... Those of you sysadmins who have been enjoying longer than normal equipment life over the past 5 years (especially hard drives) might want to check that you have good backups in place;)
Oh dear... if the last five years are supposed to have been better than normal reliability, I need a bloody abacus.
Yeah, kinda, but it's more than just a numbers game. There is nothing safe about hurling oneself through the air at hundreds of miles per hour, thousands of feet above the ground (neither one of these things are safe, nevermind combined). We like to comfort ourselves with statistics, but we all know the act itself in inherently dangerous. The numbers game plays a part, but more it's the simple acknowledgment of the interaction between the hard laws of physics and the soft human body, not designed for impacts at those speeds or drops from those heights. That the statistics are at all comforting reflects not the safety of the activity but rather how bloody well our right-headed fears lead us to take extreme care while doing it.
No no, if he worked for NASA, he'd propose five redundant systems, and if one produces a result the majority doesn't agree with, they terminate it. Them NASA computers have extreme ideas on how to deal with dissent...
Before you start mucking about with geo-engineering the temperature,...
I'd give you a time machine you could use to deliver that advice if I thought people would listen. (The former part of that statement being only slightly less plausible than the latter.)
Well, bubbles might also mean no oxygen exchange. So we'll wind up killing 80% of the planet's ecosystem off when the oceans die, to stop global warming. Yeah. That makes sense.
Yeah... this is why people put bubble-making aerators in fish-tanks: to starve the fish of oxygen.
If you don't like idle, why are you even reading this article? Seriously, it takes a special kind of stupid to be here commenting on an article then. It's like going out of your way at a buffet to grab a heaping load of beans, and then complaining about how much you hate beans and how idiotic it was for them to put the beans up on the buffet.
2. No-one noticed the UPS with all its error lights on?
It's that SOP for a UPS?;)
On a more serious note, is there a more unreliable piece of equipment in any office? I swear I've seen more bad UPS's than good ones, and I'm not talking about ones that have been sitting around for years -- I've seen more UPS's that did not function properly three months out of the box than ones that did. Granted, I'm talking the cheapo kind you can get at Best Buy or the like, but still, they ought to work at least half the time, no?
http://www.clamwin.com/
Although it is missing an on access scan, I am not sure if that is a plus of a minus.
A definite plus. I've never gotten a virus infection on my desktop, period. If anything uses one iota of resources other than when it's doing the weekly scan to make sure this remains the case, it's junk. It's wasting time on something that's far too unlikely to ever happen for me to justify the wasted time and resources. But just because it's never happened doesn't mean it never will, and how would I know if I wasn't looking for it? Thus, I do the regular scans. I need a scanner, I don't need a "shield".
Ten years ago the NASDAQ reached 5132, no long after it lost more than half the value. The reason was that people believed the rules no longer applied....
Reminds me of the guy who explained fifteen years ago why the Internet wasn't going to change anything, online shopping wasn't going anywhere, newspapers had nothing to fear, etc.
There are two kinds of idiots in the world. The ones who think the old rules no longer apply, and those who think the rules never change. Hindsight always allows us to point out half the idiots, but the other half escape detection until further events come along...
If people are exposed to opinions they don't agree with, it disrupts their sense that they are the center of the universe. You can tell how self-centered someone is by how much opposing opinions annoy them.
Occam's razor time: LHC caused a ripple in spacetime, or Slashdot editors screwed up. Hmm...
You only say that because Slashdot's inane speculations caused a distortion in spacetime that propagated backwards and caused Occam to develop his razor.:p
There's only ONE video of the thing flying by itself, and it's INDOORS (Yeah, no wind at all), it doesn't go higher than half a meter off the ground, it doesn't move at all (It just floats there, and then it rotates on it's own axis), and the flight only lasts 30 seconds.
Actually, it does move around in the indoor video. You need to watch more than the first 30 seconds of the 90 second flight. Either that, or you're talking about a completely different video than the one linked to in the summary, in which case, it's not true that's there's only one video, since you've apparently seen a second one that's different than the 90 second one where it actually flies around. Apparently, based on your description, the only thing the two videos have in common is that they're indoors. You should watch the longer one.
Have you ever BEEN in an ultralight?... you don't see storefronts, you see the entire complex, including the service entrances. You don't see the eight cars directly around you, you see a hundred in a line, some merging in and out of traffic, some carrying onwards. You don't see houses with their trimmed lawns, trying to make themselves look like DISTINGUISHED suburbanites, you just see another prefab lot out of thousands.
*ahem* Do note that ultralights can only be legally flown during daylight and over unpopulated areas. You shouldn't be seeing any of that...:p
As an ultralight, this can technically only be legally flown over unpopulated areas. So, smacking into buildings isn't really an option, just smacking into trees, cliffs, your RV, etc. (And, of course, everyone always obeys the law, right?)
The idiot complaining about how the word was used by the editor since it had nothing to do with voting. The one thing that draws the most ire of a grammar Nazi is a grammar Nazi wannabe who "corrects" people for using a word in a perfectly correct manner that, due to the wannabe's own ignorance, they are unfamiliar with.
because, yet again, catering to the linux desktop community would be like gmc catering to the double amputee community. there are next to no users and the few users that are there seem to revel in running their machine off of 80 dollars worth of parts that they only upgrade after every other president.
Hey! I upgrade at least once every president! (...or at least I did for the last two, who both served two full terms.)
I'm even more defective -- not only did I understand what he was trying to say perfectly, but if replies hadn't called attention to it, I would never have noticed there was any error in the statement to begin with.
Exactly. Havok and in-house physics engine are perfectly fine for physics simulations in games. I don't see why we need another third-party physics engine.
Flying boxes and wood splinters do not make a better game.
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... Those of you sysadmins who have been enjoying longer than normal equipment life over the past 5 years (especially hard drives) might want to check that you have good backups in place ;)
Oh dear... if the last five years are supposed to have been better than normal reliability, I need a bloody abacus.
... you are sneezing brains in the immediate future.
I have never heard that particular expression before.
I am not happier for having heard it.
Yeah, kinda, but it's more than just a numbers game. There is nothing safe about hurling oneself through the air at hundreds of miles per hour, thousands of feet above the ground (neither one of these things are safe, nevermind combined). We like to comfort ourselves with statistics, but we all know the act itself in inherently dangerous. The numbers game plays a part, but more it's the simple acknowledgment of the interaction between the hard laws of physics and the soft human body, not designed for impacts at those speeds or drops from those heights. That the statistics are at all comforting reflects not the safety of the activity but rather how bloody well our right-headed fears lead us to take extreme care while doing it.
Why post AC? You obviously work for NASA. :)
No no, if he worked for NASA, he'd propose five redundant systems, and if one produces a result the majority doesn't agree with, they terminate it. Them NASA computers have extreme ideas on how to deal with dissent...
Before you start mucking about with geo-engineering the temperature, ...
I'd give you a time machine you could use to deliver that advice if I thought people would listen. (The former part of that statement being only slightly less plausible than the latter.)
Well, bubbles might also mean no oxygen exchange. So we'll wind up killing 80% of the planet's ecosystem off when the oceans die, to stop global warming. Yeah. That makes sense.
Yeah... this is why people put bubble-making aerators in fish-tanks: to starve the fish of oxygen.
/sarcasm
You may not realize this, but Taiwan is part of China.
Only in the same sense that the Falkland Islands are part of Argentina.
If you don't like idle, why are you even reading this article? Seriously, it takes a special kind of stupid to be here commenting on an article then. It's like going out of your way at a buffet to grab a heaping load of beans, and then complaining about how much you hate beans and how idiotic it was for them to put the beans up on the buffet.
Bye... can I have your stuff? :p
2. No-one noticed the UPS with all its error lights on?
It's that SOP for a UPS? ;)
On a more serious note, is there a more unreliable piece of equipment in any office? I swear I've seen more bad UPS's than good ones, and I'm not talking about ones that have been sitting around for years -- I've seen more UPS's that did not function properly three months out of the box than ones that did. Granted, I'm talking the cheapo kind you can get at Best Buy or the like, but still, they ought to work at least half the time, no?
http://www.clamwin.com/ Although it is missing an on access scan, I am not sure if that is a plus of a minus.
A definite plus. I've never gotten a virus infection on my desktop, period. If anything uses one iota of resources other than when it's doing the weekly scan to make sure this remains the case, it's junk. It's wasting time on something that's far too unlikely to ever happen for me to justify the wasted time and resources. But just because it's never happened doesn't mean it never will, and how would I know if I wasn't looking for it? Thus, I do the regular scans. I need a scanner, I don't need a "shield".
Ten years ago the NASDAQ reached 5132, no long after it lost more than half the value. The reason was that people believed the rules no longer applied. ...
Reminds me of the guy who explained fifteen years ago why the Internet wasn't going to change anything, online shopping wasn't going anywhere, newspapers had nothing to fear, etc.
There are two kinds of idiots in the world. The ones who think the old rules no longer apply, and those who think the rules never change. Hindsight always allows us to point out half the idiots, but the other half escape detection until further events come along...
KEEP YOUR OPINION TO YOURSELF.
Why?
If people are exposed to opinions they don't agree with, it disrupts their sense that they are the center of the universe. You can tell how self-centered someone is by how much opposing opinions annoy them.
Occam's razor time: LHC caused a ripple in spacetime, or Slashdot editors screwed up. Hmm...
You only say that because Slashdot's inane speculations caused a distortion in spacetime that propagated backwards and caused Occam to develop his razor. :p
At that price, why not a plane?
You may as well ask, "At that price, why not a yacht?" If you're going to compare apples and oranges...
There's only ONE video of the thing flying by itself, and it's INDOORS (Yeah, no wind at all), it doesn't go higher than half a meter off the ground, it doesn't move at all (It just floats there, and then it rotates on it's own axis), and the flight only lasts 30 seconds.
Actually, it does move around in the indoor video. You need to watch more than the first 30 seconds of the 90 second flight. Either that, or you're talking about a completely different video than the one linked to in the summary, in which case, it's not true that's there's only one video, since you've apparently seen a second one that's different than the 90 second one where it actually flies around. Apparently, based on your description, the only thing the two videos have in common is that they're indoors. You should watch the longer one.
This says "ultralight", so probably needs a license.
Depends on the country. In the US, no license is required to fly an ultralight.
...and ENIAC wasn't a computer because it didn't fit on your desk, right? :p
Have you ever BEEN in an ultralight? ... you don't see storefronts, you see the entire complex, including the service entrances. You don't see the eight cars directly around you, you see a hundred in a line, some merging in and out of traffic, some carrying onwards. You don't see houses with their trimmed lawns, trying to make themselves look like DISTINGUISHED suburbanites, you just see another prefab lot out of thousands.
*ahem* Do note that ultralights can only be legally flown during daylight and over unpopulated areas. You shouldn't be seeing any of that... :p
As an ultralight, this can technically only be legally flown over unpopulated areas. So, smacking into buildings isn't really an option, just smacking into trees, cliffs, your RV, etc. (And, of course, everyone always obeys the law, right?)
There is, however, FAA certification.
For an ultralight?
Wow, who woke up the Grammar Nazi?
The idiot complaining about how the word was used by the editor since it had nothing to do with voting. The one thing that draws the most ire of a grammar Nazi is a grammar Nazi wannabe who "corrects" people for using a word in a perfectly correct manner that, due to the wannabe's own ignorance, they are unfamiliar with.
because, yet again, catering to the linux desktop community would be like gmc catering to the double amputee community. there are next to no users and the few users that are there seem to revel in running their machine off of 80 dollars worth of parts that they only upgrade after every other president.
Hey! I upgrade at least once every president! (...or at least I did for the last two, who both served two full terms.)
I must be defective. Even with his mistake, I got the gist of what he was trying to say... Life may make more sense to you at this web site.. http://forums.about.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?webtag=ab-grammar
I'm even more defective -- not only did I understand what he was trying to say perfectly, but if replies hadn't called attention to it, I would never have noticed there was any error in the statement to begin with.
Exactly. Havok and in-house physics engine are perfectly fine for physics simulations in games. I don't see why we need another third-party physics engine. Flying boxes and wood splinters do not make a better game.
640K ought to be enough for anyone.