A 10MP image in RAW form is probably at most 20MB (a little overhead for meta data, etc) in size. At current HDD prices ($150/2TB == $75/TB == $0.073/GB) that comes to about 0.14 CENTS per photograph ($0.0014/photo). Lets say you can go through your photos and delete 20 photos per minute (3 seconds per photo on average is reasonable), that's 1200 photos per hour, or $1.72 worth of HDD space per hour (for your first copy). Even if you have 4 redundant backups (5 total copies), you are still deleting photos at $8.58/hour, which is below minimum wage for any modern country. Your time is worth more than that and I doubt you would feel comfortable having a minimum-wage intern deciding which photos are worth keeping.
Another way to look at it is with each photo (with 4 redundant backups) costing $0.007 to store, if you delete 10,000 photos ($70 HDD savings) is that really worth the risk of a client possibly wanting a $100 print of even ONE of those photos?!?
Moral of the story: With today's HDD prices, unless you have a lot of VERY big files or can automate deletion, deleting stuff is actually more expensive than backing it up 4 times.
If you decide to encrypt your offsite backup, make sure you have another offsite backup (safety deposit box, another friend, lawyer, etc) of the encryption keys!!!
Sometimes the easiest way to duplicate (back up) data is to simply duplicate the hardware it's already on. If it's on a 16-disk (x 2TB) NAS system, build another one. If it's on tape, buy more tapes, if it's on random HDD's scattered all over the place, then you have bigger problems to deal with first (like building a NAS box)!
What would reception have to do with anything? If you think the cars are using GPS to stay on the road, that would be *disastrous* due to the ~1m accuracy of non-military GPS (under GOOD conditions) and the fact that roads aren't even mapped to that accuracy. The only thing I can think of that the cars would need GPS for is navigation (the equivalent of a built-in TomTom).
Exactly. To be a successful software developer, you need to be proficient in at least TWO things. Software development, and whatever field you are writing software for. If you are writing tax software and don't tax brackets, income tax, deductions, etc, then you are NOT going to succeed. The same goes for understanding shipping/receiving to write inventory software, understanding physics to write a game engine, understanding wood grain and densities to write lumber-cutting algorithms, etc. If you only know how to write software, you're not going to become very successful as a software engineer.
It wouldn't have taken quite so long if they had arrived from UP-WIND and knew how to AIM those foam-cannons they have strapped to their trucks. Seriously, it was like watching a 3 year old trying to hit the toilet bowl from the hallway!
Gnome and KDE have changed their UI exactly ONCE in the last 5 years and Debian is the only distro to have changed their UI twice in that time, once when gnome was updated and now that they are switching to XFCE. Leave your FUD outside.
Not if you're writing in Basic or Assembly, but it can have some pretty severe stack-related issues in function and object oriented languages if your are not VERY, VERY, VERY careful.
Not kidding, $19.99 was actually what I paid for my first wireless router (wrt64gc) AT BestBuy! This was about 6-9 years ago though and you're lucky to find one under $80.
Why would you need to "unlearn" non-object-oriented styles? As long as you aren't using goto's, all of your previous knowledge can still be used in modern object-oriented code. You just need to add some more paradigms to your repertoire. In case you didn't notice, the stuff inside the function is still very much procedural just like it always has been, it's just now you say "object.function(arg1, arg2)" instead of "function(object, arg1, arg2)" and "new Object(arg1, arg2)" instead of "create_object(arg1, arg2)". There are some other differences once you get into more advanced stuff (inheritance, interfaces for you java-folk, etc), but it's still the same beast just with a new fur-lined coat.
The ruling was by the ADVERTISING STANDARDS COUNCIL. They have NO jurisdiction over normal websites. The facebook pages they are talking about were being used AS advertisements.
"Your comment has been held for moderation". There, see, that wasn't so hard now was it? If they are going to delete offensive comments every 12 hours, why not instead approve the non-offensive ones every 12 hours?
So from what I can tell in the "Introduction" (haven't reald it all yet), it's sort of like FreeBSD's jails but without them getting their own IP addresses and being able to use a different distribution in each jail?
Memory does become an issue on multi-user systems. Our home desktop has 4GB of ram and if 3 people leave firefox running in their session, the computer starts swapping like 10-year-olds at a Pokémon Card convention!
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A 10MP image in RAW form is probably at most 20MB (a little overhead for meta data, etc) in size. At current HDD prices ($150/2TB == $75/TB == $0.073/GB) that comes to about 0.14 CENTS per photograph ($0.0014/photo). Lets say you can go through your photos and delete 20 photos per minute (3 seconds per photo on average is reasonable), that's 1200 photos per hour, or $1.72 worth of HDD space per hour (for your first copy). Even if you have 4 redundant backups (5 total copies), you are still deleting photos at $8.58/hour, which is below minimum wage for any modern country. Your time is worth more than that and I doubt you would feel comfortable having a minimum-wage intern deciding which photos are worth keeping.
Another way to look at it is with each photo (with 4 redundant backups) costing $0.007 to store, if you delete 10,000 photos ($70 HDD savings) is that really worth the risk of a client possibly wanting a $100 print of even ONE of those photos?!?
Moral of the story: With today's HDD prices, unless you have a lot of VERY big files or can automate deletion, deleting stuff is actually more expensive than backing it up 4 times.
If you decide to encrypt your offsite backup, make sure you have another offsite backup (safety deposit box, another friend, lawyer, etc) of the encryption keys!!!
Ummm, the same way we do it with e-mail. VOIP is designed so there is more than one domain.
Sometimes the easiest way to duplicate (back up) data is to simply duplicate the hardware it's already on. If it's on a 16-disk (x 2TB) NAS system, build another one. If it's on tape, buy more tapes, if it's on random HDD's scattered all over the place, then you have bigger problems to deal with first (like building a NAS box)!
What would reception have to do with anything? If you think the cars are using GPS to stay on the road, that would be *disastrous* due to the ~1m accuracy of non-military GPS (under GOOD conditions) and the fact that roads aren't even mapped to that accuracy. The only thing I can think of that the cars would need GPS for is navigation (the equivalent of a built-in TomTom).
Exactly. To be a successful software developer, you need to be proficient in at least TWO things. Software development, and whatever field you are writing software for. If you are writing tax software and don't tax brackets, income tax, deductions, etc, then you are NOT going to succeed. The same goes for understanding shipping/receiving to write inventory software, understanding physics to write a game engine, understanding wood grain and densities to write lumber-cutting algorithms, etc. If you only know how to write software, you're not going to become very successful as a software engineer.
I'll bet Randall never expected THAT comic to become a obligatory xkcd reference!
And wouldn't that ALSO suggest that UPS was shipping a gun in the first place? Doesn't that need one HELL of a warning sticker of some kind...?
It wouldn't have taken quite so long if they had arrived from UP-WIND and knew how to AIM those foam-cannons they have strapped to their trucks. Seriously, it was like watching a 3 year old trying to hit the toilet bowl from the hallway!
Gnome and KDE have changed their UI exactly ONCE in the last 5 years and Debian is the only distro to have changed their UI twice in that time, once when gnome was updated and now that they are switching to XFCE. Leave your FUD outside.
You don't have to use the SAME device to get the digital version.
Hopefully VOIP will solve that problem soon.
Not if you're writing in Basic or Assembly, but it can have some pretty severe stack-related issues in function and object oriented languages if your are not VERY, VERY, VERY careful.
Not kidding, $19.99 was actually what I paid for my first wireless router (wrt64gc) AT BestBuy! This was about 6-9 years ago though and you're lucky to find one under $80.
Yeah, but NASA didn't have to deal with Sony's BS.
You'd be lucky to get them to acknowledge that grey-area copyright and out-of-copyright materials even exist in the first place!
I think using the term "skinhead" in the article itself should get them in trouble before the regulators even scroll down the comments section...
I have 11 addons installed in Firefox and I haven't seen one of those dialogs since at least version 4 or 5.
It's not really a subsidy when your subsidizing yourself...
Why would you need to "unlearn" non-object-oriented styles? As long as you aren't using goto's, all of your previous knowledge can still be used in modern object-oriented code. You just need to add some more paradigms to your repertoire. In case you didn't notice, the stuff inside the function is still very much procedural just like it always has been, it's just now you say "object.function(arg1, arg2)" instead of "function(object, arg1, arg2)" and "new Object(arg1, arg2)" instead of "create_object(arg1, arg2)". There are some other differences once you get into more advanced stuff (inheritance, interfaces for you java-folk, etc), but it's still the same beast just with a new fur-lined coat.
The ruling was by the ADVERTISING STANDARDS COUNCIL. They have NO jurisdiction over normal websites. The facebook pages they are talking about were being used AS advertisements.
"Your comment has been held for moderation". There, see, that wasn't so hard now was it? If they are going to delete offensive comments every 12 hours, why not instead approve the non-offensive ones every 12 hours?
Would it really be so much to ask for a link to the Countdown?!?
So from what I can tell in the "Introduction" (haven't reald it all yet), it's sort of like FreeBSD's jails but without them getting their own IP addresses and being able to use a different distribution in each jail?
Memory does become an issue on multi-user systems. Our home desktop has 4GB of ram and if 3 people leave firefox running in their session, the computer starts swapping like 10-year-olds at a Pokémon Card convention!