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Ahh, come one... Anyone who is crazy enough to want to setup a lan-based-ram-raid-array (Whew...) is certainly going to be sane enough to set up some sort of serious power backup.
Of course just to repeat and be redundant, the bottle neck will simply come down to the NIC card, a possible solution would be to install several NIC's and spread the load out... But this person would be much better off simply buying a system that will either (a) handle 24 GB of RAM, or (b) has fast enough disks to please him...
Of course a better idea might be to buy a system that would support both (a) and (b) and then set the system up to use the ram as a primary holding area for data, then flush to the (now faster) disk array...
Either way this person is still affected by "The Sickness" that we all seem to suffer from (More, bigger, better, faster....)
I live in Belle Air Beach, which is about 5 min away from largo.... Weather is nice actually, rainy today though.... I moved here from New Mexico though so I guess any weather is better than New Mexico weather.... Good to see that they are using linux... Anyone know if Roblimo is still in town... Could go for a starbucks with him...:)
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Details, details.... Please tell us in detail how this is done.... I personally have a great desire to do this, but I would like to hear from an expert rather than look it up and get (possibly bad) information off the net.
I would actually love to see someone wearing one of those things that wasn't a hopeless trekkie, but rather a blind man seeking vision... That would be cool....
Yes you can go on ahead and just rip off A Canticle For Leibowitz. Bravo. And they say your a 5 and very interesting? Urban decay is just another phase until our eventual destruction.
Ok,, I'm confused, I mean they are similar, but do I really appear to be that much of a bookworm? Sorry to ruin your misconceptions but I had never heard of that book until this very minute, however Amazon helped me out here...
Walter M. Miller's acclaimed SF classic A Canticle for Leibowitz opens with the accidental excavation of a holy artifact: a creased, brittle memo scrawled by the hand of the blessed Saint Leibowitz, that reads: "Pound pastrami, can kraut, six bagels--bring home for Emma." To the Brothers of Saint Leibowitz, this sacred shopping list penned by an obscure, 20th-century engineer is a symbol of hope from the distant past, from before the Simplification, the fiery atomic holocaust that plunged the earth into darkness and ignorance. As 1984 cautioned against Stalinism, so 1959's A Canticle for Leibowitz warns of the threat and implications of nuclear annihilation. Following a cloister of monks in their Utah abbey over some six or seven hundred years, the funny but bleak Canticle tackles the sociological and religious implications of the cyclical rise and fall of civilization, questioning whether humanity can hope for more than repeating its own history. Divided into three sections--Fiat Homo (Let There Be Man), Fiat Lux (Let There Be Light), and Fiat Voluntas Tua (Thy Will Be Done)--Canticle is steeped in Catholicism and Latin, exploring the fascinating, seemingly capricious process of how and why a person is canonized.
It seems that this is along the same lines, but for crying out loud... Accusing me of plagiarism is a bit far, don't ya think?...
Is that legal? For them to be downloading ebooks they don't own?
Disclaimer:IANAL
Actually I don't think that would be legal at all... As a matter of a fact I really hope that they posted a list of the books they downloaded and someone gets pissed that Adobe stole a copy of their book, resulting in a law suit against Adobe for piracy.... Ahh the sweet justice that would be....
Honestly... Urban decay is a fascinating subject, really imagine what New York City would look like after no human inhabitants had been there for five hundred years or more... Or even what would be left of this civilization in three or four thousand years when no-one remembers who the presidents of the United States of America were, or what wars were fought and why... Even more interesting are the conclusions about our society that would be made from the inferences that future researchers may take from any possible small piece of evidence...
To hell with the nerf products, I need one of these..
Sonic Blaster, 1966
The Mattel Agent Zero M Sonic Blaster 5530 fires compressed air with a deafening blast. Our measurements top out at 157 dB-above a level that can do permanent damage to the hearing of an adult. We rate the toy Not Acceptable.
Unfortunately, you can only try so long to continue to use your desktop computer...
Actually, I have started collecting key pieces of computer history (and I know a few other/.'s are doing the same) and I really believe that most of these systems are still quite capable of doing what they were meant to do, namely business software... No you can't play quake on a TRS-80 but it does a great job of running DOS and business applications.
The problem is that most people think computers are a dated item, the fact is, people once thought that a 1956 Convertible was worthless junk, now a rusted shell of a car will bring 10k. Keep this in mind before you dismiss their possible future value (particularly look for the ones that people consider to be particularly worthless as there will be far fewer of these available in future and they will most likely be the more valuable among the systems that are available for almost nothing today)
The really unfortunate part is that with either method we still cannot target just the cancer and it's really a "Kill the patient or kill the cancer" game where the only the strongest between the two will win.
LOL, dressing as a shepard and herding sheep is bad enough(BTW: Where the hell did you get the sheep?), but what I want to know is wether or not you were holding a copy of Clinton's proposed budget and grinning!
...And this is why you shouldn't believe the prerelease specs. Nothing ever performs to spec; trust the benchmarks.
It's pretty common, really. But I haven't usually seen it to this degree.
This has nothing to do with lying about specs. The problem with these damn things was the GPU was dead, not under performing, it was dead on arrival. Now, I wonder why this happened? Two possible reasons, quality control failure, or unlikely random failure due to damage after manufacture? I think I'll prefer to believe that it was indeed a quality control failure. These cards should be tested before leaving the factory floor, otherwise bad things like this will happen to you and screw you big time. Quality assurance is a quick and easy thing to do, without increasing costs too much, and I know that I would rather pay a little more to be assured that I'm getting something that works, without me having to send it back to get a replacement for it.
The lesson? Check your work carefully if you don't want to look like an ass... See.sig...
The Orkin comercial with the super realistic roach was good enough that yeah, it was genius, and no I do not think that playing on someone's stupidity or fear should really be illegal... Advertisers already do it all the time, it's just that this one did it much better, and perhaps crossed an invisible line.
I'm actually guilty of clicking on one of these... Not because the fooled me though, I just have a habit of clicking banner ads to see what kind of crap is being sold by these people.
Now, I hate banner ads (nearly) as much as the next guy.. But really, let's admit to it, the creativeness required to think up faking an error screen to get users to click on it (think reaction vs. action) is genius. I'm not sure this suit has any merit at all (IANAL although I do play one on TV) and even if it does it really shouldn't.
Just because you find something annoying doesn't mean it should be against the law, I mean if you're in a restaruant and you are going to pay $100+ for the meal and someone's baby is crying, or they are talking to loud, or even better their baby is screaming because they're talking into a cell phone instead of paying attention to their kid and at that they are talking into the phone at an unreasonable volume level. Now, should this be illegal? The short answer is no.
Compare this to Dimtri and the DMCA fiasco, all he really did was innovate and try to do something different and make a buck in the process, and for what end result? To get sued for their intended innovation in business? Although I admit there are a million differences I wanted to use a well known case for comparison, so please spare the flames about adobe e-book vs misleading (looking) ads, the point is that it was innovation that lead both people on their path.
Anyway, it might be best to think about this before jumping on the "I hate everything that has anything to do with advertising on the internet" bandwagon and attacking this person for what really only amounts to innovation gone askew.
Ok, to qualify this... I would not let this particular little robot tattoo me, simply because it is far too primitive (I mean a 320x240 resolution?... uhhh, no thanks I'll pass)
Now the merits of this idea, since this thing is a robot you will never have to worry about it getting drunk and fscking up your tattoo. It is capable of working very quickly, think about getting a tattoo that would normally take hours to do in only a few minutes (This would be ideal for those who don't care for pain as much as some people seem to)
The tattoo will not just be a duplicate copy as you could write the software to randomly modify a few small factors such as particular color shades and small design elements to continue to have the one of a kind feel to the tattoo. I would most likely choose to use this with adobe Photoshop.
Ok, how would this be done? I have a few ideas as to the particulars. This guy has already created an interface between the robotic mechanism and the command unit (palm in this case) so changing out the command interface shouldn't really be a big deal, I would hook up something like a 1.8 Ghz desktop to this thing (if portability was a concern use a laptop). For the software end of things I would choose to use Adobe Photoshop as that way only four passes would be necessary to render a full color tattoo (CYMK) using Photoshop to separate the color channels.
And now for Johnny Carson's top ten reasons to have a robot do your tattoo...
1. It won't try to steal money from your wallet when you pass out from the pain.
2. It doesn't smell like camel cigarettes and cheap whiskey.
3. You won't have to listen to it tell really bad stories.
4. Yeah the equipment was sterilized, but when was the last time the artist was bathed?
5. The robot will never puke on you in the middle of a tattoo.
6. You can be sure the robot isn't going to try to get you drunk and take you home for a wild night of tattoos, sex, and odd things done with barnyard animals.
7. Who wants a tattoo to take four hours, this baby can do them in four minutes.
8. No bad breath in your face.
9. I'm pretty sure the robot doesn't do cocaine...
10. The robot will not be giving your girlfriend lewd looks while working on your tattoo and making fun of you when you scream, and telling you your a pansy ass bitch, and asking her why she would stay with a bitch, and it won't ask her if she wants a real robot, and..... Oh man I need to lay down...
heh, I guess this does have some advantages... If only it was a bit more advanced (although not "bender" advanced)
n/m... I'm sure you can figure out what it means... I thought it was a car-business-centric thing... I didn't realize it came from sports (then again, I don't watch sports at all..)
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Ahh, come one... Anyone who is crazy enough to want to setup a lan-based-ram-raid-array (Whew...) is certainly going to be sane enough to set up some sort of serious power backup.
Of course just to repeat and be redundant, the bottle neck will simply come down to the NIC card, a possible solution would be to install several NIC's and spread the load out... But this person would be much better off simply buying a system that will either (a) handle 24 GB of RAM, or (b) has fast enough disks to please him...
Of course a better idea might be to buy a system that would support both (a) and (b) and then set the system up to use the ram as a primary holding area for data, then flush to the (now faster) disk array...
Either way this person is still affected by "The Sickness" that we all seem to suffer from (More, bigger, better, faster....)
No, that was more of a Yoda quote... Funny stopped being this joke 15 years ago,, yes......
IN SOVIET RUSSIA
The Joke Tells you.....
I live in Belle Air Beach, which is about 5 min away from largo.... Weather is nice actually, rainy today though.... I moved here from New Mexico though so I guess any weather is better than New Mexico weather.... Good to see that they are using linux... Anyone know if Roblimo is still in town... Could go for a starbucks with him... :)
Details, details.... Please tell us in detail how this is done.... I personally have a great desire to do this, but I would like to hear from an expert rather than look it up and get (possibly bad) information off the net.
Considering the problems it caused, yeah I am.... As a matter of a fact I'll bet it runs on Windows ME.
I wonder if Data runs on an advanced version of the Linux kernel... It would explain his lack of humor....
I would actually love to see someone wearing one of those things that wasn't a hopeless trekkie, but rather a blind man seeking vision... That would be cool....
Although you do have to admit that this guy is a perfect future candidate for the Darwin award....
Not only Glitch, but Ernest Glitch... I picked up on that without even noticing the it's funny laugh icon...
Yes you can go on ahead and just rip off A Canticle For Leibowitz. Bravo. And they say your a 5 and very interesting? Urban decay is just another phase until our eventual destruction.
Ok,, I'm confused, I mean they are similar, but do I really appear to be that much of a bookworm? Sorry to ruin your misconceptions but I had never heard of that book until this very minute, however Amazon helped me out here...
Walter M. Miller's acclaimed SF classic A Canticle for Leibowitz opens with the accidental excavation of a holy artifact: a creased, brittle memo scrawled by the hand of the blessed Saint Leibowitz, that reads: "Pound pastrami, can kraut, six bagels--bring home for Emma." To the Brothers of Saint Leibowitz, this sacred shopping list penned by an obscure, 20th-century engineer is a symbol of hope from the distant past, from before the Simplification, the fiery atomic holocaust that plunged the earth into darkness and ignorance. As 1984 cautioned against Stalinism, so 1959's A Canticle for Leibowitz warns of the threat and implications of nuclear annihilation. Following a cloister of monks in their Utah abbey over some six or seven hundred years, the funny but bleak Canticle tackles the sociological and religious implications of the cyclical rise and fall of civilization, questioning whether humanity can hope for more than repeating its own history. Divided into three sections--Fiat Homo (Let There Be Man), Fiat Lux (Let There Be Light), and Fiat Voluntas Tua (Thy Will Be Done)--Canticle is steeped in Catholicism and Latin, exploring the fascinating, seemingly capricious process of how and why a person is canonized.
It seems that this is along the same lines, but for crying out loud... Accusing me of plagiarism is a bit far, don't ya think?...
Is that legal?
For them to be downloading ebooks they don't own?
Disclaimer:IANAL
Actually I don't think that would be legal at all... As a matter of a fact I really hope that they posted a list of the books they downloaded and someone gets pissed that Adobe stole a copy of their book, resulting in a law suit against Adobe for piracy.... Ahh the sweet justice that would be....
Honestly... Urban decay is a fascinating subject, really imagine what New York City would look like after no human inhabitants had been there for five hundred years or more... Or even what would be left of this civilization in three or four thousand years when no-one remembers who the presidents of the United States of America were, or what wars were fought and why... Even more interesting are the conclusions about our society that would be made from the inferences that future researchers may take from any possible small piece of evidence...
So, let me guess, this is made by a company in
SOVIET RUSSIA
In Soviet Russia the computer goes into the CD-ROM....
Or rtfa...is always good advice ;)..
To hell with the nerf products, I need one of these..
Sonic Blaster, 1966
The Mattel Agent Zero M Sonic Blaster 5530 fires compressed air with a deafening blast. Our measurements top out at 157 dB-above a level that can do permanent damage to the hearing of an adult. We rate the toy Not Acceptable.
W00T!
Unfortunately, you can only try so long to continue to use your desktop computer...
/.'s are doing the same) and I really believe that most of these systems are still quite capable of doing what they were meant to do, namely business software... No you can't play quake on a TRS-80 but it does a great job of running DOS and business applications.
Actually, I have started collecting key pieces of computer history (and I know a few other
The problem is that most people think computers are a dated item, the fact is, people once thought that a 1956 Convertible was worthless junk, now a rusted shell of a car will bring 10k. Keep this in mind before you dismiss their possible future value (particularly look for the ones that people consider to be particularly worthless as there will be far fewer of these available in future and they will most likely be the more valuable among the systems that are available for almost nothing today)
The really unfortunate part is that with either method we still cannot target just the cancer and it's really a "Kill the patient or kill the cancer" game where the only the strongest between the two will win.
LOL, dressing as a shepard and herding sheep is bad enough(BTW: Where the hell did you get the sheep?), but what I want to know is wether or not you were holding a copy of Clinton's proposed budget and grinning!
It's pretty common, really. But I haven't usually seen it to this degree.
This has nothing to do with lying about specs. The problem with these damn things was the GPU was dead, not under performing, it was dead on arrival. Now, I wonder why this happened? Two possible reasons, quality control failure, or unlikely random failure due to damage after manufacture? I think I'll prefer to believe that it was indeed a quality control failure. These cards should be tested before leaving the factory floor, otherwise bad things like this will happen to you and screw you big time. Quality assurance is a quick and easy thing to do, without increasing costs too much, and I know that I would rather pay a little more to be assured that I'm getting something that works, without me having to send it back to get a replacement for it.
The lesson? Check your work carefully if you don't want to look like an ass... See
The Orkin comercial with the super realistic roach was good enough that yeah, it was genius, and no I do not think that playing on someone's stupidity or fear should really be illegal... Advertisers already do it all the time, it's just that this one did it much better, and perhaps crossed an invisible line.
I'm actually guilty of clicking on one of these... Not because the fooled me though, I just have a habit of clicking banner ads to see what kind of crap is being sold by these people.
Now, I hate banner ads (nearly) as much as the next guy.. But really, let's admit to it, the creativeness required to think up faking an error screen to get users to click on it (think reaction vs. action) is genius. I'm not sure this suit has any merit at all (IANAL although I do play one on TV) and even if it does it really shouldn't.
Just because you find something annoying doesn't mean it should be against the law, I mean if you're in a restaruant and you are going to pay $100+ for the meal and someone's baby is crying, or they are talking to loud, or even better their baby is screaming because they're talking into a cell phone instead of paying attention to their kid and at that they are talking into the phone at an unreasonable volume level. Now, should this be illegal? The short answer is no.
Compare this to Dimtri and the DMCA fiasco, all he really did was innovate and try to do something different and make a buck in the process, and for what end result? To get sued for their intended innovation in business? Although I admit there are a million differences I wanted to use a well known case for comparison, so please spare the flames about adobe e-book vs misleading (looking) ads, the point is that it was innovation that lead both people on their path.
Anyway, it might be best to think about this before jumping on the "I hate everything that has anything to do with advertising on the internet" bandwagon and attacking this person for what really only amounts to innovation gone askew.
Ok, to qualify this... I would not let this particular little robot tattoo me, simply because it is far too primitive (I mean a 320x240 resolution?... uhhh, no thanks I'll pass)
..... Oh man I need to lay down...
Now the merits of this idea, since this thing is a robot you will never have to worry about it getting drunk and fscking up your tattoo. It is capable of working very quickly, think about getting a tattoo that would normally take hours to do in only a few minutes (This would be ideal for those who don't care for pain as much as some people seem to)
The tattoo will not just be a duplicate copy as you could write the software to randomly modify a few small factors such as particular color shades and small design elements to continue to have the one of a kind feel to the tattoo. I would most likely choose to use this with adobe Photoshop.
Ok, how would this be done? I have a few ideas as to the particulars. This guy has already created an interface between the robotic mechanism and the command unit (palm in this case) so changing out the command interface shouldn't really be a big deal, I would hook up something like a 1.8 Ghz desktop to this thing (if portability was a concern use a laptop). For the software end of things I would choose to use Adobe Photoshop as that way only four passes would be necessary to render a full color tattoo (CYMK) using Photoshop to separate the color channels.
And now for Johnny Carson's top ten reasons to have a robot do your tattoo...
1. It won't try to steal money from your wallet when you pass out from the pain.
2. It doesn't smell like camel cigarettes and cheap whiskey.
3. You won't have to listen to it tell really bad stories.
4. Yeah the equipment was sterilized, but when was the last time the artist was bathed?
5. The robot will never puke on you in the middle of a tattoo.
6. You can be sure the robot isn't going to try to get you drunk and take you home for a wild night of tattoos, sex, and odd things done with barnyard animals.
7. Who wants a tattoo to take four hours, this baby can do them in four minutes.
8. No bad breath in your face.
9. I'm pretty sure the robot doesn't do cocaine...
10. The robot will not be giving your girlfriend lewd looks while working on your tattoo and making fun of you when you scream, and telling you your a pansy ass bitch, and asking her why she would stay with a bitch, and it won't ask her if she wants a real robot, and
heh, I guess this does have some advantages... If only it was a bit more advanced (although not "bender" advanced)
n/m... I'm sure you can figure out what it means... I thought it was a car-business-centric thing... I didn't realize it came from sports (then again, I don't watch sports at all..)
You must have worked in the car business... Nice to know....
I'm loving this and I'm still on movement 1.1... Too bad there isn't a full 24hour stream available though...