Well, my wife is killing me with "communication". If she came home and there was another women there she could "communicate" with and I did not have to absorb her stress or get in trouble by trying to fix her problems... I am sure I'd be healthier and live longer.
A little competition for my affection, without having to bring in a woman outside the marriage, would probably do wonders for me as well!
I'd like to know if the wives in a multiple-wife marriage live longer as well. Maybe this is a win-win (win-win-win).
Or course the unspoken fear is that if married to two wives there would still be no sex (with me, anyway).
we get internet video of the Olympics and the Internet unveils all truth (and even more non-truths) and
At least NBC and mainstream US media hasn't discovered football yet (they are confused by some sport where the players wear helmets and carry the ball around over numbers painted on the grass)
so, alas NBC misses the trick of bribing the Olympic officials to get football (soccer) on at a decent US hour - in fact better to have it on at 2 AM so they have an excuse to ignore it
but come Winter Olympics and the fit little girls skating in their tights? You can be guaranteed no bribe is too big to get that into US prime time, and I say God bless the Network for that.
It would all work better if it were like Italian Football - fairness comes when the other side is also bribing the officials ("I'm impartial, I took bribes from everyone!")
at least not without our white hat on...perhaps the US economy could be helped a bit by leasing the white hats to foreign nations?
more seriously, this is terrible news all around, no one wins in a war but the cockroaches and rats. these human failures are times we let ourselves down
I use Blackberry/RIM as a corporate user, and have seen the iPhone in action a fair amount.
I think the iPhone interface has a lot more potential, and should set the new standard. I think other business users are wondering why they can't have that quality iPhone interface - Blackberries fall short in terms of the information display corporate users often need.
I agree with your point about Apple being that rare company that could pull off a landslide - having a better mousetrap (or the appearance of one - not sure what technical superiority Symbian and RIM may have) and having the rare ability to change the market's mind - could make for a lot of competitive innovation in smart phones. I think it is great and about time.
Meanwhile, its RIM for me for now; not sure for how much longer.
Periodically one of those components will go through a period of sub-standard quality or reliability, resulting in the lots of drives with that sub-std component having much higher than spec'd MTBF rates. Oops. Should have read:
Periodically one of those components will go through a period of sub-standard quality or reliability, resulting in the lots of drives with that sub-std component having much lower than spec'd MTBF rates.
I think that "MBTF" is a misleading statistic because of the first word: "mean" or average. Drive reliability tends to be related to "batches", it is not evenly distributed over the whole population of drives. It is unlikely you will get something close to "mean" reliability.
It is not hard to understand why: hard drives are very complex electro-mechanical devices, and are a commodity under intense cost pricing pressures. There are many high tolerance parts in the system of a drive upon which the whole drive's reliability depends. Periodically one of those components will go through a period of sub-standard quality or reliability, resulting in the lots of drives with that sub-std component having much higher than spec'd MTBF rates. The same model drives from a different "lot" may last virtually forever.
This bursty reliability is inherent in the product and is common to all drive manufacturers because at the lowest level of components they are all using the same few, trusted, cost-effective suppliers. You really cannot guess the reliability based on the brand or model of drive, though MTBF does give you an idea of what level of reliability they were designed for.
Hard drives are miracle devices in some ways, and on average very reliable. The challenge is that we entrust them with our invaluable data and need them to be perfectly reliable.
Multiple disks and software (RAID) seem to be the answer in the data center but considering the bursty reliability - when you have many, many drives, it is quite possible that two drives in a RAID group will fail. This gave rise to diagonal parity RAID, aka RAID 5, or RAID DP, which allows you to recover your data even if two of the drives fail.
But what do we do about our laptop and home desktop drives? Is anybody committed to RAID at the desktop and laptop levels? Why do laptops come with one fallible drive?
It's got to be hard for a woman Presidential candidate, especially a Democrat.
I'm sure the message she was going for is: I care about kids and values and families, too! Not: Censorship is good.
It is tough out-positioning Republicans, they've locked onto many key angles that, while mostly irrelevant to what Presidents do, secure them large blocks of voters. So Hilary is trying to maneuver likewise, but the Republicans stuck their flag in that "values" beachhead, whatever it means, long ago.
As President I am sure Hilary would be focused on things like making sure kids got a good education and did not have to go to war, not video game content, but it is not worth wasting brain cells speculating on. The first woman president will be a Republican -- that will be an easier sell -- and I give a 35% probability that first woman Republican president will lead us into the final world war.
Hilary comes into the election cycle in a terrible strategic position, and has about a 1% chance of becoming President. Edwards is probably the only of the top three leading Democrats who could get elected, though Barrack seems a leader who could rally Americans if in office.
It is as if the Democrats have rose colored glasses on and cannot remember that most of us are prejudiced at some level on the basis of race and sex, at least subconsciously. Nothing Hilary says or does not say will change that, even if she meets with each of us personally and tells us each that one thing we personally want to hear.
I am impressed by the force of her effort, however.
I think to understand the vacuumability you have to get a sense of the scale of the body to head.
See here: Nigersaurous
Imagine during the late stages of digesting a few thousand pounds of plants wherein the digestion process breaks the fibrous organics into gases and solids and then expels such gases rearward creating an enormous backpressure within the cavity of the Nigersaurous.
At that point all it needs to do it open its mouth and you have Hoover principle eating. Or a very happy male Nigersaurous likely to crash the car and bring them all to the brink of extinction.
Just a theory.
A drop in the trade deficit is good, but doesn't make one feel better off, whereas having to stay in a cheaper hotel in London than German vacationers will make one feel less well off.
Back at home one tends to buy imports from where the dollar goes furthest - like China - and we feel like we are getting alot for our money; but one is generally buying a different product in terms of quality, safety, service, externalities, or conditions of production. Most of that stuff is invisible and ignored, and the price difference in goods is therefore very highly valued.
Did anyone mention, as a factor in feeling less well off, what they are getting for their buck in that chunk of the paycheck one does not get to take home (taxes)?
Lots of unfelt or unseen factors in what we get or don't get for our money. But at least we're getting a smidgen more of it. Just a smidgen!
A couple of themes I hear are that software shouldn't be patentable (fair premise) and that some people wish NetApp technology were cheaper (who would not prefer cheaper?)... what kind of surprises me is that hardly anyone seems to know NetApp, where y'all been? WAFL is 15 years old ('92), and the snapshot only about a year younger.
If ZFS seems to mimic WAFL, as I hear, I'd say that's a tribute to NetApp engineering, but NetApp is the Rodney Dangerfield in IT (no respect, I tell ya). I find it disheartening that among the tech literate, no one seems to have heard of the pioneers in this area, least of all recognize the innovation.
If the/. set doesn't seem to think much of NetApp... what does it take? Winning popularity? Man oh man does it always come back to being the popular one? I'm hosed. I can do interesting things, but we don't all have that popularity knack.
I have always liked the Sun logo, color, product names, etc., no idea why, it's just all sunny and light and fun and Internet, nothing like the real world.
OK, hypothesis: The ceiling potential use and popularity of a programming language is determined by the language's name. Try:
Slashdot Mirror
Well, my wife is killing me with "communication". If she came home and there was another women there she could "communicate" with and I did not have to absorb her stress or get in trouble by trying to fix her problems... I am sure I'd be healthier and live longer.
A little competition for my affection, without having to bring in a woman outside the marriage, would probably do wonders for me as well!
I'd like to know if the wives in a multiple-wife marriage live longer as well. Maybe this is a win-win (win-win-win).
Or course the unspoken fear is that if married to two wives there would still be no sex (with me, anyway).
yeah, the fat b@$t#rds, but look at it this way:
we get internet video of the Olympics and the Internet unveils all truth (and even more non-truths) and
At least NBC and mainstream US media hasn't discovered football yet (they are confused by some sport where the players wear helmets and carry the ball around over numbers painted on the grass)
so, alas NBC misses the trick of bribing the Olympic officials to get football (soccer) on at a decent US hour - in fact better to have it on at 2 AM so they have an excuse to ignore it
but come Winter Olympics and the fit little girls skating in their tights? You can be guaranteed no bribe is too big to get that into US prime time, and I say God bless the Network for that.
It would all work better if it were like Italian Football - fairness comes when the other side is also bribing the officials ("I'm impartial, I took bribes from everyone!")
cheers
the US would never do these kind if things
at least not without our white hat on ...perhaps the US economy could be helped a bit by leasing the white hats to foreign nations?
more seriously, this is terrible news all around, no one wins in a war but the cockroaches and rats. these human failures are times we let ourselves down
condolences to anyone affected by this
I use Blackberry/RIM as a corporate user, and have seen the iPhone in action a fair amount.
I think the iPhone interface has a lot more potential, and should set the new standard. I think other business users are wondering why they can't have that quality iPhone interface - Blackberries fall short in terms of the information display corporate users often need.
I agree with your point about Apple being that rare company that could pull off a landslide - having a better mousetrap (or the appearance of one - not sure what technical superiority Symbian and RIM may have) and having the rare ability to change the market's mind - could make for a lot of competitive innovation in smart phones. I think it is great and about time.
Meanwhile, its RIM for me for now; not sure for how much longer.
I have to admit when I thought of the change in life broad band could bring to rural communities currently stuck on dial-up, I thought
... bringing broad band in the biblical sense to the bible belt
/.
finally, these guys in the stix can get access to the world wide library of FREE porn
but that is totally crass. I'm sure there are useful, meaningful life contributions high speed Internet provides...
well, besides
CommOp ?
Glass Commons ?
High Speed Weeds ?
R-Net ? "R" for rural, our
High-R-Net ?
good luck with the project
I think that "MBTF" is a misleading statistic because of the first word: "mean" or average. Drive reliability tends to be related to "batches", it is not evenly distributed over the whole population of drives. It is unlikely you will get something close to "mean" reliability.
It is not hard to understand why: hard drives are very complex electro-mechanical devices, and are a commodity under intense cost pricing pressures. There are many high tolerance parts in the system of a drive upon which the whole drive's reliability depends. Periodically one of those components will go through a period of sub-standard quality or reliability, resulting in the lots of drives with that sub-std component having much higher than spec'd MTBF rates. The same model drives from a different "lot" may last virtually forever.
This bursty reliability is inherent in the product and is common to all drive manufacturers because at the lowest level of components they are all using the same few, trusted, cost-effective suppliers. You really cannot guess the reliability based on the brand or model of drive, though MTBF does give you an idea of what level of reliability they were designed for.
Hard drives are miracle devices in some ways, and on average very reliable. The challenge is that we entrust them with our invaluable data and need them to be perfectly reliable.
Multiple disks and software (RAID) seem to be the answer in the data center but considering the bursty reliability - when you have many, many drives, it is quite possible that two drives in a RAID group will fail. This gave rise to diagonal parity RAID, aka RAID 5, or RAID DP, which allows you to recover your data even if two of the drives fail.
But what do we do about our laptop and home desktop drives? Is anybody committed to RAID at the desktop and laptop levels? Why do laptops come with one fallible drive?
EP
"not in the drive business, anymore"
It's got to be hard for a woman Presidential candidate, especially a Democrat. I'm sure the message she was going for is: I care about kids and values and families, too! Not: Censorship is good. It is tough out-positioning Republicans, they've locked onto many key angles that, while mostly irrelevant to what Presidents do, secure them large blocks of voters. So Hilary is trying to maneuver likewise, but the Republicans stuck their flag in that "values" beachhead, whatever it means, long ago. As President I am sure Hilary would be focused on things like making sure kids got a good education and did not have to go to war, not video game content, but it is not worth wasting brain cells speculating on. The first woman president will be a Republican -- that will be an easier sell -- and I give a 35% probability that first woman Republican president will lead us into the final world war. Hilary comes into the election cycle in a terrible strategic position, and has about a 1% chance of becoming President. Edwards is probably the only of the top three leading Democrats who could get elected, though Barrack seems a leader who could rally Americans if in office. It is as if the Democrats have rose colored glasses on and cannot remember that most of us are prejudiced at some level on the basis of race and sex, at least subconsciously. Nothing Hilary says or does not say will change that, even if she meets with each of us personally and tells us each that one thing we personally want to hear. I am impressed by the force of her effort, however.
I think to understand the vacuumability you have to get a sense of the scale of the body to head. See here: Nigersaurous Imagine during the late stages of digesting a few thousand pounds of plants wherein the digestion process breaks the fibrous organics into gases and solids and then expels such gases rearward creating an enormous backpressure within the cavity of the Nigersaurous. At that point all it needs to do it open its mouth and you have Hoover principle eating. Or a very happy male Nigersaurous likely to crash the car and bring them all to the brink of extinction. Just a theory.
A drop in the trade deficit is good, but doesn't make one feel better off, whereas having to stay in a cheaper hotel in London than German vacationers will make one feel less well off.
Back at home one tends to buy imports from where the dollar goes furthest - like China - and we feel like we are getting alot for our money; but one is generally buying a different product in terms of quality, safety, service, externalities, or conditions of production. Most of that stuff is invisible and ignored, and the price difference in goods is therefore very highly valued.
Did anyone mention, as a factor in feeling less well off, what they are getting for their buck in that chunk of the paycheck one does not get to take home (taxes)?
Lots of unfelt or unseen factors in what we get or don't get for our money. But at least we're getting a smidgen more of it. Just a smidgen!
A couple of themes I hear are that software shouldn't be patentable (fair premise) and that some people wish NetApp technology were cheaper (who would not prefer cheaper?) ... what kind of surprises me is that hardly anyone seems to know NetApp, where y'all been? WAFL is 15 years old ('92), and the snapshot only about a year younger.
/. set doesn't seem to think much of NetApp... what does it take? Winning popularity? Man oh man does it always come back to being the popular one? I'm hosed. I can do interesting things, but we don't all have that popularity knack.
If ZFS seems to mimic WAFL, as I hear, I'd say that's a tribute to NetApp engineering, but NetApp is the Rodney Dangerfield in IT (no respect, I tell ya). I find it disheartening that among the tech literate, no one seems to have heard of the pioneers in this area, least of all recognize the innovation.
If the
I have always liked the Sun logo, color, product names, etc., no idea why, it's just all sunny and light and fun and Internet, nothing like the real world.
OK, hypothesis: The ceiling potential use and popularity of a programming language is determined by the language's name. Try:
LISP
v.
JAVA