1. Case too big? Wrong -- the case doesn't have to be huge. It needs to fit a mobo, cpu, video card and Blu-Ray drive. Like the Xbox the power supply could be external if you want to save that space. The CPU, especially if you use a self-contained liquid cooler takes up about 27 cu in. The mobo can be an ITX-ish mobo at 7"x7". The video card is pretty big though, at 4"x12"x3" approximately but can sit on its side and be connected to the special mobo by a riser. A slim BD-drive can be 6"x2"x6". Add a little 2.5" SSD and some mental Tetris and I come up with about 11" wide x 12" deep x 6" tall with a vertical slot drive. Comparatively, the Xbox 360 is 12"x10"x3.5". So yeah, looks like it's in the ballpark.
2. Mouse and keyboard requiring a TV/console/game set per player? Wrong -- Windows and Linux both have supported multiple pointers for about a decade (though very few programs use them). There's no reason they can't do the same with redirecting USB keyboards to separate input streams. The only reason it's uncommon is because it's a very narrow use case, not that there's some huge technical hurdle to connecting separate keyboards and mice to separate input streams. VMWare, however, I believe/can/ dedicate USB devices to specific VMs, so I don't see why it couldn't dedicate input devices in the same way.
3. Distinguishing console from PC games -- Why is it better that you wall of potential developers from your console? I'm under the impression that some of the best new innovative games have been indie or at least based on indie games. Portal, for example, comes from a school project using the same mechanic. Yes, the walled garden of consoles does distinguish itself from PC gaming, but for the worse in my opinion. If I want to hack up a game on my PC I can. If I want to hack one up for my Wii it's practically impossible. Even so, if I'm making a PC-like console there's no reason I couldn't ship it with a custom OS that refuses to load unsigned software just like how current consoles work. So, I don't see the drawback there either way.
This isn't just about them not reading laws they vote on -- they get shamed by the press and the public and during election campaigning for being "soft" on terrorism if they so much as question whether the PATRIOT act goes too far.
Even if they did make the wording very narrow all it takes is a law later down the line that redefines drug trafficking as terrorism. I can see it being debated already: Insane Politician: "We need to use our SpyFest 3000 to crack down on drugs. Let's pass this law that extends it to cover drug traffickers." Reasonable Politician: "Uhm, no. SpyFest 3000 was an overreach when there was real, immediate, huge potential harm out there. Drug traffickers are better stopped by actual human intelligence instead of backdoor spying on everyone." IP: "Ah, I see. You're soft on drugs and terrorism because you're opposing the STOP Terrorism On Planes bill." RP: "What the fuck? I don't see how your bill, which gives the police free access to phone tap any citizen living within 100 miles of the US border, has anything to do with planes!" IP: "That's because you hate America. We need the STOP bill passed now to protect us from dangerous terrorism." Rest of Congress: "Agreed." President: "Only if I can indefinitely detain suspects arrested on STOP charges." Congress: "I guess." President: "Signed."
Uh, no. No it is not. If anyone was ever talking about "Rand Paul" and had a clue they were talking about Rand Paul. Anyone trying to refer to Ron Paul as "Rand Paul" is a moron.
I wonder how you would go about dating the rocks on Mars. On Earth we have good estimates of initial U-235/U-238 ratios (and other radioactive materials) and the carbon cycle allows us to C-14 date things. But on another planet with so many differences from Earth what good assumptions do we have to key off of?
If you do not verify-on-read: RAID-4 (dedicated parity) doesn't use the parity disk on any reads. RAID-5 spreads reads among all disks evenly. If you do verify-on-read: RAID-4 always reads from a particular disk on all reads. RAID-5 spreads reads among all disks evenly.
This would mean that wear levels would be uneven on RAID-4 but not RAID-5 (excepting highly-used files being on particular disks of course) and with verify-on-read RAID-4 can't parallelize reads since it always needs to read the parity disk but RAID-5 can.
Writes are similar with respect to read wear and write speed.
The difference in speed will probably be trivial for a variety of reasons, but the difference in wear level could be meaningful.
No, it's not at the same level as your terribly misspelled example sentence, mainly because my sentence is valid English per the grammatical rules in place even if they are awkwardly used.
I think the supporting column I speak of is more of the fact that parents encourage children to play football because it gives those children a chance at a scholarship, not that money trickles down directly. And I would imagine that the NFL being a big thing also helps inflate the worth of football in the eyes of parents. So I guess it's more of an injected helium stream than a supporting column.
If someone steals your car and crashes it into a bus full of children you're not criminally liable. You're unlikely to be found liable in a civil court for wrongful death, depending on jury.
If you lend someone your car and they crash it into a bus full of children then you're not criminally liable unless you are found to have known that it was likely the crash would occur. Say, if your friend were drunk or didn't have a license at the time. I think you're still unlikely to be found liable for wrongful death, again unless you could have known it was likely to occur, but that would be much more jury-dependent, I think.
So yeah, I don't think you should be liable unless you knew nefarious happenings were going on with your internet for people that are not your legal minor dependents.
The two key points I see with Greyhole is that it works with differing drive sizes and you can, for each folder or file (didn't quite care to get the exact configuration setting) set what redundancy you want.
So yes, you'll lose more space than if you use RAID 5 or 6 but it looks really easy to set up. But it looks slightly more likely to catastrophically fail than RAID 1 in the event that a drive fails before Greyhole duplicates the new files on it.
I think that the demand for the players that don't have interest in playing at a college level would drop when the supporting column of college scholarship is removed. With less money going into the team and less pressure to play the game would probably lessen to the same popularity as high school baseball or basketball at best.
I agree to an extent. Take anything SAS or SATA that's 1TB or greater and re-think the project with just those. Sell or recycle the rest of the drives. Depending on your needs the remainder should be RAID-1, 5 or 6'd (using software RAID if speed isn't an issue) and then put on an OpenFiler or FreeNAS box. Anything non-replaceable should then be backed up to a respectable backup provider in addition to your home-grown solution.
We need more information though -- what are your actual drive sizes and what do you want to put on this NAS?
But many words don't change even when their definition does. When you call someone "mister" you're not indicating that they own the property your rent. (Mister comes from monsieur which comes from "my sire".) You still "hang up" your telephone when you end calls on your cell phone. I'm sure there are quite a few other examples I don't care to look up though.
Also, you're ignoring the fact that "ball" does not require an object to be spherical and field goals, punts, place kicks and drop kicks are still very much in use in the game.
The first run of 10k was commissioned by the Foundation to be produced by a Chinese factory. Those 10k boards were then shipped to Farnell and Allied to be resold. At the same time, Farnell and Allied were both given non-exclusive licenses to produce the Raspberry Pi on their own. At the current time all Pis to be built after the first 10k production run will be made by Farnell and Allied however they desire (most likely direct shipped from factories in China.) If we're lucky more manufacturers will license the Pi as well.
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Isn't it required that the site only remove the link until the whole take down procedure has cleared one way or the other?
Early exposure to porn as serious detrimental effect latter in life. It's well documented.
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No, I'm not saying what reasonable politicians /should/ do. I'm saying what they're /likely/ to do instead.
1. Case too big? Wrong -- the case doesn't have to be huge. It needs to fit a mobo, cpu, video card and Blu-Ray drive. Like the Xbox the power supply could be external if you want to save that space. The CPU, especially if you use a self-contained liquid cooler takes up about 27 cu in. The mobo can be an ITX-ish mobo at 7"x7". The video card is pretty big though, at 4"x12"x3" approximately but can sit on its side and be connected to the special mobo by a riser. A slim BD-drive can be 6"x2"x6". Add a little 2.5" SSD and some mental Tetris and I come up with about 11" wide x 12" deep x 6" tall with a vertical slot drive. Comparatively, the Xbox 360 is 12"x10"x3.5". So yeah, looks like it's in the ballpark.
2. Mouse and keyboard requiring a TV/console/game set per player? Wrong -- Windows and Linux both have supported multiple pointers for about a decade (though very few programs use them). There's no reason they can't do the same with redirecting USB keyboards to separate input streams. The only reason it's uncommon is because it's a very narrow use case, not that there's some huge technical hurdle to connecting separate keyboards and mice to separate input streams. VMWare, however, I believe /can/ dedicate USB devices to specific VMs, so I don't see why it couldn't dedicate input devices in the same way.
3. Distinguishing console from PC games -- Why is it better that you wall of potential developers from your console? I'm under the impression that some of the best new innovative games have been indie or at least based on indie games. Portal, for example, comes from a school project using the same mechanic. Yes, the walled garden of consoles does distinguish itself from PC gaming, but for the worse in my opinion. If I want to hack up a game on my PC I can. If I want to hack one up for my Wii it's practically impossible. Even so, if I'm making a PC-like console there's no reason I couldn't ship it with a custom OS that refuses to load unsigned software just like how current consoles work. So, I don't see the drawback there either way.
This isn't just about them not reading laws they vote on -- they get shamed by the press and the public and during election campaigning for being "soft" on terrorism if they so much as question whether the PATRIOT act goes too far.
Even if they did make the wording very narrow all it takes is a law later down the line that redefines drug trafficking as terrorism. I can see it being debated already:
Insane Politician: "We need to use our SpyFest 3000 to crack down on drugs. Let's pass this law that extends it to cover drug traffickers."
Reasonable Politician: "Uhm, no. SpyFest 3000 was an overreach when there was real, immediate, huge potential harm out there. Drug traffickers are better stopped by actual human intelligence instead of backdoor spying on everyone."
IP: "Ah, I see. You're soft on drugs and terrorism because you're opposing the STOP Terrorism On Planes bill."
RP: "What the fuck? I don't see how your bill, which gives the police free access to phone tap any citizen living within 100 miles of the US border, has anything to do with planes!"
IP: "That's because you hate America. We need the STOP bill passed now to protect us from dangerous terrorism."
Rest of Congress: "Agreed."
President: "Only if I can indefinitely detain suspects arrested on STOP charges."
Congress: "I guess."
President: "Signed."
Rand Paul is a common nick name for Ron Paul
Uh, no. No it is not. If anyone was ever talking about "Rand Paul" and had a clue they were talking about Rand Paul. Anyone trying to refer to Ron Paul as "Rand Paul" is a moron.
It's a comment he wrote last week. You saw it here, on Slashdot, by the same author.
This is Rand, his son, not Ron. But yeah, I think Rand is also from the analog age.
Hanlon's razor is sufficient for the original failure. I just see an opening for the corporations to capitalize on the situation.
I'll be happy to share my lithium-ion battery/TSA story with you upon request.
Story requested!
Not to mention that someone fruity could lobby for laws that outlaw third party repairs as a result...
I wonder how you would go about dating the rocks on Mars. On Earth we have good estimates of initial U-235/U-238 ratios (and other radioactive materials) and the carbon cycle allows us to C-14 date things. But on another planet with so many differences from Earth what good assumptions do we have to key off of?
If you do not verify-on-read: RAID-4 (dedicated parity) doesn't use the parity disk on any reads. RAID-5 spreads reads among all disks evenly.
If you do verify-on-read: RAID-4 always reads from a particular disk on all reads. RAID-5 spreads reads among all disks evenly.
This would mean that wear levels would be uneven on RAID-4 but not RAID-5 (excepting highly-used files being on particular disks of course) and with verify-on-read RAID-4 can't parallelize reads since it always needs to read the parity disk but RAID-5 can.
Writes are similar with respect to read wear and write speed.
The difference in speed will probably be trivial for a variety of reasons, but the difference in wear level could be meaningful.
No, it's not at the same level as your terribly misspelled example sentence, mainly because my sentence is valid English per the grammatical rules in place even if they are awkwardly used.
RAID 5 stripes the parity across all the drives. RAID 3, I believe, has a dedicated parity drive. Otherwise correct though, I think.
I think the supporting column I speak of is more of the fact that parents encourage children to play football because it gives those children a chance at a scholarship, not that money trickles down directly. And I would imagine that the NFL being a big thing also helps inflate the worth of football in the eyes of parents. So I guess it's more of an injected helium stream than a supporting column.
If someone steals your car and crashes it into a bus full of children you're not criminally liable. You're unlikely to be found liable in a civil court for wrongful death, depending on jury.
If you lend someone your car and they crash it into a bus full of children then you're not criminally liable unless you are found to have known that it was likely the crash would occur. Say, if your friend were drunk or didn't have a license at the time. I think you're still unlikely to be found liable for wrongful death, again unless you could have known it was likely to occur, but that would be much more jury-dependent, I think.
So yeah, I don't think you should be liable unless you knew nefarious happenings were going on with your internet for people that are not your legal minor dependents.
The two key points I see with Greyhole is that it works with differing drive sizes and you can, for each folder or file (didn't quite care to get the exact configuration setting) set what redundancy you want.
So yes, you'll lose more space than if you use RAID 5 or 6 but it looks really easy to set up. But it looks slightly more likely to catastrophically fail than RAID 1 in the event that a drive fails before Greyhole duplicates the new files on it.
I think that the demand for the players that don't have interest in playing at a college level would drop when the supporting column of college scholarship is removed. With less money going into the team and less pressure to play the game would probably lessen to the same popularity as high school baseball or basketball at best.
Well, you also need a team that's capable of running the plays, which is no mean feat. (Foot?)
I agree to an extent. Take anything SAS or SATA that's 1TB or greater and re-think the project with just those. Sell or recycle the rest of the drives. Depending on your needs the remainder should be RAID-1, 5 or 6'd (using software RAID if speed isn't an issue) and then put on an OpenFiler or FreeNAS box. Anything non-replaceable should then be backed up to a respectable backup provider in addition to your home-grown solution.
We need more information though -- what are your actual drive sizes and what do you want to put on this NAS?
But many words don't change even when their definition does. When you call someone "mister" you're not indicating that they own the property your rent. (Mister comes from monsieur which comes from "my sire".) You still "hang up" your telephone when you end calls on your cell phone. I'm sure there are quite a few other examples I don't care to look up though.
Also, you're ignoring the fact that "ball" does not require an object to be spherical and field goals, punts, place kicks and drop kicks are still very much in use in the game.
The first run of 10k was commissioned by the Foundation to be produced by a Chinese factory. Those 10k boards were then shipped to Farnell and Allied to be resold. At the same time, Farnell and Allied were both given non-exclusive licenses to produce the Raspberry Pi on their own. At the current time all Pis to be built after the first 10k production run will be made by Farnell and Allied however they desire (most likely direct shipped from factories in China.) If we're lucky more manufacturers will license the Pi as well.
Did the game, [that] Junior Seau loved, help take his life?
The commas and the "that" are both optional in English there.