How well you need to back up system x depends entirely on what system x is and what you do with it.
Also it could be argued that off line applies to the west coast servers as they apparently cannot be connected to by the east coast ones. Though off line does not mean it has to be a slow medium. A machine that powers up once a week to do the backup is fine, but for safety purposes it really shouldn't be on the net and running at much the same time as the other machine.
However, I would question your scheme as it is NOT protected against damage to the West coast servers.
Yes you can distribute risk across the net and get the risk of data loss down lower than a single off-line backup, but two separate servers isn't going to do it.
Really for legal work code should be fairly well written to a good standard for just this reason.
While we might lament at a judge being illiterate of computer matters, it still needs to be easy to read code so that the prosecution can prove that the code actually does what they say it does.
Really when you think about it, or at least when I do, in a computer literate judicial system the requirement for well written code for these types of machines becomes greater as both prosecution and defense will look at the code in greater detail.
While I am not one for just slashing away at Government budget, nor do I sing the praises of the small government good/big government bad mantra, and the last 8 years have demonstrated that putting those who sing that mantra into power does nothing to shrink either the government or spending, but this really is egregious.
I could see the higher tax on certain foods, but video games and DVDs? This is just a luxury tax disguised as a health tax.
Big government vs small government isn't the problem. We are one of the largest economies and nations in the world that means we will have a large government in order to sustain conditions that will allow that economy to function(sorry kiddies, free markets are NOT self regulating at least not towards their own longevity).
What we need is smart and well run government. This of course is much easier said than done. Simply sniping and complaining about this program or that because it spends or because it taxes does nothing but pad a select few's wallets. Not that there isn't room for complaint, oh there is plenty, but that complaint must be of much greater depth than "it spends too much" or in recent times, "it spends at all."
If there is one thing that creating "Artificial Intelligence" has taught us it is that we know very little about what the word intelligence really means.
I mean its like they think you are borrowing their computers? They think they can do whatever they want with equipment they paid for and tell you how you can and cannot use their stuff.
There is also the problem that lobbiests would not have to destroy it.
It is one thing to make a secure operating system but it is quite another thing to keep that os secure especially over hundreds of thousands of users.
In the end, practically, the security of an OS is only temporary until someone can figure out how to break it.
Also this is how government in many ways is supposed to work.
Take Healthcare and how a government improves its citizens health. Now many would argue that a government should have nothing to do with that and never does much for the average citizen but they would be wrong.
Most health improvements over the centuries have come from government activities. Sewers in large cities, food regulations, even direct medical research to a large extent.
Look at the rise of governments and see the rise of populations as well as the increase of average life span.
Government isn't just for police and military in most cases(in fact being just for those two causes is a major symptom of despotism).
Who pray tell is posting all these magical answers to questions that may or may not be asked by someone googling?
Googling around only gets you so far with most interface/specific computer questions. Often there are bugs which take time to reach forums let alone well written help pages. More often then not your problem isn't going to be what people are linking to/talking about on many pages and so will NOT show up on Google page rank. Many problems also are rooted in individual configurations and individual mistakes made along the way thus appear vastly different to different users.
Oh and the kicker is often to get the most out of google you have to know a bit about what you are searching for which for newbie help is almost never going to be the case.
Perhaps one day when we put as much time and thought in writing the helpfiles and user information bits of programs then google will be the ultimate answer but for now it is in most cases thirty minutes of frustration that would be more helpful just hitting IRC or a forum to ask someone who might have a clue as to what they are doing or might have seen the problem before.
Like it or not KDE and Gnome both have a great deal of functionality that the minimalists simply don't or have with much prodding.
I will sometimes switch to a minimalist setup but always come crawling back after a few days or weeks(sometimes months) usually for some small widget or behavior that just isn't available or easy to configure in the minimalist environment. Its a trade off, configuration/learning time vs functionality vs footprint.
Heh, I always heard it as "The article/thread/whatever got Godwined" Thus the thread up until the point of nazis was valid, and sometimes the first couple of nazi-mentioning posts as well.
Also according to some ways I've heard it the poster in question must actually compare someone to nazis not just mention them.
As well, Godwin does not apply when Nazis would come up in the normal course of the subject matter; lets say for example a discussion on European Politics or History in the 20th century.
How DID you find out about my devious LIBERAL(conservative?) plan?!
Seriously it isn't a bandwagon they are jumping on. They would have made the jump no-matter if the others were doing it or not.
Mass Media goes for RATINGS and what will get people to watch nothing more nothing less in most cases. Yes there are some biases but by and large they are only in it for the money and power.
The political side or effect of the message is irrelevant unless they think that can give them more money or power.
Well the truth to the matter is that these things don't measure market share exactly as there is user overlap.
One user could use Linux at his home office computer, Windows as a second or even dual boot game device. Techinically if they got a Console those are increasingly getting on the net and thus should count. Iphone and Ipods as well as other handhelds also are very common and fully qualify as Operating systems.
You have to seperate out the device to OS ratio, or at least take it into account.
I'd be more interested in knowing out of the full base of computer users how many use Linux vs how many use Windows. Those percentages would add up to more than 100% because many would use both.
In which case those US customs agents should have a search warrant to check those DVDs unless the basic principals that the United States was founded on have been majorly violated.
Except it is not free. It is no-charge for one year.
This is trial-ware. It isn't a free version of Windows.
As soon as that trial is up they will charge the users for the same amount and because very few people use a computer for just a single year the cost is the same over-all.
The word "Free" is just add jingle nothing more. Unlike FOSS where "Free" actually has a definition as in "You do not have to pay to use this software." Yes you may have to pay for training and help using the software but many people have to pay for that with Windows as well.
Note they are giving a price point 10Cents/gig AND they are starting to talk about launch dates.
While this COULD be a vaporware fluff article; it seems that they COULD be getting out of the vapor stage.
If you think about it this could be not that much to talk about. How many people have a 500 gig drive sitting around that cost under 200 bucks? We're talking cutting that price by 3/4ths in the next several years. As computing goes that's respectable but not all that outrageous.
The US was created for many reasons, one big one being because Britain didn't want us anymore(at least not enough to take us). Copyright law was not on the lips of the founding fathers. Tax law, and Torture, and lack of Due Process, where on their lips.
The problem with non-lifetime copyright dates is that you have to show when the thing was first published.
This either requires a lot of legal battles or registration.
There is a system of registration already in place(and no sending it to your self in a sealed envelope for the post date doesn't work), but it is prohibitivly expensive especially when it comes to works that may or may not be worth that much.
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Dude. Rule of thumb.
How well you need to back up system x depends entirely on what system x is and what you do with it.
Also it could be argued that off line applies to the west coast servers as they apparently cannot be connected to by the east coast ones. Though off line does not mean it has to be a slow medium. A machine that powers up once a week to do the backup is fine, but for safety purposes it really shouldn't be on the net and running at much the same time as the other machine.
However, I would question your scheme as it is NOT protected against damage to the West coast servers.
Yes you can distribute risk across the net and get the risk of data loss down lower than a single off-line backup, but two separate servers isn't going to do it.
Remember kids if it isn't backed up to an off-line copy then it isn't backed up.
Really for legal work code should be fairly well written to a good standard for just this reason.
While we might lament at a judge being illiterate of computer matters, it still needs to be easy to read code so that the prosecution can prove that the code actually does what they say it does.
Really when you think about it, or at least when I do, in a computer literate judicial system the requirement for well written code for these types of machines becomes greater as both prosecution and defense will look at the code in greater detail.
While I am not one for just slashing away at Government budget, nor do I sing the praises of the small government good/big government bad mantra, and the last 8 years have demonstrated that putting those who sing that mantra into power does nothing to shrink either the government or spending, but this really is egregious.
I could see the higher tax on certain foods, but video games and DVDs? This is just a luxury tax disguised as a health tax.
Big government vs small government isn't the problem. We are one of the largest economies and nations in the world that means we will have a large government in order to sustain conditions that will allow that economy to function(sorry kiddies, free markets are NOT self regulating at least not towards their own longevity).
What we need is smart and well run government. This of course is much easier said than done. Simply sniping and complaining about this program or that because it spends or because it taxes does nothing but pad a select few's wallets. Not that there isn't room for complaint, oh there is plenty, but that complaint must be of much greater depth than "it spends too much" or in recent times, "it spends at all."
If there is one thing that creating "Artificial Intelligence" has taught us it is that we know very little about what the word intelligence really means.
yeah that is harsh.
I mean its like they think you are borrowing their computers? They think they can do whatever they want with equipment they paid for and tell you how you can and cannot use their stuff.
Yes you can. You can't if you want to be right but if you want to have an excuse not to provide service then go ahead.
They did.
There is also the problem that lobbiests would not have to destroy it.
It is one thing to make a secure operating system but it is quite another thing to keep that os secure especially over hundreds of thousands of users.
In the end, practically, the security of an OS is only temporary until someone can figure out how to break it.
Also this is how government in many ways is supposed to work.
Take Healthcare and how a government improves its citizens health. Now many would argue that a government should have nothing to do with that and never does much for the average citizen but they would be wrong.
Most health improvements over the centuries have come from government activities. Sewers in large cities, food regulations, even direct medical research to a large extent.
Look at the rise of governments and see the rise of populations as well as the increase of average life span.
Government isn't just for police and military in most cases(in fact being just for those two causes is a major symptom of despotism).
Who pray tell is posting all these magical answers to questions that may or may not be asked by someone googling?
Googling around only gets you so far with most interface/specific computer questions. Often there are bugs which take time to reach forums let alone well written help pages. More often then not your problem isn't going to be what people are linking to/talking about on many pages and so will NOT show up on Google page rank. Many problems also are rooted in individual configurations and individual mistakes made along the way thus appear vastly different to different users.
Oh and the kicker is often to get the most out of google you have to know a bit about what you are searching for which for newbie help is almost never going to be the case.
Perhaps one day when we put as much time and thought in writing the helpfiles and user information bits of programs then google will be the ultimate answer but for now it is in most cases thirty minutes of frustration that would be more helpful just hitting IRC or a forum to ask someone who might have a clue as to what they are doing or might have seen the problem before.
Like it or not KDE and Gnome both have a great deal of functionality that the minimalists simply don't or have with much prodding.
I will sometimes switch to a minimalist setup but always come crawling back after a few days or weeks(sometimes months) usually for some small widget or behavior that just isn't available or easy to configure in the minimalist environment. Its a trade off, configuration/learning time vs functionality vs footprint.
Give them a few years and the pendulum will swing back the other way.
KDE users wanted more options and new interface gadgets and abilities.
GNOME users wanted a stabler client on a saner development schedule.
Heh, I always heard it as "The article/thread/whatever got Godwined" Thus the thread up until the point of nazis was valid, and sometimes the first couple of nazi-mentioning posts as well.
Also according to some ways I've heard it the poster in question must actually compare someone to nazis not just mention them.
As well, Godwin does not apply when Nazis would come up in the normal course of the subject matter; lets say for example a discussion on European Politics or History in the 20th century.
Rats! Foiled again!
How DID you find out about my devious LIBERAL(conservative?) plan?!
Seriously it isn't a bandwagon they are jumping on. They would have made the jump no-matter if the others were doing it or not.
Mass Media goes for RATINGS and what will get people to watch nothing more nothing less in most cases. Yes there are some biases but by and large they are only in it for the money and power.
The political side or effect of the message is irrelevant unless they think that can give them more money or power.
uhm no. You did not Godwin the previous poster. You did it to yourself.
About a good minute or so with plenty of soap and running water, no more than three and that's if you're up to the elbows.
Well the truth to the matter is that these things don't measure market share exactly as there is user overlap.
One user could use Linux at his home office computer, Windows as a second or even dual boot game device. Techinically if they got a Console those are increasingly getting on the net and thus should count. Iphone and Ipods as well as other handhelds also are very common and fully qualify as Operating systems.
You have to seperate out the device to OS ratio, or at least take it into account.
I'd be more interested in knowing out of the full base of computer users how many use Linux vs how many use Windows. Those percentages would add up to more than 100% because many would use both.
In which case those US customs agents should have a search warrant to check those DVDs unless the basic principals that the United States was founded on have been majorly violated.
Oh wait...
The poster before you forgot to add a "not" or "n't" somewhere in his pose I think.
Prerelease trial-ware is still trial-ware. They are more advertising the product than testing it.
Except it is not free. It is no-charge for one year.
This is trial-ware. It isn't a free version of Windows.
As soon as that trial is up they will charge the users for the same amount and because very few people use a computer for just a single year the cost is the same over-all.
The word "Free" is just add jingle nothing more. Unlike FOSS where "Free" actually has a definition as in "You do not have to pay to use this software." Yes you may have to pay for training and help using the software but many people have to pay for that with Windows as well.
ME if you're lucky. MS Bob if you're not.
Ack me do math? No!
Yes I know I flubbed the math. dur dur dur.
Note they are giving a price point 10Cents/gig AND they are starting to talk about launch dates.
While this COULD be a vaporware fluff article; it seems that they COULD be getting out of the vapor stage.
If you think about it this could be not that much to talk about. How many people have a 500 gig drive sitting around that cost under 200 bucks? We're talking cutting that price by 3/4ths in the next several years. As computing goes that's respectable but not all that outrageous.
No.
The US was created for many reasons, one big one being because Britain didn't want us anymore(at least not enough to take us). Copyright law was not on the lips of the founding fathers. Tax law, and Torture, and lack of Due Process, where on their lips.
The problem with non-lifetime copyright dates is that you have to show when the thing was first published.
This either requires a lot of legal battles or registration.
There is a system of registration already in place(and no sending it to your self in a sealed envelope for the post date doesn't work), but it is prohibitivly expensive especially when it comes to works that may or may not be worth that much.