My wife's Dell Inspiron has an i3 CPU with integrated Intel HD graphics. Historically integrated graphics have sucked. But her laptop manages to sail on through 2D like a hot knife through butter. Facebook games (Flash anything really) and DirectX 2D games such as Bejeweled 3 run silky smooth at maximum resolution. No frame rate dropping what-so-ever.
As a PC gamer, I'm starting to wonder if the PC platform will be viable for hardcore gaming in the future. At the least, there will be a slow period until Intel can catch up in the future with what nVidia and AMD can offer now. I only ask because the current offering of Intel's integrated graphics are good enough for most people. That translates into less dedicated graphic sales for the other guys which in turn means less money in R&D. That can only mean that the cost of dedicated graphics will go up while the expected increase in performance and features from R&D expenditures goes down. It doesn't look good from my gaming perspective.
Agreed. The best form of hacking isn't technical, it's social. This is what happens when con artists turn to technology as another venue by which to exploit people.
For the SOHO market using cheap software-based RAID arrays, the non-TLER drives work just fine in RAID configurations.
Not WD Desktop drives
Intel managed to improve things on their end with modifications to the Intel Rapid Storage driver. AMD fake RAID (the kind managed with a browser based utility) however still has WD Desktop drives dropping out of mirror every 30 days or so. A full zeroing out of the drives along with a full diagnostic reports the drives perfectly fine. They still drop out. For a few AMD workstations I've built, I had to change my redundancy strategy. I intentionally broke the mirror volume and reclaimed one of the drives to be used as a target for Windows 7 backups. Problem solved. Neither drive has reported issues in well over six months now.
I am curious to know how Drobo devices handle desktop drives in this manor and why some versions handle different type of make/model of drives differently than other Drobo units. Check out their product matrix below. Most curious.
Assume for a moment it does strike. Odds are that it will strike the ocean. If it does, I'd like to know what kind of tsunami that would create. The 2004 tsunami has a calculated yield of about 299 megatons. Though I'm not sure if that figure was calculated at the epicenter from the quake, or energy generated upon shore impact. There is a big discrepancy I'm sure with some KE being converted into some other form of energy as it was reaching out coast to coast.
If I recall, some impacts can be surface based while others an air-burst directly overhead. It all depends on mass, density, and incoming speed.
You burn a more calories sleeping for 8 hours than you do running for 30 minutes at 8 MPH. So you can lose weight by simply eating less food without performing any exercises at all. But that's not the point of mentioning this. What is important about exercising is to maintain a healthy cardiovascular system. A proper diet, genetics, and cholesterol medication can help. But really, never discount the benefits of exercising. And it doesn't even have to be high impact either. Swimming is an excellent way to stay healthy.
Did it never occur to you that they intentionally crippled their TLER settings _precisely_ because the drives would crap out after 30 days of continuous use in a RAID config?
Actually, the change in TLER settings is _precisely_ why they dropped out after 30 to 50 days in the first place. No other brand of desktop SATA drives had this problem when using the Intel Rapid Storage driver (fake RAID) in mirror mode. They intentionally crippled their drives to force you into an up-sale of their enterprise line up. Which BTW provides no additional functionality other than an enhanced MTBF rate. When I called WD support multiple times, RAID was not officially supported on desktop drives and they proceeded to read from a script saying the same thing. Cold calling into their support yielded the same response. It was an entire setup.
Thankfully I found a bootable program that let you change TLER settings on a pair of Raptors.
One other thing. Normal drives don't just drop out of -any- RAID after 30 days
Hitachi (formerly IBM) branded drives were the most reliable out of them all. And unlike Hitachi, Western Digital crippled their SATA drives with TLER settings to prevent proper RAID operation. The drives would drop out after 30 days of continuous use in some instances. So, they forced users to use either the Enterprise or RAID edition drives. It pisses me off that it's not Hitachi buying out WD.
And yes, WD MyBook drives are absolute shit too. Don't use them for backups. They last about year or so and that's it.
The problem is behavioral. Even if you could control the phone's ring or vibrate controls externally, that doesn't stop the person from answering the phone and yap away inside a theater while the movie is playing.
When coming up with a solution, we must first address the root problem to be solved. Any other approach is just a game of Whac-a-Mole with a seemingly endless supply of solutions thrown around.
Oh, I have. Boarding an SSS flight is interesting. Doubly so for getting on/off a bus or subway. But at least they're not rude or have an attitude about it.
My proposal for movie theaters and restaurants. By default, these facilities should have cell phone jamming technology enabled with a clear sign stating as such. Also, the sign will point to a red painted receiver designated for 911 use only. Think of the emergency concept of a fire extinguisher and apply that to wired phones and you get the idea.
Actually, going back to an agrarian lifestyle is a solution proposed by many extreme Green Peace activists. I say that relatively speaking because honestly, Green Peace activists are already extreme to begin with. No, I'm talking about the minority fringe wacko nut balls. Never mind that an agrarian lifestyle actually increases poverty and population.
This is what happens when a fringe wacko group takes the concept of Simple Living one step too far. It's a lifestyle shared by many Hippies and religious folk alike.
You assume they care? Pal, let me tell you something. Whey those fresh young executives are living the post graduate party life with booze and fast cars, what in the hell makes you think they give a damn!
So why is it so few consumer devices (MP3 players, PCs, iDevices, notebooks, phones..etc) support 24bit playback? In an age where DAC ICs are pretty cheap, it would seem like a no-brainer to start supporting 24bit playback. At the very least for marketing reasons if not an actual real improvement. I suppose it's because very few sources are recorded in 24bit now days?
Synergy stays at rest and synergy in use stays in use with the same energy and in the same paradigm unless acted upon by an unbalanced corporate douchebag.
Worse. You can return from the store only to find your car split in two. It's YOUR fault for being there in the first place according the insurance companies. So you have two choices.
1. Take the hit on your premiums going up. or 2. Beg and plead for a copy of the parking lot video footage showing exactly who hit you. If you're able to track down the person whom hit you (not likely), you can take them to court. Better hope they have the money to sue, otherwise you're not only out of pocket in legal fees, but also lost a day or so out of work.
People need to be careful in parking lots. Not only for others safety, but for themselves as well. There are violent people who don't like to reason.
What do you think the whole OWS movement has been about? That's your social change right there. They're out of work and pissed. When a nation is in a state of instability and upheaval, that level of wealth consolidation is simply too unstable. We are, and have been in a major state of "correction" for some time now. And to make matters worse, a lot of the wealth has been flowing overseas instead of being re-invested in our nation. An honest-to-God trickle out of wealth!
We (Americans) are overvalued. Simple as that. We no longer have a monopoly on human capital. We're having to bid for jobs and a salary against the rest of the world willing to do it cheaper. Far cheaper. But that's not really the problem. The problem is the pace in how quickly this is happening. Society and our culture cannot take that shock in change so quickly. Hence, the problem with rapid unemployment that we are seeing now and the angst that follows along with it.
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My wife's Dell Inspiron has an i3 CPU with integrated Intel HD graphics. Historically integrated graphics have sucked. But her laptop manages to sail on through 2D like a hot knife through butter. Facebook games (Flash anything really) and DirectX 2D games such as Bejeweled 3 run silky smooth at maximum resolution. No frame rate dropping what-so-ever.
As a PC gamer, I'm starting to wonder if the PC platform will be viable for hardcore gaming in the future. At the least, there will be a slow period until Intel can catch up in the future with what nVidia and AMD can offer now. I only ask because the current offering of Intel's integrated graphics are good enough for most people. That translates into less dedicated graphic sales for the other guys which in turn means less money in R&D. That can only mean that the cost of dedicated graphics will go up while the expected increase in performance and features from R&D expenditures goes down. It doesn't look good from my gaming perspective.
Agreed. The best form of hacking isn't technical, it's social. This is what happens when con artists turn to technology as another venue by which to exploit people.
For the SOHO market using cheap software-based RAID arrays, the non-TLER drives work just fine in RAID configurations.
Not WD Desktop drives
Intel managed to improve things on their end with modifications to the Intel Rapid Storage driver. AMD fake RAID (the kind managed with a browser based utility) however still has WD Desktop drives dropping out of mirror every 30 days or so. A full zeroing out of the drives along with a full diagnostic reports the drives perfectly fine. They still drop out. For a few AMD workstations I've built, I had to change my redundancy strategy. I intentionally broke the mirror volume and reclaimed one of the drives to be used as a target for Windows 7 backups. Problem solved. Neither drive has reported issues in well over six months now.
I am curious to know how Drobo devices handle desktop drives in this manor and why some versions handle different type of make/model of drives differently than other Drobo units. Check out their product matrix below. Most curious.
http://www.drobo.com/products/choose-drive.php
I wish. With WD drives, you no longer have that option to enable/disable TLER in firmware for desktop drives.
Assume for a moment it does strike. Odds are that it will strike the ocean. If it does, I'd like to know what kind of tsunami that would create. The 2004 tsunami has a calculated yield of about 299 megatons. Though I'm not sure if that figure was calculated at the epicenter from the quake, or energy generated upon shore impact. There is a big discrepancy I'm sure with some KE being converted into some other form of energy as it was reaching out coast to coast.
If I recall, some impacts can be surface based while others an air-burst directly overhead. It all depends on mass, density, and incoming speed.
You burn a more calories sleeping for 8 hours than you do running for 30 minutes at 8 MPH. So you can lose weight by simply eating less food without performing any exercises at all. But that's not the point of mentioning this. What is important about exercising is to maintain a healthy cardiovascular system. A proper diet, genetics, and cholesterol medication can help. But really, never discount the benefits of exercising. And it doesn't even have to be high impact either. Swimming is an excellent way to stay healthy.
Did it never occur to you that they intentionally crippled their TLER settings _precisely_ because the drives would crap out after 30 days of continuous use in a RAID config?
Actually, the change in TLER settings is _precisely_ why they dropped out after 30 to 50 days in the first place. No other brand of desktop SATA drives had this problem when using the Intel Rapid Storage driver (fake RAID) in mirror mode. They intentionally crippled their drives to force you into an up-sale of their enterprise line up. Which BTW provides no additional functionality other than an enhanced MTBF rate. When I called WD support multiple times, RAID was not officially supported on desktop drives and they proceeded to read from a script saying the same thing. Cold calling into their support yielded the same response. It was an entire setup.
Thankfully I found a bootable program that let you change TLER settings on a pair of Raptors.
One other thing. Normal drives don't just drop out of -any- RAID after 30 days
Hitachi (formerly IBM) branded drives were the most reliable out of them all. And unlike Hitachi, Western Digital crippled their SATA drives with TLER settings to prevent proper RAID operation. The drives would drop out after 30 days of continuous use in some instances. So, they forced users to use either the Enterprise or RAID edition drives. It pisses me off that it's not Hitachi buying out WD.
And yes, WD MyBook drives are absolute shit too. Don't use them for backups. They last about year or so and that's it.
The problem is behavioral. Even if you could control the phone's ring or vibrate controls externally, that doesn't stop the person from answering the phone and yap away inside a theater while the movie is playing.
When coming up with a solution, we must first address the root problem to be solved. Any other approach is just a game of Whac-a-Mole with a seemingly endless supply of solutions thrown around.
Oh, I have. Boarding an SSS flight is interesting. Doubly so for getting on/off a bus or subway. But at least they're not rude or have an attitude about it.
I contend that as public etiquette is concerned, we've already reached rock bottom. Anything else would be an improvement.
My proposal for movie theaters and restaurants. By default, these facilities should have cell phone jamming technology enabled with a clear sign stating as such. Also, the sign will point to a red painted receiver designated for 911 use only. Think of the emergency concept of a fire extinguisher and apply that to wired phones and you get the idea.
Actually, going back to an agrarian lifestyle is a solution proposed by many extreme Green Peace activists. I say that relatively speaking because honestly, Green Peace activists are already extreme to begin with. No, I'm talking about the minority fringe wacko nut balls. Never mind that an agrarian lifestyle actually increases poverty and population.
This is what happens when a fringe wacko group takes the concept of Simple Living one step too far. It's a lifestyle shared by many Hippies and religious folk alike.
You assume they care? Pal, let me tell you something. Whey those fresh young executives are living the post graduate party life with booze and fast cars, what in the hell makes you think they give a damn!
Hey, you might be friended. You never know ;)
A pal and a confidant! Sheesh. Get it right people.
Interesting. That sounds like a logical bug that can quickly be patched with a microcode update (BIOS or OS level).
Yup, it's one in the same.
So why is it so few consumer devices (MP3 players, PCs, iDevices, notebooks, phones..etc) support 24bit playback? In an age where DAC ICs are pretty cheap, it would seem like a no-brainer to start supporting 24bit playback. At the very least for marketing reasons if not an actual real improvement. I suppose it's because very few sources are recorded in 24bit now days?
Duh! It's called political correctness. And if you even dare show a pair, others will kick them till you're blue in the face.
Same here. About the only time I have to set foot into a data center is for failed drive replacement, physical reconfiguration, or upgrades.
Synergy stays at rest and synergy in use stays in use with the same energy and in the same paradigm unless acted upon by an unbalanced corporate douchebag.
My computer crashed...through it! All of it! Like a hot knife though butter.
Worse. You can return from the store only to find your car split in two. It's YOUR fault for being there in the first place according the insurance companies. So you have two choices.
1. Take the hit on your premiums going up.
or
2. Beg and plead for a copy of the parking lot video footage showing exactly who hit you. If you're able to track down the person whom hit you (not likely), you can take them to court. Better hope they have the money to sue, otherwise you're not only out of pocket in legal fees, but also lost a day or so out of work.
People need to be careful in parking lots. Not only for others safety, but for themselves as well. There are violent people who don't like to reason.
What do you think the whole OWS movement has been about? That's your social change right there. They're out of work and pissed. When a nation is in a state of instability and upheaval, that level of wealth consolidation is simply too unstable. We are, and have been in a major state of "correction" for some time now. And to make matters worse, a lot of the wealth has been flowing overseas instead of being re-invested in our nation. An honest-to-God trickle out of wealth!
We (Americans) are overvalued. Simple as that. We no longer have a monopoly on human capital. We're having to bid for jobs and a salary against the rest of the world willing to do it cheaper. Far cheaper. But that's not really the problem. The problem is the pace in how quickly this is happening. Society and our culture cannot take that shock in change so quickly. Hence, the problem with rapid unemployment that we are seeing now and the angst that follows along with it.