I guess I'm fairly lucky that Steven W is fairly accommodating, or my SC2 review would be going straight in the bin :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Saracen
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I guess I'm fairly lucky that Steven W is fairly accommodating, or my SC2 review would be going straight in the bin :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Saracen
Yeah the new Sony Z series are avaiable in Quad SSD and Dual SSD RAID0
The 128GB model is 2x64GB SSDs
SC2 couldn't and shouldn't have been in the "500 word limit" category though, imo. It's such a big game with so many features that it'd take over 1000 for me to write what I would like to properly..Quote:
Originally Posted by snootyjim
The online world is more accommodating, because it can be. With print media, you've got a layout prepared and only so many words fit. Exceed that, and you won't fit the copy into the space ... which causes problems. You also have harder deadlines. Also, online, when copy is ready, you hit "publish" and it's published. With print, you have more preparation to do, and a printer that expects work by a given date. Miss it and you risk getting no magazine that day/week/month.Quote:
Originally Posted by snootyjim
Even in the print world, though, I have been known to go back to an editor and pitch for why the word count should be increased. If you can make the case for why more space should be allocated, and if it can be done in the schedule, then it may happen. Maybe your story goes from one to two pages, and something else gets held over a month. Arguably, it's going to cost the editor more, because we're paid by the word, but it evens out next month because he's got a free story then. Of course, it only works if the story that's held over is still worth printing a month later, and a lot aren't.
Though the basic job is the same, I'd say the day to day running of print and online are different in several important ways.
I got my SSD today. Been fairly content with performance up until five minutes ago. Windows asked me to reboot, so I did. I picked up my phone to write a text and suddenly heard the 'Welcome' sound. Put a smile on my face, normally a reboot can take minutes, I never expected it to be so fast! Did it again just to be sure :p
Well happy with my purchase. A bit more than I wanted to spend but it was a bargain and I couldn't resist (£150 for a 2nd generation SSDNow V-Series 128GB). It was the Intel 40GB I was originally going for, but over 3 times the capacity for an extra £60? No-brainer.
would it be possible to get some benchmarks for this particular drive as i've been tempted by the gen 2 kingstons but put off by lack of reviews and data on them, although i've just brought a new monitor, tv, sky and a holiday so ssd is a long way (or a pay rise!!) off.....Quote:
Originally Posted by McPhee
Check Anandtech.Quote:
Originally Posted by marshalex
There's quite a few reviews out there, it's just a matter of finding them (difficult).
http://www.google.co.uk/search?rlz=1...-8&q=snv425-s2
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en...=&oq=&gs_rfai=
http://www.legitreviews.com/images/r...237/cdm3-1.jpg
Not the best, but not bad. After a bit of reading around and asking other people what their experiences were I came to the conclusion that the benchmarks mean very little any way. Reviewers seem reluctant to talk about how the system performs and are far too wrapped up in synthetic testing. People that own multiple different (recent, i.e. not 1st gen JMicron) drives can't seem to tell much difference between "fast" drives and "slower" ones in real-world performance, which is odd, because a lot of SSD reviews act as if the difference is substantial. Makes me wonder if a lot of reviewers are on the take tbh, but that's a different discussion. SSDs are fast in general, their access time is a lot lower than hard drives. Typing stuff in the windows search bar in the start menu gives me the results instantly (making searching quicker than actually clicking on programs and scrolling to the one you need!). The programs I've used so far have opened in under a second. Boot time is below 30 seconds. What more would I expect to get?
Anyway, I'm going to update the firmware tomorrow so I'll do some benchies then for those of you that need them :) Maybe a YouTube video of the performance would be more useful though?
sounds good. main thing i was looking at was the random 4k reads and writes as they seem to be what seperates the men from the boys, plus i like the fact that kingston do a kit with everything you need in one box.Quote:
Originally Posted by McPhee
Yeah... I think any game of that nature is going to be difficult primarily because it has online and offline play - which are completely different situations.Quote:
Originally Posted by matty-hodgson
Take Battlefield 2 for example, where online is the only mode worth playing, and it's fine. Or a game that doesn't even have online, like ME2.
With CoD or SC2, the online and offline are completely different, and you've got to explain both in thorough detail as far as I'm concerned. I can't stand lazy reviews that ignore the online aspect of games where it's crucially important - there was a lot of that in CoD MW2 imo.
I reckon I could do an SC2 single-player-only review in 500 words, if I really tried to keep it short, but I much prefer writing when it's open-ended. I think brevity is probably one of the greatest skills in print media... anybody can write, but getting your point across effectively in as few words as possible is a real art.
I bought the intel x 25 c 40gb a few days ago no regrets just that windows really does try 2 steal lots of hdd space. Other than the small size the performance is really good anything i click that is OS related or apps that are installed on the ssd start or come up instantly apart from itunes... Also it allows yr system to better cope with multitasking. with the random read speeds being so high I would assume windows won't slow down nearly as much over time as it normally does.
That's part of the challenge of commercial writing though.Quote:
Originally Posted by matty-hodgson
It's not that you write enough words to say what needs to be said. It's that an editor decides what he'll pay for, probably based on his assessment of the value of the review of the product .... and if he pays for one 1000 word review, it costs him the same as two 500 word reviews, so he has to decide which is the better use of money, which generates the most interest, is "worth" more to the company.
The writer just gets told what length to write to, and half the art of it is getting the essence of the product in whatever space you've got, and at 500 words, it's only ever going to be a brief overview. And far too often, from what I've seen in some sites and mags, it's a barely disguised rehash of the press release. :eek:
btw where did you get it for £150?Quote:
Originally Posted by McPhee
Ebay. I had a 20% off voucher, should have been £180.
bugger, and there was me hoping there was a nice website out there knocking them out at that price.....Quote:
Originally Posted by McPhee