I'm pretty sure the target for these isn't billy hardcores mp3 collection, or filthy mcnasties porn jamboree.
MP3s are small potatoes. Even the most 'hardcore' I've seen have no more than a few dozen cd-rs full. It's hardly the killer app for big storage.
These would be good in settings where one would need to archive big amounts of data, and still retain access to it in the short term. Maybe raw video footage, maybe great big uncompressed image files - blueprints or the like. I could think offhand I could use one of these to store all the ghost images of all the different workstations I would need to rebuild, and be able to carry it around.
You know, big stuff.
I guess someone could get one just to 'brag' about it.
Either way, it's 2 200+ gig drives in a raid array. It's not like it couldn't already be done. You can already buy a little box to convert your IDE drive to an external firewire. So put the two together, you have this.
"I remember how the process used to go when I'd scope out solutions in the closed-source world. There would be brochures to peruse. There would be data sheets read. Maybe there would be crippleware demos to run. And then there would be a solution to buy.
Unfortunately, this takes time. Significant time. And in the Internet age, time is critical.
But in the world of open source, I had several options right on my Linux CD. I didn't have to waste time with endless marketing materials."
But you DID have to waste time compiling, testing, setting up, configuring, tweaking, this that and the other thing. I mean c'mon. I've seen (and used) several proprietary solutions that work great with *uncrippled* time-trial demos.
And then you had to waste the time searching for compatible hardware, testing that, taking it back to the store, arguing for a refund, paying 15% restocking, trying something else, etc, etc.
And then you get to the box itself. I'm sorry but a Celeron 400? Sure it might 'work', but not all that well. My p3 600 had trouble capturing tv quality streams without siginificant losses. And it at least had the benefit of UDMA/100 and a 133mhz FSB.
Meh, so some guy made a shitty (functionally and aesthetically) PC that runs linux and plugged it into his TV. Kudo's to you, sir.
I'd really like to do something like this, and use linux to do it. But this guy is full of it. I hate when zealots pretend to be informative.
Gimme a useful article, not a thinly veiled 'MS is TeH SUCK Liniz is tEH GODE!' troll.
When you quote someone from spoken words, it is up to the author to spell everything correctly.
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Thus, the slashdot editors are right in just cut and pasting the submissions, with no spelling checks.
Spelling and grammar nazis make asses of themselves whenever they point one out. They think they're being clever and +5 insightful, but they're really showing their lack of skill with the written language.
If the editor adds a comment, complete with a spelling faux pas, then you can bitch at 'em.
In short, fuck you and your 4rth grade spelling bee bullshit.
True, but you can still use that excess heat to preheat your water, or send it through the return vent on your forced air furnace. Then the water heater/furnace has to work that much less than it would to heat 'cold' air or water.
They already do have systems like this, heat exchangers that take the heat of your drain water and transfer some to incoming cold water. It can dramatically decrease your energy bills, and is as simple as wrapping your drain pipe around the incoming line a handful of times.
More of this type of 'heat recycling' needs to take place.
So let's see then (simple arithmatic)
173 -120 -----
53
Hardly what I would call "tens of thousands"...
http://www.howstuffworks.com/question124.htm
"On the decibel scale, the smallest audible sound (near total silence) is 0 dB. A sound 10 times more powerful is 10 dB. A sound 100 times more powerful than near total silence is 20 dB. A sound 1,000 times more powerful than near total silence is 30 dB. Here are some common sounds and their decibel ratings:"
Decibel is a logarithmic scale, not a linear one.
So yes, 53db is 100,000x louder. Hundreds of thousands, actually.
>> If successful, this technology would help remove the dependance on gases that contribute to global warming.
Last I heard of this, it also uses ridiculously more energy to achieve it's cooling. It's kind of like a sonic peltier.
So like many of these "eco-friendly" schemes, you just centralize the polution at the energy producer. Sure we save the use of a pint of freon (or whatever), but we produce 25x more CO2.
Anyone know if they've solved this? The article doesn't say.
>> And as the author notes, this kind of information is really crucial to get a grip on before Hammer arrives
Why? This doesn't explain why Hammer is better at all. Yay, now we can have a rudimentary explanation of how a CPU works, but it'll just encourage more uninformed fanboy type crap.
Basically, Hammer (64 bit cpus) = larger addressing space, not nescessarily faster processing. That's good enough for me, though.
But, it's like 9th grade physics students telling you why Einstein is a 'big dumbass'. AMD has Hammer! It better! Intel is gay! bleh.
Although, it is crucial for/. posters who have no clue how a computer works and just spout BS about how what is better than what based on some marketing benchmarks.
>> Moreover, they're giving 30 days for the script kiddies to run amok while we are clueless
The script kiddies are clueless too. Script kiddie != black hat hacker. A script kiddie is someone who downloads the exploit when posted and uses it. The black hats discover the exploit.
The ratio of real 'hackers' to script kiddies is about 1 to a zillion.
So sure, that 1 hacker can still be running amok for 30 days, but the zillion script kiddies are sitting around with their thumbs up their asses.
No, advertising makes millions in the grocery stores.
Go watch people shopping in the cereal aisles. There are about 200 brands of cereal, which are all variations of the same 4 grains (oat, wheat, rice, corn), with a few oddballs like golden grahams.
But watch the kids whine and bitch for the Lucky Charms or Cocoa Puffs or Pebbles - pure marketing.
Sure, mom may know that Sugar Crisp is just puffed wheat glazed with corn syrup, and she could get a months supply for 1.50, but sugar bear sells millions those tiny little boxes at 5 bucks a pop.
That's just one example.
Advertising is a huge factor, in both the impulse decisions, and the stuff we do need, like clothes, food, etc.
...that this service is 99% pseudo-scientific bullshit that this company in Atlanta is trying to sell to naive execs who want to fatten the bottom line.
We don't understand the human mind well enough for this to become the nightmare scenario we think it could be.
The most they can get is "look, when we show him a hot chick, the pleasure center is stimulated --- I think you should use hot chicks in your commercials!!! That'll be 1.2 jillion dollars, please."
Of course, everything is a 'slippery slope' in the canadian media. Why, if it's okay to do market research - what'll happen in 400 years when we have holographic-brain-jetpacks!!
>> You should consider that maybe you should owe someone to show mickey mouse to your grandkids. After all, what did you contribute to the creation of mickey mouse that entitles you to get it for free
The constitution entitles me to it. That's what public domain is.
The founding fathers were smart enough to see that. They were rebelling against a system where 2 or 3 corporations owned 99.99% of all the "copy rights".
So they created a system of limited "copy rights", so that creators have a reasonable chance to profit, and after which, it belongs to the public.
Now, thanks to recent laws (in the last 5 years), we've seen a sudden swing back to 2 or 3 megacorporations once again owning 90%+ of all the "copy rights", and extension acts that let them keep them for hundreds of years.
Ok, hundreds of years isn't 'forever', so I guess congress really outfoxed the founding fathers there, huh?
It's a shame so few truly understand what a "copy right" is.
>> It's the same thing as running a TV or radio in the waiting room of a business.
I've noticed when I go to a bar/restaurant, the game is usually on the tube as usual, but the sound is off, closed captioning is on. I assumed this was because noone needs the chatter.
The other day I happened to look closer at the TV. There's a little sign saying something like "This TV cannot be used with the sound on, due to public broadcasting restrictions", or some such.
Can anyone clarify? I'm not talking about PPV events here, either, but the football game on fox sunday, etc.
The problem with that story is that it has crucial flaws that make me disbelieve the whole thing.
To wit:
"How about Ring Around the Rosie'?" another Elf asks. The directors veto it.
Now, Ring Around the Rosie is a centuries old nursery rhyme that most know dates back to the time of the Black Death. I won't go into the details, but thats what it is about.
It isn't copyrighted. And it taints the entire story with a dose of FUD. Or perhaps it's just satire.
My daughter is a brownie. Her leaders know nothing at all about this supposed case.
And it *will* shorten the life of your CPU, no matter what anyone says.
You may, or may not care, if the machine sitting on your desk works in 5-10 years. Some upgrade and throw the old out, some like me keep it around as a printserver/router, etc.
But they should at least mention that keeping your CPU (and memory bandwidth, HDD) at a close to 100% utilization constantly *WILL* shorten its life.
This isn't that scary, and in an age where any kid with his PC could put your face into a gay porn flick, this type of protection makes sense.
Maybe you wouldn't want your grandfathers image on TV promoting abortions, or JFK standing in front of a burning cross calling on his Aryan brothers. Or Kurt Cobain selling Marlboros.
Hell, if there's any IP worth protecting, it's your own persona.
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Well, I meant archiving. Somewhere to put that ginormous raw frames avi file while you encode it or take it to your boss/director for approval.
My point was that I just don't see this as a target for mp3 collectors, or something remotely useful for them.
I mean, even if you have 80 zillion mp3s, chances that you need to have them all with you when you're riding the bus to school are pretty slim.
But, then.. I'm sure euro-geeks are all lined up to get one.
A fool and his money, and all that.
I'm pretty sure the target for these isn't billy hardcores mp3 collection, or filthy mcnasties porn jamboree.
MP3s are small potatoes. Even the most 'hardcore' I've seen have no more than a few dozen cd-rs full. It's hardly the killer app for big storage.
These would be good in settings where one would need to archive big amounts of data, and still retain access to it in the short term. Maybe raw video footage, maybe great big uncompressed image files - blueprints or the like. I could think offhand I could use one of these to store all the ghost images of all the different workstations I would need to rebuild, and be able to carry it around.
You know, big stuff.
I guess someone could get one just to 'brag' about it.
Either way, it's 2 200+ gig drives in a raid array. It's not like it couldn't already be done. You can already buy a little box to convert your IDE drive to an external firewire. So put the two together, you have this.
Pausing live TV is the one feature that I might sink 300$ into.
I mean look at his joke of a machine.. 15 fps (and powered by a celeron 400, I can tell you those 15 frames are blocky garbage)
This thing is about 25% as functional as a 40$ VCR.
Sheesh.
BUT IT RUNS LINUX ! WOW !
get a book-pc style desktop case and a can of spray paint.
Or just get it in black anyways.
And if you're paying 200$ for a micro-atx lian li, you're getting ripped off.
In his first article:
"I remember how the process used to go when I'd scope out solutions in the closed-source world. There would be brochures to peruse. There would be data sheets read. Maybe there would be crippleware demos to run. And then there would be a solution to buy.
Unfortunately, this takes time. Significant time. And in the Internet age, time is critical.
But in the world of open source, I had several options right on my Linux CD. I didn't have to waste time with endless marketing materials."
But you DID have to waste time compiling, testing, setting up, configuring, tweaking, this that and the other thing. I mean c'mon. I've seen (and used) several proprietary solutions that work great with *uncrippled* time-trial demos.
And then you had to waste the time searching for compatible hardware, testing that, taking it back to the store, arguing for a refund, paying 15% restocking, trying something else, etc, etc.
And then you get to the box itself. I'm sorry but a Celeron 400? Sure it might 'work', but not all that well. My p3 600 had trouble capturing tv quality streams without siginificant losses. And it at least had the benefit of UDMA/100 and a 133mhz FSB.
Meh, so some guy made a shitty (functionally and aesthetically) PC that runs linux and plugged it into his TV. Kudo's to you, sir.
I'd really like to do something like this, and use linux to do it. But this guy is full of it. I hate when zealots pretend to be informative.
Gimme a useful article, not a thinly veiled 'MS is TeH SUCK Liniz is tEH GODE!' troll.
'cuz 8 year old kids have to have their careers all planned out.
At 8, I wanted to be a space man, but wouldn't have enjoyed 8 hour lectures on orbit trajectories.
These poor kids are only going to camp because their parents dont want to deal with them all summer.
Their lives are hard enough. Don't make it harder on 'em with all this Linux stuff.
>> then what Windoze won't do
like what?
Give some examples.
All we need is another few dozen pre-teen slashbots like you flaming Microsoft with nothing to back 'em up.
.. scientists get all bent out of shape over the silliest bullshit.
Kind of like when you say linux sucks on slashdot.
He was wrong, it's bird pee.
My bearded dragon excretes solid white chunks of pee, to conserve water being as how he's a desert species.
Birds and reptiles do the same.
When you quote someone from spoken words, it is up to the author to spell everything correctly.
/. submissions are no different in this sense.
When you quote someone from the written word, it is up to the author to keep the original spelling intact.
You may, however, point out typos and spelling errors with a (sic), but it's not necessary. The important thing is that you convey the message as the original author wrote it.
If you quote Shakespeare in an essay, you don't update is grammar and spelling. Goofy
Thus, the slashdot editors are right in just cut and pasting the submissions, with no spelling checks.
Spelling and grammar nazis make asses of themselves whenever they point one out. They think they're being clever and +5 insightful, but they're really showing their lack of skill with the written language.
If the editor adds a comment, complete with a spelling faux pas, then you can bitch at 'em.
In short, fuck you and your 4rth grade spelling bee bullshit.
>> they must have good hosting =)
one of the nice side effects of running a for-profit business.
True, but you can still use that excess heat to preheat your water, or send it through the return vent on your forced air furnace. Then the water heater/furnace has to work that much less than it would to heat 'cold' air or water.
They already do have systems like this, heat exchangers that take the heat of your drain water and transfer some to incoming cold water. It can dramatically decrease your energy bills, and is as simple as wrapping your drain pipe around the incoming line a handful of times.
More of this type of 'heat recycling' needs to take place.
So let's see then (simple arithmatic)
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173
-120
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53
Hardly what I would call "tens of thousands"
http://www.howstuffworks.com/question124.htm
"On the decibel scale, the smallest audible sound (near total silence) is 0 dB. A sound 10 times more powerful is 10 dB. A sound 100 times more powerful than near total silence is 20 dB. A sound 1,000 times more powerful than near total silence is 30 dB. Here are some common sounds and their decibel ratings:"
Decibel is a logarithmic scale, not a linear one.
So yes, 53db is 100,000x louder. Hundreds of thousands, actually.
>> If successful, this technology would help remove the dependance on gases that contribute to global warming.
Last I heard of this, it also uses ridiculously more energy to achieve it's cooling. It's kind of like a sonic peltier.
So like many of these "eco-friendly" schemes, you just centralize the polution at the energy producer. Sure we save the use of a pint of freon (or whatever), but we produce 25x more CO2.
Anyone know if they've solved this? The article doesn't say.
>> And as the author notes, this kind of information is really crucial to get a grip on before Hammer arrives
/. posters who have no clue how a computer works and just spout BS about how what is better than what based on some marketing benchmarks.
Why? This doesn't explain why Hammer is better at all. Yay, now we can have a rudimentary explanation of how a CPU works, but it'll just encourage more uninformed fanboy type crap.
Basically, Hammer (64 bit cpus) = larger addressing space, not nescessarily faster processing. That's good enough for me, though.
But, it's like 9th grade physics students telling you why Einstein is a 'big dumbass'. AMD has Hammer! It better! Intel is gay! bleh.
Although, it is crucial for
But they wont RTFA anyways.
>> Moreover, they're giving 30 days for the script kiddies to run amok while we are clueless
The script kiddies are clueless too. Script kiddie != black hat hacker. A script kiddie is someone who downloads the exploit when posted and uses it. The black hats discover the exploit.
The ratio of real 'hackers' to script kiddies is about 1 to a zillion.
So sure, that 1 hacker can still be running amok for 30 days, but the zillion script kiddies are sitting around with their thumbs up their asses.
No, advertising makes millions in the grocery stores.
Go watch people shopping in the cereal aisles. There are about 200 brands of cereal, which are all variations of the same 4 grains (oat, wheat, rice, corn), with a few oddballs like golden grahams.
But watch the kids whine and bitch for the Lucky Charms or Cocoa Puffs or Pebbles - pure marketing.
Sure, mom may know that Sugar Crisp is just puffed wheat glazed with corn syrup, and she could get a months supply for 1.50, but sugar bear sells millions those tiny little boxes at 5 bucks a pop.
That's just one example.
Advertising is a huge factor, in both the impulse decisions, and the stuff we do need, like clothes, food, etc.
...that this service is 99% pseudo-scientific bullshit that this company in Atlanta is trying to sell to naive execs who want to fatten the bottom line.
We don't understand the human mind well enough for this to become the nightmare scenario we think it could be.
The most they can get is "look, when we show him a hot chick, the pleasure center is stimulated --- I think you should use hot chicks in your commercials!!! That'll be 1.2 jillion dollars, please."
Of course, everything is a 'slippery slope' in the canadian media. Why, if it's okay to do market research - what'll happen in 400 years when we have holographic-brain-jetpacks!!
Gosh I miss the CBC.
>> Remember that you can even trademark a single colour (for use in your line of business).
Like Barbie (tm) pink.
>> You should consider that maybe you should owe someone to show mickey mouse to your grandkids. After all, what did you contribute to the creation of mickey mouse that entitles you to get it for free
The constitution entitles me to it. That's what public domain is.
The founding fathers were smart enough to see that. They were rebelling against a system where 2 or 3 corporations owned 99.99% of all the "copy rights".
So they created a system of limited "copy rights", so that creators have a reasonable chance to profit, and after which, it belongs to the public.
Now, thanks to recent laws (in the last 5 years), we've seen a sudden swing back to 2 or 3 megacorporations once again owning 90%+ of all the "copy rights", and extension acts that let them keep them for hundreds of years.
Ok, hundreds of years isn't 'forever', so I guess congress really outfoxed the founding fathers there, huh?
It's a shame so few truly understand what a "copy right" is.
>> It's the same thing as running a TV or radio in the waiting room of a business.
I've noticed when I go to a bar/restaurant, the game is usually on the tube as usual, but the sound is off, closed captioning is on. I assumed this was because noone needs the chatter.
The other day I happened to look closer at the TV. There's a little sign saying something like "This TV cannot be used with the sound on, due to public broadcasting restrictions", or some such.
Can anyone clarify? I'm not talking about PPV events here, either, but the football game on fox sunday, etc.
The problem with that story is that it has crucial flaws that make me disbelieve the whole thing.
To wit:
"How about Ring Around the Rosie'?" another Elf asks. The directors veto it.
Now, Ring Around the Rosie is a centuries old nursery rhyme that most know dates back to the time of the Black Death. I won't go into the details, but thats what it is about.
It isn't copyrighted. And it taints the entire story with a dose of FUD. Or perhaps it's just satire.
My daughter is a brownie. Her leaders know nothing at all about this supposed case.
Does anyone have a reputable report of this?
And it *will* shorten the life of your CPU, no matter what anyone says.
You may, or may not care, if the machine sitting on your desk works in 5-10 years. Some upgrade and throw the old out, some like me keep it around as a printserver/router, etc.
But they should at least mention that keeping your CPU (and memory bandwidth, HDD) at a close to 100% utilization constantly *WILL* shorten its life.
I always wondered about this 'team' distributed computing.
Wooo... I'm not doing shit, and I'm on a team of people not doing shit.
And the rankings.. If your team wins, that means either on of or both of the following:
a) you have more computer than you need
b) you don't use the computer you have
Myself, I waste my idle cycles. Completely wasted. That brand new 2.53ghz P4 is sitting at home, powered on, doing absolutely NOTHING.
This isn't that scary, and in an age where any kid with his PC could put your face into a gay porn flick, this type of protection makes sense.
Maybe you wouldn't want your grandfathers image on TV promoting abortions, or JFK standing in front of a burning cross calling on his Aryan brothers. Or Kurt Cobain selling Marlboros.
Hell, if there's any IP worth protecting, it's your own persona.