And hundred of enterprise SANs out there routinely backup their data using RAID - most commonly by taking a "snapshot" of an existing RAID array with another RAID array.
Ok, so this isn't exactly what the hardware described in TFA is capable of, but if you could build-in hardware that would accomplish hot-syncing a laptop disk with no cranky and difficult-to-configure-by-morons backup software, that would be useful. Let me tell you abot the times where places I have worked have supposedly teetered on the brink of bankrupcy and total failure, with the CIO throwing furniture through windows and so on, because somebody's laptop disk didn't get backed up.
TFA: "get two 7200RPM laptop hard drives in RAID, and put an end to the major bottleneck in mobile gaming at the moment."
I'm not a gamer, so I don't understand. RAID isn't THAT much faster for reads and writes, nothing like 50%, and a RAID optimized for reads will not be that much faster for writes and vice versa. I guess, unless the chip caches big time, which I doubt it can do at its price point.
"I've tried A! I've tried B! I've tried C! All the while the aircraft is hurtling flaming ball plummeting out of the sky like a - I've tried D! I've tried E!"
This library is the one right next to the Texas Union building and has been a big meetup spot for generations. I'm surprised they even have 90 thousand books there. Now, if they started selling BEER in this library, that would be unique - Nothing to see here, move along . . .
The paper seems to be basically saying that Special Relativity is a special case of General Relativity, which IIRC is true. But then you see the context in the author's homepage, and, well, yes, he does appear to be a little goofy.
Which all points to the dangers of mixing science with politics and religion. You can piss away a lot of credibility that way, and luckily Einstein never claimed to be an expert at either.
Who cares about using point to point wireless in the unlicensed bands? Licenses for moderate power for point to point data links are easy to get and the equipment is cheap.
Now a record I'd like to see - use your access point to establish a record for the most number of stations distributed over a wide area. That's useful.
Sprint used to have a service in the SF Bay Area back before DSL caught on. It was $50/mo, 10Mb, licensed spectrum in the S-band, used a pizza box sized antenna on a tripod on your root, and you had to be line of sight to one of two mountaintops in the area. They stopped accepting new subscribers about 2000 but I heard somewhere the system was still up.
At least the ground stations. Of all the spectrum out there the space communications bands are heavily gaurded - you don't want your new billion-dollar sat sent crashing to earth because of some yahoo's CB.
The spacecraft radio system was constructed around a redundant
pair of transponders. Each transponder was equipped with an
S-band receiver (2115 MHz nominal frequency) and transmitters
at both S-band (2295 MHz nominal) and X-band (8415 MHz nominal).
Compared with S-band, X-band is less sensitive to plasma effects
by a factor of about 10; use of both frequencies coherently on
the 'downlink' allowed estimation of plasma content along the
radio path. Use of X-band also significantly improved the
quality of radio tracking data for gravity investigations.
You insensitive clods - I just installed Linux on a Sun box! Did I just help Sun kill itself? Not that it needs any assistance!
Oh wait, Sun'll kill em with storage! Oh wait, Sun'll kill em with Java! Oh wait, Sun'll kill em with professional services! Oh wait, Sun'll kill em with cheap Opteron hardware! Oh wait, Sun'll kill em with...
>>> "'turn your friendly neighborhood computer repair technician into a government informer'"
More FUD from the EFF - they don't get those contributions unless they keep their fan base nice and paranoid!
Even if the EFF is right, which they are, why wouldn't EVERY citizen be a "government informer"? If someone sees child porn or a bomb workshop or any crime in progress, they should call the police. Whether anyone's so-called civil rights are violated is up to the authorities, it's their job to follow the law, and - guess what! - they usually know exactly what's legal and what's not.
You'll have your gigabit wireless - and in the best of all free markets you will be able to use your recently-deregulated AK-47 for occasions when your neighbor's gigabit wireless interoperates with your own.
Come to think of it my Wifi, microwave oven, cordless phone, and all my neighbors cheap-ass Chinese light dimmers and halogen lights all interoperate now - seamlessly!
Animal rights activists must love you, because you are very likely to kill yourself swerving into a deer. We have deer in our neighborhood and have had a few drivers severely injured hitting deer at 35 - 40 mph.
A lab tech at my university once went into a big lecture, in a voice closely resembling Boomhauer from "King of the Hill", about animals you should and should not swerve or break for:
Avoid: Deer, cattle, pigs, your neighbor's children.. OK: Everyhing else.
"You get that pig, I tell you what, he get up under your car, un humm, and wham! I tell you that pig'll flip yer car uh huh you get flipped and Bam! I tell ya that pig'll get right up under your car and Boom!"
. . it was a bad attempt at satire. Whining about acid rain caused by space shuttles, well, it's like a recent article I read that complained about how NASCAR racers get poor gas mileage. Sheesh.
Of course you are right, and thanks for the links. I am even sure that in balance more environmental benefit has been accrued than any damage caused by the space program overall. And no doubt there will be more environment-friendly means of propulsion than SRBS, which we all know can be Trouble.
Wasn't the space program all about spinning off technology into everyday, terrestrial realms? If so, if there's been any spinoff more beneficial than the technology to mass-produce lightweight, carbon-fiber parts for our land vehicles - oh - wait - I guess out huge enormous land vehicles weight more now than they ever did.
Well, at least I've got my Tang and my pen that can write upside-down.
So I currently use a dumpster dived HP930, and the cheapest cheap ass cartridges I can find, because my printing requirements are about 5 pages per month, for things like FedEx ship labels. Of course the cartridges dry up after about 10 months, so I'm still paying 75c or so per page.
So what's up with the new generation of cheap-ass sub-$100 laser printers? Will the cartridges essentially last forever since there is no ink to dry up and clog? At 5 pages per month I'd be replaceing a toner cart like once every 10 years.
Yeah, inkjets are just another way for The Man to exploit the masses. What would really be cool for people like me who print 5 pages per mo - self-writing paper.
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And hundred of enterprise SANs out there routinely backup their data using RAID - most commonly by taking a "snapshot" of an existing RAID array with another RAID array.
Ok, so this isn't exactly what the hardware described in TFA is capable of, but if you could build-in hardware that would accomplish hot-syncing a laptop disk with no cranky and difficult-to-configure-by-morons backup software, that would be useful. Let me tell you abot the times where places I have worked have supposedly teetered on the brink of bankrupcy and total failure, with the CIO throwing furniture through windows and so on, because somebody's laptop disk didn't get backed up.
TFA: "get two 7200RPM laptop hard drives in RAID, and put an end to the major bottleneck in mobile gaming at the moment."
I'm not a gamer, so I don't understand. RAID isn't THAT much faster for reads and writes, nothing like 50%, and a RAID optimized for reads will not be that much faster for writes and vice versa. I guess, unless the chip caches big time, which I doubt it can do at its price point.
So - huh?
I thought that vertical thruster was just a big fan connected to the main engine by a shaft?
"I've tried A! I've tried B! I've tried C! All the while the aircraft is hurtling flaming ball plummeting out of the sky like a - I've tried D! I've tried E!"
.. I'm pissed because Google didn't hire me and make *me* rich.
The reluctant astronaut. Too un-PC to be seen these days. That Bill Dana is still out and about making the occasional standup appearance.
"What will you do if you're lost in space?"
"I plan to cry a lot!"
This library is the one right next to the Texas Union building and has been a big meetup spot for generations. I'm surprised they even have 90 thousand books there. Now, if they started selling BEER in this library, that would be unique - Nothing to see here, move along . . .
The paper seems to be basically saying that Special Relativity is a special case of General Relativity, which IIRC is true. But then you see the context in the author's homepage, and, well, yes, he does appear to be a little goofy.
Which all points to the dangers of mixing science with politics and religion. You can piss away a lot of credibility that way, and luckily Einstein never claimed to be an expert at either.
E=mc2 is a "sexed equation". Newton's Principia (a "rape manual"):
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1076200/
Thanks God I went to college a long time ago.
Who cares about using point to point wireless in the unlicensed bands? Licenses for moderate power for point to point data links are easy to get and the equipment is cheap.
Now a record I'd like to see - use your access point to establish a record for the most number of stations distributed over a wide area. That's useful.
Sprint used to have a service in the SF Bay Area back before DSL caught on. It was $50/mo, 10Mb, licensed spectrum in the S-band, used a pizza box sized antenna on a tripod on your root, and you had to be line of sight to one of two mountaintops in the area. They stopped accepting new subscribers about 2000 but I heard somewhere the system was still up.
At least the ground stations. Of all the spectrum out there the space communications bands are heavily gaurded - you don't want your new billion-dollar sat sent crashing to earth because of some yahoo's CB.
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From: http://pds-rings.seti.org/voyager/datasets/rss/vg
The spacecraft radio system was constructed around a redundant
pair of transponders. Each transponder was equipped with an
S-band receiver (2115 MHz nominal frequency) and transmitters
at both S-band (2295 MHz nominal) and X-band (8415 MHz nominal).
Compared with S-band, X-band is less sensitive to plasma effects
by a factor of about 10; use of both frequencies coherently on
the 'downlink' allowed estimation of plasma content along the
radio path. Use of X-band also significantly improved the
quality of radio tracking data for gravity investigations.
You insensitive clods - I just installed Linux on a Sun box! Did I just help Sun kill itself? Not that it needs any assistance!
...
Oh wait, Sun'll kill em with storage!
Oh wait, Sun'll kill em with Java!
Oh wait, Sun'll kill em with professional services!
Oh wait, Sun'll kill em with cheap Opteron hardware!
Oh wait, Sun'll kill em with
They may be right in this instace, but the EFF is just another bunch of lawyers trying to make a buck. They get no respect from me.
>>> "'turn your friendly neighborhood computer repair technician into a government informer'"
More FUD from the EFF - they don't get those contributions unless they keep their fan base nice and paranoid!
Even if the EFF is right, which they are, why wouldn't EVERY citizen be a "government informer"? If someone sees child porn or a bomb workshop or any crime in progress, they should call the police. Whether anyone's so-called civil rights are violated is up to the authorities, it's their job to follow the law, and - guess what! - they usually know exactly what's legal and what's not.
I though I was already reading the drunken Australian hooligan feed by default?
If not - I WANT A REFUND!
Wildblue is back in business and is 1.5 down 256k up at the highest $80/mo tier. It is 2-way on the sat. They block Voip though - boo!
Offtopic - why would they say SSL VPNs might work faster than IpSec VPNS because of latency?
http://www.wildblue.com/aboutWildblue/qaa.jsp#5_5
You'll have your gigabit wireless - and in the best of all free markets you will be able to use your recently-deregulated AK-47 for occasions when your neighbor's gigabit wireless interoperates with your own.
Come to think of it my Wifi, microwave oven, cordless phone, and all my neighbors cheap-ass Chinese light dimmers and halogen lights all interoperate now - seamlessly!
Animal rights activists must love you, because you are very likely to kill yourself swerving into a deer. We have deer in our neighborhood and have had a few drivers severely injured hitting deer at 35 - 40 mph.
A lab tech at my university once went into a big lecture, in a voice closely resembling Boomhauer from "King of the Hill", about animals you should and should not swerve or break for:
Avoid: Deer, cattle, pigs, your neighbor's children..
OK: Everyhing else.
"You get that pig, I tell you what, he get up under your car, un humm, and wham! I tell you that pig'll flip yer car uh huh you get flipped and Bam! I tell ya that pig'll get right up under your car and Boom!"
I made a smart ass remark without RFTA and it was all based on a damn lie. Sorry to raise the S/N ratio by a few hundredths of a dB.
I couldn't find the original reference either.
"Included with the distro!" == "Only takes a few hours to compile!"
Do I have to install it and compile the LiceCD before I can "try and buy"? Doh!
. . it was a bad attempt at satire. Whining about acid rain caused by space shuttles, well, it's like a recent article I read that complained about how NASCAR racers get poor gas mileage. Sheesh.
Of course you are right, and thanks for the links. I am even sure that in balance more environmental benefit has been accrued than any damage caused by the space program overall. And no doubt there will be more environment-friendly means of propulsion than SRBS, which we all know can be Trouble.
Wasn't the space program all about spinning off technology into everyday, terrestrial realms? If so, if there's been any spinoff more beneficial than the technology to mass-produce lightweight, carbon-fiber parts for our land vehicles - oh - wait - I guess out huge enormous land vehicles weight more now than they ever did.
Well, at least I've got my Tang and my pen that can write upside-down.
>>> at least I'd find someone who knows there's more to security than making users change longer and longer passwords more and more often.
Don't forget blocking portZ! The truely 3l33t InFoSeC H3ck3r blocks all the portZ he can with his F13ew311! Cool!!
So I currently use a dumpster dived HP930, and the cheapest cheap ass cartridges I can find, because my printing requirements are about 5 pages per month, for things like FedEx ship labels. Of course the cartridges dry up after about 10 months, so I'm still paying 75c or so per page.
So what's up with the new generation of cheap-ass sub-$100 laser printers? Will the cartridges essentially last forever since there is no ink to dry up and clog? At 5 pages per month I'd be replaceing a toner cart like once every 10 years.
Yeah, inkjets are just another way for The Man to exploit the masses. What would really be cool for people like me who print 5 pages per mo - self-writing paper.
It's a BOFH's dream come true - just drop the server in a Fedex bag and ship it to Washington. How much easier could system administration get?