5 X 250G SATA drives on a 3Ware PCI RAID living in a Linux box on your network.
Accessible from anywhere on your network, no power supplies, firewire etc. Faster than firewire. Costs more initially but you can grow your storage as you need it. LaCie's products you can only eBay.
Many others have mentioned that by striping together 4 drives you greatly increase the chance of the volume failing, and that shoehorning four drives into a very small space without adequate cooling makes it more likely to happen, so I won't repeat that:-)
Yes but the FM-10 is not worthy of being called a Nikon - it's cheap outsourced garbage wearing a badge, and Popular Photography is hardly to be trusted. You would be much better off picking up a used FE, FM2, FM3A, even F3 at somewhere trustworthy like keh.com. It doesn't matter how ugly it is or how scratched and worn the outside as long as the shutter is good and the film compartment light-tight.
Absolutely. And even if those policies and procedures fail, the inconvenience of a very small number of unfortunate victims is a small price to pay if SPAM can be controlled SPAM. When all ISPs worldwide implement these procedures SPAM will be controlled.
16C - awesome calculator for programmers, especially embedded work. There is no better number system converter available at any price. No I can't do bin/dec/hex in my head faster than the 16C and neither can you. Expensive due to relatively low numbers produced.
42S - pricey, even used, but excellent. Two line display, a replacement for the 15C.
32SII - somewhat like a 42S but with single line display, not so nice to use.
15C - same form factor as 16C. At the time HP's top scientific.
11C - a simpler 15C
10C - a simpler 11C
All the above have solid old-HP build quality, excellent key feel and outstanding battery life.
Older HPs are also usable (and may be preferred) - but they have even greater collector status and sometimes fetch higher prices. They will go through batteries faster and the red LEDs can be harder to see.
Forget the 48 models, the 49 and all the new stuff. The 48GX is OK if you have to have graphing but the single and dual-line models have better UI for daily use. The 49? HP died when Carly took over. Now they make pretty colored plastic boxes that only work with windows and they have forgotten how to spell "engineering". In fact they fired all the engineers and HP is now run by MBAs in shiny suits.
You have taste. Yorkshire Gold or Red? And let's not forget the Australian contribution, the Tim Tam. Bite off both ends close to the edge, stick one end in mouth, stick other end in tea and inhale tea through Tim Tam. If the biscuit falls apart before you tip your head up and let the whole mess fall in your mouth you inhaled too long, try again.
You think these guys would have thought about it before wasting their time making Nethack harder to play.
Try it; first a game with ASCII graphics and then a game with any of the tile sets. In particular try the ugly abortion that is NethackW.exe, in the latest 3.41 windows binary release.
Adding graphics to Nethack is just a waste of time - if it's an academic exercise fine, but please don't ask people to play it. You may as well take text adventures and make them "better" by adding pictures.
Sony should be finding out what customers want and doing that well. Finding out what your competitor does well just gives away all the initiative.
Do people really want a 3D do-everything device? Gameboy Advance has some pretty fine games and they could be better if developers realized not all the market is kids. Personally I'm sick of everything having lens flare and transparent water and billions of triangles, a nice flat 2D strategy game like Advance Wars or Tactics Ogre is sometimes just what you want and the pixels are all part of the charm.
If all people want is 3D why is MAME so popular? Of course this new Sony thing could have some nice strategy games but chances are the focus will be on pretty polygons rather than gameplay.
Never, because instead of thinking about what the issues are and solving them there will always be someone who says "just get rid of the window boxes! Ha ha only serious." And the result is Linux gets thrown out. Why? Because infrastructure costs money and nothing that represents investment just gets thrown out. More important than the cost of windows itself is the cost of expertise in the product and all the products that run in that environment. Perhaps your IT people can switch without breaking stride but what IT people always forget is that it is complete irrelevant as to how well the IT people can use the new systems. They only exist to make sure other people in the company can do their jobs.
RIAA/MPAA - it's a trojan laying groundwork for DDOS attacks in their (illegal) war against file sharing trackers. Most likely one of theire pet programmers is doing proof of concept and just happened to know Linux best.
You're mistaken - deep discounters do very well. Wal-Mart is doing extremely great! K-Mart got into trouble because they didn't know what kind of business they were running. On some lines they tried to compete with Wal-Mart at deep discount and more or less succeeded. What screwed them was trying to take larger profits on only some items - making customers say "what the fuck, that costs only $3 at Wal-Mart!". If they had been consistent then they would be sharing a profitable space with Wal-Mart right now instead of closing stores.
Airlines have never tried price warfare, unless you're thinking of the temporary price fixing that goes on to drive a competitor out of business when they try to start a price war. What has hurt them (apart from 9/11 of course) is overcrowding and the increasing unpleasantness of flying, internet sales and arbitrage.
Deep discounting does not apply to software. Why? Cheap knockoff software from China or Korea does not perform an equivalent function to products from Microsoft or Oracle (insert lame anti-Microsoft pro-Open Source joke here, karma guaranteed!). Software is not the same as plastic laundry baskets.
Why were the developers so keen to name their products after white trash transportation? Do they expect to see browsers standing on bricks in the front yards of Mississippi trailer home lots? Do they expect most users to have mulletts and warrants for unpaid alimony? Is there a new fishin' plugin?
This really is a mind-bogling question that must be answered.
Actually a good was doesn't hurt most electronics, it's only switches and such you need to worry about. In my days of building prototype modems we used to wash the boards down with Palmolive, hot water and a stif paintbrush after using the flux-dissolving chemicals, nasty shit that stuff. A blast with the hair dryer and they're ready for testing. I've also used a dishwasher on several occasions, the slightly caustic detergent will remove a lot of flux and it can revive old floppy drives - you ned to lubricate the stepper etc. afterwards but the washing does them no harm, and for $15 do you care if they break?
Good job. You've managed to make me consider buying and eating SPAM, quite an achievement. Last time I ate it was over ten years ago, on a camping trip, and I fried it over an open fire in an aluminum army mess tin and ate it with ketchup. Not a complete disaster, but not as good as your culinary delight sounds. It's lunchtime where I am and I could eat some right now.
Your machine doesn't have to be short of RAM for the drive to thrash. Try compiling a project with upwards of 1000 source files and I guarantee you'll see big improvements from that 10k RPM drive, even over a good 7200. I'll be buying one the day they're available.
1) Nope, no extra-$ connector kit, no digital connector. Extremely inexpensive mods... and what's your time worth, nothing? In your case perhaps.
2) My mistake - you pay extra for component video - see above. Xbox comes with composite - a good way of forcing you to buy extras, because it looks like shit even on a bad TV.
3) Great, looks good on my 48" plasma too, especially through component. What's your 50", a rear projection? How ghetto. But PC output (SVGA) on the plasma looks sharper still (especially for text) and the Xbox S-video output on a 20" LCD monitor is just like I said, blurry with dull colors. It's not that way when the cable box is plugged in there, even the digital banding is sharply defined so it's not the monitor that's blurry.
4) $300 = Xbox, advanced HD kit, USB adapter, USB keyboard and USB mouse, digital audio cable, mod chip. Post URLs if you can buy all that stuff cheaper. Bonus points if you include a keyboard and mouse worth using, not some Chinese trash with windows keys and engrish instruction sheet.
TV resolutions, even 720p HDTV, are nothing compared to average PC resolutions. A 1998 ATI card could do 75Hz at 1280x1024, 32-bit. Like this one. $8!
Thank you Spinal Tap. It doesn't have "Dobly" unless you shell out for the "Advance AV" or some other connector kit. Suppose you don't care about the sound, if you use the component video it comes with you will notice that the quality is utter shit. It doesn't come with a keyboard or mouse, and can't use one without an adapter. You're looking at $300 minimum if you go for cheap shitty components and even then you will never get the sharp display a cheap video card gives you. On a dual input monitor (S-video/DVI-D) the Xbox is obviously blurry with weak color.
This is a nice games console and it's worth having just for Panzer Dragoon Orta. But it's a sucky cheap computer / terminal.
Maybe people who buy that as a media player want to actually hear the media instead of the CPU/PSU/HDD fan.
A Shuttle SB51G XPC is quieter than an Xbox. It's also not much bigger and is infinitely more capable. Agreed, on power consumption and cost, it loses.
I know you mean well, but this HP you're talking about - a bunch of clowns that recently merged with another bunch of clowns and now they have a really big circus and plan a glorious future of producing expensive PCs to be sold in wal-mart - apparently that channel is where the profit is at! Consumer, consumer, consumer, geeks ask too many difficult questions! All that complicated stuff like test and measurement and calculators, well nobody was left at the company who understood what it all did. Carly's personal hair stylist had the best idea about it but was too busy with the hair to help out, so they gave all that away and will now concentrate on making shiny things, while attempting to "offshore" as many jobs as possible.
Sadly this isn't your father's HP. They just don't give a shit about [geeks | employees | engineers | innovation] any more.
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It is, but it wasn't severe. I only noticed two changes:
"rissoles" became "meatloaf"
"two-stroke" became "diesel"
All the names of cars (Torana, Cortina etc.) were left alone. Too hard to dub that part I guess.
5 X 250G SATA drives on a 3Ware PCI RAID living in a Linux box on your network.
:-)
Accessible from anywhere on your network, no power supplies, firewire etc. Faster than firewire. Costs more initially but you can grow your storage as you need it. LaCie's products you can only eBay.
Many others have mentioned that by striping together 4 drives you greatly increase the chance of the volume failing, and that shoehorning four drives into a very small space without adequate cooling makes it more likely to happen, so I won't repeat that
Yes but the FM-10 is not worthy of being called a Nikon - it's cheap outsourced garbage wearing a badge, and Popular Photography is hardly to be trusted.
You would be much better off picking up a used FE, FM2, FM3A, even F3 at somewhere trustworthy like keh.com. It doesn't matter how ugly it is or how scratched and worn the outside as long as the shutter is good and the film compartment light-tight.
Absolutely. And even if those policies and procedures fail, the inconvenience of a very small number of unfortunate victims is a small price to pay if SPAM can be controlled SPAM. When all ISPs worldwide implement these procedures SPAM will be controlled.
If you can handle an exploding battery you might, just might, be EXTREME enough for N-GAGE!
:-)
But sales so far suggest its an extremely select group
The RPNs worth buying are:
16C - awesome calculator for programmers, especially embedded work. There is no better number system converter available at any price. No I can't do bin/dec/hex in my head faster than the 16C and neither can you. Expensive due to relatively low numbers produced.
42S - pricey, even used, but excellent. Two line display, a replacement for the 15C.
32SII - somewhat like a 42S but with single line display, not so nice to use.
15C - same form factor as 16C. At the time HP's top scientific.
11C - a simpler 15C
10C - a simpler 11C
All the above have solid old-HP build quality, excellent key feel and outstanding battery life.
Older HPs are also usable (and may be preferred) - but they have even greater collector status and sometimes fetch higher prices. They will go through batteries faster and the red LEDs can be harder to see.
Forget the 48 models, the 49 and all the new stuff. The 48GX is OK if you have to have graphing but the single and dual-line models have better UI for daily use. The 49? HP died when Carly took over. Now they make pretty colored plastic boxes that only work with windows and they have forgotten how to spell "engineering". In fact they fired all the engineers and HP is now run by MBAs in shiny suits.
(I own 16C, 42s, 15C and 11C models.)
You have taste. Yorkshire Gold or Red? And let's not forget the Australian contribution, the Tim Tam. Bite off both ends close to the edge, stick one end in mouth, stick other end in tea and inhale tea through Tim Tam. If the biscuit falls apart before you tip your head up and let the whole mess fall in your mouth you inhaled too long, try again.
(I like the Marks & Spencer teas also)
You think these guys would have thought about it before wasting their time making Nethack harder to play.
Try it; first a game with ASCII graphics and then a game with any of the tile sets. In particular try the ugly abortion that is NethackW.exe, in the latest 3.41 windows binary release.
Adding graphics to Nethack is just a waste of time - if it's an academic exercise fine, but please don't ask people to play it. You may as well take text adventures and make them "better" by adding pictures.
Sony should be finding out what customers want and doing that well. Finding out what your competitor does well just gives away all the initiative.
Do people really want a 3D do-everything device? Gameboy Advance has some pretty fine games and they could be better if developers realized not all the market is kids. Personally I'm sick of everything having lens flare and transparent water and billions of triangles, a nice flat 2D strategy game like Advance Wars or Tactics Ogre is sometimes just what you want and the pixels are all part of the charm.
If all people want is 3D why is MAME so popular? Of course this new Sony thing could have some nice strategy games but chances are the focus will be on pretty polygons rather than gameplay.
When will this stuff finally be ironed out?
Never, because instead of thinking about what the issues are and solving them there will always be someone who says "just get rid of the window boxes! Ha ha only serious." And the result is Linux gets thrown out. Why? Because infrastructure costs money and nothing that represents investment just gets thrown out. More important than the cost of windows itself is the cost of expertise in the product and all the products that run in that environment. Perhaps your IT people can switch without breaking stride but what IT people always forget is that it is complete irrelevant as to how well the IT people can use the new systems. They only exist to make sure other people in the company can do their jobs.
Foster's is not exported, only the branding is exported. Foster's Lager in North America is brewed by Molson in Canada.
What, are you really so thick?
Microsoft use a signing mechanism to prevent the Xbox from running anything but signed code. It is a "coptright protection system".
These guys have circumvented it.
This is termed "circumventing a coptright protection system".
Admit you're just a troll. Or that yes, you really ARE so think.
www.weirdstuff.com:
:-)
New Apple AEKII $24.95
New Sun Type 6 $29.95
I don't mind slashdotting them now since I alreday have mine
RIAA/MPAA - it's a trojan laying groundwork for DDOS attacks in their (illegal) war against file sharing trackers. Most likely one of theire pet programmers is doing proof of concept and just happened to know Linux best.
You're mistaken - deep discounters do very well. Wal-Mart is doing extremely great! K-Mart got into trouble because they didn't know what kind of business they were running. On some lines they tried to compete with Wal-Mart at deep discount and more or less succeeded. What screwed them was trying to take larger profits on only some items - making customers say "what the fuck, that costs only $3 at Wal-Mart!". If they had been consistent then they would be sharing a profitable space with Wal-Mart right now instead of closing stores.
Airlines have never tried price warfare, unless you're thinking of the temporary price fixing that goes on to drive a competitor out of business when they try to start a price war. What has hurt them (apart from 9/11 of course) is overcrowding and the increasing unpleasantness of flying, internet sales and arbitrage.
Deep discounting does not apply to software. Why? Cheap knockoff software from China or Korea does not perform an equivalent function to products from Microsoft or Oracle (insert lame anti-Microsoft pro-Open Source joke here, karma guaranteed!). Software is not the same as plastic laundry baskets.
Why were the developers so keen to name their products after white trash transportation? Do they expect to see browsers standing on bricks in the front yards of Mississippi trailer home lots? Do they expect most users to have mulletts and warrants for unpaid alimony? Is there a new fishin' plugin?
This really is a mind-bogling question that must be answered.
Don't anyone harrass this guy:
Maryland Internet Marketing LLC, George Alan Moore Jr, 300 Twin Oaks Rd, Linthicum MD, 21090-2154, 877-655-3438, 410-963-8226.
Clearly he has suffered enough already at the hands of that cruel, cruel Francis Uy!
"A government funded artist is an unprincipled whore!" - Jubal Harshaw, a character of Robert Heinlein.
:-)
Of course those that want to accept the money to produce a game should be free to do so. Just add the warning on the packaging
Actually a good was doesn't hurt most electronics, it's only switches and such you need to worry about. In my days of building prototype modems we used to wash the boards down with Palmolive, hot water and a stif paintbrush after using the flux-dissolving chemicals, nasty shit that stuff. A blast with the hair dryer and they're ready for testing. I've also used a dishwasher on several occasions, the slightly caustic detergent will remove a lot of flux and it can revive old floppy drives - you ned to lubricate the stepper etc. afterwards but the washing does them no harm, and for $15 do you care if they break?
Good job. You've managed to make me consider buying and eating SPAM, quite an achievement. Last time I ate it was over ten years ago, on a camping trip, and I fried it over an open fire in an aluminum army mess tin and ate it with ketchup. Not a complete disaster, but not as good as your culinary delight sounds. It's lunchtime where I am and I could eat some right now.
Is "texas toast" part of the reason for this?
Your machine doesn't have to be short of RAM for the drive to thrash. Try compiling a project with upwards of 1000 source files and I guarantee you'll see big improvements from that 10k RPM drive, even over a good 7200. I'll be buying one the day they're available.
1) Nope, no extra-$ connector kit, no digital connector. Extremely inexpensive mods... and what's your time worth, nothing? In your case perhaps.
2) My mistake - you pay extra for component video - see above. Xbox comes with composite - a good way of forcing you to buy extras, because it looks like shit even on a bad TV.
3) Great, looks good on my 48" plasma too, especially through component. What's your 50", a rear projection? How ghetto. But PC output (SVGA) on the plasma looks sharper still (especially for text) and the Xbox S-video output on a 20" LCD monitor is just like I said, blurry with dull colors. It's not that way when the cable box is plugged in there, even the digital banding is sharply defined so it's not the monitor that's blurry.
4) $300 = Xbox, advanced HD kit, USB adapter, USB keyboard and USB mouse, digital audio cable, mod chip. Post URLs if you can buy all that stuff cheaper. Bonus points if you include a keyboard and mouse worth using, not some Chinese trash with windows keys and engrish instruction sheet.
TV resolutions, even 720p HDTV, are nothing compared to average PC resolutions. A 1998 ATI card could do 75Hz at 1280x1024, 32-bit. Like this one. $8!
You're fairly lucid for an Xbox fanboy.
Thank you Spinal Tap. It doesn't have "Dobly" unless you shell out for the "Advance AV" or some other connector kit. Suppose you don't care about the sound, if you use the component video it comes with you will notice that the quality is utter shit. It doesn't come with a keyboard or mouse, and can't use one without an adapter. You're looking at $300 minimum if you go for cheap shitty components and even then you will never get the sharp display a cheap video card gives you. On a dual input monitor (S-video/DVI-D) the Xbox is obviously blurry with weak color.
This is a nice games console and it's worth having just for Panzer Dragoon Orta. But it's a sucky cheap computer / terminal.
Maybe people who buy that as a media player want to actually hear the media instead of the CPU/PSU/HDD fan.
A Shuttle SB51G XPC is quieter than an Xbox. It's also not much bigger and is infinitely more capable. Agreed, on power consumption and cost, it loses.
I know you mean well, but this HP you're talking about - a bunch of clowns that recently merged with another bunch of clowns and now they have a really big circus and plan a glorious future of producing expensive PCs to be sold in wal-mart - apparently that channel is where the profit is at! Consumer, consumer, consumer, geeks ask too many difficult questions! All that complicated stuff like test and measurement and calculators, well nobody was left at the company who understood what it all did. Carly's personal hair stylist had the best idea about it but was too busy with the hair to help out, so they gave all that away and will now concentrate on making shiny things, while attempting to "offshore" as many jobs as possible.
Sadly this isn't your father's HP. They just don't give a shit about [geeks | employees | engineers | innovation] any more.