...has no use for RAID. RAID level 0 is pointless, increases IO throughput ~40% while decreasing MTBF to 1/2 of its nominal value for each drive. RAID level 1 is just a bit-for-bit backup system, and wastes 1/2 your disk capacity. RAID level 01/10 is both expensive *and* pointless.
If you could find an IDE cheap SCSI controller that can do RAID5, then sure, RAID might be a useful solution to the issue of data redundancy and have a little peformance increase...Too bad cheap RAID5 cards don't exist.
You may as well just do RAID5 in software, really.
Now, if only programming students workin more than 40 hours a week could get paid OT...
Sigh, I'm gonna guess that only by-the-hour employees are covered by this policy, and salaried workers are not.
Yeah, I signed up for unlimited access. Unlimited = on 24/7. In my service agreement, it also says that Bell Sympatico (same for cable net too) can alter the service agreement. unlimited internet = unlimited access, != unlimited bandwidth
[H]ardOCP has confirmation that GeforceFX5800 Ultra graphics cards will not make it to retail, and are available as pre-order items only, for a limited time. However, the GeforceFX5800 non-ultra model *will* make it to retail, sans the elaborate cooling mechanism, and running at 400MHz GPU / 800MHz RAM.
Additionally, it seems the "Radeon9900" information at Xbitlabs might be less accurate than it appears.
This isn't the greatest news for Nvidia, but it doesn't exactly break the bank: Nvidia still has the lion's share of the graphics market, and will probably continue to keep that market simply due to Tier 1/2 OEM sales, as well as their reputation - even though ATI has faster hardware, Nvidia has had a history of rock-solid drivers 4 generations back. Although ATI's driver quality has improved significantly in recent times, they're still not up to par with Nvidia's. And be sure that Nvidia will capitalize on that, since they don't have bragging rights for their hardware currently.
The research into nanotubes could have some *very* nice spinoff techs...nanotubes, if one or two hurdles are overcome, could be heralded as a pretty much "perfect" tech for making ICs...mmm Pentium/Athlon 10 400GHz...
Nanotubes are as close to "unbreakable" as it gets:)
Only 10 billion to build an elevator into space?...wow...I'm just worried about the wind shear, dude... 1 metre wide by 62000 metres long? Thing would be like silly string in space!
But seriously, the concept is *DAMNED* cool. Especially given its interface. Skyhooks are pretty common in scifi, and the relatively low costs could mean NASA could get its job done MUCH more effectively on its increasingly modest budget.
Imagine the cost-saving effect space vehicles that don't need huge fuel pods and boosters! You could conceivably create a low orbit space vehicle construction yard, for servicing shuttles - in space. Refueling station in space, hell, you wouldn't even have nearly as many problems with astronauts physically degrading due to the lack of gravity - with such an "elevator", cycling astronaut duty shifts could be easy to do. I mean...if we pull this off in my lifetime, it could be seen as the next "big" leap into space. You old fogies had your moon landing, we have our low-cost penetration into low orbit! Spacecraft wouldn't even need to ever come out of orbit! Whoops, there goes all the costs associated with making general purpose re-entry vehicles! At 10 billion per skyhook, Nasa could simply abandon all those failed X series vehicles, and focus on smaller, lighter, less fuel, more reliable. And just think of this - what currently keeps shuttle missions so short in time? -Human problems, fuel, oxygen, food...hey look, boom, space missions aren't "once in a blue moon" events, but *daily* occurances. Hell, the tube itself could be powered by solar collectors on from a station in low orbit...
And hell, just look at how LUCRATIVE a nanotube elevator would be. Satellite launches would no longer be an expensive, risky ordeal. Just send the sucker up the tube, have an astronaut chuck it into a slightly higher (or lower) orbit, and there ya go! Instantly, satellite TV becomes technologically cheaper. Instantly, satellite cellphones might actually become *feasible*...the possibilities are mind-boggling...not to mention tourism in space!
This is one of those times where I really look forward to the future, nanotubes have huge potential, and a space elevator might just reignite the spark of passion and interest the populace once held in the Space programme.
This article appeared on Fortune website, or businessweek, or an avenue where the people who actually matter in this debate (businessmen, politicians) frequent. If that happened, it might actually DO something, other than ignite the pirating passion of/.ers
Your first iteration was amazing.
Your second version was equally amazing.
AMD's own successes with the K7 architecture are owed mostly to you.
Your latest golden baby was thrown in the garbage because it scared the other babies. Even though no one wants to know, your EV7 is *STILL* the premiere big iron architecture in this day and age.
What would have been your crowning jewel was aborted and your womb replaced by something Intel Inside. EV8, you would've been an engineering and design marvel, something that would've taken YEARS to beat.
And now, poor DEC Alpha team, where are you? Fragments of your EV7/6 team are higher-ups at AMD, giving the desktop underdog a chance, and the rest of you is at work at Intel/HP, genetically engineering something something truly EPIC, that sadly, only even a mother could love...assuming the mother eventually gives birth to acceptably talented offspring.
Oh, whither art thou, Alpha?
AMD's decision to delay it's Athlon64 CPU series release date until September (possibly timed to the release of a 64bit version of Windows) is pretty smart, actually. By delaying, AMD loses in the highend desktop arena, but is now able to spend those resources on the potentially far more lucrative Opteron systems. Why release a fast, inexpensive processor for the desktop market when you can release a slightly slower one, for a different market, for much, much more? By concentrating on the big iron of Opteron, AMD might be able to halt their financial bloodletting, and get back in the black in time for Athlon64...
It seems that Australia is the only weak link Kazaa has when it comes to legal prosecution. If whatshername moves offshore, boom - there's no one to prosecute. The File-sharing part of the internet will be kind of like the Cayman Islands =^_^=.
Here's an interesting idea: Kazaa/Klite has many, many problems (the programming itself). Fix the problems(mirroring issues, corrupted downloads, etc), work full DVD (or encrypted divx) music videos in to the mix, then setup some sort of reasonable pay-for-play scheme, and hell, I'd buy music from the service...Maybe set up some sort of MTV-like html viewer integrated into the service program, and voila: you have a viable filesharing scheme.
Sigh, now if only the content industry would realize that the Internet can be their friend...lol...
Picked 6 or 7 old 4gig HDDs from my father's company a few years ago, found their company credit line information, personal (and some very erotic) email, and a surprisingly large collection of nudie photoshopped Gillian Anderson photos. Oh yeah, and like 100 different (and I must say, very well-done) quake2 "crackwhore" models and skins lol. I love the people who don't clear their HDDs, it's like treasure chests, you never know what you're gonna get.
Technology + challenge + good old-fashioned ingenuity = effective and efficient solution.
Note - if he wanted to get *really* fancy, he would set up 2 small parabolic dishes to boost signal gain (could be very effective at reducing noise, esp in crappy weather). One dish on the cafe, one on his house, pointed at the other building's antenna (hard to work, but not impossible). It might be cheaper than getting military grade transmitters lol.
SATA will scale better than parallel ATA - PATA is hard to scale given its bus nature. SATA should scale well up to at least 600MBPS theoretical throughput.
SATA has a smaller footprint than PATA, thus making it more economical to implement in mainboards where PCB space is at a premium. There is also a reduction of signal wires, so again it is more economical to use the drives.
SATA's smaller cables also allow for more creative formfactors and cabling solutions. PATA had short, wide, and ugly cabling. SATA has longer spec cabling, and its much thinner than PATA's, so cable routing is easier for OEMs.
Simply put, in its current form SATA isn't really a revolution, it's an evolution of the ATA standard, more out of convenience than anything.
a pink slip, and the second thing i got in the mail was my tuition payment request.
Dammit, I could've been a drug dealer for better pay, and hours, and perks...lol...
*envisions some enterprising individual hijacking every packet on his cable network*
Wow...yeah, that's a bug and a half...hopefully all that's needed is a firmware update.
Nasa OK'd the physics, and made sure that the scientists weren't fudging the data. Great, and too bad all this company has right now is "abnormally energetic plasma".
So far we have an unexplained phenomenon. Genereally, unexplained phenomena get researched by scientists for years *before* a company and patents are formed, ne?
Something stinks here, but I don't think it's a scam. It's mostly the smell of optimism ^+_+^ Who other than me predicts a "yeah, well, it's kind of like that antigravity effect - it happened, but no one can explain it or use it" type of situation arising from this research?
So...we're now buying computers that have *OUR* hard drive space taken up by useless software that doesn't below to us?
A:\format C:\
www.kazaalite.com...
Pfft, if I want to have software on my computer that doesn't belong to me, I may as well have it be software of my choice, that I can actually use!
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...has no use for RAID. RAID level 0 is pointless, increases IO throughput ~40% while decreasing MTBF to 1/2 of its nominal value for each drive. RAID level 1 is just a bit-for-bit backup system, and wastes 1/2 your disk capacity. RAID level 01/10 is both expensive *and* pointless.
If you could find an IDE cheap SCSI controller that can do RAID5, then sure, RAID might be a useful solution to the issue of data redundancy and have a little peformance increase...Too bad cheap RAID5 cards don't exist.
You may as well just do RAID5 in software, really.
Now, if only programming students workin more than 40 hours a week could get paid OT... Sigh, I'm gonna guess that only by-the-hour employees are covered by this policy, and salaried workers are not.
Yeah, I signed up for unlimited access. Unlimited = on 24/7. In my service agreement, it also says that Bell Sympatico (same for cable net too) can alter the service agreement. unlimited internet = unlimited access, != unlimited bandwidth
Poor frikkin babies. I get 5GB/month aggregate bandwidth on my residential broadband access. They get 1GB/DAY. Quit whining!
[H]ardOCP has confirmation that GeforceFX5800 Ultra graphics cards will not make it to retail, and are available as pre-order items only, for a limited time. However, the GeforceFX5800 non-ultra model *will* make it to retail, sans the elaborate cooling mechanism, and running at 400MHz GPU / 800MHz RAM.
Additionally, it seems the "Radeon9900" information at Xbitlabs might be less accurate than it appears.
This isn't the greatest news for Nvidia, but it doesn't exactly break the bank: Nvidia still has the lion's share of the graphics market, and will probably continue to keep that market simply due to Tier 1/2 OEM sales, as well as their reputation - even though ATI has faster hardware, Nvidia has had a history of rock-solid drivers 4 generations back. Although ATI's driver quality has improved significantly in recent times, they're still not up to par with Nvidia's. And be sure that Nvidia will capitalize on that, since they don't have bragging rights for their hardware currently.
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4ll j00r pc b33r m0d$ r b3l0ng to u$!
I'm just itchin to burn some karma on this one.
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trolling little spoilsport. You're probably the kind who also said "man? in space? bah, scifi technical sounding bullshit"
The research into nanotubes could have some *very* nice spinoff techs...nanotubes, if one or two hurdles are overcome, could be heralded as a pretty much "perfect" tech for making ICs...mmm Pentium/Athlon 10 400GHz... Nanotubes are as close to "unbreakable" as it gets :)
Only 10 billion to build an elevator into space?...wow...I'm just worried about the wind shear, dude... 1 metre wide by 62000 metres long? Thing would be like silly string in space!
But seriously, the concept is *DAMNED* cool. Especially given its interface. Skyhooks are pretty common in scifi, and the relatively low costs could mean NASA could get its job done MUCH more effectively on its increasingly modest budget.
Imagine the cost-saving effect space vehicles that don't need huge fuel pods and boosters! You could conceivably create a low orbit space vehicle construction yard, for servicing shuttles - in space. Refueling station in space, hell, you wouldn't even have nearly as many problems with astronauts physically degrading due to the lack of gravity - with such an "elevator", cycling astronaut duty shifts could be easy to do. I mean...if we pull this off in my lifetime, it could be seen as the next "big" leap into space. You old fogies had your moon landing, we have our low-cost penetration into low orbit! Spacecraft wouldn't even need to ever come out of orbit! Whoops, there goes all the costs associated with making general purpose re-entry vehicles! At 10 billion per skyhook, Nasa could simply abandon all those failed X series vehicles, and focus on smaller, lighter, less fuel, more reliable. And just think of this - what currently keeps shuttle missions so short in time? -Human problems, fuel, oxygen, food...hey look, boom, space missions aren't "once in a blue moon" events, but *daily* occurances. Hell, the tube itself could be powered by solar collectors on from a station in low orbit...
And hell, just look at how LUCRATIVE a nanotube elevator would be. Satellite launches would no longer be an expensive, risky ordeal. Just send the sucker up the tube, have an astronaut chuck it into a slightly higher (or lower) orbit, and there ya go! Instantly, satellite TV becomes technologically cheaper. Instantly, satellite cellphones might actually become *feasible*...the possibilities are mind-boggling...not to mention tourism in space!
This is one of those times where I really look forward to the future, nanotubes have huge potential, and a space elevator might just reignite the spark of passion and interest the populace once held in the Space programme.
Oh man we're gonna see just how good the highly paid lobbyists for the content industry are this week ;)
This article appeared on Fortune website, or businessweek, or an avenue where the people who actually matter in this debate (businessmen, politicians) frequent. If that happened, it might actually DO something, other than ignite the pirating passion of /.ers
Your first iteration was amazing. Your second version was equally amazing. AMD's own successes with the K7 architecture are owed mostly to you. Your latest golden baby was thrown in the garbage because it scared the other babies. Even though no one wants to know, your EV7 is *STILL* the premiere big iron architecture in this day and age. What would have been your crowning jewel was aborted and your womb replaced by something Intel Inside. EV8, you would've been an engineering and design marvel, something that would've taken YEARS to beat. And now, poor DEC Alpha team, where are you? Fragments of your EV7/6 team are higher-ups at AMD, giving the desktop underdog a chance, and the rest of you is at work at Intel/HP, genetically engineering something something truly EPIC, that sadly, only even a mother could love...assuming the mother eventually gives birth to acceptably talented offspring. Oh, whither art thou, Alpha?
AMD's decision to delay it's Athlon64 CPU series release date until September (possibly timed to the release of a 64bit version of Windows) is pretty smart, actually. By delaying, AMD loses in the highend desktop arena, but is now able to spend those resources on the potentially far more lucrative Opteron systems. Why release a fast, inexpensive processor for the desktop market when you can release a slightly slower one, for a different market, for much, much more? By concentrating on the big iron of Opteron, AMD might be able to halt their financial bloodletting, and get back in the black in time for Athlon64...
It seems that Australia is the only weak link Kazaa has when it comes to legal prosecution. If whatshername moves offshore, boom - there's no one to prosecute. The File-sharing part of the internet will be kind of like the Cayman Islands =^_^=.
Here's an interesting idea: Kazaa/Klite has many, many problems (the programming itself). Fix the problems(mirroring issues, corrupted downloads, etc), work full DVD (or encrypted divx) music videos in to the mix, then setup some sort of reasonable pay-for-play scheme, and hell, I'd buy music from the service...Maybe set up some sort of MTV-like html viewer integrated into the service program, and voila: you have a viable filesharing scheme.
Sigh, now if only the content industry would realize that the Internet can be their friend...lol...
I'm gonna take this one time to bitch about how my identical news submission on this topic was rejected hours ago >...
All your Space are belong to us ;)
Picked 6 or 7 old 4gig HDDs from my father's company a few years ago, found their company credit line information, personal (and some very erotic) email, and a surprisingly large collection of nudie photoshopped Gillian Anderson photos. Oh yeah, and like 100 different (and I must say, very well-done) quake2 "crackwhore" models and skins lol. I love the people who don't clear their HDDs, it's like treasure chests, you never know what you're gonna get.
Technology + challenge + good old-fashioned ingenuity = effective and efficient solution. Note - if he wanted to get *really* fancy, he would set up 2 small parabolic dishes to boost signal gain (could be very effective at reducing noise, esp in crappy weather). One dish on the cafe, one on his house, pointed at the other building's antenna (hard to work, but not impossible). It might be cheaper than getting military grade transmitters lol.
Ooh, I see a new item accessory in the making :)
SATA will scale better than parallel ATA - PATA is hard to scale given its bus nature. SATA should scale well up to at least 600MBPS theoretical throughput.
SATA has a smaller footprint than PATA, thus making it more economical to implement in mainboards where PCB space is at a premium. There is also a reduction of signal wires, so again it is more economical to use the drives.
SATA's smaller cables also allow for more creative formfactors and cabling solutions. PATA had short, wide, and ugly cabling. SATA has longer spec cabling, and its much thinner than PATA's, so cable routing is easier for OEMs.
Simply put, in its current form SATA isn't really a revolution, it's an evolution of the ATA standard, more out of convenience than anything.
a pink slip, and the second thing i got in the mail was my tuition payment request. Dammit, I could've been a drug dealer for better pay, and hours, and perks...lol...
*envisions some enterprising individual hijacking every packet on his cable network* Wow...yeah, that's a bug and a half...hopefully all that's needed is a firmware update.
Nasa OK'd the physics, and made sure that the scientists weren't fudging the data. Great, and too bad all this company has right now is "abnormally energetic plasma". So far we have an unexplained phenomenon. Genereally, unexplained phenomena get researched by scientists for years *before* a company and patents are formed, ne? Something stinks here, but I don't think it's a scam. It's mostly the smell of optimism ^+_+^ Who other than me predicts a "yeah, well, it's kind of like that antigravity effect - it happened, but no one can explain it or use it" type of situation arising from this research?
So...we're now buying computers that have *OUR* hard drive space taken up by useless software that doesn't below to us? A:\format C:\ www.kazaalite.com... Pfft, if I want to have software on my computer that doesn't belong to me, I may as well have it be software of my choice, that I can actually use!