As already said by a few, I prefer the "before" in all case shown. The girl has a lot of personality in the original picture and look fake on the right... A lot like what we see in artists magazine... you know, the picture where nobody never has a wrinkle!
Words are not telling what they are supposed to say and now... people are not looking how they are supposed to look. I would say we are doomed!
What is supposed to be the benefit? Even if you trick yourself with those modified pictures, others are still seeing you with their own perception.
Once there, why not put somebody else face and body instead? It is just easier not to take picture of you at all and take the one of somebody you enjoy looking at!
I was reading the various comments and I was surprised that nobody suggested a hardware raid ctrl. There is some from well known business (Adaptec, promise and so on) that will support from 4, 8 and more SATA drives and do RAID 1/5/1+0. They usually support hot spare, raid level change, volume growth, etc. These are available from about 300$ with a median for 8 drives at about 500$.
Using this kind of solution would be faster and more robust (make sure you are taking a full RAID chipset, not just a RAID accelerator where a combination of software and hardware is necessary) and should be easier to manage as well then a zfs setup over OpenSolaris. These are also often available for multiple OS.
I'm looking at this kind of solution for my personal LAN. I didn't had time yet to order the hardware and the disks so I have no experience doing it but on paper, it look good. At this point I'm looking for an Adaptec 2820SA which support 8 drives and offer a lot of interesting features.
Does anybody have comments on taking that road or on the Adaptec 2x20SA particularly?
I don't know the whole story about this lawsuit but at first glance, it seems that we won't be able to do much in a few years from now. Imagine that "The Bay" would have patented the process of selling goods in a store. So any store that are now in place would have to pay them a fee to have the right to open a store. That's basically what we're seeing here: if this kind of patent and lawsuit continue, we won't be able to publish a website in the future. We won't have the right to put a "Buy" button on the page and we won't be able to create search engine. Soon, we won't be able to do "bold italized text" as somebody will have a patent on putting these two tags together...
I saw a comment about the US getting swamped with patents and I think they'll have to do some house cleaning soon if they want to be able to evolve and invent new products/solutions.
I don't want either of the two companies to win and get the full right to Auction online. I want everybody to be able to create a new Auction online site if they feel they can offer something better. That's how society evolve. If you can't create anymore based on what exist, you'll have to reinvent the wheel all the time because you can't afford to pay all the rights for everything you're using in your new invention.
That would be really sad...
Etienne
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As already said by a few, I prefer the "before" in all case shown. The girl has a lot of personality in the original picture and look fake on the right... A lot like what we see in artists magazine... you know, the picture where nobody never has a wrinkle!
Words are not telling what they are supposed to say and now... people are not looking how they are supposed to look. I would say we are doomed! What is supposed to be the benefit? Even if you trick yourself with those modified pictures, others are still seeing you with their own perception. Once there, why not put somebody else face and body instead? It is just easier not to take picture of you at all and take the one of somebody you enjoy looking at!
I was reading the various comments and I was surprised that nobody suggested a hardware raid ctrl. There is some from well known business (Adaptec, promise and so on) that will support from 4, 8 and more SATA drives and do RAID 1/5/1+0. They usually support hot spare, raid level change, volume growth, etc. These are available from about 300$ with a median for 8 drives at about 500$. Using this kind of solution would be faster and more robust (make sure you are taking a full RAID chipset, not just a RAID accelerator where a combination of software and hardware is necessary) and should be easier to manage as well then a zfs setup over OpenSolaris. These are also often available for multiple OS. I'm looking at this kind of solution for my personal LAN. I didn't had time yet to order the hardware and the disks so I have no experience doing it but on paper, it look good. At this point I'm looking for an Adaptec 2820SA which support 8 drives and offer a lot of interesting features. Does anybody have comments on taking that road or on the Adaptec 2x20SA particularly?
I don't know the whole story about this lawsuit but at first glance, it seems that we won't be able to do much in a few years from now. Imagine that "The Bay" would have patented the process of selling goods in a store. So any store that are now in place would have to pay them a fee to have the right to open a store. That's basically what we're seeing here: if this kind of patent and lawsuit continue, we won't be able to publish a website in the future. We won't have the right to put a "Buy" button on the page and we won't be able to create search engine. Soon, we won't be able to do "bold italized text" as somebody will have a patent on putting these two tags together... I saw a comment about the US getting swamped with patents and I think they'll have to do some house cleaning soon if they want to be able to evolve and invent new products/solutions. I don't want either of the two companies to win and get the full right to Auction online. I want everybody to be able to create a new Auction online site if they feel they can offer something better. That's how society evolve. If you can't create anymore based on what exist, you'll have to reinvent the wheel all the time because you can't afford to pay all the rights for everything you're using in your new invention. That would be really sad... Etienne