I have a pair of the 100 gig WDs. Originally they were 7200 100 gig with 2mg cache. I put them in my Tivo, which means they both get pretty close to 24/7 use, always writing and reading about half the time or more. One died, bad sectors, got an RMA. That one died about 2 months later, got another one. The new one was their super special edition with 8 megs of cache and they claim can keep up with a 15kRPM scsi drive. I really don't care since its in a TiVo. That one has lasted a few months now, so I'm pretty confident it will go the distance. I am with everyone else who says that WD sucks for reliability, although their RMA program is fast and easy.
What's the basis of the law? What right does the government have to say that you can't have a phone ring in the theatre? Of all places, NYC is going to pass a law saying it's illegal to be rude? Come on. It's the god given right of every New Yorker to be rude. They take great pride in that.
Sure it's inconvenient, but since when is that a basis for making something illegal? Cell phones in cars is distracting and can be considered a safety hazard. Smoking in public areas could also be considered a safety hazard. Talking in a theatre is not illegal. Having horrible body odor is not illegal. I honestly do not think this law is constitutional. If a theatre wants to pass a rule saying that they can refuse service to anyone with a cell phone or ban you from the theatre for cell phone use, that is their business. Just imagine the precedent this would set if rudeness can be fined.
That is a common misconception of Liberty. At the Burton Group conference, Eric Dean, Chairman of Liberty and CIO of United addressed this. Sun was one of the founders of Liberty, but immediately after it was formed, they stepped back and let the other companies drive. Liberty is not about designing a product, but about designing the standard for SSO.
Microsoft also announced at the conference that they will be developing SAML under WS-Security, which is a group under Oasis (http://www.oasis-open.org). It is still too soon to see if MS's SAML will be compatable with the main Oasis SAML or with Liberty's version.
I reacted the same way to the comment about security in open vs closed source programs, but then I started thinking about it. How would you test this? Is there even a conceivable metric for security? The only argument we could make, is that is possible, difficult but possible, to find every single bug in an open source application and fix it. With MSFT, or any closed source application, you never know when the next bug might be discovered or even worse, when it will be fixed.
As a systematic study, one way would be to install equivalent systems, one open source and one closed source. Start with the OS, a web server, a database, and whatever other applications you want to use, so long as there are comparable open/closed applications. Get the current versions, including patches, then over the next 6 months, year, whatever, follow bugtrack and record the bugs that are found, then how long these bugs are applicable before a patch is released. Each bug could be weighted from 1-5 based on severity. Something that would cause the font to change may be a 1, but something that would cause a remote root exploit would be 5. After the set period of time, examine the results.
Your second part was mainly picking apart the wording of the article, which is not a direct quote from any DoD mandate. There are certain requirements to place any software on a ship. They have to pass the Common Criteria and go through some set of tests and eventually be blessed, to be allowed. The problem is, these tests cost $250-500k and nobody is going to pay that for Apache or KDE to go through that. There are certain divisions that use Apache, but it is usually only used in GOTS applications and not as a general purpose web server.
I want to know, in what reality, is this a good idea? I'm all for finding things that are expensive and having good ways to make them cheaper, but this isn't it. DVD's are far from outrageous. Most people are accumstomed to $20 for a movie, even from VHS, so $20 for a dvd isn't unreasonable, yet a company every year or so, comes up with a great new technology to make dvd's "better".
Personally, I'll keep renting video's from Blockbuster for a few dollars a week and if the movie is worth watching more than once, I'll go to Fry's or Best Buy and buy it for $20 or less. The only way this technology would survive, is if it was significantly less than simply renting. That would mean a "play once" dvd would be $1-2. Otherwise, theres no insentive to change from the habit of just going to rent it.
I wonder if they realize that they're on the west coast and there will be at least 2 full showings on the east coast, then one on the central and mountain zones. They will be one of the last, well last of the people who waited in line" to see the movie.
If they were dedicated enough to wait in line for 4-5 months, they should go to the east coast and do it.
At this point, for one to claim to be outselling the other, all they have to do is produce more units. I have yet to see either in a store and only hear rumors of them even being shipped to the stores. How these companies can so severely understimate demand, is well beyond me.
Of course I still think Sony blew it when they didn't saturate the market originally. Instead they chose to wait to release all their games when all the other systems were released. Now they have to compete with the other systems and their games, when they could have been the only choice in town.
So far, every episode of Enterprise is just a rehashing of TOS or TNG. The words have changed, but the music is the same. We do have one last bastion of sci-fi, Farscape, although the sci-fi channel has gone back to reruns. I'm not sure when the new episodes are coming, but now I only have that to look forward to each week, especially with the turns Dark Angel has taken this season.
Actually it sounds as if she's comparing P2P networks with a Ddos. Of course everyone knows that napster was the major influence in the code red/nimba/etc virii.
Encryption and encryption algorithms have long been legally considered "munitions". By this same logic, it is our second amendment right to have encryption software and to encrypt anything we wish. We also have the opposing decryption algorithm. So having DeCSS would be no different than owning a 9mm pistol. The same could be applied to the cracking of the watermarks.
I did not break into the gaming industry, but I do know a couple of people who did. One of the first people I knew to get a game programmer job was extremely self motivated. There were few courses geared toward game programing, but there were graphics and heavy programing courses. Every chance he got, he would write either a game or an API for a game he was writing. His Java project was a Defender type game that was actually a lot of fun.
The best way to break in is to learn and experiment on your own. There are classes, such as graphics, advanced programing classes, and matrix math courses, that help, but nothing will compare to having a portolio of games that you have written.
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I'm fairly certain that one is an urban legend. I have heard the same story twice but with m80s and not sodium.
I have a pair of the 100 gig WDs. Originally they were 7200 100 gig with 2mg cache. I put them in my Tivo, which means they both get pretty close to 24/7 use, always writing and reading about half the time or more. One died, bad sectors, got an RMA. That one died about 2 months later, got another one. The new one was their super special edition with 8 megs of cache and they claim can keep up with a 15kRPM scsi drive. I really don't care since its in a TiVo. That one has lasted a few months now, so I'm pretty confident it will go the distance. I am with everyone else who says that WD sucks for reliability, although their RMA program is fast and easy.
What's the basis of the law? What right does the government have to say that you can't have a phone ring in the theatre? Of all places, NYC is going to pass a law saying it's illegal to be rude? Come on. It's the god given right of every New Yorker to be rude. They take great pride in that.
Sure it's inconvenient, but since when is that a basis for making something illegal? Cell phones in cars is distracting and can be considered a safety hazard. Smoking in public areas could also be considered a safety hazard. Talking in a theatre is not illegal. Having horrible body odor is not illegal. I honestly do not think this law is constitutional. If a theatre wants to pass a rule saying that they can refuse service to anyone with a cell phone or ban you from the theatre for cell phone use, that is their business. Just imagine the precedent this would set if rudeness can be fined.
That is a common misconception of Liberty. At the Burton Group conference, Eric Dean, Chairman of Liberty and CIO of United addressed this. Sun was one of the founders of Liberty, but immediately after it was formed, they stepped back and let the other companies drive. Liberty is not about designing a product, but about designing the standard for SSO.
Microsoft also announced at the conference that they will be developing SAML under WS-Security, which is a group under Oasis (http://www.oasis-open.org). It is still too soon to see if MS's SAML will be compatable with the main Oasis SAML or with Liberty's version.
I reacted the same way to the comment about security in open vs closed source programs, but then I started thinking about it. How would you test this? Is there even a conceivable metric for security? The only argument we could make, is that is possible, difficult but possible, to find every single bug in an open source application and fix it. With MSFT, or any closed source application, you never know when the next bug might be discovered or even worse, when it will be fixed.
As a systematic study, one way would be to install equivalent systems, one open source and one closed source. Start with the OS, a web server, a database, and whatever other applications you want to use, so long as there are comparable open/closed applications. Get the current versions, including patches, then over the next 6 months, year, whatever, follow bugtrack and record the bugs that are found, then how long these bugs are applicable before a patch is released. Each bug could be weighted from 1-5 based on severity. Something that would cause the font to change may be a 1, but something that would cause a remote root exploit would be 5. After the set period of time, examine the results.
Your second part was mainly picking apart the wording of the article, which is not a direct quote from any DoD mandate. There are certain requirements to place any software on a ship. They have to pass the Common Criteria and go through some set of tests and eventually be blessed, to be allowed. The problem is, these tests cost $250-500k and nobody is going to pay that for Apache or KDE to go through that. There are certain divisions that use Apache, but it is usually only used in GOTS applications and not as a general purpose web server.
How ironic is it to read the "Epitaph to HP" and have an HP ad right next to it?
I want to know, in what reality, is this a good idea? I'm all for finding things that are expensive and having good ways to make them cheaper, but this isn't it. DVD's are far from outrageous. Most people are accumstomed to $20 for a movie, even from VHS, so $20 for a dvd isn't unreasonable, yet a company every year or so, comes up with a great new technology to make dvd's "better".
Personally, I'll keep renting video's from Blockbuster for a few dollars a week and if the movie is worth watching more than once, I'll go to Fry's or Best Buy and buy it for $20 or less. The only way this technology would survive, is if it was significantly less than simply renting. That would mean a "play once" dvd would be $1-2. Otherwise, theres no insentive to change from the habit of just going to rent it.
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We killed it. The first lego block to take a step into the grand open world of the web, and its slashdotted beyond any sense of hope.
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I wonder if they realize that they're on the west coast and there will be at least 2 full showings on the east coast, then one on the central and mountain zones. They will be one of the last, well last of the people who waited in line" to see the movie.
If they were dedicated enough to wait in line for 4-5 months, they should go to the east coast and do it.
At this point, for one to claim to be outselling the other, all they have to do is produce more units. I have yet to see either in a store and only hear rumors of them even being shipped to the stores. How these companies can so severely understimate demand, is well beyond me.
Of course I still think Sony blew it when they didn't saturate the market originally. Instead they chose to wait to release all their games when all the other systems were released. Now they have to compete with the other systems and their games, when they could have been the only choice in town.
So far, every episode of Enterprise is just a rehashing of TOS or TNG. The words have changed, but the music is the same. We do have one last bastion of sci-fi, Farscape, although the sci-fi channel has gone back to reruns. I'm not sure when the new episodes are coming, but now I only have that to look forward to each week, especially with the turns Dark Angel has taken this season.
Actually it sounds as if she's comparing P2P networks with a Ddos. Of course everyone knows that napster was the major influence in the code red/nimba/etc virii.
Encryption and encryption algorithms have long been legally considered "munitions". By this same logic, it is our second amendment right to have encryption software and to encrypt anything we wish. We also have the opposing decryption algorithm. So having DeCSS would be no different than owning a 9mm pistol. The same could be applied to the cracking of the watermarks.
I did not break into the gaming industry, but I do know a couple of people who did. One of the first people I knew to get a game programmer job was extremely self motivated. There were few courses geared toward game programing, but there were graphics and heavy programing courses. Every chance he got, he would write either a game or an API for a game he was writing. His Java project was a Defender type game that was actually a lot of fun.
The best way to break in is to learn and experiment on your own. There are classes, such as graphics, advanced programing classes, and matrix math courses, that help, but nothing will compare to having a portolio of games that you have written.