so while using it as a cache (as long as the cache is ALWAYS backed up like Readyboost) sounds fine i really can't see recommending an SSD until they get the bugs out. you would have to spend all your time running back ups or RAIDing the drive constantly to remove the risk, and that is just more trouble than its worth
Not really, with decent software. Here's my primary SOHO server's vm storage array, on ZFS:
Ignore that mirror disk I need to replace, but the 'log' (write cache) device is a pair of Intel 32GB SLC SSD's (~$110 each), partitioned for sharing across two arrays, and the 'cache' (read) disk is a chunk of 64GB Transcend MLC SSD (was about $80 on sale). The main disks are 2TB Hitachi SATA drives (spinning rust type). So, for less than $500 I've got an array with very fast reads, writes, and usually seeks and good reliability. It also cuts down on the power consumption by a good amount (Sun claimed 80%) which cuts down on the power bill, AC costs, etc. Not mirroring the log device or going with MLC for the log devices would have saved me a bit of money in the short term, but I'd have no peace of mind.
For enterprise clients, I've spent much more on faster and more expensive SSD's, but the principles remain the same at any level.
According to this NIH study an enormous amount of LEO astronauts have reported seeing phosphenes while in orbit. These are speculated to derive from background radiation in space. Clearly, more study is needed--and more shielding.
According to this they are caused (at least on Earth in the general population) by mechanical trauma to a damaged nerve. If they're already seeing damaged optic nerves in returning astronauts, it makes sense that the phosphenes in orbit are symptomatic.
Then add in the amount of extra space you'd need because you can now only use one side of every room, rather than the entire volume. Then multiply the result by the cost of getting things into space.... and inflatable space stations start to sound like a better idea.
A legal system is meaningless without some way of enforcing laws, and if it's just rich/powerful/well-armed individuals doing the enforcing it's no longer a Common Law system.
Yes, but government is only one form of those guards, one that doesn't work so well (perhaps because it's the violent option). There are other ways.
.But the dumb phones parents are likely to give their children don't have this effect at all... they pretty much just make phone calls, and run trivial and useless toy apps.
Yeah, my under-10 daughter has a phone on a pay-per-minute PagePlus plan ( a few bucks a month) and she only has it for emergency use. It's a cheap folder with keyboard, so she can text if she needs to (i.e. walking in the woods with poor signal) but she's paying me the full 25 cents per superfluous text, so she doesn't.
I've had 11-year-old babysitters with serious texting addictions and it's both sad and wrong. Rear your children properly, news at 11.
The best way to deal with a schoolyard bully is to get everybody else together and beat the hell out of him. Just once, but it has to be a concerted effort.
Not that Italy has ever been one to embrace fascism, but between this, putting the geologists on trial for murder for failing to protect the earthquake, the likelihood of economic default, and the population dying off faster than it's being replaced... what the heck is going on over there? Oh, and they bought Chrysler, of all things.
Example, you want to do target practice on your neighbors wall (it's a free country!) and your neighbor doesn't want to die or have walls riddled with holes. The government helps sort out who has the right to exclude whom.
Government is completely superfluous in that situation. The Common Law certainly recognizes property rights. Government just provides a means for communal retribution if your property rights are violated.
My goodness, what happened? I've heard some bad stories about the bible belt areas; for better or worse, policy is mostly locally controlled. It all comes down to who shows up to volunteer.
You've got that backwards. Spoken like a citizen of the United States, perhaps, but the American Tradition is founded on Liberty. Sadly, America is nearly extinguished in the United States.
Thank you for being a voice of reason. I think cable news has conditioned people to expect one guy shouting "See, Warp Drive!" while the other defends the Standard Model as being handed down by God.
Right, they need Google's distributed database patents so that the Oracle DB can scale. Java/Android is the hammer intended to bludgeon those patents into a cross-licensing agreement. UltraSPARC is a stop-gap measure.
Hm, why do you think we haven't evolved with perfect memory? Could there be a good reason?
Unless you believe in intelligent design, there may be no reason at all, except that we're only as far along as we are and we work well enough to reproduce. Same reason most of us have relatively poor hand-eye coordination, can't do without oxygen for more than about 3 minutes, have problems with cancers, have our eyes go out of round, etc. Many species of animals do much better on all these measures.
As my old bio teacher used to intone, "evolution proceeds towards what works, not what's best."
I guess, if you can figure out a place where the body won't be found. If you just pop yourself in the back yard, the coroner's office will want to collect all the bits.
Suicide is selfish and rude enough that worrying about the mess seems out of place.
Yeah? Somebody suffering greatly from a terminal disease is selfish and rude if he wants to end it?
Amazon "is making Kindle ebooks available for free to the borrowers in America through 11,000 local public libraries." I'm not sure how to read that sentence other than the way I read it, and the Amazon press release did nothing to change my interpretation of that sentence.
That's how I read it. I don't think that's an unreasonable inference as it's how libraries currently work and Amazon wouldn't do well to go with a self-destructive lending model.
You want it messy, its the only way you can be sure you don't suffer. Who cares about the mess?
Bloody messes are expensive and unpleasant to clean up. I guess if you contract for the job ahead of time, it's not a big deal. Leaving somebody else with the problem would be posthumously rude.
I'd imagine somebody could build a kevlar hood/bag to sell to the market that would probably be much cheaper than a professional cleaner.
Chemisty, on the other hand, can be pretty foolproof. You need two things, something that will put you out, and something that will take you out. They don't necessarily need to be different things. Best case is probably a series of injections, but then you need to build a machine to administer them, so you don't need to ask a person to do it.
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It's a little too easy for them to walk away without having really fixed your problem
Sounds like a bad contract, no?
so while using it as a cache (as long as the cache is ALWAYS backed up like Readyboost) sounds fine i really can't see recommending an SSD until they get the bugs out. you would have to spend all your time running back ups or RAIDing the drive constantly to remove the risk, and that is just more trouble than its worth
Not really, with decent software. Here's my primary SOHO server's vm storage array, on ZFS:
Ignore that mirror disk I need to replace, but the 'log' (write cache) device is a pair of Intel 32GB SLC SSD's (~$110 each), partitioned for sharing across two arrays, and the 'cache' (read) disk is a chunk of 64GB Transcend MLC SSD (was about $80 on sale). The main disks are 2TB Hitachi SATA drives (spinning rust type). So, for less than $500 I've got an array with very fast reads, writes, and usually seeks and good reliability. It also cuts down on the power consumption by a good amount (Sun claimed 80%) which cuts down on the power bill, AC costs, etc. Not mirroring the log device or going with MLC for the log devices would have saved me a bit of money in the short term, but I'd have no peace of mind.
For enterprise clients, I've spent much more on faster and more expensive SSD's, but the principles remain the same at any level.
Maybe you could join the 21st century sometime. 64GB of RAM costs 16x$21.99=$351.84, not $2000.
I think you'll need to be a bit more specific with the time period.
What's wrong with texting friends at 11 (or any age)?
You see nothing wrong with a texting addiction?
According to this NIH study an enormous amount of LEO astronauts have reported seeing phosphenes while in orbit. These are speculated to derive from background radiation in space. Clearly, more study is needed--and more shielding.
According to this they are caused (at least on Earth in the general population) by mechanical trauma to a damaged nerve. If they're already seeing damaged optic nerves in returning astronauts, it makes sense that the phosphenes in orbit are symptomatic.
Then add in the amount of extra space you'd need because you can now only use one side of every room, rather than the entire volume. Then multiply the result by the cost of getting things into space. ... and inflatable space stations start to sound like a better idea.
A legal system is meaningless without some way of enforcing laws, and if it's just rich/powerful/well-armed individuals doing the enforcing it's no longer a Common Law system.
Yes, but government is only one form of those guards, one that doesn't work so well (perhaps because it's the violent option). There are other ways.
.But the dumb phones parents are likely to give their children don't have this effect at all... they pretty much just make phone calls, and run trivial and useless toy apps.
Yeah, my under-10 daughter has a phone on a pay-per-minute PagePlus plan ( a few bucks a month) and she only has it for emergency use. It's a cheap folder with keyboard, so she can text if she needs to (i.e. walking in the woods with poor signal) but she's paying me the full 25 cents per superfluous text, so she doesn't.
I've had 11-year-old babysitters with serious texting addictions and it's both sad and wrong. Rear your children properly, news at 11.
The best way to deal with a schoolyard bully is to get everybody else together and beat the hell out of him. Just once, but it has to be a concerted effort.
Not that Italy has ever been one to embrace fascism, but between this, putting the geologists on trial for murder for failing to protect the earthquake, the likelihood of economic default, and the population dying off faster than it's being replaced ... what the heck is going on over there? Oh, and they bought Chrysler, of all things.
Example, you want to do target practice on your neighbors wall (it's a free country!) and your neighbor doesn't want to die or have walls riddled with holes. The government helps sort out who has the right to exclude whom.
Government is completely superfluous in that situation. The Common Law certainly recognizes property rights. Government just provides a means for communal retribution if your property rights are violated.
My goodness, what happened? I've heard some bad stories about the bible belt areas; for better or worse, policy is mostly locally controlled. It all comes down to who shows up to volunteer.
Yeah, AT&T has said the merger is about getting more towers because the FCC won't permit new ones fast enough for AT&T to stay competitive.
Yup, me three. Right on, right on.
Cellular telephony motto: "there can be only two." AT&T learned the hard way about the problems with "one".
Spoken like a true American. Fuck Liberties.
You've got that backwards. Spoken like a citizen of the United States, perhaps, but the American Tradition is founded on Liberty. Sadly, America is nearly extinguished in the United States.
worm hole ... So either causality is wrong, or relativity (as in the principle that there is no privileged reference frame) is wrong.
How does an EPR bridge figure in?
Thank you for being a voice of reason. I think cable news has conditioned people to expect one guy shouting "See, Warp Drive!" while the other defends the Standard Model as being handed down by God.
Right, they need Google's distributed database patents so that the Oracle DB can scale. Java/Android is the hammer intended to bludgeon those patents into a cross-licensing agreement. UltraSPARC is a stop-gap measure.
Intelligent design has nothing to do with it. Your assertion is that we don't have capabilities like this because we haven't needed them enough yet?
No, not at all. We don't have those capabilities because humans survive without them.
Hm, why do you think we haven't evolved with perfect memory? Could there be a good reason?
Unless you believe in intelligent design, there may be no reason at all, except that we're only as far along as we are and we work well enough to reproduce. Same reason most of us have relatively poor hand-eye coordination, can't do without oxygen for more than about 3 minutes, have problems with cancers, have our eyes go out of round, etc. Many species of animals do much better on all these measures.
As my old bio teacher used to intone, "evolution proceeds towards what works, not what's best."
Go outside..
I guess, if you can figure out a place where the body won't be found. If you just pop yourself in the back yard, the coroner's office will want to collect all the bits.
Suicide is selfish and rude enough that worrying about the mess seems out of place.
Yeah? Somebody suffering greatly from a terminal disease is selfish and rude if he wants to end it?
Heh, that gave me a good chuckle.
Jones is classic dis-information - some controversial nuggets of truth mixed in with batshit-crazy to make sure the truths are dismissed as well.
"Oh, that's one of those Alex Jones theories - you know he's batshit crazy, right?"
Amazon "is making Kindle ebooks available for free to the borrowers in America through 11,000 local public libraries." I'm not sure how to read that sentence other than the way I read it, and the Amazon press release did nothing to change my interpretation of that sentence.
That's how I read it. I don't think that's an unreasonable inference as it's how libraries currently work and Amazon wouldn't do well to go with a self-destructive lending model.
Call me an optimist, I guess.
You want it messy, its the only way you can be sure you don't suffer. Who cares about the mess?
Bloody messes are expensive and unpleasant to clean up. I guess if you contract for the job ahead of time, it's not a big deal. Leaving somebody else with the problem would be posthumously rude.
I'd imagine somebody could build a kevlar hood/bag to sell to the market that would probably be much cheaper than a professional cleaner.
Chemisty, on the other hand, can be pretty foolproof. You need two things, something that will put you out, and something that will take you out. They don't necessarily need to be different things. Best case is probably a series of injections, but then you need to build a machine to administer them, so you don't need to ask a person to do it.
How about an enteric coating for phase 2?