However by adding one more harddrive you can be secure. This drive stores a parity. Let's say if a given bit on drive A and B is the same, that bit is zero on the parity drive. If they are different, it's a one. If drive A or B kills itself the parity drive can be used on the remaining drive to recreate the missing drive. If the parity drive goes kaput you just need to make a new one.
Now I don't know if the parity actually works on the bit, byte, word, or sector level, but this is the easiest way to explain it.
That's a very interesting thing to note. This would have almost happened with me but I bought an SATA drive for speed, not storage. As far as I'm concerned *gasp* 80 gb is currently enough for me. That's enough for several games and every application I own to be installed at the same time with lots of media on the side. If I need more space, sure I might have to sacrifice (swap out a game, some media) but it's really not an issue with CDRWs anyway-- I'm not losing anything.
That being said I'll buy larger, faster drives when they come available for around the same price. How about a similiar list with the "units" being $/(gig speed)? Of course I'll need a handy expression for speed, but you get the point.
When a company turns their consumers into their product (advertisees), it's time to quit. Every industry is slowly killing their own products and instead relying on advertisers. The result is the advertisers run the companies.
Taking this into account I must ask what their product is. Is it the New York Times's content, or is it the people reading it? Obviously I am not arguing that they should allow anonymous login, I'm just saying your reasoning is based on the NY Times (etc) adopting a flawed business model. I for one would much rather pay for it and never receive an advertisement.
This is what really gets me angry and the civil liberty preachers. Everything is compared to the Patriot Act. The Patriot Act is a horrible piece of legislation and I personally believe someone must be held accountable for it getting passed, and go to court on treason charges. Comparing the Patriot act to a black box is like comparing a gun to an x-ray machine: it just doesn't work.
I see a black box as an only means to be exonerated in crashes involving things such as road rage. Sometimes there's a crash where they cannot reconstruct what happened. This data might be all that is needed to understand what happened.
Sorry, I do not understand how knowing what a car was doing X seconds before a crash intrudes on civil liberties in anyway. If someone had access to it whenever they wanted then maybe, but that's not the case now, is it? Who says you/next of kin does't have to sign to have the data released? Who says there doesn't already have to be probably suspicion?
I gotta fire this right back at you. If you want to PROTECT civil liberties, do NOT simply attack every form of progress that could be used in such a manor. DO make sure that when the technologies are adopted your concerns are addressed.
As technology improves, devices get smaller. As devices get smaller, leakage (that is, wasted power) gets much larger. As this happens, more power is required to run the chip and more heat is generated. This creates the throttling. To achieve a higher clock speed you need the improved technology. We now have the situation where leakage is so high (I won't give a percentage but it's a big one) we've got real issues.
One possibility is to keep throwing more power at the problem and keep cooling it off. This is the easy stupid way. The hard way is either something revolutionary (that is, a totally different technology), or instead a slow incremental improvement of leakage through manufacturing techniques and perhaps some theory.
In your example you're taking a bunch of things that were physically attached to eachother-- nay-- non-functioning without eachother, and comparing this to combing a phone, mp3 player, PDA, etc... Sorry I don't buy it.
I don't want a PDA, mp3 player, etc. While I know my phone is free with a plan, I know the monthly cost is where I am paying for my phone.
Ah this is when their terminology really starts hurting us.
1 terabyte = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes
Try 1024^4 = 1,099,511,627,776.. wait, where'd my 100 gigs go?
Due to the exponential nature this little white lie hurts a bit more for every increment, here sacrificing just about 10% of the storage. I'm surprised they don't say 1000 gigs just to dodge the 10% mark.
For those who insist that tera means one trillon for bytes, I reference Here, here , here, here, here, and how about here. Now I'll admit the wikipedia entry has the trillion byte definition, but they basically said it is used in storage advertising.
I hate'm too and I don't even drive! Let's say the speed limit is 55. Driving 60 mph is fine. If that ride is 30 minutes to work (for example), going that extra bit to 65 mph shaves off just over 2 minutes from the trip. If you need that bit more time then START SOONER. Now if you insist on being that guy who just must blast past everyone else on the road, it's up to you to wait for people to finish passing whoever they are passing. No one needs to speed up for you, buddy.
For those not familiar to MPH the conversion to km/h is
MPH * (1.5 hog heads / 14.2 furlongs) * 4 (barrels / fortnight^3) = k/h
I find the solution incredibly obvious. As per the example given by another persson, Nissan vs Nissan, the car company should have simply taken www.nissancars.com or www.nissancorporation.com etc, to more specifically match. Instead of trying to hassle the true owner of the name, ask them to provide a link to your site and offer to pay for the bandwidth they incur due to the name match to compensate.
As for people who take names sounding/looking like a company after that company has its established web presents, that's known as using the company's name without [dang I can't remember the word... something like 'respect'?] and should also be stopped-- unless the domain has its own reason to exist, such as Mike Rowe, although his use of "soft" is pretty conspicuous.
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Looks like I haven't mastered the art of getting people to stop taking everything so seriously and have fun every once in a while :-(
ECONOMICS IS NOT A SCIENCE!
*ducks behind a bush, but peers over to watch what happens*
However by adding one more harddrive you can be secure. This drive stores a parity. Let's say if a given bit on drive A and B is the same, that bit is zero on the parity drive. If they are different, it's a one. If drive A or B kills itself the parity drive can be used on the remaining drive to recreate the missing drive. If the parity drive goes kaput you just need to make a new one.
Now I don't know if the parity actually works on the bit, byte, word, or sector level, but this is the easiest way to explain it.
Sorry, most slashdotters are NOT using Longhorn yet.
Why not? I got mine.
Those police are probably too busy deleting the 80% spam from their email, like everyone else. This qualifies as a DDoS if I am not mistaken ;)
You must have the most exciting (library/store/park/school) on the planet.
That's a very interesting thing to note. This would have almost happened with me but I bought an SATA drive for speed, not storage. As far as I'm concerned *gasp* 80 gb is currently enough for me. That's enough for several games and every application I own to be installed at the same time with lots of media on the side. If I need more space, sure I might have to sacrifice (swap out a game, some media) but it's really not an issue with CDRWs anyway-- I'm not losing anything.
That being said I'll buy larger, faster drives when they come available for around the same price. How about a similiar list with the "units" being $/(gig speed)? Of course I'll need a handy expression for speed, but you get the point.
I think he's just trying to say Mr. Happy has been happier.
When a company turns their consumers into their product (advertisees), it's time to quit. Every industry is slowly killing their own products and instead relying on advertisers. The result is the advertisers run the companies.
Taking this into account I must ask what their product is. Is it the New York Times's content, or is it the people reading it? Obviously I am not arguing that they should allow anonymous login, I'm just saying your reasoning is based on the NY Times (etc) adopting a flawed business model. I for one would much rather pay for it and never receive an advertisement.
...but if we go back to the veldt we can live with the animals and gain their powers...
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This is what really gets me angry and the civil liberty preachers. Everything is compared to the Patriot Act. The Patriot Act is a horrible piece of legislation and I personally believe someone must be held accountable for it getting passed, and go to court on treason charges. Comparing the Patriot act to a black box is like comparing a gun to an x-ray machine: it just doesn't work.
I see a black box as an only means to be exonerated in crashes involving things such as road rage. Sometimes there's a crash where they cannot reconstruct what happened. This data might be all that is needed to understand what happened.
Sorry, I do not understand how knowing what a car was doing X seconds before a crash intrudes on civil liberties in anyway. If someone had access to it whenever they wanted then maybe, but that's not the case now, is it? Who says you/next of kin does't have to sign to have the data released? Who says there doesn't already have to be probably suspicion?
I gotta fire this right back at you. If you want to PROTECT civil liberties, do NOT simply attack every form of progress that could be used in such a manor. DO make sure that when the technologies are adopted your concerns are addressed.
As technology improves, devices get smaller. As devices get smaller, leakage (that is, wasted power) gets much larger. As this happens, more power is required to run the chip and more heat is generated. This creates the throttling. To achieve a higher clock speed you need the improved technology. We now have the situation where leakage is so high (I won't give a percentage but it's a big one) we've got real issues.
One possibility is to keep throwing more power at the problem and keep cooling it off. This is the easy stupid way. The hard way is either something revolutionary (that is, a totally different technology), or instead a slow incremental improvement of leakage through manufacturing techniques and perhaps some theory.
www.chip-architect.com
Well they didn't a few years ago. Then they heard about goatse.cx. Apparently they heard it was animal porn.
In your example you're taking a bunch of things that were physically attached to eachother-- nay-- non-functioning without eachother, and comparing this to combing a phone, mp3 player, PDA, etc... Sorry I don't buy it.
I don't want a PDA, mp3 player, etc. While I know my phone is free with a plan, I know the monthly cost is where I am paying for my phone.
Owe my pride... Good catch though, you caught me red-handed ;)
Ah this is when their terminology really starts hurting us.
1 terabyte = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes
Try 1024^4 = 1,099,511,627,776.. wait, where'd my 100 gigs go?
Due to the exponential nature this little white lie hurts a bit more for every increment, here sacrificing just about 10% of the storage. I'm surprised they don't say 1000 gigs just to dodge the 10% mark.
For those who insist that tera means one trillon for bytes, I reference
Here, here , here, here, here, and how about here. Now I'll admit the wikipedia entry has the trillion byte definition, but they basically said it is used in storage advertising.
I see your zerg rush and raise you a bunker with two marines and two firebats.
-or-
I see your 100 zerglings and raise you 5 zealots.
I didn't have licenses for any other software so to stay legit I installed Windows Me. Oh.. what's that?.. ..! Oh god! AH!!--
>> Not sure what they have to gain from this.
>Obviously sales via iTunes. Possibly increased iPod sales.
I am just pointing out that I was under the impression that they lose money for every song sold-- all of their profits have to be in hardware sold.
If superman visited each one of them, would time go backwards?
I hate'm too and I don't even drive! Let's say the speed limit is 55. Driving 60 mph is fine. If that ride is 30 minutes to work (for example), going that extra bit to 65 mph shaves off just over 2 minutes from the trip. If you need that bit more time then START SOONER. Now if you insist on being that guy who just must blast past everyone else on the road, it's up to you to wait for people to finish passing whoever they are passing. No one needs to speed up for you, buddy.
For those not familiar to MPH the conversion to km/h is
MPH * (1.5 hog heads / 14.2 furlongs) * 4 (barrels / fortnight^3) = k/h
I find the solution incredibly obvious. As per the example given by another persson, Nissan vs Nissan, the car company should have simply taken www.nissancars.com or www.nissancorporation.com etc, to more specifically match. Instead of trying to hassle the true owner of the name, ask them to provide a link to your site and offer to pay for the bandwidth they incur due to the name match to compensate.
As for people who take names sounding/looking like a company after that company has its established web presents, that's known as using the company's name without [dang I can't remember the word... something like 'respect'?] and should also be stopped-- unless the domain has its own reason to exist, such as Mike Rowe, although his use of "soft" is pretty conspicuous.
Wegmans apparently switched to fewer.. In Rochester at least.
I had to do it. Someone using a Microsoft browser might go nuts.