BTW, every private astronaut who has flown on the ISS has taken equipment without NASA oversight.. and there's been no incidents.
Yes, but those aren't mission-important items. A camera might be mission critical.
What are the odds of an off-the-shelf DSLR even surviving to orbit? When Nikon or Canon tests them, they don't have multi-G stress in mind, or thousands of bangs and shakes per second, or higher doses of radiation, or all the other fun stuff cargo gets as it zooms up to orbit.
Put it another way: one of the major subdisciplines in satellite engineering is surviving launch. Consumer stuff simply isn't made with launch, vaccuum, and zero-G in mind, so it may not work.
You're storing relatively fragile hard drives in a raid5 configuration in a lock box?
Relatively fragile sitting in a temperature controlled safety deposit box, completely unpowered? Uhh.. No.
As info, I don't think most banks guarantee these conditions. They guarantee no one will break in and steal your stuff (no doubt with lots of liability-limiting clauses in the agreement you sign), but I don't think they guarantee either temperature or humidity control. I'm sure your box won't get to 451F or something, but a swing of 15-20 degrees during the day wouldn't surprise me, at the same humidity as the lobby.
There is storage like that available (e.g., Iron Mountain) but it's more expensive.
I'm not sure that you thought that through really well. I've lived in the UK and the US. In the US people pay for all kinds of programming they don't want
I don't think you understand.
In the US, you have the option of putting up an antenna and getting free TV. 1 in 10 Americans (I just read it's 11%) does just that. That is what all that hoopla over the digitial changeover was about. In lots of areas (including mine) you can get 12-15 channels for free.
In England, if you own a TV, you must pay $142.50 a year in tax. There is no service included in that. That's just a tax for owning a TV. If you buy it and never turn it on, you still must pay. That money goes to fund the BBC, whether you watch it or not. You may have zero interest in the BBC programming or have some objection to their programming, but you're still funding it. If you then want cable or satellite or whatever, you must pay all those subscription fees additionally.
Also, don't confuse "what is skimmed off the top and resold in America" with "the vast swaths of lowbrow garbage" that is BBC programming. Believe it or not, not everyone in England is an Oxford-educated intellectual who relaxes with Brideshead Revisited at night. The vast majority are emptyheaded droolers like Americans and watch crap like Three's Company or Sanford and Son - which, hey, were both BBC shows originally.
In order to avoid the overpriced fees for that, I just got a PO box and use an invalid phone number.
10 domains at $9/yr each for privacy gives $90/year extra. A PO box costs $45 or so a year. For any more than 5 domains, it's cheaper to go the PO Box route.
Hate to tell you this, but most registrars/hosters provide the service for free. I have a dozen or so domains, all use whois privacy proxy, and I've never paid a penny for it.
The Islamic view of time and the universe in general is that what has happened, is happening and will happen has already been determined ("it is written"). What has happened can never be undone and this is mentioned many-many times in the Quran.
The Islamic view of time is plagiarized from other views of time, just as the Quran is plagiarized from other sources. There is really nothing original in Islam, which is why it's so tediously dull to study.
This is the most ridiculous semantic argument I have ever read. Saying that "time doesn't exist" is a cop-out for simple minds.
I think Gautama Buddha would be most pleased that you consider his mind simple. As far as I can determine, the observation that time doesn't exist originates in Buddhist thought.
All you can do is speculate on the nature of time based on your observations (i.e. "The only thing we have is present-moment memories, etc"), attempt to formulate a testable hypothesis, and seek falsifying or confirming evidence for that hypothesis.
It just so happens that's really difficult to do when every frame of reference you have occurs (or appears to occur) within the very thing you're trying to study.
So yes, as I observed, you can't prove it exists. Thanks. Next up: prove I exist.
The future obviously does not exist. The past? Doesn't exist either. Hence, only this present moment exists.
You can't even prove that the past existed. The only thing we have is present-moment memories, etc. I remember typing "Prove me wrong" but my memory is hardly reliable. If thirty seconds ago you spilled milk on your pants, all you have now is wet, soggy pants, not any "chain of events". Even if you filmed it, all you have is the present-moment series of images, not some actual piece of the past.
Only this present moment exists. All else is wild speculation and fantasy. Time does not exist.
I wouldn't pay fifty cents to see another TED video. They're all the same. Someone who is famous for something stands in front of a pretty slideshow and states 3-4 little-known facts that are interesting and draws obvious inferences from them. He then says thanks and that's it. Heck, I could read the backs of Trivial Pursuit cards and get the same thing. I have yet to see a TED video where the presenter ties all of his ramblings together into a prediction, or a new synthesis. They are all just regurgitated fact-sharing.
It would be all-right if the fact-sharing was educational or comprehensive. "I'm going to explain the housing bust to you" or "let me explain how X works". Great. But TED is neither comprehensive nor educational. It's just random observations, hypothesis, exposition, and "let me tell you a story" stuff.
I watched one by Misha Glenny not long ago. I've read and enjoyed his books, but the TED video was like sitting with him after he's had a few beers and listen to him talk stream-of-consciousness. Kinda interesting but after a few minutes you start to think "where is all this going?" and it turns out it's going nowhere. His books told the story of post-war Eastern Europe and had a definite goal. The TED video felt like "they paid me to stand up here and entertain you for 10 minutes".
Every single video is like that! TED is waste of time.
Nobody cares about open solaris. Nobody in their right mind would have chosen it as a platform.
Ah, the beauty and ignorance of youth and inexperience. In short there are plenty of places where Solaris fits perfectly and Linux doesn't. I can show you several data centers with more Solaris running on Sun hardware with than Linux on any hardware, and they like Linux, its simply that it doesn't fit the bill.
Ah, the beauty and ignorance of youth and illiteracy. Read what you quoted again - he said Open Solaris. Still have those several data centers to show us?
Oracle just fired many of the best and brightest programmers at Sun, because they were the most highly paid.
Dear Hewlett-Packard,
Thanks for posting this unsubstantiated rumor here on Slashdot. Oh, while you're here, we'd all love to see some servers that run on something other than Itanium. Thanks.
Question: why not simply use the random crap we all have on our PCs to generate random numbers? Say...choose 5 folders at random on a PC. You could use size limits to narrow the search..say between 500Mb and 2Gb. Then make a hash based on those five folders, something like file sizes or time stamps or a combination of the two, wouldn't that be pretty damned random?
Not really. Take 10 PCs and "WINDOWS", "Program "Files", "Office", "Adobe", etc. are probably some of the top 5 folders by space, If you limit it to exactly.5 to 2.0 GB, then there's an even smaller number of common folders that fall in that range - and that likely excludes your pictures, your videos, etc. Probably one or two of them didn't exist five years ago, so already I know the probable year or a small range of years. Time stamps - perhaps updated last when a new Microsoft patch was pushed out? I can look at Windows Update and narrow it further. Your completely random has gone to "a list where I know probably one of the names and some of the years, if not datestamps".
Perens, an expert witness in the case, details the blow by blow, including how developers need to make sure they're using the correct one for legal protection.
Fine editing there, Taco. What exactly does this sentence mean?
Developers need to us the correct Arabic numeral for legal protection?
Developers need to use the correct cocaine for legal protection?
Developers need to use the correct Bruce Perens for legal protection?
Depends on the province; it's often free no matter what your situation is. Contrary to Republican scare ads, it's also of excellent quality provided that you don't go to the emergency room for a cold or a stubbed toe.
The opposite is true. Canada has excellent acute care, and appalling chronic care. Emergencies are handled quickly and efficiently. Getting to see a specialist or starting a long-term regimen of treatment can take months or years.
The right to a phone call is a TV police show myth. There is no such right. It is custom, but not a right, and by no means universal. In some jurisdictions, you may not make phone calls. You have the right to have someone notified, to the extent that you can summon counsel. If the police merely notify the public defender, they have satisfied every legal obligation.
The problem with giving to Wikimedia is that they have been so wasteful of the money they've been given. The move to the Bay Area is chief exhibit #1 - why move an organization whose whole purpose, mission, and asset is a web page to one of the most expensive real estate locations on earth?
Gee! Does this imply that continually electing right wing governors and the like has a little bitty teenie weenie something to do with economies falling into the toilet? Could it be?
Can you please expand on this with your conclusions based on your study of other states that have elected "right wing" governors? Surely, you have interesting data to sahre and are not just knee-jerk groupthinking...
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BTW, every private astronaut who has flown on the ISS has taken equipment without NASA oversight.. and there's been no incidents.
Yes, but those aren't mission-important items. A camera might be mission critical.
What are the odds of an off-the-shelf DSLR even surviving to orbit? When Nikon or Canon tests them, they don't have multi-G stress in mind, or thousands of bangs and shakes per second, or higher doses of radiation, or all the other fun stuff cargo gets as it zooms up to orbit.
Put it another way: one of the major subdisciplines in satellite engineering is surviving launch. Consumer stuff simply isn't made with launch, vaccuum, and zero-G in mind, so it may not work.
You're storing relatively fragile hard drives in a raid5 configuration in a lock box? Relatively fragile sitting in a temperature controlled safety deposit box, completely unpowered? Uhh.. No.
As info, I don't think most banks guarantee these conditions. They guarantee no one will break in and steal your stuff (no doubt with lots of liability-limiting clauses in the agreement you sign), but I don't think they guarantee either temperature or humidity control. I'm sure your box won't get to 451F or something, but a swing of 15-20 degrees during the day wouldn't surprise me, at the same humidity as the lobby.
There is storage like that available (e.g., Iron Mountain) but it's more expensive.
I'm not sure that you thought that through really well. I've lived in the UK and the US. In the US people pay for all kinds of programming they don't want
I don't think you understand.
In the US, you have the option of putting up an antenna and getting free TV. 1 in 10 Americans (I just read it's 11%) does just that. That is what all that hoopla over the digitial changeover was about. In lots of areas (including mine) you can get 12-15 channels for free.
In England, if you own a TV, you must pay $142.50 a year in tax. There is no service included in that. That's just a tax for owning a TV. If you buy it and never turn it on, you still must pay. That money goes to fund the BBC, whether you watch it or not. You may have zero interest in the BBC programming or have some objection to their programming, but you're still funding it. If you then want cable or satellite or whatever, you must pay all those subscription fees additionally.
Also, don't confuse "what is skimmed off the top and resold in America" with "the vast swaths of lowbrow garbage" that is BBC programming. Believe it or not, not everyone in England is an Oxford-educated intellectual who relaxes with Brideshead Revisited at night. The vast majority are emptyheaded droolers like Americans and watch crap like Three's Company or Sanford and Son - which, hey, were both BBC shows originally.
In order to avoid the overpriced fees for that, I just got a PO box and use an invalid phone number.
10 domains at $9/yr each for privacy gives $90/year extra. A PO box costs $45 or so a year. For any more than 5 domains, it's cheaper to go the PO Box route.
Hate to tell you this, but most registrars/hosters provide the service for free. I have a dozen or so domains, all use whois privacy proxy, and I've never paid a penny for it.
Just to be pedantic, I don't think COBOL was a systems language.
Is C++? Seems most systems are still written in C.
...what is the migration path for my legacy CASIO watch data!?!?!?
The Islamic view of time and the universe in general is that what has happened, is happening and will happen has already been determined ("it is written"). What has happened can never be undone and this is mentioned many-many times in the Quran.
The Islamic view of time is plagiarized from other views of time, just as the Quran is plagiarized from other sources. There is really nothing original in Islam, which is why it's so tediously dull to study.
This is the most ridiculous semantic argument I have ever read. Saying that "time doesn't exist" is a cop-out for simple minds.
I think Gautama Buddha would be most pleased that you consider his mind simple. As far as I can determine, the observation that time doesn't exist originates in Buddhist thought.
More modern references would be the paradox of the heap,mereological nihilism, etc.
All you can do is speculate on the nature of time based on your observations (i.e. "The only thing we have is present-moment memories, etc"), attempt to formulate a testable hypothesis, and seek falsifying or confirming evidence for that hypothesis.
It just so happens that's really difficult to do when every frame of reference you have occurs (or appears to occur) within the very thing you're trying to study.
So yes, as I observed, you can't prove it exists. Thanks. Next up: prove I exist.
Prove me wrong.
The future obviously does not exist. The past? Doesn't exist either. Hence, only this present moment exists.
You can't even prove that the past existed. The only thing we have is present-moment memories, etc. I remember typing "Prove me wrong" but my memory is hardly reliable. If thirty seconds ago you spilled milk on your pants, all you have now is wet, soggy pants, not any "chain of events". Even if you filmed it, all you have is the present-moment series of images, not some actual piece of the past.
Only this present moment exists. All else is wild speculation and fantasy. Time does not exist.
I wouldn't pay fifty cents to see another TED video. They're all the same. Someone who is famous for something stands in front of a pretty slideshow and states 3-4 little-known facts that are interesting and draws obvious inferences from them. He then says thanks and that's it. Heck, I could read the backs of Trivial Pursuit cards and get the same thing. I have yet to see a TED video where the presenter ties all of his ramblings together into a prediction, or a new synthesis. They are all just regurgitated fact-sharing.
It would be all-right if the fact-sharing was educational or comprehensive. "I'm going to explain the housing bust to you" or "let me explain how X works". Great. But TED is neither comprehensive nor educational. It's just random observations, hypothesis, exposition, and "let me tell you a story" stuff.
I watched one by Misha Glenny not long ago. I've read and enjoyed his books, but the TED video was like sitting with him after he's had a few beers and listen to him talk stream-of-consciousness. Kinda interesting but after a few minutes you start to think "where is all this going?" and it turns out it's going nowhere. His books told the story of post-war Eastern Europe and had a definite goal. The TED video felt like "they paid me to stand up here and entertain you for 10 minutes".
Every single video is like that! TED is waste of time.
If the code written so far is well documented,
Nope, it's open source.
Out of curiosity, why is the survival of the human race so important?
Perhaps because we're the only sentient life in the universe.
Yeah, yeah, Drake equation speculation blah blah, but as far as is provable, we're it.
Ah, the beauty and ignorance of youth and inexperience. In short there are plenty of places where Solaris fits perfectly and Linux doesn't. I can show you several data centers with more Solaris running on Sun hardware with than Linux on any hardware, and they like Linux, its simply that it doesn't fit the bill.
Ah, the beauty and ignorance of youth and illiteracy. Read what you quoted again - he said Open Solaris. Still have those several data centers to show us?
Oracle just fired many of the best and brightest programmers at Sun, because they were the most highly paid.
Dear Hewlett-Packard,
Thanks for posting this unsubstantiated rumor here on Slashdot. Oh, while you're here, we'd all love to see some servers that run on something other than Itanium. Thanks.
Question: why not simply use the random crap we all have on our PCs to generate random numbers? Say...choose 5 folders at random on a PC. You could use size limits to narrow the search..say between 500Mb and 2Gb. Then make a hash based on those five folders, something like file sizes or time stamps or a combination of the two, wouldn't that be pretty damned random?
Not really. Take 10 PCs and "WINDOWS", "Program "Files", "Office", "Adobe", etc. are probably some of the top 5 folders by space, If you limit it to exactly .5 to 2.0 GB, then there's an even smaller number of common folders that fall in that range - and that likely excludes your pictures, your videos, etc. Probably one or two of them didn't exist five years ago, so already I know the probable year or a small range of years. Time stamps - perhaps updated last when a new Microsoft patch was pushed out? I can look at Windows Update and narrow it further. Your completely random has gone to "a list where I know probably one of the names and some of the years, if not datestamps".
True randomness is a lot harder than it looks.
Perens, an expert witness in the case, details the blow by blow, including how developers need to make sure they're using the correct one for legal protection.
Fine editing there, Taco. What exactly does this sentence mean?
Hope College. It shows.
Depends on the province; it's often free no matter what your situation is. Contrary to Republican scare ads, it's also of excellent quality provided that you don't go to the emergency room for a cold or a stubbed toe.
The opposite is true. Canada has excellent acute care, and appalling chronic care. Emergencies are handled quickly and efficiently. Getting to see a specialist or starting a long-term regimen of treatment can take months or years.
That is by design.
...so I take it that gears will be phased out when HTML5 arrives in 2022?
GPLv2: I know my rights; I want my phone call!
The right to a phone call is a TV police show myth. There is no such right. It is custom, but not a right, and by no means universal. In some jurisdictions, you may not make phone calls. You have the right to have someone notified, to the extent that you can summon counsel. If the police merely notify the public defender, they have satisfied every legal obligation.
The problem with giving to Wikimedia is that they have been so wasteful of the money they've been given. The move to the Bay Area is chief exhibit #1 - why move an organization whose whole purpose, mission, and asset is a web page to one of the most expensive real estate locations on earth?
I'm not the only one who thinks Wikimedia has more than enough money.
While it's still very early into Buzz's life cycle, initial indications show that Google has a hit on its hands.
My astroturfing meter is pegged.
This is my giant social networking machine.
"...but I still haven't kissed a girl.
Plus they can eat prey up to 1.5x their size, so trying to keep it in the bathtub without telling your wife probably isn't going to turn out well...
Hans Reiser thanks you for failing to mention this idea until now.
One has to wonder if this is another imperial/metric snafu.
Uh, why? Yes, NASA made that mistake once, ten+ years ago. Aren't there plenty of other mistake categories that are just as if not more likely?
Gee! Does this imply that continually electing right wing governors and the like has a little bitty teenie weenie something to do with economies falling into the toilet? Could it be?
Can you please expand on this with your conclusions based on your study of other states that have elected "right wing" governors? Surely, you have interesting data to sahre and are not just knee-jerk groupthinking...