You cross a Z (both lower and upper case) by putting a horizontal bar through the diagonal. It is mathematical in origin, and it's purpose is to distinguish a handwritten Z from a 2. It is rather like the diagonal slash put through a 0 to distinguish it from an O. It is of course heavily used in handwritten physics which is usually mathematical in nature.
Wrong, British Rail still exists as a corporate entity and will in all likely hood continute to do so for a long time. That it just manages the pensions of British Rail employees is not irrelevant in this context, but to claim it no longer exists is ill informed. This was fairly extensively covered on the new when the old Rail Track when bankrupt.
Easy, it is historic. Way back in the early days of Linux Postgres did not do SQL, which left you with two choices, mSQL and MySQL. Basically mSQL fell by the wayside due to licensing issues which left MySQL as the only free SQL database available.
From there on in there is a certain amount of built in momentum that is hard to stop. Just look at the tactics that Microsoft resorted to, in order to overcome the momentum that Netscape had.
Who said *anything* about ripping? If I insert a DVD that I have purchased into the DVD drive on my server that just so happens to have a some sort of network driver thingy that lets me view my DVD in the living room via my networked media centre, but I have failed to secure my network properly so anyone else connected to the internet can also do the same, where is the copying and where is the deliberate distribution?
What do you mean? The bloody lot is ours. Henry V was declared the rightfull heir to the French throne. It took some jumped up peasant girl going by the name of Joan to change that:-)
Personally I cannot understand why on earth we given it back to them in 1945:-) It was rightfully ours, we where in possession of it, so what was all the giving it back idea about?
No that is because a CRT is actually not much different from an X-Ray tube, and without loads of lead in the glass would be spitting out a load of X-Rays. The MPR-II regulations basically set a limit on the amount of *IONIZING* radiation that a monitor can give out.
Cell phones use microwaves and microwaves are non-ionizing radiation, and *NOBODY* in over 50 years of trying has managed to devise a reprodicable experiment that demonstrates any harmful effect of non-ionizing radiation (well unless you get enough microwaves to cook you).
Whoopy we have a few more unrepeated experiments that show some minor effects. I would lay odds that when they are repeated the results turn out to be statistical flukes, and show no effect.
The golden rule of all science is that it most be independantly repetable. Unless you can satisfy this it is just junk science. You would have thought if there was any effects someone would have found them by now with thousands of experiments over 50 years.
Second? The Euro zone is perhaps the second largest economy, but the EU is bigger than the Euro zone. For example it does not include the U.K. which is the third/forth largest economy period (it about the same size as Germany and the two jocky for position). It is my understanding that the total E.U. economy is now larger than the U.S.A.
You know what general relativity is a well known phenomenon but they don't teach that at school either. They don't even teach special relativity and I have not seen much quantum electrodynamics being taught either, even a degree level physics. Does not make it at least a well understood phenomenon to those skill in the field.
Large amounts of modern science is well known but for practial reasons (there is not time and some of it is difficult to understand) not taught in school.
However as a none geologist, but with a science background I have heard of glacial rebound and a quick google brings plenty of references.
But as ice *FLOATS*, the water level will not change, in an ice/water mix as the ice melts. Something Archimedes worked out over 2000 years ago. Therefore if the North Pole ice cap melts because it is floating it will not cause the sea level to rise by even 1mm. However the Greenland ice cap will also melt at the same time and this is not floating.
So go for SuperAIT-1, 500GB native, or SuperDLT3 which is 300GB native, both of which avoid spliting the backup. Alternatively get an autochanger and use SuperDLT1/Ultrium. A six cartridge autochanger will do ~600GB native. Heck a DLT7000/DLT8000 autochanger will do the job. Personally I use a DLT7000 drive to backup my laptop (my main computer) to a single tape, in a couple of hours.
That is exactly what I was thinking. It is only a couple of months since there was a Slashdot story about a CD sized optical disk that using Collinear Holographic techniques can store 1TB http://www.optware.co.jp/english/index_what.htm. Now if instead of having a rotating rigid plastic disk, you have a long piece of flexible plastic wraped on a spindle, that just happens to be in the same form factor as a DLT tape, then at the same storage density one tape would store approximately 185TB of data.
However transfer speed is still an issue. At the 1GB per second transfer rate of the HVD it will take 52 hours to fill the tape. To make it viable you would have to fit at least four independent read/write heads to the the drive.
As you need in the order of 100 slot tape libraries with multiple drives to back this amount of data up at the moment, I know that people would jump at the chance to replace them with a single tape drive that would fit in 3U of rack space.
I would point out that in the past they used to use much bigger reals than today. The majority of serious tape backup has converged on the 1/2" tape form factor pioneered by Digital with the TK50. That is DLT/SuperDLT/Ultrium and now even SuperAIT, in a small cartridge 11cm square. In the 60's and 70's it was common to have 12" reals, that fitted in rack sized cabinets.
If it's not offline it's not a backup. As hard disk backups are not offline they are not a backup. That does not mean they don't have a place. They are excellent for recovering that file you just accidently deleted. They can also be good for taking a snapshot of your system, and then doing a more leasurly backup to tape. However they are not in themselves a backup solution.
In five days time due to the wonders of the Freedom of Information Act there is no such thing as privacy in medical records in the U.K. any more - period. Want full disclosure of Tony Blairs recent operation, then it's all yours provided you cough up the money.
Re:The word is 'burgle', you illiterate moron!
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I admit that I forgot that the OED has taken to flagging up such USA ambominations of the language. However they are flagged up as American, as are other such ambominations such as color, sulfur etc.
However burglerize is a 20th century invention and not some long forgotten old/middle English word.
The EU Directives 93/36/EEC (Supplies) 92/50/EEC (Services) and 93/37/EEC (Works) require that where a single order or contract shall be greater than the relevant thresholds, or by aggregation of demand (orders or contracts for the same goods/services/works or of a similar nature) over a period of twelve months or intended contract period, shall be advertised first and in their most complete form via the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU).
For supplies and services the threshold is about 240,000 Euros. If they have not done this then you can find yourself in *big* trouble. There is a mechanism (The Compliance Directive) by which "aggrieved" suppliers can take whatever public body has not followed these procdures correctly to court and seek a judical review, with a range of remedies including potentially getting a contract overturned and damages.
Unless the Dutch goverment has been following the regulations closely they could find themselves in deep water, from either an "aggrieved" supplier or the Commission.
How do I know all this? Well I have the dubious privalege of working for a U.K. public sector employer (a.k.a. a University) and have to negociate this minefield of regulations on an almost daily basis. Why the hell should some branch of the Dutch goverment feel they should be excempt is what I want to know.
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This is just a case of Americans deciding that everything is "ized" because it sounds trendy. It is what my Grandma would refer to as "Estuary English". You won't find such abuses of the English language in the OED.
Selecting four letters from 26 where order is important is 26 permutation 4. Where a nPr is defined as n!/(n-r!). Clearly you skipped the probablity and statistics classes in your maths leasons!
However you are right there are lot less than this that are valid words, which weakens the method considerably further. I never suggested that an uncompromised code sheet resulted in weak passwords.
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You cross a Z (both lower and upper case) by putting a horizontal bar through the diagonal. It is mathematical in origin, and it's purpose is to distinguish a handwritten Z from a 2. It is rather like the diagonal slash put through a 0 to distinguish it from an O. It is of course heavily used in handwritten physics which is usually mathematical in nature.
Wrong, British Rail still exists as a corporate entity and will in all likely hood continute to do so for a long time. That it just manages the pensions of British Rail employees is not irrelevant in this context, but to claim it no longer exists is ill informed. This was fairly extensively covered on the new when the old Rail Track when bankrupt.
Easy, it is historic. Way back in the early days of Linux Postgres did not do SQL, which left you with two choices, mSQL and MySQL. Basically mSQL fell by the wayside due to licensing issues which left MySQL as the only free SQL database available.
From there on in there is a certain amount of built in momentum that is hard to stop. Just look at the tactics that Microsoft resorted to, in order to overcome the momentum that Netscape had.
Who said *anything* about ripping? If I insert a DVD that I have purchased into the DVD drive on my server that just so happens to have a some sort of network driver thingy that lets me view my DVD in the living room via my networked media centre, but I have failed to secure my network properly so anyone else connected to the internet can also do the same, where is the copying and where is the deliberate distribution?
What do you mean? The bloody lot is ours. Henry V was declared the rightfull heir to the French throne. It took some jumped up peasant girl going by the name of Joan to change that :-)
:-) It was rightfully ours, we where in possession of it, so what was all the giving it back idea about?
Personally I cannot understand why on earth we given it back to them in 1945
No that is because a CRT is actually not much different from an X-Ray tube, and without loads of lead in the glass would be spitting out a load of X-Rays. The MPR-II regulations basically set a limit on the amount of *IONIZING* radiation that a monitor can give out.
Cell phones use microwaves and microwaves are non-ionizing radiation, and *NOBODY* in over 50 years of trying has managed to devise a reprodicable experiment that demonstrates any harmful effect of non-ionizing radiation (well unless you get enough microwaves to cook you).
Whoopy we have a few more unrepeated experiments that show some minor effects. I would lay odds that when they are repeated the results turn out to be statistical flukes, and show no effect.
The golden rule of all science is that it most be independantly repetable. Unless you can satisfy this it is just junk science. You would have thought if there was any effects someone would have found them by now with thousands of experiments over 50 years.
Unless you go abroad, at which point it costs to receive both calls and texts :(
Second? The Euro zone is perhaps the second largest economy, but the EU is bigger than the Euro zone. For example it does not include the U.K. which is the third/forth largest economy period (it about the same size as Germany and the two jocky for position). It is my understanding that the total E.U. economy is now larger than the U.S.A.
You know what general relativity is a well known phenomenon but they don't teach that at school either. They don't even teach special relativity and I have not seen much quantum electrodynamics being taught either, even a degree level physics. Does not make it at least a well understood phenomenon to those skill in the field.
Large amounts of modern science is well known but for practial reasons (there is not time and some of it is difficult to understand) not taught in school.
However as a none geologist, but with a science background I have heard of glacial rebound and a quick google brings plenty of references.
But as ice *FLOATS*, the water level will not change, in an ice/water mix as the ice melts. Something Archimedes worked out over 2000 years ago. Therefore if the North Pole ice cap melts because it is floating it will not cause the sea level to rise by even 1mm. However the Greenland ice cap will also melt at the same time and this is not floating.
With the actual link this time
h =23_512_624&products_id=3808
http://www.span.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPat
What you mean like this one?
Sorry but in the U.K. at least it is assault.
Really, then I suggest you visit www.bbc.co.uk. Now just imagine that someone compromises this site!
How naive yourself. How come Europe does not need to have software patents then? It is in the WTO as well you know.
So go for SuperAIT-1, 500GB native, or SuperDLT3 which is 300GB native, both of which avoid spliting the backup. Alternatively get an autochanger and use SuperDLT1/Ultrium. A six cartridge autochanger will do ~600GB native. Heck a DLT7000/DLT8000 autochanger will do the job. Personally I use a DLT7000 drive to backup my laptop (my main computer) to a single tape, in a couple of hours.
It might not be "pirated" copyright material but it is still copyright material :-)
That is exactly what I was thinking. It is only a couple of months since there was a Slashdot story about a CD sized optical disk that using Collinear Holographic techniques can store 1TB http://www.optware.co.jp/english/index_what.htm. Now if instead of having a rotating rigid plastic disk, you have a long piece of flexible plastic wraped on a spindle, that just happens to be in the same form factor as a DLT tape, then at the same storage density one tape would store approximately 185TB of data.
However transfer speed is still an issue. At the 1GB per second transfer rate of the HVD it will take 52 hours to fill the tape. To make it viable you would have to fit at least four independent read/write heads to the the drive.
As you need in the order of 100 slot tape libraries with multiple drives to back this amount of data up at the moment, I know that people would jump at the chance to replace them with a single tape drive that would fit in 3U of rack space.
I would point out that in the past they used to use much bigger reals than today. The majority of serious tape backup has converged on the 1/2" tape form factor pioneered by Digital with the TK50. That is DLT/SuperDLT/Ultrium and now even SuperAIT, in a small cartridge 11cm square. In the 60's and 70's it was common to have 12" reals, that fitted in rack sized cabinets.
If it's not offline it's not a backup. As hard disk backups are not offline they are not a backup. That does not mean they don't have a place. They are excellent for recovering that file you just accidently deleted. They can also be good for taking a snapshot of your system, and then doing a more leasurly backup to tape. However they are not in themselves a backup solution.
In five days time due to the wonders of the Freedom of Information Act there is no such thing as privacy in medical records in the U.K. any more - period. Want full disclosure of Tony Blairs recent operation, then it's all yours provided you cough up the money.
I admit that I forgot that the OED has taken to flagging up such USA ambominations of the language. However they are flagged up as American, as are other such ambominations such as color, sulfur etc.
However burglerize is a 20th century invention and not some long forgotten old/middle English word.
The EU Directives 93/36/EEC (Supplies) 92/50/EEC (Services) and 93/37/EEC (Works) require that where a single order or contract shall be greater than the relevant thresholds, or by aggregation of demand (orders or contracts for the same goods/services/works or of a similar nature) over a period of twelve months or intended contract period, shall be advertised first and in their most complete form via the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU).
For supplies and services the threshold is about 240,000 Euros. If they have not done this then you can find yourself in *big* trouble. There is a mechanism (The Compliance Directive) by which "aggrieved" suppliers can take whatever public body has not followed these procdures correctly to court and seek a judical review, with a range of remedies including potentially getting a contract overturned and damages.
Unless the Dutch goverment has been following the regulations closely they could find themselves in deep water, from either an "aggrieved" supplier or the Commission.
How do I know all this? Well I have the dubious privalege of working for a U.K. public sector employer (a.k.a. a University) and have to negociate this minefield of regulations on an almost daily basis. Why the hell should some branch of the Dutch goverment feel they should be excempt is what I want to know.
This is just a case of Americans deciding that everything is "ized" because it sounds trendy. It is what my Grandma would refer to as "Estuary English". You won't find such abuses of the English language in the OED.
Selecting four letters from 26 where order is important is 26 permutation 4. Where a nPr is
defined as n!/(n-r!). Clearly you skipped the probablity and statistics classes in your maths leasons!
However you are right there are lot less than this that are valid words, which weakens the method considerably further. I never suggested that an uncompromised code sheet resulted in weak passwords.