Some 20-25% of papers in Science and Nature when analysed by qualified statisticians where found to be just plain wrong.
Here's a clue statistics is hard; really hard and the vast majority of people using then have no idea how hard they are and make basic mistakes all the time that don't get caught.
I would imagine the cheaper drives on eBay will be the ones with the Fibre Channel interface, because most people will run a mile on seeing that. So I see a 48 slot library with two LTO4 drives going for 2000USD.
The trick to realize is that even dual 4Gbs PCIe FC card can be had for buttons, and the drive an library will work perfectly well in an arbitrated loop, no requirement for a switch and OM2 LC-LC cable is also cheap.
New LTO4 tapes are ~30USD labelled, I reckon on 1:1.25 compression ratio so that is around 50TB of backup capacity, not bad for under 4000USD investment.
The next trick is to realize that in a few years you can swap out the LTO4 drives for LTO6 and keep using the library...
Well there is 802.3ad of course so yes. This seems to be more about using silicon diodes and multimode fibre to be cheaper in the short term than using single mode fibre and other laser sources.
Not just resin. We have been molding glass aspherical lenses for sometime with high precision and relatively cheaply. You would need a fairly largish aspheric for it to be ground these days, and even then they probably start by molding it first.
Actually in England and Wales you don't even need a will. Once a person is dead if there is no will everything legally passes to their next of kin. The original owner is dead, so Apple need to unlock it.
Surely it is not antennas that are the issue but the tuners. Because as many people have pointed out most apartment blocks share a single aerial which via a distribution amplifier is fed to each apartment. Heck many houses have a single aerial which via a distribution amplifier feeds more than one television.
The phone is stolen and has been reported as stolen to the police. I would say at this point it is far from clear that the police need any sort of warrant to track the phone as the owner of the phone has given the police explicit permission to track it and hopefully recover it.
Lets imagine that I report a painting stolen from my house. Do the police need a warrant to make enquires about the possible location of my painting? Of course they don't and the suggestion that they do is idiotic. Now if they have been tracking the phone of the rapist that would be an entirely different matter.
The moral of this story should be that stealing a mobile phone is a dumb thing to do, and if that mobile is reported stolen and left on expect the police on your doorstep, especially if the theft was associated with a particularly violent crime such as rape or murder.
Happened seconds of flying time from where I work. Prompted some additional thought into disaster recovery and data protection. However a fire the year before had already done that
Perhaps that goes some way to explain the much higher vehicular fatality rates in the USA then. The idea of socio-paths getting a free ticket to drive dangerous wrecks around is just nuts.
My car two years ago failed it's MOT (aka safety inspection in the UK) for rusting break pipes. It was a pain and cost but why the hell would I want to drive around with breaks that could fail at any time, and why the hell would that be socially acceptable or even remotely legal!!!
He is talking about running a web browser in the VM so that you can browse cheat web sites to your heart's content without Valve or anyone else having a clue that you are doing it. Next time engage brain first:-)
Here in the United Kingdom, BT Openreach now offer a multicast service to the vast majority of their exchanges as part of the wholesale products for ISP's.
Admittedly the reason behind this is the retail arm of BT offer a range of TV packages now, and they want to transition people to getting that over the internet connection rather than satellite/cable/DVB as that costs money that multicast would not.
Really, have you actually booted into server core on 2012? Thought not because unlike a Linux or Unix based box when you boot without a GUI you get a text mode interface, aka something that could be redirected over a serial console, when you boot server core you get the Unix equivalent of starting an X11 server with TWM and an xterm, albeit with a modern look. It is however most decidedly a GUI as I can move about my PowerShell window on the desktop, resize it and start other ones. I have to confesses that I was most disappointed.
I will also confess that I was terribly disappointed that to get a remote PowerShell on a Windows server I have to have a PowerShell to begin with. Yes there is third party software that will allow me to SSH in to a Windows server and get a PowerShell, the issue is what the hell where Microsoft thinking not making this standard. It is not like SSH is even evil GPL software, its BSD licensed for heavens sake.
Oracle started requiring a valid support contract to download these sorts of things years ago. A lot of people stopped purchasing Oracle/Sun hardware specifically because of this.
The view held by most system admins, and historically the way it has been is that firmware updates for your servers are free of charge. Actual hardware issues (failed disks, PSU's etc.) will require a support contract to be in place or you are on your own.
While I am sure that this will maximize HP's profits in the short term long term a large number of people will jump ship to a different vendor who is not pulling this stunt and profits will be down.
Except they are mechanical winding. The Sekio Kinetic which turns that into electrical charging seems to keep my watch working just fine, and I sit at a computer all day as my job.
Of course the issue is that mechanical electrical generation aka Sekio Kinetic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A... and solar electrical generation aka the Citizen EcoDrive http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E... provide tiny amounts of power to keep a watch going, and could not provide anywhere near sufficient power for a smart watch.
Speak for yourself. I have not the slightest idea what Fahrenheit temperatures are other than a few fixed points that I know map to particular points on the Celsius scale (-40, 32, 212). You rarely hear the weather forecasters mention Fahrenheit these days. Maybe older people think like that, but anyone under 45 at a minimum is going to have been exclusively taught in metric units.
I have this concept of GPS in every boat, coupled with rudder angle sensors, boom angle sensors, wind angle sensors and digital compasses all coupled with GPS in the buoys and a radio network sending all this information back to a central computer and you could implement a "HawkeEye" for sailing. Some indicator lights on the boat to indicate that you have received a penalty and you could cut out all the appeals and other crap.
And illegal; al Qaeda are a proscribed terrorist group in the United Kingdom, so simply hanging out with them as a U.K. citizen anywhere in the world is an offence for which you can be arrested and imprisoned.
This is nothing new, the Terrorism Act 2000 which is the current relevant legislation pre-dates 9/11 by well over a year.
The point is that the U.K. Parliament is sovereign. That is there nothing that prevents Parliament from passing any law, and nothing one Parliament can do that prevents a future Parliament from changing it's mind, with the single proviso that the current monarch is willing to put their signature to whatever piece of legislation Parliament puts before them.
There are basically only two ways out for the U.K. at this point. The first is a full blown revolution which would most likely be extremely unpopular. Revolutions are almost never quick and clean. The last time we tried (aka the interregnum) it lasted just over 11 years.
The second option is to persuade the current and future monarchs to reserve certain powers (aka the ability to overrule certain pieces of legislation) to themselves when they reconstitute parliament after every dissolution (any parliamentary election in the U.K. is preceded by the dissolution of the current parliament) and hope that the courts and police will go with it.
The Raspberry Pi has hardware decoders for H264 out the box and for the grand sum of 2.40GBP you can buy an MPEG2 license key to enable hardware decoding of MPEG2. For half that again you can also buy a VC-1 license key.
The fact that the main CPU is a 700MHz single core is rather besides the point. My Toshiba Tecra 780DVD with a Mobile Pentium II at 266MHz was/is able to play back DVD's full screen without missing a beat due to the hardware MPEG2 decoder.
Bzzzt, wrong. The problem is that an incandescent tungsten bulb has a near infinite life span if left on the shelf. On the other hand a CFL has a finite lifespan as the electronics and in particular the electrolytic capacitors will fail even if just left on a shelf.
Therefore in low usage scenarios, say on for less than 50 hours a year, the CFL will fail long before it's 10,000 hour lifetime and because of the high energy and resource cost of manufacture is worse for the environment.
Then there is the whole northern latitude central heated house issue. The inefficiency of an incandescent is heat. I have the lights on when it is dark, which tends to be in winter, which is when I have my thermostatically controlled central heating on as well. Consequently by switching to CFL or other energy efficient lighting my central heating just works harder and the energy saving is minimal.
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Some 20-25% of papers in Science and Nature when analysed by qualified statisticians where found to be just plain wrong.
Here's a clue statistics is hard; really hard and the vast majority of people using then have no idea how hard they are and make basic mistakes all the time that don't get caught.
I would imagine the cheaper drives on eBay will be the ones with the Fibre Channel interface, because most people will run a mile on seeing that. So I see a 48 slot library with two LTO4 drives going for 2000USD.
The trick to realize is that even dual 4Gbs PCIe FC card can be had for buttons, and the drive an library will work perfectly well in an arbitrated loop, no requirement for a switch and OM2 LC-LC cable is also cheap.
New LTO4 tapes are ~30USD labelled, I reckon on 1:1.25 compression ratio so that is around 50TB of backup capacity, not bad for under 4000USD investment.
The next trick is to realize that in a few years you can swap out the LTO4 drives for LTO6 and keep using the library...
Well there is 802.3ad of course so yes. This seems to be more about using silicon diodes and multimode fibre to be cheaper in the short term than using single mode fibre and other laser sources.
Not just resin. We have been molding glass aspherical lenses for sometime with high precision and relatively cheaply. You would need a fairly largish aspheric for it to be ground these days, and even then they probably start by molding it first.
Actually in England and Wales you don't even need a will. Once a person is dead if there is no will everything legally passes to their next of kin. The original owner is dead, so Apple need to unlock it.
Surely it is not antennas that are the issue but the tuners. Because as many people have pointed out most apartment blocks share a single aerial which via a distribution amplifier is fed to each apartment. Heck many houses have a single aerial which via a distribution amplifier feeds more than one television.
The phone is stolen and has been reported as stolen to the police. I would say at this point it is far from clear that the police need any sort of warrant to track the phone as the owner of the phone has given the police explicit permission to track it and hopefully recover it.
Lets imagine that I report a painting stolen from my house. Do the police need a warrant to make enquires about the possible location of my painting? Of course they don't and the suggestion that they do is idiotic. Now if they have been tracking the phone of the rapist that would be an entirely different matter.
The moral of this story should be that stealing a mobile phone is a dumb thing to do, and if that mobile is reported stolen and left on expect the police on your doorstep, especially if the theft was associated with a particularly violent crime such as rape or murder.
Yes but it was an "Irish" pub.
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Happened seconds of flying time from where I work. Prompted some additional thought into disaster recovery and data protection. However a fire the year before had already done that
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Happened seconds of flying time from where I work
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Perhaps that goes some way to explain the much higher vehicular fatality rates in the USA then. The idea of socio-paths getting a free ticket to drive dangerous wrecks around is just nuts.
My car two years ago failed it's MOT (aka safety inspection in the UK) for rusting break pipes. It was a pain and cost but why the hell would I want to drive around with breaks that could fail at any time, and why the hell would that be socially acceptable or even remotely legal!!!
He is talking about running a web browser in the VM so that you can browse cheat web sites to your heart's content without Valve or anyone else having a clue that you are doing it. Next time engage brain first :-)
What you mean like this http://www.trafficscotland.org...
Here in the United Kingdom, BT Openreach now offer a multicast service to the vast majority of their exchanges as part of the wholesale products for ISP's.
Admittedly the reason behind this is the retail arm of BT offer a range of TV packages now, and they want to transition people to getting that over the internet connection rather than satellite/cable/DVB as that costs money that multicast would not.
There are a couple of RDP clients for Chrome that don't require a third party in between, and such clients exist for Android as well.
Really, have you actually booted into server core on 2012? Thought not because unlike a Linux or Unix based box when you boot without a GUI you get a text mode interface, aka something that could be redirected over a serial console, when you boot server core you get the Unix equivalent of starting an X11 server with TWM and an xterm, albeit with a modern look. It is however most decidedly a GUI as I can move about my PowerShell window on the desktop, resize it and start other ones. I have to confesses that I was most disappointed.
I will also confess that I was terribly disappointed that to get a remote PowerShell on a Windows server I have to have a PowerShell to begin with. Yes there is third party software that will allow me to SSH in to a Windows server and get a PowerShell, the issue is what the hell where Microsoft thinking not making this standard. It is not like SSH is even evil GPL software, its BSD licensed for heavens sake.
Why the hell do you need iSCSI? Just use NFS or CIFS and mount your data from the remote box.
Oracle started requiring a valid support contract to download these sorts of things years ago. A lot of people stopped purchasing Oracle/Sun hardware specifically because of this.
The view held by most system admins, and historically the way it has been is that firmware updates for your servers are free of charge. Actual hardware issues (failed disks, PSU's etc.) will require a support contract to be in place or you are on your own.
While I am sure that this will maximize HP's profits in the short term long term a large number of people will jump ship to a different vendor who is not pulling this stunt and profits will be down.
Except they are mechanical winding. The Sekio Kinetic which turns that into electrical charging seems to keep my watch working just fine, and I sit at a computer all day as my job.
Of course the issue is that mechanical electrical generation aka Sekio Kinetic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A... and solar electrical generation aka the Citizen EcoDrive http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E... provide tiny amounts of power to keep a watch going, and could not provide anywhere near sufficient power for a smart watch.
How does a one mile commute take six hours ever. You could walk it in 15 minutes, in normal conditions, and say 20 in bad weather.
Speak for yourself. I have not the slightest idea what Fahrenheit temperatures are other than a few fixed points that I know map to particular points on the Celsius scale (-40, 32, 212). You rarely hear the weather forecasters mention Fahrenheit these days. Maybe older people think like that, but anyone under 45 at a minimum is going to have been exclusively taught in metric units.
I have this concept of GPS in every boat, coupled with rudder angle sensors, boom angle sensors, wind angle sensors and digital compasses all coupled with GPS in the buoys and a radio network sending all this information back to a central computer and you could implement a "HawkeEye" for sailing. Some indicator lights on the boat to indicate that you have received a penalty and you could cut out all the appeals and other crap.
And illegal; al Qaeda are a proscribed terrorist group in the United Kingdom, so simply hanging out with them as a U.K. citizen anywhere in the world is an offence for which you can be arrested and imprisoned.
This is nothing new, the Terrorism Act 2000 which is the current relevant legislation pre-dates 9/11 by well over a year.
The point is that the U.K. Parliament is sovereign. That is there nothing that prevents Parliament from passing any law, and nothing one Parliament can do that prevents a future Parliament from changing it's mind, with the single proviso that the current monarch is willing to put their signature to whatever piece of legislation Parliament puts before them.
There are basically only two ways out for the U.K. at this point. The first is a full blown revolution which would most likely be extremely unpopular. Revolutions are almost never quick and clean. The last time we tried (aka the interregnum) it lasted just over 11 years.
The second option is to persuade the current and future monarchs to reserve certain powers (aka the ability to overrule certain pieces of legislation) to themselves when they reconstitute parliament after every dissolution (any parliamentary election in the U.K. is preceded by the dissolution of the current parliament) and hope that the courts and police will go with it.
The Raspberry Pi has hardware decoders for H264 out the box and for the grand sum of 2.40GBP you can buy an MPEG2 license key to enable hardware decoding of MPEG2. For half that again you can also buy a VC-1 license key.
The fact that the main CPU is a 700MHz single core is rather besides the point. My Toshiba Tecra 780DVD with a Mobile Pentium II at 266MHz was/is able to play back DVD's full screen without missing a beat due to the hardware MPEG2 decoder.
Bzzzt, wrong. The problem is that an incandescent tungsten bulb has a near infinite life span if left on the shelf. On the other hand a CFL has a finite lifespan as the electronics and in particular the electrolytic capacitors will fail even if just left on a shelf.
Therefore in low usage scenarios, say on for less than 50 hours a year, the CFL will fail long before it's 10,000 hour lifetime and because of the high energy and resource cost of manufacture is worse for the environment.
Then there is the whole northern latitude central heated house issue. The inefficiency of an incandescent is heat. I have the lights on when it is dark, which tends to be in winter, which is when I have my thermostatically controlled central heating on as well. Consequently by switching to CFL or other energy efficient lighting my central heating just works harder and the energy saving is minimal.