You, like most average users, seem to want a reviewer to oversimplify and distill everything in a review down to a single tagline; like "ooh, it's the ultimate driving machine" or "coke ads life".
Not at all; I'm not saying I'm more advanced than an average user, however, I in fact hate oversimplified and highly distilled articles, boiled down to taglines (our soundbites). These taglines and soundbites often find themselves back into slashdot blurbs, I've noticed, and that irritates me..
I have no problem with doing my own analysis and draw my own conclusions, in so far as I can.
What I was trying to say with my post is that I go to hardware/architecture sites for informed opinion and analysis on hardware performance, and that is not what I saw in this article.
This review struck me as a bit clueless, or unfinished. The above quote is a good example of why i think so. They do some measurements, but aren't sure they're doing it fairly (compiler flags), and don't know what to do with the results. There is little in the way of analysis or conclusions. With the openssl measurements they don't even give any conclusions. But analysis and conclusions are the whole point of the review, and a remark like "As we can see above, the difference between the two CPUs seems exaggerated and difficult to trust." really devaluates this review - they're just showing us measurements they're not sure are correct ('difficult to trust') and let us figure out what they're worth?
Well, the conclusion that the opteron kicks the xeon's ass is pretty inescapable to me, finding out opteron is available and the xeon isn't quite yet and more expensive, really closes the deal to me. But the review isn't very scientific, and didn't go very deep.
Yes, that address does have a human at the other end (me), until I get spammed on it (much). Thanks for your explanation, I've written a reply by email.
For one thing, it would be pretty easy to add security at a higher abstraction level, unless the device had very little processing power indeed.
For another thing, however, TFA says: "Each sensor node will use an inexpensive microcontroller and wireless-transceiver chip operating with the ISO-802. 16.4 wireless protocol, which involves secure handshaking between nodes.".
Another thing, I can't help wondering. Why do you end your posts with 'end communication'?
"Firefox deals with network stuff. In network terms (speed, packet size, etc) megabytes, kilobytes and what not have always been powers of 10."
This isn't sensible reasoning. It's true that in the network world, sizes and speeds have always been powers of 10, but that works on network level 2 only, when we're just talking bits, not bytes. On the application layer, as HTTP is, when we're
talking bytes, then we're talking powers of 2, not of 10. As always.
"And when you're competing with a monster with over 97% market share, whose popularity has done nothing but climb since its inception, then a percentage point or two really is an achievement."
"Supports 2 TB" could mean "uses 41-bit addressing" (2^41 B = 2TB). Current IDE interfaces with 48 bit addressing "support" up to 256TB of storage but you're not going to see that kind of density on a single device any time soon.
It is 48 bit addressing, but we're not addressing bytes, we're addressing 512-byte blocks. So the 48-bit ATA standard can address 144 petabytes.
So those 2TB are probably addressing blocks using 32 bits, a much more sensible number than 41 bits.
Huh, writes slower on raid0? why on earth would that be? writes are just as fast as on a single drive on raid1, and writes are a bit slower on raid4 and raid5 due to parity updates, but that's it.. writes are not slower on raid0.
"Raid 0 is no different to having a single disk for most practical purposes. If hardware fails, restore from the last night's backups. easy. Where's the problem?"
Yes, if you make backups it's no big deal, but
drive failures will happen, on average, in half the time of failures on a single drive..
Reasonable, however here is my rationale for wanting to stick to something less with code - you can have 2 files open at the same time, visible next to each other, at the same time, with maximum height.. all screen real estate used. I find this really convenient for having two.c files open, where one is calling the other, or a.c file and a.h file, etc..
"Or perhaps I have it all backwards, but how can the stock go up 14% without this sort of thing happening?"
Well, if the stock went up, it's a good 'investment' right? Even if it only goes up because investors think investors think it's a good idea, etc., in the end nobody may think it's a good idea but the stock goes up anyway:)
it looks base64-encoded to me (because of the trailing "="). I think the 'taco' string is a total coincedence, even though the probability of it appearing in random base64 stuff of 924 characters (as this is) is very low (it would happen once in every 18000 samples, on average, according to my estimate).
whether it's base64 encoding or not, it's obviously some type of encoding, so no 'plain' meaning should be assigned to characters in it, IMO.
Quadium for 4?
I may be out of my language-depth here, but from my knowledge of greek prefix names from chemistry,
I'm pretty sure that should be tetra -> "tetrium"..
Think tetris;-)
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Like most of you, when I need a question answered, I usually hop right into the forum. The ET forum is blessed with the presence of many extremely experienced DIY people who almost always have helpful suggestions or at least a definite point of view on DIY issues.
Then, later:
Some of you might be wondering why I didn't just ask one of ET's hardware gurus-- Loyd, Dave, or Jason--about all of this. The only answer I can give you is that it must have been a "guy thing." It's like asking for directions: Why do it when you can just drive around aimlessly? Why ask for advice from the guys who know everything when I can learn it all myself the hard way, right? I've got my pride, baby!
Antec Lanboy 350... sounds a bit gay to me..
this was confirmed by finding the anagram "ben canal toy" of antec lanboy.
I agree. A twit makes one mistake after another.. while I make plenty of mistakes (not in the least in the hardware department), there's no point in reading about another twit's ones on slashdot.
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Not at all; I'm not saying I'm more advanced than an average user, however, I in fact hate oversimplified and highly distilled articles, boiled down to taglines (our soundbites). These taglines and soundbites often find themselves back into slashdot blurbs, I've noticed, and that irritates me..
I have no problem with doing my own analysis and draw my own conclusions, in so far as I can.
What I was trying to say with my post is that I go to hardware/architecture sites for informed opinion and analysis on hardware performance, and that is not what I saw in this article.
Well, the conclusion that the opteron kicks the xeon's ass is pretty inescapable to me, finding out opteron is available and the xeon isn't quite yet and more expensive, really closes the deal to me. But the review isn't very scientific, and didn't go very deep.
start one!
(another page in my echelon file)
Yes, that address does have a human at the other end (me), until I get spammed on it (much). Thanks for your explanation, I've written a reply by email.
For another thing, however, TFA says: "Each sensor node will use an inexpensive microcontroller and wireless-transceiver chip operating with the ISO-802. 16.4 wireless protocol, which involves secure handshaking between nodes.".
Another thing, I can't help wondering. Why do you end your posts with 'end communication'?
This isn't sensible reasoning. It's true that in the network world, sizes and speeds have always been powers of 10, but that works on network level 2 only, when we're just talking bits, not bytes. On the application layer, as HTTP is, when we're talking bytes, then we're talking powers of 2, not of 10. As always.
Yes, but not a mass migration.
So those 2TB are probably addressing blocks using 32 bits, a much more sensible number than 41 bits.
Huh, writes slower on raid0? why on earth would that be? writes are just as fast as on a single drive on raid1, and writes are a bit slower on raid4 and raid5 due to parity updates, but that's it.. writes are not slower on raid0.
Yes, if you make backups it's no big deal, but drive failures will happen, on average, in half the time of failures on a single drive..
Reasonable, however here is my rationale for wanting to stick to something less with code - you can have 2 files open at the same time, visible next to each other, at the same time, with maximum height.. all screen real estate used. I find this really convenient for having two .c files open, where one is calling the other, or a .c file and a .h file, etc..
Well, if the stock went up, it's a good 'investment' right? Even if it only goes up because investors think investors think it's a good idea, etc., in the end nobody may think it's a good idea but the stock goes up anyway :)
Shouldn't that be "... worthless linux licenses with its worthless Unix operating systems" ;-) ?
You forgot the ", yeah?" at the end ;-)
Only if the smartness distribution is symmetrical! However, one bear in two is indeed smarter than the median of smartnes.. :)
and where, indeed, does he say anything about them having sex with each other ;-) ? (in "My girlfriend and I were having sex")
whether it's base64 encoding or not, it's obviously some type of encoding, so no 'plain' meaning should be assigned to characters in it, IMO.
7 out of 8 replies now (at threshold 1 at least) are saying the same thing.. :)
Actually, not to end up on an NSA watch list or anything, but sometimes I wish someone would break the US up ;-)
I may be out of my language-depth here, but from my knowledge of greek prefix names from chemistry, I'm pretty sure that should be tetra -> "tetrium".. Think tetris
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Yeah, that annoyed me too.
Now someone can mod me redundant.
Not as good as: "con anal byte" and "cent anal boy" though.
I agree. A twit makes one mistake after another.. while I make plenty of mistakes (not in the least in the hardware department), there's no point in reading about another twit's ones on slashdot.