First of all, "Hardware RAID" is still software, just executed by dedicated circuits. The distinction is kind of moot. For low-cost, low performance systems, software can run on your main box to perform this task, but for high-end applications you'll want dedicated hardware to take care of it, so your machine can do what it needs to do with more zeal.
So my guess is that you're not working for a storage vendor. I haven't seen many people switch to SW RAID recently. If anything, the Unix world is finally crawling out of its "lvm striping" hole. Most servers anywhere are running on stuff like HP's Proliants, and I don't see customers ship back the SmartArray controllers.
Quite frankly I think I've gained more knowledge on these subjects outside of school (reading, tinkering with computers, writing blogs, etc) than in school. This certainly goes for English and Swedish. I learned how to write Swedish on a Forum after I became fluent in society. Never went to school. This just serves as an example why "traditional education" isn't all it's cracked up to be.
I figure I'm with Twain who said it best when he said "You should never let your schooling interfere with your education".
That must be a troll or a joke. Most of what we learn in this life is initially through games. Playing peekaboo with your kid teaches them that things that disappear from sight aren't necessarily gone and may return, thus teaching them something about human bonding too.
Games, anything from Mario to Tetris to Splinter cell, teach you things on various levels. Problem solving, problem management, hand-eye coordination, spatial relationships... Now if you make the game interesting enough, you can teach anything through a game.
I couldn't agree more, but not for security's sake. A damn camera in a phone/ipod is:
1) Useless due to the lack of quality. 2) Useless due to the lack of speed. (1 and 2 illustrate why I don't touch anything but SLR's) 3) A nuisance. Now I'm stuck with all of the trite and uninspired snapshots everyone and their uncle from 8 to 80 take and post on bloody FB all the time. 4) Just another component that might get dirty/broken. 5) More code to usurp the CPU/RAM or clutter the OS of the device in question. 6) Another source of bugs in the FW of said device.
Slapping "some proper optics" onto an iPhone would look very odd. I'm not sure how a 20 cm long lens with a base of 5 cm diameter and a weight of 700 grams would look on an iPhone, not to mention a 1.5 kg 70-200 2.8 lens.
All joking aside, the lens is only one thing. Then you get to the size of the chip, AF speeds and obviously all image processing software needed for a good camera. There are solid reasons why DSLR's cost what they cost, and I don't think the iPhone or Apple will ever move in on that market. Snazzy point & shoot stuff I can definitely see Apple come up with though.
Having said that, I wouldn't mind a GPS tagger inside my DSLR.:-D
You bet your sweet ass I'm bigoted against bigots. And I can tell you why. Bigots and Zealots won't let other people go about their business. If I like taking it up the tail pipe, I don't see how this should be anyone's business.
And you bet your sweet ass I hate Christians. But then I don't admire other religions, because anyone who tends to believe in imaginary friends also thinks they're the coolest and only friends *anyone* should *ever* admire, so at the end of the day religion serves as a petri dish for growing whole cultures of bigots.
Five will definitely get you ten if you say I'm pro choice but against the death penalty. If I have to explain the morals of that one to you, this post would take more bandwidth than a Stevie Wonder discography so I won't bother. Suffice it to say that while I do think abortion is a question that deserves serious thought and shouldn't be considered trivial, the effects of legalize it on society are measurable (Crime rate, New York pre-Guiliani). Furthermore it is a statement about how far women's rights have progressed in any given society. The Death penalty on the other hand is barbaric, and cannot safely be executed (no pun intended). Just the other day, two men that were in the slammer for 10 years for a murder were acquitted in Holland because an error was made and the guilty party was found. In Texas, you couldn't release those innocent men, you'd have to send a posthumous apology note to their families. That possibility alone should prevent anyone from such a penalty.
With the whole brown good, white bad, men bad, women good you're just being silly. No "liberal" will say that, that's just bone-headed.
Stupid Southerners. They exist. As do oppressed blacks. And criminals. There is a correlation between stupidity, oppression, a lack of education and crime. Maybe y'all should legalize abortion, so that women (who are generally not that stupid, given the choice) can make some decisions that would curb that trend.
Now don't start about rural folk. The first thing I ever learned to drive was a Massey Fergusson from the 1950's, followed by a fork lift. I harvested potatoes on my knees on my uncle's acre and I cleaned tulip bulbs when I was 12 while listening to Tom T. Hall. So you may call me a flaming liberal, but you can't call me a city slicker.
Having said that, clinging to guns and religion is plainly unintelligent, whether you're from a city or a farm, the North or the South, black or white. By the sounds of it, you're a somewhat unintelligent gun lover with a homophobic streak and a chip on his shoulder because the US doesn't consist of only your kind right now, looking at the balance of power. "Him liking it up the butt would have been puzzling to me" already gives it away. It's a good demonstration of how one sentence transforms you from a liberal into a bigot if you repeat it at a 50 year interval.
Turing died, and people then were obviously not enlightened enough to distinguish jack shit, because otherwise they wouldn't tell a war hero and a brilliant scientist to choose between chemical castration and hard time for having a boyfriend.
I agree with this post, but the original poster doesn't seem to care about the Authors of ye learned books... The poster seems to care about the Copyright Holders of ye learned books. And this is the problem with this whole legislation.... Same for the music business. The people writing, recording and creating the music or books often see their rights usurped by business conglomerates that then turn around and weep for the demise of the Copyright Holder's income.
We still value making a buck over knowledge or wisdom.
Well... If I look at the intelligence with which the health care debate in the US has been had, it might be better if only *very* few Americans had health care so as to curb the survival rate of said indiviDUHals.
Having said that, it seems to me they need all the possibilities to read we can throw at them, copyright be damned.
we affirmed Justice was doing one's own business, and not being a busybody
*define justice explicitly*??
All they say in this dialogue is that allowing people to go about their business is doing them justice, and interfering in people's business is an injustice, but it doesn't claim to give an ultimate definition justice. The whole dialogue tries to come up with a definition of justice, but mires down into a debate about self interest versus acting just and the quality of rulers. Having said that, I guess the original poster's comment is not a quote from Plato, so you're right. But the original poster did stay closer to the meaning of the Republic in my view.
But for some reason, and correct me if I'm wrong, the phrase "There is no true measure of justice, but it is important for a government to give the appearens of justice to society" sounds like a Machiavellian thing to say and reminds me of the Cardassian justice system.:-D
I never, ever use a spell-checker. Be it in Dutch, German, English or Scandinavian, I'll always consult an old-fashioned dictionary if I don't know how to spell a particular word.
But ultimately when it comes to spelling, grammar and general eloquence, there's simply no substitute for erudition. An erudite individual will have a better grasp of language.
Seriously. I've never understood the difference between living together and marriage from a practical perspective.
Marriage strikes me as a somewhat anachronistic ownership-contract that is rooted in organized religion, so I don't really understand how two self-proclaimed geeks end up choosing the format unless they'd be forced to.
How do you know simply posting on slashdot is a guarantee for digital longevity?
You don't. Because neither/. nor Google are 70+ years old, and we can't predict if these institutions or the data they gather will survive the next 3 weeks even. Things may happen and typically the things that have the biggest influence cannot be predicted.
Having said that, he should talk to the dude responsible for his backup either. A backup is a means of taking a copy of the data which you store for a limited time frame (4 weeks to half a year, in most typical cases) that has nothing to do with Archival.
At the end of the day he should talk to an archiving expert, but not many companies employ those. A librarian, if you will. But archival isn't an easy task, and we still suffer from the unpredictability of significant events, so hand-written logs sound as good as anything, really.
That's funny because I had a tendency to cry. I always end up in Freedom discussions with Americans in particular. I come from Holland. This means that as soon as you hit 18 you can choose to smoke dope, frequent hookers, drink alcohol (that's from 16, really), eat shrooms, vote, have sex (that's from 16, really), have same sex sex, marry someone of any gender, have an abortion, commit euthanasia in a pinch and convert to any or no religion.
Yet we are a social-democracy. According to many Americans this seems to equal a Socialist or even Communist State. In spite of all the choices we have, we're reputed not to be "free". When I then urge these individuals to consider the range of choices they have and from what age, they tend to shrug their shoulders and tell me they're right anyhow.
The reason I bring this up in this discussion is that religious zeal, no matter what area of life it is directed at, does not listen to reason and logic. You will never get the guy who's telling you that "You're confusing choice with freedom" to see any kind of light ever.
So while I really appreciate Linus' comments on hating MicroSoft, and while I agree to his sentiment completely, there will always be these induhviduals who burrow down into their trenches about this topic even if there's really no war to speak of.
Dodge is far from unknown in Europe. Just unpopular.
When the gas prices went up to 4 dollars for a gallon (0.70 Euros for a liter) I told some dude in California that I hadn't seen gas that cheap since 1982 in Europe.
Having said that, Dodge and most other American car companies make cars that guzzle gas, are too damn big and impractical for the streets of Amsterdam, Rome, Paris or Prague, have a complete inability to corner and generally are quite ugly.
Which is why in the Netherlands, Prostitution is legal while Pimping isn't, Marijuana is CONDONED and not 100% legalized, and the focus for users of cocaine, E, Amphetamines and even heavier stuff like heroin is to Inform & Help them rather than to lock 'm up and throw away the key.
Do we have problems? Sure we do. Do we have a violent crime rate as in the US and certain other countries? No we don't. As a matter of fact, it's quite boring here. And we like it that way. Well. Some of us do at any rate.
Lastly I have to point out that the workings of Life, The Universe and Everything Else *cannot* be deduced by watching Mob movies.
That is such bullshit. My corporate laptop (yes, I still work at the major vendor, blah blah) is Vista with SP2 on it now, and quite frankly it works like a dream. Surely the GUI has annoying properties when you're used to XP, specially in the Network configuration and the Explorer view configuration departments.
However, there are some marked improvements:
- I can now go without shutdown for months, I just live on Sleep / Wake up mode all the time, and never have issues.
- Docking / Undocking is handled much more nicely than under XP.
- I/O handling. Back in the day, when you opened up a data stream to a device it would run at a decent speed, but when you opened a second data stream, the XP box would grind to an infuriating halt. Vista will divide whatever I/O bandwidth there is between streams nicely and it runs beautifully. This goes for Disk-based devices, removable storage and the Network alike.
- It just looks sexier.
I'm not glorifying anything. I would like it to do the same as my Mac with Network drives... Just leave them alone until you click 'm, or if you do poll 'm, do it in the background. Don't make explorer freeze for 10 seconds while you poll networks on startup.
But these are minor gripes. All in all, even in an environment where money matters, I find Vista to be quite OK. MacOSX has definitive drawbacks (this "the window is only the document" philosophy, amongst others), and Linux is just a bloody chaos: Gnome is not really nicely customizable while KDE is so customizable you don't see the bloody forest for all the trees.
At the end of the day: I like working on this OS. It does what I need it to do, I suffer extremely little downtime, and it's fairly responsive.
I don't know what "ever present glitches" you're on about, because neither I nor quite a few of my colleagues see them. Fwiw, I support Linux-based GRID computing solutions for a living. I'm not in Sales, and I'm not a Windows jockey per se, so don't cry that I'm biased or non-technical here.
If you had read the article, you would have read that abused rats were raised by "normal" mothers and their problems were not solved by that measure, thus proving that the "home experience" doesn't account for the behaviour witnessed.
Having said that, the EO is a broadcasting corporation many people actively laugh at in The Netherlands. 44% of our population is a registered atheist and I can't remember the last time anyone dragged god into political discourse on particular topics. Granted, the largest political party is the Christian Democrats' party, but at the end of the day I would say that the people who claim Evolution doesn't exist are either too old for their own good or a part of a small, small minority.
THe ugly truth is, though, that most people probably simply never thought about it. And this applies both to the US and the Netherlands. You do as you're told, rarely as you think you should do.
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First of all, "Hardware RAID" is still software, just executed by dedicated circuits. The distinction is kind of moot. For low-cost, low performance systems, software can run on your main box to perform this task, but for high-end applications you'll want dedicated hardware to take care of it, so your machine can do what it needs to do with more zeal.
So my guess is that you're not working for a storage vendor. I haven't seen many people switch to SW RAID recently. If anything, the Unix world is finally crawling out of its "lvm striping" hole. Most servers anywhere are running on stuff like HP's Proliants, and I don't see customers ship back the SmartArray controllers.
Methinks the lady dost assume too much.
Quite frankly I think I've gained more knowledge on these subjects outside of school (reading, tinkering with computers, writing blogs, etc) than in school. This certainly goes for English and Swedish. I learned how to write Swedish on a Forum after I became fluent in society. Never went to school. This just serves as an example why "traditional education" isn't all it's cracked up to be.
I figure I'm with Twain who said it best when he said "You should never let your schooling interfere with your education".
That must be a troll or a joke. Most of what we learn in this life is initially through games. Playing peekaboo with your kid teaches them that things that disappear from sight aren't necessarily gone and may return, thus teaching them something about human bonding too.
Games, anything from Mario to Tetris to Splinter cell, teach you things on various levels. Problem solving, problem management, hand-eye coordination, spatial relationships... Now if you make the game interesting enough, you can teach anything through a game.
Kudos for putting your... wait....
Perhaps a good idea to incorporate one of those into an iPhone?
Gives whole new meaning to "putting your phone on vibrate only".
I couldn't agree more, but not for security's sake. A damn camera in a phone/ipod is:
1) Useless due to the lack of quality.
2) Useless due to the lack of speed.
(1 and 2 illustrate why I don't touch anything but SLR's)
3) A nuisance. Now I'm stuck with all of the trite and uninspired snapshots everyone and their uncle from 8 to 80 take and post on bloody FB all the time.
4) Just another component that might get dirty/broken.
5) More code to usurp the CPU/RAM or clutter the OS of the device in question.
6) Another source of bugs in the FW of said device.
Slapping "some proper optics" onto an iPhone would look very odd. I'm not sure how a 20 cm long lens with a base of 5 cm diameter and a weight of 700 grams would look on an iPhone, not to mention a 1.5 kg 70-200 2.8 lens.
All joking aside, the lens is only one thing. Then you get to the size of the chip, AF speeds and obviously all image processing software needed for a good camera. There are solid reasons why DSLR's cost what they cost, and I don't think the iPhone or Apple will ever move in on that market. Snazzy point & shoot stuff I can definitely see Apple come up with though.
Having said that, I wouldn't mind a GPS tagger inside my DSLR. :-D
Income taxes are a bad idea? Jeez buddy, you sounded logical in the first half of that post, but then you lost it in a hurry.
I'd rather not, thanks, I prefer to think of myself as someone with a life.
You bet your sweet ass I'm bigoted against bigots. And I can tell you why. Bigots and Zealots won't let other people go about their business. If I like taking it up the tail pipe, I don't see how this should be anyone's business.
And you bet your sweet ass I hate Christians. But then I don't admire other religions, because anyone who tends to believe in imaginary friends also thinks they're the coolest and only friends *anyone* should *ever* admire, so at the end of the day religion serves as a petri dish for growing whole cultures of bigots.
Five will definitely get you ten if you say I'm pro choice but against the death penalty. If I have to explain the morals of that one to you, this post would take more bandwidth than a Stevie Wonder discography so I won't bother. Suffice it to say that while I do think abortion is a question that deserves serious thought and shouldn't be considered trivial, the effects of legalize it on society are measurable (Crime rate, New York pre-Guiliani). Furthermore it is a statement about how far women's rights have progressed in any given society. The Death penalty on the other hand is barbaric, and cannot safely be executed (no pun intended). Just the other day, two men that were in the slammer for 10 years for a murder were acquitted in Holland because an error was made and the guilty party was found. In Texas, you couldn't release those innocent men, you'd have to send a posthumous apology note to their families. That possibility alone should prevent anyone from such a penalty.
With the whole brown good, white bad, men bad, women good you're just being silly. No "liberal" will say that, that's just bone-headed.
Stupid Southerners. They exist. As do oppressed blacks. And criminals. There is a correlation between stupidity, oppression, a lack of education and crime. Maybe y'all should legalize abortion, so that women (who are generally not that stupid, given the choice) can make some decisions that would curb that trend.
Now don't start about rural folk. The first thing I ever learned to drive was a Massey Fergusson from the 1950's, followed by a fork lift. I harvested potatoes on my knees on my uncle's acre and I cleaned tulip bulbs when I was 12 while listening to Tom T. Hall. So you may call me a flaming liberal, but you can't call me a city slicker.
Having said that, clinging to guns and religion is plainly unintelligent, whether you're from a city or a farm, the North or the South, black or white. By the sounds of it, you're a somewhat unintelligent gun lover with a homophobic streak and a chip on his shoulder because the US doesn't consist of only your kind right now, looking at the balance of power. "Him liking it up the butt would have been puzzling to me" already gives it away. It's a good demonstration of how one sentence transforms you from a liberal into a bigot if you repeat it at a 50 year interval.
Turing died, and people then were obviously not enlightened enough to distinguish jack shit, because otherwise they wouldn't tell a war hero and a brilliant scientist to choose between chemical castration and hard time for having a boyfriend.
I agree with this post, but the original poster doesn't seem to care about the Authors of ye learned books... The poster seems to care about the Copyright Holders of ye learned books. And this is the problem with this whole legislation.... Same for the music business. The people writing, recording and creating the music or books often see their rights usurped by business conglomerates that then turn around and weep for the demise of the Copyright Holder's income.
We still value making a buck over knowledge or wisdom.
Well... If I look at the intelligence with which the health care debate in the US has been had, it might be better if only *very* few Americans had health care so as to curb the survival rate of said indiviDUHals.
Having said that, it seems to me they need all the possibilities to read we can throw at them, copyright be damned.
How exactly does
we affirmed Justice was doing one's own business, and not being a busybody
*define justice explicitly*??
All they say in this dialogue is that allowing people to go about their business is doing them justice, and interfering in people's business is an injustice, but it doesn't claim to give an ultimate definition justice. The whole dialogue tries to come up with a definition of justice, but mires down into a debate about self interest versus acting just and the quality of rulers. Having said that, I guess the original poster's comment is not a quote from Plato, so you're right. But the original poster did stay closer to the meaning of the Republic in my view.
But for some reason, and correct me if I'm wrong, the phrase "There is no true measure of justice, but it is important for a government to give the appearens of justice to society" sounds like a Machiavellian thing to say and reminds me of the Cardassian justice system. :-D
I think the people that marked this redundant missed your joke. About mom.
That *was* a joke, right?
RIGHT?
*sigh* *burp*
I never, ever use a spell-checker. Be it in Dutch, German, English or Scandinavian, I'll always consult an old-fashioned dictionary if I don't know how to spell a particular word.
But ultimately when it comes to spelling, grammar and general eloquence, there's simply no substitute for erudition. An erudite individual will have a better grasp of language.
Seriously. I've never understood the difference between living together and marriage from a practical perspective.
Marriage strikes me as a somewhat anachronistic ownership-contract that is rooted in organized religion, so I don't really understand how two self-proclaimed geeks end up choosing the format unless they'd be forced to.
Can someone comment on this earnestly?
How do you know simply posting on slashdot is a guarantee for digital longevity?
You don't. Because neither /. nor Google are 70+ years old, and we can't predict if these institutions or the data they gather will survive the next 3 weeks even. Things may happen and typically the things that have the biggest influence cannot be predicted.
Having said that, he should talk to the dude responsible for his backup either. A backup is a means of taking a copy of the data which you store for a limited time frame (4 weeks to half a year, in most typical cases) that has nothing to do with Archival.
At the end of the day he should talk to an archiving expert, but not many companies employ those. A librarian, if you will. But archival isn't an easy task, and we still suffer from the unpredictability of significant events, so hand-written logs sound as good as anything, really.
You're confusing choice with freedom.
I laughed. Hard.
That's funny because I had a tendency to cry. I always end up in Freedom discussions with Americans in particular. I come from Holland. This means that as soon as you hit 18 you can choose to smoke dope, frequent hookers, drink alcohol (that's from 16, really), eat shrooms, vote, have sex (that's from 16, really), have same sex sex, marry someone of any gender, have an abortion, commit euthanasia in a pinch and convert to any or no religion.
Yet we are a social-democracy. According to many Americans this seems to equal a Socialist or even Communist State. In spite of all the choices we have, we're reputed not to be "free". When I then urge these individuals to consider the range of choices they have and from what age, they tend to shrug their shoulders and tell me they're right anyhow.
The reason I bring this up in this discussion is that religious zeal, no matter what area of life it is directed at, does not listen to reason and logic. You will never get the guy who's telling you that "You're confusing choice with freedom" to see any kind of light ever.
So while I really appreciate Linus' comments on hating MicroSoft, and while I agree to his sentiment completely, there will always be these induhviduals who burrow down into their trenches about this topic even if there's really no war to speak of.
What does everyone have against Hawaii? They have naked women and flowers. And they already got the short end of the stick in 41.
Why not nuke Kansas or Ohio? THat'll improve the IQ and educational system while only killing 2 men and a donkey.
Dodge is far from unknown in Europe. Just unpopular.
When the gas prices went up to 4 dollars for a gallon (0.70 Euros for a liter) I told some dude in California that I hadn't seen gas that cheap since 1982 in Europe.
Having said that, Dodge and most other American car companies make cars that guzzle gas, are too damn big and impractical for the streets of Amsterdam, Rome, Paris or Prague, have a complete inability to corner and generally are quite ugly.
I would have a look at http://www.weird-solutions.com/
They produce some cutting edge DHCP and provisioning software for amongst others the ISP market. Furthermore their staff are incredibly knowledgeable.
Which is why in the Netherlands, Prostitution is legal while Pimping isn't, Marijuana is CONDONED and not 100% legalized, and the focus for users of cocaine, E, Amphetamines and even heavier stuff like heroin is to Inform & Help them rather than to lock 'm up and throw away the key.
Do we have problems? Sure we do. Do we have a violent crime rate as in the US and certain other countries? No we don't. As a matter of fact, it's quite boring here. And we like it that way. Well. Some of us do at any rate.
Lastly I have to point out that the workings of Life, The Universe and Everything Else *cannot* be deduced by watching Mob movies.
That is such bullshit. My corporate laptop (yes, I still work at the major vendor, blah blah) is Vista with SP2 on it now, and quite frankly it works like a dream. Surely the GUI has annoying properties when you're used to XP, specially in the Network configuration and the Explorer view configuration departments.
However, there are some marked improvements:
- I can now go without shutdown for months, I just live on Sleep / Wake up mode all the time, and never have issues.
- Docking / Undocking is handled much more nicely than under XP.
- I/O handling. Back in the day, when you opened up a data stream to a device it would run at a decent speed, but when you opened a second data stream, the XP box would grind to an infuriating halt. Vista will divide whatever I/O bandwidth there is between streams nicely and it runs beautifully. This goes for Disk-based devices, removable storage and the Network alike.
- It just looks sexier.
I'm not glorifying anything. I would like it to do the same as my Mac with Network drives... Just leave them alone until you click 'm, or if you do poll 'm, do it in the background. Don't make explorer freeze for 10 seconds while you poll networks on startup.
But these are minor gripes. All in all, even in an environment where money matters, I find Vista to be quite OK. MacOSX has definitive drawbacks (this "the window is only the document" philosophy, amongst others), and Linux is just a bloody chaos: Gnome is not really nicely customizable while KDE is so customizable you don't see the bloody forest for all the trees.
At the end of the day: I like working on this OS. It does what I need it to do, I suffer extremely little downtime, and it's fairly responsive.
I don't know what "ever present glitches" you're on about, because neither I nor quite a few of my colleagues see them. Fwiw, I support Linux-based GRID computing solutions for a living. I'm not in Sales, and I'm not a Windows jockey per se, so don't cry that I'm biased or non-technical here.
If you had read the article, you would have read that abused rats were raised by "normal" mothers and their problems were not solved by that measure, thus proving that the "home experience" doesn't account for the behaviour witnessed.
Having said that, the EO is a broadcasting corporation many people actively laugh at in The Netherlands. 44% of our population is a registered atheist and I can't remember the last time anyone dragged god into political discourse on particular topics. Granted, the largest political party is the Christian Democrats' party, but at the end of the day I would say that the people who claim Evolution doesn't exist are either too old for their own good or a part of a small, small minority.
THe ugly truth is, though, that most people probably simply never thought about it. And this applies both to the US and the Netherlands. You do as you're told, rarely as you think you should do.