On the other hand, if all you really cared about was high capacity, why not buy a Hard Drive? For just 100 dollars you too could hold 260,000 MB in your hands.
Highest capacity = less data tossed out for compression. Less lossy compression?
In my mind, who ever can fit the most bits on a disc wins. I don't give a flying carp about video quality or format wars... I want to cram the most data on a disc and that's all.
You mean like Half-Life 2, Halo 2, Doom 3, GTA: SA. Almost all the huge hits from last year were just what you said. As much as it sucks, thats exactly what sells.
Funny... I didn't buy any of those games. Hrmph.
Guess I'm not the market-sheep the video game industry is hoping to shave this year.
Sadly, it's the same with games. The ones i've enjoyed more lately i've picked up on the discount bin.
Yes!
I gleefully picked up Civ4, only to my dismay--- it was unstable, hoggish, and not that much more improved over Civ3...
So on my latest trip to Staples... I found some gems in the $9 bin... RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 (w/all expansions), Midtown Madness, Civ3(!!), and a couple of kids games my daughter is still having a blast with.
I forgot how much fun these games were... and still are. The lack of imagination and creativity is the reason games aren't successful. However, they'll blame everything from video store and online rentals, ebay, and piracy for their woes.
No original ideas... sequal after sequal, rehash of the same game ten different ways. How many ways can you fight WWII or demons on mars?
No matter how much EA spends on promoting it's latest FPS - it's just like the original with extra antialiasing. Woopittie doo. My money is spent much better elsewhere.
Microsoft is competeing with the largest console companies - they don't want to turn a profit on the 360, yet.
They want to get as much hype and press time as they can. Jacking up the prices will make them look like moneygrubbers trying to make a buck off the public and poor Timmy down the street will never be able to afford a $700 xBox.
Now, Timmy has just as much chance to get one as the rich kid up the block.
Then again, if Timmy were smart - he'd max out his credit card, get two and sell one on ebay to recoup the cost of both XBox'en.
IP addresses, like phone calls, should be listed so companies can tell if they are paying for a legitimate click, Briggs said.
Someone may want to explain to Mr. Briggs that entire countries of people can be housed behind one single IP address. It's a basic function of NAT - and you sir, agreed to advertising with Google. If you didn't read the F(ine) print... your lawyer won't have a slimy appendage to prop him/herself up on in court.
Thanks for playing "Advertising on the Internet" Mr. Briggs - here's your parting gift... $200,000 in lawyer and court costs. Oh and there's a black van with ten thugs in it waiting for you - compliments of our sponsor... Google.
The difference between next business day and 4 hour is substantial - but easily sold to customers who demand instant turn around. Keeping spares onsite when doing a covered swap is not an option - vendors aren't willing to allow third parties to maintain a stock for this... they want to track everything.
Selling hot spares to a customer is difficult, if they're paying you to maintain their servers.
C: "So, this other 146GB hard drive will just sit there?"
Me: "No, it's a hot spare - ready to jump in and keep your array safe when one of the other five drives fail"
C: "But you'll have operations engineers on site in the datacenter my system will be in 24/7 right?"
Me: "Yes, that's true."
C: "So, they can order a replacement drive and swap it out anytime one fails - and I get another ~110GB of storage space online?"
I work in a fairly large datacenter, where I help support many of our colocated customer's equipment. Some of which we sell and maintain, some of which they purchase and colocate. I've seen a good mix of generic servers that were custom built because there was no pre-built options available. But when it comes to support - there are few options when things go down.
Motherboard company blames ram, ram company blames raid card manufacturer, raid card says it's a bad firmware version of the motherboard... two hours later, server is still down. Who's going to let us swap out a motherboard just to see if it works?
I don't see a price advantage to whitebox servers compared to modern server hardware from the big names. Anyone who's just looking at the price tag is fooling themselves.
Dell's hardware is unimpressive, I'll give a nod to the previous responder who mentioned that. And storage subsystems are still insane. Even with the evolution of SATA for slower mass storage, cost/MB is still too high with these subsystems.
Beware of a name brand's inexpensive servers. Some of the rock bottom units are cheap, but they lack some of the basics like raid, hot swap drives, expandability... On the bright side, even if you go with these cheap units, you'll still have service and support from a major player.
IBM's 4 hour turn around on parts and service can save your arse if you have to have all your eggs in one basket. Even a failed hard drive in an array is a looming disaster you'd like to fix now, not next business day. So even at 3am on Saturday - you can have a drive delivered so you can have your array back to 100% by the next business day.
If you go with whitebox - be sure and build in redundancy so you can lose one, or take it down for extended repairs. Because the money you're saving on going generic you're also losing some of the benefits to using big iron. Diagnostic tools, troubleshooting support, features like LightPath show you the failed components fast, raid backplanes, firmware, and software that is consistent, redundant hardware like PSUs, drives, memory failover, etc etc... There are a lot of benefits, but it costs money that sometimes you can put to better use.
The hard part is deciding which servers are going to put your ass in a sling when they go down for an extended period of time. And to most end users - 30 seconds is way to long, slacker!
I couldn't agree with you more. The old, oft muttered question "Where are the parents?" when studies like this reach the main topic of discussion.
Again, it's another study on another aspect of my child. With so much money being spent analysing today's world, how about improving things that are really going to affect my child? Schools, health care, after school programs?
Nah - but we're going bash video games until they reach the evil status of smoking, sex, and pornography.
Look through the list, and you can see 70% of the 5 star ratings are almost cut and pasted identical. Spelling errors matched post for post. It's so blatant that the review page has been put on hold while they verify the reviews. No doubt PriceRitePhoto trying to water down the negative feedback to protect their images.
Look for I purchased a Panasonic AG-DVC60 W/Pro Accessory Kit. I was very pleased with there selection of accessories in this kit, I believe I got the best Value for my buck. Also unlike most other internet ordering sites like this I found it very easy to talk to the sales and custumer service people. There was short waiting times on the phone as well as people who were easy to understand and willing to help me with my order from selection to delivery. I would recomend checking out PriceRitePhoto.com before making your next purchace.
Losers, how low can you go? Apparently PRP found an express elevator to ultimate lameness.
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Big N has sold 13 million DS's... and until sales start to slow down, they won't bother.
:)
I can play it fine, but my daughter's hands are 1/2 the size and can't hit all the buttons without really giving it a stretch.
She's not playing with the DS anymore... so it travels with me!
It's pronounced, "Moof!"
Indeed... how could I have forgotten Clarus, the Dogcow.
As a Mac user he is most concerned about the lack of herd immunity...
Moo...
Computers also give you FPS games to frag your worries away...
On the other hand, if all you really cared about was high capacity, why not buy a Hard Drive? For just 100 dollars you too could hold 260,000 MB in your hands.
Highest capacity = less data tossed out for compression. Less lossy compression?
In my mind, who ever can fit the most bits on a disc wins. I don't give a flying carp about video quality or format wars... I want to cram the most data on a disc and that's all.
And just stop accepting email from users.
I stand corrected!
:)
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You mean like Half-Life 2, Halo 2, Doom 3, GTA: SA.
Almost all the huge hits from last year were just what you said. As much as it sucks, thats exactly what sells.
Funny... I didn't buy any of those games. Hrmph.
Guess I'm not the market-sheep the video game industry is hoping to shave this year.
Sadly, it's the same with games. The ones i've enjoyed more lately i've picked up on the discount bin.
Yes!
I gleefully picked up Civ4, only to my dismay--- it was unstable, hoggish, and not that much more improved over Civ3...
So on my latest trip to Staples... I found some gems in the $9 bin... RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 (w/all expansions), Midtown Madness, Civ3(!!), and a couple of kids games my daughter is still having a blast with.
I forgot how much fun these games were... and still are. The lack of imagination and creativity is the reason games aren't successful. However, they'll blame everything from video store and online rentals, ebay, and piracy for their woes.
h
No original ideas... sequal after sequal, rehash of the same game ten different ways. How many ways can you fight WWII or demons on mars?
No matter how much EA spends on promoting it's latest FPS - it's just like the original with extra antialiasing. Woopittie doo. My money is spent much better elsewhere.
dynamic port allocation?
Microsoft is competeing with the largest console companies - they don't want to turn a profit on the 360, yet.
They want to get as much hype and press time as they can. Jacking up the prices will make them look like moneygrubbers trying to make a buck off the public and poor Timmy down the street will never be able to afford a $700 xBox.
Now, Timmy has just as much chance to get one as the rich kid up the block.
Then again, if Timmy were smart - he'd max out his credit card, get two and sell one on ebay to recoup the cost of both XBox'en.
The default for millions of (suckers) aka Microsoft Customers who use Internet Explorer - MSN is by default their home page.
They're just too stupid or brainwashed to change it.
IP addresses, like phone calls, should be listed so companies can tell if they are paying for a legitimate click, Briggs said.
Someone may want to explain to Mr. Briggs that entire countries of people can be housed behind one single IP address. It's a basic function of NAT - and you sir, agreed to advertising with Google. If you didn't read the F(ine) print... your lawyer won't have a slimy appendage to prop him/herself up on in court.
Thanks for playing "Advertising on the Internet" Mr. Briggs - here's your parting gift... $200,000 in lawyer and court costs. Oh and there's a black van with ten thugs in it waiting for you - compliments of our sponsor... Google.
The difference between next business day and 4 hour is substantial - but easily sold to customers who demand instant turn around. Keeping spares onsite when doing a covered swap is not an option - vendors aren't willing to allow third parties to maintain a stock for this... they want to track everything.
Selling hot spares to a customer is difficult, if they're paying you to maintain their servers.
C: "So, this other 146GB hard drive will just sit there?"
Me: "No, it's a hot spare - ready to jump in and keep your array safe when one of the other five drives fail"
C: "But you'll have operations engineers on site in the datacenter my system will be in 24/7 right?"
Me: "Yes, that's true."
C: "So, they can order a replacement drive and swap it out anytime one fails - and I get another ~110GB of storage space online?"
I work in a fairly large datacenter, where I help support many of our colocated customer's equipment. Some of which we sell and maintain, some of which they purchase and colocate. I've seen a good mix of generic servers that were custom built because there was no pre-built options available. But when it comes to support - there are few options when things go down.
Motherboard company blames ram, ram company blames raid card manufacturer, raid card says it's a bad firmware version of the motherboard... two hours later, server is still down. Who's going to let us swap out a motherboard just to see if it works?
I don't see a price advantage to whitebox servers compared to modern server hardware from the big names. Anyone who's just looking at the price tag is fooling themselves.
Dell's hardware is unimpressive, I'll give a nod to the previous responder who mentioned that. And storage subsystems are still insane. Even with the evolution of SATA for slower mass storage, cost/MB is still too high with these subsystems.
Beware of a name brand's inexpensive servers. Some of the rock bottom units are cheap, but they lack some of the basics like raid, hot swap drives, expandability... On the bright side, even if you go with these cheap units, you'll still have service and support from a major player.
In terms of service.
IBM's 4 hour turn around on parts and service can save your arse if you have to have all your eggs in one basket. Even a failed hard drive in an array is a looming disaster you'd like to fix now, not next business day. So even at 3am on Saturday - you can have a drive delivered so you can have your array back to 100% by the next business day.
If you go with whitebox - be sure and build in redundancy so you can lose one, or take it down for extended repairs. Because the money you're saving on going generic you're also losing some of the benefits to using big iron. Diagnostic tools, troubleshooting support, features like LightPath show you the failed components fast, raid backplanes, firmware, and software that is consistent, redundant hardware like PSUs, drives, memory failover, etc etc... There are a lot of benefits, but it costs money that sometimes you can put to better use.
The hard part is deciding which servers are going to put your ass in a sling when they go down for an extended period of time. And to most end users - 30 seconds is way to long, slacker!
...and break something!
Sounds like a fun job to get to break stuff.
I have no suggestions because all of my ideas or various combinations of non-legal and destructive. Carry on, now.
oh snap! ... Forecastfox, my bad... sorry Jon Stritar and Richard Klein, didn't mean to compare your ultra useful FireFox plugin with Fox news. :(
So don't place your ion bombarded car in your fridge (for too long).
:(
Well, Foxcast tells me that it's 40 degrees colder outside than in my fridge... so my ion bombarded car is pretty much screwed.
I couldn't agree with you more. The old, oft muttered question "Where are the parents?" when studies like this reach the main topic of discussion.
Again, it's another study on another aspect of my child. With so much money being spent analysing today's world, how about improving things that are really going to affect my child? Schools, health care, after school programs?
Nah - but we're going bash video games until they reach the evil status of smoking, sex, and pornography.
One of the many "badges of honor" on PriceRitePhoto.com's website is a PriceRunner award.
http://www.pricerunner.com/retailer/14312/reviews
Look through the list, and you can see 70% of the 5 star ratings are almost cut and pasted identical. Spelling errors matched post for post. It's so blatant that the review page has been put on hold while they verify the reviews. No doubt PriceRitePhoto trying to water down the negative feedback to protect their images.
Look for I purchased a Panasonic AG-DVC60 W/Pro Accessory Kit. I was very pleased with there selection of accessories in this kit, I believe I got the best Value for my buck. Also unlike most other internet ordering sites like this I found it very easy to talk to the sales and custumer service people. There was short waiting times on the phone as well as people who were easy to understand and willing to help me with my order from selection to delivery. I would recomend checking out PriceRitePhoto.com before making your next purchace.
Losers, how low can you go? Apparently PRP found an express elevator to ultimate lameness.