Ordered 2 of these 120gb solid state drives.
Looks like the start of my new computer build has begun. To bad it won't be finished to around the end of March.
Ordered 2 of these 120gb solid state drives.
Looks like the start of my new computer build has begun. To bad it won't be finished to around the end of March.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
When I saw this segment, I thought of Bitter!
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/liv...pprentices.cnn
The awards are tonight and it seems all has gone well *fingers crossed nobody breaks one on stage*.Originally Posted by Bitter Jeweler
Australia's equivalent of the Oscars
I had a good laugh at this statement:
They are plated in 22 Karat gold - if they were cast in solid 22 karat gold they would be worth around $60k each....The body of the statuette is cast in 22 karat gold, reflecting the glamour and prestige of the AACTA Awards.
The truth is they were cast (by us) in AB1 (aluminium bronze) and it was the flow characteristics of AB1 that was both a boon & a bane - it flows so well it was perfect for filling such an asymmetrical shape but this contributed to the turbulence. After pouring through the ceramic foam filter it was close to perfect and as we hoped the AB1 also proved to be an excellent choice for the polishing characteristics - it looks like gold.The very high copper content also gives the statuette a real feeling of significance when you pick it up, the casting alone is 1.1kg and the tiger iron base is also heavy.
Barbossa
I nicknamed the award "Roy" as a little tribute to Geoffrey Roy Rush - he was the driving force behind creating AACTA and the new award, he is also the inaugural President of the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Artists. I am also an admirer of his work and am pleased to see the success he has enjoyed in the past decade or so - he worked damned hard for decades before his breakthrough performance in Shine gave him the opportunity to prove his talent to the world.
You can read up all you want on the award but you'll find no reference to me or my company - we were simply a cog in the machinery that made it happen and we're not upset with the lack of acknowledgement as we knew what we were getting into.
For decades I have helped create all sorts of weird and wonderful products from vacuum cleaner components to military hardware, mining machinery, rail/automotive/aero components, medieval weapons and even medals for returned service personnel but this little statue has a different feeling about it - it also was such a test of our capabilities that it brings home the old saying: Alls well that ends well...
Such is Life...
Man that's just all sorts of sweet
Apropos of happy...
... my ginger turned 27 yesterday
Lovely day at home today with great reading and some hilarious emcrit videos. I've got a much better feel for neurological, ophthalmogical and otorhinolaryngological emergencies now, and my greatest difficulty is with being confident in my reasoning. Took out the aeropress for the first time in ages and boy was it goooood...
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
That's the only word I remember from my Ancient Greece lessons in school
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
People include a rhino in that specialty outside the US?! Here, ENTs are just called otolaryngologists.
they almost never do, i either say it in swedish or say ENTif you can say it your ENT and B are all fine
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
This shouldn't be in the happy thread, since its yet another reminder that i haven't corrected my deductions yet, but I'm getting back over 3 grand this year with my taxes. With the wedding coming up so fast, this will help. lots.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/jimspdf.htm Looks of great classics digitized for your enjoyment.
Hope is the denial of reality
Termite, that's pretty awesome!
It's really interesting to me, to think about metal flowing through ceramic foam! It really challenges what I know of metal casting, which is limited.
Illusions and termite may be interested in this...
Finally got my mill fixed by the owner of the company. It was just one
Of those oddball things. But it's working now, and all trimmed and trued up. Now to learn toolpathing! Knowledge is power!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aeNuUHGvtw
We didn't know what the test model was. It took 1 hour to mill.
Saw the Orient Express train at Victoria station for the first time earlier this week.
My other half (who travels through Victoria every day on her commute) had told me she'd seen it a number of times there.
So I looked it up. A return ticket from London to Venice for a suite will cost you in the region of US$5,000.
Drives came today. Shortly after opening the second drive I remembered that I used my last SATA connector with Brent's computer some time before christmas.
FFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
Are you going to RAID0 those things?
Already did
Stole one of the SATA cables from Brents computer, I've got until he gets off school tomorrow to replace it. So far so good, once it finishes updating I'm going to run the Windows Performance scoring thing.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
My old harddrive score was a 5.9 with 2 7900RPM Maxtors in RAID0.
I think I'm in love.
Also have a Seasonic modular PSU arriving tomorrow. To bad the rest of the machine isn't getting upgraded till ivybridge at the end of march or early April, but at least by then the 7950 should be under 300 bucks.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
You're about 3 points ahead of me in every category.Then again, my computer is 3.5 years old and cost about $400 at the time to buy (with some extra for a decent graphics card).
Hope is the denial of reality
My ~5 year old box is positively creaking these days.
Mine is 4.9, 4.8, 4.8, 5.2, 5.9.
We don't bring them back to life, but we do bring them back from the dead...
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
That's a pretty apt statement.
Hope is the denial of reality
What good exactly is RAID0 on an SSD? That's just asking for catastrophical data loss.
I mean, Ominous' rating for his primary HD (which I guess are the SSDs in RAID0) is a 7.7
My single SSD yields a 7.9
Just sayin'
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
They are only 120gb each, and I've got a 2TB drive in an enclosure I'm currently using as backup, as well as the 2 1TB drives I just replaced (that will one day be a backup to the backup. I plan to one day pick up a cisco e4200v2 router so I can put one of the TB drives on that as a central media server
So I lose Steam one day cause one of the drives failed. Not overly concerned with that; until american ISPs start enforcing data caps
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
Still, RAID0 doesn't really yield any performance advantage any more. It only increases the chances of getting a big problem in case of disc failure (or controller failure). In essence, a load of hassles with little to no gain.
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
http://www.overclock.net/t/674524/in...d-0-benchmarks
single SSD
SSD RAID0
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
And if you think that raw transfer rate does play a role in actual realworld usage, then you're sadly mistaken. The bottleneck is always somewhere else.
Now, if you needed to record Terabytes of data in real time as fast as you can get your sensors to spew it out, then RAID0 might make sense. For everyone else, not really.
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
Yes, it is a bit silly, that's why I approve of it!
On that note, I'm more interested in the new ReFS and Storage Spaces.
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
You know how crown royal comes in a purple sleeve?
When the hell did PSUs start doing that? New Seasonic PSU arrived today came wrapped in a black velvet like sleeve in a box 4 times the size of the unit
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
I agree with the SSDs in RAID0 being silly. My Intel X25-M Gen 2 is fast enough. My Crucial C300 is fast enough. My Crucial M4 is more than fast enough.
Tomorrow is like an empty canvas that extends endlessly, what should I sketch on it?
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