You're running solo and expecting everyone else to do the same. Wrong way of understanding the masses. Although because it works for you, and really well, by all means continue to do what you do.
Business around the world need a set of tools to act as a common denominator. An Office suite is a popular method. It allows for any employee to come and go out of a company with little downtime to transition in learning a new documentation scheme. Excel files can become massively complex with formulas and macros. Word files become excessively complex when rendering a 500+ page report deliverable to clients as a way of selling research and other interpretation data. Often including all sorts of markups and embedded photos. These files will need to be viewed by all parties involved with little fuss and ease of printing and editing.
Oh, and you're running some heavy duty calculations, Mathcad is worth looking into. The licensing is uber expensive, and yet companies pay hand over fist for them. I can guarantee you, it has nothing to do with being ignorant of other options on the table.
Which is why I never by OCed editions of hardware or manually OC my own equipment. I don't care how well you can cool the components. They will die fast and young!
Keep in mind that currently, the Intel desktop RAID RST does not pass TRIM command to the SSDs when in a RAID volume. Supposedly that will change in a newer version of the RST driver. Not sure when, but it's a feature to be added and has been in the works for some time now.
PAE was a joke if you needed to run something like CAD as you couldn't address more than 3GB (with/3 switch in boot.ini). At that point, just let the entire OS address all 3.2 to 4GB of RAM (depending on hardware you have). Simply moving to a 64bit OS resolves all these limitations without having to resort to work arounds and "hacks". But I still think MS artificial RAM limitation with 64bit Home Premium was a dick move.
Sorry, I can't let this go. Yes, IBM/Hitachi had a bad run of the Deskstar series. The faulty production run and QC didn't last very long. And yes, every fucking HDD manufacture goes through one of the nasty little phases. Maxtor means "Crapster" to me. WD used to be king, but many of their drives have been failing a lot more normal. Seagate drives are good. Though I've ran into a bad rash of SAS drives last year. The point being, Deskstars are great drives and have been for a long time. It's old news your clinging on to. Get it a rest and stop spreading FUD!
Ditto for the Intel SSD recommendation. I've got an X-25m in my MacBook (OSX hacked to enabled TRIM). I'm always running my WinXP VM off it along with creating ISO files and moving them off to the network. So my SSD gets a substantial amount of writes each day.
I have been eyeing OCZ Vertex lineup though for my home workstation. I love Intel's reputation, but OCZ seems to have their act togeather in a serious way with a great product lineup with insane speeds. Anyone recommend for or against OCZ around here? I want a reliable plan B.
Well technically, an SSD remaps LBAs to physical memory cells for wear leveling. You could say the unit is "driving" the data to its proper storage area.
I ran into a job posting wanting 10 years of Server 2008 experience. Obviously I don't have the experience of a time traveler. And if I did, I sure as hell wouldn't be working for that company. In fact, I wouldn't be working at all but rather gaming the entire planet Earth for profit.
Seriously, to hell with that HR. I hope the company she/her represents fail!
While I'm sure they would be in direct violation of Massachusetts law, the whole argument would be rendered moot should the industry take it to the federal court. Massachusetts most likely would lose. I say "most likely" because there has and will forever be legal battles of state law vs federal law. Even to this day, Texas battling EPA provisions. An entire STATE. So ya, entirely possible Auto Industry vs. Massachusetts could happen in court.
Federal EPA standard are such that individual states must meet or exceed the Federal standards. The way in which the law was codified gives states the provision to do this.
Again. Federal Law trumps state law! Unless not codified.
Federal law trumps state law. The auto manufactures could encrypt the computers and any attempt to crack it would be grounds for violating the DMCA (anti-circumvention portion).
With Intel and AMD as their competition, why risk tipping your hat for what arguably could be called a niche market. Keeping secrets about low level hardware optimizations is a competitive market advantage.
Doesn't matter. Steve Balmer will fuck it up anyways. He will get fired, MS will be left without direction. Bill Gates will say "screw you, I found God and I have a foundation to run. Run the company yourself" (he ain't coming back). There will be a vacuum in the business market for software and a platform to run it on now that MS is left discombobulated. Apple will be saying "WTF!!!, If only our dear leader Steve was still around...". Google will try and fill the vacuum and fail. Legacy software will be supported via 3rd party. XP sticks around another five years... Year of Linux has arrived...much as it always has... *sarcasm*. Nothing new.
Apple: WTF?! For real? This can't be happening! (kicks MS tombstone hoping to revive its spirt from the grave)
For what, a generation? That's not enough bring nVidia to it's knees you know. This leap frogging is something both nVidia and AMD/ATI experience with each product launch. *yawn*
Pretty much. I've seen plenty of Samsung SSD drives go tits-up in Dell laptops. Actually, make that all of them. From intermittent random freezes to systems not responding to...poof, gone! All of these laptops were running Win7, so if the drive supported TRIM, it would have been utilized.
Personally, I'm using 3 1/2 year MacBook. I replaced the drive with a Intel X25-m. I choose Intel because they seem to be the defacto standard in reliability. So far (knock on wood), I haven't had a single problem. But I run backups daily with Time Machine regardless.
I'm still on the fence on rather to upgrade my home workstation with an OCZ Synapse Cache drive in conjunction with my existing Intel RAID1 volume using the RST feature. Or, just go with a single OCZ Vertex 4 SSD and schedule nightly backups to a standard HDD. The first option being cheaper and offering high availability. The second option being faster and simpler setup. It would also free up a SATA port for future storage.
Which may work out well with Mr Hansen at the helm that's smart enough to make the ultimate wise decision. But what happens when he's gone? I hate so sound so pessimistic, but just look at the kind of leadership we have now. They explicitly roll over for votes. If anything, Hansen would be a one hit wonder and then it's all downhill from there.
That's only if Nokia files bankruptcy. They could in theory downsize to nothing but a legal firm that does nothing but license out the IP in attempt to collect reoccurring revenue. An IP patent portfolio as large as that one is cash cow worth keeping.
That's real interesting! It's almost natures way of honing in on the optimal age limit an animal should live. As a species, it might be more of a benefit to live fast and die young (while reproducing along the way) than to live longer and have fewer children. An optimal turnover rate that can change back and forth depending on environmental stresses.
Not to be racist here (because we're all human after all), but that might explain why black Africans are at one end of the life spectrum compared to say the Japanese. Just a thought.
I'm 36yr myself and about to be a father for the first time. I too was conceived when my father was in his 30s as well. I also have a long family history of grand parents living long and having children late in life. So who knows. Maybe my child will live well into his/her 100s. And that's aside from any further advances in medical research.
There's a lot of value in business process plans, costing charts, and project management documents. In the right hands, it's worth enough to an executive to start his/her own company based around this template of success. More often as a direct competitor to the industry you came from.
Capitalism is amoral. That is correct. However, there's an old saying about not burning bridges. For every bad man or organization putting melamine into baby formula, there are a lot more capitalizing on creating more reputable products and services that can be trusted. For others, they make a completely different product all together that will test melamine in DIY home testing kits.
Capitalism is just an efficient form of the way we socialize that both benefits ourselves as well as others. It's far and away better than a top-down command and control scheme.
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You're running solo and expecting everyone else to do the same. Wrong way of understanding the masses. Although because it works for you, and really well, by all means continue to do what you do.
Business around the world need a set of tools to act as a common denominator. An Office suite is a popular method. It allows for any employee to come and go out of a company with little downtime to transition in learning a new documentation scheme. Excel files can become massively complex with formulas and macros. Word files become excessively complex when rendering a 500+ page report deliverable to clients as a way of selling research and other interpretation data. Often including all sorts of markups and embedded photos. These files will need to be viewed by all parties involved with little fuss and ease of printing and editing.
Oh, and you're running some heavy duty calculations, Mathcad is worth looking into. The licensing is uber expensive, and yet companies pay hand over fist for them. I can guarantee you, it has nothing to do with being ignorant of other options on the table.
That's just for the first hit. Where Apple will really make hand over fist in money will be at the App store and iTunes.
Which is why I never by OCed editions of hardware or manually OC my own equipment. I don't care how well you can cool the components. They will die fast and young!
Keep in mind that currently, the Intel desktop RAID RST does not pass TRIM command to the SSDs when in a RAID volume. Supposedly that will change in a newer version of the RST driver. Not sure when, but it's a feature to be added and has been in the works for some time now.
PAE was a joke if you needed to run something like CAD as you couldn't address more than 3GB (with /3 switch in boot.ini). At that point, just let the entire OS address all 3.2 to 4GB of RAM (depending on hardware you have). Simply moving to a 64bit OS resolves all these limitations without having to resort to work arounds and "hacks". But I still think MS artificial RAM limitation with 64bit Home Premium was a dick move.
Sorry, I can't let this go. Yes, IBM/Hitachi had a bad run of the Deskstar series. The faulty production run and QC didn't last very long. And yes, every fucking HDD manufacture goes through one of the nasty little phases. Maxtor means "Crapster" to me. WD used to be king, but many of their drives have been failing a lot more normal. Seagate drives are good. Though I've ran into a bad rash of SAS drives last year. The point being, Deskstars are great drives and have been for a long time. It's old news your clinging on to. Get it a rest and stop spreading FUD!
Ditto for the Intel SSD recommendation. I've got an X-25m in my MacBook (OSX hacked to enabled TRIM). I'm always running my WinXP VM off it along with creating ISO files and moving them off to the network. So my SSD gets a substantial amount of writes each day.
I have been eyeing OCZ Vertex lineup though for my home workstation. I love Intel's reputation, but OCZ seems to have their act togeather in a serious way with a great product lineup with insane speeds. Anyone recommend for or against OCZ around here? I want a reliable plan B.
Well technically, an SSD remaps LBAs to physical memory cells for wear leveling. You could say the unit is "driving" the data to its proper storage area.
I ran into a job posting wanting 10 years of Server 2008 experience. Obviously I don't have the experience of a time traveler. And if I did, I sure as hell wouldn't be working for that company. In fact, I wouldn't be working at all but rather gaming the entire planet Earth for profit.
Seriously, to hell with that HR. I hope the company she/her represents fail!
Wendy's french fries dipped in a chocolate frosty. Heads turn when I do this. But, it's pretty damn good.
Don't knock it till you try it.
While I'm sure they would be in direct violation of Massachusetts law, the whole argument would be rendered moot should the industry take it to the federal court. Massachusetts most likely would lose. I say "most likely" because there has and will forever be legal battles of state law vs federal law. Even to this day, Texas battling EPA provisions. An entire STATE. So ya, entirely possible Auto Industry vs. Massachusetts could happen in court.
Federal EPA standard are such that individual states must meet or exceed the Federal standards. The way in which the law was codified gives states the provision to do this.
Again. Federal Law trumps state law! Unless not codified.
Federal law trumps state law. The auto manufactures could encrypt the computers and any attempt to crack it would be grounds for violating the DMCA (anti-circumvention portion).
With Intel and AMD as their competition, why risk tipping your hat for what arguably could be called a niche market. Keeping secrets about low level hardware optimizations is a competitive market advantage.
Doesn't matter. Steve Balmer will fuck it up anyways. He will get fired, MS will be left without direction. Bill Gates will say "screw you, I found God and I have a foundation to run. Run the company yourself" (he ain't coming back). There will be a vacuum in the business market for software and a platform to run it on now that MS is left discombobulated. Apple will be saying "WTF!!!, If only our dear leader Steve was still around...". Google will try and fill the vacuum and fail. Legacy software will be supported via 3rd party. XP sticks around another five years... Year of Linux has arrived...much as it always has... *sarcasm*. Nothing new.
Apple: WTF?! For real? This can't be happening! (kicks MS tombstone hoping to revive its spirt from the grave)
The article titled Technology Use Increase Could Harm Pupils Reasoning Skills agrees with you.
For what, a generation? That's not enough bring nVidia to it's knees you know. This leap frogging is something both nVidia and AMD/ATI experience with each product launch. *yawn*
Pretty much. I've seen plenty of Samsung SSD drives go tits-up in Dell laptops. Actually, make that all of them. From intermittent random freezes to systems not responding to...poof, gone! All of these laptops were running Win7, so if the drive supported TRIM, it would have been utilized.
Personally, I'm using 3 1/2 year MacBook. I replaced the drive with a Intel X25-m. I choose Intel because they seem to be the defacto standard in reliability. So far (knock on wood), I haven't had a single problem. But I run backups daily with Time Machine regardless.
I'm still on the fence on rather to upgrade my home workstation with an OCZ Synapse Cache drive in conjunction with my existing Intel RAID1 volume using the RST feature. Or, just go with a single OCZ Vertex 4 SSD and schedule nightly backups to a standard HDD. The first option being cheaper and offering high availability. The second option being faster and simpler setup. It would also free up a SATA port for future storage.
To me, "big data" is defined by the storage to transfer I/O bottleneck ratio.
Which may work out well with Mr Hansen at the helm that's smart enough to make the ultimate wise decision. But what happens when he's gone? I hate so sound so pessimistic, but just look at the kind of leadership we have now. They explicitly roll over for votes. If anything, Hansen would be a one hit wonder and then it's all downhill from there.
That's only if Nokia files bankruptcy. They could in theory downsize to nothing but a legal firm that does nothing but license out the IP in attempt to collect reoccurring revenue. An IP patent portfolio as large as that one is cash cow worth keeping.
That's real interesting! It's almost natures way of honing in on the optimal age limit an animal should live. As a species, it might be more of a benefit to live fast and die young (while reproducing along the way) than to live longer and have fewer children. An optimal turnover rate that can change back and forth depending on environmental stresses.
Not to be racist here (because we're all human after all), but that might explain why black Africans are at one end of the life spectrum compared to say the Japanese. Just a thought.
I'm 36yr myself and about to be a father for the first time. I too was conceived when my father was in his 30s as well. I also have a long family history of grand parents living long and having children late in life. So who knows. Maybe my child will live well into his/her 100s. And that's aside from any further advances in medical research.
There's a lot of value in business process plans, costing charts, and project management documents. In the right hands, it's worth enough to an executive to start his/her own company based around this template of success. More often as a direct competitor to the industry you came from.
Capitalism is amoral. That is correct. However, there's an old saying about not burning bridges. For every bad man or organization putting melamine into baby formula, there are a lot more capitalizing on creating more reputable products and services that can be trusted. For others, they make a completely different product all together that will test melamine in DIY home testing kits.
Capitalism is just an efficient form of the way we socialize that both benefits ourselves as well as others. It's far and away better than a top-down command and control scheme.
How many Chinese have been killed by the Chinese? Who is their own worst enemy?