The ratio of storage transfer-speed:capacity is favoring capacity much more as time goes on, especially among most media consumers. I'm not nearly as interested in my drive delivering multiple video streams as I am in keeping all my media, including movies, TV shows, and even security cameras available immediately across the Net. I'd prefer Seagate and other storage companies to funnel more money into storage capacity and simple, cheap RAID tech (for reliability of so much storage) than into faster seek and transfer time tech. Also higher priority than transfer speed is duping directly from old storage to new storage, even across interconnect technologies and data formats. Storage companies could make a lot more money from the consumer market selling us more drives to rotate into our RAIDs before MTBF.
The server market could still benefit from extra transfer speed R&D, for server drives at higher cost. This is true now, but the highest capacity "server" drives are well within the capacity needs of many consumers.
Nice ad for yet another release of a 25 year old (excellent) movie. First wrapped in a CNN story, then in a Slashdot story. Without any of the distinguishing features of "news", like details, or something actually happening (not just an announcement). Comparisons to the original, or the DVD revision? No - just wait until you see it! While supplies last!
For example, is the notorious voiceover narration in the theatrical rerelease? Which "extra" scenes are retained or dropped from the Director's Cut DVD version, or any others? Other than "new standard formatting", how is the release different from the past ones? Even
This is just PR, including promotion of other Hollywooded PK Dick stories. Watch for the next phase of ads, which dwell on "whether or not Ford's Deckard is actually a replicant", without reporting any info of what the new releases are like compared to the long history of the movie.
If copyrights were fair, this artifact of a generation ago would be producing lots of new versions and independent reporting of how people treat its fascinating story, in the hands of the public. New voiceovers/lines, new/deleted scenes, different framing edits, the rest of the story from the book, splicings with other movies like Dick's _Running Man_ or even _Alien_ or _The Matrix_...
Instead, we've got a giant rehash propaganda machine. At least this one's hitched to a movie that's worth seeing again. Even though its treatment as a product diminishes it, and us.
TrollMods want to wait until the oil's gone to see a fusion demo. Demand better performance from our public energy/science/engineering investments, and the anonymous losers start defending anvils.
Ubuntu is a great package for desktops, for normal users to get the most out of their hardware and the jobs they do with their computers. I'd love to see an upgrade system that downloaded the new version from the Net, pulled user data (including OS and app configs, installed app lists, email, other Personal Info) from the old install, and burned it all to an archive/installer CD-ROM. All started by a single click, and an up-front set of questions, with the rest 100% automated. Reinstalling to the same HW ought to make installer deductions faster and more correct, and so deterministic that users can reinstall from source whenever they want, for the best fit, and least sweat.
If we don't have affordable fusion power completed and boring by 2040, we're doomed.
This project by the world's biggest operators of petrofuel companies and deposits (including coal) looks more like a giant anvil they're handing to fusion science/engineering than any effort to deliver our post-petro energy tech.
"Big business, whose motto has always been time is money"
That motto is really "anything for a buck". Even if business has to wait or waste time to get money, it will wait until the cows come home - then sell them.
You just burned yourself, jumping at the chance to call Rice a nigger. And then referring sarcastically to some out of context quote of unnamed "Africans" who were apparently referring only to Clinton when she was the wife of the President of the United States.
Geeks should shut out the lawyers from our world at least as much as they extend the favor to us. Maybe require all their briefs, filings and opinions ot compile against the Constitution, for starters.
I asked Safehaus in several emails for details of their SW they claim replaces BDB with eg. Postgres, but I've never gotten a response.
Asterisk uses BDB for configs and MySQL for CDRs and other persistent app data, and I integrate it with apps already using Postgres. Especially when I want to join across those multiple databases, it's a real pain. None of these apps are using any DB features unique to any of those RDBMS'es, though the interface calls are often annoyingly idiomatic. DB migration tools should be a lot more available, especially since the DB market is so competitive, grabbing competitors' customers by any means necessary.
Is there a wrapper for Postgres that lets me install PG+wrapper instead of BerkeleyDB for supporting apps that depend on BDB? Asterisk uses BDB, OpenLDAP uses BDB, and more. I'd rather wrap my existing Postgres (on which other apps depend) than refactor and port all the other apps off BDB. Even if I later port them from the BDB wrapper, it will be easier and more productive along the way.
If there's no such wrapper, is there a way to use this BDB source to strip out everything below the BDB interfaces, install mapping to PG interfaces, then integrate with PG?
What do you think of the thousands of people dying in agony across America right now who can't be euthanized? Either by someone else who's got the power after the dying person can no longer directly exercise it, or by the dying person themself?
NYC spends lots of money in ongoing operations that deter employers from abusing employees. Those costs spike when the system fails to prevent the exploitation, but they're spent daily.
Please let us know when employers take care of employees out of the goodness of their hearts.
Here's something to bounce off your unreality fields, so clearly battened down:
I asked how to pay for those services, which have costs. I didn't say the specific consumer should pay for specific costs. I just asked how to pay for them. My question has its simple merit. Your unreality answers have no merit, and I'm glad I won't have to respond to them anymore.
I'm biased in favor of cheap little machines in poor people's hands combining together to get power. Which poor people are often better able to do than people with more money to spend, bringing working techniques for collaboration out of the streets and into the network.
CentOS is the enterprise version that lets little desktops combine for that kind of power. Fedora is the desktop version that leaves puny desktops isolated and puny.
Anonymous sarcastic Coward, examine your own bias before you dismiss the chance to learn from the actual answers to your assumed rhetorical questions.
They're both free, but CentOS is an enterprise version. Cheap machines get more benefit from enterprise scale integration, compensating for low power with higher scales.
I could have phrased my premise more clearly. CentOS, the enterprise version, is better for combining the low-powered machines into a more powerful network.
The reality is that I just quoted my original post, as I have had to do several times in this post, where no one has explained how to pay for the legal/justice services consumed by adding telecommuters to the operations of a growing company. The reality is that out of state highway users do consume services that are paid for, despite your claims to the contrary. And the reality is that passing the bills we're discussing in these threads does not replace the lost revenue with federal taxes for the services still consumed. Nor will they.
The reality is that you are unable to answer the simple question, so you distract with bad examples, then try to claim some kind of victory when I negate your distraction, as cover for proposing an unrealistic alternative - which I've already said in these threads that I'd prefer, but which is not going to happen any time soon.
You better reengage your unreality shields - you're not handling reality too well.
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The ratio of storage transfer-speed:capacity is favoring capacity much more as time goes on, especially among most media consumers. I'm not nearly as interested in my drive delivering multiple video streams as I am in keeping all my media, including movies, TV shows, and even security cameras available immediately across the Net. I'd prefer Seagate and other storage companies to funnel more money into storage capacity and simple, cheap RAID tech (for reliability of so much storage) than into faster seek and transfer time tech. Also higher priority than transfer speed is duping directly from old storage to new storage, even across interconnect technologies and data formats. Storage companies could make a lot more money from the consumer market selling us more drives to rotate into our RAIDs before MTBF.
The server market could still benefit from extra transfer speed R&D, for server drives at higher cost. This is true now, but the highest capacity "server" drives are well within the capacity needs of many consumers.
Nice ad for yet another release of a 25 year old (excellent) movie. First wrapped in a CNN story, then in a Slashdot story. Without any of the distinguishing features of "news", like details, or something actually happening (not just an announcement). Comparisons to the original, or the DVD revision? No - just wait until you see it! While supplies last!
For example, is the notorious voiceover narration in the theatrical rerelease? Which "extra" scenes are retained or dropped from the Director's Cut DVD version, or any others? Other than "new standard formatting", how is the release different from the past ones? Even
This is just PR, including promotion of other Hollywooded PK Dick stories. Watch for the next phase of ads, which dwell on "whether or not Ford's Deckard is actually a replicant", without reporting any info of what the new releases are like compared to the long history of the movie.
If copyrights were fair, this artifact of a generation ago would be producing lots of new versions and independent reporting of how people treat its fascinating story, in the hands of the public. New voiceovers/lines, new/deleted scenes, different framing edits, the rest of the story from the book, splicings with other movies like Dick's _Running Man_ or even _Alien_ or _The Matrix_...
Instead, we've got a giant rehash propaganda machine. At least this one's hitched to a movie that's worth seeing again. Even though its treatment as a product diminishes it, and us.
Where's the script that installs symlinks on any distro's filesystem that makes every "filesystem API" available on any Linux distro?
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TrollMods want to wait until the oil's gone to see a fusion demo. Demand better performance from our public energy/science/engineering investments, and the anonymous losers start defending anvils.
Ubuntu is a great package for desktops, for normal users to get the most out of their hardware and the jobs they do with their computers. I'd love to see an upgrade system that downloaded the new version from the Net, pulled user data (including OS and app configs, installed app lists, email, other Personal Info) from the old install, and burned it all to an archive/installer CD-ROM. All started by a single click, and an up-front set of questions, with the rest 100% automated. Reinstalling to the same HW ought to make installer deductions faster and more correct, and so deterministic that users can reinstall from source whenever they want, for the best fit, and least sweat.
Who's got the GPGPU SW that does MP3 or VoIP codec compression on the GPU HW?
I'm registering "pi + 1", but only "for use in mathematics".
Whatever happened with Woz's GPS startup? Did it ever go anywhere?
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TrollMods must get paid in dollars, because they certainly don't have sense.
If we don't have affordable fusion power completed and boring by 2040, we're doomed.
This project by the world's biggest operators of petrofuel companies and deposits (including coal) looks more like a giant anvil they're handing to fusion science/engineering than any effort to deliver our post-petro energy tech.
Why not just tattoo our personal ID info on our foreheads in radar-colored ink?
"Big business, whose motto has always been time is money"
That motto is really "anything for a buck". Even if business has to wait or waste time to get money, it will wait until the cows come home - then sell them.
You just burned yourself, jumping at the chance to call Rice a nigger. And then referring sarcastically to some out of context quote of unnamed "Africans" who were apparently referring only to Clinton when she was the wife of the President of the United States.
You're a racist. Burn, baby burn!
Geeks should shut out the lawyers from our world at least as much as they extend the favor to us. Maybe require all their briefs, filings and opinions ot compile against the Constitution, for starters.
I asked Safehaus in several emails for details of their SW they claim replaces BDB with eg. Postgres, but I've never gotten a response.
Asterisk uses BDB for configs and MySQL for CDRs and other persistent app data, and I integrate it with apps already using Postgres. Especially when I want to join across those multiple databases, it's a real pain. None of these apps are using any DB features unique to any of those RDBMS'es, though the interface calls are often annoyingly idiomatic. DB migration tools should be a lot more available, especially since the DB market is so competitive, grabbing competitors' customers by any means necessary.
I bet you read that talking point in WorldNet Daily. Right after the chupacabras picture, and before the "Corner Turned in Iraq" story.
Is there a wrapper for Postgres that lets me install PG+wrapper instead of BerkeleyDB for supporting apps that depend on BDB? Asterisk uses BDB, OpenLDAP uses BDB, and more. I'd rather wrap my existing Postgres (on which other apps depend) than refactor and port all the other apps off BDB. Even if I later port them from the BDB wrapper, it will be easier and more productive along the way.
If there's no such wrapper, is there a way to use this BDB source to strip out everything below the BDB interfaces, install mapping to PG interfaces, then integrate with PG?
What do you think of the thousands of people dying in agony across America right now who can't be euthanized? Either by someone else who's got the power after the dying person can no longer directly exercise it, or by the dying person themself?
I've answered that question a dozen times in this thread, starting with my original post. Try reading the posts, or paying me to do it for you.
NYC spends lots of money in ongoing operations that deter employers from abusing employees. Those costs spike when the system fails to prevent the exploitation, but they're spent daily.
Please let us know when employers take care of employees out of the goodness of their hearts.
Here's something to bounce off your unreality fields, so clearly battened down:
I asked how to pay for those services, which have costs. I didn't say the specific consumer should pay for specific costs. I just asked how to pay for them. My question has its simple merit. Your unreality answers have no merit, and I'm glad I won't have to respond to them anymore.
Why would a 9 year old need a DARPANet?
I'm biased in favor of cheap little machines in poor people's hands combining together to get power. Which poor people are often better able to do than people with more money to spend, bringing working techniques for collaboration out of the streets and into the network.
CentOS is the enterprise version that lets little desktops combine for that kind of power. Fedora is the desktop version that leaves puny desktops isolated and puny.
Anonymous sarcastic Coward, examine your own bias before you dismiss the chance to learn from the actual answers to your assumed rhetorical questions.
They're both free, but CentOS is an enterprise version. Cheap machines get more benefit from enterprise scale integration, compensating for low power with higher scales.
I could have phrased my premise more clearly. CentOS, the enterprise version, is better for combining the low-powered machines into a more powerful network.
Disengage your unreality shields.
The reality is that I just quoted my original post, as I have had to do several times in this post, where no one has explained how to pay for the legal/justice services consumed by adding telecommuters to the operations of a growing company. The reality is that out of state highway users do consume services that are paid for, despite your claims to the contrary. And the reality is that passing the bills we're discussing in these threads does not replace the lost revenue with federal taxes for the services still consumed. Nor will they.
The reality is that you are unable to answer the simple question, so you distract with bad examples, then try to claim some kind of victory when I negate your distraction, as cover for proposing an unrealistic alternative - which I've already said in these threads that I'd prefer, but which is not going to happen any time soon.
You better reengage your unreality shields - you're not handling reality too well.