Fashion accessory? I guess scientists and engineers are a mighty fashionable bunch, then. Most researchers I know (I'm in aerospace and split my time between NASA and Stanford) swear by Apple machines. UNIX underpinnings, It All Just Works, and the hardware is bulletproof. Best of all worlds.
For God's sake, mod this guy up! A sensible, considered response, among the "look, I hate Microsoft too!" sheep.
Look, I hate Microsoft too, but let's be reasonable!;-)
Same here. Two of the 7200.11 drives (with updated firmware) died on me in the last year, and one of the RMA replacements also died soon after deployment (I know, I know, never use refurbs in a NAS; I learnt my lesson the hard way). So that's three for me too. I'd love to say "screw Seagate! Never again!" except that I'm hard pressed to find any manufacturer with a known "good" model -- they all seem to have issues. Don't even get me started on WDC. Seagate was the one go-to brand, and at this point I really don't trust them anymore.
I guess it's time to stop cheaping out and getting enterprise class drives for NAS use...
I've more often than not had issues with "not Intel" chipsets when it came to reliable data transfer, particularly when stressing the system. Maybe Apple found some intermittent issue with their NVIDIA-based machines which were mitigated by turning down the SATA speed?
It's a pity that Intel is unable to produce a decent integrated graphics solution...
I've been unable to run any of the latest flavors of SuSE on my Dell workstation since the (PS/2 port) keyboard is totally unresponsive when booted into Linux (works fine in Windows).
Any word on whether they've solved this issue in SuSE 10? I mean, how can they screw up the driver to a PS/2 keyboard in this day and age?
- Fromage
What I find remarkable is that this bot has managed to author a convincing and entertaining web page (or at least a blog entry, anyway). Remarkable how far along these things have come!
- Fromage
What I want to know is, whatever happened to competitive upgrades? Apple seems to have killed this offering, which otherwise may have encouraged me to try the pro version.
No way I'm even going to glance at it for $1000, given my investment in Cubase...
- Fromage
I have a Windows XP box on my desk right now; the only drop shadows I see are under the icon text. I'd be hard-pressed to compare that to the (gorgeous) Mac OS X effect or this new X effect...
- Fromage
I was especially enamoured of the comic-book style animation clips that were randomly interspersed among the FLCL episodes -- and especially the episode where they took the time to address the gripers and point out that they weren't trying to be cheap, but that it actually took more effort to animate that way... =)
This is because, quite frankly, you must be making valiant efforts to ignore recent releases.
A short list of currently running (or recently concluded) anime series which are of excellent caliber:
Macross Zero
Yukikaze
Gilgamesh
One Piece
Full Metal Alchemist
PLANETES
Monster
I could go on and on. But anyway -- what I'm more concerned about:
I'm a big fan of anime licensing, as it allows me to obtain high-quality DVDs of said anime, but that sentiment is dependent on the assumption that these animators toiling away benefit from this indulgence on my part... It would be nice if the article had gone into some more detail, such as:
How do the really successful studios do? I'm thinking of places like Production IG, Studio Ghibli, Bones, etc. Are my hard-earned dollars reaching these guys, or is it getting absorbed somewhere along the way by the equivalent of the RIAA? That's a rather disheartening thought... As it is, I'm not sure what to think of the article since it's written based on the perspective of a small outfit, and the world being as it is, small outfits tend to get stepped on regardless of the industry...
- Fromage
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My very first hub was a LinkSys, and it was bulletproof.
On the strength of that experience, I've tried a number of their newer products (gigabit switch, wi-fi router) and am sad to say that I was sorely disappointed. Both the router and switch would lock up within hours; updating firmware, trying different network boards (for goodness' sake, what's not compatible with Intel?), all to no avail.
Their current products are, IMHO, crap.
- Fromage
Forgive the n00b rumination, but:
Given the ratio of codec size (1 MB) to typical movie size (~175 MB for an XVID encoded, 30 min anime episode, for example), why hasn't anyone implemented a pluggable system that embeds the codec in the media (much like embedded fonts in PDFs)?
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Fashion accessory? I guess scientists and engineers are a mighty fashionable bunch, then. Most researchers I know (I'm in aerospace and split my time between NASA and Stanford) swear by Apple machines. UNIX underpinnings, It All Just Works, and the hardware is bulletproof. Best of all worlds.
This. Rocks makes it so ridiculously easy to set up a cluster that administration literally can be a single-person job.
For God's sake, mod this guy up! A sensible, considered response, among the "look, I hate Microsoft too!" sheep. Look, I hate Microsoft too, but let's be reasonable! ;-)
Same here. Two of the 7200.11 drives (with updated firmware) died on me in the last year, and one of the RMA replacements also died soon after deployment (I know, I know, never use refurbs in a NAS; I learnt my lesson the hard way). So that's three for me too. I'd love to say "screw Seagate! Never again!" except that I'm hard pressed to find any manufacturer with a known "good" model -- they all seem to have issues. Don't even get me started on WDC. Seagate was the one go-to brand, and at this point I really don't trust them anymore. I guess it's time to stop cheaping out and getting enterprise class drives for NAS use...
The only people with this much to say on the "Macs aren't so great!" soapbox are the ones that don't own them. Period.
It's a pity that Intel is unable to produce a decent integrated graphics solution...
I do live in Stanford on-campus housing -- and I can assure you that every private AP within range of my MacBook is quite secure.
What are we talking about, again?
Actually, this is an old idea. Anyone here remember Thinking Machines? All those pretty lights!
I've been unable to run any of the latest flavors of SuSE on my Dell workstation since the (PS/2 port) keyboard is totally unresponsive when booted into Linux (works fine in Windows). Any word on whether they've solved this issue in SuSE 10? I mean, how can they screw up the driver to a PS/2 keyboard in this day and age? - Fromage
Cost!
I'd wager that, as was the case then, the real ass-whuppin' would be if Dell ran a performance/$ benchmark vs. the Sun machines...
- Fromage
What I find remarkable is that this bot has managed to author a convincing and entertaining web page (or at least a blog entry, anyway). Remarkable how far along these things have come! - Fromage
And for $17.99 a month, I get the same deal at Netflix. What's your point?
The moment you have children of your own, this naive right-wing passions of yours will go straight out the window. - Fromage
What I want to know is, whatever happened to competitive upgrades? Apple seems to have killed this offering, which otherwise may have encouraged me to try the pro version. No way I'm even going to glance at it for $1000, given my investment in Cubase... - Fromage
I have a Windows XP box on my desk right now; the only drop shadows I see are under the icon text. I'd be hard-pressed to compare that to the (gorgeous) Mac OS X effect or this new X effect... - Fromage
I was especially enamoured of the comic-book style animation clips that were randomly interspersed among the FLCL episodes -- and especially the episode where they took the time to address the gripers and point out that they weren't trying to be cheap, but that it actually took more effort to animate that way... =)
- Fromage
A short list of currently running (or recently concluded) anime series which are of excellent caliber:
I could go on and on. But anyway -- what I'm more concerned about:
I'm a big fan of anime licensing, as it allows me to obtain high-quality DVDs of said anime, but that sentiment is dependent on the assumption that these animators toiling away benefit from this indulgence on my part... It would be nice if the article had gone into some more detail, such as:
How do the really successful studios do? I'm thinking of places like Production IG, Studio Ghibli, Bones, etc. Are my hard-earned dollars reaching these guys, or is it getting absorbed somewhere along the way by the equivalent of the RIAA? That's a rather disheartening thought... As it is, I'm not sure what to think of the article since it's written based on the perspective of a small outfit, and the world being as it is, small outfits tend to get stepped on regardless of the industry...
- Fromage
My very first hub was a LinkSys, and it was bulletproof. On the strength of that experience, I've tried a number of their newer products (gigabit switch, wi-fi router) and am sad to say that I was sorely disappointed. Both the router and switch would lock up within hours; updating firmware, trying different network boards (for goodness' sake, what's not compatible with Intel?), all to no avail. Their current products are, IMHO, crap. - Fromage
Forgive the n00b rumination, but: Given the ratio of codec size (1 MB) to typical movie size (~175 MB for an XVID encoded, 30 min anime episode, for example), why hasn't anyone implemented a pluggable system that embeds the codec in the media (much like embedded fonts in PDFs)? - Fromage