The parents today have fallen into letting other people raise their kids. Its as if kids went from being something you love, cherish, and genuinely like to spend time with and instill some of the good morals you were raised with, and turned them into an obligation. More and more, even in my own extended family, I see children, small children at that put aside and treated as a item they have to feed and make sure they have clothes to be sent to school with. As a parent, I find it my right to be able to raise a child as I want. Its not my responsibility as much as my privilege. I have 3 children now, a 6y/o, a 3y/o and a 3 week old and I can honestly say, I can't imagine not spending all the time I can with them (something that is sometimes hard as I deploy for 6-7 months at a time to sea being that I am in the US NAVY).
Society needs a wake up call, people as a singular need to just realize that life isn't corporate workplaces, and parents just need to get with the program and see that nothing in life is near as important as taking care of children and doing your best to make their life as fun, and enjoyable as possible and not let those we entrust our kids to at school and wherever else they may get pawned off to raise them instead.
And remember, the TV and movies and video games are not quality time and/or a teaching tool unless you do it with them and can foster a discussion, game, or some activity. And none of those are equal to good old outside activities.
If my end goal when I had originally started had been 8TB, I would have never built it in this way either. The cost of drives and additional support hardware to simply upgrade what I had over building from scratch was cheaper as 200GB seagate SATA drives kept going down in price. The hardware is still upgradeable as it is, to support 16TB if I wanted but now I am getting into bus bottlenecks and other obstacles that make a from scratch solution cheaper for more capacity.
I tell ya what though, I'm gonna make a small fortune selling 200GB SATA drives on ebay soon:-)
Just because it's unique to the website does not always mean that the company had a lone person who stole the addys.
You think the company had 2 or 3, maybe even more people stealing addys? The pure deviousness of it is to much to contemplate even...
That's why I am doing an upgrade to larger disk soon. Hopefully I can get a deal on 1TB drives. The data has all been offloaded to a myriad of machines 3 times so I could upgrade the arrays and stay consistent with disk sizes. Latency isn't as noticeable as one would think. The array is mounted as read only except for scheduled uploads of new content(usually only 2-3 times a month). Once the reads start, they play without any problem (never played more than 2 HD and 4 SD streams at once), and writes are slow(read that as EXTREMELY slow) but not a problem as I only sync like I said 2-3 times a month. I'm looking to do a single RAID6 using 2 PCI-E 16x cards and upto 12 drives. My initial storage requirements of storage have been met and I only add a few movies and EP's a month now so a gain of 4TB over my current would keep me going for a couple years considering I am only right now using a little over 6TB.
The reason I have the first raid5 is that the SATAII port multipliers I am using support JBOD, RAID0,1 and 5. Backup is not CRITICAL as I have legit copies of all the movies, and most of the tv shows have been bought as season bundles. Redundancy of data is important though so I can can suffer a pretty massive crash of a number of drives in this setup. It seems like a reasonable trade off to use RAID as I did to ensure I could recover without have to rip everything all over again. At the time I built this (200GB drives were new at the inception), RAID6 was not an option so please don't call me stupid for building a setup in a much smaller scale and growing with it until a large enough disk capacity became available at a price point to make it worth building a system from scratch. Its server my needs and now with the 750's at a good price point, and 1TB's coming out, the next few months will see my capacity grow and complexity diminish.
I like many others I personally know want an end goal. That is why I can't do MMORPG. I play and play and play (tried it), and then I play some more for what..... Well, that's were traditional games work best for me. I can load them up on multiple PC's for home and or travel and port my saves around with me if I need to (sometimes with a little effort) and play while travelling when I have no net, and best of all, I can accomplish a game winning goal and feel a sense of accomplishment. I also get the ability to play many games that I bought without a monthly subscription and experience a new game world (with exception being close sequels) each time. To each his own, but this gamer likes his games to be like a good book.
I can easily see the need for mass storage in the HOME with multimedia and other types of storage. Sure the web makes things easy to acquire, but that is still never gonna compare to instant over a home network. At home, I have an 8TB movie server that's using all 200GB drives. The drive enclosure is custom built and is using multiple 5 DC power supply bricks and also has SATAII Raid 5 capable expanders to create the first level of raid5. From there I go to a 8 port SATAII card and create 2 RAID 5 arrays using 2 4 port groups. At that point, the whole thing is brought into a raid0. The ONLY thing this is used for is storage of video (movies/tv ep's). I also have a 4TB video capture server with 6 TV capture cards. Each capture card can be controlled from a remote media center pc for live stream and recording at same time. I also have 2 2TB file servers with an archive of ISO's from quite literally every CD that has ever entered my possesion (minus AOL) since 1998 and various other things of personal business like pictures, and video's I shoot of the family.
I have a couple 500GB machines floating around as servers for other things, but those don't count for anything important here.
In conclusion to the article, I have built a fast, reliabe, and easy to manage solution with samba with web frontends to manage all the file serving needs I have. I look forward to the day I can ebay all these 200GB drives though after I replace with 750GB-1TB in the near future.
What about non email based forms of communication? Message boards with PM's and RSS readers to alert you that you have a new pm(email). There is no way to track that, especially if done over https.
At least they are listening now it seems. I can agree to have a non copyable product at a lower price, and a premium product that allows me fair use rights so I can legally make copies and have an archival storage, an original, and a media center copy. Although, I think that the pricing of premium should be at or near if not lower than current pricing and the non copyable should be lesser value.
I for one am happy to hear something like this is finally being thought about. It will also save me money in the format wars as I can simply buy a reader for my media copier and have a stored digital copy and archived copy in my preferred format (legally).
You seem to think either World War had a victor. WWII by far most in my opinion had no victor but a consensus that enough was enough on all sides involved. The only real loser with the exception of all who lost their lives would be those persecuted by the factually evidenced holocaust. I'm an American, a US NAVY sailor, a father, and do not believe in torture and or teaching to not offend someone based on there contradictory beliefs.
I generate a lot of my own power (wind and solar), and worry about my battery bank until I allow grid power in the night to supplement (I also have a home built generator I made from a 20HP diesel I make my own bio-diesel for turning a home built 13,000Watt alternator for when grid can't keep up or during heavy storms and grid is down)... As such, I keep a close eye on my power usage. I can tell you based on my load testing of running systems, intel is using less power and out performing. I had a core2 duo with a GeForce 7800 pulling less down than an AMD AM2 proc with all identical hardware minus the AMD had a GeForce 5200Ultra (my 6 year old son can use a old spare vid card damnit!!), and then intel with the c2d board was still 20watts less. For the record, the C2D was a E6700, and the AMD was a AM2 4600, and considering the intel had a beefier vid card, I find the 20 watts overall quite impressive. Benchmark results would be irrelevant here as the e6700 SHOULD outclass the 4600 in perfomance so its not fair. Powerwise, intel is doing more for less.
Another solution I have seen to a very like issue is having a secure door lock like the medlock that don't open the door itself, but the bolt triggers an electric trigger built in the door with battery backup for power outages that will cycle the lock mechanism. Then also, a keypad combo lock tied into a central server that will also trigger the lock mechanism. This provides secure mechanical and electronic access in best and worst case scenarios.
It allows AMD to play on INTEL sold chipsets again. You have to think that the chipset market plays a pretty big role in the scale of things income wise also. And even though it lets AMD play on the same grounds, it also leaves intel as an upgrade option to an AMD processor in the future. This could steal away from AMD specific chipsets being sold. Also, this could leave intel into a spot where they could just up and change the FSB one day with little notice to AMD to have an answer back i the short term leaving them with OLD chips for OLD boards. To much to really know for sure on, but the rumor trolls will have fun with this one.
The real question is not how long until you see these flying over US cities, but how long until they start getting shot down over US cities by angered citizens with some know how.
I'm gonna apply for a patent to do this. Trying to think of what I could best do. I know, I'll setup a '1-Click' interface for people to apply funds into the anti-sue fund, and they can sign up for companies they most feel being sued by.
The end return could be worth it. Invading Iraq will eventually pay for itself in oil. China has plenty of resources the US could take over with an invasion. War isn't costly if you think of the cost as an investment.
I have a VPN tunnel to a hosted dedicated server I setup as a proxy to my home connection. All my home traffic first passes through it encrypted. I share this box out to a few people. To establish connection with the proxy requires secure vpn. At home, I have 2 firefox items in my menu. One for my casual browsing, and another that connects to the proxy and request it to even anonymous communication even further using tor. This, plus not saving cookies beyond session helps me feel at least a little more secure that I can't be easily targeted. It also removes the case of my ISP being able to turn over anything useful on me.
But wouldn't something a little more, well, financially sound be better..safe just makes me think of child protection sites, law enforcement security boards and such.
I know.fin is taken, but how about someone put a little more thought into this one. I agree we possibly COULD use a.safe, but for other purposes.
The most stupid thing to come out of Utah since a certain religious cult. Granted, I would rather them pass a ban on ad's period because I hate them as much as the next guy. The thing is, at work, I have no adblocking software and I am not able to install one either. My beef with this is that if I am forced to view ad's in my daily browsing, I would like ad's to be somewhat targeted to things I have an interest in. I have no need to see ad's about feminine hygiene products, or quilting or other such non-sense. Ad's targeted to sites I visit like gun and outdoor living, computer/tech related, truck outfitting, and other such crap as I look at are what I should see. This is actually to everyone's advantage just in case they do choose to support ad's or do happen to be somewhere like me that can't block them. Why I say this is simple, I have bought stuff I didn't know about from the help of ad's. Yeah, I admit it!!! I have bought stuff I saw from ad's. They are a horrible tool of the marketing industry, but they do work, and they do promote a way of letting people know about things they are interested in and may not have already known about.
My 2 cents!! I still hate ad's though.
To carry the 1 can cost lives! I never believed it in elementary school when my teacher that math could affect my life, but damn, the stuff can kill you!!!! Treat math with respect!
I try before I buy on most everything. If this works as described, I could possibly find a cheaper solution than I am usually accustomed to. On the flip side, it could be used as a fingerprint tool to id the content you are trying before you buy and either delete or disable it somehow until you can prove you own a valid license for use. Time will tell.
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The parents today have fallen into letting other people raise their kids. Its as if kids went from being something you love, cherish, and genuinely like to spend time with and instill some of the good morals you were raised with, and turned them into an obligation. More and more, even in my own extended family, I see children, small children at that put aside and treated as a item they have to feed and make sure they have clothes to be sent to school with. As a parent, I find it my right to be able to raise a child as I want. Its not my responsibility as much as my privilege. I have 3 children now, a 6y/o, a 3y/o and a 3 week old and I can honestly say, I can't imagine not spending all the time I can with them (something that is sometimes hard as I deploy for 6-7 months at a time to sea being that I am in the US NAVY).
Society needs a wake up call, people as a singular need to just realize that life isn't corporate workplaces, and parents just need to get with the program and see that nothing in life is near as important as taking care of children and doing your best to make their life as fun, and enjoyable as possible and not let those we entrust our kids to at school and wherever else they may get pawned off to raise them instead.
And remember, the TV and movies and video games are not quality time and/or a teaching tool unless you do it with them and can foster a discussion, game, or some activity. And none of those are equal to good old outside activities.
If my end goal when I had originally started had been 8TB, I would have never built it in this way either. The cost of drives and additional support hardware to simply upgrade what I had over building from scratch was cheaper as 200GB seagate SATA drives kept going down in price. The hardware is still upgradeable as it is, to support 16TB if I wanted but now I am getting into bus bottlenecks and other obstacles that make a from scratch solution cheaper for more capacity. I tell ya what though, I'm gonna make a small fortune selling 200GB SATA drives on ebay soon :-)
Just because it's unique to the website does not always mean that the company had a lone person who stole the addys. You think the company had 2 or 3, maybe even more people stealing addys? The pure deviousness of it is to much to contemplate even...
That's why I am doing an upgrade to larger disk soon. Hopefully I can get a deal on 1TB drives. The data has all been offloaded to a myriad of machines 3 times so I could upgrade the arrays and stay consistent with disk sizes. Latency isn't as noticeable as one would think. The array is mounted as read only except for scheduled uploads of new content(usually only 2-3 times a month). Once the reads start, they play without any problem (never played more than 2 HD and 4 SD streams at once), and writes are slow(read that as EXTREMELY slow) but not a problem as I only sync like I said 2-3 times a month. I'm looking to do a single RAID6 using 2 PCI-E 16x cards and upto 12 drives. My initial storage requirements of storage have been met and I only add a few movies and EP's a month now so a gain of 4TB over my current would keep me going for a couple years considering I am only right now using a little over 6TB. The reason I have the first raid5 is that the SATAII port multipliers I am using support JBOD, RAID0,1 and 5. Backup is not CRITICAL as I have legit copies of all the movies, and most of the tv shows have been bought as season bundles. Redundancy of data is important though so I can can suffer a pretty massive crash of a number of drives in this setup. It seems like a reasonable trade off to use RAID as I did to ensure I could recover without have to rip everything all over again. At the time I built this (200GB drives were new at the inception), RAID6 was not an option so please don't call me stupid for building a setup in a much smaller scale and growing with it until a large enough disk capacity became available at a price point to make it worth building a system from scratch. Its server my needs and now with the 750's at a good price point, and 1TB's coming out, the next few months will see my capacity grow and complexity diminish.
I like many others I personally know want an end goal. That is why I can't do MMORPG. I play and play and play (tried it), and then I play some more for what..... Well, that's were traditional games work best for me. I can load them up on multiple PC's for home and or travel and port my saves around with me if I need to (sometimes with a little effort) and play while travelling when I have no net, and best of all, I can accomplish a game winning goal and feel a sense of accomplishment. I also get the ability to play many games that I bought without a monthly subscription and experience a new game world (with exception being close sequels) each time. To each his own, but this gamer likes his games to be like a good book.
I can easily see the need for mass storage in the HOME with multimedia and other types of storage. Sure the web makes things easy to acquire, but that is still never gonna compare to instant over a home network. At home, I have an 8TB movie server that's using all 200GB drives. The drive enclosure is custom built and is using multiple 5 DC power supply bricks and also has SATAII Raid 5 capable expanders to create the first level of raid5. From there I go to a 8 port SATAII card and create 2 RAID 5 arrays using 2 4 port groups. At that point, the whole thing is brought into a raid0. The ONLY thing this is used for is storage of video (movies/tv ep's). I also have a 4TB video capture server with 6 TV capture cards. Each capture card can be controlled from a remote media center pc for live stream and recording at same time. I also have 2 2TB file servers with an archive of ISO's from quite literally every CD that has ever entered my possesion (minus AOL) since 1998 and various other things of personal business like pictures, and video's I shoot of the family. I have a couple 500GB machines floating around as servers for other things, but those don't count for anything important here. In conclusion to the article, I have built a fast, reliabe, and easy to manage solution with samba with web frontends to manage all the file serving needs I have. I look forward to the day I can ebay all these 200GB drives though after I replace with 750GB-1TB in the near future.
Not everyone can be a manager. Unless you of course consider jobs such as the trash man a trash MANAGEMENT expert.
What about non email based forms of communication? Message boards with PM's and RSS readers to alert you that you have a new pm(email). There is no way to track that, especially if done over https.
At least they are listening now it seems. I can agree to have a non copyable product at a lower price, and a premium product that allows me fair use rights so I can legally make copies and have an archival storage, an original, and a media center copy. Although, I think that the pricing of premium should be at or near if not lower than current pricing and the non copyable should be lesser value. I for one am happy to hear something like this is finally being thought about. It will also save me money in the format wars as I can simply buy a reader for my media copier and have a stored digital copy and archived copy in my preferred format (legally).
You seem to think either World War had a victor. WWII by far most in my opinion had no victor but a consensus that enough was enough on all sides involved. The only real loser with the exception of all who lost their lives would be those persecuted by the factually evidenced holocaust. I'm an American, a US NAVY sailor, a father, and do not believe in torture and or teaching to not offend someone based on there contradictory beliefs.
Didn't ENRON play a similar game with their reported earnings?
What would you prefer we respond with?
I generate a lot of my own power (wind and solar), and worry about my battery bank until I allow grid power in the night to supplement (I also have a home built generator I made from a 20HP diesel I make my own bio-diesel for turning a home built 13,000Watt alternator for when grid can't keep up or during heavy storms and grid is down)... As such, I keep a close eye on my power usage. I can tell you based on my load testing of running systems, intel is using less power and out performing. I had a core2 duo with a GeForce 7800 pulling less down than an AMD AM2 proc with all identical hardware minus the AMD had a GeForce 5200Ultra (my 6 year old son can use a old spare vid card damnit!!), and then intel with the c2d board was still 20watts less. For the record, the C2D was a E6700, and the AMD was a AM2 4600, and considering the intel had a beefier vid card, I find the 20 watts overall quite impressive. Benchmark results would be irrelevant here as the e6700 SHOULD outclass the 4600 in perfomance so its not fair. Powerwise, intel is doing more for less.
2 generations ahead and still can't compete with Intel's current gen on power consumption or perfomance? I guess that is progress.
Another solution I have seen to a very like issue is having a secure door lock like the medlock that don't open the door itself, but the bolt triggers an electric trigger built in the door with battery backup for power outages that will cycle the lock mechanism. Then also, a keypad combo lock tied into a central server that will also trigger the lock mechanism. This provides secure mechanical and electronic access in best and worst case scenarios.
It allows AMD to play on INTEL sold chipsets again. You have to think that the chipset market plays a pretty big role in the scale of things income wise also. And even though it lets AMD play on the same grounds, it also leaves intel as an upgrade option to an AMD processor in the future. This could steal away from AMD specific chipsets being sold. Also, this could leave intel into a spot where they could just up and change the FSB one day with little notice to AMD to have an answer back i the short term leaving them with OLD chips for OLD boards. To much to really know for sure on, but the rumor trolls will have fun with this one.
The real question is not how long until you see these flying over US cities, but how long until they start getting shot down over US cities by angered citizens with some know how.
I'm gonna apply for a patent to do this. Trying to think of what I could best do. I know, I'll setup a '1-Click' interface for people to apply funds into the anti-sue fund, and they can sign up for companies they most feel being sued by.
The end return could be worth it. Invading Iraq will eventually pay for itself in oil. China has plenty of resources the US could take over with an invasion. War isn't costly if you think of the cost as an investment.
I have a VPN tunnel to a hosted dedicated server I setup as a proxy to my home connection. All my home traffic first passes through it encrypted. I share this box out to a few people. To establish connection with the proxy requires secure vpn. At home, I have 2 firefox items in my menu. One for my casual browsing, and another that connects to the proxy and request it to even anonymous communication even further using tor. This, plus not saving cookies beyond session helps me feel at least a little more secure that I can't be easily targeted. It also removes the case of my ISP being able to turn over anything useful on me.
But wouldn't something a little more, well, financially sound be better. .safe just makes me think of child protection sites, law enforcement security boards and such.
I know .fin is taken, but how about someone put a little more thought into this one. I agree we possibly COULD use a .safe, but for other purposes.
The most stupid thing to come out of Utah since a certain religious cult. Granted, I would rather them pass a ban on ad's period because I hate them as much as the next guy. The thing is, at work, I have no adblocking software and I am not able to install one either. My beef with this is that if I am forced to view ad's in my daily browsing, I would like ad's to be somewhat targeted to things I have an interest in. I have no need to see ad's about feminine hygiene products, or quilting or other such non-sense. Ad's targeted to sites I visit like gun and outdoor living, computer/tech related, truck outfitting, and other such crap as I look at are what I should see. This is actually to everyone's advantage just in case they do choose to support ad's or do happen to be somewhere like me that can't block them. Why I say this is simple, I have bought stuff I didn't know about from the help of ad's. Yeah, I admit it!!! I have bought stuff I saw from ad's. They are a horrible tool of the marketing industry, but they do work, and they do promote a way of letting people know about things they are interested in and may not have already known about. My 2 cents!! I still hate ad's though.
To carry the 1 can cost lives! I never believed it in elementary school when my teacher that math could affect my life, but damn, the stuff can kill you!!!! Treat math with respect!
Talk about not RTFA. But damn, did you even read the post? Its not by Microsoft, its for Microsoft.
I try before I buy on most everything. If this works as described, I could possibly find a cheaper solution than I am usually accustomed to. On the flip side, it could be used as a fingerprint tool to id the content you are trying before you buy and either delete or disable it somehow until you can prove you own a valid license for use. Time will tell.