Taking a 66x flash card and writing continuously on it until you hit a million cycles would take (1E9B*1E6Cycles/(66x1.5E5B/s)/(60s*60m*24h)= 1169 days, or over 3 years of 24/7 writes. Okay, half that if you're just using 512M as your db. Still, that's under continuous duty. At 25% duty cycle (1/2 read operations, 1/2 write operations, data trasfer occuring _only_ 12 hours a day on average) of the HD on a daily average you've still got 7 years of life. Is the product going to last that long in the marketplace without an upgrade?
Maybe I've slipped a decimal somewhere, but it looks like you might not be able to actually hit the cars limits under normal operating conditions.
The teachers are almost as likely to screw things up as the students. The motivation is different (intentional mischief vs misguided helper), but the result is the same: fubar. No, as long as there is somebody to do the admin job (and there clearly wan't one before, so it's not like you can take a step backwards) you're in pretty good condition.
I'm a diehard windows user - I even still have a copy of Windows 1.02 on 720kb floppy, along with various flavors of DOS back to...well, before dinosuars walked the earth. I work in XP all day becuase it has the apps that make my business run smoothly. I normally am in the "stick with windows" camp. This time, I'm on the other side. These kids don't need XP at school. They need consoles that do the work, not teach them a particular version of a particular program. I say Linux is a good idea.
Embryonic stem-cell research could well be a dead-end, resulting in no viable treatments.
That's true, but we'll never know until we exhaust that possibility. Part of the scientific method is creating and testing hypohteses - if you remove the last part, you're just a philospher, and pure philosophy hasn't had much luck in medical cures.
I agree. And I also believe that those rights should never extend beyond 27 years or the death of the author. I also believe that no corporate entity should hold or maintain exclusive right to any copyrighted work.
You can easily guess how popular those feelings are in the current US congress (and many other governments in the world, for that matter).
Actually, the first thing I thought of was Flash. It is the single most annoying thing a web developer can do to a page. Anything with flash is likely to be very short on content. I can imagine that anything in 3D will be even longer on eye candy and shorter on substance.
It's the server storage (and rapid retrieval) that makes it so different from Napster. There is a bit of a blurry line here on the "common carrier" argument, but if it holds, the Google/YouTube has no obligation to screen the content for anyone but their own internal policies. As long as they respond in a resonable manner to requests from content owners to remove infringing works which they own, they meet the letter of the law.
Right now I'd say that this is a virtual environment, and cashing in and cashing out are essentially investing (though they might be considered gambling). If you were to track individual sales and purchases, you might get away with claiming cap gains, but if you put money in, "played," then cashed out at the "end" it would look like gambling, or worse - income. The latter would require you pay self employment taxes. The former would require you to claim it was an entertainment rather than a job.
It's been so long I can't remember if its 3 inches per second or 3 seconds per inch (the latter is the rate of common gree visco, which is a black powder fuse).
The problem is when the composition is (a) confined and (b) has too much surface area. This is exactly the case when you get a crack in the comp within the motor. This is usually described as resulting in rapid acceleration in all directions simultaneously.
Rcoket motors are gas generators you don't need rapidly burning propellent to generate gasses.
True, but one of the easist (and lightest) ways to do so is to burn a solid to produce those gasses. The quicker they burn the faster they generate the gasses. There's really no magic. Take some APCP powder, put it in a loose pile and ignite it. I guarantee it will burn very quickly. I've built these motors from scratch, and have tested the comp in various forms and under different compression. The danger is that you have a fuel and an oxidizer mixed in the proper proportions for self sustained combustion.
The fact is that there is no well-funded lobby for hobby rocketry, nor is there a "need" by most of the citizens for it for daily convenience. If you had one of those two (NRA for the former, Gasoline for the latter), you could be excepted from all this silly regulation.
I believe that up to 60kg (65?) of the old class B - now 1.3g - material may be transported for personal use in personal automobiles, though I'm pretty certain you must have a manufacturers permit, and you may need to have built the material yourself (not sure on that last point).
It's about the desire for Tripoli/NAR to be exempt from the regulations on principle. And it probably won't work.
The firework hobbiests have similar issues (though the rocket folks will always try to maintain maximum separation from them). They have mostly worked out the proper contingencies and such, but the BATFE is not really much into the exceptions game. Well, unless you're a memebr of the NRA. In which case they've carved out an exception so that you can store 50lbs of black powder in your home (no license, no storage requirements) for your "antique" or "replica" firearms.
Yes, it is. It is a salient addition to the discussion. You may argue which way certain mainstream media outlets lean, but when the source is particularly partisan (say, the Washington Times, or The American Prospect) it should be noted that there is celarly an agenda behind the outrage.
If/. ran a story about new scientific research that differences in language usage could affect the way you view food and the total amount of calories your body feels it needs, would you be curious? If the editor noted that the story was currently running in the Weekly World News, would that put the story in perspective? I think so.
But isn't everything interesting on the internet considered illegal in Utah?;-)
Seriously, though, if overall bandwidth and equal access are an issue, I suspect duration and content based throttling would solve most of the problems of widespread abuse. By targeting the high-bandwidth content and placing bandwidth caps (I'm thinking 24 hour window rate throttling for the top 5% of users, not max client rates on an intermittent basis), you could limit the total network capacity used. Since it could be reasonable to assume that avi and mp3 traffic (for example) is mostly recreational, but pdf may have more total academic content, then the former is eligible for throttling and the latter is not. It's nice to see a college hanging on to the "free flow" ideals, and I hope you guys can keep it up.
How many times have you seen a computer user who is constantly picking and clicking with their mouse to do the simplest of tasks? I've seen veteran users select text from where the cursor is to the end of the line with the mouse, then click Edit then Cut, then click the point in the document where they want to paste the text, then click Edit then Paste. Shift-End, Ctrl-X, Click at insertion, Ctrl-V would have saved even the fastest mouse-jockey 15-20 seconds on a very common action. There are hundreds of shortcuts - just learning a dozen will save several minutes in a typical day.
Different tasks require different screen real estate, and sometimes bigger is better. But for office app productivity, the low hanging fruit is training.
True, to a point. I've got pretty good eyesight, but at a comfortable viewing distance (15-20"), 90-100dpi seems about optimal. My laptop is 150dpi, and even at 12-14" viewing distance is tiresome. Switching from a 15.4" WUXGA screen to a 24" WUXGA screen made a noticable difference in my end-of-day productivity, with no change in pixels, as it was a function of how tired my eyes got.
LCDs, of course, don't really have a variable display resultion - they have one optimal resolution, and anything else looks lousy. When I used CRTs, I would run a 20" at 1600x1200. Many (older) coworkers didn't like to work at my station because they had problems resolving the text in dialogs and on buttons (they ran 1280x1024 mostly). I preferred it because it got most the toolbars and such "out of the way" and left more "space" for my work area (cad/analysis).
Going from UXGA to WUXGA (an extra 320x1200 pixels on the side) helped a lot, as I could drop all my toolbars/pallets on one side, leaving a large 4:3 space to do my drafting. Now, I might have saved 1 to 2 minutes a day in fewer pan/zoom actions, but it adds up over time.
...on the work your doing, and if it can be partitioned into multiple spaces efficiently. CAD work, it turned out for me, wasn't any more efficient on two screens, but was more efficient on a large widescreen. Since the tools take up a small portion of the screen, a second monitor was mostly unused (unless you count a calendar and email program constantly viewable as useful). A single, large monitor means more drawing data available / more detail shown on the screen, and reduces zooming and panning for operations. If I could drive a 30" from my laptop, I might buy one. I use a 24" WS 'cause it matches my current laptop resolution (seamless transition from work to road use), and it wasn't insanely expensive (30"ers were over $2.5k when I got the 24).
I've know a lot of very smart people who don't know how to right click on the desktop, choose properties, then the settings tab, then choose the proper resolution and bit depth for an LCD monitor that they didn't purchase, didn't connect, and don't have the manual for.
The question to ask is "where the fuck is your tech support?" - they should be putting that information in, not wasting the time of the techincal folks. Oh, right, I've worked in those shops before - most of IT is busy rimming the CxOs, making sure their streaming nasdaq app has unfettered access to the internet.
There is an issue with some monitors having "too much" resolution for some tasks. I have a Dell M70 (don't snigger), and it's got a 15.4" WUXGA screen. My eyesight is pretty good, but even with a 12-14" viewing distance, I found that my eyes would hurt after a full day of CAD/analysis work. I finally gave up and bought an $800 24" 1920x1200 screen for the docking station. Difference is night and day. 90dpi is far better for office work than 150dpi in windows. (many standard dialogs won't scale properly with the magic "font size" option, and you can't read them anymore)
I like bus factor better though. It's decidedly graphic, and matches the effect on the project. Also, a moderate percentage of people who were not mis-treated as employees would likely help transition the team given a huge payout. Nobody that's hit by a bus will be "hanging around" to do that.;-)
Kind of like Author DVDs vs regular DVDrs? I honestly don't remember what the difference is, but I suspect it had to do with writing the DVD key. I think the hardware option is lost simply because of the installed base. Sort of like trying to encrypt CDs...it just can't happen and they still be playable on legacy hardware.
HDDVD and BluRay are trying to "fix" this scenerio by building in the briar patch from the beginning. As with most of us techies, I hope they mangage to fail. Again.;-)
Anything which borks the hardware is going to make practically all of the exsiting SO players useless. Also, since most of the inexpensive players rely on standard DVD drives to keep cost down, it would make the new players far more expensive (being custom and incopmpatible with PC DVDs). Next, we'd need a PC compatible anti-DVD drive so that we could write home movies and content to SO playable dvds, and the whole charade starts over again.
I don't see how that can avoid being read by a computer with the proper drivers and software and yet stay compatible with the vast installed base of DVD players. Note: I have had a DVD-R, burned by a FOAF which would not play in any PC DVD player I owned, and I tried at least 7 different drives. It would play find in all three SO dvd players I tried. It reportedly was readable in the drive that burned it, but that PC was out of commission (don't know the problem). I don't know what was screwed up, but I hope the studios don't ever get thier hands on it*.
*I suspect it was just some odd bit errors or bad tracks that messed with the FS - maybe not unlike the topic system. I did not try to read it with Linux, as I did not have a machine that had it loaded at the time.
You're missing the fact that SlySoft is not an American company and has no nexus in the US. As is oft pointed out here on/. - there's more to the world than the US.
The chain of unlawfulness is solid up until the point that the decryption is created or used by an enduser for any specifically exempted purpose, including fair use. I don't hink Antigua gives a rats ass about the US wrt the DMCA, and I doubt that the US government is going to do anything about it.
With large increase in SF of both retail and residential spaces, and all the JIT methods of modern processesm, I foresee the end of central warehouses.
Oh, you mean they can't seem to build enough mini-storage sites? What, they're putting up enormous retail distribution centers for short term storage and efficient delivery?
Guess what, Einstein - central facilities will always be useful. The exact usage my shift, but the utility will still exist.
I don't develop, so it doesn't really affect me, but it is a bit distubing. If anyone can buy a cert, then there's really no barrier to entry for organized black hat purposes. On the consumer side it looks like MS is protecting them, but with such a low fee, there's no real certification that can happen at MS. OTOH, $500 for a hobbiest or freelance developer is real money, and might dissuade someone from building software. It certianly gives hobbiests who distribute their work free a real kick in the nuts.
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Do you know that reliability will be a problem?
Taking a 66x flash card and writing continuously on it until you hit a million cycles would take (1E9B*1E6Cycles/(66x1.5E5B/s)/(60s*60m*24h)= 1169 days, or over 3 years of 24/7 writes. Okay, half that if you're just using 512M as your db. Still, that's under continuous duty. At 25% duty cycle (1/2 read operations, 1/2 write operations, data trasfer occuring _only_ 12 hours a day on average) of the HD on a daily average you've still got 7 years of life. Is the product going to last that long in the marketplace without an upgrade?
Maybe I've slipped a decimal somewhere, but it looks like you might not be able to actually hit the cars limits under normal operating conditions.
The teachers are almost as likely to screw things up as the students. The motivation is different (intentional mischief vs misguided helper), but the result is the same: fubar. No, as long as there is somebody to do the admin job (and there clearly wan't one before, so it's not like you can take a step backwards) you're in pretty good condition.
I'm a diehard windows user - I even still have a copy of Windows 1.02 on 720kb floppy, along with various flavors of DOS back to...well, before dinosuars walked the earth. I work in XP all day becuase it has the apps that make my business run smoothly. I normally am in the "stick with windows" camp. This time, I'm on the other side. These kids don't need XP at school. They need consoles that do the work, not teach them a particular version of a particular program. I say Linux is a good idea.
Embryonic stem-cell research could well be a dead-end, resulting in no viable treatments.
That's true, but we'll never know until we exhaust that possibility. Part of the scientific method is creating and testing hypohteses - if you remove the last part, you're just a philospher, and pure philosophy hasn't had much luck in medical cures.
I think the author should retain the rights.
I agree. And I also believe that those rights should never extend beyond 27 years or the death of the author. I also believe that no corporate entity should hold or maintain exclusive right to any copyrighted work.
You can easily guess how popular those feelings are in the current US congress (and many other governments in the world, for that matter).
Actually, the first thing I thought of was Flash. It is the single most annoying thing a web developer can do to a page. Anything with flash is likely to be very short on content. I can imagine that anything in 3D will be even longer on eye candy and shorter on substance.
It's the server storage (and rapid retrieval) that makes it so different from Napster. There is a bit of a blurry line here on the "common carrier" argument, but if it holds, the Google/YouTube has no obligation to screen the content for anyone but their own internal policies. As long as they respond in a resonable manner to requests from content owners to remove infringing works which they own, they meet the letter of the law.
...and it is the most convenient way to utilize iTunes.
Right now I'd say that this is a virtual environment, and cashing in and cashing out are essentially investing (though they might be considered gambling). If you were to track individual sales and purchases, you might get away with claiming cap gains, but if you put money in, "played," then cashed out at the "end" it would look like gambling, or worse - income. The latter would require you pay self employment taxes. The former would require you to claim it was an entertainment rather than a job.
It's been so long I can't remember if its 3 inches per second or 3 seconds per inch (the latter is the rate of common gree visco, which is a black powder fuse).
The problem is when the composition is (a) confined and (b) has too much surface area. This is exactly the case when you get a crack in the comp within the motor. This is usually described as resulting in rapid acceleration in all directions simultaneously.
Rcoket motors are gas generators you don't need rapidly burning propellent to generate gasses.
True, but one of the easist (and lightest) ways to do so is to burn a solid to produce those gasses. The quicker they burn the faster they generate the gasses. There's really no magic. Take some APCP powder, put it in a loose pile and ignite it. I guarantee it will burn very quickly. I've built these motors from scratch, and have tested the comp in various forms and under different compression. The danger is that you have a fuel and an oxidizer mixed in the proper proportions for self sustained combustion.
The fact is that there is no well-funded lobby for hobby rocketry, nor is there a "need" by most of the citizens for it for daily convenience. If you had one of those two (NRA for the former, Gasoline for the latter), you could be excepted from all this silly regulation.
I believe that up to 60kg (65?) of the old class B - now 1.3g - material may be transported for personal use in personal automobiles, though I'm pretty certain you must have a manufacturers permit, and you may need to have built the material yourself (not sure on that last point).
It's about the desire for Tripoli/NAR to be exempt from the regulations on principle. And it probably won't work.
The firework hobbiests have similar issues (though the rocket folks will always try to maintain maximum separation from them). They have mostly worked out the proper contingencies and such, but the BATFE is not really much into the exceptions game. Well, unless you're a memebr of the NRA. In which case they've carved out an exception so that you can store 50lbs of black powder in your home (no license, no storage requirements) for your "antique" or "replica" firearms.
Mabe he's thinking if Zima, a similarly unhip product.
Yes, it is. It is a salient addition to the discussion. You may argue which way certain mainstream media outlets lean, but when the source is particularly partisan (say, the Washington Times, or The American Prospect) it should be noted that there is celarly an agenda behind the outrage.
/. ran a story about new scientific research that differences in language usage could affect the way you view food and the total amount of calories your body feels it needs, would you be curious? If the editor noted that the story was currently running in the Weekly World News, would that put the story in perspective? I think so.
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...so long as we are not hosting illegal content
;-)
But isn't everything interesting on the internet considered illegal in Utah?
Seriously, though, if overall bandwidth and equal access are an issue, I suspect duration and content based throttling would solve most of the problems of widespread abuse. By targeting the high-bandwidth content and placing bandwidth caps (I'm thinking 24 hour window rate throttling for the top 5% of users, not max client rates on an intermittent basis), you could limit the total network capacity used. Since it could be reasonable to assume that avi and mp3 traffic (for example) is mostly recreational, but pdf may have more total academic content, then the former is eligible for throttling and the latter is not. It's nice to see a college hanging on to the "free flow" ideals, and I hope you guys can keep it up.
I don't do much (well, almost nothing but window shopping) in X. The whole "selected text is on the 'clipboard'" just seems a bit creepy ;-)
There are a zillion little shortcuts everywhere if you know where to find them.
How many times have you seen a computer user who is constantly picking and clicking with their mouse to do the simplest of tasks? I've seen veteran users select text from where the cursor is to the end of the line with the mouse, then click Edit then Cut, then click the point in the document where they want to paste the text, then click Edit then Paste. Shift-End, Ctrl-X, Click at insertion, Ctrl-V would have saved even the fastest mouse-jockey 15-20 seconds on a very common action. There are hundreds of shortcuts - just learning a dozen will save several minutes in a typical day.
Different tasks require different screen real estate, and sometimes bigger is better. But for office app productivity, the low hanging fruit is training.
True, to a point. I've got pretty good eyesight, but at a comfortable viewing distance (15-20"), 90-100dpi seems about optimal. My laptop is 150dpi, and even at 12-14" viewing distance is tiresome. Switching from a 15.4" WUXGA screen to a 24" WUXGA screen made a noticable difference in my end-of-day productivity, with no change in pixels, as it was a function of how tired my eyes got.
LCDs, of course, don't really have a variable display resultion - they have one optimal resolution, and anything else looks lousy. When I used CRTs, I would run a 20" at 1600x1200. Many (older) coworkers didn't like to work at my station because they had problems resolving the text in dialogs and on buttons (they ran 1280x1024 mostly). I preferred it because it got most the toolbars and such "out of the way" and left more "space" for my work area (cad/analysis).
Going from UXGA to WUXGA (an extra 320x1200 pixels on the side) helped a lot, as I could drop all my toolbars/pallets on one side, leaving a large 4:3 space to do my drafting. Now, I might have saved 1 to 2 minutes a day in fewer pan/zoom actions, but it adds up over time.
...on the work your doing, and if it can be partitioned into multiple spaces efficiently. CAD work, it turned out for me, wasn't any more efficient on two screens, but was more efficient on a large widescreen. Since the tools take up a small portion of the screen, a second monitor was mostly unused (unless you count a calendar and email program constantly viewable as useful). A single, large monitor means more drawing data available / more detail shown on the screen, and reduces zooming and panning for operations. If I could drive a 30" from my laptop, I might buy one. I use a 24" WS 'cause it matches my current laptop resolution (seamless transition from work to road use), and it wasn't insanely expensive (30"ers were over $2.5k when I got the 24).
I've know a lot of very smart people who don't know how to right click on the desktop, choose properties, then the settings tab, then choose the proper resolution and bit depth for an LCD monitor that they didn't purchase, didn't connect, and don't have the manual for.
The question to ask is "where the fuck is your tech support?" - they should be putting that information in, not wasting the time of the techincal folks. Oh, right, I've worked in those shops before - most of IT is busy rimming the CxOs, making sure their streaming nasdaq app has unfettered access to the internet.
There is an issue with some monitors having "too much" resolution for some tasks. I have a Dell M70 (don't snigger), and it's got a 15.4" WUXGA screen. My eyesight is pretty good, but even with a 12-14" viewing distance, I found that my eyes would hurt after a full day of CAD/analysis work. I finally gave up and bought an $800 24" 1920x1200 screen for the docking station. Difference is night and day. 90dpi is far better for office work than 150dpi in windows. (many standard dialogs won't scale properly with the magic "font size" option, and you can't read them anymore)
That's a very positive way to look at it.
;-)
I like bus factor better though. It's decidedly graphic, and matches the effect on the project. Also, a moderate percentage of people who were not mis-treated as employees would likely help transition the team given a huge payout. Nobody that's hit by a bus will be "hanging around" to do that.
Kind of like Author DVDs vs regular DVDrs? I honestly don't remember what the difference is, but I suspect it had to do with writing the DVD key. I think the hardware option is lost simply because of the installed base. Sort of like trying to encrypt CDs...it just can't happen and they still be playable on legacy hardware.
;-)
HDDVD and BluRay are trying to "fix" this scenerio by building in the briar patch from the beginning. As with most of us techies, I hope they mangage to fail. Again.
Anything which borks the hardware is going to make practically all of the exsiting SO players useless. Also, since most of the inexpensive players rely on standard DVD drives to keep cost down, it would make the new players far more expensive (being custom and incopmpatible with PC DVDs). Next, we'd need a PC compatible anti-DVD drive so that we could write home movies and content to SO playable dvds, and the whole charade starts over again.
I don't see how that can avoid being read by a computer with the proper drivers and software and yet stay compatible with the vast installed base of DVD players. Note: I have had a DVD-R, burned by a FOAF which would not play in any PC DVD player I owned, and I tried at least 7 different drives. It would play find in all three SO dvd players I tried. It reportedly was readable in the drive that burned it, but that PC was out of commission (don't know the problem). I don't know what was screwed up, but I hope the studios don't ever get thier hands on it*.
*I suspect it was just some odd bit errors or bad tracks that messed with the FS - maybe not unlike the topic system. I did not try to read it with Linux, as I did not have a machine that had it loaded at the time.
You're missing the fact that SlySoft is not an American company and has no nexus in the US. As is oft pointed out here on /. - there's more to the world than the US.
The chain of unlawfulness is solid up until the point that the decryption is created or used by an enduser for any specifically exempted purpose, including fair use. I don't hink Antigua gives a rats ass about the US wrt the DMCA, and I doubt that the US government is going to do anything about it.
With large increase in SF of both retail and residential spaces, and all the JIT methods of modern processesm, I foresee the end of central warehouses.
Oh, you mean they can't seem to build enough mini-storage sites? What, they're putting up enormous retail distribution centers for short term storage and efficient delivery?
Guess what, Einstein - central facilities will always be useful. The exact usage my shift, but the utility will still exist.
I don't develop, so it doesn't really affect me, but it is a bit distubing. If anyone can buy a cert, then there's really no barrier to entry for organized black hat purposes. On the consumer side it looks like MS is protecting them, but with such a low fee, there's no real certification that can happen at MS. OTOH, $500 for a hobbiest or freelance developer is real money, and might dissuade someone from building software. It certianly gives hobbiests who distribute their work free a real kick in the nuts.