See just about every 'movement' ending in a revolution.
Now there is a perfect example of a true statement that is completely misleading. If you lived in a country where it was illegal to organize a political opposition, you can bet that any opposition that does emerge will be disorganized. Selection bias in your data set.
Martin Luther King, Jr. and Gandhi definitely should definitely rethink their strategy. You are right, protest cannot be used to illustrate a moral wrong and build popular support - they should stop right now and arm their followers.
No, disorganized (and even organized) protests with fuzzy demands which aren't actionable don't typically achieve much. If you want an example of how to do protest right, channeling minority anger into political power, look at the Tea Party. For God's sakes, don't emulate some of their goals, but certainly look at their methods.
It's not that they have "more" torque - it's that the torque is pretty much the same at any engine speed. IC engines - even "torquey" ones like diesels - have very little at low RPMs, then peak as you increase engine speed until reaching some point of diminishing returns as your intake limits you and torque drops off (but power continues to increase). It's the main reason that you need a transmission.
Even given that they were running on energy-dense diesel, 40MPG is pretty darned impressive at those speeds. I have to wonder if they weren't drafting.
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No, I'm suggesting a purchase from two different sources, or if that is too difficult then two separate orders so that you have drives that were most likely manufactured at different times. You can achieve the same effect of waiting for 6 months, if that's your thing, by swapping in some of your spares at the 6 month mark.
In case you are honestly confused, this would be the only brand of 6TB drive that I am aware of. In that case, you are stuck with mixing batches. Another commenter says that they swap out some new drives at the 6 month mark as another form of staggering.
Pre-war and even a bit into the 50s, American houses were built with stone or brick structures. But there are many practical problems with such construction, so if you want a masonry house now it is typically built around the wood frame. This lets you use modern insulation practices without moist interior air entering cracks in the masonry and freezing, causing deterioration. I suspect most of the newer stone structures in Europe are built in milder climates than much of the US, or else you have devised another way to keep moisture away from the masonry without causing a moldy damp interior condition.
That's only true if it is your only backup method and it relies on a central authority. All of my Mac backups and Windows backups rely on proprietary backup systems (Time Machine, Windows 7 Backup, and Crashplan). The odds of Crashplan going out of business at the precise moment that my hard drive crashes and my Time Machine or Windows 7 backup fail are astronomical.
I don't think it is revolutionary, either... it's just a framework, after all. I was imagining a use where you have some super-low-power device out in the woods sampling temperatures, only firing itself up to "reliable" when it needs to send out data or something. Or a smartphone media app that lets the user choose between high video/audio quality and better battery life. Yeah, they could have already done this with some custom driver or something, but presumably having an existing framework would make it easier, less apt to conflict, and more standard.
Doesn't that depend on the application? What if I'm simply updating a position based upon an already noisy sensor? I already have a bunch of code to throw out crappy results. I'm taking lots of samples, so as long as most of my measurements are accurate, it's all good. Obviously I can't tolerate a random error in every single cycle, but maybe 1 in a million is OK and lets me run at a lower voltage.
So then for you, the compromise in this particular example would be that you would crank up the power a bit and make the pixels all perfect. Other people without such good eyes could crank down the power and get more battery life.
If he uses a plain old mirror, he can rely on Time Machine / Windows 7 Backup to do the versioning. Given his constraint of not backing up over the WAN, I'd gravitate toward hooking 2 or 3 USB disks up to a NAS, mirroring the drives, and periodically swapping one out to a friend's house.
I like the way you build up the solution from a base, adding robustness.
I'd start with a different base - RAID 1 (mirror). He can keep a RAID 1 drive set going attached to his NAS. Backup everything to the NAS. Every so often, pull one of the drives and bring it to the friend's. Take the other drive back home and plug it in and let the RAID mirror heal.
The next step, but one which would require slightly better hardware, would be to use zfs mirroring instead of RAID. This gives you more of a warm fuzzy feeling about the data on each disk, and I have more confidence that every drive in the healed mirror set will contain valid data.
The next step would be to automate the process. Set up another zfs system at your friend's and use your network to send zfs snapshots, which are incremental over your relatively slow connection.
No, because it costs $900 at the low end. It's indeed better than a cheap ARM tablet ($150-$400) in many ways. It's even better than an iPad ($500) in many ways. It's also almost impossible to see why many people would drop that kind of cash on what is essentially another touch-screen Windows laptop, if they weren't already in the market for such a device.
Don't get me wrong, I love the cut throat competition in this space and in smartphones... if only PCs enjoyed this sort of variety again... but you are either creating content or you are not. If you are, it's hard to fathom an advantage of a Surface Pro 2 style machine over a more traditional laptop. If you are not, then you can surf the web, play videos, and play games on devices costing half as much money or less. There are probably some people who both create content, need a long battery life, AND want to use the same machine to couch surf. Fair enough. I'm just betting that it isn't a very large market.
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See just about every 'movement' ending in a revolution.
Now there is a perfect example of a true statement that is completely misleading. If you lived in a country where it was illegal to organize a political opposition, you can bet that any opposition that does emerge will be disorganized. Selection bias in your data set.
Martin Luther King, Jr. and Gandhi definitely should definitely rethink their strategy. You are right, protest cannot be used to illustrate a moral wrong and build popular support - they should stop right now and arm their followers.
No, disorganized (and even organized) protests with fuzzy demands which aren't actionable don't typically achieve much. If you want an example of how to do protest right, channeling minority anger into political power, look at the Tea Party. For God's sakes, don't emulate some of their goals, but certainly look at their methods.
It's not that they have "more" torque - it's that the torque is pretty much the same at any engine speed. IC engines - even "torquey" ones like diesels - have very little at low RPMs, then peak as you increase engine speed until reaching some point of diminishing returns as your intake limits you and torque drops off (but power continues to increase). It's the main reason that you need a transmission.
Even given that they were running on energy-dense diesel, 40MPG is pretty darned impressive at those speeds. I have to wonder if they weren't drafting.
We have Chinese-descended people in the USA. The joke might be at the expense of the PRC, but it is not about race at all.
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No, I'm suggesting a purchase from two different sources, or if that is too difficult then two separate orders so that you have drives that were most likely manufactured at different times. You can achieve the same effect of waiting for 6 months, if that's your thing, by swapping in some of your spares at the 6 month mark.
I assume you are just trying to be annoying?
In case you are honestly confused, this would be the only brand of 6TB drive that I am aware of. In that case, you are stuck with mixing batches. Another commenter says that they swap out some new drives at the 6 month mark as another form of staggering.
Pre-war and even a bit into the 50s, American houses were built with stone or brick structures. But there are many practical problems with such construction, so if you want a masonry house now it is typically built around the wood frame. This lets you use modern insulation practices without moist interior air entering cracks in the masonry and freezing, causing deterioration. I suspect most of the newer stone structures in Europe are built in milder climates than much of the US, or else you have devised another way to keep moisture away from the masonry without causing a moldy damp interior condition.
That's only true if it is your only backup method and it relies on a central authority. All of my Mac backups and Windows backups rely on proprietary backup systems (Time Machine, Windows 7 Backup, and Crashplan). The odds of Crashplan going out of business at the precise moment that my hard drive crashes and my Time Machine or Windows 7 backup fail are astronomical.
"if not brands"
Yes, but that would destroy my argument about not losing time :)
I don't think it is revolutionary, either... it's just a framework, after all. I was imagining a use where you have some super-low-power device out in the woods sampling temperatures, only firing itself up to "reliable" when it needs to send out data or something. Or a smartphone media app that lets the user choose between high video/audio quality and better battery life. Yeah, they could have already done this with some custom driver or something, but presumably having an existing framework would make it easier, less apt to conflict, and more standard.
I thought conventional wisdom was to at least mix batches, if not brands.
So, when a drive fails and I lose time/data
I'm not hiring you to set up my systems.
Most sane people would take a spare off the shelf and pop it into the array and drop the bad drive into the dead soldiers pile for later RMA.
So you've done this yourself and you still don't see the utility in doing it at the application level rather than the system level?
Doesn't that depend on the application? What if I'm simply updating a position based upon an already noisy sensor? I already have a bunch of code to throw out crappy results. I'm taking lots of samples, so as long as most of my measurements are accurate, it's all good. Obviously I can't tolerate a random error in every single cycle, but maybe 1 in a million is OK and lets me run at a lower voltage.
So then for you, the compromise in this particular example would be that you would crank up the power a bit and make the pixels all perfect. Other people without such good eyes could crank down the power and get more battery life.
Really? You can tell your phone/PC/laptop/whatever to run the graphics chip at an unreliably low voltage on demand?
If he uses a plain old mirror, he can rely on Time Machine / Windows 7 Backup to do the versioning. Given his constraint of not backing up over the WAN, I'd gravitate toward hooking 2 or 3 USB disks up to a NAS, mirroring the drives, and periodically swapping one out to a friend's house.
I like the way you build up the solution from a base, adding robustness.
I'd start with a different base - RAID 1 (mirror). He can keep a RAID 1 drive set going attached to his NAS. Backup everything to the NAS. Every so often, pull one of the drives and bring it to the friend's. Take the other drive back home and plug it in and let the RAID mirror heal.
The next step, but one which would require slightly better hardware, would be to use zfs mirroring instead of RAID. This gives you more of a warm fuzzy feeling about the data on each disk, and I have more confidence that every drive in the healed mirror set will contain valid data.
The next step would be to automate the process. Set up another zfs system at your friend's and use your network to send zfs snapshots, which are incremental over your relatively slow connection.
No, because the Web 2.0 won't let it.
No, because it costs $900 at the low end. It's indeed better than a cheap ARM tablet ($150-$400) in many ways. It's even better than an iPad ($500) in many ways. It's also almost impossible to see why many people would drop that kind of cash on what is essentially another touch-screen Windows laptop, if they weren't already in the market for such a device.
Don't get me wrong, I love the cut throat competition in this space and in smartphones... if only PCs enjoyed this sort of variety again... but you are either creating content or you are not. If you are, it's hard to fathom an advantage of a Surface Pro 2 style machine over a more traditional laptop. If you are not, then you can surf the web, play videos, and play games on devices costing half as much money or less. There are probably some people who both create content, need a long battery life, AND want to use the same machine to couch surf. Fair enough. I'm just betting that it isn't a very large market.
No, but my grammar sucks. I meant to say there are 1/3 as many, but it doesn't really change my point.
Yes, I should join your struggle against changing societal norms! Can I fight against gay marriage, too?
It looks like we only have to educate 1/3 of all English speakers!