-1, didn't read the question. He is NOT asking about how reliable the drives are, since he acknowledges that ANY media can fail. Instead, he asks about recovery options when there are no other alternatives, such as extreme disasters or criminal cases where data was intentionally lost.
This is a good question, I look forward to constructive answers and the discussion that follows. Yours, however, is a dead end.
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KDE 4.0 Is Out
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So reducing resource usage, thereby allowing it to run smoother on a given platform, is 'nothing to show off'? The only good OS is a new, feature-bloated one you say? Well you enjoy your Aero and Vista, we will keep our KDE and Linux thank-you-very-much.
You could hear a high-def pindrop in here. I don't think anyone expected things to be over so quick. Does this mean there will be some good sales on HD-DVD players?
He reasons that if reality was to do something that information processing cannot, then it cannot be virtual.
I reason that if we employ information processing on these results (as is inevitable) then we will have a hard time telling the difference between the universes' limitation, and our own (here's a hint: THEY ARE THE SAME). The lack of proof is in the lack of pudding, as it were. Alas, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Yurtle the turtle, man. Yurtle the turtle.
Sorry, I figured there was so much nonsense in this thread, what could a little more hurt?
The artists make so little off of each CD sale that the effect of this would be quite minimal. If you are concerned about the artists, taking power away from the RIAA in ANY way possible is a good thing. The less copyright protection they have, the less of a monopoly they will have on the production industry, and artists will in turn have more choices when they go shopping for a label.
Before you jump on the specs, find out what actually comes in the box. The Dell has a faster CPU; 2.2GHz vs 2.0 in the Mac, as well as a tv tuner, more RAM, and A/B/G/N wireless. The video card? The 2400XT 128MB is something of a joke card and not really worth bringing into this argument. Integrated video will stand up just fine comparatively. The rest of the specs are the same, and yet you are here insisting the Mac has better hardware? Try again.
The OP just reeked of anti-MS-fanboi, which does bring out a touch of MS Apologist in me. The point I was trying to illustrate is that if he stops whining about how bad the Zune is (a solution that consists of buying one of the other MILLION CHOICES when it comes to MP3 players) that he just might see that a good bit of the world works by way of MS software. It's not the best for everyone (and no I don't want to hear about openoffice) but it is preferred by MANY people, because it just plain gets things done.
In sum, if Microsoft is so innovative, why can't we get something better than the Zune?
Because you're busy complaining? Please, enlighten me as to how much more would get done if people who do ACTUAL WORK had OpenOffice to use on a daily basis. I am not a Microsoft apologist, it's just pretty damn low when you try to set up the Zune as the pinnacle of their accomplishments. Open your eyes.
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Can Time Slow Down?
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Don't thank me, my boss mandates slashdot breaks every few hours so that we don't get burned out.
'We discovered that people are not like Neo in The Matrix,' Eagleman said.
Wow, good to hear that things like world hunger, oil dependence, and disease have been solved and there is time for experiments of this caliber. Now that the question of if we are in fact all Neos in Matrices is also settled, the world can live in peace!
OK "insightful", If HD-DVD vs BluRay were a concern, then why on earth does their game console require you to buy a $150+ add-on just to watch HD-DVDs? Microsoft doesn't have a stake in HD-DVDs whatsoever, they can just as soon get out of the HD-DVD addon business and no have lost any money or momentum on their game console. What they do need to promote is Xbox Live and related continuous revenue streams, which will pay out in the $Billions if the Xbox 360 is the dominant console on the market.
So cheek cells aren't cells now? When you do a swab the idea is to collect epithelial matter, which is anything containing DNA. Since 'spit' doesn't contain any DNA, you better hope some cells rub off or there won't be much to analyze but some amylase.
What might Verizon have up their sleeve on this one? They have traditionally been a VERY closed, clandestine network that offers no support for third party anything, and a very aggressive attitude against any efforts to open up (bluetooth lockout is one example). To see them changing their attitude is great, but what is the catch?
This is a nice sentiment but not everyone needs *another* linux server hanging around sucking up power. If you need more than one linux machine for personal use (aside from your desktop of choice), you are doing it wrong.
This just goes to show that Rackspace, for all their good intentions, does not provide adequate redundancy for a truly 0-downtime operation.
The #1 observation people have is 'why werent the coolers on backup power?', and that's easy, backup power is very expensive and precious. They would need a completely separate backup generator system for the cooling, at least 50% as large as their current generator set. Not cheap. The cheap solution many use is 'chilled reserve', which is a thermal reserve of cold water/refrigerant to provide a cool source to the CRAC units. That, or you can go all out (as an unnamed company has done) and build your datacenter on top of a reservoir with over a hundred thousand gallons of water, the ultimate 'heat sink'.
The #2 observation people have is 'why weren't there alternate power routes coming into the facility?'. This, again, is a redundancy issue many top-notch data centers have accounted for, with multiple distinct power inputs and massive switchgear to allow either to fully power the facility, with automated switchover at a moment's notice.
Of course, if it turns out that this whole thing is about Wikipedia's hard drives getting a bit cramped and you need to trim things down because a nonprofit can't afford a new drive, contact me and I'll FedEx down a spare drive:) I'm not sure you understand what you're offering. They don't keep the data in one place, two places, or even four. The balance of the data needs to be in DOZENS of places for redundancy against loss and bottlenecks. Adding one hard drive isn't going to do them a bit of good. If you have, say, 50 or so 15krpm 150GB SCSI disks you would like to donate, Wikimedia would NOT turn them down. You are at least partly correct, if enough people donated there would not be a resource crunch, and admins could worry about promoting good articles and letting lousy articles (the subject of this debate) fall by the wayside on their own.
CentOS is redhatish for the sake of redhatishness, as opposed to the current RedHat, which we all know is redhatish for profit, and Fedora, which is redhatish for testing purposes only. Ubuntu can't be taken seriously; you should have asked about Debian.
Debian is redhatish to a fault.
Both of you forgot that DX10 will never see the light of XP... If WINE succeeds in a viable DX10 implementation, it will quickly compete with Vista given the truly lackluster optimization that Microsoft has applied to it.
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Where is the link to his followup: "Surprised that a software company that doesn't sell software ended up with $2/share stock"...
Does your 'simple problem' take into account the loss of energy due to the plastic, on top of the sunlight-induced degradation of said panel's optical qualities? To be shatter-proof, thin, and pass the right light, you will no doubt need a specifically constructed panel.
They do teach that first thing to security guards. It's the first principle of security; if you don't recognize it, TREAT IT LIKE A THREAT. If you don't, before you learn what every single bomb looks like (hint, you can make a bomb out of just about anything) you will get blown up while you stand around saying 'oh thats an interesting looking doodad, but I'm sure its no threat, move along.
Or should it be 'tinfoil body armor'? Seriously, this is just going to start a desert arms race for who can stand to wear more body armor, either the bullet proof kind or the ray proof kind. Then, cue the 'armor defeating rays' which do actual permanent damage to those who don't happen to have ANY protection on. It brings a scary new prospect to the term 'collateral damage'.
Never? Even if it violates laws 1, 2 or 3? I can't tell you how many times I expect my robot to save my sorry geriatric self from drowning in the shower when I'm 102 years old.
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You had me up until there. Um, what happens when YOU lose one of the parts?
-1, didn't read the question. He is NOT asking about how reliable the drives are, since he acknowledges that ANY media can fail. Instead, he asks about recovery options when there are no other alternatives, such as extreme disasters or criminal cases where data was intentionally lost. This is a good question, I look forward to constructive answers and the discussion that follows. Yours, however, is a dead end.
So reducing resource usage, thereby allowing it to run smoother on a given platform, is 'nothing to show off'? The only good OS is a new, feature-bloated one you say? Well you enjoy your Aero and Vista, we will keep our KDE and Linux thank-you-very-much.
We already sent them porn via snail mail, the next logical step is to start trading via radiotelescope. Hope they liked the first stuff.
You could hear a high-def pindrop in here. I don't think anyone expected things to be over so quick. Does this mean there will be some good sales on HD-DVD players?
He reasons that if reality was to do something that information processing cannot, then it cannot be virtual.
I reason that if we employ information processing on these results (as is inevitable) then we will have a hard time telling the difference between the universes' limitation, and our own (here's a hint: THEY ARE THE SAME). The lack of proof is in the lack of pudding, as it were. Alas, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Yurtle the turtle, man. Yurtle the turtle.
Sorry, I figured there was so much nonsense in this thread, what could a little more hurt?
The artists make so little off of each CD sale that the effect of this would be quite minimal. If you are concerned about the artists, taking power away from the RIAA in ANY way possible is a good thing. The less copyright protection they have, the less of a monopoly they will have on the production industry, and artists will in turn have more choices when they go shopping for a label.
Before you jump on the specs, find out what actually comes in the box. The Dell has a faster CPU; 2.2GHz vs 2.0 in the Mac, as well as a tv tuner, more RAM, and A/B/G/N wireless. The video card? The 2400XT 128MB is something of a joke card and not really worth bringing into this argument. Integrated video will stand up just fine comparatively. The rest of the specs are the same, and yet you are here insisting the Mac has better hardware? Try again.
The OP just reeked of anti-MS-fanboi, which does bring out a touch of MS Apologist in me. The point I was trying to illustrate is that if he stops whining about how bad the Zune is (a solution that consists of buying one of the other MILLION CHOICES when it comes to MP3 players) that he just might see that a good bit of the world works by way of MS software. It's not the best for everyone (and no I don't want to hear about openoffice) but it is preferred by MANY people, because it just plain gets things done.
In sum, if Microsoft is so innovative, why can't we get something better than the Zune?
Because you're busy complaining? Please, enlighten me as to how much more would get done if people who do ACTUAL WORK had OpenOffice to use on a daily basis. I am not a Microsoft apologist, it's just pretty damn low when you try to set up the Zune as the pinnacle of their accomplishments. Open your eyes.
Don't thank me, my boss mandates slashdot breaks every few hours so that we don't get burned out.
Wow, good to hear that things like world hunger, oil dependence, and disease have been solved and there is time for experiments of this caliber. Now that the question of if we are in fact all Neos in Matrices is also settled, the world can live in peace!
OK "insightful", If HD-DVD vs BluRay were a concern, then why on earth does their game console require you to buy a $150+ add-on just to watch HD-DVDs? Microsoft doesn't have a stake in HD-DVDs whatsoever, they can just as soon get out of the HD-DVD addon business and no have lost any money or momentum on their game console. What they do need to promote is Xbox Live and related continuous revenue streams, which will pay out in the $Billions if the Xbox 360 is the dominant console on the market.
So cheek cells aren't cells now? When you do a swab the idea is to collect epithelial matter, which is anything containing DNA. Since 'spit' doesn't contain any DNA, you better hope some cells rub off or there won't be much to analyze but some amylase.
What might Verizon have up their sleeve on this one? They have traditionally been a VERY closed, clandestine network that offers no support for third party anything, and a very aggressive attitude against any efforts to open up (bluetooth lockout is one example). To see them changing their attitude is great, but what is the catch?
This is a nice sentiment but not everyone needs *another* linux server hanging around sucking up power. If you need more than one linux machine for personal use (aside from your desktop of choice), you are doing it wrong.
This just goes to show that Rackspace, for all their good intentions, does not provide adequate redundancy for a truly 0-downtime operation.
The #1 observation people have is 'why werent the coolers on backup power?', and that's easy, backup power is very expensive and precious. They would need a completely separate backup generator system for the cooling, at least 50% as large as their current generator set. Not cheap. The cheap solution many use is 'chilled reserve', which is a thermal reserve of cold water/refrigerant to provide a cool source to the CRAC units. That, or you can go all out (as an unnamed company has done) and build your datacenter on top of a reservoir with over a hundred thousand gallons of water, the ultimate 'heat sink'.
The #2 observation people have is 'why weren't there alternate power routes coming into the facility?'. This, again, is a redundancy issue many top-notch data centers have accounted for, with multiple distinct power inputs and massive switchgear to allow either to fully power the facility, with automated switchover at a moment's notice.
CentOS is redhatish for the sake of redhatishness, as opposed to the current RedHat, which we all know is redhatish for profit, and Fedora, which is redhatish for testing purposes only. Ubuntu can't be taken seriously; you should have asked about Debian. Debian is redhatish to a fault.
Both of you forgot that DX10 will never see the light of XP... If WINE succeeds in a viable DX10 implementation, it will quickly compete with Vista given the truly lackluster optimization that Microsoft has applied to it.
Where is the link to his followup: "Surprised that a software company that doesn't sell software ended up with $2/share stock"...
Oh. Right.
Does your 'simple problem' take into account the loss of energy due to the plastic, on top of the sunlight-induced degradation of said panel's optical qualities? To be shatter-proof, thin, and pass the right light, you will no doubt need a specifically constructed panel.
They do teach that first thing to security guards. It's the first principle of security; if you don't recognize it, TREAT IT LIKE A THREAT. If you don't, before you learn what every single bomb looks like (hint, you can make a bomb out of just about anything) you will get blown up while you stand around saying 'oh thats an interesting looking doodad, but I'm sure its no threat, move along.
Or should it be 'tinfoil body armor'? Seriously, this is just going to start a desert arms race for who can stand to wear more body armor, either the bullet proof kind or the ray proof kind. Then, cue the 'armor defeating rays' which do actual permanent damage to those who don't happen to have ANY protection on. It brings a scary new prospect to the term 'collateral damage'.
Never? Even if it violates laws 1, 2 or 3? I can't tell you how many times I expect my robot to save my sorry geriatric self from drowning in the shower when I'm 102 years old.