Never. Not with perfect, or even adequate, reliability. Not after a mega solar flare, and not before a mega solar flare either. Your data can disappear irretrievably in a millisecond at any time, by the very nature of hard drives.
Hope you keep three, or better yet more, copies of every piece of data, on separate media. Preferably different kinds of media. And in different geographical locations. Deep underground, but air conditioned.
And I hope you refresh all the copies of all the data to new media at fairly frequent intervals.
Occult - verb... 10. Astronomy. To hide (a celestial body) by occultation.
Occultation - noun 1. Astronomy. the passage of one celestial body in front of another, thus hiding the other from view: applied esp. to the moon's coming between an observer and a star or planet.
So, which would you rather spend $0.049/kWh on -- a nuclear plant... [blather]...; or [exactly the same figure on] a wind farm... [blather]?
Well, I'll go for the nuke, thank you, but then I'm not a luddite. I prefer my power not to fail every time we have a calm day, and not to have ridiculous amounts of land used per unit of power generated. Your own optimistic figures show no advantage to wind power, and do not take into account that the cost for nuclear power plants would drop precipitously if they were mass produced.
No, but each of us can contribute our tiny bit to make things hot for these filthy money grubbing international terrorists: that is, the MPAA, RIAA, and their disgusting ilk, and the governmental power structures who support them.
The Supreme Court is the constitution, since they have the power to interpret it in any way they wish.
The Supreme Court has that particular power only until Congress grows a pair. The Court arrogated this power to itself in Marbury vs. Madison in 1803. It was a complete fabrication out of whole cloth, without Constitutional basis. Congress could slap them down. Constitutional scholars will tell you all Congress needs to do is put a rider on any bill, "not subject to judicial review regarding Constitutionality." They had best consider carefully when doing so, but they have a better basis to do so than the Supreme Court does to strike down a law.
Congress is a better deal, too. Bad Supreme Court decisions are forever (it is very rare for them to reverse themselves). On the other hand, if Congress goes too far, a new Congress will be voted in and simply pass a new law to supersede the bad one.
Here's something else. How many police report to the Supreme Court? None. Police work for the executive branch. The Supreme Court can rule whatever it wishes, but if it gets too arrogant, the executive branch can order the police to ignore its rulings in the more flagrant cases.
Some will recoil in horror at the thought, gasping "Oh no! Constitutional crisis!" I prefer to chuckle in anticipation, because it puts me in mind of the line from Jerry Maguire: "you think we're fighting, but I think we're finally talking!"
Results vary. My 2000 Golf TDI automatic was rated 34/45mpg (original sticker, old EPA rating), which is 29/40 under the new EPA rating. In the 150,000 mile life of the car to date, I have averaged 44mpg, including town and highway. And I regularly travel at 70mph.
Results vary. I have a Golf TDI, regularly go over 600 miles without coming close to empty, with my best fillup 781 miles. And that's with an automatic transmission.
Damn right. Both one's brain and heart tell one that voting for the lesser of two evils is counter productive, frustrating, cowardly, timid, irrational, and... evil. Compromising principles is never the right thing to do.
Bunk. If you vote for the lesser of two evils, and he wins, you END UP WITH AN EVIL S.O.B. If the guy who is even more evil wins, you END UP WITH AN EVIL S.O.B.
EITHER WAY, you end up with an EVIL S.O.B.
For the sake of all that is holy, everyone stop over analyzing and strategizing, pull your head out of your ass, do what you know you really want to do, and vote for the best candidate.
Hey, not every person with a B.A. degree can go on to become a barista.
Barista?? Talk about a non sequitur. Barista is a name applied to a person, usually a coffeehouse employee, who prepares and serves espresso-based coffee drinks.
In my mind OS X is what Linux on desktop has tried to be: The stability of Unix systems with a GUI that the average person can use.
I believe more "average people" (primarily Windows refugees since 90% of desktop users are currently using Windows) can quickly get comfortable with Ubuntu or even Fedora, than with OS X. Certainly Open Office and Evolution are more like the familiar Microsoft Office and Outlook than are the equivalent OS X apps.
According to all technical definitions, OS X is Unix. The kernel is XNU which is based on Mach with BSD subsystems.
You do understand that XNU is an acronym standing for "X is Not Unix"? XNU is basically Mach + FreeBSD + I/O Kit, with glue obviously added. I/O Kit is radically different from traditional Unix driver models. OS X is, as you say, certified UNIX 03. Linux is not. But which do you really think is "more Unix"?
You can dig up all the unintelligible audio you want, but the simple fact is that there is no case the Secret Service determined to be threatening. I'll take the truth as determined by the Secret Service over some zealot's interpretation of crappy youtube audio any day, thank you.
I can understand how you got carried away. It's hard to keep up with all the examples of leftist kook accusations.
At most, all the website could possibly provide is an IP number and the customer to whom it was leased at the time of the post. Since they do not have clairvoyance, there is no way they could possibly know the identity of the actual typist, since it could have been a family member, friend, casual acquaintance, walk in visitor, or a neighbor or member of the general public mooching off of or hacking the customer's wireless router. Or even some guy illicitly running an unauthorized static IP the same as the IP in question.
The IP may even have been tapped into remotely by someone hacking a proxy on some computer on the customer's premises connected to the IP in question.
This kind of crap annoys me. Not you, but law enforcement drones and other morons who think there are magical technological shortcuts which save them from actually having to investigate and find REAL proof.
Sorry; that doesn't work either. Constitution.txt normally includes the complete set of amendments anyway; almost always at least the bill of rights.
You know, if you took 5 seconds to actually try your suggestion, you could avoid embarrassing yourself... oops... you're an Anonymous Coward, aren't you.
In case you missed it, there were these "town meetings" things held by McCain during the election where nice folk(whom I would personally term rabid) were screaming things like "Kill him!" about the senator's opponent.
Bullshit.
This is a lie spread by partisans as part of their bag of dirty tricks. It never happened. The Secret Service investigated and found no basis for the allegation.
We are told in the summary that "no-win-no-fee" litigation is permitted. How does this jibe with "loser-pays-fees"? If a case is brought and fails, does the losing plaintiff pay or doesn't he?
To the drooling imbecile who thought that was a troll: read up, idiot. Anyone with a clue knows an Arm gets all the typical lightweight use done for around ONE TENTH the power consumption of the Atom, which is... wait for it... aimed at LIGHTWEIGHT USE.
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Will [m]y HDDs keep their data?
Never. Not with perfect, or even adequate, reliability. Not after a mega solar flare, and not before a mega solar flare either. Your data can disappear irretrievably in a millisecond at any time, by the very nature of hard drives.
Hope you keep three, or better yet more, copies of every piece of data, on separate media. Preferably different kinds of media. And in different geographical locations. Deep underground, but air conditioned.
And I hope you refresh all the copies of all the data to new media at fairly frequent intervals.
Never argue with an astronomer.
Occult - verb ... 10. Astronomy. To hide (a celestial body) by occultation.
Occultation - noun 1. Astronomy. the passage of one celestial body in front of another, thus hiding the other from view: applied esp. to the moon's coming between an observer and a star or planet.
So, which would you rather spend $0.049/kWh on -- a nuclear plant ... [blather] ...; or [exactly the same figure on] a wind farm ... [blather]?
Well, I'll go for the nuke, thank you, but then I'm not a luddite. I prefer my power not to fail every time we have a calm day, and not to have ridiculous amounts of land used per unit of power generated. Your own optimistic figures show no advantage to wind power, and do not take into account that the cost for nuclear power plants would drop precipitously if they were mass produced.
No, but each of us can contribute our tiny bit to make things hot for these filthy money grubbing international terrorists: that is, the MPAA, RIAA, and their disgusting ilk, and the governmental power structures who support them.
The Supreme Court is the constitution, since they have the power to interpret it in any way they wish.
The Supreme Court has that particular power only until Congress grows a pair. The Court arrogated this power to itself in Marbury vs. Madison in 1803. It was a complete fabrication out of whole cloth, without Constitutional basis. Congress could slap them down. Constitutional scholars will tell you all Congress needs to do is put a rider on any bill, "not subject to judicial review regarding Constitutionality." They had best consider carefully when doing so, but they have a better basis to do so than the Supreme Court does to strike down a law.
Congress is a better deal, too. Bad Supreme Court decisions are forever (it is very rare for them to reverse themselves). On the other hand, if Congress goes too far, a new Congress will be voted in and simply pass a new law to supersede the bad one.
Here's something else. How many police report to the Supreme Court? None. Police work for the executive branch. The Supreme Court can rule whatever it wishes, but if it gets too arrogant, the executive branch can order the police to ignore its rulings in the more flagrant cases.
Some will recoil in horror at the thought, gasping "Oh no! Constitutional crisis!" I prefer to chuckle in anticipation, because it puts me in mind of the line from Jerry Maguire: "you think we're fighting, but I think we're finally talking!"
Para. 1: "... alcohol is anathema to business - in customer facing roles ..."
Para. 2: "... essential lubricant - high level sales, conventions, customers who offer it to salesmen."
You don't think we have a fundamental inconsistency here? I'm not poking fun at the poster, but at business mores.
Results vary. My 2000 Golf TDI automatic was rated 34/45mpg (original sticker, old EPA rating), which is 29/40 under the new EPA rating. In the 150,000 mile life of the car to date, I have averaged 44mpg, including town and highway. And I regularly travel at 70mph.
Results vary. I have a Golf TDI, regularly go over 600 miles without coming close to empty, with my best fillup 781 miles. And that's with an automatic transmission.
Nevertheless I love what Tesla is doing.
Damn right. Both one's brain and heart tell one that voting for the lesser of two evils is counter productive, frustrating, cowardly, timid, irrational, and ... evil. Compromising principles is never the right thing to do.
Bunk. If you vote for the lesser of two evils, and he wins, you END UP WITH AN EVIL S.O.B. If the guy who is even more evil wins, you END UP WITH AN EVIL S.O.B.
EITHER WAY, you end up with an EVIL S.O.B.
For the sake of all that is holy, everyone stop over analyzing and strategizing, pull your head out of your ass, do what you know you really want to do, and vote for the best candidate.
Hey, not every person with a B.A. degree can go on to become a barista.
Barista?? Talk about a non sequitur. Barista is a name applied to a person, usually a coffeehouse employee, who prepares and serves espresso-based coffee drinks.
Now a barrister, that's something else ...
Microsoft has 81 percent margins ($189,878 billion) versus Apple's 32% percent ($31 billion)
Hmmm, Microsoft's gross margin is really $190 trillion and is 6,125 times Apple's? Guess they could buy the entire planet several times over.
Guess you added a trivial factor of 1,000, eh?
In my mind OS X is what Linux on desktop has tried to be: The stability of Unix systems with a GUI that the average person can use.
I believe more "average people" (primarily Windows refugees since 90% of desktop users are currently using Windows) can quickly get comfortable with Ubuntu or even Fedora, than with OS X. Certainly Open Office and Evolution are more like the familiar Microsoft Office and Outlook than are the equivalent OS X apps.
According to all technical definitions, OS X is Unix. The kernel is XNU which is based on Mach with BSD subsystems.
You do understand that XNU is an acronym standing for "X is Not Unix"? XNU is basically Mach + FreeBSD + I/O Kit, with glue obviously added. I/O Kit is radically different from traditional Unix driver models. OS X is, as you say, certified UNIX 03. Linux is not. But which do you really think is "more Unix"?
And they're just as comprehensible as sendmail.cf.
You mean sendmail.mc. You're not supposed to edit sendmail.cf directly. It says that mright at the top.
Although personally I find sendmail.mc to be SIGNIFICANTLY LESS COMPREHENSIBLE than the gibberish in sendmail.cf.
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb.
Operator: We get signal.
Captain: What !
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Captain: It's you !!
You can dig up all the unintelligible audio you want, but the simple fact is that there is no case the Secret Service determined to be threatening. I'll take the truth as determined by the Secret Service over some zealot's interpretation of crappy youtube audio any day, thank you.
I can understand how you got carried away. It's hard to keep up with all the examples of leftist kook accusations.
At most, all the website could possibly provide is an IP number and the customer to whom it was leased at the time of the post. Since they do not have clairvoyance, there is no way they could possibly know the identity of the actual typist, since it could have been a family member, friend, casual acquaintance, walk in visitor, or a neighbor or member of the general public mooching off of or hacking the customer's wireless router. Or even some guy illicitly running an unauthorized static IP the same as the IP in question.
The IP may even have been tapped into remotely by someone hacking a proxy on some computer on the customer's premises connected to the IP in question.
This kind of crap annoys me. Not you, but law enforcement drones and other morons who think there are magical technological shortcuts which save them from actually having to investigate and find REAL proof.
Sorry; that doesn't work either. Constitution.txt normally includes the complete set of amendments anyway; almost always at least the bill of rights.
You know, if you took 5 seconds to actually try your suggestion, you could avoid embarrassing yourself ... oops ... you're an Anonymous Coward, aren't you.
Bullshit.
This is a lie spread by partisans as part of their bag of dirty tricks. It never happened. The Secret Service investigated and found no basis for the allegation.
We are told in the summary that "no-win-no-fee" litigation is permitted. How does this jibe with "loser-pays-fees"? If a case is brought and fails, does the losing plaintiff pay or doesn't he?
How? Details please. Civil cases specifically.
Negligent homicide and reckless homicide are still homicide, regardless of whether you have ANY traffic laws.
You are the one honest man posting here. The others are a bunch of prissy holier-than-thou liars.
To the drooling imbecile who thought that was a troll: read up, idiot. Anyone with a clue knows an Arm gets all the typical lightweight use done for around ONE TENTH the power consumption of the Atom, which is ... wait for it ... aimed at LIGHTWEIGHT USE.