The US street are littered with kids whose parent did that instead of actual get professional help.
No, they aren't. They are littered with people who have schizophrenia and other mental illness, but cannot be compelled to take their meds. This dude isn't hearing voices, and he doesn't seem to be self-treating his "illness" with alcohol or heroin.
I figure the dirt-cheapest they could do is about 100k or so per petabyte. Of course, they then need to keep this going indefinitely... Even if they don't do any off-site backup, they certainly need at least redundant local copies. So figure 200k just for the hardware - then you need to pay someone to keep it going forever.... that cost will come down as storage gets cheaper, but of course they'll keep gobbling up more space as the cost comes down as well.
It doesn't need to all stay online, so that probably changes the equation somewhat as well. You'd still need someone to fire it up once in a while to let the data get scrubbed and to check the hardware.
I guess they mean it is easy to get carried away during the recording phase because "film" is very cheap now. This presents a storage challenge. I imagine keeping 1 PB in redundant, geographically diverse storage would get spendy fast.
I suspect it would be more cost-effective to convert the raw bits to some kind of common standard and then just save the raw footage and the finished copy. Saving all the editing stuff won't help in the long run anyway - chances are the editing programs 20 years on won't know what to do with your old working files.
Huh? Most of the stuff you find on the various pirate channels is compressed down - at the most, you'll get a raw Blu-Ray rip. You can still get an xvid (avi usually under 2GB) version of just about anything that is available in any other format.
You are correct. Where Unison helps is that I can see when two files differ between the ZFS backup and the original on Windows/Mac. If I see a file with a diff, but the modified dates and sizes are identical, I know something is up. This has occurred a few times now.
This works even without ZFS, but I've never had the ZFS version go corrupt.
I use mine for a few things: - Media server. This uses surprisingly little space, though that may change when I switch to high-def. - Backup. This is where all the space disappears to. The 3 computers in the house all target it. - CrashPlan. Every time a friend or relative has me touch their computer, they get CrashPlan pointed to my server. - Services. My photos, music, and some other data get shared via various services.
It also makes a nice machine to throw a VM on when you need to.
You can always spend more. Point is, cost is just as important as performance when designing a mass-market game console. You can't have enough market share to attract developers without making the platform cost competitive.
For Windows, there is the promise of ReFS, but for now I just don't keep anything irreplaceable on there.
I'll have to give Zevo a spin. I played with the old MacZFS several years ago and decided it wasn't quite ready for prime-time, but I might give it another go. For now, I just end up backing up certain important things to ZFS, and because I use Unison, I have a very high chance of catching corruption as long as the backups are frequent enough. Unison does a two-way sync, but I use that aspect to detect corruption... the sync should only ever try to go in one direction. I've toyed with making my future Mac and Windows machines run as VMs on top of FreeBSD, but that would mean ugly video performance. Not that I game, but still...
That's my use case as well. I gave them some cash, lord knows I've used their efforts enough.
My surprise when setting up the ZFS server was in how well everything has worked so far. ZFS has also caught corruption a few times, so I'm going to give it props. It has me wondering if it is possible to get the same kind of data integrity on Mac or Windows. As a stopgap, I sync everything important with Unison so that I can see bitrot on the Mac/PC side. I once caught a really nasty corruption in the middle of my Photos directory that rendered several jpegs useless. More recently I caught another, though this time it was just in the preview image so it wouldn't have been a big deal. It makes me wonder what is going on in the directories that I don't sync!
That is exactly the point I was trying to make. You can use robots and avoid all of the costly government interference in your business. "The unemployed" have a tremendous cost burden associated with them.
Of course, most robots are probably being purchased by corporations, which just like unions represent a huge government interference upon the free market.
We also have minimum wage, unions, and out-of-control health care costs. None of those issues come up when dealing with robots, and all are outside of natural market forces.
does your town have room to house twice as many people as it does now?
Yes - because even in the crowded Northeast, there is a ton of empty land. The middle of the country is essentially empty.
Anyway, the US population would be going down if not for immigration. You don't need to sterilize. Birthrates are at an all-time low, even among immigrant populations - and parental age is at an all-time high.
Yeah, there is no question that there is something else physiologically going on with stereoscopic vs 2D movies. I don't experience headaches, pain, or any of that - initially, I did look around a bit, but quickly learned this was fruitless and uninteresting. I'm not a big fan of 3D (hell, I still have a tube TV!).
Then again, there is no way in hell I'd have gone to see Avatar without the 3D...
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The US street are littered with kids whose parent did that instead of actual get professional help.
No, they aren't. They are littered with people who have schizophrenia and other mental illness, but cannot be compelled to take their meds. This dude isn't hearing voices, and he doesn't seem to be self-treating his "illness" with alcohol or heroin.
I don't think it was meant to be a joke. If it were just the first sentence, it could be. But the second sentence makes an accusation.
I figure the dirt-cheapest they could do is about 100k or so per petabyte. Of course, they then need to keep this going indefinitely... Even if they don't do any off-site backup, they certainly need at least redundant local copies. So figure 200k just for the hardware - then you need to pay someone to keep it going forever.... that cost will come down as storage gets cheaper, but of course they'll keep gobbling up more space as the cost comes down as well.
It doesn't need to all stay online, so that probably changes the equation somewhat as well. You'd still need someone to fire it up once in a while to let the data get scrubbed and to check the hardware.
I guess they mean it is easy to get carried away during the recording phase because "film" is very cheap now. This presents a storage challenge. I imagine keeping 1 PB in redundant, geographically diverse storage would get spendy fast.
I suspect it would be more cost-effective to convert the raw bits to some kind of common standard and then just save the raw footage and the finished copy. Saving all the editing stuff won't help in the long run anyway - chances are the editing programs 20 years on won't know what to do with your old working files.
Huh? Most of the stuff you find on the various pirate channels is compressed down - at the most, you'll get a raw Blu-Ray rip. You can still get an xvid (avi usually under 2GB) version of just about anything that is available in any other format.
No. To copyright an exact replica would mean no more 3rd party suppliers. I don't see how that benefits society in the least.
I use prepay so I'm "stuck" buying my kit. Even if you pay full retail, it's still cheaper in the long run.
Ahh, you are right - I was thinking about the BSD. I'll go back to keeping my mouth shut :)
You are correct. Where Unison helps is that I can see when two files differ between the ZFS backup and the original on Windows/Mac. If I see a file with a diff, but the modified dates and sizes are identical, I know something is up. This has occurred a few times now.
This works even without ZFS, but I've never had the ZFS version go corrupt.
See also: baseball cards or Beanie Babies.
I use mine for a few things:
- Media server. This uses surprisingly little space, though that may change when I switch to high-def.
- Backup. This is where all the space disappears to. The 3 computers in the house all target it.
- CrashPlan. Every time a friend or relative has me touch their computer, they get CrashPlan pointed to my server.
- Services. My photos, music, and some other data get shared via various services.
It also makes a nice machine to throw a VM on when you need to.
I have to admit that it is a little bit funny that the GPL conflicts with a license that differs from public domain only by requiring attribution.
So if you agree with me, what was your point?
You can always spend more. Point is, cost is just as important as performance when designing a mass-market game console. You can't have enough market share to attract developers without making the platform cost competitive.
For Windows, there is the promise of ReFS, but for now I just don't keep anything irreplaceable on there.
I'll have to give Zevo a spin. I played with the old MacZFS several years ago and decided it wasn't quite ready for prime-time, but I might give it another go. For now, I just end up backing up certain important things to ZFS, and because I use Unison, I have a very high chance of catching corruption as long as the backups are frequent enough. Unison does a two-way sync, but I use that aspect to detect corruption... the sync should only ever try to go in one direction. I've toyed with making my future Mac and Windows machines run as VMs on top of FreeBSD, but that would mean ugly video performance. Not that I game, but still...
In what world does cost not matter?
That's my use case as well. I gave them some cash, lord knows I've used their efforts enough.
My surprise when setting up the ZFS server was in how well everything has worked so far. ZFS has also caught corruption a few times, so I'm going to give it props. It has me wondering if it is possible to get the same kind of data integrity on Mac or Windows. As a stopgap, I sync everything important with Unison so that I can see bitrot on the Mac/PC side. I once caught a really nasty corruption in the middle of my Photos directory that rendered several jpegs useless. More recently I caught another, though this time it was just in the preview image so it wouldn't have been a big deal. It makes me wonder what is going on in the directories that I don't sync!
That is exactly the point I was trying to make. You can use robots and avoid all of the costly government interference in your business. "The unemployed" have a tremendous cost burden associated with them.
Of course, most robots are probably being purchased by corporations, which just like unions represent a huge government interference upon the free market.
We also have minimum wage, unions, and out-of-control health care costs. None of those issues come up when dealing with robots, and all are outside of natural market forces.
does your town have room to house twice as many people as it does now?
Yes - because even in the crowded Northeast, there is a ton of empty land. The middle of the country is essentially empty.
Anyway, the US population would be going down if not for immigration. You don't need to sterilize. Birthrates are at an all-time low, even among immigrant populations - and parental age is at an all-time high.
Birth control takes care of that nicely, and condoms have the secondary (primary?) benefit of disease prevention.
Or you could head over to Skydrive.com
Goodness, I'd forgotten all about that. It was not very easy to find, but it does seem nice.
Yeah, he's way off... Word also has version control. So does Excel. I'd wager PowerPoint does, too.
It may very well be on it's way out, but right now you can still get a ColdFire microcontroller for under $5 with motor control circuitry built-in.
Yeah, there is no question that there is something else physiologically going on with stereoscopic vs 2D movies. I don't experience headaches, pain, or any of that - initially, I did look around a bit, but quickly learned this was fruitless and uninteresting. I'm not a big fan of 3D (hell, I still have a tube TV!).
Then again, there is no way in hell I'd have gone to see Avatar without the 3D...