I wonder if 16MB is actually an aid to performance on these drives? What kind of algorithms do they use to ensure efficient usage of all that space? Can anyone here comment?
I seem to recall in chip design that the larger the cash does not always equal more performance, if the cache manager has to search the whole cache everytime time (hash?) to deliver what needs to be used.
You may be right, but in that case Robert Wise is pretty two faced because at the end of the commentary track on TMP he says how happy he is now with the movie, and how it set the look and feel of the next 5 movies and so many elements became part of the TV series.
Actually, the director of the original Star Trek: The Motion Picture, was Robert Wise, and he was quite involved in the new FX for TMP. He also most definetly has a comment track, as does Doug Trubull it's actually a cool DVD even though I hadn't cared much for the original movie.
It does suck they wouldn't let shatner fix things up for the Final Frontier, but while I think the movie was a good try (he did add a lot of interesting elements not seen before in Star Trek movies), but I think it was a lot more 'broken' and would have needed a lot more work than the odd matte shot and one FX shot of the enterprise that was fixed in TMP). The new ending of TMP seemed odd to me though.
This is by far, the lamest, most annoying, and totally stupid april fools story that's been posted yet. I mean, glowing hamsters, cold fission, W bush on viagra, those are all things easy to believe, but a camera that you wear?? Now come on!!
for the pan-galactic gargle-blasters. If I am to taste them and deem them correct, then they will look correct. if the drink is correct, then the movie will be good, the more i drink.
1.) It includes 802.llb. How strange. Does anybody really feel a wireless server is a good thing? With 5 or 6 clients on an 802.llb network, things other than simple, tiny file transfers are going to start to slow down alot.
2.) Crusoe Processor - I mean, why not a celeron? Heat issues? Power consumption? Why use a processor intended for mobile applications in a server??
3.) The price - this thing should not break a grand. I work at a fairly major (Fortune 1000) computer reseller, and If I had a small office customer call me looking for an inexpensive server, I could sell them an IBM X series 205 for $769. It has a P4 2.4 GHZ and 256 megs of RAM. Its an honest to god server class machine.
Unless you have 8 guys with notebooks that travel and need a traveling server, what is the point of this? And for the price, if you did have those 8 guys, you could jsut have a 9th notebook, and have better specs, AND be battery powered.
I work for a rather large (fortune 1000) computer reseller, that sells Apple products. I am part of a business to business outbound call organization.
I can tell you, even though I deal in corporate sales, a fair amount of my company contacts are interested in IPODs for themselves or families. I usually "wheel and deal" for them, for the holidays. I figure it's a benny I can offer for working with me.
I can tell you that there is barely any money to be made in reselling apple hardware. If you show me a piece of apple hardware, Imac, g5, ipod, etc, that my company makes more than 8 or 9 points of margin on, I'll be impressed.
Most apple hardware is around 6 points of gross margin. About the only thing you can make good money at in the apple world is selling support, be it your own support, or their "applecare" estended warranties.
I can tell you that my company, and my competition, to compete, absolutely will not offer a discount on the ipod. At less than 8 points of margin, what's the point of selling them? We will however, offer an IPOD bundled with say, deluxe headphones, or a "mobility pack", etc, for a little more to compete and offer a deal.
You see the same thing with PlayStation 2's. 179.95 or whatever is set by contract, but you can offer discounted items with it to get a competitive edge.
I know before I was in this business I always thought "A 600 dollar thing, they make a ton of money" or "a $2000 computer, wow, i can find it for 1500 somewhere else!" It's simply not true. Due to a competitive marketprice, you are lucky to make 8 points of margin on a PC Box. And Apple... I only assume they are taking most of the margin. To be honest, I'm not sure why my company sells it.
Who cares about Redhat? There contribution to the community has been strong, but who would want to use there product, when Lindows is so much better???;-)
I download music via Kazaa as well - BUT - when I think about it - for some things, Kazaa, and the old napster, are/were really great. Even though it's free, you have to put a great deal of effort into searching for the songs, downloading them, sequencing them, burning them. And now, charging money for it? Now it's inconvient and costs money.
Lately I have liked Jazz alot. Online music sharing has been a great tool for sampling different artists, hearing standards interperted different ways, and soforth. But when I find something I like - I go to the used record store and buy it. There's no point in buying a NEW copy of a 40 year old recording. But, have the used version (I pay about $8 a cd), gets me the tunes, and cool liner notes, and the ability to bring it along to friend's houses where they don't have a computer, and play it!
Online music is great to sample, and to get #1 hits that come on otherwise a sucky album. For jazz it is great to find some rare stuff, too. But to pay for it? Maybe if you listen to pop songs, which are short and heavily traded songs. But for lots of other kinds of music, taking one song off an album takes it out of context, and it's worth buying the album.
Who would listen to just one song from Dark Side of the Moon by pink floyd, or just one section of Motzarts 5th? Just one section of Miles Davis's bitches brew?
I certainly would attest that this is a cool idea. I have a few systems at my place and it would be neat to make a single filesystem spanning all the storage on the network.
However, while small files would be fine, I would think the speed of the network would make for some fairly slow storage on a 100mbit network.
Add more users saving files across the network to the equation and things would get out of hand fast.
I guess I would just buy a serial ata raid motherboard (the intel D865GBFLK is one I have been thinking about), and just do 1:1 mirroring. Cheaper than scsi, and pretty darn fast.
Chips foundrys, that instead of foundering chips the traditional way, they Garflag Barg Butto Moogie KawwwooowwWwweeee!!!!
Sorry, you probably can't read that last part. I had to encrypt it as I don't own a patent on it yet. And if you Slashdotters try to break my encryption I will be forced to shoot you under the digital millenium copyright act. Don't worry though, you can pay me licensing fees for linux too. Don't pay those people at SCO, my license is better!
By the way, I own the intellectual property of "modding down", be it the "troll" variety or the "off topic" variety, so for each such mod recieved I will charge you a (very reasonable) licensing fee of only $799.
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I wonder if 16MB is actually an aid to performance on these drives? What kind of algorithms do they use to ensure efficient usage of all that space? Can anyone here comment?
I seem to recall in chip design that the larger the cash does not always equal more performance, if the cache manager has to search the whole cache everytime time (hash?) to deliver what needs to be used.
You may be right, but in that case Robert Wise is pretty two faced because at the end of the commentary track on TMP he says how happy he is now with the movie, and how it set the look and feel of the next 5 movies and so many elements became part of the TV series.
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Actually, the director of the original Star Trek: The Motion Picture, was Robert Wise, and he was quite involved in the new FX for TMP. He also most definetly has a comment track, as does Doug Trubull it's actually a cool DVD even though I hadn't cared much for the original movie.
It does suck they wouldn't let shatner fix things up for the Final Frontier, but while I think the movie was a good try (he did add a lot of interesting elements not seen before in Star Trek movies), but I think it was a lot more 'broken' and would have needed a lot more work than the odd matte shot and one FX shot of the enterprise that was fixed in TMP). The new ending of TMP seemed odd to me though.
Well fatty, go program your computer to do that.
More coding less complaining.
This is by far, the lamest, most annoying, and totally stupid april fools story that's been posted yet. I mean, glowing hamsters, cold fission, W bush on viagra, those are all things easy to believe, but a camera that you wear?? Now come on!!
Haha! Great one! Like we are gonna believe that!
George Lucas doesn't speak, he just mumbles like Jabba. "Hoh hoh hoh hoh".
That's obviously a leslie nielsen inpersonation...
Computer innards do not make it into Jeri Ryan 7of9 computer case. Human outards do!!!!!! wooo!
for the pan-galactic gargle-blasters. If I am to taste them and deem them correct, then they will look correct. if the drink is correct, then the movie will be good, the more i drink.
Think about it:
1.) It includes 802.llb. How strange. Does anybody really feel a wireless server is a good thing? With 5 or 6 clients on an 802.llb network, things other than simple, tiny file transfers are going to start to slow down alot.
2.) Crusoe Processor - I mean, why not a celeron? Heat issues? Power consumption? Why use a processor intended for mobile applications in a server??
3.) The price - this thing should not break a grand. I work at a fairly major (Fortune 1000) computer reseller, and If I had a small office customer call me looking for an inexpensive server, I could sell them an IBM X series 205 for $769. It has a P4 2.4 GHZ and 256 megs of RAM. Its an honest to god server class machine.
Unless you have 8 guys with notebooks that travel and need a traveling server, what is the point of this? And for the price, if you did have those 8 guys, you could jsut have a 9th notebook, and have better specs, AND be battery powered.
I guess that rules out using it as a web server...
Hello,
I work for a rather large (fortune 1000) computer reseller, that sells Apple products. I am part of a business to business outbound call organization.
I can tell you, even though I deal in corporate sales, a fair amount of my company contacts are interested in IPODs for themselves or families. I usually "wheel and deal" for them, for the holidays. I figure it's a benny I can offer for working with me.
I can tell you that there is barely any money to be made in reselling apple hardware. If you show me a piece of apple hardware, Imac, g5, ipod, etc, that my company makes more than 8 or 9 points of margin on, I'll be impressed.
Most apple hardware is around 6 points of gross margin. About the only thing you can make good money at in the apple world is selling support, be it your own support, or their "applecare" estended warranties.
I can tell you that my company, and my competition, to compete, absolutely will not offer a discount on the ipod. At less than 8 points of margin, what's the point of selling them? We will however, offer an IPOD bundled with say, deluxe headphones, or a "mobility pack", etc, for a little more to compete and offer a deal.
You see the same thing with PlayStation 2's. 179.95 or whatever is set by contract, but you can offer discounted items with it to get a competitive edge.
I know before I was in this business I always thought "A 600 dollar thing, they make a ton of money" or "a $2000 computer, wow, i can find it for 1500 somewhere else!" It's simply not true. Due to a competitive marketprice, you are lucky to make 8 points of margin on a PC Box. And Apple... I only assume they are taking most of the margin. To be honest, I'm not sure why my company sells it.
Who cares about Redhat? There contribution to the community has been strong, but who would want to use there product, when Lindows is so much better??? ;-)
60 dollars every two months? A copy every 18 months or so?
That's it! They've lost there biggest customer! It's all downhill for them now!
I *like* buying CDS.
I download music via Kazaa as well - BUT - when I think about it - for some things, Kazaa, and the old napster, are/were really great. Even though it's free, you have to put a great deal of effort into searching for the songs, downloading them, sequencing them, burning them. And now, charging money for it? Now it's inconvient and costs money.
Lately I have liked Jazz alot. Online music sharing has been a great tool for sampling different artists, hearing standards interperted different ways, and soforth. But when I find something I like - I go to the used record store and buy it. There's no point in buying a NEW copy of a 40 year old recording. But, have the used version (I pay about $8 a cd), gets me the tunes, and cool liner notes, and the ability to bring it along to friend's houses where they don't have a computer, and play it!
Online music is great to sample, and to get #1 hits that come on otherwise a sucky album. For jazz it is great to find some rare stuff, too. But to pay for it? Maybe if you listen to pop songs, which are short and heavily traded songs. But for lots of other kinds of music, taking one song off an album takes it out of context, and it's worth buying the album.
Who would listen to just one song from Dark Side of the Moon by pink floyd, or just one section of Motzarts 5th? Just one section of Miles Davis's bitches brew?
the GPL violates SCO!
And boy i'd like to too!
Does anyone remember Microsoft Shell from the dos (4.x??) and on days?
A really clunky graphical DOS application which let you copy files and rename them or something? It ran in like 320x200 EGA.
Can't wait till they bring that back!
Thats what she said. :-(
I certainly would attest that this is a cool idea. I have a few systems at my place and it would be neat to make a single filesystem spanning all the storage on the network.
However, while small files would be fine, I would think the speed of the network would make for some fairly slow storage on a 100mbit network.
Add more users saving files across the network to the equation and things would get out of hand fast.
I guess I would just buy a serial ata raid motherboard (the intel D865GBFLK is one I have been thinking about), and just do 1:1 mirroring. Cheaper than scsi, and pretty darn fast.
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All those running worms/shell scripts used in DOS attacks can license the IP behind it now! Only $799! (Special Introductory Price).
Hey, is that a girl on your MP3.com page? Or do you just look like one?
It's OK, we all know the vagina rules the world..
Flamebait, I forgot that one...
Chips foundrys, that instead of foundering chips the traditional way, they Garflag Barg Butto Moogie KawwwooowwWwweeee!!!!
Sorry, you probably can't read that last part. I had to encrypt it as I don't own a patent on it yet. And if you Slashdotters try to break my encryption I will be forced to shoot you under the digital millenium copyright act. Don't worry though, you can pay me licensing fees for linux too. Don't pay those people at SCO, my license is better!
By the way, I own the intellectual property of "modding down", be it the "troll" variety or the "off topic" variety, so for each such mod recieved I will charge you a (very reasonable) licensing fee of only $799.