Likewise. I could very much use the space. The grandparent must not be into digital video... I quit using a VCR when I discovered I could get better than VCR quality rips of my favorite TV shows online. One season of any random show is about 10GB. It starts to add up fast; I have hundreds of gigs of stuff now.
I've resorted to mirroring and backing up to another drive, but that gets expensive. I need 1TB discs and I need them yesterday. Getting them under $10 a disc soon and making them reliable enough that they don't randomly fail like half the CDRs I've used would be cooler than I can put into words.
Nothing. Nothing in the whole freaking world, makes me madder than being forced to sit through an advertisement.
I can think of something. "I, Robot": "Don't you just love these shoes? They're great. They're from the year 2004. Can you zoom in on them? Cool shoes, aren't they? Grandma, make sure you ask me about my shoes later in the film, so I can show them to the crowd yet again. Buy these shoes, guys. Come on, you know you want to."
This sort of blatent product placement is a load of, excuse my language, pure fucking bullshit. It distracts from the movie and makes me feel like I just paid $10 to see a 2 hour commercial. Next time this shit shows up in a film, I'm walking out and demanding my money back.
This was as bad as the Subway stuff in Happy Gilmore. Except when Adam Sandler did it, it was a big joke and setup for laughs. He didn't try to take it seriously.
You want product placement? Stick a coke in a fridge. Have Neo use a Nokia phone. He's going to need a phone anyway, so it might as well be a slick new model that I can go out and buy if I want to. That's realistic and appropriate. Don't stop the whole movie so you can show me your fucking shoes.
Let's put it this way: Put the item there but don't make a single reference to it. If you have to zoom in on it and talk about it, you're going to piss people off.
In fact, Cray's XD1 "supercomputer" uses the same Infiniband interconnect as some "clusters"; Cray just has better NICs.
No, Cray doesn't have "better NICs." In fact it doesn't really have "NICs" at all, not in the sense that we think of them. Your typical Infiniband card hangs off a PCI bus. PCI bus = major bottleneck, especially when you're talking a couple dozen Infiniband connections.
The XD1 is cool because the Infiniband is right on the hypertransport bus of the Opteron CPUs. It's damn fast.
Back in the day - '92 or so - I bought a new, top of the line 486. It came with a 120MB hard drive. I asked the salesman, "Should I get a bigger drive, and if so how big?" He said, "Oh, you can go as big as you want. We just sold a 1000MB drive the other day. Cost $10,000."
10 years later and you couldn't GIVE a 1GB drive away.
This isn't required. You can do what I do: Pay for your purchases, then walk AROUND the stupid exit line. When they try to stop you and say, "Sir, I need to check your receipt", just say, "No thanks!" and keep walking. If they touch you, press charges for assault (they won't; they almost certainly know better).
Once you've paid for your purchases, a private store employee has NO RIGHT to detain you. Period.
I do this at Best Buy all the time. Pisses them off, but treating me like a criminal pisses me off, too. I suppose management could tell me I'm no longer welcome there, but considering I've spent over $5k there this year alone, I somehow doubt they'd go that far.
Personally, I think that's an excellent idea. Though I know most Americans won't believe what they're reading.
I'm an American and I *mostly* agree with this. I drive by bicyclists all the time. I always give them plenty of room, swinging wide around them and slowing down.
However, it would be trivial for them to swerve into me at the last second and get hit through no fault of my own. Maybe they do it on purpose, maybe they hit a rock or bump in the road or something on the bike seizes and they lose control. Whatever it is, I shouldn't be in trouble for something I didn't cause.
This could be easily fixed: Have a bi-yearly maintenance program that backs the screws off a few turns, then re-tightens them. Bolts don't turn because they seize. Move them around every once in awhile, and they won't.
Of course motor failure is still a problem. Maybe a diagnostic system that monitors the motor and alerts you if it's starting to degrade. Then you can have it back itself out as soon as possible, before it's completely shot. Although that probably only accounts for a small percentage of motor failure events...
On the plus side, they promise to provide additional design freedom.
This is a good thing. Also, not having to climb under the car and lay there for four hours screwing with a stupid bolt would be a good thing.
Here's the problem: You just know these fuckers are going to apply copyright and encryption to this in an attempt to get around current laws on aftermarket parts. You can BUY the part, but hack the intelligent screws and go to jail.
Just wait until GM starts suing everyone who bought a tool from a pirate alternator-replacement site ala DirecTV.
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Likewise. I could very much use the space. The grandparent must not be into digital video... I quit using a VCR when I discovered I could get better than VCR quality rips of my favorite TV shows online. One season of any random show is about 10GB. It starts to add up fast; I have hundreds of gigs of stuff now.
I've resorted to mirroring and backing up to another drive, but that gets expensive. I need 1TB discs and I need them yesterday. Getting them under $10 a disc soon and making them reliable enough that they don't randomly fail like half the CDRs I've used would be cooler than I can put into words.
No, SDLT is yesterday's news. SAIT tapes are 1.3TB a pop. I have one sitting on my desk right now.
200GB LTO tapes just don't cut it any more. Seriously. Trying to move terabytes at a time with ten or twenty tapes is a real bitch.
So move terabytes with 1 or 2 tapes.
SAIT. 1.3TB per tape. Available now.
Nothing. Nothing in the whole freaking world, makes me madder than being forced to sit through an advertisement.
I can think of something. "I, Robot": "Don't you just love these shoes? They're great. They're from the year 2004. Can you zoom in on them? Cool shoes, aren't they? Grandma, make sure you ask me about my shoes later in the film, so I can show them to the crowd yet again. Buy these shoes, guys. Come on, you know you want to."
This sort of blatent product placement is a load of, excuse my language, pure fucking bullshit. It distracts from the movie and makes me feel like I just paid $10 to see a 2 hour commercial. Next time this shit shows up in a film, I'm walking out and demanding my money back.
This was as bad as the Subway stuff in Happy Gilmore. Except when Adam Sandler did it, it was a big joke and setup for laughs. He didn't try to take it seriously.
You want product placement? Stick a coke in a fridge. Have Neo use a Nokia phone. He's going to need a phone anyway, so it might as well be a slick new model that I can go out and buy if I want to. That's realistic and appropriate. Don't stop the whole movie so you can show me your fucking shoes.
Let's put it this way: Put the item there but don't make a single reference to it. If you have to zoom in on it and talk about it, you're going to piss people off.
In fact, Cray's XD1 "supercomputer" uses the same Infiniband interconnect as some "clusters"; Cray just has better NICs.
No, Cray doesn't have "better NICs." In fact it doesn't really have "NICs" at all, not in the sense that we think of them. Your typical Infiniband card hangs off a PCI bus. PCI bus = major bottleneck, especially when you're talking a couple dozen Infiniband connections.
The XD1 is cool because the Infiniband is right on the hypertransport bus of the Opteron CPUs. It's damn fast.
Wouldn't it be cool if desktops had PCMCIA slots?
They do.
Back in the day - '92 or so - I bought a new, top of the line 486. It came with a 120MB hard drive. I asked the salesman, "Should I get a bigger drive, and if so how big?" He said, "Oh, you can go as big as you want. We just sold a 1000MB drive the other day. Cost $10,000."
10 years later and you couldn't GIVE a 1GB drive away.
having receipts checked when exiting a store
This isn't required. You can do what I do: Pay for your purchases, then walk AROUND the stupid exit line. When they try to stop you and say, "Sir, I need to check your receipt", just say, "No thanks!" and keep walking. If they touch you, press charges for assault (they won't; they almost certainly know better).
Once you've paid for your purchases, a private store employee has NO RIGHT to detain you. Period.
I do this at Best Buy all the time. Pisses them off, but treating me like a criminal pisses me off, too. I suppose management could tell me I'm no longer welcome there, but considering I've spent over $5k there this year alone, I somehow doubt they'd go that far.
It'll "jump the shark" when they somehow encounter the Borg.
Uhhh, have you watched Enterprise? Been there, done that. They already encountered the Borg - frozen in Antarctica!
Personally, I think that's an excellent idea. Though I know most Americans won't believe what they're reading.
I'm an American and I *mostly* agree with this. I drive by bicyclists all the time. I always give them plenty of room, swinging wide around them and slowing down.
However, it would be trivial for them to swerve into me at the last second and get hit through no fault of my own. Maybe they do it on purpose, maybe they hit a rock or bump in the road or something on the bike seizes and they lose control. Whatever it is, I shouldn't be in trouble for something I didn't cause.
This could be easily fixed: Have a bi-yearly maintenance program that backs the screws off a few turns, then re-tightens them. Bolts don't turn because they seize. Move them around every once in awhile, and they won't. Of course motor failure is still a problem. Maybe a diagnostic system that monitors the motor and alerts you if it's starting to degrade. Then you can have it back itself out as soon as possible, before it's completely shot. Although that probably only accounts for a small percentage of motor failure events...
On the plus side, they promise to provide additional design freedom. This is a good thing. Also, not having to climb under the car and lay there for four hours screwing with a stupid bolt would be a good thing. Here's the problem: You just know these fuckers are going to apply copyright and encryption to this in an attempt to get around current laws on aftermarket parts. You can BUY the part, but hack the intelligent screws and go to jail. Just wait until GM starts suing everyone who bought a tool from a pirate alternator-replacement site ala DirecTV.