> I'm not sure how a 3 order of magnitude drop could possible happen, as that would imply a 32GB drive at $0.44, which is 1.375 cents/GB.
I'd rather say that would mean a 32TB drive for $449 (or more likely 3TB for $50). Not so unplausible, considering that the 20MB HDD my dad once bought cost five times the 1TB drive I bought last week. That's about 5 orders of magnitude difference for the cost per capacity, and in only 20 years or so.
I do hope you realize that the GeForce and the Quadro series are the EXACT same chips, with different BIOSes only... FX2700 == 8800GT, both uses the G92 core.
Oh, there is a difference indeed. I have a Xeon 3210, stock 2.13GHz, clocked to 3.0 or so. I'm using Lightroom a lot, and difference between normal and overclocked is annoying lag vs. almost instantaneous response. Lightroom uses all 4 cores evenly, all of which gain 0.8GHz of processing power. That's 3.2 GHz free. Then again using Photoshop, which is singlethreaded, I won't notice the difference without a stopwatch.
But, it doesn't matter. Overclocking is free anyways.
You didn't google enough. These guys are really anal when it comes to finding quiet parts. Following their advice, I now actually have an overclocked PC, that I can't hear if it's on or off.
.25 seconds in a test, when you expect something to happen soon. Try again when sitting in a car, during a long drive, getting bored, talking to someone else. 1-2 seconds is a normal practical reaction time.
I'd like to offer a differing view on traffic policing. I've lived in two countries, country 1 being very lax on driving offences. A co-worker of mine drove for almost 10 years without a license before being caugth, fined, and was allowed to drive away. Country 2 on the other hand, has severe penalties on driving infractions, fines can be massive and it's easy to earn jail time.
Country 1 had the most banged up cars, clogged streets, retards driving. Felt very unsafe, and you couldn't trust a stoplight, there was always an asshole running the red light. In country 2, it felt safe and comfortable, the traffic was smooth, people communicated.
So, even though I'm against a police force with limitless power, I think that the traffic police should be granted the authority to burn up the worst offenders cars:)
>Well, IE (incl. 7) has a tiny GET limit, and this applies to mailtos as well. It only allows 2083 characters.
Ah, I see. So you were talking about only mailto's. Silly me, thought I read something about GET in your mail. Especially when it's in another paragraph than where you mention mailto's
Internet Explorer can be locked down with group policies, Firefox & company cannot. Also, at the two previous megacorporations I've worked at IE6 was not "forced" on anyone. You simply needed it to actually work, because all the corporate internal webapps were IE6 only...:(
Well, you should stick to the HTML spec. GET requests should never cause an action, like sending that mail. POST requests are designed to allow actions. I don't know about the byte limit on POSTs, but I know you can upload files of several MB. Should be enough for an email.
There is a reason for distinctions between GET and POST. A webcrawler for instance should be able to safely follow any link/form with a GET request. If you trigger mails with a GET request, you can easily get the googlebot to accidentally send you some email.
Also, you may want to read up on the HTTP/1.1 RFC, which states that a GET request can be of unlimited length, but that clients and servers should beware as there is no guarantee that all software supports more than a 256 bytes long URI. This is one thing you shouldn't blame on Microsoft, as this limitation is fairly ancient, older than any copy of IE:)
I have a little feeling that the army is spending more on hardware than NASA. Space shuttle, 1.7B$ each, 5 pcs built = 8.5B$ B2 bomber, 737M$ each, 20 pcs built = 14.7B$
And at costs like that for hardware, training of astronauts / soldiers is fairly neglible.
No. That is not a proper backup. What if the RAID controller partially fails and fills your "backup" disk with garbage? Then you move it to the second array and mirror the garbage.
Also, rebuilding drives causes puts extra strains on the disks, especially if they are under a heavy load normally. I've seen cascade failures which started on one disk, breaking more and more disks when the rebuild started. 7 of 32 disks in the SAN failed within a few hours.
That MTBF actually makes sense, when you know what it's measuring. In addition to MTBF a harddrive is rated to last 3 or 5 or so years. If you replace this HDD every 3 or 5 years, you will have a failure every MTBF period or 22.8 years.
MTBF doesn't make any sense for consumers, but comes in handy when maintaining bigger SANs.
>The other side of the coin is that Dell wants to save money on MSFT license fees, so they push free OS to keep their costs down. It's not really putting the customer first if the customer feels really cheated by it.
Actually, for Dell, Windows is cheaper. Linux is free, but doesn't bring in any revenue. Windows costs 30-ish dollars a piece for Dell, and McAfee & others pays Dell slightly more than that so they can have their software preinstalled.
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> I'm not sure how a 3 order of magnitude drop could possible happen, as that would imply a 32GB drive at $0.44, which is 1.375 cents/GB.
I'd rather say that would mean a 32TB drive for $449 (or more likely 3TB for $50). Not so unplausible, considering that the 20MB HDD my dad once bought cost five times the 1TB drive I bought last week. That's about 5 orders of magnitude difference for the cost per capacity, and in only 20 years or so.
I do hope you realize that the GeForce and the Quadro series are the EXACT same chips, with different BIOSes only... FX2700 == 8800GT, both uses the G92 core.
Oh, there is a difference indeed. I have a Xeon 3210, stock 2.13GHz, clocked to 3.0 or so. I'm using Lightroom a lot, and difference between normal and overclocked is annoying lag vs. almost instantaneous response. Lightroom uses all 4 cores evenly, all of which gain 0.8GHz of processing power. That's 3.2 GHz free. Then again using Photoshop, which is singlethreaded, I won't notice the difference without a stopwatch.
But, it doesn't matter. Overclocking is free anyways.
2001 called, they want their AMD Thunderbird 1.4GHz back.
Sorry, but Intel has taken the lead in the hottest CPU, 150W for the QX9775, versus 125W for the Phenom II 940.
You didn't google enough.
These guys are really anal when it comes to finding quiet parts. Following their advice, I now actually have an overclocked PC, that I can't hear if it's on or off.
Drafting. Saves quite a lot of fuel, up to 30% if drafting a big truck.
Remove the fuse. Or better yet, do as I did. Connected the fuse to a button on the dashboard labelled ABS on/off :)
.25 seconds in a test, when you expect something to happen soon. Try again when sitting in a car, during a long drive, getting bored, talking to someone else. 1-2 seconds is a normal practical reaction time.
I'd like to offer a differing view on traffic policing. I've lived in two countries, country 1 being very lax on driving offences. A co-worker of mine drove for almost 10 years without a license before being caugth, fined, and was allowed to drive away. Country 2 on the other hand, has severe penalties on driving infractions, fines can be massive and it's easy to earn jail time.
Country 1 had the most banged up cars, clogged streets, retards driving. Felt very unsafe, and you couldn't trust a stoplight, there was always an asshole running the red light.
In country 2, it felt safe and comfortable, the traffic was smooth, people communicated.
So, even though I'm against a police force with limitless power, I think that the traffic police should be granted the authority to burn up the worst offenders cars :)
Not that much of a problem. Most stuff going to orbit uses several engines anyways. Space shuttle has 3+2 engines, Soyuz has 4.
>It is ONE school.
It's the FIRST school.
BS = Bullshit
MS = More shit
PhD = Piled higher and deeper
Yes, but for SSD's the blocks are larger - problems when essentially all software is optimized for smaller blocks.
>Well, IE (incl. 7) has a tiny GET limit, and this applies to mailtos as well. It only allows 2083 characters.
Ah, I see. So you were talking about only mailto's. Silly me, thought I read something about GET in your mail. Especially when it's in another paragraph than where you mention mailto's
Internet Explorer can be locked down with group policies, Firefox & company cannot. :(
Also, at the two previous megacorporations I've worked at IE6 was not "forced" on anyone. You simply needed it to actually work, because all the corporate internal webapps were IE6 only...
Well, you should stick to the HTML spec. GET requests should never cause an action, like sending that mail. POST requests are designed to allow actions. I don't know about the byte limit on POSTs, but I know you can upload files of several MB. Should be enough for an email.
There is a reason for distinctions between GET and POST. A webcrawler for instance should be able to safely follow any link/form with a GET request. If you trigger mails with a GET request, you can easily get the googlebot to accidentally send you some email.
Also, you may want to read up on the HTTP/1.1 RFC, which states that a GET request can be of unlimited length, but that clients and servers should beware as there is no guarantee that all software supports more than a 256 bytes long URI. This is one thing you shouldn't blame on Microsoft, as this limitation is fairly ancient, older than any copy of IE :)
I have a little feeling that the army is spending more on hardware than NASA.
Space shuttle, 1.7B$ each, 5 pcs built = 8.5B$
B2 bomber, 737M$ each, 20 pcs built = 14.7B$
And at costs like that for hardware, training of astronauts / soldiers is fairly neglible.
Why go for the complex solution?
A motion sensor connected to a air horn should do the trick.
Let me guess... You are Swedish? :)
No-one else thinks that phrase is funny
Those prices seem to include support. What does the support for hyper-v cost? I'm under the impression that MS techsupport isn't exactly free :)
Your university is a for profit organization. Guess from where they are getting the money to pay Microsoft for the university wide license.
That's right, your tuition. I hope you are using Windows, as you are paying for it in any case.
No. That is not a proper backup. What if the RAID controller partially fails and fills your "backup" disk with garbage? Then you move it to the second array and mirror the garbage.
Also, rebuilding drives causes puts extra strains on the disks, especially if they are under a heavy load normally. I've seen cascade failures which started on one disk, breaking more and more disks when the rebuild started. 7 of 32 disks in the SAN failed within a few hours.
That MTBF actually makes sense, when you know what it's measuring. In addition to MTBF a harddrive is rated to last 3 or 5 or so years. If you replace this HDD every 3 or 5 years, you will have a failure every MTBF period or 22.8 years. MTBF doesn't make any sense for consumers, but comes in handy when maintaining bigger SANs.
Piratebay services also the U.S.
If the movie is out somewhere, there is a torrent of it.
>The other side of the coin is that Dell wants to save money on MSFT license fees, so they push free OS to keep their costs down. It's not really putting the customer first if the customer feels really cheated by it.
Actually, for Dell, Windows is cheaper. Linux is free, but doesn't bring in any revenue.
Windows costs 30-ish dollars a piece for Dell, and McAfee & others pays Dell slightly more than that so they can have their software preinstalled.