neither would use the crappy software RAID that the boards provide
Generally you don't want to use that - just configure them as normal drives and use linux RAID-1 in software. It's usually faster and almost always more reliable.
If you ever need to rebuild these boxes, have a look at Xen 4 on linux (Fedora works now, but CentOS 6 should be coming fairly soon - reminds me I need to send some patches upstream...). You wind up with all kinds of flexibility. The last one I built uses some big SATA drives with four SSD's in front of them, using Facebook's flashcache for performance and energy benefits.
The difference between a few Mhz that can be argued til you turn blue and are spitting at me, doesn't matter in the least.
heh, some people try to eek out those extra few MHz on some part and wind up introducing additional wait-states. AMD is usually good about offering parts that are a true multiple of commonly available memory speeds.
There are many dimensions to building a good system - as you point out price and suitability aren't to be ignored.
I'd suggest that somebody who has extra money for the highest speed CPU take one step down instead and use the difference to buy a few goats for third-world families.
Just because I'm lazy about organizing my files I have some music tracks in both mp3 and FLAC. If I'm listening with good speakers and something with good sound comes on (e.g. Miles Davis - In a Silent Way) half the time I'll think, "oh, the cymbals are dead, I need to skip to the FLAC track."
Since the music player is randomly selecting the file I hear and I don't know which one is coming up, I think that satisfies double-blind criteria.
It doesn't eliminate a poor quality encoding algorithm, though.
Go listen to Stuart Copeland tap on his hi-hats with FLAC, shn, cd-audio, or apple lossless, and then at 192.
Yup, the cymbals suffer the worst, though I'm not sure how much of it is due to the sample rates and how much is due to the psychoacoustic modeling (or which particular suband coder is being used).
and your ears definitely can't vibrate that quickly
Your ear drums top out at 20KHz, but some of the small bones in your ear will vibrate up into the 60s' and that passes on auditory information. This can help provide clues for positioning, at least.
Yeah, and I did a short presentation on it for a grad class in '94 (one of those classes which is everybody doing a short presentation on a new topic each week). Information Retrieval was a geeky/esoteric topic a the time.
Albert Einstein refused to memorize telephone numbers because they could be written down. Clearly, he was an idiot.
Are you suggesting some people actively try to memorize phone numbers? For me, if it's someone I care about, and I dial it a few times, it just sticks.
Did he actively try to not remember them? Like my credit card number from the 80's - I have to agree with Einstein that it's a waste of resources, but it's just stuck in there - nothing I can do about it.
if simple actions that were easily accessible via the traditional menus now take us 30 seconds or more to figure out how to do, if we can even do them at all, since the UI changes have been put in place.
Install Status-4-Evar and move on with your life. Oh, wait, less drama - nm., as you were.
In the field, the requirement is that the boy acknowledge that there is a 'higher purpose' to life. I suppose that does exclude the nihilist boys, but those are pretty rare.
The Boy Scouts are basically structured to be the youth program for the mormon church.
Um, no - the Mormon units don't really interact with the rest of them. You should go work with a local Scout unit to see what they're about. Reading online complaints isn't the way to find out what acutally happens. Worst case, you've confirmed your fears and feel right about it. Best case, you learn something new.
Also, the way Scouting is run is very dependent on the local culture - you'll find varying views among a varying population. Not shocking, really.
You're taking an argument that a business should be held up to its promises
The promises are clearly laid out by their contract. That's what a contract is - a set of mutual promises.
Banks are responsible if they lose your money. That's why tellers are bonded and the bank is insured.
Right, they have insurance. They pass along the cost of that insurance in the prices of their services.
Why should you expect less from someone else who is also holding your money, be it real or synthetic?
Because insurance isn't part of the agreement, and there wasn't an agreement here to hold money, only to provide hosting services. You could make a different agreement, that had insurance, but that would add to the cost of the services.
Business who act as brokers *and* traders in bitcoins should be required to have insurance as a matter of course. This is not onerous. It is goddamn common sense.
The hosting company wasn't a broker or a trader in bitcoins. They offer hosting services. It's just like a landlord rents a commercial space, he doesn't offer Tae Kwon Do lesson. Perhaps dealing with bitcoin traders who have insurance is a good idea - maybe people will start demanding that from their brokers. That would be a good example of customer regulation in action.
There's approximately a zero percent chance that the government will start licensing dealers in an alternate currency; if you're looking for government regulation, you're looking to shut down bitcoin.
You can't just look at that one rate. You have to look at the aggregate effect of corporate taxes and income taxes and payroll taxes and sales taxes and so on. The aggregate tax rate in the US is much higher than 12.5%
Quite so.
and I see absolutely no evidence to support your claim that 17.35% is ideal.
I mentioned that was the claim of an economic analysis on the House website. Somebody could probably use Google to find it and post that here (I'm a bit busy at the moment to play research assistant, but this is a distributed collaborative web forum).
Here [wikimedia.org] is an example of real world data. I know such things can be very disturbing if you bought into the economic woo spread lately, but hey, believe what you want. Reality, however, is independent of your personal religion.
Your chart doesn't contradict my post. Read it again.
There is no evidence I've ever seen to support the notion that the maximum of the curve exists at a lower tax rate than we currently employ.
You're making a false assumption. Real US corporate tax rates are at about 12.5%. Of course, they're very heavy on small businesses and at zero for the likes of GE ('works as intended'), so 12.5% is only an average.
If you do actually plot revenue against rate for different countries, you get a complete mess which you cannot fit against any meaningful function. That is not the purpose anyway, the whole Laffer curve argument relies on that Jedi hand wave.
Your comment is the Jedi handwave. I've seen the econonomic papers on the 'Laffer' curve, or at least the general case of solving for an optimal tax rate for maximizing government revenues. IIRC, it was 17.35% (real rate, not nominal).
I didn't understand the economic math myself (oy, innumeracy), but it's even available on one of the House members' websites for review.
But, good try on "this is not the math you're looking for."
Reductio ad absurdum: "I'm going to take what you said and invent a mythical case (ISPs responsible for content) that would never exist in reality and somehow this is proof of something"
Did you follow the thread?
Person A posted the ToS for Linode which disclaims responsibility for what this article is about.
Person B, in reply, said they should be regulated. The logical construction is that this is a call to be regulated to be responsible for what they've disclaimed.
Are you claiming that this call for regulation exists in a vacuum and is not is not related to what it responds to?
What kind of regulation here do you think we're arguing about?
Just do a search on Titanium joint implant and you'll see they do in fact exist and are quite popular
I have a friend with a nickel allergy who just got a Ti/polyethylene knee replacement. Unlike TFS's assertion, though, the doc said it will probably only last 20 years.
Ain't that the dream of Libertarians, that without regulation, things will go so much smoother and more effectively, and nobody will have cause for complaint.
I have an idea - let's make ISP's fully responsible for all incidental and consquential damages.
OK, your turn - figure out what the monthly pricing is going to look like.
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neither would use the crappy software RAID that the boards provide
Generally you don't want to use that - just configure them as normal drives and use linux RAID-1 in software. It's usually faster and almost always more reliable.
If you ever need to rebuild these boxes, have a look at Xen 4 on linux (Fedora works now, but CentOS 6 should be coming fairly soon - reminds me I need to send some patches upstream...). You wind up with all kinds of flexibility. The last one I built uses some big SATA drives with four SSD's in front of them, using Facebook's flashcache for performance and energy benefits.
The difference between a few Mhz that can be argued til you turn blue and are spitting at me, doesn't matter in the least.
heh, some people try to eek out those extra few MHz on some part and wind up introducing additional wait-states. AMD is usually good about offering parts that are a true multiple of commonly available memory speeds.
There are many dimensions to building a good system - as you point out price and suitability aren't to be ignored.
I'd suggest that somebody who has extra money for the highest speed CPU take one step down instead and use the difference to buy a few goats for third-world families.
Did you listen to it double blinded? No?
Just because I'm lazy about organizing my files I have some music tracks in both mp3 and FLAC. If I'm listening with good speakers and something with good sound comes on (e.g. Miles Davis - In a Silent Way) half the time I'll think, "oh, the cymbals are dead, I need to skip to the FLAC track."
Since the music player is randomly selecting the file I hear and I don't know which one is coming up, I think that satisfies double-blind criteria.
It doesn't eliminate a poor quality encoding algorithm, though.
Go listen to Stuart Copeland tap on his hi-hats with FLAC, shn, cd-audio, or apple lossless, and then at 192.
Yup, the cymbals suffer the worst, though I'm not sure how much of it is due to the sample rates and how much is due to the psychoacoustic modeling (or which particular suband coder is being used).
and your ears definitely can't vibrate that quickly
Your ear drums top out at 20KHz, but some of the small bones in your ear will vibrate up into the 60s' and that passes on auditory information. This can help provide clues for positioning, at least.
Yeah, and I did a short presentation on it for a grad class in '94 (one of those classes which is everybody doing a short presentation on a new topic each week). Information Retrieval was a geeky/esoteric topic a the time.
The idea certainly isn't new.
Today they are being taught multiplication
Where? I've only seen in in 2nd grade (private schools) and 3rd grade (public, parochial schools).
But some just use the amazing leeway they have as religious organisation to lay waste to the minds of kids.
Are there stats to back that? Honestly curious.
What is this "pager" thing of which you speak?
Ah, we've got an urbanite in our midst. ;)
Albert Einstein refused to memorize telephone numbers because they could be written down. Clearly, he was an idiot.
Are you suggesting some people actively try to memorize phone numbers? For me, if it's someone I care about, and I dial it a few times, it just sticks.
Did he actively try to not remember them? Like my credit card number from the 80's - I have to agree with Einstein that it's a waste of resources, but it's just stuck in there - nothing I can do about it.
if simple actions that were easily accessible via the traditional menus now take us 30 seconds or more to figure out how to do, if we can even do them at all, since the UI changes have been put in place.
Install Status-4-Evar and move on with your life. Oh, wait, less drama - nm., as you were.
In the field, the requirement is that the boy acknowledge that there is a 'higher purpose' to life. I suppose that does exclude the nihilist boys, but those are pretty rare.
The Boy Scouts don't allow athiests or LGBT folks.
Leaders. At this time. The boys don't have such requirements - Boy Scouts takes all boys.
The Boy Scouts are basically structured to be the youth program for the mormon church.
Um, no - the Mormon units don't really interact with the rest of them. You should go work with a local Scout unit to see what they're about. Reading online complaints isn't the way to find out what acutally happens. Worst case, you've confirmed your fears and feel right about it. Best case, you learn something new.
Also, the way Scouting is run is very dependent on the local culture - you'll find varying views among a varying population. Not shocking, really.
You're taking an argument that a business should be held up to its promises
The promises are clearly laid out by their contract. That's what a contract is - a set of mutual promises.
Banks are responsible if they lose your money. That's why tellers are bonded and the bank is insured.
Right, they have insurance. They pass along the cost of that insurance in the prices of their services.
Why should you expect less from someone else who is also holding your money, be it real or synthetic?
Because insurance isn't part of the agreement, and there wasn't an agreement here to hold money, only to provide hosting services. You could make a different agreement, that had insurance, but that would add to the cost of the services.
Business who act as brokers *and* traders in bitcoins should be required to have insurance as a matter of course. This is not onerous. It is goddamn common sense.
The hosting company wasn't a broker or a trader in bitcoins. They offer hosting services. It's just like a landlord rents a commercial space, he doesn't offer Tae Kwon Do lesson. Perhaps dealing with bitcoin traders who have insurance is a good idea - maybe people will start demanding that from their brokers. That would be a good example of customer regulation in action.
There's approximately a zero percent chance that the government will start licensing dealers in an alternate currency; if you're looking for government regulation, you're looking to shut down bitcoin.
You can't just look at that one rate. You have to look at the aggregate effect of corporate taxes and income taxes and payroll taxes and sales taxes and so on. The aggregate tax rate in the US is much higher than 12.5%
Quite so.
and I see absolutely no evidence to support your claim that 17.35% is ideal.
I mentioned that was the claim of an economic analysis on the House website. Somebody could probably use Google to find it and post that here (I'm a bit busy at the moment to play research assistant, but this is a distributed collaborative web forum).
you get suckered by any form of gambling, including insurance, warranties and the stock market.
Ever wonder why the State Gambling Commissions revenues go back to schools? Probably to buy equipment for the sports programs.
Here [wikimedia.org] is an example of real world data. I know such things can be very disturbing if you bought into the economic woo spread lately, but hey, believe what you want. Reality, however, is independent of your personal religion.
Your chart doesn't contradict my post. Read it again.
There is no evidence I've ever seen to support the notion that the maximum of the curve exists at a lower tax rate than we currently employ.
You're making a false assumption. Real US corporate tax rates are at about 12.5%. Of course, they're very heavy on small businesses and at zero for the likes of GE ('works as intended'), so 12.5% is only an average.
If you do actually plot revenue against rate for different countries, you get a complete mess which you cannot fit against any meaningful function. That is not the purpose anyway, the whole Laffer curve argument relies on that Jedi hand wave.
Your comment is the Jedi handwave. I've seen the econonomic papers on the 'Laffer' curve, or at least the general case of solving for an optimal tax rate for maximizing government revenues. IIRC, it was 17.35% (real rate, not nominal).
I didn't understand the economic math myself (oy, innumeracy), but it's even available on one of the House members' websites for review.
But, good try on "this is not the math you're looking for."
Reductio ad absurdum: "I'm going to take what you said and invent a mythical case (ISPs responsible for content) that would never exist in reality and somehow this is proof of something"
Did you follow the thread?
Person A posted the ToS for Linode which disclaims responsibility for what this article is about.
Person B, in reply, said they should be regulated. The logical construction is that this is a call to be regulated to be responsible for what they've disclaimed.
Are you claiming that this call for regulation exists in a vacuum and is not is not related to what it responds to?
What kind of regulation here do you think we're arguing about?
Just do a search on Titanium joint implant and you'll see they do in fact exist and are quite popular
I have a friend with a nickel allergy who just got a Ti/polyethylene knee replacement. Unlike TFS's assertion, though, the doc said it will probably only last 20 years.
Oh, look, it's reductio ad absurdum *and* a strawman *and* a false dichotomy all in one neat little package!
Oh, look, a list of fallacies with no backing - always a strong argument!
Go ahead, though, propose a mechanism where legal responsibility for lost revenue doesn't raise prices. Show me the magic money.
Always the libertarian argument: Less regulation is ALWAYS good, and ANY regulation means TOTAL FASCISM and NO MIDDLE GROUND AT ALL.
No, more customer regulation is a great thing. See GoDaddy/SOPA for how this works.
Ain't that the dream of Libertarians, that without regulation, things will go so much smoother and more effectively, and nobody will have cause for complaint.
I have an idea - let's make ISP's fully responsible for all incidental and consquential damages.
OK, your turn - figure out what the monthly pricing is going to look like.
3 points. :)