Actually they would need two of them, so if the first one did have something go wrong, the second one woudl still be operating and could make/repair the broken part from the first one.
But all this assumes no computer control, unless you're suggesting the fab shop can make computer components. Without computer control on fabrication you're pretty limited, especially when your life support almost certainly requires it.
Thats like saying that there are 5 AV vendors but you need all of them installed because they can't generate signatures that match the others, but don't worry, in 20 years they will give us access to all the signatures they are using now....
It makes perfect sense if the explict purpose of doing the job the first time is to confirm the system works so that when you do it for real is does'nt end up like the current situation.
The first time through you don't even have to know how many classrooms you have, just a long list of student names and the subjects they have chosen (which again doesn't have to be real, just an approximation).
This way you know that the software can perform the function it's designed too. You know that the german student with the umlat in his name doesn't crash the system and that you can actually fit all the students into all the classes they want without having to hire more teachers that specialise in a certain subject.
In a RAID situation, with a real raid card, there is no additional bus data at all. The data is sent along the same bus to the RAID card. The raid card then splits it into whatever is requireed and writes it to the disks that are connected to that same RAID card. The RAID card creates more data yes (with parity etc) but this is all onboard and the card is designed for this. Data over the PCI-E bus is exactly the same
That was my thought too. I think when talking about our eyes this articles definition of small, and the rest of the general populations definition differ quite sizably!
Uh, not the last time I used it. Word defaults to docx in it's default state. THats not to say you can't change that preference via group policy or just doing some menu digging, but out of the box it most certainly saves to docx by default
Ok, good points, but in point 2 you mention idling.... It's electric right... so it doesn't idle...
I mean obviously there is power usage while you're sitting there doing nothing (onboard computer, stereo etc) but I would think thats a pretty low draw compared to electric motors to drive the car. A/C might eat it up a littel but once it has the inside of the car up/down to temperature it really shouldn't be that bad.
Whilst data density has kept increasing, data transfer rates have not. Even doing an offline defrag or repair on a 10GB Exchange store is going to piss of a lot of people for a good few hours at least. What happens when your exchange store is 500GB and hosts 1000 users mailboxes and something goes wrong?
Also backup systems haven't kept up either, backing all that data up is another problem entirely
1. They can't take a BBU, so you either leave write caching turned on on the drives and lose data on an unexpected shutdown (possibly corrupting your array)
OR
Turn write caching off on the drives and have incredibly poor write speeds.
2. The software (and probably the hardware) are no where near smart enough. They might tell you a drive is failing, they might not. If they do they might rebuild the array successfully or may just corrupt it (and if it's your boot drive then there goes your OS too). They are just far to unreliable when a failure does occur.
3. As has been pointed out by Alan Cox on LKML a lot of the drivers and hardware don't do checksums when they should so you could also get silent data corruption.
Overall I agree, hardware RAID controllers are vrey very slow to get spec upgrades and this is going to be a problem going forward unless that changes, but "motherboard RAID" is by no means the solution. This is actually a selling point for real external storage (EMC etc) because it is FAST and RELIABLE.
Actually, no. You could do exactly the same with the GPL code, remove it from the codebase and re-release. The guys involved probably won't even want the money from you, although you could admit your mistake and give them, or some charity a donation.
Well the immediate instances I've seen is that you already have a Hyper-V infrastructure and need a Linux platoform for something (development, firewall etc etc). it's much easier to do this in a VM than needing to find additional hardware. Espcially if there is going to be heavy network traffic as without the IC's your running emulated NIC's that won't have nearly the same performance.
Because international projects get royally screwed when someone using the metric system gives someone using the imperial system a measrement of any kind without specifying the unit, and even then having to convert from one unit to another is just one more step where mistakes can be made. I recall something exactly like this happening at NASA not too long ago
No where did he suggest he required Windows 7 for RAID, just that thats what he planned to use for this machine. Personally I would just put the second drive in my server and backup my data to that rather than use any of the two options he lists.
You do know that almost everyone without an iPhone can still access the web in much the sme ways as people with an iPhone.....right?? They use a web browser, of which there are many. One of the most popular being Opera Mini.
Actually, he's not. Millions of Starcraft 1 players STILL play LAN games every single day. Just look at some of the professional tournaments going on.
Also, how can Blizz _possibly_ think they can offer a better gaming experience compared to LAN. Thats just an insane thing to say.
Lets do some quick math. I get 300ms lag in WoW at best (yes I live a long way from the server). Lets assume Battle.Net is approximatly the same distance to travel. For me to send a packet in SC2 to my wife sitting behind me for a network game it will require (again at best and assuming no Battle.Net lag) 600ms. Over half a second for a single return packet without processing time compared to my GB lan speeds of less than a 1ms...
Yeah Blizz, you're really going to be able to offer me a better gaming expenience.
At least you would have been able to try to if we were going to buy more than one copy. Now rather than 3 copies (Me, Wife, Son) it'll be one copy that we'll all play through on single player and lament the fact we can't have a decent multiplayer game.
I wonder what they plan to do about the different Battle.Net realms now too. I happen to have a number of friends in the US that I'd love to be able to play SC2 with, but they will likely be in a different Battle.Net realm and the realms aren't linked so that'll be bad luck. In the past Hamachi or Leaf could do this for us (and comfortably despite the distance) with network play.
I also wonder if they'll do this with Diablo 3 too.... I dont' think I've ever played anything but network games of D2... ahh well, more money they won't get from me and more reason for me not to upgrade my PC and just use my console for gaming.
One last thing. They are claiming this is piracy related. Well, perhaps if you include the spawn function of the game like you did in the original this wouldn't be a problem since you were it was a feature designed exactly to allow other people, without the game, to play lan games only hosted by the person with the full game.
The question is, why block ALL aftermarket batteries. They obviously KNOW which batteries are dangerous. A simple blacklist of known dangerous batteries and not running on those would suffice from a safety point of view, and it would limit the damage they are doing to their reputation. A simple "This model of battery is known to cause damage to your camera and has been blocked from use" would be fine if you could then take it back to who you bought it from, and exchange it for a battery that wasn't dangerous. THere shoul dbe no need for the battery to have a Panasonic label, just that it not be a danger to use.
All they do is send the file to the client where the client decodes it using whatever method they choose. Now hardware encoding to Theora would help tem cut down the time if they were doing a mass conversion.
RAID Controllers have batteries so they can remember whats in the cache (for about 48hours), not so they can write that data out to disks befoer they power off. When power is returned and thr disks come back up the cache is flushed before any other action, thereby keeping the array in one piece
I think there would be a lot less sympathy for her if a guilty verdict wasn't going to destory her life. No act of copying/sharing a few MB should end up costing you your life savings (and then some) unless it's treason (and in that case you had it coming).
I think most of us would be fine with all of these cases if the defendants involved had to pay a reasonably amount of money but clearly that isn't the way it's going.
Why? Given the now public nature of this and the fact that there are countermeasures how long do you think it will be until an updated package is available for Debian and all it's children projects?
I'm guessing a few days to a week before these countermeasures are patched into Debian's version. The whole point of ditributions is because keeping every piece of software up to date manually on even a single linux box is an arduous task at best.
While I can sympathize. He was the one that joined the military. Either his wife married him with the knowledge that he may not come home one day, or they made the decision together that him joining was worth the risk.
This sounds harsh, but such is life, at the end of the day if you don't want to die in war, don't join the military. That's not a guarantee in all cases but it certainly is in this case.
Wouldn't it have made more sense to spend that 10-20 million on either paying the developers of the application(s) to MAKE it Vista compatible or replace the application(s) with Vista compatible ones? I mean I know you're still going to have to invest some of that for the inital testing, but as soon as you found a blocker put the rest into making them work, or replacing them. You're going to have to do that anyway unless you plan on staying on XP forever, and in 5 years time good luck finding XP drivers for anything
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Actually they would need two of them, so if the first one did have something go wrong, the second one woudl still be operating and could make/repair the broken part from the first one.
But all this assumes no computer control, unless you're suggesting the fab shop can make computer components. Without computer control on fabrication you're pretty limited, especially when your life support almost certainly requires it.
Thats like saying that there are 5 AV vendors but you need all of them installed because they can't generate signatures that match the others, but don't worry, in 20 years they will give us access to all the signatures they are using now....
Wow, thants handy
It makes perfect sense if the explict purpose of doing the job the first time is to confirm the system works so that when you do it for real is does'nt end up like the current situation.
The first time through you don't even have to know how many classrooms you have, just a long list of student names and the subjects they have chosen (which again doesn't have to be real, just an approximation).
This way you know that the software can perform the function it's designed too. You know that the german student with the umlat in his name doesn't crash the system and that you can actually fit all the students into all the classes they want without having to hire more teachers that specialise in a certain subject.
In a RAID situation, with a real raid card, there is no additional bus data at all. The data is sent along the same bus to the RAID card. The raid card then splits it into whatever is requireed and writes it to the disks that are connected to that same RAID card. The RAID card creates more data yes (with parity etc) but this is all onboard and the card is designed for this. Data over the PCI-E bus is exactly the same
That was my thought too. I think when talking about our eyes this articles definition of small, and the rest of the general populations definition differ quite sizably!
Uh, not the last time I used it. Word defaults to docx in it's default state. THats not to say you can't change that preference via group policy or just doing some menu digging, but out of the box it most certainly saves to docx by default
Ok, good points, but in point 2 you mention idling.... It's electric right... so it doesn't idle...
I mean obviously there is power usage while you're sitting there doing nothing (onboard computer, stereo etc) but I would think thats a pretty low draw compared to electric motors to drive the car. A/C might eat it up a littel but once it has the inside of the car up/down to temperature it really shouldn't be that bad.
Whilst data density has kept increasing, data transfer rates have not. Even doing an offline defrag or repair on a 10GB Exchange store is going to piss of a lot of people for a good few hours at least. What happens when your exchange store is 500GB and hosts 1000 users mailboxes and something goes wrong?
Also backup systems haven't kept up either, backing all that data up is another problem entirely
The current problems with "motherboard RAID" are:
1. They can't take a BBU, so you either leave write caching turned on on the drives and lose data on an unexpected shutdown (possibly corrupting your array)
OR
Turn write caching off on the drives and have incredibly poor write speeds.
2. The software (and probably the hardware) are no where near smart enough. They might tell you a drive is failing, they might not. If they do they might rebuild the array successfully or may just corrupt it (and if it's your boot drive then there goes your OS too). They are just far to unreliable when a failure does occur.
3. As has been pointed out by Alan Cox on LKML a lot of the drivers and hardware don't do checksums when they should so you could also get silent data corruption.
Overall I agree, hardware RAID controllers are vrey very slow to get spec upgrades and this is going to be a problem going forward unless that changes, but "motherboard RAID" is by no means the solution. This is actually a selling point for real external storage (EMC etc) because it is FAST and RELIABLE.
Actually, no. You could do exactly the same with the GPL code, remove it from the codebase and re-release. The guys involved probably won't even want the money from you, although you could admit your mistake and give them, or some charity a donation.
Well the immediate instances I've seen is that you already have a Hyper-V infrastructure and need a Linux platoform for something (development, firewall etc etc). it's much easier to do this in a VM than needing to find additional hardware. Espcially if there is going to be heavy network traffic as without the IC's your running emulated NIC's that won't have nearly the same performance.
Because international projects get royally screwed when someone using the metric system gives someone using the imperial system a measrement of any kind without specifying the unit, and even then having to convert from one unit to another is just one more step where mistakes can be made. I recall something exactly like this happening at NASA not too long ago
No where did he suggest he required Windows 7 for RAID, just that thats what he planned to use for this machine. Personally I would just put the second drive in my server and backup my data to that rather than use any of the two options he lists.
You do know that almost everyone without an iPhone can still access the web in much the sme ways as people with an iPhone.....right?? They use a web browser, of which there are many. One of the most popular being Opera Mini.
Windows 7 is much better in this regard. I think MS worked out they screwed it up and have backpeddled some.
Actually, he's not. Millions of Starcraft 1 players STILL play LAN games every single day. Just look at some of the professional tournaments going on.
Also, how can Blizz _possibly_ think they can offer a better gaming experience compared to LAN. Thats just an insane thing to say.
Lets do some quick math. I get 300ms lag in WoW at best (yes I live a long way from the server). Lets assume Battle.Net is approximatly the same distance to travel. For me to send a packet in SC2 to my wife sitting behind me for a network game it will require (again at best and assuming no Battle.Net lag) 600ms. Over half a second for a single return packet without processing time compared to my GB lan speeds of less than a 1ms...
Yeah Blizz, you're really going to be able to offer me a better gaming expenience.
At least you would have been able to try to if we were going to buy more than one copy. Now rather than 3 copies (Me, Wife, Son) it'll be one copy that we'll all play through on single player and lament the fact we can't have a decent multiplayer game.
I wonder what they plan to do about the different Battle.Net realms now too. I happen to have a number of friends in the US that I'd love to be able to play SC2 with, but they will likely be in a different Battle.Net realm and the realms aren't linked so that'll be bad luck. In the past Hamachi or Leaf could do this for us (and comfortably despite the distance) with network play.
I also wonder if they'll do this with Diablo 3 too.... I dont' think I've ever played anything but network games of D2... ahh well, more money they won't get from me and more reason for me not to upgrade my PC and just use my console for gaming.
One last thing. They are claiming this is piracy related. Well, perhaps if you include the spawn function of the game like you did in the original this wouldn't be a problem since you were it was a feature designed exactly to allow other people, without the game, to play lan games only hosted by the person with the full game.
The question is, why block ALL aftermarket batteries. They obviously KNOW which batteries are dangerous. A simple blacklist of known dangerous batteries and not running on those would suffice from a safety point of view, and it would limit the damage they are doing to their reputation. A simple "This model of battery is known to cause damage to your camera and has been blocked from use" would be fine if you could then take it back to who you bought it from, and exchange it for a battery that wasn't dangerous. THere shoul dbe no need for the battery to have a Panasonic label, just that it not be a danger to use.
Why would google be doing any decoding?
All they do is send the file to the client where the client decodes it using whatever method they choose. Now hardware encoding to Theora would help tem cut down the time if they were doing a mass conversion.
RAID Controllers have batteries so they can remember whats in the cache (for about 48hours), not so they can write that data out to disks befoer they power off. When power is returned and thr disks come back up the cache is flushed before any other action, thereby keeping the array in one piece
I think there would be a lot less sympathy for her if a guilty verdict wasn't going to destory her life. No act of copying/sharing a few MB should end up costing you your life savings (and then some) unless it's treason (and in that case you had it coming).
I think most of us would be fine with all of these cases if the defendants involved had to pay a reasonably amount of money but clearly that isn't the way it's going.
Why? Given the now public nature of this and the fact that there are countermeasures how long do you think it will be until an updated package is available for Debian and all it's children projects?
I'm guessing a few days to a week before these countermeasures are patched into Debian's version. The whole point of ditributions is because keeping every piece of software up to date manually on even a single linux box is an arduous task at best.
While I can sympathize. He was the one that joined the military. Either his wife married him with the knowledge that he may not come home one day, or they made the decision together that him joining was worth the risk.
This sounds harsh, but such is life, at the end of the day if you don't want to die in war, don't join the military. That's not a guarantee in all cases but it certainly is in this case.
Wouldn't it have made more sense to spend that 10-20 million on either paying the developers of the application(s) to MAKE it Vista compatible or replace the application(s) with Vista compatible ones? I mean I know you're still going to have to invest some of that for the inital testing, but as soon as you found a blocker put the rest into making them work, or replacing them. You're going to have to do that anyway unless you plan on staying on XP forever, and in 5 years time good luck finding XP drivers for anything
No, we think driving around cars that a more like tanks and eating food that has seen more processing than it's packaging is excessive behaviour
Hasn't this whole Diebold thing proven your last statement completely false?