I got pretty good results when looking for car reviews the last couple weeks, put it $model review and the first two pages were 99% relevant. Put $model problem in and you get back mostly forum results talking about problems with that model car. I guess certain very high value keywords might be attacked because there's enough profit to be made worming your way around the algorithms to make it worthwhile but in general I'd say they do exactly what they were designed to do, give you the most relevant and authoritative information first.
Yep, we bought 100 for our mobile workforce. With the Citrix receiver they can even access things like our corporate intranet though them. They aren't very useful for content creation but for quick access to existing information and choosing a couple dropdowns for canned reports they work great.
The security stood up for 40 months after launch before OtherOS was remove and was cracked in 8 months after OtherOS was removed, you can reach whatever conclusion you want but I would say removing OtherOS significantly decreased the overall security of the system by causing those with significantly more skills to have a reason to attack the core security to get OtherOS functionality back.
I have to say that while everyone is jumping on this as being about piracy if I was working on a homebrew app I would definitely want it to run from the launcher instead of requiring a complete reboot into my own loader environment. For instance a version of MAME that run from the launcher would be very cool.
No, his response to future fuel will be more expensive is I will use less of it, simple market economics. The fact that he won't use significantly less fuel until he purchases a new vehicle makes sense because the majority of most people fuel consumption is fixed. Moving is NOT more efficient than buying a new vehicle (commission plus closing costs on an average house is about as much as most people will spend in a decade @$4/gallon, buying a vehicle with twice the fuel economy moves this to 20 years).
Even decent glass gets spendy, I have $1600 in two lenses (Nikon 18-200 and Sigma 150-500). They both take great photo's but not in low light, to get the same kind of coverage in low light glass you could spend 10x that easily.
And yet a 15 year old design still works on any device today but newer 'better' designs often fail on my smartphone (mostly due to flash but also due to too cute javascript).
Taken literally that would mean only Everclear is a 'real' vodka, which is of course ludicrous. Many Vodka's are known for the trace mineral left in them from either the source water or from the distilling process (copper kettles mostly). Anyone who thinks trace minerals don't affect taste is an idiot.
Were you using the older drivers with the Fusion card? Supposedly the newer drivers are more efficient from both a memory and CPU perspective. As for maintenance we are planning to do software RAID1 so that a failed card can be replaced during a maintenance window. None of the HP raid controllers can keep up with SSD's from an IOPS perspective and they introduce additional latency which is our biggest bottleneck.
Longevity concerns, worst case numbers based on our workloads puts minimum life for MLC at ~6 months if the controller isn't very smart about write amplification, the 10x improvement for SLC makes that a much more acceptable ~60 months. The load is a mix of OLTP and reporting against a JD Edwards database. When you have lots of 8KB random writes you can wear out cells pretty quickly.
Are those the best case numbers or worst case? OCZ has a history of claiming huge numbers and terribly under-delivering. Oh, and at least for my use case MLC is a non-starter so the only OCZ card I'd be interest in is the Z-Drive e88 R2 which is ~$10k so 30% more for a two card solution (RAID1) and I only need ~120GB for the OLTP tables.
Yep, like ZFS and L2ARC or EMC's FAST Cache, I don't want to have to think about which are the hot blocks, I just want the hot blocks to almost always be in cache. This is definitely where the high end storage market is going (and the really high end has always kind of been there with largish NV ram cache).
Directory linking goes back to Windows 2000 but mapping c:\Users to it is a bit more difficult as the currently logged in users profile is always in use thus locking the folder. I guess you might be able to do it remotely though if none of the system processes have it open. Alternatively if it was a single user workstation you could log in as admin and just link that users folder to the drive. Personally I just put temp, pagefile and the readboost cache on my SSD as my general files are not the thing that needs the speedup.
Even the Fusion I/O cards with SLC only push 500-700MB/s depending on the workload and they cost $7,500 for a 160GB card, SATA 6Gb should be plenty fast for a consumer standard.
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I got pretty good results when looking for car reviews the last couple weeks, put it $model review and the first two pages were 99% relevant. Put $model problem in and you get back mostly forum results talking about problems with that model car. I guess certain very high value keywords might be attacked because there's enough profit to be made worming your way around the algorithms to make it worthwhile but in general I'd say they do exactly what they were designed to do, give you the most relevant and authoritative information first.
Compared to what exactly? I find Bing's results to be far more broken so that rules out Bing and Yahoo. What's left?
Heck if you're smart you have bad password wipe enabled and all you have to do is hit a key and enter 5-10 times and it will wipe your Blackberry.
For a Blue Chip in a down economy anything over 15 is quite high.
So they take your name, address, and CC number and ask Experian for a more detailed report on who you are.
Yep, we bought 100 for our mobile workforce. With the Citrix receiver they can even access things like our corporate intranet though them. They aren't very useful for content creation but for quick access to existing information and choosing a couple dropdowns for canned reports they work great.
You could probably run a port of PCSX2 =)
The security stood up for 40 months after launch before OtherOS was remove and was cracked in 8 months after OtherOS was removed, you can reach whatever conclusion you want but I would say removing OtherOS significantly decreased the overall security of the system by causing those with significantly more skills to have a reason to attack the core security to get OtherOS functionality back.
I have to say that while everyone is jumping on this as being about piracy if I was working on a homebrew app I would definitely want it to run from the launcher instead of requiring a complete reboot into my own loader environment. For instance a version of MAME that run from the launcher would be very cool.
No, his response to future fuel will be more expensive is I will use less of it, simple market economics. The fact that he won't use significantly less fuel until he purchases a new vehicle makes sense because the majority of most people fuel consumption is fixed. Moving is NOT more efficient than buying a new vehicle (commission plus closing costs on an average house is about as much as most people will spend in a decade @$4/gallon, buying a vehicle with twice the fuel economy moves this to 20 years).
Even decent glass gets spendy, I have $1600 in two lenses (Nikon 18-200 and Sigma 150-500). They both take great photo's but not in low light, to get the same kind of coverage in low light glass you could spend 10x that easily.
colour precision and accuracy.
OK, you can say MANY things about Kodachrome, but color accuracy was never one of its strong spots.
http://www.dxo.com/intl/photo/filmpack/introduction
or
http://www.alienskin.com/exposure/index.aspx
examples of the Exposure filters:
http://www.grafnet.com.pl/index.php/plug-ins/category/84-exposure.html
And yet a 15 year old design still works on any device today but newer 'better' designs often fail on my smartphone (mostly due to flash but also due to too cute javascript).
Taken literally that would mean only Everclear is a 'real' vodka, which is of course ludicrous. Many Vodka's are known for the trace mineral left in them from either the source water or from the distilling process (copper kettles mostly). Anyone who thinks trace minerals don't affect taste is an idiot.
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And back in the ancient days of the web I used a website call webtender, according to the copyright line it's been around since 95 =)
The OCZ drive has a max response time of 1.2 seconds under load according to these testes, that's just not acceptable for my application.
Yep. In the last 2 years the 8 LUN's that hold our tables have all overflowed their 32bit write counters which means more than 17B 8KB writes.
Were you using the older drivers with the Fusion card? Supposedly the newer drivers are more efficient from both a memory and CPU perspective. As for maintenance we are planning to do software RAID1 so that a failed card can be replaced during a maintenance window. None of the HP raid controllers can keep up with SSD's from an IOPS perspective and they introduce additional latency which is our biggest bottleneck.
Longevity concerns, worst case numbers based on our workloads puts minimum life for MLC at ~6 months if the controller isn't very smart about write amplification, the 10x improvement for SLC makes that a much more acceptable ~60 months. The load is a mix of OLTP and reporting against a JD Edwards database. When you have lots of 8KB random writes you can wear out cells pretty quickly.
Are those the best case numbers or worst case? OCZ has a history of claiming huge numbers and terribly under-delivering. Oh, and at least for my use case MLC is a non-starter so the only OCZ card I'd be interest in is the Z-Drive e88 R2 which is ~$10k so 30% more for a two card solution (RAID1) and I only need ~120GB for the OLTP tables.
Yep, like ZFS and L2ARC or EMC's FAST Cache, I don't want to have to think about which are the hot blocks, I just want the hot blocks to almost always be in cache. This is definitely where the high end storage market is going (and the really high end has always kind of been there with largish NV ram cache).
Directory linking goes back to Windows 2000 but mapping c:\Users to it is a bit more difficult as the currently logged in users profile is always in use thus locking the folder. I guess you might be able to do it remotely though if none of the system processes have it open. Alternatively if it was a single user workstation you could log in as admin and just link that users folder to the drive. Personally I just put temp, pagefile and the readboost cache on my SSD as my general files are not the thing that needs the speedup.
Even the Fusion I/O cards with SLC only push 500-700MB/s depending on the workload and they cost $7,500 for a 160GB card, SATA 6Gb should be plenty fast for a consumer standard.