If one has to announce something that's going to hammer down the stock, it stands to reason that one time must be the first announcement. Following just behind that like the second law of motion are the lawsuits due to same.
HP probably took the usual precautions and made the usual decisions in how to announce it. Best done off hours and suddenly, rather than hinting at it.
Since I use my parrot as my password database (she's pretty good at repeating the password if I give her the account name) I better make sure the next generations don't get away from me.
OTOH - it's good to know I have a backup system, of sorts, going for my passwords now.
They left out some important design details.
First off, pizza cooks poorly at 1/6 gee and it's difficult to get a crispy crust, tends to be more evenly heated throughout and it all dries out.
Akin to that, it takes to long to cook conventionally since it's not pressing down on the slab for the same reason.
Fuel costs are of course bad, but at least it's Dominos. Can't imagine the cost per pizza for wood-fired pizza ovens. That's a lot of wood to boost to Luna.
Answer to the fuel costs thing can be the *strong* sunlight on the moon, just open the shades and let the sun shine on the pizza for a minute or so. That only works for 2 weeks at a time though, and you have to be able to angle the pizza for optimal sunlight exposure based on current sun position.
Big, slow corporate IT departments won't like this. There tend to be a lot of constraints on version numbers, qualification of certain builds, and so forth. These are the same people who lock down the browser version so that they can keep things consistent and working.
For archival disks (assuming that I turn them off when not actively being used) I'd be more concerned with them going dead on the shelf while not in use. I see comments on that but don't have hard data on those failure rates. Also, that's the sort of thing that seems it would be very dependent on the manufacturer/model.
You may have a statistical survivor's bias (actually, a non-survivor bias) going on here. Like myself, you probably recall the tape restore failures more clearly than all the routine successful tape restores. I clearly recall the various times when our tape restores have failed.
That being said, I'd estimate our tape restore successes to be in the 90-95% range. This is for a mix of regular backup restores and archive restores.
Which is why I'm reading this thread to see better ways to archive data.
Uhoh.
I had to run through possibilities for the acronym "GW" and read the bottom half of your post before I hit on the right (disastrous) one.
Germ Warfare
GW (Bush)
Global Warfare
Genetic (whatever)
then finally Global Warming....
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I'll be impressed when ...
an asteroid passes closer than the space station to the earth.
Ve haf vays to stimulate your memory, Ja?
True. Or maybe sue for making a bad decision (if it turns out to be bad). Or sue them for not doing it sooner (if it turns out to be good).
Those Bastards!
If one has to announce something that's going to hammer down the stock, it stands to reason that one time must be the first announcement. Following just behind that like the second law of motion are the lawsuits due to same. HP probably took the usual precautions and made the usual decisions in how to announce it. Best done off hours and suddenly, rather than hinting at it.
Since I use my parrot as my password database (she's pretty good at repeating the password if I give her the account name) I better make sure the next generations don't get away from me. OTOH - it's good to know I have a backup system, of sorts, going for my passwords now.
Where do you think the zombie hordes come from?
They left out some important design details. First off, pizza cooks poorly at 1/6 gee and it's difficult to get a crispy crust, tends to be more evenly heated throughout and it all dries out. Akin to that, it takes to long to cook conventionally since it's not pressing down on the slab for the same reason. Fuel costs are of course bad, but at least it's Dominos. Can't imagine the cost per pizza for wood-fired pizza ovens. That's a lot of wood to boost to Luna. Answer to the fuel costs thing can be the *strong* sunlight on the moon, just open the shades and let the sun shine on the pizza for a minute or so. That only works for 2 weeks at a time though, and you have to be able to angle the pizza for optimal sunlight exposure based on current sun position.
CmdrTaco is gone, we're doomed.
Big, slow corporate IT departments won't like this. There tend to be a lot of constraints on version numbers, qualification of certain builds, and so forth. These are the same people who lock down the browser version so that they can keep things consistent and working.
Lucas' real Star Wars stormtroopers will take care of this little problem.
Can I run that the other way? I have some game gold I've saved up for a pet.
1 GB from NATO. That's 3, maybe 4 powerpoints?
Corollary: Unreliable backup != archive, too.
How about carve it onto the moon with big lasers?
Ruskies could also take a personal interest in just getting rid of YOUR data.
For archival disks (assuming that I turn them off when not actively being used) I'd be more concerned with them going dead on the shelf while not in use. I see comments on that but don't have hard data on those failure rates. Also, that's the sort of thing that seems it would be very dependent on the manufacturer/model.
You may have a statistical survivor's bias (actually, a non-survivor bias) going on here. Like myself, you probably recall the tape restore failures more clearly than all the routine successful tape restores. I clearly recall the various times when our tape restores have failed. That being said, I'd estimate our tape restore successes to be in the 90-95% range. This is for a mix of regular backup restores and archive restores. Which is why I'm reading this thread to see better ways to archive data.
I pretty often will put a hard drive away for 1-2 years and use it without problem again. Put some away for 5-7 years, some worked, some woke up dead.
Article says this is to work on areas likely to have crimes and specifically says that it isn't to predict individuals or individual crimes.
Uhoh. I had to run through possibilities for the acronym "GW" and read the bottom half of your post before I hit on the right (disastrous) one. Germ Warfare GW (Bush) Global Warfare Genetic (whatever) then finally Global Warming....
This approximate point seems to be repeated constantly.
Is anyone really willing to sacrifice anything ($) to solve it?
Certainly I'm willing to. Oh, you meant *my* money....
You're disgusting. Bake at 375 F until crisp and BBQ sauce.
How is "no" deemed to be informative?
Depending on what "sustained" means. I'm projecting a population of zero any time more than 15 billion years from now.