i predict it has to be either Cheif Running Water, Chef, Mephisto, the little monkey guy who follows Mephisto around, Mr. Garrison, Officer Barbrady, Ned, Mr. Brofslovski, or the 1991 Denver Broncos. but the trial will end in a cliff-hanger.
i predict it has to be either Cheif Running Water, Chef, Mephisto, the little monkey guy who follows Mephisto around, Mr. Garrison, Officer Barbrady, Ned, Mr. Brofslovski, or the 1991 Denver Broncos
if i may ask, why was this modded down as redundant??
when i posted this originally, there were zero responses and the link was unreachable. 20 minutes later, the front page link had still not been linked properly!
can it be helped that i was one of 50 or so people who had the same problem at the same time?
on top of it all, the SAME story was posted the NEXT day. that's the epitome of redundancy
the clear plastic lets the end user see the inferior design and quality of PC hardware, the lights allow this to be seen in low-light.
this will become very important when my cluster of mac mini boxes becomes self aware and mobile, and picks up a shotgun to destroy anything that dare mock the incredible industrial design and hardware performance.
okay, maybe that won't happen, but it does act like a short skirt on a cheap lady. $5 gets you in, but you may feel burning afterwards...and that's not the poor thermal performance of PIVs.
i remember when i had a 3dfx and a better than average graphics card installed in an older computer back in '98(which seems so long ago now). In theory it was wonderful as the 3dfx was much more suited to playing quake II than the standard card, but the passthrough capability completely ruined the image quality of anything using the standard card. so i did the only thing you could do back then to get around the problem - buy an iiyama monitor with dual connectors (d-sub and BNC) - much better, but it cost me an arm and a leg. i know that SLI cards use a special connector to bridge the cards instead of resorting to a pass through, and operate differntly, but is there any image degradation that you notice? i would probably run out and buy a new motherboard and dual sli cards if they've fixed the dimming and blurriness from back in the day.
in the end it was the best since i discovered that iiyama makes wonderful monitors - and i still purchase them with dual connectors so i can hook up my powerbook to a larger display without having to unhook all the cabling...but i can afford to do that now. i had to mow a lot of lawns to buy that first one.
how long ago would you say the "driver problem" went away? i ask, because not more than 6 months ago we had a group buy a few Dell machines with SATA, hoping to install RHEL on them. As of a month ago, we still didn't have a fix for them, or at least one that worked.
stuff like this makes me cringe, because really - SATA shouldn't have been that difficult to support. then again, knowing what i know about the people who handle linux for our org - they could have been massively incompetent.
i really want to get my feet wet again, i tried out linux for a year back in '99 and hated it, but mostly because i couldn't get device drivers for my cable-tv card and the install process was overly difficult.
SO...do SATA drivers presently exist? i know other devices get drivers pretty much immediately after release if not coinciding with their release, but i was shocked by the lack of SATA support, especially since it had been out for almost a year.
it certainly didn't seem sincere, it seemed like the typical fanboy reaction when told their "whatever" sucks. extremely sarcastic...which is why i was sarcastic.
so if you were being sincere, i apologize
any trek other than enterprise or voyager
farscape can be decent if you can stomach the cheese and poor quality
old-skool land of the lost, again cheesy, but decent in concept. the cheese is what makes it good sometimes
i justified my statements well enough to not have my judgement be the issue at hand...and i see that more than enough people agree with me completely to further solidify my statement as being valid.
if you hurry, you might be able to catch bruce boxleitner selling oranges along the freeway.
if you've been watching b5, you've definitely missed something. this isn't a pissing match of who has the cooler show list - it's an assesment of a single show on the merits of that single show. b5 was not worth the betamax is was recorded on.
i'm not going to play this game
but i'll add this - the star trek cartoon series was a better series than b5, and i think we know how bad that was.
yes i am painfully aware of that, but does it even matter? people change in their abilities over the course of a lifetime. some improve, some get worse. some go from a-list to z-list, some go from z-list to a-list.
remember when coke changed it's formula? not so good. remember when they changed it back? much better...
i stand by my assertion that B5 is one of the worst sci-fi shows to grace a television screen in the past 30 years.
i disagree completely...it's cheesy, and looks dated, because it was made in 1994. that doesn't mean it isn't at the core a bad show. plenty of "dated" looking sci-fi is still enjoyable and entirely watchable - even 30 years later.
Babylon5 relied too much on CG and not enough on decent acting, character development and interesting plotlines...it was at it's core just a bad show from the start. Z-list actors, Z-list writers do not make a good show. and the CG was pretty bad, even by 1994 standards.
you can hate the message, but don't hate the messenger.
"carried by a trusted entity that is bonded"
we used to use a very large corporation handle our offsite data storage(in case of a disaster). i won't name them directly, but lets just say they're probably the largest company in the country to offer such a service. we went with them
because of the assurances they offered about how secure our data tapes would be in their hands...stored in a converted salt mine, carried in unmarked trucks with more than one person present, secured tape cases, etc. etc.
unfortunately, due to the nature of what was being put on the tapes, all sorts of security on some of the files contained had to be removed just to get proper and complete backups. they knew this, and also knew how enticing a target the tapes were - all sorts of personal and private data, research, etc. the research specifically was a very clear target for industrial espionage, especially given some of the people who knew exactly what was on the tapes and how much money the data was worth to the right people, or country. so we were very clear about tapes being signed for by specific individuals and delivered to very specific locations in double locked boxes. they were even provided maps and photos to be precise.
after having a long series of incidents involving them not delivering on anything promised, they actually left a delivery of data tapes in a hallway, in an unlocked case, in a building with some of the highest traffic of anywhere in the organization. no attempt was made to contact the people in charge of recieving the data when the delivery people had trouble finding the office they were to be delivered to(which is extremely secure and specifically designed for protecting data tapes while on-site. so they left them, at the front door!! after waiting for the delivery and not seeing it, the company was called to see what the problem was...they informed us that the tapes had been delivered and signed for...the tapes had of course not been signed for by anyone and merely discarded when the drivers found they'd left their phone in the truck and couldn't be arsed to walk back to get it.
when called on such a blinding error in judgement and failure to deliver on any promises in the contract, they responded with "we're very sorry, we'll not charge you for this month's service"
so just because someone is bonded and makes promises you need to hear. doesn't mean that you won't have issues - the only way to be sure is to hand deliver the tapes yourself, by people trusted within the organization to have complete access to them. and even then they should be locked and monitored.
using 32 qubits gives you ((2^32)-1) and the ability to examine 4'294'967'295 solutions simultaneously
you'd need 6 qubits to examine at least 32 states and no more than 63 states
then: all iPods required a Mac, and all Macs had firewire
now: they don't have to because USB 2.0 is decent enough to handle the data rates and there are still more PCs than Macs, and more PC owners are buying iPods. Apple still includes Firewire support for all of their equipment outside of the shuffle - you may have to buy a cable, but most of the people who would use firewire already have the cables
then: all external HDs were Firewire because the only people who used them were Mac owners, especially for video editing
now: there are more USB HDs, but people who do need intensive and solid disk access still insist on Firewire...very very few people who originally needed Firewire will give up Firewire.
then: there were very few people buying DVcams
now: everyone who buys a camcorder buys a DVcam, and more people are buying camcorders than ever before
so guess what! a heck of a lot more people WILL care about DV then you think...that market segment is exploding. And a heck of a lot more people will also care about Macs then you think.
i'm not saying it's a conspiracy, merely a concious decision to try and force Apple's hand to inferior equipment. If Apple wants hardware manufacturers to built peripherals, the manufacturers will of course attempt to get Apple to do it on their terms, meaning USB 2.0 since they don't have to make seperate versions for both platforms. That doesn't influence Apple in the sense that they'll ever drop firewire since they know their customers will still insist on firewire. It also doesn't influence manufacturers who survive on purchases by Mac owners, who tend to be far more demanding of the hardware they use than the average PC user.
as more people get digital tv boxes, firewire will continue to expand. as more people buy DV cams, firewire will expand. as more people buy Macs(and the market share is hardly shrinking) firewire will expand.
but we'll see who's correct in a year, and I'll probably be the one having a laugh.
not when the bottom line is $$$ and PC iPod adopters just don't have firewire. it doesn't make any sense for Apple to try and push PC users to firewire. i think this is especially true when you look at how their pricing is structured, selling improved iPods at the same or lower cost as they were a few months ago they need to make up some of the margins which have been trimmed way down - the shuffle has probably only increased the need for this being that it's dirt cheap for what it is.
Apple adopted USB to take advantage of PC hardware manufacturers who refuse to support firewire for political reasons, but could still offer decent equipment Mac owners would like to use. They also use it for things like keyboards and mice - why would they stick with USB 1.0/1.1 when a faster protocol can be added for zero cost.
And Apples have ALWAYS had USB, at least as far back as the original iMac - so they're hardly just jumping on the bandwagon.
firewire isn't going anywhere - if anything, as more DV cameras are being sold(and the numbers sold have increased every quarter for the past 2 years) firewire will only grab more share.
firewire had the market to itself, because Apples were pretty much the only market for external hard drives until recently - using USB 2.0 is a cop out by manufacturers, allowing them to make cheaper, slower and less reliable hardware and sell them for the same price as firewire, or slightly less.
firewire is absolutely not losing ground
but i don't think it's just going to be a niche market item - it's still better for external drives and the like. as long as DV exists, other peripherals will still take advantage of firewire
USB 2.0 sucks for stable data transfer, and vendors know this and will still provide firewire drives because they simply work better.
the only reason apple isn't providing firewire cables with new iPods are the statistics - PC owners are purchasing more iPods than Mac owners. Anyone who has a mac probably has an iPod and a firewire cable or dock if they were going to upgrade. Since most PCs don't come with firewire as a standard connection type(purely political) it doesn't make sense for apple to bundle cables that will never get used.
firewire is NOT losing any ground, especially because of anything apple is or isn't doing
end of story
USB has ZERO penetration in the DV market. Firewire is still the standard connection found on all true DV cams - until that tide changes, Apple isn't going to back away from Firewire.
The reason USB isn't found on any DV cameras is that it just isn't as fast or fault tolerant as Firewire. It would be entirely possible to drop frames using USB 2.0 and it certainly never reaches the maximum throughput of Firewire. Anyone who cares about DV definitely cares about these two factors. As long as there are people who care about DV, or a better connection standard is developed(unlikely), Firewire will survive just fine.
This story is just ridiculous and completely over-reacting to Apple responding to more PC owners snapping up iPods - this has nothing to do with Apple abandoning Firewire, nor does it indicate such a move on Apple's part.
Data Protector is about as worthless as software comes...not to mention HP's support, which is in my opinion among the worst in the industry. I've never encountered such clueless product engineers in my life. The GUI was written for windows, then ported to HP-UX and Sun, too bad you can't actually use the GUI on anything but a windows machine! Aside from limited device and media support, various widgets not rendering(pick a backup from calendar for restore) and system crashes on the HP/Sun boxes, HP was unable to tell us WHY things weren't working, even after extensive debugging. "LOOKS GOOD TO US" was their final reply. In the end we ended up building a windows machine to host the GUI and HP-UX to host the CellServer. The only reason we even kept it was the simple fact that we didn't have to pay for it, it was free with our support agreement.
I can only hope HP dies a quick death, and DP leads the way off the cliff.
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no....the I in intel is for innovation
I just figured ChoicePoint was somehow involved. I just figured wrong.
i predict it has to be either Cheif Running Water, Chef, Mephisto, the little monkey guy who follows Mephisto around, Mr. Garrison, Officer Barbrady, Ned, Mr. Brofslovski, or the 1991 Denver Broncos. but the trial will end in a cliff-hanger.
i predict it has to be either Cheif Running Water, Chef, Mephisto, the little monkey guy who follows Mephisto around, Mr. Garrison, Officer Barbrady, Ned, Mr. Brofslovski, or the 1991 Denver Broncos
when i posted this originally, there were zero responses and the link was unreachable. 20 minutes later, the front page link had still not been linked properly!
can it be helped that i was one of 50 or so people who had the same problem at the same time?
on top of it all, the SAME story was posted the NEXT day. that's the epitome of redundancy
so mods, why so over-zealous???
this will become very important when my cluster of mac mini boxes becomes self aware and mobile, and picks up a shotgun to destroy anything that dare mock the incredible industrial design and hardware performance.
okay, maybe that won't happen, but it does act like a short skirt on a cheap lady. $5 gets you in, but you may feel burning afterwards...and that's not the poor thermal performance of PIVs.
Now I remember why I buy AMD.
the link is broken! so i guess this means it will never happen?
eh...excuse my typos...it's still early
in the end it was the best since i discovered that iiyama makes wonderful monitors - and i still purchase them with dual connectors so i can hook up my powerbook to a larger display without having to unhook all the cabling...but i can afford to do that now. i had to mow a lot of lawns to buy that first one.
how long ago would you say the "driver problem" went away? i ask, because not more than 6 months ago we had a group buy a few Dell machines with SATA, hoping to install RHEL on them. As of a month ago, we still didn't have a fix for them, or at least one that worked. stuff like this makes me cringe, because really - SATA shouldn't have been that difficult to support. then again, knowing what i know about the people who handle linux for our org - they could have been massively incompetent. i really want to get my feet wet again, i tried out linux for a year back in '99 and hated it, but mostly because i couldn't get device drivers for my cable-tv card and the install process was overly difficult. SO...do SATA drivers presently exist? i know other devices get drivers pretty much immediately after release if not coinciding with their release, but i was shocked by the lack of SATA support, especially since it had been out for almost a year.
flame bait? come on now...it's the truth!!!
so if you were being sincere, i apologize
any trek other than enterprise or voyager
farscape can be decent if you can stomach the cheese and poor quality
old-skool land of the lost, again cheesy, but decent in concept. the cheese is what makes it good sometimes
twilight zone
i justified my statements well enough to not have my judgement be the issue at hand...and i see that more than enough people agree with me completely to further solidify my statement as being valid.
if you hurry, you might be able to catch bruce boxleitner selling oranges along the freeway.
i'm not going to play this game
but i'll add this - the star trek cartoon series was a better series than b5, and i think we know how bad that was.
yes i am painfully aware of that, but does it even matter? people change in their abilities over the course of a lifetime. some improve, some get worse. some go from a-list to z-list, some go from z-list to a-list.
remember when coke changed it's formula? not so good. remember when they changed it back? much better...
i stand by my assertion that B5 is one of the worst sci-fi shows to grace a television screen in the past 30 years.
Babylon5 relied too much on CG and not enough on decent acting, character development and interesting plotlines...it was at it's core just a bad show from the start. Z-list actors, Z-list writers do not make a good show. and the CG was pretty bad, even by 1994 standards.
you can hate the message, but don't hate the messenger.
"carried by a trusted entity that is bonded" we used to use a very large corporation handle our offsite data storage(in case of a disaster). i won't name them directly, but lets just say they're probably the largest company in the country to offer such a service. we went with them because of the assurances they offered about how secure our data tapes would be in their hands...stored in a converted salt mine, carried in unmarked trucks with more than one person present, secured tape cases, etc. etc. unfortunately, due to the nature of what was being put on the tapes, all sorts of security on some of the files contained had to be removed just to get proper and complete backups. they knew this, and also knew how enticing a target the tapes were - all sorts of personal and private data, research, etc. the research specifically was a very clear target for industrial espionage, especially given some of the people who knew exactly what was on the tapes and how much money the data was worth to the right people, or country. so we were very clear about tapes being signed for by specific individuals and delivered to very specific locations in double locked boxes. they were even provided maps and photos to be precise. after having a long series of incidents involving them not delivering on anything promised, they actually left a delivery of data tapes in a hallway, in an unlocked case, in a building with some of the highest traffic of anywhere in the organization. no attempt was made to contact the people in charge of recieving the data when the delivery people had trouble finding the office they were to be delivered to(which is extremely secure and specifically designed for protecting data tapes while on-site. so they left them, at the front door!! after waiting for the delivery and not seeing it, the company was called to see what the problem was...they informed us that the tapes had been delivered and signed for...the tapes had of course not been signed for by anyone and merely discarded when the drivers found they'd left their phone in the truck and couldn't be arsed to walk back to get it. when called on such a blinding error in judgement and failure to deliver on any promises in the contract, they responded with "we're very sorry, we'll not charge you for this month's service" so just because someone is bonded and makes promises you need to hear. doesn't mean that you won't have issues - the only way to be sure is to hand deliver the tapes yourself, by people trusted within the organization to have complete access to them. and even then they should be locked and monitored.
i think he was joking about quantum states, not the actual "readyness" of quantum computers
using 32 qubits gives you ((2^32)-1) and the ability to examine 4'294'967'295 solutions simultaneously you'd need 6 qubits to examine at least 32 states and no more than 63 states
then: all iPods required a Mac, and all Macs had firewire now: they don't have to because USB 2.0 is decent enough to handle the data rates and there are still more PCs than Macs, and more PC owners are buying iPods. Apple still includes Firewire support for all of their equipment outside of the shuffle - you may have to buy a cable, but most of the people who would use firewire already have the cables then: all external HDs were Firewire because the only people who used them were Mac owners, especially for video editing now: there are more USB HDs, but people who do need intensive and solid disk access still insist on Firewire...very very few people who originally needed Firewire will give up Firewire. then: there were very few people buying DVcams now: everyone who buys a camcorder buys a DVcam, and more people are buying camcorders than ever before so guess what! a heck of a lot more people WILL care about DV then you think...that market segment is exploding. And a heck of a lot more people will also care about Macs then you think. i'm not saying it's a conspiracy, merely a concious decision to try and force Apple's hand to inferior equipment. If Apple wants hardware manufacturers to built peripherals, the manufacturers will of course attempt to get Apple to do it on their terms, meaning USB 2.0 since they don't have to make seperate versions for both platforms. That doesn't influence Apple in the sense that they'll ever drop firewire since they know their customers will still insist on firewire. It also doesn't influence manufacturers who survive on purchases by Mac owners, who tend to be far more demanding of the hardware they use than the average PC user. as more people get digital tv boxes, firewire will continue to expand. as more people buy DV cams, firewire will expand. as more people buy Macs(and the market share is hardly shrinking) firewire will expand. but we'll see who's correct in a year, and I'll probably be the one having a laugh.
not when the bottom line is $$$ and PC iPod adopters just don't have firewire. it doesn't make any sense for Apple to try and push PC users to firewire. i think this is especially true when you look at how their pricing is structured, selling improved iPods at the same or lower cost as they were a few months ago they need to make up some of the margins which have been trimmed way down - the shuffle has probably only increased the need for this being that it's dirt cheap for what it is. Apple adopted USB to take advantage of PC hardware manufacturers who refuse to support firewire for political reasons, but could still offer decent equipment Mac owners would like to use. They also use it for things like keyboards and mice - why would they stick with USB 1.0/1.1 when a faster protocol can be added for zero cost. And Apples have ALWAYS had USB, at least as far back as the original iMac - so they're hardly just jumping on the bandwagon. firewire isn't going anywhere - if anything, as more DV cameras are being sold(and the numbers sold have increased every quarter for the past 2 years) firewire will only grab more share. firewire had the market to itself, because Apples were pretty much the only market for external hard drives until recently - using USB 2.0 is a cop out by manufacturers, allowing them to make cheaper, slower and less reliable hardware and sell them for the same price as firewire, or slightly less. firewire is absolutely not losing ground
but i don't think it's just going to be a niche market item - it's still better for external drives and the like. as long as DV exists, other peripherals will still take advantage of firewire USB 2.0 sucks for stable data transfer, and vendors know this and will still provide firewire drives because they simply work better. the only reason apple isn't providing firewire cables with new iPods are the statistics - PC owners are purchasing more iPods than Mac owners. Anyone who has a mac probably has an iPod and a firewire cable or dock if they were going to upgrade. Since most PCs don't come with firewire as a standard connection type(purely political) it doesn't make sense for apple to bundle cables that will never get used. firewire is NOT losing any ground, especially because of anything apple is or isn't doing end of story
USB has ZERO penetration in the DV market. Firewire is still the standard connection found on all true DV cams - until that tide changes, Apple isn't going to back away from Firewire. The reason USB isn't found on any DV cameras is that it just isn't as fast or fault tolerant as Firewire. It would be entirely possible to drop frames using USB 2.0 and it certainly never reaches the maximum throughput of Firewire. Anyone who cares about DV definitely cares about these two factors. As long as there are people who care about DV, or a better connection standard is developed(unlikely), Firewire will survive just fine. This story is just ridiculous and completely over-reacting to Apple responding to more PC owners snapping up iPods - this has nothing to do with Apple abandoning Firewire, nor does it indicate such a move on Apple's part.
Data Protector is about as worthless as software comes...not to mention HP's support, which is in my opinion among the worst in the industry. I've never encountered such clueless product engineers in my life. The GUI was written for windows, then ported to HP-UX and Sun, too bad you can't actually use the GUI on anything but a windows machine! Aside from limited device and media support, various widgets not rendering(pick a backup from calendar for restore) and system crashes on the HP/Sun boxes, HP was unable to tell us WHY things weren't working, even after extensive debugging. "LOOKS GOOD TO US" was their final reply. In the end we ended up building a windows machine to host the GUI and HP-UX to host the CellServer. The only reason we even kept it was the simple fact that we didn't have to pay for it, it was free with our support agreement.
I can only hope HP dies a quick death, and DP leads the way off the cliff.