I have seen this, too. The SSD astroturfing club has a large membership. I seriously wouldn't be surprised to find out that OCZ was keeping these folks in the latest drives in exchange for their support on web forums.
I recently purchased a few of the OCZ Solid drives, based on the widely ill-reputed JMicron controller. I really haven't seen any problems with them at all yet. They're really fast compared to the platter drives in the systems I have put them in. Meh... we'll see..
Of course. At my job, we get target release dates shoved down our throats all the time. We're constantly de-scoping products in order to meet release dates. It is more important to release by the target release date than it is to produce a product that meets our customers' needs.
The product I am working on right now has been de-scoped to the point that it will be completely useless to our customers. They've said so, and the engineers on the project understand why it won't work for them. But, that doesn't matter. Our management has decreed that the product will be released on time even if it means it's just a little gray plastic box with a couple of LEDs that blink.
It's about disincentive... these kids who are good at science and math are not idiots. They can see that our culture does not value their talents and prefers to ship their work overseas to low-cost countries where scientists and engineers can be had at a slave's wages. They can see early on that corporations see them as a money hole, not as the producers of the innovative products that the world needs.
Okay, so aside from the copyright violation this may very well be, map makers have been doing this for centuries. They make subtle yet innocuous errors in maps to make sure that other map companies don't steal their work for their own. How is this any different or innovative? Oh right, it's not.
I'm starting to think that the whole SSD market is a prime example of the modern corporate development mentality of pawning off beta testing to the general public. It's clear that SSDs are not ready for general release, but companies do not want to spend the time or money to validate them against specifications or ensure that they work properly for their particular purpose. Let the public pay for your beta test program. It's a lot cheaper.
Ibought 4 of these last month to do testing... all have been from -10C to +85C (at 10C/min) and from 5% RH to 95%, and voltage margining to +/- 10%, in a CSZ humidity/temperature chamber, and using a variable power supply of my own design.
Did walking 1's, random patterns, with sequential and random reads and writes... all fine... no problems... 4/4 drives 100%...
Well, if you have a large cluster, you can load balance based on CPU temp to maintain a uniform junction temp across the cluster. Then all you need to do is maintain just enough A/C to keep the CPU cooling fans running slow (so there is excess cooling capacity to handle a load spike since the A/C can only change the temp of the room so quickly)
Or, you can just bury your data center in the antarctic ice and melt some polar ice cap directly.
One wonderful feature of win7 is that you can decide where to put the pagefile, spread it across multiple devices, and all kinds of other stuff. By default, Pagefile.sys is equal to your total physical RAM. So, if you have 4GB of RAM, you will have a 4GB page file.
When I installed, Win7 took up 12 gigs because I have 8GB of Ram... sounds like you have 4GB?
I'd recommend shrinking the size and using a Flash device with Readyboost. It makes a huge difference in page file performance. My system is on a 60GB SSD, but I moved the 8GB Pagefile to a hard disk and dedicated a fast CF card to Readyboost, and the performance is just fine.
If the taxpayer funds the research, the taxpayer owns the results. Nobody should be able to patent something that came about because of taxpayer-funded research.
Furthermore, patented technology shouldn't be allowed to make it into "standards." "Standards" should be open and unencumbered. It's fundamentally anti-competitive to standardize on encumbered technology.
... will save money by using the pay-per-use data plan over buying the unlimited plan.
In general, I'd love it if only people who consumed something had to pay for it. I'm sick of paying school taxes when I have no kids. I'm sick of paying for roads, bridges, parks, and other things that 47% of Americans don't pay a red cent for. I'm tired as hell of paying for wars that aren't being fought for MY freedom.
People should carry their own weight, and abusive users of limited resources should pay more - not have their costs offset by others.
You cannot be forced to provide testimony or evidence against yourself. By tracking your vehicle, the state is forcing you to disclose your location at all times against your will, which is also a violation of the 5th.
This is the same reason why you cannot be forced to reveal the encryption keys on your computer by your own will.
... constant tracking. After all, the next logical step is to pass a simple, yet harmless law that requires everyone wear one of these for life. After all, it would be for our own good somehow.
In PA, there is no duty to retreat inside a dwelling if one is authorized to occupy it. There is no need for the burglary to be at night to justify lethal force to stop the threat.
Some jurisdictions make a distinction between a daytime and nighttime burglary, and between burglary of an occupied and unoccupied dwelling, and between burglary of an occupied or unoccupied business property.
In PA (my state), there is no distinction between daytime and nighttime burglary.
Burglary - 18 Pa. Cons. Stat. 3502
3502. Burglary.
(a) Offense defined.--A person is guilty of burglary if he
enters a building or occupied structure, or separately secured
or occupied portion thereof, with intent to commit a crime
therein, unless the premises are at the time open to the public
or the actor is licensed or privileged to enter.
(b) Defense.--It is a defense to prosecution for burglary
that the building or structure was abandoned.
(c) Grading.--
(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), burglary is a
felony of the first degree.
(2) If the building, structure or portion entered is not
adapted for overnight accommodation and if no individual is
present at the time of entry, burglary is a felony of the
second degree.
The days, of implementing RAID with hardware and software that have none of the design elements necessary for implementing RAID properly, are numbered.
add to that the cost of adding dedicated RAID hardware to every single drive (that's an expensive PLD), and it's no wonder it's not on the market. High cost - no return.
There is no threat to his garlic from the microwave tower, unless perhaps the construction personnel find his garlic patch a convenient place to relieve themselves during the erection of the tower.
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I have seen this, too. The SSD astroturfing club has a large membership. I seriously wouldn't be surprised to find out that OCZ was keeping these folks in the latest drives in exchange for their support on web forums.
I recently purchased a few of the OCZ Solid drives, based on the widely ill-reputed JMicron controller. I really haven't seen any problems with them at all yet. They're really fast compared to the platter drives in the systems I have put them in. Meh... we'll see..
Of course. At my job, we get target release dates shoved down our throats all the time. We're constantly de-scoping products in order to meet release dates. It is more important to release by the target release date than it is to produce a product that meets our customers' needs.
The product I am working on right now has been de-scoped to the point that it will be completely useless to our customers. They've said so, and the engineers on the project understand why it won't work for them. But, that doesn't matter. Our management has decreed that the product will be released on time even if it means it's just a little gray plastic box with a couple of LEDs that blink.
It's about disincentive... these kids who are good at science and math are not idiots. They can see that our culture does not value their talents and prefers to ship their work overseas to low-cost countries where scientists and engineers can be had at a slave's wages. They can see early on that corporations see them as a money hole, not as the producers of the innovative products that the world needs.
Okay, so aside from the copyright violation this may very well be, map makers have been doing this for centuries. They make subtle yet innocuous errors in maps to make sure that other map companies don't steal their work for their own. How is this any different or innovative? Oh right, it's not.
I'm starting to think that the whole SSD market is a prime example of the modern corporate development mentality of pawning off beta testing to the general public. It's clear that SSDs are not ready for general release, but companies do not want to spend the time or money to validate them against specifications or ensure that they work properly for their particular purpose. Let the public pay for your beta test program. It's a lot cheaper.
You crack the case open, plug a JTAG reader up to the JTAG port, and you read the data off to an image, and burn the image to a new drive.
Ibought 4 of these last month to do testing... all have been from -10C to +85C (at 10C/min) and from 5% RH to 95%, and voltage margining to +/- 10%, in a CSZ humidity/temperature chamber, and using a variable power supply of my own design.
Did walking 1's, random patterns, with sequential and random reads and writes... all fine... no problems... 4/4 drives 100%...
Well, if you have a large cluster, you can load balance based on CPU temp to maintain a uniform junction temp across the cluster. Then all you need to do is maintain just enough A/C to keep the CPU cooling fans running slow (so there is excess cooling capacity to handle a load spike since the A/C can only change the temp of the room so quickly)
Or, you can just bury your data center in the antarctic ice and melt some polar ice cap directly.
C:\Pagefile.sys
One wonderful feature of win7 is that you can decide where to put the pagefile, spread it across multiple devices, and all kinds of other stuff. By default, Pagefile.sys is equal to your total physical RAM. So, if you have 4GB of RAM, you will have a 4GB page file.
When I installed, Win7 took up 12 gigs because I have 8GB of Ram... sounds like you have 4GB?
I'd recommend shrinking the size and using a Flash device with Readyboost. It makes a huge difference in page file performance. My system is on a 60GB SSD, but I moved the 8GB Pagefile to a hard disk and dedicated a fast CF card to Readyboost, and the performance is just fine.
What's the matter, don't you like eating stale popcorn that you paid $8 for, and peeling your feet off the floor when the movie is all over?
If the taxpayer funds the research, the taxpayer owns the results. Nobody should be able to patent something that came about because of taxpayer-funded research.
Furthermore, patented technology shouldn't be allowed to make it into "standards." "Standards" should be open and unencumbered. It's fundamentally anti-competitive to standardize on encumbered technology.
... will save money by using the pay-per-use data plan over buying the unlimited plan.
In general, I'd love it if only people who consumed something had to pay for it. I'm sick of paying school taxes when I have no kids. I'm sick of paying for roads, bridges, parks, and other things that 47% of Americans don't pay a red cent for. I'm tired as hell of paying for wars that aren't being fought for MY freedom.
People should carry their own weight, and abusive users of limited resources should pay more - not have their costs offset by others.
But, Barack Obama stands for NONE of those things, so why do you love him so much?
You cannot be forced to provide testimony or evidence against yourself. By tracking your vehicle, the state is forcing you to disclose your location at all times against your will, which is also a violation of the 5th.
This is the same reason why you cannot be forced to reveal the encryption keys on your computer by your own will.
How is it a legitimate test when one of the cars doesn't even have an engine in it?
Not a dupe...
... constant tracking. After all, the next logical step is to pass a simple, yet harmless law that requires everyone wear one of these for life. After all, it would be for our own good somehow.
Parker Lewis Can't Lose?
Oh wait...
He was a burglar regardless of whether he actually took anything.
Burglary is entry into a structure with the INTENT of committing a crime. In this case, the intended crime is theft.
In PA, there is no duty to retreat inside a dwelling if one is authorized to occupy it. There is no need for the burglary to be at night to justify lethal force to stop the threat.
Some jurisdictions make a distinction between a daytime and nighttime burglary, and between burglary of an occupied and unoccupied dwelling, and between burglary of an occupied or unoccupied business property.
In PA (my state), there is no distinction between daytime and nighttime burglary.
Burglary - 18 Pa. Cons. Stat. 3502
3502. Burglary.
(a) Offense defined.--A person is guilty of burglary if he
enters a building or occupied structure, or separately secured
or occupied portion thereof, with intent to commit a crime
therein, unless the premises are at the time open to the public
or the actor is licensed or privileged to enter.
(b) Defense.--It is a defense to prosecution for burglary
that the building or structure was abandoned.
(c) Grading.--
(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), burglary is a
felony of the first degree.
(2) If the building, structure or portion entered is not
adapted for overnight accommodation and if no individual is
present at the time of entry, burglary is a felony of the
second degree.
No...
It should read:
The days, of implementing RAID with hardware and software that have none of the design elements necessary for implementing RAID properly, are numbered.
Without spindle redundancy...
or logic element redundancy...
or power supply redundancy...
or cable interconnect redundancy...
add to that the cost of adding dedicated RAID hardware to every single drive (that's an expensive PLD), and it's no wonder it's not on the market. High cost - no return.
There is no threat to his garlic from the microwave tower, unless perhaps the construction personnel find his garlic patch a convenient place to relieve themselves during the erection of the tower.
2000 pounds of plastic gives 126 to 210 gallons of gas... at 6.7lb/gal, that's maybe 1400 pounds.
Dare I ask how much energy is expended in this conversion?