From a newspapers perspective open archives aren't always a possiblity. I work for a newspaper in a Moderately sized (~100,000 people) midwestern city. We currently have about 135 years of paper archives dating back the the late 1800's. While we do have a decent internet presence, we don't have the resources to provide this conent online for free.
A recent estimate by me showed that we would need about $20,000 to get that project started in a very barebones manner. That isn't a small amount of money to throw at a project that you want to give away for free. On the other hand their is antoher newspaper in town that charges $90/year for access to their sports archives and at last estimate they had close to 1000 subscribers. For a medium sized paper that amount of money is hard to pass up.
Now for a company like the New York Times that is a different story. They certainly have the resources to get their content online. They though, have other reasons to keep their content available on a pay basis. They maintian strict controls over all their copyrighted material. Its hard to blame them for this though, since that content is their lifeblood.
In my opinion I do feel they keep their content under too tight of a lock. Its like having a great idea but never letting anyone hear about it because you are afraid they might steal it. Papers must decide between keeping their copyrighted material secure and providing it to readers in a new medium. But it is that delecate balance that traditional print publications now face while moving into the digital era.
So what happens when they manage to ban all forms of P2P and they are still losing money?
Who will they blame when there is no one left to blame but themselves? If they would make a product that was worth paying for, or not change more than the average person makes in a month, then they would sell a lot more. I'm not a big fan of microsoft products, but they have been smart recently with their variable pricing levels for the office products. The home user and Education users get a better price than the pro edition.
no, his point is that we as a country are childlike and ignorant.
Here is a shocker, girls have breasts....Wow...get over it, the rest of the world has. Children in other countries are exposed to sex and nudity at a young age but you don't see them running around humping everything in site like the neighbor dog. Its repression not expression that causes the most damage.
It would certainly make sense, with its non-conducting properties it would be safe to keep that close to sensitive electronics. I don't know what it's heat capacity is so it might not be the best thermal choice but it at least it won't fry your G5.
Links??? not that I don't trust you but I want to see numbers. Otherwise I can only suppose you are a troll. And these test where they both 32bit code using apples quicktime implementation, or was the Athlon 64 testing done with that linux quicktime package?
Well there is the firewire route, last time I checked fw800 could handle full DV...
then there is the fiber channel BTO option with an Xraid, I think 2Gb/s of drive bandwidth will do just fine too.
If you want to go oldschool you could also add one of those newfangled SCSI U320 cards which would also do a pretty good job with DV as well.
So I guess the answer to your question is a resonding yes. Since you do (very) high end work then you should be using a very high end storage system like one of the above. If you are a professional and need high bandwidth you shouldn't be relying on apples software raid anyway. But thats just my two cents.
I'm sure someone else will point this out as well but its worth noting. In 10.3 there is kernel level defragmentation. When a file is accessed the kernel checks to see if its fragmented, then moves it to a area of the disk where it can exist unfragmented. I think there is a limitation to file size under 20MB but it may be higher. This still gets rid of a great deal of fragmenation. Just food for thought.
I wonder if this is possible from OS X mail also. Mail uses webcore to render html and probably shares some settings. The downloading of the dmg is provoked by a meta tag, so unless mail strips meta info from e-mail then this could affect mail as well. That eventuality could potentially be a much larger issue than the current method of execution. Especially since mail will render html and images unless the mail is marked junk.
No thank you. I'd rather smack my powerbook against your thick head.:-)
Yes, eventually the ipod will no longer sell as well as it has been, the same way as rotary phones no longer sell very well (borrowing from the Alex Bell post above). Somebody will make a better product, who knows maybe apple again. But still that better product will not take away from the fact that the iPod is and always will be known as a great success. look at the sony walkman, it was THE hot product when it came out. Since they don't sell well now you are going to tell me they are a miserable failure.???? That logic makes absolutely no sense to anyone with a reasonable head on his/her shoulders.
Now as for the whole powerbook one button thing, your still crazy. I have used both pc and Macintosh laptops, I'm writing right now from my 12" powerbook. I actually find the one button trackpad with keyboard modifiers much more comfortable to use than the two button track-pads. Having to press one of the two buttons often puts my had in awkward positions on PC laptops. On the powermac I can be at any location on the trackpad and still have easy comfortable access to the mouse button. Plus I was blessed at birth with two hands by some genetic mix-up so I have the ability to press the ctrl button while mousing to bring up a contextual menu.
Really anyone with reasonable knowlegde could do this with a phonebook and and internet connection. Now when the magazine comes and says, "Bob Smith, This is your life..." then I'll put my tinfoil hat on.
Umm...Okay, now take off your tinfoil hat. The regulation is of the Cable industry, NOT the television industry. Last time I looked Time Warner was the only cable provider that had any affiliation with the content that it broadcasted. The local government will be able to regulate the cable industry in the area but not necessarly the content it serves. The last time I checked this was still a free coutry with free speech and everything (John Ashcroft aside).
As for your fits about copy protection, I fell this regulation could be a good thing. It is another player in the decision making process besides the cable industries and the MPAA. This can only be good because history shows that the public has had more success manipulating its government than either of the MPAA or the Cable industry.
Now I know that holographic storage is the wya of the future and all but only 1GB!!! Unless this is going to cost me $1 why should I use this over one of the new 1-5GB 1" drives that were all the rage right before the ipod Mini came out. Is the transfer speed outrageously fast or something (I'm a little rusty on my japanese so I didn't RTFA). In the Faq section of the page they mention 1.5Mbps at one point but I don't know in what context. I'm usually one to say "don't knock it till you try it" but other than the holographic part this seems like no big f***ing deal to me.
Food for thought, but I wonder how much power those kinetic watches that you see out now can produce. If the mecanism can be beefed produce the necessary 200mA and 3.6-5V then you have essentially (besides for hardware fatigue) designed a computer/PDA that will never have to be recharged.
I am wondering just what the real market is for the XServe.
That market is me. We just got one of the older xserves where I work. It is a college newspaper that employs a couple hundred students. OS X Server and our new Xserve allows us to lock down our machines to keep the students from doing all the destructive things that they tend to do.
I just spent 1(one) day setting up our xserve and getting open directory setup. Now we have network logins and have locked down all our workstations so our reporters can't break our machines by installing AOL, MSN or any other unauthorized app, or leech our bandwidth by installing limewire, etc... Sure I could have done all of this on a Linux/BSD box as a server but i don't have that kind of time. The research and installation alone would have taken up all of my christmas break (I'm a student too). With the Xserve I was able to get a bundled product that worked pretty much out of the box. For that i'm willing to pay the premium. Plus it looks so much nice then any of the other white box servers we have in the building:-)
Now don't get me wrong I like linux just as much as the next slashdot reader (we have 4 linux servers in the building), but I have never setup a linux box in the short period of time I was able to set up the xserve.
If you would go to the cornice you would see that the drive has an average write speed of 4.5Mbytes/sec. So, if you do the math that would mean you could fill the full 2Gb in about 7min, not to shabby if you ask me.
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From a newspapers perspective open archives aren't always a possiblity. I work for a newspaper in a Moderately sized (~100,000 people) midwestern city. We currently have about 135 years of paper archives dating back the the late 1800's. While we do have a decent internet presence, we don't have the resources to provide this conent online for free.
A recent estimate by me showed that we would need about $20,000 to get that project started in a very barebones manner. That isn't a small amount of money to throw at a project that you want to give away for free. On the other hand their is antoher newspaper in town that charges $90/year for access to their sports archives and at last estimate they had close to 1000 subscribers. For a medium sized paper that amount of money is hard to pass up.
Now for a company like the New York Times that is a different story. They certainly have the resources to get their content online. They though, have other reasons to keep their content available on a pay basis. They maintian strict controls over all their copyrighted material. Its hard to blame them for this though, since that content is their lifeblood.
In my opinion I do feel they keep their content under too tight of a lock. Its like having a great idea but never letting anyone hear about it because you are afraid they might steal it. Papers must decide between keeping their copyrighted material secure and providing it to readers in a new medium. But it is that delecate balance that traditional print publications now face while moving into the digital era.
So what happens when they manage to ban all forms of P2P and they are still losing money?
:-)
Who will they blame when there is no one left to blame but themselves? If they would make a product that was worth paying for, or not change more than the average person makes in a month, then they would sell a lot more. I'm not a big fan of microsoft products, but they have been smart recently with their variable pricing levels for the office products. The home user and Education users get a better price than the pro edition.
Now if I could just get Adobe CS Home edition
I'm willing to bet that Apple or at least Steve Jobs gave money to the Gore Campaign.
It's just a hunch, but I think that whole ichat conference at last WWDC(03) between Al Gore and his Steveness showed that they were at least firends.
Can you imagine a beowulf cluster of congressman...
It would be the only cluster in the world to slow down as you add nodes.
Here I come to save the day...
Sorry, you all knew that was coming
no, his point is that we as a country are childlike and ignorant.
Here is a shocker, girls have breasts....Wow...get over it, the rest of the world has. Children in other countries are exposed to sex and nudity at a young age but you don't see them running around humping everything in site like the neighbor dog. Its repression not expression that causes the most damage.
"This is the coolest thing, I have ever seen"
Intel speed bumps always make the frontpage, so why not apple? Or are you a processor racist.
I wonder if the fluid they used for cooling is that sapphire stuff that was mentioned on slashdot a while back.
Sapphire
It would certainly make sense, with its non-conducting properties it would be safe to keep that close to sensitive electronics. I don't know what it's heat capacity is so it might not be the best thermal choice but it at least it won't fry your G5.
Links??? not that I don't trust you but I want to see numbers. Otherwise I can only suppose you are a troll.
And these test where they both 32bit code using apples quicktime implementation, or was the Athlon 64 testing done with that linux quicktime package?
Lets see...
Adding more Drives....hmmm
Well there is the firewire route, last time I checked fw800 could handle full DV...
then there is the fiber channel BTO option with an Xraid, I think 2Gb/s of drive bandwidth will do just fine too.
If you want to go oldschool you could also add one of those newfangled SCSI U320 cards which would also do a pretty good job with DV as well.
So I guess the answer to your question is a resonding yes. Since you do (very) high end work then you should be using a very high end storage system like one of the above. If you are a professional and need high bandwidth you shouldn't be relying on apples software raid anyway. But thats just my two cents.
I'm sure someone else will point this out as well but its worth noting. In 10.3 there is kernel level defragmentation. When a file is accessed the kernel checks to see if its fragmented, then moves it to a area of the disk where it can exist unfragmented. I think there is a limitation to file size under 20MB but it may be higher. This still gets rid of a great deal of fragmenation. Just food for thought.
I wonder if this is possible from OS X mail also. Mail uses webcore to render html and probably shares some settings. The downloading of the dmg is provoked by a meta tag, so unless mail strips meta info from e-mail then this could affect mail as well. That eventuality could potentially be a much larger issue than the current method of execution. Especially since mail will render html and images unless the mail is marked junk.
Are you looking at my headgear....
No thank you. I'd rather smack my powerbook against your thick head. :-)
Yes, eventually the ipod will no longer sell as well as it has been, the same way as rotary phones no longer sell very well (borrowing from the Alex Bell post above). Somebody will make a better product, who knows maybe apple again. But still that better product will not take away from the fact that the iPod is and always will be known as a great success. look at the sony walkman, it was THE hot product when it came out. Since they don't sell well now you are going to tell me they are a miserable failure.???? That logic makes absolutely no sense to anyone with a reasonable head on his/her shoulders.
Now as for the whole powerbook one button thing, your still crazy. I have used both pc and Macintosh laptops, I'm writing right now from my 12" powerbook. I actually find the one button trackpad with keyboard modifiers much more comfortable to use than the two button track-pads. Having to press one of the two buttons often puts my had in awkward positions on PC laptops. On the powermac I can be at any location on the trackpad and still have easy comfortable access to the mouse button. Plus I was blessed at birth with two hands by some genetic mix-up so I have the ability to press the ctrl button while mousing to bring up a contextual menu.
Really anyone with reasonable knowlegde could do this with a phonebook and and internet connection. Now when the magazine comes and says, "Bob Smith, This is your life..." then I'll put my tinfoil hat on.
Umm...Okay, now take off your tinfoil hat. The regulation is of the Cable industry, NOT the television industry. Last time I looked Time Warner was the only cable provider that had any affiliation with the content that it broadcasted. The local government will be able to regulate the cable industry in the area but not necessarly the content it serves. The last time I checked this was still a free coutry with free speech and everything (John Ashcroft aside).
As for your fits about copy protection, I fell this regulation could be a good thing. It is another player in the decision making process besides the cable industries and the MPAA. This can only be good because history shows that the public has had more success manipulating its government than either of the MPAA or the Cable industry.
Now I know that holographic storage is the wya of the future and all but only 1GB!!! Unless this is going to cost me $1 why should I use this over one of the new 1-5GB 1" drives that were all the rage right before the ipod Mini came out. Is the transfer speed outrageously fast or something (I'm a little rusty on my japanese so I didn't RTFA). In the Faq section of the page they mention 1.5Mbps at one point but I don't know in what context. I'm usually one to say "don't knock it till you try it" but other than the holographic part this seems like no big f***ing deal to me.
Microsoft tells users they should write their own programs to avoid viruses.
More brilliant point of wisdom to come
Food for thought, but I wonder how much power those kinetic watches that you see out now can produce. If the mecanism can be beefed produce the necessary 200mA and 3.6-5V then you have essentially (besides for hardware fatigue) designed a computer/PDA that will never have to be recharged.
I just spent 1(one) day setting up our xserve and getting open directory setup. Now we have network logins and have locked down all our workstations so our reporters can't break our machines by installing AOL, MSN or any other unauthorized app, or leech our bandwidth by installing limewire, etc... Sure I could have done all of this on a Linux/BSD box as a server but i don't have that kind of time. The research and installation alone would have taken up all of my christmas break (I'm a student too). With the Xserve I was able to get a bundled product that worked pretty much out of the box. For that i'm willing to pay the premium. Plus it looks so much nice then any of the other white box servers we have in the building
Now don't get me wrong I like linux just as much as the next slashdot reader (we have 4 linux servers in the building), but I have never setup a linux box in the short period of time I was able to set up the xserve.
If you would go to the cornice you would see that the drive has an average write speed of 4.5Mbytes/sec. So, if you do the math that would mean you could fill the full 2Gb in about 7min, not to shabby if you ask me.
I wonder if that price includes VAT. If it is so then the US price would drop to about $100. just food for though.