2 carats, no inclusions, and a D - completely colorless. Essentially, diamonds don't come any higher quality
Thats 3 of the 4 C's, Carat, Clarity, and Color. A bad cut could definately impact the appearance of even a high quality core stone like that, and if the diamond wasn't certified, there's a lot of leeway in what the merchants call color D and no inclusions. (was it truely flawless under a 10x scope (IF or FL) or mearly to the unaided eye? Even w/ a bad cut and "no visible inclusions to the unaided eye, VS2), that would be a $20K stone, $30k if well cut, and was truely "ideal cut" and IF thats an $80k stone discounted.
Man made stones are still having trouble getting past.5 carats when I last checked. Moissanite looks good, but check w/ the one you love before substituting. Its not about the money but about trust, truthfullness, and respecting what she wants. When I spoke to my fiancee about it, and the various trade-offs (she loved that I already knew the trade-offs), we wound up going a non-traditional route that I would never have chosen by myself. I still spent what I budgeted, but the result is both stunning and practical (huge solitaires have lots of impracticalities it turns out); and it now represents not only the promise to marry her but how well we communicate.
They should have measured the amount of CO2 produced by the participants. Sure, this means they can't do this study at home and it will cost a lot more to do. But on the plus side, it will be actual, meaningful science that is really undisputable.
Heck, simply monitoring their heart rate would have given better results, which would be simply done via an off-the-shelf Pulsar Heart Rate Monitor/watch.
I shit you not, I was taught C by none other than Brian Kernighan.
Not always a great thing. At a past job I did my first serious use of Linux in a business environment, taking over for the developer who had been doing it. Turns out he's teh guy who wrote the first TCP/IP stack for Linux. Hard to learn when his first instict when something went wrong was to start debugging the code at Mach 1, while listening to him bitch about how little they have fixed of his code that he told his successors needed rewriting desperately. I won't name drop because he's intentionally dropped out of the scene.
While I'm glad you had a good experience, just because he can do doesn't mean he can teach...
So do you agree with them in their belief that their stockholders are more important than their paying customers?
And how do paying customers benefit when MS reveals unknown security holes in their products, even after they are patched? Its already believed the unsavory element reverse engineers MS patches looking for ways to exploit vulnerable unpatched systems, how does MS flagging a patch as "fixes unreleased security vulnerability X" help anyone, including linux users? By increasing the size of botnets?
The problem isn't MS hiding its vulnerabilities, its a fundamentally flawed analysis. No proprietary software company airs its dirty laundry the way open source does, there's no benefit to it. The comparison was apples and oranges.
There was a post not so long ago about a Nigerian (I think) who could create a helicopter from some scrap parts and a bicycle.
The second successful american helicopter company had similar roots, Frank Piasecki built his prototype from reclaimed auto parts; the comapny he built from this was eventually sold to Beoing. He also built several "Flying Jeeps"; search the web some and you can see them flying 60ft high around teh Philadelphia Naval Yard.
Tranformable airplanes have been made before as well. Nothing new here...
Their low-end products, inherited from some company they bought out, are crap.
Thanks, but please define your terms. High end is definately the Multi-million $$$ Symmetra, which we avoided or an IBM Shark because of EMC wanting to control our config. We latter traded it for the Clarrion FC (CX600/700) line, which worked well enough but was clearly a few steps below the IBM Shark (a Symettra competor, unfair comparison for sure). Are you dissing the Clarrion line or an even lower end product (I recall Dell selling an even lower end EMC branded product, the AX150 perhaps?
Their low-end stuff doesn't have true multipathing
Yes, definately noticed Powerpath wasn't an option on the EMC iSCSI, they said that functionality was built into the OS so it wasn't needed.
I saw a demo Equalogic was pushing regarding VMware & their iSCSI product, I'm willing to give them a chance but don't have the resources if it goes very badly (my new company has been burned once before by poor implementation)
I think almost nobody takes EMC**2's low-end iSCSI storage very seriously.
I'm curious if you have any basis for this, because I'm actually looking at EMC's Clarion based iSCSI solutions. Certainly its not the cheapest solution out there, but what I want is reliability, esp given my new companies last foray into SAN was Dell's disastrous in-house product, and they are a bit gun shy, and at the end of the day the companies business depends on this thing being up 24x7x365.
Thats the risk of SAN, Fast & Flexible, but downtime is VERY painful.
If I'm shooting for the low-end hardware, I might as well get the best price I can, no?
This statement makes me think I should discount you out-of-hand. I have a size and performance goal in mind, with a tiered performance goal. I'm opting for iSCSI because 1Gbps my performance goals while eliminating enormously expensive 4Gbps FC cards (2 per server!) and FC switches. In the past the cost of connecting a Dell Poweredge 2850 to my EMC properly almost exceeded the cost of the server ($2,900 vs $2,800), and thats before I factored in Fiber cables (which I somehow had a huge supply of).
If cost is my only concern I'd be buying whitebox desktops stuffed full of SATA drives running FreeNAS or some such.
No, it does matter: What they're trying to do is ensure that any administration that comes after them can't prosecute them for what they've done.
Not a huge need, I'm sure one of Bush's last acts as President will be to pardon all members of his administration for any acts committed in the name of fighting terrorism. And I'm sure Scooter Libby will finally get his pardon to. A president's power to pardon is pretty much w/o limit, charges don't even need to be brought
Chosing one display or another does not alter the actual storage capacity of your drive at all - only your own perception of it.
Exactly. Note I said "Virtually" and not "actually" or "Literally". They gave me the perception my files were smaller than they were by misrepresenting their size as smaller than they truly were. This led me ("me" being a fictional idiot who felt the need to sue honest law abiding hard drive manufacturers for misrepresentation when the used the common base 10 numerology instead of the esoteric base 2 numerology) to believe a 200,000,000,000 byte drive would hold my 199 "gigabytes" of data, when in fact, it wouldn't.
The grandparent claims the hard drive manufacturers misled the public when they used the standard notation instead of the binary notation. I disagree, I've known for over 25 years the OS is the one miscalculating the size, and think this case would only have a basis if Seagate were the only company using decimal representations, when in reality every manufacturer used this method for calculating disk size and has for decades. The OS often also grabs a portion of the disk for partitions, FAT, and other tables, (up to 12% in some cases), should they take that into account hen giving sizes as well?
You can not change the accepted notation just because it suits you.
Exactly. Thats why I intend to sue Microsoft for lazy programing. By redefining "Giga" to mean 2^30 instead of 10^9 like the accepted notation, they have virtually robbed me of about 7% of my drive by understating the size of my files, etc.
The Kilo- Mega- Giga- etc prefixes were well defined before lazy programmers started substituting the faster for binary computers 2^10, 2^20, and 2^30 calculations for well established and easy for humans 10^3, 10^6, and 10^9 calculations. Why are you so willing to accept the OS's reinterpretation of these figures? The lawsuit against CRT Monitor manufacturers had merit, they measured corner to corner of the physical tube, and left off that almost 1" was covered by plastic an unusable. This had a serious economic impact on Apple in the early days, who sold their 14.1" visible monitor as a 14" monitor against competitors that sold the same thing as a 15" display (as a computer salesman in that period, I always had fun explaining that to customers...)
If someone gives $7000 just for cables, there is certainly some difference in his head comparing to the head of someone who is not crazy and/or mentally challenged.
before the marketing dollars took over, most folks recommended standard Radio Shack lamp cord as speaker cable. It a heavy gauge, has polarity markings, and is generally dirt cheap because its marketed to cheapskates fixing broken lamps instead of people who don't understand electricity who want a new sound system
But Standard-Definition Digital TV isn't better than analog
Not true.
Not True.
I think what the grandparent was saying is its not neccessarily better
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If the transmitted program was recorded digitally, ie. recently, it does look better, and is mpeg2 standard (DVD) with bit rates up to 15 Mbs (thats the highest I've seen so far).
I'm sure that would look better. What if it were transmitted at 256 kbps instead? Would the quality still surpass a virgin dub from a high quality master onto broadcasters professional tapes (1/2" Beta as I recall)? No way in hell. And broadcasters I'm pretty sure don't generally use DVD's to store their material. So the bitrates you see on you DVD player are irrelevant. Actually, in general the quality of the source material is irrelevant. Yes, good tranmission won't help bad source material, nobody is arguing that. Assume pristine best case source material.
Now think, does an CD (digital representation of an analog sound wave) or an MP3 (compressed digital represntation of an analog sound wave) sound better? At higher bandwiths the compression losses (MP3 is part of the MPEG2 standard, a "lossy" standard) become negligible, sure. But almost nobody argues it is better than the original source.
Now lets think bandwidth. An analog signal consumes some amount of bandwidth (I think 38 Mbps). By compressing it via MPEG2, the cable company can now fit 7 (very good quality) to 12 (Ok quality) channels. With all the bandwidth pressure though (more channels, faster internet, HDTV), cable companies are being tempted to add even more channels in each slice, I've heard of up to 24 less popular digital channels being squeezed into 1 "analog" channel.
So why is "digital" sold as cleaner? Interference. While a very clean signal is injected at the head end, By the time it runs through all the splitters, amplifiers, it can be very muddled. The benefit of digital assuming about 85% of the signal can be ressurected at the far end, and near ideal picture can be constructed. Problem is, at about 75% loss, no picture can be reconstructed. Analog pictures can yield usable content with much higher loss level (we used to what OU football games out of NYC (OTA) with maybe 40% of the signal surviving. A staticy mess, yes, but we knew what was happening on the field.
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and send them back to management and marketing
Perhaps you know different IT folks than I do. Most of the IT guys I know would do very poorly in both of these roles.
I think the point of a "Professional Association" is that it would raise the risk of unethical behavior. Right now you get caught with your fingers in the cookie jar & lose your job, you'll have a new one in a few months, and the old job will likely only "confirm employment" because of HR policy. If there was a professional society companies could refer to, they might able to inflict a more serious punishment. Of course, given the lack of success with similar professional organizations in Law & Medicine in policing their memberships, my confidence level is low.
I suspect its invented Marketing for the next step beyond "Ultra Low Emmissions". Maybe emissions are below the point of measurement?
But the article is lame because it doesn't give any of the reasons why these cars may be illegal outside these few states; my understanding is that Californian laws are be definition stricter than US EPA regulations because no matter what, the US EPA regs apply too. Most makers gave up building a special "California Car" ages ago and just make 1 clean model to keep mass market efficiencies. It does hint that these cars cost a premium that is being absorbed by the makers, which is why they might want to restrict sales, but thast not the claim of the article.
Keep in mind PZEV has nothing to do w/ economy or CO2, it has to do with byproducts like CO & NO2.
...all the same make, model and build date and haven't yet had any fail so close that we couldn't leisurely swap the duff one out and rebuild onto the replacement
Problem is, while there is a a very low average chance of a drive failure, those failures actually tend to happen in clusters. I figure there are failures in teh environmental systems allowing in contaminants, you could think of them as "Friday syndrom"; whatever it is the effect is very real. If one drive in a batch fails early, the odds another will skyrockets. On a batch of 30 desktops I saw 4 failures within 3 months, the maker agreed to replace them all, we had 3 more failures while we were we migrating to the new drives.
Is it likely? No. But its quite possible, and thats our job to know about these things...
Clearly the "auto-spell check" doesn't constitute prior art, Its a auto-correct, not predictive. If Korn is the same sort of "predictive" as Bash, where you have to hit tab to "ask" for possible completions, it likely also isn't prior art. I do recall a shell that was predictive (I think in Solaris or SunOS in the 80's) that might, though given the number of patents I assume they patented a "library" of ways to source the "words/suggestions" for predictive auto-complete
Is it possible for browsers to render everything *else* on a page while awaiting the ads to be served?
I've always assumed this was intentional, to buy the add more "eyeballs", or awareness, or whatever. Server teh add, wait 3 seconds, load the rest of the page. Make sure they get a good look at that ad...
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It had to be said, I'm so sorry...
Thats 3 of the 4 C's, Carat, Clarity, and Color. A bad cut could definately impact the appearance of even a high quality core stone like that, and if the diamond wasn't certified, there's a lot of leeway in what the merchants call color D and no inclusions. (was it truely flawless under a 10x scope (IF or FL) or mearly to the unaided eye? Even w/ a bad cut and "no visible inclusions to the unaided eye, VS2), that would be a $20K stone, $30k if well cut, and was truely "ideal cut" and IF thats an $80k stone discounted.
Man made stones are still having trouble getting past .5 carats when I last checked. Moissanite looks good, but check w/ the one you love before substituting. Its not about the money but about trust, truthfullness, and respecting what she wants. When I spoke to my fiancee about it, and the various trade-offs (she loved that I already knew the trade-offs), we wound up going a non-traditional route that I would never have chosen by myself. I still spent what I budgeted, but the result is both stunning and practical (huge solitaires have lots of impracticalities it turns out); and it now represents not only the promise to marry her but how well we communicate.
Heck, simply monitoring their heart rate would have given better results, which would be simply done via an off-the-shelf Pulsar Heart Rate Monitor/watch.
Not always a great thing. At a past job I did my first serious use of Linux in a business environment, taking over for the developer who had been doing it. Turns out he's teh guy who wrote the first TCP/IP stack for Linux. Hard to learn when his first instict when something went wrong was to start debugging the code at Mach 1, while listening to him bitch about how little they have fixed of his code that he told his successors needed rewriting desperately. I won't name drop because he's intentionally dropped out of the scene.
While I'm glad you had a good experience, just because he can do doesn't mean he can teach...
I imagine the picture is faked, like most TV images in ads (they simply don't photograph well)
And how do paying customers benefit when MS reveals unknown security holes in their products, even after they are patched? Its already believed the unsavory element reverse engineers MS patches looking for ways to exploit vulnerable unpatched systems, how does MS flagging a patch as "fixes unreleased security vulnerability X" help anyone, including linux users? By increasing the size of botnets?
The problem isn't MS hiding its vulnerabilities, its a fundamentally flawed analysis. No proprietary software company airs its dirty laundry the way open source does, there's no benefit to it. The comparison was apples and oranges.
You must be new here...
The second successful american helicopter company had similar roots, Frank Piasecki built his prototype from reclaimed auto parts; the comapny he built from this was eventually sold to Beoing. He also built several "Flying Jeeps"; search the web some and you can see them flying 60ft high around teh Philadelphia Naval Yard.
Tranformable airplanes have been made before as well. Nothing new here...
Thanks, but please define your terms. High end is definately the Multi-million $$$ Symmetra, which we avoided or an IBM Shark because of EMC wanting to control our config. We latter traded it for the Clarrion FC (CX600/700) line, which worked well enough but was clearly a few steps below the IBM Shark (a Symettra competor, unfair comparison for sure). Are you dissing the Clarrion line or an even lower end product (I recall Dell selling an even lower end EMC branded product, the AX150 perhaps?
Their low-end stuff doesn't have true multipathing
Yes, definately noticed Powerpath wasn't an option on the EMC iSCSI, they said that functionality was built into the OS so it wasn't needed.
I saw a demo Equalogic was pushing regarding VMware & their iSCSI product, I'm willing to give them a chance but don't have the resources if it goes very badly (my new company has been burned once before by poor implementation)
I'm curious if you have any basis for this, because I'm actually looking at EMC's Clarion based iSCSI solutions. Certainly its not the cheapest solution out there, but what I want is reliability, esp given my new companies last foray into SAN was Dell's disastrous in-house product, and they are a bit gun shy, and at the end of the day the companies business depends on this thing being up 24x7x365.
Thats the risk of SAN, Fast & Flexible, but downtime is VERY painful.
If I'm shooting for the low-end hardware, I might as well get the best price I can, no?
This statement makes me think I should discount you out-of-hand. I have a size and performance goal in mind, with a tiered performance goal. I'm opting for iSCSI because 1Gbps my performance goals while eliminating enormously expensive 4Gbps FC cards (2 per server!) and FC switches. In the past the cost of connecting a Dell Poweredge 2850 to my EMC properly almost exceeded the cost of the server ($2,900 vs $2,800), and thats before I factored in Fiber cables (which I somehow had a huge supply of).
If cost is my only concern I'd be buying whitebox desktops stuffed full of SATA drives running FreeNAS or some such.
Not a huge need, I'm sure one of Bush's last acts as President will be to pardon all members of his administration for any acts committed in the name of fighting terrorism. And I'm sure Scooter Libby will finally get his pardon to. A president's power to pardon is pretty much w/o limit, charges don't even need to be brought
Exactly. Note I said "Virtually" and not "actually" or "Literally". They gave me the perception my files were smaller than they were by misrepresenting their size as smaller than they truly were. This led me ("me" being a fictional idiot who felt the need to sue honest law abiding hard drive manufacturers for misrepresentation when the used the common base 10 numerology instead of the esoteric base 2 numerology) to believe a 200,000,000,000 byte drive would hold my 199 "gigabytes" of data, when in fact, it wouldn't.
The grandparent claims the hard drive manufacturers misled the public when they used the standard notation instead of the binary notation. I disagree, I've known for over 25 years the OS is the one miscalculating the size, and think this case would only have a basis if Seagate were the only company using decimal representations, when in reality every manufacturer used this method for calculating disk size and has for decades. The OS often also grabs a portion of the disk for partitions, FAT, and other tables, (up to 12% in some cases), should they take that into account hen giving sizes as well?
They need to make SRPMS available to customers. Its trivial for CentOS to be a customer, hence fighting that battle is a losing proposition.
That said, plenty of evidence exists that Red Hat is OK with CentOS, they are just protecting the Trademarks to avoid losing them.
Exactly. Thats why I intend to sue Microsoft for lazy programing. By redefining "Giga" to mean 2^30 instead of 10^9 like the accepted notation, they have virtually robbed me of about 7% of my drive by understating the size of my files, etc.
The Kilo- Mega- Giga- etc prefixes were well defined before lazy programmers started substituting the faster for binary computers 2^10, 2^20, and 2^30 calculations for well established and easy for humans 10^3, 10^6, and 10^9 calculations. Why are you so willing to accept the OS's reinterpretation of these figures? The lawsuit against CRT Monitor manufacturers had merit, they measured corner to corner of the physical tube, and left off that almost 1" was covered by plastic an unusable. This had a serious economic impact on Apple in the early days, who sold their 14.1" visible monitor as a 14" monitor against competitors that sold the same thing as a 15" display (as a computer salesman in that period, I always had fun explaining that to customers...)
So long as there was no Rose DNA in the mix...
before the marketing dollars took over, most folks recommended standard Radio Shack lamp cord as speaker cable. It a heavy gauge, has polarity markings, and is generally dirt cheap because its marketed to cheapskates fixing broken lamps instead of people who don't understand electricity who want a new sound system
So by this metric, if the US simply executed its criminals w/o trial, we would be the BEST country on the planet.
Awesome
Not true.
Not True.
I think what the grandparent was saying is its not neccessarily better
. If the transmitted program was recorded digitally, ie. recently, it does look better, and is mpeg2 standard (DVD) with bit rates up to 15 Mbs (thats the highest I've seen so far).
I'm sure that would look better. What if it were transmitted at 256 kbps instead? Would the quality still surpass a virgin dub from a high quality master onto broadcasters professional tapes (1/2" Beta as I recall)? No way in hell. And broadcasters I'm pretty sure don't generally use DVD's to store their material. So the bitrates you see on you DVD player are irrelevant. Actually, in general the quality of the source material is irrelevant. Yes, good tranmission won't help bad source material, nobody is arguing that. Assume pristine best case source material.
Now think, does an CD (digital representation of an analog sound wave) or an MP3 (compressed digital represntation of an analog sound wave) sound better? At higher bandwiths the compression losses (MP3 is part of the MPEG2 standard, a "lossy" standard) become negligible, sure. But almost nobody argues it is better than the original source.
Now lets think bandwidth. An analog signal consumes some amount of bandwidth (I think 38 Mbps). By compressing it via MPEG2, the cable company can now fit 7 (very good quality) to 12 (Ok quality) channels. With all the bandwidth pressure though (more channels, faster internet, HDTV), cable companies are being tempted to add even more channels in each slice, I've heard of up to 24 less popular digital channels being squeezed into 1 "analog" channel.
So why is "digital" sold as cleaner? Interference. While a very clean signal is injected at the head end, By the time it runs through all the splitters, amplifiers, it can be very muddled. The benefit of digital assuming about 85% of the signal can be ressurected at the far end, and near ideal picture can be constructed. Problem is, at about 75% loss, no picture can be reconstructed. Analog pictures can yield usable content with much higher loss level (we used to what OU football games out of NYC (OTA) with maybe 40% of the signal surviving. A staticy mess, yes, but we knew what was happening on the field.
Perhaps you know different IT folks than I do. Most of the IT guys I know would do very poorly in both of these roles.
I think the point of a "Professional Association" is that it would raise the risk of unethical behavior. Right now you get caught with your fingers in the cookie jar & lose your job, you'll have a new one in a few months, and the old job will likely only "confirm employment" because of HR policy. If there was a professional society companies could refer to, they might able to inflict a more serious punishment. Of course, given the lack of success with similar professional organizations in Law & Medicine in policing their memberships, my confidence level is low.
Cue the battery trolls!!
But the article is lame because it doesn't give any of the reasons why these cars may be illegal outside these few states; my understanding is that Californian laws are be definition stricter than US EPA regulations because no matter what, the US EPA regs apply too. Most makers gave up building a special "California Car" ages ago and just make 1 clean model to keep mass market efficiencies. It does hint that these cars cost a premium that is being absorbed by the makers, which is why they might want to restrict sales, but thast not the claim of the article. Keep in mind PZEV has nothing to do w/ economy or CO2, it has to do with byproducts like CO & NO2.
Problem is, while there is a a very low average chance of a drive failure, those failures actually tend to happen in clusters. I figure there are failures in teh environmental systems allowing in contaminants, you could think of them as "Friday syndrom"; whatever it is the effect is very real. If one drive in a batch fails early, the odds another will skyrockets. On a batch of 30 desktops I saw 4 failures within 3 months, the maker agreed to replace them all, we had 3 more failures while we were we migrating to the new drives.
Is it likely? No. But its quite possible, and thats our job to know about these things...
Clearly the "auto-spell check" doesn't constitute prior art, Its a auto-correct, not predictive. If Korn is the same sort of "predictive" as Bash, where you have to hit tab to "ask" for possible completions, it likely also isn't prior art. I do recall a shell that was predictive (I think in Solaris or SunOS in the 80's) that might, though given the number of patents I assume they patented a "library" of ways to source the "words/suggestions" for predictive auto-complete
Of course you can't see them, they're Ninjas!!!
I've always assumed this was intentional, to buy the add more "eyeballs", or awareness, or whatever. Server teh add, wait 3 seconds, load the rest of the page. Make sure they get a good look at that ad...