Based on the NewEgg catalog, 16GB CF cards are the most cost effective, at about $127, or $7.94 per GB. So say 62 cards for about a TB, plus hardware and electronics costs to link those all together, and you're looking at an $8000 drive. Even if we assume massive bulk-rate discounts for the manufacturer of such a drive, I could still build a new server *and* fill it with a half dozen normal 1TB drives (which are "only" about $400 each) for the same price.
However, write-back caching is dangerous, since in case of a power failure, it may seriously damage your filesystem.
It is extraordinarily rare for a journaled filesystem (including NTFS) to be seriously damaged. The design simply prevents the filesystem from being left in an inconsistent state, as long as the journal is replayed the next time the FS is mounted. Of course, data loss is quite possible.
This freaks you out? We're talking about *China*. You know, Tiananmen Square China. It is utterly unsurprising that they're using technology to extend their oppressive totalitarian state that much further.
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Seriously. As someone else mentioned, this article has been outdated for about a decade. Good installers will pull in all the latest stable versions (assuming a net connection), but any popular Linux distro is trivial to update immediately after. And I can't recall the last time I've seen a default workstation/desktop install with any open ports. Maybe SSH.
Of course there is. Want to count the number of free wireless APs out there? Or hijackable open/WEP ones? There are plenty of venues for anonymous internet access out there, legal and illegal. Just reset your MAC beforehand, and use Tor to really obscure things.
Well, I doubt Google is cutting off access due to lack of resources. If they wanted to shut down the service and avoid pissing off customers, they could just continue to offer streaming to those who already bought videos. It's more likely that their contract with rights holders is running out, and continuing to offer videos in any form would require renegotiation, and more money and time from Google than just giving refunds.
There are already several decent systems for fingerprinting audio; it's not particularly surprising that Google researchers would be able to do something similar for video.
Or do you want bosses threatening your job if you don't vote the right way?
This is an absurd argument, which I've heard even from people who oppose no-excuse absentee ballots. It is extremely illegal for your boss or anyone else to make such a threat. If said boss tries to do that to a few people, it is extremely likely that one or two will be smart enough to contact law enforcement, and boss goes to prison for a very long time for tampering with a federal election.
There are plenty of ways to influence an election. Personal extortion is a really bad one, and should not even be a part of these kinds of discussions. Of course the secret ballot is important to free and fair elections. But fearmongering about ludicrous scenarios is a bad idea.
I'd say the real WTF is that we're talking about China, with its oppressive government, human rights violations, not to mention everyone finally realizing that the quality of Chinese manufacturing extends to its food exports as well...and somehow we give a shit about what OS they're using?
Owning a house thing seems like fun, except that it would be limited to actual realestate. Newer players would not enjoy this wonderful feature.
UO solved this later on by adding more land mass.
Seperate trade skills, Ultima Online was first, but there are many MMOs that have this.
Which other MMOG allows me to be *just* a master blacksmith/miner, without fighting endless monsters to level up? That's what UO let me do.
And if you want an item of no use just cause you wanted it, that is called loot-whoring.
Uh...no. Plainly, you never played UO. GP is talking about rare decorative items that were scattered around the world, and could be collected by eager players shortly after a new shard was created. Not to mention the Christmas gifts, etc that you could decorate your house with.
Killing players and taking there gear is bad.
Killing playeres and taking their equipment was *fun*. It was part of the game, and added immensely to the thrill of going to a dungeon when you knew that someone else could be there waiting to attack you.
Nothing stops higher level players from griefing lower level players.
There were no levels in UO. Lesser players could advance quickly by staying around towns, and venturing out with their friends. Personally, I played a pure blacksmith for more than a year and had a blast.
I would never play UO, because I do not have any interest in a game where other people can kill me and take my stuff.
The thing about UO was that there wasn't any awesome uber-gear that you had to invest massive amounts of time to get. Even dying with a full set of plate armor and a large bag of reagents wouldn't set you back more than a few thousand gold, which was trivial to get. I've heard that UO has changed since then to something more Diablo-like, but the truth is that in UO's heyday, death was rarely a massive loss. But it mattered, and it added a very real sense of danger and camaraderie, as the GP mentioned. It's something that no MMOG since has come close to recapturing.
Your post reminded me of one still-dangling plot thread. There's still a 24-hour gap in the timeline of events between the time Hagrid took Harry from Godric's Hollow, to when he shows up to meet Dumbledore at Privet Drive.
Not particularly fair, since the first few chapters of HP1 are essentially a bad Roald Dahl ripoff. I hate all the Dursleys parts of HP, but like the rest of it.
Yes, well, that's the problem in any novel where "magic" is just whatever bullshit you make up as you go along.
* Why didn't they keep using the time turner thing to go back in time to save people?
This is actually one plot hole nicely filled at the end of OOTP, where all the time turners were destroyed. And I'm sure we can contrive some more bullshit so that Felix Felicis requires some extremely rare ingredients.
Others have already mentioned my unanswered questions and complaints (like the abrupt ending and the worthless epilogue), but here's one that pissed me off in that interminable section where Harry was bumming around and Ron was being a pussy: why the fuck didn't they stop somewhere and buy tons of food? Hermione apparently had plenty of cash, and they had no limit on amount of stuff they could carry. So instead of actually doing something sensible, we get pages and pages of whining about how they're hungry.
That was one of the more popular theories on HPFGU shortly after book 6; that Harry or his scar was a horcrux. In fairness, there were also quite a few people who argued that this theory was absurd. I rejected it on the grounds that JKR implied the creation of horcrux required some kind of complex ritual. Alas, I was also on the wrong side of the Snape debate. There were plenty of people who got that one right, though the Unbreakable Vow in book 6 was apparently just a happy coincidence.
Exactly. A properly configured and administered network should be highly resistant to a deliberate DoS attack, much less a defective client device. If your wireless network is so damn critical, you sure as hell shouldn't be relying on everyone to play nice.
Some are misplaced by as much as a third a mile or so.
Yeah...welcome to Google Maps' spotty ability to resolve addresses. It's not so bad in Manhattan, since it almost always gets the block right, though you can forget about it getting the correct side of the street. But elsewhere, good luck. User-correctable locations would be a nice feature to add to Yelp, and not too difficult, given that the Google Maps API is quite nice.
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Based on the NewEgg catalog, 16GB CF cards are the most cost effective, at about $127, or $7.94 per GB. So say 62 cards for about a TB, plus hardware and electronics costs to link those all together, and you're looking at an $8000 drive. Even if we assume massive bulk-rate discounts for the manufacturer of such a drive, I could still build a new server *and* fill it with a half dozen normal 1TB drives (which are "only" about $400 each) for the same price.
This freaks you out? We're talking about *China*. You know, Tiananmen Square China. It is utterly unsurprising that they're using technology to extend their oppressive totalitarian state that much further.
Seriously. As someone else mentioned, this article has been outdated for about a decade. Good installers will pull in all the latest stable versions (assuming a net connection), but any popular Linux distro is trivial to update immediately after. And I can't recall the last time I've seen a default workstation/desktop install with any open ports. Maybe SSH.
Of course there is. Want to count the number of free wireless APs out there? Or hijackable open/WEP ones? There are plenty of venues for anonymous internet access out there, legal and illegal. Just reset your MAC beforehand, and use Tor to really obscure things.
Well, I doubt Google is cutting off access due to lack of resources. If they wanted to shut down the service and avoid pissing off customers, they could just continue to offer streaming to those who already bought videos. It's more likely that their contract with rights holders is running out, and continuing to offer videos in any form would require renegotiation, and more money and time from Google than just giving refunds.
There are already several decent systems for fingerprinting audio; it's not particularly surprising that Google researchers would be able to do something similar for video.
Try creating a graph with two lines in Calc. 'Nuff said.
There are plenty of ways to influence an election. Personal extortion is a really bad one, and should not even be a part of these kinds of discussions. Of course the secret ballot is important to free and fair elections. But fearmongering about ludicrous scenarios is a bad idea.
I'd say the real WTF is that we're talking about China, with its oppressive government, human rights violations, not to mention everyone finally realizing that the quality of Chinese manufacturing extends to its food exports as well...and somehow we give a shit about what OS they're using?
Prior art? You can't patent an idea. It's entirely possible, and likely, that Apple has patented a novel implementation of this.
More like: restating one of the reasons that raw pointers should (almost) never be used. A reason for choosing C++ over C, perhaps.
Your post reminded me of one still-dangling plot thread. There's still a 24-hour gap in the timeline of events between the time Hagrid took Harry from Godric's Hollow, to when he shows up to meet Dumbledore at Privet Drive.
Not particularly fair, since the first few chapters of HP1 are essentially a bad Roald Dahl ripoff. I hate all the Dursleys parts of HP, but like the rest of it.
Others have already mentioned my unanswered questions and complaints (like the abrupt ending and the worthless epilogue), but here's one that pissed me off in that interminable section where Harry was bumming around and Ron was being a pussy: why the fuck didn't they stop somewhere and buy tons of food? Hermione apparently had plenty of cash, and they had no limit on amount of stuff they could carry. So instead of actually doing something sensible, we get pages and pages of whining about how they're hungry.
That was one of the more popular theories on HPFGU shortly after book 6; that Harry or his scar was a horcrux. In fairness, there were also quite a few people who argued that this theory was absurd. I rejected it on the grounds that JKR implied the creation of horcrux required some kind of complex ritual. Alas, I was also on the wrong side of the Snape debate. There were plenty of people who got that one right, though the Unbreakable Vow in book 6 was apparently just a happy coincidence.
More recently, see Michael Gordon's articles in the last few weeks, which prompted a rather harsh reaction from even the Times' Public Editor.
Exactly. A properly configured and administered network should be highly resistant to a deliberate DoS attack, much less a defective client device. If your wireless network is so damn critical, you sure as hell shouldn't be relying on everyone to play nice.
Why not? The most difficult exams I've had were of the take-home variety.