Name one technology that has ever reduced the number of law enforcement officials. A few hundred years ago, fish used to jump into the boats. Now they scrape the ocean floor with mesh...
If you can find old copies of QNX2 around, it would run on this machine - with multiple virtual consoles and almost unix-y shell, a C compiler and up to around 64 processes(tasks).
A structured backup system is the only sane answer, where the oldest technology (lowest density) is closest to your daily work, and the newest technology is your backup. Your backup will always have about 2x your online, which is about right. Careful snap-shots, with off-line validation [ ie. ensure that you actually backed up something useful ] is step 1. A well structure pipeline will stage the snapshots for integration into the whole [ ie. yesterdays filesystem ], and archive the accumulated snapshots.
As your storage demands outstrip your storage, discard your oldest [ ie. online ] storage, bringing forward the second oldest, and backfill the chain with what is new today.
In a critical event, you will lose the delta since your last snapshot [ you had 2x, why aren't you snapping more often? ], but it will be online immediately.
If you are paranoid, mirror your backup chain at some point - but don't be too aggressive. A backup is only as good as its validation, so the more redundancy you introduce, the more validation you must perform.
RAID is an accountants answer to integrity - unless storage cost represents something substantial to you, it should be avoided.
When was the last time a creative movie came from Hollywood? A regurgitation of a tired cliches with spectacular effects and spin-off trinkits is more likely. The hero, a (wo)?man who overcame unjust adversity, saves the day by combining natural talent with dogged individuality while wearing ray-bans and drinking red bull.
Commercial applications have long separated the appearance and behavior of the application from the implementation for good reason. The obligatory strained car analogy, I like cars that are quick and responsive, but I don't want one made by an engine designer. No matter how talented the engine designer is, s/he will most likely make a car suitable for engine designers.
Balancing the viewpoints of "real world users", experts, and various designers is required to do it properly. Are all these sets well represented in the FOSS contributors?
At a certain distance Slashdot shares many important characteristics of a newspaper. There is the equivalent of an editorial board that prioritizes, categorizes and rejects various stories. There is a shared experience with other readers, and there is feedback.
Certainly/. is more feedback centred than a traditional newspaper, but if you browse at +5, not so much.
I look at google news to see what is going on; but I read the globe-and-mail and Toronto Star because I am interested in their perspective.
Your comment makes me wish I didn't waste my mod points on cheap hookers and coke.
Democracy has lost its force, and is a check mark for international approval. We are sluggish, and hear "Woo Hoo {insert bottom billion country here} is a democracy; what a success", while the UN sends people to monitor USA elections.
Once upon a time, governments were afraid of the people. No matter how much I wish it were the case, neither of the Bushes were significant enough to hang this on them.
Canada, with paper ballots, 1/2 the population and 7x size has achieved this for at least 40 years. Does Iran lack Canadas 1970 technology? I doubt it.
This isn't a red flag, at best a pale beige. They might have a little better communications infrastructure, for an obvious explanation.
No offence to OP's analysis guy, but CNN-style instant analysis has a very odd smell, a bit like napalm in the morning.
I would so pay for a cylindrical computer; something that looked like a frisbee - and with ssds maybe could be used as one. That retro 'what the 50s thought the 10s would look like' design riff is due for a comeback. For grins, it could have a square mouse.
I don't believe in humour. There is nothing to believe. I use it as a very valuable vehicle to puncture the self inflated. But if it turns out they are full of more than gas, I am ready to carry any solid material they have to offer.
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Name one technology that has ever reduced the number of law enforcement officials. A few hundred years ago, fish used to jump into the boats. Now they scrape the ocean floor with mesh...
If you can find old copies of QNX2 around, it would run on this machine - with multiple virtual consoles and almost unix-y shell, a C compiler and up to around 64 processes(tasks).
I think the skull can hold about 2 litres, depending what you put in it, you might be able to soak up a good bit of that with the spongy stuff. Why?
I think guilty conscience is fair enough. Forget the car, suppose I built a shrine to honour myself that burned 10000 barrels of oil per day.
The ratio of ecological damage to utility (~0 in this case) is the first cause of shame.
That my excessive consumption is increasing the cost of a useful commodity (oil) to others that can put it to better use is the second.
That there is some moral obligation - due to the innocents murdered to secure oil supplies - to not waste this specific commodity is the third.
The "I've paid for it" mentality is a poor substitute for any sort of civil obligation; the demonstrated lack of obligation is the fourth.
These apply to situations from not overeating to not idling your vehicle. Just because "you can" does not mean "you should".
A false sense of integrity is worse than useless.
A structured backup system is the only sane answer, where the oldest technology (lowest density) is closest to your daily work, and the newest technology is your backup. Your backup will always have about 2x your online, which is about right. Careful snap-shots, with off-line validation [ ie. ensure that you actually backed up something useful ] is step 1. A well structure pipeline will stage the snapshots for integration into the whole [ ie. yesterdays filesystem ], and archive the accumulated snapshots.
As your storage demands outstrip your storage, discard your oldest [ ie. online ] storage, bringing forward the second oldest, and backfill the chain with what is new today.
In a critical event, you will lose the delta since your last snapshot [ you had 2x, why aren't you snapping more often? ], but it will be online immediately.
If you are paranoid, mirror your backup chain at some point - but don't be too aggressive. A backup is only as good as its validation, so the more redundancy you introduce, the more validation you must perform.
RAID is an accountants answer to integrity - unless storage cost represents something substantial to you, it should be avoided.
Sorry, it is the rotten millions that spoil it for the good few.
Agreed, even the New Testament played it to death:). But tracing isn't drawing, even when it looks better.
When was the last time a creative movie came from Hollywood? A regurgitation of a tired cliches with spectacular effects and spin-off trinkits is more likely. The hero, a (wo)?man who overcame unjust adversity, saves the day by combining natural talent with dogged individuality while wearing ray-bans and drinking red bull.
sigh.
| If the claims of TFA are accurate, then we may actually be on the verge of solving all three problems.
Especially if we can use cold fusion to raise more and bigger chickens.
This has to be the biggest upgrade to PC usability since PC 97 added colour coding the mouse and keyboard connectors. Well done.
Commercial applications have long separated the appearance and behavior of the application from the implementation for good reason. The obligatory strained car analogy, I like cars that are quick and responsive, but I don't want one made by an engine designer. No matter how talented the engine designer is, s/he will most likely make a car suitable for engine designers.
Balancing the viewpoints of "real world users", experts, and various designers is required to do it properly. Are all these sets well represented in the FOSS contributors?
You obviously didn't read the article. They are turning it into java.
At a certain distance Slashdot shares many important characteristics of a newspaper. There is the equivalent of an editorial board that prioritizes, categorizes and rejects various stories. There is a shared experience with other readers, and there is feedback.
Certainly /. is more feedback centred than a traditional newspaper, but if you browse at +5, not so much.
I look at google news to see what is going on; but I read the globe-and-mail and Toronto Star because I am interested in their perspective.
Your comment makes me wish I didn't waste my mod points on cheap hookers and coke.
Democracy has lost its force, and is a check mark for international approval. We are sluggish, and hear "Woo Hoo {insert bottom billion country here} is a democracy; what a success", while the UN sends people to monitor USA elections.
Once upon a time, governments were afraid of the people. No matter how much I wish it were the case, neither of the Bushes were significant enough to hang this on them.
Canada, with paper ballots, 1/2 the population and 7x size has achieved this for at least 40 years. Does Iran lack Canadas 1970 technology? I doubt it.
This isn't a red flag, at best a pale beige. They might have a little better communications infrastructure, for an obvious explanation.
No offence to OP's analysis guy, but CNN-style instant analysis has a very odd smell, a bit like napalm in the morning.
Well we agree on one thing - ( He won the same way Bush won twice, for the /. humour impaired )
crickets.
But then the terrorbirds win. Better to crash land in the sea than make room for those stinkin geese...
|There's even this slashdot story from 2004 about freebsd 4.9 being supported as an esx guest.
Yes, but that was before bsd was confirmed dead.
I would so pay for a cylindrical computer; something that looked like a frisbee - and with ssds maybe could be used as one. That retro 'what the 50s thought the 10s would look like' design riff is due for a comeback. For grins, it could have a square mouse.
Did you make a bet with the guy next to you, or did you offer him as your wager? Any chance you could offer the nearest gal instead?
I don't believe in humour. There is nothing to believe. I use it as a very valuable vehicle to puncture the self inflated. But if it turns out they are full of more than gas, I am ready to carry any solid material they have to offer.
Give him time. I once believed in creationism, but slowly, over time, I changed. Now I believe in evolution.
Need a new mod category; Troll as in inflammatory vs Troll as in troglodyte.
| I like my mind active or I grow bored. i'm sure much of slashdot is like this.
you must be new here.