Apple already beat all estimations on what it'd cost. I think everyone on/. was estimating around $999 (as was everyone else on the net). All of the closest competitors are around that price point.
Understandable. I'm just paranoid. This is going to be holding irreplaceable family photos and movies once I get to digitizing. I guess my biggest fear is to have one drive fail and while I'm restoring another one go.
Now I can have 2x drives fail. And my offsite backup site implode.
Most of that code is auto generated. Except for some low level stuff, nothing is written by hand in assembly or C. It's all auto coded from some sort of control toolbox. Most likely Matlab/Simulink.
Quite a few municipalities are already buying them for landfill gas and sewage gas. And they'll run a whole let dirtier fuel than I imagine these will. China bought a ton of them to burn methane from coal mines.
I wish they gave hard units on what these black boxes can do, but for $4.5M you could have 3 - 6.5 MW generators (PDF).
19.5MW of power for $4.5M, something tells me that these things don't generate 19.5MW of power.
Not just that, they created their own file system.
I've had minimal problems, you do get what you pay for. Don't go in expecting 6 nines. But I've had relatively minimal problems plus they have quite a few 'goodies'.
MySQL, Subversion, Cron, Media streaming, one click installs of a ton of apps, htaccess/webdav.
I've never had a problem compiling what I needed. (gcc is available). I've updated php, perl and pear. Ruby on Rails....
Sony is a massive company. So large that sometimes the left hand doesn't know what the right is doing. I seem to remember a story about how Sony Music had a fit about Sony's MP3 Player. Because "MP3s were stealing".
I bet the PSP division wants as many people to buy the hardware as possible and doesn't care why. The games division is probably the one that is doing this.
Internal politics suck.
My Sony WEGA was one of the best TV's I ever owned. My dad still is using it at home with a converter box.
We just went through this with the US Auto companies. I was thinking the other day about how quite a few colleges and companies are migrating to Gmail. (Thankfully mine did not). What happens in 5 years when google somehow 'fails'. Are the feds going to let 25% of small businesses and 40% of companies instantly lose e-mail or are they going to bail them out?
Now with energy are we going to let X people lose power + email & what ever google does for us in the future?
Yes. In high school (2001) we had an Apple II with some very custom hardware and software that used lasers for timing a ball dropping down a ramp. I don't know if I would have had it driven home how gravity works if we just used a stopwatch. We saw that no matter the height or the weight, gravity was pretty consistent.
My TI-89 (which was probably more powerful) had some awesome sonic rangefinder software that I used to test F=Ma and other stuff.
I recently went back and visited both the public school I went to (>6) and the private one (6).
Both schools had 4th grader 'poems' hung outside the room. Difference was the public school just made the kids type in the exact same poem and decorate it how ever they wanted. (teaching... Typing / Desktop Publishing?). In private school each student had to write their own poem.
On the surface both schools look like they did something with computers, but I can say that one school missed the boat with actually teaching anything.
In college we didn't have a 'non calculator' portion on tests. We had a "Computer" and "Calculator" portion and used Maple on the computer part. The problems we solved were closer to what I've seen in the real world, but would have never been able to be solved by hand.
If it's still radioactive enough to be dangerous. It's still radioactive enough to be used for electricity.
We just have retarded 'recycling laws'. Imagine if the US outlawed Aluminum recycling because at some point in the process you could use it as Thermite. That's how stupid our nuclear rules are.
Illinois is set to become the next California. This post points out that Cali gave huge breaks to tech companies.
Giving 'tax breaks' doesn't seem to be sustainable long term for states.
Seriously, this entire state is one huge cluster fuck dictated by a single geographical area. It needs to be roped off, along with Gary, and made its own state.
I think Buzz targets people who desire a very simple interface. It seems to perform a lot better on my slow machine than Facebook but is negligible on my main box.
So basically everyone that jumped ship from MySpace to Facebook?
Then they added Apps and started redesigning the site monthly (I JUST figured out the old interface). I still don't know how to go directly TO my albums without having to go to photos of me, then me, then my albums.
They seemed to have hit their peak of 'privacy' a while ago.
Back in the day, you only had blocking and limited profiles. But you could restrict all your data.
Then they added groups. Which was great. "Family", "Real Friends","Bar Associates", "Work" which was great. I could complain about work and exclude work. Add photo albums and not let X group see them.
The problem came with their latest update and the "Who can add you as a friend". Previously you could lock it down. Now it's either "Friends of Friends" or "Everybody".
At one point in my profile's history I wouldn't even show up to a friend of a friend. Now they can add me.
It's mainly educated people. There is a large percentage of our populous that wants creationism in schools and thinks that telling teens to abstain works.
When visiting other countries switching over to metric for time and distance takes all of a week to get into my head. It helps that all those countries are in Metric. So when I want to go from Delhi to Agra. I know it's X km and trains travel about X km/hr, so it'll take X hrs.
It's like Americans that point at manual transmissions and claim that takes too much thinking. After you do it for a while, it's just instinct. If every Weather forecast was given in C tomorrow, it would be 'chaos' for a week. Then everyone would figure it out. Packaged food is already sold with SI units. Grocery store patrons would take all of a week to need to order 2kg instead of 1lb.
After a week in the new system, the only time I have to 'convert' is when I have to explain distances from the USA, but even then 100km/hr is a good speed. I know it takes 5 hours to get home. Home is 500 km from here, no converting the mi -> km. - I work for a Fortune 50 company, ALL of our engineering has been metric since the late '90s. I bet most actual companies are.
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Apple already beat all estimations on what it'd cost. I think everyone on /. was estimating around $999 (as was everyone else on the net). All of the closest competitors are around that price point.
Why not just ask for it for free?
A camera would be nice.
Understandable. I'm just paranoid. This is going to be holding irreplaceable family photos and movies once I get to digitizing. I guess my biggest fear is to have one drive fail and while I'm restoring another one go.
Now I can have 2x drives fail. And my offsite backup site implode.
ZFS is available now. Running numerous places including my own home network.
btrfs still has a ton of "EXPERIMENTAL." "DON'T USE FOR ANYTHING IMPORTANT" warnings everywhere.
That right there clinched it.
Latest FreeBSD supports ZFS on root. Which is nothing short of awesome.
I haven't tried yet, but I want to pull one of the hard drives and see if it still boots (it should).
I have 2x2TB as / and 5x1.5TB in RAIDZ2 for my multimedia archive. Irreplaceable family photos are on both (and offsite backed up.)
It's taken me a while to get used to the "BSD way" over the "Linux Way" and still frequent google with "Freebesd how to X"
Only terrorists use cash.
Most of that code is auto generated. Except for some low level stuff, nothing is written by hand in assembly or C. It's all auto coded from some sort of control toolbox. Most likely Matlab/Simulink.
Sure enough this is one of the first hits on Google.
Writing that many lines of code would be damn near impossible in the relatively short development cycle.
Even a simple PID controller could take up a few dozen lines of code even though on screen it's simply represented by 3-4 blocks.
I'm absolutely glowing that this wasn't brought forward earlier. This is something I would never want to happen on my watch
So why not run a gas generator?
Quite a few municipalities are already buying them for landfill gas and sewage gas. And they'll run a whole let dirtier fuel than I imagine these will. China bought a ton of them to burn methane from coal mines.
I wish they gave hard units on what these black boxes can do, but for $4.5M you could have 3 - 6.5 MW generators (PDF).
19.5MW of power for $4.5M, something tells me that these things don't generate 19.5MW of power.
Move to any 1st world country not the USA.
There is no step 2.
Not just that, they created their own file system.
I've had minimal problems, you do get what you pay for. Don't go in expecting 6 nines. But I've had relatively minimal problems plus they have quite a few 'goodies'.
MySQL, Subversion, Cron, Media streaming, one click installs of a ton of apps, htaccess/webdav.
I've never had a problem compiling what I needed. (gcc is available). I've updated php, perl and pear. Ruby on Rails....
Just download a version with protections removed.
All it takes is 1 person to figure out how to get around it and it's out on the internet.
So if my options are to buy all new gear that has HDMI instead of component or download the movie.
It's getting downloaded.
I wonder what Debian GNU/kFreeBSD would be considered.
Different divisions most likely.
Sony is a massive company. So large that sometimes the left hand doesn't know what the right is doing. I seem to remember a story about how Sony Music had a fit about Sony's MP3 Player. Because "MP3s were stealing".
I bet the PSP division wants as many people to buy the hardware as possible and doesn't care why. The games division is probably the one that is doing this.
Internal politics suck.
My Sony WEGA was one of the best TV's I ever owned. My dad still is using it at home with a converter box.
We just went through this with the US Auto companies. I was thinking the other day about how quite a few colleges and companies are migrating to Gmail. (Thankfully mine did not). What happens in 5 years when google somehow 'fails'. Are the feds going to let 25% of small businesses and 40% of companies instantly lose e-mail or are they going to bail them out?
Now with energy are we going to let X people lose power + email & what ever google does for us in the future?
Crystal HD would also be a valid solution.
XBMC supports it. I'm not sure if mplayer itself does yet.
It turned my AppleTV into a 1080p beast. Just need a Mini-PCIe slot.
And if you're reading this and HAVEN'T heard of XBMC you're missing out on hands down the best HTPC front end ever made.
I've used it since '05 and on an original XBox and they've come a long way.
Yes. In high school (2001) we had an Apple II with some very custom hardware and software that used lasers for timing a ball dropping down a ramp. I don't know if I would have had it driven home how gravity works if we just used a stopwatch. We saw that no matter the height or the weight, gravity was pretty consistent.
My TI-89 (which was probably more powerful) had some awesome sonic rangefinder software that I used to test F=Ma and other stuff.
I recently went back and visited both the public school I went to (>6) and the private one (6).
Both schools had 4th grader 'poems' hung outside the room. Difference was the public school just made the kids type in the exact same poem and decorate it how ever they wanted. (teaching... Typing / Desktop Publishing?). In private school each student had to write their own poem.
On the surface both schools look like they did something with computers, but I can say that one school missed the boat with actually teaching anything.
In college we didn't have a 'non calculator' portion on tests. We had a "Computer" and "Calculator" portion and used Maple on the computer part. The problems we solved were closer to what I've seen in the real world, but would have never been able to be solved by hand.
If it's still radioactive enough to be dangerous. It's still radioactive enough to be used for electricity.
We just have retarded 'recycling laws'. Imagine if the US outlawed Aluminum recycling because at some point in the process you could use it as Thermite. That's how stupid our nuclear rules are.
America got the Religious Nuts.
Australia got the Criminals.
Sadly they got the better end of the bargain.
It doesn't sound like these are even running for 1 event. Plus how long are those batteries expected to last? Cold and batteries don't usually mix.
If they want electric, they need to do it bumper car style and just have an overhead grid.
Um, Of course they are. Which is why they would be just as happy to get rid of them.
If there's anything Hoosiers and Illinoisans agree on is that we'd both be glad to be rid of the Lake Michigan region.
Illinois is set to become the next California. This post points out that Cali gave huge breaks to tech companies.
Giving 'tax breaks' doesn't seem to be sustainable long term for states.
Seriously, this entire state is one huge cluster fuck dictated by a single geographical area. It needs to be roped off, along with Gary, and made its own state.
I think Buzz targets people who desire a very simple interface. It seems to perform a lot better on my slow machine than Facebook but is negligible on my main box.
So basically everyone that jumped ship from MySpace to Facebook?
Then they added Apps and started redesigning the site monthly (I JUST figured out the old interface). I still don't know how to go directly TO my albums without having to go to photos of me, then me, then my albums.
"...but I still haven't kissed a girl.
It might feel wrong, it might feel right.
You might like it, and the taste of her cherry chapstick.
It didn't used to be.
They seemed to have hit their peak of 'privacy' a while ago.
Back in the day, you only had blocking and limited profiles. But you could restrict all your data.
Then they added groups. Which was great. "Family", "Real Friends","Bar Associates", "Work" which was great. I could complain about work and exclude work. Add photo albums and not let X group see them.
The problem came with their latest update and the "Who can add you as a friend". Previously you could lock it down. Now it's either "Friends of Friends" or "Everybody".
At one point in my profile's history I wouldn't even show up to a friend of a friend. Now they can add me.
It's mainly educated people. There is a large percentage of our populous that wants creationism in schools and thinks that telling teens to abstain works.
When visiting other countries switching over to metric for time and distance takes all of a week to get into my head. It helps that all those countries are in Metric. So when I want to go from Delhi to Agra. I know it's X km and trains travel about X km/hr, so it'll take X hrs.
It's like Americans that point at manual transmissions and claim that takes too much thinking. After you do it for a while, it's just instinct. If every Weather forecast was given in C tomorrow, it would be 'chaos' for a week. Then everyone would figure it out. Packaged food is already sold with SI units. Grocery store patrons would take all of a week to need to order 2kg instead of 1lb.
After a week in the new system, the only time I have to 'convert' is when I have to explain distances from the USA, but even then 100km/hr is a good speed. I know it takes 5 hours to get home. Home is 500 km from here, no converting the mi -> km.
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I work for a Fortune 50 company, ALL of our engineering has been metric since the late '90s. I bet most actual companies are.