If we're going to be criticizing each others statements, can we do yours as well?
You must be a lot of fun at parties if you're that verbose about one word. Mistakes happen, someone used the the wrong word, but most knew what was intended, including yourself. Your mistake was writing a treatise about it.
For the record I agree that the more one makes the less likely they really earned it.
I like Einstein's view on economics, I suspect Republicans would not agree with him.
Anyone in IT long enough will realize that you are always learning new technology, but the basic concepts are the same.
I lost count of the training courses I have taken over the years. We now learn in 5 days what probably took a semester in college. I can go through an 800+ pages tech manual and identify and read all the important sections in an hour. I couldn't always do that but after all these years I have developed the ability to learn new technology very fast. I'm not bragging, this seems to be common for 40+ techies.
After learning enough programming languages it all becomes a matter of learning new syntax, how to read a file, process the data, write the file.
Is it interpreted, compiled, procedure oriented, object oriented?
We learn that an OS is just a place to run the programs. When we need to upgrade the OS to a newer version for support or being able to handle new hardware etc. then we plan the OS upgrade and test the applications and check with vendors to make sure they support the new OS.
We learn that vendors are not to be trusted and what used to be considered GA is now BETA and customers are now used as QA/debuggers.
How many people jumped on ZFS right away? It looks great, but it was still new. You know what happens when you setup clustering for high availability and use ZFS? A major problem in one ZFS filesystem that can cause a kernel panic causes failover, the next system imports the the problem ZFS filesystem, it kernel panics,... Now panic is an option, thanks for testing that for us.
We lost our innocence long ago regarding new technology promises and understand that nothing is true until we see it happen. Maybe our cynicism is mistaken as an attitude against new technology?
Everyone I know who had an XBox or PS3 that bought a Wii afterwards were blown away by the difference the controllers make.
First person shooters are a lot more fun when you can point at the target and shoot instead of using a joystick to slide the target cursor over then shoot.
I've played RE4 on the GameCube, then later I got the Wii version. The Wii version was a lot more fun.
I'll never bother with a shooter game that doesn't give me light-gun type controls ever again.
You can store ~60PB of storage in an "IBM System Storage TS3500 Tape Library" using Ultrium 5 tapes.
The tape drives do error detection and recovery on the fly.
The tape drives use a strong error correction algorithm that makes data recovery possible when lost data is within one track. When data is written to the tape it is verified by reading it back using the read heads that are positioned just 'behind' the write heads. This allows the drive to write a second copy of any data that fails the verify without the help of the host system.
Use can use TSM/Amanda to allow one or more backup servers to backup multiple servers over the network.
You can also use fibre channel with tape drives and dynamically attach them to servers that need higher speed backups than the network allows and have the tape drives managed by a backup server.
You can even write to two tapes simultaneously, so that you have both an onsite and offsite copy.
When the nightly backups are done you can eject the tapes from the library to go offsite and refill it with new scratch tapes.
Having an offsite copy of your backups is sometimes required by legal or contractual agreements.
For disk storage you usually have redundancy of disks and adapters to decrease the chances of the server going down.
Would you do the same for your backup disks? Four TB to store one?
And if you decide to double your disk requirements so that you have ONE backup copy, then you probably will double the number of SAN switches, and SAN switches are not cheap.
What if you needed 30 days worth of backups.
Most people I know use factory defaults for their SDTVs. They don't adjust the color, sharpness etc. and it usually makes a big difference.
If they don't know how to adjust a simple SDTV, what are they odds they can figure out an HDTV?
I've had plenty of friends buy a nice HDTV who were not very impressed until I helped them adjust the settings on their HDTV and cable box. Yes, even the cable box has settings that need to be adjusted for a better picture.
Another problem is that they might not be using the right connection to their TV. Some actually take the composite video connection from their old TV and attach it to the new HDTV. The results are usually not very impressive.
If you did a survey on HDTV owners, how many would know what 720p or 1080i meant? Do they know if they are using an HDMI or component video connection? Are they using upconvert-1, upconvert-2, or passthrough? Do they honestly know if they have an HD capable cable box?
If you work someplace with a lot of CRT monitors and walk around checking them out with your peripheral vision I would expect that nearly all of them are flickering at 60Hz. While some can't tell it's flickering, some do and didn't know it could be fixed.
Do not underestimate the number of ignorant people in this world. 18% seems way too low.
I know that in regular tournaments that have a chess computer competing, you have the option to play only against human opponents, and Masters usually take this option. But there have been plenty of matches between Man and Machine.
As to why, probably because it's a different style of play. In post-mortem analysis there are usually a couple of mistakes found, but while another human might miss these otb, the chess computer always finds them.
It's like bull fighting, the bull(cpu) usually loses but if the human makes one mistake...
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It has nothing to do with "virgin birth".
I don't think "Immaculate Conception" means what you think it means. It doesn't mean getting pregnant without having sex.
You must be a lot of fun at parties if you're that verbose about one word. Mistakes happen, someone used the the wrong word, but most knew what was intended, including yourself. Your mistake was writing a treatise about it.
For the record I agree that the more one makes the less likely they really earned it.
I like Einstein's view on economics, I suspect Republicans would not agree with him.
http://www.monthlyreview.org/598einstein.php
You sure about that? A lot of girls loved Brandon Lee in "The Crow"
Anyone in IT long enough will realize that you are always learning new technology, but the basic concepts are the same.
I lost count of the training courses I have taken over the years. We now learn in 5 days what probably took a semester in college. I can go through an 800+ pages tech manual and identify and read all the important sections in an hour. I couldn't always do that but after all these years I have developed the ability to learn new technology very fast. I'm not bragging, this seems to be common for 40+ techies.
After learning enough programming languages it all becomes a matter of learning new syntax, how to read a file, process the data, write the file.
Is it interpreted, compiled, procedure oriented, object oriented?
We learn that an OS is just a place to run the programs. When we need to upgrade the OS to a newer version for support or being able to handle new hardware etc. then we plan the OS upgrade and test the applications and check with vendors to make sure they support the new OS.
We learn that vendors are not to be trusted and what used to be considered GA is now BETA and customers are now used as QA/debuggers.
How many people jumped on ZFS right away? It looks great, but it was still new. You know what happens when you setup clustering for high availability and use ZFS? A major problem in one ZFS filesystem that can cause a kernel panic causes failover, the next system imports the the problem ZFS filesystem, it kernel panics,... Now panic is an option, thanks for testing that for us.
We lost our innocence long ago regarding new technology promises and understand that nothing is true until we see it happen. Maybe our cynicism is mistaken as an attitude against new technology?
Everyone I know who had an XBox or PS3 that bought a Wii afterwards were blown away by the difference the controllers make.
First person shooters are a lot more fun when you can point at the target and shoot instead of using a joystick to slide the target cursor over then shoot.
I've played RE4 on the GameCube, then later I got the Wii version. The Wii version was a lot more fun.
I'll never bother with a shooter game that doesn't give me light-gun type controls ever again.
The tape drives do error detection and recovery on the fly.
The tape drives use a strong error correction algorithm that makes data recovery possible when lost data is within one track. When data is written to the tape it is verified by reading it back using the read heads that are positioned just 'behind' the write heads. This allows the drive to write a second copy of any data that fails the verify without the help of the host system.
Use can use TSM/Amanda to allow one or more backup servers to backup multiple servers over the network.
You can also use fibre channel with tape drives and dynamically attach them to servers that need higher speed backups than the network allows and have the tape drives managed by a backup server.
You can even write to two tapes simultaneously, so that you have both an onsite and offsite copy.
When the nightly backups are done you can eject the tapes from the library to go offsite and refill it with new scratch tapes.
Having an offsite copy of your backups is sometimes required by legal or contractual agreements.
For disk storage you usually have redundancy of disks and adapters to decrease the chances of the server going down. Would you do the same for your backup disks? Four TB to store one?
And if you decide to double your disk requirements so that you have ONE backup copy, then you probably will double the number of SAN switches, and SAN switches are not cheap. What if you needed 30 days worth of backups.
Most people I know use factory defaults for their SDTVs. They don't adjust the color, sharpness etc. and it usually makes a big difference. If they don't know how to adjust a simple SDTV, what are they odds they can figure out an HDTV?
I've had plenty of friends buy a nice HDTV who were not very impressed until I helped them adjust the settings on their HDTV and cable box. Yes, even the cable box has settings that need to be adjusted for a better picture.
Another problem is that they might not be using the right connection to their TV. Some actually take the composite video connection from their old TV and attach it to the new HDTV. The results are usually not very impressive.
If you did a survey on HDTV owners, how many would know what 720p or 1080i meant? Do they know if they are using an HDMI or component video connection? Are they using upconvert-1, upconvert-2, or passthrough? Do they honestly know if they have an HD capable cable box?
If you work someplace with a lot of CRT monitors and walk around checking them out with your peripheral vision I would expect that nearly all of them are flickering at 60Hz. While some can't tell it's flickering, some do and didn't know it could be fixed.
Do not underestimate the number of ignorant people in this world. 18% seems way too low.
I know that in regular tournaments that have a chess computer competing, you have the option to play only against human opponents, and Masters usually take this option. But there have been plenty of matches between Man and Machine.
As to why, probably because it's a different style of play. In post-mortem analysis there are usually a couple of mistakes found, but while another human might miss these otb, the chess computer always finds them.
It's like bull fighting, the bull(cpu) usually loses but if the human makes one mistake...