Doesn't seem so bad to me, a nice new Barracuda drive will get you from 32-58 million bytes per second, which is right in the range of firewire/USB speeds. With FireWire 800 you'd hardly lose any performance at all; with USB 2 the time to back up your entire drive might be about 30% longer than to another internal drive.
I do think this product would be a lot better with built-in RAID though.
Do you honestly think this thing will stop counterfitting? What I *do* expect sometime soon is a web page full of images that have nothing to do with counterfitting but which can't be edited with photoshop because of false positives.
Never assume that a device, law, or drug does exactly what it's supposed to do, and nothing else.
It's "rights" for them and "restrictions" for you and me. Personally I can't think of even a single, minor way in which it enhances my rights to anything. So why sacrifice the word "rights" and its positive connotations? Pretty soon it will be the next "innovate."
Sure, but HP would have honestly called it a 9000, not a 9200, unless they thought they'd gain something by lying. If they wanted to say, "Yeah, it's a 9000, but you don't really need the 9200," they should have said so.
it's about the size of a 5-pound block of cheddar cheese, weighs less (a hair less than two pounds)
Uhhh, what the hell. So is this projector made of cheese or is it some special light weight cheese, i'm not following...
In case you're not just pretending to be stupid, I'll explain it to you.
If the projector were really (somehow) made of cheddar cheese, it wouldn't work too well, now would it? So they make it from moon cheese, which is both bright (hence the moon's high visibility at night), and lightweight (due to the moon's low gravity) - both being highly desirable in a projector.
Sheesh, don't do that to me. For a moment I thought it was 1997 again... whoopie! let's set up a mom-and-pop dialup ISP!!... then I noticed it's 2004. Like waking up from one of those dreams where you can fly.
I challenge anybody to produce any meaningful benchmark on any platform for which Python is fast. (I'm not just being rhetorical, please come forward if you have anything that even *might* fit that description.)
In my experience the performance is closer to, say, a shell script than it is to C. That's OK for a a lot of things, especially since it's so easy to drop down to C/C++ for performance sensitive code.
I have the same player, and yes, it does work with lame's VBR's, except I haven't tried the 'extreme' setting.
This is no guarantee, but remember even 320 kbps is still only about 1/3 of the rate uncompressed CD audio.
This is also the trick to why these things never skip... 128 kbps compression is about 10/1, so suddenly that 1 minute buffer is a 10 minute buffer, and in theory you could play indefinitely without skipping even if the vibration was so bad the player could only read 1/10 of the time. (In fact it probably can read at > 1x because it has to be able to fill the buffer while playing cd audio, too).
I was also concerned it wouldn't traverse directory heirarchies well, but it works. I wondered if it would get confused on non-mp3 files, but it just skips them. It also gets about 60 hours on 2 AA batteries! It also has a radio, which is a requirement for me.
As Jobs pointed out about their Mini iPod, the feature of the iPod that people want isn't size, price, or OGG support. If that was what they cared about, they'd go elsewhere.
You should know that 89% of buyers don't choose the iPod. That still gives Apple's iPod 27% market share (because it's expensive), which is very good, but any talk of Apple "owning the market" is wrong.
You'd be amazed how much of this info is available commercially. Now the FBI is on even footing with the average private investigator.
Police do not live under the same laws as you and I (or private investigators). Police are given extra power, so it is fitting they should be under extra (judicial) oversight.
It seems to me that historically success of Jewish people in societies (which incidentally leads to them contributing positively to a given society) is met with jealousy and a fear that "they are taking over."
I would feel like somebody was taking over if they
bulldozed my home.
Here's my question: does the Mini I-Pod have a user-replaceable battery? Lately there's been a big stink over the fact that IPod users are going to have to pay $100 every other year for a new battery, has Apple fixed this gotcha?
So if you make it, say, 2GB, you throw away a lot of space on bigger drives. And like I said, partimage can't write NTFS properly.
I had good luck with ntfsresize making room for linux on a new laptop preinstalled with NTFS.
Another trick for dd is to zero out the empty space on the disk before copying - that way gzip can easily shrink the unused space to almost nothing. (To empty out the free space simply append zeroes to a file until the disk is full and you get a write error).
Still I can't say I use DD for everything - just for Windows. Good old tar works great for my linux systems.
As a sidenote, I think it's atrocious that Windows doesn't even come with a workable backup mechanism. Their backup tool doesn't even back up the OS! (Hence the unfortunate need for something like Ghost). It's unpardonably greedy to sacrifice such basic functionality in the vain hope of some tiny reduction in piracy.
This is a perfect toy for the busy executive who loves using the latest technology but doesn't understand it -- not for us able Linux lovers on slashdot!
Exactly, so how is that ridiculous? I take as a good example of somebody who's probably a lot like me, except they had the guts to make a business out of their convergence box hobby. Good for them! As for whether there's really a market, well I guess they'll find out. But I heard an interview with the owner of a local electronics chain, and he told about people who call up asking for a high-fidelity sound system throughout their new custom home. "$30K? OK. When can you have it done?"
An insecure network is useless to this user (for purposes that I deem to be in need of security), no matter how "convenient" it is.
That's nonsense, I can't imagine a setup that couldn't be made more secure by making it even more useless. Putting information on a computer at all is a concession to security for the sake of convenience. The hardest database to steal is two tons of filing cabinets in a vault.
Sorry to nitpick, but since it only strengthens your point... are physicists really only paid ~ 80K/year? (And by the way it costs like $140K/year to employ somebody who gets paid 80K/year).
I almost hate to say this, but is there any good reason to put a telescope in the UK at all? I'd think that between the population density and the weather it would be easier and more effective to access some telescope on a remote mountain top over the Internet. Unfortunately that would leave out most amateurs, but do most universities have access to such facilities?
I just wanted to say that the iTunes Music Store has reinvented how I view music.
Now when I want a piece of music, I have it, instantly. And with my iPod, I can listen to it wherever I go, with no worries!
That description also fits Napster ca 1998 perfectly!
Of course the player back then would have been a Rio for sure. In fact if you remember, Diamond pioneered the idea not only by releasing the product, but by fending off an RIAA lawsuit that challenged the legitimacy of such products! (Of course the iPod is DRM'd so maybe it doesn't really owe to this legacy).
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Man, it's pretty cheap! Kinda ironic that the maximum memory happens to be 2GB though :(
I do think this product would be a lot better with built-in RAID though.
Never assume that a device, law, or drug does exactly what it's supposed to do, and nothing else.
Sure, but HP would have honestly called it a 9000, not a 9200, unless they thought they'd gain something by lying. If they wanted to say, "Yeah, it's a 9000, but you don't really need the 9200," they should have said so.
If the projector were really (somehow) made of cheddar cheese, it wouldn't work too well, now would it? So they make it from moon cheese, which is both bright (hence the moon's high visibility at night), and lightweight (due to the moon's low gravity) - both being highly desirable in a projector.
Sheesh!
Sheesh, don't do that to me. For a moment I thought it was 1997 again... whoopie! let's set up a mom-and-pop dialup ISP!!... then I noticed it's 2004. Like waking up from one of those dreams where you can fly.
I think it's a time for a little steam turbine on top of the CPU to pump electricity back to the motherboard's power lead - "Regenerative Computing" :)
Isn't DLP a projection display? How can it possibly rival the clarity of the plasma screens?
In my experience the performance is closer to, say, a shell script than it is to C. That's OK for a a lot of things, especially since it's so easy to drop down to C/C++ for performance sensitive code.
This is no guarantee, but remember even 320 kbps is still only about 1/3 of the rate uncompressed CD audio.
This is also the trick to why these things never skip... 128 kbps compression is about 10/1, so suddenly that 1 minute buffer is a 10 minute buffer, and in theory you could play indefinitely without skipping even if the vibration was so bad the player could only read 1/10 of the time. (In fact it probably can read at > 1x because it has to be able to fill the buffer while playing cd audio, too).
I was also concerned it wouldn't traverse directory heirarchies well, but it works. I wondered if it would get confused on non-mp3 files, but it just skips them. It also gets about 60 hours on 2 AA batteries! It also has a radio, which is a requirement for me.
The Basic Server is a teaser, limited to 1 mbps and expiring after 1 year.
Here's my question: does the Mini I-Pod have a user-replaceable battery? Lately there's been a big stink over the fact that IPod users are going to have to pay $100 every other year for a new battery, has Apple fixed this gotcha?
I suggest a sex change and an appointment with Michael Jackson's skin therapist.
Another trick for dd is to zero out the empty space on the disk before copying - that way gzip can easily shrink the unused space to almost nothing. (To empty out the free space simply append zeroes to a file until the disk is full and you get a write error).
Still I can't say I use DD for everything - just for Windows. Good old tar works great for my linux systems.
As a sidenote, I think it's atrocious that Windows doesn't even come with a workable backup mechanism. Their backup tool doesn't even back up the OS! (Hence the unfortunate need for something like Ghost). It's unpardonably greedy to sacrifice such basic functionality in the vain hope of some tiny reduction in piracy.
Sorry to nitpick, but since it only strengthens your point... are physicists really only paid ~ 80K/year? (And by the way it costs like $140K/year to employ somebody who gets paid 80K/year).
I almost hate to say this, but is there any good reason to put a telescope in the UK at all? I'd think that between the population density and the weather it would be easier and more effective to access some telescope on a remote mountain top over the Internet. Unfortunately that would leave out most amateurs, but do most universities have access to such facilities?
Of course the player back then would have been a Rio for sure. In fact if you remember, Diamond pioneered the idea not only by releasing the product, but by fending off an RIAA lawsuit that challenged the legitimacy of such products! (Of course the iPod is DRM'd so maybe it doesn't really owe to this legacy).