...infact, it's a prime purchasing point for my choice of hardware.
Late last year, my RAID array failed - 2 160gb Western Digital SATA drives went. I checked the WD website, RMAed them both, and recieved two replacements. They're still functioning today, better than the first two.
We run a device at work that features six SATA2 320GB Seagate disks. The leverage for purchasing those devices was dependant on the 5-year warranty(, and the presumption that we'd never have to purchase a replacement for a bad disk).
If you're having continually bad experiences with disks, you might want to examine their environment; are you using them at relentlessly high altitude? Is the power supply you're connecting them to bad? The lead from the PSU to the disk? Does your controller need a firmware update?
The goal here is to become the Divine Crusader (think part warrior, part priest)
You spelled Paladin wrong.
Oblivion on the PS3, eh? Too bad I've already got a 360.
The hardest of the hardcore will be the ones going for a PS3 if it's going to come off the shelves at 600$ each. I used to think I was a gaming bad ass until I heard that price tag. I'll probably get one, but it won't be for that price, and certainly not for a game I already have on another platform.
You've got a great opportunity here, Sony. Maybe you should work a little bit harder. You want a decent launch title for the PS3? A Reimagined Battlestar Galactica game, if you're looking to rehash something. Want another one? Multiplayer Ratchet & Clank. Microsoft managed to pull off exclusive content for GTA:IV.
Your move, Sony. You better wow me if you want to move one of your consoles into my entertainment rack.
Ignore the fact that the.NET DRM prevents the game from installing on a properly patched Windows XP SP2 machine. WinTrustVerify is broken and prevents the install from completing successfully.
QA failure. Atleast there was a 3rd party hack, but I have to say that I was pissed for buying something that came broken. They may have sold 1.1m copies, but about a third of those were PISSED.
And not to mention, quite a few laughs! The game incorporates a lot of slapstick humor and just generally odd situations with a smile. Seen the beach troopers that randomly spawn? They're dudes in Stormtrooper helmets and blue speedos.
To be perfectly honest, I can see an immediate application for this where I work.
We're introducting a virtual infrastructure very quickly, using XServe RAIDs as our storage LUNs. That being said, with VMware's soon-to-be Mac OS X offering, this would give our mac-toting engineers the ability to build a virtual machine locally before deploying it into the wider infrastructure. That is a truly valuable tool.
There's three of us at work that heavily rely on our non-mac machines - a pair of us doing some reasonably heavy VM work. I'd love to transition to a straight Mac platform (not Mac OS X + SuSE + XP). It's such a pain in the ass to have to suspend one and start another constantly because my performance starts to block. It's not disk I/O - the I/O never pegs (most of the stuff is resident, anyway). The RAM can be mitigated by adding more RAM (4GB currently). More than once I've watched procmon show me that the vmx process is pegged on the
Retention is a function of quality. Exposure is a function of marketing. If I'm exposed to a quality product, I'm more likely to become their asset. If World of Warcraft weren't a) fun, b) distracting, c) amusing, I wouldn't be playing it still after over two years.
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I had one go through the drier with the heat on 'high' and the casing fused to the drum. Now I'm left with nothing but the guts. Still works great, tho!
One would have to decide what balance to achieve here. Should the ballots be immediately human-readable? My initial gut reaction was no. A 120x120 pixel-hashmap should be printed into the ballet which hashes the workstation used, the date and time, and my actual decision. Visual inspection in this case would be useless. Of course, and I mention FedEx again, they have handheld scanners that decode these things in a flash of a second, which could tell you all of that information. It allows privacy in that a casual glance won't give away your ballot, but an authorized person could review the data.
The sum of this problem is taking a number, and incrementing it. You must add a pretty, easy to understand interface, and then add a paper trail system.
Here's what I want:
I walk into a voting center.
I am asked for ID.
I present my state Drivers License or Federal Passport for visual inspection.
In return I'm provided with a re-usable line-tracker token (deli waiting line slip).
I wait in line to vote.
I enter the voting booth, surrendering my deli slip to a large box.
I vote.
The machine produces three bits of paper; my reciept, my official ballot, and my exit poll token.
I retain the reciept for my own personal records. It contains no bare words, simply a tracking number, date and time, and location.
My Official Ballot is dropped into a lockbox of a million similar others, to be stored for eventual hand-recount. It never enters my or anyone elses hands.
My exit poll token may be presented to exit pollsters, or I may destroy it.
I enjoy some milk and cookies, and leave.
Much later, at home, I am able to look up my ballot based on the ID number on my reciept. From this, I can tell where my ballot is, in what box, in what warehouse, what machine I used, what voting center, and the date and time. It may also show what machine was used to process my vote in a recount, or if a hand recount had been done.
I am able to sleep at night, knowing that democracy will take effect.
This is really not that difficult. Not as difficult as Diebold has made it, and surely not as cloak-and-dagger.
All of ten minutes and a copy of Acronis yielded the sum of the data on an 'encrypted' U3 Cruzer disk. All the password protection thing does is prevent the drive from mounting correctly in Windows.
I didn't bother testing the drive on my mac before I just blew the U3 partition away.
Admittedly, it's an idea that's definately got the potential to be misused.
During a large scale event (30,000+ people), my younger brother was seperated from my mother. She usually does a supreme job of keeping track of him, but - from what I understand - my dad asked her a quick question and took her attention away just long enough. He was nine at the time. We scoured that event for about thirty panicking minutes, until a New York State Trooper called in and said that they found him. He was no more than five feet from where he had originally been - had gone over to check out one of our local ambulance crews and their on-site setup.
If he had had a phone, it would have taken no more than 90 seconds to find him, I'd bet. He had no idea that we'd misplaced him, or that he was being searched for, until after we found him, of course. I know that they pounded the 'Tell us where you're going'/'Don't wander off in crowds'/'Don't ever leave my side' lessons into him - I got the very same. Just never occured to him.
I recall some time ago reading that the total-return-time for an ICMP_ECHO_RESPONSE from voyager 1 was something in the scale of 29 minutes. I'm hoping we're still getting useful data from these devices.
These exist. Verizon has a little doohickey that allows you to preprogram four numbers. It also has a handy little kidtracker GPS. If my brother weren't 15, I'd sew one into his hip.
...if that isn't a huge smack from a clue-by-four, I'm not sure what else could possibly. The investors for this project are screwed. It doesn't exist, they had no intention of making it exist, it will never exist. The name alone says that.
Somewhere, in some parallel universe, the Phantom Console is capable of running Duke Nukem: Forever at 120fps. And it can provide you all the services of a loving wife.
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Garbage compactor... where are we? Unit... three-two-six-three-eight-two-seven...
...infact, it's a prime purchasing point for my choice of hardware.
Late last year, my RAID array failed - 2 160gb Western Digital SATA drives went. I checked the WD website, RMAed them both, and recieved two replacements. They're still functioning today, better than the first two.
We run a device at work that features six SATA2 320GB Seagate disks. The leverage for purchasing those devices was dependant on the 5-year warranty(, and the presumption that we'd never have to purchase a replacement for a bad disk).
If you're having continually bad experiences with disks, you might want to examine their environment; are you using them at relentlessly high altitude? Is the power supply you're connecting them to bad? The lead from the PSU to the disk? Does your controller need a firmware update?
What the hell is a turnip?
You spelled Paladin wrong.
Oblivion on the PS3, eh? Too bad I've already got a 360.
The hardest of the hardcore will be the ones going for a PS3 if it's going to come off the shelves at 600$ each. I used to think I was a gaming bad ass until I heard that price tag. I'll probably get one, but it won't be for that price, and certainly not for a game I already have on another platform.
You've got a great opportunity here, Sony. Maybe you should work a little bit harder. You want a decent launch title for the PS3? A Reimagined Battlestar Galactica game, if you're looking to rehash something. Want another one? Multiplayer Ratchet & Clank. Microsoft managed to pull off exclusive content for GTA:IV.
Your move, Sony. You better wow me if you want to move one of your consoles into my entertainment rack.
Ignore the fact that the .NET DRM prevents the game from installing on a properly patched Windows XP SP2 machine. WinTrustVerify is broken and prevents the install from completing successfully.
QA failure. Atleast there was a 3rd party hack, but I have to say that I was pissed for buying something that came broken. They may have sold 1.1m copies, but about a third of those were PISSED.
And not to mention, quite a few laughs! The game incorporates a lot of slapstick humor and just generally odd situations with a smile. Seen the beach troopers that randomly spawn? They're dudes in Stormtrooper helmets and blue speedos.
How many emo kids does it take to change a lightbulb?
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None. Fuck 'em; let 'em cry in the dark.
...SuSE machine. It'd be nice to have that not happen.
Whoops. Machine must've gotten away from me there!
To be perfectly honest, I can see an immediate application for this where I work.
We're introducting a virtual infrastructure very quickly, using XServe RAIDs as our storage LUNs. That being said, with VMware's soon-to-be Mac OS X offering, this would give our mac-toting engineers the ability to build a virtual machine locally before deploying it into the wider infrastructure. That is a truly valuable tool.
There's three of us at work that heavily rely on our non-mac machines - a pair of us doing some reasonably heavy VM work. I'd love to transition to a straight Mac platform (not Mac OS X + SuSE + XP). It's such a pain in the ass to have to suspend one and start another constantly because my performance starts to block. It's not disk I/O - the I/O never pegs (most of the stuff is resident, anyway). The RAM can be mitigated by adding more RAM (4GB currently). More than once I've watched procmon show me that the vmx process is pegged on the
I just ordered my mini YESTERDAY.
You're right, it is easy. It's much easier than my job, classes, and dealing with the rigors (the downside portion) of a relationship.
This is coming from someone who historically works way too hard, and just got out of a very dissatisfying relationship. YMMV.
Retention is a function of quality. Exposure is a function of marketing. If I'm exposed to a quality product, I'm more likely to become their asset. If World of Warcraft weren't a) fun, b) distracting, c) amusing, I wouldn't be playing it still after over two years.
I had one go through the drier with the heat on 'high' and the casing fused to the drum. Now I'm left with nothing but the guts. Still works great, tho!
One would have to decide what balance to achieve here. Should the ballots be immediately human-readable? My initial gut reaction was no. A 120x120 pixel-hashmap should be printed into the ballet which hashes the workstation used, the date and time, and my actual decision. Visual inspection in this case would be useless. Of course, and I mention FedEx again, they have handheld scanners that decode these things in a flash of a second, which could tell you all of that information. It allows privacy in that a casual glance won't give away your ballot, but an authorized person could review the data.
The sum of this problem is taking a number, and incrementing it. You must add a pretty, easy to understand interface, and then add a paper trail system.
Here's what I want:
- I walk into a voting center.
- I am asked for ID.
- I present my state Drivers License or Federal Passport for visual inspection.
- In return I'm provided with a re-usable line-tracker token (deli waiting line slip).
- I wait in line to vote.
- I enter the voting booth, surrendering my deli slip to a large box.
- I vote.
- The machine produces three bits of paper; my reciept, my official ballot, and my exit poll token.
- I retain the reciept for my own personal records. It contains no bare words, simply a tracking number, date and time, and location.
- My Official Ballot is dropped into a lockbox of a million similar others, to be stored for eventual hand-recount. It never enters my or anyone elses hands.
- My exit poll token may be presented to exit pollsters, or I may destroy it.
- I enjoy some milk and cookies, and leave.
- Much later, at home, I am able to look up my ballot based on the ID number on my reciept. From this, I can tell where my ballot is, in what box, in what warehouse, what machine I used, what voting center, and the date and time. It may also show what machine was used to process my vote in a recount, or if a hand recount had been done.
- I am able to sleep at night, knowing that democracy will take effect.
This is really not that difficult. Not as difficult as Diebold has made it, and surely not as cloak-and-dagger.From the Megaman X series!
A yoshi character might be cool, too.
...this isn't an article about a newly developed service. This belongs in YRO.
All of ten minutes and a copy of Acronis yielded the sum of the data on an 'encrypted' U3 Cruzer disk. All the password protection thing does is prevent the drive from mounting correctly in Windows.
I didn't bother testing the drive on my mac before I just blew the U3 partition away.
...already makes this stuff.
Microwave Data Systems
Apologies, my units are off. I did intend to write 29 HOURS. Alas, stupid fingers.
Admittedly, it's an idea that's definately got the potential to be misused.
During a large scale event (30,000+ people), my younger brother was seperated from my mother. She usually does a supreme job of keeping track of him, but - from what I understand - my dad asked her a quick question and took her attention away just long enough. He was nine at the time. We scoured that event for about thirty panicking minutes, until a New York State Trooper called in and said that they found him. He was no more than five feet from where he had originally been - had gone over to check out one of our local ambulance crews and their on-site setup.
If he had had a phone, it would have taken no more than 90 seconds to find him, I'd bet. He had no idea that we'd misplaced him, or that he was being searched for, until after we found him, of course. I know that they pounded the 'Tell us where you're going'/'Don't wander off in crowds'/'Don't ever leave my side' lessons into him - I got the very same. Just never occured to him.
I recall some time ago reading that the total-return-time for an ICMP_ECHO_RESPONSE from voyager 1 was something in the scale of 29 minutes. I'm hoping we're still getting useful data from these devices.
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Clicky, too
These exist. Verizon has a little doohickey that allows you to preprogram four numbers. It also has a handy little kidtracker GPS. If my brother weren't 15, I'd sew one into his hip.
...if that isn't a huge smack from a clue-by-four, I'm not sure what else could possibly. The investors for this project are screwed. It doesn't exist, they had no intention of making it exist, it will never exist. The name alone says that.
Somewhere, in some parallel universe, the Phantom Console is capable of running Duke Nukem: Forever at 120fps. And it can provide you all the services of a loving wife.