You obviously never drove big American cars made before about 1980. The '68 Chevy Impala I learned in actually did take significant steering adjustments just to keep it going in a straight line.
Gmail has caused a lot of raised eyebrows today. If it's fake, it fooled me good. I gave them my e-mail address hoping it was true. 'Copernicus' is so obviously fake it makes Gmail look even more realistic, assuming it, too, is an AF joke.
Excellent comparison ('We Were Soldiers' vs. 'Passion'). Show 'Soldiers' to a person who had family or friends die in war, or who are currently in harm's way, and I bet you'd get a pretty strong reaction to the violence.
The violence review for 'Passion' was obviously made in the context of who was depicted on screen (Christ) and the target audience (i.e. not typical Kill Bill fans).
Though Golias is not alone in having watched both Kill Bill and Passion (I'll be in that club soon enough), I suspect that's not a large demographic.
Straight from the U.S. Army leadership handbook, FM 22-100:
Keep Your Soldiers Informed
Knowing 'why' you're taking this hill instead of that hill will put a stop a lot of dumb questions and increase trust in both directions. Sometimes there's no time to inform everybody. But if you've generally done a good job of rumor-control your employees will give you the benefit of the doubt when you can't.
Of interest in the UCMJ is article 15, or non-judicial punishment. For minor disciplinary infractions, the soldier agrees to give up his right to a court-martial (and legal representation) and place his punishment solely in the hands of his commander.
The advantage to an article 15 is quick resolution of minor issues, a guarantee of a low maximum punishment (loss of rank, one month's pay, short confinement), and no 'conviction' being placed in the soldier's record. The disadvantage is the loss of legal rights most civilians hold dear. But the soldier can refuse the article 15 and demand a court-martial if he's willing to risk greater punishment if found guilty.
I think you're trying to make it too complex. Circumstance (economic depression, natural disasters, etc.) certainly affects opportunity. But the poverty of third world nations doesn't disprove the concept of merit-based success.
All else being equal (which is the environment portrayed in most Sci-Fi novels) people do go as far as their desires and talents will take them. Janitors are cheap because nearly everyone can be a competent janitor. Network architects are not cheap because their skills are rare. Supply and demand. Simple.
Your example of the miners shows that one must take risks to get greater rewards. But failure rarely results in lifelong poverty. For someone willing to take the risks, failure is just a temporary stop on the journey upward.
Good points about the trend towards trilogies/epics.
The last bad one I read: Wheel of Time Series (OMG-will it EVER end?)
That's a perfect example. The Lord of the Rings, six books contained in three novels, is less than 1000 pages altogether. The latest WOT novel (the tenth, I think) is 1000 pages by itself... 1000 grinding, monotonous pages. And it sounds like we have to suffer through at least two more.
Modern authors need to re-read their Strunk & White.
Of course the fact that mine has 'US Secret Service' on the front probably helps.
Off-topic: I thought all you needed to identify yourself as SS was a coiled wire coming from your ear piece. I suppose after the Matrix that's not enough anymore.
Does anyone else find it ironic that the Secret Service has logos, patches, and ball caps displaying their name?
Shatner has made a living in recent years by spoofing his own overdramatic acting style.
Did you see him on Conan a couple years ago, dancing and worshipping O'Brien? He was making such a fool of himself Conan couldn't get a single slam in.
They really need a column for fan noise. My Gainward FX5600 Ultra Flip Chip has the noisiest fan by far of the eight in my case. And it's a high-pitched whiny noise, the worst kind, because it reminds me of my wife after I've been playing on the PC too much.
But RPG pioneers, I still have a hard time declaring them as such.
If you'd played Baldur's Gate I the year it came out, when the RPG had been declared a dead genre by all the major game critics, you wouldn't be saying that.
Yeah, everyone complains about the included campaign when bitching about NWN. This, of course, entirely misses the point of NWN, which is the depth of the toolset, and the ability to have a live DM, which brings CRPGs closer to tabletop D&D than ever before. And no other game supports mods to this extent.
But Bioware has acknowledged the weakness of its included campaign with the release of HotU, an awesome single-player campaign that also includes a ton of add-on content for the mod community. This will be the model for Bioware games in the future. I'm sure you'll find something else to bitch about then, though.
RAID 1 does nothing for filesystem corruption. For this you need backups. Either way, you get downtime. RAID1 is an illusion of safety that isn't really there.
It protects you from disk hardware failure. Nothing more, nothing less. As data is your most important IT asset, and the most time consuming to recover, redundant disks are an important part of a healthy CBO strategy which, of course, includes off-site backups.
why use raid-1 when the MTBF of the other components is much lower?
Because it's much easier and quicker to recover from a PSU or fan failure.
I just replaced a PSU in a PC in the office this week. Downtime - less than two hours from failure to fully functional, including the travel and shopping time for a replacement unit.
If this had been a server hard disk, with no redundancy... we're talking several hours and no sleep until it's done.
If you can't afford a hot spare for your server, RAID is your best first choice for redundancy.
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You obviously never drove big American cars made before about 1980. The '68 Chevy Impala I learned in actually did take significant steering adjustments just to keep it going in a straight line.
We have lost more than that, last I heard, we just broke 700 coalition troops...
Over 800 coalition troops, actually. 705 U.S. deaths alone.
Actually, it's over 700 now:s /casua lties/
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/force
Mine says:
>>> Last update of whois database: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 07:02:53 EST
I wonder if Google used that domain for internal e-mail prior to the public venture.
Looks like gmail really is real.
Forbes says Gmail real, Copernicus joke
Gmail has caused a lot of raised eyebrows today. If it's fake, it fooled me good. I gave them my e-mail address hoping it was true. 'Copernicus' is so obviously fake it makes Gmail look even more realistic, assuming it, too, is an AF joke.
Excellent comparison ('We Were Soldiers' vs. 'Passion'). Show 'Soldiers' to a person who had family or friends die in war, or who are currently in harm's way, and I bet you'd get a pretty strong reaction to the violence.
The violence review for 'Passion' was obviously made in the context of who was depicted on screen (Christ) and the target audience (i.e. not typical Kill Bill fans).
Though Golias is not alone in having watched both Kill Bill and Passion (I'll be in that club soon enough), I suspect that's not a large demographic.
Is there anybody who used NT 4.0 or earlier and didn't have to reformat the hard drive at least once after a service pack install?
A lot of large companies still use, and swear by, NT 4.0. IT shops who know what they're doing have good luck with it.
And of course after you finished reinstalling the OS, you then had to start over with SP1 again and work your way back up...
You do know that Windows Service Packs are cumulative, right?
Not true. CAT 5e cable is rated at 1Gbps (1000Mbps). The newer CAT6 cable is rated at 10Gbps.
And as others on this thread have stated, in the real world you rarely reach 54Mbps with wireless, and things like your cordless phone can interfere.
With wiring you usually do get close to the max rating and, if your wiring was done correctly there is little interference.
I like your military reference. To add:
Straight from the U.S. Army leadership handbook, FM 22-100:
Keep Your Soldiers Informed
Knowing 'why' you're taking this hill instead of that hill will put a stop a lot of dumb questions and increase trust in both directions. Sometimes there's no time to inform everybody. But if you've generally done a good job of rumor-control your employees will give you the benefit of the doubt when you can't.
Of interest in the UCMJ is article 15, or non-judicial punishment. For minor disciplinary infractions, the soldier agrees to give up his right to a court-martial (and legal representation) and place his punishment solely in the hands of his commander.
The advantage to an article 15 is quick resolution of minor issues, a guarantee of a low maximum punishment (loss of rank, one month's pay, short confinement), and no 'conviction' being placed in the soldier's record. The disadvantage is the loss of legal rights most civilians hold dear. But the soldier can refuse the article 15 and demand a court-martial if he's willing to risk greater punishment if found guilty.
Check out the UCMJ here.
You're right. I don't. Unfortunately I probably will, because I enjoyed the first five or six and want to see how it ends.
I still watch Enterprise, too, hoping against hope that there might be a diamond in the rough.
I should read my own sig more often, I guess.
I think you're trying to make it too complex. Circumstance (economic depression, natural disasters, etc.) certainly affects opportunity. But the poverty of third world nations doesn't disprove the concept of merit-based success.
All else being equal (which is the environment portrayed in most Sci-Fi novels) people do go as far as their desires and talents will take them. Janitors are cheap because nearly everyone can be a competent janitor. Network architects are not cheap because their skills are rare. Supply and demand. Simple.
Your example of the miners shows that one must take risks to get greater rewards. But failure rarely results in lifelong poverty. For someone willing to take the risks, failure is just a temporary stop on the journey upward.
Good points about the trend towards trilogies/epics.
The last bad one I read: Wheel of Time Series (OMG-will it EVER end?)
That's a perfect example. The Lord of the Rings, six books contained in three novels, is less than 1000 pages altogether. The latest WOT novel (the tenth, I think) is 1000 pages by itself... 1000 grinding, monotonous pages. And it sounds like we have to suffer through at least two more.
Modern authors need to re-read their Strunk & White.
Of course the fact that mine has 'US Secret Service' on the front probably helps.
Off-topic:
I thought all you needed to identify yourself as SS was a coiled wire coming from your ear piece. I suppose after the Matrix that's not enough anymore.
Does anyone else find it ironic that the Secret Service has logos, patches, and ball caps displaying their name?
From the article:
Shatner has made a living in recent years by spoofing his own overdramatic acting style.
Did you see him on Conan a couple years ago, dancing and worshipping O'Brien? He was making such a fool of himself Conan couldn't get a single slam in.
He's ridiculous... like a fox.
They really need a column for fan noise. My Gainward FX5600 Ultra Flip Chip has the noisiest fan by far of the eight in my case. And it's a high-pitched whiny noise, the worst kind, because it reminds me of my wife after I've been playing on the PC too much.
You may have forgotten that title was not XBox exclusive.
It was for most of 2003. It only got ported to PC last month. And XBox is still the only console you can play it on. So, what is your point?
The only thing is misses? RPGs.
You may have forgotten a little title by Bioware called Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. It won game of the year at Gamespy.
But RPG pioneers, I still have a hard time declaring them as such.
If you'd played Baldur's Gate I the year it came out, when the RPG had been declared a dead genre by all the major game critics, you wouldn't be saying that.
Yeah, everyone complains about the included campaign when bitching about NWN. This, of course, entirely misses the point of NWN, which is the depth of the toolset, and the ability to have a live DM, which brings CRPGs closer to tabletop D&D than ever before. And no other game supports mods to this extent.
But Bioware has acknowledged the weakness of its included campaign with the release of HotU, an awesome single-player campaign that also includes a ton of add-on content for the mod community. This will be the model for Bioware games in the future. I'm sure you'll find something else to bitch about then, though.
Heh. I guess I used "at least" because 5 is bigger than 1. Not necessarily better, from a redundancy standpoint.
My favorite disk implementation is at least five disks.
Two disks - RAID 1 - OS Volume (C:)
Three disks - RAID 5 - Data Volume (D:)
This way you can reformat and reinstall the OS without touching your data (This assumes hardware RAID).
RAID 1 does nothing for filesystem corruption. For this you need backups. Either way, you get downtime. RAID1 is an illusion of safety that isn't really there.
It protects you from disk hardware failure. Nothing more, nothing less. As data is your most important IT asset, and the most time consuming to recover, redundant disks are an important part of a healthy CBO strategy which, of course, includes off-site backups.
why use raid-1 when the MTBF of the other components is much lower?
Because it's much easier and quicker to recover from a PSU or fan failure.
I just replaced a PSU in a PC in the office this week. Downtime - less than two hours from failure to fully functional, including the travel and shopping time for a replacement unit.
If this had been a server hard disk, with no redundancy... we're talking several hours and no sleep until it's done.
If you can't afford a hot spare for your server, RAID is your best first choice for redundancy.