I second this. ECC Support is primary reason when I use AMD desktop processors. For something like an Asterisk server, ECC is great peace of mind. I don't need a fast processor, just something will be reliably run for great lengths of time.
Remember this DRAM error report based on Google's servers? Makes sense to use AMD desktop processors when you don't need a real server.
Same here. Our linux servers run Debian and we manually select the packages that are installed. Having a very clean , methodical, minimalistic installation is what we desire on those machines. Note, we do not install Popularity Contest on those machines.
My notebook, Kubuntu, Windows, everyday apps, and tons of software I only use a couple times a year.
Even if I used Popularity Contest on our servers, would that even give any better indicator on what I really use? There are several important apps that we build from source because the Debian archives are not current enough. Does Popularity Contest take this type of thing into account? (I would guess not)
Exactly. I have a PS3 and am not willing to fork over $15-20 more for a BD unless it is a really good movie. Even then it is a tough sell.
Until the pricing really competitive or better than DVD, most people will not care. There must be an incentive to going with the new format. For many people, the quality difference doesn't matter. So unless there is a pricing advantage, there will not me mass adoption.
Also, $200 is not cheap for a player. We have DVD players in the living room, bedroom, kids room, in the car, and basically anywhere we visit. There is no way I am going to replace all of those with BD players unless there is a really good reason (price.) At the same time, I am not going to buy BD movies that we can only watch in the living room.
One marketing ploy that did work on me is the BD/DVD combo pack. I don't remember which movie it was (some kids movie), but it had the movie on BD and DVD for $5 more than the DVD version. Flexibility to continue to watch where ever and competitive price won me over. If there were more movies distributed this way, my BD collection would be far larger.
Which is worse, McCain skipping, or Obama present and voting yea?
They are both equally bad.
Obama made a terrible vote. Way to stand up for the people! At least he had the balls to vote, but how can I vote for him?
McCain is showing his weakness as a leader by not voting (although it is apparent how he would have voted.) This was obviously an important bill, but he couldn't be bothered to vote. The last thing we need is another president who can't make decisions for himself.
It is truly horrific how this all panned out. We don't have a good "candidate for change" in the fall. Just another race for the lesser of two evils.
This is the year to vote for an alternative party. I don't care if it "harms" one of the parties by doing so. There is no good faith left in either party. All we have are politicians who are not concerned with the public's views. Maybe if one of the parties is "harmed" enough during the upcoming election, they will start to change their tune before the next set of elections.
P.S. Good Job Russ Feingold. You make Wisconsin proud!
The MPAA continually states that file sharing is costing them tons of money.
Sounds like they can save money by just using torrents. Think of the benefits
geographically diverse storage of their "raw data"
the end user can export it to whatever the "format of the day" is
they can terminate the lawyers used to sue everyone
crappy movies will disappear via process of natural selection (bye bye Pauly Shore)
I'm sure there are a million more reasons this makes sense. Please add on to this list!
Yet another article on how the public is the enemy of corporations with money. The public is always stepping all over their "Rights." Of course we should buy three copies of every game the produce. We are not guaranteed fair use rights, so we should just fork over the cash now.
Modchips are partially a side effect of game publishers greed. People don't want to pay for something twice. Copy technology progresses, and people are going to use it. Do we pay twice to have a spare copy of our taxes? How about that lecture that we recorded so we can listen to it again? So why does the some industries feel that they are any exception.
I would be willing to bet that mod chips affect the game resale market is more heavily than the game publishers. If someone is not willing to pay full price for a game, they are more likely to buy it used, borrow it from a friend or steal it. Maybe the gaming industry is just getting out of hand like the movie/recording/TV industries all have become. Charging $500 for a game system to play games at $60 a piece gets pretty expensive. I guess it's no different than buying the box set of Friends when you can just watch in on TV anyway.
Lets just "harvest" energy from everyone who works out in the gym. Seems to me that there are a lot of treadmills, stair climbers, etc. that could be modified for some type of benefit.
This doesn't just small towns either. In Milwaukee [some may call this a small town:)] there was a situation with some kids in our neighborhood and the police that sounds similar. The kids were given citations for using chalk on a playground. The stuff was not anything of any significance, tic tac toe, their names, just typical children stuff.
A few days later, the kids had their citations replaced with a felony and an visit to jail. Because the playground belonged to a catholic school, the police were able to charge the kids with a felony "hate crime."
Was it really necessary to cite a couple 10 or 11 year old children with a felony for something so trivial?
Wouldn't you feel safer knowing no one is getting free internet access without buying a coffee?
Don't you like knowing that the US is becoming more a police state as each day passes??
I don't know if this is in the ballpark, but we Truecrypt on hard drive backups we take off site. It is open source which is nice. It allows you to mount a virtual hard drive that is either a file on an existing partition or as a sort of phantom partition that only TrueCrypt will see. It encrypts on the fly, hence it's usefulness to us. We just have a few usb hard drives. When we plug them in, we can mount them using a password or more elaborate means. It may be worth a peek.
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I second this. ECC Support is primary reason when I use AMD desktop processors. For something like an Asterisk server, ECC is great peace of mind. I don't need a fast processor, just something will be reliably run for great lengths of time. Remember this DRAM error report based on Google's servers? Makes sense to use AMD desktop processors when you don't need a real server.
Same here. Our linux servers run Debian and we manually select the packages that are installed. Having a very clean , methodical, minimalistic installation is what we desire on those machines. Note, we do not install Popularity Contest on those machines.
My notebook, Kubuntu, Windows, everyday apps, and tons of software I only use a couple times a year.
Even if I used Popularity Contest on our servers, would that even give any better indicator on what I really use? There are several important apps that we build from source because the Debian archives are not current enough. Does Popularity Contest take this type of thing into account? (I would guess not)
Exactly. I have a PS3 and am not willing to fork over $15-20 more for a BD unless it is a really good movie. Even then it is a tough sell.
Until the pricing really competitive or better than DVD, most people will not care. There must be an incentive to going with the new format. For many people, the quality difference doesn't matter. So unless there is a pricing advantage, there will not me mass adoption.
Also, $200 is not cheap for a player. We have DVD players in the living room, bedroom, kids room, in the car, and basically anywhere we visit. There is no way I am going to replace all of those with BD players unless there is a really good reason (price.) At the same time, I am not going to buy BD movies that we can only watch in the living room.
One marketing ploy that did work on me is the BD/DVD combo pack. I don't remember which movie it was (some kids movie), but it had the movie on BD and DVD for $5 more than the DVD version. Flexibility to continue to watch where ever and competitive price won me over. If there were more movies distributed this way, my BD collection would be far larger.
Which is worse, McCain skipping, or Obama present and voting yea?
They are both equally bad.
Obama made a terrible vote. Way to stand up for the people! At least he had the balls to vote, but how can I vote for him?
McCain is showing his weakness as a leader by not voting (although it is apparent how he would have voted.) This was obviously an important bill, but he couldn't be bothered to vote. The last thing we need is another president who can't make decisions for himself.
It is truly horrific how this all panned out. We don't have a good "candidate for change" in the fall. Just another race for the lesser of two evils.
This is the year to vote for an alternative party. I don't care if it "harms" one of the parties by doing so. There is no good faith left in either party. All we have are politicians who are not concerned with the public's views. Maybe if one of the parties is "harmed" enough during the upcoming election, they will start to change their tune before the next set of elections.
P.S. Good Job Russ Feingold. You make Wisconsin proud!
But a lot of advertising and greed are crucial to continuing business in America. Look no further than AT&T, Verizon, etc.
I for one welcome our x86 overlords
The MPAA continually states that file sharing is costing them tons of money.
Sounds like they can save money by just using torrents. Think of the benefits
geographically diverse storage of their "raw data"
the end user can export it to whatever the "format of the day" is
they can terminate the lawyers used to sue everyone
crappy movies will disappear via process of natural selection (bye bye Pauly Shore)
I'm sure there are a million more reasons this makes sense. Please add on to this list!
I can see it now. Gold farmers decide to create their own botnets and then the real war begins
Yet another article on how the public is the enemy of corporations with money. The public is always stepping all over their "Rights." Of course we should buy three copies of every game the produce. We are not guaranteed fair use rights, so we should just fork over the cash now.
Modchips are partially a side effect of game publishers greed. People don't want to pay for something twice. Copy technology progresses, and people are going to use it. Do we pay twice to have a spare copy of our taxes? How about that lecture that we recorded so we can listen to it again? So why does the some industries feel that they are any exception.
I would be willing to bet that mod chips affect the game resale market is more heavily than the game publishers. If someone is not willing to pay full price for a game, they are more likely to buy it used, borrow it from a friend or steal it. Maybe the gaming industry is just getting out of hand like the movie/recording/TV industries all have become. Charging $500 for a game system to play games at $60 a piece gets pretty expensive. I guess it's no different than buying the box set of Friends when you can just watch in on TV anyway.
Lets just "harvest" energy from everyone who works out in the gym. Seems to me that there are a lot of treadmills, stair climbers, etc. that could be modified for some type of benefit.
This doesn't just small towns either. In Milwaukee [some may call this a small town :)] there was a situation with some kids in our neighborhood and the police that sounds similar. The kids were given citations for using chalk on a playground. The stuff was not anything of any significance, tic tac toe, their names, just typical children stuff.
A few days later, the kids had their citations replaced with a felony and an visit to jail. Because the playground belonged to a catholic school, the police were able to charge the kids with a felony "hate crime."
Was it really necessary to cite a couple 10 or 11 year old children with a felony for something so trivial?
Wouldn't you feel safer knowing no one is getting free internet access without buying a coffee?
Don't you like knowing that the US is becoming more a police state as each day passes??
I don't know if this is in the ballpark, but we Truecrypt on hard drive backups we take off site. It is open source which is nice. It allows you to mount a virtual hard drive that is either a file on an existing partition or as a sort of phantom partition that only TrueCrypt will see. It encrypts on the fly, hence it's usefulness to us. We just have a few usb hard drives. When we plug them in, we can mount them using a password or more elaborate means. It may be worth a peek.
http://www.truecrypt.org/