Sorry, but the first thing that came to my mind after reading your post....
Let me introduce myself I'm a social disease
I've come for your wealth leave you on your knees
No time for feeling sorry, I got here on my own
I won't ask for mercy, I choose to walk alone
What's yours is mine and what's mine is mine too
If you shake my hand better count your fingers
What if I do get caught? what if there is no judgment?
If I'm right I lose nothing, if you're right I lose it all
I ought to get caught because I'm doing something wicked
I'm guilty haunted by my fear and the only consequences
Are dread and the fugitive mind
You built walls to protect you so no one will infect you
Pursued by those out there that vanish in thin air
Come a long way to find what you really left behind
You don't know when the end is but it's coming fast
What's yours is mine and what's mine is mine too
If you shake my hand better count your fingers
What if I do get caught? what if there is no judgment?
If I'm right I lose nothing, if you're right I lose it all
I ought to get caught because I'm doing something wicked
I'm guilty haunted by my fear and the only consequences
Are dread and the fugitive mind
One small detail here is that the guard, although incompetent, has not broken any laws, and will (or should) be punished by his employer (being fired), and the thief is a criminal punishable by law, and will (or should) rot in jail for his crimes. In a perfect world we wouldn't need security guards in the first place. Having crapy security is no excuse for absolving criminals who take advantage of the same.
Oh no I lost a toe due to frostbite last time I went hiking. 16 point touch gives all those other people an unfair advantage. Where is my lawyer and my human rights organization representative when I need them?
Or... the ones who insist on right-click, copy, right-click, past instead of the corresponding shortcuts.. this drives me nuts, specially when I am looking over their shoulders trying help them with something else.
Exactly what I was thinking... if I remember correctly -- and I probably don't -- changing the water temperature by even a couple of degrees can have a devastating effect on marine life, specially coral reef that are so sensitive to any changes (pH, temperature,...)
But you know what... we don't need them anyways, I am sure this new system will come with a screen saver that simulates all the marine life it destroys.
Not true... the previous post does mention a Hummer... not a monster truck I agree, but definitely a larger vehicle... give the guy some credit, he was not entirely wrong in his comment.
I don't think the OP believes only Windows 7 is the only OS that supports soft RAID, but rather he just built a new system and is contemplating on the best solution to add RAID to his system... his question is not "what operating system should I use" but "what raid solution should I use on my Windows 7 system".
Well then I hope she gets AIDS... or Cancer... oh well, both.
Or better yet, I hope she swims in the Amazon and get a Candiru! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candiru)
The big thing people care about now in photography is how they can snap silly pictures of their friends at a drunken party. Don't get me wrong, those are great and I have many... but it doesn't satisfy the fact that jpeg is a compressed file and the compression algorithms can be lost in time.
I seriously doubt that... we live in a digital world where nothing is lost anymore. Granted, it may take some work for you to decode (or find a decoder) for a given file format (software), but the algorithm will never be lost. It is well documented, and available on the Internet, therefore if the need arises, someone can easily write a piece of software to decode it visualize, or write another piece of software to convert to a more "modern" format. Now, if the internet ever goes away.... then we are in trouble.
... but we have documents that are more than 2000 years old. There is no guarantee that we'll have our digital works 2000 years from now
Wait... what? So you are telling me that you would rather use a media format that is guaranteed not to to last over a couple of hundred of years (if that) over one that could easily last forever, or for as long as we can decode it (read:forever) ?
I will grant you that taking your film to professional labs will greatly increase the longevity of your pictures, along with the cost of getting them processed, but even those labs have quotas to meet, and will cut corners when they are overloaded. This is coming from someone who used to work in a professional photo lab in college, so yes, you can take my word for it.
Now, let's assume that you have a great professional photo lab, which you can afford, and use NASA-like technology to process your film to make sure the water is pure and all chemicals have been properly removed from your originals, and only employs professional photo processors. Can you guarantee that the place where you will store your originals will not degrade their quality? Most people can not. As a matter of fact, for the most part, people won't even keep their negatives after they get their prints done.
Now, granted, there is the whole disaster scenario. But do you truly believe that digital copies are more at risk of being lost due to disaster than hard copies? Also keep in mind that digital copies can be copied with no loss in quality, and stored in a safe place (backup facility for instance), while hard copies cannot be copied without loss of quality, and are a lot more expensive to both copy and keep in a safe (archival) facility.
I used to be a huge supporter of film, and fought digital for a long long time... but now I have two kids, and I worry about my family pictures a lot more than I used to. Also I like that I can shoot away hundreds of pictures not having to worry about: a) running out of film; b) cost of processing all those prints. As soon as I get home the pictures get copied from my notebook to my server and then replicated to a remote computer. My pictures are pretty much safe forever now, even though chances are no one other than my wife and I (and our parents) will ever care to look at them and they will probably end up lost in cyber-space one day after we are gone.
I think the point made on the previous post is that you need to know what you are installing... I have plenty of applications from companies that are unknown by me, I do however do a bit of research before installing anything -- and yes, even from well known vendors -- there is usually pretty good information available online that can hint you as to what something available online for download is legit. And if you don't find anything... just be safe and leave it alone.
It seems most people in here really are in a crusade to prove how great their primitive ways really are... or merely want to show off. I love Linux and there are plenty of things that I can accomplish a lot faster by going to shell than going through all of the menus and options.
However I do believe that unless you are just writing small scripts, for serious development environment, and IDE will greatly increase your productivity, specially if you understand what the IDE is doing for you. A good IDE (IDE != Editor) will improve your abilities to write readable code, test, find bugs, refactor,..... and yes that can all be accomplished through the shell/by writing your own scripts, but why? Do you really have something to prove?
And then they will look at it, and even if they can decode the files, they will go: "Ahh, its not holographic, this sucks!" and never look at it again!
Maybe, but that's not what's important is it... What matters is if you record something, after how long are you guaranteed to still be able to read the data.
Well the answer to that is very simple... there are no guarantees that any device you buy will work for any X amount of time... no matter what the manufacturer says. Even if you could control the environment around it, there may still be manufacturing defects that will shorten the life of your device.
Yes, sure, if it fails they will be more than happy to ship you a new one but your data is lost. That is why you need to have redundancy whenever you are dealing with important data.
But as someone who's thrown together more than a few web applications in my time, I'd like to talk to you about what I'm really excited about--the datagrid element.
Now, I know a lot of people are going to argue with me, but the most important tag in HTML is <table>. Every single graphical trick done to either speed up or sexify your web site is done with tables inside tables inside tables--it's tables all the way down!
When's the last time you laid out a site without a table element on every page? Hell, it's almost always the next thing to follow <body> on my pages. And you know the code I write to interact dynamically with that table is a bitch. An unmaintainable mess. Yeah, there's probably some library out there I could use to simplify that pain but it always comes down to me messing around with advanced Javascript code trying to squeeze some more functionality into the user's interaction with that table. "Oh, I want this box to highlight red when this happens!" a user might say. Everyone wants a "simple table" with Google Spreadsheets functionality.
Well, although I am not one of the people who thinks people who use tables for layout should all go to hell, I do prefer to NOT use them. I can say that I've written a few web apps myself (and still do) and use tables only for data representation. And I am comfortable to say I am not alone... take a look at, for instance,/.'s source.
Another beautiful example of tableless layout can be found at Zen Garden
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Wow, and she is not even a blond. Wonder if the lawyer is.
Europe would disagree with that statement...
Sorry, but the first thing that came to my mind after reading your post....
Let me introduce myself I'm a social disease
I've come for your wealth leave you on your knees
No time for feeling sorry, I got here on my own
I won't ask for mercy, I choose to walk alone
What's yours is mine and what's mine is mine too
If you shake my hand better count your fingers
What if I do get caught? what if there is no judgment?
If I'm right I lose nothing, if you're right I lose it all
I ought to get caught because I'm doing something wicked
I'm guilty haunted by my fear and the only consequences
Are dread and the fugitive mind
You built walls to protect you so no one will infect you
Pursued by those out there that vanish in thin air
Come a long way to find what you really left behind
You don't know when the end is but it's coming fast
What's yours is mine and what's mine is mine too
If you shake my hand better count your fingers
What if I do get caught? what if there is no judgment?
If I'm right I lose nothing, if you're right I lose it all
I ought to get caught because I'm doing something wicked
I'm guilty haunted by my fear and the only consequences
Are dread and the fugitive mind
Megadeth Dread & The Fugitive Mind
I know of some people who would prefer you just took the original items away, no need for copying.
Well now, a vasectomy with no side effects... Not very effectve is it?
One small detail here is that the guard, although incompetent, has not broken any laws, and will (or should) be punished by his employer (being fired), and the thief is a criminal punishable by law, and will (or should) rot in jail for his crimes. In a perfect world we wouldn't need security guards in the first place. Having crapy security is no excuse for absolving criminals who take advantage of the same.
Oh no I lost a toe due to frostbite last time I went hiking. 16 point touch gives all those other people an unfair advantage. Where is my lawyer and my human rights organization representative when I need them?
Or... the ones who insist on right-click, copy, right-click, past instead of the corresponding shortcuts.. this drives me nuts, specially when I am looking over their shoulders trying help them with something else.
Exactly what I was thinking... if I remember correctly -- and I probably don't -- changing the water temperature by even a couple of degrees can have a devastating effect on marine life, specially coral reef that are so sensitive to any changes (pH, temperature,...)
But you know what... we don't need them anyways, I am sure this new system will come with a screen saver that simulates all the marine life it destroys.
Can't wait to see the Blue Sky Of Death when the system crashes....
Very interesting, very interesting... but.... what the heal is that 'fule' you refer to that can be made from wind energy?
Not true... the previous post does mention a Hummer... not a monster truck I agree, but definitely a larger vehicle... give the guy some credit, he was not entirely wrong in his comment.
I don't think the OP believes only Windows 7 is the only OS that supports soft RAID, but rather he just built a new system and is contemplating on the best solution to add RAID to his system... his question is not "what operating system should I use" but "what raid solution should I use on my Windows 7 system".
Well then I hope she gets AIDS... or Cancer... oh well, both.
Or better yet, I hope she swims in the Amazon and get a Candiru! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candiru)
Hmmm... interesting, maybe if it generated enough current it could actually travel through time instead of just telling time? Brilliant!
Yes... but a scrapper that scrapes bugs off the flypaper would also scrape the glue off the fly paper, rendering it pretty useless, right?
The big thing people care about now in photography is how they can snap silly pictures of their friends at a drunken party. Don't get me wrong, those are great and I have many... but it doesn't satisfy the fact that jpeg is a compressed file and the compression algorithms can be lost in time.
I seriously doubt that... we live in a digital world where nothing is lost anymore. Granted, it may take some work for you to decode (or find a decoder) for a given file format (software), but the algorithm will never be lost. It is well documented, and available on the Internet, therefore if the need arises, someone can easily write a piece of software to decode it visualize, or write another piece of software to convert to a more "modern" format. Now, if the internet ever goes away.... then we are in trouble.
... but we have documents that are more than 2000 years old. There is no guarantee that we'll have our digital works 2000 years from now
Wait... what? So you are telling me that you would rather use a media format that is guaranteed not to to last over a couple of hundred of years (if that) over one that could easily last forever, or for as long as we can decode it (read:forever) ?
I will grant you that taking your film to professional labs will greatly increase the longevity of your pictures, along with the cost of getting them processed, but even those labs have quotas to meet, and will cut corners when they are overloaded. This is coming from someone who used to work in a professional photo lab in college, so yes, you can take my word for it.
Now, let's assume that you have a great professional photo lab, which you can afford, and use NASA-like technology to process your film to make sure the water is pure and all chemicals have been properly removed from your originals, and only employs professional photo processors. Can you guarantee that the place where you will store your originals will not degrade their quality? Most people can not. As a matter of fact, for the most part, people won't even keep their negatives after they get their prints done.
Now, granted, there is the whole disaster scenario. But do you truly believe that digital copies are more at risk of being lost due to disaster than hard copies? Also keep in mind that digital copies can be copied with no loss in quality, and stored in a safe place (backup facility for instance), while hard copies cannot be copied without loss of quality, and are a lot more expensive to both copy and keep in a safe (archival) facility.
I used to be a huge supporter of film, and fought digital for a long long time... but now I have two kids, and I worry about my family pictures a lot more than I used to. Also I like that I can shoot away hundreds of pictures not having to worry about: a) running out of film; b) cost of processing all those prints. As soon as I get home the pictures get copied from my notebook to my server and then replicated to a remote computer. My pictures are pretty much safe forever now, even though chances are no one other than my wife and I (and our parents) will ever care to look at them and they will probably end up lost in cyber-space one day after we are gone.
I think the point made on the previous post is that you need to know what you are installing... I have plenty of applications from companies that are unknown by me, I do however do a bit of research before installing anything -- and yes, even from well known vendors -- there is usually pretty good information available online that can hint you as to what something available online for download is legit. And if you don't find anything... just be safe and leave it alone.
It seems most people in here really are in a crusade to prove how great their primitive ways really are... or merely want to show off. I love Linux and there are plenty of things that I can accomplish a lot faster by going to shell than going through all of the menus and options. ..... and yes that can all be accomplished through the shell/by writing your own scripts, but why? Do you really have something to prove?
However I do believe that unless you are just writing small scripts, for serious development environment, and IDE will greatly increase your productivity, specially if you understand what the IDE is doing for you. A good IDE (IDE != Editor) will improve your abilities to write readable code, test, find bugs, refactor,
And then they will look at it, and even if they can decode the files, they will go: "Ahh, its not holographic, this sucks!" and never look at it again!
Maybe, but that's not what's important is it... What matters is if you record something, after how long are you guaranteed to still be able to read the data.
Well the answer to that is very simple... there are no guarantees that any device you buy will work for any X amount of time... no matter what the manufacturer says. Even if you could control the environment around it, there may still be manufacturing defects that will shorten the life of your device.
Yes, sure, if it fails they will be more than happy to ship you a new one but your data is lost. That is why you need to have redundancy whenever you are dealing with important data.
But as someone who's thrown together more than a few web applications in my time, I'd like to talk to you about what I'm really excited about--the datagrid element. Now, I know a lot of people are going to argue with me, but the most important tag in HTML is <table>. Every single graphical trick done to either speed up or sexify your web site is done with tables inside tables inside tables--it's tables all the way down! When's the last time you laid out a site without a table element on every page? Hell, it's almost always the next thing to follow <body> on my pages. And you know the code I write to interact dynamically with that table is a bitch. An unmaintainable mess. Yeah, there's probably some library out there I could use to simplify that pain but it always comes down to me messing around with advanced Javascript code trying to squeeze some more functionality into the user's interaction with that table. "Oh, I want this box to highlight red when this happens!" a user might say. Everyone wants a "simple table" with Google Spreadsheets functionality.
Well, although I am not one of the people who thinks people who use tables for layout should all go to hell, I do prefer to NOT use them. I can say that I've written a few web apps myself (and still do) and use tables only for data representation. And I am comfortable to say I am not alone... take a look at, for instance, /.'s source.
Another beautiful example of tableless layout can be found at Zen Garden
And of course the adoption of Linux as the preferred desktop OS.. it is all coming... soon... just wait... no, really, it is... isn't it?
Specially when an XBOX 360 or a PS3 cost over US$1,000 in Brazil.. although most of the games are pirated.