I had a Rocket Raid 100 (IDE 4 drive RAID1/0) and a RocketRaid 1640 (4 Channel SATA RAID 0,1,5) card. With nothing connected to the 1640 and 2 mirrored drives on the RR 100 the disks attached to the RR100 in bios show up on the 1640, and when windows gets to the boot screen it locks up.
When I removed the drives in windows, it booted up without problems. Highpoint has sent me diag tools to run rather than building this in their lab!
Thanks that's exactly what I'm looking for. I like the ability to get early non-region 1 releases before everyone else. I'm in DFW so timing shouldn't be too bad. Worth a try at least.
One of the great things about USPS is they do transport 7 days a week. I place orders Thursdy/Friday and get them Monday when using USPS, but UPS or Fedex would take twice as long.
Wow, that's surprising. I go from +5 Interesting to 1,troll. Then the 2 out of 30 posts saying that's never happened to me . . . get modded up while the other 20+ saying yep, they started holding my shipments too after the price drop . . . stay the same.
What are you guys, shareholders?
What do you call it when a company recieves your package in the mail, returns it to inventory, even ships it back out to another customer and intentionally denies getting it for 2 days?
What is it called when they have plenty of movie X in stock with little demand, but make you wait 2 days before they ship it?
Netflix does this today, it's well documented (my above post in this thread has links). I call it dishonest. Netflix knows they loose money if your not paying about $2/movie. Instead of telling you this, setting limits, etc. They jack with shipping, play games, and lie to customers. They should be sued not defended.
This is no different than Comcast sending out notices to high bandwidth users, and not even telling them the threshold.
I have been a netflix subscriber for about 6 months now. They advertise unlimited accounts, but hold your shippments even when they are in stock to slow you down if you start getting too many. This is my last month. Can anyone recomend another?
I hope they do get tossed out on there butts. They deserve it.
No_Opinion, I agree with your interpretation of copyright law, but that's not what I am talking about. I have a very good understanding of copyright law from working with my company's lswyers when developing new products and services.
What I'm referring to is the ideas upon which copyright law was originally based. That in order to encourage new works, creators are granted a temporary privelage to exclusively control the content. When that time is up, it goes back to the public domain for the good of all, so others can use it and even improve it. That cycle continues makeing the society richer and more diverse every day. Unfortunately in the US, big business may ensure that day never really comes.
When did I make assumptions about you? This is your first reply.
I actually agree, your school sounds good and a step above most universities. DeVry also focuses on hiring instructors who have been out in the industry. It helps cut down the inbreeding that goes on at so many schools.
I also didn't say anything about someone's worth being tied to how much money they make. It's simply another benefit you get by going to a school like DeVry insteady of a Uniersity.
With a nic like Lord_Dweomer I'm surprised you overlooked that.
Actually I didn't say violating copyright was right or wrong. In fact, OSS depends on copyright to make it work.
I would disagree that it's your work. It really does belong to society. You and I are lucky enough to live in a society that grants it's citizens the right to freely express themselves through music, art, etc. If you don't belive that, move to IRAN and see how long before you are beaten or killed for creating "your music."
A society owns the works of it's citizens. Ours even grants them exclusive control over their works in order to encourage citizens to contribute more to the society to make it better and better all the time. The other side of the issue that gets no press is the great things that come out of the public domain. Why do you think we are only recently seeing movies like Spiderman, hulk, LXG, etc? They recently entered public domain! See what a great system we have? Allowing things to enter the public domain has spured new creative works.
I don't think anyone is telling you that you have no rights whatsoever. On the contrary, the courts agree with you, and find in favor of copyright law every day.
On the contrary, the job I have has actually let me travel to Europe, UK, Canada, etc. Where I actually learned first hand what other cultures and societies are like. I have a great appreciation for culture, and I'm almost ashamed to be American. Did you know almost everywere else in the world you go people speak 2 or more languages?
Did you know kids in Stockholm Sweeden start taking English in the 6th grade and every year after? Most Sweeds are very fluent in English.
I can order basic items in a resturant in Sweedish, German, British (hehe), and French. I took Spanish in highschool, the rest I learned by visiting.
I was sitting on a train in Scottland leaving a party with a UK citizen from work. I had a beer in my jacket. I was looking around before pulling it out of my jacket to take a drink. Owen looked at me and said, you know you don't have to do that? I looked back at him, Really? Owen said, yes, Unlike America we really are free, we don't just talk about it. What humanities class is going to teach you that?
I have learned a great deal over the last 5 years, and truly understand why America is so hated by so many. Yet every class related to the subjects you mention has taught me one thing. How to memorize a bunch of facts I care little about for a test. What happened to the things I memorized? Long forgotten.
Yet I carry with me the knowlege and experiences I have gained from actually experiencing what they try and teach. If you read the Bill Gates article from yesterday, it's exactly what he was talking about. It's easy to sit back and talk about other cultures, it's an entirely different thing to actually experience them.
Additionally that 15K I was able to put away for retirement the first two years I worked will likely double 4 times. So 15K to 30K to 60K to 120K. I'd call that a long term benefit. One that I will be able to use to help others with by supporting aid orginizations and the arts in my retirement years.
Now, tell me again what I have missed by not going to a "REAL" university?
I would agree they are not the same degree, but to say I couldn't have gone for my PE exam is just wrong. There are plenty of EE grads that couldn't pass the PE exam that went to a traditional university. I'm saying it's the individual far more than the type of school.
"Going to a university basically compresses that into a few short years."
Ok, and DeVry did the same for me in an even shorter time by not taking summers off and going year round. Others can do it on there own just by going to a public library.
You may not intend to insult anyone, but the notion that learning to think can only occur at a formal university is foolish.
Look at Edison, he had 3 months of "formal" schooling. His work is the basis for much of what the universities teach today.
Edison once interviewed a top candidate from a university for a position in his Menlo park office. Edison held up a vase in the shape of a lightbulb and asked the man, what's the volume of this container?
The man measured it, worked for many hours on his calculations. In the end he had it, and informed Edison of the answer. Eidson looked at him, picked up the bulb, walked over to the sink, filled it with water, poured it into a measured beaker, and said, "yes, that's about right, thank you for comming."
Now, tell me, who had really learned to "Think" Edison or the college student?
Your right, this is about copyright violation. The works of a society belong to that society. Copyright law was ment to give a TEMPORARY period for you to have control of the content to encourage works.
That idea was lost long ago, your copyrights as an artist will outlive you and probably your children. Society is currently getting the raw end of the deal so Mickey Mouse doesn't end up in the public domain.
I wish people would see both sides of this issue instead of, "he's Stealing from me."
Hey, I don't know you, so why would I care if you believe me or not? Yes, I had near perfect scores on DeVry exams. Yes, I was accepted at thoes schools, as my SAT's were in the high 1200s. Not MIT material, but I could have gone to most schools.
The fact that I had to give up a good job that paid $12/hour, move out of town, and spend 5 years getting the degree made the decision for me. I stayed at home, took the $15K mom had for me and borrowed another $15K. I lived at home for a while to save money. That's a lot cheaper than TT or A&M, and I paid my student loans off 3 years ago.
Instead of getting drunk for 2 years, I went to deVry. I do think I missed out on the university lifestile, but I'm ok with that. At DeVry they have trimesters, so you go year rowund with 2-3 weeks break between each trimester. That got me finished 2 years earlier and put me into a 50K job right out of school.
If I had gone to a university, I'd be a college student with no experience getting out at the start of one of the worst recessions in history.
Sounds to me like you went to University, and are pissed because your stuck in some 60K IT job, and you still have 40K to go on thoes student loans.
Most of the students couldn't cut it and dropped out. That was probably 80%. The other 10% failed classes, had to take them again, and graduated later.
If you could buy a degree, or it was just easy, then 80% would make it. The fact is, DeVry is a good school, with a bad rap due to the stupid TV commercials.
I can't speak for what they currently offer, but I did engineering. EET or Electrical Engineering Technology. We did all the math classes, worked several labs with PLDs, and even worked with TI's DLP chips. (new at the time)
They have a Electronics Technician program that takes 3 trimesters, and yes that's easy to get into, a lot of the students are not that bright, and many of them become line techs for the phone companies.
"However, if you want to learn how to think, you go to university."
Is it that University degree that has left you with such an open mind? You must be a really arrogant SOB. Do you believe carpenters, plumbers, you know all thoes trade guys are idiots incapable of thinking, as you put it? You have a lot to learn.
There's always somebody that makes more then you or I, unless your Bill Gates. I'm simply pointing out in my case DeVry has worked extremely well, and I'm over 2x the average income.
I konw there are small business owners that make that much in a month. I hope to be one of thoes some day.
Ok, there are laws preventing DeVry from doing some of the same advertising other public/private schools do. TV is one of the few avenues open to them. Personally, I think they should fund competitions and student organizations more than they do.
However, to say it's for kids that can't cut it is just crap. I was accepted at A&M an Texas Tech. I choose DeVry because I wanted to get done in 3 years instead of 5. My class started with 70 and there were 6 of us that graduated on time. It's a good program.
Still laughing? I'm 8 years out, working for a company every one of you would know, that gives me a new company car every year. Most of the people I work with have 10-25 years experience. Oh yea and last year I cleared $99,700.
What did your big name school that took you an additional 2 years (2 years you were not earning 40-60K and also not saving for retirement), that cost anywhere from 2-3 times a much make you?
Laugh all you want, I'm laughing all the way to the bank.
If you think about it, any original work is automatically covered under copyright in the US. That means even the buildings in the background are copyrighted. So I guess postcards showing the cityscape should cost $10 after you pay every building owner his "Fair" copyright compensation.
I hope we see more and more of this. Eventually people have got to realize how stupid our copyright laws have become, and we can get back to common sense.
Thanks for the post. I guess there really is no need for alarm since the readers have to be so large. In fact we should embrace RFID in every aspect of our lives.
After all, if there's one thing every/.'er knows, it's that technology never gets faster, smaller, and more powerful.
Reading down through the posts on this topic, I'm just amazed most of the/. crowd still doesn't differentiate between copywright infringement and theft.
In the case of theft, someone is deprived of physical property. If someone stole my car, I would be mad about it. That's theft.
However, if somebody could walk up to my Ferrari, use their resources to make a perfect digital copy of my car, get in it and drive away, why would I care?
Think about it, who lost out? Ford on a sale? Perhaps, they spent time designing the car, and didn't charge the first guy enough make money. The person making the copy is using his own materials, just reusing the idea.
It's the business model and copyright laws that are broken here not the act. The ideas behind Linux and GPL will one day spread from computers and make it's way into nearly every product. Then we don't have to worry about silly crap like this.
That's probably not going to happen in this reality. However, we do have something called the EFF which has the resources and will take a stand in cases like this.
If you really believe what you say, then go join for $15-50, tell them this is why you are joining (they ask), and I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to see them take this case.
It sounds like MPLS to me, which is a protocol used in VoIP. Same setup, the route is added one hop at a time. The first message has to find it's way, but after that, each router peels the label (L in MPLS), routes it to that hop, and therefore routhing is very fast after the connection is established.
What I don't understand is, the first hop has to know your requesting a www.yahoo.com page or it wouldn't know where to send your message. Therefore, if an open source TOR server can decode your message, then why couldn't a packet capture tool and post processing do the same?
Durring the beginning of the Iraq war, I used P2P to get video and pictures that were censored from the US. The instant I hear about pictures, recordings, etc. on another network they can't show in the US, I go find them on P2P.
Along with that search, I also found pictures that solders had taken along the way. Then I found gunship video (de-classified and classified because it had altitude/other readings) showing people walking into a building. The order came, and they leveled the building. Then started firing on anyone leaving the scene. You could actually see the men get thrown around after getting hit with munitions. On, and this video just happened to show one man running into a mosque so he was let go. (sure it wasn't leaked on purpose)
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I had a Rocket Raid 100 (IDE 4 drive RAID1/0) and a RocketRaid 1640 (4 Channel SATA RAID 0,1,5) card. With nothing connected to the 1640 and 2 mirrored drives on the RR 100 the disks attached to the RR100 in bios show up on the 1640, and when windows gets to the boot screen it locks up.
When I removed the drives in windows, it booted up without problems. Highpoint has sent me diag tools to run rather than building this in their lab!
I'm not too impressed with them so far.
Thanks that's exactly what I'm looking for. I like the ability to get early non-region 1 releases before everyone else. I'm in DFW so timing shouldn't be too bad. Worth a try at least.
One of the great things about USPS is they do transport 7 days a week. I place orders Thursdy/Friday and get them Monday when using USPS, but UPS or Fedex would take twice as long.
Wow, that's surprising. I go from +5 Interesting to 1,troll. Then the 2 out of 30 posts saying that's never happened to me . . . get modded up while the other 20+ saying yep, they started holding my shipments too after the price drop . . . stay the same.
What are you guys, shareholders?
What do you call it when a company recieves your package in the mail, returns it to inventory, even ships it back out to another customer and intentionally denies getting it for 2 days?
What is it called when they have plenty of movie X in stock with little demand, but make you wait 2 days before they ship it?
Netflix does this today, it's well documented (my above post in this thread has links). I call it dishonest. Netflix knows they loose money if your not paying about $2/movie. Instead of telling you this, setting limits, etc. They jack with shipping, play games, and lie to customers. They should be sued not defended.
This is no different than Comcast sending out notices to high bandwidth users, and not even telling them the threshold.
Along thoes same lines here's a couple of other links. Here's the delay calculation Netflix denies:
Enter a reasonable 10,10,3-at-a-time
Here's a study done on rentals to prove it.
Take a look at what happens to availability of movies right after you pay for the next month.
Oh, if you cancel 1 day after renewing, you have 7 days to send everything back and you loose the rest of the month.
Check out this site
I have been a netflix subscriber for about 6 months now. They advertise unlimited accounts, but hold your shippments even when they are in stock to slow you down if you start getting too many. This is my last month. Can anyone recomend another?
I hope they do get tossed out on there butts. They deserve it.
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No_Opinion, I agree with your interpretation of copyright law, but that's not what I am talking about. I have a very good understanding of copyright law from working with my company's lswyers when developing new products and services.
What I'm referring to is the ideas upon which copyright law was originally based. That in order to encourage new works, creators are granted a temporary privelage to exclusively control the content. When that time is up, it goes back to the public domain for the good of all, so others can use it and even improve it. That cycle continues makeing the society richer and more diverse every day. Unfortunately in the US, big business may ensure that day never really comes.
When did I make assumptions about you? This is your first reply.
I actually agree, your school sounds good and a step above most universities. DeVry also focuses on hiring instructors who have been out in the industry. It helps cut down the inbreeding that goes on at so many schools.
I also didn't say anything about someone's worth being tied to how much money they make. It's simply another benefit you get by going to a school like DeVry insteady of a Uniersity.
With a nic like Lord_Dweomer I'm surprised you overlooked that.
Actually I didn't say violating copyright was right or wrong. In fact, OSS depends on copyright to make it work. I would disagree that it's your work. It really does belong to society. You and I are lucky enough to live in a society that grants it's citizens the right to freely express themselves through music, art, etc. If you don't belive that, move to IRAN and see how long before you are beaten or killed for creating "your music." A society owns the works of it's citizens. Ours even grants them exclusive control over their works in order to encourage citizens to contribute more to the society to make it better and better all the time. The other side of the issue that gets no press is the great things that come out of the public domain. Why do you think we are only recently seeing movies like Spiderman, hulk, LXG, etc? They recently entered public domain! See what a great system we have? Allowing things to enter the public domain has spured new creative works. I don't think anyone is telling you that you have no rights whatsoever. On the contrary, the courts agree with you, and find in favor of copyright law every day.
On the contrary, the job I have has actually let me travel to Europe, UK, Canada, etc. Where I actually learned first hand what other cultures and societies are like. I have a great appreciation for culture, and I'm almost ashamed to be American. Did you know almost everywere else in the world you go people speak 2 or more languages?
Did you know kids in Stockholm Sweeden start taking English in the 6th grade and every year after? Most Sweeds are very fluent in English.
I can order basic items in a resturant in Sweedish, German, British (hehe), and French. I took Spanish in highschool, the rest I learned by visiting.
I was sitting on a train in Scottland leaving a party with a UK citizen from work. I had a beer in my jacket. I was looking around before pulling it out of my jacket to take a drink. Owen looked at me and said, you know you don't have to do that? I looked back at him, Really? Owen said, yes, Unlike America we really are free, we don't just talk about it. What humanities class is going to teach you that?
I have learned a great deal over the last 5 years, and truly understand why America is so hated by so many. Yet every class related to the subjects you mention has taught me one thing. How to memorize a bunch of facts I care little about for a test. What happened to the things I memorized? Long forgotten.
Yet I carry with me the knowlege and experiences I have gained from actually experiencing what they try and teach. If you read the Bill Gates article from yesterday, it's exactly what he was talking about. It's easy to sit back and talk about other cultures, it's an entirely different thing to actually experience them.
Additionally that 15K I was able to put away for retirement the first two years I worked will likely double 4 times. So 15K to 30K to 60K to 120K. I'd call that a long term benefit. One that I will be able to use to help others with by supporting aid orginizations and the arts in my retirement years.
Now, tell me again what I have missed by not going to a "REAL" university?
I would agree they are not the same degree, but to say I couldn't have gone for my PE exam is just wrong. There are plenty of EE grads that couldn't pass the PE exam that went to a traditional university. I'm saying it's the individual far more than the type of school.
"Going to a university basically compresses that into a few short years."
Ok, and DeVry did the same for me in an even shorter time by not taking summers off and going year round. Others can do it on there own just by going to a public library.
You may not intend to insult anyone, but the notion that learning to think can only occur at a formal university is foolish.
Look at Edison, he had 3 months of "formal" schooling. His work is the basis for much of what the universities teach today.
Edison once interviewed a top candidate from a university for a position in his Menlo park office. Edison held up a vase in the shape of a lightbulb and asked the man, what's the volume of this container?
The man measured it, worked for many hours on his calculations. In the end he had it, and informed Edison of the answer. Eidson looked at him, picked up the bulb, walked over to the sink, filled it with water, poured it into a measured beaker, and said, "yes, that's about right, thank you for comming."
Now, tell me, who had really learned to "Think" Edison or the college student?
Your right, this is about copyright violation. The works of a society belong to that society. Copyright law was ment to give a TEMPORARY period for you to have control of the content to encourage works.
That idea was lost long ago, your copyrights as an artist will outlive you and probably your children. Society is currently getting the raw end of the deal so Mickey Mouse doesn't end up in the public domain.
I wish people would see both sides of this issue instead of, "he's Stealing from me."
Hey, I don't know you, so why would I care if you believe me or not? Yes, I had near perfect scores on DeVry exams. Yes, I was accepted at thoes schools, as my SAT's were in the high 1200s. Not MIT material, but I could have gone to most schools. The fact that I had to give up a good job that paid $12/hour, move out of town, and spend 5 years getting the degree made the decision for me. I stayed at home, took the $15K mom had for me and borrowed another $15K. I lived at home for a while to save money. That's a lot cheaper than TT or A&M, and I paid my student loans off 3 years ago. Instead of getting drunk for 2 years, I went to deVry. I do think I missed out on the university lifestile, but I'm ok with that. At DeVry they have trimesters, so you go year rowund with 2-3 weeks break between each trimester. That got me finished 2 years earlier and put me into a 50K job right out of school. If I had gone to a university, I'd be a college student with no experience getting out at the start of one of the worst recessions in history. Sounds to me like you went to University, and are pissed because your stuck in some 60K IT job, and you still have 40K to go on thoes student loans.
Most of the students couldn't cut it and dropped out. That was probably 80%. The other 10% failed classes, had to take them again, and graduated later.
If you could buy a degree, or it was just easy, then 80% would make it. The fact is, DeVry is a good school, with a bad rap due to the stupid TV commercials.
I can't speak for what they currently offer, but I did engineering. EET or Electrical Engineering Technology. We did all the math classes, worked several labs with PLDs, and even worked with TI's DLP chips. (new at the time)
They have a Electronics Technician program that takes 3 trimesters, and yes that's easy to get into, a lot of the students are not that bright, and many of them become line techs for the phone companies.
"However, if you want to learn how to think, you go to university."
Is it that University degree that has left you with such an open mind? You must be a really arrogant SOB. Do you believe carpenters, plumbers, you know all thoes trade guys are idiots incapable of thinking, as you put it? You have a lot to learn.
There's always somebody that makes more then you or I, unless your Bill Gates. I'm simply pointing out in my case DeVry has worked extremely well, and I'm over 2x the average income. I konw there are small business owners that make that much in a month. I hope to be one of thoes some day.
Ok, there are laws preventing DeVry from doing some of the same advertising other public/private schools do. TV is one of the few avenues open to them. Personally, I think they should fund competitions and student organizations more than they do.
However, to say it's for kids that can't cut it is just crap. I was accepted at A&M an Texas Tech. I choose DeVry because I wanted to get done in 3 years instead of 5. My class started with 70 and there were 6 of us that graduated on time. It's a good program.
Still laughing? I'm 8 years out, working for a company every one of you would know, that gives me a new company car every year. Most of the people I work with have 10-25 years experience. Oh yea and last year I cleared $99,700.
What did your big name school that took you an additional 2 years (2 years you were not earning 40-60K and also not saving for retirement), that cost anywhere from 2-3 times a much make you?
Laugh all you want, I'm laughing all the way to the bank.
If you think about it, any original work is automatically covered under copyright in the US. That means even the buildings in the background are copyrighted. So I guess postcards showing the cityscape should cost $10 after you pay every building owner his "Fair" copyright compensation.
I hope we see more and more of this. Eventually people have got to realize how stupid our copyright laws have become, and we can get back to common sense.
Simon,
/.'er knows, it's that technology never gets faster, smaller, and more powerful.
Thanks for the post. I guess there really is no need for alarm since the readers have to be so large. In fact we should embrace RFID in every aspect of our lives.
After all, if there's one thing every
Reading down through the posts on this topic, I'm just amazed most of the /. crowd still doesn't differentiate between copywright infringement and theft.
In the case of theft, someone is deprived of physical property. If someone stole my car, I would be mad about it. That's theft.
However, if somebody could walk up to my Ferrari, use their resources to make a perfect digital copy of my car, get in it and drive away, why would I care?
Think about it, who lost out? Ford on a sale? Perhaps, they spent time designing the car, and didn't charge the first guy enough make money. The person making the copy is using his own materials, just reusing the idea.
It's the business model and copyright laws that are broken here not the act. The ideas behind Linux and GPL will one day spread from computers and make it's way into nearly every product. Then we don't have to worry about silly crap like this.
That's probably not going to happen in this reality. However, we do have something called the EFF which has the resources and will take a stand in cases like this.
If you really believe what you say, then go join for $15-50, tell them this is why you are joining (they ask), and I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to see them take this case.
Tax cuts or not, couldn't you always solve this problem by raising taxes?
It sounds like MPLS to me, which is a protocol used in VoIP. Same setup, the route is added one hop at a time. The first message has to find it's way, but after that, each router peels the label (L in MPLS), routes it to that hop, and therefore routhing is very fast after the connection is established. What I don't understand is, the first hop has to know your requesting a www.yahoo.com page or it wouldn't know where to send your message. Therefore, if an open source TOR server can decode your message, then why couldn't a packet capture tool and post processing do the same?
Durring the beginning of the Iraq war, I used P2P to get video and pictures that were censored from the US. The instant I hear about pictures, recordings, etc. on another network they can't show in the US, I go find them on P2P. Along with that search, I also found pictures that solders had taken along the way. Then I found gunship video (de-classified and classified because it had altitude/other readings) showing people walking into a building. The order came, and they leveled the building. Then started firing on anyone leaving the scene. You could actually see the men get thrown around after getting hit with munitions. On, and this video just happened to show one man running into a mosque so he was let go. (sure it wasn't leaked on purpose)
Innmate #1: Agrevated Assult on a police officer. Lawyer says I'll be out in 9 months. You?
Innmate #2: Doin 12 straight for selling Halo to a 17 year old. Apparently, he was planning a lan party.
Somebody tell me why we would ever need to put people in prision over this?