That's a common misconception. RAID 5 will give you greater data reliability in some cases (sudden drive failure, RAID 5 will keep you from going down), but won't help you in many others (eg. accidental rm -rf/, someone rootkitting you just so they can spam people in Brazil (happened to me), accidentally running an SQL UPDATE command without a WHERE clause (also happened to me), etc).
Bottom line, you need incremental backups for data reliability. Doesn't matter how you do it, you can do it on top of RAID 5 to give you more peace of mind if you want, but it's not really necessary. Instead, at a bare minimum, you must be able to go back to several points in time to recover as recent of data as possible.
ITER is a proposed international tokamak (magnetic confinement fusion) experiment designed to show the scientific and technological feasibility of a full-scale fusion power reactor.
ITER will use a hydrogen plasma torus operating at over 100 million Celsius. It will produce approximately 500 megawatts of fusion power sustained for up to 500 seconds (compared to JET's peak of 16 MW for less than a second). ITER will not generate electrical power.
ITER is the experimental step between today's studies of plasma physics and tomorrow's electricity-producing fusion power plants.
It sounds like the plans for it were pretty much ready to go, they just couldn't decide where to build the thing. So, all systems are go now?
Off by several blocks? Big deal! The allegations weren't that hollywood wants to enforce region codes by city block. The allegations were that hollywood was thinking about trying to enforce something like existing region codes in a more secure manner. Eg. Figure out if you're in China vs. Japan, which requires only a minimum amount of GPS signal (still some signal for sure, but being off by several kilometers is no big deal).
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Because history is speeding up rapidly. Because the US and Russia have only been superpowers since the end of World War II (61 years ago), and since then, one of the superpowers has fallen. Because in the past 150 years, Japan has gone from complete and utter isolation to having nuclear weapons dropped on them to becoming a primary supplier or advanced electronics and automobiles and is now losing marketshare to India, China, and South Korea. Shit changes fast.
It's incredibly tempting to instinctively reply with an incoherent rant, but I'll try not to.
One problem that I see is that languages are still evolving, and will continue to do so. Should we have left things well-enough alone at C, and not invented or rewritten algorithms in Java? Are Perl/Ruby/Python insignificant enough that nobody should have spent effort programming in them?
Languages ARE improving, and by putting a stake in the ground, you're guaranteeing that at some point the "unified standard" would move to a new, improved language.
So there will be two langauages everyone uses. And then three.
So, in a practical sense, you're suggesting we use as few hardware, VM, and language platforms as possible. So Perl should have been written, but Python and Ruby are rubbish, and nobody should spend time coding for them?
I don't know. Obviously there is overhead in maintaining multiple separate languages, VMs, hardware chipsets, glibc versions, etc. But to some extent, individual developers choose to spend more time on learning new languages, or not. It's currently up to them how much time they want to "waste" porting things, and that seems like how it should be.
Yahoo and Google have two completely different motivations...
Yahoo buys companies so that 1) they can at least move in the direction of an AOL-styled walled-garden area, 2) so they can overall have more page-views and thus have more advertising space, and 3) so they can "synergize" between the offerings to advertise between them and generally present a unified web presence.
Google buys companies and develops new projects because 1) they have money to invest and want to grow it generally, 2) they have more skill in innovation and technology generally, and so they can grow many different ideas without tying them all together, simply because they're better at individual projects, 3) they have experience with and an already-in-place infrastructure for cluster computing, and this allows them to start up new ideas faster than equally-innovative competitors, and 4) because Google was profoundly helpful from a technical perspective in the search arena, and this made them a household name. But new frontiers are coming, and Google is one of the few largish companies who have the chance to retain a culture to take advantage of the Next Big Thing.
Google doesn't NEED more page-views for advertising... they already have Google AdWords where other people bring their page-views to google. Google is more free to develop or turn down new ideas based on their technical merit, in the hopes that they will stay on top of the next big ideas, some ways down the road. During their IPO, Google explicitely said they're trying to take the long view. In contrast, Yahoo MUST develop new ideas NOW in order to simply keep growing.
Confusing HTTP and HTML is like confusing Samba and Microsoft Word, Kazaa and MP3, or BitTorrent and ISOs. Granted, they're slightly related, in that URL syntax is used by both, and HTML includes mechanisms for fairly directly affecting forms-POSTing and file-uploading, but other than that small overlap, they're clearly quite different.
Not to be pedantic, but the GET request belongs to HTTP, not to HTML. HTML is a fixed file format that can be transported across any medium, including NFS/FTP/SMB. HTTP is a transport protocol that allows some amount of negotiation between file and server, and it's possible to use completely separately from HTML in some cases.
Japan isn't there yet, apparently... Here's tokyo... zooming in one more level on sattellite-view or two more levels on map-view results in blank data. ("we're sorry, but we don't have imagery at this zoom level for this region"). I think this has always been true of japan on google maps. So... has anything really changed?
Have you heard of Debian Sarge, perhaps? Whose release is so monomumental that, along with the revelation of Deep Throat, the switching of Apple to Intel, and the release of Duke Nukem forever, pretty much portends the second coming of something of terribly great importance?
If Debian isn't the epitome of an Open Source project that's overly obsessed with quality releases, at the expense of frequent releases, I don't know what is.
Yup, that's what my Fortune 100 company does. Only three egresses, and all of them have a username and password so viruses can't get out unless they keylog or ethersniff. It's actually quite a huge PITA for normal users.
I absolutely second that! On very long flights (eg. 13 hours), the difference in quality of sleep with and without earplugs is huge. I can't sleep very well at all without earplugs. I'm a very heavy sleeper, so I don't really wake up much during flights even without earplugs, but the constant background whine/hiss makes for very poor sleep.
Don't forget GPS... to measure distances with radio signals travelling at the speed of light, you need to have very accurate clocks to do the speed * time = distance calculations. Even the cheapest GPS unit is very very accurate, in that it directly syncronizes with the GPS atomic clocks.
First, who decides what goes into.xxx? Some government? The US government, instead of the French or Japanese? Do we need a *.xxx.jp and *.xxx.fr?
How are even individual governments going to decide exactly what goes into *.xxx.* and which doesn't? Does nude art belong there? Education about AIDS and condom use?
Will the US get pissed that european governments allow Yahoo to display softcore porn outside of *.xxx.* domains?
If the author of GPL-licensed product discovers that a company has not adhered to the terms and conditions of the free software licence, the individual may find it difficult to argue his case in court as the defending party could argue that the copyright appears to belong to the Free Software Foundation, according to Guibault.
"The only name that appears on the licence is the Free Software Foundation -- they appear to be the licensor," she said.
Seriously, you can't pay someone to come up with schlock this bad.
I can't be the only person who's several years out of college, has created proprietary software, but who hasn't yet taken the plunge into creating open-source software... And $4500 isn't chump change, even for working stiffs.
It's just quite contradictory that the Bush administration uses lies and subterfuge for things as important as war (putting thousands of people's lives on the line), while at the same time, wanting to have greater oversight into citizen's conduct, for things as small as making copies of intellectual property.
If you want transparency for all, then that could be argued to be fit within democractic ideals. If you want more transparency only for people under you, while wanting less transparency for you and your friends, then that's decidedly less democratic.
There are plenty of LCD's available for $200 now. Granted, that definitely won't work in the living room, and may or may not work in the bedroom, but it'll definitely work in the bathroom, kitchen, and computer room anyway.
In terms of what current hardware can and can't do, please read this. XBox, with a 733Mhz Intel Pentium-III, can decode and upscale to 1080i lots of stuff with no problem. However, it can't decode full-bandwidth (eg. 19 - 25 mbps) 720p or 1080i video. If you want to make sure you don't run into some video streams in the future that are too dense for your hardware, you simply want to get XBox2-era hardware.
Why is it necessary for every country to keep 10% production in everything, to avoid price gouging? It should be sufficient for each country to get 50% of a good from a geographically/politically distinct area of the world than they get the other 50% of it. For example, get 50% of your oil from the middle east, but 50% of it from elsewhere (eg. russia, south america), since 1) it's not always possible to get 10% of your oil from your own country, and 2) even when it IS possible to get 10% of your own oil, that's still a very tiny hedge against foreign manipulation compared to getting 50% of your oil from a different place.
No, it's going to turn into a gouge-the-customer war. In japan, NTT DoCoMo charges $6 for 400KB transfered on its 3G network. The US is barely starting to get 3G now, so they're behind the curve. In any case, prices may be getting worse over time, I don't know. It just seems like even at 96p, bandwidth is still going to be way too expensive for most people. WLAN is starting to show up on phones, so that's cheaper at least, but it eats batteries for breakfast lunch and dinner, and of course, it's hardly mobile. I don't know, I'm starting to get disillusioned by mobile data for anything other than surfing from the bathroom.
I predict the next generation of micro-computers will be more popular. The Mac Mini and XBox-1 can't decode full high-def video streams. The XBox 2, on the other hand, CAN handle decoding 1080p with ease, and will be small/quiet/cheap.
(of course each new generation is better and cheaper, but I see HDTV as a clear cutoff where you can start to say that a machine is powerful enough. I can see normal people saying "if it's cheap enough, sure, I'll put streaming video/TV in every room of my house". As opposed to the next-next-generation of computers, I can't see people saying "if it's cheap enough, sure, I'll want to do nuclear physics simulations from every room of my house")
Spam and anonymous political speech are two different things.
Yes, the internet routes around damage. And information wants to be free. BUT, information does not want to molest people.
Most geeks don't want EBay to be constantly DDOS'd, and they don't want to be constantly spammed. And by all respects, we're making progress towards these goals. And these goals are NOT in conflict with the open design of the internet. Famously, the main underpinning of the internet is that all of the intelligence is at the endpoints, not in the center. As a result, it is difficult for governments to step in the middle of the internet and impose their will from a central place. However, there ARE places where intelligent decisions are made about whether information is passed on... at the endpoints.
If either end of a communication decides that the communication shouldn't take place (eg. if it's not consensual), then the communcation can and should be stopped. A free and open internet can simultaneously encourage the free-flow of information from individuals without government intrusion, and also inhibit the proliferation of spam and spyware. We only need to give individuals the tools to make more intelligent decisions about what kinds of data they accept, but in the end, it's up to every individual to make their own choices.
Spam and spyware are more about communicating false data to further their own goals than they are about freeing up information (eg. "here is the information you requested", "go ahead and download our nice P2P software... there's nothing undesirable hiding here"). Hopefully and fortunately, our philosophical underpinnings do not require us to tolerate such behavior.
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Bottom line, you need incremental backups for data reliability. Doesn't matter how you do it, you can do it on top of RAID 5 to give you more peace of mind if you want, but it's not really necessary. Instead, at a bare minimum, you must be able to go back to several points in time to recover as recent of data as possible.
Off by several blocks? Big deal! The allegations weren't that hollywood wants to enforce region codes by city block. The allegations were that hollywood was thinking about trying to enforce something like existing region codes in a more secure manner. Eg. Figure out if you're in China vs. Japan, which requires only a minimum amount of GPS signal (still some signal for sure, but being off by several kilometers is no big deal).
Because history is speeding up rapidly. Because the US and Russia have only been superpowers since the end of World War II (61 years ago), and since then, one of the superpowers has fallen. Because in the past 150 years, Japan has gone from complete and utter isolation to having nuclear weapons dropped on them to becoming a primary supplier or advanced electronics and automobiles and is now losing marketshare to India, China, and South Korea. Shit changes fast.
One problem that I see is that languages are still evolving, and will continue to do so. Should we have left things well-enough alone at C, and not invented or rewritten algorithms in Java? Are Perl/Ruby/Python insignificant enough that nobody should have spent effort programming in them?
Languages ARE improving, and by putting a stake in the ground, you're guaranteeing that at some point the "unified standard" would move to a new, improved language.
So there will be two langauages everyone uses. And then three.
So, in a practical sense, you're suggesting we use as few hardware, VM, and language platforms as possible. So Perl should have been written, but Python and Ruby are rubbish, and nobody should spend time coding for them?
I don't know. Obviously there is overhead in maintaining multiple separate languages, VMs, hardware chipsets, glibc versions, etc. But to some extent, individual developers choose to spend more time on learning new languages, or not. It's currently up to them how much time they want to "waste" porting things, and that seems like how it should be.
Yahoo buys companies so that 1) they can at least move in the direction of an AOL-styled walled-garden area, 2) so they can overall have more page-views and thus have more advertising space, and 3) so they can "synergize" between the offerings to advertise between them and generally present a unified web presence.
Google buys companies and develops new projects because 1) they have money to invest and want to grow it generally, 2) they have more skill in innovation and technology generally, and so they can grow many different ideas without tying them all together, simply because they're better at individual projects, 3) they have experience with and an already-in-place infrastructure for cluster computing, and this allows them to start up new ideas faster than equally-innovative competitors, and 4) because Google was profoundly helpful from a technical perspective in the search arena, and this made them a household name. But new frontiers are coming, and Google is one of the few largish companies who have the chance to retain a culture to take advantage of the Next Big Thing.
Google doesn't NEED more page-views for advertising... they already have Google AdWords where other people bring their page-views to google. Google is more free to develop or turn down new ideas based on their technical merit, in the hopes that they will stay on top of the next big ideas, some ways down the road. During their IPO, Google explicitely said they're trying to take the long view. In contrast, Yahoo MUST develop new ideas NOW in order to simply keep growing.
Confusing HTTP and HTML is like confusing Samba and Microsoft Word, Kazaa and MP3, or BitTorrent and ISOs. Granted, they're slightly related, in that URL syntax is used by both, and HTML includes mechanisms for fairly directly affecting forms-POSTing and file-uploading, but other than that small overlap, they're clearly quite different.
Not to be pedantic, but the GET request belongs to HTTP, not to HTML. HTML is a fixed file format that can be transported across any medium, including NFS/FTP/SMB. HTTP is a transport protocol that allows some amount of negotiation between file and server, and it's possible to use completely separately from HTML in some cases.
Japan isn't there yet, apparently... Here's tokyo... zooming in one more level on sattellite-view or two more levels on map-view results in blank data. ("we're sorry, but we don't have imagery at this zoom level for this region"). I think this has always been true of japan on google maps. So... has anything really changed?
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A bunch of silliness...
If Debian isn't the epitome of an Open Source project that's overly obsessed with quality releases, at the expense of frequent releases, I don't know what is.
Yup, that's what my Fortune 100 company does. Only three egresses, and all of them have a username and password so viruses can't get out unless they keylog or ethersniff. It's actually quite a huge PITA for normal users.
Some time this year, AMD and Intel are releasing dual-core CPUs with hardware support for virtualization. To make sure they sell well, both AMD and Intel are contributing quite a bit of software help to get Xen and VMWare fully working on their chips. Apparently this will help will allow Xen to be able to support Windows natively.
Can you say six MILLION dollars?
I absolutely second that! On very long flights (eg. 13 hours), the difference in quality of sleep with and without earplugs is huge. I can't sleep very well at all without earplugs. I'm a very heavy sleeper, so I don't really wake up much during flights even without earplugs, but the constant background whine/hiss makes for very poor sleep.
Don't forget GPS... to measure distances with radio signals travelling at the speed of light, you need to have very accurate clocks to do the speed * time = distance calculations. Even the cheapest GPS unit is very very accurate, in that it directly syncronizes with the GPS atomic clocks.
How are even individual governments going to decide exactly what goes into *.xxx.* and which doesn't? Does nude art belong there? Education about AIDS and condom use?
Will the US get pissed that european governments allow Yahoo to display softcore porn outside of *.xxx.* domains?
If the author of GPL-licensed product discovers that a company has not adhered to the terms and conditions of the free software licence, the individual may find it difficult to argue his case in court as the defending party could argue that the copyright appears to belong to the Free Software Foundation, according to Guibault.
"The only name that appears on the licence is the Free Software Foundation -- they appear to be the licensor," she said.
Seriously, you can't pay someone to come up with schlock this bad.
I can't be the only person who's several years out of college, has created proprietary software, but who hasn't yet taken the plunge into creating open-source software... And $4500 isn't chump change, even for working stiffs.
If you want transparency for all, then that could be argued to be fit within democractic ideals. If you want more transparency only for people under you, while wanting less transparency for you and your friends, then that's decidedly less democratic.
- hit Windows+R
- type "calc"
- hit enter
If you type it 20 times a day like I do, it's only slightly slower than hitting a single key.Next-best tip: Use F5 and F6 for quick-n-easy converting to Hex and back (assuming scientific mode).
There are plenty of LCD's available for $200 now. Granted, that definitely won't work in the living room, and may or may not work in the bedroom, but it'll definitely work in the bathroom, kitchen, and computer room anyway.
In terms of what current hardware can and can't do, please read this. XBox, with a 733Mhz Intel Pentium-III, can decode and upscale to 1080i lots of stuff with no problem. However, it can't decode full-bandwidth (eg. 19 - 25 mbps) 720p or 1080i video. If you want to make sure you don't run into some video streams in the future that are too dense for your hardware, you simply want to get XBox2-era hardware.
Why is it necessary for every country to keep 10% production in everything, to avoid price gouging? It should be sufficient for each country to get 50% of a good from a geographically/politically distinct area of the world than they get the other 50% of it. For example, get 50% of your oil from the middle east, but 50% of it from elsewhere (eg. russia, south america), since 1) it's not always possible to get 10% of your oil from your own country, and 2) even when it IS possible to get 10% of your own oil, that's still a very tiny hedge against foreign manipulation compared to getting 50% of your oil from a different place.
No, it's going to turn into a gouge-the-customer war. In japan, NTT DoCoMo charges $6 for 400KB transfered on its 3G network. The US is barely starting to get 3G now, so they're behind the curve. In any case, prices may be getting worse over time, I don't know. It just seems like even at 96p, bandwidth is still going to be way too expensive for most people. WLAN is starting to show up on phones, so that's cheaper at least, but it eats batteries for breakfast lunch and dinner, and of course, it's hardly mobile. I don't know, I'm starting to get disillusioned by mobile data for anything other than surfing from the bathroom.
(of course each new generation is better and cheaper, but I see HDTV as a clear cutoff where you can start to say that a machine is powerful enough. I can see normal people saying "if it's cheap enough, sure, I'll put streaming video/TV in every room of my house". As opposed to the next-next-generation of computers, I can't see people saying "if it's cheap enough, sure, I'll want to do nuclear physics simulations from every room of my house")
Yes, the internet routes around damage. And information wants to be free. BUT, information does not want to molest people.
Most geeks don't want EBay to be constantly DDOS'd, and they don't want to be constantly spammed. And by all respects, we're making progress towards these goals. And these goals are NOT in conflict with the open design of the internet. Famously, the main underpinning of the internet is that all of the intelligence is at the endpoints, not in the center. As a result, it is difficult for governments to step in the middle of the internet and impose their will from a central place. However, there ARE places where intelligent decisions are made about whether information is passed on... at the endpoints.
If either end of a communication decides that the communication shouldn't take place (eg. if it's not consensual), then the communcation can and should be stopped. A free and open internet can simultaneously encourage the free-flow of information from individuals without government intrusion, and also inhibit the proliferation of spam and spyware. We only need to give individuals the tools to make more intelligent decisions about what kinds of data they accept, but in the end, it's up to every individual to make their own choices.
Spam and spyware are more about communicating false data to further their own goals than they are about freeing up information (eg. "here is the information you requested", "go ahead and download our nice P2P software... there's nothing undesirable hiding here"). Hopefully and fortunately, our philosophical underpinnings do not require us to tolerate such behavior.