Actually, that rather depends on a number of factors - including, for example, the company charter. It's quite possible to have a for profit corporation whose charter requires it to, say, sponsor medical research.
This is particularly true of privately held companies.
Unfortunately, patients are part of the problem - Gps are often pleasantly surprised when I don't want drugs as the automatic response to a problem, because most patients are aggressive abour demanding them, and too stupid to use them properly.
Some of the most amazing bands I've ever seen live, bands you'll probably never hear of, have crappy demo's that sound like they were recorded on a 4 track in a basement somewhere.
This, of course, pretty much sums up ChrisKnox's recording philosophy, even though he can afford more.
Your qualifier is exactly the kind of shit that the major labels use to fuck over artists and prevent a free market existing for people who wish to make a living as a musician.
Congratulations, you show promise. Grab a law degree and you too can work in A&R, working out new ways to rape artists.
Some shitbag will be ahppy to lock it away in a safe where they can gloat over it, happy in the knowlege they now have it at the expense of everyone else in the world.
(Not unlike a description of the general process of privatizing the public sphere, really...)
32-bit, 33 MHz PCI 2.x - which is this unit - has 132 MB/s of bandwidth, peaki, burst. More like 80-90 sustained. It's shared with other devices on the bus. Ultra160 has, well, 160MB/s. You can have it on 66 MHz/64 bit PCI cards that work on a 500+ MB/s bus, or you can integrate it into the motherboard and have it go via the North Bridge and get the FSB speed as a peak.
Likewise, IDE peaks at 133 MB/s or 150 MB/s for serial, and on most modern motherboards feeds into the FSB via the North Bridge, getting much better peak bandwidth.
If I can't afford a modern motherboard with a North Bridge connected IDE unit - say $100 at any retailer - then why the hell would I be in the market for a $2000, 2GB hard drive?
This is something I could imagine being useful with my hard drive... Why don't they make a standard plugin for hard drives... Make it where you can add cache directly to the hard drive.
Indeed. You already get that to a certain extent with RAID controllers, of course - battery backed RAM caches that can be retained in the event of a power failure. And a RAID card with heaps of RAM is a lot cheaper than one of these units.
Any Xeon motherboard. Not all x86 OSes support the Xeon addressing model, and it's a segmented addressing system that still restricts you to 4 GB chunks per process.
Buy a Xeon and use it's extended addressing, which will give you 64 GB of RAM. Or buy a genuine 64 bit hardware platform.
While the latter is generally pretty expensive (unless buying, say, UltraSPARC or Alpha systems second hand), there's plenty of commodity hardware out there to do Xeon systems at a reasonable price.
SDRAM is pretty power hungry - it needs to be refreshed continually. It doesn't have a power consumption on a par with your CPU, of course, but PC133 SDRAM may consume 10 Watts in normal operation. While it may be possible to lower that when the memory isn't being accessed, by the time you factor in the RAM power use, plus any other ICs that need to be on, you'd be looking at needing a heft charge for any kind of persistence.
And the drive wouldn't be much value in a high-end server: the capacity isn't significant. I'd be better off putting more RAM in the server and letting the OS cache.
PCI card instead of a unit with a standard interface. Dumb, dumb, dumb. It would be far more usefull as a bay-mountable unit that hooks into an IDE or SCSI interface, rather than requiring a PCI slot, drivers, and whatnot.
For the prices they're charging for the RAM, I'd expect some sort of non-volatile RAM, as well. The cost to have them populate it is several times what SDRAM sticks cost.
The band plays in front of you, but the acoustics of most rooms means the sound will reflect around. 5.1 is actually quite useful for reproducing concerts.
Doubtless there'll also be bands and producers who wish to take advantage of it for effects.
No money goes to the Big Five who effectively own the industry (and the RIAA). Good.
No money goes to the artist. Bad.
Of course, you could buy second hand and mail some of the differential to the artist. Five bucks would be several times the royalty they'd see on the album, anyways. If enough people did it, it might get musicians thinking, although based on the way pop bands allow themselves to be wheeled out for pro-industry ad campaigns, I suspect most of them aren't really capable of it.
Because you're paying for someone who understands networking, not for someone who knows the Cisco command line.
Anyone - me included - can spend a day or so learning the Cisco shell. Whether that gets you a finely tuned network that operates to the SLA you require or a big, steaming, festering pile of dog crap depends on whether that someone understands the underlying concepts. That doesn't change with a GUI, which is why there are so many fucked-up Windows installations out there. Because people like you believe that a GUI makes an expert.
The "government" in the United States comprises the Congress and Senate, as well as the executive branch, who had to pass the so-called Patriot Act, which included the many Democrats voting for it.
The hundreds of CDs I most certainly own, and rip to MP3 so I can pipe them around the house via the magic of ethernet. I don't bother with DVDs, but if I did, I'd start needing hundreds of gig, or even terabytes. So yeah, that's all legit.
I only have a low-end digital camera (a little Powershot A10), but I convert the JPEGs it produces into TIFFs so I can work with them without losing any more quality. Even with only low quality pics, it's very easy to rattle through significant amounts of storage. If I were a more avid photographer I'd be using gigabytes a month, between a better quality camera and more pics. If I were an artist a la Dave McKean I'd likewise go through gigs of storage for my digitally composited work.
In a similar vein, I have friends who like to make moves. Setting up your own non-linear editing suite is quite affordable these days, and editing hours of video, even if it's only consumer/prosumer quality, will chew though huge amounts of storage.
Likewise, I know a few musicians who'd be delighted to build their own edit suite (some have), which goes through the storage.
People are more creative than they're given credit for. A lot of the crap from big media companies is trying to keep people in their place as consumers, not creators, and make sure people can't do their own work, still less distribute it.
The idea of a tempramental midget who lashes out at people at random toting firearms is one of the better arguments *against* the Second Amendment. ESR, like the Ruby Ridge crowd are the people who scare others into believing Guns Is Bad.
If more 2nd Amendment advocates looked like the Swiss (who have their millitary service equipment in the home), they'd get a lot more support.
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Actually, that rather depends on a number of factors - including, for example, the company charter. It's quite possible to have a for profit corporation whose charter requires it to, say, sponsor medical research.
This is particularly true of privately held companies.
Yeah, and then the patient runs through GPs until they can find one to prescribe what they want.
Unfortunately, patients are part of the problem - Gps are often pleasantly surprised when I don't want drugs as the automatic response to a problem, because most patients are aggressive abour demanding them, and too stupid to use them properly.
You'll also note the author was a keen advocate of limits on capitalism, lest it destroy itself. Assuming you're not just name dropping.
Of course, most of the so-called indies are just fronts for major labels...
This, of course, pretty much sums up Chris Knox's recording philosophy, even though he can afford more.
Your qualifier is exactly the kind of shit that the major labels use to fuck over artists and prevent a free market existing for people who wish to make a living as a musician.
Congratulations, you show promise. Grab a law degree and you too can work in A&R, working out new ways to rape artists.
And you can send money to the artist anyway. Seriously, slip a few bucks in an envelope and send it to their fan club with a note explaining why.
It's still cheaper than buying new, and the artist gets better "royalties" this way.
Some shitbag will be ahppy to lock it away in a safe where they can gloat over it, happy in the knowlege they now have it at the expense of everyone else in the world.
(Not unlike a description of the general process of privatizing the public sphere, really...)
Waxing will make you a lot less hairy.
This explains the split between Emacs and Lucid Emacs and the journey to Emacs/XEmacs in more detail than you ever could have wanted.
Uh. No.
32-bit, 33 MHz PCI 2.x - which is this unit - has 132 MB/s of bandwidth, peaki, burst. More like 80-90 sustained. It's shared with other devices on the bus. Ultra160 has, well, 160MB/s. You can have it on 66 MHz/64 bit PCI cards that work on a 500+ MB/s bus, or you can integrate it into the motherboard and have it go via the North Bridge and get the FSB speed as a peak.
Likewise, IDE peaks at 133 MB/s or 150 MB/s for serial, and on most modern motherboards feeds into the FSB via the North Bridge, getting much better peak bandwidth.
If I can't afford a modern motherboard with a North Bridge connected IDE unit - say $100 at any retailer - then why the hell would I be in the market for a $2000, 2GB hard drive?
Indeed. You already get that to a certain extent with RAID controllers, of course - battery backed RAM caches that can be retained in the event of a power failure. And a RAID card with heaps of RAM is a lot cheaper than one of these units.
Any Xeon motherboard. Not all x86 OSes support the Xeon addressing model, and it's a segmented addressing system that still restricts you to 4 GB chunks per process.
Buy a Xeon and use it's extended addressing, which will give you 64 GB of RAM. Or buy a genuine 64 bit hardware platform.
While the latter is generally pretty expensive (unless buying, say, UltraSPARC or Alpha systems second hand), there's plenty of commodity hardware out there to do Xeon systems at a reasonable price.
SDRAM is pretty power hungry - it needs to be refreshed continually. It doesn't have a power consumption on a par with your CPU, of course, but PC133 SDRAM may consume 10 Watts in normal operation. While it may be possible to lower that when the memory isn't being accessed, by the time you factor in the RAM power use, plus any other ICs that need to be on, you'd be looking at needing a heft charge for any kind of persistence.
And the drive wouldn't be much value in a high-end server: the capacity isn't significant. I'd be better off putting more RAM in the server and letting the OS cache.
It's got another strike against it:
PCI card instead of a unit with a standard interface. Dumb, dumb, dumb. It would be far more usefull as a bay-mountable unit that hooks into an IDE or SCSI interface, rather than requiring a PCI slot, drivers, and whatnot.
For the prices they're charging for the RAM, I'd expect some sort of non-volatile RAM, as well. The cost to have them populate it is several times what SDRAM sticks cost.
The band plays in front of you, but the acoustics of most rooms means the sound will reflect around. 5.1 is actually quite useful for reproducing concerts.
Doubtless there'll also be bands and producers who wish to take advantage of it for effects.
No money goes to the Big Five who effectively own the industry (and the RIAA). Good.
No money goes to the artist. Bad.
Of course, you could buy second hand and mail some of the differential to the artist. Five bucks would be several times the royalty they'd see on the album, anyways. If enough people did it, it might get musicians thinking, although based on the way pop bands allow themselves to be wheeled out for pro-industry ad campaigns, I suspect most of them aren't really capable of it.
Because you're paying for someone who understands networking, not for someone who knows the Cisco command line.
Anyone - me included - can spend a day or so learning the Cisco shell. Whether that gets you a finely tuned network that operates to the SLA you require or a big, steaming, festering pile of dog crap depends on whether that someone understands the underlying concepts. That doesn't change with a GUI, which is why there are so many fucked-up Windows installations out there. Because people like you believe that a GUI makes an expert.
The "government" in the United States comprises the Congress and Senate, as well as the executive branch, who had to pass the so-called Patriot Act, which included the many Democrats voting for it.
The hundreds of CDs I most certainly own, and rip to MP3 so I can pipe them around the house via the magic of ethernet. I don't bother with DVDs, but if I did, I'd start needing hundreds of gig, or even terabytes. So yeah, that's all legit.
I only have a low-end digital camera (a little Powershot A10), but I convert the JPEGs it produces into TIFFs so I can work with them without losing any more quality. Even with only low quality pics, it's very easy to rattle through significant amounts of storage. If I were a more avid photographer I'd be using gigabytes a month, between a better quality camera and more pics. If I were an artist a la Dave McKean I'd likewise go through gigs of storage for my digitally composited work.
In a similar vein, I have friends who like to make moves. Setting up your own non-linear editing suite is quite affordable these days, and editing hours of video, even if it's only consumer/prosumer quality, will chew though huge amounts of storage.
Likewise, I know a few musicians who'd be delighted to build their own edit suite (some have), which goes through the storage.
People are more creative than they're given credit for. A lot of the crap from big media companies is trying to keep people in their place as consumers, not creators, and make sure people can't do their own work, still less distribute it.
The idea of a tempramental midget who lashes out at people at random toting firearms is one of the better arguments *against* the Second Amendment. ESR, like the Ruby Ridge crowd are the people who scare others into believing Guns Is Bad.
If more 2nd Amendment advocates looked like the Swiss (who have their millitary service equipment in the home), they'd get a lot more support.
I fail to see where he specified "party". I think the only die-hard party reactionary in this conversation is you.