Please stop roleplaying someone stupid with your current game of presenting the incorrect suggestion that the greylisting time set on the recieving server doesn't matter.
Unless you are insanely stupid and use a greylist wait of a couple of hours, it really doesn't matter. Typical values for the wait are in the sub-5 minute range. Since it's resource intensive to retry at intervals smaller than about 5 minutes, good client configurations aren't going to even get to the first retry until after the greylist wait has expired. But, based on my own logs, you could set the wait to as little as 10 seconds and still have an extremely effective front line defense against spam.
Once an IP passes the wait successfully, e-mail from that address isn't ever delayed again (although I personally set a 40 day timeout on the whitelist to account for dynamic IP addresses). Add in the ability to pre-seed the list with known-to-retry systems (gmail, Yahoo, Amazon, etc.) and known common senders to your domain, and most people really will never notice any delay. And, if you run for about a month in "log only" mode, you'll get a great starting list of IPs you might need to whitelist. And, you need to think about server farms, so you might want to accept a retry from the same/24 subnet (which is what I do).
Also, if you were dumb enough to greylist mail that came from your internal network (which is the only way that a greylisting config would cause your boss to ask "why doesn't X have my email yet"), you don't understand greylisting enough to be in a discussion about it. For external senders (who should never be asking you that question, anyway), you can always explain the reason the e-mail is delayed: whoever configured their e-mail server didn't feel that a quick retry after a temporary failure was required.
So, this might be flamebait, but what it really comes down to is that your issues with greylisting were likely because you didn't do your homework and create a config that was as non-intrusive as possible.
If you don't have location services enabled in your browser, it's based solely on the public IP address you are presenting to their server and what method their server uses to determine where that IP exists in the physical world.
For a long time, most IP locators thought I was in Virginia because that's where the WHOIS entry for my IP listed as the address (one of Verizon's main centers). Now, they locate me correctly because Verizon delegated the IP range to me, and my WHOIS is correct.
We have a roku box in one room and a blu-ray player that includes netflix in the other room, and an ANTENNA (remember those?) on the roof so wife can watch football, and we've been cable-free for almost three years now.
So, that means you are fans of the local (American) football team. Otherwise, you'd have to have cable or satellite to watch your favorite team (either NFL or college).
I have several TV antennas on my roof, and understand exactly what is really available via OTA, and it's not nearly as much as people think.
Probably the biggest part of this is no longer caring if we see a show when it first comes out.
My wife and I are the same, with our current watch queue including the first series of Hustle as we just discovered it. But, with both of us big sports fans, we need something more than OTA. In addition, Netflix and other services often don't offer the audio and video quality that we have come to expect, while OTA and HD from DirecTV do.
You are saving $80 + Not being brainwashed by ads + Time not spent being brainwashed by ads.
What's an ad?
With the exception of the Super Bowl (where commercials are sometimes worth watching), I haven't watched a TV commercial in over 20 years. That's a small exaggeration, as until the advent of the DVR, I did see commercials on live sports, but other than that, I've recorded everything I wanted to watch.
In the late 80's, I had 4 VCRs (all with a 30-second-skip feature), and each was programmed for the shows I wanted to watch. When a tape filled, it was ejected and put onto the top of the "to watch" pile. Friends and roommates all seemed to understand the system, and nobody cared about watching shows on the day they aired.
I used to have two dual-tuner TiVos, but now I have a 5-tuner DirecTV DVR. I don't actually watch much TV, but there are times when the shows I like are all on at the same time, so I need the capability of that many tuners. I now watch sports by recording and starting to watch about 1-2 hours after the beginning.
DVRs make my choice of how to watch much easier, but the technology to not watch commercials has been around for nearly 25 years. If you weren't using it, that's your loss.
There are plenty of sports to watch with an antenna, if that's your thing.
I've responded to quite a few ACs who claim that OTA has a lot of sports, but none have ever given concrete examples to support their claim.
There are some cities in the US where you have a reasonable number of sporting events per week on OTA TV, but those are very few.
Even some relatively major cities (like Washington, DC) have no real OTA sports available. The Washington Redskins are the only sports team in the city where a significant percentage of their games are available OTA, and that's because there is only one game per week and the NFL specifically allows a local station to show a copy of games that are shown on cable stations. If you like hockey, baseball, basketball, soccer, golf, or even tennis, you will get at most two games/matches/rounds per week via OTA. It's even hard to find local college football reliably via OTA.
The problem with this is that changing something that big will invariably break plenty of websites. And the only ones to suffer from this will be Mozilla as people will quickly learn to go through other browsers because "Mozilla is b0rked".
This option exists right now, but isn't the default. Many Firefox users set this option right now and don't have any issues.
If you need a third-party cookie for your website to function correctly, you're doing it wrong.
"No True Scotsman" involves moving goalposts. Alcohol abuse is a well-documented, well-defined medical condition; the only "goalpost-moving" here is movement from the OP's self-diagnosis.
Which is the whole point. You just moved the goalposts from "alcoholic" to "alcohol abuse". I've known many people who would qualify as suffering from "alcohol abuse" (by the DSM-IV definition) in college who stopped being more than "moderate drinkers" once in the real world. I also know people who don't fit the DSM-IV definition who absolutely would be considered "alcoholics" based on their daily intake of 6-12 drinks, but because there are no "recurrent adverse consequences", they don't fit the "alcohol abuse" definition. Basically, they get hammered after dinner, go to sleep, and wake up and go to work.
If you define an "alcoholic" as "someone who can't stop drinking alcohol", then every substance abuse treatment for "alcoholism" has had a 0% success rate because everyone who is an "alcoholic" is just on a break until their next drink. And thus the whole point of AA is to replace alcohol with some other lifetime obsession, since nobody is ever "cured".
If you then move the definition to "someone who can't stop drinking alcohol without help", then you have to define "help". Was it "help" when somebody refused to give the alcoholic money for the next drink, which caused him to sober up long enough to stay sober for the rest of his life?
Many of these slight changes in definitions happen with no intent to "move the goalposts", yet they end up doing just that.
Now, for those of you who thought you didn't know what a tag was, it's now been explained and I'm guessing that you probably already had a pretty good idea.
I would actually be interested in Blu-Ray if it were open and not DRM'ed to death. 50 GB per disk with a $1 cost per disk in an unlocked format would have its followers but instead they would rather keep it locked up.
Writable Blu-Ray discs don't have any kind of DRM. If you have a Blu-Ray writer and software, you can write whatever you want on the disc. There is free and libre software available that runs on a variety of operating systems.
Here's why IT doesn't use those 100 buck 1TB hard drives
For tier 3 storage, you will see 1TB drives at close to $100 in commercial storage, although they will likely be the higher end drives (like WD RE4, etc.).
a 12TB array is pretty small so you don't get much economy of scale, so once you get into the larger arrays with 100's of TB, I think the numbers swing farther away from S3 for corporate storage.
Although some things get cheaper when you buy more (floor and rack space utilized better, administration cost lower per TB, etc.), pretty much everything else is linear.
Although where I work isn't in the NSA or Google realm, we do buy disk space in close to petabyte chunks, and you really only get about a 20% break at best with that kind of volume. It's still around $1K/TB for slower disk, $2-4K/TB for fast disk, and $10K/TB for SSD.
The usual Aliens quote is in reference to nuking something from orbit. "It's the only way." Or mostly coming at night.
Personally, I always like Hudson's "game over, man" line. And, the group I hung around with would invariably follow any "that's just game over" with "why don't we build a fire...sing some songs?" And then there's "they can bill me".
Curiously, none of the other Alien movies seem to have made the cut. Even the first one...
Likely because Alien was straight up horror with almost no comic relief, and long stretches of time with no dialog at all. Aliens was more of an action movie with the dry humor you see in that sort of film, plus it had a lot more dialog overall.
Prominent cop easily seen = everyone drives carefully, safety is increased
When idiots slow down to 50mph on a section of road with a 65mph speed limit just because there is a cop visible somewhere (the other side of the freeway, parked in a rest area, etc.), I don't see how safety is increased.
This argument is getting tiring. I'm not sure what prices are in your neck of the woods, but according to the Toledo Blade on 7/22/1983 (http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=8_tS2Vw13FcC&dat=19800722&printsec=frontpage&hl=en) it showed tickets as going $2.75-$3.50, non-matinee pricing. In 2013 dollars, that's right around $7.50 - exactly where a ticket for a non-matinee show is in this area. Sure, in a bigger city, it might be $9 or so; I'm not going to check it for you what the price was is 1983. It's reasonably tied to inflation.
The difference is that in 1983, I couldn't wait two months and watch it in my home with better sound and picture as good (albeit smaller) for around, all for about the price of two movie tickets. And, for that price I would own the movie, and could watch it as many times as I want.
That makes the current prices a lot higher psychologically, as you are basically only paying for the ability to see the movie sooner, and it might just be an inferior movie compared to the home video version. For example, the director's cut of Cowboy's & Aliens was far superior to the theatrical release, with much more backstory and exposition. Other movies might not differ as much, but you still likely get more for your money for the home video version, including commentary, making-of, etc.
"Without being able to look up the mapping from the database, the three words don't seem to be useful."
Exactly, consumer!
Yes, that's precisely the point. They are trying to sell you "one word'.
They do this by picking the words first and not allocating them to a location until you click "share". If you don't like the words, you can "share" them while pointing to a location you don't like. Then, you get another set of words.
So, there's no magical algorithm at work here...it's just a random number generator, and once someone writes an app that "shares" some random location until the words that come up are within some target set, and then fixes that in place on the desired location, their whole business model of selling words goes down the drain.
Even worse, the system will be gamed until every three word triplet will be assigned to someplace, and then the service is completely useless. Doing the math shows that they'd need 39,000 or so words in their pool, and although that's far less than in the English language, they need to use words that are easy to spell, not easy to confuse phonetically, and common enough for people to know them. But, words in the 30K-40K most frequently used range only appear about 20 times per BILLION words.
Steak is not complete nutrition for a dog. Muscle meat is important but lacks many of the vitamins and minerals found in organ meats and vegetable matter.
I didn't want to get into the details, but was just point out the price issue. And, steak can have bones, which are also important, although beef bones are fairly hard and most dogs can't get that much from them. Pork, chicken, goat, rabbit, etc. bones are easier for them to pulverize. And yes, it's perfectly safe...only cooked bones will splinter dangerously.
It is both the law and custom to hold Prisoners of War until the conflict is over. That is what the prisoners in Guantanamo are, POWs.
If Guantanamo Bay is a POW camp and the people detained there are POWs, then the US is bound by the Geneva Conventions.
Among other things, this would require that the US allow neutral inspectors in to see the conditions of the camp and speak with every prisoner, allow the prisoners to choose a representative to act as their leader and spokesman, etc. Likewise, if the tales of waterboarding are true, then that would be a "war crime" by the definitions of the Geneva Conventions.
Fanatics will say lineitem shouldn't even have price, it should just join to pricing history.
That's basically impossible once you hit the "Amazon" level of item count and algorithmic price adjustment.
Even in simpler cases, it makes sense to store what you charged that customer at that time for that item. Normalizing that sort of data makes sense, though, so you have an "Invoice" table with a key (like the invoice number) and a "InvoiceLines" table with each line referencing an invoice. That kind of normalization makes it easy to answer questions like "how much did we charge for that item (on average) this month last year and display with groups by purchaser with a totals row?"
What's wrong with a review containing information about the seller (especially if the item isn't being shipped by amazon itself)?
Because many items are sold by more than one seller, and a prospective buyer doesn't have any way of knowing which seller was being talked about.
Since there is a feedback system for sellers in the Amazon Market, reviews of products don't need to contain any information about the seller. If you want information about a seller, read their feedback, not reviews of the items they sell.
It's also a compromise in choosing where you live. You can have the nice 4 bedroom 2000 sq ft house out in the suburbs with a big yard and a pool with an hour drive to work, or you could live in a higher density condo complex with a small 1400 sq ft 3 bedroom condo, shared pool, small patio or deck and an 30 minute train ride plus 15 minute walk to work.
You are seriously tilting the scale towards public transportation with your exaggeration.
In the Washington, DC, area, that condo in "close" would have to be a lot smaller to be the same price as the house in the "suburbs". In addition, the 30 minute train ride would mean you are still damn far out (and technically in the suburbs), but close enough to be in the "a lot more expensive" area. Meanwhile, out near the house, you can catch a train and get downtown in an hour. All this is assuming that a train is available when you want to commute. For Metro, that's not a huge problem, but if you have to take MARC, then you are very limited in your choices.
All this is OK for a single person, but if you are a couple, you aren't going to find a house close to both your jobs, especially since you are likely to change jobs long before you change houses. I'm 25 miles door-to-door from my work, and it takes me 30 minutes, while my wife is about 6 miles from her work, with a 15-minute commute, both by car. Public transportation wouldn't help as it would more than double the length of our commutes while limiting the times we could travel, and that's pretty much the case with everyone else in the area, even if their commute goes different places.
Meanwhile, there's nothing wrong with 1 Ohm speakers, except for the fact that they seem to be the only ones doing it. Really. If nothing else, it can simplify the power supply of the amplifier by reducing the voltage on the rails.
That "1 Ohm" is not a measure of resitance, but instead is impedance. It is much harder to drive a low impedance speaker to equivalent sound levels and keep the sound accurate.
Yes, Bose crap is probably overpriced, but it certainly seems as if some science and engineering and testing went into them, compared to other crap.
The only "science and technology" that goes into Bose products is how to make the product more visually attractive (even Apple could take lessons from Bose) and configure the built-in equalizer to alter the sound to make people respond more positively to it. By definition, this make the reproduction less accurate.
Even insanely cheap speakers are better than Bose, simply because they are at least trying to reproduce sound accurately. They may not succeed, but they aren't any less accurate than Bose products. Just a small bit of money will buy you far better sound reproduction, and equal money will get you far better.
Multiple drives with redundancy and backups (I hope!). Plus they're probably using enterprise class drives. The post I was replying to compared against a single cheap drive with zero redundancy and zero backups.
Once you start talking about 1TB or so, it's still far cheaper for an end-user to build their own RAID plus backup solution.
Even something as simple as RAID-1 backed up to a pair of USB drives alternating weekly would cost less than pretty much any cloud provider over a 3-year period Add in some software that lets you access the data from anywhere (SFTP server, HTTP server, WebDAV, etc.), and you have a personal "Dropbox".
In addition, the one thing that cloud providers could give you that a home solution might not is fast access to the data. Based on my experience, though, if you want transfer rates of more than 1MB/sec to/from the cloud provider, you'll have to pay even more, and that makes the home solution even more attractive. Once you get into the $25/month range, a VPS becomes an option.
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Please stop roleplaying someone stupid with your current game of presenting the incorrect suggestion that the greylisting time set on the recieving server doesn't matter.
Unless you are insanely stupid and use a greylist wait of a couple of hours, it really doesn't matter. Typical values for the wait are in the sub-5 minute range. Since it's resource intensive to retry at intervals smaller than about 5 minutes, good client configurations aren't going to even get to the first retry until after the greylist wait has expired. But, based on my own logs, you could set the wait to as little as 10 seconds and still have an extremely effective front line defense against spam.
Once an IP passes the wait successfully, e-mail from that address isn't ever delayed again (although I personally set a 40 day timeout on the whitelist to account for dynamic IP addresses). Add in the ability to pre-seed the list with known-to-retry systems (gmail, Yahoo, Amazon, etc.) and known common senders to your domain, and most people really will never notice any delay. And, if you run for about a month in "log only" mode, you'll get a great starting list of IPs you might need to whitelist. And, you need to think about server farms, so you might want to accept a retry from the same /24 subnet (which is what I do).
Also, if you were dumb enough to greylist mail that came from your internal network (which is the only way that a greylisting config would cause your boss to ask "why doesn't X have my email yet"), you don't understand greylisting enough to be in a discussion about it. For external senders (who should never be asking you that question, anyway), you can always explain the reason the e-mail is delayed: whoever configured their e-mail server didn't feel that a quick retry after a temporary failure was required.
So, this might be flamebait, but what it really comes down to is that your issues with greylisting were likely because you didn't do your homework and create a config that was as non-intrusive as possible.
If you don't have location services enabled in your browser, it's based solely on the public IP address you are presenting to their server and what method their server uses to determine where that IP exists in the physical world.
For a long time, most IP locators thought I was in Virginia because that's where the WHOIS entry for my IP listed as the address (one of Verizon's main centers). Now, they locate me correctly because Verizon delegated the IP range to me, and my WHOIS is correct.
We have a roku box in one room and a blu-ray player that includes netflix in the other room, and an ANTENNA (remember those?) on the roof so wife can watch football, and we've been cable-free for almost three years now.
So, that means you are fans of the local (American) football team. Otherwise, you'd have to have cable or satellite to watch your favorite team (either NFL or college).
I have several TV antennas on my roof, and understand exactly what is really available via OTA, and it's not nearly as much as people think.
Probably the biggest part of this is no longer caring if we see a show when it first comes out.
My wife and I are the same, with our current watch queue including the first series of Hustle as we just discovered it. But, with both of us big sports fans, we need something more than OTA. In addition, Netflix and other services often don't offer the audio and video quality that we have come to expect, while OTA and HD from DirecTV do.
You are saving $80 + Not being brainwashed by ads + Time not spent being brainwashed by ads.
What's an ad?
With the exception of the Super Bowl (where commercials are sometimes worth watching), I haven't watched a TV commercial in over 20 years. That's a small exaggeration, as until the advent of the DVR, I did see commercials on live sports, but other than that, I've recorded everything I wanted to watch.
In the late 80's, I had 4 VCRs (all with a 30-second-skip feature), and each was programmed for the shows I wanted to watch. When a tape filled, it was ejected and put onto the top of the "to watch" pile. Friends and roommates all seemed to understand the system, and nobody cared about watching shows on the day they aired.
I used to have two dual-tuner TiVos, but now I have a 5-tuner DirecTV DVR. I don't actually watch much TV, but there are times when the shows I like are all on at the same time, so I need the capability of that many tuners. I now watch sports by recording and starting to watch about 1-2 hours after the beginning.
DVRs make my choice of how to watch much easier, but the technology to not watch commercials has been around for nearly 25 years. If you weren't using it, that's your loss.
There are plenty of sports to watch with an antenna, if that's your thing.
I've responded to quite a few ACs who claim that OTA has a lot of sports, but none have ever given concrete examples to support their claim.
There are some cities in the US where you have a reasonable number of sporting events per week on OTA TV, but those are very few.
Even some relatively major cities (like Washington, DC) have no real OTA sports available. The Washington Redskins are the only sports team in the city where a significant percentage of their games are available OTA, and that's because there is only one game per week and the NFL specifically allows a local station to show a copy of games that are shown on cable stations. If you like hockey, baseball, basketball, soccer, golf, or even tennis, you will get at most two games/matches/rounds per week via OTA. It's even hard to find local college football reliably via OTA.
The problem with this is that changing something that big will invariably break plenty of websites. And the only ones to suffer from this will be Mozilla as people will quickly learn to go through other browsers because "Mozilla is b0rked".
This option exists right now, but isn't the default. Many Firefox users set this option right now and don't have any issues.
If you need a third-party cookie for your website to function correctly, you're doing it wrong.
"No True Scotsman" involves moving goalposts. Alcohol abuse is a well-documented, well-defined medical condition; the only "goalpost-moving" here is movement from the OP's self-diagnosis.
Which is the whole point. You just moved the goalposts from "alcoholic" to "alcohol abuse". I've known many people who would qualify as suffering from "alcohol abuse" (by the DSM-IV definition) in college who stopped being more than "moderate drinkers" once in the real world. I also know people who don't fit the DSM-IV definition who absolutely would be considered "alcoholics" based on their daily intake of 6-12 drinks, but because there are no "recurrent adverse consequences", they don't fit the "alcohol abuse" definition. Basically, they get hammered after dinner, go to sleep, and wake up and go to work.
If you define an "alcoholic" as "someone who can't stop drinking alcohol", then every substance abuse treatment for "alcoholism" has had a 0% success rate because everyone who is an "alcoholic" is just on a break until their next drink. And thus the whole point of AA is to replace alcohol with some other lifetime obsession, since nobody is ever "cured".
If you then move the definition to "someone who can't stop drinking alcohol without help", then you have to define "help". Was it "help" when somebody refused to give the alcoholic money for the next drink, which caused him to sober up long enough to stay sober for the rest of his life?
Many of these slight changes in definitions happen with no intent to "move the goalposts", yet they end up doing just that.
Now, for those of you who thought you didn't know what a tag was, it's now been explained and I'm guessing that you probably already had a pretty good idea.
Actually, you didn't explain at all.
"tag" == "keyword"
Now it's explained.
I would actually be interested in Blu-Ray if it were open and not DRM'ed to death. 50 GB per disk with a $1 cost per disk in an unlocked format would have its followers but instead they would rather keep it locked up.
Writable Blu-Ray discs don't have any kind of DRM. If you have a Blu-Ray writer and software, you can write whatever you want on the disc. There is free and libre software available that runs on a variety of operating systems.
Here's why IT doesn't use those 100 buck 1TB hard drives
For tier 3 storage, you will see 1TB drives at close to $100 in commercial storage, although they will likely be the higher end drives (like WD RE4, etc.).
a 12TB array is pretty small so you don't get much economy of scale, so once you get into the larger arrays with 100's of TB, I think the numbers swing farther away from S3 for corporate storage.
Although some things get cheaper when you buy more (floor and rack space utilized better, administration cost lower per TB, etc.), pretty much everything else is linear.
Although where I work isn't in the NSA or Google realm, we do buy disk space in close to petabyte chunks, and you really only get about a 20% break at best with that kind of volume. It's still around $1K/TB for slower disk, $2-4K/TB for fast disk, and $10K/TB for SSD.
The usual Aliens quote is in reference to nuking something from orbit. "It's the only way." Or mostly coming at night.
Personally, I always like Hudson's "game over, man" line. And, the group I hung around with would invariably follow any "that's just game over" with "why don't we build a fire...sing some songs?" And then there's "they can bill me".
Curiously, none of the other Alien movies seem to have made the cut. Even the first one...
Likely because Alien was straight up horror with almost no comic relief, and long stretches of time with no dialog at all. Aliens was more of an action movie with the dry humor you see in that sort of film, plus it had a lot more dialog overall.
Prominent cop easily seen = everyone drives carefully, safety is increased
When idiots slow down to 50mph on a section of road with a 65mph speed limit just because there is a cop visible somewhere (the other side of the freeway, parked in a rest area, etc.), I don't see how safety is increased.
This argument is getting tiring. I'm not sure what prices are in your neck of the woods, but according to the Toledo Blade on 7/22/1983 (http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=8_tS2Vw13FcC&dat=19800722&printsec=frontpage&hl=en) it showed tickets as going $2.75-$3.50, non-matinee pricing. In 2013 dollars, that's right around $7.50 - exactly where a ticket for a non-matinee show is in this area. Sure, in a bigger city, it might be $9 or so; I'm not going to check it for you what the price was is 1983. It's reasonably tied to inflation.
The difference is that in 1983, I couldn't wait two months and watch it in my home with better sound and picture as good (albeit smaller) for around, all for about the price of two movie tickets. And, for that price I would own the movie, and could watch it as many times as I want.
That makes the current prices a lot higher psychologically, as you are basically only paying for the ability to see the movie sooner, and it might just be an inferior movie compared to the home video version. For example, the director's cut of Cowboy's & Aliens was far superior to the theatrical release, with much more backstory and exposition. Other movies might not differ as much, but you still likely get more for your money for the home video version, including commentary, making-of, etc.
"Without being able to look up the mapping from the database, the three words don't seem to be useful."
Exactly, consumer!
Yes, that's precisely the point. They are trying to sell you "one word'.
They do this by picking the words first and not allocating them to a location until you click "share". If you don't like the words, you can "share" them while pointing to a location you don't like. Then, you get another set of words.
So, there's no magical algorithm at work here...it's just a random number generator, and once someone writes an app that "shares" some random location until the words that come up are within some target set, and then fixes that in place on the desired location, their whole business model of selling words goes down the drain.
Even worse, the system will be gamed until every three word triplet will be assigned to someplace, and then the service is completely useless. Doing the math shows that they'd need 39,000 or so words in their pool, and although that's far less than in the English language, they need to use words that are easy to spell, not easy to confuse phonetically, and common enough for people to know them. But, words in the 30K-40K most frequently used range only appear about 20 times per BILLION words.
Steak is not complete nutrition for a dog. Muscle meat is important but lacks many of the vitamins and minerals found in organ meats and vegetable matter.
I didn't want to get into the details, but was just point out the price issue. And, steak can have bones, which are also important, although beef bones are fairly hard and most dogs can't get that much from them. Pork, chicken, goat, rabbit, etc. bones are easier for them to pulverize. And yes, it's perfectly safe...only cooked bones will splinter dangerously.
It is both the law and custom to hold Prisoners of War until the conflict is over. That is what the prisoners in Guantanamo are, POWs.
If Guantanamo Bay is a POW camp and the people detained there are POWs, then the US is bound by the Geneva Conventions.
Among other things, this would require that the US allow neutral inspectors in to see the conditions of the camp and speak with every prisoner, allow the prisoners to choose a representative to act as their leader and spokesman, etc. Likewise, if the tales of waterboarding are true, then that would be a "war crime" by the definitions of the Geneva Conventions.
So, no, Gitmo is not a POW camp.
the sort to buy "premium" dog food for $15.00 per can
At that point, just feed them steak, as there is nothing in any commercial dog food that is better nutrition.
SQL is not an interface. It is a query language: Standard Query Language, well the standard also contains DDL
Structured Query Language, actually.
If you want to nitpick then do it right.
Words to live by.
Fanatics will say lineitem shouldn't even have price, it should just join to pricing history.
That's basically impossible once you hit the "Amazon" level of item count and algorithmic price adjustment.
Even in simpler cases, it makes sense to store what you charged that customer at that time for that item. Normalizing that sort of data makes sense, though, so you have an "Invoice" table with a key (like the invoice number) and a "InvoiceLines" table with each line referencing an invoice. That kind of normalization makes it easy to answer questions like "how much did we charge for that item (on average) this month last year and display with groups by purchaser with a totals row?"
What's wrong with a review containing information about the seller (especially if the item isn't being shipped by amazon itself)?
Because many items are sold by more than one seller, and a prospective buyer doesn't have any way of knowing which seller was being talked about.
Since there is a feedback system for sellers in the Amazon Market, reviews of products don't need to contain any information about the seller. If you want information about a seller, read their feedback, not reviews of the items they sell.
It's also a compromise in choosing where you live. You can have the nice 4 bedroom 2000 sq ft house out in the suburbs with a big yard and a pool with an hour drive to work, or you could live in a higher density condo complex with a small 1400 sq ft 3 bedroom condo, shared pool, small patio or deck and an 30 minute train ride plus 15 minute walk to work.
You are seriously tilting the scale towards public transportation with your exaggeration.
In the Washington, DC, area, that condo in "close" would have to be a lot smaller to be the same price as the house in the "suburbs". In addition, the 30 minute train ride would mean you are still damn far out (and technically in the suburbs), but close enough to be in the "a lot more expensive" area. Meanwhile, out near the house, you can catch a train and get downtown in an hour. All this is assuming that a train is available when you want to commute. For Metro, that's not a huge problem, but if you have to take MARC, then you are very limited in your choices.
All this is OK for a single person, but if you are a couple, you aren't going to find a house close to both your jobs, especially since you are likely to change jobs long before you change houses. I'm 25 miles door-to-door from my work, and it takes me 30 minutes, while my wife is about 6 miles from her work, with a 15-minute commute, both by car. Public transportation wouldn't help as it would more than double the length of our commutes while limiting the times we could travel, and that's pretty much the case with everyone else in the area, even if their commute goes different places.
Meanwhile, there's nothing wrong with 1 Ohm speakers, except for the fact that they seem to be the only ones doing it. Really. If nothing else, it can simplify the power supply of the amplifier by reducing the voltage on the rails.
That "1 Ohm" is not a measure of resitance, but instead is impedance. It is much harder to drive a low impedance speaker to equivalent sound levels and keep the sound accurate.
Yes, Bose crap is probably overpriced, but it certainly seems as if some science and engineering and testing went into them, compared to other crap.
The only "science and technology" that goes into Bose products is how to make the product more visually attractive (even Apple could take lessons from Bose) and configure the built-in equalizer to alter the sound to make people respond more positively to it. By definition, this make the reproduction less accurate.
Even insanely cheap speakers are better than Bose, simply because they are at least trying to reproduce sound accurately. They may not succeed, but they aren't any less accurate than Bose products. Just a small bit of money will buy you far better sound reproduction, and equal money will get you far better.
Multiple drives with redundancy and backups (I hope!). Plus they're probably using enterprise class drives. The post I was replying to compared against a single cheap drive with zero redundancy and zero backups.
Once you start talking about 1TB or so, it's still far cheaper for an end-user to build their own RAID plus backup solution.
Even something as simple as RAID-1 backed up to a pair of USB drives alternating weekly would cost less than pretty much any cloud provider over a 3-year period Add in some software that lets you access the data from anywhere (SFTP server, HTTP server, WebDAV, etc.), and you have a personal "Dropbox".
In addition, the one thing that cloud providers could give you that a home solution might not is fast access to the data. Based on my experience, though, if you want transfer rates of more than 1MB/sec to/from the cloud provider, you'll have to pay even more, and that makes the home solution even more attractive. Once you get into the $25/month range, a VPS becomes an option.