That is a load of b*ll.. LTO tapes are serpentine recording and tape positioning is pretty fast. The average time to reach any file on a tape is half the time it takes to spool it from one end to the other.
You are not 'trying to find' anything on tape, the software does that for you. Check out LTFS.
I used to work for a hardware vendor who sold equipment to IBM. IBM demanded that all red power LED's be replaced with green ones. IBM users were used to seeing red LED's only when there was a fault with the equipment.
Bottom line: Sometimes a LED upgrade cycle makes sense..
Well, as tough as it is, and as right as this senator may sound, this is the result of global free market economy. Companies get their resources where they are cheapest, regardless if this is parts or people.
The human eye is limited to certain pixel densities at certain distances. Technology such as this can create QHD displays in Google Glass applications where the pixels are much closer to the eye. In fact, it may be possible to implant this inside the eye and have augmented reality without p*ssing off the people around you.
Easy fix for this. Just make sure that as soon as the light turns red, big steel spikes come up from under the road to stop or pierce any car that might try to outwit the system. Oh, and on both sides of the street to ensure that real high-speed idiots will be caught on the other end.
That will only work if government officials observe the creation of the gold RTM code and then every patch there after. Inspecting the source code today and not finding anything is no guarantee that this will be the case tomorrow. You don't get 'your compiled version' as the production code. And even if you do, the next round of patches you are done for.
Using a checksum/hash for the produced files is no use either. Even with unmodified sources, if you compile the same code twice, the produced executable will have different metadata (creation date, file headers, build number) so the hash will be differrent.
Meanwhile, over 400 military drones have crashed: http://www.foxnews.com/tech/20... No-one knows if this happened over schoolgrounds yet, but considering the number of drones in service, that's a pisspoor safety record. I can only imagine that flocks of cheap, commercial drones over populated area's will cause some 'mechanical rain' when electronic disturbance (nearby lightning strike) causes them to fail.
Rrrright... And you have an ingenious system that takes in water, then uses road signs "Oxygen molecules to the left, Hydrogen molecules to the right" and Bob's your Uncle.
Any idea how much energy it takes to split water? Care to explain where that energy will come from?
Hydrogen is a potential energy carrier, not an energy supplier.
I can't help wonder what happens is a person who wants to be forgotten is referred to by someone else. Removing search results regarding some particular person may mean unintentional removal of content that someone else created and want visible.
By your reasoning you'd claim anyone who buys a Volkswagen Golf today is buying a 40 year old car. The Golf was introduced 40 years ago and you can still get one today. Never mind it has zero components in common with the Golf from 40 years back..
XP was and is doing everything the majority of users expect from an operating system. Many of the changes since XP are not exactly improvements for many of the users. Some are, some are not.
Microsoft can stop XP support in only one way. That's when they stop taking money from government or corporations for extended support. They will need to say 'no' to the hand that feeds then. Until they do so, they are obliged to patch XP. Not just for those who pay hefty support fees, but also to tose who bought their XP new, just 4 years ago.
Fully agree with you here. Add to that the recent advances in technology that gave us the 'benefits' of encryption, DRM, proprietary formats etc, and you can rest assured that no-one will be able to recover data from this era one hundred years from now. We are living in the digital Dark Age right now.
No-one will start with a blank screen in the morning and start to write code, just because. You need to have an itch, something you want to solve. Writing code is the means, not the goal.
Think about your support job, and ask yourself what tool would really make your life easier. Then set out to write that tool. You have the target people sitting around you right now, solve your problem and solve theirs too. If you're lucky, the tool will be valuable enough for the company to take it to that next country, all while you keep supporting that code.
I did this many years ago, while working as tech support for a tape vendor (Exabyte). I found their customer tools rubbish, so I started writing something easier (Expert 7 for MS-DOS). I asked my wife to test it for me (she is not in IT), just to see what she struggled with and made it better. It took me a while, but in the long run the company made my tool the default for customer support. I have kept on supporting that tool and many others after that until the end of last year. For almost 20 years those tape tools have given me part of my income. Even today, I still have a few customers asking me to code for them. LTO-7 is coming, perhaps I'll be asked to integrate support by then.
The problem with being eight years older is that you are, indeed, eight years older. Past a certain age it seems that the only jobs you will be able to get is through your network. All else being equal, a complete stranger who has to evaluate you against someone eight years younger (heck, you were a good developer at that age, right?) will definitely chose the younger person. More agile, easier to morph.
Work your network. If you are as good as you say you are, use your reputation instead of your skills.
Imprisonment serves two purposes. It serves to punish (and hopefully correct) the perpetrator, but it also serves as a sign to society that crime does not pay. If some serious killer gets sentenced to 50 virtual years and gets out after a year, that will feel wrong for the victims, the families and society in general.
Not true. If they circled around, or flew 2 hours one direction and 2 hours back again, they'd be right where they started. Strait line seems logical, but if they planned it through knowing that telemetry data would still be sent then that would make it harder to find them.
Whomever volunteers to go on the first Mars mission should read this article, print it and stable it to the wall. Guess what can happen when you are out there, the first glorious conquerors of Mars. You make by with what you have, rely on communication with Earth for guidance and support. Then a bean counter on Earth decides that you are too much of an expense...
Just assuming that your friend had a fully legal collection, I would think that all he needs to do is ask the media companies for a new copy. Because the media industry tells us that we do not buy music, we buy licenses, right?? So even if we lose the bits-and-bytes which are easy to replace, then we still hold a license and the media companies should facilitate that your friend can exercise his licensed rights..
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That is a load of b*ll.. LTO tapes are serpentine recording and tape positioning is pretty fast. The average time to reach any file on a tape is half the time it takes to spool it from one end to the other.
You are not 'trying to find' anything on tape, the software does that for you. Check out LTFS.
I used to work for a hardware vendor who sold equipment to IBM. IBM demanded that all red power LED's be replaced with green ones. IBM users were used to seeing red LED's only when there was a fault with the equipment.
Bottom line: Sometimes a LED upgrade cycle makes sense..
Well, as tough as it is, and as right as this senator may sound, this is the result of global free market economy. Companies get their resources where they are cheapest, regardless if this is parts or people.
Must have been "support@sony.com"
The human eye is limited to certain pixel densities at certain distances. Technology such as this can create QHD displays in Google Glass applications where the pixels are much closer to the eye. In fact, it may be possible to implant this inside the eye and have augmented reality without p*ssing off the people around you.
Easy fix for this. Just make sure that as soon as the light turns red, big steel spikes come up from under the road to stop or pierce any car that might try to outwit the system. Oh, and on both sides of the street to ensure that real high-speed idiots will be caught on the other end.
That will only work if government officials observe the creation of the gold RTM code and then every patch there after. Inspecting the source code today and not finding anything is no guarantee that this will be the case tomorrow. You don't get 'your compiled version' as the production code. And even if you do, the next round of patches you are done for.
Using a checksum/hash for the produced files is no use either. Even with unmodified sources, if you compile the same code twice, the produced executable will have different metadata (creation date, file headers, build number) so the hash will be differrent.
Agree. There are some pictures of PCB's that have chips with '90s date codes stamped on them.
"Only four countries in the world — Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand — were exempt from the agreement"
So, did the 193 sovereign countries all agree to be spied upon? Or did one American tell another American that they had every right to do so.
Meanwhile, over 400 military drones have crashed: http://www.foxnews.com/tech/20...
No-one knows if this happened over schoolgrounds yet, but considering the number of drones in service, that's a pisspoor safety record. I can only imagine that flocks of cheap, commercial drones over populated area's will cause some 'mechanical rain' when electronic disturbance (nearby lightning strike) causes them to fail.
I'm sure they'll invent a 'save the red spot, pay up' tax soon.
Rrrright... And you have an ingenious system that takes in water, then uses road signs "Oxygen molecules to the left, Hydrogen molecules to the right" and Bob's your Uncle.
Any idea how much energy it takes to split water? Care to explain where that energy will come from?
Hydrogen is a potential energy carrier, not an energy supplier.
I can't help wonder what happens is a person who wants to be forgotten is referred to by someone else. Removing search results regarding some particular person may mean unintentional removal of content that someone else created and want visible.
By your reasoning you'd claim anyone who buys a Volkswagen Golf today is buying a 40 year old car. The Golf was introduced 40 years ago and you can still get one today. Never mind it has zero components in common with the Golf from 40 years back..
XP was and is doing everything the majority of users expect from an operating system. Many of the changes since XP are not exactly improvements for many of the users. Some are, some are not.
Microsoft can stop XP support in only one way. That's when they stop taking money from government or corporations for extended support. They will need to say 'no' to the hand that feeds then. Until they do so, they are obliged to patch XP. Not just for those who pay hefty support fees, but also to tose who bought their XP new, just 4 years ago.
Fully agree with you here. Add to that the recent advances in technology that gave us the 'benefits' of encryption, DRM, proprietary formats etc, and you can rest assured that no-one will be able to recover data from this era one hundred years from now. We are living in the digital Dark Age right now.
No-one will start with a blank screen in the morning and start to write code, just because. You need to have an itch, something you want to solve. Writing code is the means, not the goal.
Think about your support job, and ask yourself what tool would really make your life easier. Then set out to write that tool. You have the target people sitting around you right now, solve your problem and solve theirs too. If you're lucky, the tool will be valuable enough for the company to take it to that next country, all while you keep supporting that code.
I did this many years ago, while working as tech support for a tape vendor (Exabyte). I found their customer tools rubbish, so I started writing something easier (Expert 7 for MS-DOS). I asked my wife to test it for me (she is not in IT), just to see what she struggled with and made it better. It took me a while, but in the long run the company made my tool the default for customer support. I have kept on supporting that tool and many others after that until the end of last year. For almost 20 years those tape tools have given me part of my income. Even today, I still have a few customers asking me to code for them. LTO-7 is coming, perhaps I'll be asked to integrate support by then.
The problem with being eight years older is that you are, indeed, eight years older. Past a certain age it seems that the only jobs you will be able to get is through your network. All else being equal, a complete stranger who has to evaluate you against someone eight years younger (heck, you were a good developer at that age, right?) will definitely chose the younger person. More agile, easier to morph.
Work your network. If you are as good as you say you are, use your reputation instead of your skills.
Imprisonment serves two purposes. It serves to punish (and hopefully correct) the perpetrator, but it also serves as a sign to society that crime does not pay. If some serious killer gets sentenced to 50 virtual years and gets out after a year, that will feel wrong for the victims, the families and society in general.
The attorney-general can write a law to defy gravity, but putting a signature on such law will not make people fly.
In other words: madness.
Even if this were true, it is a shame that those 'better brains' are poisoned with religion. Thicker cortex, perhaps. Thicker skulls without a doubt.
Not true. If they circled around, or flew 2 hours one direction and 2 hours back again, they'd be right where they started. Strait line seems logical, but if they planned it through knowing that telemetry data would still be sent then that would make it harder to find them.
Non-native speaker here, my apologies.. I am looking forward in further lectures in flawless Dutch, which is my native language.
Whomever volunteers to go on the first Mars mission should read this article, print it and stable it to the wall.
Guess what can happen when you are out there, the first glorious conquerors of Mars. You make by with what you have, rely on communication with Earth for guidance and support. Then a bean counter on Earth decides that you are too much of an expense...
Just assuming that your friend had a fully legal collection, I would think that all he needs to do is ask the media companies for a new copy. Because the media industry tells us that we do not buy music, we buy licenses, right?? So even if we lose the bits-and-bytes which are easy to replace, then we still hold a license and the media companies should facilitate that your friend can exercise his licensed rights..
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I'm sure Samsung has the money to buy them and stop production if they wanted to.