as far as I can tell you still cant make a RAID10 (1+0) device in there
Everything you make is a RAID 1+0 (a striped mirror). Every pair of drives you add to a pool expand the stripe. This is a good thing, obviously. In fact, it's a great thing.
I cry that ZFS is so misunderstood. (For one thing, it's not just a filesystem, it's volume management and filesystem as a single entity.) ZFS is so much of an enabler technology that I've converted all of my network storage servers over to it.
Right. Because sitting in front of a 24" widescreen LCD hitting keys on a keyboard is a vastly superior pinball experience than actually playing pinball.
"Sony obviously hasn't learned any lessons from the failure of minidisc, atrac, memory sticks, r-dat, sdds, HiFD, 8mm video, SACD, UMF, etc, etc (I'm sure I've missed a few failed sony formats)."
You missed Betamax (consumer, not pro). Young whippersnapper:-)
Unfortunately, with the way things are going with the major movie studios (only Universal still produces HD-DVD exclusively), it appears as if Sony has finally had their first media format war win with Blu-Ray. I guess they're really excited over there and are trying to figure out what other stuff they can win now...
NTSC has many flaws, but the higher refresh rate is an advantage to a country that seems to live and die by its professional sports Since all pro sports games are transmitted/recorded at the full 60Hz framerate (ie. there is a new piece of temporal information every 1/60th of a second), they are more fluid than PAL.
That's a very minor issue, though; the bigger issue is how movies are transferred to PAL -- standard transfer is to speed them up 6% to translate 24fps to 25fps. Up until very recently, that altered the pitch of the sound! Thankfully newer transfer methods are able to speed up the audio without altering the pitch.
I have a non-GPS-enabled phone (a Sanyo Katana, for the curious) that I use as a GPS navigation device because I run software (Telenav) provided by my service carrier. The thing is accurate to a few meters and works by triangulating off of 3 or more cell towers. Google can't utilize this so they're limited to 1000m -- that's pretty damn useless.
I'm a husband, father, and computer hobbyist extended into at least three niches -- my time is worth a hell of a lot more than my money. $90 a year doesn't seem worth the 2+ hours it takes to identify and replace the devices, unless you've got nothing better to do...
That's not inflammatory, it's simply the truth. You don't go advertising yourself as "the sum of all human knowledge" and then go deleting articles because some asshat thinks they're not worth documenting. Every single defense of "Notability" is bogus. Space? Delete one day's worth of editing history and free up half a gigabyte. Don't think it's worth documenting? Not to the person who spent the time on the article.
Plagarism is a real concern. Notability is just petty.
1. Cell-based broadband. If your cell phone works, you can buy an expensive one and a data plan and hook the Cell up to your computer via USB and use it to surf.
2. Bonding multiple phone lines. But that's ghetto; I much rather prefer:
3. ISDN. Have you investgated if ISDN will work for you?
Lockpicking is the oldest form of cracking, not hacking. Hacking is best summed up as "unconventional and creative use of technology". It is not a synonym for breaking and entering.
This used to be news for nerds -- please get it right.
Yes, but they're borking the conversion. Instead of converting 23.976fps movies to 23.976fps downloads, they're taking the result of the pulldown flags (29.97 interlaced), blending the interlaced fields, and encoding the result as a 29.97fps movie. It looks terrible. The quality is just about acceptable for movies with the caliber of, say, Zoolander, and little else.
I'm glad I'm not paying EXTRA for it, anyway. It comes with your regular rental agreement as a bonus. If I were intentionally paying for the service, I'd immediately demand a refund.
Threw it out?? The only sane way to purchase a plasma tv is from Best Buy where you can plunk down $250 for a 3-year warranty. That way, when it burns in, you can get it replaced.
Just keep extending the warranty.
It was your 30,000 statement I was objecting to. You are correct when it comes to 180Hz and 240Hz wheels (10,800 RPM and 14,400 RPM).
Sadly, that's still too slow -- I see color shimmering on any horizontal panning, which greatly ruins DLP for me (although I've only seen 180Hz wheels, I haven't seen a 240Hz wheel yet).
DLP does this with a color wheel rotating anywhere from 10,000 to 30,000 times per second
No sir, my hard drive doesn't even spin that fast. You're off by orders of magnitude.
Considering that a DLP projector updates the screen 60 times a second, most color wheels spin at 60 or 120Hz. The early projectors had wheels that spun at only 60Hz leading to the unpopular color "shimmering" effect that prevents some people from buying it if they can notice the effect. Later wheels spin faster, reducing the effect greatly, but even these don't exceed 3x the display rate.
High-end DLP projectors use three emitters (RGB), eliminating the need for a wheel entirely.
"But remember, the GUI has to work with every other part of the system. It can't be "optimized" in the same way as a game, because it's not really a standalone application."
That is the most absurd thing I've read this entire thread. Just because it's not a standalone application doesn't mean it "can't" be optimized. Usually system libraries are the *first* things to be optimized because they get so much use.
I'm with you 100%. Apple has never been good with consistency, all the way back to the original Mac. Drag a file icon in the trash? It gets deleted. Drag a diskette icon in the trash? It gets... ejected. Not erased, or formatted, but ejected. That has NEVER made sense.
What's worse is that, like most digital DRM downloads, they probably mangle beyond watchability anything that is a pure interlaced source, ie. sporting events, etc. Downloadable content never exceeds 30fps.
"h.264 encoded matroska at 600 mb or so an hour can do the job of these overbloaded and DRM ridden things."
That's the third time I've read that in this thread and it's just now starting to piss me off. No, h.264 @ 600MB/hr does not equal HD-DVD in terms of quality. You don't have to be a broadcast engineer to see it (which I am). Also, you need 2GHz just to play 720p @ 24fps, and if you want 720p @ 60fps, no PC under 3.2GHz is even an option.
Did you know that you can encode HD material as MPEG-2? And that playback requirements of MPEG-2 are less than half of H.264? And because of that, most HDV systems use MPEG-2 transport streams as their transport mechanism? Space is cheaper than processor power.
The phrase "Everyone else, at this point, seems to be just catching up" drives me nuts, as it shows an incredible lack of hindsight. Say what you will about Sony, but the PS2 far and away is already the most immersive console out there, with dance pads, the eye toy, Guitar Hero controller, etc. that all have you off the couch, interacting with the console. Hell, I've even got a Taiko drum+game (think Donkey Conga but with sticks) that I received as a gift.
This isn't a slam against Nintendo; it's a slam against the person who made the comment about catching up. What's the average memory retention of a video game journalist, 6 months?
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As a classic computer enthusiast, this gun makes me cry; why not donate the disks to people who use them as part of their restoration efforts?
as far as I can tell you still cant make a RAID10 (1+0) device in there
Everything you make is a RAID 1+0 (a striped mirror). Every pair of drives you add to a pool expand the stripe. This is a good thing, obviously. In fact, it's a great thing.
I cry that ZFS is so misunderstood. (For one thing, it's not just a filesystem, it's volume management and filesystem as a single entity.) ZFS is so much of an enabler technology that I've converted all of my network storage servers over to it.
at least vpinmame will save pinball.
Right. Because sitting in front of a 24" widescreen LCD hitting keys on a keyboard is a vastly superior pinball experience than actually playing pinball.
I can beat your Mac. I have a Tandy TL/2, which came standard with MS-DOS in ROM. From power-on to DOS prompt is less than 2 seconds.
"Sony obviously hasn't learned any lessons from the failure of minidisc, atrac, memory sticks, r-dat, sdds, HiFD, 8mm video, SACD, UMF, etc, etc (I'm sure I've missed a few failed sony formats)."
:-)
You missed Betamax (consumer, not pro). Young whippersnapper
Unfortunately, with the way things are going with the major movie studios (only Universal still produces HD-DVD exclusively), it appears as if Sony has finally had their first media format war win with Blu-Ray. I guess they're really excited over there and are trying to figure out what other stuff they can win now...
NTSC has many flaws, but the higher refresh rate is an advantage to a country that seems to live and die by its professional sports Since all pro sports games are transmitted/recorded at the full 60Hz framerate (ie. there is a new piece of temporal information every 1/60th of a second), they are more fluid than PAL.
That's a very minor issue, though; the bigger issue is how movies are transferred to PAL -- standard transfer is to speed them up 6% to translate 24fps to 25fps. Up until very recently, that altered the pitch of the sound! Thankfully newer transfer methods are able to speed up the audio without altering the pitch.
I have a non-GPS-enabled phone (a Sanyo Katana, for the curious) that I use as a GPS navigation device because I run software (Telenav) provided by my service carrier. The thing is accurate to a few meters and works by triangulating off of 3 or more cell towers. Google can't utilize this so they're limited to 1000m -- that's pretty damn useless.
I'm a husband, father, and computer hobbyist extended into at least three niches -- my time is worth a hell of a lot more than my money. $90 a year doesn't seem worth the 2+ hours it takes to identify and replace the devices, unless you've got nothing better to do...
That's not inflammatory, it's simply the truth. You don't go advertising yourself as "the sum of all human knowledge" and then go deleting articles because some asshat thinks they're not worth documenting. Every single defense of "Notability" is bogus. Space? Delete one day's worth of editing history and free up half a gigabyte. Don't think it's worth documenting? Not to the person who spent the time on the article.
Plagarism is a real concern. Notability is just petty.
1. Cell-based broadband. If your cell phone works, you can buy an expensive one and a data plan and hook the Cell up to your computer via USB and use it to surf.
2. Bonding multiple phone lines. But that's ghetto; I much rather prefer:
3. ISDN. Have you investgated if ISDN will work for you?
#4 is already in Thunderbird; you should read the docs.
Lockpicking is the oldest form of cracking, not hacking. Hacking is best summed up as "unconventional and creative use of technology". It is not a synonym for breaking and entering.
This used to be news for nerds -- please get it right.
Isn't netflix already selling movie downloads?
Yes, but they're borking the conversion. Instead of converting 23.976fps movies to 23.976fps downloads, they're taking the result of the pulldown flags (29.97 interlaced), blending the interlaced fields, and encoding the result as a 29.97fps movie. It looks terrible. The quality is just about acceptable for movies with the caliber of, say, Zoolander, and little else.
I'm glad I'm not paying EXTRA for it, anyway. It comes with your regular rental agreement as a bonus. If I were intentionally paying for the service, I'd immediately demand a refund.
"Note that currently no Apple II emulator emulates NTSC decoding"
I beg to differ.
Threw it out?? The only sane way to purchase a plasma tv is from Best Buy where you can plunk down $250 for a 3-year warranty. That way, when it burns in, you can get it replaced. Just keep extending the warranty.
It was your 30,000 statement I was objecting to. You are correct when it comes to 180Hz and 240Hz wheels (10,800 RPM and 14,400 RPM).
Sadly, that's still too slow -- I see color shimmering on any horizontal panning, which greatly ruins DLP for me (although I've only seen 180Hz wheels, I haven't seen a 240Hz wheel yet).
DLP does this with a color wheel rotating anywhere from 10,000 to 30,000 times per second
No sir, my hard drive doesn't even spin that fast. You're off by orders of magnitude.
Considering that a DLP projector updates the screen 60 times a second, most color wheels spin at 60 or 120Hz. The early projectors had wheels that spun at only 60Hz leading to the unpopular color "shimmering" effect that prevents some people from buying it if they can notice the effect. Later wheels spin faster, reducing the effect greatly, but even these don't exceed 3x the display rate.
High-end DLP projectors use three emitters (RGB), eliminating the need for a wheel entirely.
"But remember, the GUI has to work with every other part of the system. It can't be "optimized" in the same way as a game, because it's not really a standalone application."
That is the most absurd thing I've read this entire thread. Just because it's not a standalone application doesn't mean it "can't" be optimized. Usually system libraries are the *first* things to be optimized because they get so much use.
And then MAD TV, which blew past Moore's law by introducing 10 blades: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F7TMlrDXtw&NR
"how can it be stolen... if it was given away?"
You've obviously never dealt with IP lawyers.
I'm with you 100%. Apple has never been good with consistency, all the way back to the original Mac. Drag a file icon in the trash? It gets deleted. Drag a diskette icon in the trash? It gets... ejected. Not erased, or formatted, but ejected. That has NEVER made sense.
What's worse is that, like most digital DRM downloads, they probably mangle beyond watchability anything that is a pure interlaced source, ie. sporting events, etc. Downloadable content never exceeds 30fps.
"Films released on Blu-Ray format in mpeg2 look noticably worse than films released in mpeg4 or VC1 on HD-DVD"
I call BS. Where is the proof/citation for this? What did they do, use the same bitrate for HD as they do for SD?
"h.264 encoded matroska at 600 mb or so an hour can do the job of these overbloaded and DRM ridden things."
That's the third time I've read that in this thread and it's just now starting to piss me off. No, h.264 @ 600MB/hr does not equal HD-DVD in terms of quality. You don't have to be a broadcast engineer to see it (which I am). Also, you need 2GHz just to play 720p @ 24fps, and if you want 720p @ 60fps, no PC under 3.2GHz is even an option.
Did you know that you can encode HD material as MPEG-2? And that playback requirements of MPEG-2 are less than half of H.264? And because of that, most HDV systems use MPEG-2 transport streams as their transport mechanism? Space is cheaper than processor power.
The phrase "Everyone else, at this point, seems to be just catching up" drives me nuts, as it shows an incredible lack of hindsight. Say what you will about Sony, but the PS2 far and away is already the most immersive console out there, with dance pads, the eye toy, Guitar Hero controller, etc. that all have you off the couch, interacting with the console. Hell, I've even got a Taiko drum+game (think Donkey Conga but with sticks) that I received as a gift.
This isn't a slam against Nintendo; it's a slam against the person who made the comment about catching up. What's the average memory retention of a video game journalist, 6 months?