I can't say that I've ever used any of the NTFS features they're planning to drop.
I do wish Windows had a sane soft-link system like *nix does; I've yet to run into an application that automatically dereferences a.lnk when opening it. You have to futz around with opening the link manually, reading it's redirect, and then opening THAT instead. Very crude and ugly.
But more to the point, I didn't see much about what might be NEW with this file system, only what's OLD and being discarded.
Mind you, some basic feature cleanup never hurt anyone. But if that's the case, why not NTFS2 instead of a marketing buzzword?
We research issues in Canadian Immigrants, and found that there was a lack of recent, unaggregated information.
Could that be because it's ILLEGAL to identify individual immigrants as it's an invasion of their right to privacy?
FFS, sprout a brain! The government HAS the detailed data, but you are NOT allowed to access it directly.
As to GIS, check out PostgreSQL. I hear their GIS support is pretty powerful, but I've never coded for it. Certainly I'd recommend PostgreSQL over MySQL any day of the week.
Just plug in "India" instead of "Canada" or "United States" or "America" in any of a bazillion opinion pieces on censorship posted to slashdot over the years.
i.e. Just search it.
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I know diesel engines have a lousy reputation in North America, but I firmly believe hemp based bio-diesel is a FAR better alternative than E85. Most importantly, hemp seed based bio-diesel is a net-positive energy solution, requiring less fuel to farm the hemp and process it into bio-diesel than you end up producing (kind of a critical point for any product to succeed in the energy markets.)
Some go so far as to claim that hemp bio-diesel is carbon negative. I'm skeptical about that, but it would be interesting to test the theory.
Unlike ethanol corn, hemp produces a great deal of fiber suitable for textiles and paper as a side-product, even if the main purpose of the crop is bio-diesel. Levi's jeans used to be made exclusively from hemp-fiber denim, not cotton. I've read claims that hemp based paper out produces poplar tree paper production by a factor of nearly 4:1, though again, I've not seen a study to prove that claim.
Most important of all, hemp is literally a weed and will grow almost anywhere, allowing the use of low-grade farmland instead of taking away from food-crop acreage.
But it's nothing new. The pro-hemp community has been screaming this "nonsense" at the top of their lungs for decades while the cannabis drug war drowned out their good points about hemp farming.
The "Alan Kay" Dynabook I keep talking about doesn't really need colour for it's most important function -- replacing a notepad. If the Pixel Qi screens have a high resolution stylus/touch capability, they might be ideal for such a device.
i.e. The Dynabook was conceived to be a useful, utilitarian device, not a video or game playing machine.
Good point. But if you've got the intellect of a gnat and the education of a cat, your employment options are severely limited in this economy, so maybe they don't have a choice...:p
The Java Community Process, through a series of initiatives lead by chairman Patrick Curran, is aiming to improve its transparency and agility. JSR 348, which is the first in a series of reforms Oracle plans for the JCP, has passed final approval ballot. It represents relatively minor changes, but it is still an important step, requiring that in the future all Expert Groups conduct all of their business in public, using a public mailing-list and a public issue-tracker.
It should be readily apparent from my own open documentation and planning approach for MSS Code Factory and Singularity One just how much I believe openness to be CRITICAL to running a modern technology endeavour. The days of closed door development and the sudden release of new technology products is not only disruptive to the industry and employment, it's a fundamentally wrong-headed approach to someone who believes in the GPL ethos as I do.
Kudos to Oracle for realizing the way they were handling things was going against the principles of the way Sun had originally configured the Java community.
Easy. It's illegal to practice law and represent someone else in court. You're allowed to represent yourself, but only lawyers are allowed to represent any one else's interests in a case, including corporate interests.
That's why you never see a "legal aide" prosecuting or defending a case, only filing paperwork to launch a case that has to be prosecuted or defended by the individual or their attourney.
And what would be the point of downloading a file that expands to be too big for your example of an ancient and creaky FAT file system user? They STILL wouldn't be able to access the media.
I HATE.rar downloads, though they're easy enough to deal with. It's a hammer of a solution in desperate search for a nail to justify it's continued existence.
Maybe that helps clarify why I get SO pissed off when the US tries to shove it's copyright laws down other nation's throats. We have our OWN legal system in Canada, and DRASTICALLY different precedents have been set than those in the US.
Actually, in Canada there is precedent for the idea that you own the content in perpetuity.
Back in high school, the age of vinyl records, my friend's older brother REGULARLY sent in damaged LPs to the record company for replacement. They always shipped him a new one to replace the damaged copy, no charge. He didn't even have to send them "mailing and handling fees", just the damaged record and a cover letter providing his return address.
Because of that, a precedent was set that, at least in Canada, you DO have the right to the content even if your first copy of the media is damaged or unavailable for some other reason. I think it's perfectly reasonable to extract format shifting as an extension of that precedent.
Thank you for the explanation. A couple of minutes delay was never an issue in the first place, as most downloads take hours anyhow, but I was thoroughly baffled as to why the.magnet links were so damned slow. Good info.
That said, you've underlined the reason I'm not trying to sue the doctors or the pharmacies -- they can inject "reasonable doubt" by claiming I was "predisposed". By focusing the case on the UNDERLYING problem that I would never have taken the damaging drugs in the first place if I'd been aware of how good medical cannabis is for migraines, I sidestep that ingenuous escape clause the pharmacorp lawyers would use to escape culpability.
Too bad. I am certainly NOT saying the meds I'm on don't keep the bi-polar in check, but there's no denying it was not a genetic disorder in my case. If you don't like that, tough -- it's the reality of my life.
And no, I was not "predisposed". I was subjected to a known and documented drug interaction problem for THREE MONTHS that my doctors and pharmacists didn't even know was an issue because it's so rare to have it happen.
Kindly keep your "medical diagnosis" to yourself -- you clearly don't know the facts of the case, even though I provided download links and supporting documentation.
Harassing TSA agents, DHS inspectors, or even the police is counter-productive. While there are "bad apples" who abuse their authority, most are just regular people trying to do a job which means constantly dealing with pissed off people. After a stint in a support and warranty call center, I can really sympathize with them -- there's nothing THEY can do about it, same as I couldn't wave a magic wand and make a warranty valid a few weeks after it expired, no matter HOW much a customer yelled at me.
Stick to hounding the government and the three letter agencies that make the DECISIONS to deploy these people, but let them do their job until their jobs are eliminated.
Gamma radiation I could see, but X-Rays have a GREAT deal of difficulty penetrating metal.
I'd think the radiation risks would be different for gamma than X-rays, though. I'm far from anything even VAGUELY resembling knowledgeable on the subject of radiation, though. Just a layman's knowledge from high school that X-Rays can't penetrate metal.
Odds are the article says X-Rays when what they really mean is "electromagnetic radiation", not necessarily in the same frequency band as X-Rays. Hell, even LIGHT is "electromagnetic radiation". (Mind you, anyone who's had skin cancer knows light can cause radiation poisoning/damage/cancer, too.)
Still, there is SOME kind of scanner technology that they DO use to inspect the cargo of 18-wheelers without emptying out the load. But it's NOT X-Rays.
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I can't say that I've ever used any of the NTFS features they're planning to drop.
I do wish Windows had a sane soft-link system like *nix does; I've yet to run into an application that automatically dereferences a .lnk when opening it. You have to futz around with opening the link manually, reading it's redirect, and then opening THAT instead. Very crude and ugly.
But more to the point, I didn't see much about what might be NEW with this file system, only what's OLD and being discarded.
Mind you, some basic feature cleanup never hurt anyone. But if that's the case, why not NTFS2 instead of a marketing buzzword?
Ok, so some disgruntled employees of Google have been caught munging and corrupting data intentionally.
That's a serious issue that needs to be addressed.
But it misses the most important question to me: WHY would someone do this?
To discredit Google, revenge on a "cruel" and "vicious" employer or manager?
To cause mayhem and accidents in India and elsewhere?
To make sure their favourite curry shop can't be found by others so they don't have to wait in line with the "stinking masses"?
What would POSSIBLY be the purpose of messing up street map data?
Do you think Blackberries still sell because of their "hot games"?
To paraphrase George Carlin:
Could that be because it's ILLEGAL to identify individual immigrants as it's an invasion of their right to privacy?
FFS, sprout a brain! The government HAS the detailed data, but you are NOT allowed to access it directly.
As to GIS, check out PostgreSQL. I hear their GIS support is pretty powerful, but I've never coded for it. Certainly I'd recommend PostgreSQL over MySQL any day of the week.
India's legal system is based on the UK-British system, the same as Canada's, the same as every Commonwealth Country I know of.
The same arguments apply as to why "Censorship is bad, m'kay?"
Just plug in "India" instead of "Canada" or "United States" or "America" in any of a bazillion opinion pieces on censorship posted to slashdot over the years.
i.e. Just search it.
I know diesel engines have a lousy reputation in North America, but I firmly believe hemp based bio-diesel is a FAR better alternative than E85. Most importantly, hemp seed based bio-diesel is a net-positive energy solution, requiring less fuel to farm the hemp and process it into bio-diesel than you end up producing (kind of a critical point for any product to succeed in the energy markets.)
Some go so far as to claim that hemp bio-diesel is carbon negative. I'm skeptical about that, but it would be interesting to test the theory.
Unlike ethanol corn, hemp produces a great deal of fiber suitable for textiles and paper as a side-product, even if the main purpose of the crop is bio-diesel. Levi's jeans used to be made exclusively from hemp-fiber denim, not cotton. I've read claims that hemp based paper out produces poplar tree paper production by a factor of nearly 4:1, though again, I've not seen a study to prove that claim.
Most important of all, hemp is literally a weed and will grow almost anywhere, allowing the use of low-grade farmland instead of taking away from food-crop acreage.
But it's nothing new. The pro-hemp community has been screaming this "nonsense" at the top of their lungs for decades while the cannabis drug war drowned out their good points about hemp farming.
The "Alan Kay" Dynabook I keep talking about doesn't really need colour for it's most important function -- replacing a notepad. If the Pixel Qi screens have a high resolution stylus/touch capability, they might be ideal for such a device.
i.e. The Dynabook was conceived to be a useful, utilitarian device, not a video or game playing machine.
Good point. But if you've got the intellect of a gnat and the education of a cat, your employment options are severely limited in this economy, so maybe they don't have a choice... :p
Since they're only people.
Obligatory Monty Python.
It should be readily apparent from my own open documentation and planning approach for MSS Code Factory and Singularity One just how much I believe openness to be CRITICAL to running a modern technology endeavour. The days of closed door development and the sudden release of new technology products is not only disruptive to the industry and employment, it's a fundamentally wrong-headed approach to someone who believes in the GPL ethos as I do.
Kudos to Oracle for realizing the way they were handling things was going against the principles of the way Sun had originally configured the Java community.
Easy. It's illegal to practice law and represent someone else in court. You're allowed to represent yourself, but only lawyers are allowed to represent any one else's interests in a case, including corporate interests.
That's why you never see a "legal aide" prosecuting or defending a case, only filing paperwork to launch a case that has to be prosecuted or defended by the individual or their attourney.
And what would be the point of downloading a file that expands to be too big for your example of an ancient and creaky FAT file system user? They STILL wouldn't be able to access the media.
I HATE .rar downloads, though they're easy enough to deal with. It's a hammer of a solution in desperate search for a nail to justify it's continued existence.
Ever hear of "rhetorical" or "leading" questions? I could get the answer easily, but then no one else would know the answer BUT me.
Maybe that helps clarify why I get SO pissed off when the US tries to shove it's copyright laws down other nation's throats. We have our OWN legal system in Canada, and DRASTICALLY different precedents have been set than those in the US.
Actually, in Canada there is precedent for the idea that you own the content in perpetuity.
Back in high school, the age of vinyl records, my friend's older brother REGULARLY sent in damaged LPs to the record company for replacement. They always shipped him a new one to replace the damaged copy, no charge. He didn't even have to send them "mailing and handling fees", just the damaged record and a cover letter providing his return address.
Because of that, a precedent was set that, at least in Canada, you DO have the right to the content even if your first copy of the media is damaged or unavailable for some other reason. I think it's perfectly reasonable to extract format shifting as an extension of that precedent.
Thank you for the explanation. A couple of minutes delay was never an issue in the first place, as most downloads take hours anyhow, but I was thoroughly baffled as to why the .magnet links were so damned slow. Good info.
That said, you've underlined the reason I'm not trying to sue the doctors or the pharmacies -- they can inject "reasonable doubt" by claiming I was "predisposed". By focusing the case on the UNDERLYING problem that I would never have taken the damaging drugs in the first place if I'd been aware of how good medical cannabis is for migraines, I sidestep that ingenuous escape clause the pharmacorp lawyers would use to escape culpability.
Too bad. I am certainly NOT saying the meds I'm on don't keep the bi-polar in check, but there's no denying it was not a genetic disorder in my case. If you don't like that, tough -- it's the reality of my life.
And no, I was not "predisposed". I was subjected to a known and documented drug interaction problem for THREE MONTHS that my doctors and pharmacists didn't even know was an issue because it's so rare to have it happen.
Kindly keep your "medical diagnosis" to yourself -- you clearly don't know the facts of the case, even though I provided download links and supporting documentation.
I stand corrected -- repeatedly, from many posts.
All I really know about radiation is what we were taught in high school -- I'm no expert.
Thank you one and all for educating me. :)
Harassing TSA agents, DHS inspectors, or even the police is counter-productive. While there are "bad apples" who abuse their authority, most are just regular people trying to do a job which means constantly dealing with pissed off people. After a stint in a support and warranty call center, I can really sympathize with them -- there's nothing THEY can do about it, same as I couldn't wave a magic wand and make a warranty valid a few weeks after it expired, no matter HOW much a customer yelled at me.
Stick to hounding the government and the three letter agencies that make the DECISIONS to deploy these people, but let them do their job until their jobs are eliminated.
Gamma radiation I could see, but X-Rays have a GREAT deal of difficulty penetrating metal.
I'd think the radiation risks would be different for gamma than X-rays, though. I'm far from anything even VAGUELY resembling knowledgeable on the subject of radiation, though. Just a layman's knowledge from high school that X-Rays can't penetrate metal.
Odds are the article says X-Rays when what they really mean is "electromagnetic radiation", not necessarily in the same frequency band as X-Rays. Hell, even LIGHT is "electromagnetic radiation". (Mind you, anyone who's had skin cancer knows light can cause radiation poisoning/damage/cancer, too.)
I take this article with a HUGE grain of salt.
Everyone knows X-Rays can't penetrate metal.
Still, there is SOME kind of scanner technology that they DO use to inspect the cargo of 18-wheelers without emptying out the load. But it's NOT X-Rays.