ATI really doesn't have a card at this price point, which is probably why nVidia came up with this guy, to try to snap up the marketshare on people who have $100 to spend on a video card. Their old product at this price point was discontinued, but the replacement should be out in a couple of months or so.
Thank you for your hard work on a movie I have no intention of seeing. Please in the future try to get a similar job on a movie that makes sense so I can appreciate your work.
It still has many of the limitations that the original FusionIO cards have: It's pricey at $11/GB (although not astronomical like the original products), and you still can't boot off of it. This means you'll need at least one old fashioned drive with the OS on it to get your machine going, which is a shame because the system files can often make good use of SSD performance.
On paper, I don't think the performance difference between this and something like an Intel X-25m is going to justify the 4 fold price difference. When people went from their laptop HDD to the Intel drive, they often saw startup times and whatnot go from multiple (tens!) of seconds to less than a second. This card is likely to push them from less than a second to a smaller less than a second, it's just not worth it to most people.
Beyond the fact that the Windows resolution dialog won't let you choose that whacky resolution, there's also the problem that 540 pixels is not enough. Seriously, a lot of dialog boxes are not going to fit on that screen, probably even including the Windows display dialog box.
You're going to need a 1920x1200 display just to get a somewhat more usable 960x600 after you quarter (not half) the resolution. A 2560x1600 would be better though, as you'd at least get 800 vertical pixels out of it, which is enough for small laptops and other inexpensive displays. The problem is that such a display is likely to fall short in the "affordable" category.
To be fair, the Zero's actual performance was pretty staggering compared to its contemporaries. Given the way war intelligence tends to exaggerate the abilities of the enemy it shouldn't be a surprise that allied planners took the Zero's numbers with a grain of salt. If you are curious, here are a couple of numbers on it and a contemporary allied design for comparison:
Zero: Maximum Speed: 533kph, Range: 3,105km, Rate of Climb: 15.7m/s
F4F-4 Wildcat: Maximum Speed: 515kph, Range: 1,240km, Rate of Climb: 9.9m/s (although to be fair, the F4F was much faster in a dive than a Zero)
The crazy thing is, Mitsubishi got that performance out of a plane with an engine that was only about 80% as powerful as the one in the F4F. Unfortunately, it required them to barely put any armor at all on the plane, leading to a very fragile fighter that tended to go down quickly if someone got a bead on it.
The worst thing about those is that you just know that they did not have proper flight testing before being put into production. They probably had handling quirks and other issues that the manufacturer never knew about because none of the pilots lived to report back.
A pragmatist might have pointed out that turbo shaft engines were really not practical in the 1940s for land vehicles (it was hard enough to use them in planes) and considerable time and expense was probably saved by not heavily researching them. Even today they're still problematic--the Abrams is a fuel hog with an enormous IR signature.
What is the point of fingerprint recognition if they just pull the drive out and read all of the data off of it? You don't need fancypants biometrics to encrypt the hard drive, which is the only real protection against losing data when your laptop is stolen.
They're more related to the people who buy Tivos, flip the bits in them to make them think they have lifetime service, then sell them on eBay as "NIB Lifetime Service TiVo!".
The solution seems easy: Just dismantle more nukes. In fact, lets dismantle all of them. It's the promise of the nuclear age finally realized without the horrible side effects.
A Tivo without service doesn't just up and die. Rather it loses its guide data but can still be programmed like an old VCR. Having it record from a security cam should be super easy to do, just program 24 different one hour recordings on whatever port the camera is on and let it go. The Tivo will even manage its disk space and everything, removing the oldest recordings as the disk fills up and replacing them with new ones.
Sorry, what you're asking for is too easy to abuse
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The reason you are being rebuked every time you try to do this is because it's exactly the same sort of thing that the crackers use. Even if your use is legitimate, you won't find anybody willing to give you much help unless you go and hang around with the cracker crowd, which may not be the sort of associations you really want to make. What you're asking for shouldn't be impossible, but it won't be easy either. Getting a basic kernel running may not be too bad since Tivo released their kernel modifications back to the community, but using the hardware on the system probably won't be the easiest thing unless you're really lucky and there is already a driver for it.
Well, look at the alternative: Adding many days to travel over long distances. Taking the train from New York to LA takes literally days longer than a flight, and I don't know if anybody does business-class transatlantic cruises anymore. I mean if your work tells you "Go to this conference in Copenhagen" and you're in San Fransisco, then you can't exactly tell your boss "Ok, but I need 2 weeks of travel time on either side of the 1 day conference".
That's why people accept it. There are really no viable alternatives.
$50 would be about a 50% discount on a major vendor laptop battery. I would buy those in a heartbeat.
Of course, you're missing the point still. What you have there is a bomb dispensing machine, because those batteries are inherently explosive and the only thing that keeps them from blowing up are the safety circuits. If you were to disable the safeties you would have a bomb that would be at least as effective as whatever the Shoe Bomber was using.
Don't LEDs use up exotic metals that are in short supply already in the world (and thus are likely to grow even more expensive) like gallium? Granted, the articles I saw on that awhile back may just be commodity price manipulation on the part of flippers, but it does seem like a bit of a concern that we just don't make enough of the stuff to supply the world's needs for something like switching all of the worlds lighting to LED.
In my experience, build quality matters a lot with CFLs. No-name dollar store (or Walmart!) CFLs are almost uniformly terrible with slow start times, inconsistent colors, and short lives. The ones that Home Depot sells appear to be quite good however, and I have been very happy with them, having replaced just about every light in my house and in my mother-in-laws house and only had 2 early deaths so far. Many of these bulbs are going on 5+ years old now and still come on just as fast and bright as ever.
Er, the Fusion-IO card sits off of the PCIe bus, so SATA speeds are not a limiting factor for it. The primary limiting factor is that it is catastrophically expensive per GB.
Sure, if you're willing to pay $3500 for the same 80GB that you can get for $350 on the Intel drive you had better expect it to perform faster. It's literally an order of magnitude more expensive!
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ATI really doesn't have a card at this price point, which is probably why nVidia came up with this guy, to try to snap up the marketshare on people who have $100 to spend on a video card. Their old product at this price point was discontinued, but the replacement should be out in a couple of months or so.
Thank you for your hard work on a movie I have no intention of seeing. Please in the future try to get a similar job on a movie that makes sense so I can appreciate your work.
It still has many of the limitations that the original FusionIO cards have: It's pricey at $11/GB (although not astronomical like the original products), and you still can't boot off of it. This means you'll need at least one old fashioned drive with the OS on it to get your machine going, which is a shame because the system files can often make good use of SSD performance.
On paper, I don't think the performance difference between this and something like an Intel X-25m is going to justify the 4 fold price difference. When people went from their laptop HDD to the Intel drive, they often saw startup times and whatnot go from multiple (tens!) of seconds to less than a second. This card is likely to push them from less than a second to a smaller less than a second, it's just not worth it to most people.
Beyond the fact that the Windows resolution dialog won't let you choose that whacky resolution, there's also the problem that 540 pixels is not enough. Seriously, a lot of dialog boxes are not going to fit on that screen, probably even including the Windows display dialog box. You're going to need a 1920x1200 display just to get a somewhat more usable 960x600 after you quarter (not half) the resolution. A 2560x1600 would be better though, as you'd at least get 800 vertical pixels out of it, which is enough for small laptops and other inexpensive displays. The problem is that such a display is likely to fall short in the "affordable" category.
To be fair, the Zero's actual performance was pretty staggering compared to its contemporaries. Given the way war intelligence tends to exaggerate the abilities of the enemy it shouldn't be a surprise that allied planners took the Zero's numbers with a grain of salt. If you are curious, here are a couple of numbers on it and a contemporary allied design for comparison:
Zero: Maximum Speed: 533kph, Range: 3,105km, Rate of Climb: 15.7m/s
F4F-4 Wildcat: Maximum Speed: 515kph, Range: 1,240km, Rate of Climb: 9.9m/s (although to be fair, the F4F was much faster in a dive than a Zero)
The crazy thing is, Mitsubishi got that performance out of a plane with an engine that was only about 80% as powerful as the one in the F4F. Unfortunately, it required them to barely put any armor at all on the plane, leading to a very fragile fighter that tended to go down quickly if someone got a bead on it.
The worst thing about those is that you just know that they did not have proper flight testing before being put into production. They probably had handling quirks and other issues that the manufacturer never knew about because none of the pilots lived to report back.
A pragmatist might have pointed out that turbo shaft engines were really not practical in the 1940s for land vehicles (it was hard enough to use them in planes) and considerable time and expense was probably saved by not heavily researching them. Even today they're still problematic--the Abrams is a fuel hog with an enormous IR signature.
Just be aware that a "medium" map game of Sins will take something like 20 hours to play, assuming you steamroll your opposition.
What is the point of fingerprint recognition if they just pull the drive out and read all of the data off of it? You don't need fancypants biometrics to encrypt the hard drive, which is the only real protection against losing data when your laptop is stolen.
They're more related to the people who buy Tivos, flip the bits in them to make them think they have lifetime service, then sell them on eBay as "NIB Lifetime Service TiVo!".
That's a lot of hassle compared to setting up a MythTV box. I'm not sure why you would want to do it.
The solution seems easy: Just dismantle more nukes. In fact, lets dismantle all of them. It's the promise of the nuclear age finally realized without the horrible side effects.
A Tivo without service doesn't just up and die. Rather it loses its guide data but can still be programmed like an old VCR. Having it record from a security cam should be super easy to do, just program 24 different one hour recordings on whatever port the camera is on and let it go. The Tivo will even manage its disk space and everything, removing the oldest recordings as the disk fills up and replacing them with new ones.
The reason you are being rebuked every time you try to do this is because it's exactly the same sort of thing that the crackers use. Even if your use is legitimate, you won't find anybody willing to give you much help unless you go and hang around with the cracker crowd, which may not be the sort of associations you really want to make. What you're asking for shouldn't be impossible, but it won't be easy either. Getting a basic kernel running may not be too bad since Tivo released their kernel modifications back to the community, but using the hardware on the system probably won't be the easiest thing unless you're really lucky and there is already a driver for it.
I think the switch is there for people who are paranoid about accidentally touching the prongs when plugging or unplugging something.
Because people don't want to twist up their power cords?
And you know what? The number of times the average American has been shocked by his plugs: 0.
More importantly, they discovered that putting the payload on the side of the rocket instead of on top of it is, in the end, a bad idea.
Well, look at the alternative: Adding many days to travel over long distances. Taking the train from New York to LA takes literally days longer than a flight, and I don't know if anybody does business-class transatlantic cruises anymore. I mean if your work tells you "Go to this conference in Copenhagen" and you're in San Fransisco, then you can't exactly tell your boss "Ok, but I need 2 weeks of travel time on either side of the 1 day conference".
That's why people accept it. There are really no viable alternatives.
$50 would be about a 50% discount on a major vendor laptop battery. I would buy those in a heartbeat.
Of course, you're missing the point still. What you have there is a bomb dispensing machine, because those batteries are inherently explosive and the only thing that keeps them from blowing up are the safety circuits. If you were to disable the safeties you would have a bomb that would be at least as effective as whatever the Shoe Bomber was using.
Don't LEDs use up exotic metals that are in short supply already in the world (and thus are likely to grow even more expensive) like gallium? Granted, the articles I saw on that awhile back may just be commodity price manipulation on the part of flippers, but it does seem like a bit of a concern that we just don't make enough of the stuff to supply the world's needs for something like switching all of the worlds lighting to LED.
In my experience, build quality matters a lot with CFLs. No-name dollar store (or Walmart!) CFLs are almost uniformly terrible with slow start times, inconsistent colors, and short lives. The ones that Home Depot sells appear to be quite good however, and I have been very happy with them, having replaced just about every light in my house and in my mother-in-laws house and only had 2 early deaths so far. Many of these bulbs are going on 5+ years old now and still come on just as fast and bright as ever.
Maybe the lesson should be: Don't buy crappy JMicron based SSD drives? In fact that's a good lesson for anybody who's looking to buy SSD drives.
Er, the Fusion-IO card sits off of the PCIe bus, so SATA speeds are not a limiting factor for it. The primary limiting factor is that it is catastrophically expensive per GB.
Sure, if you're willing to pay $3500 for the same 80GB that you can get for $350 on the Intel drive you had better expect it to perform faster. It's literally an order of magnitude more expensive!