I work for a small ISP and we encountered this recently.
We bought a few SuperMicro small form factor chassis (http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/1U/512/SC512-260.cfm), and found that with the drives positioned directly next to a high speed prop, the performance of the disk went from a static 125Mb/sec to as low as a few kb.
The drives we initially bought were WD 1TB Green Drives, and we thought it was initially a "Green" feature. But with thorough testing (and after replacing the drives with Barracudas which suffered, but not as badly), we concluded the fault was singularly because of the vibration.
In the end we packed the prop with foam padding -- between the drive and prop, padding the drive's power cable, and between the prop and chassis (above and below).
Problem went away. But it took us a couple of months, a LOT of back and forth between our supplier, the distributor, and SuperMicro (the latter ignored it), and cost us a bunch more money and time than we had quoted our customer for.
when CD-Rs first came out, they came in several very distinct classes.. and those classes were determined by the type of ink used. iirc, blue ink was the worst with about a 1-2 year life span, green supposedly had a 2-5 year lifespan, gold were supposed to have a 20 year lifespan, and silver pressed CDs were supposed to last 100 years.
The game changed when they started mixing the inks, and I don't know how this affects DVD-Rs as I lost interest, but I was always sure to buy the more expensive gold CD-Rs to back up my porn^H^H^H^H important documents.
No doubt the amount of CDs now being produced lowered the cost, but I'm sure that cheap mass production also affects quality adversely.
But this seriously isn't news. PAR2 has been mentioned to death, which sounds like a good thing. I've never used it myself, important docs like insurance, inland revenue stuff, and other odds and ends get copied onto several CDs. I mean, they're so cheap now, you'd be silly not to at least do that.
More appropriately, I call this BS FUD. It reminds me of the prelude to the current gen of consoles how all the publishers were whining that the games are so much more advanced and that they are spending a lot more money developing them. They tried to use that as a vehicle to bump game prices up. They succeeded to a degree, but not as much as they initially wanted. They wanted to charge (in NZ Dollars as that's what I'm familiar with) an average of $140-$150. As it is, most games are being released at $100-$120 with big releases going up to $140, where the last generation they cost $90-$100 with big releases at about $110 or $120.
So I think that this is just a way of them putting the seeds out to try and bump prices up again.
Why do I believe this is bullshit? Because these days game developers use ready-to-run engines. The amount of work they have to do is pretty minimal compared to their workload if they had to build the engines from scratch each time. It also means that using one engine, the game can be released on multiple platforms with minimal rework.
So I'm calling BS. They're able to get games into production much faster thanks to ready made engines, and they can release the games on multiple platforms to maximise their profits. They've never been able to do that as much as they have with the current gen consoles. Next gen it will be even better for them, therefore minimising their cost per platform.
true enough. I buy CDs because they work out cheaper than buying digital copies. On top of that, I've always got the physical media, so if my computer blows up, or if the service shuts down, I can still play my media.
Digital music would have to be *much* *much* cheaper than a physical CD for me to even consider it.
Charge me the same or more and let me do less with it? I don't think so.
Microsoft didn't get the hardware right. They *did* get support right, and have paid dearly for their hardware mistakes. Let's see if they're better at it the 2nd time around.
I think you'll find that the 360 is their 2nd time around (3rd if you count their input toward the Dreamcast)..
I'm fully aware of that. But contributing to a kernel and writing a complete one from scratch are two separate things. Maybe they could though, I don't know.
this is a complete load of junk. this must be some backhanded effort to try and boost Fedora's or Redhat's stock up.
anyone writing this completely misses the point of a distro and how a distro is installed on a PC.
Fedora/Redhat didn't write the kernel, they didn't write any of the GNU apps, they didn't write X, they didn't write openoffice, they didn't write any of the 3rd party apps that make the distro complete. And nor would anyone.
that's the problem with pulling stuff out of your arse -- you end up with a handful of shit.
the story does remind me of something eBay tried years ago -- they took down auctions of people selling their own software or software for linux because the auctioneers didn't have licenses from Microsoft.
however, this story sounds a bit fishy. I believe that the ISP pulled his site because it's highly likely they're retards and see any online music as pirated, but I'm suspicious of his having lost his own copies of the files. Did the other musicians in any of the bands not have copies? Didn't any of them burn onto CDs to give to their friends, or to play in their cars?
I think this is creative marketing. When the site goes back up, he'll get loads more hits to his site, and make a bunch of pity sales and more people have now heard of him and his bands. Epic Win.
I guess for me 'sticky' isn't a good description of it. No, there are two core ideologies which are conflicting here. The gamer in me says that games should be as fair as possible. WoW is already naturally flawed to some degree in this way and it is Blizzard's responsibility to keep the playing field level. MMOGlider upsets this 'fairness' and destroys the inherent fun in the game.
I believe it's not just the fairness, but the perceived value is diminished. If Blizzard *didn't* go after these guys with all guns blazing, then that would be the same as Blizzard saying "it's OK."
Now that would then set a precedent allowing other bot writers to do whatever they want. This devalues the game, and millions of people will suddenly start wondering why they're paying US$15 a month to play a game, grinding their way to the top, while others are getting a free ride.
And while a reduction in fees may be great for the players, I don't think Blizzard (or any company for that matter) would want to piss on such a cash cow. I mean really, how are they going to be able to survive if WoW is reduced to only pulling in a 5000% profit margin?
I don't feel special having grinded (ground?) for months on end to get my character up to a high level, only to have the guy next to me get to the same place in two days while he slept.
Blizzard aren't your friends. They are a business whose model relies on you giving them money to play on their playground. They're going to protect that business and that money or they're going to die trying.
maybe I'm missing something, but vim has no way of allowing you to move the cursor once you've selected your block. It's good for mass deletions, but not for actually editing or making several edits within a selected block. maybe the gui version acts differently.
I have no answers. I use xterms with vim these days.
but my favourite editors ever were CygnusEd on Amiga, and StrongEd on Acorn RiscOS.
vim works for me, because although it doesn't have the fancy features of an IDE, it does allow me to work on any machine anywhere.
But I do particularly miss StrongEd. That had some great features I've not seen anywhere else. Wonderful for editing lists as it had a feature that allowed you to select a block of text, then move the cursor into the middle of a line. Whatever you inserted or deleted was replicated on every line selected.
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Keep your fingers inside the cage inmate!
Funny. I haven't spoken to any Europeans lately.
"global warming" is "described as one of the gravest threats to the nation"
It always amuses me that to a typical American, everything seems to only be about America.
It's called taking the piss.
I work for a small ISP and we encountered this recently.
We bought a few SuperMicro small form factor chassis (http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/1U/512/SC512-260.cfm), and found that with the drives positioned directly next to a high speed prop, the performance of the disk went from a static 125Mb/sec to as low as a few kb.
The drives we initially bought were WD 1TB Green Drives, and we thought it was initially a "Green" feature. But with thorough testing (and after replacing the drives with Barracudas which suffered, but not as badly), we concluded the fault was singularly because of the vibration.
In the end we packed the prop with foam padding -- between the drive and prop, padding the drive's power cable, and between the prop and chassis (above and below).
Problem went away. But it took us a couple of months, a LOT of back and forth between our supplier, the distributor, and SuperMicro (the latter ignored it), and cost us a bunch more money and time than we had quoted our customer for.
when CD-Rs first came out, they came in several very distinct classes.. and those classes were determined by the type of ink used. iirc, blue ink was the worst with about a 1-2 year life span, green supposedly had a 2-5 year lifespan, gold were supposed to have a 20 year lifespan, and silver pressed CDs were supposed to last 100 years.
The game changed when they started mixing the inks, and I don't know how this affects DVD-Rs as I lost interest, but I was always sure to buy the more expensive gold CD-Rs to back up my porn^H^H^H^H important documents.
No doubt the amount of CDs now being produced lowered the cost, but I'm sure that cheap mass production also affects quality adversely.
But this seriously isn't news. PAR2 has been mentioned to death, which sounds like a good thing. I've never used it myself, important docs like insurance, inland revenue stuff, and other odds and ends get copied onto several CDs. I mean, they're so cheap now, you'd be silly not to at least do that.
More appropriately, I call this BS FUD. It reminds me of the prelude to the current gen of consoles how all the publishers were whining that the games are so much more advanced and that they are spending a lot more money developing them. They tried to use that as a vehicle to bump game prices up. They succeeded to a degree, but not as much as they initially wanted. They wanted to charge (in NZ Dollars as that's what I'm familiar with) an average of $140-$150. As it is, most games are being released at $100-$120 with big releases going up to $140, where the last generation they cost $90-$100 with big releases at about $110 or $120.
So I think that this is just a way of them putting the seeds out to try and bump prices up again.
Why do I believe this is bullshit? Because these days game developers use ready-to-run engines. The amount of work they have to do is pretty minimal compared to their workload if they had to build the engines from scratch each time. It also means that using one engine, the game can be released on multiple platforms with minimal rework.
So I'm calling BS. They're able to get games into production much faster thanks to ready made engines, and they can release the games on multiple platforms to maximise their profits. They've never been able to do that as much as they have with the current gen consoles. Next gen it will be even better for them, therefore minimising their cost per platform.
true enough. I buy CDs because they work out cheaper than buying digital copies. On top of that, I've always got the physical media, so if my computer blows up, or if the service shuts down, I can still play my media.
Digital music would have to be *much* *much* cheaper than a physical CD for me to even consider it.
Charge me the same or more and let me do less with it? I don't think so.
Microsoft didn't get the hardware right. They *did* get support right, and have paid dearly for their hardware mistakes. Let's see if they're better at it the 2nd time around.
I think you'll find that the 360 is their 2nd time around (3rd if you count their input toward the Dreamcast)..
maybe 3rd(4th) time lucky eh?
I'm fully aware of that. But contributing to a kernel and writing a complete one from scratch are two separate things. Maybe they could though, I don't know.
this is a complete load of junk. this must be some backhanded effort to try and boost Fedora's or Redhat's stock up.
anyone writing this completely misses the point of a distro and how a distro is installed on a PC.
Fedora/Redhat didn't write the kernel, they didn't write any of the GNU apps, they didn't write X, they didn't write openoffice, they didn't write any of the 3rd party apps that make the distro complete. And nor would anyone.
that's the problem with pulling stuff out of your arse -- you end up with a handful of shit.
the story does remind me of something eBay tried years ago -- they took down auctions of people selling their own software or software for linux because the auctioneers didn't have licenses from Microsoft.
however, this story sounds a bit fishy. I believe that the ISP pulled his site because it's highly likely they're retards and see any online music as pirated, but I'm suspicious of his having lost his own copies of the files. Did the other musicians in any of the bands not have copies? Didn't any of them burn onto CDs to give to their friends, or to play in their cars?
I think this is creative marketing. When the site goes back up, he'll get loads more hits to his site, and make a bunch of pity sales and more people have now heard of him and his bands. Epic Win.
very good. you are duly forgiven.
kdawson on the other hand deserves nothing short of an infinity of recieving chinese burns by gay zombie midgets.
kdawson, you are a king(queen?) among idiots. And the submitter, agl42, is a bastard prince(ss).
how did it escape both of you that google code != Google?
I guess for me 'sticky' isn't a good description of it. No, there are two core ideologies which are conflicting here. The gamer in me says that games should be as fair as possible. WoW is already naturally flawed to some degree in this way and it is Blizzard's responsibility to keep the playing field level. MMOGlider upsets this 'fairness' and destroys the inherent fun in the game.
I believe it's not just the fairness, but the perceived value is diminished. If Blizzard *didn't* go after these guys with all guns blazing, then that would be the same as Blizzard saying "it's OK."
Now that would then set a precedent allowing other bot writers to do whatever they want. This devalues the game, and millions of people will suddenly start wondering why they're paying US$15 a month to play a game, grinding their way to the top, while others are getting a free ride.
And while a reduction in fees may be great for the players, I don't think Blizzard (or any company for that matter) would want to piss on such a cash cow. I mean really, how are they going to be able to survive if WoW is reduced to only pulling in a 5000% profit margin?
I don't feel special having grinded (ground?) for months on end to get my character up to a high level, only to have the guy next to me get to the same place in two days while he slept.
Blizzard aren't your friends. They are a business whose model relies on you giving them money to play on their playground. They're going to protect that business and that money or they're going to die trying.
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maybe I'm missing something, but vim has no way of allowing you to move the cursor once you've selected your block. It's good for mass deletions, but not for actually editing or making several edits within a selected block. maybe the gui version acts differently.
just looked at their web page. last news update was 2005. the last version (5.5) is dated 2004.
is it a dead project?
I have no answers. I use xterms with vim these days.
but my favourite editors ever were CygnusEd on Amiga, and StrongEd on Acorn RiscOS.
vim works for me, because although it doesn't have the fancy features of an IDE, it does allow me to work on any machine anywhere.
But I do particularly miss StrongEd. That had some great features I've not seen anywhere else. Wonderful for editing lists as it had a feature that allowed you to select a block of text, then move the cursor into the middle of a line. Whatever you inserted or deleted was replicated on every line selected.
I thought soundtracker MODs were making a comeback. :(
no I just wasn't funny.
everybody now, can I get a WOOSH?
I actually like Vista Ultimate.
$0.02 from a full-time Linux user and fanboi.
fulltime means, y'know... *all* of the time. If you've taken the time to use Vista, then at best you're really only a mosttime linux fanboi.
I think this should have been dated feb 2007.
this shouldn't even be happening. DMCA stands for Digital Millennium COPYRIGHT Act, not Digital Millennium CENSORSHIP Act.
This isn't abuse of the system; this isn't covered by the act and surely is fraudulent.