Don't know why, but the Monorail episode is probably close to my all time favorite, at least the musical number and the stuff up to it is (the image of homer driving with chains down main street with the pavement flying up in a rooster tail behind him) et al. Though you have picked some pretty good ones. Camp Krusty has some great bits in it. My favorite moment of that one was when he sees Bart being the leader his hair falls out, his gut pops out, and he collapses mid push-up.
The Halloween episodes have been pretty lackluster for me for quite some time for me. Though after 'The Shinning' or the '3-d' episode it's pretty hard to come up with something that tops it
Sometimes I wonder if the Simpsons jumping the shark was sometime around Phil Hartman's death. They seem to magically coincide which is doubly sad.
There has been a lot of whining about BSG. It seems that if there is anything like oh, character development a lot of sci-fi fans lack of social skills really jumps out. You get people calling an episode the 'soap opera' episode and I swear they watched the bad preview of 'Unfinished Business' instead of actually watching the show. The 'drama' in the previews was about as long as it was in the entire show. They obsess about the b-story/c-story line instead of the story that was told.
This reminds me of a situation I experienced when I lived in Wichita KS in the 90s.
On the east side of town, surrounded by Wichita, is a little city. Little, literally, like maybe four blocks long. If you find it and zoom in on google maps it's completely taken up by the third zoom level from the top.
They sat on what is really the main east/west road through the entire city. Of course they halved the speed limit, had their own police force, and Eastboro was known as the biggest speed trap in the area. Their cops were an urban legend of ass hattery.
This fine little city of elitist was pretty tired of cars driving through their city, so at the west end of town they barricaded the road, put in giant speed humps that basically did nothing but damage a car trying to go over it at any speed greater than 0.5 MPH.
The next morning (slight exaggeration), the Wichita City council submitted a law that said that any city completely surrounded by wichita would be annexed withing 15 days or something like that. The barricades were down by the end of the day, speed limit was still 20 MPH though.
Personally I'd be more entertained by the idea of a giant ass Faraday cage dropped over the region, that'd stop all radio signals and solve their resource use problem.
RAID0 = bunch of hard drives strung together, look like one big drive. in the implementation I'm refering two the data is striped to a block size and written across each disk simeultaneously (or nearly). This is the fastest disk subsystem available but the most susceptible to failure. If one disk fails, you're toast.
Does ZFS do anything in this situation? I have 'one big drive' presented to the operating system, the striping is abstracted at the hardware layer, and I have a semi-expensive ($300 - 800) RAID card running this. In a random I/O workload I get about 150 iops per drive, streaming is another ball of wax typically more interface limited/block size limited than head movement.
To save money, I'd drop the RAID card and put ZFS down. I now have 12 drives (SAS attached), can I get better performance with ZFS like I could with the RAID Card? Think Log Drives for a big DB, or scratch storage space while manipulating a metric assload of video files. Gbit / sec transfer rates for real-time storage of HD Video. In a random I/O workload I get about 150 iops per drive, streaming is another ball of wax.
RAID 0+1. All the perf benefits of RAID0, but 2x the drives. Typically two cabinets RAID 0'd then RAID 1 the two RAID 0s. I get redundancy at a slight penalty of performance due to 2x the writes happening, but no degredation the read.
What can ZFS do for me here? Again, performance improvements/changes?
RAID5
50% penalty in performance even with the best card because in a high drive count you have to read in data, calc, then do the write. However one drive gives me full redundancy, I loose a second though and I'm toast. RAID6 sometimes is used to describe distributing the hot spare into the array, so no more disk space but can take two simultaneous drive failures and keep running.
What does ZFS do for us here?
This isn't a troll, I really know nothing about ZFS and I'm really curious how I could not have to do the above to protect my photography / video data for my photography business. Would be cool if I could do it on my Mac Pro
This is I think the crux of the issue, not just with the holocaust 'denial' but also with 'intelligent design' and others.
We've let lawyers weasel their way from wordsmithing the legal system to wordsmithing day to day activities. My skin crawled when I saw the Attorney General of the United States answer a question about torture with 'well we really haven't defined the word torture, so I can't answer the question'. We've gone from 'if it doesn't fit you must acquit' to 'I did not have sexual relations with that woman' to 'stress positions'
This is just moving further to it. Is this Newspeak from George Orwell? You see it in the 'debates' of us vs. them. us is one side, them is the other. there is no middle ground anymore. You're either for us, or against us. You either want to 'cut and run', or 'stay the course'.
It's just a perversion of the language and human nature. I really think it'll get worse before it gets better. This is one of the worse sides. While the source of the material might be Fox News or the Daily Mirror. The fact that the Daily Mirror was intended to be read by the Deltas kinda told me what I thought of it, having not seen it on the shelf here in the States.
Clearly you haven't been in the Barrens chat for the last two years. Or outland now for that matter.
first thing you do when create an account is leave general, trade, looking for guild, and then you start getting spam mail in your mailbox and spam tells.
I quit playing, it's just not worth the aggravation anymore. There is no 'ignore all tells but those on my friend list/in my guild' option or anything.
From what I remember it's not the size of the cult that counts, but the number of lawyers. They basically fought the IRS for tax-exempt status and eventually wore them down and got it.
That's what I vaguely remember from 20/20 or something in the 90s.
that's the problem with the moderation system. I don't know if it's supposed to be funny or insightful. All I know is that 50 some people clicked a thumbs up sign.
All you have to do is read the tech articles. Back when ZFS was rumored into Mac OS X the comments at slashdot were insightful, intelligent, and informative.
On the Digg site there was armchair geeks who couldn't find the format command in DOS commenting about it, t'was moronic.
Digg may be entertaining and 'power to the people' but all it takes is a decent sized group of 'people' and next thing you know you have 911 'truthers' with front page articles.
Sure they get buried, but then they just submit another one. It's like whack a mole, and there is no real content on Digg.
What really drives me nuts is the 'make me famous' posts where someone posts a blog entry with 15 words about something huge, and they all go to this blog site first before watching some dumb youtube clip.
It's a waste of space, but it attracts the yahoos leaving the more intelligent sites alone.
The thing that bothers me is that the definitions of those three main areas can cover almost anything.
You can be 'islamaphobic' because you belive that they should not be able to hide behind a veil in identification photos and a person needing to identify you can require you to remove said covering to confirm the identity.
You get told you need to respect their religion and force the 'non-believer' into doing things like forming special queues for them, special rooms for them, all because their guys need the women hidden so hard because they can't control their passion.
Why do *I* have to bow down, cow tow, and do things to not offend their religion? What makes their right to assemble and whatever override mine? When did that happen?
I mean I shouldn't be able to go smear ham in their face or dangle bacon over their heads sure, thta's what I'd call pretty damn islamaphobic. But asking them to be a part of the rest of society and not force their beliefs on me (alcohol in a cab, guide dogs in a cab up in MN) seems to be a two way street to me.
Of course did what I just type violate this new EU law even though I'm posting from china on a system in the united states?
Yes I traveled 6900 miles one way to the Great Wall of China with only a motorola RAZR. It took 3 FPS as I rode down a metal tobaggan from the top of the mountain.
Oh wait, no, that was my 5D.
Look I'm not a snob about the type of camera. There are people who will use their camera in their phone because it's what they have, and there are people who will buy the most expensive DSLR and compare it to a 1.3MP cam phone and think they get better pictures out of their cam phone only because those really expensive DSLRs do a ton of stuff including not doing anything to your photo vs. the post-processing done by the camphone will do whatever it can to try to hide that it's a limited feature product.
If you stick a GSM card in my 5D and a bluetooth headset, I'd probably use it every now and then but I'd probably get a smaller phone for when I don't want to carry the big one.
Same goes for my DSLR.
That and I don't think people would pay me for my work at a wedding if I whipped out a camphone to take their special portraits.
Pink Floyd, David Gilmour, Kraftwerk, and Kate Bush. These are some listed on their website EMI Records UK. I don't know if that's the label, or if it's the entire EMI Group.
If that's the case, You've got the Beach Boys, David Bowie, Coldplay, Duran Duran, Gorillaz...OK Go, Liz Phair...
I'll give you the second two, but the first one? forget it. I can find a PS3 60GB model in any store in the city. It's easy. Just go to one. They're not for sale on the internet much but you can find them in *any* store.
Same thing happened with Sprint and their DSL. I believe they use Earthlink if I remember right. At least from the Raleigh area in North Carolina their DNS was incredibly slow/timed out. Switched to OpenDNS and have had no problems ever since.
You beat me too it. My Mom & Dad created my life. So basically 'The Creator' is your parents.
Since no one thought to write down how it was created at the very beginning without it being edited by humans with an agenda for the last however many years I'll just consider my creator my parents.
I'll risk karma to agree. Digg is about 50 IQ points lower than Slashdot discussions. There is no point in going to that site anymore. 3000+ diggs on some idiot taking a picture of a CD-R with a number written on it claiming it's a vista key hosted on imageshack. Nice.
This is just my personal experience, but I agree that Sprawl does this based on experience.
I've lived in Kansas and North Carolina so far. The cities I've lived in have been the 'suburbs' of a much larger city (Lawrence, Overland Park in KS out side of KC and Wake Forest outside of Raleigh in NC) and the nearest thing to my house besides another home is > 2 miles away at a minimum.
I mean grocery store, whatever kind of thing. Gas, anything.
However, I get to travel a lot. I've found that when I'm in New York, London, Zurich, etc I walked my butt off/used public transportation because there was so much to do in nearby areas that driving seemed ridiculous. I've often thought my lifestyle would be a ton different if I lived in one of those types of cities.
However I'd estimate 90 - 95% of the US isn't built that way. You have to drive to get anywhere, and retrofitting the cities for public transportation with metro/tube/subway would be a horrendous undertaking that needs to be done, but won't due to the expense.
I'd love to have a station that I could hop on near my home and then hop off at the airport or nearby my place of work. But here in Research Triangle Park things are sprawled out everywhere and the cafeteria options suck & are expensive at my employer.
Slashdot Mirror
Don't know why, but the Monorail episode is probably close to my all time favorite, at least the musical number and the stuff up to it is (the image of homer driving with chains down main street with the pavement flying up in a rooster tail behind him) et al. Though you have picked some pretty good ones. Camp Krusty has some great bits in it. My favorite moment of that one was when he sees Bart being the leader his hair falls out, his gut pops out, and he collapses mid push-up.
The Halloween episodes have been pretty lackluster for me for quite some time for me. Though after 'The Shinning' or the '3-d' episode it's pretty hard to come up with something that tops it
Sometimes I wonder if the Simpsons jumping the shark was sometime around Phil Hartman's death. They seem to magically coincide which is doubly sad.
There has been a lot of whining about BSG. It seems that if there is anything like oh, character development a lot of sci-fi fans lack of social skills really jumps out. You get people calling an episode the 'soap opera' episode and I swear they watched the bad preview of 'Unfinished Business' instead of actually watching the show. The 'drama' in the previews was about as long as it was in the entire show. They obsess about the b-story/c-story line instead of the story that was told.
Mrs. Fearmonger is on vacation today, would you like her voice mail?
This reminds me of a situation I experienced when I lived in Wichita KS in the 90s.
On the east side of town, surrounded by Wichita, is a little city. Little, literally, like maybe four blocks long. If you find it and zoom in on google maps it's completely taken up by the third zoom level from the top.
They sat on what is really the main east/west road through the entire city. Of course they halved the speed limit, had their own police force, and Eastboro was known as the biggest speed trap in the area. Their cops were an urban legend of ass hattery.
This fine little city of elitist was pretty tired of cars driving through their city, so at the west end of town they barricaded the road, put in giant speed humps that basically did nothing but damage a car trying to go over it at any speed greater than 0.5 MPH.
The next morning (slight exaggeration), the Wichita City council submitted a law that said that any city completely surrounded by wichita would be annexed withing 15 days or something like that. The barricades were down by the end of the day, speed limit was still 20 MPH though.
Personally I'd be more entertained by the idea of a giant ass Faraday cage dropped over the region, that'd stop all radio signals and solve their resource use problem.
Safer - heck yeah.
:)
Cheaper? Heck no
I do the safer route now, but when the 2TB of space I use runs out, i'm gonna need more. if I could add more later at a less cost, that'd be nice.
I'd like the following scenarios explained.
RAID0 = bunch of hard drives strung together, look like one big drive. in the implementation I'm refering two the data is striped to a block size and written across each disk simeultaneously (or nearly). This is the fastest disk subsystem available but the most susceptible to failure. If one disk fails, you're toast.
Does ZFS do anything in this situation? I have 'one big drive' presented to the operating system, the striping is abstracted at the hardware layer, and I have a semi-expensive ($300 - 800) RAID card running this. In a random I/O workload I get about 150 iops per drive, streaming is another ball of wax typically more interface limited/block size limited than head movement.
To save money, I'd drop the RAID card and put ZFS down. I now have 12 drives (SAS attached), can I get better performance with ZFS like I could with the RAID Card? Think Log Drives for a big DB, or scratch storage space while manipulating a metric assload of video files. Gbit / sec transfer rates for real-time storage of HD Video. In a random I/O workload I get about 150 iops per drive, streaming is another ball of wax.
RAID 0+1. All the perf benefits of RAID0, but 2x the drives. Typically two cabinets RAID 0'd then RAID 1 the two RAID 0s. I get redundancy at a slight penalty of performance due to 2x the writes happening, but no degredation the read.
What can ZFS do for me here? Again, performance improvements/changes?
RAID5
50% penalty in performance even with the best card because in a high drive count you have to read in data, calc, then do the write. However one drive gives me full redundancy, I loose a second though and I'm toast. RAID6 sometimes is used to describe distributing the hot spare into the array, so no more disk space but can take two simultaneous drive failures and keep running.
What does ZFS do for us here?
This isn't a troll, I really know nothing about ZFS and I'm really curious how I could not have to do the above to protect my photography / video data for my photography business. Would be cool if I could do it on my Mac Pro
I don't know why but as a kid I was facinated with the Otherwold series. STill mad I missed the last episode.
Automan, god those 90 degree turns were funny.
This is I think the crux of the issue, not just with the holocaust 'denial' but also with 'intelligent design' and others.
We've let lawyers weasel their way from wordsmithing the legal system to wordsmithing day to day activities. My skin crawled when I saw the Attorney General of the United States answer a question about torture with 'well we really haven't defined the word torture, so I can't answer the question'. We've gone from 'if it doesn't fit you must acquit' to 'I did not have sexual relations with that woman' to 'stress positions'
This is just moving further to it. Is this Newspeak from George Orwell? You see it in the 'debates' of us vs. them. us is one side, them is the other. there is no middle ground anymore. You're either for us, or against us. You either want to 'cut and run', or 'stay the course'.
It's just a perversion of the language and human nature. I really think it'll get worse before it gets better. This is one of the worse sides. While the source of the material might be Fox News or the Daily Mirror. The fact that the Daily Mirror was intended to be read by the Deltas kinda told me what I thought of it, having not seen it on the shelf here in the States.
Yes, it's Political, and so was what happened to the dixie chicks.
Clearly you haven't been in the Barrens chat for the last two years. Or outland now for that matter.
first thing you do when create an account is leave general, trade, looking for guild, and then you start getting spam mail in your mailbox and spam tells.
I quit playing, it's just not worth the aggravation anymore. There is no 'ignore all tells but those on my friend list/in my guild' option or anything.
From what I remember it's not the size of the cult that counts, but the number of lawyers. They basically fought the IRS for tax-exempt status and eventually wore them down and got it.
That's what I vaguely remember from 20/20 or something in the 90s.
that's the problem with the moderation system. I don't know if it's supposed to be funny or insightful. All I know is that 50 some people clicked a thumbs up sign.
All you have to do is read the tech articles. Back when ZFS was rumored into Mac OS X the comments at slashdot were insightful, intelligent, and informative.
On the Digg site there was armchair geeks who couldn't find the format command in DOS commenting about it, t'was moronic.
Digg may be entertaining and 'power to the people' but all it takes is a decent sized group of 'people' and next thing you know you have 911 'truthers' with front page articles.
Sure they get buried, but then they just submit another one. It's like whack a mole, and there is no real content on Digg.
What really drives me nuts is the 'make me famous' posts where someone posts a blog entry with 15 words about something huge, and they all go to this blog site first before watching some dumb youtube clip.
It's a waste of space, but it attracts the yahoos leaving the more intelligent sites alone.
The thing that bothers me is that the definitions of those three main areas can cover almost anything.
You can be 'islamaphobic' because you belive that they should not be able to hide behind a veil in identification photos and a person needing to identify you can require you to remove said covering to confirm the identity.
You get told you need to respect their religion and force the 'non-believer' into doing things like forming special queues for them, special rooms for them, all because their guys need the women hidden so hard because they can't control their passion.
Why do *I* have to bow down, cow tow, and do things to not offend their religion? What makes their right to assemble and whatever override mine? When did that happen?
I mean I shouldn't be able to go smear ham in their face or dangle bacon over their heads sure, thta's what I'd call pretty damn islamaphobic. But asking them to be a part of the rest of society and not force their beliefs on me (alcohol in a cab, guide dogs in a cab up in MN) seems to be a two way street to me.
Of course did what I just type violate this new EU law even though I'm posting from china on a system in the united states?
Yes I traveled 6900 miles one way to the Great Wall of China with only a motorola RAZR. It took 3 FPS as I rode down a metal tobaggan from the top of the mountain.
Oh wait, no, that was my 5D.
Look I'm not a snob about the type of camera. There are people who will use their camera in their phone because it's what they have, and there are people who will buy the most expensive DSLR and compare it to a 1.3MP cam phone and think they get better pictures out of their cam phone only because those really expensive DSLRs do a ton of stuff including not doing anything to your photo vs. the post-processing done by the camphone will do whatever it can to try to hide that it's a limited feature product.
If you stick a GSM card in my 5D and a bluetooth headset, I'd probably use it every now and then but I'd probably get a smaller phone for when I don't want to carry the big one.
Same goes for my DSLR.
That and I don't think people would pay me for my work at a wedding if I whipped out a camphone to take their special portraits.
Not to mention you can buy Windows XP at Newegg, pay $12 for the upgrade and get Windows Business much lower cost than $299 right now.
yeah but it's a clone, not an original item. So really it's got a 1/1 millionth of a soul because it's a clone of a clone of clone....
A few bands...
Pink Floyd, David Gilmour, Kraftwerk, and Kate Bush. These are some listed on their website EMI Records UK. I don't know if that's the label, or if it's the entire EMI Group.
If that's the case, You've got the Beach Boys, David Bowie, Coldplay, Duran Duran, Gorillaz...OK Go, Liz Phair...
Wow, I might be upgrading a few of those.
I'll give you the second two, but the first one? forget it. I can find a PS3 60GB model in any store in the city. It's easy. Just go to one. They're not for sale on the internet much but you can find them in *any* store.
The Wii? no.
Same thing happened with Sprint and their DSL. I believe they use Earthlink if I remember right. At least from the Raleigh area in North Carolina their DNS was incredibly slow/timed out. Switched to OpenDNS and have had no problems ever since.
No, You need to turn in your Uber geek card now. Thanks.
You beat me too it. My Mom & Dad created my life. So basically 'The Creator' is your parents.
Since no one thought to write down how it was created at the very beginning without it being edited by humans with an agenda for the last however many years I'll just consider my creator my parents.
You know if you look at the US Constitution the word 'creator' is never mentioned.
It was in the declaration of independence, but not the constitution.
I'll risk karma to agree. Digg is about 50 IQ points lower than Slashdot discussions. There is no point in going to that site anymore. 3000+ diggs on some idiot taking a picture of a CD-R with a number written on it claiming it's a vista key hosted on imageshack. Nice.
This is just my personal experience, but I agree that Sprawl does this based on experience.
I've lived in Kansas and North Carolina so far. The cities I've lived in have been the 'suburbs' of a much larger city (Lawrence, Overland Park in KS out side of KC and Wake Forest outside of Raleigh in NC) and the nearest thing to my house besides another home is > 2 miles away at a minimum.
I mean grocery store, whatever kind of thing. Gas, anything.
However, I get to travel a lot. I've found that when I'm in New York, London, Zurich, etc I walked my butt off/used public transportation because there was so much to do in nearby areas that driving seemed ridiculous. I've often thought my lifestyle would be a ton different if I lived in one of those types of cities.
However I'd estimate 90 - 95% of the US isn't built that way. You have to drive to get anywhere, and retrofitting the cities for public transportation with metro/tube/subway would be a horrendous undertaking that needs to be done, but won't due to the expense.
I'd love to have a station that I could hop on near my home and then hop off at the airport or nearby my place of work. But here in Research Triangle Park things are sprawled out everywhere and the cafeteria options suck & are expensive at my employer.