I have to comment on your sig block. I have to ask, do you really associate all disabled people as retards? Do you really judge a person's mind by their body?
I know you are just trying to make a funny comment. In the deep south where I live I hear such "funny comments" all the time. I will spare you the embarrassment of most of them.
I myself spent a few years in a wheelchair, much like many of those who do participate in the Special Olympics. Just like Stephen Hawkins, and many others. Are we to be judged by our physical limitations? Does the fact that a guy in a wheelchair can't beat up the school bully make him dumber?
As the above poster clearly demonstrated, and as everyone knows, government can be bought easy today. I believe I once heard a quote from a lobbyist (the name escapes me at the moment) that face time with elected congressional officals ususally goes for roughly $1,000 per ten minutes.
Considering the bulk volume of inquiries by constituents, its understandable that letters and email sent to most of them usually only goes answered by form letter response from staff members taught to forge a signature (A roommate of mine did this for a rather prominent Senator for years).
The idea of not obeying corrupt laws on moral grounds aside, what besides the useless letter/email campaign, and the semi-effective action of voting, can the average joe (who doesn't have a grand to spend for ten minutes) do to make certain government actually creates law that serves all, and not just a few corporations?
I set up a RAID 1 as ONE PART of my data safety. I did this just recently, the price of RAID has dropped to the point where its just plain irresponsible not to use this tech in some shape or form.
But since my entire livelyhood sits on that box, data safety is a rather large concern to me. Are you dependant on that data for putting bread on the table, or is it more or less a hobby? That should be your primary question when looking at how much to spend on trying to make your system as fail-safe as possible. I myself go whole hog, tape backup, JAZ backup (what a bad buying decision that was, let me tell you, Iomega can burn in hell), CDR backups, and full hardcopy print, and a UPS that is way beyond my needs. I'm not running a server, this is just for my desk box.
I haven't put anything of the sort on my "fun" system, my gaming/music/dirty movies machine, mainly because of my decision that the data on that machine is not important enough to me to merit the money or time spent backing stuff up.
Really, the decision depends only on how important you think the data is.
It is a little disturbing to see a salon fluff piece posted basically every day to slashdot. Not that the stuff isn't interesting, but the intermediate ad pages do really suck. I like salon, but why should we pay for a subscription service to see ads? I'd like to see their subscription content, and would probably pay for it, if they just told me they'd strip out all the damned ads if I paid. Methinks Rob is in bed with someone over at salon.
I'm really curious about what type of scientific research he intends to pursue while up there. Does anyone know what his scientific interests are? Anyone have any idea what experiments he intends to perform? Anyone gotta link or literature ref (CS research may be online, but the rest of science is laggin a little)?
A curious chemist
Looks like Sony is trying to upstart m$'s future homestation, any bets till how long it will be till we see an XP package ship for the xbox to counter this? My crystal ball says 2 months at latest.
A few months ago, I was a chemist sitting in my lab pondering crystalization of aluminum oxide, with no more programming experience other than the required pascal & fortran from school. A few websearches later, and thanks to ruby, I finally hit that moment of enlightenment of understanding OO. Any language that helps me grow is good. I'm still in a lab, but this one doesn't have fume hoods;).
If one believes the theory of an asteroid destroying the dinosaurs, wouldn't we see a detectable gravity differential wherever such supposed asteroid hit? Anyone know if that particular theory about the dinosaurs has pointed the supposed impact in India?
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I know you are just trying to make a funny comment. In the deep south where I live I hear such "funny comments" all the time. I will spare you the embarrassment of most of them.
I myself spent a few years in a wheelchair, much like many of those who do participate in the Special Olympics. Just like Stephen Hawkins, and many others. Are we to be judged by our physical limitations? Does the fact that a guy in a wheelchair can't beat up the school bully make him dumber?
The idea of not obeying corrupt laws on moral grounds aside, what besides the useless letter/email campaign, and the semi-effective action of voting, can the average joe (who doesn't have a grand to spend for ten minutes) do to make certain government actually creates law that serves all, and not just a few corporations?
But since my entire livelyhood sits on that box, data safety is a rather large concern to me. Are you dependant on that data for putting bread on the table, or is it more or less a hobby? That should be your primary question when looking at how much to spend on trying to make your system as fail-safe as possible. I myself go whole hog, tape backup, JAZ backup (what a bad buying decision that was, let me tell you, Iomega can burn in hell), CDR backups, and full hardcopy print, and a UPS that is way beyond my needs. I'm not running a server, this is just for my desk box.
I haven't put anything of the sort on my "fun" system, my gaming/music/dirty movies machine, mainly because of my decision that the data on that machine is not important enough to me to merit the money or time spent backing stuff up.
Really, the decision depends only on how important you think the data is.
It is a little disturbing to see a salon fluff piece posted basically every day to slashdot. Not that the stuff isn't interesting, but the intermediate ad pages do really suck. I like salon, but why should we pay for a subscription service to see ads? I'd like to see their subscription content, and would probably pay for it, if they just told me they'd strip out all the damned ads if I paid. Methinks Rob is in bed with someone over at salon.
Funny, I thought it was porn...
I'm really curious about what type of scientific research he intends to pursue while up there. Does anyone know what his scientific interests are? Anyone have any idea what experiments he intends to perform? Anyone gotta link or literature ref (CS research may be online, but the rest of science is laggin a little)? A curious chemist
Looks like Sony is trying to upstart m$'s future homestation, any bets till how long it will be till we see an XP package ship for the xbox to counter this? My crystal ball says 2 months at latest.
A few months ago, I was a chemist sitting in my lab pondering crystalization of aluminum oxide, with no more programming experience other than the required pascal & fortran from school. A few websearches later, and thanks to ruby, I finally hit that moment of enlightenment of understanding OO. Any language that helps me grow is good. I'm still in a lab, but this one doesn't have fume hoods ;).
If one believes the theory of an asteroid destroying the dinosaurs, wouldn't we see a detectable gravity differential wherever such supposed asteroid hit? Anyone know if that particular theory about the dinosaurs has pointed the supposed impact in India?
Expect that it will take roughly 6 months before you get a check from UPS (this is based on my similar experience).