You do realize that it is a US based website in english don't you? Sure people come from around the world but it is a US based site and will be from a US point of view. To complain about that is as rude as someone from the US going to a French site written in French and then complaining that they didn't put measurements in feet and inches as well as metric! How closed minded and rude to come to a US website and not embrace the cultural differences!
Funny but the FOSS community has said for years that if "They just documented the chips we would write the drivers.". What it comes down to is money. Very few people buy hardware to run Linux on. Most people buy hardware to run Windows on. Most resources goes to where most profit comes from. From what I have heard ATI drivers have gotten much better lately.
I just went and looked and there is a new version of open filler on source forge with the date 4/11/2011 so it may be back in active development. http://sourceforge.net/projects/openfiler/files/
It may be an accurate title but in a nit picking sort of way. The Trieste was not a submarine but was a bathyscaphe. I believe that it used a guide line and was not freely maneuverable. But in general I would agree with you that it was the first and so far only.
Funny but when I watch Top Gear UK they actually say things like "miles per hour", "miles per gallon", "zero to sixty", and "quarter mile time". When I read the UK magazine Bike I see many of the same measurements but most frustrating is that they give the size of the fuel tank in liters but the fuel economy in MPG! Same thing when I read UK car magazines. When I go to car websites in the UK they also have MPG listed. So do the whiners spend as much time on the Top Gear website and sending letters to the editors, letters to the BBC, and complaining to the car companies about them using miles, gallons and so on as they do when a US based website does?
Actually you can make ethanol out of the corn then take the brewers corn and feed that to chickens, then people heat the chicken and you use the fat from processing the chicken parts. So yes this is renewable because you can make more chickens. Green? I find that some people in the Green movement can do the math in some very interesting ways. I remember someone telling me that a nuclear power plant produced more CO2 than a coal plant... Yea sure... If they don't like it then it is no longer green.
Shame about OpenFiler. Too bad it seemed like a good project. And notice I said you might want to also look at. I wasn't bashing FreeNAS at all. It also seems like a really cool project. I have had both good and bad experience with hardware raid for a low cost drobo replacement I would think that a software raid would be a good solution.
Computers existed, timesharing services existed. Just not a type of computer a PC and a specific service CompuServe. Same thing. Before you state fact at least check wikipedia. I mean really he was wrong. Not a little wrong but way off in his facts Not to mention there was no point to be made except that pre position supplies had been done before. Heck hit had been done for a long time. I suggest you look up coaling stations. I suggest you just chill out or if you are the poster might I suggest that you leave some room for doubt if you are not sure. Like saying "I heard that", or "I believe that" instead of making a factual statement that isn't. Or best of all if you do make a factual statement that was wrong just saying, "Thanks I blew that one" and letting it go.
Airplanes are technology. Military aircraft are usually some of the highest technology of their time. This is technology site. If you are going to make a statement of fact with no room for error or interpretation and you are wrong you will get corrected. The point was what exactly? That it is better to have fuel magically appear than to have to ship it? Well yea but that isn't an option in space or in China durring WWII. The facts are that the air lift of fuel did allow the US to attack Japan with B-29s flying from China. It worked. The US did it until bases closer to Japan with sea access opened.
I was thinking RAID 6 but yes if you are just doing mirroring you will be good. As to battery backed cache yes but only for a high end system other wise I would consider the UPS as the battery backup for the cache. If you are going to go with a battery backup cache then I would also go with redundant power supplies and dual independent UPSs but then you are in a way different category than a DROBO IMHO. Again it all depends on what you want to pay for. If I could get way with it I would use a RAID 6 where I work with a hot standby and once every 3 months swap out one of the datadrives put the spare into service and swap in a new spare drive. Thse days drives are cheap and data is expensive.
There was no B-52 during WWII. There was no B-52 in service during the Korean war. The B-52 didn't enter service until the 1950s and still is to this day.
Durring WWII the US would fly fuel of the "HUMP" in a number of planes including the C-46, B-24 and the B-29. Saying that they used B-52s to fly fuel in WWII is as dumb as saying that your parents used their PC to log onto CompuServe back in the 1950s Those that do not know history will just make it up as they go.
Please yes they really are. The problem is that people are taking the wrong lesson from this. 1. Machines fail. 2. Don't expect things to not fail. 3. Don't be stupid.
NetFlix did not go down. Amazon did not go down. Both use E2C. Foursquare and Redit went down. So what was different? Simple NetFlix used E2C to build a distributed system with redundant nodes. Foursquare and other did not. Just like every other discussion where people talk out their but about how distributed systems are more reliable they failed to understand that you must plan very carefully and plane to build reliable distributed systems. Otherwise you create a systems with many points of failure and little control.
Did freenas fix the ZFS performance issues? And why would you want a hardware raid? If you controller dies you will have to get a compatable replacement to rebuild the array. Also might I suggest Openfiler as also worth looking at. Oh and this would IMHO make a nice NAS http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182234
You get 6 sata ports 2 x 1000Mbit network ports plus it uses VGA and PS/2 so KVMs are cheap and easy with this. It even has a serial port if you need it. Put FreeNas on a USB drive and you have a crap load of storage with this. Or use the PCI slot to add more SATA ports and really increase you storage space. If they just made a 1 U case that could fit an mini itx and 6 drivers.
Let me put it to you this way. When I was four I watched man walk on the moon. I was really sad because I was too young to be the first man to walk on Mars. When I was in my 20s I was sad because I was too old to be the first man to walk on Mars. Today at 46 I fear that I will not see a human on Mars in my lifetime. I have seen what the Shuttle was supposed to be turn into the Shuttle we got. I saw the space tug get canceled as well as NASA allow Skylab to fall to earth. We where supposed to use the Shuttle to go to Skylab BTW. I have seen the Saturn V fly from a beach at the Cape and I have seen it laying on it's side as a museum piece and a reminder of what once was. I have seen the X-33 and DCX both die form a lack of interest. Falcon 9 flew and so did Dragon once. Elon Musk has not made a profit from the Falcon yet as far as I know. I am very happy at his success up to this point but I am not going to get my hopes up that he can get a human to Mars in 10 or 15 years. Even with the Saturn V it would have been a huge undertaking without nuclear powered upper stages. So just don't blow sunshine up my skirt and feed me pipe dreams of Mars missions. Get the Falcon 9 heavy in to the air. Start series production, start flying the Dragon to the ISS, start flying people in the Dragon, and test the Merlin-2 working. Then maybe you can start talking about going to the moon and I will believe you. Talk is cheap and I have heard it all before.
1. Who cares? Really did you not have a DVD player? Blu-Ray? I have one but I really don't use it much. I use NetFlix streaming or Amazon on my Roku box, Blu-Ray player, and or 360. Mostly on my RokuBox which is under $100. 2. The wii controllers are standard Bluetooth drivers are available for them for your PC. 3. You could buy a crippled 360 no HD for 300 but it also lacked WiFi. The PS3 was a good bit more. and when you are talking about just $100 more then a $249 device you are talking about around 30% more. 4. I never use it on my 360 but if you like it I guess it is nice. 5. Well that is you. Others really like the wii to this day. 6. Pure opinion.
Your last slam is a bit amusing since Nintendo made so much more money than Microsoft or Sony did off of this generation of consoles. We will see but I predict a lot of people will flock to buy this new console because it is new and Microsoft and Sony have nothing new this year. Just because you didn't like it really doesn't matter in the big picture. Nintendo made a mint on a console you didn't like. You features list was interesting because I also have a 360. I never use the 360 controllers on my PC, never use my 360 to access my PC as a media center, and I never use it to play DVDs. If I am going to watch a disk it will be Blu-Ray. For Netflix and other streaming I find the Roku box to be a much better device. It is silent, cheap, and doesn't produce as much heat as the 360. I do agree that streaming is a big deal. How much do you want to bet that the new Wii will have NetFlix built in and will not require you to pay for any type of online Gold membership to use it? The 360 is a good gaming machine but as a meda streamer it is too big, too loud, too expensive, and that Gold Membership to use Netflix? EVIL! Also you can not get Hulu plus, RDIO, or any of the other channels like CNet and YouTube that I get on my tiny, cool, cheap, and silent Roku box.
Simple it will be cheaper because the will not have to pay off as much RnD as Microsoft and Sony did. Sony is still probably paying the RnD costs for the Cell. As a processor it has been a good sized flop. Sony imagined it being used in all sorts of devices including TVs. It really has not been popular outside of some super computer systems and the PS/3. Microsoft didn't go as over board but they did spend a good amount of money to develop the GPU in the XBox. Today Nintendo can probably go with a GPU that is very close to an off the shelf GPU and a GPU that is also close to a COTs part as well. Microsoft and Sony are still paying off the cost of there RnD and the time when they didn't make a profit off the consoles. I will also guess that they will not bother with going BlueRay or with a hard drive. Flash is now really cheap and putting in 32 of flash will not be very expansive at all. Will it do as well as the WII? Probably not. Will it do better than the Wii is now? I would say yes and will it do as well as the PS3 and 360 are doing now? I will also say yes.
The cold is the problem. Jets fly at high altitude to get their best fuel economy. It is really cold which actually helps with efficiency. Jet engines are after all heat engines. The greater the difference between the hot and the cold side of the engine more efficient it will be. diesle turns to wax in those conditions. Oh and the reason they are using the DC-8 are. 1. They got it cheap. DC-8s where retired from a lot of airlines about 20 years ago. They where then bought up cheap by cargo carriers and NASA. 2. They are actually pretty roomy so lots of room for test equipment. 3. They where re-engined with CFM-56 turbofans. The CFM-56 is a pretty modern engine much more so than the TF-33 on the B-52s. It is also a very common engine and is used on the 737, some Airbus aircraft, KC-135R, and a probably a lot more I don't know off the top of my head. 4. It has four engines. They will probably start the testing with only one engine using the Biofuel. if they have an engine out issue the plane will be reduced to only 75% of max vs 50% of max if a twin has an engine out. 5. It is already a flying laboratory.
Yep I have concluded that the news is next to useless for most reporting. If they are reporting on a subject I know so much of it is just wrong I want to throw up. If it is subject I don't know in detail I can not trust them. NPR tends to have the least stupid people involved and their bias is the opposite of my own so they are the source I tend to go with most often. Oh and the weather channel is the worst. After we got hit by a hurricane my in laws where freaking out because it looked like the end of world on the Weather channel. It just wasn't that big of a deal here.
lots of nations where no where to be seen. Spain, Japan, France Sweden, Norway, Finland... Just take a look at all the white on the map http://www.freedomhouse.org/images/File/FotN/Map.pdf In other words this is just about useless because how free the internet is in large part comes down to opinion. In some nations "hate speech" is illegal, in some sexually explicit pictures of 16 year olds is perfectly legal. Which limitation or lack of them makes that nation more or less free? It is pretty easy to say that Cuba, Iran, and North Korea's internet are not "free" as in speech while the US, Canada, and Germany are "free" as in speech. But even then you will have people disagreeing with that. And trying to rank how free the free ones are or how repressive the repressive ones are is just an wasted exercise as is this whole study and Slashdot story.
If they are showing it at E3 I am guessing it will be shipping this Christmas. Only makes sense that if it is playable they will want it out for the Holiday season. Nintendo relies less on 3 party developers for launch titles than any other console maker does.
I have never seen N64 games run on the Gamecube so that is news to me. I don't see any reason why they wouldn't have the new Wii run the old Wii games. Odds are good that they will add some programable shaders and such but keep backward compatibility. It will probably be the must have for Christmas this year.
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You do realize that it is a US based website in english don't you? Sure people come from around the world but it is a US based site and will be from a US point of view. To complain about that is as rude as someone from the US going to a French site written in French and then complaining that they didn't put measurements in feet and inches as well as metric! How closed minded and rude to come to a US website and not embrace the cultural differences!
Funny but the FOSS community has said for years that if "They just documented the chips we would write the drivers.". What it comes down to is money. Very few people buy hardware to run Linux on. Most people buy hardware to run Windows on. Most resources goes to where most profit comes from. From what I have heard ATI drivers have gotten much better lately.
I just went and looked and there is a new version of open filler on source forge with the date 4/11/2011 so it may be back in active development.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/openfiler/files/
It may be an accurate title but in a nit picking sort of way. The Trieste was not a submarine but was a bathyscaphe. I believe that it used a guide line and was not freely maneuverable. But in general I would agree with you that it was the first and so far only.
Funny but when I watch Top Gear UK they actually say things like "miles per hour", "miles per gallon", "zero to sixty", and "quarter mile time". When I read the UK magazine Bike I see many of the same measurements but most frustrating is that they give the size of the fuel tank in liters but the fuel economy in MPG! Same thing when I read UK car magazines. When I go to car websites in the UK they also have MPG listed.
So do the whiners spend as much time on the Top Gear website and sending letters to the editors, letters to the BBC, and complaining to the car companies about them using miles, gallons and so on as they do when a US based website does?
Actually you can make ethanol out of the corn then take the brewers corn and feed that to chickens, then people heat the chicken and you use the fat from processing the chicken parts.
So yes this is renewable because you can make more chickens. Green? I find that some people in the Green movement can do the math in some very interesting ways. I remember someone telling me that a nuclear power plant produced more CO2 than a coal plant... Yea sure... If they don't like it then it is no longer green.
I thought the US wrote this? I still think it was Canada.
Tragic Hipster. Someone riding a fixed gear bike while wearing a backpack that costs more than $100 filled with Pabst Blue Ribbon beer.
Actually typewriters are more Tragic Hipster or Steampunk IMHO.
Shame about OpenFiler. Too bad it seemed like a good project. And notice I said you might want to also look at. I wasn't bashing FreeNAS at all. It also seems like a really cool project. I have had both good and bad experience with hardware raid for a low cost drobo replacement I would think that a software raid would be a good solution.
Computers existed, timesharing services existed. Just not a type of computer a PC and a specific service CompuServe.
Same thing. Before you state fact at least check wikipedia. I mean really he was wrong. Not a little wrong but way off in his facts Not to mention there was no point to be made except that pre position supplies had been done before. Heck hit had been done for a long time. I suggest you look up coaling stations. I suggest you just chill out or if you are the poster might I suggest that you leave some room for doubt if you are not sure. Like saying "I heard that", or "I believe that" instead of making a factual statement that isn't. Or best of all if you do make a factual statement that was wrong just saying, "Thanks I blew that one" and letting it go.
Airplanes are technology. Military aircraft are usually some of the highest technology of their time. This is technology site. If you are going to make a statement of fact with no room for error or interpretation and you are wrong you will get corrected. The point was what exactly? That it is better to have fuel magically appear than to have to ship it? Well yea but that isn't an option in space or in China durring WWII. The facts are that the air lift of fuel did allow the US to attack Japan with B-29s flying from China. It worked. The US did it until bases closer to Japan with sea access opened.
I was thinking RAID 6 but yes if you are just doing mirroring you will be good. As to battery backed cache yes but only for a high end system other wise I would consider the UPS as the battery backup for the cache. If you are going to go with a battery backup cache then I would also go with redundant power supplies and dual independent UPSs but then you are in a way different category than a DROBO IMHO. Again it all depends on what you want to pay for. If I could get way with it I would use a RAID 6 where I work with a hot standby and once every 3 months swap out one of the datadrives put the spare into service and swap in a new spare drive. Thse days drives are cheap and data is expensive.
No they didn't.
There was no B-52 during WWII.
There was no B-52 in service during the Korean war.
The B-52 didn't enter service until the 1950s and still is to this day.
Durring WWII the US would fly fuel of the "HUMP" in a number of planes including the C-46, B-24 and the B-29.
Saying that they used B-52s to fly fuel in WWII is as dumb as saying that your parents used their PC to log onto CompuServe back in the 1950s
Those that do not know history will just make it up as they go.
Please yes they really are. The problem is that people are taking the wrong lesson from this.
1. Machines fail.
2. Don't expect things to not fail.
3. Don't be stupid.
NetFlix did not go down. Amazon did not go down. Both use E2C. Foursquare and Redit went down. So what was different?
Simple NetFlix used E2C to build a distributed system with redundant nodes. Foursquare and other did not.
Just like every other discussion where people talk out their but about how distributed systems are more reliable they failed to understand that you must plan very carefully and plane to build reliable distributed systems. Otherwise you create a systems with many points of failure and little control.
Did freenas fix the ZFS performance issues? And why would you want a hardware raid? If you controller dies you will have to get a compatable replacement to rebuild the array. Also might I suggest Openfiler as also worth looking at.
Oh and this would IMHO make a nice NAS http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182234
You get 6 sata ports 2 x 1000Mbit network ports plus it uses VGA and PS/2 so KVMs are cheap and easy with this. It even has a serial port if you need it. Put FreeNas on a USB drive and you have a crap load of storage with this. Or use the PCI slot to add more SATA ports and really increase you storage space. If they just made a 1 U case that could fit an mini itx and 6 drivers.
Let me put it to you this way. When I was four I watched man walk on the moon. I was really sad because I was too young to be the first man to walk on Mars. When I was in my 20s I was sad because I was too old to be the first man to walk on Mars. Today at 46 I fear that I will not see a human on Mars in my lifetime. I have seen what the Shuttle was supposed to be turn into the Shuttle we got. I saw the space tug get canceled as well as NASA allow Skylab to fall to earth. We where supposed to use the Shuttle to go to Skylab BTW. I have seen the Saturn V fly from a beach at the Cape and I have seen it laying on it's side as a museum piece and a reminder of what once was. I have seen the X-33 and DCX both die form a lack of interest. Falcon 9 flew and so did Dragon once. Elon Musk has not made a profit from the Falcon yet as far as I know. I am very happy at his success up to this point but I am not going to get my hopes up that he can get a human to Mars in 10 or 15 years. Even with the Saturn V it would have been a huge undertaking without nuclear powered upper stages. So just don't blow sunshine up my skirt and feed me pipe dreams of Mars missions. Get the Falcon 9 heavy in to the air. Start series production, start flying the Dragon to the ISS, start flying people in the Dragon, and test the Merlin-2 working. Then maybe you can start talking about going to the moon and I will believe you. Talk is cheap and I have heard it all before.
1. Who cares? Really did you not have a DVD player? Blu-Ray? I have one but I really don't use it much. I use NetFlix streaming or Amazon on my Roku box, Blu-Ray player, and or 360. Mostly on my RokuBox which is under $100.
2. The wii controllers are standard Bluetooth drivers are available for them for your PC.
3. You could buy a crippled 360 no HD for 300 but it also lacked WiFi. The PS3 was a good bit more. and when you are talking about just $100 more then a $249 device you are talking about around 30% more.
4. I never use it on my 360 but if you like it I guess it is nice.
5. Well that is you. Others really like the wii to this day.
6. Pure opinion.
Your last slam is a bit amusing since Nintendo made so much more money than Microsoft or Sony did off of this generation of consoles. We will see but I predict a lot of people will flock to buy this new console because it is new and Microsoft and Sony have nothing new this year. Just because you didn't like it really doesn't matter in the big picture. Nintendo made a mint on a console you didn't like. You features list was interesting because I also have a 360. I never use the 360 controllers on my PC, never use my 360 to access my PC as a media center, and I never use it to play DVDs. If I am going to watch a disk it will be Blu-Ray. For Netflix and other streaming I find the Roku box to be a much better device. It is silent, cheap, and doesn't produce as much heat as the 360. I do agree that streaming is a big deal. How much do you want to bet that the new Wii will have NetFlix built in and will not require you to pay for any type of online Gold membership to use it? The 360 is a good gaming machine but as a meda streamer it is too big, too loud, too expensive, and that Gold Membership to use Netflix? EVIL! Also you can not get Hulu plus, RDIO, or any of the other channels like CNet and YouTube that I get on my tiny, cool, cheap, and silent Roku box.
What a load of crap that is.
Simple it will be cheaper because the will not have to pay off as much RnD as Microsoft and Sony did. Sony is still probably paying the RnD costs for the Cell. As a processor it has been a good sized flop. Sony imagined it being used in all sorts of devices including TVs. It really has not been popular outside of some super computer systems and the PS/3. Microsoft didn't go as over board but they did spend a good amount of money to develop the GPU in the XBox. Today Nintendo can probably go with a GPU that is very close to an off the shelf GPU and a GPU that is also close to a COTs part as well. Microsoft and Sony are still paying off the cost of there RnD and the time when they didn't make a profit off the consoles. I will also guess that they will not bother with going BlueRay or with a hard drive. Flash is now really cheap and putting in 32 of flash will not be very expansive at all.
Will it do as well as the WII? Probably not. Will it do better than the Wii is now? I would say yes and will it do as well as the PS3 and 360 are doing now? I will also say yes.
The cold is the problem. Jets fly at high altitude to get their best fuel economy. It is really cold which actually helps with efficiency. Jet engines are after all heat engines. The greater the difference between the hot and the cold side of the engine more efficient it will be. diesle turns to wax in those conditions. Oh and the reason they are using the DC-8 are.
1. They got it cheap. DC-8s where retired from a lot of airlines about 20 years ago. They where then bought up cheap by cargo carriers and NASA.
2. They are actually pretty roomy so lots of room for test equipment.
3. They where re-engined with CFM-56 turbofans. The CFM-56 is a pretty modern engine much more so than the TF-33 on the B-52s. It is also a very common engine and is used on the 737, some Airbus aircraft, KC-135R, and a probably a lot more I don't know off the top of my head.
4. It has four engines. They will probably start the testing with only one engine using the Biofuel. if they have an engine out issue the plane will be reduced to only 75% of max vs 50% of max if a twin has an engine out.
5. It is already a flying laboratory.
Yep I have concluded that the news is next to useless for most reporting. If they are reporting on a subject I know so much of it is just wrong I want to throw up. If it is subject I don't know in detail I can not trust them. NPR tends to have the least stupid people involved and their bias is the opposite of my own so they are the source I tend to go with most often. Oh and the weather channel is the worst. After we got hit by a hurricane my in laws where freaking out because it looked like the end of world on the Weather channel. It just wasn't that big of a deal here.
lots of nations where no where to be seen.
Spain, Japan, France Sweden, Norway, Finland...
Just take a look at all the white on the map http://www.freedomhouse.org/images/File/FotN/Map.pdf
In other words this is just about useless because how free the internet is in large part comes down to opinion. In some nations "hate speech" is illegal, in some sexually explicit pictures of 16 year olds is perfectly legal. Which limitation or lack of them makes that nation more or less free?
It is pretty easy to say that Cuba, Iran, and North Korea's internet are not "free" as in speech while the US, Canada, and Germany are "free" as in speech. But even then you will have people disagreeing with that. And trying to rank how free the free ones are or how repressive the repressive ones are is just an wasted exercise as is this whole study and Slashdot story.
I don't see Nintendo producing a $400 console. So a new wii that sells for $250 with HD output is what I am betting on.
If they are showing it at E3 I am guessing it will be shipping this Christmas. Only makes sense that if it is playable they will want it out for the Holiday season. Nintendo relies less on 3 party developers for launch titles than any other console maker does.
I have never seen N64 games run on the Gamecube so that is news to me. I don't see any reason why they wouldn't have the new Wii run the old Wii games. Odds are good that they will add some programable shaders and such but keep backward compatibility. It will probably be the must have for Christmas this year.