Reading from SSD is insanely faster than reading from SAS. Writing to SSD is much slower. There is no way around that.
Those hybrids products are simply a futile tentative to come up with a cheap alternative to what is really needed: adding a decent cache on SSD controllers so the write buffer is big enough to mitigate the write penalty, and adding enough processing power to perform destaging properly.
This being said - if someone comes up with a way to read from SSD and write to SAS, then it's a winner... but the magic part that brings the written bit from the SAS to be read by the SSD is the million-dollar catch.
Until then, those hybrids are just a Fisher Price implementation of sub-volume tiering.
It is just a little more code on the controller... directing writes to HD and reads from SSD, sync happens in the background, using a flag (toggle specific bit in the header) for the copy of the file on the SSD to indicate that changes are being written to the HD and reads must be directed there until the file is synced again.
... is to rip everything to a large hard disk and set up some sort of media center.
Absolutely. Rip it to your format of choice, and put the discs in a box in the garage... in case you have a HD failure and need to re-rip them or want to re-rip them in a different format later. Alternatively, sell/give away/throw out the discs after ripping and when you need another copy buy/download another copy.
What happens here is antiviral, antibiotic, or vaccination doesn't kill off 100% of the virus. Some cells tend to survive. If some of the cells are resistant to the 'cure', then the survivors tend to be those particular cells that live to continue manufacturing virions that are less susceptible to the vaccine.
You may not have a vaccine-resistant virus today, but vaccination creates selective pressures that tend to make ones that are vaccine-resistant survive and reproduce more.... resulting that in the future newer viruses that occur are more likely to resemble the more vaccine-resistant ones, and eventually, as the trend repeats with enough iterations, the resistance becomes stronger and stronger......
That is not how vaccines work. Vaccines don't kill anything. They train your body to recognize and respond effectively to the infection.
D-BAN is great... but if the contract says "Thou shalt turn over thy hard drives for destruction..." then its already been agreed on, and the cost was factored into the bid. Deal with it.
The idea is to consider it a marketing expense -you are paying for customer eyeballs (our estimate was we were exposed to 400,000 customers who had never heard of us before), not expecting to make a profit on the items that the Groupon customers buy.. but you don't want to actually LOSE money on any sales.
an Intel manager testified that Rambus contract stipulations soured the relationship. The clause that Rambus insisted and would not waive was that to use Rambus RDRAM, Intel had to agree to give Rambus the ability to block Intel processors if Rambus felt Intel was not promoting RDRAM sufficiently.
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If he created and maintained it on company time, then there's probably a good argument for that. But if it was done entirely on his own time, and he wasn't being compensated for it, then good luck, you'd better be able to prove it was a gift.
The terms of his employment will likely play a significant role in this case. Was he salaried? Was he hourly? Was he paid per submission? Did he work from company premises/using company equipment or was he working from home/using his own equipment?
He muddied the waters by using the company name in his twitter account name, but he did remove the company name after leaving the company.
He used the account for both personal, and business related purposes.
The very nature of his work (writing opinions, and communicating with the public) further clouds the issue.
It will come down to arguing percentages -which was the primary function of the account? Business or personal?
His job was to bring customers to the site to read his reviews and articles, the twitter account was a tool used doubtlessly during office hours as part of that job.
That is an assumption, and not a proven fact. The article states that the twitter account was used for personal blogging as well as self-promotion of the articles he wrote. The entire point of the court case is to decide whether or not it was a business tool or a personal communication that included references to his work.
Doesn't launching the product without licenses in place put Google in a terrible negotiating position with the labels?
No. It sounds like a rather strong negotiating position for Google.
"Take the deal we are offering... or spend the next decade arguing with our lawyers."
Google has very deep pockets, and can afford to take on a long court battle. The publicity from such a case would be a win for Google even if they lost in the end.
Wow, a whole 2% annual growth, that's just mind-blowing. Definitive proof that stealing music doesn't hurt anyone.
Say, what do you sell for a living? Cars? I'm one of the people that's been stealing cars off your lot. You're losing money? Bullshit! You're insured! And your cars suck anyway! And you're an asshole!
Sorry folks, here in Canada, my band is postponing our annual nationwide tour because larger venues are doing less and less live music in favour of DJ bullshit (which many of them play pirated music) so we're now competing with Juno award winners for 200-500 seat venues. We now have to book a year in advance to get the key venues to make the tour profitable.
So you'll have to forgive me as I break ranks with other musicians who have placated piracy advocates. We're just being polite because our reputations require it. I've done over 100,000 miles of touring, I've seen members of hit bands looking for odds jobs because their back catalog doesn't sell, I've seen the empty floors at Sony's NYC offices, I know excellent producers that are hopelessly in debt, and I know musicians that kick the shit out of current pop stars but can't get 1/10th the record deal they could have in the 80's.
You do not know what the fuck you're talking about. No matter how you interpret the infinitesimal amount of information you have on the matter, your advocacy of piracy directly prevents me from doing what I love and providing for other talented musicians. I'm not going to pretend I can stop you from pirating music, but please shut the fuck up.
Boo Hoo...
My business is down 15% from last year, which was down 20% from the previous year, which was down 18% from the year before that...
2% growth would be a godsend in this economy. Most of us have had to become far more efficient in order to survive. We have tightened our belts. We have laid off employees. We have pushed off development that will not provide immediate returns. We have branched out into markets beyond our comfort zones in order to get by.
I hear you are hurting, but you can shove your self-righteous bullshit back up your ass, and "shut the fuck up" yourself.
The guy has just admitted they stuffed up. they had a responsibility to protect your data that they force you to provide. This is the equivalent of being raped in a police station and then being happy that the cops admitted it happened and are very sorry about it.
If you think this situation is anything like being raped -you do not know what rape is...
Former management was rendered into an environmentally friendly pipe reinforcement (glue) and applied to the defective areas of the pipes... new management is greatly motivated to avoid future accidents.
So they dont know what books they have, which have been loaned out and to whom? Thats not a library, thats a "free book box".
They know what books they have. They know what books are currently on loan, and who has them. What they CHOOSE NOT TO KNOW is who had what book previously.
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Exactly. It is easy to do... but difficult to do well.
Reading from SSD is insanely faster than reading from SAS. Writing to SSD is much slower. There is no way around that.
Those hybrids products are simply a futile tentative to come up with a cheap alternative to what is really needed: adding a decent cache on SSD controllers so the write buffer is big enough to mitigate the write penalty, and adding enough processing power to perform destaging properly.
This being said - if someone comes up with a way to read from SSD and write to SAS, then it's a winner... but the magic part that brings the written bit from the SAS to be read by the SSD is the million-dollar catch.
Until then, those hybrids are just a Fisher Price implementation of sub-volume tiering.
It is just a little more code on the controller... directing writes to HD and reads from SSD, sync happens in the background, using a flag (toggle specific bit in the header) for the copy of the file on the SSD to indicate that changes are being written to the HD and reads must be directed there until the file is synced again.
The only problem is that my hard drive with about 500 gigs of DVD rips crashed! Just make sure to back up everything on a regular basis!
It's easier to re-rip/download than it is to backup media (movies/music).
... is to rip everything to a large hard disk and set up some sort of media center.
Absolutely. Rip it to your format of choice, and put the discs in a box in the garage... in case you have a HD failure and need to re-rip them or want to re-rip them in a different format later. Alternatively, sell/give away/throw out the discs after ripping and when you need another copy buy/download another copy.
What happens here is antiviral, antibiotic, or vaccination doesn't kill off 100% of the virus. Some cells tend to survive. If some of the cells are resistant to the 'cure', then the survivors tend to be those particular cells that live to continue manufacturing virions that are less susceptible to the vaccine.
You may not have a vaccine-resistant virus today, but vaccination creates selective pressures that tend to make ones that are vaccine-resistant survive and reproduce more.... resulting that in the future newer viruses that occur are more likely to resemble the more vaccine-resistant ones, and eventually, as the trend repeats with enough iterations, the resistance becomes stronger and stronger......
That is not how vaccines work. Vaccines don't kill anything. They train your body to recognize and respond effectively to the infection.
Some very basic info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine
D-BAN is great... but if the contract says "Thou shalt turn over thy hard drives for destruction..." then its already been agreed on, and the cost was factored into the bid. Deal with it.
I've used Groupon for my business.
The idea is to consider it a marketing expense -you are paying for customer eyeballs (our estimate was we were exposed to 400,000 customers who had never heard of us before), not expecting to make a profit on the items that the Groupon customers buy.. but you don't want to actually LOSE money on any sales.
Actual science... not dumbed down.
Measurement of the neutrino velocity with the OPERA detector in the CNGS beam
...gaming may be correlated to changes in the brain much as addictions are.
Can't...sleep...must...keep...leveling...
Sound familiar to anyone?
an Intel manager testified that Rambus contract stipulations soured the relationship. The clause that Rambus insisted and would not waive was that to use Rambus RDRAM, Intel had to agree to give Rambus the ability to block Intel processors if Rambus felt Intel was not promoting RDRAM sufficiently.
Wow. I'd have told them to F off too...
I'm just gonna throw this one out there... mostly because it's obnoxious.
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Yeah, but this happens in Oakland even without the occupy protests.... its a shithole (I've lived there.)
If I hadn't posted several times in this discussion, I would mod you up.
Keeping business and personal matters separate seems simple, but can be difficult.
If he created and maintained it on company time, then there's probably a good argument for that. But if it was done entirely on his own time, and he wasn't being compensated for it, then good luck, you'd better be able to prove it was a gift.
The terms of his employment will likely play a significant role in this case. Was he salaried? Was he hourly? Was he paid per submission? Did he work from company premises/using company equipment or was he working from home/using his own equipment?
He muddied the waters by using the company name in his twitter account name, but he did remove the company name after leaving the company.
He used the account for both personal, and business related purposes.
The very nature of his work (writing opinions, and communicating with the public) further clouds the issue.
It will come down to arguing percentages -which was the primary function of the account? Business or personal?
He developed business relationships with those followers, on his work time .
That is an assumption, and not a fact given in the article.
His job was to bring customers to the site to read his reviews and articles, the twitter account was a tool used doubtlessly during office hours as part of that job .
That is an assumption, and not a proven fact. The article states that the twitter account was used for personal blogging as well as self-promotion of the articles he wrote. The entire point of the court case is to decide whether or not it was a business tool or a personal communication that included references to his work.
He used it on company computers on company time to promote company products with the company internet.
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Doesn't launching the product without licenses in place put Google in a terrible negotiating position with the labels?
No. It sounds like a rather strong negotiating position for Google.
"Take the deal we are offering... or spend the next decade arguing with our lawyers."
Google has very deep pockets, and can afford to take on a long court battle. The publicity from such a case would be a win for Google even if they lost in the end.
Wow, a whole 2% annual growth, that's just mind-blowing. Definitive proof that stealing music doesn't hurt anyone.
Say, what do you sell for a living? Cars? I'm one of the people that's been stealing cars off your lot. You're losing money? Bullshit! You're insured! And your cars suck anyway! And you're an asshole!
Sorry folks, here in Canada, my band is postponing our annual nationwide tour because larger venues are doing less and less live music in favour of DJ bullshit (which many of them play pirated music) so we're now competing with Juno award winners for 200-500 seat venues. We now have to book a year in advance to get the key venues to make the tour profitable.
So you'll have to forgive me as I break ranks with other musicians who have placated piracy advocates. We're just being polite because our reputations require it. I've done over 100,000 miles of touring, I've seen members of hit bands looking for odds jobs because their back catalog doesn't sell, I've seen the empty floors at Sony's NYC offices, I know excellent producers that are hopelessly in debt, and I know musicians that kick the shit out of current pop stars but can't get 1/10th the record deal they could have in the 80's.
You do not know what the fuck you're talking about. No matter how you interpret the infinitesimal amount of information you have on the matter, your advocacy of piracy directly prevents me from doing what I love and providing for other talented musicians. I'm not going to pretend I can stop you from pirating music, but please shut the fuck up.
Boo Hoo...
My business is down 15% from last year, which was down 20% from the previous year, which was down 18% from the year before that...
2% growth would be a godsend in this economy. Most of us have had to become far more efficient in order to survive. We have tightened our belts. We have laid off employees. We have pushed off development that will not provide immediate returns. We have branched out into markets beyond our comfort zones in order to get by.
I hear you are hurting, but you can shove your self-righteous bullshit back up your ass, and "shut the fuck up" yourself.
The guy has just admitted they stuffed up. they had a responsibility to protect your data that they force you to provide. This is the equivalent of being raped in a police station and then being happy that the cops admitted it happened and are very sorry about it.
If you think this situation is anything like being raped -you do not know what rape is...
Its the old hot dogs vs hot dog buns thing...
Former management was rendered into an environmentally friendly pipe reinforcement (glue) and applied to the defective areas of the pipes... new management is greatly motivated to avoid future accidents.
WWHHHOOOOSSSHH!
So they dont know what books they have, which have been loaned out and to whom? Thats not a library, thats a "free book box".
They know what books they have. They know what books are currently on loan, and who has them. What they CHOOSE NOT TO KNOW is who had what book previously.
Never mind that orders of magnitude more wealth than that is going to be squandered having to build levees, dikes and seawalls over the next century.
...construction and engineering jobs are the future!