Depends on who they work for. If they work for the Coalition, then yeah, they're CGA personnel. Like I said. If they're hired by private firms, or if they're freelancers like the unfortunate Nick Berg, they're not CGA personnel.
So if someone killed him because he was an American, that would be...... POLITICAL.
Nope. You can't just make up your own definitions for words. Political murder is the killing of a politician. That is, an assassination. The killing of a CGA member, or a member of the IIG.
So, once again what you are ACTUALLY saying is...
You are so far away from understanding what I actually said, I don't think you can even see daylight any more.
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I happen to like writing currency how it's read.
I don't recall asking what you like. There's a right and a wrong, and you're wrong.
What a nice elitist-bastard attitude you've got there.
Again: there's a right and a wrong. Which side do you think you're on?
Pray tell, what do you find so fucking amateurish about populating the drive bays after-market?
Firmware. If you require more explanation than this, then you're so far out of your depth that I can't even see you from here.
You're not sacrificing reliability in the slightest, as I'm sure Apple uses off-the-shelf drives.
Wrong twice.
I'll say it again: scurry on back to your sandbox, little man. Leave the grown-up talk to the grown-ups.
Um... yeah. That's what I said. I said that if you take out the military casualties, the Baghdad homicide rate is lower than any US city. Right. That's exactly what I said.
Maybe if you read more than just the first sentence, looking for new information to enlighten you than for some angle to try to argue, then you might learn something.
So, if a US citizen went to Baghdad and was killed, would that death be counted in the story you referenced?
If that US citizen was a member of the Coalition--that is, one of the 138,000 American or Coalition troops, or one of the few dozen remaining CGA personnel--then that citizen's death would be tallied as part of an "anti-Coalition attack." Otherwise, then it's just a homicide.
Nice try. But I seem to understand statistics far better than you.:)
Aahh, exactly what "presence" is this that is leaving the 30th?
The last few unofficial Coalition Governing Authority advisors.
I'm sure the 150,000 US troops over there who ain't going anywhere for the next couple years
It's 138,000. And that's right: they'll be there as long as it's necessary to maintain security.
Moron.
Fuck you, you lying pile of shit. You spew off about matters of which you KNOW NOTHING, and then you have the audacity to call SOMEBODY ELSE a moron? Fuck you and the horse you rode in on.
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The reason Apple's machines are so expensive...
Xserve RAID is, by far, the cheapest RAID system in its class. By "in its class" I mean "of comparable capacity and reliability." And reliability is simply not an optional thing in this context. You have to have it. You can't get it by scrounging parts from your dad's junk drawer.
They charge 5999$ for a model with 4x250GB drives, and 10999$...
The dollar sign goes in front of the figure, not behind it. Basic literacy isn't too much to ask, I hope?
Now, if Apple were to sell a model with NO DRIVES (So we could fill it ourselves)
Heh. That's good. That's funny. Run along and play now, you fucking amateur. Leave the discussion of business-class RAID systems to the grown-ups.
There are about 25 million people in Iraq. How many of them have you "seen quoted?"
You're making the classic mistake: you're assuming that what you see on the news is representative. By definition, it's not. If it were representative, it wouldn't be news. News is the exceptional or the unusual.
A white guy could walk through Harlem or East L.A. and be more likely to make it than he would in Sadr City.
See, here's the thing: you just made that up. You have absolutely no knowledge of what you're talking about. You just made it up.
Shame on you.
but most ghetto blacks won't shoot you because there ARE cops in this country - that isn't the case in Iraq
No? Wait 'til I tell that to the 260,000-strong Iraqi police force.
Wow. That's a pretty impressive show of completely ignoring the facts in order to make your point. Neato.
Look, numbers don't lie. Plain facts don't lie. Last December, the story broke that the homicide rate in Baghdad had fallen to below the largest American cities. If you took the military casualties out of the equation, the Baghdad murder rate was lower than any American city.
(The story was covered in depth by Canada's National Post. They don't have it on their site any more, but here's what appears to be a reasonably intact copy of the original.)
Perhaps we should have been civil enough to rebuild Afghanistan
Jeeeeezus Christ. Crack a newspaper once in a while. President Karzai was in Washington just last week talking about how much work is being done by US-based companies and organizations. In particular, he talked about how many roads are being built. He talked about it in the context of saying how many more are needed, but the point is that they're getting built, and they're getting built largely with USAID dollars.
Unfortunately the US seems to prefer to pay their own people rather than hire anyone Iraqi
The US isn't doing any hiring in Iraq at all, except on a very small scale. The US hasn't even had an official presence in Iraq for nearly two weeks now, and what unofficial presence remains is being packed up to be shipped out come the 30th.
You really need to try paying attention to the world around you. When you, you know, whine incessantly about stuff that isn't actually true at all, you just end up looking like a putz.
This is an area where you're likely to be kidnapped based on...
Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit.
There's no place in Iraq where you're likely to be kidnapped. There are places where the possibility is higher than others, but nowhere is it likely.
Of course, if you're the one snatched, tortured, and beheaded, I guess it really doesn't matter what the odds were.
And as for the crap about the "front lines." Wake up, you moron! (Whichever moron posted the remark, I mean.) There are no more front lines. Iraq is incredibly peaceful and incredibly secure when you consider what it's been through recently. Hell, there are many places in the United States that are less safe, in terms of per capita violent crime, than most of Iraq. I'd feel safer wandering the streets of Basra or Baghdad or Mosul at night than I would walking to or from the Metro stop in southeast D.C.
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If you were to build a system that comprised 9 Hitachi 7200RPM 400GB drives, you would acheive 100GB more storage space for 3,600$ plus the cost of the server it was hosted in.
Plus the power supplies (dual redundant) and cooling systems (dual redundant) and controllers (dual redundant) and the case to house it all!
That's an awful lot of stuff to just hand-wave away. Not to mention the time and labor required to build and support the fucking thing.
But inexpensive compared to a self-built solution it is NOT.
The point here is that a "self-built solution" (what is that, one that builds itself?) will be cheaper, but not by nearly as much as you estimated. The only way to get it down to a price that approaches the figures you made up (let's be honest here) is to slash key features and capabilities until you get to the target price point.
Sorry, but in a large storage system redundant power supplies are not an option. Redundant fans are not an option. Redundant controllers are certainly not an option.
You're going to be hard pressed to build a system that's as reliable and as inexpensive as this. The whole thing, drives, controllers, power supplies, everything, is available for about $3/GB, and it plugs into any host computer.
First, the reason for this requirement may be nothing more than pure ignorance.
No, it's interoperability. Which, by the way, is a perfectly valid priority.
They may still not be aware that a word processor's file format is not the right tool for the job.
Rather than assuming that people are ignorant, why don't you consider the possibility that their opinion simply differs from yours? Or, better, what about the possibility that you might be wrong?
Some government agencies specificially prohibit the use of Word and any of its file format for any non-internal electronic communication.
You see, the problem is that TeX is a completely closed system. Ironic, no?
TeX has no support for styles, no support for RTF, no support for tagged text, no support for anything that's interoperable with existing authoring systems. If you want to take an authored document and typeset it with TeX, you're just going to have to do it all manually, by god.
Contrast this with, for example, a system like InCopy which can import anything. InCopy can even import Word documents. All you have to do is override Word styles with InCopy styles and poof! Your document is typeset.
Can't do that with TeX.
If you want to start in TeX and finish in TeX and never, ever go into or out of that system, then rock on. But if you ever want to interoperate with anything else, forget it.
Each drive is inside an enclosure with some form of dedicated cooling
No. The drives are just on sleds, little metal brackets that facilitate insertion and removal. The "cooling modules" are hot-pluggable fan assemblies that are built in to the back of the chassis, back behind the midplane and outboard of the controllers.
In fact, it's safe to say that most people do not encode video on a PC.
Most people don't do anything on a PC. Most people don't own PC's. What's your point?
Compare this to audio market with CD mixes and portable players - you see the difference.
Nope. I think you're confused about some things. MP3 is the thing that people like you (i.e., shitwits) are complaining about, claiming that it's "encumbered" by patents. And it's the self-same thing you point to as an example of ubiquity. Take a step back and use that great big brain of yours for a minute, you warthog-faced buffoon.
You are not reading or not understanding - I even gave you a pasted content and a link for reference.
Which I read and understood. You, evidently, did not.
Unfortunately, downloading Darwin Streaming Server does not grant you MPEG-4 patent licenses.
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Your post made no sense.
Please bone up on your English and your basic math and try again.
I'm going to combine this with your next comment and ask you to provide proof.
"Proof?" You're funny. You're like a joke. You're funny.
This isn't a school. I'm not your teacher. If you're ignorant, it's your responsibility to do something about it.
Off you go, little boy. Go play.
Contractors are also filed under "coalition".
Depends on who they work for. If they work for the Coalition, then yeah, they're CGA personnel. Like I said. If they're hired by private firms, or if they're freelancers like the unfortunate Nick Berg, they're not CGA personnel.
So if someone killed him because he was an American, that would be...... POLITICAL.
Nope. You can't just make up your own definitions for words. Political murder is the killing of a politician. That is, an assassination. The killing of a CGA member, or a member of the IIG.
So, once again what you are ACTUALLY saying is...
You are so far away from understanding what I actually said, I don't think you can even see daylight any more.
I happen to like writing currency how it's read.
I don't recall asking what you like. There's a right and a wrong, and you're wrong.
What a nice elitist-bastard attitude you've got there.
Again: there's a right and a wrong. Which side do you think you're on?
Pray tell, what do you find so fucking amateurish about populating the drive bays after-market?
Firmware. If you require more explanation than this, then you're so far out of your depth that I can't even see you from here.
You're not sacrificing reliability in the slightest, as I'm sure Apple uses off-the-shelf drives.
Wrong twice.
I'll say it again: scurry on back to your sandbox, little man. Leave the grown-up talk to the grown-ups.
Check out the FIRST PARAGRAPH of that story
:)
Um... yeah. That's what I said. I said that if you take out the military casualties, the Baghdad homicide rate is lower than any US city. Right. That's exactly what I said.
Maybe if you read more than just the first sentence, looking for new information to enlighten you than for some angle to try to argue, then you might learn something.
So, if a US citizen went to Baghdad and was killed, would that death be counted in the story you referenced?
If that US citizen was a member of the Coalition--that is, one of the 138,000 American or Coalition troops, or one of the few dozen remaining CGA personnel--then that citizen's death would be tallied as part of an "anti-Coalition attack." Otherwise, then it's just a homicide.
Nice try. But I seem to understand statistics far better than you.
OK, man. Whatever you say.
Aahh, exactly what "presence" is this that is leaving the 30th?
The last few unofficial Coalition Governing Authority advisors.
I'm sure the 150,000 US troops over there who ain't going anywhere for the next couple years
It's 138,000. And that's right: they'll be there as long as it's necessary to maintain security.
Moron.
Fuck you, you lying pile of shit. You spew off about matters of which you KNOW NOTHING, and then you have the audacity to call SOMEBODY ELSE a moron? Fuck you and the horse you rode in on.
The reason Apple's machines are so expensive...
Xserve RAID is, by far, the cheapest RAID system in its class. By "in its class" I mean "of comparable capacity and reliability." And reliability is simply not an optional thing in this context. You have to have it. You can't get it by scrounging parts from your dad's junk drawer.
They charge 5999$ for a model with 4x250GB drives, and 10999$...
The dollar sign goes in front of the figure, not behind it. Basic literacy isn't too much to ask, I hope?
Now, if Apple were to sell a model with NO DRIVES (So we could fill it ourselves)
Heh. That's good. That's funny. Run along and play now, you fucking amateur. Leave the discussion of business-class RAID systems to the grown-ups.
EVERY Iraqi I've seen quoted...
There are about 25 million people in Iraq. How many of them have you "seen quoted?"
You're making the classic mistake: you're assuming that what you see on the news is representative. By definition, it's not. If it were representative, it wouldn't be news. News is the exceptional or the unusual.
A white guy could walk through Harlem or East L.A. and be more likely to make it than he would in Sadr City.
See, here's the thing: you just made that up. You have absolutely no knowledge of what you're talking about. You just made it up.
Shame on you.
but most ghetto blacks won't shoot you because there ARE cops in this country - that isn't the case in Iraq
No? Wait 'til I tell that to the 260,000-strong Iraqi police force.
Wow. That's a pretty impressive show of completely ignoring the facts in order to make your point. Neato.
Look, numbers don't lie. Plain facts don't lie. Last December, the story broke that the homicide rate in Baghdad had fallen to below the largest American cities. If you took the military casualties out of the equation, the Baghdad murder rate was lower than any American city.
(The story was covered in depth by Canada's National Post. They don't have it on their site any more, but here's what appears to be a reasonably intact copy of the original.)
Perhaps we should have been civil enough to rebuild Afghanistan
Jeeeeezus Christ. Crack a newspaper once in a while. President Karzai was in Washington just last week talking about how much work is being done by US-based companies and organizations. In particular, he talked about how many roads are being built. He talked about it in the context of saying how many more are needed, but the point is that they're getting built, and they're getting built largely with USAID dollars.
Unfortunately the US seems to prefer to pay their own people rather than hire anyone Iraqi
The US isn't doing any hiring in Iraq at all, except on a very small scale. The US hasn't even had an official presence in Iraq for nearly two weeks now, and what unofficial presence remains is being packed up to be shipped out come the 30th.
You really need to try paying attention to the world around you. When you, you know, whine incessantly about stuff that isn't actually true at all, you just end up looking like a putz.
This is an area where you're likely to be kidnapped based on...
Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit.
There's no place in Iraq where you're likely to be kidnapped. There are places where the possibility is higher than others, but nowhere is it likely.
Of course, if you're the one snatched, tortured, and beheaded, I guess it really doesn't matter what the odds were.
And as for the crap about the "front lines." Wake up, you moron! (Whichever moron posted the remark, I mean.) There are no more front lines. Iraq is incredibly peaceful and incredibly secure when you consider what it's been through recently. Hell, there are many places in the United States that are less safe, in terms of per capita violent crime, than most of Iraq. I'd feel safer wandering the streets of Basra or Baghdad or Mosul at night than I would walking to or from the Metro stop in southeast D.C.
If you were to build a system that comprised 9 Hitachi 7200RPM 400GB drives, you would acheive 100GB more storage space for 3,600$ plus the cost of the server it was hosted in.
Plus the power supplies (dual redundant) and cooling systems (dual redundant) and controllers (dual redundant) and the case to house it all!
That's an awful lot of stuff to just hand-wave away. Not to mention the time and labor required to build and support the fucking thing.
But inexpensive compared to a self-built solution it is NOT.
The point here is that a "self-built solution" (what is that, one that builds itself?) will be cheaper, but not by nearly as much as you estimated. The only way to get it down to a price that approaches the figures you made up (let's be honest here) is to slash key features and capabilities until you get to the target price point.
Sorry, but in a large storage system redundant power supplies are not an option. Redundant fans are not an option. Redundant controllers are certainly not an option.
You're going to be hard pressed to build a system that's as reliable and as inexpensive as this. The whole thing, drives, controllers, power supplies, everything, is available for about $3/GB, and it plugs into any host computer.
Yeah, but if you have a reciever with a good DSP it can "fill in"
For future reference, in case you ever wonder, this is precisely the point where everybody stopped taking you seriously.
My argument stands, however, MS Word files are not suitable for status reports which is what the OP was talking about.
Sure they are. The fact that you don't like them doesn't mean they're not suitable. That's my whole point.
First, the reason for this requirement may be nothing more than pure ignorance.
No, it's interoperability. Which, by the way, is a perfectly valid priority.
They may still not be aware that a word processor's file format is not the right tool for the job.
Rather than assuming that people are ignorant, why don't you consider the possibility that their opinion simply differs from yours? Or, better, what about the possibility that you might be wrong?
Some government agencies specificially prohibit the use of Word and any of its file format for any non-internal electronic communication.
Can you name one?
That's fascinating... especially considering that The Matrix was mixed in 5.1.
Yeah... not so much.
You see, the problem is that TeX is a completely closed system. Ironic, no?
TeX has no support for styles, no support for RTF, no support for tagged text, no support for anything that's interoperable with existing authoring systems. If you want to take an authored document and typeset it with TeX, you're just going to have to do it all manually, by god.
Contrast this with, for example, a system like InCopy which can import anything. InCopy can even import Word documents. All you have to do is override Word styles with InCopy styles and poof! Your document is typeset.
Can't do that with TeX.
If you want to start in TeX and finish in TeX and never, ever go into or out of that system, then rock on. But if you ever want to interoperate with anything else, forget it.
the development of Egypt and the 'creation' of that perfect society
Displaying one's ignorance of history is a social faux pas, like farting in church. At the very least, one should act embarassed and say, "Excuse me."
You assume that I don't need Linux, which is wrong.
Nobody needs Linux. Linux doesn't do anything that another operating system doesn't do better. The only virtue Linux has is that it's cheap.
If you think you need Linux, you're deluding yourself.
You actually took the time to call up your web browser, log in, track down my reply, and post that non-response?
Wow. You fucking suck.
So, it would be fair to say then, that it is arguable whether AAC is really better than Ogg?
Stop reading in the middle and you end up drawing erroneous conclusions, putz.
That's funny, Ogg seems to be available for every computer platform I care about.
Yawn.
There are many portable music players that don't support it
End of discussion.
AAC doesn't meet my needs better than Ogg, so for me Ogg is better.
Yes, it does. You're just perversely misrepresenting your own needs, either out of sheer ignorance or wrongheadedness.
Hell, I wouldn't even trust you to be able to elaborate on what your needs are.
Each drive is inside an enclosure with some form of dedicated cooling
No. The drives are just on sleds, little metal brackets that facilitate insertion and removal. The "cooling modules" are hot-pluggable fan assemblies that are built in to the back of the chassis, back behind the midplane and outboard of the controllers.
In fact, it's safe to say that most people do not encode video on a PC.
Most people don't do anything on a PC. Most people don't own PC's. What's your point?
Compare this to audio market with CD mixes and portable players - you see the difference.
Nope. I think you're confused about some things. MP3 is the thing that people like you (i.e., shitwits) are complaining about, claiming that it's "encumbered" by patents. And it's the self-same thing you point to as an example of ubiquity. Take a step back and use that great big brain of yours for a minute, you warthog-faced buffoon.
You are not reading or not understanding - I even gave you a pasted content and a link for reference.
Which I read and understood. You, evidently, did not.
Unfortunately, downloading Darwin Streaming Server does not grant you MPEG-4 patent licenses.
That's right. That's because none are required to either encode or broadcast. Go read, for chrissakes.
Even if it magically did, this is not what I was talking about since Darwin Streaming Server is not intended to be used by average computer users.
Darwin Streaming Server is the free version of QuickTime Streaming Server, which is intended to be used by average computer users.
Go read up on closed-loop cold-plate technology.