I rely on the hostfile as my first barrier of entry, but I'm not sure 17000 entries is not 'uses no resources'. And a lot of crapware rely in direct IP addresses on which the hostfile has no effect.
Online you can get rid of editors: make a rule that before you can submit one story you must rate and comment at least a few stories which are sent back to the author, possibly anonymously, with a meta-rating... oh wait...
You, sir, are absolutely right. When S3 came out, I thought "that's what I need". But then I only wanted to backup about 1Tb of images: bandwidth, one way and one time, about 1Tb. Then a few extra Gb every month. I did the same price evaluation as you and decided to purchase a couple 1Tb drive instead !
I'm sure google or S3 already have access to 4Gb prototypes from Maxtor & Co at much better prices than I'll ever do (I'm sure they even get paid to test them), so why is S3 so expensive ? It can't be electricity: have a script determine the least used files and put them in dormant drives, then put them to sleep. Done. In 10s the data can be available again, which is absolutely A-OK by me.
I have no reason to suspect Google would not do precisely that, if ordered to by the courts
I have no doubt that they pay their hard drives significantly less than I do, but _my_ images stay on _my_ disk with _my_ encryption key. This way, the day the RIAA/MPAA/porn police comes at my door, it's _my_ choice to reveal or not what's on my disk. I just wish there was an emergency wipe password in TrueCrypt that would just create an empty filesystem with a lone 'fuck you' file.
I don't want to leave this choice in the hands of a company, whoever they are.
some digital photos I don't wnat to lose isn't like some secret, private data I'm terrified they will analyze.
I do. I lost my home backup drive on my way to work one day (I store it there). It fell off my improperly closed backpack (?). It was promptly replaced, but 1Tb of (sometimes very) personal pics could come back and haunt me and my SO as I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to figure out who the owner is... In a similar way with gFS, the day they run the script FindUnderagePics.sh, what's your recourse if she's really more than 18 (I swear !) ?
Well, a poor display can turn into a good one if you have a color calibration probe such as the Datacolor Spyder. It's well worth the investment if you do any kind of photography as it makes a huge difference.
Unfortunately those work only on Windows and Mac. Apparently people managed to jump through lots of loops to get them to work with Linux, but anyone knows if there are color calibrators that work with Linux off the box ? I haven't seen any driver for them in the kernel.
Haldeman's Forever War is one of my favorite too. For those interested, it's been already adapted into a truly excellent comic book by belgian artist Marvano, and there's an english version of it.
Correct. There are two types of cord blood / placenta banks: those where you store it for yourself in case you need it (expensive, 1% chance it'll be used). And those where it's stored anonymously for compatible needing people (free, 100% chance it'll be used). Guess which system is used in the US ? And which one is used in Europe ? I thought so.
Don't ever try to discuss Labview licenses with National Instruments
Yeah, I'm pissed off too. We had a site license where they sent us a set of CDs and we could install them wherever we wanted, no strings attached, just type in the license number.
But then the powers-that-be thought they could save money by getting a floating license. So now all the acquisition and development systems need a flexlm or similar piece of shit DRM that connects to a license server 200km away that connects to who-the-fuck-knows in Austin, Tx.
I got a laptop with XP home on it. At the time I had no idea what the restrictions were (and no way to get a better version actually). Now not having a [Sharing/Security] tab on folders is actually crippling. I pay money for that shit ?
Having multiple versions with artificial limitations is the single things that is currently pushing me most towards Linux everywhere (I already develop for it and use it at work, but the next home upgrade will be it).
The only time I've ranted more at a commercial company bizarre marketing technique was when we ordered extra memory for our (very expensive) HP oscilloscopes. We immediately received a 'memory upgrade license number'. I didn't understand why there was no hardware chip, so I called them up: "Oh, the memory is already inside the oscilloscope, you just need to change your license number in order to activate it!". I was so taken aback I had no breath left to hurl insults at them. If it had been my personal hardware I would have sent the whole thing back for a refund.
I had to write a bootloader for an embedded PPC board recently (and the associate Linux kernel). I was really surprised at how easy it was. Basically 3 lines of C: main(), an almost fake function using a static pointer and a return !
I've had to optimize generated code (for space and speed) a long time ago
I did too. But how can you write assembler for a 31 stage pipeline by hand ? Or out of order instructions ? I'm pretty sure that's completely impossible, unless you insert 30 NOPs between each instructions, and by that time it's far from being optimized anymore !
Well, according to ice core samples, in several instances there have been massive global climate changes in less than a generation. One such known instance is a -14ÂC drop in less than 10 years !!! You can imagine positive loopback thresholds such as the permafrost melting and releasing all its methane, or the deep sea hydrates, thus leading to a brutal warming.
In the good old days there were photographers who were ready to pay 3 times as much for a few dB less noise, they usually purchased Leicas, for instance for classic concert photography, or weddings, or animals, or anything that required silence. Now that we finally have silent cameras those political hacks want to... ban them ?!?
I guess once we finally have affordable and perfectly silent electric cars, instead of breathing a sight of relief and listen to birds when you walk down the streets, those same asswipes will force them to be just as noisy...
All for your (and your children's) security, of course.
I know that, but it just doesn't work this way (you open a new tab, I just wanted to reuse one). It's the same deal when copy-pasting code: you see some code you want to use after looking for it, you highlight it, you go to where you want to put it, you highlight the code you want to replace... Ooops. Argh !
See a link, highlight it. It's now in the buffer. Got to Firefox, highlight whatever is in the address bar with the intent of pasting your links. Ooops, it's now in the buffer. Go back to square one. This copy/paste behavior drives me insane.
Strange, I find the exact opposite. I've been fighting with fonts forever on Linux: they are what I call 'horribly out of focus' (but developers call them 'aliased'), and their sizes make no sense (I've been trying to get the same look on both OSes for months for two user interfaces I develop).
ctrl-backspace
On some other progs it's also used to 'redo' after an 'undo'.
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I rely on the hostfile as my first barrier of entry, but I'm not sure 17000 entries is not 'uses no resources'. And a lot of crapware rely in direct IP addresses on which the hostfile has no effect.
Use google sets to general classes of names: example
Online you can get rid of editors: make a rule that before you can submit one story you must rate and comment at least a few stories which are sent back to the author, possibly anonymously, with a meta-rating... oh wait...
I'm sure google or S3 already have access to 4Gb prototypes from Maxtor & Co at much better prices than I'll ever do (I'm sure they even get paid to test them), so why is S3 so expensive ? It can't be electricity: have a script determine the least used files and put them in dormant drives, then put them to sleep. Done. In 10s the data can be available again, which is absolutely A-OK by me.
I have no reason to suspect Google would not do precisely that, if ordered to by the courts
I have no doubt that they pay their hard drives significantly less than I do, but _my_ images stay on _my_ disk with _my_ encryption key. This way, the day the RIAA/MPAA/porn police comes at my door, it's _my_ choice to reveal or not what's on my disk. I just wish there was an emergency wipe password in TrueCrypt that would just create an empty filesystem with a lone 'fuck you' file.
I don't want to leave this choice in the hands of a company, whoever they are.
some digital photos I don't wnat to lose isn't like some secret, private data I'm terrified they will analyze.
I do. I lost my home backup drive on my way to work one day (I store it there). It fell off my improperly closed backpack (?). It was promptly replaced, but 1Tb of (sometimes very) personal pics could come back and haunt me and my SO as I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to figure out who the owner is... In a similar way with gFS, the day they run the script FindUnderagePics.sh, what's your recourse if she's really more than 18 (I swear !) ?
It's the first time I actually read an explanation of this commercial practice that makes a bit of sense.
Thanks man, I'll try it out. I did search for this info at the time without success. Otherwise I relied on the CACL command from a DOS prompt.
Unfortunately those work only on Windows and Mac. Apparently people managed to jump through lots of loops to get them to work with Linux, but anyone knows if there are color calibrators that work with Linux off the box ? I haven't seen any driver for them in the kernel.
Haldeman's Forever War is one of my favorite too. For those interested, it's been already adapted into a truly excellent comic book by belgian artist Marvano, and there's an english version of it.
In the next few years we'll have effective cold sleep abilities (initiated by hydrogen sulfide exposure)
Oh, that's why farting at work breaks my concentration and makes me drowsy...
Correct. There are two types of cord blood / placenta banks: those where you store it for yourself in case you need it (expensive, 1% chance it'll be used). And those where it's stored anonymously for compatible needing people (free, 100% chance it'll be used). Guess which system is used in the US ? And which one is used in Europe ? I thought so.
Don't ever try to discuss Labview licenses with National Instruments
Yeah, I'm pissed off too. We had a site license where they sent us a set of CDs and we could install them wherever we wanted, no strings attached, just type in the license number.
But then the powers-that-be thought they could save money by getting a floating license. So now all the acquisition and development systems need a flexlm or similar piece of shit DRM that connects to a license server 200km away that connects to who-the-fuck-knows in Austin, Tx.
Guess what, I design acquisition systems that go in Antarctica or experimental nuclear reactors. Hint: they are OFF the net, you asswipes.
Having multiple versions with artificial limitations is the single things that is currently pushing me most towards Linux everywhere (I already develop for it and use it at work, but the next home upgrade will be it).
The only time I've ranted more at a commercial company bizarre marketing technique was when we ordered extra memory for our (very expensive) HP oscilloscopes. We immediately received a 'memory upgrade license number'. I didn't understand why there was no hardware chip, so I called them up: "Oh, the memory is already inside the oscilloscope, you just need to change your license number in order to activate it!". I was so taken aback I had no breath left to hurl insults at them. If it had been my personal hardware I would have sent the whole thing back for a refund.
I had to write a bootloader for an embedded PPC board recently (and the associate Linux kernel). I was really surprised at how easy it was. Basically 3 lines of C: main(), an almost fake function using a static pointer and a return !
I've had to optimize generated code (for space and speed) a long time ago
I did too. But how can you write assembler for a 31 stage pipeline by hand ? Or out of order instructions ? I'm pretty sure that's completely impossible, unless you insert 30 NOPs between each instructions, and by that time it's far from being optimized anymore !
Your Vostok curves are a bit outdated. Get the more precise and complete ones from Epica (2005 Dome C ice core).
How long will it take?
Well, according to ice core samples, in several instances there have been massive global climate changes in less than a generation. One such known instance is a -14ÂC drop in less than 10 years !!! You can imagine positive loopback thresholds such as the permafrost melting and releasing all its methane, or the deep sea hydrates, thus leading to a brutal warming.
I guess once we finally have affordable and perfectly silent electric cars, instead of breathing a sight of relief and listen to birds when you walk down the streets, those same asswipes will force them to be just as noisy...
All for your (and your children's) security, of course.
I know that, but it just doesn't work this way (you open a new tab, I just wanted to reuse one). It's the same deal when copy-pasting code: you see some code you want to use after looking for it, you highlight it, you go to where you want to put it, you highlight the code you want to replace... Ooops. Argh !
See a link, highlight it. It's now in the buffer. Got to Firefox, highlight whatever is in the address bar with the intent of pasting your links. Ooops, it's now in the buffer. Go back to square one. This copy/paste behavior drives me insane.
Font rendering is poor [in Windows]
Strange, I find the exact opposite. I've been fighting with fonts forever on Linux: they are what I call 'horribly out of focus' (but developers call them 'aliased'), and their sizes make no sense (I've been trying to get the same look on both OSes for months for two user interfaces I develop).
ctrl-backspace
On some other progs it's also used to 'redo' after an 'undo'.
How about making it into law that all calls must have valid caller ID, with the phone company making sure to drop callers that don't.
Computer geeks drink the dirty water called tea ?!? That's a first to me.
Yeah, and the linux kernel mailing list would be bankrupt in 15 minutes. Nice try.