you compared a 30 year old technology, the cd, with a technology that has been around less than 10 years, the flash card? You then compared the price of mass producing that 30 year old technology with the retail price of something that was commonly available only within the last 2 years.
no, you hit the plants because repairing them would take a long time. just like you said, if the distribution goes out, you lost power for a whole day. whooptie doo. it takes apparently at least 7 years to build a new reactor.
Can't be used in criminal court, but what about military court?
if they are gathering intelligence about enemies and attacks and using that intelligence to squash those people, that would be military.
I have a few other problems with your post:
1. What foreign agents are at war with us and how are they different than local agents that are at war with us? We have only been attacked by agents that were in this country, legally and very few illegally. You bringing up "foreign" agents is a play on the fear of foreigners.
2. You appear to know EVERYTHING about these wiretaps and what they are being used for. Do you also think there have been no abuses?
3. Bringing up Clinton is the cheapest cop out. Do you REALLY think Clinton did it, or did the NSA/CIA/FBI do it? the NSA/CIA/FBI is not Clinton and Clinton is not the NSA/CIA/FBI.
4. Those foreigners are only attacking us because we are in their land. If we weren't over there to begin with, they wouldn't have been attacking us. The ones that directly caused 911 were in this country, most of them legally.
i beg to differ. Most servers are NOT running 100% 24/7. If they are, they haven't been engineered properly.
Take a walk through a general use datacenter and you will find lots of 1U single use, non-clustered servers burning energy at full speed and running at.05 load. There is no real reason to run them at 300W when they can easily run at 50W with the same visible performance to the end user.
There ARE specific applications that would utilize the hardware 100%, but those are a small percentage of the servers in the real world.
Where this would become important is hundreds and thousands of servers that could run at ~50W instead of 300W. The energy savings alone to the facility would be something that would make a CFO weep.
I could go into depth into your 2nd sentence about how you try to blame me for RedHat's rpm problem with dependencies.
Sure, I probably could spend hours trying to figure out why package A relies on package B and package B relies on package A and neither of them can be upgraded without the other, but I really don't care. I have better things to do than manually figure out how each little stupid package requires 47 libs and I have to go find each one of them.
yum is just apt-get for redhat's rpms. So it's in RHEL5? great! so it's only a good 8 years behind debian in the package management dept? Might as well use tgz ala slackware.
I'll tell ya. I've been using linux for around 12-13 years. over time, there have been quite a few little items that have been a problem. Drivers, video mode, random hardware pieces, etc.
Most recently, it has been the package management. I have been all but forced to use the "commercial" RedHat up at work, and I still cannot believe that Redhat uses a lame package manager that requires you to "solve your own" dependencies. What the shit is that? Anyways, i'm a die-hard debian user, so I am used to just apt-getting every little package, and the dependencies figure themselves out. I could care less that libfuckingrandom from germany could be installed or not, I just want my program to be installed and running. I think one more step is if when I did a 'gimp' if it saw that I didn't have it installed, installed it, and fucking ran it. The newest ubuntu tells you how to install it using apt-get, but really, do it for me. I don't have time to type in another command.
Redhat is another problem. rpm doesn't have the smarts to do anything for you. If you want any kind of 'immediate' commands, you have to 'yum' them. This isn't acceptable in a corporate environment. yum is a bastard that is excluded from RedHat so they can maximize acceptable up2date profits. I could really care less if RedHat goes out business or not. Debian is at least 1 full generation ahead of RedHat. Redhat Enterprise is still redhat 9 with updates.
Anyways, for linux to beat the hype, they need to add the spit and polish that Ubuntu puts into the system. I applaud them for using Debian. Debian isn't perfect, but it is at least usable and their politics should be something people strive for. Freedom should be free.
and what would happen if someone patented the steering wheel in 1902, but didn't do jack about enforcing the patent until the mid 20s after it had 100% market penetration?
wow, that's about 40GB max assuming you have them encoded in xvid.
The problem is they said they were storing them on data tapes. Why are they using tape? Can't they write it out on a digital media like DVD or laser disc?
I will disagree with that. The reason it wasn't a problem 100 years ago is the average lifespan was short enough that the person died before all of their teeth went bad. There is a distinct change around the 50s where flouride started getting put in water and the incidence of tooth decay dropped dramatically.
Go to a 3rd world country where they don't have dental care and you will see toothless masses.
I have seen that problem many times. Most recently, the old boxes that are rebooted come up with wrong routes to the point where none of their network services work. Some of these boxes had 4-6 network interfaces used plugged into different networks with specific routes for each network. reboot, and they are all deleted.
Slashdot Mirror
Foot in Mouth.
2000 people signed up. What did that double Vista's userbase???!
but is one small piece of the file enough to reconstitute the work of art?
Just as you cannot copyright a single note, you should not be able to hold up a copyright on a single part of a file.
What is copyrighted, the file or the work of art?
so many questions....
you compared a 30 year old technology, the cd, with a technology that has been around less than 10 years, the flash card? You then compared the price of mass producing that 30 year old technology with the retail price of something that was commonly available only within the last 2 years.
Prices will drop, quickly.
and why would you hang a 1TB usb thumb drive off of your laptop?
I could see it being an internal flash, like SD or compact flash, but transferring that much data over even a USB2 connection would take forever.
what are you prepared to do?
Sounds like just post on Slashdot about it.
no, you hit the plants because repairing them would take a long time. just like you said, if the distribution goes out, you lost power for a whole day. whooptie doo. it takes apparently at least 7 years to build a new reactor.
and you really, really hope that when you press delete, monster actually removes it from their database.
lsof | grep TCP
That command will tell you much more than netstat. It'll also give you the program that is opening the port.
but really, if you took out those fans, would anything break?
probably not.
electronics are fine running hot up to a certain point. just because your drives are hot to the touch does not mean they are out of spec.
what percentage of the computer-using population actually upgrades a cpu, video or audio card?
probably much less than 5%.
Can't be used in criminal court, but what about military court?
if they are gathering intelligence about enemies and attacks and using that intelligence to squash those people, that would be military.
I have a few other problems with your post:
1. What foreign agents are at war with us and how are they different than local agents that are at war with us? We have only been attacked by agents that were in this country, legally and very few illegally. You bringing up "foreign" agents is a play on the fear of foreigners.
2. You appear to know EVERYTHING about these wiretaps and what they are being used for. Do you also think there have been no abuses?
3. Bringing up Clinton is the cheapest cop out. Do you REALLY think Clinton did it, or did the NSA/CIA/FBI do it? the NSA/CIA/FBI is not Clinton and Clinton is not the NSA/CIA/FBI.
4. Those foreigners are only attacking us because we are in their land. If we weren't over there to begin with, they wouldn't have been attacking us. The ones that directly caused 911 were in this country, most of them legally.
i beg to differ. Most servers are NOT running 100% 24/7. If they are, they haven't been engineered properly.
.05 load. There is no real reason to run them at 300W when they can easily run at 50W with the same visible performance to the end user.
Take a walk through a general use datacenter and you will find lots of 1U single use, non-clustered servers burning energy at full speed and running at
There ARE specific applications that would utilize the hardware 100%, but those are a small percentage of the servers in the real world.
Where this would become important is hundreds and thousands of servers that could run at ~50W instead of 300W. The energy savings alone to the facility would be something that would make a CFO weep.
I could go into depth into your 2nd sentence about how you try to blame me for RedHat's rpm problem with dependencies.
Sure, I probably could spend hours trying to figure out why package A relies on package B and package B relies on package A and neither of them can be upgraded without the other, but I really don't care. I have better things to do than manually figure out how each little stupid package requires 47 libs and I have to go find each one of them.
yum is just apt-get for redhat's rpms. So it's in RHEL5? great! so it's only a good 8 years behind debian in the package management dept? Might as well use tgz ala slackware.
I'll tell ya. I've been using linux for around 12-13 years. over time, there have been quite a few little items that have been a problem. Drivers, video mode, random hardware pieces, etc.
Most recently, it has been the package management. I have been all but forced to use the "commercial" RedHat up at work, and I still cannot believe that Redhat uses a lame package manager that requires you to "solve your own" dependencies. What the shit is that? Anyways, i'm a die-hard debian user, so I am used to just apt-getting every little package, and the dependencies figure themselves out. I could care less that libfuckingrandom from germany could be installed or not, I just want my program to be installed and running. I think one more step is if when I did a 'gimp' if it saw that I didn't have it installed, installed it, and fucking ran it. The newest ubuntu tells you how to install it using apt-get, but really, do it for me. I don't have time to type in another command.
Redhat is another problem. rpm doesn't have the smarts to do anything for you. If you want any kind of 'immediate' commands, you have to 'yum' them. This isn't acceptable in a corporate environment. yum is a bastard that is excluded from RedHat so they can maximize acceptable up2date profits. I could really care less if RedHat goes out business or not. Debian is at least 1 full generation ahead of RedHat. Redhat Enterprise is still redhat 9 with updates.
Anyways, for linux to beat the hype, they need to add the spit and polish that Ubuntu puts into the system. I applaud them for using Debian. Debian isn't perfect, but it is at least usable and their politics should be something people strive for. Freedom should be free.
End of story.
"Bandwidth will be charged by the pound instead of flat rate, but it will be very afforadable "
I'm not sure how much a packet, bit or byte weighs, but it better be affordable.
and what would happen if someone patented the steering wheel in 1902, but didn't do jack about enforcing the patent until the mid 20s after it had 100% market penetration?
wow, that's about 40GB max assuming you have them encoded in xvid.
The problem is they said they were storing them on data tapes. Why are they using tape? Can't they write it out on a digital media like DVD or laser disc?
right, but what about Joe Blow Schmoe who was running an internet radio site from his basement? He's now gotta find a new gig.
This is just another notch in the ever-tightening belt that the RIAA has around the consumers neck.
What? I can't hear you over American Idol playing on the Comcast DVR in the background.
Tooth decay?
I will disagree with that. The reason it wasn't a problem 100 years ago is the average lifespan was short enough that the person died before all of their teeth went bad. There is a distinct change around the 50s where flouride started getting put in water and the incidence of tooth decay dropped dramatically.
Go to a 3rd world country where they don't have dental care and you will see toothless masses.
Why spend all that time and effort boarding it when you can just strap some lightweight bombs on the pylons, sail away, and remote detonate.
Nothing quite like misspelling retarDed.
I don't think Microsoft cares about linux enough to make a patch.
:P
I bet you could do 5 minutes of research on your own and figure it out though.
I have seen that problem many times. Most recently, the old boxes that are rebooted come up with wrong routes to the point where none of their network services work. Some of these boxes had 4-6 network interfaces used plugged into different networks with specific routes for each network. reboot, and they are all deleted.