I think part of this battery swapping scheme has to include having multiple batteries in a vehicle. This is necessary so that different size vehicles could all use the same standard batteries. Larger vehicles would use more and smaller vehicles would use fewer. It would also greatly mitigate the issue that you're talking about since, if one battery fails, you still have the others. A somewhat less critical, but still important factor is that multiple batteries would allow for the possibility that a customer would only want a partial fill up. In other words, they would replace some but not all of their batteries at a given stop.
That reminds me of something I heard as part of a FileMaker Pro salesman's pitch about why to use FileMaker instead of MS Office. The Law of Office Inertia: Data in Microsoft Office tends to remain in Microsoft Office.
Right now I have a sprained ankle from running. I was wearing Nike Air Max 180's which are towards the top of the line but not quite the most expensive. These shoes have very thick soles which are wider at the base than where they meet the bottom of the foot. I think that the thickness and angle of the soles applied some extra leverage when my ankle turned and made the sprain much worse than it would otherwise have been.
So if they obtained court authorization to deploy Sarin gas that'd be ok too right?
I'm guessing that you are referring to Operation Tailwind which has largely been debunked. It hasn't been completely proven that the gas wasn't sarin but it seems improbable that it was.
Actually, RAID 1 can be cheaper than RAID 5 when the required size is small enough. RAID 1 is easily and reliably done in free software. RAID 5 typically requires a hardware controller. I have heard of software based RAID that will do level 5 but I don't know whether it's any good and, last I checked, not free. The point is that you have to make up the cost of the controller with reduced cost of hard drives (due to getting 67% of total space from RAID 5 as opposed to 50% with RAID 1). Up to a certain point, it's cheaper to just buy bigger hard drives. Furthermore, as someone else mentioned, you have to have at least 3 drives for RAID 5 but only two for RAID 1.
You can also do nested RAID in free software (combinations of striping and mirroring). You really don't save much with RAID 5 until you need to beat the storage space of a RAID 01 (or 10) made of four of whatever size is most economical at the time. So, currently, you need to be after more than about 3 TB of storage before RAID 5 makes sense. Since the situation we are discussing here seems to have low storage requirements, I would think that RAID 1 is going to be both the cheapest and easiest solution.
This question is so obvious that I'm probably going to end up getting modded redundant but here goes anyway. My understanding is that something has to include sexual acts to be considered pornography. Nudity, by itself, is not pornography. Either the charges are baseless because of that or there is something more going on here than the story says. In other words, they weren't just nude pictures.
The article says that drives with mapped out blocks that don't work in a RAID work just fine in a Drobo. Actually, the Drobo is a RAID. It automatically configures itself to use either RAID 1 or RAID 5 depending on how many drives you put in it. These schemes have redundancy and therefore some robustness to them. Apple tends to use RAID 0 by default(which isn't really RAID and has no redundency) to improve performance and give the most possible space. When you do that, you really do need to be sure that you have good drives because the array will fail if either drive fails and you better have good backups.
They are similar in the factor that many of the laws which a civil libertarian would favor are ones which restrict the government rather than the people. Wouldn't it be logical for a Libertarian favor a law against passing laws, or at least certain kinds of laws?
That definitely jibs with my experience. I don't think I've ever gotten a job through the usual send-us-a-resume process. (My resume sucks. Forgot to finish my BA, and there's some holes in my experience where I was fighting illness.) But I've had more luck when I've been able to connect with the hiring manager directly and convince them that I could do the work.
I participated a few times in the hiring process and the hiring manager I worked with would assume that any gaps like you mention meant that the person had been in prison.
Still, honestly given the economy, I'd rather see this than layoffs. Not that there aren't people I'd like to see gone, but that needs to come as part of the normal, "You're a moron/sloth, go pursue other career opportunities" methods. Layoffs always seem to get 75% of those people, and another 25% that were invaluable but pissed off the wrong person.
Right. Then, when things improve at the company, you hire people who were laid of from other companies because they were morons/sloths there and they hire your morons/sloths. Each will, of course, get a pay raise in the process. The premium for moving jobs is usually better than for staying put and getting merit pay raises.
I'm not having this problem so I can't verify but does the inability to update IO.pm still apply if you do: "$cpan -i IO" or only if you do use "perl -MCPAN?"
At some point, the paradigm is going to have to change. I don't know how it will change: Terminal Server-like remote desktops with a Time Machine like backup strategy available through an always-on internet connection? Web desktops? Special-purpose devices in lieu of general-purpose PCs?
You're on the right track with Time Machine but I think it's Apple's Migration Assistant that comes the closest to what you're talking about, at least among currently available technologies. It can move a user account, with all it's settings, from one computer to the next and keep everything exactly in place, down to the position of the icons on the desktop.
Actually, this is really the main point. No computer system is foolproof. The real story should be that this school is offering online classes, which have technical requirements, and yet they are not providing enough support to get someone through the job of connecting to the internet or even using a word processor. TFA says she missed two semesters because of this. The school and their desktop support, help desk or whatever should have resolved this issue one way or another within a week or two at worst. It could be a failure on the part of the professor or other school officials for not sending her to get tech support but this is not really Dell or Ubuntu's fault.
Right, and if the 1 MB limit per email is too small for a particular request, you could tie in some of the advanced technologies, such as PAR, which were originally invented to circumvent similar difficulties in transmitting ridiculous quantities p0rn over usenet in spite of small message size limits.
This gets into a fundamental philosophical issue of priorities. Do you take whatever is the highest priority problem and focus the entire resources of society to the exclusion of all else or do you diversify efforts to include some lower priority issues as well?
I Apple's point would be that they are charging for the service of providing easy searching and downloading. If you really want the song for free you can find it get it from other sources with a little bit more effort. On the other hand, the fact that record labels could make money on tapes, CD's and other media containing public domain material seems to have created an expectation that they would always be able to do so. They put in DRM to try and force you to repurchase public domain material when formats change.
What I gather from talking to Apple reps is that they see the Mac as always being a high end niche player. They want the Mac to be a premium brand.
If you take that observation a step farther and factor in various design choices and marketing decisions by Apple, it seems to me that their strategy is geared towards a market where Linux takes over the low end while they get the high end and Microsoft is squeezed in the middle. They figure that they can't compete with Linux for the low end and shouldn't try. I think, if anything, Apple is surprised that Linux hasn't grabbed more market share already. An environment where there is significant market share for Linux at the low end would benefit Apple because it's easier to follow cross-platform standards between Linux and OS X than Windows and OS X.
Absolutely. The Mac Mini is one of the most environmentally friendly computers out there. It scores very high in terms of the there R's - reduce, reuse, recycle. It also uses a very small amount of electrical power relative to other desktops. In addition, inexpensive options like the Mini are really needed in bad economic times.
I've been trying to get a job in bioinformatics for about two years now. I'm coming more from the biology end myself (BS in biochemistry and MS in Molecular Biology) but I do have some programming and database skills and I completed a graduate certificate in bioinformatics. It's a certificate and not a full masters because the university hasn't developed the program fully yet.
Just about all the jobs I have seen posted as bioinformatics are actually just looking for an entry level programmer without any real biology skills. There doesn't seem to be any premium for these positions (over other programmer jobs) and the pay grade is less than I make in my current position as a sysadmin.
I guess what that means is that coding is what bioinformatics is all about and all the rest is secondary.
One casualty of the jump in Web attacks and threats could be Internet ads, as enterprises and users increasingly begin to deploy technologies that block third-party content.
Third-party content is ultimately not necessary for web ads. Advertisers could submit ads to be published by the sites themselves the way it's done in every other form of media. I suppose that there is some convenience in just serving ads from a third party but is that really worth the security and privacy costs? The main point of third-party content is to track users. Again, this isn't necessary. It's only done because one advertising agency is at a disadvantage if they don't do it while their competitors do. I realy don't see any great benefit to society from advertisers being able to profile people and deliver more and more targeted ads to them. Certainly, for my part, I don't think it's worth the loss of privacy and I've been blocking some kinds of third-party content for years because of it.
Don't forget to factor in the cost of electricity to power it. Each of the low cost computers which I have compared to the Mini consume two to ten times as much power. The small size and ability to reuse monitors and keyboards also make the Mini a very environmentally friendly machine.
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You mean, more or less, what Freenet does.
I think part of this battery swapping scheme has to include having multiple batteries in a vehicle. This is necessary so that different size vehicles could all use the same standard batteries. Larger vehicles would use more and smaller vehicles would use fewer. It would also greatly mitigate the issue that you're talking about since, if one battery fails, you still have the others. A somewhat less critical, but still important factor is that multiple batteries would allow for the possibility that a customer would only want a partial fill up. In other words, they would replace some but not all of their batteries at a given stop.
That reminds me of something I heard as part of a FileMaker Pro salesman's pitch about why to use FileMaker instead of MS Office. The Law of Office Inertia: Data in Microsoft Office tends to remain in Microsoft Office.
Right now I have a sprained ankle from running. I was wearing Nike Air Max 180's which are towards the top of the line but not quite the most expensive. These shoes have very thick soles which are wider at the base than where they meet the bottom of the foot. I think that the thickness and angle of the soles applied some extra leverage when my ankle turned and made the sprain much worse than it would otherwise have been.
I'm guessing that you are referring to Operation Tailwind which has largely been debunked. It hasn't been completely proven that the gas wasn't sarin but it seems improbable that it was.
Dude, I make almost twice that much per hour to install and troubleshoot Windows. You're in the wrong line of work.
Actually, RAID 1 can be cheaper than RAID 5 when the required size is small enough. RAID 1 is easily and reliably done in free software. RAID 5 typically requires a hardware controller. I have heard of software based RAID that will do level 5 but I don't know whether it's any good and, last I checked, not free. The point is that you have to make up the cost of the controller with reduced cost of hard drives (due to getting 67% of total space from RAID 5 as opposed to 50% with RAID 1). Up to a certain point, it's cheaper to just buy bigger hard drives. Furthermore, as someone else mentioned, you have to have at least 3 drives for RAID 5 but only two for RAID 1.
You can also do nested RAID in free software (combinations of striping and mirroring). You really don't save much with RAID 5 until you need to beat the storage space of a RAID 01 (or 10) made of four of whatever size is most economical at the time. So, currently, you need to be after more than about 3 TB of storage before RAID 5 makes sense. Since the situation we are discussing here seems to have low storage requirements, I would think that RAID 1 is going to be both the cheapest and easiest solution.
This question is so obvious that I'm probably going to end up getting modded redundant but here goes anyway. My understanding is that something has to include sexual acts to be considered pornography. Nudity, by itself, is not pornography. Either the charges are baseless because of that or there is something more going on here than the story says. In other words, they weren't just nude pictures.
The article says that drives with mapped out blocks that don't work in a RAID work just fine in a Drobo. Actually, the Drobo is a RAID. It automatically configures itself to use either RAID 1 or RAID 5 depending on how many drives you put in it. These schemes have redundancy and therefore some robustness to them. Apple tends to use RAID 0 by default(which isn't really RAID and has no redundency) to improve performance and give the most possible space. When you do that, you really do need to be sure that you have good drives because the array will fail if either drive fails and you better have good backups.
They are similar in the factor that many of the laws which a civil libertarian would favor are ones which restrict the government rather than the people. Wouldn't it be logical for a Libertarian favor a law against passing laws, or at least certain kinds of laws?
I participated a few times in the hiring process and the hiring manager I worked with would assume that any gaps like you mention meant that the person had been in prison.
Right. Then, when things improve at the company, you hire people who were laid of from other companies because they were morons/sloths there and they hire your morons/sloths. Each will, of course, get a pay raise in the process. The premium for moving jobs is usually better than for staying put and getting merit pay raises.
You could help fix that problem by participating with projects such as Fink , MacPorts or OSXPM.
I'm not having this problem so I can't verify but does the inability to update IO.pm still apply if you do: "$cpan -i IO" or only if you do use "perl -MCPAN?"
You're on the right track with Time Machine but I think it's Apple's Migration Assistant that comes the closest to what you're talking about, at least among currently available technologies. It can move a user account, with all it's settings, from one computer to the next and keep everything exactly in place, down to the position of the icons on the desktop.
Actually, this is really the main point. No computer system is foolproof. The real story should be that this school is offering online classes, which have technical requirements, and yet they are not providing enough support to get someone through the job of connecting to the internet or even using a word processor. TFA says she missed two semesters because of this. The school and their desktop support, help desk or whatever should have resolved this issue one way or another within a week or two at worst. It could be a failure on the part of the professor or other school officials for not sending her to get tech support but this is not really Dell or Ubuntu's fault.
Right, and if the 1 MB limit per email is too small for a particular request, you could tie in some of the advanced technologies, such as PAR, which were originally invented to circumvent similar difficulties in transmitting ridiculous quantities p0rn over usenet in spite of small message size limits.
This gets into a fundamental philosophical issue of priorities. Do you take whatever is the highest priority problem and focus the entire resources of society to the exclusion of all else or do you diversify efforts to include some lower priority issues as well?
I Apple's point would be that they are charging for the service of providing easy searching and downloading. If you really want the song for free you can find it get it from other sources with a little bit more effort. On the other hand, the fact that record labels could make money on tapes, CD's and other media containing public domain material seems to have created an expectation that they would always be able to do so. They put in DRM to try and force you to repurchase public domain material when formats change.
What I gather from talking to Apple reps is that they see the Mac as always being a high end niche player. They want the Mac to be a premium brand.
If you take that observation a step farther and factor in various design choices and marketing decisions by Apple, it seems to me that their strategy is geared towards a market where Linux takes over the low end while they get the high end and Microsoft is squeezed in the middle. They figure that they can't compete with Linux for the low end and shouldn't try. I think, if anything, Apple is surprised that Linux hasn't grabbed more market share already. An environment where there is significant market share for Linux at the low end would benefit Apple because it's easier to follow cross-platform standards between Linux and OS X than Windows and OS X.
Absolutely. The Mac Mini is one of the most environmentally friendly computers out there. It scores very high in terms of the there R's - reduce, reuse, recycle. It also uses a very small amount of electrical power relative to other desktops. In addition, inexpensive options like the Mini are really needed in bad economic times.
I've been trying to get a job in bioinformatics for about two years now. I'm coming more from the biology end myself (BS in biochemistry and MS in Molecular Biology) but I do have some programming and database skills and I completed a graduate certificate in bioinformatics. It's a certificate and not a full masters because the university hasn't developed the program fully yet. Just about all the jobs I have seen posted as bioinformatics are actually just looking for an entry level programmer without any real biology skills. There doesn't seem to be any premium for these positions (over other programmer jobs) and the pay grade is less than I make in my current position as a sysadmin. I guess what that means is that coding is what bioinformatics is all about and all the rest is secondary.
Third-party content is ultimately not necessary for web ads. Advertisers could submit ads to be published by the sites themselves the way it's done in every other form of media. I suppose that there is some convenience in just serving ads from a third party but is that really worth the security and privacy costs? The main point of third-party content is to track users. Again, this isn't necessary. It's only done because one advertising agency is at a disadvantage if they don't do it while their competitors do. I realy don't see any great benefit to society from advertisers being able to profile people and deliver more and more targeted ads to them. Certainly, for my part, I don't think it's worth the loss of privacy and I've been blocking some kinds of third-party content for years because of it.
Maybe we need an animated Bill Murray to mold plastique explosives into the shape of a bone.
Don't forget to factor in the cost of electricity to power it. Each of the low cost computers which I have compared to the Mini consume two to ten times as much power. The small size and ability to reuse monitors and keyboards also make the Mini a very environmentally friendly machine.