I have no doubt about gravity waves existing either, but most physicists still seem to be deluded about what they really are and how they are observed.
If you want to play 720p, you have bought the wrong screen - downconvert if you can only obtain 720p source.
The netbooks video playback capibility is related to its screens size. If you want fullscreen quality video, make a temporary xvid with display 1024:600 of whatever video it is you want to see and watch that with no stutter at all.
A computer language should be empowering, there is no reason why a computer language should annoy you a little in all of its details enough to want to try all alternatives in balance for each minor point.
Most people who put enough effort into 1 language, will find that Turing complete language covers all their needs with what they now know already. Advocacy is the inevitable result of this empowerment and the only people who don't advocate a language are the ones who spend their time searching for a better Turing complete language rather than improving their own code.
Not that searching for a better language is a bad thing, it does keep us on our toes, but unless you just can't do something you strongly believe should be possible, it is usually just a waste of coding time IMO.
I think riding at a reasonable pace does provide extremely useful gyroscopic/centrifugal force. Its what allows you to take a fair amount of pressure away from the bars when moving at speed - remove them completely as well.
Actually if you bump into a biker at speed, it will be partially stabilised by its gyroscopic inertia, probably more stable if they are not touching the handle bars, since holding onto them tight could throw them. However, if you driving a vehicle orders of magnitude larger in mass, getting that bump right maybe impossible.
I think it makes sense to say "more objective" in this context, since the measure you speak of must change over time, it couldn't be completely objective.
Unless that spinach happened to ruin some of the best years of your life, as you were forced to eat it by your friends who were addicted to spinach and had no idea what to do when it just stopped. Being force-fed spinach when it happens to make you vomit.
The only disease you have is a good memory and a healthy dislike of bad spinach.
The campaign is justified by the suffering that led to it. You belittle them as people who only know hate, like you are somehow better than them because you you don't hate Microsoft. Not hating doesn't make you better, just quite possibly ignorant.
one more thing... I was given responsibility of an IBM E-Server a few years ago. It tried to help me by indicating a drive was failing prior to it failing.
It did this by refusing to boot up until someone had pressed a key...
... on the CONSOLE!
So, your point about some hardware controllers being better than others is a major one, considering the outlay to find out.
OK, I agree that people failing is going to create more problems. If you are paid to take of hardware, then it depends on how competent you think you are.
The first RAID box I had to deal with was a Dell PE1950, it had Linux support via Matt Domsch, it was reliable, but the 3 drive RAID5 had a throughput of 9Mb/sec. At that stage, getting the management software to run meant using a particular version of Redhat, and I am a Debian user.
Now. software RAID I can control fully with a hot-swap SATA controller and if you know what you're doing, its very simple. Install each drive one by one via a hot swap bay and label it with a sticky label and fdisk - it doesn't matter what order they come up in after that, you can always find the right drive that is no longer present by using "fdisk -l". No need for cable management, or slot management, plus you can place a boot sector on more than 1 drive to ensure it always boots. The only way you won't receive your email is if the network fails or 2 drives go at the same time, same as hardware RAID, only setting up an email with a hardware RAID controller is more of a pain than installing the version of Redhat they expect you to use.
I can appreciate that for a manager who doesn't have a competent tech around, hardware RAID is the way, but for a tech, hardware RAID is now redundant, expensive and limiting on your choice of OS to manage the unit remotely.
Identifying the drive is not an issue - just check the sysmtem log - if you set it up correctly, the software RAID will have labels on drives - I label both physically and virtually. By virtually, I mean a fake partition with the drive number as partition type.
A label is as good as a lamp, using a hotswap drive bay.
Hot-plugging is all you need in terms of hardware for RAID support - it means that the system won't go down because of a drive failure, and the email will get through to you. Of course, when I say software RAID, I mean Linux software RAID, not Motherboard Software RAID.
Software RAID 5 is going to take around 10% of a modern CPU core, but it will ruin the cache, so a dedicated fileserver makes sense - if you need more speed than one PC can deliver, then another PC with software load-sharing is a better option than souping up hardware anyway, as you will probably hit other limits when using many disks regardless of your choice of array.
You've added a piece of hardware to do RAID, which may have more bells and whistles, but all I really want is an email when a drive fails. The drive is nothing compared to the data, so all I need is a controller that supports hotplug. Silicon Image make one that should be standard on most MBs but isn't yet because of hardware RAID being an industry trying to stay alive.
If the controller fails, for Hardware RAID, I'm looking at wasting time and a lot of cash to get that data back online. For software RAID, a controller is a no brainer.
performance ? dedicate a cheap PC to the array, you can always change your mind with software.
Getting firmware that can merely read and write a drive at some stage in the future is always going to be easier than managing the application level RAID management software updates.
Seriously, the email is enough of bells and whistles for a storage array, I hope no one in your work area has to sit near the actual thing.
Your post reminded me of thoughts about the butterfly effect and how intertwined your behavior and decisions are with the universe that gave you life.
I agree with most of what you say here, at least with respect to religion.
I disagree on the point of free will. Whilst I see that as a neuroscientist, you would suggest that all actions you consciously decide are in fact subconsciously determined by the physics of the brain, I believe the nature of time itself needs to be understood to answer the questions of free will's existence.
If free will did not exist, then time itself would be deterministic, in this scenario the future is already determined and could be calculated through an accurate simulation of space-time, the simulations conclusions could then be reversed by an act of free will. I see free will as an act of creation - an act that defies the bounds of a deterministic past - an act that can only occur in the now.
I believe creation and destruction of information are real, and so can occur at any time and not just at the beginning or the end, as a purely deterministic view would have it.
As purveyors of a mostly causal environment (well, all that is certain is causal), we can instigate in the now with our conciousness something that could not possibly be replicated, even if a perfect simulation were designed. Its not an effect limited to humans, but may possibly be limited to conciousness.
Your boot drive has failed. Some people want to access their data using the same OS install. Most of those people will not use Windows at all to achieve this.
There isn't any one point here I fully disagree with, this KDawson is a bit of a dweeb, or a master of the set-up, I'm uncertain.
There was a time however, when people who built with the GPL did it with all the passion of creating a system that did not require Microsoft products to operate.
I see this is what is being pointed at and for slashdotters to come out and basically bend over to any/all principles in the name of freedom is just a bit sad really.
I have a BIOS with expressgate at work and due to the way I use a computer, I couldn't believe for a second that I would need to install something on my PC via Windows alone to make use of such a BIOS, why ? because it is absurd.
The success of GPL software comes about by keeping an eye on vested interests - it should be a little embarrassing for a computer guy to not appreciate that vested interests control the growth, the quality and the direction of GPL software. If it requires Windows to be installed, in many ways it doesn't serve the interests of the GPL, for people like myself, such software is a waste of energy, since installing Windows on a machine is something I do not enjoy.
IMO, software that is supposed to make my life easier is only going to succeed if it starts out by being easy to install. I'm sure we can all see the small paradox of having a system that defeats the need to run windows all the time, by installing it only from windows. Maybe the current Windows users cannot.
Turns out this may not be the case here, still, I havn't seen expressgate working yet because apparently it wasn't already there. I don't need it - if I have to put work in to get a good BIOS, I will use OFW.
I don't mean to be rude, I just see so many people posting here think Stallman is a bit of nutter and yet they probably don't see the connection between good principles and vested interests.
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I have no doubt about gravity waves existing either, but most physicists still seem to be deluded about what they really are and how they are observed.
My comment from March this year
When I hear the words "the unit for distance decreases", I cringe and think "relative to what ?"
LIGO - is its expenditure a testament to the importance of its goal ? or is it just the result of a badly thought out experiment ?
Other sites only measured total system consumption from the wall, which is far more inaccurate.
Not according to my electricity bill.
Netbooks usually come with 1024x600 res.
If you want to play 720p, you have bought the wrong screen - downconvert if you can only obtain 720p source.
The netbooks video playback capibility is related to its screens size. If you want fullscreen quality video, make a temporary xvid with display 1024:600 of whatever video it is you want to see and watch that with no stutter at all.
A computer language should be empowering, there is no reason why a computer language should annoy you a little in all of its details enough to want to try all alternatives in balance for each minor point.
Most people who put enough effort into 1 language, will find that Turing complete language covers all their needs with what they now know already. Advocacy is the inevitable result of this empowerment and the only people who don't advocate a language are the ones who spend their time searching for a better Turing complete language rather than improving their own code.
Not that searching for a better language is a bad thing, it does keep us on our toes, but unless you just can't do something you strongly believe should be possible, it is usually just a waste of coding time IMO.
The keyword here is "significant"
I think riding at a reasonable pace does provide extremely useful gyroscopic/centrifugal force. Its what allows you to take a fair amount of pressure away from the bars when moving at speed - remove them completely as well.
Actually if you bump into a biker at speed, it will be partially stabilised by its gyroscopic inertia, probably more stable if they are not touching the handle bars, since holding onto them tight could throw them. However, if you driving a vehicle orders of magnitude larger in mass, getting that bump right maybe impossible.
Not that I've tried, of course.
I think it makes sense to say "more objective" in this context, since the measure you speak of must change over time, it couldn't be completely objective.
Yeah that's pretty rude. You take pride in your rudeness for rudeness sake.
Why is it not for any other sake ? Because of your baseless comment about comprehension.
My comment did not infer physical disease, it just implies his claim of mental disease is baseless.
...hmmm. I'd say your enlightened, accurate, unbiased, gripping portrayal of the Linux community, I vote you be our representative!
You could be our first Mac OS 9.2.2 loving leader!
To be honest, I hate Microsoft a lot, but I agree entirely here - its GPL2, no issue really.
Because he claims some group of healthy people are diseased ?
This makes him reasonable and rational ?
I would say supporters of Microsoft are misguided and perhaps ignorant, but not diseased.
Its actually pretty rude.
Unless that spinach happened to ruin some of the best years of your life, as you were forced to eat it by your friends who were addicted to spinach and had no idea what to do when it just stopped. Being force-fed spinach when it happens to make you vomit.
The only disease you have is a good memory and a healthy dislike of bad spinach.
The campaign is justified by the suffering that led to it. You belittle them as people who only know hate, like you are somehow better than them because you you don't hate Microsoft. Not hating doesn't make you better, just quite possibly ignorant.
one more thing... I was given responsibility of an IBM E-Server a few years ago. It tried to help me by indicating a drive was failing prior to it failing.
It did this by refusing to boot up until someone had pressed a key...
... on the CONSOLE!
So, your point about some hardware controllers being better than others is a major one, considering the outlay to find out.
OK, I agree that people failing is going to create more problems. If you are paid to take of hardware, then it depends on how competent you think you are.
The first RAID box I had to deal with was a Dell PE1950, it had Linux support via Matt Domsch, it was reliable, but the 3 drive RAID5 had a throughput of 9Mb/sec. At that stage, getting the management software to run meant using a particular version of Redhat, and I am a Debian user.
Now. software RAID I can control fully with a hot-swap SATA controller and if you know what you're doing, its very simple. Install each drive one by one via a hot swap bay and label it with a sticky label and fdisk - it doesn't matter what order they come up in after that, you can always find the right drive that is no longer present by using "fdisk -l". No need for cable management, or slot management, plus you can place a boot sector on more than 1 drive to ensure it always boots. The only way you won't receive your email is if the network fails or 2 drives go at the same time, same as hardware RAID, only setting up an email with a hardware RAID controller is more of a pain than installing the version of Redhat they expect you to use.
I can appreciate that for a manager who doesn't have a competent tech around, hardware RAID is the way, but for a tech, hardware RAID is now redundant, expensive and limiting on your choice of OS to manage the unit remotely.
Identifying the drive is not an issue - just check the sysmtem log - if you set it up correctly, the software RAID will have labels on drives - I label both physically and virtually. By virtually, I mean a fake partition with the drive number as partition type.
A label is as good as a lamp, using a hotswap drive bay.
Hot-plugging is all you need in terms of hardware for RAID support - it means that the system won't go down because of a drive failure, and the email will get through to you. Of course, when I say software RAID, I mean Linux software RAID, not Motherboard Software RAID.
Software RAID 5 is going to take around 10% of a modern CPU core, but it will ruin the cache, so a dedicated fileserver makes sense - if you need more speed than one PC can deliver, then another PC with software load-sharing is a better option than souping up hardware anyway, as you will probably hit other limits when using many disks regardless of your choice of array.
If you do a cost comparison, the software RAID beats Hardware, because instead of buying a fast RAID card, you've got more storage space and speed.
You've added a piece of hardware to do RAID, which may have more bells and whistles, but all I really want is an email when a drive fails. The drive is nothing compared to the data, so all I need is a controller that supports hotplug. Silicon Image make one that should be standard on most MBs but isn't yet because of hardware RAID being an industry trying to stay alive.
If the controller fails, for Hardware RAID, I'm looking at wasting time and a lot of cash to get that data back online. For software RAID, a controller is a no brainer.
performance ? dedicate a cheap PC to the array, you can always change your mind with software.
Getting firmware that can merely read and write a drive at some stage in the future is always going to be easier than managing the application level RAID management software updates.
Seriously, the email is enough of bells and whistles for a storage array, I hope no one in your work area has to sit near the actual thing.
I always thought it was the Amps that kill you, the volts just determine if the amps will make it through.
Try Seamonkey around version 1.09 - install plugin as root if necessary. works for me, don't use the java version either. I did this on CentOS 4.3
Your post reminded me of thoughts about the butterfly effect and how intertwined your behavior and decisions are with the universe that gave you life.
I agree with most of what you say here, at least with respect to religion.
I disagree on the point of free will. Whilst I see that as a neuroscientist, you would suggest that all actions you consciously decide are in fact subconsciously determined by the physics of the brain, I believe the nature of time itself needs to be understood to answer the questions of free will's existence.
If free will did not exist, then time itself would be deterministic, in this scenario the future is already determined and could be calculated through an accurate simulation of space-time, the simulations conclusions could then be reversed by an act of free will. I see free will as an act of creation - an act that defies the bounds of a deterministic past - an act that can only occur in the now.
I believe creation and destruction of information are real, and so can occur at any time and not just at the beginning or the end, as a purely deterministic view would have it.
As purveyors of a mostly causal environment (well, all that is certain is causal), we can instigate in the now with our conciousness something that could not possibly be replicated, even if a perfect simulation were designed. Its not an effect limited to humans, but may possibly be limited to conciousness.
Your boot drive has failed. Some people want to access their data using the same OS install. Most of those people will not use Windows at all to achieve this.
hmmmmmmm.... resin....
There isn't any one point here I fully disagree with, this KDawson is a bit of a dweeb, or a master of the set-up, I'm uncertain.
There was a time however, when people who built with the GPL did it with all the passion of creating a system that did not require Microsoft products to operate.
I see this is what is being pointed at and for slashdotters to come out and basically bend over to any/all principles in the name of freedom is just a bit sad really.
I have a BIOS with expressgate at work and due to the way I use a computer, I couldn't believe for a second that I would need to install something on my PC via Windows alone to make use of such a BIOS, why ? because it is absurd.
The success of GPL software comes about by keeping an eye on vested interests - it should be a little embarrassing for a computer guy to not appreciate that vested interests control the growth, the quality and the direction of GPL software. If it requires Windows to be installed, in many ways it doesn't serve the interests of the GPL, for people like myself, such software is a waste of energy, since installing Windows on a machine is something I do not enjoy.
IMO, software that is supposed to make my life easier is only going to succeed if it starts out by being easy to install. I'm sure we can all see the small paradox of having a system that defeats the need to run windows all the time, by installing it only from windows. Maybe the current Windows users cannot.
Turns out this may not be the case here, still, I havn't seen expressgate working yet because apparently it wasn't already there. I don't need it - if I have to put work in to get a good BIOS, I will use OFW.
I don't mean to be rude, I just see so many people posting here think Stallman is a bit of nutter and yet they probably don't see the connection between good principles and vested interests.
This is the police... we know your game - reverse psychology! Your just pretending you won't show up, but we'll be there waiting... we'll be there!
(sarge... can I borrow your aftershave ?)
Would you want your next-door neighbor hammering away in bed with your wifi ?
You want mod points , I got em, I can help you out with th... oh crap, I've done it again haven't I.