Wow, that was great information. Do you have any references to either the Infrant forums or perhaps WD support ? I've been looking for this kind of info without finding it.
I assume that the concept of "the Earth rising from the Moon" is an artifact of the Satellite orbiting the Moon... From the JAXA Selene site that is linked to from TFA:
we use the expression "Earth-rise" in this press release, but the Earth-rise is a phenomenon seen only from satellites that travel around the Moon, such as the KAGUYA and the Apollo space ship. The Earth-rise cannot be observed by a person who is on the Moon as they can always see the Earth at the same position.
> One big reason your system is a better value is because your "Hackentosh" is running an operating system you did not buy a license for.
He did buy the license for the OS. He's not using the OS under the terms and conditions that Apple choose to apply to their product, but those terms may or may not be legally binding depending or where the original poster resides.
What about them ? The region dependency only applies to retail versions bought bought in Russia (not many servicemen stationed there) or Thailand, where it explicitly says on the box that they're region coded. All other versions - US retail, EU retail, Steam - are not region coded.
Sure, DRM is always always a pita for the consumers, but in this case your concern is unfounded.
There's one thing that I just can't get out of my mind... it's the same question that goes for professional coffee samplers - what do they do on their coffee breaks ?
What do the/. employees do when they feel like surfing to a great tech news site with insightful comments instead of working for half an hour or so ? ?
Actually, a more fitting comparison would be between audiophiles and wine glass snobs, since they primarily obsess about the equipment and not the content.
> For the most part the extra channels are there because they subsidize the channels you want. If you eliminate those channels your overall cost will most likely increase, not decrease.
Well that certainly depends on what each and every person define as "extra" channels doesn't it ?
> Nobody is "forced" to buy anything they don't want
True, but only if what you want is nothing. If what you want is one or two certain cable channels, you are indeed forced to buy them as part of a package.
Not to imply that you don't know what you're talking about, but isn't part of the point of a SAN; to an end-user it practically looks and behaves as if it were a local device ? Of course, you might be in the know of the overall storage infrastructure, but then again... you might not.
So to save your reputation you'll have to spill your beans, so to speak.
> This isn't "documenting your personal life". It's one snapshot.
Yeah, says the Politburo...:)
Seriously, no it isn't documenting, literary. But how long before there are 10 pictures for every location to choose from ? You know where this is going, and at some point there will more innocently gathered, publicly available information that is categorized and indexed about a single individual than should be. It's not the random photo snapped from the street that poses the problem, it is the veritable harvesting of publicly accessible areas, cross-referencing it with addresses and making it publicly available that is.
> But it isn't even remotely reasonable because she keeps her blinds open!
No, no, no. You can't be expected to be living out of a dungeon (or in your parents' basement if that sounds more familiar for/.ers) in order to not have people documenting your personal life. People outside may and should also be expected to see some of what goes on inside your house if you have an easily accessible window, but documenting what goes on in there and furthermore making it available to others, is not OK.
Interestingly enough, this sort of thing makes "regular" people the victim of what celebrities have had to endure increasingly for a long time. I'm sure there are many readers of tabloids enjoying the latest mega-zoom-lens pictures of Jennifer Aniston eating her bagel in bed, whilst complaining that the Google-van is invading the oh-so sacred privacy when taking pics from the streets.
>I believe the CA laws require power companies to pay you the same amount they charge you for power
If so, that's a hidden subsidy, silently paid for by all the other customers. In any rational economic analysis you factor that out.
Realistically they should be paying him MUCH LESS than the wholesale cost of power-- sun power is unpredictable at best, so the utility has to start up more of the very expensive peak power plants (usually gas turbine plants) to compensate for the dips in solar power. That makes solar power worth MUCH LESS than the average wholesale price of reliable power, in any rational analysis.
And notice that his numbers just don't add up-- his consumption is slightly more than can ever be generated by fresh new panels of that size. So there is no energy to get paid back for at unrealistic prices. Zero. Nada.
And in a more typical photovoltaic setup, where you're off the grid, you need batteries. I was extremely generous and did not deduct the losses in storing the power in batteries, or the cost of replacement batteries (they're typically only good for about 300 to 500 charge/discharge cycles).
The numbers do add up for this individual: he's using more power than he generates, but he's receiving more credit for his generated power than he's paying for his over-usage. That's a rational analysis.
> Government has no right to steal from me, or you, to pay for this guy's pipe dream
It's not stealing, it is called taxation. Not only has the gov't a right to do it - granted by you, the people - it has an OBLIGATION to take your money and pay for pipe-dreams that you, the people decide on. For instance $350,000,000,000 of taxes you paid to wage a war. (Which would pay some 10,000,000 solar panel installations for that matter...)
Perhaps you're one of those that call taxes "stealing" and yet get anal when someone calls copyright infringment "stealing" ? It's a common thing.
Here's the beauty of being the government: you can estimate the long-term costs of electricity usage instead of just the knee-jerk first thing that comes to mind.
And you know what, spending $30,000 out of the tax payers money might just be economically wise when taking into account all the costs associated with producing and distributing energy. It might save you more money in the long run than it costs.
Trying to standardize tags in the context of standardizing what they are, is hopeless. It'll be like the Unicode standard; too complex to use in its entirety.
But to standardize the format of tags and to standardize how to exchange tags between systems, is a great idea.
Easy there fellow. The editors of/. are not journalists and cannot be expected to "check sources" like they'd be submitting stories for the print version of the NY Times. This is a techie site and the editors should just decide whether a story is interesting enough to make the page.
Furthermore, isn't it more fun when things backfire like this and the hoaxter gets caught than in this would have just ended up in an editors trash bin ?
Just what we need in the time of phising attacks being a constant worry: having to figure out whether not just one, but four different hostnames belong to the site operator in question.
This phenomenon has been used in stores and most notably shopping malls for a long time. Specific music and specific scents increase the amount of sales significally.
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Just make sure you know what companies are owned by the media corporations:
http://www.thenation.com/special/bigten.html
You wouldn't want to purchase your "fat internet pipe" from the very same corporation that used to provide you with television.
Wow, that was great information. Do you have any references to either the Infrant forums or perhaps WD support ? I've been looking for this kind of info without finding it.
Thanks
Somewhere in Calgary, Theo de Raadts head just exploded...
> One big reason your system is a better value is because your "Hackentosh" is running an operating system you did not buy a license for.
He did buy the license for the OS. He's not using the OS under the terms and conditions that Apple choose to apply to their product, but those terms may or may not be legally binding depending or where the original poster resides.
What about them ? The region dependency only applies to retail versions bought bought in Russia (not many servicemen stationed there) or Thailand, where it explicitly says on the box that they're region coded. All other versions - US retail, EU retail, Steam - are not region coded.
Sure, DRM is always always a pita for the consumers, but in this case your concern is unfounded.
There's one thing that I just can't get out of my mind... it's the same question that goes for professional coffee samplers - what do they do on their coffee breaks ?
/. employees do when they feel like surfing to a great tech news site with insightful comments instead of working for half an hour or so ? ?
What do the
Actually, a more fitting comparison would be between audiophiles and wine glass snobs, since they primarily obsess about the equipment and not the content.
> For the most part the extra channels are there because they subsidize the channels you want. If you eliminate those channels your overall cost will most likely increase, not decrease.
Well that certainly depends on what each and every person define as "extra" channels doesn't it ?
> Nobody is "forced" to buy anything they don't want
True, but only if what you want is nothing. If what you want is one or two certain cable channels, you are indeed forced to buy them as part of a package.
Not to imply that you don't know what you're talking about, but isn't part of the point of a SAN; to an end-user it practically looks and behaves as if it were a local device ? Of course, you might be in the know of the overall storage infrastructure, but then again... you might not.
So to save your reputation you'll have to spill your beans, so to speak.
Yeah, procedural programming with Erlang, with column store. I'm just a bit torn on if it's going to be running on big iron or on thin clients...
> This isn't "documenting your personal life". It's one snapshot.
:)
Yeah, says the Politburo...
Seriously, no it isn't documenting, literary. But how long before there are 10 pictures for every location to choose from ? You know where this is going, and at some point there will more innocently gathered, publicly available information that is categorized and indexed about a single individual than should be. It's not the random photo snapped from the street that poses the problem, it is the veritable harvesting of publicly accessible areas, cross-referencing it with addresses and making it publicly available that is.
> But it isn't even remotely reasonable because she keeps her blinds open!
/.ers) in order to not have people documenting your personal life. People outside may and should also be expected to see some of what goes on inside your house if you have an easily accessible window, but documenting what goes on in there and furthermore making it available to others, is not OK.
No, no, no. You can't be expected to be living out of a dungeon (or in your parents' basement if that sounds more familiar for
Interestingly enough, this sort of thing makes "regular" people the victim of what celebrities have had to endure increasingly for a long time. I'm sure there are many readers of tabloids enjoying the latest mega-zoom-lens pictures of Jennifer Aniston eating her bagel in bed, whilst complaining that the Google-van is invading the oh-so sacred privacy when taking pics from the streets.
There should be a "Sad" moderation option for people in New Jersey. /exit 4A
> It's amazing what you can find in seconds with google =)
/. users know about Google. Asking a question on ask./. is about getting opinions, not so much about getting information.
I'm sure most
One has to assume that the confidentiality pertains to the proprietary code interacting with the driver, not the driver code itself.
The numbers do add up for this individual: he's using more power than he generates, but he's receiving more credit for his generated power than he's paying for his over-usage. That's a rational analysis.
> Government has no right to steal from me, or you, to pay for this guy's pipe dream
It's not stealing, it is called taxation. Not only has the gov't a right to do it - granted by you, the people - it has an OBLIGATION to take your money and pay for pipe-dreams that you, the people decide on. For instance $350,000,000,000 of taxes you paid to wage a war. (Which would pay some 10,000,000 solar panel installations for that matter...)
Perhaps you're one of those that call taxes "stealing" and yet get anal when someone calls copyright infringment "stealing" ? It's a common thing.
Here's the beauty of being the government: you can estimate the long-term costs of electricity usage instead of just the knee-jerk first thing that comes to mind.
And you know what, spending $30,000 out of the tax payers money might just be economically wise when taking into account all the costs associated with producing and distributing energy. It might save you more money in the long run than it costs.
Trying to standardize tags in the context of standardizing what they are, is hopeless. It'll be like the Unicode standard; too complex to use in its entirety.
But to standardize the format of tags and to standardize how to exchange tags between systems, is a great idea.
Easy there fellow. The editors of /. are not journalists and cannot be expected to "check sources" like they'd be submitting stories for the print version of the NY Times. This is a techie site and the editors should just decide whether a story is interesting enough to make the page.
Furthermore, isn't it more fun when things backfire like this and the hoaxter gets caught than in this would have just ended up in an editors trash bin ?
....Cuz one could scale this technique to work on, say, the lotto results.
No, one couldn't. There are inherent differences between our world and the quantum world. Specifically, quantum effects do not scale.
Then again, if you used individual photons instead of lotto balls, we'd be in business.
Hey, at least he didn't have a grammatical error in his sig.
Just what we need in the time of phising attacks being a constant worry: having to figure out whether not just one, but four different hostnames belong to the site operator in question.
This phenomenon has been used in stores and most notably shopping malls for a long time. Specific music and specific scents increase the amount of sales significally.
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