I'm guessing the idea of a RAID of iPod Shuffles began with alcohol too.
In my experience it's hard NOT to ruin delicate fiddly hardware and NOT to mangle code or scripts when under the influence. It's also somewhat less rewarding, should I pull it off.
A RAID of 40GB iPods would be orders of magnitude more useful, but if you've got that kind of money you'd be better off buying an Xserve RAID; you can get a 1 TB unit for the price you'd pay for a 600GB iPod RAID, without the rats nest of firewire cables (not to mention the really slow performance).
I can see it now... Darwin Award entry:
He got into jogging for his health, but found the running tedius and therefore got an iPod. That was pretty good, but then he considered the advantages of hauling around a 1 TB server and all the speakers and all the batteries necessary for Full Dolby Surround. In the end, he tripped and his liver was crushed by the whole apparatus.
"Microsoft must deliver an improved version of its browser in Longhorn if it is to "determine the outcome" of the browser war.""
Foo.
Improved is such a generalization, and it will be interpreted and realized in that manner. Microsoft will undoubtably continue to
bundle more crap into it, tie proprietary formats to it, ignore generally accepted practices of composition (delivering their own, which break
pages on rival browsers, a la the Opera Bork-Bork-Bork fiasco), uselessly incorporate it into all their product lines (regarless if it makes any sense, i.e. XBox 3, all games played
through a browser) and continue with the practice of patenting and copyrighting everything they can think of to fend off competition.
We've seen all this before.
"isn't that another tentacle around your throat?"
"yes, but it's an improved tentacle and i'm certain i feel better about it than the last one."
Actually I really like this idea. And I'd like it even more if they took it one step farther and arranged for the fans to pay the distribution costs, so they could run commercial-free. And, just to make it even juicier, a few more bucks for another 15 minutes of show. With the commercials stripped out, it's going to come out to about 43 minutes. You can't easily fit that into a broadcast schedule, so let's make the show 58 minutes. Hey, we're paying for it, right?
Yes, they really do run that many commercials in a "one hour" show.
Maybe you and most others don't remember, but there used to be serials which ran in the local theaters. I only know of it from a show on PBS which ran many of these serials and what my dad said about taking his dime down to the movie house for a couple cartoons, some serials and a newsreel.
That's what it was like back when people voted with their feet and pocketbooks to watch a serial. Now there seems to be interest in doing it again, but putting up the money beforehand.
Novel. But imagine the cry for blood when an episode disappoints a donor... you can't please everyone all the time and you just know disappointment is going to follow.
you work for me now, i want to see more photon torpedos and phasers!
Back to the moon... like, why? There's no cheese there. It's doubtful there's really going to be any water. Maybe they can generate a lot of energy there (so how do you get it back to earth?)
Well. Might as wel brush up on Lunar Rails, get ready for developing the moon.
sorry, you didn't get the contract it went to halliburton
Not as simple as that, which implies there's more code in there than necessary. What has happened is feature bloat. As an example there's a well known author who still does his work in WordPerfect 4.2 Why? Because it already does everything he needs.
Whenever I've been confronted with the latest install of Office (at work, I use notepad and wordpad at home) I usually spend an hour or so turning off all the damn irritating automatic features. The author makes an excellent point, too, that he has bent the computer to do what he needs, rather than having so much crap to deal with bending him to meet its requirements.
There's a lot of happy people out there with Pentiums and 486's who really, really don't want to upgrade, since everything is already the way they want it. With all the current vulnerabilities and threats, why change?
Intel Pentium IV now with RSN Dual Core Technology!
And we'll have an operating system which takes advantage of it, as long as it's called Linux, right? Because Windows is still shuffling around with getting the 64 bit version done, yet.
A kludge winning out in the end sure would be consistent with x86 history.
As underscored by the following strategy:
and also the Smithfield Pentium 4 800 series, which is the next so-called consumer desktop line.
Doesn't seem that long ago that people at Intel were saying absurd things like, 'consumers will never need 64 bits' or 'consumers will never need dual core'.
Hell, look out the window at El Camino Real and tell me how many of those consumers crusing up and down that road need those 4WD vehicles. Yet consumers buy them in droves. Consumers want, you don't offer, you surrender a market. Seems they've learned not to underestimate what consumers want (which often has little to do with what they need.)
We bitch more about PayPal then Ebay. How about you fix Paypal first.
Maybe you do, but I've only run the basic PayPal account and haven't held much in the way of high expectations and haven't been disappointed much.
Ebay on the other hand was like talking to the damn wall. You got an echo and that was it. Volunteers in the chatrooms rarely could do anything to make a situation right. As a buyer and seller I've found eBay to be distancing themselves from their customers more and more each year and not happy about it at all. It sucks when ebay is about the only place you can turn for some things and they've got some kinds of Sirius Cybernetics 'Share and Enjoy' approach to everything.
To be fair, most internet businesses started out with good cutomer service, before removing all phone numbers and actual email addresses. It's lovely to get nowhere online, get a phone number somewhere to call them and have a recorded voice suggest you visit their web page (which was so useless that you turned to the phone.)
Re:So they say they've found the missing matter...
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So they say they've found the missing matter, but nowhere in the article do they actually tell us where all the missing socks went. Sure sounds like a scam to me!
As my friend Paul Z. said, "Socks are the larval form of hangers."
Re:Wait a sec, this story isn't about "dark matter
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It seems to me this story isn't actually about "dark matter" -- it's about locating some missing baryonic matter (ie, regular stuff).
Which is what they're constantly doing. I heard the theories in my astronomy class. There's plenty of them, such as brown dwarves just drifting around out there. How do you explain them? Well some star has a vector or some light appears bent (lens effect) and it's figured there's some large enough object out there not emitting light which is doing it. And who's to say it isn't large amounts effectively of bits the size of pea gravel drifting around?
In other words, if regular stuff is about 5% of the energy density of the universe, with dark matter at about 20%, and dark energy at about 75% -- the stuff in this story comes into that 5%, ie, regular stuff and not dark matter.
Dark matter is, as I understood, matter which isn't emitting some radiation, i.e. visible light or gamma rays. It's predicted, because without something being somewhere a number would be +0.0000150 instead of +0.0000146 and we can pretty much drop the old Intel Pentium jokes.
Am I thinking of a different term, or aren't "baryons" just the counterpart to "tachyons?" And where tachyons are supposed to always travel faster than light, baryons always travel slower. In other words, I thought baryons represent everything we usually mean when we say "matter."
Is this a case of a reporter being out of his depth?
I'm sure it's already in layman's terms as your average reader of Wired probably still has their eyes glaze over when you bring up the Life of Small Black Holes (an actual talk at our Astronomy Club, which still has me scratching my head.)
Or maybe it's me, a Slashdot poster?
<Bugs Bunny Voice>Nnnnnyyy could be!</Bugs Bunny Voice>
Place your bets!:-)
I'd go with the less general term 'baryons' over 'general purpose matter' as it give it some mystique, which always helps when going for funding.
I'd love to see the modeling on this stuff, as they have some super computer up the road at UCSC probably grinding away on massive
simulations this very minute, but it'd probably look less like those beautiful Hubble shots and more like a stack of paper covered with numbers.
There are massive quantities of Baryons in a super-heated gas gloud several hundred million light years away."
Which, IMHO, is a damn fine place for them to be, rather than here.
The absorption pattern, as detected by Chandra, is consistent with interference caused by carbon, neon, nitrogen and oxygen ions -- in other words, baryons.
It's really a neon sign on Frogstar World B announcing the construction of a restaurant to be constructed on this location in several billion years and reservations are welcome.
"Assuming that what we see is a standard portion of the universe, we extrapolated the data and derived the volume density (of baryons in all the clouds) -- and it's consistent with 50 percent," said astronomer Fabrizio Nicastro, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and lead author of the study.
Later a two-headed, three-armed man entered and ate a piece of fairycake and destroyed their model.
Whereas baryons account for 4 percent of the total matter and energy in the universe, dark matter is thought to make up 23 percent. The remaining 73 percent of the so-called matter-energy budget consists of what scientists call "dark energy." This energy acts like an anti-gravitational force that, in theory, is causing the universe to expand rather than contract.
And here I thought it all existed somewhere along Lucas Valley Road and explained the Jar Jar character and Episodes I-III...
How much would a new telescope cost? I mean, $1 billion is a lot for repair costs -- if a new one costs somewhere around there, why not just replace hubble altogether?
NASA should have read the contract, Hubble was a loss leader for the manufacturer. As we all know the profit is all in the servicing of it.
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In my experience it's hard NOT to ruin delicate fiddly hardware and NOT to mangle code or scripts when under the influence. It's also somewhat less rewarding, should I pull it off.
A RAID of 40GB iPods would be orders of magnitude more useful, but if you've got that kind of money you'd be better off buying an Xserve RAID; you can get a 1 TB unit for the price you'd pay for a 600GB iPod RAID, without the rats nest of firewire cables (not to mention the really slow performance).
I can see it now ... Darwin Award entry:
Wait, anyone know of any flash hard drives for PCs/Macs that work via SATA? This would be interesting to do, almost instant boot.
I remember doing random file access on a DEC TU16 (9 track reel to reel tape drive) That was a trip. Slow, but cool to watch.
Foo.
Improved is such a generalization, and it will be interpreted and realized in that manner. Microsoft will undoubtably continue to bundle more crap into it, tie proprietary formats to it, ignore generally accepted practices of composition (delivering their own, which break pages on rival browsers, a la the Opera Bork-Bork-Bork fiasco), uselessly incorporate it into all their product lines (regarless if it makes any sense, i.e. XBox 3, all games played through a browser) and continue with the practice of patenting and copyrighting everything they can think of to fend off competition.
We've seen all this before.
"isn't that another tentacle around your throat?"
"yes, but it's an improved tentacle and i'm certain i feel better about it than the last one."
Mars Rails!!!! =-)
Maybe you and most others don't remember, but there used to be serials which ran in the local theaters. I only know of it from a show on PBS which ran many of these serials and what my dad said about taking his dime down to the movie house for a couple cartoons, some serials and a newsreel.
That's what it was like back when people voted with their feet and pocketbooks to watch a serial. Now there seems to be interest in doing it again, but putting up the money beforehand.
Novel. But imagine the cry for blood when an episode disappoints a donor ... you can't please everyone all the time and you just know disappointment is going to follow.
you work for me now, i want to see more photon torpedos and phasers!
Yeah, wait until you see Hubble Debris for sale on eBay... that's how they really plan to fund lunar and mars missions.
strange, it says paid to *HALLIBURTON...
Well. Might as wel brush up on Lunar Rails, get ready for developing the moon.
sorry, you didn't get the contract it went to halliburton
Not as simple as that, which implies there's more code in there than necessary. What has happened is feature bloat. As an example there's a well known author who still does his work in WordPerfect 4.2 Why? Because it already does everything he needs.
Whenever I've been confronted with the latest install of Office (at work, I use notepad and wordpad at home) I usually spend an hour or so turning off all the damn irritating automatic features. The author makes an excellent point, too, that he has bent the computer to do what he needs, rather than having so much crap to deal with bending him to meet its requirements.
There's a lot of happy people out there with Pentiums and 486's who really, really don't want to upgrade, since everything is already the way they want it. With all the current vulnerabilities and threats, why change?
Going back to SGI, eh? Iris Indigo
Intel Pentium IV now with RSN Dual Core Technology!
And we'll have an operating system which takes advantage of it, as long as it's called Linux, right? Because Windows is still shuffling around with getting the 64 bit version done, yet.
As underscored by the following strategy:
and also the Smithfield Pentium 4 800 series, which is the next so-called consumer desktop line.
Doesn't seem that long ago that people at Intel were saying absurd things like, 'consumers will never need 64 bits' or 'consumers will never need dual core'.
Hell, look out the window at El Camino Real and tell me how many of those consumers crusing up and down that road need those 4WD vehicles. Yet consumers buy them in droves. Consumers want, you don't offer, you surrender a market. Seems they've learned not to underestimate what consumers want (which often has little to do with what they need.)
Maybe you do, but I've only run the basic PayPal account and haven't held much in the way of high expectations and haven't been disappointed much.
Ebay on the other hand was like talking to the damn wall. You got an echo and that was it. Volunteers in the chatrooms rarely could do anything to make a situation right. As a buyer and seller I've found eBay to be distancing themselves from their customers more and more each year and not happy about it at all. It sucks when ebay is about the only place you can turn for some things and they've got some kinds of Sirius Cybernetics 'Share and Enjoy' approach to everything.
To be fair, most internet businesses started out with good cutomer service, before removing all phone numbers and actual email addresses. It's lovely to get nowhere online, get a phone number somewhere to call them and have a recorded voice suggest you visit their web page (which was so useless that you turned to the phone.)
As my friend Paul Z. said, "Socks are the larval form of hangers."
Which is what they're constantly doing. I heard the theories in my astronomy class. There's plenty of them, such as brown dwarves just drifting around out there. How do you explain them? Well some star has a vector or some light appears bent (lens effect) and it's figured there's some large enough object out there not emitting light which is doing it. And who's to say it isn't large amounts effectively of bits the size of pea gravel drifting around?
In other words, if regular stuff is about 5% of the energy density of the universe, with dark matter at about 20%, and dark energy at about 75% -- the stuff in this story comes into that 5%, ie, regular stuff and not dark matter.
Dark matter is, as I understood, matter which isn't emitting some radiation, i.e. visible light or gamma rays. It's predicted, because without something being somewhere a number would be +0.0000150 instead of +0.0000146 and we can pretty much drop the old Intel Pentium jokes.
Is this a case of a reporter being out of his depth?
I'm sure it's already in layman's terms as your average reader of Wired probably still has their eyes glaze over when you bring up the Life of Small Black Holes (an actual talk at our Astronomy Club, which still has me scratching my head.)
Or maybe it's me, a Slashdot poster?
<Bugs Bunny Voice>Nnnnnyyy could be!</Bugs Bunny Voice>
Place your bets! :-)
I'd go with the less general term 'baryons' over 'general purpose matter' as it give it some mystique, which always helps when going for funding.
Space is big
Space is dark
It's hard to find
A place to park
Burma Shave -- from WorkBench Lander
Oh, why do you expect such miracles!?!?
on a five year mission to seek out and develop a new series to exploit the faithful
Well, think about it, it doesn't sound very exciting to report that 'It isn't right here' and sure isn't as damn near scientific.
I'm bloody amazed that the NIH hasn't announced in a study that a diet based upon the missing Dark Matter helps reduce cancer in laboratory cheese.
There are massive quantities of Baryons in a super-heated gas gloud several hundred million light years away."
Which, IMHO, is a damn fine place for them to be, rather than here.
The absorption pattern, as detected by Chandra, is consistent with interference caused by carbon, neon, nitrogen and oxygen ions -- in other words, baryons.
It's really a neon sign on Frogstar World B announcing the construction of a restaurant to be constructed on this location in several billion years and reservations are welcome.
"Assuming that what we see is a standard portion of the universe, we extrapolated the data and derived the volume density (of baryons in all the clouds) -- and it's consistent with 50 percent," said astronomer Fabrizio Nicastro, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and lead author of the study.
Later a two-headed, three-armed man entered and ate a piece of fairycake and destroyed their model.
Whereas baryons account for 4 percent of the total matter and energy in the universe, dark matter is thought to make up 23 percent. The remaining 73 percent of the so-called matter-energy budget consists of what scientists call "dark energy." This energy acts like an anti-gravitational force that, in theory, is causing the universe to expand rather than contract.
And here I thought it all existed somewhere along Lucas Valley Road and explained the Jar Jar character and Episodes I-III...
Or in him, a la Fat Bastard...
The last time a ring was this cool was with a decoder and a whistle and came in a cereal box.
i see you, too, have the schwartz
NASA should have read the contract, Hubble was a loss leader for the manufacturer. As we all know the profit is all in the servicing of it.
Hubble $$$
Replacement gyro - $5,000
Replacement screw - $0.05
Replacement nut - $0.05
House call - $1,000,000,000.00
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this guy searches site frequently for Tex Ritter, Cool Whip and Kazoos, I guess we could sell that to goatse.cx guy...