Besides as an incitement of the usual "religious people are dumb and ignorant" comments on Slashdot, Reddit, ad infinitum, I'm curious why the law in this article is taken as an imposition of Christian doctrine on teachers. Every organized religion, be it Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, believes that there is a higher power that created the universe, as opposed to the atheist position that the universe just...is...because...it is. Why is a teacher forced by this law to proclaim that the world was created in six days, and on the seventh, God rested, as opposed to either a) making it generic enough to avoid biases towards one religion or another or b) briefly exploring the Cliff's notes version of every major religious faith?
And don't confuse being a remember of the Republican party with being Conservative. Hatch is the quintessential old guard Republican, having been in office longer than half of the people reading this thread have been alive. He has massive lobbying interests in pharmaceuticals and other areas as well, not just the RIAA.
VM redundancy moves the failure point to the VM host, and its storage which is probably (you guessed it!) a RAID card!
In other news, when a RAID card goes down, you don't lose data. When a drive goes down in RAID 0, you do.
Unless you're talking RAID 1 mirroring, you're wrong. Only the original controller knows where the parity bits are stored; the individual drives are worthless.
Even if your storage passes the test, it could fail the next day. What you should be doing is designing your storage to gracefully handle failure, like RAID 5 with spares.
All RAID 5 does is move the single point of failure from the disk itself to the RAID controller, which could also fail at any time. This is why a truly effective solution is virtual machine redundancy with seamless failover and a rigorous backup schedule.
You also have to deliver a quality product to get people to spend their money, or at least perceived quality. If you switch your position to often people will eventually catch on and you won't be making much money from anybody because they will realized you are a fraud.
I know you're being sarcastic, but all versions of Windows except the Server variants logs you out and locks the screen when a user logs in remotely. Only one desktop can be used at a time, locally or remotely.
I believe that the ever-declining revenue streams from the music industry have just as much to do with the shift in youth culture as anything else.
From the 60s to the 90s, kids only had two forms of entertainment that they could "own," so so speak (that is, take to their bedrooms and experience themselves): reading (comics, books, magazines, etc.) and music. If they wanted to watch something, they had to fight over the TV. Considering the amount of time kids spent listening to music, it's no wonder they consumed so much of it and how much of a role it played in their lives. Now, any kid of modest means has his own smartphone and tablet: he is just as likely, if not more likely, to spend all night watching Youtube videos, playing games, or chatting with his friends as he is listening to music. Do you think today's kids ever really just lay on the bed with a pair of headphones and listen to an album all the way through like we did? Probably not.
When a vulnerability remains unpatched on your desktop or laptop OS, malware and viruses can cripple your computer and prevent you from using it to get online or do work.
When a firmware update remains unpatched on your wireless-enabled car OS, someone breaks into your WAP/router at home, runs an attack on your car's firmware, and the next time you turn the car over the fuel/air mixture is so rich that the vehicle bursts into flames.
I'm having WICKED Atlas Shrugged/Fight Club tangential thoughts right now. You take the people who keep this world running for granted, watch what happens when they disappear or fight back....
Start ignoring Hollywood's self-congratulatory circle jerk events (Golden Globes, Oscars, Grammy Awards, etc) and start forming your own opinions on art and media. They won't think twice about deputizing the FBI to kick in your door if you so much as rip a DVD to your computer, so why do you feel you owe them your attention?
As has been pointed out many, many times: Google pays Mozilla's bills. That's why it's so unnecessarily hard to change the default search engine and why new search engines have to be added by special plugins instead of configured manually.
I will give you that Firefox is open-source, but then again, so is Chrome...and it tracks the shit out of you whether you like it or not.
I don't think that a penny should cost $0.01 to produce, but I do think that there is real value in tangible coins that paper and credit cards lack.
Sure, I understand your point...but if your concern is holdings that won't wax and wane with the money markets, why not purchase commodities like gold or silver?
Our money does not represent actual holdings of the treasury, rather a veritable mortgage on the holdings of the treasury. Why shouldn't our smaller units of currency be converted to paper to reflect this situation and keep costs down, rather than attempting to approximate the actual value of the materials used to produce the currency as we did during the era of the gold standard?
That's a big if. Who's to say the parent isn't feeding the child dog feces and motor oil when she's at home? If the state provided three meals a day along with exercise programs, you'd eliminate the potential for parents to impose health problems onto their children.
Rock/Rap are variants that have stemmed from minimalist music.
...no. There is certainly rock music out there that incorporates elements of minimalist music, but rock came directly from blues, which came from a combination of jazz, folk and Christian gospel music.
They could, as an alternative, start playing avant-modern classical, like Penderecki, Webern, Xenakis. The subway station with the least crime is the one with no patrons at all.
Thank goodness we have laws that prevent us from selling satellites to private entities. They might use it to turn a profit and buy a CEO a jet, yacht, or something similar.
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Besides as an incitement of the usual "religious people are dumb and ignorant" comments on Slashdot, Reddit, ad infinitum, I'm curious why the law in this article is taken as an imposition of Christian doctrine on teachers. Every organized religion, be it Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, believes that there is a higher power that created the universe, as opposed to the atheist position that the universe just...is...because...it is. Why is a teacher forced by this law to proclaim that the world was created in six days, and on the seventh, God rested, as opposed to either a) making it generic enough to avoid biases towards one religion or another or b) briefly exploring the Cliff's notes version of every major religious faith?
And don't confuse being a remember of the Republican party with being Conservative. Hatch is the quintessential old guard Republican, having been in office longer than half of the people reading this thread have been alive. He has massive lobbying interests in pharmaceuticals and other areas as well, not just the RIAA.
We may disagree with you about social issues and government assistance, but you'd better believe we're your brothers in fucking arms when it comes to the overreach of Hollywood and big government censorship.
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/kevinglass/2012/01/18/republicans_backing_off_internet_piracy_acts
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jpmoore/15-republicans-you-can-thank-for-bailing-on-sopap
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_US_Congresspersons_who_support_or_oppose_SOPA/PIPA
VM redundancy moves the failure point to the VM host, and its storage which is probably (you guessed it!) a RAID card!
In other news, when a RAID card goes down, you don't lose data. When a drive goes down in RAID 0, you do.
Unless you're talking RAID 1 mirroring, you're wrong. Only the original controller knows where the parity bits are stored; the individual drives are worthless.
Even if your storage passes the test, it could fail the next day. What you should be doing is designing your storage to gracefully handle failure, like RAID 5 with spares.
All RAID 5 does is move the single point of failure from the disk itself to the RAID controller, which could also fail at any time. This is why a truly effective solution is virtual machine redundancy with seamless failover and a rigorous backup schedule.
You also have to deliver a quality product to get people to spend their money, or at least perceived quality. If you switch your position to often people will eventually catch on and you won't be making much money from anybody because they will realized you are a fraud.
This hasn't stopped Mitt Romney, has it?
I'm selling to Europa.
Io, Ganymede and Callisto will be most displeased.
I know you're being sarcastic, but all versions of Windows except the Server variants logs you out and locks the screen when a user logs in remotely. Only one desktop can be used at a time, locally or remotely.
Mac OS X is a Unix (BSD) variant.
I believe that the ever-declining revenue streams from the music industry have just as much to do with the shift in youth culture as anything else.
From the 60s to the 90s, kids only had two forms of entertainment that they could "own," so so speak (that is, take to their bedrooms and experience themselves): reading (comics, books, magazines, etc.) and music. If they wanted to watch something, they had to fight over the TV. Considering the amount of time kids spent listening to music, it's no wonder they consumed so much of it and how much of a role it played in their lives. Now, any kid of modest means has his own smartphone and tablet: he is just as likely, if not more likely, to spend all night watching Youtube videos, playing games, or chatting with his friends as he is listening to music. Do you think today's kids ever really just lay on the bed with a pair of headphones and listen to an album all the way through like we did? Probably not.
When a vulnerability remains unpatched on your desktop or laptop OS, malware and viruses can cripple your computer and prevent you from using it to get online or do work.
When a firmware update remains unpatched on your wireless-enabled car OS, someone breaks into your WAP/router at home, runs an attack on your car's firmware, and the next time you turn the car over the fuel/air mixture is so rich that the vehicle bursts into flames.
Which is worse to you?
Try looking at Canada on a map sometime. Canada is the second largest producer of oil in the world, only next to Saudi Arabia.
http://www.rense.com/general37/petrol.htm
Every computer sold in North America, ever.
Go on strike, watch it crumble, I presume.
I'm having WICKED Atlas Shrugged/Fight Club tangential thoughts right now. You take the people who keep this world running for granted, watch what happens when they disappear or fight back....
Sometimes I think these things are completely random. I uploaded a video of what basically amounts to Audacity-generated noise and static and I got this notice:
Your video may include content that is owned or administered by this entity:
Entity: Music Publishing Rights Collecting Society Content Type: Musical Composition
Start ignoring Hollywood's self-congratulatory circle jerk events (Golden Globes, Oscars, Grammy Awards, etc) and start forming your own opinions on art and media. They won't think twice about deputizing the FBI to kick in your door if you so much as rip a DVD to your computer, so why do you feel you owe them your attention?
Also, Chrome is *not* open-source. Chromium is.
What you're saying is that the source code is open but the binary is not. No sense do you make.
As has been pointed out many, many times: Google pays Mozilla's bills. That's why it's so unnecessarily hard to change the default search engine and why new search engines have to be added by special plugins instead of configured manually.
I will give you that Firefox is open-source, but then again, so is Chrome...and it tracks the shit out of you whether you like it or not.
I don't think that a penny should cost $0.01 to produce, but I do think that there is real value in tangible coins that paper and credit cards lack.
Sure, I understand your point...but if your concern is holdings that won't wax and wane with the money markets, why not purchase commodities like gold or silver?
Our money does not represent actual holdings of the treasury, rather a veritable mortgage on the holdings of the treasury. Why shouldn't our smaller units of currency be converted to paper to reflect this situation and keep costs down, rather than attempting to approximate the actual value of the materials used to produce the currency as we did during the era of the gold standard?
If the kid is getting two good meals at home,
That's a big if. Who's to say the parent isn't feeding the child dog feces and motor oil when she's at home? If the state provided three meals a day along with exercise programs, you'd eliminate the potential for parents to impose health problems onto their children.
http://xkcd.com/932/
Rock/Rap are variants that have stemmed from minimalist music.
...no. There is certainly rock music out there that incorporates elements of minimalist music, but rock came directly from blues, which came from a combination of jazz, folk and Christian gospel music.
They could, as an alternative, start playing avant-modern classical, like Penderecki, Webern, Xenakis. The subway station with the least crime is the one with no patrons at all.
Thank goodness we have laws that prevent us from selling satellites to private entities. They might use it to turn a profit and buy a CEO a jet, yacht, or something similar.