The planet isn't blue. The blue light that got blocked out by the host star was actually the trillions of blue LEDs that the natives use to light their cities, just because they happen to really fancy blue.
... so much for the captain of the ship going down with it, eh?
Unless these remote pilots are sitting in full simulators that force them to share the terror of passengers during an uncontrolled descent - if you know you're going to live regardless what happens to the plane and its contents - then it removes just a bit of visceral motivation to avoid it happening, doesn't it?
Agreed, but the origins of that language predated many theories about what the right way is, and by then I suppose there was so much code in the wild that no one wanted to tackle the matter head-on?
It didn't have to be that way. When I was still in school a millennium ago and took my one and only COBOL course, I recall devising a pseudo-structured way of using the language that the instructor had never seen before, yet my code was no less capable than the more typical approach(es). It obviously caught him quite by surprise by his reaction, which I've never forgotten (I've forgotten every detail about my technique). Perhaps it made my code more modular and maintainable.
I had previously lived in apartments with three neighbors - two on sides and one up or down - but never experienced anything as bad as the situation here, after the adjacent townhouse owned by the city suddenly started getting rented out after sitting vacant for at least 5 years. I never had a chance to know what was coming until it was years too late for me to back out of escrow. Even though the city is the landlord, they are utterly unapologetic about the state of affairs. I tried exactly your approach with the first three tenants; let's just say the attempts failed miserably and in ways you wouldn't believe unless you had been a fly on the wall. The latest fourth tenant is an ex-Liberian pastor who might prove respectful. I had the same talk with him, but with a local security guard as a wingman.
A single common two-story wall is MUCH worse than any two single-story walls. You've never lived in that situation, or you'd already know why. All the impacts, vibration and resonance from the entire linked second floor subfloor is funneled into that wall, which acts like a giant subwoofer in response.
Actually I got off easy because I'm on the end of a four-dwelling structure: were I living in one of the two central dwellings, I'd have TWO shared two-story walls instead of just one.
If we didn't have cars, we would be knee deep in horse crap.
Being serious for a moment... no, we wouldn't. And that would be a good thing in spite of its effect on public health, insect control, and having to constantly clean it all up. There would only be localized agriculture, much lower crop yields, no processed and junk food, drastically lower human population, less opportunities for concentration of wealth... you get the picture I expect.
That's most of the SSD market then, isn't it? So the majority of SSD buyers should expect a 66% failure rate? Wow, that's a strong advertisement for it.
Not really the point. The controller of a platter drive is physically separated from the actual storage medium; historically people with dead logic boards on otherwise usable drives have been able to swap the boards and reanimate them, at least long enough to recover the contents. (I even tried that once myself, though there was a slight revision difference in the PCBs and it didn't work.) That's not even possible for an SSD because the controller logic is right there on the same PCB with the NAND Flash medium. Unless you have a dear friend who works in the production side of the mfr., you're screwed.
Also, when they fail they normally become read-only, so you can copy everything over to a replacement drive.
Keep repeating that manufacturer-created hype, right up until the day your SSD has a catastrophic controller failure and makes everything inaccessible. You'll wish then that you'd used a platter drive for that data. This has happened to me with two of the three SSDs I've bought. Every platter drive I still have, including a Conner Peripherals 170 megabyte IDE drive and 1GB HP SCSI drive, works flawlessly, even after long periods on the shelf. Out of all the platter drives I've owned, I had two that I can recall fail physically (plenty of logical failures, though). I once disassembled and reassembled a drive to solve a particularly stubborn sticktion problem; fat chance of fixing those controller-failed SSDs in the same hackerish fashion. Compare that with my anecdotal two-out-of-three failure rate for SSDs.
How any of these allegedly high-tech supermarkets have backup generators to keep the food from perishing during a power outage?
Two days ago a Wal-Mart SuperCenter had an extended 16-hour power outage. Rather than act quickly and donate the imperiled food to the local food bank or even have a parking lot sale, the store management decided to "comp" all of it instead, destroying all of it so the suppliers would reimburse them in full.
All for lack of a backup generator that would have cost no more than the business they lost in those 16 hours. High-tech, you say?
Damn, reading the title of the submission I thought for sure I'd be reading another lurid tale of John McAfee being singled out for persecution by TPTB. What a disappointment!
Vint, that's bullshit and you know it. It's nothing more than preserving syntaxes, grammar, file formats. That's not hard, and it only requires someone to create a format conversion ONCE to solve the problem at each stage of the evolution.
The real problem here is proprietary non-public formats and structures. When the structure of data has been a closely guarded secret and requires reverse engineering that may not even yield a perfect result, THAT is hard.
Just because people can manage to adapt to corporate-forced change doesn't validate that change as actually useful for anyone except the corporation(s).
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The planet isn't blue. The blue light that got blocked out by the host star was actually the trillions of blue LEDs that the natives use to light their cities, just because they happen to really fancy blue.
... so much for the captain of the ship going down with it, eh?
Unless these remote pilots are sitting in full simulators that force them to share the terror of passengers during an uncontrolled descent - if you know you're going to live regardless what happens to the plane and its contents - then it removes just a bit of visceral motivation to avoid it happening, doesn't it?
Agreed, but the origins of that language predated many theories about what the right way is, and by then I suppose there was so much code in the wild that no one wanted to tackle the matter head-on?
It didn't have to be that way. When I was still in school a millennium ago and took my one and only COBOL course, I recall devising a pseudo-structured way of using the language that the instructor had never seen before, yet my code was no less capable than the more typical approach(es). It obviously caught him quite by surprise by his reaction, which I've never forgotten (I've forgotten every detail about my technique). Perhaps it made my code more modular and maintainable.
Actually he'd promote you, if the threats worked.
I had previously lived in apartments with three neighbors - two on sides and one up or down - but never experienced anything as bad as the situation here, after the adjacent townhouse owned by the city suddenly started getting rented out after sitting vacant for at least 5 years. I never had a chance to know what was coming until it was years too late for me to back out of escrow. Even though the city is the landlord, they are utterly unapologetic about the state of affairs. I tried exactly your approach with the first three tenants; let's just say the attempts failed miserably and in ways you wouldn't believe unless you had been a fly on the wall. The latest fourth tenant is an ex-Liberian pastor who might prove respectful. I had the same talk with him, but with a local security guard as a wingman.
Read my reply to the AC that also replied to you.
A single common two-story wall is MUCH worse than any two single-story walls. You've never lived in that situation, or you'd already know why. All the impacts, vibration and resonance from the entire linked second floor subfloor is funneled into that wall, which acts like a giant subwoofer in response.
Actually I got off easy because I'm on the end of a four-dwelling structure: were I living in one of the two central dwellings, I'd have TWO shared two-story walls instead of just one.
I second that wish!
(I'm not an apartment dweller, but... I "own" a 2-story townhouse with a 2-story shared wall.)
Hey, jones_supa: It's not yer monitor, stoopid, it's yer cellphone... stop holding it next to yer head!
If we didn't have cars, we would be knee deep in horse crap.
Being serious for a moment... no, we wouldn't. And that would be a good thing in spite of its effect on public health, insect control, and having to constantly clean it all up. There would only be localized agriculture, much lower crop yields, no processed and junk food, drastically lower human population, less opportunities for concentration of wealth... you get the picture I expect.
That's most of the SSD market then, isn't it? So the majority of SSD buyers should expect a 66% failure rate? Wow, that's a strong advertisement for it.
Not really the point. The controller of a platter drive is physically separated from the actual storage medium; historically people with dead logic boards on otherwise usable drives have been able to swap the boards and reanimate them, at least long enough to recover the contents. (I even tried that once myself, though there was a slight revision difference in the PCBs and it didn't work.) That's not even possible for an SSD because the controller logic is right there on the same PCB with the NAND Flash medium. Unless you have a dear friend who works in the production side of the mfr., you're screwed.
G.Skill might arguably be crappy, but would you argue the same of SanDisk? One of each choked.
Also, when they fail they normally become read-only, so you can copy everything over to a replacement drive.
Keep repeating that manufacturer-created hype, right up until the day your SSD has a catastrophic controller failure and makes everything inaccessible. You'll wish then that you'd used a platter drive for that data. This has happened to me with two of the three SSDs I've bought. Every platter drive I still have, including a Conner Peripherals 170 megabyte IDE drive and 1GB HP SCSI drive, works flawlessly, even after long periods on the shelf. Out of all the platter drives I've owned, I had two that I can recall fail physically (plenty of logical failures, though). I once disassembled and reassembled a drive to solve a particularly stubborn sticktion problem; fat chance of fixing those controller-failed SSDs in the same hackerish fashion. Compare that with my anecdotal two-out-of-three failure rate for SSDs.
Good luck, Dorothy.
Since the strategy actually exists, your objection is noted but irrelevant,
Nothing stopping them from having a unit like that on retainer as a regional resource, as described by one of the other commenters.
How any of these allegedly high-tech supermarkets have backup generators to keep the food from perishing during a power outage?
Two days ago a Wal-Mart SuperCenter had an extended 16-hour power outage. Rather than act quickly and donate the imperiled food to the local food bank or even have a parking lot sale, the store management decided to "comp" all of it instead, destroying all of it so the suppliers would reimburse them in full.
All for lack of a backup generator that would have cost no more than the business they lost in those 16 hours. High-tech, you say?
Could you put that dogmatism on a leash, buddy? It's crapping all over my electoral process.
Damn, reading the title of the submission I thought for sure I'd be reading another lurid tale of John McAfee being singled out for persecution by TPTB. What a disappointment!
Vint, that's bullshit and you know it. It's nothing more than preserving syntaxes, grammar, file formats. That's not hard, and it only requires someone to create a format conversion ONCE to solve the problem at each stage of the evolution.
The real problem here is proprietary non-public formats and structures. When the structure of data has been a closely guarded secret and requires reverse engineering that may not even yield a perfect result, THAT is hard.
I say let those two long-suffering wires finally get it on with each other... enough with the twists and stress and tension already!
Just because people can manage to adapt to corporate-forced change doesn't validate that change as actually useful for anyone except the corporation(s).
You should move to the U.K. They had TV specials about us.
Thank you for staying off mine, I guess?