XFS uses a direct memory-to-disk scheme. This makes it fast, but not robust on common x86 machines. On these machines, the first thing to go out on a power failure is the memory and later the harddisks. So, on power failure garbage will be written to the disk. On SGI machines, they added little capacitors to the memory, so it will survive more than the harddisk (and write will be correct).
I know nothing about the internals of XFS, and yet even I can smell the stench of bullshit in this statement: if the memory retains its data while the hard disk is failing, write will NOT be correct! Simple as this: to have data written from memory to disk, all elements in the chain must be powered on; RAM, DMA controller and glue logic, HBA, disk.
Just be relentless in your research. As you yourself said, classical music is a vast field, but it's a very thankful task to dwell into it.
One more thing: your experience of a particular piece of music depends very much on the performer and the performance. Most of Bernstain's conducteding Beethoven symphonies is excellent and enjoyable, but he is human and so a few duds have slipped through the recordings. And bad performances are most common among overly-edited recordings (way too many takes). Those recordings sound technically perfect but utterly uninvolving, uninspiring, dead. Keep this in mind at all times, and don't hesitate to listen to older, albeit a bit noisy, recordings - many gems hide there.
Ummm.... which Bach? I was talking about Wilhelm Friedeman, the one considered the mosttalented of Johann Sebastian Bach's sons. J.S. Bach had other composer sons, too, the most famous bein Carl Philip Emmanuel Bach.
If you talk about Brandenburg Concertos, you are most probably referring to Johann Sebastian Bach.
I like all of Beethoven's piano concertos, all of his sonatas and all of his symphonies. Then I like most of his string quartets and trios. I also like his violin concerto.
So, I guess, I like almost all of Beethoven's opus.
And now that I think of it, there's no toher composer whose work I so universally like. Well, maybe Wilhelm Friedeman Bach, but that's just because he wrote so few compositions.
I am not trying to guess what the grandparent post meant to say, but it's important to note that both sonatas and symphonies have one important thing in common: both adhere to the sonata form.
Holy fagioli, talk about "evil conglomerate"! Will the Microsoft headqarters transform into something ominous and purely evil like the Event Horizon ship from the same movie?
There was the story about Google releasing their APIs. That was triple-duped, and the best thing is, two of the dupes were from the same author (CmdrTaco).
Good points, but if geological stability was a factor, I wish theytook Finland (home sweet home) as an option: Finland has the most geologically stable territory by FAR in Europe. Basically, Finland would be better off to offer any of the E*U countries to send their nuclear waste here and bury it, because the risk of an earthquake is so low that the nuclear waste will have a long and safe life here, unlike anywhere else in Europe, and then the pollution would eventually arrive to Finland as well.
There is radioactive material in the coal, which is released into the atmosphere both during mining and processing, as well as during the burning.
The quantity of such material is about twice as much as in the case of nuclear plants, per watt-hour of energy. And we have not even talked about the other (non-radioactive) pollutants.
My physics teacher from high school used to say that he'd much rather live on top of a nuclear plant rather than 1 Km from a coal plant of same energy output. Much helathier.
I have nothing against France (only some French), but I was warmly hoping that Japan gets the project. In my view, Japan is so perfectly suited, technology and mentality-wise, to pull this off.
Still, France is OK, because they are one of the countries with highest % of nuclear energy. So much so, in fact, that they make a lot of good money exporting it.
And get this: one of the largest importers (the largest?) offrench electric energy is Germany, who have outlawed and disbanded their nuclear plants due to Green misguided pressure, and are now a) polluting themselves with coal plants, which actually produce more radioactive waste than nuclear plants of same energy output (not to mention other pollutants). b) paying for el. energy to France, which is produced by nuclear plants which are close enough to Germany, that if a meltdown happened, they would be just as affected!
7 or 8 years ago, I bought a Yamaha surround processor, a 2 + 2 system. As I was contemplating the purchase of the rear speakers, my friend explained that a 5+1 system would have been much better. And in fact, I realized that there was precious little I could do with my Yamaha.
I managed to sell it (with a substantial discount) to a guy whom I did explain the situation.
Since then, I never bought any surround system. I have my two speakers, and enjoy full immersive whatever when I go to the cinema. I imagine the movie industry has unlimited means to create the perfec theater and experience. I am sure that the movie people would love it if people bought the same movie on DVD and other media, over and over. I gave up on that game (the only way to win). I also suspect that many of those who buy sophisticated surround systems, do it for the "bling" value (read "chick magnet"). I don't need that, so I am and probably will stay cool to this tech.
This is excellent news, no matter how you look at it (except if you work for MS).
This is only one country, but you knw how it is in life: it takes only one dissenter to encourage many. I will be watching my country (Finland) to see if they'll follow suit (I won't be surprised if not, Finns really like to be different from Sweden, Denmark and Norway, almost stubbornly).
Youmight have heard: Japanese are not afraid of technology - they embrace it and like it. I could see that in so many aspects, and am sure they will have the first commercial fusion plant. They might not develop the core tech, but they will use it, you can bet on that. (and I wouldn't the least be surprised if, once built, will be operated by bipedal robots).
Well, I'm pretty sure, as nowadays, to be able to make a decent (competitive) GPU, you need a lot of engineering/R&D, the kind that Nvidia, Matrox and ATI. Those are juggernauts, and Apple can't afford to grow it's own GPU arm. They could, of course, order a custom-made GPU from ATI (for example), but then it wouldn't be too hard to write a driver for it.
Anyway, let's just sit down and enjoy the "movie". One year from now we'll be both still here. Let's see if we remember this convo:o)
Well, join the club: I hate putzing with unsupported hardware, too. But my original (mental) experiment supposed the two machines to be identical even in hardware, not just CPU. So when I said that it boots and runs Mac OSX86, I meant that it's fully supported, which is not a very large stretch of one's imagination.
Unless Apple starts making custom graphics cards, which they won't. Sun is probably the last system integrator that makes their own graphics cards.
It's simple to reply to this: if a Mac x86 will cost US $1000 and a similarly spec'd computer from Dell or HP will cost US $600, and IF they both can boot and run Mac OSX86, which one will I rather buy? I hope you spent less than 2.8 seconds figuring out the answer.
Exactly. Never has clock speed meant less for the Pentium than now! Expect Intel to cranc up the marketing, the hip-hop dancers and the gigahertz game. Sickens me already.
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XFS uses a direct memory-to-disk scheme. This makes it fast, but not robust on common x86 machines. On these machines, the first thing to go out on a power failure is the memory and later the harddisks. So, on power failure garbage will be written to the disk. On SGI machines, they added little capacitors to the memory, so it will survive more than the harddisk (and write will be correct).
I know nothing about the internals of XFS, and yet even I can smell the stench of bullshit in this statement: if the memory retains its data while the hard disk is failing, write will NOT be correct! Simple as this: to have data written from memory to disk, all elements in the chain must be powered on; RAM, DMA controller and glue logic, HBA, disk.
Just be relentless in your research. As you yourself said, classical music is a vast field, but it's a very thankful task to dwell into it.
One more thing: your experience of a particular piece of music depends very much on the performer and the performance. Most of Bernstain's conducteding Beethoven symphonies is excellent and enjoyable, but he is human and so a few duds have slipped through the recordings. And bad performances are most common among overly-edited recordings (way too many takes). Those recordings sound technically perfect but utterly uninvolving, uninspiring, dead. Keep this in mind at all times, and don't hesitate to listen to older, albeit a bit noisy, recordings - many gems hide there.
OK, the following are, in my opinion, some of the all-time best recordings of some of the greatest classical music compositions.
Best Scarlatti Sonatas recording ever
Greatest recording of Goldberg variations
W. F. Bach
Best recording (and best boy soprano interpretation) of Mahler's 4th
This is just off the top of my head. More can come, if you are interested.
Ummm.... which Bach? I was talking about Wilhelm Friedeman, the one considered the mosttalented of Johann Sebastian Bach's sons. J.S. Bach had other composer sons, too, the most famous bein Carl Philip Emmanuel Bach.
If you talk about Brandenburg Concertos, you are most probably referring to Johann Sebastian Bach.
I like all of Beethoven's piano concertos, all of his sonatas and all of his symphonies. Then I like most of his string quartets and trios. I also like his violin concerto.
So, I guess, I like almost all of Beethoven's opus.
And now that I think of it, there's no toher composer whose work I so universally like. Well, maybe Wilhelm Friedeman Bach, but that's just because he wrote so few compositions.
I am not trying to guess what the grandparent post meant to say, but it's important to note that both sonatas and symphonies have one important thing in common: both adhere to the sonata form.
Holy fagioli, talk about "evil conglomerate"! Will the Microsoft headqarters transform into something ominous and purely evil like the Event Horizon ship from the same movie?
So evil, your eyes melt.
I said nothing about Zonk?!
There was the story about Google releasing their APIs. That was triple-duped, and the best thing is, two of the dupes were from the same author (CmdrTaco).
Good points, but if geological stability was a factor, I wish theytook Finland (home sweet home) as an option: Finland has the most geologically stable territory by FAR in Europe. Basically, Finland would be better off to offer any of the E*U countries to send their nuclear waste here and bury it, because the risk of an earthquake is so low that the nuclear waste will have a long and safe life here, unlike anywhere else in Europe, and then the pollution would eventually arrive to Finland as well.
There is radioactive material in the coal, which is released into the atmosphere both during mining and processing, as well as during the burning.
The quantity of such material is about twice as much as in the case of nuclear plants, per watt-hour of energy. And we have not even talked about the other (non-radioactive) pollutants.
My physics teacher from high school used to say that he'd much rather live on top of a nuclear plant rather than 1 Km from a coal plant of same energy output. Much helathier.
I have nothing against France (only some French), but I was warmly hoping that Japan gets the project. In my view, Japan is so perfectly suited, technology and mentality-wise, to pull this off.
Still, France is OK, because they are one of the countries with highest % of nuclear energy. So much so, in fact, that they make a lot of good money exporting it.
And get this: one of the largest importers (the largest?) offrench electric energy is Germany, who have outlawed and disbanded their nuclear plants due to Green misguided pressure, and are now
a) polluting themselves with coal plants, which actually produce more radioactive waste than nuclear plants of same energy output (not to mention other pollutants).
b) paying for el. energy to France, which is produced by nuclear plants which are close enough to Germany, that if a meltdown happened, they would be just as affected!
There is something humorous in all this.
7 or 8 years ago, I bought a Yamaha surround processor, a 2 + 2 system. As I was contemplating the purchase of the rear speakers, my friend explained that a 5+1 system would have been much better. And in fact, I realized that there was precious little I could do with my Yamaha.
I managed to sell it (with a substantial discount) to a guy whom I did explain the situation.
Since then, I never bought any surround system. I have my two speakers, and enjoy full immersive whatever when I go to the cinema. I imagine the movie industry has unlimited means to create the perfec theater and experience.
I am sure that the movie people would love it if people bought the same movie on DVD and other media, over and over. I gave up on that game (the only way to win). I also suspect that many of those who buy sophisticated surround systems, do it for the "bling" value (read "chick magnet"). I don't need that, so I am and probably will stay cool to this tech.
This is excellent news, no matter how you look at it (except if you work for MS).
This is only one country, but you knw how it is in life: it takes only one dissenter to encourage many.
I will be watching my country (Finland) to see if they'll follow suit (I won't be surprised if not, Finns really like to be different from Sweden, Denmark and Norway, almost stubbornly).
Thanks for the info.
Could you tell me what does the numbering mean? Does AMD have already 35 other fabs, and are they anything like the one Dresden?
Youmight have heard: Japanese are not afraid of technology - they embrace it and like it. I could see that in so many aspects, and am sure they will have the first commercial fusion plant. They might not develop the core tech, but they will use it, you can bet on that. (and I wouldn't the least be surprised if, once built, will be operated by bipedal robots).
I thought that large parts of the Dresden fab were already operational? I must have heard wrong. When is the power-up due?
I would be very surprised if Motorola dropped Symbian, with all the applications that have, by now, been developed for it.
..sans drive and two fugly fans, is not too bad, actually. In my opinion, what he's done to it is vandalism.
I find it strange, however, that an advertisement is posted as a story, on slashdot. Well, whatever...
You screwed up: India is not a Muslim country, the Qur'an laws don't apply there.
Well, I'm pretty sure, as nowadays, to be able to make a decent (competitive) GPU, you need a lot of engineering/R&D, the kind that Nvidia, Matrox and ATI. Those are juggernauts, and Apple can't afford to grow it's own GPU arm. They could, of course, order a custom-made GPU from ATI (for example), but then it wouldn't be too hard to write a driver for it.
:o)
Anyway, let's just sit down and enjoy the "movie". One year from now we'll be both still here. Let's see if we remember this convo
Well, join the club: I hate putzing with unsupported hardware, too. But my original (mental) experiment supposed the two machines to be identical even in hardware, not just CPU. So when I said that it boots and runs Mac OSX86, I meant that it's fully supported, which is not a very large stretch of one's imagination.
Unless Apple starts making custom graphics cards, which they won't. Sun is probably the last system integrator that makes their own graphics cards.
It's simple to reply to this: if a Mac x86 will cost US $1000 and a similarly spec'd computer from Dell or HP will cost US $600, and IF they both can boot and run Mac OSX86, which one will I rather buy? I hope you spent less than 2.8 seconds figuring out the answer.
Exactly. Never has clock speed meant less for the Pentium than now! Expect Intel to cranc up the marketing, the hip-hop dancers and the gigahertz game. Sickens me already.
That's a good point. She (or should I call her HM?) could do a lot to improve the image of old age, if she wanted to.
;op
Personally, I would be really happy if she took a job as FPGA developer