You are off by a factor of 3 there. Newer drives run about 5w or so idle, 1-2w when spun down. Run a NAS software that supports software RAID, then there are no hardware problems to be found. I agree about the P4 though, especially when Atom based solution can be had for $80 or so and pull maybe 30 watts max. All in all you can build a NAS that pulls less than 20 watts idle and maxes at 50 or so depending on how many drives you go with...
And that one is by an actual reporter with actual fact checking. Obviously some of it is left up to how the perpetrators described it, but it doesn't have stupid made up stuff like a nitrogen filled lab and thermal suits and such. I would guess the crime played out more like the LA Times article, rather than this embellished piece of pulp fiction
All AMD AM2/3 CPUs support unregistered ecc memory (have to step up to opteron for registered), and I am pretty sure socket 939 and 754 supported it too.
I can't speak for all the chipsets out there, but AMD's chipsets always support ECC as well.
So to say that virtually no desktops support ECC is wrong, virtually no Intel desktops support ECC.
It is an experiment to see if human problem and puzzle solving can be superior in ways to the existing protein folding projects like Rosetta@Home, Folding@home, etc. But besides that you get to learn in a visual way about proteins and solve real problems.
Damn, they got owned completely, 3 different times. Someone in their security department needs to get a clue. Somehow their offsite data store got accessed, then an IT consultant worker key logged them, and finally they got in again through a third party and escalated to admin rights.
3 different attack vectors, all completely successful. That is just kinda pathetic...
Or perhaps it might also involve the locking down of phones by carriers? If you can't use bluetooth for file transfer because the carrier locked it out, it makes it harder to get pics off. If you can't use the phone as a usb mass storage device because the carrier is worried about you copying ringtones yourself, obviously getting the pics off will be hard.
That said, this "article" contains almost no useful information, so maybe Righ Miner had some better examples than the pictures...
Working in support, I have seen so many times where if an unfamiliar dialog box pops up, people either click on the option they are used to clicking on, or call support without even reading the message on the dialog box. It is like they are unable to physically see the contents of the dialog anymore, it has been beaten out of them. Often all I have to do is make them read me the dialog over the phone, which makes them process the info mentally, and they know which button they need to press then, having actually read and comprehended what was asked. It is a very interesting problem, I think the solution is to make the buttons themselves say what they do, rather than clicking Ok or Cancel, have the button say "Exit crashed program", or "Install new program" or what have you. Always being OK or Cancel conditions people to just blindly click.
Man, I thought we were past the days of "well established process" + "the internet" or + "a computer" = brand new shiny patent. Clearly the patent office hasn't learned anything, and apparently we have yet to exhaust the pool of basic processes that can be "reinvented" for a computer. Sad.
Ok so you state that memory bandwidth requirements for GPUs are off the charts. Where do you propose to get more memory bandwidth than on the CPU itself? Seems to me if you want memory bandwidth there is no better place to be than on the cpu die...
This is to prevent the resale of games, no doubt about it. Just like the government using the "think of the children" line to steal out rights. EA is using the "evil pirates" to justify killing the used PC game market.
For point 3, with current technology, yes there is more latency in wireless. That does not have to be true, wireless signals travel at the speed of light just like fiber or ethernet. Signal processing adds the delay, get that time reduced and it could be just as latent as a wired connection...
That looks ridiculous. I think a much better solution is a diesel generator on a trailer, charges your battery as you go. AC Propulsion, the company that supplies the motor for the Tesla, had a concept called the T-zero a few years back that had a matching trailer with diesel generator, and some cool software that steered the trailer's wheels so it always stayed perfectly behind you, making parallel parking possible. Very cool stuff.
Were you playing 1080p MPEG2 or 1080p MPEG4/h.264? Worlds of difference. I've got a 4400+ with MythTV and can playback 720p and 1080i h.264 no problem, but 1080p drops lots of frames... 1080p Mpeg2 plays back easy...
They are probably getting creative with the phrase "have been affected by". For example, if you take the posted article, at a minimum your could say this one instance of ID theft affected 3 people, Simon, his wife, and his father. You could even extend that to the rest of his family as they cut off contact with him. Even if you limit it to financially affected, significant others and children of someone who suffers from identity theft are all affected directly. So basically it is a useless made up number...;)
I have been looking at this product for a similar situation I am in: http://www.packeteer.com/products/ishaper/ Basically it is a WAFS box, with WAN traffic shaping, caching, etc, plus it acts as a Domain Controller, print server, authentication, dns/dhcp, etc. If it works like they say it will it would be a good solution for you based on the problem description. Basically it is a server, plus WAFS, without being a server... I wonder if anyone here has some hands on experience they could share?
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Actually it's 40 MPG, not 50, so you should qualify.
See this: http://dor.wa.gov/Docs/Pubs/SpecialNotices/2008/sn_08_GreenVehicleExmpt.pdf
It is not necessarily true that hot hard drives fail, in fact according to google's study over cooled drives fail more often...
http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/massive-google-hard-drive-survey-turns-up-very-interesting-thing/
You are off by a factor of 3 there. Newer drives run about 5w or so idle, 1-2w when spun down. Run a NAS software that supports software RAID, then there are no hardware problems to be found. I agree about the P4 though, especially when Atom based solution can be had for $80 or so and pull maybe 30 watts max. All in all you can build a NAS that pulls less than 20 watts idle and maxes at 50 or so depending on how many drives you go with...
Not only is it somewhat painful to read, as far as I can tell it is mostly fiction, no fact checking at all. And it also seems partially plagiarized from this article:
http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/magazine/la-tm-moonrocks23jun06,1,1392690.story?coll=la-home-magazine
And that one is by an actual reporter with actual fact checking. Obviously some of it is left up to how the perpetrators described it, but it doesn't have stupid made up stuff like a nitrogen filled lab and thermal suits and such. I would guess the crime played out more like the LA Times article, rather than this embellished piece of pulp fiction
Quit looking for Intel only stuff I guess.
All AMD AM2/3 CPUs support unregistered ecc memory (have to step up to opteron for registered), and I am pretty sure socket 939 and 754 supported it too.
I can't speak for all the chipsets out there, but AMD's chipsets always support ECC as well.
So to say that virtually no desktops support ECC is wrong, virtually no Intel desktops support ECC.
The shareware version is also available via Cydia for people with jailbroken phones.
Exact same code, it just only has the first mission instead of all six, but no cost...
Details: http://www.modmyi.com/forums/iphone-news/542821-wolfenstein-3d-5-app-store-0-cydia-exact-same-game-legal.html
There is a 3d protein folding game called Foldit that would be appropriate:
http://fold.it/portal/info/science
It is an experiment to see if human problem and puzzle solving can be superior in ways to the existing protein folding projects like Rosetta@Home, Folding@home, etc.
But besides that you get to learn in a visual way about proteins and solve real problems.
Damn, they got owned completely, 3 different times. Someone in their security department needs to get a clue. Somehow their offsite data store got accessed, then an IT consultant worker key logged them, and finally they got in again through a third party and escalated to admin rights.
3 different attack vectors, all completely successful. That is just kinda pathetic...
Or perhaps it might also involve the locking down of phones by carriers?
If you can't use bluetooth for file transfer because the carrier locked it out, it makes it harder to get pics off. If you can't use the phone as a usb mass storage device because the carrier is worried about you copying ringtones yourself, obviously getting the pics off will be hard.
That said, this "article" contains almost no useful information, so maybe Righ Miner had some better examples than the pictures...
Yes there are a number of portable atsc tvs out there: http://www.insignia-products.com/pc-235-14-insignia-7-portable-standard-definition-digital-lcd-tv.aspx
http://www.sansonic.net/consumer/portable_atsc.asp
http://www.gadgets4ls.com/ProductDetails.aspx?id=115
I would give them a year to mature though...
Google Portable ATSC to find more examples.
Working in support, I have seen so many times where if an unfamiliar dialog box pops up, people either click on the option they are used to clicking on, or call support without even reading the message on the dialog box. It is like they are unable to physically see the contents of the dialog anymore, it has been beaten out of them. Often all I have to do is make them read me the dialog over the phone, which makes them process the info mentally, and they know which button they need to press then, having actually read and comprehended what was asked.
It is a very interesting problem, I think the solution is to make the buttons themselves say what they do, rather than clicking Ok or Cancel, have the button say "Exit crashed program", or "Install new program" or what have you. Always being OK or Cancel conditions people to just blindly click.
Man, I thought we were past the days of "well established process" + "the internet" or + "a computer" = brand new shiny patent.
Clearly the patent office hasn't learned anything, and apparently we have yet to exhaust the pool of basic processes that can be "reinvented" for a computer. Sad.
Ok so you state that memory bandwidth requirements for GPUs are off the charts. Where do you propose to get more memory bandwidth than on the CPU itself? Seems to me if you want memory bandwidth there is no better place to be than on the cpu die...
"why punish the actual customers?"
This is to prevent the resale of games, no doubt about it. Just like the government using the "think of the children" line to steal out rights. EA is using the "evil pirates" to justify killing the used PC game market.
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For point 3, with current technology, yes there is more latency in wireless. That does not have to be true, wireless signals travel at the speed of light just like fiber or ethernet. Signal processing adds the delay, get that time reduced and it could be just as latent as a wired connection...
But I agree on points 1 and 2.
And the reason you can't copy Blu-ray bit for bit? Oh wait you can. So I'm gonna have to go with -1 Not Insightful...
"There are a myriad of other problems that arise, 10 years down the line you'll need a new set of batteries and what do you do with the old ones?"
Recycle them and buy a newfangled set that doubles your range? That's what I'm thinking...
That looks ridiculous. I think a much better solution is a diesel generator on a trailer, charges your battery as you go. AC Propulsion, the company that supplies the motor for the Tesla, had a concept called the T-zero a few years back that had a matching trailer with diesel generator, and some cool software that steered the trailer's wheels so it always stayed perfectly behind you, making parallel parking possible. Very cool stuff.
Point them to this, might help:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01087277&lc=en&cc=us
HP has extended the warranty on certain affected laptops to 24 months. Mine had this problem and I had the motherboard replaced this March, 3 months after my warranty would have expired.
Here is the info:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01087277&lc=en&cc=us
RTFA, we are not talking about just MPEG2 here. The main thrust is for Mpeg4/h.264 support, but this should work for hardware accel of any codec.
Were you playing 1080p MPEG2 or 1080p MPEG4/h.264? Worlds of difference. I've got a 4400+ with MythTV and can playback 720p and 1080i h.264 no problem, but 1080p drops lots of frames...
1080p Mpeg2 plays back easy...
They are probably getting creative with the phrase "have been affected by". For example, if you take the posted article, at a minimum your could say this one instance of ID theft affected 3 people, Simon, his wife, and his father. You could even extend that to the rest of his family as they cut off contact with him. ;)
Even if you limit it to financially affected, significant others and children of someone who suffers from identity theft are all affected directly.
So basically it is a useless made up number...
I have been looking at this product for a similar situation I am in: http://www.packeteer.com/products/ishaper/
Basically it is a WAFS box, with WAN traffic shaping, caching, etc, plus it acts as a Domain Controller, print server, authentication, dns/dhcp, etc.
If it works like they say it will it would be a good solution for you based on the problem description. Basically it is a server, plus WAFS, without being a server...
I wonder if anyone here has some hands on experience they could share?