... their games division is going to make +$5 billion between now and next year? I think he meant to say "in 2008 we expect that we will stop hemorrhaging cash out of every orifice."
You're suggesting (seriously?) that you don't expect Vista to show up on more than 2% of desktops? I would like some of whatever it is you smoked this afternoon.
If you're looking for servers in the NY Metro area I'd recommend www.voxel.net. I've been with Voxel for a few years now, and the experience has been nothing short of stellar. With regard to colocation, they recently opened up another NYC facility just for colocation, and it's sitting on their 10Gbit fiber ring. They don't really have pricing on the site other than their wholesale stuff, but I called and a quick quote yesterday for a half rack and a full rack with 10 amps of power and 10Mbit that was *really* competitive. I have a few servers in their SOHO facility, and my pingtimes and transfer rates from California are seriously comparable to local California vendors.
I have around 20,000 files in my collection totaling 90GB and the Winamp Media Library handles it admirably.
If you can break things down using the smart bookmarks you'll be even happier with the performance - here's how I have mine setup: (this picture isn't from the computer with my whole collection, but you get the idea)
I can go to "Audio" which shows me all of my tracks, or I can go to "Classic Rock" or "Rock" which contain smaller amounts of music, and load a bit faster. Also plays nice with my iPod, including album art.
This also happened to me when I went from RC2 to Vista Business Final - it made a backup directory which I found nice and incredibly helpful. It really takes a lot of the worry about reinstalling.
As Gabe and Tycho are often proponents of the 2d / Oldschool style of gaming, I had hoped their game would be 2d or at least pseudo-2d like Paper Mario. The intro looks great, the 3d stuff just doesn't do it for me at all, and it was a big letdown to see that come on screen. It looks like someone through together Penny-Arcade inspired Quake 3 models. Hopefully the end game will look more like the 2d art we've come to love. That said, I'll reserve judgment until it's finished, and buy it either way because I like what they do (making me laugh Monday, Wednesday, and Friday - and ChildsPlay) and wish to support them.
My company has been using Ubersmith Datacenter Edition (Uber DE, for those in the know) for a few months now - the IP management stuff they've integrated into the device manager is pretty slick to say the least. We've done the spreadsheet before, as well as North*, but neither of those options mesh well with any external systems. If you've got hardware/network stuff to manage as well (which I assume you do) give the Ubersmith guys a call. I don't think there's an online demo of DE yet (lame) but when we were interested in the system we called up and one of the developers gave us a walkthrough of a live build, explaining what was going on.
http://www.ubersmith.com/
I would much rather have a game delayed by a full year, as long as the developers take advantage of that extra time. If I could have Spore tomorrow, but it would be lacking in some features or not as polished as it should be, or I could have it in a year with everything they promised - I'd definitely take it in a year. I have enough great games to play through as it is. I don't want to see major features scaled back a-la Project Ego/Fable due to time constraints. Take your time devs, and make it worth the wait.
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... Trace Memory - another game from the same creators. It was one of the early DS games to really take advantage of the DS hardware ie, sometimes you need to blow into the microphone to blow dust off of something, or close the lid to make a stamp - very clever. It's short but sweet, and will really leave you scratching your head on a few of the puzzles.
Sorry, forgot to mention that all of the spin up measurements are the average of three startups, though I can tell you that the numbers never varied greatly between runs.
A few weeks ago I tested some power supplies to see if it's worth spending $70 on a power supply vs the crappy stock PSU that comes with a lot of cases you can find on NewEgg.
I used Kill-a-Watt power tester, which can test for a number of things - I used raw amps.
I tested 4 machines with 5 power supplies in 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4 drive configurations. I also took a reading of how much power the systems drew when I powered them on at 4 drives, which shows how efficient the power supplies become under serious load (it takes a good chunk of power to spin up 4 drives)
The machines were all tested with the same 1x1GB PC5300 RAM, and the same four Western Digital SATA drives. The Intel systems were LGA775 chips on an Asus, and the AMD's were AM2 - also using an Asus motherboard.
In a lot of cases the stock power supply uses almost twice as much power.
In Brooklyn I pay $.19c/kwh, so 1 amp of power can cost around $20 a month - ((volts * amps) / 1000 ) * time (in hours).
This means pretty plainly, that the stock PSU here would cost me another $15 per month on my one desktop that I always have on.
Now if an office switches all of our workstations to one of the three 80% efficient power supplies, we stand to save a few hundred per month. Add to that the fact that these power supplies generally have more stable rails, and they should last longer - and its really a no brainer.
Linux is still not for everyone, and people need to come to terms with that. We need to stop trying to convert the masses - it's still too early. Build a truly better operating system and you won't have to spend so much time trying to sell people on a free product. Wait until "it just works" otherwise we're going to continue to turn people off.
... was fantastic - take a look a the reviews all around, it was an excellent evolution on the 2d classic that made things faster and more fluid than ever.
No, it's a combination of him being dumb and the interface being admittedly unintuitive. If you look at the left side of the picture there's a button that says "Folders"... what do you think that does... You only have to click it once, and you can slide it to hide your favorites if you want.
http://www.intelliadmin.com/images/Windows%20File% 20Browsing%20Is%20Broken.jpg
I thought Zelda was *very* good, but I think the controls turned out a bit... awkward, for lack of a better word. I think they worked quite well, but it never felt really natural. Also, it's honestly time for some voice acting Zelda. All in all a fantastic game though!
Right now actually the PCI bus can't even take advantage of a 10G Ethernet card - you'll see that in real world conditions standard server class hardware is pretty much capped at 2G because of bus limitations.
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... their games division is going to make +$5 billion between now and next year? I think he meant to say "in 2008 we expect that we will stop hemorrhaging cash out of every orifice."
You're suggesting (seriously?) that you don't expect Vista to show up on more than 2% of desktops? I would like some of whatever it is you smoked this afternoon.
If you're looking for servers in the NY Metro area I'd recommend www.voxel.net. I've been with Voxel for a few years now, and the experience has been nothing short of stellar. With regard to colocation, they recently opened up another NYC facility just for colocation, and it's sitting on their 10Gbit fiber ring. They don't really have pricing on the site other than their wholesale stuff, but I called and a quick quote yesterday for a half rack and a full rack with 10 amps of power and 10Mbit that was *really* competitive. I have a few servers in their SOHO facility, and my pingtimes and transfer rates from California are seriously comparable to local California vendors.
http://mr2.phpwerx.net/Photos/Sully/stuff/full/w inamp.png
I can go to "Audio" which shows me all of my tracks, or I can go to "Classic Rock" or "Rock" which contain smaller amounts of music, and load a bit faster. Also plays nice with my iPod, including album art.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3 176
This also happened to me when I went from RC2 to Vista Business Final - it made a backup directory which I found nice and incredibly helpful. It really takes a lot of the worry about reinstalling.
As Gabe and Tycho are often proponents of the 2d / Oldschool style of gaming, I had hoped their game would be 2d or at least pseudo-2d like Paper Mario. The intro looks great, the 3d stuff just doesn't do it for me at all, and it was a big letdown to see that come on screen. It looks like someone through together Penny-Arcade inspired Quake 3 models. Hopefully the end game will look more like the 2d art we've come to love. That said, I'll reserve judgment until it's finished, and buy it either way because I like what they do (making me laugh Monday, Wednesday, and Friday - and ChildsPlay) and wish to support them.
My company has been using Ubersmith Datacenter Edition (Uber DE, for those in the know) for a few months now - the IP management stuff they've integrated into the device manager is pretty slick to say the least. We've done the spreadsheet before, as well as North*, but neither of those options mesh well with any external systems. If you've got hardware/network stuff to manage as well (which I assume you do) give the Ubersmith guys a call. I don't think there's an online demo of DE yet (lame) but when we were interested in the system we called up and one of the developers gave us a walkthrough of a live build, explaining what was going on. http://www.ubersmith.com/
Miller Lite is not beer.
Wind Screen of Death perhaps?
I thought it was funny.
Thanks for the input! We were actually concerned most with amps since we are charged by raw amps, so that's what we tested.
I would much rather have a game delayed by a full year, as long as the developers take advantage of that extra time. If I could have Spore tomorrow, but it would be lacking in some features or not as polished as it should be, or I could have it in a year with everything they promised - I'd definitely take it in a year. I have enough great games to play through as it is. I don't want to see major features scaled back a-la Project Ego/Fable due to time constraints. Take your time devs, and make it worth the wait.
Review: http://ds.ign.com/objects/707/707312.html
Sorry, forgot to mention that all of the spin up measurements are the average of three startups, though I can tell you that the numbers never varied greatly between runs.
I used Kill-a-Watt power tester, which can test for a number of things - I used raw amps.
I tested 4 machines with 5 power supplies in 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4 drive configurations. I also took a reading of how much power the systems drew when I powered them on at 4 drives, which shows how efficient the power supplies become under serious load (it takes a good chunk of power to spin up 4 drives)
The machines were all tested with the same 1x1GB PC5300 RAM, and the same four Western Digital SATA drives. The Intel systems were LGA775 chips on an Asus, and the AMD's were AM2 - also using an Asus motherboard.
Here are the results (hosted by Voxel.net, so it should hold :)
http://newyorkhatesyou.com/Power_Supplies.pdf
Power supplies tested: http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82 E16817256001
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82 E16817371006
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82 E16817151022
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82 E16817234002
In a lot of cases the stock power supply uses almost twice as much power.
In Brooklyn I pay $.19c/kwh, so 1 amp of power can cost around $20 a month - ((volts * amps) / 1000 ) * time (in hours). This means pretty plainly, that the stock PSU here would cost me another $15 per month on my one desktop that I always have on.
Now if an office switches all of our workstations to one of the three 80% efficient power supplies, we stand to save a few hundred per month. Add to that the fact that these power supplies generally have more stable rails, and they should last longer - and its really a no brainer.
Linux is still not for everyone, and people need to come to terms with that. We need to stop trying to convert the masses - it's still too early. Build a truly better operating system and you won't have to spend so much time trying to sell people on a free product. Wait until "it just works" otherwise we're going to continue to turn people off.
... was fantastic - take a look a the reviews all around, it was an excellent evolution on the 2d classic that made things faster and more fluid than ever.
One of the best bands out there. Many of you will know them from FLCL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLCL
No, it's a combination of him being dumb and the interface being admittedly unintuitive. If you look at the left side of the picture there's a button that says "Folders" ... what do you think that does... You only have to click it once, and you can slide it to hide your favorites if you want.
http://www.intelliadmin.com/images/Windows%20File% 20Browsing%20Is%20Broken.jpg
... they could just start using CD's, since those work too.
... against people being assholes in general. Why would you want to kick a robot dog? Because you're a jerk - which should be illegal.
http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/920500.asp
I thought Zelda was *very* good, but I think the controls turned out a bit... awkward, for lack of a better word. I think they worked quite well, but it never felt really natural. Also, it's honestly time for some voice acting Zelda. All in all a fantastic game though!
Right now actually the PCI bus can't even take advantage of a 10G Ethernet card - you'll see that in real world conditions standard server class hardware is pretty much capped at 2G because of bus limitations.
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