10TB isn't all that much anymore. If you need 200TB in the enterprise world today, you can get 4TB reliably (6 and 8 exist but are double and quadruple the price respectively and require heavy tradeoffs) so you need ~110-120 drives (RAID10+spares) and that's for 3.5", 15W.
Enterprise SSD's typically scale evenly with size so I expect these to cost ~5k each, 45 of these would do the job, at 0.2W and 2.5", those things save you first year in both power and space.
A single RAID10 is an extravagant waste, as well as piss poor redundancy. You lose the wrong 2 drives simultaneously out of your 100+ and you've lost the entire array. Anybody with an ounce of savvy would use ZFS with a number of RAIDZ3's, each one, say, 7-9 drives and 16-24 TB. That gives you triple redundancy, so you have to have 4 simultaneous drive failures in a single array of 8 in order to lose data. You can then tie those RAIDZ3s together in any kind of superarray you want. You could have a RAIDZ3 of RAIDZ3s. A RAIDZ3 superarray of thirteen 8-drive RAIDZ3 subarrays would be 104 drives total and astronomically higher odds against data loss than your RAID10.
Those 104 drives; say 117 with some spares tossed in, would total about $17,500 - $35,000 depending on how crazy you get about chasing gold-plated "enterprise" sucker bets.
Now, I don't know how you figure 45 four TB SSDs could do the same job. Actually it would take 50 even with no redundancy whatsoever, which would be a complete epic career-ending FAIL to do. With the same RAIDZ3 of RAIDZ3s you would of course need the same 104 (+ spares) SSDs. By your own reckoning, that would cost you over 117 X 5000, or $585,000 - up to 33 TIMES as much as the HDs.
Now, 4 TB HDs take more like 8 W average than your figure of 15. 113 of them would consume a total of 936 watts, or 8200 kWh per year - $820-$1640 at typical retail electric rates; I would guess substantially less at industrial rates. It will take you a HELL of a long time to make up the cost difference. Centuries, actually.
The problem is that cryptography is mathematics and doesn't know the difference between criminals and innocent people.
Problem? Problem? How is that a problem? The power structure can make anyone it wants a criminal just by having bullshit laws. Turing was a "criminal" by UK law at the time. There was a time it was "criminal" to shelter escaped slaves in the US. Or to consume alcohol. It is criminal even now to use certain drugs and substances on your own goddam body.
Cryptography is a little like free speech. If it is only effective for people you like, it isn't real.
No. They are actually just as insignificant as the cost saving. Just as 99.5+% of the cost of home electricity is due to other drains than these wall warts, so is 99.5+% of the pollution traceable to home electricity (which itself is only a portion of total pollution).
If you want to pretend that a reduction of pollution from 1000 units to 995+ units is "significant", you are operating in a fantasy that is foreign to me.
Having said that, an efficient wall wart need not cost much if any more than a wasteful one, so my knee is not jerking against this initiative.
No, but they could [remotely] decide he's not guilty...
No. A finding of not guilty involves due legal process which is precisely what he is running away from. What they could do is to not proceed any further with investigation. That is the executive's (police, state attorney) prerogative.
Just because you or I are not arrested tomorrow doesn't mean the state has "decided" we are "not guilty". It means the state has not yet taken an interest in investigating and possibly prosecuting.
Basically it comes down to this, the UN does not have the ability to force countries to do things they do not wish to do
THANK GOD! It's much too damned big an entity to be trusted with that kind of force. Countries that are grossly swollen too big, like the US and China, maybe Russia, are already bad enough. You can't fix that by making an even more out of control monstrosity.
A supercapacitor is like a battery that can store 10 to 100 times more energy per unit volume
Utter and complete bullshit. No supercapacitor comes anywhere near the volumetric energy density of even a fair to middling battery.
You could have found this out in about 5 seconds, even if you are too ignorant to already know it. Supercapacitor: 0.06-0.05 MJ/l Lead acid battery: 0.56 MJ/l Lithium-ion battery: 0.9–2.63 MJ/l
I am puzzled by that, too, but also by the whole thing. Just to try to get what they are saying straight, they mean most stars nearby to the location of the phenomenon in question, right? Not nearby to earth?
The thing that amazes me is that talking about stars only 5-30 million years old. To me that seems like like a newborn baby, not even close to a toddler yet! I mean, the sun is 4.5 billion years old and is expected to last a total of 10 billion years BEFORE becoming a red giant, the end stage.
You do know the GOP controls both the House and the Senate, right?
For some definition of "control". If you do not have a supermajority, you do not have REAL control in the Senate. The House is not subject to the filibuster; neither the real kind like the one in Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, nor the watered-down fake "I-threaten-a-filibuster" kind that are all we see nowadays, but are enough to get the job done.
What the hell does Moore's law have to do with GHz? All it is, is an observation on the growth over time of the number of transistors possible to build into a dense IC. As far as I can tell, it is still operative.
if you get hit while stationary it's hardly your fault
I'll tell ya what. Try stopping your car dead on the reverse slope of a rise in the high speed lane of a superhighway. You better have a goddam good reason for stopping, or I think you're gonna be liable to a finding of at LEAST partial fault for the devastating crash that results.
Another one I found out that floored me. Someone I knew had just parked his car nose-in, and opened the door to get out. A guy pulled in to park next to him and hit the door as it opened. That one was pinned on the driver of the stationary parked car.
in some cases not having lines will slow down traffic
Duh. Ya think? Because you have CREATED A HAZARD. This is unforgiveably stupid. You know what else will slow down traffic? Rolling hulking boulders out into the road. Digging great fucking potholes, or ignoring potholes that form. Having cardboard images of pedestrians shoot out into the road at random. Shining great piercing searchlights into drivers' eyes. Installing speakers which blast out random "you, HALT!" commands at deafening volume and random intervals. If you slow it down enough, everybody might as well get out and walk. Then we could go back to the dark ages.
I guess this would do away with the "driving outside marked lanes" moving violation, huh? If there are no lane markings, you can't be found guilty of violating them.
Are you gonna do away with marked parking spaces too? So nobody is to say which parked cars are dangerously obstructing traffic?
The company forced them to train their replacements
Bullshit. They BRIBED them to train their replacements by giving them a severance payment if they do so. There is a difference. How could "forcing" them possibly work?
You have to train some new people who are going to replace you. Bullshit. You're firing me anyway; I refuse. [Idiot employer stammers uselessly]
But the bribe works just fine.
You have to train some new people who are going to replace you - and if you do, you will get a severance payment; otherwise nothing. OK
When my employer laid me off, I didn't have to train my replacement, but they did get me to sign an agreement not to do/say certain things after separation, for a period of time.
Ignoramus. It's the e3 and e5 server/workstation chips that support ECC, not the i3. That said, there are some e3's that are pretty good buys and work in the same socket 1150 and 1151 motherboards as the i3/i5/i7, but it's pretty hard to find MOTHERBOARDS that support ECC RAM for anything less than a king's ransom. Hard but not impossible. There are a couple of excellent Asrock "workstation" socket 1150 ATX motherboards at well under $200, and with excellent specs for desktop use.
P.S. - "pentiums" - bwahaha - are you caught in a decade or more time warp?
I'm afraid you need a citation for this. At least up until the 20 July plot at which point defeat was inevitable anyway, the only significant case that comes to mind is the dismissal of Gerd von Rundstedt, and that was at least 50% a resignation. And Hitler quickly recognized his mistake and restored von Rundstedt.
Now, Stalin was the real example. Shortly before WW2 he purged 5 of his 7 Field Marshalls, 13 of his 15 Army Commanders, 50 of 57 Corps Commanders, 154 of 186 Division Commanders, 16 of 16 Army Commissars, 25 oi 28 Corps Commissars and 8 of 9 Admirals. This was part of a great reign of terror that ripped through the USSR, in which 680,000 persons were executed by being shot in the head. Counting deaths in vicious "detention" in the Gulag and other consequential deaths, it is estimated that 1.2 million died.
There was another purge in 1941, right during the German invasion.
Many of those purged were "executed" - basically murdered.
This insanity was one of the chief reasons why in the initial stages of Operation Barbarossa the Germans cut through the USSR like a knife through butter, despite USSR superiority in numbers and advantage of defense.
I just have to ask all you clever little MS types. As Microsoft moves Windows Server closer to a CLI-based operating system, what exactly is the point of Windows now, other than, I suppose Exchange?
Exchange Server is one of the killer points, yes. The other one is Domain Login with the attendant domain-wide security model. As a *nix booster, I must say those two continue to absolutely show up *nix to this day. Those two give more than enough of a "point".
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A single RAID10 is an extravagant waste, as well as piss poor redundancy. You lose the wrong 2 drives simultaneously out of your 100+ and you've lost the entire array. Anybody with an ounce of savvy would use ZFS with a number of RAIDZ3's, each one, say, 7-9 drives and 16-24 TB. That gives you triple redundancy, so you have to have 4 simultaneous drive failures in a single array of 8 in order to lose data. You can then tie those RAIDZ3s together in any kind of superarray you want. You could have a RAIDZ3 of RAIDZ3s. A RAIDZ3 superarray of thirteen 8-drive RAIDZ3 subarrays would be 104 drives total and astronomically higher odds against data loss than your RAID10.
Those 104 drives; say 117 with some spares tossed in, would total about $17,500 - $35,000 depending on how crazy you get about chasing gold-plated "enterprise" sucker bets.
Now, I don't know how you figure 45 four TB SSDs could do the same job. Actually it would take 50 even with no redundancy whatsoever, which would be a complete epic career-ending FAIL to do. With the same RAIDZ3 of RAIDZ3s you would of course need the same 104 (+ spares) SSDs. By your own reckoning, that would cost you over 117 X 5000, or $585,000 - up to 33 TIMES as much as the HDs.
Now, 4 TB HDs take more like 8 W average than your figure of 15. 113 of them would consume a total of 936 watts, or 8200 kWh per year - $820-$1640 at typical retail electric rates; I would guess substantially less at industrial rates. It will take you a HELL of a long time to make up the cost difference. Centuries, actually.
Problem? Problem? How is that a problem? The power structure can make anyone it wants a criminal just by having bullshit laws. Turing was a "criminal" by UK law at the time. There was a time it was "criminal" to shelter escaped slaves in the US. Or to consume alcohol. It is criminal even now to use certain drugs and substances on your own goddam body.
Cryptography is a little like free speech. If it is only effective for people you like, it isn't real.
No. They are actually just as insignificant as the cost saving. Just as 99.5+% of the cost of home electricity is due to other drains than these wall warts, so is 99.5+% of the pollution traceable to home electricity (which itself is only a portion of total pollution).
If you want to pretend that a reduction of pollution from 1000 units to 995+ units is "significant", you are operating in a fantasy that is foreign to me.
Having said that, an efficient wall wart need not cost much if any more than a wasteful one, so my knee is not jerking against this initiative.
Welcome to the Obama era.
No. A finding of not guilty involves due legal process which is precisely what he is running away from. What they could do is to not proceed any further with investigation. That is the executive's (police, state attorney) prerogative.
Just because you or I are not arrested tomorrow doesn't mean the state has "decided" we are "not guilty". It means the state has not yet taken an interest in investigating and possibly prosecuting.
THANK GOD! It's much too damned big an entity to be trusted with that kind of force. Countries that are grossly swollen too big, like the US and China, maybe Russia, are already bad enough. You can't fix that by making an even more out of control monstrosity.
Let the UN be the bully pulpit.
Utter and complete bullshit. No supercapacitor comes anywhere near the volumetric energy density of even a fair to middling battery.
You could have found this out in about 5 seconds, even if you are too ignorant to already know it.
Supercapacitor: 0.06-0.05 MJ/l
Lead acid battery: 0.56 MJ/l
Lithium-ion battery: 0.9–2.63 MJ/l
Smaller? Obviously. Denser? Not obvious AT ALL.
What would make you think that miniaturizing supercapacitors would in any way improve their energy density?
I am puzzled by that, too, but also by the whole thing. Just to try to get what they are saying straight, they mean most stars nearby to the location of the phenomenon in question, right? Not nearby to earth?
The thing that amazes me is that talking about stars only 5-30 million years old. To me that seems like like a newborn baby, not even close to a toddler yet! I mean, the sun is 4.5 billion years old and is expected to last a total of 10 billion years BEFORE becoming a red giant, the end stage.
It's called a computer monitor. Works fine.
Right. We had 4 MHz Z-80s running speech recognition and synthesis in the 1980s.
Cut the motherfucker out altogether and throw it in the trash. The same for the camera.
For some definition of "control". If you do not have a supermajority, you do not have REAL control in the Senate. The House is not subject to the filibuster; neither the real kind like the one in Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, nor the watered-down fake "I-threaten-a-filibuster" kind that are all we see nowadays, but are enough to get the job done.
Remember Mandrake? That was some great shit.
What the hell does Moore's law have to do with GHz? All it is, is an observation on the growth over time of the number of transistors possible to build into a dense IC. As far as I can tell, it is still operative.
Oh, I don't know. I drive the General Lee pretty goddam fast on dirt.
I'll tell ya what. Try stopping your car dead on the reverse slope of a rise in the high speed lane of a superhighway. You better have a goddam good reason for stopping, or I think you're gonna be liable to a finding of at LEAST partial fault for the devastating crash that results.
Another one I found out that floored me. Someone I knew had just parked his car nose-in, and opened the door to get out. A guy pulled in to park next to him and hit the door as it opened. That one was pinned on the driver of the stationary parked car.
Duh. Ya think? Because you have CREATED A HAZARD. This is unforgiveably stupid. You know what else will slow down traffic? Rolling hulking boulders out into the road. Digging great fucking potholes, or ignoring potholes that form. Having cardboard images of pedestrians shoot out into the road at random. Shining great piercing searchlights into drivers' eyes. Installing speakers which blast out random "you, HALT!" commands at deafening volume and random intervals. If you slow it down enough, everybody might as well get out and walk. Then we could go back to the dark ages.
I guess this would do away with the "driving outside marked lanes" moving violation, huh? If there are no lane markings, you can't be found guilty of violating them.
Are you gonna do away with marked parking spaces too? So nobody is to say which parked cars are dangerously obstructing traffic?
Bullshit. They BRIBED them to train their replacements by giving them a severance payment if they do so. There is a difference. How could "forcing" them possibly work?
You have to train some new people who are going to replace you.
Bullshit. You're firing me anyway; I refuse.
[Idiot employer stammers uselessly]
But the bribe works just fine.
You have to train some new people who are going to replace you - and if you do, you will get a severance payment; otherwise nothing.
OK
When my employer laid me off, I didn't have to train my replacement, but they did get me to sign an agreement not to do/say certain things after separation, for a period of time.
Ignoramus. It's the e3 and e5 server/workstation chips that support ECC, not the i3. That said, there are some e3's that are pretty good buys and work in the same socket 1150 and 1151 motherboards as the i3/i5/i7, but it's pretty hard to find MOTHERBOARDS that support ECC RAM for anything less than a king's ransom. Hard but not impossible. There are a couple of excellent Asrock "workstation" socket 1150 ATX motherboards at well under $200, and with excellent specs for desktop use.
P.S. - "pentiums" - bwahaha - are you caught in a decade or more time warp?
The PEOPLE DEMAND that BREIN die a horrible death.
Would that be jeweler's rouge, or morticians rouge? You old rogue, you.
I'm afraid you need a citation for this. At least up until the 20 July plot at which point defeat was inevitable anyway, the only significant case that comes to mind is the dismissal of Gerd von Rundstedt, and that was at least 50% a resignation. And Hitler quickly recognized his mistake and restored von Rundstedt.
Now, Stalin was the real example. Shortly before WW2 he purged 5 of his 7 Field Marshalls, 13 of his 15 Army Commanders, 50 of 57 Corps Commanders, 154 of 186 Division Commanders, 16 of 16 Army Commissars, 25 oi 28 Corps Commissars and 8 of 9 Admirals. This was part of a great reign of terror that ripped through the USSR, in which 680,000 persons were executed by being shot in the head. Counting deaths in vicious "detention" in the Gulag and other consequential deaths, it is estimated that 1.2 million died.
There was another purge in 1941, right during the German invasion.
Many of those purged were "executed" - basically murdered.
This insanity was one of the chief reasons why in the initial stages of Operation Barbarossa the Germans cut through the USSR like a knife through butter, despite USSR superiority in numbers and advantage of defense.
Exchange Server is one of the killer points, yes. The other one is Domain Login with the attendant domain-wide security model. As a *nix booster, I must say those two continue to absolutely show up *nix to this day. Those two give more than enough of a "point".