I hope you keep good backups, because that two ATA drive plex is more than twice as likely to fail as the a single high-speed SCSI drive. Your MTBF is much shorter now since loosing either drive will be fatal.
Ah, yes, I can see it now. A large (Texas sized) asteroid is headed for Earth. Our satellite laser system springs into action, burning small holes and heating up the asteroid a fraction of a degree before it slams into Earth. Lasers work on missiles because they have gobs of explosive and fiddly electronics packed in a small space, whereas an asteroid is a big dumb rock that doesn't care if it's 1% less massive when it hits the Earth.
I certainly hope not. Almost all of our smart bombs these days are laser guided. That provision wouldn't make sense anyway. Laser guided weapons tend to be much more accurate than their dumb counterparts (you can't radar or IR guide a bomb on cold ground building), so they tend to reduce civilian casualties by letting the military only blow up military targets. The system isn't perfect (especially when armies hide behind their civilians), but it's certainly a lot better than carpet bombing.
How is this different than firing a missile, mortar, or even a bullet? Once you start firing on a group of people, they usually figure out where it's coming from in fairly short order. Lasers are line of sight only. Unless they're seeing a laser shoot down a missile overhead, they're going to be able to see the unit anyway. Shoot and scoot will still be the order of the day, even if you have a laser. Besides, if they're busy shooting down missiles, then they've already been spotted anyway.
Yeah, I think the parent poster was confusing Adult Swim with the horrible hack jobs done on wonderful shows like Card Captor Sakura and Escaflowne.
I just wish they'd make more Harvey Birdman. It was the only show in the "comedy" block that was worth watching (IMHO), but there's only like 4 episodes, and it dosen't take long for them to loop.
Microsoft software has to be trashed too, fortunatly the registry makes this easy to do. It's not hard to horribly break a Windows machine with a few strategic registry tweaks, all in the name of security.
Er, shouldn't the first octect be listed as Math.round(Math.random() * 223)?
Its not like you're going to find many webservers running multicast. On a side note, it pains me to see how multicast has been left on the side of the road to die all of these years. There are several applications today (like internet radio and rebroadcast video) that would benefit from multicast (especially the producer, who only has to send one stream out at a time instead of hundreds or thousands). It's kind of a shame that router hardware limitations basically killed it off (Ciscos have to use their dog slow CPU to multicast instead of the fast custom hardware).
Do you navigate the page with the arrow keys? If so it is very easy to choose a moderation from the pulldown box, and then forget to click on the page before hitting down a couple of times and changing your moderation. I've almost done that a few times myself.
Yeah. I hate when Congress buys tanks and fighter planes too. I'd rather Congress didn't force me to sponser killing. Sadly, that is one of the downsides to having a government, they don't always spend money the way you want.
SCSI is largely expensive because it is sold to the server market. It would not be impossible to make a SCSI drive only a few dollars more than the comparable ATA drive, but why bother when you can sell it for twice the price of the comperable ATA drives. SCSI drives will stay expensive until people are no longer willing to pay the huge markup for them.
So get the "Lifetime" subscription on your TiVO. I did that and never looked back. It looks like a big chunk of money to plop down all at once, but TiVO is so worth it.
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Yeah, I agree, we should wait until we're living in an opressive regime similar to China or Cuba before we do anything.
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Free speech isn't an issue that you can wait until it gets bad before you address (because once you have no free speech, you loose your ability to address problems). That is why it is important to keep these problems contained before they get out of control.
No, but stopping pirating has the side effect if stifling free speech. You don't think everybody is out fighting for their right to pirate Warcraft III do you?
You know, I was almost buying your post until you started talking about 100Khz audio being close to infared. That's like saying if a person runs fast enough twoards Toledo, they might approach a speed where they turn into an apple pie. Sound is compressed particles going through a medium (usually air) in a wave. It has nothing to do with the EM spectrum (unless it's hooked to a Winamp visualizer:)
And sometimes only once, when the discoverer posts and then nothing from Microsoft. Heck, by this logic, the most secure system is the one where the vendor never ever acknowledges security problems, much less fixes them.
While you are slightly correct in your pendantry, some DC titles actually used a form of Windows as their base environment. I do not know if they ever made a modem "driver" for that, but it is possible that this is a true Winmodem. However, more to the point, "Winmodem" is shorthand for "software modem", which this definatly is. Because of that, you can argue that winmodem is the correct term.
Is that true? If so, maybe we should tell the latin rap station one channel away from my regular station to stop stomping all over my favorite channel. Granted their transmitter is much closer than the one I care about, but I really hate it when I can't listen to my favorite station because the other one is taking it's own and the 4 adjascnet channels (my radio locks on to their signal in 5 different frequncies!) for itself.
Up here in NoVa, the housing market is still crazy. I'm sure they're finding buyers somewhere, in fact it's probably a new set of people who can't really afford the house and will be selling it off in a couple of years when their morgage crushes them.
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I hope you keep good backups, because that two ATA drive plex is more than twice as likely to fail as the a single high-speed SCSI drive. Your MTBF is much shorter now since loosing either drive will be fatal.
You must be from one of those southern states that's still fighting the civil war.
It's just DOM[1] syndrome kicking in again. It seems to happen to all of the Hard Scifi writers.
[1] Dirty Old Man. There is a definate relationship to the age of your average Scifi author, and the amount of sex in his latest works.
Ah, yes, I can see it now. A large (Texas sized) asteroid is headed for Earth. Our satellite laser system springs into action, burning small holes and heating up the asteroid a fraction of a degree before it slams into Earth. Lasers work on missiles because they have gobs of explosive and fiddly electronics packed in a small space, whereas an asteroid is a big dumb rock that doesn't care if it's 1% less massive when it hits the Earth.
I certainly hope not. Almost all of our smart bombs these days are laser guided. That provision wouldn't make sense anyway. Laser guided weapons tend to be much more accurate than their dumb counterparts (you can't radar or IR guide a bomb on cold ground building), so they tend to reduce civilian casualties by letting the military only blow up military targets. The system isn't perfect (especially when armies hide behind their civilians), but it's certainly a lot better than carpet bombing.
How is this different than firing a missile, mortar, or even a bullet? Once you start firing on a group of people, they usually figure out where it's coming from in fairly short order. Lasers are line of sight only. Unless they're seeing a laser shoot down a missile overhead, they're going to be able to see the unit anyway. Shoot and scoot will still be the order of the day, even if you have a laser. Besides, if they're busy shooting down missiles, then they've already been spotted anyway.
Yeah, I think the parent poster was confusing Adult Swim with the horrible hack jobs done on wonderful shows like Card Captor Sakura and Escaflowne.
I just wish they'd make more Harvey Birdman. It was the only show in the "comedy" block that was worth watching (IMHO), but there's only like 4 episodes, and it dosen't take long for them to loop.
Microsoft software has to be trashed too, fortunatly the registry makes this easy to do. It's not hard to horribly break a Windows machine with a few strategic registry tweaks, all in the name of security.
Since it's bad analogy day on Slashdot how about this:
It's like taking a Model-T, ripping it apart, and using the body panels to make a Toyota look like a Model-T.
Er, shouldn't the first octect be listed as Math.round(Math.random() * 223)?
Its not like you're going to find many webservers running multicast. On a side note, it pains me to see how multicast has been left on the side of the road to die all of these years. There are several applications today (like internet radio and rebroadcast video) that would benefit from multicast (especially the producer, who only has to send one stream out at a time instead of hundreds or thousands). It's kind of a shame that router hardware limitations basically killed it off (Ciscos have to use their dog slow CPU to multicast instead of the fast custom hardware).
Oh MBone, how we miss you so.
Do you navigate the page with the arrow keys? If so it is very easy to choose a moderation from the pulldown box, and then forget to click on the page before hitting down a couple of times and changing your moderation. I've almost done that a few times myself.
Yeah. I hate when Congress buys tanks and fighter planes too. I'd rather Congress didn't force me to sponser killing. Sadly, that is one of the downsides to having a government, they don't always spend money the way you want.
SCSI is largely expensive because it is sold to the server market. It would not be impossible to make a SCSI drive only a few dollars more than the comparable ATA drive, but why bother when you can sell it for twice the price of the comperable ATA drives. SCSI drives will stay expensive until people are no longer willing to pay the huge markup for them.
So get the "Lifetime" subscription on your TiVO. I did that and never looked back. It looks like a big chunk of money to plop down all at once, but TiVO is so worth it.
I think you are thinking of the NERDS (New England Rubbish Deconstruction Society).
Have they already discounted the possiblity of Sniper Gypsies and Miss Cleo?
Because I'm being trolled I'll be brief:
<sarcasm> Yeah, I agree, we should wait until we're living in an opressive regime similar to China or Cuba before we do anything. </sarcasm>
Free speech isn't an issue that you can wait until it gets bad before you address (because once you have no free speech, you loose your ability to address problems). That is why it is important to keep these problems contained before they get out of control.
No, but stopping pirating has the side effect if stifling free speech. You don't think everybody is out fighting for their right to pirate Warcraft III do you?
Er, people still using WordStar probably still have a few spare Dot-matrix printers...
You know, I was almost buying your post until you started talking about 100Khz audio being close to infared. That's like saying if a person runs fast enough twoards Toledo, they might approach a speed where they turn into an apple pie. Sound is compressed particles going through a medium (usually air) in a wave. It has nothing to do with the EM spectrum (unless it's hooked to a Winamp visualizer :)
And sometimes only once, when the discoverer posts and then nothing from Microsoft. Heck, by this logic, the most secure system is the one where the vendor never ever acknowledges security problems, much less fixes them.
While you are slightly correct in your pendantry, some DC titles actually used a form of Windows as their base environment. I do not know if they ever made a modem "driver" for that, but it is possible that this is a true Winmodem. However, more to the point, "Winmodem" is shorthand for "software modem", which this definatly is. Because of that, you can argue that winmodem is the correct term.
Huh? Did you even look at the contact page? Ok, it's not an 800 number, but it sure looks like you could dial that on a phone.
Is that true? If so, maybe we should tell the latin rap station one channel away from my regular station to stop stomping all over my favorite channel. Granted their transmitter is much closer than the one I care about, but I really hate it when I can't listen to my favorite station because the other one is taking it's own and the 4 adjascnet channels (my radio locks on to their signal in 5 different frequncies!) for itself.
Up here in NoVa, the housing market is still crazy. I'm sure they're finding buyers somewhere, in fact it's probably a new set of people who can't really afford the house and will be selling it off in a couple of years when their morgage crushes them.