bays - 700$ ; 4 bays 950$)
- Synology (2 bays - 750$ ; 4 bays - 800$)
- QNAP (2 bays - 650$ ; 4 bays 1250$)
- Netgear (4 bays - 1300$ ; 2 bay model seems sub-par to me)
Prices are for 2x750GB and a few weeks old.
Check the specs and reviews for what is important to you.
My criteria are : Media protocols capability, BT client, rsync, throughput, software maturity, webserver : I'll go for the Synology DS207+ , that is - unless this discussion leads elsewhere.
In case you didn't notice, this story has a "+1, Low uid" mod option.
FM transmitter gizmos that always suffer conflicts with existing stations
Nah.
existing stations that always suffer conflicts with FM transmitter gizmos
Fixed that for you. You see, I'm not keen on hearing Celine Dion when passing you on the highway.
Thanks for this refreshing pointer to Joel's article.
Java's server "shared" VM is a variation of the dreaded painter's algorithm, as is any other form of "shared environment". PHP shares nothing.
I strongly disagree. Java has Pascal-style strings, so no painter performance penalty. Java does not share things so that you can't scale by adding new servers. Actually the session system is very similar to PHP : session variables are stored in memory, so your load-balancer has to manage session/server affinity, and if you can't afford to lose your session data, you have to activate session replication an this is a PITA (both design- and performance-wise), anyway you should not rely on session data in the first place.
Usually, Java performance mostly depends on developper culture, quantity of black-box code, and the use of XML. I've seen really awesome performance achieved in Java.
And Slashdot had a decent discussion on the Loudness War 3 months ago, complete with the YouTube demo.
> Finland, 59.52%, 5.2, 338, 40.9
> Japan, 54.13%, 127.7, 378, 42.9
Well, you dropped (at least) one line (15th position)
France, 55.50%, 60, 550, 109
Have we been doing something nasty recently ?
Like our new president behaving weirdly after meeting Putin in private ?
yeah, da utube rulzzz !
from TFP : ...have built a business on the fundamental assumption of relatively low latency bandwidth being available...
The post says it all : if they built a business out of it, they have to pay for it. At least it's the motto of ISPs salivating for their piece of content providers' cake.
Seems that here, in Europe, ISP's didn't yet get a clue 'bout this.
Good news out of this anyway : corporations looking for revenue in another corporation's pocket instead of mine. Looks like a change of mind.
Armies usually don't have so many flagships, do they ?
Being a flagship is more about size than numbers...
Most would've used this term for the Powermacs.
especially with the supercomputers I forecast we'll have in 30 years
[is it me or submission title is ambiguous ?]
We live in a world of IP and patents
Not a world, just a country.
In Europe, we are still free from software patents.
tsssssssssss.....
Apple software sales :
500 m$ direct software sales
250 m$ bundled software sales (calculated as 5% of mac sales)
Apple software expenses :
350 m$ (caclulated as 60 % of total R&D of 489m$)
gross margin : more than 50%
that is to say,
_if_ apple on intel remains as attractive as apple on ppc and sells the same amounts,
apple could as well dump HW and become a software company in a _very_ profitable fashion.
hard facts in the 2004 annual report (page 62).
spare me the "the brain can't multiply 100000*1234555 fast enough" argument
well pardon me sir but your argument is less than valid.
uh ? perhaps saving energy?
Let me guess... your SUV always runs at full throttle ?
I talked recently with one of the scientists mentioned in the article.
It was perfectly clear to him that the prices would be low, I don't remember the exact figures but it was at least 10 times cheaper than previous therapies. What drove this into his mind was (amongst other things) tests were conducted in Brazil.
An other important aspect is that they own the rights/intellectual property of this method and intend to licence it under especially tight conditions regarding the "street price".
Lastly, it is not exacly a vaccine in the common sense ; but in the scientific sense, vaccines are either prophylactic (common sense) or therapeutic (like this one). A vaccine means curing evil by evil, and this is indeed the case (dead virus being injected).
O.
calling it an iPod killer seems a bit premature
:
been done prematurely 19500 times before
Results 1 - 50 of about 19,500 for "ipod killer". (0.26 seconds)
Microsoft loses money on the deal, everyone is happy.
In the software industry, any additional licence you sell is just pure profit.
Even if you consider that this version has R&D and production costs comparable to those of the Windows division... Refer to the 2003 annual report and read that the "Client" division (ie : Windows) spends 20c of each dollar you pay them (exact figures are : 8.4$bn income, 10.4$bn revenue).
So this basically means that if 70$ is their mean selling price, the associated costs are 14$ ; let's say they could sell windows 20$ and still pay their other divisions's losses. So this $36 tag is all but idiot on a financial standpoint.
Further in the report they state "the cost of revenue" : the cost of the last unit sold (shipping, manufacturing, support, etc.) : 17%.
But anyway your attitude towards the XBox is OK since this is hardware.
Yeah, USB/Firewire enclosure gives you a dirt cheap solution (especially 3.5"), no driver required. Now you sit in the "backup" segment (ie not to be compared to a keychain or even a ipod).
.02
However experience taught me something : the USB/IDE enclosure is only tunnelling a low-level OS protocol. Result : the way I did it, it is not truly portable, because the HD was formatted in NTFS by W2K so that MacOSX and Linux (disclaimer : only tried one box) only manage to read from the device, and cannot write.
Just my
I had this as a rental car ... the oil signal lighted up... It took me a deep dive into the manual to understand this "sealed hood + service module" concept.
Found an photo - here we go :
http://www.audi-a2.co.uk/bonnet1.jpg
Typical 6-digit-SID...
You know this is the best Dilbert forehead ascii art I've ever seen ?