For drives of equivalent spec, on SAS, on SATA, same spindle speed, I suspect that it is largely marketing fluff and a few firmware tweaks; but 15k RPM vs. slower is a nontrivial difference.
I agree completely. We've got two SANs at work... the older one is full of U320 10k RPM drives and the new SAN is all 15k RPM SAS drives. The new SAN leaves the old one in the dust (and has 20TB more space, too!:D).
The Call of Duty series has plenty of players online using the PC versions. Just watch, when Diablo III is released, it will sell like hotcakes.:) PC gaming is still alive, but the # of titles worth playing has dropped to a handful, IMO. But when a worthy game is released it does sell well.
Side note: I don't buy anything published by Electronic Arts (that's both PC and console).
Huh? The Call of Duty series on PC is alive and well. Plenty of players online for all of the versions currently sold in stores. I personally play Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and Call of Duty: World at War on a regular basis.
Well it's about time Windows finally got around to having that ability. I've only been burning ISO's to disc with Disk Utility on Mac OS X 10.x for forever now.
But what about the front of the car that takes out your legs? Plus, the airbag at the windshield seems like it wouldn't help since it's barely above the hood across the center.
I mean, it's great to have someone available to handle that sort of thing, but can you really sustain a job with this as your only skill?
I personally know a guy that owns a web design service & consultancy with $100k/yr in revenue. Of course, he does much more than simple HTML pages. I know he has done things in ASP and PHP, maybe some other tech as well.
We have a lot of people still balking over the switch from GroupWise to Exchange Server. There were some nice features of GroupWise that Exchange does not support.
This is the health care industry - much like the military we don't go with OSes that are as new as Vista. Many of our industry specific apps have not been properly tested on Vista, and we even have a webapp still in use that is not supported under IE7.
This is crazy... I mean here at my workplace (a hospital) we just rolled out Windows XP this past September. We dumped Win2k & Novell Netware for XP and Active Directory. We won't be upgrading for a long time yet.
Let me know when a mobile phone can serve as a CAD workstation, video editing workstation, or other high performance need. We have plenty of those around here where I work. Also need to mention dual wide screen monitors in imaging departments like radiology (they rotate them vertically for x-rays, etc.) It's more likely that thin clients will become the norm again before mobile devices replace desktops. We have a lot of Citrix thin clients here and that number is growing steadily...
Ah yes... that would be EFI, and its a likely successor to the BIOS someday in the future (Linux already supports it, MS has support ready for it when the time comes, and I believe EFI is what Sun's current x86_x64 machines use for firmware as well...
erm well.. my "PC" is a dual-quad Xeon 2.66GHz/w 16GB of RAM, so I'm not a good person to answer that question maybe... But I do a lot with virtualization (my test environments are virtual machines) so I made the justification for a high-end workstation.;)
hmmm. See, when I shopped for my Mac Pro back in 2007 and compared it to an equivalently equipped Dell Precision workstation, the Dell was actually $100 more. Most people are not comparing like hardware when they are looking at a Mac. I can't say for the iMacs if it holds true because I've never wanted an all in one computer, and so I've never bothered to do a comparison....
(which, if you work with computers, you can thank him for your job),
Bzzt! Wrong answer. Computers, even before MS, were taking on more and more duties within business. Had MS not come about, we would be working with Apples or some *nix variant (or maybe something else entirely - who knows). The march of computers into everyday business would have continued without MS. I work in IT in health care, and although we have a slew of windows desktops and servers, we have plenty of Unix-base machines (and an AS/400 too).
I work for the IT staff of a hospital. Fingerprint readers cause us a headeache because the hardware does not work reliably. We recently started shopping for new vendors for finger print readers (trying to find one that works more reliably). Both of the new vendors came in to show us their hardware and couldn't get them to work with at least 90% reliability. We're looking at other forms of authentication now. Problem being, we have to have two forms of identification due to the state board of pharmacy. It was going to be fingerprint readers and passwords... now looks like maybe RSA tokens and passwords instead. We use RSA already and that system doesn't give us many problem at all.
Where I am at use use a format where the first letter is either a 'P' or 'T' (for production vs testing) and then something identifying it's purpose, then followed by number (cause we might have more than one of that type).
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For drives of equivalent spec, on SAS, on SATA, same spindle speed, I suspect that it is largely marketing fluff and a few firmware tweaks; but 15k RPM vs. slower is a nontrivial difference.
I agree completely. We've got two SANs at work... the older one is full of U320 10k RPM drives and the new SAN is all 15k RPM SAS drives. The new SAN leaves the old one in the dust (and has 20TB more space, too! :D).
The Call of Duty series has plenty of players online using the PC versions. Just watch, when Diablo III is released, it will sell like hotcakes. :) PC gaming is still alive, but the # of titles worth playing has dropped to a handful, IMO. But when a worthy game is released it does sell well.
Side note: I don't buy anything published by Electronic Arts (that's both PC and console).
Huh? The Call of Duty series on PC is alive and well. Plenty of players online for all of the versions currently sold in stores. I personally play Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and Call of Duty: World at War on a regular basis.
Microsoft had a program in Office 2000 (Premium Edition) called PhotoDraw. Apparently, it was not popular enough as Microsoft discontinued PhotoDraw.
But they really need to pick a better name. :/
This javescript loaded Slashdot is epic slow on IE8/Vista. Just saying....
It's god awful slow on Win7/IE8 as well.
Well it's about time Windows finally got around to having that ability. I've only been burning ISO's to disc with Disk Utility on Mac OS X 10.x for forever now.
But what about the front of the car that takes out your legs? Plus, the airbag at the windshield seems like it wouldn't help since it's barely above the hood across the center.
My ISP has SMTP authentication enabled. :) Earthlink.
Brilliant! :)
I mean, it's great to have someone available to handle that sort of thing, but can you really sustain a job with this as your only skill?
I personally know a guy that owns a web design service & consultancy with $100k/yr in revenue. Of course, he does much more than simple HTML pages. I know he has done things in ASP and PHP, maybe some other tech as well.
We have a lot of people still balking over the switch from GroupWise to Exchange Server. There were some nice features of GroupWise that Exchange does not support.
This is the health care industry - much like the military we don't go with OSes that are as new as Vista. Many of our industry specific apps have not been properly tested on Vista, and we even have a webapp still in use that is not supported under IE7.
This is crazy... I mean here at my workplace (a hospital) we just rolled out Windows XP this past September. We dumped Win2k & Novell Netware for XP and Active Directory. We won't be upgrading for a long time yet.
Let me know when a mobile phone can serve as a CAD workstation, video editing workstation, or other high performance need. We have plenty of those around here where I work. Also need to mention dual wide screen monitors in imaging departments like radiology (they rotate them vertically for x-rays, etc.) It's more likely that thin clients will become the norm again before mobile devices replace desktops. We have a lot of Citrix thin clients here and that number is growing steadily...
Ah yes... that would be EFI, and its a likely successor to the BIOS someday in the future (Linux already supports it, MS has support ready for it when the time comes, and I believe EFI is what Sun's current x86_x64 machines use for firmware as well...
erm well.. my "PC" is a dual-quad Xeon 2.66GHz /w 16GB of RAM, so I'm not a good person to answer that question maybe... But I do a lot with virtualization (my test environments are virtual machines) so I made the justification for a high-end workstation. ;)
I care - but have to run windows because I work in a support role for an enterprise stuck in MS-land. At home I enjoy Macs however :D
hmmm. See, when I shopped for my Mac Pro back in 2007 and compared it to an equivalently equipped Dell Precision workstation, the Dell was actually $100 more. Most people are not comparing like hardware when they are looking at a Mac. I can't say for the iMacs if it holds true because I've never wanted an all in one computer, and so I've never bothered to do a comparison....
(which, if you work with computers, you can thank him for your job),
Bzzt! Wrong answer. Computers, even before MS, were taking on more and more duties within business. Had MS not come about, we would be working with Apples or some *nix variant (or maybe something else entirely - who knows). The march of computers into everyday business would have continued without MS. I work in IT in health care, and although we have a slew of windows desktops and servers, we have plenty of Unix-base machines (and an AS/400 too).
You must be new here...
And where do you get a sat connection that cheap? I'm asking honestly, because I've never seen such a thing. I'm curious.
I work for the IT staff of a hospital. Fingerprint readers cause us a headeache because the hardware does not work reliably. We recently started shopping for new vendors for finger print readers (trying to find one that works more reliably). Both of the new vendors came in to show us their hardware and couldn't get them to work with at least 90% reliability. We're looking at other forms of authentication now. Problem being, we have to have two forms of identification due to the state board of pharmacy. It was going to be fingerprint readers and passwords... now looks like maybe RSA tokens and passwords instead. We use RSA already and that system doesn't give us many problem at all.
Where I am at use use a format where the first letter is either a 'P' or 'T' (for production vs testing) and then something identifying it's purpose, then followed by number (cause we might have more than one of that type).
I really really dig their web design. :) Been a while since I visited the site, so the current design is new to me.