"In fact, they take up more space if you re-burn them to a CD-R as AIFF files than they would on the original CD, because you're adding all the sector ID and error correction data that Red Book audio doesn't use in order to squeeze as much as possible onto a disc. "
Not true. The reason that the AIFFs take up more space is that Audio CD discs use EFM (eight to fourteen modulation). Audio CD also uses CIRC (cross interleaved Reed-Solomon code) for error correction. Audio CD is a bloody good format, and a triumph of it's time - shame the record companied are trying to destroy it.
Actually, I shouldn't have included O2, as I have no intention of throwing myself back on the mercy of BT having escaped their clutches once.
I dropped my landline well over a year ago, my IP link is via NTL and all my 'phone traffic is via Orange. If I saw some reasonably priced VOIP hardware in the UK, I might go down that route, too - but I'd like to see a more symmetrical bandwidth package from NTL or similar before I feel VOIP will be a big winner. Something like 1000/384 would probably suffice - I'd pay 50-100% more per month for that kind of bandwidth over the 25 I pay for 600/128 now.
"I'd take the redundancy over the power!:) But these and other server type redundacies is why the Dell cluster costs more. Each unit definitely cost more then a G5."
So the fact that you could pull an entire G5 box and replace it SEVERAL TIMES for less money is a BAD thing? Oh, and the the Vt cluster has MORE nodes, so a failed node has less impact on overall performance than in the Dell machine. Seems to me that clusters of commodity computers should be just that, and the more specialised the hardware gets, the more outrageous is the cost. Commodity machines don't have redundant ANYTHING, that's why they're cheap.
the VT cluster doesn't use the Macs' built in GigE as its primary message passing infrastructure, but rather uses Mellanox Infiniband PCI-X cards in each machine and 24x 96 port switches, bandwidth is claimed as 20Gbps and latency as 4.5microseconds.
The GigE is used for "NFS, control, job startup and "typical"IP traffic" according to VT, and is supported by 5x Cisco 4500 series switches with 240x GigE ports per switch.
"will allow you to use your mobile phone as a house phone and will charge you land line rates if you are within a certain distance of your house (I think 500m)."
I want that service in the UK NOW. Is anyone from Orange, O2, Vodafone, T-Mobile or 3 listening?
"Think of computers like cars. The Honda S2000 only has between 2 and 2.2 liters of displacement, but it will smoke most other cars which displace equal amounts because of how it is tuned, geared, built, etc..."
Honda's own Civic Type R is faster than the S2000, your analogy is totally idiotic.
What are you, some kind of idiot? Why on Earth would expect Apple to support your computer when you'd voided every conceivable warranty? You totally replaced the cooling system, fried your CPUs and somehow it's Apple's fault?
And here's a hint, if the heatsink is HOT it's WORKING.
No, no. I understand the DVD regioning system (evil though it is), it's the direct correlation between Star Trek fandom and good sense that doesn't logically follow.
The thing that puzzles me about all this is that people DON'T SHARE their mobiles. Mobile 'phones are personal things - like your wallet or car keys - how is something that is not shared ever going to be a vector for infectious disease?
They may not be "sitting on every desk" (that particular description fits NOTHING), but they're certainly pretty common.
In fact, the best think about Rabbit (remember them?) 'phones was that they used to send you a new pack of wipes every month, and those little lemony bastards were just about the greatest ANYTHING cleaners ever - Wet Ones? Not even close.
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"In fact, they take up more space if you re-burn them to a CD-R as AIFF files than they would on the original CD, because you're adding all the sector ID and error correction data that Red Book audio doesn't use in order to squeeze as much as possible onto a disc. "
Not true. The reason that the AIFFs take up more space is that Audio CD discs use EFM (eight to fourteen modulation). Audio CD also uses CIRC (cross interleaved Reed-Solomon code) for error correction. Audio CD is a bloody good format, and a triumph of it's time - shame the record companied are trying to destroy it.
Actually, I shouldn't have included O2, as I have no intention of throwing myself back on the mercy of BT having escaped their clutches once.
I dropped my landline well over a year ago, my IP link is via NTL and all my 'phone traffic is via Orange. If I saw some reasonably priced VOIP hardware in the UK, I might go down that route, too - but I'd like to see a more symmetrical bandwidth package from NTL or similar before I feel VOIP will be a big winner. Something like 1000/384 would probably suffice - I'd pay 50-100% more per month for that kind of bandwidth over the 25 I pay for 600/128 now.
"than"
"I'd take the redundancy over the power! :) But these and other server type redundacies is why the Dell cluster costs more. Each unit definitely cost more then a G5."
So the fact that you could pull an entire G5 box and replace it SEVERAL TIMES for less money is a BAD thing? Oh, and the the Vt cluster has MORE nodes, so a failed node has less impact on overall performance than in the Dell machine. Seems to me that clusters of commodity computers should be just that, and the more specialised the hardware gets, the more outrageous is the cost. Commodity machines don't have redundant ANYTHING, that's why they're cheap.
err...
the VT cluster doesn't use the Macs' built in GigE as its primary message passing infrastructure, but rather uses Mellanox Infiniband PCI-X cards in each machine and 24x 96 port switches, bandwidth is claimed as 20Gbps and latency as 4.5microseconds.
The GigE is used for "NFS, control, job startup and "typical"IP traffic" according to VT, and is supported by 5x Cisco 4500 series switches with 240x GigE ports per switch.
"will allow you to use your mobile phone as a house phone and will charge you land line rates if you are within a certain distance of your house (I think 500m)."
I want that service in the UK NOW. Is anyone from Orange, O2, Vodafone, T-Mobile or 3 listening?
Anyone?
Those specs are pretty meaningless as the Civic has consistently proved itself the faster machine on the road and track.
Both nice cars, mind you.
"Think of computers like cars. The Honda S2000 only has between 2 and 2.2 liters of displacement, but it will smoke most other cars which displace equal amounts because of how it is tuned, geared, built, etc..."
Honda's own Civic Type R is faster than the S2000, your analogy is totally idiotic.
That's why we call it "Space".
What are you, some kind of idiot? Why on Earth would expect Apple to support your computer when you'd voided every conceivable warranty? You totally replaced the cooling system, fried your CPUs and somehow it's Apple's fault?
And here's a hint, if the heatsink is HOT it's WORKING.
It's a quote from that most '80s of all films "The Breakfast Club".
Pas du tout!
No-one cares about you, what you think or what you do or don't watch at the cinema.
You might as well not even exist at this school.
"Of course, that does sound different then what has been said before."
What kind of baffling medical condition leads one to confuse THEN and THAN? Or ANATHEMA and ANEMIA?
Just proves that you're only ever going to LOOK at women's breasts...
Beggars aren't usually good choosers.
Rational decision making and logical argument has no place here at Slashdot, what you're supposed to write is something unbelievably stupid like:-
"Yay! Edide Izzadr is teh r0xors!!!!"
See?
they're not real you twat
fuck you
TOO
Marvin has a BRAIN the size of a planet, numbnuts.
Anyway, I'm sure this'll be another in a long line of American atrocities.
No, no. I understand the DVD regioning system (evil though it is), it's the direct correlation between Star Trek fandom and good sense that doesn't logically follow.
"Good thing most of the people with an interest in this have the sense to buy a region-unlockable DVD player"
Can you explain the logic of this statement to me?
Please return to your seat!!
The thing that puzzles me about all this is that people DON'T SHARE their mobiles. Mobile 'phones are personal things - like your wallet or car keys - how is something that is not shared ever going to be a vector for infectious disease?
They may not be "sitting on every desk" (that particular description fits NOTHING), but they're certainly pretty common.
In fact, the best think about Rabbit (remember them?) 'phones was that they used to send you a new pack of wipes every month, and those little lemony bastards were just about the greatest ANYTHING cleaners ever - Wet Ones? Not even close.