Since Tesla only sells EVs, it is correct to say "every Tesla". I understand that the government is not picking a company, but it doesn't make Tesla any less dependent on federal aid.
They approached existing dealers first. Only if existing dealers refused to build a dedicated facility would they offer up the territory to a new dealer. I'm sure you could find Saturn dealers who owned no other GM franchises, but I am under the impression that this was rare. I do know one Chevy/Cadillac/Oldsmobile/Pontiac/GMAC dealer who told them to go pound sand.
And GM had the advantage of using their existing dealers. They leaned on them to build new showrooms, but most were existing dealers. It really and truly was just a re-branding effort. The new relationship with labor was interesting, but never really produced an exceptional car.
And yet the gas is cheaper than in next-door PA, where you have to get out in the cold. If you end up in NJ frequently, you even time your gas purchases for when you are on the Jersey side.
I'm one of the users seeing this. The ads are still obvious to me - I assumed that they did it to make the site more mobile-friendly, but it could be a downward slide down your slope.
They do. They can block your IMEI number, for one thing. For another, they can lean pretty hard on manufacturers who hope to sell phones in their stores.
Just so you aren't in a hurry. Free "super saver" shipping has gotten slower and slower over the last year or so. It's gotten so bad that I actually shop around again. They should not underestimate the effect this has on customers - I took a vacation from Newegg when they started occasionally using some bizarro shipping scheme that had my packages leaving my state for Kentucky and then eventually coming back after a hand-off to the USPS.
Yes, in this experiment, you'd be hoping that the incentive for the extra cash would outweigh the incentive to do funny business with the federal dollars. You'd have to keep a sharp eye on collusion above all else. I'm not saying it would work, but I think it would be an enlightening experiment. At first, do it on something like a highway and see what happens.
It's usually "/home" these days, but it can be almost anything - and historically "/user" has also been used. In any event, I think it is pretty clear what he meant, even if he's used to a different unix distro than you are.
I'd like to see a (I think) novel approach: contract the exact same job twice. Concoct some metrics for success and reward the contractor who "wins" each year with a bonus.
You don't have to be too wasteful - the work can be divvied up so that you are not literally doing the work twice.
I'm definitely getting older, but it was not me who brought up DLT. I think the AC was recommending that the submitter find an old DLT drive on eBay or some such place and use that. While that would make the drive itself cost-effective, I wanted to show that there is a reason those old things are available for a low cost.
If you do modern tape, compression is worthless on video and music, which is presumably already compressed - so you will need the full tape capacity. The tape drives themselves cost more than buying 40TB worth of hard drives. Tape is great for many use cases, but backing up your home media center probably isn't one of them.
I was addressing the comment to use a DLT drive. Those only hold 600GB compressed.
On niggle with your response, though... you won't get any substantial compression with music or video. You will likely need double the number of tapes that you think you will.
With the right setup, you could leave everything in the master directory and just add symbolic links to a backup directory. That way the backup solution won't get in the way of the setup. You could even write a little utility that automatically backs stuff up that you rank highly with whatever program you are viewing with. Back when CDs were expensive, I would only backup my "3-stars and over" playlist in iTunes.
At 300GB per tape for the best, most expensive tapes that would require 69 tapes (and 69 hours) for a full backup. At around $120 per tape, that is over $8000, just in tape. A second RAID with full redundancy would be far cheaper - the 10 4TB hard drives coming in at around $1700. Doing it with 2-drive redundancy would only require 7 drives.
I'm not on the scale of you guys, but I just approach it as if the hard drives come in sets. I never buy a single hard drive unless I'm replacing a failed drive. If I can't afford enough hard drives to expand my capacity along with backup, I just make do with what I have. A good culling can make a remarkable amount of space available. Tools like "Grand Perspective" on Mac and "SpaceMonger" on Windows make this chore a bit less tedious. Once your kids are over a certain age, do you really need those ripped seasons of Dora the Explorer? Are you ever going to watch Minority Report? Are you ever going to catch up on those old episodes of Daily Show?
That said, I don't generally bother backing up movies. If the RAID barfs, oh well. There are exceptions, and all of my music is backed up... who wants to rip all of those CDs again? And music only takes up a few hundred GB.
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Right, but the product shipped FROM my state (Pennsylvania). The Kentucky detour is what made it "bizarro".
Right, but Nissan could stop Leaf production tomorrow and be just fine. Not so with the Model S.
Since Tesla only sells EVs, it is correct to say "every Tesla". I understand that the government is not picking a company, but it doesn't make Tesla any less dependent on federal aid.
They approached existing dealers first. Only if existing dealers refused to build a dedicated facility would they offer up the territory to a new dealer. I'm sure you could find Saturn dealers who owned no other GM franchises, but I am under the impression that this was rare. I do know one Chevy/Cadillac/Oldsmobile/Pontiac/GMAC dealer who told them to go pound sand.
And GM had the advantage of using their existing dealers. They leaned on them to build new showrooms, but most were existing dealers. It really and truly was just a re-branding effort. The new relationship with labor was interesting, but never really produced an exceptional car.
Not just loans - every Tesla car is "subsidized" by thousands of dollars via a tax write-off for the buyer.
And yet the gas is cheaper than in next-door PA, where you have to get out in the cold. If you end up in NJ frequently, you even time your gas purchases for when you are on the Jersey side.
I'm one of the users seeing this. The ads are still obvious to me - I assumed that they did it to make the site more mobile-friendly, but it could be a downward slide down your slope.
(yes, I know I should be paying use tax anyway)
Paying an unenforceable tax would be quite foolish, IMHO :)
Or at least not very pragmatic.
They do. They can block your IMEI number, for one thing. For another, they can lean pretty hard on manufacturers who hope to sell phones in their stores.
Just so you aren't in a hurry. Free "super saver" shipping has gotten slower and slower over the last year or so. It's gotten so bad that I actually shop around again. They should not underestimate the effect this has on customers - I took a vacation from Newegg when they started occasionally using some bizarro shipping scheme that had my packages leaving my state for Kentucky and then eventually coming back after a hand-off to the USPS.
Agreed. It's still not cheap enough to move my media to, but it sure beats Dropbox on price.
Yes, in this experiment, you'd be hoping that the incentive for the extra cash would outweigh the incentive to do funny business with the federal dollars. You'd have to keep a sharp eye on collusion above all else. I'm not saying it would work, but I think it would be an enlightening experiment. At first, do it on something like a highway and see what happens.
No you got me there - he definitely did put Linux right there in the subject.
I still know what he meant, though maybe only because I missed the subject.
It's usually "/home" these days, but it can be almost anything - and historically "/user" has also been used. In any event, I think it is pretty clear what he meant, even if he's used to a different unix distro than you are.
Name a linux distro
A bit limiting, isn't it? I guess you weren't trolling, so you are welcome.
I'd like to see a (I think) novel approach: contract the exact same job twice. Concoct some metrics for success and reward the contractor who "wins" each year with a bonus.
You don't have to be too wasteful - the work can be divvied up so that you are not literally doing the work twice.
You understand X and xfce but not /user? I think you are trolling, but I'll answer anyway in the hopes of adding to the discussion.
wiredog means to put user directories on a USB drive due to the limited internal space.
Yeah, it seemed like a weird thing to suggest. I see my numbers were off, but it's absurd even with 1/3 the number of tapes.
I'm definitely getting older, but it was not me who brought up DLT. I think the AC was recommending that the submitter find an old DLT drive on eBay or some such place and use that. While that would make the drive itself cost-effective, I wanted to show that there is a reason those old things are available for a low cost.
If you do modern tape, compression is worthless on video and music, which is presumably already compressed - so you will need the full tape capacity. The tape drives themselves cost more than buying 40TB worth of hard drives. Tape is great for many use cases, but backing up your home media center probably isn't one of them.
Yes, I was responding to the DLT suggestion. I should have been more explicit.
I was addressing the comment to use a DLT drive. Those only hold 600GB compressed.
On niggle with your response, though... you won't get any substantial compression with music or video. You will likely need double the number of tapes that you think you will.
With the right setup, you could leave everything in the master directory and just add symbolic links to a backup directory. That way the backup solution won't get in the way of the setup. You could even write a little utility that automatically backs stuff up that you rank highly with whatever program you are viewing with. Back when CDs were expensive, I would only backup my "3-stars and over" playlist in iTunes.
At 300GB per tape for the best, most expensive tapes that would require 69 tapes (and 69 hours) for a full backup. At around $120 per tape, that is over $8000, just in tape. A second RAID with full redundancy would be far cheaper - the 10 4TB hard drives coming in at around $1700. Doing it with 2-drive redundancy would only require 7 drives.
I'm not on the scale of you guys, but I just approach it as if the hard drives come in sets. I never buy a single hard drive unless I'm replacing a failed drive. If I can't afford enough hard drives to expand my capacity along with backup, I just make do with what I have. A good culling can make a remarkable amount of space available. Tools like "Grand Perspective" on Mac and "SpaceMonger" on Windows make this chore a bit less tedious. Once your kids are over a certain age, do you really need those ripped seasons of Dora the Explorer? Are you ever going to watch Minority Report? Are you ever going to catch up on those old episodes of Daily Show?
That said, I don't generally bother backing up movies. If the RAID barfs, oh well. There are exceptions, and all of my music is backed up... who wants to rip all of those CDs again? And music only takes up a few hundred GB.