The collected works of skywriter - Page 7

ok, unreal expectation. brrzzzt.

sadly, the truth of it is that there exist very few engineers of caliber necessary to produce the 'quality' everyone is ascribing to their favorite products. most are daily 9 to 5'ers on the job grind waiting for the weekend using reference designs as a crutch to meet your basic 'satisfactorily meets' performance review. from these meager beginnings the basis for the endgame of product quality emerges. if, in the event, the product manufacturing process yields an 'average product'' that the majority may base their biased opinions on, then that becomes to epitome of quality.

next, let's talk 'statistically significant sample'; ain't got it. end of discussion.

i love my apple products be cause, on average, they perform much better than the others.

i had my iphone replaced for cracked plastic, dust under the screen, and dead pixels. all within the original 1 year warranty. now is that a sign of good product engineering, or good product management?*

answer: latter, not the former. i love my phone, but i know what really makes it great.

*-some people think this is called customer service.

that's random luck.

i need leather! :)

YES! ALL OF IT YESYESYES!!!

i really love that bag, but even for me it's way too expensive. even the $150 for just the iPad is just too much.

but, yours is huge, cumbersome, and ugly.

the expensive stuff is awesome.

oh, admit it's just the green you can't stand. you can chose any color you want. their black leather is awesome.

yes, it appears to be a form of frame buffer memory fault. does the pattern of missing bits change when you select a different set of screen dimensions, such as 1024x768? different refresh rate? frame buffer depth?

tally ho! well put, old 'bean!

there is a disturbing lack of italics.

so, i ended up springing for windows 7 professional that supported Remote Desktop, and an RD app for the mac. works great.

with VNC i had so many crazy screen size translation problems... when they worked at all.

yup, i bought an OEM version w/o having to buy any hardware either. i never considered it before, since i didn't really look into what it was they were actually selling.

as it is i have 4 copies, 2 more than i wanted. one for the HTPC, which i will be trying to hackintosh as soon as i have some time to waste, and the other will end up being virtualized on an OSX netbook.

thanks for all the help guys! i might not have saved some effort but it certainly reinforced my opinions :(

so i have a similar situation. ordinarily the raid5 with the large files is just fine, but small block writes just lost in the shuffle in the middle of large block transfers. not a great situation... raid10 will help reduce the number of operations for those directory creates, also the dual spindle fault problem bri3d notes.

incidentally, what is common practice in the video profession for this? seems like it's a problem with a known solution.

@SAQ depending on the technology (disk type, make, model, year) you're looking at, the unrecoverable read error rate of media defects in late model drives have risen to the point of a statistically significant chance of encountering such an event during the course of a rebuild. this is why raid-6 has become a requirement in the high end lately.

this issue comes down to the increase in probability of encountering a previously undetected 2nd fault during an erasure. raid-10 would also have this problem, but at a reduced probability due to the restricted symbol space of the code word.

in a word: yup!

i suggested raid-10 for a reasonable balance between small block writes and large sequential r/w's. as a general recommendation it would be a good place to start, but as noted above take the time to optimize.

We need Janitor Man(tm)!

i have a copy of irix 5.3 w/XFS that installed on every r4k/r3k i ever tried it on; indy, indigo 1&2, crimson, skywriter, PI/2x, 4d/xxx, etc...

fwiw if you can use blender, it used to work fine. you could texture meshes with as many video streams as your machine can handle in real time, or print to film the rest.

nifty!

old is new. the 70's verticulation is back!

come to think of it SnOracle always caught my fancy.

i'm still pleased as punch with it. my netbook, and imac have been sorely underutilized since the ipad came home. i'm disappointed in the turn-about by at&t on data plans, but i'm sticking with the unlimited plan as long as they allow me to keep it. i would have maintained a constant subscription regardless, but it's the [long laments found else where] of the thing.

i don't have a problem with people wanting to use my ipad, i suppose i've cultivated a air or discontent with sharing over time :)

If the iPad is not to your liking! it's the aPad/iPed/oPud/uPid/weePoop at last!



Pre-Orphaned!

http://chinagrabber.com/buy-m800-mid-apad-tablet-pc---7-touch-android-apad-m70003.aspx

i would like auto- italics !!

it's instructive to note that this was preciously the viewpoint everyone had of japan throughout the first 1/3 of the 1900's. japan managed to turn that situation around 180 degree's in the 60's. what should be feared is if china wakes up and manages to pull the same economic turn-around.

culturally, it's likely as not, to be impossible.

this is why the royal we rely heavily upon disclaimers, such as the one supplied below

i also use iSSH for shelling to unix systems. presently suprised it was available, as well as my favorite IRC app Colloquy. stuff works; its GREAT!

the difference is where it's designed, not where it's build - although ultimately you can't pick either in a vacuum since it is... you know, china.

i like the old styling. but everything must change. i'll get one next year if my current iphone wears out, or is too slow to enjoy.

most of the interesting stuff originated from DEC in the MR02 in Marlboro. I worked in MR01 and many a lunch time walked over to look at the stuff they had; pieces of Whirlwind, Acoustic Delay memory, etc.. lotta fun!

Seriously, who cares? What does it mean to me that yet another person has my email address?

Bwahaha I've never seen that done before :) friggin awesome!

Zee burglar of Ban-F-F!

no, sun did zfs to try to suck functionality out of the storage array in a storage business that they consistently failed at. the plan was to replace external 3rd party storage with thumper like boxes running zfs. it might have gained some share for some market segments that their servers played in, but not the high-end enterprise market which is where all the real money is. their storage division always failed spectacularly. xfs was too little too late. it's a niche-y non-product for sun die hards.

Bwahaha! Yeah ZFS of course :)

I have new little kittes to distract me.

Doubleplus boring.

And very superficial article too.

Plus lame comments on the anandtech site.