A QNAP NAS loaded up with 8TB of drives, in a 6TB RAID. I've got another 2TB drive spare, ready for replacement.
The QNAP is used as primary storage for large media files - ripped DVDs, etc
My local computers rsync their Documents directories daily, for general purpose backups
The QNAP rsyncs daily to an online backup service.
Currently, they setup's been running for 2 years, and I've only ever used the online backup service for testing my backups, and I've never had to hot-swap a drive. I've got almost 2 TB of data in use, and I've finished ripping my DVD collection, so growth is slow now. My TV can play all my video files straight from the QNAP, and our phones can access it to download songs/audiobooks/videos through our local Wi-Fi.
In Australia, neither Greens, Social Democrats, Christian Conservatives or Liberals are single-issue parties, and Liberals are most definitely not Libertarians. The single-issue parties are the ones like "Shooters and Fishers Party", or "Help End Marijuana Prohibition".
Back in the day, male companions were vastly outnumbered by female. And there's male companions in the new series too - Captain Jack, Rory, and Donna's Dad for that Christmas special (if you count that). But it's not like Doctor Who is alone there. Pretty much every show with a lead character has a supporting character of the opposite gender.
Oh, also, if you look at my third link, you'll see that warmists aren't just claiming cyclone activity will increase, they're also claiming it will decrease. It's easy to make "falsifiable" predictions when you hedge your odds with a bet each way.
Firstly, your use of "scientist" is a strawman. I didn't say scientist - I said "warmist". And despite what they believe, every warmist is not a scientist. Secondly, I didn't say they were claiming cyclones are proof of global warming. That was you putting words in my mouth, after I'd already corrected you once. I said they were claiming cyclones were caused by (not proof of) global warming
Scientists aren't saying every cyclone is proof of global warming.
They aren't saying that your energy consumption is "sinful"
http://savingspecies.org/offset-carbon/how-to-be-carbon-neutral/ "The USA puts more carbon into the atmosphere than any other country. That is 5 tons for each of us - you, me, and everyone else. Dr. Pimm has sinned more than most because he travels to tropical forests a lot. If you live outside the USA, you likely sin less. (You can work out the amount of your “carbon sin” with our carbon calculator.)"
There's lunatics and nut-jobs on the fringe on both sides. The fact that every time a cold front comes through, a nut-job on the denier fringe says "so much for global warming" is no less ridiculous than each time there's a seasonal shift a a nut-job on the warmist fringe says "See! Climate change". You and the GP are doing nothing for the debate by trying to paint the extremists as representative of the whole - the same can be applied to your side too.
It's the deniers who, every goddamned winter, come out of the woodwork with their childlike taunts: "If the Earth's getting warmer, then why is it currently cold outside!?"
And the warmists, who every time a cyclone hits, come out crying that it wouldn't have happened, if only you'd let them tax you more for your sinful energy consumption.
A citation in a moderate-interest news story that will be forgotten by the vast majority within 24 hours? Your threshold for remarkability is remarkably low.
As an investor/stakeholder in the company, what I'm hearing from you is that you plan on positioning Nokia as just another run of the mill Android manufacturer. You say compete on price, I say any random Chinese manufacturer can undercut you. You say compete on name, I say there are already HTC, Samsung, Motorola and other big names already in the ring.
No, I say compete on quality and hardware features - you know, the stuff that Nokia has always been good at, and the stuff that HTC and Samsung compete with each other on. Even investing in Windows OS, they're still competing against Apple, Samsung and HTC (they're all in the same market, after all) but they've given up the opportunity to reproduce some of those companies biggest advantages for free (the Android name, and the Android app ecosystem). And why? So they can tie themselves to an unproven competitor that offers neither.
Given that EFTPOS and debit cards have, for all their convenience, not yet completely displaced cash, I'd say it'll be a long time off, if it ever happens, and will have to have additional features than what it does now (like be able to store a driver's licence accepted as valid by your government, for instance).
That's one way to look at it. The other is that Microsoft's favouritism has allowed OnLive to grow rapidly and dominate a complete market, while tuCloud has been forced into being a rinky-dink outfit with no real prospects due to Microsoft's abuse of their OS monopoly.
Isn't it unreasonable to require a warranty longer than a year for a consumer product? Realistically, if the device you bought is defective you should realize it within a few months.
That's not the purpose of a warranty - at least, not the sole purpose, and not in my country (Australia). The mandatory warranty period is designed, not only to ensure that the product is fit for use at the time it's sold, but also that it meets a certain minimum level of durability and quality components.
Look how long it took Apple's computer hardware business to decline after it's boom in the early 80s, and before the iPod shot it up again. The OP never said that closed hardware would never have a boom - he said in the long term, open hardware out-competes it. It's impossible to apply his predictions to the smartphone (and especially the tablet) space, as its a market still in its infancy.
Catesby might have been a religious extremist, but then, so was James I. His persecution of Catholics is what drove the Gunpowder Plot. The distinction between the Gunpowder Plotters and James I wasn't that one was religious and the other isn't - it's that one was Authority and the other was Rebellion. You might as well say you don't like Conroy, but don't like the idea of putting a bunch of dead Englishmen in charge either - it's a strawman. That's not what the OP was saying.
When you vote in Aus, you don't cast a single vote - you give a list of preferences. In the Senate, there are generally over 100 preferences to rank (if you chose to vote by individual) or 20 or so (if you choose to vote by party). I pretty much always but the major parties in the bottom few places in my preferences (also Greens and Communists - if there's a difference).
Who defines serious? Is Shakespeare serious? What about Harry Potter? My Little Pony? In a couple of hundred years, the answer might be quite different to what it is now.
Which seems rather like an inherent flaw in the whole concept of a printed encyclopaedia
Well, yeah. Sort of the way they can't fly is an inherent flaw in the whole concept of horses. EB was publishing encyclopaedias 200 years before the internet was a gleam in Al Gore's eye.
The worst part is the edit wars and often highly subjective opinions making its way into articles as a result, and also, articles existing for really banal topics which no traditional encyclopedia would have covered.
I get the first two, but why is the third a problem? It's not like it adds to the cost (free) or the weight (digital) or the difficulty to find articles (search). It's pure added value - albeit, probably for a niche audience. Why is this a bad thing?
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For civil suits?
My setup:
Currently, they setup's been running for 2 years, and I've only ever used the online backup service for testing my backups, and I've never had to hot-swap a drive. I've got almost 2 TB of data in use, and I've finished ripping my DVD collection, so growth is slow now. My TV can play all my video files straight from the QNAP, and our phones can access it to download songs/audiobooks/videos through our local Wi-Fi.
In Australia, neither Greens, Social Democrats, Christian Conservatives or Liberals are single-issue parties, and Liberals are most definitely not Libertarians. The single-issue parties are the ones like "Shooters and Fishers Party", or "Help End Marijuana Prohibition".
Back in the day, male companions were vastly outnumbered by female. And there's male companions in the new series too - Captain Jack, Rory, and Donna's Dad for that Christmas special (if you count that). But it's not like Doctor Who is alone there. Pretty much every show with a lead character has a supporting character of the opposite gender.
Oh, also, if you look at my third link, you'll see that warmists aren't just claiming cyclone activity will increase, they're also claiming it will decrease. It's easy to make "falsifiable" predictions when you hedge your odds with a bet each way.
Firstly, your use of "scientist" is a strawman. I didn't say scientist - I said "warmist". And despite what they believe, every warmist is not a scientist. Secondly, I didn't say they were claiming cyclones are proof of global warming. That was you putting words in my mouth, after I'd already corrected you once. I said they were claiming cyclones were caused by (not proof of) global warming
Scientists aren't saying every cyclone is proof of global warming.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/08/25/hurricane-irene-can-be-tied-to-global-warming-says-bill-mckibben.html
"Irene’s got a middle name, and it’s Global Warming...Record floods from Pakistan to Queensland to the Mississippi basin; record drought from the steppes of Russia to the plains of Texas...This is what climate change looks like in its early stages."
They aren't saying that your energy consumption is "sinful"
http://savingspecies.org/offset-carbon/how-to-be-carbon-neutral/
"The USA puts more carbon into the atmosphere than any other country. That is 5 tons for each of us - you, me, and everyone else. Dr. Pimm has sinned more than most because he travels to tropical forests a lot. If you live outside the USA, you likely sin less. (You can work out the amount of your “carbon sin” with our carbon calculator.)"
There's lunatics and nut-jobs on the fringe on both sides. The fact that every time a cold front comes through, a nut-job on the denier fringe says "so much for global warming" is no less ridiculous than each time there's a seasonal shift a a nut-job on the warmist fringe says "See! Climate change". You and the GP are doing nothing for the debate by trying to paint the extremists as representative of the whole - the same can be applied to your side too.
How about I look for what I actually claimed, which was the people were saying that cyclones were caused by global warming:
http://www.thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=30541&Cat=1
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/technology/97558/super-storms-linked-to-global-warming
http://hauntingthelibrary.wordpress.com/2011/07/01/global-weirding-how-global-warming-will-mean-more-cyclones-and-fewer-cyclones/
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/05/14/tropical-cyclones-warming.html
Oh look, about five seconds.
It's the deniers who, every goddamned winter, come out of the woodwork with their childlike taunts: "If the Earth's getting warmer, then why is it currently cold outside!?"
And the warmists, who every time a cyclone hits, come out crying that it wouldn't have happened, if only you'd let them tax you more for your sinful energy consumption.
something remarkable.
A citation in a moderate-interest news story that will be forgotten by the vast majority within 24 hours? Your threshold for remarkability is remarkably low.
As an investor/stakeholder in the company, what I'm hearing from you is that you plan on positioning Nokia as just another run of the mill Android manufacturer. You say compete on price, I say any random Chinese manufacturer can undercut you. You say compete on name, I say there are already HTC, Samsung, Motorola and other big names already in the ring.
No, I say compete on quality and hardware features - you know, the stuff that Nokia has always been good at, and the stuff that HTC and Samsung compete with each other on. Even investing in Windows OS, they're still competing against Apple, Samsung and HTC (they're all in the same market, after all) but they've given up the opportunity to reproduce some of those companies biggest advantages for free (the Android name, and the Android app ecosystem). And why? So they can tie themselves to an unproven competitor that offers neither.
If you can't install a (relatively modern) Linux distro, you can't install Windows either.
No; please, let us forget Alien: Resurrection
Given that EFTPOS and debit cards have, for all their convenience, not yet completely displaced cash, I'd say it'll be a long time off, if it ever happens, and will have to have additional features than what it does now (like be able to store a driver's licence accepted as valid by your government, for instance).
You guys do know that Joss Whedon wrote Titan AE as well as Firefly don't you?
That's one way to look at it. The other is that Microsoft's favouritism has allowed OnLive to grow rapidly and dominate a complete market, while tuCloud has been forced into being a rinky-dink outfit with no real prospects due to Microsoft's abuse of their OS monopoly.
Isn't it unreasonable to require a warranty longer than a year for a consumer product? Realistically, if the device you bought is defective you should realize it within a few months.
That's not the purpose of a warranty - at least, not the sole purpose, and not in my country (Australia). The mandatory warranty period is designed, not only to ensure that the product is fit for use at the time it's sold, but also that it meets a certain minimum level of durability and quality components.
Pretty sure micro USB is a standard. Did you miss out a negation in that sentence?
Look how long it took Apple's computer hardware business to decline after it's boom in the early 80s, and before the iPod shot it up again. The OP never said that closed hardware would never have a boom - he said in the long term, open hardware out-competes it. It's impossible to apply his predictions to the smartphone (and especially the tablet) space, as its a market still in its infancy.
Catesby might have been a religious extremist, but then, so was James I. His persecution of Catholics is what drove the Gunpowder Plot. The distinction between the Gunpowder Plotters and James I wasn't that one was religious and the other isn't - it's that one was Authority and the other was Rebellion. You might as well say you don't like Conroy, but don't like the idea of putting a bunch of dead Englishmen in charge either - it's a strawman. That's not what the OP was saying.
When you vote in Aus, you don't cast a single vote - you give a list of preferences. In the Senate, there are generally over 100 preferences to rank (if you chose to vote by individual) or 20 or so (if you choose to vote by party). I pretty much always but the major parties in the bottom few places in my preferences (also Greens and Communists - if there's a difference).
I somehow miss-read tablecloth as toilet paper.
Unless you have severe bowel problems, using the senate ballot paper as TP is overkill.
Who defines serious? Is Shakespeare serious? What about Harry Potter? My Little Pony? In a couple of hundred years, the answer might be quite different to what it is now.
Just as many as we have had strawmen on Slashdot
Which seems rather like an inherent flaw in the whole concept of a printed encyclopaedia
Well, yeah. Sort of the way they can't fly is an inherent flaw in the whole concept of horses. EB was publishing encyclopaedias 200 years before the internet was a gleam in Al Gore's eye.
The worst part is the edit wars and often highly subjective opinions making its way into articles as a result, and also, articles existing for really banal topics which no traditional encyclopedia would have covered.
I get the first two, but why is the third a problem? It's not like it adds to the cost (free) or the weight (digital) or the difficulty to find articles (search). It's pure added value - albeit, probably for a niche audience. Why is this a bad thing?