What you're saying about big models and big projects is true. However, getting a single workstation card is not going to allow you to render 10X more polygons/sec than a single gaming card. It is more useful for features like anti-aliased lines, tiled displays / multi-card rendering, etc.
Workstation cards are chip for chip identical to their gaming brethren, except that the drivers identify them as such and tweak settings accordingly.
I'll bet that's true when them come out of fab, but I'll also bet that certain crucial bits are burned out afterwards to prevent mere software modifications from converting a GeForce to a Quadro (there was such a hack maybe 8-10 years ago, I think).
For many applications, you are correct. It's a crime that some PC vendors will only sell you a "workstation class" graphics card with a "workstation class" PC. But if you need the differences, you need them. Line anti-aliasing, overlay planes, quad-buffered stereo, hardware synchronization across cards for tiled displays, etc.
It's even better than that! 5 seconds per minute is 5 minutes per hour! That's 40 minutes per workday. That's 200 minutes per week, and 163 hours per year (assuming 3 weeks vacation). Now, in all fairness, I think your blink length and frequency is substantially above average.
unplug unused power bricks (for cell phones, cameras, chargers, etc...).
So why do people keep recommending this stuff. I actually measured my unused power bricks with my handy, dandy, kill-a-watt, and they use nothing when there's no device connected to them.
True. But "society" had better improve the availability of (and education about) proper disposal for CF bulbs. In a few years when all the bulbs sold in the recent surge wear out, most will probably go into the regular trash and landfill.
Apparently, you can only get cash refund if purchase is before January 1, 2006. Here's the complete, proposed summary e-mail:
To: [Customer email address]
From: Settlement Claim Administrator
Subject: Notice of Seagate Hard Drive Class Action and Proposed Settlement
________________________________________________________
If you purchased a Seagate brand hard disc drive between March 22, 2001 and September 26, 2007, a proposed class action settlement may affect you. A hearing has been scheduled in San Francisco Superior Court to approve the settlement. Under the settlement, you may have the right to make a claim for cash or software. You also may choose to exclude yourself from the settlement. Alternatively, you may file written objections to the settlement and appear (or have your own attorney appear) at the court hearing. If the settlement is approved and you do not exclude yourself, you give up the right to sue for the claims the settlement resolves, and you will be bound by the terms of the settlement. To learn more about or exercise any of your rights, please read below and visit www.harddrive-settlement.com.
The lawsuit is Cho v. Seagate Technology (US) Holdings, Inc., San Francisco Superior Court, Case No. 453195. In the suit, the plaintiff alleges that in the sale and marketing of hard disc drives, Seagate stated that purchasers of the drives would receive approximately 7% more usable storage capacity than they actually received. Seagate has denied and continues to deny each and all of plaintiff's claims, and denies that anyone has been harmed or deserves compensation. The Court has not made a decision on the merits.
You are a member of the settlement class if, between March 22, 2001 and September 26, 2007, you purchased in the United States a new Seagate brand hard disc drive from an authorized Seagate retailer or distributor, separately as a Seagate product that was not pre-installed into and bundled with a personal computer or other electronic device.
As part of the settlement, Seagate will make certain disclosures regarding the storage capacity of its retail hard drives.
In addition, if you submit a valid claim, you will receive free backup and recovery software, or a cash payment equivalent to five percent of the net amount you paid for the hard drive (excluding taxes or rebates). To receive the software or the cash payment, you must submit a claim form available at www.harddrive-settlement.com by March 10, 2008. You may submit a claim form for each qualifying drive you purchased. To obtain the cash payment, you must have purchased your drive before January 1, 2006 and you must submit appropriate documentation or the serial number for each drive.
If the settlement is approved, plaintiff's counsel will apply for an award of attorneys' fees, expenses and incentive awards not to exceed $1,792,000, to be paid separately from and in addition to the benefits available to settlement class members.
All claims of settlement class members which were or could have been asserted in the litigation, based upon the facts alleged in the litigation (as well as in a related case entitled Lazar v. Seagate Technology LLC, et al., San Francisco Superior Court, Case No. 439700; and California Court of Appeal, Case No. A116350) will be released. This means that if you do not exclude yourself from the settlement class, you will give up the right to sue for the claims the settlement resolves, and you will be bound by the terms of the settlement.
If you do not want to participate in this class action or be bound by this settlement you must exclude yourself from the settlement class by submitting a written request for exclusion which includes your full name and address and your request to be excluded from the class. Mail your request for exclusion to Hard Drive Settlement, c/o Rust Consulting, Inc., P.O. Box 1240, Minneapolis, MN 55400-1240. Your written request for exclusion must be received by December 21, 2007. If you exclude yourself, you will not receive the benefits of the settlement, and you cannot object to the
If its being used in a data center, what is the likelyhood that it will be able to "low-idle" for any length of time?
What percentage of Google's data do you think is actually being accessed at any given time? I'll bet most of the queries are for a small percentage of the data, plus most accesses are to the indexes and not to the actual data caches.
We're not imprisoning dissidents and journalists yet
It's apparently not for lack of trying, though. This couple was arrested for wearing anti-Bush t-shirts at a speech on public property. The police had trouble coming up with charges, and eventually tried "trespassing". They were later released, and successfully sued with the help of the ACLU.
my question has always been, "why was it okay for my to make copies of my vinyl albums, put them on cassette, and give it to a friend but it's not okay for me to make a copy of a cd and give that cd copy to the same friend?"
In the 1980s, back when LPs and cassette tapes were all the rage, there were record rental stores. The RIAA managed to smash this by getting Congress to pass the "Record Rental Amendment" in 1984.
That's pretty interesting. I suppose rentals (and the associated copying) may not have been as good for the music business as it has turned out for the movie business. Perhaps because people may listen to the same song hundreds of times, but only want to watch the same movie once or twice. Of course, the movie industry went nuts over VCRs at the time, too.
What I would like is a simple and elegant "lazy Susan" style spice rack for keeping my cooking ingredients organized. It should also cook me dinner in time for my arrival at home after work.:-)
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What you're saying about big models and big projects is true. However, getting a single workstation card is not going to allow you to render 10X more polygons/sec than a single gaming card. It is more useful for features like anti-aliased lines, tiled displays / multi-card rendering, etc.
Workstation cards are chip for chip identical to their gaming brethren, except that the drivers identify them as such and tweak settings accordingly.
I'll bet that's true when them come out of fab, but I'll also bet that certain crucial bits are burned out afterwards to prevent mere software modifications from converting a GeForce to a Quadro (there was such a hack maybe 8-10 years ago, I think).
For many applications, you are correct. It's a crime that some PC vendors will only sell you a "workstation class" graphics card with a "workstation class" PC. But if you need the differences, you need them. Line anti-aliasing, overlay planes, quad-buffered stereo, hardware synchronization across cards for tiled displays, etc.
And neither CAD nor graphics cards have changed much since the early 90's! Thanks for the laugh.
Okay, so now I can run my hardware-accelerated 3D rendering using an open-source driver on AMD/ATI hardware? Oh, I can't? Why not?!!
To start it off, I love the control inputs for Battlezone!
Well, announcing a 15% salary cut is essentially announcing a layoff. Hopefully, losing some percentage of their workforce was what IBM had in mind.
I have one of these as well. But perhaps the serial numbers are easy to crack.
I guess people on slashdot like facts, so here's a handy historical CGI timeline. Check out 1969 for the first CGI commercial.
It's evolved into junk for commercials
Actually, it started out as junk for commercials, too. So what?
Wait. Is public knowledge good or bad this week?
It's even better than that! 5 seconds per minute is 5 minutes per hour! That's 40 minutes per workday. That's 200 minutes per week, and 163 hours per year (assuming 3 weeks vacation). Now, in all fairness, I think your blink length and frequency is substantially above average.
unplug unused power bricks (for cell phones, cameras, chargers, etc...).
So why do people keep recommending this stuff. I actually measured my unused power bricks with my handy, dandy, kill-a-watt, and they use nothing when there's no device connected to them.
True. But "society" had better improve the availability of (and education about) proper disposal for CF bulbs. In a few years when all the bulbs sold in the recent surge wear out, most will probably go into the regular trash and landfill.
Huh? The point is that the increased up-front cost to the consumer is the disincentive.
Unfortunately, they tend to overestimate their positive response to all three. At least slashdotters should be able to estimate #1 correctly.
Hotmail.
Yuck!
Apparently, you can only get cash refund if purchase is before January 1, 2006. Here's the complete, proposed summary e-mail: To: [Customer email address] From: Settlement Claim Administrator Subject: Notice of Seagate Hard Drive Class Action and Proposed Settlement ________________________________________________________ If you purchased a Seagate brand hard disc drive between March 22, 2001 and September 26, 2007, a proposed class action settlement may affect you. A hearing has been scheduled in San Francisco Superior Court to approve the settlement. Under the settlement, you may have the right to make a claim for cash or software. You also may choose to exclude yourself from the settlement. Alternatively, you may file written objections to the settlement and appear (or have your own attorney appear) at the court hearing. If the settlement is approved and you do not exclude yourself, you give up the right to sue for the claims the settlement resolves, and you will be bound by the terms of the settlement. To learn more about or exercise any of your rights, please read below and visit www.harddrive-settlement.com. The lawsuit is Cho v. Seagate Technology (US) Holdings, Inc., San Francisco Superior Court, Case No. 453195. In the suit, the plaintiff alleges that in the sale and marketing of hard disc drives, Seagate stated that purchasers of the drives would receive approximately 7% more usable storage capacity than they actually received. Seagate has denied and continues to deny each and all of plaintiff's claims, and denies that anyone has been harmed or deserves compensation. The Court has not made a decision on the merits. You are a member of the settlement class if, between March 22, 2001 and September 26, 2007, you purchased in the United States a new Seagate brand hard disc drive from an authorized Seagate retailer or distributor, separately as a Seagate product that was not pre-installed into and bundled with a personal computer or other electronic device. As part of the settlement, Seagate will make certain disclosures regarding the storage capacity of its retail hard drives. In addition, if you submit a valid claim, you will receive free backup and recovery software, or a cash payment equivalent to five percent of the net amount you paid for the hard drive (excluding taxes or rebates). To receive the software or the cash payment, you must submit a claim form available at www.harddrive-settlement.com by March 10, 2008. You may submit a claim form for each qualifying drive you purchased. To obtain the cash payment, you must have purchased your drive before January 1, 2006 and you must submit appropriate documentation or the serial number for each drive. If the settlement is approved, plaintiff's counsel will apply for an award of attorneys' fees, expenses and incentive awards not to exceed $1,792,000, to be paid separately from and in addition to the benefits available to settlement class members. All claims of settlement class members which were or could have been asserted in the litigation, based upon the facts alleged in the litigation (as well as in a related case entitled Lazar v. Seagate Technology LLC, et al., San Francisco Superior Court, Case No. 439700; and California Court of Appeal, Case No. A116350) will be released. This means that if you do not exclude yourself from the settlement class, you will give up the right to sue for the claims the settlement resolves, and you will be bound by the terms of the settlement. If you do not want to participate in this class action or be bound by this settlement you must exclude yourself from the settlement class by submitting a written request for exclusion which includes your full name and address and your request to be excluded from the class. Mail your request for exclusion to Hard Drive Settlement, c/o Rust Consulting, Inc., P.O. Box 1240, Minneapolis, MN 55400-1240. Your written request for exclusion must be received by December 21, 2007. If you exclude yourself, you will not receive the benefits of the settlement, and you cannot object to the
If its being used in a data center, what is the likelyhood that it will be able to "low-idle" for any length of time?
What percentage of Google's data do you think is actually being accessed at any given time? I'll bet most of the queries are for a small percentage of the data, plus most accesses are to the indexes and not to the actual data caches.
We're not imprisoning dissidents and journalists yet
It's apparently not for lack of trying, though. This couple was arrested for wearing anti-Bush t-shirts at a speech on public property. The police had trouble coming up with charges, and eventually tried "trespassing". They were later released, and successfully sued with the help of the ACLU.
anonymous coward writes:
And who the fuk are you?
Oh, the irony!
my question has always been, "why was it okay for my to make copies of my vinyl albums, put them on cassette, and give it to a friend but it's not okay for me to make a copy of a cd and give that cd copy to the same friend?"
This is the police! Come out with your hands up!
In the 1980s, back when LPs and cassette tapes were all the rage, there were record rental stores. The RIAA managed to smash this by getting Congress to pass the "Record Rental Amendment" in 1984.
That's pretty interesting. I suppose rentals (and the associated copying) may not have been as good for the music business as it has turned out for the movie business. Perhaps because people may listen to the same song hundreds of times, but only want to watch the same movie once or twice. Of course, the movie industry went nuts over VCRs at the time, too.
And eye-bleedingly ugly, at least until you change the default color scheme (can you?).
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Easy:
What I would like is a simple and elegant "lazy Susan" style spice rack for keeping my cooking ingredients organized. It should also cook me dinner in time for my arrival at home after work. :-)