God I'm just an armchair idiot and I can see the logic in it. If they sue for $4K or even $10K for being pains in the asses then Autodesk will just write it off as a business expense, change the EULA and give it another shot. On the other hand if they get bit on the ass with a $10 million judgement they'll think twice before pulling a stupid stunt like that again.
All of them could be. Because it would decrease the cost to build them, which opens up the potential to either sell them for less, or sell them at the same price with more capability. Either of which would also put them on a better competitive footing with Japan, Korea, and so forth.
You're so cute when you're all idealistic.
What they'd do in reality is slash wages and benefits, keep the cars as they are at the same price and reap the outrageous profits for a short term gain.
That's not what the guy is asking though. He's talking about replacing drives not adding extra drives. Unless you start using hacks like logical volumes or partitioning space into smaller chunks initially and striping across partitions you're going to be stuck when you start looking to increasing capacity by upgrading existing drives.
This guy will be fine with a mobo that does RAID 5 on the chipset. If he was serious then JBOD wouldn't even factor into his reasoning. The only problem is if the mobo goes you'll need to try and get a motherboard with the same chipset to be able to access the RAID.
RAID 5 drives are limited to the size of the smallest drive in the array.
Yes... Duh....
And the way things are looking, even if I gradually replace all of the drives with larger ones, the array will still read the original size. For example, say I have 3x500gb drives in RAID 5 and over time replace all of them with 1TB drives. Instead of reading one big 3tb drive, it will still read 1.5tb. Is this true?
I also considered using JBOD simply because I can use different size HDDs and have them all appear to be one large one, but there is no redundancy with this, which has me leaning away from it. If y'all were building a system for this purpose, how many drives and what size drives would you use and would you do some form of RAID, or what?
We've been through this a million times before and the answer is always the same. You're a cheap bastard who wants gobs of space with an acceptable amount of redundancy but aren't willing to buy two sets of drives. Buy 4 of the biggest drives you can afford and RAID 5 them. Don't expect stellar write speeds. You won't have a backup if something happens and all 4 drives blow but you'll at least have protection when one drive gives up the ghost which is mainly what most people want to protect against.
Why does stupid shit like this keep getting posted to the front page?
The completion by Registry Operator of a holder-authorized transfer under this Part A shall result in a one-year extension of the existing registration, provided that in no event shall the total unexpired term of a registration exceed ten (10) years.
eNorm shouldn't be charging for transfers though since the Registrar of Record should remain unchanged.
Does this man ever shutup with his whinging and moaning?
FFS. Yes it's stupid. But all you needed to do was just use the original drive or any ATA drive for that matter thats not attached to some proprietary RAID controller for a boot drive, install the promise drivers via their stupid tool and it all just would have worked.
Vodafone in Australia have been doing this for at least a year maybe more. They've had an employee using the alias "Kelly20" on certain messageboards who just slags off the competition constantly.
Eventually they've been outed and banned but in the mean time it does cause quite a bit of chaos and people start touting information thats misleading and taken out of context as fact.
Defendant: I'm tired of this bullshit. Show me what you really have so we can get this over and done with. RIAA: Uhhh... shit. We don't have a thing. Your honour could we please search everything the defendant owns in order to find something?
Lies. Lies and slander. Here's what really happened:
Press: I like your hat! Mizuguchi: This money hat? It's a gift from Microsoft. All I had to do is rip Dynasty Warrios off in order to give the 360 some form of credibility. Press: But the Xbox 360 doesn't sell here. Mizuguchi: Sure it won't sell more than 50,000 copies in Japan and it won't mean jack in the long run but money hats for all! Press: But won't they figure that out? Mizuguchi: And what? You just can't do that with big game company execs because they already have money hats and therefore can't be bribed by them to release stuff on a system they know won't sell. Why do you think I left UGA? Press: Creative freedom? Mizuguchi: God no! I was on crack and made that Rez game and Sega still published it! Not only that but those fanboys ate it all up! Press: So why did you leave? Mizuguchi: I would say it was a choice between a hat comprised entirely of 10,000 yen notes or no hat at all. Which would you pick?
Excellent, a superior performance--ten out of ten answers were correct.
If you got a perfect score on the first try then you're a REAL genius. But, if it took a few tries, then we congratulate you on your perseverance for it shows the CG artists are keeping you guessing. Now check out the bonus round -- if you dare!
It was a lot easier than I expected since the images were either pure real or pure CG. Finding stuff that's digitally retouched is heaps harder than picking out tell-tale signs of CG rendering.
If you like I'll be more than happy to provide you with my reasoning of each of the shots.
You may have HD-DVD fanboys carrying on and gloating over WB's shitty encoding jobs (keep in mind WB originally came out in support of HD-DVD) and Xbox 360 fanboys gloating about the PS3's insane price but there is only one way this format war is going to go.
Sony is going to sell a truckload of PS3s to early adopters while consumers will see convergence (and by extension of a logical fallacy, value) therefore guaranteeing the next truckload being sold at the first price drop. HD-DVD will die a slow and painful death as Microsoft introduce a $100+ add-on to try and salvage the fuckup that was introducing the 360 with a DVD only drive.
Geez. It's not launching a whole new format. It's an evolution to an existing one. DVD and HD can happily co-exist. DVD will be phased out over the next 10 years just like VHS and pretty soon we'll all be buying HD movies simply because its the only thing out there. Anyone who doesn't want to buy them can keep using DVD but it will be like using a VHS now.
I happen to want HD. It shits all over DVD quality wise. Fanboys can piss and bitch and moan all they want. I just want a Firefly that looks like my 720p Firefly trailer.
Slashdot Mirror
Are you smoking crack? Foreign countries have been paying the US to hook into the "Internet" since it began and we still do today.
They'll be asking for 10 million in punitive damages.
God I'm just an armchair idiot and I can see the logic in it. If they sue for $4K or even $10K for being pains in the asses then Autodesk will just write it off as a business expense, change the EULA and give it another shot. On the other hand if they get bit on the ass with a $10 million judgement they'll think twice before pulling a stupid stunt like that again.
All of them could be. Because it would decrease the cost to build them, which opens up the potential to either sell them for less, or sell them at the same price with more capability. Either of which would also put them on a better competitive footing with Japan, Korea, and so forth.
You're so cute when you're all idealistic.
What they'd do in reality is slash wages and benefits, keep the cars as they are at the same price and reap the outrageous profits for a short term gain.
Bush can't be re-elected anyway. There's the little matter of the 22nd amendment.
Yeah... I've had a bad morning... I work in domain names and DNS and I'm just about sick of retards that need to be fed everything with a spoon...
That's not what the guy is asking though. He's talking about replacing drives not adding extra drives. Unless you start using hacks like logical volumes or partitioning space into smaller chunks initially and striping across partitions you're going to be stuck when you start looking to increasing capacity by upgrading existing drives.
This guy will be fine with a mobo that does RAID 5 on the chipset. If he was serious then JBOD wouldn't even factor into his reasoning. The only problem is if the mobo goes you'll need to try and get a motherboard with the same chipset to be able to access the RAID.
RAID 5 drives are limited to the size of the smallest drive in the array.
Yes... Duh....
And the way things are looking, even if I gradually replace all of the drives with larger ones, the array will still read the original size. For example, say I have 3x500gb drives in RAID 5 and over time replace all of them with 1TB drives. Instead of reading one big 3tb drive, it will still read 1.5tb. Is this true?
Yes... Fucking duh.... Have you even read the RAID 5 Wiki article?
I also considered using JBOD simply because I can use different size HDDs and have them all appear to be one large one, but there is no redundancy with this, which has me leaning away from it. If y'all were building a system for this purpose, how many drives and what size drives would you use and would you do some form of RAID, or what?
We've been through this a million times before and the answer is always the same. You're a cheap bastard who wants gobs of space with an acceptable amount of redundancy but aren't willing to buy two sets of drives. Buy 4 of the biggest drives you can afford and RAID 5 them. Don't expect stellar write speeds. You won't have a backup if something happens and all 4 drives blow but you'll at least have protection when one drive gives up the ghost which is mainly what most people want to protect against.
Why does stupid shit like this keep getting posted to the front page?
Nothing could ever go wrong with that strategy.
My copy of this page is display a Blu-Ray ad...
Shouldn't your DHCP server have a list of its leases?
To do a transfer between registrars you need to add a year to the registration term and charge another year of rego:
From the Policy on Transfer of Registrations between Registrars:
8. Effect on Term of Registration
The completion by Registry Operator of a holder-authorized transfer under this Part A shall result in a one-year extension of the existing registration, provided that in no event shall the total unexpired term of a registration exceed ten (10) years.
eNorm shouldn't be charging for transfers though since the Registrar of Record should remain unchanged.
Does this man ever shutup with his whinging and moaning?
FFS. Yes it's stupid. But all you needed to do was just use the original drive or any ATA drive for that matter thats not attached to some proprietary RAID controller for a boot drive, install the promise drivers via their stupid tool and it all just would have worked.
He needs to be hit with a clue-by-four.
Vodafone in Australia have been doing this for at least a year maybe more. They've had an employee using the alias "Kelly20" on certain messageboards who just slags off the competition constantly.
Eventually they've been outed and banned but in the mean time it does cause quite a bit of chaos and people start touting information thats misleading and taken out of context as fact.
They barely stop to look at the name of the brand, much less anything so esoteric as region coding.
Region coding is not a food!
Allow me to try.
Defendant: I'm tired of this bullshit. Show me what you really have so we can get this over and done with.
RIAA: Uhhh... shit. We don't have a thing. Your honour could we please search everything the defendant owns in order to find something?
You can't get any notes higher than a 10,000 yen note.
Lies. Lies and slander. Here's what really happened:
Press: I like your hat!
Mizuguchi: This money hat? It's a gift from Microsoft. All I had to do is rip Dynasty Warrios off in order to give the 360 some form of credibility.
Press: But the Xbox 360 doesn't sell here.
Mizuguchi: Sure it won't sell more than 50,000 copies in Japan and it won't mean jack in the long run but money hats for all!
Press: But won't they figure that out?
Mizuguchi: And what? You just can't do that with big game company execs because they already have money hats and therefore can't be bribed by them to release stuff on a system they know won't sell. Why do you think I left UGA?
Press: Creative freedom?
Mizuguchi: God no! I was on crack and made that Rez game and Sega still published it! Not only that but those fanboys ate it all up!
Press: So why did you leave?
Mizuguchi: I would say it was a choice between a hat comprised entirely of 10,000 yen notes or no hat at all. Which would you pick?
Heh... I gave that a shot...
The Challenge Results
Excellent, a superior performance--ten out of ten answers were correct.
If you got a perfect score on the first try then you're a REAL genius. But, if it took a few tries, then we congratulate you on your perseverance for it shows the CG artists are keeping you guessing. Now check out the bonus round -- if you dare!
It was a lot easier than I expected since the images were either pure real or pure CG. Finding stuff that's digitally retouched is heaps harder than picking out tell-tale signs of CG rendering.
If you like I'll be more than happy to provide you with my reasoning of each of the shots.
They're using two different players. Doesn't that invalidate this test?
The biggest HD-DVD supporter among the studios fucks up a Blu-Ray release? That alone should invalidate this test.
Basically, yes.
You may have HD-DVD fanboys carrying on and gloating over WB's shitty encoding jobs (keep in mind WB originally came out in support of HD-DVD) and Xbox 360 fanboys gloating about the PS3's insane price but there is only one way this format war is going to go.
Sony is going to sell a truckload of PS3s to early adopters while consumers will see convergence (and by extension of a logical fallacy, value) therefore guaranteeing the next truckload being sold at the first price drop. HD-DVD will die a slow and painful death as Microsoft introduce a $100+ add-on to try and salvage the fuckup that was introducing the 360 with a DVD only drive.
HTH, HAND.
Geez. It's not launching a whole new format. It's an evolution to an existing one. DVD and HD can happily co-exist. DVD will be phased out over the next 10 years just like VHS and pretty soon we'll all be buying HD movies simply because its the only thing out there. Anyone who doesn't want to buy them can keep using DVD but it will be like using a VHS now.
Get a fucking grip people.
What's Beta?
Your 3 cent Titanium tax goes too far!
The only reason he's claiming its a computer is so it can skip some import duty in the UK and EC.
They tried the same stunt with the Playstation 2.
Oh boo fucking hoo.
I happen to want HD. It shits all over DVD quality wise. Fanboys can piss and bitch and moan all they want. I just want a Firefly that looks like my 720p Firefly trailer.