So you're okay with children in Texas now being indoctrinated with this drivel, growing up to become a new generation of "Christian soldiers", and then entering national politics to do to the rest of the country what their "forefathers" started in Texas with them?
You honestly think that's a great idea, that "doing it at the local level" somehow makes everything right?
What if your local county supervisors decided to legalize slavery in your county, in defiance of Federal law? You'd think that was a grand thing? You're okay with some other country deciding to allow slavery, simply because they decided it at their "local level"? Do you understand now how incomplete such reasoning is? Tyranny of the majority is still tyranny of the majority, regardless of the scale or scope.
The purpose of a republican democracy versus a pure or direct one is precisely to set immutable standards that prevent the worst consequences of "tyranny of the majority", at ANY level of governance. Republican democracy fails in that purpose, as in this case with the school board's tyranny, when people completely fail to understand that purpose. Majority opinion and rule is not always a good or the right thing, and consequently there need to be checks and balances to prevent unethical oppression or abuse of a minority. There weren't enough checks and balances here.
Some of us did already know this. Owing to Sensory Integration Disorder or something like it, I have very acute senses, or rather I have very acute processing of my senses. I am always painfully aware of what distracts, irritates, and bothers me, and I have been driven to understand why in each instance that it occurs (in the hope that the knowledge might help me flee or fight it). It took me a long time, but I figured this out for myself; I recognized that the distraction flowed from the absence of context, which made what I heard confusing and demanded extra attention to unwillingly try to reconstruct what was missing. It didn't occur to me that it would be worthy of a full-blown academic study.
Should we care what Reismanis thinks about modding? ModDB is also the site that botched an opportunity to host the entire fileset from a cumulative decade of devoted modding of Total Annihilation. You remember Total Annihilation, right? The game that has spawned at least one spinoff and three sequels, with a fourth anticipated?
When the last sites that were host to what remained of the TA modding community, tauniverse.com and fileuniverse.com, were under imminent threat of disappearing for good last year, the site's complete modding archives - essentially everything that had ever been created by a third party for the game - were offered to ModDB for preservation. ModDB accepted and received the files, but then did absolutely nothing with them.
Fortunately the TA community rallied yet again and retained control of the key domains and all that content, but ModDB dropped the ball. Many people were neither impressed nor amused.
I can't recall seeing the peer-reviewed study verifying those facts mentioned on Slashdot.;-)
It hardly matters, though... there are enough people numerically that DO to still make it a marketplace. Microsoft can afford to be patient and wait for the remainder to hit the wall, which they will eventually.
You misunderstand GPT: if the capacity of the media exceeds 2TB, then GPT structure is required regardless how that capacity is partitioned. XP 32-bit's Disk Management will "see" a GPT disk, but only as a fake restricted type that is part of the GPT spec to guard against modifications by software that isn't GPT-aware.
I also think you underestimate just how quickly the new capacity will become mainstream. Were you were saying the same things about 1 terabyte drives five years ago?
Microsoft is positively giddy with its anticipation of this turnover, since it will finally force those stubborn Windows XP 32-bit holdouts to tuck their tails and fork over the bucks for Windows 7. Microsoft chose not to release patches that would update the filesystem of XP 32-bit to recognize GPT disks; that capability, much like RAM greater than 4GB, is arbitrarily restricted by license to XP 64-bit, Windows Server, and later releases.
I bought one of these when it first came out, even before Newegg got on the bandwagon. I got it because it's capable of RAID5 that is transparent to the host and doesn't require port multiplication. Similar things in the same price range that preceded it all required a host that was port-multiplier-aware, which the eSATA port on my motherboard is not. This box uses a new JMicron JMB393 chip that can create RAID 5 within the confines of the box, making the drives in it appear to any host as one big physical disk. There's no software RAID driver; any OS (that is GPT-aware) will see the drives in it as a single disk. There is software, but it exists to manage the internal RAID system, not implement it.
I popped five Western Digital Caviar drives into it, told it to create a RAID 5 volume across all of them, made sure my host was ready to handle GPT (Windows XP-32 doesn't), and then voila, a 4TB virtual disk that has some redundancy. The JMicron management software has a juvenile UI (q,v. Asus software) and needs some work with regard to its SMART awareness, and the two fans are bloody loud for a desktop, but it does what I need it to do and I could afford it. I got the five WD10EADS drives for about $70 each, and the Venus T5 cost me another $220, so 4 terabytes of standalone redundancy for less than $600. You might build a cheap NAS with software RAID 5 for less, but that isn't what I wanted.
This really isn't so surprising at all. Humans have a rather limited sensor suite compared to some of the robotic systems we can now build. Maneuvers like the one described are all about full panoramic visibility and awareness, something humans don't really possess... at least not individually. Is it any wonder that humans so often cooperate in similar situations where one set of fixed eyes and ears really isn't enough? Think about a squad of soldiers: it's as much about combined awareness as it is combined firepower. We can design robotic systems what don't have that limitation.
"It sounds more like hype to extract a higher profit margin...."
Oh, you mean like a 240 Hertz refresh rate, when the actual changes to the product cost virtually nothing? Or "LED" TVs that aren't driven by LEDs at all but merely backlit by them?
This might not be far-fetched at all. I identified decades ago, before I was even legally an adult, that I had precisely that division of labor between my two hands and arms, and indeed probably between both entire halves of my body and brain: one half performed brute force maneuvers requiring strength, while the other specialized in performing actions requiring precision. Thus I write and manipulate a spoon with one hand, while using the other to throw a ball, swing a bat, and wield a steak knife. To some degree I've tried to thwart this as an adult, by trying to "teach" each hemisphere to be less specialized, but I still throw like a girl with that other hand.
The difference might not be just linguistic if "fur" lacks the specific structure described in TFA. Fingernails are made of keratin, too, but they don't have anything else in common with hair.
"Dangerous" doesn't define an absolute. If you have a dictionary that does define it so, you might want to throw it away. Again, as I said below, the obvious response to his ignorance of the innards would have been to ask questions first. Perhaps "reckless" is a descriptive word that would less offend your sensibilities?
To be serious about your funny jab for a moment, this guy's brilliant plan had a fatal flaw in judgement, and it was just pure luck that he didn't trash a SIM doing what he did. He made the mistake of presuming that the circuitry inside would be no bigger than the effective external contact area. While he got lucky and that proved to be true of SIM cards, I doubt if he actually knew this to be the case previously and it would be dangerous to think that presumption can be applied broadly.
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So you're okay with children in Texas now being indoctrinated with this drivel, growing up to become a new generation of "Christian soldiers", and then entering national politics to do to the rest of the country what their "forefathers" started in Texas with them?
You honestly think that's a great idea, that "doing it at the local level" somehow makes everything right?
What if your local county supervisors decided to legalize slavery in your county, in defiance of Federal law? You'd think that was a grand thing? You're okay with some other country deciding to allow slavery, simply because they decided it at their "local level"? Do you understand now how incomplete such reasoning is? Tyranny of the majority is still tyranny of the majority, regardless of the scale or scope.
The purpose of a republican democracy versus a pure or direct one is precisely to set immutable standards that prevent the worst consequences of "tyranny of the majority", at ANY level of governance. Republican democracy fails in that purpose, as in this case with the school board's tyranny, when people completely fail to understand that purpose. Majority opinion and rule is not always a good or the right thing, and consequently there need to be checks and balances to prevent unethical oppression or abuse of a minority. There weren't enough checks and balances here.
Sheesh, at least make it a gyroscopically stabilized mount. How hard could it be?
You get your wish: you've been added to it.
Some of us did already know this. Owing to Sensory Integration Disorder or something like it, I have very acute senses, or rather I have very acute processing of my senses. I am always painfully aware of what distracts, irritates, and bothers me, and I have been driven to understand why in each instance that it occurs (in the hope that the knowledge might help me flee or fight it). It took me a long time, but I figured this out for myself; I recognized that the distraction flowed from the absence of context, which made what I heard confusing and demanded extra attention to unwillingly try to reconstruct what was missing. It didn't occur to me that it would be worthy of a full-blown academic study.
Should we care what Reismanis thinks about modding? ModDB is also the site that botched an opportunity to host the entire fileset from a cumulative decade of devoted modding of Total Annihilation. You remember Total Annihilation, right? The game that has spawned at least one spinoff and three sequels, with a fourth anticipated?
When the last sites that were host to what remained of the TA modding community, tauniverse.com and fileuniverse.com, were under imminent threat of disappearing for good last year, the site's complete modding archives - essentially everything that had ever been created by a third party for the game - were offered to ModDB for preservation. ModDB accepted and received the files, but then did absolutely nothing with them.
Fortunately the TA community rallied yet again and retained control of the key domains and all that content, but ModDB dropped the ball. Many people were neither impressed nor amused.
It is insightful, but it wasn't MY insight, I'm just repeating someone else's discovery, which has been referenced on Slashdot:
http://www.geoffchappell.com/notes/windows/license/memory.htm
You have to keep reading to near the end, because he starts off discussing the similar restriction in Vista 32-bit.
Like I said, license restriction, not a physical one.
I can't recall seeing the peer-reviewed study verifying those facts mentioned on Slashdot. ;-)
It hardly matters, though... there are enough people numerically that DO to still make it a marketplace. Microsoft can afford to be patient and wait for the remainder to hit the wall, which they will eventually.
You misunderstand GPT: if the capacity of the media exceeds 2TB, then GPT structure is required regardless how that capacity is partitioned. XP 32-bit's Disk Management will "see" a GPT disk, but only as a fake restricted type that is part of the GPT spec to guard against modifications by software that isn't GPT-aware.
I also think you underestimate just how quickly the new capacity will become mainstream. Were you were saying the same things about 1 terabyte drives five years ago?
Microsoft is positively giddy with its anticipation of this turnover, since it will finally force those stubborn Windows XP 32-bit holdouts to tuck their tails and fork over the bucks for Windows 7. Microsoft chose not to release patches that would update the filesystem of XP 32-bit to recognize GPT disks; that capability, much like RAM greater than 4GB, is arbitrarily restricted by license to XP 64-bit, Windows Server, and later releases.
Can I buy one of these girlfriend things of which you speak on Amazon? I hope I can get the SuperSaver free shipping with that?
I bought one of these when it first came out, even before Newegg got on the bandwagon. I got it because it's capable of RAID5 that is transparent to the host and doesn't require port multiplication. Similar things in the same price range that preceded it all required a host that was port-multiplier-aware, which the eSATA port on my motherboard is not. This box uses a new JMicron JMB393 chip that can create RAID 5 within the confines of the box, making the drives in it appear to any host as one big physical disk. There's no software RAID driver; any OS (that is GPT-aware) will see the drives in it as a single disk. There is software, but it exists to manage the internal RAID system, not implement it.
I popped five Western Digital Caviar drives into it, told it to create a RAID 5 volume across all of them, made sure my host was ready to handle GPT (Windows XP-32 doesn't), and then voila, a 4TB virtual disk that has some redundancy. The JMicron management software has a juvenile UI (q,v. Asus software) and needs some work with regard to its SMART awareness, and the two fans are bloody loud for a desktop, but it does what I need it to do and I could afford it. I got the five WD10EADS drives for about $70 each, and the Venus T5 cost me another $220, so 4 terabytes of standalone redundancy for less than $600. You might build a cheap NAS with software RAID 5 for less, but that isn't what I wanted.
That's kinda the point of robotics, ain't it? Successful repeatability. We can add boobies to the package later.
This really isn't so surprising at all. Humans have a rather limited sensor suite compared to some of the robotic systems we can now build. Maneuvers like the one described are all about full panoramic visibility and awareness, something humans don't really possess... at least not individually. Is it any wonder that humans so often cooperate in similar situations where one set of fixed eyes and ears really isn't enough? Think about a squad of soldiers: it's as much about combined awareness as it is combined firepower. We can design robotic systems what don't have that limitation.
I thought the Woot blog response to the matter was more interesting. I haven't been corrupted by Twitter yet, so it's all just amusing to me anyway.
What you just said might as well have been doublespeak. It says nothing at all. Why bother?
Oh, you mean like a 240 Hertz refresh rate, when the actual changes to the product cost virtually nothing? Or "LED" TVs that aren't driven by LEDs at all but merely backlit by them?
This might not be far-fetched at all. I identified decades ago, before I was even legally an adult, that I had precisely that division of labor between my two hands and arms, and indeed probably between both entire halves of my body and brain: one half performed brute force maneuvers requiring strength, while the other specialized in performing actions requiring precision. Thus I write and manipulate a spoon with one hand, while using the other to throw a ball, swing a bat, and wield a steak knife. To some degree I've tried to thwart this as an adult, by trying to "teach" each hemisphere to be less specialized, but I still throw like a girl with that other hand.
The difference might not be just linguistic if "fur" lacks the specific structure described in TFA. Fingernails are made of keratin, too, but they don't have anything else in common with hair.
Cat hair isn't hair: it's fur. Don't ask me what the difference is, I just know it's classified as fur.
... and clean up this here nasty oil spill.
Sorry, that makes it sound like all he understood were the EXTERNAL aspects. He says nothing about being familiar with the internal layout.
"Dangerous" doesn't define an absolute. If you have a dictionary that does define it so, you might want to throw it away. Again, as I said below, the obvious response to his ignorance of the innards would have been to ask questions first. Perhaps "reckless" is a descriptive word that would less offend your sensibilities?
The obvious answer is that he could have researched and asked questions BEFORE he took a knife to the doggone thing.
To be serious about your funny jab for a moment, this guy's brilliant plan had a fatal flaw in judgement, and it was just pure luck that he didn't trash a SIM doing what he did. He made the mistake of presuming that the circuitry inside would be no bigger than the effective external contact area. While he got lucky and that proved to be true of SIM cards, I doubt if he actually knew this to be the case previously and it would be dangerous to think that presumption can be applied broadly.