Half of keeping copies of important documents is being able to retrieve them later on when you need them.
You seem to understand that, which is why you are trying to convince your relative to move his data to a more reliable storage medium.
The other half is in _not_ being able to retrieve them when it is inconvenient to do so. This is why there are floods, fires, mice, lost envelopes, poorly made photocopies and , in this case, corrupt old floppy disks. And as long as you have a storage system which is just barely good enough then you can lose anything you need to and nobody will even blink.
It's all about identifying the client's needs. Give them what they really need, not just what they ask for.
If he had been smart he would have done what many other reviewers do -- Written a bland review with just enough facts to convince people that he really did see the film, and then sat on it until 96 minutes after the start of opening night.
Then he still could be among the first to review it without having to leave his living room. It's the same technique that people use to get first posts on stories.
And a country's Exclusive Economic Zone ends 200 nautical miles from shore (with some exceptions).
Like when the USA either wants to drill for oil or sail the Navy around in another country's waters. Then the 200 mile limit suddenly becomes more of a guideline.
The difference between 'server class' hardware and you beige box PC is that the more expensive 'server' is a lot more reliable and has extra remote access and hardware monitoring features. That's about it.
If all you want is to run virtual machines in a test environment, just get a desktop with a hefty CPU and a whole whack of RAM and you're set. A good 'gaming' machine without the video card would be fine. You don't need to spend extra for a 'server'.
The problem discussed was wear leveling, and the whole point was to avoid disk writes.
% man 2 sync % man 8 update
You can stop reading when you start to realize the connection between file system caching and avoiding disk writes. It's kindof the whole point, you see.
I think part of the issue here is that when a story teller says they are going to tell a story there is an implied obligation to tell the end of the story.
And I think that the bigger part of the issue is that this so called 'obligation' is a load of crap. If you sign a contract with a publisher to write a certain number of books then you should fulfill that contract, but the act of reading a book does not somehow place the author in your debt.
Authors have lives, as do any content producers, but I think that they may need to look at maybe limiting their scope a little more so their projects can be finished in their lifetimes.
Authors may also want to decide whether they are actual people who deserve to have a life of their own, or simply story vending machines which exist to provide people with a lfew hours entertainment and then fade away.
Another one is GRRM's Song of Ice and Fire, he's not a young man keeps pushing dates back
And he has this to say on the subject. Given the choice between hearing about how GRRM has been watching football all day, or reading a hacked up finale to an otherwise great series of books which he just felt he needed to put together even though he was miserable doing it, I'll be one of the first to order him some beers and pizza and hand him the remote.
It happens all the time. A Tale in the Desert has already closed up the world and turned off the lights three times and is on its fourth "telling". Each time the game has been started with a fixed goal which the players have worked to and completed.
Simpler MMO strategy games like Travian have similar life cycles and have closed up hundreds of worlds only to restart them clean a few days later.
$ vim
The program 'vim' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install vim
-bash: vim: command not found
$
Short of holding the user's other hand, bringing a cup of coffee and providing a back-rub while installing the updated package, I don't see how much easier that could get.
'Surely, MS will use some scripting, HTTP User-Agent sniffing, or even Genuine Windows validation to verify that I am running Vista,' I thought. It did not and I canceled the download when I received the prompt to save the file. So, I wonder: is there a Fix-it for Fix it? Because I can easily imagine someone doing what I did
Yeah. It would be terrible if someone could do what you did: Download a patch and then throw it away. If you wanted to be scared, why not actually run it and see what happens? That's the right time for it to check your operating system.
Here's something to think about. What if the file you were trying to download was the one you needed to fix your network connection? Wouldn't you want to do exactly what you said you did, and download it on another computer first? Or do I need to make a car analogy about how your BMW keys don't prevent you from sitting in the back of a Ford Crown Victoria?
Fermi's Paradox is usually represented by the Drake Equation: One made up number multiplied by another made up number multipled by a third made up number multiplied by one more made up number, and so on up to seven made up numbers, winds up being equal to one last made up number.
It's a nice basis for conversation, but mathematically it's still one equation with eight unknowns and that can't prove much of anything. What's to resolve?
We've already tried it - ethyl, methane, sulfinate as an alkalating agent and potent script treatment; it created a plothole so lethal the script was dead before it even left the table.
And yet Michael Bay is still on board to direct it.
You know, some of us are old enough to remember what cameras were like before they had cell phones stuck to them. Or even before cell phones.
For those of you who aren't, here's a quick summary: They stored images on something called "film", and rapidly opened and closed a "shutter" to expose it.
And that made a 'click' sound. Every single time it took a picture.
All that the bill (Look, you can even read it!) requires is that a phone equipped with a camera "shall sound a tone or other sound audible within a reasonable radius of the phone whenever a photograph is taken". And that's exactly the same as what non-digital cameras did for most of the last century.
So, yeah, I think that the world may be prepared to deal with the consequences of cameras that go 'click'.
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It was starting to look like the USA may have to send their army up to Waterloo to secure their strategic Blackberry reserves.
Ahh, the bacon laser sword. The chosen weapon of the Cheddar Monks.
An elegant weapon, from a more civilized age.
Half of keeping copies of important documents is being able to retrieve them later on when you need them.
You seem to understand that, which is why you are trying to convince your relative to move his data to a more reliable storage medium.
The other half is in _not_ being able to retrieve them when it is inconvenient to do so. This is why there are floods, fires, mice, lost envelopes, poorly made photocopies and , in this case, corrupt old floppy disks. And as long as you have a storage system which is just barely good enough then you can lose anything you need to and nobody will even blink.
It's all about identifying the client's needs. Give them what they really need, not just what they ask for.
If he had been smart he would have done what many other reviewers do -- Written a bland review with just enough facts to convince people that he really did see the film, and then sat on it until 96 minutes after the start of opening night.
Then he still could be among the first to review it without having to leave his living room. It's the same technique that people use to get first posts on stories.
And many other games claim to be the second person shooter, "On a Grassy Knoll". I think they're just nuts.
...when April Fools' jokes weren't real?
I blame Bush for this all. Somehow.
It's just easier that way.
Like when the USA either wants to drill for oil or sail the Navy around in another country's waters. Then the 200 mile limit suddenly becomes more of a guideline.
Just wrap it in a steak. A nice, thick, dripping read manly steak.
If you have trouble keeping the steak from falling off, tie it with bacon.
You just can't get more manly than that without a monster truck.
Of course there is. It's a strange game, and the only way to win is not to play.
For a moment I thought that credit was being given to Howard Tayler, not Taylor Heyward.
He'll just have to settle for being known as the inventor of the Ominous Hum.
Quick! Somebody build a GUI interface using Visual Basic!
The difference between 'server class' hardware and you beige box PC is that the more expensive 'server' is a lot more reliable and has extra remote access and hardware monitoring features. That's about it. If all you want is to run virtual machines in a test environment, just get a desktop with a hefty CPU and a whole whack of RAM and you're set. A good 'gaming' machine without the video card would be fine. You don't need to spend extra for a 'server'.
You can play Doom on pretty much any mp3 player?
That must be one of those hidden features I never quite found.
% man 2 sync
% man 8 update
You can stop reading when you start to realize the connection between file system caching and avoiding disk writes. It's kindof the whole point, you see.
And I think that the bigger part of the issue is that this so called 'obligation' is a load of crap. If you sign a contract with a publisher to write a certain number of books then you should fulfill that contract, but the act of reading a book does not somehow place the author in your debt.
Authors may also want to decide whether they are actual people who deserve to have a life of their own, or simply story vending machines which exist to provide people with a lfew hours entertainment and then fade away.
And he has this to say on the subject. Given the choice between hearing about how GRRM has been watching football all day, or reading a hacked up finale to an otherwise great series of books which he just felt he needed to put together even though he was miserable doing it, I'll be one of the first to order him some beers and pizza and hand him the remote.
It happens all the time. A Tale in the Desert has already closed up the world and turned off the lights three times and is on its fourth "telling". Each time the game has been started with a fixed goal which the players have worked to and completed.
Simpler MMO strategy games like Travian have similar life cycles and have closed up hundreds of worlds only to restart them clean a few days later.
And the flood of posts to Slashdot proves this every day.
More like this, actually:
$ vim
The program 'vim' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install vim
-bash: vim: command not found
$
Short of holding the user's other hand, bringing a cup of coffee and providing a back-rub while installing the updated package, I don't see how much easier that could get.
Yeah. It would be terrible if someone could do what you did: Download a patch and then throw it away. If you wanted to be scared, why not actually run it and see what happens? That's the right time for it to check your operating system.
Here's something to think about. What if the file you were trying to download was the one you needed to fix your network connection? Wouldn't you want to do exactly what you said you did, and download it on another computer first? Or do I need to make a car analogy about how your BMW keys don't prevent you from sitting in the back of a Ford Crown Victoria?
Fermi's Paradox is usually represented by the Drake Equation: One made up number multiplied by another made up number multipled by a third made up number multiplied by one more made up number, and so on up to seven made up numbers, winds up being equal to one last made up number.
It's a nice basis for conversation, but mathematically it's still one equation with eight unknowns and that can't prove much of anything. What's to resolve?
Neat. Does this mean that there will be flying motorcycles and super-powered boy scouts too?
And yet Michael Bay is still on board to direct it.
You know, some of us are old enough to remember what cameras were like before they had cell phones stuck to them. Or even before cell phones.
For those of you who aren't, here's a quick summary: They stored images on something called "film", and rapidly opened and closed a "shutter" to expose it.
And that made a 'click' sound. Every single time it took a picture.
All that the bill (Look, you can even read it!) requires is that a phone equipped with a camera "shall sound a tone or other sound audible within a reasonable radius of the phone whenever a photograph is taken". And that's exactly the same as what non-digital cameras did for most of the last century.
So, yeah, I think that the world may be prepared to deal with the consequences of cameras that go 'click'.
Oh, so it was a Zune?