The biggest difference I've encountered is when traditional hard drives fail, they fail on reading data back.
Flash media fails when you write the data. In theory this means that you can always recover data as you can never write data to bad sectors. In practice the entire media device (CF, SD, etc.) fails at once.
I'm quite sure 5, unless otherwise secured would be invasion by country you aren't playing nice with. Or pirates, don't forget the pirates. There is no step 6.
You laugh, but apparently the people of Kentucky are very proud of "their" chicken. I, for a brief period of time, dated a girl from Kentucky who was dumbfounded that we, in Utah, had KFCs. After all, it says Kentucky right in the name, why would they be anywhere else? Never mind the fact that the first KFC was (until we tore it down to install a new KFC/A&W) in Utah.
Well, until recently I ran the IT department for a manufacturer and I'd say bad, bad idea. The company is currently in the process of building a new facility with in a combined office/factory building. I must say, sure, the computers and computer cooling equipment might take upwards of 15% of the electricity of the new building, but cranes, welders, plasma tables, galvinization equipment, etc. that is required for us to build our product isn't just going to magically take less electricity just because we want it to. IT can take less electricity today due to increases in computing power, efficiency, etc. These have been demand driven because of the operating costs, but when you buy a welding machine you look at its functionality, not its electricity cost. Unless the cost of electricity climbs beyond $50,000 a month for a small shop such as ours you won't be seeing any demand for more efficient tools. Demand is what gave us more efficient IT equipment, and it will be the same for other equipment. When that happens the various departments such as welding, fabrication, etc. will still be designing their new work spaces, just with a mandate to purchase efficient equipment whenever possible. The IT department won't be planning many factories any time soon.
TFA says that they are able to attain speeds 3-5 times the wind speed at the ground. I know with tacking you can move against the wind, but how do you go faster than the wind? As always, the article is low on technical details, anyone know how this is possible?
Heh, the way people get rich is to be price whores, or just not buy shit that doesn't _make_ money (stocks, properties, tools) at all. If someone is paying $45 for a cable, they probably didn't become rich, the were born that way.
As this isn't an official announcement, I'm not holding my breath. Sure Mercedes have been at the forefront of vehicle technology for quite some time, but do you really see their entire truck line going non-petroleum in 7 years? Maybe the passenger cars, but not the trucks.
Just what we need, some 'bot adding it's insightful comments based on other words in the same document...then again, on most sites, would you be able to tell the difference between Google posting something and some 1337 kiddiez?!?!!1eleven?
The biggest addition to society that Clarke, and all other science fiction writers, have added is not in the works of fiction themselves, but the spark of imagination infused in those reading it. Some will take that spark and build their lives around it turning fiction to fact.
Wow, so if don't to spend a few hundred repurchasing your movies, just several hundred (possibly thousand according to TFA) on hardware and software instead.
I'm sorry, but HD-DVD users are just plain outta luck. Next time, join the rest of us and just wait.
Until a couple years ago I had one of those (purchased it from a thift shop). It worked fine for quite a while, but eventually all the buttons did the same thing; turn the game off. Turns out soda beats football.
I asked by dad, a tenured professor / associate dean at the local university, and he said it depends on the professor. Most professors, and all the good ones, are in it for the knowledge and the spreading thereof. Any papers he publishes have the grad students listed first (by order of work done on the project) and his name last. The scientific journals know that the professor's name is last (and of course, followed by the telling doctoral title) as most professors want to give the credit to those who need it most; the students.
Most tenured professor, and a good deal of tenure track professors aren't vying for personal fame, they're vying for good results. They want their students to succeed in the industry. They don't need their own CV to glow extra bright unless they're planning on starting their own company using the technology. They also don't need the limelight as much as they work with two to four teams of students each semester on various grants. Some grants, of course, take significantly longer than a semester but each year the professor's CV grows by pages while the students' are just getting into page two.
Say what you like, but most professors really aren't out to jilk the student, they're out to help the students.
I counter that the Wii is the only real next-gen system. A generation should be counted as only systems that add something new to the board. Counting the Ps2/Gamecube as generation one (really generation 8 or whatever). The Xbox 360 and the Ps3 would be the 2nd generation as they added the significant gameplay enhancements of online play and downloadable content. The original Xbox is the abberation of gen 1.5 with minor online play as standard, but no real downloadable content push from Microsoft. Nintendo on the other hand jumped generation two to generation three with the Wii by adding both new features of the second generation and the gameplay enhancements of its user-interface.
Getting pedantic about next-gen versus current-gen is ridiculous, but I will stand firm in my belief that neither term applies to the 360 or the Ps3.
I imagine that full-disk encryption for datacenters is a while off as any drop in I/O and throughput will be a non-starter for the already tasked drives. IMHO full-disk encryption isn't necessary as long as the datacenter is physically secured, just that all off site backups be encrypted. Anytime data leaves the datacenter it should be encrypted, but encrypting local storage only matters if you fear someone breaking in physically (encrypted disks won't help when broken in through a network as the computer will decrypt the data for the intruder) or you are selling the disks on eBay afterwards.
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As a resident of Utah I can't help but notice that national news always seems to revolve around polygamists and bass-ackwards politics. Woo Utah!
...and with Primer it didn't even matter what order I watched the pieces on youtube!
spot on. no one wants to commit to using software that will disappear if you get hit by a bus.
...or if you murder your wife.
Flash media fails when you write the data. In theory this means that you can always recover data as you can never write data to bad sectors. In practice the entire media device (CF, SD, etc.) fails at once.
I'm quite sure 5, unless otherwise secured would be invasion by country you aren't playing nice with. Or pirates, don't forget the pirates. There is no step 6.
Best. Movie. Ever.
...well, 15 if you count a letter twice or spell it wrong.
Ah, but you've missed the plural tesseradecades.
You laugh, but apparently the people of Kentucky are very proud of "their" chicken. I, for a brief period of time, dated a girl from Kentucky who was dumbfounded that we, in Utah, had KFCs. After all, it says Kentucky right in the name, why would they be anywhere else? Never mind the fact that the first KFC was (until we tore it down to install a new KFC/A&W) in Utah.
Well, until recently I ran the IT department for a manufacturer and I'd say bad, bad idea. The company is currently in the process of building a new facility with in a combined office/factory building. I must say, sure, the computers and computer cooling equipment might take upwards of 15% of the electricity of the new building, but cranes, welders, plasma tables, galvinization equipment, etc. that is required for us to build our product isn't just going to magically take less electricity just because we want it to. IT can take less electricity today due to increases in computing power, efficiency, etc. These have been demand driven because of the operating costs, but when you buy a welding machine you look at its functionality, not its electricity cost. Unless the cost of electricity climbs beyond $50,000 a month for a small shop such as ours you won't be seeing any demand for more efficient tools. Demand is what gave us more efficient IT equipment, and it will be the same for other equipment. When that happens the various departments such as welding, fabrication, etc. will still be designing their new work spaces, just with a mandate to purchase efficient equipment whenever possible. The IT department won't be planning many factories any time soon.
TFA says that they are able to attain speeds 3-5 times the wind speed at the ground. I know with tacking you can move against the wind, but how do you go faster than the wind? As always, the article is low on technical details, anyone know how this is possible?
There are two books I would like to recommend to you: Basic English Grammar and Basic Economics.
As this isn't an official announcement, I'm not holding my breath. Sure Mercedes have been at the forefront of vehicle technology for quite some time, but do you really see their entire truck line going non-petroleum in 7 years? Maybe the passenger cars, but not the trucks.
...and porn. You can't forget the porn.
Just what we need, some 'bot adding it's insightful comments based on other words in the same document...then again, on most sites, would you be able to tell the difference between Google posting something and some 1337 kiddiez?!?!!1eleven?
On the plus side, this should enable Google to get by the "Must be 18 to view" buttons
Spoon!
The world will miss him.
From TFA: "That's the way they catch the bad guys," Jonas said. "They're generally idiots."
I'm sorry, but HD-DVD users are just plain outta luck. Next time, join the rest of us and just wait.
Until a couple years ago I had one of those (purchased it from a thift shop). It worked fine for quite a while, but eventually all the buttons did the same thing; turn the game off. Turns out soda beats football.
Most tenured professor, and a good deal of tenure track professors aren't vying for personal fame, they're vying for good results. They want their students to succeed in the industry. They don't need their own CV to glow extra bright unless they're planning on starting their own company using the technology. They also don't need the limelight as much as they work with two to four teams of students each semester on various grants. Some grants, of course, take significantly longer than a semester but each year the professor's CV grows by pages while the students' are just getting into page two.
Say what you like, but most professors really aren't out to jilk the student, they're out to help the students.
Getting pedantic about next-gen versus current-gen is ridiculous, but I will stand firm in my belief that neither term applies to the 360 or the Ps3.
I imagine that full-disk encryption for datacenters is a while off as any drop in I/O and throughput will be a non-starter for the already tasked drives. IMHO full-disk encryption isn't necessary as long as the datacenter is physically secured, just that all off site backups be encrypted. Anytime data leaves the datacenter it should be encrypted, but encrypting local storage only matters if you fear someone breaking in physically (encrypted disks won't help when broken in through a network as the computer will decrypt the data for the intruder) or you are selling the disks on eBay afterwards.
Unfortunately their second product, the disc burning drive, won't be available for several years.