I was there for the touted Exabyte revolution. 2 GB on a digital-8 cartridge sounds puny now but it was revolutionary then. Except for one thing. The reliability and lifetime of the drives was piss poor. OK, two things. The recorded data on tape was very marginal as well.
Tape is still critically important. Admit it, though. Even LTO6 looks like a sad sack of shit compared to the capacity of this drive. No chance in hell tape can keep up the game much longer.
Between PVR, data mining markets, virtual machines, backup data, servers, and etc. At 12TB I still don't have enough space.
12 TB, snort. I've got over 100 TB worth of 2 and 3 TB drives on-line or on-call a boot away. The most critical part is mirrored RAID-Z2 (4 drives' worth of redundancy per data item), and most of the rest is ad hoc replicated via rsync, some of it several times, so there is nowhere near 100 TB of data stored, but there is a lot.
I would definitely be happy with 64 of these 8 TB. At least for a while.
by mathematical definition, half of all programmers are below-average
Come on, elementary math. That's not true. Half of all programmers are below MEDIAN. If you don't care enough to get THAT right, I'm not going to bother with the rest of your assertions.
A single circuit is that which a single circuit breaker protects. A single circuit feeds several outlets and bulb sockets. In a house are several to quite a few independent circuits. The master breaker is maybe 150 A. Clear?
That is circular reasoning. If there were no absurdly unjust law against putting certain substances into your own goddam body, there WOULDN'T BE any "drug machine" being funded by users. Also, how do you know know he didn't grow his own weed or synthesize his own X or oxy?
What makes you think funding the "drug machine" is worse than what every wage-earning citizen is FORCED to do - fund the fucking "anti-drug machine" with all its injustices?
For the majority of the population life in soviet Russia was better than in czarist Russia.
I think that is a pointless generalization impossible to support. Alexander Solzhenitzyn estimated Stalin's death toll at 60 million. That is a startling figure, even if it doesn't represent a majority of those who lived there during Stalin's period.
Why did "mega-corporate bitch" Obama introduce new carbon emissions rules in June that will cost energy producers a fortune?
President Obama did not introduce carbon dioxide emissions rules. The EPA, an agency answerable to no one, did. I will not attempt to analyze their motivation except to point out that their charter, their raison d'etre, is to pursue curtailing the effect of human life on the environment without a thought to return, cost, or tradeoff.
It is a fallacious premise that taxing or levying costly requirements on businesses attaches or moderates their profits. It doesn't. It is just a dreary tax on society. Increasing costs for producers of absolute necessities does not cost them a dime. The producers just raise their prices and pass every bit of the increase on to their customers. The public is shafted. There will be programs to assist the hopelessly poor, but NOTHING for the working class. They have to buy their necessities to live. Their standard of living will plummet. Many of them will be made hopelessly poor; then finally they will get assistance, but only enough to allow them a bleak life.
So let's say Joe buys on date X for personal use a no-contract phone and uses Virgin Mobile pay as you go, $37.xx per month which covers unlimited data and texts, and 300 voice minutes. What is a "reasonable percentage of his phone bill"? Hmmm? To me, it sounds like a cluster fuck to settle on. He doesn't even HAVE a "bill" for the amortization of the phone itself, but it is a real expense. He bought it in spring 2013 and intends to keep it until it develops a serious problem. Nobody knows when that will be, so nobody knows the amortization table.
If he goes over 300 voice minutes, his only recourse is to either start a new month ahead of time, or step to a new plan mid-month with more voice minutes. There is another accounting cluster-fuck.
Automatic shit is very facile to propose, but it doesn't work. Since the Bartley-Fox law went into effect in 1975 in Massachusetts, anyone convicted of carrying an unlicensed firearm faces a mandatory one year jail term, no appeal, no parole. The problem is, said carriers have a better chance of being struck by lightning than serving that sentence. Massachusetts cities are of course filled to the gills with unlicensed firearms; they are used criminally every night; a fair percentage of perps are eventually caught, some right in the act; yet you will die of old age before you track down more than a trvial number of people who have ever served that sentence.
With the absurd number of lawyers in the US, and the ridiculously corrupt legal and enforcement system, it should be no surprise that that "mandatory" sentence is being subverted every day, year after year, decade after decade.
Just take down everything permanently because it'll eventually infringe another corporati--excuse me, "non-human person"'s copyright in the future anyway.
Many years ago cities made sense. Factories to make steel, shoes, ketchup, shirts and other goods scaled well to gigantic sizes. Having the workers' living quarters hived up in close proximity to their employment was natural as there was no viable alternative. No one was yet doing more than dreaming of pervasive automation. Cities allowed stunningly great libraries and concert halls and baseball parks to be provided.
Yo, things have changed. It is not necessary any longer to clump gigantic numbers of people into tiny areas in which it is impossible to efficiently support personal transportation. It is not technically and logistically necessary for us to live in a milieu in which it is necessary to call some agency to take us somewhere. The internet could be extended in non-commercialized ways to fully provide all the resources of libraries and a great deal more.
I can see a place for a certain supply of centralized areas for those who cannot adjust to living any other way than like cattle. Feel free to phrase it differently. A richness of cultural and service facilities can be provided in built-up areas. But by and large the concept of the city, un-navigable by private conveyance, fighting for innovative ways to move people about efficiently.
What if these built-up areas concentrated on what they are uniquely suited for? What if people traveled to them (and a few lived there) for the culture? Optimize them for that, and make them pay their way doing that.
It needn't be whole-hog Asimov Spacers level sprawl, but living with elbow room and not with jammed-up crowds constantly getting in your way.
Before you go alleging "factual mistakes" over subjective matters, please try to pay attention. Ponder the difference between master and fair to decent practitioner.
What many places in the world choose to call liberal is what the USA chooses to call libertarian. Just think of it as a different dialect if it pleases you, but know that there definitely IS a libertarian party in the USA. It may burst your bubble as much as it most definitely burst mine to realize that it ain't goin' nowhere.
You can take that left/right crap and sell it somewhere else, though. Left vs right is a fake power game practiced to keep the people right where the masters want them.
Somebody has to say it. Anybody who would so much as touch with a 10 foot pole any SSD contaminated with the OCZ brand needs to have his head examined. Please, don't anybody claim they don't know the sad infamous history of OCZ SSDs.
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I was there for the touted Exabyte revolution. 2 GB on a digital-8 cartridge sounds puny now but it was revolutionary then. Except for one thing. The reliability and lifetime of the drives was piss poor. OK, two things. The recorded data on tape was very marginal as well.
Tape is still critically important. Admit it, though. Even LTO6 looks like a sad sack of shit compared to the capacity of this drive. No chance in hell tape can keep up the game much longer.
12 TB, snort. I've got over 100 TB worth of 2 and 3 TB drives on-line or on-call a boot away. The most critical part is mirrored RAID-Z2 (4 drives' worth of redundancy per data item), and most of the rest is ad hoc replicated via rsync, some of it several times, so there is nowhere near 100 TB of data stored, but there is a lot.
I would definitely be happy with 64 of these 8 TB. At least for a while.
I would MUCH, MUCH rather have half speed double capacity. Just about all my storage comes much closer to write once, read mostly.
Nobody is forcing the adoption? Really? You do know that Gnome3 has a dependency on logind and logind has a dependency on ... yes, kids ... systemd.
/etc/services? Just a wild ass guess. I didn't try it.
Come on, elementary math. That's not true. Half of all programmers are below MEDIAN. If you don't care enough to get THAT right, I'm not going to bother with the rest of your assertions.
Java cleaner than python? Tell me you're kidding.
Why won't anyone just SAY it? Python. It's clear he meant python. Sure as hell not perl or awk.
A single circuit is that which a single circuit breaker protects. A single circuit feeds several outlets and bulb sockets. In a house are several to quite a few independent circuits. The master breaker is maybe 150 A. Clear?
For what linux application is the source not trivial to obtain?
And the source code to what linux app is "not available" or "lost"?
As if anybody with a Y chromosome would ever watch this without Kari Byron.
That is circular reasoning. If there were no absurdly unjust law against putting certain substances into your own goddam body, there WOULDN'T BE any "drug machine" being funded by users. Also, how do you know know he didn't grow his own weed or synthesize his own X or oxy?
What makes you think funding the "drug machine" is worse than what every wage-earning citizen is FORCED to do - fund the fucking "anti-drug machine" with all its injustices?
Ultimately a pointless question. The named Presidents signed the bills involved. They did not veto them.
I think that is a pointless generalization impossible to support. Alexander Solzhenitzyn estimated Stalin's death toll at 60 million. That is a startling figure, even if it doesn't represent a majority of those who lived there during Stalin's period.
President Obama did not introduce carbon dioxide emissions rules. The EPA, an agency answerable to no one, did. I will not attempt to analyze their motivation except to point out that their charter, their raison d'etre, is to pursue curtailing the effect of human life on the environment without a thought to return, cost, or tradeoff.
It is a fallacious premise that taxing or levying costly requirements on businesses attaches or moderates their profits. It doesn't. It is just a dreary tax on society. Increasing costs for producers of absolute necessities does not cost them a dime. The producers just raise their prices and pass every bit of the increase on to their customers. The public is shafted. There will be programs to assist the hopelessly poor, but NOTHING for the working class. They have to buy their necessities to live. Their standard of living will plummet. Many of them will be made hopelessly poor; then finally they will get assistance, but only enough to allow them a bleak life.
So let's say Joe buys on date X for personal use a no-contract phone and uses Virgin Mobile pay as you go, $37.xx per month which covers unlimited data and texts, and 300 voice minutes. What is a "reasonable percentage of his phone bill"? Hmmm? To me, it sounds like a cluster fuck to settle on. He doesn't even HAVE a "bill" for the amortization of the phone itself, but it is a real expense. He bought it in spring 2013 and intends to keep it until it develops a serious problem. Nobody knows when that will be, so nobody knows the amortization table.
If he goes over 300 voice minutes, his only recourse is to either start a new month ahead of time, or step to a new plan mid-month with more voice minutes. There is another accounting cluster-fuck.
Automatic shit is very facile to propose, but it doesn't work. Since the Bartley-Fox law went into effect in 1975 in Massachusetts, anyone convicted of carrying an unlicensed firearm faces a mandatory one year jail term, no appeal, no parole. The problem is, said carriers have a better chance of being struck by lightning than serving that sentence. Massachusetts cities are of course filled to the gills with unlicensed firearms; they are used criminally every night; a fair percentage of perps are eventually caught, some right in the act; yet you will die of old age before you track down more than a trvial number of people who have ever served that sentence.
With the absurd number of lawyers in the US, and the ridiculously corrupt legal and enforcement system, it should be no surprise that that "mandatory" sentence is being subverted every day, year after year, decade after decade.
I prefer the term "inhuman person" myself.
Many years ago cities made sense. Factories to make steel, shoes, ketchup, shirts and other goods scaled well to gigantic sizes. Having the workers' living quarters hived up in close proximity to their employment was natural as there was no viable alternative. No one was yet doing more than dreaming of pervasive automation. Cities allowed stunningly great libraries and concert halls and baseball parks to be provided.
Yo, things have changed. It is not necessary any longer to clump gigantic numbers of people into tiny areas in which it is impossible to efficiently support personal transportation. It is not technically and logistically necessary for us to live in a milieu in which it is necessary to call some agency to take us somewhere. The internet could be extended in non-commercialized ways to fully provide all the resources of libraries and a great deal more.
I can see a place for a certain supply of centralized areas for those who cannot adjust to living any other way than like cattle. Feel free to phrase it differently. A richness of cultural and service facilities can be provided in built-up areas. But by and large the concept of the city, un-navigable by private conveyance, fighting for innovative ways to move people about efficiently.
What if these built-up areas concentrated on what they are uniquely suited for? What if people traveled to them (and a few lived there) for the culture? Optimize them for that, and make them pay their way doing that.
It needn't be whole-hog Asimov Spacers level sprawl, but living with elbow room and not with jammed-up crowds constantly getting in your way.
Just a thought.
Rape-a-scan?
Before you go alleging "factual mistakes" over subjective matters, please try to pay attention. Ponder the difference between master and fair to decent practitioner.
What many places in the world choose to call liberal is what the USA chooses to call libertarian. Just think of it as a different dialect if it pleases you, but know that there definitely IS a libertarian party in the USA. It may burst your bubble as much as it most definitely burst mine to realize that it ain't goin' nowhere.
You can take that left/right crap and sell it somewhere else, though. Left vs right is a fake power game practiced to keep the people right where the masters want them.
Somebody has to say it. Anybody who would so much as touch with a 10 foot pole any SSD contaminated with the OCZ brand needs to have his head examined. Please, don't anybody claim they don't know the sad infamous history of OCZ SSDs.