Fishing weight used to be made of lead... My grandpa would sometimes make some at home, melting the metal on a small gas burner. I remember playing with them quite a bit as a kid, they were exquisitely heady.
Since I don't fish, I don't know what these are made of today... Still lead?
This is very sound advise, and it is why I like the feature in Crashplan (home) of having an external disk (or a mounted NAS, with some hacking) as an additional backup destination.
If Backblaze had that option I'd have jumped already; as it stands I'm still researching options, because the local copy is important to me and I don't want to fumble with scripts, rsync, etc. One agent to backup them all:-)
It was a good environment for my kids to explore, lots of fun activities and the chat was *strictly* controlled, with only approved words and phrases available for use. May not suit an older kid, but for the 6 yro who's just learning the ropes, it was one place I could let him explore without fear.
Actually, I do want knobs and switches, for some tasks. Have you ever tried to use siri or the likes while driving? It requires too much cognitive "brainpower", distracting from the real task at hand (driving).
Besides, which is easier: Reach out and twist a round know a little, or say "ok car! lower the temperature by 10 degrees".
Dunno, I still think interfaces should strike a balance between physical and virtual, with the most-used stuff being physical. You would not want to use a touchscreen as your main keyboard at work, would you?
Oh crap! That launch video was the first I saw of this car, and I was ok up until the interior was shown. An empty dashboard and a single gigantic touchscreen? In what world is that acceptable?
It is ok to project maps and whatnot, but a *driver* needs to focus on the road, so frequently used controls, like A/C, fan speed, vents, sound volume, etc all need to be physical, so you can reach out and touch without having to focus your eyes in the process.
With such bad interior ergonomics, I'm not putting any money down for this....
> Having to pull the choke every time you turn off the engine or risk not being able to start it again? No thanks. (never quite understood how that worked, I thought it was used for *starting* it, interesting)
> All the fun-filled mornings spent with the family pushing your car until it started? No thanks. (check, not that often, but been there)
> Brakes on your car suddenly failing for no reason when you're going down the highway? (yes this actually happened to me) No thanks. (scary, never faced that one)
> Bursting radiators, torn up drive belts, worn clutch discs? I think I'll pass on those as well. (check, more than once)
> And not to mention if you got in an accident even at relatively low speed you were literally dead meat. (check, twice; low speed, with 3-point seatbelt on, still heavily bruised)
What to add there? Frequent tire punctures? Having to "de-carb" your carburator at least every 6 months? Frequent brunt light bulbs?
So, in who's interest is it that the police perform these "for show" stunts?
Wouldn't it be much better to deploy a helicopter, drone or other means of tracking the car from a distance, and not risk killing several bystanders in a crash? This time only the bad guy died, but even him did not deserve capital punishment for a car jack...
Very nice indeed! But out of curiosity, what makes the eclipse an interesting moment to do this (which I suppose is intended for exact distance measurements), as opposed to say, any new moon? I don't mean this out of spite, it is really my curiosity kicking in, can you ask your wife what data is this intended to gather and to what end?
That's just confirming that I'm on the right path, when I buy an ebook, the first thing I do is to strip-out the DRM and then save this copy in my backed-up storage. If I paid for it, I want to make sure I own it, period.
This is a very interesting moment in time. At this rate of development, it is quite possible that in a decade or two we'd have full spectrographic analysis of the atmospheres of a handful of words. This might not be the ones best suited to sustain life, but we might get to those as well. Can't wait!
Oh, this is true for so many things... Take eggs for instance. He or she who likes eggs and have never tried eggs from a small farm, with free-range chickens, have never really tasted an egg. It's a world apart.
Personally, I'm sick and tired of small theaters only offering you the 3D version of a given movie. I rather see it in normal 2D, without having to put up with dirty and inconvenient passive glasses, and dizziness in scenes with fast motion...
At home, for gaming, with a good TV and glasses things might be different, but I'm not much of a gamer myself to justify the extra expense.
No paper trail to allow audits. No source code available (that I know off, at least). No guarantee that the binaries loaded on the machines were built from the source inspectors looked (?) at.
It would be nice if people held this at the same "bashing level" anything from Diebold is held; because, really, it's not that different, the way I see it.
Cheers
PS: not implying that was any fraud here, it seems like there wasn't. I'm just said that the current machinery do not allow you to prove it by auditing the results:(
Just yesterday I was at a consumer electronics store and there was this full HD big TV hooked-up to a bluray player. The demo disc at one point showed a "side by side" look of what a DVD-quality and a "blueray-quality" version of the same scene looked like.
Problem is, you could tell that DVD version was clearly just a gaussian blur, and the bluray one had maybe a bit too much sharpening applied.
No way a really sharp, uncompressed DVD-quality scene would look that bad, that was just a bad tactic to lure the sheep...
Tip: the rsync option some mentioned is really easy to get going once you set it up. The first time you synch to your home PC, you have to download the whole thing, so expect to take a while for that to happen. The next time, only the changed bits are downloaded, so it will really happen rather quickly.
How to implement it, non-techie style: get a linux geek from the local university labs to help you out, shouldn't be hard do find someone knowledgeable who you can thrust. Make sure you change the account pwd once everything is up and running, just in case;)
One caveat: if you cannot run rsync within your hosting environment, you may not be able to go down that route.
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Back in the day a task like this required rocket engines built from junkyard parts cobbled together with wire and duct tape ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Fishing weight used to be made of lead... My grandpa would sometimes make some at home, melting the metal on a small gas burner. I remember playing with them quite a bit as a kid, they were exquisitely heady.
Since I don't fish, I don't know what these are made of today ... Still lead?
This is very sound advise, and it is why I like the feature in Crashplan (home) of having an external disk (or a mounted NAS, with some hacking) as an additional backup destination.
If Backblaze had that option I'd have jumped already; as it stands I'm still researching options, because the local copy is important to me and I don't want to fumble with scripts, rsync, etc. One agent to backup them all :-)
It was a good environment for my kids to explore, lots of fun activities and the chat was *strictly* controlled, with only approved words and phrases available for use. May not suit an older kid, but for the 6 yro who's just learning the ropes, it was one place I could let him explore without fear.
Actually, I do want knobs and switches, for some tasks. Have you ever tried to use siri or the likes while driving? It requires too much cognitive "brainpower", distracting from the real task at hand (driving).
Besides, which is easier: Reach out and twist a round know a little, or say "ok car! lower the temperature by 10 degrees".
Dunno, I still think interfaces should strike a balance between physical and virtual, with the most-used stuff being physical. You would not want to use a touchscreen as your main keyboard at work, would you?
Oh crap! That launch video was the first I saw of this car, and I was ok up until the interior was shown. An empty dashboard and a single gigantic touchscreen? In what world is that acceptable?
It is ok to project maps and whatnot, but a *driver* needs to focus on the road, so frequently used controls, like A/C, fan speed, vents, sound volume, etc all need to be physical, so you can reach out and touch without having to focus your eyes in the process.
With such bad interior ergonomics, I'm not putting any money down for this....
Awesome list :-)
> Having to pull the choke every time you turn off the engine or risk not being able to start it again? No thanks.
(never quite understood how that worked, I thought it was used for *starting* it, interesting)
> All the fun-filled mornings spent with the family pushing your car until it started? No thanks.
(check, not that often, but been there)
> Brakes on your car suddenly failing for no reason when you're going down the highway? (yes this actually happened to me) No thanks.
(scary, never faced that one)
> Bursting radiators, torn up drive belts, worn clutch discs? I think I'll pass on those as well.
(check, more than once)
> And not to mention if you got in an accident even at relatively low speed you were literally dead meat.
(check, twice; low speed, with 3-point seatbelt on, still heavily bruised)
What to add there? Frequent tire punctures? Having to "de-carb" your carburator at least every 6 months? Frequent brunt light bulbs?
This is all nice and good, but someone ought to start working on the second, more secret library, to be located in the other end of the planet ...
Only psychology and psychohistory books allowed there ...
Me? I'm worred too, a lot!
So, in who's interest is it that the police perform these "for show" stunts?
Wouldn't it be much better to deploy a helicopter, drone or other means of tracking the car from a distance, and not risk killing several bystanders in a crash? This time only the bad guy died, but even him did not deserve capital punishment for a car jack ...
My thoughts exactly when seeing this. Scary. Awesome too :-)
Very nice indeed! But out of curiosity, what makes the eclipse an interesting moment to do this (which I suppose is intended for exact distance measurements), as opposed to say, any new moon? I don't mean this out of spite, it is really my curiosity kicking in, can you ask your wife what data is this intended to gather and to what end?
That's just confirming that I'm on the right path, when I buy an ebook, the first thing I do is to strip-out the DRM and then save this copy in my backed-up storage. If I paid for it, I want to make sure I own it, period.
This is a very interesting moment in time. At this rate of development, it is quite possible that in a decade or two we'd have full spectrographic analysis of the atmospheres of a handful of words. This might not be the ones best suited to sustain life, but we might get to those as well. Can't wait!
From Scott Hanselman, who actually depends on this sort of stuff to stay alive:
"It's WAY too early to call this Insulin Pump an Artificial Pancreas"
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ItsWAYTooEarlyToCallThisInsulinPumpAnArtificialPancreas.aspx
Read the article, it is very interesting and he makes some very compelling arguments as to why this is a bit too much hype...
awesome, thanks!
(is this change in balance enough for me to claim "life in transformation" now?)
Raise your hand if you read that too.
Paint me disappointed :(
Oh, this is true for so many things ... Take eggs for instance. He or she who likes eggs and have never tried eggs from a small farm, with free-range chickens, have never really tasted an egg. It's a world apart.
Get those pilots and flight attendants to the gym *now*!
Lets tackle global warming, a pound at a time ...
Personally, I'm sick and tired of small theaters only offering you the 3D version of a given movie. I rather see it in normal 2D, without having to put up with dirty and inconvenient passive glasses, and dizziness in scenes with fast motion ...
At home, for gaming, with a good TV and glasses things might be different, but I'm not much of a gamer myself to justify the extra expense.
Actually it is faulty the 1st time you click the link
After it sets its cookies it works fine ...
No paper trail to allow audits. No source code available (that I know off, at least). No guarantee that the binaries loaded on the machines were built from the source inspectors looked (?) at.
It would be nice if people held this at the same "bashing level" anything from Diebold is held; because, really, it's not that different, the way I see it.
Cheers
PS: not implying that was any fraud here, it seems like there wasn't. I'm just said that the current machinery do not allow you to prove it by auditing the results :(
Mythbuster alert!
http://www.smallestdotnet.com/
(thou I love mono,
Just yesterday I was at a consumer electronics store and there was this full HD big TV hooked-up to a bluray player. The demo disc at one point showed a "side by side" look of what a DVD-quality and a "blueray-quality" version of the same scene looked like.
Problem is, you could tell that DVD version was clearly just a gaussian blur, and the bluray one had maybe a bit too much sharpening applied.
No way a really sharp, uncompressed DVD-quality scene would look that bad, that was just a bad tactic to lure the sheep ...
Hi there,
for NGOs, cash will always be a problem.
Tip: the rsync option some mentioned is really easy to get going once you set it up. The first time you synch to your home PC, you have to download the whole thing, so expect to take a while for that to happen. The next time, only the changed bits are downloaded, so it will really happen rather quickly.
How to implement it, non-techie style: get a linux geek from the local university labs to help you out, shouldn't be hard do find someone knowledgeable who you can thrust. Make sure you change the account pwd once everything is up and running, just in case ;)
One caveat: if you cannot run rsync within your hosting environment, you may not be able to go down that route.
Good luck!
~koyaanisqatsi