Oops, sorry about the units snafu - but I an thinking of 100baseT, isn't it baseband. I didn't think there is a carrier with baseband.
As for the shelf life problem, I guess one remedy is to "re-fresh" the backup every year - i.e. grab another drive, format it and then copy the data from drive A to this drive (B). Then rotate drive A from drive C, etc.
This is increasing the cost, but if the drive is worth it... I have seen some people say the procedure is need to for tape. I think that even if tape has a longer shelf, the increased speed of hard drives would be it worthwhile. Especially if you have mission critical systems that could need to be restore quickly in prime time. After a failure, the time to restore can get one HELL of a lot of attention....more than you could ever want.
....is time to restore. You back at off times and you generally do incremental backups, right? You have a failure. You lose it all and it is prime time, Big People are depending on you, this is costing the company money.
So, you reinstall the operating system and then the tape backup/restore program, you start the restore and it takes 10 FOREVERS!!!!!!!!!!! This system was installed years ago, upgraded since bit not one tested how long it would take to restore gigabytes. And gawd, help the poor soul who loses a terabyte.
The last full restore is as quick as you can change out the drive. Then you need to do an incremental restore, but most of the time is over all ready. Nice and worth the price if you are do any kind of profitable business.
So, like, do EIDE drives have a shelf life? If you get a new one, do some burn-in testing, use it only for backups and restore, the drive will 99% of the time on the shelf, hopefully in a safe environment. I bet it would last a Long Time but still, if the data is important, you have backups of the backup, although a rotating schedule will ensure that any single loss will lost only a certain amount of data.
For really long storage, the EIDE bus itself is going to be an issue. You could put the drive in the $199 cheapie computer from Wal-Mart but then how long will 100 mHz Ethernet last?
Yes, and this is one of the main reasons I go to movies. First, I live in an apartment and while I could afford a 5.1, 500 watt sound system, it would get me evicted in about three minutes. So, I listen to headphones a lot, in old fashion stereo. And just, it can get tiresome.
And no matter what anyone says, no big screen TV provides the same experience as a 40 foot screen with 35mm. Not just the rez but the constrast as well. Maybe there is a HDTV that good but I probably can't afford it!
And I do buy from the concession stands. I typically spend about $15 a trip and go about two or three times a week. It is worth every penny. Sitting in the dark in the visions on the silver screen is just a damn lovely experience (while except for turkeys like "Kurt and Courtney").
As for the volumne, damn Sam, IF IT IS TOO LOUD, THEN YOU ARE TOO OLD!
...de-centralizing the market. This is why there is no little support for solar power - no one can put a meter on the sun.
In the long run, they are doomed. We will develop independent technologies and we will share these with our friends for free and there is nothing the MegaCorps can do about it, unless they totally destory freedom.
"It's Funny, Laugh" icon. But when I got to the part about poor ole Hodges "emitted a scream the like of which I hadn`t heard since his scrotum was burned off during my experiment with fluorine gas last year", a suspected that this page was out about truth but about entertainment. And it is!
I still don't see that icon at http://www.lateralscience.co.uk/VicN2/vicN2.html. Where is it?
I have to admit that one reason that Clarke is my favorite is that he is my first. I bought a paperback copy of "Against the Fall of Night" in the early 60's (I think I paid about 50 cents), and it absolutely and permanently, I'm afraid, bent my mind. I don't think anything in this book has come true yet, but what the hell, it takes place about 1,000,000,000 A.D.
"Childhood's End" is still my favorite. The magic of both of these epics is a) he tells a story and b) that story has great amounts of imagination. For today's readers, many will find this style rather slow, as he paints the scenery with lavish descriptions. No CGI in paperback.
Now, I must also give due to the other three members of the B.A.C.H. partheon of science fiction, Bradbury, Asmiov, and Heinlein. In many ways, they stand the standard in the Golden Ages and all who come after own them a Great Debt. And of course, they themselves would probably agree that with Galileo when he said, "if I have seen farther, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants.
Early giants would have to be Jules Verne and H.G. Wells. Today's giants must include Ursula K. LeGuin (before she switched to fantasy), Anne McCaferry, Harlen Ellision, and that great, great screenwriter, J. Micheal Strayskiicn (but unspellable, I'm afraid!)
...they are going to depend on a fad or two to establish a new technology. You might call that the Hula-Hoop business model. Well, be prepared for the bust!
I am going to be off-topic for a moment to gives thanks to all of the hardworking guys and gals at Slashdot. I am so addicted that I have to check even on Thanksgiving and lo and behold, there is new content here as if it was any ole Thursday!
...and that is why private company are inappropriate to have control over infrastructure that is shared by the community. This is why we do not have private companies running the police or fire department for profit. The same for utilities...and the Internet backbone is a utility for the whole world. It needs to be under control of the U.N.
...I have seen it twice at the theater. I would gladly go again to see it if it was subtitled with the original Japanese soundtrack - I am curious to see if it would be as good with that magical voice of Daveigh Chase. The girl has been getting work - first "Lilo and Stitch", then this and then the "The Ring".
More than lush fluid animation, the film has that undefinable quality that is missing in so many films....charm. I hope it gets more than the limited release it had. I hope it gets the recognition it deserves.
Two conservative former members of Congress have recently joined the ACLU - to work full time against the new anti-Constitutional laws. Both are Republicans.
I have been a member for 10 years. I am a flaming leftwing radical. Both we can all united to restore the Constitution and get rid of those treasonous bastards who use the Bill of Rights as toliet paper. Right or left, liberal or conservative, everyone who loves freedom is welcome in the ACLU as long as you love freedom for EVERYONE!
I have read the book, _Congo_, but I do have to say that the movie is one of the worst either made. It contains every jungle cliche known to lifekind and is alway as bad as "Plan 9 from Outer Space", but not as bad as "Courntey and Kurt".
I am have been trying for years to find a reasonable center between this insane content laws and Megacorp Nazi pigs and my passion for liberty, American style. I give up. Screw the Nazi's, screw the laws. copy everything, give it away, make money on it.
ROT IN HELL CONTECT NAZI'S I PEE ON YOUR GRANDMOTHER"S GRAVE!
I just give up. There is no satisfying the bastards and there greed to control it all.
Put him in a cell block with all of the lameo first posters!
But, now we have this treasonous bastard, Vice Adm. John M. Poindexter, who wants to be able to do the same to MY data without a warrant. See
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/09/politics/09COM P. html?ex=1037509200&en=873ff5626a3c666e&ei=5062&par tner=GOOGLE
at the damn NYCrimes (you gotta register with Big Brother to see it, sorry). No way! Bust the crackers - both the amateurs and the profressional. Preserve the Constitution. Save the Republican.
...Batteries don't care if your CPU is RISC, CISC, chicken feathers, or satin. Would a better title be, "Reducing power use in RISC, to save battery life"?
This pirates are screwing it up for the rest of us. Okay, I had ONE bootlog copy of a movie - a film that I would NEVER spend money on - not a penny. It was terrible quality - it was filming with a video camera in a movie house and fuzzy as hell. I through it away - I would have never had but this friend want be to see it because he loves the star (who I hate).
But you know what. I actually did like the movie. Now, I will spent money to see the star's next film - at a first run movie house, with THX and 35mm.
But my main concern is to perserve my right to make backups. To buy a DVD and make a copy, just in case. These pirates could have waited. There are MOUNTAINS of movies on DVD's. No one is short of something to watch. The priority is preserve our right to make backups in our own home. Don't screw with that.
I hate the way the copyright laws have become a nightmare. But these pirates are STUPID! So stupid, I would have to call it EVIL.
I have to agree. Today's special effects can do ANYTHING... and more. But that does mean that both analog and digital animation does not have it's place. They are just other colours of the pallet.
"Rather than paints, we are talking about coatings, which could be electroplated, or put on with physical vapor deposition qualities. We are talking about more things than paints. They could be metallic or have other qualities". That means that body paint that dances, vibrates, and makes delicous patterns at interesting times is out. Would have been nice. But it could make for interesting play clothes. Mmmmm. Hey, you could have body jewelery that vibrates - and even play Santana! Ohhhhhh!
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"EVIL! Pure and simple, from the Fifth Dimension"!
Oops, sorry about the units snafu - but I an thinking of 100baseT, isn't it baseband. I didn't think there is a carrier with baseband.
As for the shelf life problem, I guess one remedy is to "re-fresh" the backup every year - i.e. grab another drive, format it and then copy the data from drive A to this drive (B). Then rotate drive A from drive C, etc.
This is increasing the cost, but if the drive is worth it... I have seen some people say the procedure is need to for tape. I think that even if tape has a longer shelf, the increased speed of hard drives would be it worthwhile. Especially if you have mission critical systems that could need to be restore quickly in prime time. After a failure, the time to restore can get one HELL of a lot of attention....more than you could ever want.
....is time to restore. You back at off times and you generally do incremental backups, right? You have a failure. You lose it all and it is prime time, Big People are depending on you, this is costing the company money.
So, you reinstall the operating system and then the tape backup/restore program, you start the restore and it takes 10 FOREVERS!!!!!!!!!!! This system was installed years ago, upgraded since bit not one tested how long it would take to restore gigabytes. And gawd, help the poor soul who loses a terabyte.
The last full restore is as quick as you can change out the drive. Then you need to do an incremental restore, but most of the time is over all ready. Nice and worth the price if you are do any kind of profitable business.
So, like, do EIDE drives have a shelf life? If you get a new one, do some burn-in testing, use it only for backups and restore, the drive will 99% of the time on the shelf, hopefully in a safe environment. I bet it would last a Long Time but still, if the data is important, you have backups of the backup, although a rotating schedule will ensure that any single loss will lost only a certain amount of data.
For really long storage, the EIDE bus itself is going to be an issue. You could put the drive in the $199 cheapie computer from Wal-Mart but then how long will 100 mHz Ethernet last?
Yes, and this is one of the main reasons I go to movies. First, I live in an apartment and while I could afford a 5.1, 500 watt sound system, it would get me evicted in about three minutes. So, I listen to headphones a lot, in old fashion stereo. And just, it can get tiresome.
And no matter what anyone says, no big screen TV provides the same experience as a 40 foot screen with 35mm. Not just the rez but the constrast as well. Maybe there is a HDTV that good but I probably can't afford it!
And I do buy from the concession stands. I typically spend about $15 a trip and go about two or three times a week. It is worth every penny. Sitting in the dark in the visions on the silver screen is just a damn lovely experience (while except for turkeys like "Kurt and Courtney").
As for the volumne, damn Sam, IF IT IS TOO LOUD, THEN YOU ARE TOO OLD!
Just stay home.
...de-centralizing the market. This is why there is no little support for solar power - no one can put a meter on the sun.
In the long run, they are doomed. We will develop independent technologies and we will share these with our friends for free and there is nothing the MegaCorps can do about it, unless they totally destory freedom.
Do let them take away your freedom!
"It's Funny, Laugh" icon. But when I got to the part about poor ole Hodges "emitted a scream the like of which I hadn`t heard since his scrotum was burned off during my experiment with fluorine gas last year", a suspected that this page was out about truth but about entertainment. And it is!
I still don't see that icon at http://www.lateralscience.co.uk/VicN2/vicN2.html. Where is it?
I have to admit that one reason that Clarke is my favorite is that he is my first. I bought a paperback copy of "Against the Fall of Night" in the early 60's (I think I paid about 50 cents), and it absolutely and permanently, I'm afraid, bent my mind. I don't think anything in this book has come true yet, but what the hell, it takes place about 1,000,000,000 A.D.
"Childhood's End" is still my favorite. The magic of both of these epics is a) he tells a story and b) that story has great amounts of imagination. For today's readers, many will find this style rather slow, as he paints the scenery with lavish descriptions. No CGI in paperback.
Now, I must also give due to the other three members of the B.A.C.H. partheon of science fiction, Bradbury, Asmiov, and Heinlein. In many ways, they stand the standard in the Golden Ages and all who come after own them a Great Debt. And of course, they themselves would probably agree that with Galileo when he said, "if I have seen farther, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants.
Early giants would have to be Jules Verne and H.G. Wells. Today's giants must include Ursula K. LeGuin (before she switched to fantasy), Anne McCaferry, Harlen Ellision, and that great, great screenwriter, J. Micheal Strayskiicn (but unspellable, I'm afraid!)
You got me started here!!!!!!!
...they are going to depend on a fad or two to establish a new technology. You might call that the Hula-Hoop business model. Well, be prepared for the bust!
I am going to be off-topic for a moment to gives thanks to all of the hardworking guys and gals at Slashdot. I am so addicted that I have to check even on Thanksgiving and lo and behold, there is new content here as if it was any ole Thursday!
Damn, Sam, THANK YOOOOOOOOOU!
But you people deserve to take Christmas off!
...and that is why private company are inappropriate to have control over infrastructure that is shared by the community. This is why we do not have private companies running the police or fire department for profit. The same for utilities...and the Internet backbone is a utility for the whole world. It needs to be under control of the U.N.
...I have seen it twice at the theater. I would gladly go again to see it if it was subtitled with the original Japanese soundtrack - I am curious to see if it would be as good with that magical voice of Daveigh Chase. The girl has been getting work - first "Lilo and Stitch", then this and then the "The Ring".
More than lush fluid animation, the film has that undefinable quality that is missing in so many films....charm. I hope it gets more than the limited release it had. I hope it gets the recognition it deserves.
Two conservative former members of Congress have recently joined the ACLU - to work full time against the new anti-Constitutional laws. Both are Republicans.
I have been a member for 10 years. I am a flaming leftwing radical. Both we can all united to restore the Constitution and get rid of those treasonous bastards who use the Bill of Rights as toliet paper. Right or left, liberal or conservative, everyone who loves freedom is welcome in the ACLU as long as you love freedom for EVERYONE!
...the biggest promoter of music piracy in the world with this bonehead manuover.
I have read the book, _Congo_, but I do have to say that the movie is one of the worst either made. It contains every jungle cliche known to lifekind and is alway as bad as "Plan 9 from Outer Space", but not as bad as "Courntey and Kurt".
The Content Nazi's will love this. I don't imagine that burners would get below $1,000 or even $10,000 soon.
They will want this to kill Blu-Ray.
DAMN!
Amen, brother. I give. I just fucking give up.
I am have been trying for years to find a reasonable center between this insane content laws and Megacorp Nazi pigs and my passion for liberty, American style. I give up. Screw the Nazi's, screw the laws. copy everything, give it away, make money on it.
ROT IN HELL CONTECT NAZI'S
I PEE ON YOUR GRANDMOTHER"S GRAVE!
I just give up. There is no satisfying the bastards and there greed to control it all.
You would blame a whole country, a whole culture because of one stupid company?
BIGOT!!
But at least you are not a lameo first poster.
It was went Time-Life bought Byte that it went downhill. I will never forget that sad, sad issue when the ads outnumbers the articles - in page count.
Probably a major reason why Byte is available online only today.
Put him in a cell block with all of the lameo first posters!
M P. html?ex=1037509200&en=873ff5626a3c666e&ei=5062&par tner=GOOGLE
But, now we have this treasonous bastard, Vice Adm. John M. Poindexter, who wants to be able to do the same to MY data without a warrant. See
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/09/politics/09CO
at the damn NYCrimes (you gotta register with Big Brother to see it, sorry). No way! Bust the crackers - both the amateurs and the profressional. Preserve the Constitution. Save the Republican.
DAMN EVIL!!
...Batteries don't care if your CPU is RISC, CISC, chicken feathers, or satin. Would a better title be, "Reducing power use in RISC, to save battery life"?
This pirates are screwing it up for the rest of us. Okay, I had ONE bootlog copy of a movie - a film that I would NEVER spend money on - not a penny. It was terrible quality - it was filming with a video camera in a movie house and fuzzy as hell. I through it away - I would have never had but this friend want be to see it because he loves the star (who I hate).
But you know what. I actually did like the movie. Now, I will spent money to see the star's next film - at a first run movie house, with THX and 35mm.
But my main concern is to perserve my right to make backups. To buy a DVD and make a copy, just in case. These pirates could have waited. There are MOUNTAINS of movies on DVD's. No one is short of something to watch. The priority is preserve our right to make backups in our own home. Don't screw with that.
I hate the way the copyright laws have become a nightmare. But these pirates are STUPID! So stupid, I would have to call it EVIL.
I have to agree. Today's special effects can do ANYTHING... and more. But that does mean that both analog and digital animation does not have it's place. They are just other colours of the pallet.
I LOVE ANIME!
This is a great time for film!
The last mile problem is SOLVED!
"Rather than paints, we are talking about coatings, which could be electroplated, or put on with physical vapor deposition qualities. We are talking about more things than paints. They could be metallic or have other qualities". That means that body paint that dances, vibrates, and makes delicous patterns at interesting times is out. Would have been nice. But it could make for interesting play clothes. Mmmmm. Hey, you could have body jewelery that vibrates - and even play Santana! Ohhhhhh!