My point was more that the details don't matter, asking for a pint in a bar should never become something that confuses the bar.
So you're somewhere where probably the only people who would call it a pint are visiting tourists, and you think they should understand you by default ?
If it is a situation where, if I handled it myself, I would be in harm's way, it is an emergency situation. If it is a street hazard, it is an emergency situation.
That's great, but discreetly identifying a thief, from a distance, is not such a situation unless you yourself deliberately make it one.
You amuse me, sir. If the emergency services are so hard hit, then it is I who will be on hold. As will ANYONE calling in, for any reason.
So, naturally, the best thing to do is to tie them up with MORE trivial bullshit, right ?
Do you then imagine that a "someone is killing my husband" call would not get priority over a "rescue my cat" call?
It inherently *can't* be prioritised until some human has taken the time to do so.
On the other hand, should an individual take a few scant seconds to consider someone other than themselves, they might reach the conclusion that maybe because their cat is stuck up a tree, it's not necessary to tie up an emergency call centre operator for 20-30 seconds while someone else is being assaulted.
Perhaps you simply have never called the emergency lines, for fear of looking like "an ass who deserves to be on hold".
It has nothing to do with fear and everything to do with common sense and courtesy.
It's asses like me that make sure that twats like you can call in when you actually need an ambulance. My world doesn't require infinite resources but it does demand adequate ones.
No, it does not. Adequate resources would be those sufficient to meet the need for emergency calls on emergency lines. You want resources to meet the needs of ALL calls on emergency lines.
Have you seen some of the license settlements to come out of patent litigation? $900MM might not be a lot to Microsoft, but a lot of companies wouldn't think twice about hiring a hitman at $10k to avoid paying $900MM. The trick is, you have to get the job done before you get dragged into court, otherwise you'll look very suspicious indeed.
So at which point do all the people involved in running the company who made this decision going to jail for life (if not execution), and the company then going out of business, fit into your calculations ?
Also, I answered your question "Where's the value in an invention that is no longer patent protected ?", I didn't nescesarily said anything about whether it would be beneficial for any individual to murder anyone.
Actually you didn't. You posited a scenario where an "expiring" patent devalued an invention.
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If you are rotating your swapped-out disks rather than continually using new blank ones, then the re-mirroring (if done vaguely intelligently) will only update based on the blocks that have changed since the last time that disk was running live in the array (i.e. an incremental update, which is much faster than re-mirroring from scratch).
I'm not aware of any RAID1 implementation that will do this. Are you ?
Perhaps the value is in the invention not being patent protcted? As in, I'm being driven out of the market becauase one of my competitors have a patent on $INVENTION, if I can make the patent go away, I will be better able to compete.
In what world do you live where malicious pre-meditated murder is considered a lesser crime than patent infringement ?
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It can be a huge bargain.
Not in any remotely realistic home use (and even a fair chunk of professional use) scenario it can't. You'd be looking at a minimum 50% higher cost, for questionable (if any) advantages.
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SAS can be justified, You can buy a cheap 8 port card, that can take SATA disks and it will be pretty darn quick too.
But you can buy a much cheaper eSATA card that will be more than quick enough.
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Is this really as easy as you claim.
Yes.
I still don't see how it can be management free.
All a JBOD shelf does - by definition - is pass through the drive connections to the host. Ie: plug 3 drives into your JBOD, your system sees 3 drives. Plug in 5 drives, the system sees 5 drives. There's no management because there's nothing to manage.
Where is the software that can remove the headache of managing JBOD's that aren't raided? Does the hardware somehow take care of this - it really doesn't seem to from the information I have been able to acquire.
There's no headache because there's nothing to manage. Your 5-drive JBOD shelf exposes 5 drives to the system. What you then do with those 5 drives (connect to a hardware RAID controller, use software RAID, treat them as individual drives) is up to you.
It appears you (and a lot of people on this thread) don't understand what a JBOD enclosure is.
But the point still stands that weed makes folks do irrational things that can't be explained without assuming addiction.
Recent events have shown that file sharing will likely get you into similar amounts of trouble. What percentage of people do you think are happy to grab a few songs off The Pirate Bay ? Are they irrational as well ?
Not sure what would happen if a quarter if the population was baked out of their heads.
This is what's called a non-sequitur.
Personally I'd favor legalization of EVERY drug on one condition. That anyone wanting such full liberty signed a statement taking full responsibility for the consequences. That means no welfare, no public funded trips to rehab, nothing. They could buy any insurance they wanted on the private market, but not a dime of the taxpayer's funds. Because total liberty is incompatible with a welfare state. That is my big objection to legalization, it would be great in a Free country but we don't live in one of those anymore.
Your argument is is a straw man. You don't support of welfare in the first place, you're just emphasising that lack of support as weak support for your moralising.
So if you make a billion dollar idea and patent it, I can just kill you and the patent dissolves into the ether? No potential for abuse there.
Perhaps you can go over the risk/reward and ROI equations on committing pre-meditated murder just to get an invention into the public domain, then explain why any rational person would choose murder.
Patents should be 70 years or 30 years after the creator's death
There is no justification for patents (or copyrights) to last an instant past the inventor's death.
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after the cretin suggested that RAID was some sort of substitute for a backup.
RAID combined with a snapshotting system (Time Machine, VSS, ZFS, take your pick) can function as an excellent backup system. Not including off-site, obviously, but more than adequate for the typical home user.
I've never really looked into it, but I assume you can configure WHS to take regular VSS snapshots ?
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You're better off with an SAS external enclosure and a SAS card with external connections. These can be expensive, but will pay for themselves quickly with the lack of extra management.
What management ? You get an eSATA chassis with a port multiplier, slot in some drives, and run a single cable to the eSATA port on the computer. "Management" doesn't even come into it.
It's a home media server. In what was is SAS even remotely justified ?
That's what police/operator phone lines are for: to report situations for which police assistance is needed. If the emergency operator lines aren't up to you phoning in your "damn phone was stolen", as well as those "life-threatening situations" during normal operations, the system is already broken.
Right. Because clearly there's no reason whatsoever to prioritise life-threatening situations and direct more resources towards resolving them. Obviously the person bleeding out after being mugged should wait in line behind the person whose cat is stuck up a tree.
Perhaps you don't think it worthwhile highlighting that as a problem, but I do.
In your fantasy world where there are infinite resources, it's a problem. In the real world of limited budgets and manpower, it's simply appropriate management.
So yes, I'll report my phone being stolen, or someone's dog is wandering across the freeway, or the neighbors party is keeping me up at 3am.
Then you're an ass, and you deserve to be the one waiting on hold while someone robs your house because selfish twats just like you are tying up the lines about next door's party is a bit loud.
Emergency lines are for emergencies. If you don't have an emergency, use the regular channels.
As soon as you cross a jurisdictional line though, call 911 and talk to the city/town you're in now- and get ready to repeat everything, because police departments suck at talking to each other.
Yeah, that's the ticket. Tie up phone lines people might be trying to use to report life-threatening situations so you can track down a damn phone.
Most people -- except tech geeks -- do not want to learn a new way of doing things once they learn a particular way that suits their needs.
In my experience, the "tech geeks" are the ones most resistant to change. Exhibit A: the immediate disabling of the XP-style Start Menu by pretty much anyone who calls themselves a "power user".
I suspect this is also the reason why Apple has stated they would build one if they could make one that didn't suck. I suspect the suck part is largely due to Intel's bundling considering they don't use sucky Intel chipsets in their notebook or iMac product lineups.
No, it's because Apple don't dabble in the bottom-end-cheap-as-possible market segment, where Netbooks live.
There's a very good reason for MPs allowances for 2nd homes. Before any such allowances, only rich people could be MPs - most represent constituencies far from London, and parliament sits in London. Take away any provision for paying for a London base during the week and you immediately remove most people from being able to represent their community in Parliament.
As I've already pointed out several times, that is justification for needing somewhere to temporarily stay in London, not a taxpayer-funded property portfolio.
Long-term leases of serviced apartments (numerous businesses whose employees travel a lot do this) or - less ideally - government-built-and-maintained housing are both vastly superior alternatives than paying someone's (who is likely already relatively wealthy) mortgage.
I can understand that politicians need to spend time in London. I cannot see how anyone could ever have see this scheme as anything other than grotesque and blatant corruption.
All that is quoted in the article is that someone said they are afraid of Microsoft.
Thus handily blowing a hole in the idiotic logic in the summary: "so next time you hear Microsoft bragging that people prefer their software to Linux on netbooks, you'll know better. If they really believed that, they'd let the market speak, on a level playing field."
Quite clearly the Netbook manufacturers know that when the market does speak, it prefers Windows. If it did not, no threat from Microsoft could make them "afraid".
There are employees expected to spend 6 months in every year away from home in budget hotels? Who? And why would they do that to themselves?
Because it was the only job they could get ?
I highly suspect that anyone expected to spend protracted periods of time away from home has accommodation provided to them- and not just money for a budget hotel.
You're the only person insisting on "budget hotels". Like I said, the issue here is as much (if not more) one of principle so much as raw cost.
Again, I favour the dormitory method. You build a big building with adequate rooms for all the MPs
Doesn't even need to be "dorm". Long term leases of managed apartments (something multitudes of businesses do) would be quite adequate.
Putting MPs up in a hotel would be pretty much as expensive.
It's not just about the money, it's the principle. Taxpayers should not be financing politicians' property portfolios. Or their friends' property portfolios.
The system as it stands is way, way too easy to abuse. That's apparent with only a cursory examination and would have been apparent even without hindsight. Unsurprisingly, it's been grotesquely abused.
Fact is that non-London MPs do need two homes.
No, they need somewhere to stay in London temporarily. There's a difference.
You wouldn't expect it of a private employee, so there's no reason to expect it of a public servant.
Actually, I expect you'll find there's a hell of a lot of private employees who spend significant amounts of time away from home - at least as much as an MP - and they also probably have a lot less discretion as to whether or not they actually have to turn up for work in the first place.
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My point was more that the details don't matter, asking for a pint in a bar should never become something that confuses the bar.
So you're somewhere where probably the only people who would call it a pint are visiting tourists, and you think they should understand you by default ?
If it is a situation where, if I handled it myself, I would be in harm's way, it is an emergency situation. If it is a street hazard, it is an emergency situation.
That's great, but discreetly identifying a thief, from a distance, is not such a situation unless you yourself deliberately make it one.
You amuse me, sir. If the emergency services are so hard hit, then it is I who will be on hold. As will ANYONE calling in, for any reason.
So, naturally, the best thing to do is to tie them up with MORE trivial bullshit, right ?
Do you then imagine that a "someone is killing my husband" call would not get priority over a "rescue my cat" call?
It inherently *can't* be prioritised until some human has taken the time to do so.
On the other hand, should an individual take a few scant seconds to consider someone other than themselves, they might reach the conclusion that maybe because their cat is stuck up a tree, it's not necessary to tie up an emergency call centre operator for 20-30 seconds while someone else is being assaulted.
Perhaps you simply have never called the emergency lines, for fear of looking like "an ass who deserves to be on hold".
It has nothing to do with fear and everything to do with common sense and courtesy.
It's asses like me that make sure that twats like you can call in when you actually need an ambulance. My world doesn't require infinite resources but it does demand adequate ones.
No, it does not. Adequate resources would be those sufficient to meet the need for emergency calls on emergency lines. You want resources to meet the needs of ALL calls on emergency lines.
You bought a first gen product [...]
More importantly, you bought a first generation APPLE product and didn't expect problems ?
A similar logic would be [...]
No, it would not.
Have you seen some of the license settlements to come out of patent litigation? $900MM might not be a lot to Microsoft, but a lot of companies wouldn't think twice about hiring a hitman at $10k to avoid paying $900MM. The trick is, you have to get the job done before you get dragged into court, otherwise you'll look very suspicious indeed.
So at which point do all the people involved in running the company who made this decision going to jail for life (if not execution), and the company then going out of business, fit into your calculations ?
Also, I answered your question "Where's the value in an invention that is no longer patent protected ?", I didn't nescesarily said anything about whether it would be beneficial for any individual to murder anyone.
Actually you didn't. You posited a scenario where an "expiring" patent devalued an invention.
If you are rotating your swapped-out disks rather than continually using new blank ones, then the re-mirroring (if done vaguely intelligently) will only update based on the blocks that have changed since the last time that disk was running live in the array (i.e. an incremental update, which is much faster than re-mirroring from scratch).
I'm not aware of any RAID1 implementation that will do this. Are you ?
Perhaps the value is in the invention not being patent protcted? As in, I'm being driven out of the market becauase one of my competitors have a patent on $INVENTION, if I can make the patent go away, I will be better able to compete.
In what world do you live where malicious pre-meditated murder is considered a lesser crime than patent infringement ?
It can be a huge bargain.
Not in any remotely realistic home use (and even a fair chunk of professional use) scenario it can't. You'd be looking at a minimum 50% higher cost, for questionable (if any) advantages.
SAS can be justified, You can buy a cheap 8 port card, that can take SATA disks and it will be pretty darn quick too.
But you can buy a much cheaper eSATA card that will be more than quick enough.
Is this really as easy as you claim.
Yes.
I still don't see how it can be management free.
All a JBOD shelf does - by definition - is pass through the drive connections to the host. Ie: plug 3 drives into your JBOD, your system sees 3 drives. Plug in 5 drives, the system sees 5 drives. There's no management because there's nothing to manage.
Where is the software that can remove the headache of managing JBOD's that aren't raided? Does the hardware somehow take care of this - it really doesn't seem to from the information I have been able to acquire.
There's no headache because there's nothing to manage. Your 5-drive JBOD shelf exposes 5 drives to the system. What you then do with those 5 drives (connect to a hardware RAID controller, use software RAID, treat them as individual drives) is up to you.
It appears you (and a lot of people on this thread) don't understand what a JBOD enclosure is.
But the point still stands that weed makes folks do irrational things that can't be explained without assuming addiction.
Recent events have shown that file sharing will likely get you into similar amounts of trouble. What percentage of people do you think are happy to grab a few songs off The Pirate Bay ? Are they irrational as well ?
Not sure what would happen if a quarter if the population was baked out of their heads.
This is what's called a non-sequitur.
Personally I'd favor legalization of EVERY drug on one condition. That anyone wanting such full liberty signed a statement taking full responsibility for the consequences. That means no welfare, no public funded trips to rehab, nothing. They could buy any insurance they wanted on the private market, but not a dime of the taxpayer's funds. Because total liberty is incompatible with a welfare state. That is my big objection to legalization, it would be great in a Free country but we don't live in one of those anymore.
Your argument is is a straw man. You don't support of welfare in the first place, you're just emphasising that lack of support as weak support for your moralising.
So if you make a billion dollar idea and patent it, I can just kill you and the patent dissolves into the ether? No potential for abuse there.
Perhaps you can go over the risk/reward and ROI equations on committing pre-meditated murder just to get an invention into the public domain, then explain why any rational person would choose murder.
Sure there is; otherwise, assassinations would rise tremendously.
Why ? Where's the value in an invention that is no longer patent protected ?
No to mention - MURDER IS ALREADY ILLEGAL
Patents should be 70 years or 30 years after the creator's death
There is no justification for patents (or copyrights) to last an instant past the inventor's death.
after the cretin suggested that RAID was some sort of substitute for a backup.
RAID combined with a snapshotting system (Time Machine, VSS, ZFS, take your pick) can function as an excellent backup system. Not including off-site, obviously, but more than adequate for the typical home user.
I've never really looked into it, but I assume you can configure WHS to take regular VSS snapshots ?
You're better off with an SAS external enclosure and a SAS card with external connections. These can be expensive, but will pay for themselves quickly with the lack of extra management.
What management ? You get an eSATA chassis with a port multiplier, slot in some drives, and run a single cable to the eSATA port on the computer. "Management" doesn't even come into it.
It's a home media server. In what was is SAS even remotely justified ?
That's what police/operator phone lines are for: to report situations for which police assistance is needed. If the emergency operator lines aren't up to you phoning in your "damn phone was stolen", as well as those "life-threatening situations" during normal operations, the system is already broken.
Right. Because clearly there's no reason whatsoever to prioritise life-threatening situations and direct more resources towards resolving them. Obviously the person bleeding out after being mugged should wait in line behind the person whose cat is stuck up a tree.
Perhaps you don't think it worthwhile highlighting that as a problem, but I do.
In your fantasy world where there are infinite resources, it's a problem. In the real world of limited budgets and manpower, it's simply appropriate management.
So yes, I'll report my phone being stolen, or someone's dog is wandering across the freeway, or the neighbors party is keeping me up at 3am.
Then you're an ass, and you deserve to be the one waiting on hold while someone robs your house because selfish twats just like you are tying up the lines about next door's party is a bit loud.
Emergency lines are for emergencies. If you don't have an emergency, use the regular channels.
As soon as you cross a jurisdictional line though, call 911 and talk to the city/town you're in now- and get ready to repeat everything, because police departments suck at talking to each other.
Yeah, that's the ticket. Tie up phone lines people might be trying to use to report life-threatening situations so you can track down a damn phone.
Most people -- except tech geeks -- do not want to learn a new way of doing things once they learn a particular way that suits their needs.
In my experience, the "tech geeks" are the ones most resistant to change. Exhibit A: the immediate disabling of the XP-style Start Menu by pretty much anyone who calls themselves a "power user".
I suspect this is also the reason why Apple has stated they would build one if they could make one that didn't suck. I suspect the suck part is largely due to Intel's bundling considering they don't use sucky Intel chipsets in their notebook or iMac product lineups.
No, it's because Apple don't dabble in the bottom-end-cheap-as-possible market segment, where Netbooks live.
There's a very good reason for MPs allowances for 2nd homes. Before any such allowances, only rich people could be MPs - most represent constituencies far from London, and parliament sits in London. Take away any provision for paying for a London base during the week and you immediately remove most people from being able to represent their community in Parliament.
As I've already pointed out several times, that is justification for needing somewhere to temporarily stay in London, not a taxpayer-funded property portfolio.
Long-term leases of serviced apartments (numerous businesses whose employees travel a lot do this) or - less ideally - government-built-and-maintained housing are both vastly superior alternatives than paying someone's (who is likely already relatively wealthy) mortgage.
I can understand that politicians need to spend time in London. I cannot see how anyone could ever have see this scheme as anything other than grotesque and blatant corruption.
All that is quoted in the article is that someone said they are afraid of Microsoft.
Thus handily blowing a hole in the idiotic logic in the summary: "so next time you hear Microsoft bragging that people prefer their software to Linux on netbooks, you'll know better. If they really believed that, they'd let the market speak, on a level playing field."
Quite clearly the Netbook manufacturers know that when the market does speak, it prefers Windows. If it did not, no threat from Microsoft could make them "afraid".
There are employees expected to spend 6 months in every year away from home in budget hotels? Who? And why would they do that to themselves?
Because it was the only job they could get ?
I highly suspect that anyone expected to spend protracted periods of time away from home has accommodation provided to them- and not just money for a budget hotel.
You're the only person insisting on "budget hotels". Like I said, the issue here is as much (if not more) one of principle so much as raw cost.
Again, I favour the dormitory method. You build a big building with adequate rooms for all the MPs
Doesn't even need to be "dorm". Long term leases of managed apartments (something multitudes of businesses do) would be quite adequate.
Putting MPs up in a hotel would be pretty much as expensive.
It's not just about the money, it's the principle. Taxpayers should not be financing politicians' property portfolios. Or their friends' property portfolios.
The system as it stands is way, way too easy to abuse. That's apparent with only a cursory examination and would have been apparent even without hindsight. Unsurprisingly, it's been grotesquely abused.
Fact is that non-London MPs do need two homes.
No, they need somewhere to stay in London temporarily. There's a difference.
You wouldn't expect it of a private employee, so there's no reason to expect it of a public servant.
Actually, I expect you'll find there's a hell of a lot of private employees who spend significant amounts of time away from home - at least as much as an MP - and they also probably have a lot less discretion as to whether or not they actually have to turn up for work in the first place.