It's also a really stupid law. I went on a German exchange at school. All of the children I met had played Wolfenstein 3D, but because it was not allowed to be sold in Germany they'd all pirated it. It didn't stop anyone playing the game, it just stopped Id Software getting any money.
Success! The profit motive for creating nazi themed games eliminated in Germany! I bet ID even made their later games not contain nazi imagery so they could recover those sales.
I guess you didn't hear about the Patriot Act or even lesser what happened when South Park showed Mohammad this year? I think its funny how They showed him in the Super Best Friends episode and no one cared but now not only is he shown as a big black box but they bleep his name as well.
But that's just a decision they made. It's not like there was government censorship involved. They were just (pick your point of view): 1) Building a controversy to improve viewership. 2) Cowering in fear of muslims who live half a world away.
Now the patriot act... that's actual suckiness happening, though there isn't a lot of free speech suppression in there. It's mostly trampling on rights further down the bill.
My point was really that in 2000 deployment months, you'd have had several failures with even the highest end of high end enterprise quality drives. These things are an order of magnitude more reliable early on, probably for at least the first couple of years. And in that kind of context, you replace them every couple of years anyway. In a NAS situation, you likewise have a replacement plan anyway, because the number of disks mandates it. So if one hits the write limit, you replace it with a next generation device, just like you would when the spinning disk has a head crash.
People who tune large databases have been IOPS focused for a long time. SSDs enable a new level of IOPS that is about one to two orders of magnitude better than spinning disks. SSDs will allow people to (re)consider all sorts of applications that are currently IOPS bound or IOPS prohibited. Soon Google will be able to keep track of how much milk you have in your fridge, and send you a reminder to buy some when you are near a store that sells it, and have plans to go home afterward so that they can be sure you will be able to refrigerate it.
I can report to you that we've been buying these in our desktops for over a year now. We have about 200 or so deployed, for a total of about 2000 deployment-months. Zero failures so far.
Oh my gawd! Solar cooling! Won't someone thinking of the children! This is obviously the work of man and industry. According to all known publications on global warming, any deviation from historic trends means man is completely behind the deviation.
We should immediately start nuking the sun to spur increased solar activity.
I sincerely hope moderators understand tongue in cheek humor.
Sorry, from the moderation so far, you are out of luck on moderators understanding tongue in cheek humor. Next time, try tongue in ass humor. I think you'll have better luck with this age demographic.
Yeah, but you have to remember that God is just a 'creator of the universe' impersonator. And He is the one who is really unwise to mess with the Creator.
There doesn't need to be a disincentive. That only applies to criminal actions.
Its no different than if you sue a previous landlord for your deposit back on an apartment. The most you can get is the cost of the damages (the deposit) + the legal fees to recover it. It isn't like they fine the landlord extra for being wrong about owing you the deposit.
Are you kidding? Why bother having civil laws against anything if you're not going to have any disincentives for violating them?
I can't believe either of those is a serious problem:
Interview coding: do they really use you to solve a real problem they are having? And you are successful in understanding their problem domain in an hour, and providing a useful solution? Seriously? They'd have been run into the ground by more efficient competitors.
Probation period? Who signs on to a job like that?
In other news, a handgun was manufactured today. I predict that it's going to hurt someone.
That would be a bad bet. Only a tiny, tiny fraction (far less than 1%) of guns manufactured ever manage to hurt anyone, and the fraction is smaller for handguns than for many (probably any) other class.
They are not ad agencies in the sense of creating ads, no. But the business is run by the advertising side in both cases. That is, if you cross the ads people, you get fired, not them. They decide on the tone of reporting, content of shows, etc. They get approval power over basically everything. If you don't think that's the reality... well... go work for any one of them for a time.
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It's also a really stupid law. I went on a German exchange at school. All of the children I met had played Wolfenstein 3D, but because it was not allowed to be sold in Germany they'd all pirated it. It didn't stop anyone playing the game, it just stopped Id Software getting any money.
Success! The profit motive for creating nazi themed games eliminated in Germany! I bet ID even made their later games not contain nazi imagery so they could recover those sales.
I guess you didn't hear about the Patriot Act or even lesser what happened when South Park showed Mohammad this year? I think its funny how They showed him in the Super Best Friends episode and no one cared but now not only is he shown as a big black box but they bleep his name as well.
But that's just a decision they made. It's not like there was government censorship involved. They were just (pick your point of view):
1) Building a controversy to improve viewership.
2) Cowering in fear of muslims who live half a world away.
Now the patriot act ... that's actual suckiness happening, though there isn't a lot of free speech suppression in there. It's mostly trampling on rights further down the bill.
My point was really that in 2000 deployment months, you'd have had several failures with even the highest end of high end enterprise quality drives. These things are an order of magnitude more reliable early on, probably for at least the first couple of years. And in that kind of context, you replace them every couple of years anyway. In a NAS situation, you likewise have a replacement plan anyway, because the number of disks mandates it. So if one hits the write limit, you replace it with a next generation device, just like you would when the spinning disk has a head crash.
People who tune large databases have been IOPS focused for a long time. SSDs enable a new level of IOPS that is about one to two orders of magnitude better than spinning disks. SSDs will allow people to (re)consider all sorts of applications that are currently IOPS bound or IOPS prohibited. Soon Google will be able to keep track of how much milk you have in your fridge, and send you a reminder to buy some when you are near a store that sells it, and have plans to go home afterward so that they can be sure you will be able to refrigerate it.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704901104575423294099527212.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop
I can report to you that we've been buying these in our desktops for over a year now. We have about 200 or so deployed, for a total of about 2000 deployment-months.
Zero failures so far.
Oh my gawd! Solar cooling! Won't someone thinking of the children! This is obviously the work of man and industry. According to all known publications on global warming, any deviation from historic trends means man is completely behind the deviation.
We should immediately start nuking the sun to spur increased solar activity.
I sincerely hope moderators understand tongue in cheek humor.
Sorry, from the moderation so far, you are out of luck on moderators understanding tongue in cheek humor.
Next time, try tongue in ass humor. I think you'll have better luck with this age demographic.
Yeah, but you have to remember that God is just a 'creator of the universe' impersonator. And He is the one who is really unwise to mess with the Creator.
There doesn't need to be a disincentive. That only applies to criminal actions.
Its no different than if you sue a previous landlord for your deposit back on an apartment. The most you can get is the cost of the damages (the deposit) + the legal fees to recover it. It isn't like they fine the landlord extra for being wrong about owing you the deposit.
Are you kidding? Why bother having civil laws against anything if you're not going to have any disincentives for violating them?
We RECORD more information. Information has been produced in rough proportion to the population at pretty much the same rate as ever.
And you can go a WHOLE YEAR without getting paid? That is crazy! Who on earth can take that risk!
It was the premise of the great, great, great, great, great grand parent to which I originally replied, and which you challenged:
"what stop them from firing you right at the end of the probation period and getting free work."
Do the contract to hire jobs really not pay you in most cases? I took one once, and got paid in advance like you usually do for contracting.
BugMeNot is your friend.
Artists should get paid, every performance, just like a software developer. I get paid when I show up.
I have never seen a job like that. And i've taken 4 interviews this year.
I can't believe either of those is a serious problem:
Interview coding: do they really use you to solve a real problem they are having? And you are successful in understanding their problem domain in an hour, and providing a useful solution? Seriously? They'd have been run into the ground by more efficient competitors.
Probation period? Who signs on to a job like that?
That's how small they can go. Beyond that, increasing the functional density of our CPUs will get really challenging.
Well, even if not, I'm sure he THINKS he wrote it. :-)
In other news, a handgun was manufactured today. I predict that it's going to hurt someone.
That would be a bad bet. Only a tiny, tiny fraction (far less than 1%) of guns manufactured ever manage to hurt anyone, and the fraction is smaller for handguns than for many (probably any) other class.
An air? He is the textbook megalomaniac.
They are not ad agencies in the sense of creating ads, no. But the business is run by the advertising side in both cases. That is, if you cross the ads people, you get fired, not them. They decide on the tone of reporting, content of shows, etc. They get approval power over basically everything. If you don't think that's the reality ... well ... go work for any one of them for a time.
Well, Google was a good, but by no means unique idea. Had they been swallowed, one of their parallels would have filled the void.
Yep, government is the largest protection racket of all. And the rich should expect to pay their fair proportion of the costs of that racket.
Ah, not around here (bay area, CA). Cops out in force at the end of every month pulling over one after another.
And conveniently, just like the labels, you can collect immediately after the crime occurs.
Now what was your address again?