Far easier, log into it and get the mac address, then see what switch port it is connected too. Then just trace cable.
If they're disorganized enough to accidentally put a server behind a wall, why do you think it's going to be easy to trace a cable? I bet the cabling in that place was an adventure.
If they find life, how can they be sure it didn't originate from Earth?
I mean, bacteria could have traveled along with the mars rover as free-riders, and may by now have multiplied into billions.
Let's suppose there is life on Mars. We can get a pretty good idea of whether or not it's related to life forms on Earth by examining it and seeing how close it is to organisms here. If it has DNA, we could sequence it.
For instance, suppose it looks a lot like terrestrial bacteria, it has DNA, and its genetic code is nearly identical to or very similar to specific terrestrial bacteria. Then yes, it probably came over as contamination.
Suppose it uses DNA, but it doesn't remotely resemble any living bacteria. This may indicate that it evolved from terrestrial bacteria that came over earlier (i.e., hitched a ride on a meteorite). Or that terrestrial life evolved from a hitchhiking Martian bacteria.
Suppose it uses a slightly different DNA system than ours. For instance, the bases may be slightly different, or it uses only RNA, or something along those lines. Depending on the level of the differences, this could indicate that it evolved independently from terrestrial life, or that it hitchhiked over very early in the development of life.
Suppose the Martian organism doesn't use DNA at all. This may indicate that it's completely independent of terrestrial life. That's assuming that life on Earth always used DNA (or at least RNA), which isn't necessarily true.
Cannon makes some awesome lenses. You just can't buy them in the toy department at Best Buy. The problem with high density sensors is that the denser they get the higher the noise level becomes. I think that is one of the reasons that Cannon isn't tripping over them selves to ramp up the Megapixal count that fast.
Although I've never actually seen them on display in a store, you can buy both Canon's high end cameras (like the 1Ds the grandparent shoots with) and their top-grade L lenses on Best Buy's web site.Not that I would recommend buying them from Best Buy...
The only way thin provisioning fixes this problem is if you over-commit the thin pool. That's all well and good, but currently, any given storage chunk that is allocated to a server is stuck being allocated to that server. So, if I were a server admin who found out he'd been given thin LUNs in an over-commited pool, I know that if my neighboring admins don't keep track of their storage use, then my server could wind up crashing because they took up all the storage. So instead, I'm going to write a script first thing when I get the storage to write a text file clear across the drive. There. Now my disk is fully provisioned, and my neighbors can use all the pool they want, it won't affect me. 'course, not everyone can do that, or the pool will fill up lickety split.
How exactly is using up all of your thinly provisioned disk on purpose all at once any different from your peers not watching their disk use? Answer: they might cause a problem, and you have.
As the storage admin, I'd walk over to your desk and smack you. I'm the one who's watching the size of the pool, and I'm the one who will order new disk when it's necessary. I'm the one who will make other arrangements if management doesn't fork up the money for the disks.
Depending on the technology in use, "other arrangements" could mean the migration of LUNs to other storage arrays behind the scenes (i.e., no downtime), moving virtual machines with storage vmotion, or other, usually uglier methods of dealing with it (i.e., stop the application, migrate the data manually somewhere else, bring up the application).
There's a version of this that uses much less tinfoil. If ETs were visiting every ten or twenty thousand years on average but didn't leave any large-scale, durable evidence behind, we wouldn't know about it. There could be dozens of robotic probes scattered around the solar system, but unless they were huge, obviously artificial or actively broadcasting we'd think they were meteoroids or small asteroids.
I'm not suggesting this is true, but merely that with the time and distance scales involved it may be difficult to find visiting ETs unless they came while we were watching.
Or is it just their estates, or rather, the agency in charge of them?
From TFA, living authors include Philip Roth, Salmon Rushdie, Martin Amis and VS Naipaul. I would guess that most of the contracts for the books were signed before publishers gave any thought to digital distribution.
They advance you a sum of money, and then you pay them the money back using your 10-30% royalty from sales. They get to keep 90-70% starting at dollar 1, whereas the writer or developer doesn't see anything until their advance is repaid.
Such a shame.
Publishers aren't as crooked as the RIAA (at least for the most part). I get a statement saying what I owe, and how much I made, blah blah blah. It just isn't a lot. However, if you sell a lot, it is possible to make a lot. I have a friend who made over a million selling textbooks. Admittedly she was lucky--she got into the right field at the right time with the right book.
If they are undecipherable languages, how do they verify the results are accurate?
In general, there are two ways to test a decipherment. The first is to compare it to a bilingual text (e.g., the Rosetta Stone). Ancient Sumerian is apparently unrelated to everything else, but there were a lot of bilinguals so the decipherment is pretty firm.
The second method is to use the decipherment to decipher a new text. For instance, the first big test for Michael Ventris's decipherment of Linear B was using it on some newly discovered tablets. Obviously there's more uncertainty with this method, since it's still possible you're completely wrong. The more texts you can successfully decipher, the better the odds are that your decipherment is good. The Mayan glyphs and Linear B fall into this category.
In general, it's easiest to decipher if you've got a lot of texts, particularly bilinguals, and if the language is related to a well-known language. Ancient Egyptian was closely related to Coptic, and in the same family as Arabic and Hebrew, as was Ugaritic and ancient Akkadian (AKA Babylonian and Assyrian). The Mayan glyphs were written in a language in the Mayan family of languages, which are still spoken today. The language in the Linear B tablets turned out to be archaic Greek.
Nah, it's not gonna be much help with Linear A. Although without a solid decipherment it's hard to be sure, a majority of the characters in Linear B also appear in Linear A. There are also names that appear in both scripts. This of course no guarantee that all the symbols had the same values in both scripts, but it's a reasonable starting point.
Furthermore, Linear A is a syllabary, not an alphabet, and they used logograms extensively. Ugaritic, being an alphabet, is much simpler. They haven't demonstrated the program against a non-alphabetic script. Identifying logograms is a big jump.
Finally, the language used in Linear A is unknown. Their program used knowledge of a well-known and very similar language (Hebrew) to decipher Ugaritic. If it turns out that Linear A is related to a known language, the program could presumably help. If it's related to an unknown language (like Etruscan), well, it's not going to be of much use.
I'm not knocking medical care in Thailand, but there is a difference between "quality medical care" and "bleeding edge treatments." It's entirely possible to be good at the former but not good at the latter.
While you have a good point, I don't think it's likely that this was a sour beer. The first thing to keep in mind is that this is a strong beer--9% ABV. Most sour beers (including lambics) are in the range of 3-5% ABV because the lactic acid bacteria can't handle the higher levels of alcohol.
Secondly, lambics are aged for at least a year or two (and in reality lambics probably get most of the bacteria that make them interesting from the oak barrels in which they're aged). If this beer was drunk when it was younger, wild bacteria wouldn't have the chance to make as much of a contribution to the flavor. It's hard to say how long it would have been aged before drinking, but the odds are good it would have been drunk within the first 6-9 months. A beer made with malted barley and hops at this ABV would have historically been ready to drink in 6-12 months, but the hops are a factor in that.
So while I suspect you're right in that bacteria may have made contributions to the flavor profile, I don't think this was a sour beer.
Unless I'm very mistaken the only reason the airlock is used is because you want to keep out other yeasts and bacteria that could spoil the 'mead-to-be'.
The airlock is primarily to keep out air and to minimize oxidation of whatever you're fermenting. There is usually a blanket of CO2 on top after fermentation, and the airlock ensures it stays there. Keeping out other yeasts and bacteria is a bonus.
I definitely don't have any enterprise-level Solaris experience. In fact, my only experience with Solaris is that every 6 months or so I try it out again, just for fun. The experiment usually ends when I try to update it. I have never successfully updated Solaris. It always breaks so that it becomes unbootable the first time I do it. Now, I will grant you that if I knew my way around it, I could probably fix or avoid this, but...are you really supposed to have Enterprise-Level experience to fucking successfully patch your box?
I'm going to vote for Linux on the stability front, just because of that.
While patch management on Solaris is probably about the worst of the *NIX I've worked with (compared to AIX, Red Hat, SUSE, Debian or Ubuntu and ignoring anything where you usually have to recompile from source like OpenBSD or Gentoo), you have got to be kidding me.I've never had any problems with patching, even on x86 Solaris, and I've been using Solaris since before they started the crazy version numbering.
You've got the same amount of total information to memorize no matter what when it comes to learning a new language.
I don't agree with this.You could learn Mandarin entirely with pinyin--grammar and vocabulary. Pinyin is the most common method of transliteration for Chinese, and consists of a good chunk of the alphabet with some additional markers for tones (similar to accent markers in French). But you could learn it in a couple of days to a week, even if you didn't know the alphabet.
However, if you learn Mandarin using the Chinese script, you have to learn thousands of characters on top of that. Not only do you have to learn the characters, but you have to learn the stroke order and the stroke count (which is used to look up characters in a dictionary). This is substantially more information.
I'm no expert on this, but I don't see a relation between sound and shape of our letters either. So the answer is to study as hard as you can and also: repetition!
We've basically got 26 characters to worry about (plus numbers, punctuation marks and various symbols). To be literate in Chinese, you have to know 3-4 thousand characters--and there are tens of thousands of characters in all. There are also two different sets of characters, simplified and traditional. So while neither have any relationship to sound, memorizing any alphabet is a hell of a lot easier.
This isn't a specific text, but see Colin Wells' Sailing from Byzantium. Wells discusses the legacy of the (poorly named) Byzantine Empire, including how knowledge from the ancient Greeks and Romans was transmitted to the west and to the Arabs.
However, one thing I find very helpful is to recopy and reorganize my notes. I used to do this in another notebook, but nowadays I do it in my laptop. I find that after having recopied my notes I often don't need to look at them again.
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Excellent idea! I prefer to smuggle my explosives onto planes using 71 year old ministers as dupes.
Had it ever been made.
Far easier, log into it and get the mac address, then see what switch port it is connected too. Then just trace cable.
If they're disorganized enough to accidentally put a server behind a wall, why do you think it's going to be easy to trace a cable? I bet the cabling in that place was an adventure.
If they find life, how can they be sure it didn't originate from Earth? I mean, bacteria could have traveled along with the mars rover as free-riders, and may by now have multiplied into billions.
Let's suppose there is life on Mars. We can get a pretty good idea of whether or not it's related to life forms on Earth by examining it and seeing how close it is to organisms here. If it has DNA, we could sequence it.
For instance, suppose it looks a lot like terrestrial bacteria, it has DNA, and its genetic code is nearly identical to or very similar to specific terrestrial bacteria. Then yes, it probably came over as contamination.
Suppose it uses DNA, but it doesn't remotely resemble any living bacteria. This may indicate that it evolved from terrestrial bacteria that came over earlier (i.e., hitched a ride on a meteorite). Or that terrestrial life evolved from a hitchhiking Martian bacteria.
Suppose it uses a slightly different DNA system than ours. For instance, the bases may be slightly different, or it uses only RNA, or something along those lines. Depending on the level of the differences, this could indicate that it evolved independently from terrestrial life, or that it hitchhiked over very early in the development of life.
Suppose the Martian organism doesn't use DNA at all. This may indicate that it's completely independent of terrestrial life. That's assuming that life on Earth always used DNA (or at least RNA), which isn't necessarily true.
Cannon makes some awesome lenses. You just can't buy them in the toy department at Best Buy. The problem with high density sensors is that the denser they get the higher the noise level becomes. I think that is one of the reasons that Cannon isn't tripping over them selves to ramp up the Megapixal count that fast.
Although I've never actually seen them on display in a store, you can buy both Canon's high end cameras (like the 1Ds the grandparent shoots with) and their top-grade L lenses on Best Buy's web site.Not that I would recommend buying them from Best Buy...
The only way thin provisioning fixes this problem is if you over-commit the thin pool. That's all well and good, but currently, any given storage chunk that is allocated to a server is stuck being allocated to that server. So, if I were a server admin who found out he'd been given thin LUNs in an over-commited pool, I know that if my neighboring admins don't keep track of their storage use, then my server could wind up crashing because they took up all the storage. So instead, I'm going to write a script first thing when I get the storage to write a text file clear across the drive. There. Now my disk is fully provisioned, and my neighbors can use all the pool they want, it won't affect me. 'course, not everyone can do that, or the pool will fill up lickety split.
How exactly is using up all of your thinly provisioned disk on purpose all at once any different from your peers not watching their disk use? Answer: they might cause a problem, and you have.
As the storage admin, I'd walk over to your desk and smack you. I'm the one who's watching the size of the pool, and I'm the one who will order new disk when it's necessary. I'm the one who will make other arrangements if management doesn't fork up the money for the disks.
Depending on the technology in use, "other arrangements" could mean the migration of LUNs to other storage arrays behind the scenes (i.e., no downtime), moving virtual machines with storage vmotion, or other, usually uglier methods of dealing with it (i.e., stop the application, migrate the data manually somewhere else, bring up the application).
There's a version of this that uses much less tinfoil. If ETs were visiting every ten or twenty thousand years on average but didn't leave any large-scale, durable evidence behind, we wouldn't know about it. There could be dozens of robotic probes scattered around the solar system, but unless they were huge, obviously artificial or actively broadcasting we'd think they were meteoroids or small asteroids.
I'm not suggesting this is true, but merely that with the time and distance scales involved it may be difficult to find visiting ETs unless they came while we were watching.
Or is it just their estates, or rather, the agency in charge of them?
From TFA, living authors include Philip Roth, Salmon Rushdie, Martin Amis and VS Naipaul. I would guess that most of the contracts for the books were signed before publishers gave any thought to digital distribution.
and the book publishing industry too.
They advance you a sum of money, and then you pay them the money back using your 10-30% royalty from sales. They get to keep 90-70% starting at dollar 1, whereas the writer or developer doesn't see anything until their advance is repaid.
Such a shame.
Publishers aren't as crooked as the RIAA (at least for the most part). I get a statement saying what I owe, and how much I made, blah blah blah. It just isn't a lot. However, if you sell a lot, it is possible to make a lot. I have a friend who made over a million selling textbooks. Admittedly she was lucky--she got into the right field at the right time with the right book.
Honestly, i would think that it was the name of the person who owned it myself.
IIRC there are other examples of axes with the word "axe" written on them in languages known at the time in the area, so it wasn't that big a leap.
If they are undecipherable languages, how do they verify the results are accurate?
In general, there are two ways to test a decipherment. The first is to compare it to a bilingual text (e.g., the Rosetta Stone). Ancient Sumerian is apparently unrelated to everything else, but there were a lot of bilinguals so the decipherment is pretty firm.
The second method is to use the decipherment to decipher a new text. For instance, the first big test for Michael Ventris's decipherment of Linear B was using it on some newly discovered tablets. Obviously there's more uncertainty with this method, since it's still possible you're completely wrong. The more texts you can successfully decipher, the better the odds are that your decipherment is good. The Mayan glyphs and Linear B fall into this category.
In general, it's easiest to decipher if you've got a lot of texts, particularly bilinguals, and if the language is related to a well-known language. Ancient Egyptian was closely related to Coptic, and in the same family as Arabic and Hebrew, as was Ugaritic and ancient Akkadian (AKA Babylonian and Assyrian). The Mayan glyphs were written in a language in the Mayan family of languages, which are still spoken today. The language in the Linear B tablets turned out to be archaic Greek.
Nah, it's not gonna be much help with Linear A. Although without a solid decipherment it's hard to be sure, a majority of the characters in Linear B also appear in Linear A. There are also names that appear in both scripts. This of course no guarantee that all the symbols had the same values in both scripts, but it's a reasonable starting point.
Furthermore, Linear A is a syllabary, not an alphabet, and they used logograms extensively. Ugaritic, being an alphabet, is much simpler. They haven't demonstrated the program against a non-alphabetic script. Identifying logograms is a big jump.
Finally, the language used in Linear A is unknown. Their program used knowledge of a well-known and very similar language (Hebrew) to decipher Ugaritic. If it turns out that Linear A is related to a known language, the program could presumably help. If it's related to an unknown language (like Etruscan), well, it's not going to be of much use.
With the legacy components you collected over the years because you were smart enough to anticipate that eventuality.
Or Ebay.
There are PCIe SCSI cards available, although I can't imagine that they'll be around too much longer either.
I'm not knocking medical care in Thailand, but there is a difference between "quality medical care" and "bleeding edge treatments." It's entirely possible to be good at the former but not good at the latter.
They don't, it turns out.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/03/health/research/03lancet.html
Right, the Lancet withdrew their 1998 paper linking autism to vaccines. What does that have to do with this article?
Ancient art represents ancient reality, news at 11!
Actually this provides proof of prior art for Big Bird and should invalidate all of Sesame Street's copyrights :-)
The artist had no lawyers or lobbyists, so the copyright expired long before Sesame Street.
Midas Touch doesn't have chocolate. The recipes of their other beers are irrelevant to the recipe for that beer.
While you have a good point, I don't think it's likely that this was a sour beer. The first thing to keep in mind is that this is a strong beer--9% ABV. Most sour beers (including lambics) are in the range of 3-5% ABV because the lactic acid bacteria can't handle the higher levels of alcohol.
Secondly, lambics are aged for at least a year or two (and in reality lambics probably get most of the bacteria that make them interesting from the oak barrels in which they're aged). If this beer was drunk when it was younger, wild bacteria wouldn't have the chance to make as much of a contribution to the flavor. It's hard to say how long it would have been aged before drinking, but the odds are good it would have been drunk within the first 6-9 months. A beer made with malted barley and hops at this ABV would have historically been ready to drink in 6-12 months, but the hops are a factor in that.
So while I suspect you're right in that bacteria may have made contributions to the flavor profile, I don't think this was a sour beer.
Unless I'm very mistaken the only reason the airlock is used is because you want to keep out other yeasts and bacteria that could spoil the 'mead-to-be'.
The airlock is primarily to keep out air and to minimize oxidation of whatever you're fermenting. There is usually a blanket of CO2 on top after fermentation, and the airlock ensures it stays there. Keeping out other yeasts and bacteria is a bonus.
I definitely don't have any enterprise-level Solaris experience. In fact, my only experience with Solaris is that every 6 months or so I try it out again, just for fun. The experiment usually ends when I try to update it. I have never successfully updated Solaris. It always breaks so that it becomes unbootable the first time I do it. Now, I will grant you that if I knew my way around it, I could probably fix or avoid this, but...are you really supposed to have Enterprise-Level experience to fucking successfully patch your box?
I'm going to vote for Linux on the stability front, just because of that.
While patch management on Solaris is probably about the worst of the *NIX I've worked with (compared to AIX, Red Hat, SUSE, Debian or Ubuntu and ignoring anything where you usually have to recompile from source like OpenBSD or Gentoo), you have got to be kidding me.I've never had any problems with patching, even on x86 Solaris, and I've been using Solaris since before they started the crazy version numbering.
You've got the same amount of total information to memorize no matter what when it comes to learning a new language.
I don't agree with this.You could learn Mandarin entirely with pinyin--grammar and vocabulary. Pinyin is the most common method of transliteration for Chinese, and consists of a good chunk of the alphabet with some additional markers for tones (similar to accent markers in French). But you could learn it in a couple of days to a week, even if you didn't know the alphabet.
However, if you learn Mandarin using the Chinese script, you have to learn thousands of characters on top of that. Not only do you have to learn the characters, but you have to learn the stroke order and the stroke count (which is used to look up characters in a dictionary). This is substantially more information.
I'm no expert on this, but I don't see a relation between sound and shape of our letters either. So the answer is to study as hard as you can and also: repetition!
We've basically got 26 characters to worry about (plus numbers, punctuation marks and various symbols). To be literate in Chinese, you have to know 3-4 thousand characters--and there are tens of thousands of characters in all. There are also two different sets of characters, simplified and traditional. So while neither have any relationship to sound, memorizing any alphabet is a hell of a lot easier.
Orange County may not be as conservative as advertised, but the election results from 2008 still went largely Republican.
This isn't a specific text, but see Colin Wells' Sailing from Byzantium. Wells discusses the legacy of the (poorly named) Byzantine Empire, including how knowledge from the ancient Greeks and Romans was transmitted to the west and to the Arabs.
I'm also in the both camp.
However, one thing I find very helpful is to recopy and reorganize my notes. I used to do this in another notebook, but nowadays I do it in my laptop. I find that after having recopied my notes I often don't need to look at them again.