Uh, power consumption is significant for media PC's, more heat means the fans have to spin faster = more noise. Also there are plenty of people who might be potential consumers of HD content that don't want to buy a new PC, as this article points out an Athlon 3000+ can barely handle 480p content, let alone 720p or 1080p using H.264 but has no problem with VC1@1080p.
I wonder how many of those "sales" are for the giveaway HDDVD's that Toshiba has been bundling with almost every player? Personally I like HD-DVD for the same reason I like AMD, it's good enough and cheaper. While I like the idea of Blu-Ray for PC backups I figure by the time I really need the space dual format writers will be the standard.
If you work for a publicly traded company or a business that's healthcare related then it is REQUIRED by law that there be a paper trail. There must be documentation of any and all system changes along with authorization from designated personnel. Next time your boss bitches about the paper trail just blame it on SOX/HIPPA and the auditors.
Last time I called HP for a replacement part (earlier this week) the conversation went like this: Them:Contact info please Me:{contact info} Them:Is this a new or existing case? Me:new Them:Serial number Me:{serial number} Them:What is the issue? Me:I have a failed DIMM indicated by a trouble light and system management homepage Them:Have you tried moving the DIMM around to confirm it is the particular piece of ram? Me:No, I cannot. It's a production server and I have a limited dowtime window. Them:Ok, would you like to have a technician install the replacement or can we just send the part? Me:Just the part please.
Total time spent, 5 minutes including telephone tree and brief hold. If I had had SIM installed it would have been zero minutes because it would have called home for the replacement part. I just haven't had the time to take on that small project yet, I rolled out ~90 servers in the last year and manage 800 users as the sole network administrator.
Until the first site with a fake passport login form shows up? I mean before semi-intelligent people weren't going to enter their passport ID into non-MS websites, but now... I bet a lot more corporate keys get exposed this way as passport is the keys to your Enterprise Licensing kingdom.
Hahahaha, HP makes the best x86/x64 servers on the market right now. iLo, quickstart, foundation pack, etc all make HP's way easier to manage then the competition. Not only that but 6Hr call to repair is impossible to beat in the x86 world. The only thing that's slightly lacking is first and second level support, but I almost never need them and as soon as they start wasting my time I ask for the duty manager so I can get an SME on the phone.
I'm not sure why you would want to run Solaris on xSeries when the Sun equivalents are generally cheaper and you would only have a single vendor to point at.
Yes but the damage should have been confined to one switch/blade if they were using decent equipment. I know that most modern Cisco's will defensively shut down a port if they see too much garbage coming across. I had a CEO with ADD place a cable from one port into another port in a training room and it only took down the one switch because the adjacent switches shut off their uplinks to the switch with the switching loop.
Jos Stone's album is like that, overcompressed and overdriven. It's so bad in my car that I have to turn down all the EQ's to their lowest to listen at even moderate volume. I picked the album up after seeing her on Austin City Limits, and I can tell you it's a much nicer experience without the music label and their engineer between me and the artist.
Hehe, my headphones could do it better than the vast majority of home stereo's including my own and I have better hearing than most 19 year olds but I still can't reliably pick out a high bitrate LAME MP3. Most "audiophiles" think they can pick out the MP3 until they do a true blind listening test, then they find out they can't.
i can tell you the difference between 320kbps mp3 and a cd
No, you can't. Unless your ears are one in a million or you are using the wrong encoder you can't. As numerous ABX studies have show the vast majority of people, even audiophiles and musicians can not tell the difference between high bitrate MP3 and CD the majority of the time.
Rerun the test with the HP having 15K disks and I might not dismiss the results. Oh and I hate that SPECjbb2005 doesn't require financial disclose, jobs per $ and jobs per watt are the only things that really matter.
The best is something like what Xiotech implements, we do virtual RAID10 across all our spindles and it makes sure that no data and redundancy block are in the same drive bay. That way you can lose both power supplies or fibre controllers in a disk cabinet and not lose any data. It can do the same with RAID5 but performance is limited by the speed that the controllers can do the parity calculations whereas with RAID10 we are limited only by FC bandwidth or the number of concurrent I/O's we are trying to push (we've tested to 18,000).
Plasma's do, and the inputs on many LCD's only accept 1080i because someone cheaped out $5 on the DAC's. I never understood why there were units that wouldn't handle 1080p on the DVI/HDMI inputs, but they exist.
Actually you are WRONG. People who are on only a below needed calorie diet will eventually plateau. The reason is that a bunch of your involuntary calorie usage such as slow muscle twitching and non-instructed nervous actions will cease as your body adjusts to what it considers to be the equivalent of a famine. That is why you must balance a complete, body type appropriate meal plan with the correct amount of cardio exercise. Even then is very difficult for most people to lose and keep off a significant percentage of body fat because evolution has setup all of our bodies systems to maintain body fat as we historically have not had enough calories in our diet.
Yep, the EU has had open borders starting in 1985 under the Schengen Agreement, and the agreement even includes a number of non-EU states. It's amazing the difference it's made, the first time I went to Europe it was a mess of slowing down for upwards of an hour at every border crossing, now it's just like passing from state to state in the US.
This is essentially what a Nitrous or Nitrous Oxide booster kit does. It is injected as a liquid that quickly gasifies and then breaks down under high temperature to release additional oxygen into the fuel chamber allowing better fuel burning than with atmospheric oxygen alone. This is also why turbo and superchargers are used, but those systems simply inject larger volumes of atmospheric oxygen into the chamber.
Unfortunately my local PBS station is broadcasting their HDTV feed from the equivalent of a coat hanger due to budget constraints. Even the cable companies can't pick it up from their rebroadcasters about a mile away.
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Uh, power consumption is significant for media PC's, more heat means the fans have to spin faster = more noise. Also there are plenty of people who might be potential consumers of HD content that don't want to buy a new PC, as this article points out an Athlon 3000+ can barely handle 480p content, let alone 720p or 1080p using H.264 but has no problem with VC1@1080p.
VC1 has significantly lower CPU usage for HD content unless you have a card like the Nvidia 8(5-6)00 series cards with H.264 acceleration.
Wow, I would be dropping an anonymous tip about my boss's behavior to HR and internal audit if I ever got it trouble for doing my job correctly.
at least until the price of HD monitors comes down.
Yeah, because $213 is SO expensive.
I wonder how many of those "sales" are for the giveaway HDDVD's that Toshiba has been bundling with almost every player? Personally I like HD-DVD for the same reason I like AMD, it's good enough and cheaper. While I like the idea of Blu-Ray for PC backups I figure by the time I really need the space dual format writers will be the standard.
If you work for a publicly traded company or a business that's healthcare related then it is REQUIRED by law that there be a paper trail. There must be documentation of any and all system changes along with authorization from designated personnel. Next time your boss bitches about the paper trail just blame it on SOX/HIPPA and the auditors.
I doubt you'd gain much as leakage current on most 90nm designs is ~30-40% of total power usage.
unfortunately you can't read his insane ratings with Firefox, which is a shame because they're quite amusing.
Sure you can, adblock plus user agent switcher = 0wnd. Btw, THAT is why I like Firefox, it gives me the user control over my net experience =)
Last time I called HP for a replacement part (earlier this week) the conversation went like this:
Them:Contact info please
Me:{contact info}
Them:Is this a new or existing case?
Me:new
Them:Serial number
Me:{serial number}
Them:What is the issue?
Me:I have a failed DIMM indicated by a trouble light and system management homepage
Them:Have you tried moving the DIMM around to confirm it is the particular piece of ram?
Me:No, I cannot. It's a production server and I have a limited dowtime window.
Them:Ok, would you like to have a technician install the replacement or can we just send the part?
Me:Just the part please.
Total time spent, 5 minutes including telephone tree and brief hold. If I had had SIM installed it would have been zero minutes because it would have called home for the replacement part. I just haven't had the time to take on that small project yet, I rolled out ~90 servers in the last year and manage 800 users as the sole network administrator.
Until the first site with a fake passport login form shows up? I mean before semi-intelligent people weren't going to enter their passport ID into non-MS websites, but now... I bet a lot more corporate keys get exposed this way as passport is the keys to your Enterprise Licensing kingdom.
Hahahaha, HP makes the best x86/x64 servers on the market right now. iLo, quickstart, foundation pack, etc all make HP's way easier to manage then the competition. Not only that but 6Hr call to repair is impossible to beat in the x86 world. The only thing that's slightly lacking is first and second level support, but I almost never need them and as soon as they start wasting my time I ask for the duty manager so I can get an SME on the phone.
I'm not sure why you would want to run Solaris on xSeries when the Sun equivalents are generally cheaper and you would only have a single vendor to point at.
Yes but the damage should have been confined to one switch/blade if they were using decent equipment. I know that most modern Cisco's will defensively shut down a port if they see too much garbage coming across. I had a CEO with ADD place a cable from one port into another port in a training room and it only took down the one switch because the adjacent switches shut off their uplinks to the switch with the switching loop.
Jos Stone's album is like that, overcompressed and overdriven. It's so bad in my car that I have to turn down all the EQ's to their lowest to listen at even moderate volume. I picked the album up after seeing her on Austin City Limits, and I can tell you it's a much nicer experience without the music label and their engineer between me and the artist.
Hehe, my headphones could do it better than the vast majority of home stereo's including my own and I have better hearing than most 19 year olds but I still can't reliably pick out a high bitrate LAME MP3. Most "audiophiles" think they can pick out the MP3 until they do a true blind listening test, then they find out they can't.
i can tell you the difference between 320kbps mp3 and a cd
No, you can't. Unless your ears are one in a million or you are using the wrong encoder you can't. As numerous ABX studies have show the vast majority of people, even audiophiles and musicians can not tell the difference between high bitrate MP3 and CD the majority of the time.
Rerun the test with the HP having 15K disks and I might not dismiss the results. Oh and I hate that SPECjbb2005 doesn't require financial disclose, jobs per $ and jobs per watt are the only things that really matter.
The best is something like what Xiotech implements, we do virtual RAID10 across all our spindles and it makes sure that no data and redundancy block are in the same drive bay. That way you can lose both power supplies or fibre controllers in a disk cabinet and not lose any data. It can do the same with RAID5 but performance is limited by the speed that the controllers can do the parity calculations whereas with RAID10 we are limited only by FC bandwidth or the number of concurrent I/O's we are trying to push (we've tested to 18,000).
Plasma's do, and the inputs on many LCD's only accept 1080i because someone cheaped out $5 on the DAC's. I never understood why there were units that wouldn't handle 1080p on the DVI/HDMI inputs, but they exist.
As someone who's used C++ since it was a collection of precompiler directives I LOL'd, but you really should give credit to the original author.
Actually you are WRONG. People who are on only a below needed calorie diet will eventually plateau. The reason is that a bunch of your involuntary calorie usage such as slow muscle twitching and non-instructed nervous actions will cease as your body adjusts to what it considers to be the equivalent of a famine. That is why you must balance a complete, body type appropriate meal plan with the correct amount of cardio exercise. Even then is very difficult for most people to lose and keep off a significant percentage of body fat because evolution has setup all of our bodies systems to maintain body fat as we historically have not had enough calories in our diet.
Yep, the EU has had open borders starting in 1985 under the Schengen Agreement, and the agreement even includes a number of non-EU states. It's amazing the difference it's made, the first time I went to Europe it was a mess of slowing down for upwards of an hour at every border crossing, now it's just like passing from state to state in the US.
This is essentially what a Nitrous or Nitrous Oxide booster kit does. It is injected as a liquid that quickly gasifies and then breaks down under high temperature to release additional oxygen into the fuel chamber allowing better fuel burning than with atmospheric oxygen alone. This is also why turbo and superchargers are used, but those systems simply inject larger volumes of atmospheric oxygen into the chamber.
Unfortunately my local PBS station is broadcasting their HDTV feed from the equivalent of a coat hanger due to budget constraints. Even the cable companies can't pick it up from their rebroadcasters about a mile away.
Hehe, at some price point you can make almost any of the compounds currently derived from fossil fuels from other raw materials.