We've been testing DRAM based SSDs (http://www.tigicorp.com) for a while. Very fast. They don't suffer the issues of flash based SSDs but they come at a much higher cost. A single drive an saturate any interconnect you'll find on the mass market right now. The neat thing about the Tigi drives is that they actually run Linux on the drive so it's easy to change interface type or even put applications on the drives themselves.
5Kw isn't that much anymore. We are deploying dense environments that are 25Kw per rack and have plans to go above 30Kw. The old hot/cold row methodology has to go away to more efficient designs.
Not sure how they'll get by with this seeing as others have been doing it. But I can see why they'd want. These container ship data centers are becoming very popular. Why build an expensive DC somewhere when I can just drop a container in a spot that has power. If I build a big DC I run the risk of running out of power in the near future leaving my new DC unable to grow. With these containers you can drop and move as conditions dictate.
I canceled my service in a day since I couldn't get an AT&T signal at my house. They told me on the phone that I had 14 days to return the equipment to the store or I'd still be charged early termination.
Not true. I returned my iPhone today due to lack of coverage at my house. I called AT&T to cancel the service. They don't actually cancel it until you return the phone to the store. They said if I didn't return it within 14 days you get hit with the early termination fee.
I'm not happy with my cellphone. I have a Treo 700w and I'm tired of it. I'm tired of resetting it at least once per day. I'm tired of a browser that won't actually show a properly rendered page. I'll be glad to get a cell phone with a well designed interface.
Anyone know if it will upconvert standard DVDs via the HDMI port? My upconverting player just died so may I'll put the money toward this and a trade-in of my launch console that's tooooo loud.
I hate this. You run in to this a lot in higher end home theater gear. I'm looking to buy a new receiver and would love to get a Pioneer Elite except they only sale through authorized dealers. If I go grey market I lose my factory warranty, including firmware updates to fix known issues.
No. Booting off the SAN is usually a good idea if done correctly. You can easily snapshot and replicate the boot drives. Have a server fail? No issue. Just point another server to that volume on the SAN and boot. Plus you can do an easy DR by replicating those server drives offsite to cold systems.
Things are changing. How long ago did you start your path through IT? I've been doing it a while without a degree and have done pretty well but for someone really trying to get in they need a degree now. You can't get a title of Manager at my current company without being able to check off that box for having a degree. It's just something places require now. Luckily my current employer paid my tuition and I finished my BS last year.
This isn't news. It happens every year now at this time. It's a mix of people getting new TVs for Christmas and then those that didn't get one before the Super Bowl. Every year Time Warner here (in Raleigh, NC) is on TV saying they are out of HD boxes.
I don't believe that. I know on the Samsung i730 which had EVDO and WiFi if you kept WiFi on your battery life was AWFUL. In fact, Samsung made it so when you enabled WiFi it turned off the cell radio for that very reason but some people hacked around it. The WiFi won't stay on all the time.
I didn't realize Motorola bought Good. Huh..That could change things then. I like my push email with my 700w and Exchange so we will see. Webmail or imap maybe.:)
Just find a better deal on the S3 Tivo. You can find it for a good bit under $800 and skip putting together a semi-manual system that doesn't work nearly as well. You'll gain true integration plus the "live TV" aspects and probably far fewer issues and annoyances.
Be curious to see how many Treo and Blackberry users move over. This thing doesn't support any enterprise level email like they do. I don't see many business pushing things through Yahoo. Hopefully someone like Good will write an app to integrate it.
For those wanting the widescreen iPod I bet it comes out right after the phone is released. I think you'll get the iPhone without the phone. Similar form factor with disk instead of flash. It'll still run OSX and have the PDA/computer functionality along with WiFi. This would be a great little device and you would get a lot of the added functionality just with WiFi.
I can only begin to imagine the great dashboard widgets and apps that'll be released for them.
The price on Ebay for the Wii is dropping too. I finally bought one last night for $335 from a local buyer. There are a number of tools out there to find someone local so you don't pay shipping and no worries about what you actually get. $335 is only about $60 profit for the guy after he paid $250 + tax. I didn't even sit and wait for the BEST deal as they were all falling near that anyway. A few days earlier the average was $400 or a little more.
They add a new layer to the games. I went back to play CoD2 on Veteran for the achievement and found it to be a better game that way. I'm not sure I'd have done it otherwise. It also just gives you some goals to shoot for and not just run through a game.
I'm borrowing a PS3 right now and they have a similar system. One place that it is better is that by earning their reward points you can unlock things like concept art or pics. The bad thing is that with no central identity I can't see which achievements my friend has done. That's a major loss. The best part of achievements is comparing with your friends. Getting an achievement per level lets me see how far they are in the game. I also didn't care for how (at least on Resistance) the PS3 rewards were hidden until you did it. It's a little aimless and everyone knows you can just look them up online so go ahead and tell me what they are.
Gamerscore...that I don't care about. Yeah, it's easy to hack a high score with enough time and easy games. I don't care. Achievements between friends are what matters not gamerscores between idiots on some forum.
Damage control from WHAT? The Wii is a hit, no doubt, but MS has nothing to fear from the PS3 right now. Damage control from GoW? GoW is a GREAT game. I don't know where you see jaggy graphics but it looks great on my setup....absolutely as good as the promo shots. No issues with network play either. Resistance on PS3, now that's a different story. I want to know how much Sony paid reviewers for the 9/10 scores on that.
The 360 wasn't forgotten this year. It just wasn't in such limited supply to make the news. It got a ton of good press when the video marketplace was released in November.
Friend loaned me his PS3. Meh. If Resistance is THE game to own for it right now, save your money. GoW is 10x the game. The new GT HD "concept" demo is pretty good, but as for graphics I think PGR3 looked every bit as good a year ago. Physics in the game? That's a different story. Sony's network implementation leaves a LOT to be desired. I'll happily keep paying my $50/year Live membership over Sony's free offering. I couldn't even use my normal nickname since Junkie is a banned word on their service.
I love consoles and I'm sure I'll end up with one...but it'll be at least 6 months. Luckily I just moved to a 1080p DLP set from my older HD RPTV that didn't do 720p. If I had my old set everything I've played except for GT HD would have been shown in 480p.
I don't know of any modern DLP with close to half a second lag. That would show up immediately with a de-sync'd audio/video. Now, if you do a lot of scaling or other conversion then yes, it could show up but so far I'm not seeing that on anything. My Mitsu scales everything to 1080p and I see no lag at all on the video. Audio coming out of my receiver is perfectly in sync.
The sweet spot on pricing right now is DLP. The latest sets (7th Generation?) are really mature. Very few people see the rainbow effect on these. They take 1080p signals and have good doublers and scalers for other content. They give you true blacks and great color reproduction.
The only downside is you can't hang them on a wall. To me that isn't a problem. I still have a component rack with my receiver, DVD player, etc in it and my front floor standing speakers. A TV on the wall would be out of place. I just upgrade to the Mitsubishi 65732 Medallion series 65" DLP for $2500. That's a steal for a set like this.
True 1080p LCDs are also dropping fast. My stepdad just got a 40" Samsung for $2K. Not cheap, but a whole lot less than they were before and it's a much nicer set.
Now Microsoft needs to get their HDMI cable out for the 360. It's my last component connected device. I want simpler cabling.
Picture quality. If the rest of your setup is up to the standard you'll see the difference. Back when the standard DVD player was a $250 Toshiba I got a $750 Pioneer Elite (grey market). My wife noticed the change right away. Better color reproduction. Far fewer artifacts. Better blacks...etc. Now, that was a couple of years ago. Even a cheap player today is probably the same as my Pioneer, but TVs have also gotten better. I have a cheap LG upconvert DVD player on one TV at home. I bet a $2K upconverting player does a better job.
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We've been testing DRAM based SSDs (http://www.tigicorp.com) for a while. Very fast. They don't suffer the issues of flash based SSDs but they come at a much higher cost. A single drive an saturate any interconnect you'll find on the mass market right now. The neat thing about the Tigi drives is that they actually run Linux on the drive so it's easy to change interface type or even put applications on the drives themselves.
5Kw isn't that much anymore. We are deploying dense environments that are 25Kw per rack and have plans to go above 30Kw. The old hot/cold row methodology has to go away to more efficient designs.
Not sure how they'll get by with this seeing as others have been doing it. But I can see why they'd want. These container ship data centers are becoming very popular. Why build an expensive DC somewhere when I can just drop a container in a spot that has power. If I build a big DC I run the risk of running out of power in the near future leaving my new DC unable to grow. With these containers you can drop and move as conditions dictate.
I canceled my service in a day since I couldn't get an AT&T signal at my house. They told me on the phone that I had 14 days to return the equipment to the store or I'd still be charged early termination.
Not true. I returned my iPhone today due to lack of coverage at my house. I called AT&T to cancel the service. They don't actually cancel it until you return the phone to the store. They said if I didn't return it within 14 days you get hit with the early termination fee.
I'm not happy with my cellphone. I have a Treo 700w and I'm tired of it. I'm tired of resetting it at least once per day. I'm tired of a browser that won't actually show a properly rendered page. I'll be glad to get a cell phone with a well designed interface.
What does it do that a PIX or NetScreen doesn't?
Anyone know if it will upconvert standard DVDs via the HDMI port? My upconverting player just died so may I'll put the money toward this and a trade-in of my launch console that's tooooo loud.
I hate this. You run in to this a lot in higher end home theater gear. I'm looking to buy a new receiver and would love to get a Pioneer Elite except they only sale through authorized dealers. If I go grey market I lose my factory warranty, including firmware updates to fix known issues.
I wish you could change the email login associated to your gamertag. Mine points to an old account I never ever use now. I keep it just for that.
No. Booting off the SAN is usually a good idea if done correctly. You can easily snapshot and replicate the boot drives. Have a server fail? No issue. Just point another server to that volume on the SAN and boot. Plus you can do an easy DR by replicating those server drives offsite to cold systems.
Things are changing. How long ago did you start your path through IT? I've been doing it a while without a degree and have done pretty well but for someone really trying to get in they need a degree now. You can't get a title of Manager at my current company without being able to check off that box for having a degree. It's just something places require now. Luckily my current employer paid my tuition and I finished my BS last year.
This isn't news. It happens every year now at this time. It's a mix of people getting new TVs for Christmas and then those that didn't get one before the Super Bowl. Every year Time Warner here (in Raleigh, NC) is on TV saying they are out of HD boxes.
I don't believe that. I know on the Samsung i730 which had EVDO and WiFi if you kept WiFi on your battery life was AWFUL. In fact, Samsung made it so when you enabled WiFi it turned off the cell radio for that very reason but some people hacked around it. The WiFi won't stay on all the time.
I didn't realize Motorola bought Good. Huh..That could change things then. I like my push email with my 700w and Exchange so we will see. Webmail or imap maybe. :)
Just find a better deal on the S3 Tivo. You can find it for a good bit under $800 and skip putting together a semi-manual system that doesn't work nearly as well. You'll gain true integration plus the "live TV" aspects and probably far fewer issues and annoyances.
Be curious to see how many Treo and Blackberry users move over. This thing doesn't support any enterprise level email like they do. I don't see many business pushing things through Yahoo. Hopefully someone like Good will write an app to integrate it.
For those wanting the widescreen iPod I bet it comes out right after the phone is released. I think you'll get the iPhone without the phone. Similar form factor with disk instead of flash. It'll still run OSX and have the PDA/computer functionality along with WiFi. This would be a great little device and you would get a lot of the added functionality just with WiFi.
I can only begin to imagine the great dashboard widgets and apps that'll be released for them.
The price on Ebay for the Wii is dropping too. I finally bought one last night for $335 from a local buyer. There are a number of tools out there to find someone local so you don't pay shipping and no worries about what you actually get. $335 is only about $60 profit for the guy after he paid $250 + tax. I didn't even sit and wait for the BEST deal as they were all falling near that anyway. A few days earlier the average was $400 or a little more.
They add a new layer to the games. I went back to play CoD2 on Veteran for the achievement and found it to be a better game that way. I'm not sure I'd have done it otherwise. It also just gives you some goals to shoot for and not just run through a game.
I'm borrowing a PS3 right now and they have a similar system. One place that it is better is that by earning their reward points you can unlock things like concept art or pics. The bad thing is that with no central identity I can't see which achievements my friend has done. That's a major loss. The best part of achievements is comparing with your friends. Getting an achievement per level lets me see how far they are in the game. I also didn't care for how (at least on Resistance) the PS3 rewards were hidden until you did it. It's a little aimless and everyone knows you can just look them up online so go ahead and tell me what they are.
Gamerscore...that I don't care about. Yeah, it's easy to hack a high score with enough time and easy games. I don't care. Achievements between friends are what matters not gamerscores between idiots on some forum.
Damage control from WHAT? The Wii is a hit, no doubt, but MS has nothing to fear from the PS3 right now. Damage control from GoW? GoW is a GREAT game. I don't know where you see jaggy graphics but it looks great on my setup....absolutely as good as the promo shots. No issues with network play either. Resistance on PS3, now that's a different story. I want to know how much Sony paid reviewers for the 9/10 scores on that.
The 360 wasn't forgotten this year. It just wasn't in such limited supply to make the news. It got a ton of good press when the video marketplace was released in November.
Friend loaned me his PS3. Meh. If Resistance is THE game to own for it right now, save your money. GoW is 10x the game. The new GT HD "concept" demo is pretty good, but as for graphics I think PGR3 looked every bit as good a year ago. Physics in the game? That's a different story. Sony's network implementation leaves a LOT to be desired. I'll happily keep paying my $50/year Live membership over Sony's free offering. I couldn't even use my normal nickname since Junkie is a banned word on their service.
I love consoles and I'm sure I'll end up with one...but it'll be at least 6 months. Luckily I just moved to a 1080p DLP set from my older HD RPTV that didn't do 720p. If I had my old set everything I've played except for GT HD would have been shown in 480p.
I don't know of any modern DLP with close to half a second lag. That would show up immediately with a de-sync'd audio/video. Now, if you do a lot of scaling or other conversion then yes, it could show up but so far I'm not seeing that on anything. My Mitsu scales everything to 1080p and I see no lag at all on the video. Audio coming out of my receiver is perfectly in sync.
The sweet spot on pricing right now is DLP. The latest sets (7th Generation?) are really mature. Very few people see the rainbow effect on these. They take 1080p signals and have good doublers and scalers for other content. They give you true blacks and great color reproduction.
The only downside is you can't hang them on a wall. To me that isn't a problem. I still have a component rack with my receiver, DVD player, etc in it and my front floor standing speakers. A TV on the wall would be out of place. I just upgrade to the Mitsubishi 65732 Medallion series 65" DLP for $2500. That's a steal for a set like this.
True 1080p LCDs are also dropping fast. My stepdad just got a 40" Samsung for $2K. Not cheap, but a whole lot less than they were before and it's a much nicer set.
Now Microsoft needs to get their HDMI cable out for the 360. It's my last component connected device. I want simpler cabling.
Picture quality. If the rest of your setup is up to the standard you'll see the difference. Back when the standard DVD player was a $250 Toshiba I got a $750 Pioneer Elite (grey market). My wife noticed the change right away. Better color reproduction. Far fewer artifacts. Better blacks...etc. Now, that was a couple of years ago. Even a cheap player today is probably the same as my Pioneer, but TVs have also gotten better. I have a cheap LG upconvert DVD player on one TV at home. I bet a $2K upconverting player does a better job.