So long as the sun isn't shining on you. Pity there's not eink phone actually for sale now. Onyx Boox had one but the batch sold out quickly and had some IMEI number problems, so they may not be bringing out any more. Long battery life, very high contrast screen, bluetooth for keyboard etc, android, I'd be tempted get one even if it can't make calls.
Ah, so you've got some special rule so you "win" despite either an epic failure of reading comprehension or a totally invented fantasy. Bonus points for using "conspiracy" on such a mundane topic, very funny. Please address me and not the strawman in your head. The term fits exactly since you've built something in a parody of my image and set fire to it.
Imagine there was a Priest called Mata that got up to no good, and there's Papal laws to stop that sort of thing. So the above "launched by canon from the top of the Matahorn" can be taken to mean "forced to stop buggering about" and it fits into the post well.
Of course I could be giving you a load of Bull. I've typed too much after a night of card games. Euchre wrist is driving me mad.
So what can? Ereaders are now getting a bit of grunt so they can cope with badly formatted PDF files so they'd have the processing power now if the software is available. Some of them are Android and some even native linux. A full tablet PC is not the answer until one has eink, you may as well just use a PC and monitor since LCD tablets are unreadable if the sun cand shine in to where they are.
I disagree since people tend to buy books as "extras" instead of out of a fixed pool. For example, one year $X, next $X-50, next $X+50 - all over the place.
I had a lecturer who found that not only was he getting zero for his cut but his textbook only came in hardcover and was well over $100 even back in the early 1990s. He photocopied it and handed it out to his students so they would not have to buy it - still illegal despite it being his work from content right down to the page formatting in TeX.
Try buying a PPC system from IBM and you'll see how they can be experts at pricing themselves out of markets they can afford to sell to. Wikipedia mentions a price drop from $17,999 to $8,399 without it being a fire sale. Middle ground at less cost was available but didn't happen. It was made out of 2400x900 panels which would have been pretty decent alone.
I've actually lost stuff from my life permanently *because* I used a tape backup
Which is why you do two tapes (or two external drives, blueray whatever) for whatever you don't want to lose.
What happens after they stop manufacturing compatible drives?
There is an enormous second hand market and you transcribe to something new before that market dries up and you can't get something that can read the format any more. If you miss that boat then you send it to someone who can read it (see my bit about reels from the 1970s above) if the data is important enough.
There were some cheap and nasty 4mm consumer drives that were shit, mainly because tape that thin breaks, so the "market" judged and the format was abandoned. Is that what you mean? Even with that DAT variant there are some reconditioned drives available and there are many places that can transcribe it, so long as the tape is intact. LTO, SDLT, IBM3592 (expensive++) are pretty reliable, and I can still read IBM3480 tapes (introduced in 1984!) in a recent Hitachi drive.
Is anyone with significant amounts of data not caching their frequently accessed data on SSD?
Yes. Memory is even better, but of course after a point it gets stupidly expensive compared with an SSD, so it depends on the volume of frequently accessed data. Even swap/cache/l2arc on SSD is still a vast amount slower than caching in memory.
IMHO serious archives go on tape. However you have to be very serious about it since a couple of hard drives is a lot cheaper than an LTO6 drive and a few tapes - tape doesn't win until you hit large volumes and long timescales. A ten year old tape you pull out of a box is going to work apart from a tiny fraction of a percentage of the time. A drive - not so likely since the spindle lubricant doesn't last forever and polished surfaces stick via diffusion. A twenty year old tape should have been transcribed years ago but is going to work unless it has got hot or damp in storage. A thirty year old tape is probably brittle and needs to be read with care, but I've sent a couple of dozen off to be transcribed. It was seismic data so file formats that could handle a few bits missing here or there, and errors outside the file headers have little impact due to "stacking" multiple datasets that overlap. However those reels from the early 1980s and late 1970s preserved effectively all the data put on them despite less than ideal storage (a shed in a humid subtropical climate).
Hard drives are not designed to last for a decade in a box. A decade powered up is ironicly likely to result in less dead drives than powered off on a shelf. Tapes don't have to deal with high speeds and are instead designed to last. They die from the substrate getting brittle over decades, the oxide peeling off the tape over decades and magnetised zones on one section of tape magnetising an area on the next loop of tape, once again over decades.
All that said, if you only have 6TB or so to keep, and you don't want to go for a pile of Blueray disks, getting a couple of drives every few years (3? 5? 7?) is a lot more sane than mucking about with tapes.
It's worth killing IE dead if that stops people turing their MS Windows PCs and the file shares they are connected to into a malware swamp with just a single click.
If I sent an accurate description of the malware situation now back in time to 2000 it would be discarded as a blatant attack rant on MS disguised as incredibly unlikely SF.
Yes, the math geeks may speak to each other that way but they are run by a bunch of horse judges and cheerleaders that just happen to know the right people (as seen by how a contractor could get hold of so much) so it's probably a safe bet that it's in the clear instead of best practice. After the star trek set designer getting called in the only way to go is down. The Chinese or whoever would have just needed some way to pander to a huge ego to get a backdoor into the place.
The irony is that it's only taken 40+ years to get to display resolutions for raster graphics to approximate vector graphics.
It's what we've been prepared to put up with. If more people had bought those monster resolution IBM LCDs in the 1990s then economies of scale would have resulted in 4k screens earlier. It wasn't a technological barrier, it was a progression driven by tooling for whatever would sell. That's why we had the step backwards in resolution for a decade+ and I only gave up on CRTs a couple of years ago when 1600x1200 LCD prices dropped from the stratosphere. Back to vectors - that old Star Wars video game still seems to impress kids despite their phone hardware outperforming it 100 to 1.
And the wavelengths the LEDs are putting out - emission spectroscopy is what you are looking for. One positive is a lot of the new lights have fittings that reflect the light more in the direction where it is useful. It's easier to design such things for lights that are not very hot.
I don't doubt they were hacked, but the late change in a long timespan to blame N.K. makes it very unlikely that it was N.K. What Sony are doing now is exploiting an opportunity - the rumour that N.K. did the hacking means vast publicity for the film. As the ridiculous saying goes "if life gives you lemons make lemonade" (riduculous because in reality if you have a lot of lemons that's better than having no citrus at all).
You appear to make the assumption that everyone who is not for you is against you. I am not in the USA so do not support either party, but Baby Bush was a world class failure even when he bothered to turn up for work. Both Johnson and Ford are roasting in hell IMHO. Some of the problems date back to before JFK and have been allowed to fester.
And...? They have a duty to defend the constitution, even if that means ending their careers
Which means a failure of those who didn't bother to do their duty as citizens and go out to vote to choose the type of people who would defend the constitution, even if that means ending their careers. When choosing those who gets to run a country becomes a game for only the politically obsessed and nobody else bothers to take part it's an expected outcome.
I don't know why you thought I was defending them instead of just describing what happened when I wrote "none of them actually had time to read it did they?". The patriot act farce/tragedy was a low weasel act where the name, an atmosphere of urgency and a deliberate withholding of content got it through. A group of true statesmen or women would refuse to let such a trick work but they were in short supply. Given the environment the sort of people that would rather leave than support something have left long ago.
Fair enough, you have a very good point even though I don't entirely agree with it since it involves drawing a difficult to define line somewhere between what information is treason to release and what isn't. For an old example, some would argue say that revealing Oliver North's personal embezzlement of the Contra fund for airconditioning, a car etc, would be treason, because that obvious crime was tangled up in a pile of very sensitive state secrets, such as North supplying weapons to Hezbolla less than a year after they blew up more than one hundred US marines. So I don't know what he could have revealed without opening a can of worms leading to other things but still be deniable and ignore - instead he revealed far too much to deny. It looks to me like he had a variety of bad choices and picked one.
why Russia is invading Ukraine in the way that they are and pushing things is because we no longer know what they are thinking and how putin is reacting to various deals.
That is a bit of a stretch since that situation has been building up for more than a decade.
Hmm, three of my posts on different stories all modded down within minutes, including this one on a relatively old story well past the date when most readers have moved on. It appears that I've annoyed someone who is very petty and has decided to list my comments then downmod them. Is that person going to be a childish coward or own up?
I mostly agree with you, but I don't see how giving information to American journalists could be considered treason. The rest of the world did not hear it direct from Snowden. We've been manipulated into thinking he's a traitor when he was really the enemy of powerful bureaucrats instead of the USA.
Yes but none of them actually had time to read it did they? Even the name was a very low trick, since it implied that anyone rejecting it was not a patriot. In the political climate of the time voting against it looked like a career ending move, and career is what seatwarmers on both sides saw as important above all else.
Because the part that changed is a very small part of the structure of government. When there's a mess dating back to Edgar Hoover it's not going to be cleaned up by a single administration no matter who is in charge. I wrote something similar here when Baby Bush got in, but he didn't even attempt to touch the Clinton era mess since it would have cut into his vacation time.
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So long as the sun isn't shining on you. Pity there's not eink phone actually for sale now. Onyx Boox had one but the batch sold out quickly and had some IMEI number problems, so they may not be bringing out any more.
Long battery life, very high contrast screen, bluetooth for keyboard etc, android, I'd be tempted get one even if it can't make calls.
Ah, so you've got some special rule so you "win" despite either an epic failure of reading comprehension or a totally invented fantasy. Bonus points for using "conspiracy" on such a mundane topic, very funny.
Please address me and not the strawman in your head. The term fits exactly since you've built something in a parody of my image and set fire to it.
The strawman in your head may have mentioned that but a resolution in my post was:
It looks like I'm a bit less fussy than the strawman in your head so I suggest you argue with him instead of me.
Imagine there was a Priest called Mata that got up to no good, and there's Papal laws to stop that sort of thing.
So the above "launched by canon from the top of the Matahorn" can be taken to mean "forced to stop buggering about" and it fits into the post well.
Of course I could be giving you a load of Bull. I've typed too much after a night of card games. Euchre wrist is driving me mad.
So what can? Ereaders are now getting a bit of grunt so they can cope with badly formatted PDF files so they'd have the processing power now if the software is available. Some of them are Android and some even native linux.
A full tablet PC is not the answer until one has eink, you may as well just use a PC and monitor since LCD tablets are unreadable if the sun cand shine in to where they are.
I disagree since people tend to buy books as "extras" instead of out of a fixed pool. For example, one year $X, next $X-50, next $X+50 - all over the place.
I had a lecturer who found that not only was he getting zero for his cut but his textbook only came in hardcover and was well over $100 even back in the early 1990s. He photocopied it and handed it out to his students so they would not have to buy it - still illegal despite it being his work from content right down to the page formatting in TeX.
Try buying a PPC system from IBM and you'll see how they can be experts at pricing themselves out of markets they can afford to sell to. Wikipedia mentions a price drop from $17,999 to $8,399 without it being a fire sale.
Middle ground at less cost was available but didn't happen. It was made out of 2400x900 panels which would have been pretty decent alone.
Which is why you do two tapes (or two external drives, blueray whatever) for whatever you don't want to lose.
There is an enormous second hand market and you transcribe to something new before that market dries up and you can't get something that can read the format any more. If you miss that boat then you send it to someone who can read it (see my bit about reels from the 1970s above) if the data is important enough.
There were some cheap and nasty 4mm consumer drives that were shit, mainly because tape that thin breaks, so the "market" judged and the format was abandoned. Is that what you mean? Even with that DAT variant there are some reconditioned drives available and there are many places that can transcribe it, so long as the tape is intact.
LTO, SDLT, IBM3592 (expensive++) are pretty reliable, and I can still read IBM3480 tapes (introduced in 1984!) in a recent Hitachi drive.
They have had a few dud models that are not like those drives from 2006 or even 2000.
Yes. Memory is even better, but of course after a point it gets stupidly expensive compared with an SSD, so it depends on the volume of frequently accessed data. Even swap/cache/l2arc on SSD is still a vast amount slower than caching in memory.
IMHO serious archives go on tape. However you have to be very serious about it since a couple of hard drives is a lot cheaper than an LTO6 drive and a few tapes - tape doesn't win until you hit large volumes and long timescales.
A ten year old tape you pull out of a box is going to work apart from a tiny fraction of a percentage of the time. A drive - not so likely since the spindle lubricant doesn't last forever and polished surfaces stick via diffusion. A twenty year old tape should have been transcribed years ago but is going to work unless it has got hot or damp in storage. A thirty year old tape is probably brittle and needs to be read with care, but I've sent a couple of dozen off to be transcribed. It was seismic data so file formats that could handle a few bits missing here or there, and errors outside the file headers have little impact due to "stacking" multiple datasets that overlap. However those reels from the early 1980s and late 1970s preserved effectively all the data put on them despite less than ideal storage (a shed in a humid subtropical climate).
Hard drives are not designed to last for a decade in a box. A decade powered up is ironicly likely to result in less dead drives than powered off on a shelf. Tapes don't have to deal with high speeds and are instead designed to last. They die from the substrate getting brittle over decades, the oxide peeling off the tape over decades and magnetised zones on one section of tape magnetising an area on the next loop of tape, once again over decades.
All that said, if you only have 6TB or so to keep, and you don't want to go for a pile of Blueray disks, getting a couple of drives every few years (3? 5? 7?) is a lot more sane than mucking about with tapes.
It's worth killing IE dead if that stops people turing their MS Windows PCs and the file shares they are connected to into a malware swamp with just a single click.
If I sent an accurate description of the malware situation now back in time to 2000 it would be discarded as a blatant attack rant on MS disguised as incredibly unlikely SF.
Yes, the math geeks may speak to each other that way but they are run by a bunch of horse judges and cheerleaders that just happen to know the right people (as seen by how a contractor could get hold of so much) so it's probably a safe bet that it's in the clear instead of best practice.
After the star trek set designer getting called in the only way to go is down. The Chinese or whoever would have just needed some way to pander to a huge ego to get a backdoor into the place.
It's what we've been prepared to put up with. If more people had bought those monster resolution IBM LCDs in the 1990s then economies of scale would have resulted in 4k screens earlier. It wasn't a technological barrier, it was a progression driven by tooling for whatever would sell. That's why we had the step backwards in resolution for a decade+ and I only gave up on CRTs a couple of years ago when 1600x1200 LCD prices dropped from the stratosphere.
Back to vectors - that old Star Wars video game still seems to impress kids despite their phone hardware outperforming it 100 to 1.
And the wavelengths the LEDs are putting out - emission spectroscopy is what you are looking for.
One positive is a lot of the new lights have fittings that reflect the light more in the direction where it is useful. It's easier to design such things for lights that are not very hot.
I don't doubt they were hacked, but the late change in a long timespan to blame N.K. makes it very unlikely that it was N.K. What Sony are doing now is exploiting an opportunity - the rumour that N.K. did the hacking means vast publicity for the film. As the ridiculous saying goes "if life gives you lemons make lemonade" (riduculous because in reality if you have a lot of lemons that's better than having no citrus at all).
That is likely.
You appear to make the assumption that everyone who is not for you is against you. I am not in the USA so do not support either party, but Baby Bush was a world class failure even when he bothered to turn up for work. Both Johnson and Ford are roasting in hell IMHO.
Some of the problems date back to before JFK and have been allowed to fester.
Which means a failure of those who didn't bother to do their duty as citizens and go out to vote to choose the type of people who would defend the constitution, even if that means ending their careers. When choosing those who gets to run a country becomes a game for only the politically obsessed and nobody else bothers to take part it's an expected outcome.
I don't know why you thought I was defending them instead of just describing what happened when I wrote "none of them actually had time to read it did they?". The patriot act farce/tragedy was a low weasel act where the name, an atmosphere of urgency and a deliberate withholding of content got it through. A group of true statesmen or women would refuse to let such a trick work but they were in short supply. Given the environment the sort of people that would rather leave than support something have left long ago.
For an old example, some would argue say that revealing Oliver North's personal embezzlement of the Contra fund for airconditioning, a car etc, would be treason, because that obvious crime was tangled up in a pile of very sensitive state secrets, such as North supplying weapons to Hezbolla less than a year after they blew up more than one hundred US marines.
So I don't know what he could have revealed without opening a can of worms leading to other things but still be deniable and ignore - instead he revealed far too much to deny. It looks to me like he had a variety of bad choices and picked one.
That is a bit of a stretch since that situation has been building up for more than a decade.
Hmm, three of my posts on different stories all modded down within minutes, including this one on a relatively old story well past the date when most readers have moved on. It appears that I've annoyed someone who is very petty and has decided to list my comments then downmod them. Is that person going to be a childish coward or own up?
I mostly agree with you, but I don't see how giving information to American journalists could be considered treason. The rest of the world did not hear it direct from Snowden. We've been manipulated into thinking he's a traitor when he was really the enemy of powerful bureaucrats instead of the USA.
Yes but none of them actually had time to read it did they?
Even the name was a very low trick, since it implied that anyone rejecting it was not a patriot. In the political climate of the time voting against it looked like a career ending move, and career is what seatwarmers on both sides saw as important above all else.
Because the part that changed is a very small part of the structure of government. When there's a mess dating back to Edgar Hoover it's not going to be cleaned up by a single administration no matter who is in charge. I wrote something similar here when Baby Bush got in, but he didn't even attempt to touch the Clinton era mess since it would have cut into his vacation time.