Very simple; "unload, format, zip, encrypt, sign, post" but worked rather well. However it would be considered a bit slow and unwieldy these days... 3 minutes is too long apparently.
Instead of asking for a directory path when you save it, the words are translated into tags. "class assignment first term digital electronics 2007"
To uniquely identify that file, it's guaranteed to be at location/class/assignment/first/term/digital/electronics/2007/Assignment1.doc
Thing is, it's *also* going to be at/2007/assignment/class/electronics/digtal/ etc etc. You will probably be able to uniquely identify the file far earlier in the path. e.g./digital/electronics/assignment
With a tagging filesystem, it shouldn't matter where the file is in the hierarchy. You can use any part of the description to find the file again.
Organising the tags into hierarchies is fine. It becomes an and operation. Friends/gifts is simply a list of those files tagged with friends and gifts. It returns exactly the same information as gifts/friends.
They require a considerable effort to tag consistently.
No. With tags you don't have to carefully choose keywords or categories. You just describe what the file is. The words become the tags. Remove the "fors, its, the ands and the thes" and finding any file becomes simply a case of describing it.
I should be able to tag a file with "friends, birthdays, gifts" and be able to find that file again using any of the terms.
Hierarchical filesystems are ok for systems management, but they are crap for assigning meaning to user data. A hierarchy implies that any particular file can only have a single aspect when in fact it may have dozens of aspects.
On the flip side of that, one would need MASSIVE bridges to cover many of the dips and rivers in Quebec and Ontario.... It is just all around cheaper to fly over it all.
Google for "rail cost per mile". You're talking tens of millions per mile. Of course it's cheaper to fly.
Doesn't it really just say that our back garden sweeps a volume of approximately 500 light years radius? Perhaps far less? How old is the radio now?
If you take that bubble and compare against the volume and age of the universe, we should be able to obtain some sort of a probability of observing the output of intelligent life if it exists.
What I mean by this is... The numbers are just too small to take the Fermi Paradox seriously.
A backup of my PC will only be about five million pages or so.
2 things...
1: Once you take out your operating system, applications, porn and downloaded music collection... How much real data do you actually have? I'd bet it'd fit on a handful of pages, particularly if you convert it to a standardised data format which might still be readable in 10,20 years.
2: An archive is not a backup. And a backup makes a poor archive. An archive is a copy of something you may want to read or access in 10 years, 100 years, 500 years. A backup is something you do to preserve your current working data set in case of failure.
HTH
Having said that. Even though paper has a proven n hundred year archival track record, I doubt it is a practical solution for digital data.
Whatever mitigates the financial crisis is great...
Why would stock prices go up if the value of a dollar is in the process of doubling?
The values of the stock markets have almost nothing to do with anything real. Far more important are the numbers of real and imaginary dollars in existence.
Or put another way. Want the stock markets to go up? Well, persuade your bank to stop taking dollars out and shooting them.
The debate was over once the performance difference between SCSI and ATA wasn't big enough to justify the additional cost
Have you ever actually compared the difference between sata and sas systems? It has a much larger effect on responsiveness than going from a 2GHz to 3GHz CPU. Almost all of our systems use SCSI or SAS drives.
It's the CPU difference which really matters. A decent SCSI system will sit at 80-100% utilised and the CPU will be close to idle. My personal desktop system. 15k RPM SAS drives. Waiting for computers is boring.
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Very simple; "unload, format, zip, encrypt, sign, post" but worked rather well. However it would be considered a bit slow and unwieldy these days... 3 minutes is too long apparently.
NNTP
HTH.
Who gives documents names like
No, the file name is just the name. birthdays.txt
Instead of asking for a directory path when you save it, the words are translated into tags. "class assignment first term digital electronics 2007"
To uniquely identify that file, it's guaranteed to be at location /class/assignment/first/term/digital/electronics/2007/Assignment1.doc
Thing is, it's *also* going to be at /2007/assignment/class/electronics/digtal/ etc etc. You will probably be able to uniquely identify the file far earlier in the path. e.g. /digital/electronics/assignment
With a tagging filesystem, it shouldn't matter where the file is in the hierarchy. You can use any part of the description to find the file again.
Organising the tags into hierarchies is fine. It becomes an and operation. Friends/gifts is simply a list of those files tagged with friends and gifts. It returns exactly the same information as gifts/friends.
In reality, they are.
The reality of the situation is that both represent authoritarian ideologies. The real goal is simply power. The same goal it has always been.
Watch what the DO, not what they say.
They require a considerable effort to tag consistently.
No. With tags you don't have to carefully choose keywords or categories. You just describe what the file is. The words become the tags. Remove the "fors, its, the ands and the thes" and finding any file becomes simply a case of describing it.
I should be able to tag a file with "friends, birthdays, gifts" and be able to find that file again using any of the terms.
Hierarchical filesystems are ok for systems management, but they are crap for assigning meaning to user data. A hierarchy implies that any particular file can only have a single aspect when in fact it may have dozens of aspects.
Even nuclear can't keep up with population growth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Population_curve.svg
We're going to need fast breeder reactors everywhere just to prevent a massive die off.
In the performance throughput of BSOD generation metrics.
You don't just make up a number and add it onto your balance sheet.
But you just said that you do!
On the flip side of that, one would need MASSIVE bridges to cover many of the dips and rivers in Quebec and Ontario.... It is just all around cheaper to fly over it all.
Google for "rail cost per mile". You're talking tens of millions per mile. Of course it's cheaper to fly.
When they get built in mass spectrometer... Xray diffraction... Infra Red spectrometer.
Doesn't it really just say that our back garden sweeps a volume of approximately 500 light years radius? Perhaps far less? How old is the radio now?
If you take that bubble and compare against the volume and age of the universe, we should be able to obtain some sort of a probability of observing the output of intelligent life if it exists.
What I mean by this is... The numbers are just too small to take the Fermi Paradox seriously.
A backup of my PC will only be about five million pages or so.
2 things...
1: Once you take out your operating system, applications, porn and downloaded music collection... How much real data do you actually have? I'd bet it'd fit on a handful of pages, particularly if you convert it to a standardised data format which might still be readable in 10,20 years.
2: An archive is not a backup. And a backup makes a poor archive. An archive is a copy of something you may want to read or access in 10 years, 100 years, 500 years. A backup is something you do to preserve your current working data set in case of failure.
HTH
Having said that. Even though paper has a proven n hundred year archival track record, I doubt it is a practical solution for digital data.
Or, several of them.
Archive format of the future:
http://ronja.twibright.com/optar/
Whatever mitigates the financial crisis is great...
Why would stock prices go up if the value of a dollar is in the process of doubling?
The values of the stock markets have almost nothing to do with anything real. Far more important are the numbers of real and imaginary dollars in existence.
Or put another way. Want the stock markets to go up? Well, persuade your bank to stop taking dollars out and shooting them.
Excellent troll. 7/10
Government follows money.
What allows government to be large, centralised and corrupted?
"It's The Money Stupid".
How long does it take to make a phone call?
Oh, and real men write their own compilers.
Real men code in P".
Software development recursively disappears up it's own arse.
We already have different, generic, virtual machines. They are called operating systems. They run on bits of silicon and steel.
You can't fix the problems you have writing software by running away from them
"Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice."
No? Meh.
Too many channels. Too much crap. Too little time.
This is the IRS! For crying out loud. Don't TELL them!
The debate was over once the performance difference between SCSI and ATA wasn't big enough to justify the additional cost
Have you ever actually compared the difference between sata and sas systems? It has a much larger effect on responsiveness than going from a 2GHz to 3GHz CPU. Almost all of our systems use SCSI or SAS drives.
It's the CPU difference which really matters. A decent SCSI system will sit at 80-100% utilised and the CPU will be close to idle. My personal desktop system. 15k RPM SAS drives. Waiting for computers is boring.