I can't wait to make another cross-texas trip, while still keeping my frag count high on FarCry...
Now i've just gotta figure out how to cram a 21" monitor in my car, strap the tower in the passenger seat, keyboard in my lap, mouse... um.... safer driving?
(Course, this'll just get modded down to troll level like everything else i say)
Sounds to me like MS is just mad that they couldn't get their hands on Google earlier...
In case anyone is extra curious here, Luke Stewart and his "Media Fusion" idea have gone belly up since then; http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/stories/2004/03/ 22/story5.html
Company is defunct, and he is under federal indictment for money laundering and wire fraud.
Still swears his idea will work though:-P
I got a little paranoid... Threw my old Win98 box back together for one last fling. Ripped it to mp3s using a really old version of AudioGrabber.
Copied those files to a blank CD-R.
Moved 'em to my real computer, dumped 'em, moved them into iTunes, and then to iPod, and back to blank CD converted into CDA form for use in my car.
No problems.
Perhaps the RIAA didn't bother to hire real software writers for their fabled DRM copy protection?
Virtual partitioning -- the two drives are halved, then the stripe stretches across the two drives, and the mirror happens on the other partitions. That's the general idea anyway, the specifics include some extra information stored about the stripe, so that recovery is possible.
RTFA
"Matrix" storage technology. Ok, while this is worth looking into, they really should have chosen a better name for it.
Cool stuff though -- RAID 0+1 on 2 drives instead of requiring 4... Why didn't someone think of this sooner?
I assume that there's a few CO's of VALVe software working for this team, to compete with Jon Carmack's team...
So they both say they'll be launching these *ahem* projects next week? the week after? Mebbe they should spend less time building model rockets, and write some software? Doom3? HL2? we're waiting.....
Dunno if anyone has posted about this yet or not, but be watching for a new type of RAID on Intel's Grantsdale chipset. It will mix RAID0 for performance, combines with RAID1 for redundancy (otherwise RAID0 is more like AID0, and that stupid Sony dog was a waste of money). The best part is that it only requires 2 drives, whereas before RAID0+1 took 4 freakin drives (a large investment).
See here for more info. http://www.dvhardware.net/article2193.html
~Ess
dunno why they had to call it The Matrix -- seems kinda played to me
Ok, so given the vast amount of relatively worthless CRAP that ships on DVDs already... serving only to jack up the price of the disk and somehow justify 25 bucks for the latest copy of Jon Leguizzamo in the remastered version of "The Pest"
How much more worthless crap will we now be able to buy for 75 bucks on a disk that can hold 5 times as much?!?
I truly can't wait. (note the dripping sarcasm -- thanks everyone for really being in touch with what the consumer wants)
Kevin Mitnick.
That kid who snuck a box cutter onto an airplane.
Eric Head.
Seems to be the way of the future -- break some new law, and more people are concerned with learning how you did it than with changing the laws to make them work and/or enforcing the punishments.
Not that I'm complaining, I mean i'm currently working on a video to educate and inform the public about the dangers of opening attachments -- sounds like Mr. Head is my new operational management.
~St. D.
Well, he's not exactly moving to Thahiti... Something tells me his rock band isn't exactly multi-platinum.
More like, something to report to the probation officers when they call and ask if he's lawfully employed. "Uh, yeah, i'm a drummer for a rock band"
Right.
Waste of time? If your laptop is really cooking your lap that badly, get a table? Set it somewhere else? I pity the poor person who spent as much time as they surely did developing a product such as this - truly a college degree hard at work. gg folks, try again.
Cost-benefit analysis of the manufacturing costs and subsequent price of ample storage size in high speed memory formats is the only reason current hardware architecture uses different types of memory at the different tiers... Cache memory rules -- believe me, I'd love a 400Gb "hard drive" of on-chip cache memory... A little expensive that way, though. My 2 cents; while the faster the better, there's still always a market for the cheap solution - someone will still want the slow but sturdy memory, and tons and tons of it as well.
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I can't wait to make another cross-texas trip, while still keeping my frag count high on FarCry... Now i've just gotta figure out how to cram a 21" monitor in my car, strap the tower in the passenger seat, keyboard in my lap, mouse... um.... safer driving?
(Course, this'll just get modded down to troll level like everything else i say) Sounds to me like MS is just mad that they couldn't get their hands on Google earlier...
In case anyone is extra curious here, Luke Stewart and his "Media Fusion" idea have gone belly up since then; http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/stories/2004/03/ 22/story5.html
Company is defunct, and he is under federal indictment for money laundering and wire fraud.
Still swears his idea will work though :-P
I got a little paranoid... Threw my old Win98 box back together for one last fling. Ripped it to mp3s using a really old version of AudioGrabber. Copied those files to a blank CD-R. Moved 'em to my real computer, dumped 'em, moved them into iTunes, and then to iPod, and back to blank CD converted into CDA form for use in my car. No problems. Perhaps the RIAA didn't bother to hire real software writers for their fabled DRM copy protection?
Virtual partitioning -- the two drives are halved, then the stripe stretches across the two drives, and the mirror happens on the other partitions. That's the general idea anyway, the specifics include some extra information stored about the stripe, so that recovery is possible. RTFA
"Matrix" storage technology. Ok, while this is worth looking into, they really should have chosen a better name for it. Cool stuff though -- RAID 0+1 on 2 drives instead of requiring 4... Why didn't someone think of this sooner?
I assume that there's a few CO's of VALVe software working for this team, to compete with Jon Carmack's team...
So they both say they'll be launching these *ahem* projects next week? the week after? Mebbe they should spend less time building model rockets, and write some software? Doom3? HL2? we're waiting.....
Dunno if anyone has posted about this yet or not, but be watching for a new type of RAID on Intel's Grantsdale chipset. It will mix RAID0 for performance, combines with RAID1 for redundancy (otherwise RAID0 is more like AID0, and that stupid Sony dog was a waste of money). The best part is that it only requires 2 drives, whereas before RAID0+1 took 4 freakin drives (a large investment).
See here for more info. http://www.dvhardware.net/article2193.html
~Ess
dunno why they had to call it The Matrix -- seems kinda played to me
All the processing power in the world doesn't change the answer: 101010
But maybe a system like that could spit out 42 a little quicker than my old dual celeron.
Ok, so given the vast amount of relatively worthless CRAP that ships on DVDs already... serving only to jack up the price of the disk and somehow justify 25 bucks for the latest copy of Jon Leguizzamo in the remastered version of "The Pest"
How much more worthless crap will we now be able to buy for 75 bucks on a disk that can hold 5 times as much?!?
I truly can't wait. (note the dripping sarcasm -- thanks everyone for really being in touch with what the consumer wants)
Kevin Mitnick. That kid who snuck a box cutter onto an airplane. Eric Head. Seems to be the way of the future -- break some new law, and more people are concerned with learning how you did it than with changing the laws to make them work and/or enforcing the punishments. Not that I'm complaining, I mean i'm currently working on a video to educate and inform the public about the dangers of opening attachments -- sounds like Mr. Head is my new operational management. ~St. D.
Well, he's not exactly moving to Thahiti... Something tells me his rock band isn't exactly multi-platinum. More like, something to report to the probation officers when they call and ask if he's lawfully employed. "Uh, yeah, i'm a drummer for a rock band" Right.
Waste of time? If your laptop is really cooking your lap that badly, get a table? Set it somewhere else? I pity the poor person who spent as much time as they surely did developing a product such as this - truly a college degree hard at work. gg folks, try again.
Cost-benefit analysis of the manufacturing costs and subsequent price of ample storage size in high speed memory formats is the only reason current hardware architecture uses different types of memory at the different tiers... Cache memory rules -- believe me, I'd love a 400Gb "hard drive" of on-chip cache memory... A little expensive that way, though. My 2 cents; while the faster the better, there's still always a market for the cheap solution - someone will still want the slow but sturdy memory, and tons and tons of it as well.