Lets take a break for the quest to be first with a small form factor terabyte drive. Instead lets concentrate on two things:
a) faster. much faster
b) self mirroring (ie raid 1) drives in the same form factor.
The first is obviously a desire everybody wants.
The second is similar I guess to dual core cpu's vs dual cpu's. Take a drive and instead of making it 500GB give me 2 200GB drives on seperate controllers and power supplies with an internal interface that allows one to mirror the other. Seemlessly.
While fault tolerance should never be confused with a 'backup', something like this would be very useful. With giant capacities now prevalent, most consumers have given up on backing up. But by offering a self contained fault tolerance you allow the consumer to easily chose between giant capacity or smaller size but some safety built in.
For the performance crowd, many who now use raid 10 arrays, you cut the drive clutter in half. Two bays, not 4 (or 4 not 8). Perhaps you could even get better thermal peformance than 2 independent drives.
I noticed a complaint about this yesterday so was quite surprised to see this story posted here today.. again by Michael. Guess hes the only 'life' at/. this weekend.
I guess its somewhat difficult to place total blame if the original submitter saw it on hack a day but never included a link. Then again, Mchael has a tremendous record of editorializing submissions so it would not be a surprise if that link had been removed for "brevity".
from Kos's own statement he said he was going to have (I paraphrase) 'a bigger role in other campaigns' and that 'I have none disclosure agreements so can't tell you who they are'. Right ok. And we are to believe he didn't shill for them or their issues? Please.
ok go ahead and mark this off topic but what gives with slashdot every month running the majority of the latest wired mag here too? Does/. get paid for it? Wouldn't it be easier to have one post a month 'go look at wired.com before we post all their stories here'
the bottom line is this whole effort is a POS by microsloth. How many years have they been working on this? I got a friend who had a nice bonus to buy 64bit AMD's last year on expectation of this upgrade to XP. Needless to say I feel somewhat guilty about it. Beyond the failure to do it over the past 2+ years, its crap. No 16 bit support (and no legit reason why). 32 bit code that wont run. I mean wtf? why is there no transparency so that current drivers can run even it if involves a small performance hit until native 64 bit drivers are fully worked out? Not that there own 64 bit drivers show any performance improvement.
High margin Macs making up 90% of a 2% market share, or 65% of a 4% market share?"
As the extra units don't help your bottom line and are a negative on your balance sheet and returns on capital, the former. There is no reason at all to believe further that an entry level PC will lead to a 2nd purchase years later of a high end PC. Someone that limited $ wise will most likely just buy a new $500 system 3 years from now.
the memory part of it is probably the biggest issue. Wasn't there some brooha over the dual core cpus and whether the memory was tied to a single cpu vs a single pool accessible by both?
I also wonder, while your idea sounds great on face, there would probably be a limit for the average person based on power and heat constraints.
I'm amused by all this talk of $500 headless imacs and flash iPods to drive Apples stock price even closer to the moon. Why on earth are(should) they waste capital and productive resources to try to compete in saturated markets with 0 margins? And why would they want to risk consumer backlash after deploying a POS machine like the specs we have seen? Its a competitor in price only. And my experience with an ibook and osx is that its much more sensitive to lack of resources than my past pc equivalents.
I really hope that Jobs disappoints all of you and actually releases somethings that are a) original &/or b) offer significant improvements. All this other stuff is just going a) backwards and b) taking the cache out of your brand
since the mid 90s thats all I have built - they really do extend the time before you feel compelled to upgrade. Sure there are not that many apps that run threads on each CPU. But to me a large part of it is that I run many applications simultaneously. With 2 CPU's I rarely get any sluggish feel. And if one app is being especially hoggish I can set it to run on one cpu and flip another important app to the other cpu.
This time around I also sprung for a hardware raid card and set up a 10 array. That has helped quite a bit with system responsiveness.
I've also turned off as much eye candy as possible. After a couple days its really not missed and things are much snappier.
yeah it would be great if I could run out and get some 10GHz chips to fry a few eggs on, but I think my dual MP2200's still have a bit of life in them.
quote: In the Ophthalmology editorial, Dr. Mainster explains that laser pointers do not pose the same risk to adults because "pupil, blink, and aversion response terminate accidental laser pointer exposures in less than 0.25 seconds."
I'm not an expert by any means but I believe the spot size in mm goes as initial size (mm)+2*divergence(mrad)*Dist(m) to make the math easier, assume an initial size of 0 and a divergence of 0.5mrad and dist of 1000m would give an apparent beam size of 1m at 1000m (~3000ft). The intensity would be reduced to about 3.2e-4Io (Io=initial intensity).
Someone with laser/optics expertise please check those numbers, but it seems to me these very low power devices would not have been damaging at that distance and dimmer than a flashlight. And this doesn't take into consideration the difficulty of keeping a 1 meter spot on a moving target a mile+ away.
You clearly no nothing about foreign exchange. From 2000 through 2003, and peaking in mid 01, the USD was at levels not seen since the Plaza accord in 1985. In fact, the equivalent Usd/Dem rate was near 2.35. Usd/Jpy has been in the same 100-125 range since the blowout lows in late winter 1995 around 80. Funds (Usd/Cad) have swung from extreme lows in 02 of.62 (1.60+), through.74 (1.35) which was the level it spent the majority of the 90s to the current.82 (1.22). The early 90s saw it trading around about 0.80 so these levels are not new.
Much of the recent and rapid decline in the Usd (and strength of Europe) is not because Euroland is 'better'. It is because many of the far east currencies are either fixed or pegged to the Usd. Consequently the adjustments are seen and accentuated through the floating pairs.
I could go on, but/. is not an economics or trading forum.
As a pc and ibook owner I have office on both. Kinda hard to compare as system speeds are dramatically different, but I would not call office slow on my PC. Bloated? probably.
Personally I don't see much point in Apple putting a lot of effort in an office suite. MS Office is the defacto standard. My friends who do a lot of excel for work refuse to use open office as a) the slight differences in command formats and b) nagging compatability issues and fears. For the casual/home user with no need for the MS product, whats the point of making an ever more sophisticated alternative?
Better to put the resources into something new and imaginative than retreading the old wheel.
I was quite suprised when I started reading about this on Sunday. I was like 'but they said there was no tidal wave'. The reason I thought this was I read on the 24th of a very large quake off of Australia. Being American, I didn't bother to follow up on *where* off the coast it was, just noted it said 'no tidal wave'.
Ends up that quake was 8.2 and off the south east coast. You would think knowing of that large quake, and the report of the 9 on the 26th, the respective governments would have taken some precautions - posting of alerts, asking for info from other governments/NGO's who would have wave alerts, etc. But it sounds like they basically did zilch.
I mean really - is it that hard to have an alert system as soon as a large quake is detected? The freaking USGS has EMAIL NOTIFICATION of quakes over 5. I'm not saying this would have saved everyone, clearly it would not. But many thousands could have been saved vs the small and short inconvience of a false alarm.
exactly.. while others have pointed to things more related to coding and internal things, a significant failing of "unix" is the lack of standards on what goes where and the unnecessary headaches and waste of time that can cause.
Every distribution of linux seems different, the BSD's do their thing, Solaris, etc. Why is it so hard to standardize across the variants what goes in/bin,/usr/bin,/sbin,/lib,/usr/local,/share, etc? If RFC's can be done for many years to standardize the way certain "internet" things will work, why not the the basics of the system layout?
Not to mention the fact you won't have to bring a laptop thru security if you just want it for inflight amusement. Plus this way the screaming kids all get something to watch. This makes the inseat tvs priceless.
IANAL, but if you do an armed robbery, you are unlikely to be allowed to get a gun permit;
As you said, you might lose driving privledges under certain circumstances. analogus to losing computer use. Unlike your example of riding a bus, there is no practical way to have somebody else do your driving on the PC for you.
A lot of damage can be done in 10 minutes, let alone 30.
What judges must determine is the intent. Was the hacker intending to be malicious or intending to use a system not his own for the commission of a crime? The case of accidental 'breakage' should be treated differently, but not given a get out of jail free card.
Personally I think the best 'sentence' for these type of offenders is to be assigned to a domestic, non-combat job for one of the military agencies. Restricted to base with room and board provided but at least the tax payer gets something of benefit out of it and maybe the offender will learn some responsibility.
"The communications industry contributes to a national Universal Service Fund that underwrites uneconomical service in sparsely populated areas, but it has yet to be activated in Louisiana, said Curtin, leaving BellSouth stuck with the tab. But the Louisiana Public Service Commission said it expected to reimburse BellSouth out of a new state service fund next year."
Last I checked *I* contributed to this becuase the phone companies feel the need to be reimbursed for the cost of business of their (near) monopolies. That LA would consider further reimbursing HellSouth is galling.
Its called power and the desire for more of it. This is the reason to hate government and bureaucracies. Once started they never go away, even long after their reason for being is gone. ICANN by taking money from you will now be able to fuel their own existence into perpetuity. And these jokers aren't even elected.
A few things to consider. First, they say in the article that regular photographic prints will fade in the sun. Last I checked most people don't leave their photos hanging in the sun, and if they are at all good will be mounted behind glass.
Second, the claim that 'brighter' inks is a good thing is very questionable. This applies to some of the Fuji films as well - the increased saturation can look unnatural in many situations.
Third - the higher cost for larger prints is generally from operator intervention. Color balancing, contrast checks, etc. You are paying to get the best possible print from your negative. As noted in the 'article' some places are relatively cheap as they let the machine handle these judgements.
Fourth - what value do you place on your time? It is far easier to send your work away to a lab than to muck about on the pc hoping it finally comes out right. Yes its nice to get the print back right away, but if I've already seen proofs is that really necessary?
I used the term embezzlement to point out this was about theft. As for these guys 'hacking' - would you call a thief who breaks into your home while you are on vacations by disconnecting your alarm system a hacker?
He 'sniffs' the public network and notes the newspapers your delivery guy still left eventhough you cut the service; he 'hacks' the alarm system with some fancy bypass. He goes into the house and 'accidentally' ends up opening the drawer where your wife stores her jewels - really it was a mistake he just meant to check out what was in your refridgerator.
Slashdot Mirror
Lets take a break for the quest to be first with a small
form factor terabyte drive. Instead lets concentrate on
two things:
a) faster. much faster
b) self mirroring (ie raid 1) drives in the same form
factor.
The first is obviously a desire everybody wants.
The second is similar I guess to dual core cpu's vs
dual cpu's. Take a drive and instead of making it 500GB
give me 2 200GB drives on seperate controllers and power
supplies with an internal interface that allows one to
mirror the other. Seemlessly.
While fault tolerance should never be confused with a
'backup', something like this would be very useful. With
giant capacities now prevalent, most consumers have given
up on backing up. But by offering a self contained
fault tolerance you allow the consumer to easily chose
between giant capacity or smaller size but some safety
built in.
For the performance crowd, many who now use raid 10 arrays,
you cut the drive clutter in half. Two bays, not 4 (or 4
not 8). Perhaps you could even get better thermal
peformance than 2 independent drives.
I noticed a complaint about this yesterday so was quite /. this weekend.
surprised to see this story posted here today.. again by
Michael. Guess hes the only 'life' at
I guess its somewhat difficult to place total blame if the
original submitter saw it on hack a day but never included
a link. Then again, Mchael has a tremendous record of
editorializing submissions so it would not be a surprise
if that link had been removed for "brevity".
from Kos's own statement he said he was going to have (I
paraphrase) 'a bigger role in other campaigns' and that 'I
have none disclosure agreements so can't tell you who they
are'. Right ok. And we are to believe he didn't shill for
them or their issues? Please.
its amazing the hostility monospace can generate. 99.9% of
people just dont give a fuck. I wonder if I can get this
treated as a hate crime?
ok go ahead and mark this off topic but what gives with slashdot every month running the majority of the latest wired mag here too? Does /. get paid for it? Wouldn't it be easier to have one post a month 'go look at wired.com before we post all their stories here'
the bottom line is this whole effort is a POS by microsloth.
How many years have they been working on this? I got a friend
who had a nice bonus to buy 64bit AMD's last year on expectation of this upgrade to XP. Needless to say I
feel somewhat guilty about it. Beyond the failure to do it
over the past 2+ years, its crap. No 16 bit support (and no
legit reason why). 32 bit code that wont run. I mean wtf?
why is there no transparency so that current drivers can run
even it if involves a small performance hit until native 64
bit drivers are fully worked out? Not that there own 64 bit
drivers show any performance improvement.
"What's better:
High margin Macs making up 90% of a 2% market share, or 65% of a 4% market share?"
As the extra units don't help your bottom line and are
a negative on your balance sheet and returns on capital,
the former. There is no reason at all to believe further
that an entry level PC will lead to a 2nd purchase years
later of a high end PC. Someone that limited $ wise will
most likely just buy a new $500 system 3 years from now.
the memory part of it is probably the biggest issue. Wasn't there some brooha over the dual core cpus and whether the memory was tied to a single cpu vs a single pool accessible by both?
I also wonder, while your idea sounds great on face, there
would probably be a limit for the average person based on
power and heat constraints.
I'm amused by all this talk of $500 headless imacs and flash iPods to drive Apples stock price even closer to the moon. Why on earth are(should) they waste capital and productive resources to try to compete in saturated markets with 0 margins? And why would they want to risk consumer backlash after deploying a POS machine like the specs we have seen? Its a competitor in price only. And my experience with an ibook and osx is that its much more sensitive to lack of resources than my past pc equivalents.
I really hope that Jobs disappoints all of you and actually
releases somethings that are a) original &/or b) offer
significant improvements. All this other stuff is just
going a) backwards and b) taking the cache out of your brand
since the mid 90s thats all I have built - they really do extend the time before you feel compelled to upgrade. Sure there are not that many apps that run threads on each CPU. But to me a large part of it is that I run many applications simultaneously. With 2 CPU's I rarely get any sluggish feel. And if one app is being especially hoggish I can set it to run on one cpu and flip another important app to the other cpu.
This time around I also sprung for a hardware raid card and set up a 10 array. That has helped quite a bit with system responsiveness.
I've also turned off as much eye candy as possible. After a couple days its really not missed and things are much snappier.
yeah it would be great if I could run out and get some 10GHz chips to fry a few eggs on, but I think my dual MP2200's still have a bit of life in them.
is write caching acceptable in any environment other than personal use?
quote: In the Ophthalmology editorial, Dr. Mainster explains that laser pointers do not pose the same risk to adults because "pupil, blink, and aversion response terminate accidental laser pointer exposures in less than 0.25 seconds."
I'm not an expert by any means but I believe the spot size in mm goes as
initial size (mm)+2*divergence(mrad)*Dist(m)
to make the math easier, assume an initial size of 0 and
a divergence of 0.5mrad and dist of 1000m would give an
apparent beam size of 1m at 1000m (~3000ft). The intensity
would be reduced to about 3.2e-4Io (Io=initial intensity).
Someone with laser/optics expertise please check those
numbers, but it seems to me these very low power devices
would not have been damaging at that distance and dimmer
than a flashlight. And this doesn't take into consideration
the difficulty of keeping a 1 meter spot on a moving
target a mile+ away.
You clearly no nothing about foreign exchange. From 2000 .62 (1.60+), through .74 (1.35) which .82 (1.22). The early 90s saw it trading around
/. is not an economics or trading forum.
through 2003, and peaking in mid 01, the USD was at levels
not seen since the Plaza accord in 1985. In fact, the
equivalent Usd/Dem rate was near 2.35. Usd/Jpy has been
in the same 100-125 range since the blowout lows in late
winter 1995 around 80. Funds (Usd/Cad) have swung from
extreme lows in 02 of
was the level it spent the majority of the 90s to the
current
about 0.80 so these levels are not new.
Much of the recent and rapid decline in the Usd (and
strength of Europe) is not because Euroland is 'better'. It
is because many of the far east currencies are either fixed
or pegged to the Usd. Consequently the adjustments are seen
and accentuated through the floating pairs.
I could go on, but
As a pc and ibook owner I have office on both. Kinda hard to compare as system speeds are dramatically different, but I would not call office slow on my PC. Bloated? probably.
Personally I don't see much point in Apple putting a lot of effort in an office suite. MS Office is the defacto standard. My friends who do a lot of excel for work refuse to use open office as a) the slight differences in command formats and b) nagging compatability issues and fears. For the casual/home user with no need for the MS product, whats the point of making an ever more sophisticated alternative?
Better to put the resources into something new and imaginative than retreading the old wheel.
I was quite suprised when I started reading about this on
Sunday. I was like 'but they said there was no tidal wave'.
The reason I thought this was I read on the 24th of a very
large quake off of Australia. Being American, I didn't
bother to follow up on *where* off the coast it was, just
noted it said 'no tidal wave'.
Ends up that quake was 8.2 and off the south east coast.
You would think knowing of that large quake, and the report
of the 9 on the 26th, the respective governments would have
taken some precautions - posting of alerts, asking for info
from other governments/NGO's who would have wave alerts,
etc. But it sounds like they basically did zilch.
I mean really - is it that hard to have an alert system
as soon as a large quake is detected? The freaking USGS
has EMAIL NOTIFICATION of quakes over 5. I'm not saying
this would have saved everyone, clearly it would not. But
many thousands could have been saved vs the small and short
inconvience of a false alarm.
are they all unique? Or are many of them variants on an original? Seems to me we should only be counting big version
numbers and not the updates
exactly.. while others have pointed to things more related to coding and internal things, a significant failing of "unix" is the lack of standards on what goes where and the unnecessary headaches and waste of time that can cause.
/bin, /usr/bin, /sbin, /lib, /usr/local, /share, etc? If RFC's can be done for many years to standardize the way certain "internet" things will work, why not the the basics of the system layout?
Every distribution of linux seems different, the BSD's do their thing, Solaris, etc. Why is it so hard to standardize across the variants what goes in
Not to mention the fact you won't have to bring a laptop thru security if you just want it for inflight amusement. Plus this way the screaming kids all get something to watch. This makes the inseat tvs priceless.
classic 3 volume set that any science/math geek should have.
IANAL, but if you do an armed robbery, you are unlikely to
be allowed to get a gun permit;
As you said, you might lose driving privledges under certain
circumstances. analogus to losing computer use. Unlike
your example of riding a bus, there is no practical way to
have somebody else do your driving on the PC for you.
A lot of damage can be done in 10 minutes, let alone 30.
What judges must determine is the intent. Was the hacker
intending to be malicious or intending to use a system not
his own for the commission of a crime? The case of
accidental 'breakage' should be treated differently, but
not given a get out of jail free card.
Personally I think the best 'sentence' for these type of
offenders is to be assigned to a domestic, non-combat job
for one of the military agencies. Restricted to base with
room and board provided but at least the tax payer gets
something of benefit out of it and maybe the offender will
learn some responsibility.
"The communications industry contributes to a national Universal Service Fund that underwrites uneconomical service in sparsely populated areas, but it has yet to be activated in Louisiana, said Curtin, leaving BellSouth stuck with the tab. But the Louisiana Public Service Commission said it expected to reimburse BellSouth out of a new state service fund next year."
Last I checked *I* contributed to this becuase the phone
companies feel the need to be reimbursed for the cost of
business of their (near) monopolies. That LA would consider further reimbursing HellSouth is galling.
Its called power and the desire for more of it. This is the reason to hate government and bureaucracies. Once started they never go away, even long after their reason for being is gone. ICANN by taking money from you will now be able to fuel their own existence into perpetuity. And these jokers aren't even elected.
most glass are opaque to large portions of the UV spectrum. Glass can be designed to stop virtually all UV, or to pass all UV or something in between.
But again the point is most people would not have their photos laying about where they would have constant UV exposure.
A few things to consider. First, they say in the article that regular photographic prints will fade in the sun. Last I checked most people don't leave their photos hanging in the sun, and if they are at all good will be mounted behind glass.
Second, the claim that 'brighter' inks is a good thing is very questionable. This applies to some of the Fuji films as well - the increased saturation can look unnatural in many situations.
Third - the higher cost for larger prints is generally from operator intervention. Color balancing, contrast checks, etc. You are paying to get the best possible print from your negative. As noted in the 'article' some places are relatively cheap as they let the machine handle these judgements.
Fourth - what value do you place on your time? It is far easier to send your work away to a lab than to muck about on the pc hoping it finally comes out right. Yes its nice to get the print back right away, but if I've already seen proofs is that really necessary?
I used the term embezzlement to point out this was about theft. As for these guys 'hacking' - would you call a thief who breaks into your home while you are on vacations by disconnecting your alarm system a hacker?
He 'sniffs' the public network and notes the newspapers your delivery guy still left eventhough you cut the service; he 'hacks' the alarm system with some fancy bypass. He goes into the house and 'accidentally' ends up opening the drawer where your wife stores her jewels - really it was a mistake he just meant to check out what was in your refridgerator.