First, RAID-1 isn't a backup solution. But you probably already knew that.
I used to be a big believer in RAID but at this point, I don't bother for personal data anymore because it's just not worth the hassle.
Personally, I've switched to OS X for everyday computing and Time Machine handles my hourly backups over-the-air. I supplement my TM by syncing it with external storage that isn't kept in the house. Very easy, and I don't have to think about it much and it's not likely that I'll ever lose more than a few hours worth of data.
I have a separate media server that's also backed up but I don't keep separate off site storage for that because it's not the end of the world to me if I lose a few ripped movies.
For travel, I have an external, sometimes two, depending if how screwed up the country I'm going to is.
Total effective storage, not including backup-only, ~3TB. Total cost, including backup only media ~500USD. I could probably do it for less than 300USD if I were to build everything today, using current prices.
This post probably belongs in the backup media article, but you asked.
HD storage is incredibly cheap and like others have pointed out, we've only had 3 major interface changes in the past 20 years.
I can't read anything from my first personal 10 MB HD, either, but that never mattered. Each upgrade, transferring that to a new set of drives was trivial. I still have emails I wrote 10 years ago, not because I can read the drives. Those drives have little to no utility to me as a storage medium. I have that data because it was a 250MB HD and that takes up less space on my NAS than a single 1080p movie trailer.
In five year's time, I'm not going to be interested in reading the HDs I have now because they'll have long been transferred to the 50TB NAS type solution I'll have then.
That's still roughly 10 bucks a disk for 500GB. You can buy 2x the HD storage for less than that price.
While optical media has its advantages, the convenience of an automated backup solution to an HD or multiple HDs means it's more likely to happen, thus is more useful. I do incremental backups to an external HD on an hourly basis. How do I do that on BD without it becoming very quickly A) expensive and B) damn inconvenient?
Let's face it, at the cost of HD storage, there's really no better general case solution.
Without understanding the manner in which the policies and guidelines that I am talking about are applied, I cannot take you seriously.
The trouble here is that you are having a knee jerk reaction to what you think is an inherently flawed system, without having put any thought into how such system can be applied without "evaluating individuals based on skin color and race."
The question that needs to be asked, evidently one which you have not asked yourself, is "in what way can disadvantaged groups be assisted without lower standards of evaluation?" If your first and only reaction is not "Impossible! That's racist!" then you will find ways in which this IS possible.
I suggest you read, familiarize and otherwise educate yourself about the issues to which I am speaking before trying to lecture me about what I do and don't know.
If the Universe is six thousand years, how did they get there? (No credit for "The universe is young but God wanted it to look old".)
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There are celestial bodies far in excess of six thousand light years away. Anyone building spacecraft surely ought to know about them.
I'm sorry, but it's you who doesn't understand.
For a creationist, biblical literalist, or whatever you want to call them, "God made the universe 13.5 billion years old at the moment of creation." is an acceptable answer. Logic and rational thinking ceases to have any meaning ceases to have any merit in an argument with someone who can accept this as a reasonable answer on this point.
My suggestion to you is to not bother yourself. You will not change their minds any more than they will yours.
This AC is unambiguously WRONG about DoD policy regarding affirmative action and equal opportunity.
I normally ignore these racist rants from ACs but since it has been modded up as informative by unsuspecting mods, I will respond in brief.
ALL branches of the military have policy and guidelines in place for recruiting, retainment and training of disadvantaged minorities. This is unequivocal FACT.
These policies and guidelines are open and fully available to the general public:
Some of these are not the official policy/plans but are official documents that do refer to them. I'm not going to burn up the rest of my Saturday night looking wasting time responding to this AC but hope this is enough for those who might believe there is even a shred of truth to this AC's post.
The fact that so many who have served are not aware of the existence of these policies is a testament to the policies' effectiveness. This is one of the few policy level implementations that the military has done right. By the time promotion boards roll around, it is either transparent or nearly transparent to the board members.
I will remind those that care that the "Military" amicus brief filed by military leaders in 2003 during the Grutter vs. Bollinger (University of Michigan) was cited by the Supreme Court as being one of the strongest arguments in favor of affirmative action in higher education.
Why was parent modded down as flamebait/offttopic? That's not fair.
While there are uses for which video is king, video as a way conveying certain types of information DOES suck. I think most people on here can read MUCH faster and process information more comprehensively in written form than some talking head on a video. This vid has slides, so it's better but I'd still prefer to read the slides and attached notes than basically be lectured to at someone else's pace. It does more for my comprehension and it saves time.
Christ, you'd think people thought the parent post was personally attacking Theo or something.
Okay. I'll make it a point to personally care about every criminal act that takes place in the United States of America.
I'll get right on that. Yeah.
In the meantime, I'm going to pretend like this system of common law that we have doesn't exist - where a unilateral contract offered on national broadcast television may or may not set a binding precedent.
I don't care about the guilt or innocence of the lawyer's client. I don't care whether or not he did or did not make the journey.
I DO care as an amused observer, that this lawyer made offered a million dollars to anyone who could PROVE that his client WAS ABLE to travel across two states during that period of time.
The law student in question didn't PROVE the client's guilt, but he did PROVE (in the form of videotape) that the client WAS ABLE (by making the trip).
The law student was able to meet the lawyer's terms. This is not in question and is plain as day to see. Even the lawyer himself DOES NOT DISAGREE.
Now, how much do I personally care about this other than the amusement at the situation? Not even enough to learn their names. That's how much I care.
I want the LAWYER to get a lesson in unilateral contracts from the law student. That's what makes this interesting. I couldn't give two hoots about the guilt of the lawyer's client.
Yeah, except where it goes of the deep end with the character models. High res textures, good. Anime babes/boobs? No thanks.
Its a good mod to the engine but this is a particularly common disease to the modding community for any given popular game/engine. The majority of modders are younger geeks that essentially start building their own virtual robot babes.
Check that Alyx Vance model. In FF Cinematic Mod, she's got a bare midriff, serious cleavage and looks like the character spent two minutes too many in front of the makeup mirror.
I actually prefer digital distribution. It works for me on the PC/Steam because I can play my full back library on any system I want.
As a person with an unusual job with a bizarre travel schedule, I hate carrying around media. All of my UMDs are ripped to my HD anyway. (And I assure you, my travel schedule is more taxing that anyone who will pipe up with "I travel a lot, too."
That said, the problem with the PSP is not the distribution method. It's the lack of decent games, period. I have about 35 PSP UMDs. Not one of those has been purchased in 2009. In fact, it's been about a year since I bought a PSP game. I still play games on my PSP, but they're old titles that I bought and haven't played yet. I go to the GameStop and look on the shelves for anything that looks interesting but I usually end up fairly disappointed and picking up a DS game instead.
Also he is ethnically Japanese which could account for a neurosis towards nuclear weaponry. Scientists are human, like everyone else, and usually have at least as many irrational anxieties as the average man.
34.5 of Japan's electricity production is from 65 nuclear plants. Japanese have a neurosis for nuclear weaponry? WTF does that have to do with other uses of nuclear energy? GTFO!
Scientists, above all, are supposed to be RATIONAL.
It still generates interest and gets kids thinking so Mythbusters gets a thumbs up from me but let's not pretend like they're rigorous. I wish they'd do more end of the show disclaimers ; things they did right/wrong, etc. Science isn't science if you're not considering all the faults and sources of error in your experiments.
Just like it might be nice to click on the "Donate" buttons or seek for alternative way to donate to authors; almost nobody would complain if you did, y'know.
That's not called good manners, that's called being nice. They're the federal government, they don't do that sort of thing.
Here's my question to you - did she know what she was getting involved in a classified project?
If the answer is yes, then there is no room for this. It's a sacrifice that those who become involved in secret projects have to make. If you're unwilling to make that sacrifice, then don't do it. Choose another way to contribute for which you will receive public recognition.
When I was young and stupid, I graduated with scores good enough to choose any branch of the US Army. At the time, the two most selective branches were Aviation and Military Intelligence. I chose Infantry. If I'm honest with myself, a large part of my reasoning was (for lack of a better word) glory. I'm the kind of guy who needs at least a little acknowledgment.
It's not my place to tell an old woman how she should think and feel but at the end of the day, this is a personal issue for her.
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Sorry, didn't mean to come across like a jackass.
To sweep up debris. He also made the universe appear 13.5 billion years old when upon creation 6000 years ago.
Planets don't have a job. They aren't there to act as a debris sweep even if they do sweep debris.
First, RAID-1 isn't a backup solution. But you probably already knew that.
I used to be a big believer in RAID but at this point, I don't bother for personal data anymore because it's just not worth the hassle.
Personally, I've switched to OS X for everyday computing and Time Machine handles my hourly backups over-the-air. I supplement my TM by syncing it with external storage that isn't kept in the house. Very easy, and I don't have to think about it much and it's not likely that I'll ever lose more than a few hours worth of data.
I have a separate media server that's also backed up but I don't keep separate off site storage for that because it's not the end of the world to me if I lose a few ripped movies.
For travel, I have an external, sometimes two, depending if how screwed up the country I'm going to is.
Total effective storage, not including backup-only, ~3TB. Total cost, including backup only media ~500USD. I could probably do it for less than 300USD if I were to build everything today, using current prices.
This post probably belongs in the backup media article, but you asked.
HD storage is incredibly cheap and like others have pointed out, we've only had 3 major interface changes in the past 20 years.
I can't read anything from my first personal 10 MB HD, either, but that never mattered. Each upgrade, transferring that to a new set of drives was trivial. I still have emails I wrote 10 years ago, not because I can read the drives. Those drives have little to no utility to me as a storage medium. I have that data because it was a 250MB HD and that takes up less space on my NAS than a single 1080p movie trailer.
In five year's time, I'm not going to be interested in reading the HDs I have now because they'll have long been transferred to the 50TB NAS type solution I'll have then.
Well, if you're going to be paranoid, may as well be delusional. I don't think it'd be nearly as much fun to be one without the other.
That's still roughly 10 bucks a disk for 500GB. You can buy 2x the HD storage for less than that price.
While optical media has its advantages, the convenience of an automated backup solution to an HD or multiple HDs means it's more likely to happen, thus is more useful. I do incremental backups to an external HD on an hourly basis. How do I do that on BD without it becoming very quickly A) expensive and B) damn inconvenient?
Let's face it, at the cost of HD storage, there's really no better general case solution.
Without understanding the manner in which the policies and guidelines that I am talking about are applied, I cannot take you seriously.
The trouble here is that you are having a knee jerk reaction to what you think is an inherently flawed system, without having put any thought into how such system can be applied without "evaluating individuals based on skin color and race."
The question that needs to be asked, evidently one which you have not asked yourself, is "in what way can disadvantaged groups be assisted without lower standards of evaluation?" If your first and only reaction is not "Impossible! That's racist!" then you will find ways in which this IS possible.
I suggest you read, familiarize and otherwise educate yourself about the issues to which I am speaking before trying to lecture me about what I do and don't know.
If the Universe is six thousand years, how did they get there? (No credit for "The universe is young but God wanted it to look old".)
***
There are celestial bodies far in excess of six thousand light years away. Anyone building spacecraft surely ought to know about them.
I'm sorry, but it's you who doesn't understand.
For a creationist, biblical literalist, or whatever you want to call them, "God made the universe 13.5 billion years old at the moment of creation." is an acceptable answer. Logic and rational thinking ceases to have any meaning ceases to have any merit in an argument with someone who can accept this as a reasonable answer on this point.
My suggestion to you is to not bother yourself. You will not change their minds any more than they will yours.
This AC is unambiguously WRONG about DoD policy regarding affirmative action and equal opportunity.
I normally ignore these racist rants from ACs but since it has been modded up as informative by unsuspecting mods, I will respond in brief.
ALL branches of the military have policy and guidelines in place for recruiting, retainment and training of disadvantaged minorities. This is unequivocal FACT.
These policies and guidelines are open and fully available to the general public:
Army: http://www.aschq.army.mil/supportingdocs/p600_26.pdf
Navy: http://neds.nebt.daps.mil/Directives/5354d3.pdf
Air Force: http://www.e-publishing.af.mil/pubfiles/af/36/afpd36-D2/afpd36-D2.pdf
Marine Corps: http://www.29palms.usmc.mil/base/safety/eo/pdf/EO%20Terms%20and%20Definitions.pdf
Some of these are not the official policy/plans but are official documents that do refer to them. I'm not going to burn up the rest of my Saturday night looking wasting time responding to this AC but hope this is enough for those who might believe there is even a shred of truth to this AC's post.
The fact that so many who have served are not aware of the existence of these policies is a testament to the policies' effectiveness. This is one of the few policy level implementations that the military has done right. By the time promotion boards roll around, it is either transparent or nearly transparent to the board members.
I will remind those that care that the "Military" amicus brief filed by military leaders in 2003 during the Grutter vs. Bollinger (University of Michigan) was cited by the Supreme Court as being one of the strongest arguments in favor of affirmative action in higher education.
Hey, if you're going to comment on something, why don't you at least attempt to see WTF I'm talking about before you do?
Why was parent modded down as flamebait/offttopic? That's not fair.
While there are uses for which video is king, video as a way conveying certain types of information DOES suck. I think most people on here can read MUCH faster and process information more comprehensively in written form than some talking head on a video. This vid has slides, so it's better but I'd still prefer to read the slides and attached notes than basically be lectured to at someone else's pace. It does more for my comprehension and it saves time.
Christ, you'd think people thought the parent post was personally attacking Theo or something.
Okay. I'll make it a point to personally care about every criminal act that takes place in the United States of America.
I'll get right on that. Yeah.
In the meantime, I'm going to pretend like this system of common law that we have doesn't exist - where a unilateral contract offered on national broadcast television may or may not set a binding precedent.
Okay. Maybe I should judge this man's guilt or innocence based on what I don't know about the facts that were presented in a trial I didn't attend.
No, you're missing MY point.
I don't care about the guilt or innocence of the lawyer's client. I don't care whether or not he did or did not make the journey.
I DO care as an amused observer, that this lawyer made offered a million dollars to anyone who could PROVE that his client WAS ABLE to travel across two states during that period of time.
The law student in question didn't PROVE the client's guilt, but he did PROVE (in the form of videotape) that the client WAS ABLE (by making the trip).
The law student was able to meet the lawyer's terms. This is not in question and is plain as day to see. Even the lawyer himself DOES NOT DISAGREE.
Now, how much do I personally care about this other than the amusement at the situation? Not even enough to learn their names. That's how much I care.
Huh? Who gives a flying flip about the trial?
I want the LAWYER to get a lesson in unilateral contracts from the law student. That's what makes this interesting. I couldn't give two hoots about the guilt of the lawyer's client.
Yeah, except where it goes of the deep end with the character models. High res textures, good. Anime babes/boobs? No thanks.
Its a good mod to the engine but this is a particularly common disease to the modding community for any given popular game/engine. The majority of modders are younger geeks that essentially start building their own virtual robot babes.
Check that Alyx Vance model. In FF Cinematic Mod, she's got a bare midriff, serious cleavage and looks like the character spent two minutes too many in front of the makeup mirror.
And Oblivion. My god.
I actually prefer digital distribution. It works for me on the PC/Steam because I can play my full back library on any system I want.
As a person with an unusual job with a bizarre travel schedule, I hate carrying around media. All of my UMDs are ripped to my HD anyway. (And I assure you, my travel schedule is more taxing that anyone who will pipe up with "I travel a lot, too."
That said, the problem with the PSP is not the distribution method. It's the lack of decent games, period. I have about 35 PSP UMDs. Not one of those has been purchased in 2009. In fact, it's been about a year since I bought a PSP game. I still play games on my PSP, but they're old titles that I bought and haven't played yet. I go to the GameStop and look on the shelves for anything that looks interesting but I usually end up fairly disappointed and picking up a DS game instead.
PSPGo = too little, too late.
Also he is ethnically Japanese which could account for a neurosis towards nuclear weaponry. Scientists are human, like everyone else, and usually have at least as many irrational anxieties as the average man.
34.5 of Japan's electricity production is from 65 nuclear plants. Japanese have a neurosis for nuclear weaponry? WTF does that have to do with other uses of nuclear energy? GTFO!
Scientists, above all, are supposed to be RATIONAL.
It still generates interest and gets kids thinking so Mythbusters gets a thumbs up from me but let's not pretend like they're rigorous. I wish they'd do more end of the show disclaimers ; things they did right/wrong, etc. Science isn't science if you're not considering all the faults and sources of error in your experiments.
Because this entire submission is just absolute drivel from FOSS cheerleaders who simply don't understand the fucking point of FOSS.
This is EXACTLY how FOSS is supposed to be used.
Just like it might be nice to click on the "Donate" buttons or seek for alternative way to donate to authors; almost nobody would complain if you did, y'know.
That's not called good manners, that's called being nice. They're the federal government, they don't do that sort of thing.
I want a Winnebago!
I understand. The point is that the knee jerk /. reaction to any mention of US law is, "You Americans! blah blah blah."
In this case, the we're talking about NPG in London, there is reason to believe that US law has some applicability.
It doesn't.
But the user and the servers are in the US. Thus US law.
Not any more than any soldier who died in the mud, nor any nurse who worked in a hospital, nor any man who came back missing body parts.
Individually, they all contributed towards an Allied victory.
War is about killing the enemy and breaking his shit. This is not possible without a man out there at the tip of the spear.
Saved (Allied) lives? Contributed to a quicker victory? Ensured the continued functioning of home society? Yes, yes and yes. And more.
But "won the war?" GTFO. That's a slap in the face to any man who has ever been under fire.
Here's my question to you - did she know what she was getting involved in a classified project?
If the answer is yes, then there is no room for this. It's a sacrifice that those who become involved in secret projects have to make. If you're unwilling to make that sacrifice, then don't do it. Choose another way to contribute for which you will receive public recognition.
When I was young and stupid, I graduated with scores good enough to choose any branch of the US Army. At the time, the two most selective branches were Aviation and Military Intelligence. I chose Infantry. If I'm honest with myself, a large part of my reasoning was (for lack of a better word) glory. I'm the kind of guy who needs at least a little acknowledgment.
It's not my place to tell an old woman how she should think and feel but at the end of the day, this is a personal issue for her.