Why do I keep seeing people say not to run sawp on the CF/SSD? Why is there some 'wear leveling' thing? Obvisouly, I'm not understanding something, but in my ignorance I assume that a solid state device, save for heat, should last forever. So if someone would be so kind as to explain..? I'd love to run my swap on SSD if it meant my system would run faster! The biggest bottleneck I currently have is hard drive throughput with mechanical drives.
Most of that accepted.. however, you still draw a paycheck from the citizens of NYC. You are therefore beholden to THEM first and foremost. Seems like you recognize that. If one of these citizens asked you a question related to your job, I think you'd answer. What you would not do is stonewall them or refuse to talk at all (silent treatment). You might say, "I can't answer that because I don't really know. I just deal with the computers." but that citizen is ultimately your boss. I wish everyone who works for the government would remember that.
NO. Whatever they say is public fodder. Why? Simple. They work FOR US and must ANSWER TO US. WE pay their salaries. If any tax-paying citizen asks them any question regarding the job for which they collect a paycheck FROM US, they need to be absolutely required to answer publicly and on the record. Personally, I don't want to pay this lady's salary anymore.
This goes for anyone and everyone in government. They are paid by us and need to answer to us and do what WE say, not the other way around. We need to stop fearing our government and start challenging it to work for us. We have a lot invested in this government - it is supposed to be ours.
Are you forgetting that almost from the day Colleen Kollar-Kotelly signed on as general counsel with Mr. Smith, the DoJ is a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation?
Do you own your DVR? How much do you pay per month for it? How many $250 DVRs could you have if you keep paying for it for 5 years?
Can you plug another source into it and record to the hard drive? Can you burn a DVD from it? What if you got satellite TV and still kept the cable sub, would the DVR work with the satellite?
To each their own, you know.. I just personally want a no-strings-attached DVR for myself with no program guide, no fee, no Internet connection, time-shifting (watch show while it finishes recording) and VCR-like programming. Please write if such a thing exists. In the meantime, I'll save my money.
What if you want to record from another source onto the HD or to a DVD?
What if you discontinue your DSS and get something else like cable or Dish? Will the TiVo still work?
What we need is a simple tapeless video recorder that lets you watch a show that has already started while it finishes recording. That's all I want, and I want it in a 19" appliance and without any subscription to anything. I haven't found it yet.
Microsoft got a very big speed bump in the road to corporate adoption of GNU-LINUX and got rid of SCO for, what to them is, a little scratch. This was just the opening they needed to inject XP and Windows 2003 Server into corporate America.
With the priceless FUD that was generated and the quiet handshaking between nouveau bedfellow, Sun Systems, Microsoft is in a much better position to foster hegemony in the corporate server marketplace which is their ardent desire. Microsoft got all this for chump change, and good ol' Darl was the chump. Microsoft tossed him out like used toilet paper when they were done with him. Darl's ship didn't go down instantly so he got to hang on to his job for a little while longer and prepare for a quiet departure into retirement.
SCO used to be so damned cool, too. I remember when they had to send out memos to the staff to wear shoes adn be fully clothed when they were going to have an outsider visitor.
You are so right. - Send worm. - Corrupt backups - target vulnerabilities in Legato, Tivoli, Altiris, etc... to make verify = OK while backup data is actually trash. (know anyone who routinely does a full restore and system test from backup routinely?) - Wait 6 months to a year. - Delete everything in sight
Not trembling yet? Check for existence of brainwaves/heartbeat
The only good news I suppose is that those professionals and skilled experts who have the ability to do this are too busy doing useful, productive work.
I'd start by asking some blind/deaf folks what they need and want. I don't know what problems deaf people would have because I work all day on a computer with the sound turned off (not down, OFF).
As for blind people... I've worked with blind people who use computers. In both cases they each had a voice reader for the screen which was so distorted and set to speak so fast I couldn't understand it. One of the two also had an 80 char braille monitor made by Freedom Scientific.
What I can tell you is that in both cases, their online experience was slow and tedious. Essentially, it sucked.
I'd love to hear from a blind person their thoughts on computer usage. To me, almost all data is essentially visual.. especially that data which is stored/coded digitally. Be it text or graphics, most of the data we have on our computers and networks was created with the intent that the recipient would be able to see it with their eyes. How do you easily and efficiently provide that to someone who is blind?
I think the best solution(s) will come from people who are themselves blind and technically oriented - especially those who have always been blind.
At the risk of being a naysayer, I think using computers will always be a less-than-perfect (to say the least) experience for blind people.
It is virtually impossible to imagine how a blind person does things unless you are a blind person (which I am not). I have heard stories of blind people running table saws and sewing machines. I have no idea how this is done anymore than I can imagine how a blind person would fly a helicopter or ride a bicycle or mow lawn.
Call me unimaginative, but I think it takes being there to know what a blind person really needs/wants from a computer. I'd start by ASKING a blind person - a whole bunch of blind people - how to proceed.
Personally, I'd prefer that companies would focus less on public relations and marketing B.S. and more on action. For instance, instead of changing the name and spending an assheap of money to say, "We're going to improve customer service".. how about spending the money on training/hiring call center staff so when a customer calls they get through to a HUMAN who has the knowledge, skills, and decission making authority to resolve the issue?
That's just an example, but the point is if these corporate geniuses would do simple practical things to solve real problems, they wouldn't need to worry about public opinion. That would take care of itself. Actions always speak louder than words.
I tend to agree. I would add that people often forget how much we depend on oil for manufacturing. So many materials are derived from petroleum.. plastics, adhesives, etc. We may be able to find other sources of energy (nuclear->electricity->compressed liquid nitrogen), but we don't have a good infrastructure substitute for petroleum in manufacturing (think: paving roads, PC cases...).
Yes.. I did read the article. I certainly may have misunderstood. The way I am reading, the average daily readership over a decade is down by about 5%. I'm guessing that's not horribly significant.
If they had 1.1 million readers per day in 1993 and today have only 300,000 I would say that is significant. I'm not seeing that. I'm seeing that their average readership is essentially unchanged over the entire time span of the Internet "boom".
The only way they could be seen as losing readership is if you presume the online readers would otherwise pay for the printed version.
According to the article they have more-or-less had about 1.1 million print readers since 1993.
All I see is a greater circulation now that they have an extra 1.4 million online readers.
Nowhere do I see them saying they have LOST print subscribers.
The weight of assumption is too great to claim that those online readers would have otherwise bought the print version - just like assuming people who downloaded free albums from Napster would have bought the CD.
Bottom line = this is 100% additional exposure for NYT, and perhaps other papers like it.
You cannot prevent terrorism in a free country. Think about that.
Ok, so if you cannot prevent it without obliterating freedom and liberty, how do you stop terrorism? How? I sure don't know, but I would start with taking away their motive... their incentive. Then removing their resources.
I think you may be on to something. IANL, but I think I remember that there is a time limitation that says: as the holder of a patent you must defend it against any alleged infringement within a certain time period or forfeit your right to defend it for that infringement.
For some manufacturers who have been at it for a long time, M$ may have missed their legal opportunity to lay the proverbial smack down.
The screenplay was horrible! The writing for Voyager and TNG was wonderful. I remember plots within plots and sideplots and twists and turns.
Nemesis was so one-dimensional, it hurt my head. I kept waiting for the "retarded" Data to turn out to be Lore or for some new technology to be introduced or for Troi to get pregnant... or a million things that might have been interesting with that much raw acting talent on hand.
You gave a cast of superb actors the worst screenplay I think I have ever seen. It looked as though every interesting idea got tabled by committee or something. We ended up with a really flat uninteresting story. Whatever happend with Wesley going off with the traveler?
Where are the other members of the crystalline entity's species? How about Species 8472? How about Janeway and Picard gettig together? What about the Voyager crew on Earth.. what about the reunion therE? For crying out loud, this could have been SO cool! It just plain sucked because it didn't live up to its potential. DAMN it could have been awesome! Instead it was just disappointing.
The machine that has been Star Trek still has the capability of producing heart-pounding, thought-provoking and deeply interesting entertainment worthy of the cast and worthy of Roddenberry. Hop to it! We expect more.
...working for me. Teoma sucks donkey nards because no site will appear on Teoma that hasn't PAID to appear there. As long as Google continues to do what it does, (my web site continues to list acceptably and my searches return fruitful results) I will continue to Google happily.
The day Google starts charging for listing sites or giving preferred search results to web site owners who pay a fee, I will stop using Google so fast my web browser sustains micro-fractures from the G forces. If worse comes to worse, I'll write my own bloody web search engine.
They can advertise all they want. My system is pretty impervious to that crap.
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Why do I keep seeing people say not to run sawp on the CF/SSD? Why is there some 'wear leveling' thing? Obvisouly, I'm not understanding something, but in my ignorance I assume that a solid state device, save for heat, should last forever. So if someone would be so kind as to explain..? I'd love to run my swap on SSD if it meant my system would run faster! The biggest bottleneck I currently have is hard drive throughput with mechanical drives.
A company isn't owned by the citizens, although shareholder might be citizens.. but the revenue comes from customers.
Government, on the other hand, IS owned by the citizens so anyone who draws a paycheck from our taxes is beholden to us in my opinion.
Most of that accepted.. however, you still draw a paycheck from the citizens of NYC. You are therefore beholden to THEM first and foremost. Seems like you recognize that. If one of these citizens asked you a question related to your job, I think you'd answer. What you would not do is stonewall them or refuse to talk at all (silent treatment). You might say, "I can't answer that because I don't really know. I just deal with the computers." but that citizen is ultimately your boss. I wish everyone who works for the government would remember that.
NO. Whatever they say is public fodder. Why? Simple. They work FOR US and must ANSWER TO US. WE pay their salaries. If any tax-paying citizen asks them any question regarding the job for which they collect a paycheck FROM US, they need to be absolutely required to answer publicly and on the record. Personally, I don't want to pay this lady's salary anymore.
This goes for anyone and everyone in government. They are paid by us and need to answer to us and do what WE say, not the other way around. We need to stop fearing our government and start challenging it to work for us. We have a lot invested in this government - it is supposed to be ours.
Are you forgetting that almost from the day Colleen Kollar-Kotelly signed on as general counsel with Mr. Smith, the DoJ is a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation?
What is the new alternative? I personally don't want any additional fees or subs. I'm not nostalgic, I am just cheap!
Do you own your DVR? How much do you pay per month for it? How many $250 DVRs could you have if you keep paying for it for 5 years?
Can you plug another source into it and record to the hard drive? Can you burn a DVD from it? What if you got satellite TV and still kept the cable sub, would the DVR work with the satellite?
To each their own, you know.. I just personally want a no-strings-attached DVR for myself with no program guide, no fee, no Internet connection, time-shifting (watch show while it finishes recording) and VCR-like programming. Please write if such a thing exists. In the meantime, I'll save my money.
Do you own your TiVo, or do you pay a fee for it?
What if you want to record from another source onto the HD or to a DVD?
What if you discontinue your DSS and get something else like cable or Dish? Will the TiVo still work?
What we need is a simple tapeless video recorder that lets you watch a show that has already started while it finishes recording. That's all I want, and I want it in a 19" appliance and without any subscription to anything. I haven't found it yet.
Dan Bricklin and Peter Norton are 'programming whizzes' in my book. Bill Gates just did something obvious with CP/M.
...stack. Pump up the stack.
Let me crystallize this a bit more.
Microsoft got a very big speed bump in the road to corporate adoption of GNU-LINUX and got rid of SCO for, what to them is, a little scratch. This was just the opening they needed to inject XP and Windows 2003 Server into corporate America.
With the priceless FUD that was generated and the quiet handshaking between nouveau bedfellow, Sun Systems, Microsoft is in a much better position to foster hegemony in the corporate server marketplace which is their ardent desire. Microsoft got all this for chump change, and good ol' Darl was the chump. Microsoft tossed him out like used toilet paper when they were done with him. Darl's ship didn't go down instantly so he got to hang on to his job for a little while longer and prepare for a quiet departure into retirement.
SCO used to be so damned cool, too. I remember when they had to send out memos to the staff to wear shoes adn be fully clothed when they were going to have an outsider visitor.
Vortran out
You are so right.
- Send worm.
- Corrupt backups - target vulnerabilities in Legato, Tivoli, Altiris, etc... to make verify = OK while backup data is actually trash. (know anyone who routinely does a full restore and system test from backup routinely?)
- Wait 6 months to a year.
- Delete everything in sight
Not trembling yet? Check for existence of brainwaves/heartbeat
The only good news I suppose is that those professionals and skilled experts who have the ability to do this are too busy doing useful, productive work.
I'd start by asking some blind/deaf folks what they need and want. I don't know what problems deaf people would have because I work all day on a computer with the sound turned off (not down, OFF).
As for blind people... I've worked with blind people who use computers. In both cases they each had a voice reader for the screen which was so distorted and set to speak so fast I couldn't understand it. One of the two also had an 80 char braille monitor made by Freedom Scientific.
What I can tell you is that in both cases, their online experience was slow and tedious. Essentially, it sucked.
I'd love to hear from a blind person their thoughts on computer usage. To me, almost all data is essentially visual.. especially that data which is stored/coded digitally. Be it text or graphics, most of the data we have on our computers and networks was created with the intent that the recipient would be able to see it with their eyes. How do you easily and efficiently provide that to someone who is blind?
I think the best solution(s) will come from people who are themselves blind and technically oriented - especially those who have always been blind.
At the risk of being a naysayer, I think using computers will always be a less-than-perfect (to say the least) experience for blind people.
Vortran out
It is virtually impossible to imagine how a blind person does things unless you are a blind person (which I am not). I have heard stories of blind people running table saws and sewing machines. I have no idea how this is done anymore than I can imagine how a blind person would fly a helicopter or ride a bicycle or mow lawn.
Call me unimaginative, but I think it takes being there to know what a blind person really needs/wants from a computer. I'd start by ASKING a blind person - a whole bunch of blind people - how to proceed.
Vortran out
Personally, I'd prefer that companies would focus less on public relations and marketing B.S. and more on action. For instance, instead of changing the name and spending an assheap of money to say, "We're going to improve customer service".. how about spending the money on training/hiring call center staff so when a customer calls they get through to a HUMAN who has the knowledge, skills, and decission making authority to resolve the issue?
That's just an example, but the point is if these corporate geniuses would do simple practical things to solve real problems, they wouldn't need to worry about public opinion. That would take care of itself. Actions always speak louder than words.
I tend to agree. I would add that people often forget how much we depend on oil for manufacturing. So many materials are derived from petroleum.. plastics, adhesives, etc. We may be able to find other sources of energy (nuclear->electricity->compressed liquid nitrogen), but we don't have a good infrastructure substitute for petroleum in manufacturing (think: paving roads, PC cases...).
Yes.. I did read the article. I certainly may have misunderstood. The way I am reading, the average daily readership over a decade is down by about 5%. I'm guessing that's not horribly significant.
If they had 1.1 million readers per day in 1993 and today have only 300,000 I would say that is significant. I'm not seeing that. I'm seeing that their average readership is essentially unchanged over the entire time span of the Internet "boom".
The only way they could be seen as losing readership is if you presume the online readers would otherwise pay for the printed version.
According to the article they have more-or-less had about 1.1 million print readers since 1993.
All I see is a greater circulation now that they have an extra 1.4 million online readers.
Nowhere do I see them saying they have LOST print subscribers.
The weight of assumption is too great to claim that those online readers would have otherwise bought the print version - just like assuming people who downloaded free albums from Napster would have bought the CD.
Bottom line = this is 100% additional exposure for NYT, and perhaps other papers like it.
I feel with you but you must think...
You cannot prevent terrorism in a free country. Think about that.
Ok, so if you cannot prevent it without obliterating freedom and liberty, how do you stop terrorism? How? I sure don't know, but I would start with taking away their motive... their incentive. Then removing their resources.
I think you may be on to something. IANL, but I think I remember that there is a time limitation that says: as the holder of a patent you must defend it against any alleged infringement within a certain time period or forfeit your right to defend it for that infringement.
For some manufacturers who have been at it for a long time, M$ may have missed their legal opportunity to lay the proverbial smack down.
Vortran out
Let's not forget the last we saw (ok, the last I saw) of Wesley was him going off with the Traveller as he vanished into thin air.
If that's not "god-like" for Wesley, I don't know what is.
Vortran out
Dear Rick
The screenplay was horrible! The writing for Voyager and TNG was wonderful. I remember plots within plots and sideplots and twists and turns.
Nemesis was so one-dimensional, it hurt my head. I kept waiting for the "retarded" Data to turn out to be Lore or for some new technology to be introduced or for Troi to get pregnant... or a million things that might have been interesting with that much raw acting talent on hand.
You gave a cast of superb actors the worst screenplay I think I have ever seen. It looked as though every interesting idea got tabled by committee or something. We ended up with a really flat uninteresting story. Whatever happend with Wesley going off with the traveler?
Where are the other members of the crystalline entity's species? How about Species 8472? How about Janeway and Picard gettig together? What about the Voyager crew on Earth.. what about the reunion therE? For crying out loud, this could have been SO cool! It just plain sucked because it didn't live up to its potential. DAMN it could have been awesome! Instead it was just disappointing.
The machine that has been Star Trek still has the capability of producing heart-pounding, thought-provoking and deeply interesting entertainment worthy of the cast and worthy of Roddenberry. Hop to it! We expect more.
- a Star Trek fan
Vortran out
...working for me. Teoma sucks donkey nards because no site will appear on Teoma that hasn't PAID to appear there. As long as Google continues to do what it does, (my web site continues to list acceptably and my searches return fruitful results) I will continue to Google happily.
The day Google starts charging for listing sites or giving preferred search results to web site owners who pay a fee, I will stop using Google so fast my web browser sustains micro-fractures from the G forces. If worse comes to worse, I'll write my own bloody web search engine.
They can advertise all they want. My system is pretty impervious to that crap.
Vortran out
Why don't we have ANYTHING like this in the United States?
Vortran out
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