RULE #1 If you want better performance buy a better drive, not more drives.
If you want data integrity a MUCH better alternative would be to simply use a 4GB flash drive, and hey, its available now, doesn't use all your battery, is silent, weighs nothing, and is more portable, adding another HD to a laptop is a bit stupid. Not a very good idea Intel...
ya it is stupid to put him in jail, a much better punishment would be to make him hand write a spam message for every spam sent out, or hand type an apology and send it to every email on his list, or be a human spam filter for SA for free for 10000 hours...
"people don't want a half hour of advertising before movies"
oh ya I forgot to hit on this in my first post, the IMAX Batman movie had 1!, yes 1 preview that was about 3 minutes long for Stealth. Previews are even a treat to see as you are dumbfounded by the size and quality of the movie in the IMAX long enough to not even realize you're watching a preview:) Then the movie started immediatley, no beginning credits or anything...
Its not video games, piracy, sequels, or crappy movies which are killing them, its DVD and home movie theatres. Why the hell would I want to see a movie in a theatre when I have a system at home with better audio, better video, no screaming idiots, no cell phones, and yay, the floor isn't sticky!
The ONLY reason I go see a movie these days if its at the IMAX, which is well worth the money IMO, the resolution, screen, and audio are the best, they all have standard theatre seating, and its so fracking loud people talking and eating snacks doesn't matter. I saw Batman Begins 2 days ago.
To save the box office they need to 1) upgrade theaters and 2) raise, yes raise ticket prices.
Answer: Not enough to justify the cost to do it. Which goes to show you that if a site as popular as slashdot can't save money doing this, no other site on the net belongs converting to xhtml, economically speaking of course.
"Though a few KB doesn't sound like a lot of bandwidth, let's add it up. Slashdot's FAQ, last updated 13 June 2000, states that they serve 50 million pages in a month. When you break down the figures, that's ~1,612,900 pages per day or ~18 pages per second. Bandwidth savings are as follows:
Savings per day without caching the CSS files: ~3.15 GB bandwidth Savings per day with caching the CSS files: ~14 GB bandwidth Most Slashdot visitors would have the CSS file cached, so we could ballpark the daily savings at ~10 GB bandwidth. A high volume of bandwidth from an ISP could be anywhere from $1 - $5 cost per GB of transfer, but let's calculate it at $1 per GB for an entire year. For this example, the total yearly savings for Slashdot would be: $3,650 USD!"
Rather than a making all these assumptions why not just email Bob Wyman and ask him?
"How much data is this? If we assume that the average HTML post is 150K this will work out to about 135G. Now assuming we're going to average this out over a 24 hour period (which probably isn't realistic) this works out to about 12.5 Mbps sustained bandwidth.
Of course we should assume that about 1/3 of this is going to be coming from servers running gzip content compression. I have no stats WRT the number of deployed feeds which can support gzip (anyone have a clue?). My thinking is that this reduce us down to about 9Mbps which is a bit better.
This of course assumes that you're not fetching the RSS and just fetching the HTML. The RSS protocol is much more bloated in this regard. If you have to fetch 1 article from an RSS feed your forced to fetch the remaining 14 addition posts that were in the past (assuming you're not using the A-IM encoding method which is even rarer). This floating window can really hurt your traffic. The upside is that you have to fetch less HTML.
Now lets assume you're only fetching pinged blogs and you don't have to poll (polling itself has a network overhead). The average blog post would probably be around 20k I assume. If we assume the average feed has 15 items, only publishes one story, and has a 10% overhead we're talking about 330k per fetch of an individual post.
If we go back to the 900k posts per day figure we're talking a lot of data - 297G most of which is wasted. Assuming gzip compression this works out to 27.5Mbps.
Thats a lot of data and a lot of bloat which is unnecessary. This is a difficult choice for smaller aggregator developers as this much data costs a lot of money. The choice comes down to cheap HTML index ing with the inaccuracy that comes from HTML or accurate RSS which costs 2.2x more.
Update: Bob Wyman commented that he's seeing 2k average post size with 1.8M posts per day. If we are to use the same metrics as above this is 54G per day or around 5Mbps sustained bandwidth for RSS items (assuming A-IM differentials aren't used)."
The 64bit format war hasn't even started yet. And besides its hard to call it a war when intel doesn't even have a 64 bit chip out. When we see 50%+ penetration of 64bit chips on the desktop then you can start to say who is the winner.
I'm guessing that since the guy doesn't know how to search for "word html filter" in a search engine he would have a pretty hard time doing what you suggest.
You would think so, but since we are using the same craft and almost the same technology (with 1M bandaids on it) as they were using in 1961 its not that surprising...
maybe what we need is another branch of government, which gets a budget and uses that budget in the peoples interest to bribe against all the companies. the difference is they have no direct power but lots of money to influence the people with political power.
Most likely the 360 won't flop, and won't do as well as MS would hope, it will probably do pretty good and have a much better shot of giving the PS3 a run for its money with the earlier launch. As seen with the PS2 having old hardware doesn't hurt your games at all.
the only reason we are hearing about all of these glitches is because of the media hype and that the last shuttle was lost. after a few launches they will still be fixing as much and probably more and no one will hear about them because the hoopla will be over...
Even though liquid rocketry is extremely complicated plumbing, keeping it simple as possible is the best way ensure safety. It amazes me the current shuttle system has been used for long as it has. Using one launch system for two very different tasks only creates problems and makes you take unneeded risks.
Splitting the launching of humans and cargo is paramount, which this design does. By using existing technology, even though it may not be the best, it is tested, we can continue missions much more quickly than developing a whole new system.
Ideally any system will have built in safetys which neither computers or humans must activate (they would be mechanically or chemically automatic).
Don't use RAID0 for redundancy because its not worth the effort, you still have a single point failure of the raid controller card. Stick with a 2nd device (usb drives are good) which you simply copy your important data to every week or so.
Unless you can afford and need RAID5 (5 hard drives) forget about RAID and be happy your not wasting your time with it.
"'The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live.'"
Hm, I highly doubt someone sat on their rock couch and thought to themselves, "Well I guess its time we stop using stone and rethink our lives" LOL its more like the stone age ended because of natural progression of technology making our lives easier (at least from a laboring point of view). The big problem with this 'designed' town is there is no proof it is better. And even it if is I highly doubt it will be sustainable and economically feasible, if it is then why are there not towns like this already, simply because no one has sat down and 'invented' it? I doubt that...
Is replacing oil with biofuel even sustainable? I guess the market will work itself out, its not like we have a choice either, oil will be gone, its only a matter of time.
Actually the worlds oil supply running out is probably the best thing that could ever happen for the US, we have the best and biggest country in the world for producing corn. I'm glad GWBs plan to use up all the oil in the world as fast as possible it running so smoothly;)
Once we become the worlds biggest grower and seller of biofuel in the world our national debt will be gone in a few years, wow realizing the future of our nation in one post, is there anything biofuel can't do?
This must be planned for WMV HD or the new DVD formats. At first it sounds crazy, but since it actually has very little to do with Longhorn and more to do with the media giants forcing their ways, any movies released with this technology will sell like crap, then be hacked and pirated. Then the media giants will take 10 years and countless john doe lawsuits to figure out they need to distribute them online and digitally to make people happy, but only after Apple has started iFlicks for a year or two and released the iCapsule (a white portable movie player with only 1 button).
what is the big deal with sending analog signals and why the mandatory cutoff? why not just require digital signals to be sent by such a date, then downconvert them and still send the analog ones? what the hell are they thinking making every tv get an upgrade?
I think any PC gamer has known this for the past say 5 years lol, VERY old news, Id has been sucking balls for a long time, as far as many are concerned it happened the day Unreal 1 came out. Doom 3 was hopefully the nail in the coffin, the most overhyped game in the last 2 years, if anyone else had made doom 3 it would have gotten very bad reviews. it was a pretty good game, but so many others are better in many areas.
I think Ids downfall is its small team size, I don't care how tallented you are you can only do so much with 5 people, and the game clearly shows this, it will only get worse, games are so damn complicated these days it takes a 20+ man crew working 3 years to do anything.
As for the future I'm pretty sure Id will try another genre than the shooter (god they better) and will probably make a decent game, but it will be lacking in every category if they keep their small team, plus they have the worst diversification of product lines in the history of any game company (all shooters exactly like doom) thus making any other genre very difficult as it will be a totally new boat for them.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=21 01&p=10
RULE #1 If you want better performance buy a better drive, not more drives.
If you want data integrity a MUCH better alternative would be to simply use a 4GB flash drive, and hey, its available now, doesn't use all your battery, is silent, weighs nothing, and is more portable, adding another HD to a laptop is a bit stupid. Not a very good idea Intel...
ya it is stupid to put him in jail, a much better punishment would be to make him hand write a spam message for every spam sent out, or hand type an apology and send it to every email on his list, or be a human spam filter for SA for free for 10000 hours...
"people don't want a half hour of advertising before movies"
:) Then the movie started immediatley, no beginning credits or anything...
oh ya I forgot to hit on this in my first post, the IMAX Batman movie had 1!, yes 1 preview that was about 3 minutes long for Stealth. Previews are even a treat to see as you are dumbfounded by the size and quality of the movie in the IMAX long enough to not even realize you're watching a preview
Its not video games, piracy, sequels, or crappy movies which are killing them, its DVD and home movie theatres. Why the hell would I want to see a movie in a theatre when I have a system at home with better audio, better video, no screaming idiots, no cell phones, and yay, the floor isn't sticky!
The ONLY reason I go see a movie these days if its at the IMAX, which is well worth the money IMO, the resolution, screen, and audio are the best, they all have standard theatre seating, and its so fracking loud people talking and eating snacks doesn't matter. I saw Batman Begins 2 days ago.
To save the box office they need to 1) upgrade theaters and 2) raise, yes raise ticket prices.
Answer: Not enough to justify the cost to do it. Which goes to show you that if a site as popular as slashdot can't save money doing this, no other site on the net belongs converting to xhtml, economically speaking of course.
"Though a few KB doesn't sound like a lot of bandwidth, let's add it up. Slashdot's FAQ, last updated 13 June 2000, states that they serve 50 million pages in a month. When you break down the figures, that's ~1,612,900 pages per day or ~18 pages per second. Bandwidth savings are as follows:
Savings per day without caching the CSS files: ~3.15 GB bandwidth
Savings per day with caching the CSS files: ~14 GB bandwidth
Most Slashdot visitors would have the CSS file cached, so we could ballpark the daily savings at ~10 GB bandwidth. A high volume of bandwidth from an ISP could be anywhere from $1 - $5 cost per GB of transfer, but let's calculate it at $1 per GB for an entire year. For this example, the total yearly savings for Slashdot would be: $3,650 USD!"
Rather than a making all these assumptions why not just email Bob Wyman and ask him?
"How much data is this? If we assume that the average HTML post is 150K this will work out to about 135G. Now assuming we're going to average this out over a 24 hour period (which probably isn't realistic) this works out to about 12.5 Mbps sustained bandwidth.
Of course we should assume that about 1/3 of this is going to be coming from servers running gzip content compression. I have no stats WRT the number of deployed feeds which can support gzip (anyone have a clue?). My thinking is that this reduce us down to about 9Mbps which is a bit better.
This of course assumes that you're not fetching the RSS and just fetching the HTML. The RSS protocol is much more bloated in this regard. If you have to fetch 1 article from an RSS feed your forced to fetch the remaining 14 addition posts that were in the past (assuming you're not using the A-IM encoding method which is even rarer). This floating window can really hurt your traffic. The upside is that you have to fetch less HTML.
Now lets assume you're only fetching pinged blogs and you don't have to poll (polling itself has a network overhead). The average blog post would probably be around 20k I assume. If we assume the average feed has 15 items, only publishes one story, and has a 10% overhead we're talking about 330k per fetch of an individual post.
If we go back to the 900k posts per day figure we're talking a lot of data - 297G most of which is wasted. Assuming gzip compression this works out to 27.5Mbps.
Thats a lot of data and a lot of bloat which is unnecessary. This is a difficult choice for smaller aggregator developers as this much data costs a lot of money. The choice comes down to cheap HTML index ing with the inaccuracy that comes from HTML or accurate RSS which costs 2.2x more.
Update: Bob Wyman commented that he's seeing 2k average post size with 1.8M posts per day. If we are to use the same metrics as above this is 54G per day or around 5Mbps sustained bandwidth for RSS items (assuming A-IM differentials aren't used)."
The 64bit format war hasn't even started yet. And besides its hard to call it a war when intel doesn't even have a 64 bit chip out. When we see 50%+ penetration of 64bit chips on the desktop then you can start to say who is the winner.
I'm guessing that since the guy doesn't know how to search for "word html filter" in a search engine he would have a pretty hard time doing what you suggest.
You would think so, but since we are using the same craft and almost the same technology (with 1M bandaids on it) as they were using in 1961 its not that surprising...
Why the hell are these things so expensive, someone please release a cheap one that doesn't cost more than all the other components combined.
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http://www.anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?
maybe what we need is another branch of government, which gets a budget and uses that budget in the peoples interest to bribe against all the companies. the difference is they have no direct power but lots of money to influence the people with political power.
Most likely the 360 won't flop, and won't do as well as MS would hope, it will probably do pretty good and have a much better shot of giving the PS3 a run for its money with the earlier launch. As seen with the PS2 having old hardware doesn't hurt your games at all.
early launch > best hardware
the only reason we are hearing about all of these glitches is because of the media hype and that the last shuttle was lost. after a few launches they will still be fixing as much and probably more and no one will hear about them because the hoopla will be over...
Even though liquid rocketry is extremely complicated plumbing, keeping it simple as possible is the best way ensure safety. It amazes me the current shuttle system has been used for long as it has. Using one launch system for two very different tasks only creates problems and makes you take unneeded risks.
Splitting the launching of humans and cargo is paramount, which this design does. By using existing technology, even though it may not be the best, it is tested, we can continue missions much more quickly than developing a whole new system.
Ideally any system will have built in safetys which neither computers or humans must activate (they would be mechanically or chemically automatic).
Don't use stripping for performance unless you do video editing:1 01&p=10
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2
Don't use RAID0 for redundancy because its not worth the effort, you still have a single point failure of the raid controller card. Stick with a 2nd device (usb drives are good) which you simply copy your important data to every week or so.
Unless you can afford and need RAID5 (5 hard drives) forget about RAID and be happy your not wasting your time with it.
Hey is that Andy Richter (from the Conan Obrien show) in that photo? Now we know why he quit...
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http://www.sandia.gov/news-center/news-releases/2
"the name sounds dumb"
:D
Clearly he has thought this through. All hail! King of the losers!
"'The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live.'"
Hm, I highly doubt someone sat on their rock couch and thought to themselves, "Well I guess its time we stop using stone and rethink our lives" LOL its more like the stone age ended because of natural progression of technology making our lives easier (at least from a laboring point of view). The big problem with this 'designed' town is there is no proof it is better. And even it if is I highly doubt it will be sustainable and economically feasible, if it is then why are there not towns like this already, simply because no one has sat down and 'invented' it? I doubt that...
Is replacing oil with biofuel even sustainable? I guess the market will work itself out, its not like we have a choice either, oil will be gone, its only a matter of time.
;)
Actually the worlds oil supply running out is probably the best thing that could ever happen for the US, we have the best and biggest country in the world for producing corn. I'm glad GWBs plan to use up all the oil in the world as fast as possible it running so smoothly
Once we become the worlds biggest grower and seller of biofuel in the world our national debt will be gone in a few years, wow realizing the future of our nation in one post, is there anything biofuel can't do?
Quitely Osama distributes memos with instructions for all followers to cut off their index and middle fingers in the name of Jihad!
This must be planned for WMV HD or the new DVD formats. At first it sounds crazy, but since it actually has very little to do with Longhorn and more to do with the media giants forcing their ways, any movies released with this technology will sell like crap, then be hacked and pirated. Then the media giants will take 10 years and countless john doe lawsuits to figure out they need to distribute them online and digitally to make people happy, but only after Apple has started iFlicks for a year or two and released the iCapsule (a white portable movie player with only 1 button).
you're kidding right?
I was thinking the same thing, for the $700 spent on making the motor couldn't they have bought a much more efficient one?
Also why make an AC motor? Wouldn't you need to charge a DC battery to provide stable constant power?
what is the big deal with sending analog signals and why the mandatory cutoff? why not just require digital signals to be sent by such a date, then downconvert them and still send the analog ones? what the hell are they thinking making every tv get an upgrade?
I think any PC gamer has known this for the past say 5 years lol, VERY old news, Id has been sucking balls for a long time, as far as many are concerned it happened the day Unreal 1 came out. Doom 3 was hopefully the nail in the coffin, the most overhyped game in the last 2 years, if anyone else had made doom 3 it would have gotten very bad reviews. it was a pretty good game, but so many others are better in many areas.
I think Ids downfall is its small team size, I don't care how tallented you are you can only do so much with 5 people, and the game clearly shows this, it will only get worse, games are so damn complicated these days it takes a 20+ man crew working 3 years to do anything.
As for the future I'm pretty sure Id will try another genre than the shooter (god they better) and will probably make a decent game, but it will be lacking in every category if they keep their small team, plus they have the worst diversification of product lines in the history of any game company (all shooters exactly like doom) thus making any other genre very difficult as it will be a totally new boat for them.