Okay, so it's a 6.9W bulb, and not a 60W bulb. It supposedly has a luminous equivalence to that of a 60W incandescent bulb. They are completely different statements.
Watts are not a measure of luminosity and should not be used to describe the brightness of a lightbulb.
BTW: Can you prove I did not RTFA? If not, then I suggest you not make such accusations.
It'll be amazing how many people suddenly come down with "disabilities" once insurance companies start paying for fancy PDAs and SmartPhones...
Also, once a PDA or SmartPhone is declared a "medical device," it will be subject to the same approvals and liabilities as medical devices, and will therefore cost 10 to 20 times as much as they do today...
NOBODY has a reasonable expectation of privacy in a public place. A business that is open to the public is considered a public place, at least in my State... which unfortunately for this guy is not MA...
You really need to look beyond the trees around you and see the forest. This solution is terrible for a critical storage application. You're talking about saving your data for a lifetime. This device will not come anywhere near doing that for you.
I work for a company that designs high-availability, redundant systems. This thing lacks just about everything we consider bare-minimum for a five nines system, including but not limited to redundant power and communications, fault coverage, and low MTTR, low FIT rate, and so on.
Others have quite thoroughly explained why this should not be considered a high reliability or high availability solution. The use of commodity hardware makes it cheap, but none of the hardware used is really suitable for a HA/HIREL application, and the architecture is anything but capable of providing 99.999% availability.
This is an amateur solution to a complex problem. They can pull the whole "domyjobforme" trick on Slashdot, but ultimately they're going to end up in the same place as EMC and the rest of them.
>> The universe is the same in every direction when you look out far enough.
Yeah, except that from the SP, there's about 50% of the universe that you have to go through 10000 miles of hot grit^H^H^H^H magma, iron, and nickel to see...
I am all for allowing terminal patients a dignified way out. I don't have numbers on the tip of my brain, but I can only imagine the proportion of health care costs that are incurred in the final months of life for terminal patients. We spend entirely too much money trying to prolong the inevitable.
The government should not consider ANY weapon a threat, because the Right of the People to keep and bear arms shall NOT be infringed. Arms are arms, whether they be spit-ball tubes, cannon, or nuclear weapons. If an arm is available to the government, The People are entitled to it for their own defense.
But, that's an ideal world in which the government obeys the rules imposed upon it by The People, and we all know how much of a fantasy that is...
Let's look back 17 years, to 1992. I was just starting college at Georgia Tech. I had a 12MHz 286 with a 40MB RLL hard disk, 360k and 720k floppy drives, and a CGA monitor. I did buy a brand new machine my first quarter - a blazing fast 386 DX-40 with 4MB of Ram, 1.44mb floppy, a 120MB hard disk, and a 800x600 super VGA monitor. it cost over $1000.
Most everything is still around: the Parallel IDE interface, the floppy drives, and the VGA connector. We've also had some new things: USB, Serial ATA, DVI, and so on, but if you had to find hardware that could read an old hard disk, you could.
The problem with the time capsule is... well... time. If you leave a hard drive to sit for 17 years, I doubt it would be able to spin up. I think the same would be true for just about any mechanical device.
How about non-volatile memory, like FLASH? Well, FLASH definitely has a finite retention period - usually 10 to 20 years, so even then you're taking a risk of losing data.
Optical disk? Well, now we're talking. Archival-quality media stored in controlled, ideal conditions will hold data on the order of 20+ years. It's the controlled, ideal conditions that make it tough. If exposed to heat, humidity, and temperature cycling, even the best archival quality media can be destroyed in a matter of months.
So, I think the best thing to do would be to maintain the materials unknown to the child until it is time to reveal the time capsule. Either that, or "dig up" the time capsule every few years and refresh the contents by replacing the media on which they are stored.
If a door to a house is left wide open, it is not an invitation. You can be charged with criminal trespass for entering the house - no "breaking and entering" (you watch too much TV, really) required.
If you enter that house with the intent to commit a crime, then you've escalated to Burglary, which in my particular state is a first degree felony carrying a 20 year maximum sentence. It does not matter if you were successful in committing your crime. Simply entering the property with the intent to commit a crime (any crime) is burglary.
If you enter that property with the intent to commit a crime, say, theft, and you succeed, you have not only committed the felony of burglary, but you have also committed theft by taking and possession of stolen property, which are completely independent charges, carrying their own sentences.
How these are analogues to the computer world, well, I don't know. I am sure it depends on the jurisdiction. There are laws on the books in some places regarding unauthorized access, regardless of intent.
Bottom line is, kids, you cannot assume a lack of security equals an invitation to snoop around.
It doesn't get 230MPG. It gets 230MPG if you start on battery, drive until the battery is dead, and then drive a little bit farther on gas. You must consider that the energy that was stored in the battery had to come from somewhere, namely the on-board gas-fired electric generator. Of course, since they don't consider gas that was burned putting that energy there for the test, they can claim these ridiculous numbers.
It's all an elaborate fraud designed to dupe people...
I'm downloading the test now, but does anyone who has tried it already know if it still has CPU Utilization issues like 3.5 has? I had to upgrade to 3.0 due to 3.5 hanging and/or crashing on flash content, particularly videos.
They did start up a couple of chains: Tech America, Incredible Universe, and Computer City, to try to branch out into the big box format.
Tech America was simply awesome in terms of selection, but suffered from Radio Shack's 1800's business model of selling the same stuff for twice what you could get it for down the street, and just hoping people will think it's better because it costs more.
Incredible Universe was simple horrifying. Same deal. They were often just down the street or next door to a Circuit City - and was again the same products at higher prices with even less-informed sales staff.
Computer City was similarly disappointing - usually a year behind in product availability and pricing - often selling already obsolete processors and memory and what were by then ridiculous prices.
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Isn't it obvious to you that I am making a point?
Okay, so it's a 6.9W bulb, and not a 60W bulb. It supposedly has a luminous equivalence to that of a 60W incandescent bulb. They are completely different statements.
Watts are not a measure of luminosity and should not be used to describe the brightness of a lightbulb.
BTW: Can you prove I did not RTFA? If not, then I suggest you not make such accusations.
How does a 60W LED bulb save energy over a 60W incandescent bulb? I mean, 60 watts is 60 watts no matter how you're dissipating it. /tic
It'll be amazing how many people suddenly come down with "disabilities" once insurance companies start paying for fancy PDAs and SmartPhones...
Also, once a PDA or SmartPhone is declared a "medical device," it will be subject to the same approvals and liabilities as medical devices, and will therefore cost 10 to 20 times as much as they do today...
*ALWAYS* do the following:
1) Back up what data you want to keep
2) Nuke from Orbit
3) Re-install Windows and your Apps
4) Restore your data
Repeat this every 6 months even if you are not upgrading.
.. did they make a change at the last minute that is small, but nevertheless renders all of the current "pre-n" hardware and software obsolete?
NOBODY has a reasonable expectation of privacy in a public place. A business that is open to the public is considered a public place, at least in my State... which unfortunately for this guy is not MA...
FF is not a browser.. it's a crash generator with a web browsing applet built in.
Opera is faster and more accurate than chrome.
Opera >> Chrome > IE > FF
It only took them 31 more seconds to get them all listed on Craigslist...
It's not the texting that makes kids stupid. It's the teachers' unions and their constant push for high pay with no work.
Texting is just making kids unable to communicate with our generation, not that they want to, anyway. It's not making them stupid.
>> We revised them until the people who were doing good work did well on them and the people who were doing poor work did poorly on them.
Why were people who were doing poor work still working for your company?
You really need to look beyond the trees around you and see the forest. This solution is terrible for a critical storage application. You're talking about saving your data for a lifetime. This device will not come anywhere near doing that for you.
I work for a company that designs high-availability, redundant systems. This thing lacks just about everything we consider bare-minimum for a five nines system, including but not limited to redundant power and communications, fault coverage, and low MTTR, low FIT rate, and so on.
Others have quite thoroughly explained why this should not be considered a high reliability or high availability solution. The use of commodity hardware makes it cheap, but none of the hardware used is really suitable for a HA/HIREL application, and the architecture is anything but capable of providing 99.999% availability.
This is an amateur solution to a complex problem. They can pull the whole "domyjobforme" trick on Slashdot, but ultimately they're going to end up in the same place as EMC and the rest of them.
>> The universe is the same in every direction when you look out far enough.
Yeah, except that from the SP, there's about 50% of the universe that you have to go through 10000 miles of hot grit^H^H^H^H magma, iron, and nickel to see...
I typed up a lengthy critique.. but decided not to post it...
I'll replace it with... "wow..."
This thing needs a lot more thought, especially with respect to redundancy, fault coverage, and maintenance.
I am all for allowing terminal patients a dignified way out. I don't have numbers on the tip of my brain, but I can only imagine the proportion of health care costs that are incurred in the final months of life for terminal patients. We spend entirely too much money trying to prolong the inevitable.
That's so true.. it's like blaming seatbelts for shoulder injuries sustained during collisions... of course, the alternative is MUCH worse...
The Atom...
...to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
The government should not consider ANY weapon a threat, because the Right of the People to keep and bear arms shall NOT be infringed. Arms are arms, whether they be spit-ball tubes, cannon, or nuclear weapons. If an arm is available to the government, The People are entitled to it for their own defense.
But, that's an ideal world in which the government obeys the rules imposed upon it by The People, and we all know how much of a fantasy that is...
Let's look back 17 years, to 1992. I was just starting college at Georgia Tech. I had a 12MHz 286 with a 40MB RLL hard disk, 360k and 720k floppy drives, and a CGA monitor. I did buy a brand new machine my first quarter - a blazing fast 386 DX-40 with 4MB of Ram, 1.44mb floppy, a 120MB hard disk, and a 800x600 super VGA monitor. it cost over $1000.
Most everything is still around: the Parallel IDE interface, the floppy drives, and the VGA connector. We've also had some new things: USB, Serial ATA, DVI, and so on, but if you had to find hardware that could read an old hard disk, you could.
The problem with the time capsule is... well... time. If you leave a hard drive to sit for 17 years, I doubt it would be able to spin up. I think the same would be true for just about any mechanical device.
How about non-volatile memory, like FLASH? Well, FLASH definitely has a finite retention period - usually 10 to 20 years, so even then you're taking a risk of losing data.
Optical disk? Well, now we're talking. Archival-quality media stored in controlled, ideal conditions will hold data on the order of 20+ years. It's the controlled, ideal conditions that make it tough. If exposed to heat, humidity, and temperature cycling, even the best archival quality media can be destroyed in a matter of months.
So, I think the best thing to do would be to maintain the materials unknown to the child until it is time to reveal the time capsule. Either that, or "dig up" the time capsule every few years and refresh the contents by replacing the media on which they are stored.
If a door to a house is left wide open, it is not an invitation. You can be charged with criminal trespass for entering the house - no "breaking and entering" (you watch too much TV, really) required.
If you enter that house with the intent to commit a crime, then you've escalated to Burglary, which in my particular state is a first degree felony carrying a 20 year maximum sentence. It does not matter if you were successful in committing your crime. Simply entering the property with the intent to commit a crime (any crime) is burglary.
If you enter that property with the intent to commit a crime, say, theft, and you succeed, you have not only committed the felony of burglary, but you have also committed theft by taking and possession of stolen property, which are completely independent charges, carrying their own sentences.
How these are analogues to the computer world, well, I don't know. I am sure it depends on the jurisdiction. There are laws on the books in some places regarding unauthorized access, regardless of intent.
Bottom line is, kids, you cannot assume a lack of security equals an invitation to snoop around.
Isn't it redundant to "criminalize" something that is already illegal? Isn't that sort of the definition of "illegal?"
Funny, I thought they were synonymous.
It doesn't get 230MPG. It gets 230MPG if you start on battery, drive until the battery is dead, and then drive a little bit farther on gas. You must consider that the energy that was stored in the battery had to come from somewhere, namely the on-board gas-fired electric generator. Of course, since they don't consider gas that was burned putting that energy there for the test, they can claim these ridiculous numbers.
It's all an elaborate fraud designed to dupe people...
"Sigh... like they say: "A datasheet writer can get twice the performance out of a chip that an engineer can.""
And a marketing manager can get 4 times that...
I'm downloading the test now, but does anyone who has tried it already know if it still has CPU Utilization issues like 3.5 has? I had to upgrade to 3.0 due to 3.5 hanging and/or crashing on flash content, particularly videos.
Try out Ubuntu Studio... it comes with an RT kernel built in...
They did start up a couple of chains: Tech America, Incredible Universe, and Computer City, to try to branch out into the big box format.
Tech America was simply awesome in terms of selection, but suffered from Radio Shack's 1800's business model of selling the same stuff for twice what you could get it for down the street, and just hoping people will think it's better because it costs more.
Incredible Universe was simple horrifying. Same deal. They were often just down the street or next door to a Circuit City - and was again the same products at higher prices with even less-informed sales staff.
Computer City was similarly disappointing - usually a year behind in product availability and pricing - often selling already obsolete processors and memory and what were by then ridiculous prices.