I use the default command line FTP application all the time and never found it unreliable. If anything most people don't really know the syntax or how to use all the commands. The only inconsistency is dir vs. ls but I think that's more server side anyway.
I'm talking about hardware I've bought there, not the thousands of systems I've troubleshot in the last decade. I'm not made of money that I can buy hundreds of hard drives for myself and my marginal moonlighting from all the corporate and contract jobs I've had where I have to put up with SEAGATES.
Just to make it explicit, I know I'm trolling here and throwing anecdotal shit around. If I were serious business about this, I'd be pulling out MTBF stats etc. However this exactly what I said, just an 'I told you so' post based on personal experiences and preferences.
Now I can finally say I told you so to all the Seagate fanboys who wouldn't stop circle-jerking when I kept saying that after a decade of frontline support I know that Seagates have a higher rate of failure than even their higher marketshare can compensate for. I kept getting fed the same old lines about how long their warranties were and how that made everything ok. Nevermind that this offer of data recovery is a last-ditch desperate measure that's an exception to all precedent. In most cases when I've been ring-side to a Seagate failure all I could do was point and laugh and say 'How good is your warranty at getting data back, bitch?'
I always buy WD, and in the dozens I've bought only one failed, infant mortality, and it was replaced less than two weeks with virtually no hassle.
The cell phone conjecture seems particularly retarded. He says that his crap should be put in street lights. What, so as soon as some fog rolls in or really heavy rain or snow effectively kills all links? Awesome. Those have been and are still problems with carefully aligned, static point to point optical data transmission already. That's with huge, expensive calibrated laser beams. A bunch of LEDs aren't going to cut it, not to mention LEDs deteriorate fairly quickly. At least with wiring unless you're actively beating the crap out of it you can figure it's going to be functionally the same in the day to day for basically its entire operational life.
This whole idea for anything but very localized, structured indoor use is practically absurd. I expect both it and its inventor to end up on the trash heap of history. Not to mention he's about a century and a half too late.
Since we're in a pedantry fight, I have to interject that pretty much every electrical device emits EM radiation, just not necessarily intentionally or productively. Usually between the FCC and the UL these emissions are kept out of a range that would cause undue interference with other devices (they also have to take the interference from other devices within reasonable ranges without blowing up in an inductive current hissy fit), but that depends also on their application and how much shielding is used.
While I admit I'm having trouble finding good sources, I did find one survey that shows that 89% of GLBT people have at least received some college/university education. This is opposed to a mere 20% of the general population for the same year according to NCES.
Most people don't know how to search Google properly, with boolean elements to actually get what you want instead of a cascade of crap. I don't think it's too much to ask for people to learn to use a syntax for basic logic instead of entering "goose" or "I would like to learn about geese" into a search box. The time saved by "grey OR snow goose -mother -silly" etc. would be worth the minimal effort to understand that framework. Goddamn useless public school system.
I can't look up particulars because I'm at work, and I don't want keywords pulled out of my searches, but I have heard of this. To give you at least a direction to look, if I recall correctly there were similar studies done in the US and The Netherlands around the time of the Nixon administration. Both found that access to pr0n and legal prostitution were socially net positive, and when The Netherlands acted to 'legalize it' their associated crime stats went down. The Nixon administration of course cried 'O tempora! O mores!' and maintained the status quo at all costs, however harmful.
Well, anecdotes don't trump anecdotes. I'm sure there are some less skilled rural folks and some surprisingly adept urbanites. Hell I was born and raised in a suburb of Seattle, only by pure chance did I end up in a family whose patriarch was a champion trap shooter.
Speaking of forgetting history, really, you think the small force always loses? That skill, determination, and sometimes familiarity with the terrain count for nothing? Have you ever heard of Finland's Winter War? A more experienced, better organized and more determined force held out against an onslaught that outnumbered them 4 to 1 and had metric fucktons more air and armored support. What about the seige of Bastogne? The Americans held out for month, outnumbered and surrounded, and the men of the 101st at Bastogne to this day maintain that they didn't even need the help they were sent. What about Constantinople? Seiged overandover, generation after generation it resisted numerically superior forces for centuries. Same with Gibraltar.
... and I'm willing to bet that a Majority of that unknown percentage would be more aggressive about taking, than the majority of the 24% would be about keeping.
That 24% knows more about the practical use and upkeep of firearms than the other 76%. They're better shots too. During the World War 2 a German was speaking with a Swiss about how their armed forces were twice the size of the entire Swiss population. "What would you be able to do if we invaded?" he asked. The Swiss replied, "We would shoot twice and go home."
Have you ever watched a line of old gunnies shoot trap? If they can hit 25 out of 25 3" discs at random angles round after round, what short work do you think they could make of a mob of dumb punks who if they ever held a gun in their lives probably did so sideways so that they could look more 'gangsta'?
Rural people know shoot more accurately over longer ranges, they know how to hunt and stalk, they can load their own ammunition from raw materials, and they know how to clean and maintain their weapons. Hell, some urbanite who decided to arm themselves the day after disaster would be up shit creek the first time their gun jammed, and because they don't know how much less have the equipment to clean their guns that would happen with increasing frequency if a breakdown of order lasted for long.
My bet would definitely be on the rural people against anything but trained and equipped regulars of the armed forces, and even then I'm not so sure.
The folding process in the animation seemed quick enough, and the police usually don't PIT a vehicle until several minutes after a pursuit has started. In some jurisdictions they require authorization before they can PIT, and in others they can't do it at all.
422 users, not uses, which is pretty decent for the cost as is, $34/person/year. That's extremely cost effective, considering that most broadband costs many more times that a year. Not to mention that the number of users is only likely to go up, and the cost per user is more likely to decrease rather than increase. I'm sure that in smallish town like Glastonbury there are plenty of luddite codgers who will always think that virtually any tech is bad and wasteful, and those wankers can fuck off.
I find it amusing that you cite an anecdote about a satellite station that supposedly caused headaches... during a time that it wasn't even actually operational. Perfect example of how this shit is all in people's stupid heads and not medically real beyond the placebo effect.
How the hell is the parent moderated 30% Overrated and 40% Flamebait ? I know/. loves to bash MS, but come on people, who gives such an obviously decent and intelligent guy metric fucktons of negatives just for that?
To be fair, most people think of 'the internet' as 'stuff in my browser' and it is possible for problems to hit only certain ports and protocols. Before Vista SP1 I had this really nasty bug where every other day HTTP, POP/SMTP and IMAP would stop working, but ICMP and IRC would work. Really damn annoying to be able to say in IRC 'well, I can ping everything in the world and still talk to you, but I have to restart my computer because I can't get email or browse web pages (in any browser) thanks to Vista sucking balls.' Not only that, but that system was acting as a gateway, and other computers on the other side COULD use HTTP, POP/SMTP etc. So it was entirely some Vista-specific port/protocol exclusive failure way up in the application layer.
Mod parent to 5, seriously, it's so true. There are more than a few times after working support for decade when I've had to say, 'that should be impossible' but a symptom nonetheless exists.
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I use the default command line FTP application all the time and never found it unreliable. If anything most people don't really know the syntax or how to use all the commands. The only inconsistency is dir vs. ls but I think that's more server side anyway.
I'm talking about hardware I've bought there, not the thousands of systems I've troubleshot in the last decade. I'm not made of money that I can buy hundreds of hard drives for myself and my marginal moonlighting from all the corporate and contract jobs I've had where I have to put up with SEAGATES.
Mod parent informative.
Just to make it explicit, I know I'm trolling here and throwing anecdotal shit around. If I were serious business about this, I'd be pulling out MTBF stats etc. However this exactly what I said, just an 'I told you so' post based on personal experiences and preferences.
Now I can finally say I told you so to all the Seagate fanboys who wouldn't stop circle-jerking when I kept saying that after a decade of frontline support I know that Seagates have a higher rate of failure than even their higher marketshare can compensate for. I kept getting fed the same old lines about how long their warranties were and how that made everything ok. Nevermind that this offer of data recovery is a last-ditch desperate measure that's an exception to all precedent. In most cases when I've been ring-side to a Seagate failure all I could do was point and laugh and say 'How good is your warranty at getting data back, bitch?'
I always buy WD, and in the dozens I've bought only one failed, infant mortality, and it was replaced less than two weeks with virtually no hassle.
Man, don't make me bust out my CAT 6a, biotch!
The cell phone conjecture seems particularly retarded. He says that his crap should be put in street lights. What, so as soon as some fog rolls in or really heavy rain or snow effectively kills all links? Awesome. Those have been and are still problems with carefully aligned, static point to point optical data transmission already. That's with huge, expensive calibrated laser beams. A bunch of LEDs aren't going to cut it, not to mention LEDs deteriorate fairly quickly. At least with wiring unless you're actively beating the crap out of it you can figure it's going to be functionally the same in the day to day for basically its entire operational life.
This whole idea for anything but very localized, structured indoor use is practically absurd. I expect both it and its inventor to end up on the trash heap of history. Not to mention he's about a century and a half too late.
Since we're in a pedantry fight, I have to interject that pretty much every electrical device emits EM radiation, just not necessarily intentionally or productively. Usually between the FCC and the UL these emissions are kept out of a range that would cause undue interference with other devices (they also have to take the interference from other devices within reasonable ranges without blowing up in an inductive current hissy fit), but that depends also on their application and how much shielding is used.
While I admit I'm having trouble finding good sources, I did find one survey that shows that 89% of GLBT people have at least received some college/university education. This is opposed to a mere 20% of the general population for the same year according to NCES.
Aw SNAP!
Most people don't know how to search Google properly, with boolean elements to actually get what you want instead of a cascade of crap. I don't think it's too much to ask for people to learn to use a syntax for basic logic instead of entering "goose" or "I would like to learn about geese" into a search box. The time saved by "grey OR snow goose -mother -silly" etc. would be worth the minimal effort to understand that framework. Goddamn useless public school system.
I can't look up particulars because I'm at work, and I don't want keywords pulled out of my searches, but I have heard of this. To give you at least a direction to look, if I recall correctly there were similar studies done in the US and The Netherlands around the time of the Nixon administration. Both found that access to pr0n and legal prostitution were socially net positive, and when The Netherlands acted to 'legalize it' their associated crime stats went down. The Nixon administration of course cried 'O tempora! O mores!' and maintained the status quo at all costs, however harmful.
God I wish I had mod points today. Mod parent up.
Mod parent up.
I heard that mauve has the most RAM.
Well, anecdotes don't trump anecdotes. I'm sure there are some less skilled rural folks and some surprisingly adept urbanites. Hell I was born and raised in a suburb of Seattle, only by pure chance did I end up in a family whose patriarch was a champion trap shooter.
Speaking of forgetting history, really, you think the small force always loses? That skill, determination, and sometimes familiarity with the terrain count for nothing? Have you ever heard of Finland's Winter War? A more experienced, better organized and more determined force held out against an onslaught that outnumbered them 4 to 1 and had metric fucktons more air and armored support. What about the seige of Bastogne? The Americans held out for month, outnumbered and surrounded, and the men of the 101st at Bastogne to this day maintain that they didn't even need the help they were sent. What about Constantinople? Seiged over and over, generation after generation it resisted numerically superior forces for centuries. Same with Gibraltar.
... and I'm willing to bet that a Majority of that unknown percentage would be more aggressive about taking, than the majority of the 24% would be about keeping.
That 24% knows more about the practical use and upkeep of firearms than the other 76%. They're better shots too. During the World War 2 a German was speaking with a Swiss about how their armed forces were twice the size of the entire Swiss population. "What would you be able to do if we invaded?" he asked. The Swiss replied, "We would shoot twice and go home."
Have you ever watched a line of old gunnies shoot trap? If they can hit 25 out of 25 3" discs at random angles round after round, what short work do you think they could make of a mob of dumb punks who if they ever held a gun in their lives probably did so sideways so that they could look more 'gangsta'?
Rural people know shoot more accurately over longer ranges, they know how to hunt and stalk, they can load their own ammunition from raw materials, and they know how to clean and maintain their weapons. Hell, some urbanite who decided to arm themselves the day after disaster would be up shit creek the first time their gun jammed, and because they don't know how much less have the equipment to clean their guns that would happen with increasing frequency if a breakdown of order lasted for long.
My bet would definitely be on the rural people against anything but trained and equipped regulars of the armed forces, and even then I'm not so sure.
The folding process in the animation seemed quick enough, and the police usually don't PIT a vehicle until several minutes after a pursuit has started. In some jurisdictions they require authorization before they can PIT, and in others they can't do it at all.
422 users, not uses, which is pretty decent for the cost as is, $34/person/year. That's extremely cost effective, considering that most broadband costs many more times that a year. Not to mention that the number of users is only likely to go up, and the cost per user is more likely to decrease rather than increase. I'm sure that in smallish town like Glastonbury there are plenty of luddite codgers who will always think that virtually any tech is bad and wasteful, and those wankers can fuck off.
I find it amusing that you cite an anecdote about a satellite station that supposedly caused headaches... during a time that it wasn't even actually operational. Perfect example of how this shit is all in people's stupid heads and not medically real beyond the placebo effect.
How the hell is the parent moderated 30% Overrated and 40% Flamebait ? I know /. loves to bash MS, but come on people, who gives such an obviously decent and intelligent guy metric fucktons of negatives just for that?
I'm pretty sure you're talking about French attitudes there.
If you have guns and ammo, you can get food and water. The opposite is not true.
To be fair, most people think of 'the internet' as 'stuff in my browser' and it is possible for problems to hit only certain ports and protocols. Before Vista SP1 I had this really nasty bug where every other day HTTP, POP/SMTP and IMAP would stop working, but ICMP and IRC would work. Really damn annoying to be able to say in IRC 'well, I can ping everything in the world and still talk to you, but I have to restart my computer because I can't get email or browse web pages (in any browser) thanks to Vista sucking balls.' Not only that, but that system was acting as a gateway, and other computers on the other side COULD use HTTP, POP/SMTP etc. So it was entirely some Vista-specific port/protocol exclusive failure way up in the application layer.
These guys should just tell the state authorities to "LURK MOAR LOLOLOLZ"
Mod parent to 5, seriously, it's so true. There are more than a few times after working support for decade when I've had to say, 'that should be impossible' but a symptom nonetheless exists.