More to the point, enjoy the movie in an hour or two or watch it tomorrow in HD? That's really the question for me, and 99/100 times it's watch it in an hour or two. If I really like a title and think I'll want to watch it a bunch it's probably worth DL'ing the BD rip in the background if it's a visually stunning movie, otherwise why bother? I can't wait till someone like Netflix can offer the same decisions for a reasonable fee, I don't mind paying for good content but it really needs to be on the customers terms.
It IS to my benefit, Google provides useful services and takes some information in exchange. Since I get almost no phone calls at home, google filters 99.999% of my spam, and I don't get much junk mail at home, I fail to see how it's significantly impacting me. Heck even with the information they glean they provide a useful service, targeted advertising when I bother to look at it is much preferred to random punch the monkey type mass market crapflood advertising.
Uh, my igoogle entertainment page is much more usable than that ugly mess and it's specialized to the teams I follow as well as including general sports information. It also includes non sports related entertainment addons which I mixed and matched to meet my preferences, not something provided to me on some media companies terms.
And in exchange I get to look through my search history and pick out sites I've visited, great for when you need to go back to a search term months or years later and you know you've found something useful in the past. And I still get the clean and well organized look that Google is famous for despite having several dozen addons. igoogle is kind of the Firefox of search engines, fast, clean, and customizable.
What I want to know is who sold the equipment that enabled the illegal warrantless wiretaps and bar THEM from EVER receiving federal contracts, they are the true threat to the American way of life.
Worst case seek time is limited by rotational latency and the speed you can slam the head from the inside of the platter to the outside and get it under control. Luckily with increased density we are able to shrink the platters needed to achieve a given amount of storage thus decreasing the latter metric, the first should be shrinkable with decreased mass but the best I've seen is 20k rpm drives which never really took off. It's a very real limitation in today's enterprise, SSD's largely solve the problem but they are incredibly expensive per unit storage so they only get used in niche applications like the log volumes for high transaction databases (and the cache for our BI application in my most recent use case).
No problems here, we have two of each generation of tape drive (prod+dr) and when we upgrade we retire them into storage instead of throwing them into the landfill. If our drives were inoperable or we couldn't get them hooked up easily there are companies out there that specialize in retrieval from tape. Beyond that the failure rate for LTO in my experience is vanishingly low, we put over 100 tapes a month through our libraries and I think we've had two failed tapes in the last 3 years and one of those was dropped on its edge so completely understandable. All our tapes go through verification on a different drive than wrote them and we do test restores both at prod and DR. My experience with DLT was almost as good. If you use anything cheaper than DLT then you aren't really using tape meant to be reliable IMHO. The farthest back we have been asked to go was 15 years for documents related to property taxes which can apparently be refiled for up to 20 years in some jurisdiction, no problem recovering the DLT tapes (well, there were filesystem and format problems, but nothing related to the tapes and even those were fairly easily overcome).
In what way is it not the same? Using Trident has all the same security implications, uses the same registry settings for things like proxy server and security zones, etc. The only difference is what buttons are available in the UI.
Wow, you found out that 7200rpm SATA disks suck for small random I/O? That's surely a shocker! Oh wait, it's not and the least bit of research would tell you that. It's the same thing with Facebook, they expect to get awesome performance/dollar out of interpreted code and are blaming the hardware when it doesn't magically come true.
Yeah, this. Most of us don't have too much trouble wringing performance out of x64 processors when we need to. He wants a miracle of hardware he can throw at poor code which is NOT what Google asks for. Google simply want to wring every last flop/dollar (TCO) out of their systems which is slightly more than most of us need (the cost of engineering Google type solutions is more than 99.9+% of shops could reap through improved efficiency).
And what would fossil fuels cost if all the externalities were assigned to the consumer? The free market is far from perfect, sometimes we have to decide to do what is best for the whole because that which would be best for a few would cost the whole more. Oh and farm subsidies are proving to be quite beneficial right now, we're at about 2/3rds the unemployment of the great depression yet noone is starving.
The need for a warrant hasn't been absolute since about when the ink dried on the document, some circumstances make a warrant impractical but the evidence can be thrown out if a warrant was not obtained depending on a lot of factors.
Except that the pictures in the glyph update as you enter characters so it's fairly easy to tell if you are entering your password correctly or you typo'd. I actually think Notes does it right.
Or is that only an outer protective layer? I know I've seen pictures of the pitting that micrometeors and paint flecks have caused on the Shuttles while in orbit, I just assumed they were made to be easily replaced.
The "just following orders" thing is why I was so happy when Florida passed the law requiring zero tolerance (zero intelligence) rules have a justification of stopping significant harm from the students. I really hope that becomes a national trend because having petty dictators expel students because they brought in a GI Joe with a plastic gun 1" long and the like are seriously farking with the mindset of the next generation.
Exactly, making it unconstitutional but shielding the bad actors means NOTHING. As long as these people can do such incredibly stupid stuff and just have the taxpayers pick up the tab there is no real disincentive for them to act badly and they won't be forced to stop and think of the ramification of their actions.
Meh, it wasn't an engineering decision to launch, the engineers all said not to, management didn't listen and people died. That's why I consider the shuttle fleet to have met its design parameter of 1% failure, Columbia doesn't count because it only failed after stupid people operated it outside its envelope.
Seriously they changed the plan away from the re-use plan?!? It made perfect freaking sense. We had a bunch of parts with sunk development and testing costs which are reliable and a known quantity. Not only that but the SSME is one of the best engine designs ever and has been upgraded quite a bit since it was introduced. The SSME assembly has fairly high maintenance costs but that's mostly due to how they are shoehorned into the Shuttle, at the base of a rocket assembly that should be a non-issue.
There's a VERY good reason to re-use the SRB's, they are a well tested design with the flaws worked out and the real operating parameters known. There is an existing assembly and refueling pipeline (figurative) with skilled workers who know exactly how to produce the parts. They are also reusing the main fuel tank (stretched in some configurations I believe) and the SME's which are a feat of engineering (especially now that we have the Russian designed turbopumps). Redesigning all of those components from scratch would cost probably hundreds of billions and probably another billion or two in lost test vehicles.
The big cost looming for electrical generation has nothing to do with the Gulf, it has to do with a Carbon tax/cap. Unless we go crazy building nuclear plants there WILL be a significant increase in electric rates if we are at all serious about stopping CO2 buildup.
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Neither address splitting of revenue between states for truckers or people living near state boarders.
More to the point, enjoy the movie in an hour or two or watch it tomorrow in HD? That's really the question for me, and 99/100 times it's watch it in an hour or two. If I really like a title and think I'll want to watch it a bunch it's probably worth DL'ing the BD rip in the background if it's a visually stunning movie, otherwise why bother? I can't wait till someone like Netflix can offer the same decisions for a reasonable fee, I don't mind paying for good content but it really needs to be on the customers terms.
It IS to my benefit, Google provides useful services and takes some information in exchange. Since I get almost no phone calls at home, google filters 99.999% of my spam, and I don't get much junk mail at home, I fail to see how it's significantly impacting me. Heck even with the information they glean they provide a useful service, targeted advertising when I bother to look at it is much preferred to random punch the monkey type mass market crapflood advertising.
Uh, my igoogle entertainment page is much more usable than that ugly mess and it's specialized to the teams I follow as well as including general sports information. It also includes non sports related entertainment addons which I mixed and matched to meet my preferences, not something provided to me on some media companies terms.
And in exchange I get to look through my search history and pick out sites I've visited, great for when you need to go back to a search term months or years later and you know you've found something useful in the past. And I still get the clean and well organized look that Google is famous for despite having several dozen addons. igoogle is kind of the Firefox of search engines, fast, clean, and customizable.
What I want to know is who sold the equipment that enabled the illegal warrantless wiretaps and bar THEM from EVER receiving federal contracts, they are the true threat to the American way of life.
Worst case seek time is limited by rotational latency and the speed you can slam the head from the inside of the platter to the outside and get it under control. Luckily with increased density we are able to shrink the platters needed to achieve a given amount of storage thus decreasing the latter metric, the first should be shrinkable with decreased mass but the best I've seen is 20k rpm drives which never really took off. It's a very real limitation in today's enterprise, SSD's largely solve the problem but they are incredibly expensive per unit storage so they only get used in niche applications like the log volumes for high transaction databases (and the cache for our BI application in my most recent use case).
No problems here, we have two of each generation of tape drive (prod+dr) and when we upgrade we retire them into storage instead of throwing them into the landfill. If our drives were inoperable or we couldn't get them hooked up easily there are companies out there that specialize in retrieval from tape. Beyond that the failure rate for LTO in my experience is vanishingly low, we put over 100 tapes a month through our libraries and I think we've had two failed tapes in the last 3 years and one of those was dropped on its edge so completely understandable. All our tapes go through verification on a different drive than wrote them and we do test restores both at prod and DR. My experience with DLT was almost as good. If you use anything cheaper than DLT then you aren't really using tape meant to be reliable IMHO. The farthest back we have been asked to go was 15 years for documents related to property taxes which can apparently be refiled for up to 20 years in some jurisdiction, no problem recovering the DLT tapes (well, there were filesystem and format problems, but nothing related to the tapes and even those were fairly easily overcome).
In what way is it not the same? Using Trident has all the same security implications, uses the same registry settings for things like proxy server and security zones, etc. The only difference is what buttons are available in the UI.
Yes, you have. You might not have been presented with the IE interface, but you did use the IE rendering engine (Trident).
Wow, you found out that 7200rpm SATA disks suck for small random I/O? That's surely a shocker! Oh wait, it's not and the least bit of research would tell you that. It's the same thing with Facebook, they expect to get awesome performance/dollar out of interpreted code and are blaming the hardware when it doesn't magically come true.
Yeah, this. Most of us don't have too much trouble wringing performance out of x64 processors when we need to. He wants a miracle of hardware he can throw at poor code which is NOT what Google asks for. Google simply want to wring every last flop/dollar (TCO) out of their systems which is slightly more than most of us need (the cost of engineering Google type solutions is more than 99.9+% of shops could reap through improved efficiency).
And what would fossil fuels cost if all the externalities were assigned to the consumer? The free market is far from perfect, sometimes we have to decide to do what is best for the whole because that which would be best for a few would cost the whole more. Oh and farm subsidies are proving to be quite beneficial right now, we're at about 2/3rds the unemployment of the great depression yet noone is starving.
It's NASA, they have liquid helium if they need it. I think most materials turn brittle at 5K =)
The need for a warrant hasn't been absolute since about when the ink dried on the document, some circumstances make a warrant impractical but the evidence can be thrown out if a warrant was not obtained depending on a lot of factors.
I wonder if freezing the knob enough to make it brittle and shattering it is an option?
Except that the pictures in the glyph update as you enter characters so it's fairly easy to tell if you are entering your password correctly or you typo'd. I actually think Notes does it right.
Or is that only an outer protective layer? I know I've seen pictures of the pitting that micrometeors and paint flecks have caused on the Shuttles while in orbit, I just assumed they were made to be easily replaced.
The "just following orders" thing is why I was so happy when Florida passed the law requiring zero tolerance (zero intelligence) rules have a justification of stopping significant harm from the students. I really hope that becomes a national trend because having petty dictators expel students because they brought in a GI Joe with a plastic gun 1" long and the like are seriously farking with the mindset of the next generation.
Exactly, making it unconstitutional but shielding the bad actors means NOTHING. As long as these people can do such incredibly stupid stuff and just have the taxpayers pick up the tab there is no real disincentive for them to act badly and they won't be forced to stop and think of the ramification of their actions.
But the people who ask the geek what TV to buy might be....
Meh, it wasn't an engineering decision to launch, the engineers all said not to, management didn't listen and people died. That's why I consider the shuttle fleet to have met its design parameter of 1% failure, Columbia doesn't count because it only failed after stupid people operated it outside its envelope.
Seriously they changed the plan away from the re-use plan?!? It made perfect freaking sense. We had a bunch of parts with sunk development and testing costs which are reliable and a known quantity. Not only that but the SSME is one of the best engine designs ever and has been upgraded quite a bit since it was introduced. The SSME assembly has fairly high maintenance costs but that's mostly due to how they are shoehorned into the Shuttle, at the base of a rocket assembly that should be a non-issue.
There's a VERY good reason to re-use the SRB's, they are a well tested design with the flaws worked out and the real operating parameters known. There is an existing assembly and refueling pipeline (figurative) with skilled workers who know exactly how to produce the parts. They are also reusing the main fuel tank (stretched in some configurations I believe) and the SME's which are a feat of engineering (especially now that we have the Russian designed turbopumps). Redesigning all of those components from scratch would cost probably hundreds of billions and probably another billion or two in lost test vehicles.
The big cost looming for electrical generation has nothing to do with the Gulf, it has to do with a Carbon tax/cap. Unless we go crazy building nuclear plants there WILL be a significant increase in electric rates if we are at all serious about stopping CO2 buildup.