Everyone texts on their cell phone, voice conversations in public are fairly uncommon. On a train, they have announcements to silence your phone, which most people do.
Even the crappiest prepaid phone has unlimited messaging/email for 300 yen a month, taken out of the 1,500 yen monthly fee, while voice is very expensive on that phone (90yen/minute).
And, Google definitely has geographic distribution, where near Nagoya, Japan, that is:
$ host google.com google.com has address 66.249.89.103 google.com has address 66.249.89.99 google.com has address 66.249.89.104 google.com has address 66.249.89.147
Interesting how the last bytes of the list I got are included in the list you got...
Talking about that, is there a single instance in Star Trek where the "Manual Override" actually worked?
And then, how is it a manual override if you just flip some other switches. The way they use "manual overrides" in Star Trek the bridge should be similar to that of the Tardis.
Decode all of the MIME attachments, hash them, and store the attachment in the files system using the hash for the file name (saves space/complexity when an attachment is sent multiple times, like signature images).
What about collisions? Hopefully you aren't storing emails from more than one person, or that would be a very interesting potential security leak.
A server failure caused all of the data to be lost?
No backups? Not even a spare server with a mirror of the data? No servers in different places? No off-site backup strategy?
As an aside, why would that data be stored in volatile non-battery backed up ram? All of my graphing calculators have a special battery to keep the ram, and they aren't even supposed to store important stuff. Flash is cheap enough these days, why should simply removing the battery cause important data to be lost?
ReCaptcha does that: One of the words is generated or known, and the other is the new word they are trying to scan. You have to give both to access the protected system, since you don't know which is the known word and which is the new word.
The GP wants to get a group of people of the same sex (female in this case) that have a desire to have sex with him, which would spread through the same-sex connections, right?
Besides the sales assistants there have probably been brainwashed to outright refuse to sell any prepaid SIM cards they might have and do all they can to convince you to take out a 36-month contract even after clearly explaining to them you are only staying for two weeks
Yeah, in the US, you can walk in to Safeway and get a $10 TracFone.
Try Japan: To buy a pre-paid cell phone (you have to buy the phone, even if you just want the SIM card), you have to be registered with city hall, have the right kind of visa (not a tourist visa), and have a landline you can be contacted at.
And then if you don't buy credit for a year the "contract" expires, even though it is a prepaid cell phone. Service costs ¥1500/month, which includes a ¥300/month unlimited SMS/MMS plan.
Although, having unlimited SMS/picture emails for ¥300/month is really nice. Too bad voice is ¥95/min.
Looking at the case, where they have a vibration reducing layer of foam under the lid screwed down onto the drives, and with the pods stacked in the frame like they are, you have to pull a whole unit out anyways to replace a drive.
So, no hot-swap of anything anyways. PSUs fail pretty commonly in my experience, and not only do they not have redundant PSUs, they have 2 non-redundant power supplies. (RAID 0 for PSUs..... what happens when the 12V rail gets a huge surge that fries the boards on all of the drives) They might have been better off using a RAID 0 in the pod, and mirroring stuff between pods, so that when they take a pod down for maintenance (or it goes *poof*), it has less of an impact.
Also the design doesn't have any "Replace THIS DRIVE --->" indicators when they want to replace a drive, so they would have to hope the monkey gets it right in replacing drives/power supplies.
Or your toilet might keep track of that, and let your doctor know if you are having problems. (So, letting people that might care know about the condition of your last shit)
Honestly, in a few ways we might be considered to be going backwards: I have seen the end of supersonic passenger aircraft (for the time being, with no resumption in sight).
The last time man was on the moon was before I was born.
Which is why I think the best way would be to go after the product being peddled rather than the company making the call. The same would work for spam too.
Hello,
Have you considered switching to Microsoft(tm) Windows?
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Uh, why not use a *Credit Card* so that you aren't out the money immediately, and have more fraud protection?
Debit cards are much weaker, since you are out the money instantly.
Wait, there are places other than /. to get news?
Japan seems to have this issue solved.
Everyone texts on their cell phone, voice conversations in public are fairly uncommon. On a train, they have announcements to silence your phone, which most people do.
Even the crappiest prepaid phone has unlimited messaging/email for 300 yen a month, taken out of the 1,500 yen monthly fee, while voice is very expensive on that phone (90yen/minute).
Or just redefine border
And, Google definitely has geographic distribution, where near Nagoya, Japan, that is:
$ host google.com
google.com has address 66.249.89.103
google.com has address 66.249.89.99
google.com has address 66.249.89.104
google.com has address 66.249.89.147
Interesting how the last bytes of the list I got are included in the list you got...
My ping to those servers is under 10ms, as well.
Talking about that, is there a single instance in Star Trek where the "Manual Override" actually worked?
And then, how is it a manual override if you just flip some other switches. The way they use "manual overrides" in Star Trek the bridge should be similar to that of the Tardis.
Sweet, this will give me faster access to Hulu, Slacker, and all of the nice American websites.
Evolution would just mean that whomever has the most children (that survive to also make children) becomes the dominant (in numbers) body type.
No, that should be 2001-09-11.
See ISO 8601.
What about collisions? Hopefully you aren't storing emails from more than one person, or that would be a very interesting potential security leak.
A server failure caused all of the data to be lost?
No backups? Not even a spare server with a mirror of the data? No servers in different places? No off-site backup strategy?
As an aside, why would that data be stored in volatile non-battery backed up ram? All of my graphing calculators have a special battery to keep the ram, and they aren't even supposed to store important stuff. Flash is cheap enough these days, why should simply removing the battery cause important data to be lost?
ReCaptcha does that:
One of the words is generated or known, and the other is the new word they are trying to scan. You have to give both to access the protected system, since you don't know which is the known word and which is the new word.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReCAPTCHA
The GP wants to get a group of people of the same sex (female in this case) that have a desire to have sex with him, which would spread through the same-sex connections, right?
I hope they put a capacitor in there with a bridge rectifier instead of just ignoring half of the 50/60 Hz cycle.
Better solution:
Require the Lawyers to be paid in the EXACT same way as the class.
So if the reward is coupons, then the lawyers get 30% of the coupons.
Yeah, in the US, you can walk in to Safeway and get a $10 TracFone.
Try Japan:
To buy a pre-paid cell phone (you have to buy the phone, even if you just want the SIM card), you have to be registered with city hall, have the right kind of visa (not a tourist visa), and have a landline you can be contacted at.
And then if you don't buy credit for a year the "contract" expires, even though it is a prepaid cell phone. Service costs ¥1500/month, which includes a ¥300/month unlimited SMS/MMS plan.
Although, having unlimited SMS/picture emails for ¥300/month is really nice. Too bad voice is ¥95/min.
He didn't say whether he works in Arizona or Alaska.
Looking at the case, where they have a vibration reducing layer of foam under the lid screwed down onto the drives, and with the pods stacked in the frame like they are, you have to pull a whole unit out anyways to replace a drive.
So, no hot-swap of anything anyways. PSUs fail pretty commonly in my experience, and not only do they not have redundant PSUs, they have 2 non-redundant power supplies. (RAID 0 for PSUs..... what happens when the 12V rail gets a huge surge that fries the boards on all of the drives) They might have been better off using a RAID 0 in the pod, and mirroring stuff between pods, so that when they take a pod down for maintenance (or it goes *poof*), it has less of an impact.
Also the design doesn't have any "Replace THIS DRIVE --->" indicators when they want to replace a drive, so they would have to hope the monkey gets it right in replacing drives/power supplies.
Or your toilet might keep track of that, and let your doctor know if you are having problems. (So, letting people that might care know about the condition of your last shit)
Where is my flying car?
Honestly, in a few ways we might be considered to be going backwards:
I have seen the end of supersonic passenger aircraft (for the time being, with no resumption in sight).
The last time man was on the moon was before I was born.
They charge for calls to regular phones.
Seems like they could make some kind of game, and have people play that game to control the missiles that shoot down asteroids threatening cities.
(Ok, so that is a combination of Ender's Game and Missile Command)
Hello,
Have you considered switching to Microsoft(tm) Windows?
It may have better BW than your house, but the ping is going to suck.
Or would you like your internet connection to be served by a SUV carrying hard drives?
The Matrix was pretty good, too bad they never made any sequels.