That is one of those coolest things i've seen in a while. I used to love programming stuff with basic graphics on the apple 2's, so this really takes me back. I'm not sure if the apple II's would have the horsepower to pull of the "spins" though;)
I work for a company that you've heard of, and makes storage arrays. The major difference is in between SAS drives and SATA drives, and of course the raid controller.
Big companies see it all... Some jbod like this has seen maybe one or two different environments. Would it work for you? Maybe, but you aren't going to be putting data on it that you're making money from. If you are, I suggest you get your head checked. Large companies, have relationships with the hard drive manufacts and we get to cherry pick our hard drives... basically, we pay A LOT more for drives that have much higher tolerances - they might be the same model number as something you can buy from newegg, but when you have 15 drives or more in a raid-5, I would hope you have the brain to spend some cash on good hard drives... if not, a spinal cord would suffice for you.
Don't play MMO's. Seriously - I don't know what else to say... Being a FPS guy from when id first released wolfenstien, I never could understand the point of a chat room with graphics where you are rated on your popularity by how long you've played the game.
If you like to see how a "system of play time vs skill" is done properly, look at Battlefield : Heroes.
No - I don't particularly care for the game, but when it starts up it matches you up against people of similar level and skill so you aren't getting pummeled by a level 20, and you are a lowly level 3 or 4.
My mirror up there in the sky got dinked by a marble sized piece of green cheese and burned up your crop. But don't worry about green, in paper form, cheese form or your crops because you won't be needing those eyes as you looked up at the unusual shiny bright thingy.
However, being the nice person I am, you get to experience my world.
So if I hear a band that I really like (it doesn't happen often as i'm a blues rock fan and todays music.... uhmm... sucks) chances are that i'll download a song or two... although I can't remember the last time I downloaded a song by a new band
I digress... So if I were to do that, and enjoyed the song, I might enjoy 3 other songs max on the album... most CD's now days are just horrid vs the older days (i'm only thirtyish) when the whole album was a gem to listen to.
So if I really really really enjoy it, i'll buy the CD. Same with video games. The last CD I bought was a "best of" of Clapton's and the last video game was Call of Duty 4.
So... ignoring the video game perspective, I would think that if I were a fan of todays music (and I have done this following scenario) I would do as such...
1 - hear a song and maybe like it.
2 - download the album to see if its just a "one song album"
3 - if i'm happy with the results of 2, I might buy the CD.
HERES THE KICKER
4 - if I really like the band, i'll go to their concert and spend some serious cash.
So... who does my personal actions benefit? Lets see... we have the band itself... ticketmaster (the one big company), the local people selling stuff at the concert, whoever owns the land that i'm parking on, the convienience stores in between my house and the concert destination...
I'm sure there is more, but my point is that good music makes money. The RIAA just thinks they can "protect" garbage when they are actually just chasing their tail.
"Woops! We had someone steal the game from us... So - instead of charging you down the road for an expansion, we'll play dumb and just throw it in with the official release."
I just discovered this game tonight, and it will REALLY surprise me if it comes back without being polished up - because yes... the game is boring. Your main mission is to save a couple of guys. Thats it. No big bosses, simple battles the whole way.
How much of the news you can find on Wikileaks do you ever make it to the mainstream news?
Most of it, if it is brought to the publics attention via TMZ or some "retarded" show, will be shown as something a crazy person / consipracy theorist would do.
I guess i'm distracting from the point - submit it to wikilinks and while we, as readers and followers of the news will see it, but the masses will not. That youtube video of the guatemala thing will be a household talking point for civil rights in other countries - its not just a news article - its real. On a far out side note, It wouldn't surprise me if the US tries to butt in down there for some reason.
I've got off in tangets - I do that - but i'm sure you see my points - and then some. Cheers always.
It sounds to me like internet is becoming more and more of a "needed commodity" than it used to be. Consider, if you will, roads. The taxpayer dollars go towards those and in turn, the government hires private contractors to do the work - this article doesn't sound much different.
However, this would make the internet a public service more than a paid for service, so, unfortunately, there is a large gray area there - and the companies making the pretty penny are going to fight in that gray area.
it is a "BIG FUCKING DEAL" when you consider people all of the world are leaving (and wasting power) their computers on to see "Watchmen" before it comes out.
Or download a game that you play one time and decide - this sucks, so you save EVEN MORE MONEY.
My guess is that you do not pay your own electricity bill.
VERY ironically, in the past oil capital of the world, is some of the most windy parts of the US.
VAWTS are perfect for if you have extra land. I know a guy who has some acreage in western oklahoma which is extremely windy all the time, and with enough funds, he could easily start his own power company.
nuclear war clearly states all this. The people that preceded the Egyptians got in a war with the middle east and they nuked each other - hense the deserts
Since all their technology was gone and they couldn't even make a pencil because they had grown so dependant on technology they had to go back to writing on rocks. And so will we!!!
it goes in cycles... you get better hardware, then you saturate it with software. Then you get better software and you saturate it with hardware.
Currently, we can apply said metaphor with internet connections. We started with jpegs. We had low baud modems. We then moved on to moving pictures we needed to download. They upped it to cable. Now we are to the point where the demand for fiber to your house is going to be needed in most situations.
Think how we've moved from dumb terminals to workstations and now we are using more dumb terminals (ie - VM's) and it will just keep cycling.
Some might say its a disorder, but once you learn to cope with it, your "multi-tasking skills" go through the roof - or maybe i'm just a freak - i've been accused of both.
a move of desperation... or... wait... it can only be a move of desperation.
Or I guess it could be a moral move... but since when did companies do anything moral unless they have more money than they could ever spend (ala - gates foundation)
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That is one of those coolest things i've seen in a while. I used to love programming stuff with basic graphics on the apple 2's, so this really takes me back. I'm not sure if the apple II's would have the horsepower to pull of the "spins" though ;)
I work for a company that you've heard of, and makes storage arrays. The major difference is in between SAS drives and SATA drives, and of course the raid controller.
Big companies see it all... Some jbod like this has seen maybe one or two different environments. Would it work for you? Maybe, but you aren't going to be putting data on it that you're making money from. If you are, I suggest you get your head checked. Large companies, have relationships with the hard drive manufacts and we get to cherry pick our hard drives... basically, we pay A LOT more for drives that have much higher tolerances - they might be the same model number as something you can buy from newegg, but when you have 15 drives or more in a raid-5, I would hope you have the brain to spend some cash on good hard drives... if not, a spinal cord would suffice for you.
Don't play MMO's. Seriously - I don't know what else to say... Being a FPS guy from when id first released wolfenstien, I never could understand the point of a chat room with graphics where you are rated on your popularity by how long you've played the game.
If you like to see how a "system of play time vs skill" is done properly, look at Battlefield : Heroes.
No - I don't particularly care for the game, but when it starts up it matches you up against people of similar level and skill so you aren't getting pummeled by a level 20, and you are a lowly level 3 or 4.
My mirror up there in the sky got dinked by a marble sized piece of green cheese and burned up your crop. But don't worry about green, in paper form, cheese form or your crops because you won't be needing those eyes as you looked up at the unusual shiny bright thingy.
http://www.microvision.com/
its really all in the eye of the beholder.
However, being the nice person I am, you get to experience my world.
So if I hear a band that I really like (it doesn't happen often as i'm a blues rock fan and todays music.... uhmm... sucks) chances are that i'll download a song or two... although I can't remember the last time I downloaded a song by a new band
I digress... So if I were to do that, and enjoyed the song, I might enjoy 3 other songs max on the album... most CD's now days are just horrid vs the older days (i'm only thirtyish) when the whole album was a gem to listen to.
So if I really really really enjoy it, i'll buy the CD. Same with video games. The last CD I bought was a "best of" of Clapton's and the last video game was Call of Duty 4.
So... ignoring the video game perspective, I would think that if I were a fan of todays music (and I have done this following scenario) I would do as such...
1 - hear a song and maybe like it.
2 - download the album to see if its just a "one song album"
3 - if i'm happy with the results of 2, I might buy the CD.
HERES THE KICKER
4 - if I really like the band, i'll go to their concert and spend some serious cash.
So... who does my personal actions benefit? Lets see... we have the band itself... ticketmaster (the one big company), the local people selling stuff at the concert, whoever owns the land that i'm parking on, the convienience stores in between my house and the concert destination...
I'm sure there is more, but my point is that good music makes money. The RIAA just thinks they can "protect" garbage when they are actually just chasing their tail.
And no.. i'm not sorry for being long winded.
"Woops! We had someone steal the game from us... So - instead of charging you down the road for an expansion, we'll play dumb and just throw it in with the official release."
I just discovered this game tonight, and it will REALLY surprise me if it comes back without being polished up - because yes... the game is boring. Your main mission is to save a couple of guys. Thats it. No big bosses, simple battles the whole way.
How much of the news you can find on Wikileaks do you ever make it to the mainstream news?
Most of it, if it is brought to the publics attention via TMZ or some "retarded" show, will be shown as something a crazy person / consipracy theorist would do.
I guess i'm distracting from the point - submit it to wikilinks and while we, as readers and followers of the news will see it, but the masses will not. That youtube video of the guatemala thing will be a household talking point for civil rights in other countries - its not just a news article - its real. On a far out side note, It wouldn't surprise me if the US tries to butt in down there for some reason.
I've got off in tangets - I do that - but i'm sure you see my points - and then some. Cheers always.
It sounds to me like internet is becoming more and more of a "needed commodity" than it used to be. Consider, if you will, roads. The taxpayer dollars go towards those and in turn, the government hires private contractors to do the work - this article doesn't sound much different.
However, this would make the internet a public service more than a paid for service, so, unfortunately, there is a large gray area there - and the companies making the pretty penny are going to fight in that gray area.
it is a "BIG FUCKING DEAL" when you consider people all of the world are leaving (and wasting power) their computers on to see "Watchmen" before it comes out.
Or download a game that you play one time and decide - this sucks, so you save EVEN MORE MONEY.
My guess is that you do not pay your own electricity bill.
well... thats the color that little icon with a u on it is at least :P
If this is real... then its real cool.
;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRXRUFrxKAQ&feature=related
I know that where I live, if I had one of those, I wouldn't need to be plugged into the grid (most of the time at least.)
And there are so many other hobbyists who have vawts on youtube - interesting stuff. The dutch just took the wrong approach to it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGSlzj99pWc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGSlzj99pWc
VERY ironically, in the past oil capital of the world, is some of the most windy parts of the US.
VAWTS are perfect for if you have extra land. I know a guy who has some acreage in western oklahoma which is extremely windy all the time, and with enough funds, he could easily start his own power company.
i thought that was a well known fact (among conspiracy theorists) ;)
nuclear war clearly states all this. The people that preceded the Egyptians got in a war with the middle east and they nuked each other - hense the deserts
Since all their technology was gone and they couldn't even make a pencil because they had grown so dependant on technology they had to go back to writing on rocks. And so will we!!!
Being creative is fun.
it goes in cycles... you get better hardware, then you saturate it with software. Then you get better software and you saturate it with hardware.
Currently, we can apply said metaphor with internet connections. We started with jpegs. We had low baud modems. We then moved on to moving pictures we needed to download. They upped it to cable. Now we are to the point where the demand for fiber to your house is going to be needed in most situations.
Think how we've moved from dumb terminals to workstations and now we are using more dumb terminals (ie - VM's) and it will just keep cycling.
no text.
The MCPs that don't go bankrupt in turn are moving headlong to Free Software, taking most of the country with them
and teh websight with them
albeit a not so pretty one...
Currently hemophiliacs must give themselves a shot in order to obtain the factor 8 they need to complete the factor chain and make a clot.
In an extreme accident where a person couldn't be able to give themselves the medicine immediately, the chances for survival drop greatly.
Knowing that they could walk around like a normal person would be a god-send to these people.
I remember when "Dark Knight" was at the number 1 spot up against godfather and shawshank
Thankfully someone has fixed that, but it just shows how inaccurate internet polls are.
8 million people paying who knows how much a month for how many years might = a bit more.
what? The nt == no text ;)
ADD has evolved.
Some might say its a disorder, but once you learn to cope with it, your "multi-tasking skills" go through the roof - or maybe i'm just a freak - i've been accused of both.
wait... pineapple?
a move of desperation... or... wait... it can only be a move of desperation.
Or I guess it could be a moral move... but since when did companies do anything moral unless they have more money than they could ever spend (ala - gates foundation)