Demand always outstrips expectation, be it phone exchanges or IP addresses. What may seem like a reasonable limit at one time can prove to be too constraining in the future. That which is reasonably large at present will prove to be unreasonably small in future. So make it unreasonably large at present and you just may find it reasonably large in future.
Though a system that can expand without limit upon demand is ideal.
Would Chinese law keep you from publishing a story critical of their goverment?
That would depend on how/if my country goes about enforcing any extradition treaties with China, or whether China engages in "extraordinary rendition".
As I recently purchased a Mac Pro, I did a search for Universal Binary drivers for my HP printer. Searching for the model number turned up two hits on HP's website, one saying that the printer is discountinued and not available at any price and the other saying the same printer is for sale at another price. It appeared the two pages were intended for different markets. (Unfortunately I don't recall my printer's model and it isn't at my present location.)
Their Mac OS X drivers page says nothing about UB drivers. I've since discovered the printer works just fine on the new Mac Pro without their drivers, and I'm still on my original ink (only printing the occasional receipt, sometimes license agreements and small PDF manuals).
describes the inevitability of hardware administration headaches and warns users not to expect a silver bullet to solve these problems."
It isn't inevitable if you get rid of computers from your life. Seriously.
Well, that's just an ordinary lead bullet. Applied to the hardware with sufficient velocity, frequency, and accuracy (choose any two), and there's no more problem.
WTF? Edith doesn't shoot at all. Is this a deliberate confusion of the Edith Keeler story and the alteration of Star Wars such that Greedo shot first or what?
Deliberate, yes; confusion, no. It's a cultural reference, a cynical call-back in jest, deriding the reediting of cultural history.
And, if you read the wiki, Greedo also didn't shoot at all.
(I wonder: does the continual re-editing of the work of the deceased extend its copyright to the re-editor's lifetime + 70 years?)
"[As] service has improved slowly as satellite providers, upstart phone carriers and cell phone companies have provided attractive alternatives.
OK, who's the ass that thought by putting "[As]" in place of the original "But" would be the right way to edit this sentence? Is bad grammar so ingrained at Slashdot that we must make incorrect the quotes from other articles?
If you must strike the "But" from the start, at least read it before and after inserting new words. "[Cable and phone]" would have been an acceptable alternative, but it is still a perfectly fine sentence without "[As]":
"[S]ervice has improved slowly as satellite providers, upstart phone carriers and cell phone companies have provided attractive services.
An error like that is disrepectful of the source site and of the article's author, especially as this site regularly borrows much of other site's stories for their mention here. You should be ashamed for trashing the correct grammar of another site in a quote! No one likes to be misquoted; they certainly don't like being made to look incompetent by having their quote mangled!
(I don't profess to be perfect, but you should be professional.)
If the whole system is placed in a long, curved cradle, each disk is only supporting itself and its share of the bar. Or suspend the bar slightly above such a cradle system at each end.
There'd be limitations on bar length though, as thousands of CDs is quite heavy. Get them in segments and have periodic retractable supports. By using segments, the system can be expanded as needed if data storage load for a month exceeds existing capacity, and makes it easier to retrieve original disks for evidentiary purposes if your needs aren't strictly FIFO.
Are you sure cake boxes are good for readability over long-term storage? There'd be a risk of disk-to-disk adherance which could separate the reflective layer from the substrate. Vertical (on-edge) storage supported by the spindle hole I thought was the safest solution for data longevity.
In their defense, sometimes one needs to question the premise of the question. Perhaps there is some give in the requirement that allows other solutions (e.g. do the disks still need to be rapidly or readily accessible or even readable?), and surely there are other readers interested in solutions that aren't so encumbered.
I know that, though my DVD collection isn't yet that big, my Atlantic Penguin and (lately) Elf racks aren't quite meeting my needs, especially since I can't order free replacement (really expansion) parts over the web anymore without negotiation with a human.
The above linked post from the previous discussion is the best answer.
Not quite the best. It still requires you to have organizational skills to put the CD back where you found it so you can find it again next time. Searching through meatspace is annoying.
Instead, attach little RF receivers and piezo speakers to the spindle hole of each CD, low enough power so that it is powered by the signal (no dead batteries). Maybe an LED that will shine through to the edge of the CD too. Each tag gets a unique ID. When you look up the CD on the computer, it transmits the ID which is received by the device and it starts beeping and blinking. When you're done with it, you just put it back wherever you want.
(Yes, I've suggested this before for storage of books, which also lets you decide where to file books according to their size making better use of your storage space. It's just a reapplication of those RF coasters you get at busy restaurants while waiting to be seated.)
Or at least the colored bedsheets ghosts wear over their eyes.
So, which is worse for the think-of-the-children: Pac-Man killing them by eating them, or stripping them by eating their clothes and forcing them to streak home to get dressed again?
"Silly Pac-Man! You can't kill a ghost!" -- Ghost of Apu Nahasapeemapetilon
Sure, but who knows what information they'll glean from people that have been falsely e-cused? Through the course of the investigation, who knows what they could dig up for charges.
Do you have encyclopedic knowledge of all laws in all jursidictions and the details of all precedent-setting cases under every one?
Show me a telephone number which you can dial and that, by the simple act of connection, results in the infiltration of your company's office such that your Intranet data (e.g., customer personal info, credit cards, etc) can be leaked out.
The same way a private conversation between George W. Bush and Tony Blair gets leaked: an open mic. That handset picks up more than just the words coming out of your mouth.
Set up a recorder on a phone not traceable to you, call it from the phone in the boardroom, leave it in speakerphone mode, and surreptitiously record everything discussed in the meeting. (Bonus for disabling the telltale LEDs and LCDs.)
And don't be surprised if the phone at your desk isn't being used by your boss to listen into conversations in your cubicle. I know of a furniture store with a paranoid owner who would do that to monitor his employees' conversations. And that was just in the late '60s to early '70s; the technology today makes it much easier.
An electronic ink screen prototype, developed by Koninklijke Philips Electronics and startup E-Ink, is thin and flexible like paper so it can be worn wrapped around a cell phone. Users can unwrap it to view a map on a larger screen. Eventually, the display could be used to watch video.
And make the portable video phone a reality where camera phones have feared to tread.
I think that using MS Word is a pretty good way to check vocabulary that may be in the zeitgeist.
Even still, there are some words that do exist that probably shouldn't be in a spelling checker's dictionary as they aren't likely to be the word the user intended, such as wether, a castrated sheep. (And to all the castrated sheep out there reading slashdot, yes, I am being an insensitive clod.)
Even abridged dictionaries are full of words that are virtually unused in our society...
And some of them aren't even real words, inserted into the dictionary to catch people who try to copy it and sell it as their own.
I've been tempted to stop watching Eureka just to avoid the teaser ads for ECW following it, that's how much I hate wrestling. I can't even watch Kaiju Big Battel (which is what Sci-Fi Channel should be airing; let G4 have ECW).
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what is a reasonable size for swap these days?
Reasonable limits aren't.
Demand always outstrips expectation, be it phone exchanges or IP addresses. What may seem like a reasonable limit at one time can prove to be too constraining in the future. That which is reasonably large at present will prove to be unreasonably small in future. So make it unreasonably large at present and you just may find it reasonably large in future.
Though a system that can expand without limit upon demand is ideal.
Would Chinese law keep you from publishing a story critical of their goverment?
That would depend on how/if my country goes about enforcing any extradition treaties with China, or whether China engages in "extraordinary rendition".
As I recently purchased a Mac Pro, I did a search for Universal Binary drivers for my HP printer. Searching for the model number turned up two hits on HP's website, one saying that the printer is discountinued and not available at any price and the other saying the same printer is for sale at another price. It appeared the two pages were intended for different markets. (Unfortunately I don't recall my printer's model and it isn't at my present location.)
Their Mac OS X drivers page says nothing about UB drivers. I've since discovered the printer works just fine on the new Mac Pro without their drivers, and I'm still on my original ink (only printing the occasional receipt, sometimes license agreements and small PDF manuals).
But with updated visual for scenes set in space, all other scenes would look horribly dated and inconsistent.
Yes, I too have seen what they did to Red Dwarf.
But what if they edited the new footage in "Trials and Tribble-ations" into "The Trouble with Tribbles"?, and decided that that would become the definitive edition? (Excepting the parts that were particular to the DS9 episode's plot of course.)
WTF? Edith doesn't shoot at all. Is this a deliberate confusion of the Edith Keeler story and the alteration of Star Wars such that Greedo shot first or what?
Deliberate, yes; confusion, no. It's a cultural reference, a cynical call-back in jest, deriding the reediting of cultural history.
And, if you read the wiki, Greedo also didn't shoot at all.
(I wonder: does the continual re-editing of the work of the deceased extend its copyright to the re-editor's lifetime + 70 years?)
OK, who's the ass that thought by putting "[As]" in place of the original "But" would be the right way to edit this sentence? Is bad grammar so ingrained at Slashdot that we must make incorrect the quotes from other articles?
If you must strike the "But" from the start, at least read it before and after inserting new words. "[Cable and phone]" would have been an acceptable alternative, but it is still a perfectly fine sentence without "[As]":
An error like that is disrepectful of the source site and of the article's author, especially as this site regularly borrows much of other site's stories for their mention here. You should be ashamed for trashing the correct grammar of another site in a quote! No one likes to be misquoted; they certainly don't like being made to look incompetent by having their quote mangled!
(I don't profess to be perfect, but you should be professional.)
And here I was expecting to see Phong as David Brent.
It's from a cartoon.
"I am Elmer J. Fudd, Millionaire. I own a mansion und a yacht."
But did he have a mansion und a yacht?
If the whole system is placed in a long, curved cradle, each disk is only supporting itself and its share of the bar. Or suspend the bar slightly above such a cradle system at each end.
There'd be limitations on bar length though, as thousands of CDs is quite heavy. Get them in segments and have periodic retractable supports. By using segments, the system can be expanded as needed if data storage load for a month exceeds existing capacity, and makes it easier to retrieve original disks for evidentiary purposes if your needs aren't strictly FIFO.
Are you sure cake boxes are good for readability over long-term storage? There'd be a risk of disk-to-disk adherance which could separate the reflective layer from the substrate. Vertical (on-edge) storage supported by the spindle hole I thought was the safest solution for data longevity.
Did any of you even read the article?
In their defense, sometimes one needs to question the premise of the question. Perhaps there is some give in the requirement that allows other solutions (e.g. do the disks still need to be rapidly or readily accessible or even readable?), and surely there are other readers interested in solutions that aren't so encumbered.
I know that, though my DVD collection isn't yet that big, my Atlantic Penguin and (lately) Elf racks aren't quite meeting my needs, especially since I can't order free replacement (really expansion) parts over the web anymore without negotiation with a human.
The above linked post from the previous discussion is the best answer.
Not quite the best. It still requires you to have organizational skills to put the CD back where you found it so you can find it again next time. Searching through meatspace is annoying.
Instead, attach little RF receivers and piezo speakers to the spindle hole of each CD, low enough power so that it is powered by the signal (no dead batteries). Maybe an LED that will shine through to the edge of the CD too. Each tag gets a unique ID. When you look up the CD on the computer, it transmits the ID which is received by the device and it starts beeping and blinking. When you're done with it, you just put it back wherever you want.
(Yes, I've suggested this before for storage of books, which also lets you decide where to file books according to their size making better use of your storage space. It's just a reapplication of those RF coasters you get at busy restaurants while waiting to be seated.)
Or at least the colored bedsheets ghosts wear over their eyes.
So, which is worse for the think-of-the-children: Pac-Man killing them by eating them, or stripping them by eating their clothes and forcing them to streak home to get dressed again?
"Silly Pac-Man! You can't kill a ghost!"
-- Ghost of Apu Nahasapeemapetilon
They can eat fruit, don't forget the fruit
And keys!?
So basically Microsoft is filing for a "One Clique" Patent?
Indeed, Little Snitch is wonderful. If only there were a version for other OSes other than Mac OS X.
Sure, but who knows what information they'll glean from people that have been falsely e-cused? Through the course of the investigation, who knows what they could dig up for charges.
Do you have encyclopedic knowledge of all laws in all jursidictions and the details of all precedent-setting cases under every one?
Are you certain you have nothing to hide?
Show me a telephone number which you can dial and that, by the simple act of connection, results in the infiltration of your company's office such that your Intranet data (e.g., customer personal info, credit cards, etc) can be leaked out.
The same way a private conversation between George W. Bush and Tony Blair gets leaked: an open mic. That handset picks up more than just the words coming out of your mouth.
Set up a recorder on a phone not traceable to you, call it from the phone in the boardroom, leave it in speakerphone mode, and surreptitiously record everything discussed in the meeting. (Bonus for disabling the telltale LEDs and LCDs.)
And don't be surprised if the phone at your desk isn't being used by your boss to listen into conversations in your cubicle. I know of a furniture store with a paranoid owner who would do that to monitor his employees' conversations. And that was just in the late '60s to early '70s; the technology today makes it much easier.
Competition is bad for business.
But monopoly is bad for consumers.
So the answer?
"There can be only two." -- Duncan and Connor MacLeod (Microsoft & Sony)
"Or three!" -- Quentin MacLeod (Nintendo)
I think that using MS Word is a pretty good way to check vocabulary that may be in the zeitgeist.
Even still, there are some words that do exist that probably shouldn't be in a spelling checker's dictionary as they aren't likely to be the word the user intended, such as wether, a castrated sheep. (And to all the castrated sheep out there reading slashdot, yes, I am being an insensitive clod.)
Even abridged dictionaries are full of words that are virtually unused in our society...
And some of them aren't even real words, inserted into the dictionary to catch people who try to copy it and sell it as their own.
I've been tempted to stop watching Eureka just to avoid the teaser ads for ECW following it, that's how much I hate wrestling. I can't even watch Kaiju Big Battel (which is what Sci-Fi Channel should be airing; let G4 have ECW).