My NES was the first thing that I can really remember saving up my money for. Allowance money, xmas cash. At my 7th birthday I so happy to be able to tell everyone that I had finally saved enough to get the box....only to get a bunch more cash from relatives that knew I was saving for it. So in a way it kinda muted the whole idea of saving in the first place, but with the extra cash I was able to get the add on Power pad too.
I never should have sold that set. Or Zelda, 1943, Pinball, Donkey Kong jr, or any of the other slew of shitty, snark fodder games that I had that had meaning to me. "Don't sell your NES." That's actually on my list of "stuff i'd go back in time and tell my younger self." Forget all that stuff about lousy girlfriend's, super bowl winners, and chicks that you need to go out of your way to make a pass at. I've seen enough scifi to know about altering the time line. But having that box. That specific box, not the one I picked up years later, that would mean something to me. I *bought* my NES.
Exact opposite here. Comcast is shit. Utter shit. Phone-net-TV bundle was going down several times per month. Make a server call, tech finds a lousy return signal, corrects, rinse wash repeat. I went to U-verse and my connection's been solid. Not mind blowing, but nothing yet that a reboot of the afflicted box can't fix.
In an ideal world there'd be multiple companies offering me DSL and Cable over the same shitty infrastructure, and one of those companies might actually get motivated to *improve* the infrastructure, or at least be willing to do more than a cursory fix. But then, if i was in that world, I'd also be getting blown by a supermodel right now, and wouldn't be bitching on slashdot...
Every year in Ypsilanti Michigan they hold an "Orphan Car show" where the entry rules stipulate that your car must come from a manufacturer that is no longer in business (and must be a certain age, sorry Saturn owners. I think the cutoff is 50 years). The Chrysler museum also brings an item of interest from their collection. (Two years ago it was a Chrysler-built 140db Air Raid siren powered by a 426 Hemi.)
Several years ago they brought their *running* Turbine, and it drove through in the parade. Very. Effing. Cool.
The day I can hook my camera up to an iPad is the day I place my order. Till then an iPad is just a fancy front end for plants vs. zombies. I'm holding out a little hope for the next gen to have some sort of USB port but, given Apple's history, they'll just drop a smaller one on us this time around, then, in two more years, come up with the TOTALLY REVOLUTIONARY feature called the iPort...
It's more accurate to say that it is incredibly, ridiculously, hugely unfeasible to make new spars. He's got a point, the original fabs are long gone. Our organization (see the homepage) has to have parts made for our B-17 all the time (i know, I'm the guy that has the scans of the late 40's microfiche drawings that Boeing did for the B-17G. We need a part, I hunt and pick through 30 gigs of scans. Do I have those scans backed up in three different buildings on RAID'd devices? You bet your sweet bippy I do.)
The problem isn't always finding a part. True, many parts simply fell off the face of the earth years ago as the metal became worth more as scrap (cowl-flap hinges for example. It's a hunk of aluminum that fits in the palm of your hand that was cutting edge aluminum casting technology in the 40's. Today, our machine shop contact uses it as a "here, make one of these, scooter" test for the high school kids working the CNC machine).The bigger problem is getting someone to accept the liability of putting the part they make *on an airplane*. That introduces a whole new level of pucker factor, and level of inspection, that many shops simply won't deal with. It might be a different game in government contracting for the military, a company still has to be willing to step up and take the risk of having that left handed widget go into place on a machine that can't simply pull over to the side of the road if it should break.
I guess my point was: HP, Ford, IBM, Apple, etc have class A's. What percentage of those IP's are really being used? Have they sublet out addresses? Something tells me that even the biggest of the Fortune 50 aren't going to find a way to use all 16 million addresses.
I guess the motto of the coming IP address depression will be "Brother can you spare a masking bit?"
The very fast trains in Japan/France/China all benefit from the local governments simply forcibly buying the land required at cost (or less) and getting on with it...
Not to mention the high-speed urban renewal projects enacted by that famous urban planner Curtis Lemay, which put the respective governments in a position to modernize.
(to be fair, Japan's rail network sucked well into the 1960's. But, having large portions of infrastructure leveled certainly helps avoid "legacy infrastructure" issues.)
And if I need to pop into my basement and need light for 30 seconds to find something? Now I have to sit around for 5 minutes to let the light warm up.
No, you don't. CFL's aren't like starting starting a a '63 Chrysler Imperial during the dead of a Minnesota winter. You flip the switch and go from zero watts of illumination to 40......to 50......to 60 in less than a minute.
I've used enough of them in my house that I know they don't last longer, despite claims.
I have bulbs that I purchased six years ago still burning happily away. I have yet to have a single CFL fail. You may want to check your home's power. Dirty power and / or cheap ballasts tend to eat up fluorescent lights, CFL or tubes.
Often they take time to come up to full brightness.
And? I rather like that in the morning, easier for my eyes to adjust. I've never understood that knock on CFL's. It's not like it takes an hour and a half to go from dark to 20w brightness. If it takes a minute or two, BFD.
The color temperature they add to a room is a dingy yellow, so they give off an unpleasant light.
CFL's tend to be sold in a variety of color temperatures. When you buy them you can check the color temperature on the bulb itself. It's measured in Kelvin. Higher the temperature, the bluer the light. The "natural daylight" bulbs are disgustingly blue to me.
Home Depot now has a nice display in most of their stores that show the different bulbs and the light they throw. I never thought I'd be a color temperature snob until I put those godawful daylight bulbs in.
I'm concerned that the long term downside of mercury in the soil and water table outweigh the energy savings.
Everyplace I've bought from also takes the bulbs back for recycling. Resalers have become very conscious of this issue and rightfully so. But you're also not talking about a significant amount of mercury. Old style thermometers had a gram or two of mercury in them. A CFL has roughly 1/4th of the mercury than even a regular single tube fluorescent light has (~10mg to ~40mg, depending on bulb sizes).
hey say they brought light to a standstill by drastically increasing the refractive index of the material it was being fired at -- creating a 'white hole.'
In response, Japan is restricting their exports of Spirit, Cactus, and the Small Faces to China. "We will not be bullied by such blatant violations of international law" said Hiro Tashakawa the Japanese minister of under appreciated supergroups and late 60's rock bands. Representives from Blind Faith, Derek and the Dominos, and Mountain were unavailable for comment.
I take BoingBoing even less seriously than that. At least on network news I don't get useful 'stories' like "Little brother translated into Albanian" or "Little Brother turned into play by Mrs. Reid's third grade class."
If BoingBoing is the model for web 2.0, then we can just shut it down now and replace it with a cardboard cutout of Jay Sherman saying "Buy my book! Buy my book!"
The difference between engineering majors and business majors:
The part of the flowchart that says "then a miracle occurs" is a joke to engineering majors. For business majors, it's a required step that makes perfect sense.
They may just be keeping the results manageable for whatever buffering they're doing.
I mean, really, who looks for 'porn' on the internet? No one uses that generic of a term. That would be like using 12345 as the combination for your luggage.
If people get married and only have sex with this one person, all sorts of problems that plague society and individual people simply go away....and get replaced by an entirely different set of problems.
Oh, and we need to have a strict subset of rules on who the "one person" is. Can't be a member of the same gender, otherwise the magic problem solver starts working in reverse and makes things *worse* for *everyone.*
We'll just ignore idea of marriage between persons of a different race or religious background, since those problems are at least on the very glossy surface "solved" in our enlightened age.
Religion on its own is fine and dandy. It's the dictating of the who's and what's and how's that gets them into trouble.
Depends on the SAN. The article (as most tech articles are) is very short on scope & details. So "one chip" went bad. Should that bring everything to a screeching halt? The answer should be "no" but in practice we can all say that it's more often a case of "not usually." From TFA:
It was hailed as being able to suffer a failure to one part but continue uninterrupted service because standby parts or systems would take over. But when the memory card failed Wednesday, a fallback that attempted to shoulder the load began reporting multiple errors, Nixon said.
So Array Alpha shits the bed. You follow your failover procedures and start running on Array Zappa. That immediately starts throwing errors. Ok armchair QB's, let me switch to my Keeanu Reeves voice and ask "What do you do?" You built a pretty damned redundant system there and you're still down. Sure, it'd be nice if they had a backup in another DC they could fail to, but they don't. Doesn't matter, eventually you're playing the double / triple / quadruple hulled oil tanker game. Either way, Redundant SAN's aren't cheap and aren't all that easy (it's not exactly a "the bosses nephew who 'knows all about computers' set it up last weekend" level of complexity.) The TFA also has these points:
Full function may not be restored until Monday.
Experts who examined the system determined that no data were lost except for those being keyed into the system at the moment it failed, Nixon said.
Other than the fact that proofreading and the usage of proper grammar are no longer a requirements to work for a Virginia newspaper, what do those points tell us? Sounds to me like they hit the last line in the DR procedures: Restore from backup. Depending on what their backup strategy is (maybe they're splitting several terrabytes across a tape robot that only supports 200/400gig tapes because that robot is the only device the vendor supports.) and how truly important the affected system is (This may be a system where the powers that be said "fsck it, they can process renewals by hand and we'll bring everything back up on Monday after we test on Saturday") a return to business on Monday might be SOP. But that wouldn't sell newspapers (or make talking points with the voters...) now, would it?
Maybe there was a major screwup here. Maybe they never tested their failovers and maybe that 2nd SAN was bad out of the box. I'm a little more willing to cut some slack and say "man, that sucks. Glad it's not my ass on the line." Karma's a bitch like that. I like to take these stories as an opportunity to rethink my own single points of failure are rather than point & laugh and tell everyone how I'll never lose and data because it's I'm running RAID 5......
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My NES was the first thing that I can really remember saving up my money for. Allowance money, xmas cash. At my 7th birthday I so happy to be able to tell everyone that I had finally saved enough to get the box....only to get a bunch more cash from relatives that knew I was saving for it. So in a way it kinda muted the whole idea of saving in the first place, but with the extra cash I was able to get the add on Power pad too.
I never should have sold that set. Or Zelda, 1943, Pinball, Donkey Kong jr, or any of the other slew of shitty, snark fodder games that I had that had meaning to me. "Don't sell your NES." That's actually on my list of "stuff i'd go back in time and tell my younger self." Forget all that stuff about lousy girlfriend's, super bowl winners, and chicks that you need to go out of your way to make a pass at. I've seen enough scifi to know about altering the time line. But having that box. That specific box, not the one I picked up years later, that would mean something to me. I *bought* my NES.
Exact opposite here. Comcast is shit. Utter shit. Phone-net-TV bundle was going down several times per month. Make a server call, tech finds a lousy return signal, corrects, rinse wash repeat. I went to U-verse and my connection's been solid. Not mind blowing, but nothing yet that a reboot of the afflicted box can't fix.
In an ideal world there'd be multiple companies offering me DSL and Cable over the same shitty infrastructure, and one of those companies might actually get motivated to *improve* the infrastructure, or at least be willing to do more than a cursory fix. But then, if i was in that world, I'd also be getting blown by a supermodel right now, and wouldn't be bitching on slashdot...
Every year in Ypsilanti Michigan they hold an "Orphan Car show" where the entry rules stipulate that your car must come from a manufacturer that is no longer in business (and must be a certain age, sorry Saturn owners. I think the cutoff is 50 years). The Chrysler museum also brings an item of interest from their collection. (Two years ago it was a Chrysler-built 140db Air Raid siren powered by a 426 Hemi.)
Several years ago they brought their *running* Turbine, and it drove through in the parade. Very. Effing. Cool.
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The day I can hook my camera up to an iPad is the day I place my order. Till then an iPad is just a fancy front end for plants vs. zombies. I'm holding out a little hope for the next gen to have some sort of USB port but, given Apple's history, they'll just drop a smaller one on us this time around, then, in two more years, come up with the TOTALLY REVOLUTIONARY feature called the iPort...
It's more accurate to say that it is incredibly, ridiculously, hugely unfeasible to make new spars. He's got a point, the original fabs are long gone. Our organization (see the homepage) has to have parts made for our B-17 all the time (i know, I'm the guy that has the scans of the late 40's microfiche drawings that Boeing did for the B-17G. We need a part, I hunt and pick through 30 gigs of scans. Do I have those scans backed up in three different buildings on RAID'd devices? You bet your sweet bippy I do.)
The problem isn't always finding a part. True, many parts simply fell off the face of the earth years ago as the metal became worth more as scrap (cowl-flap hinges for example. It's a hunk of aluminum that fits in the palm of your hand that was cutting edge aluminum casting technology in the 40's. Today, our machine shop contact uses it as a "here, make one of these, scooter" test for the high school kids working the CNC machine).The bigger problem is getting someone to accept the liability of putting the part they make *on an airplane*. That introduces a whole new level of pucker factor, and level of inspection, that many shops simply won't deal with. It might be a different game in government contracting for the military, a company still has to be willing to step up and take the risk of having that left handed widget go into place on a machine that can't simply pull over to the side of the road if it should break.
I guess my point was: HP, Ford, IBM, Apple, etc have class A's. What percentage of those IP's are really being used? Have they sublet out addresses? Something tells me that even the biggest of the Fortune 50 aren't going to find a way to use all 16 million addresses.
I guess the motto of the coming IP address depression will be "Brother can you spare a masking bit?"
kidding aside, I'd be interested to know what the actual Class A block utilization numbers look like.
The very fast trains in Japan/France/China all benefit from the local governments simply forcibly buying the land required at cost (or less) and getting on with it ...
Not to mention the high-speed urban renewal projects enacted by that famous urban planner Curtis Lemay, which put the respective governments in a position to modernize.
(to be fair, Japan's rail network sucked well into the 1960's. But, having large portions of infrastructure leveled certainly helps avoid "legacy infrastructure" issues.)
shouldn't we just freeze them on general principle? Just to get them out of the music scene once and for all?
And if I need to pop into my basement and need light for 30 seconds to find something? Now I have to sit around for 5 minutes to let the light warm up.
No, you don't. CFL's aren't like starting starting a a '63 Chrysler Imperial during the dead of a Minnesota winter. You flip the switch and go from zero watts of illumination to 40......to 50......to 60 in less than a minute.
I've used enough of them in my house that I know they don't last longer, despite claims.
I have bulbs that I purchased six years ago still burning happily away. I have yet to have a single CFL fail. You may want to check your home's power. Dirty power and / or cheap ballasts tend to eat up fluorescent lights, CFL or tubes.
Often they take time to come up to full brightness.
And? I rather like that in the morning, easier for my eyes to adjust. I've never understood that knock on CFL's. It's not like it takes an hour and a half to go from dark to 20w brightness. If it takes a minute or two, BFD.
The color temperature they add to a room is a dingy yellow, so they give off an unpleasant light.
CFL's tend to be sold in a variety of color temperatures. When you buy them you can check the color temperature on the bulb itself. It's measured in Kelvin. Higher the temperature, the bluer the light. The "natural daylight" bulbs are disgustingly blue to me.
Home Depot now has a nice display in most of their stores that show the different bulbs and the light they throw. I never thought I'd be a color temperature snob until I put those godawful daylight bulbs in.
I'm concerned that the long term downside of mercury in the soil and water table outweigh the energy savings.
Everyplace I've bought from also takes the bulbs back for recycling. Resalers have become very conscious of this issue and rightfully so. But you're also not talking about a significant amount of mercury. Old style thermometers had a gram or two of mercury in them. A CFL has roughly 1/4th of the mercury than even a regular single tube fluorescent light has (~10mg to ~40mg, depending on bulb sizes).
hey say they brought light to a standstill by drastically increasing the refractive index of the material it was being fired at -- creating a 'white hole.'
"I call it a Hawking Hole."
"China Embargos Rare Earth Exports To Japan"
In response, Japan is restricting their exports of Spirit, Cactus, and the Small Faces to China. "We will not be bullied by such blatant violations of international law" said Hiro Tashakawa the Japanese minister of under appreciated supergroups and late 60's rock bands. Representives from Blind Faith, Derek and the Dominos, and Mountain were unavailable for comment.
I take BoingBoing even less seriously than that. At least on network news I don't get useful 'stories' like "Little brother translated into Albanian" or "Little Brother turned into play by Mrs. Reid's third grade class."
If BoingBoing is the model for web 2.0, then we can just shut it down now and replace it with a cardboard cutout of Jay Sherman saying "Buy my book! Buy my book!"
* Ted Kaczynski (advanced mathematics)
* William Pierce (physics degree from Rice U)
* David Myatt (IT guru)
* Joseph Goebbels (PhD in philosophy)
"One of these things is not like the other, one of these things just doesn't belong....."
(I know, most logic courses tend to fall under the philosophy banner, but I hardly think Goebbels was working on his C.S. degree....)
The difference between engineering majors and business majors:
The part of the flowchart that says "then a miracle occurs" is a joke to engineering majors. For business majors, it's a required step that makes perfect sense.
They may just be keeping the results manageable for whatever buffering they're doing.
I mean, really, who looks for 'porn' on the internet? No one uses that generic of a term. That would be like using 12345 as the combination for your luggage.
If people get married and only have sex with this one person, all sorts of problems that plague society and individual people simply go away. ...and get replaced by an entirely different set of problems.
Oh, and we need to have a strict subset of rules on who the "one person" is. Can't be a member of the same gender, otherwise the magic problem solver starts working in reverse and makes things *worse* for *everyone.*
We'll just ignore idea of marriage between persons of a different race or religious background, since those problems are at least on the very glossy surface "solved" in our enlightened age.
Religion on its own is fine and dandy. It's the dictating of the who's and what's and how's that gets them into trouble.
It goes Shit load then Boat Load then Fuckton
fuckton = ((1.37 Metric Arseloads) / Plank's constant) ^ Volkswagon Beetle)
Your sig makes that comment *that* much more hilarious.
Depends on the SAN. The article (as most tech articles are) is very short on scope & details. So "one chip" went bad. Should that bring everything to a screeching halt? The answer should be "no" but in practice we can all say that it's more often a case of "not usually." From TFA:
It was hailed as being able to suffer a failure to one part but continue uninterrupted service because standby parts or systems would take over. But when the memory card failed Wednesday, a fallback that attempted to shoulder the load began reporting multiple errors, Nixon said.
So Array Alpha shits the bed. You follow your failover procedures and start running on Array Zappa. That immediately starts throwing errors. Ok armchair QB's, let me switch to my Keeanu Reeves voice and ask "What do you do?" You built a pretty damned redundant system there and you're still down. Sure, it'd be nice if they had a backup in another DC they could fail to, but they don't. Doesn't matter, eventually you're playing the double / triple / quadruple hulled oil tanker game. Either way, Redundant SAN's aren't cheap and aren't all that easy (it's not exactly a "the bosses nephew who 'knows all about computers' set it up last weekend" level of complexity.) The TFA also has these points:
Full function may not be restored until Monday.
Experts who examined the system determined that no data were lost except for those being keyed into the system at the moment it failed, Nixon said.
Other than the fact that proofreading and the usage of proper grammar are no longer a requirements to work for a Virginia newspaper, what do those points tell us? Sounds to me like they hit the last line in the DR procedures: Restore from backup. Depending on what their backup strategy is (maybe they're splitting several terrabytes across a tape robot that only supports 200/400gig tapes because that robot is the only device the vendor supports.) and how truly important the affected system is (This may be a system where the powers that be said "fsck it, they can process renewals by hand and we'll bring everything back up on Monday after we test on Saturday") a return to business on Monday might be SOP. But that wouldn't sell newspapers (or make talking points with the voters...) now, would it?
Maybe there was a major screwup here. Maybe they never tested their failovers and maybe that 2nd SAN was bad out of the box. I'm a little more willing to cut some slack and say "man, that sucks. Glad it's not my ass on the line." Karma's a bitch like that. I like to take these stories as an opportunity to rethink my own single points of failure are rather than point & laugh and tell everyone how I'll never lose and data because it's I'm running RAID 5......
XP has similar capabilities. We push GPO's that limit removable media to read only, so it's not a recent development.
Nothing new. At one point the USAAF tried to use Flying Fortresses to protect Flying Fortresses.
What's the SNMP trap for "Oh on! I've been shot!" ?
but an incident in the Philippines in 2009 where Ebola infected swine illustrates that cosmopolitan animals (like pigs) can carry the virus.
Pigs are hardly cosmopolitan animals. In fact, the last pig I encountered was downright boarish.