Looks like you've got a good setup. I think I'll give it a try at my next opportunity.
But, the original question *was* about redundancy for a fileserver. I think that people mistook your suggestion as saying he should build his bulk media filesystem with SCSI.
Food is a commodity. If you think the prices are too high on one item, you buy another. If a very few companies provided roads (making all roads toll roads), you'd get instant gouging and there would be no way for the consumers to "vote with their feet/dollar". Also, they would be monopolies: most houses and businesses only have 1 road that gets them to their door. Whoever owned that "last mile" road to a neighborhood would control a persons access to their home.
Think of the situation whith cable companies providing shit service and highly increased rates in areas with no competition.
I got a 200GB Seagate from newegg.com for $90 after $40 mail-in rebate (that's $.45/GB). The best I've seen before rebate is about $.63/GB (also at newegg).
Well, light is just another Electromagnetic Wave. Same as radio waves, x-rays, microwaves, etc. But yeah, it's the frequency / wavelength that's important.
He was saying that since a photon simply has a color (i.e., frequency) and neutrinos do not, then you'd need to find some way of encoding the color into one or more neutrinos.
Weird comment about the neutrino glasses though. AFAIK, neutrinos are fairly rare, and come from all directions. Thus, it would be hard to see a "shadow" of somebody blocking neutrinos.
Huh? Nooo... He was a Government Official. Not a civilian. See, "member of the Iraqi government" is pretty much the definition, righ there!
Are they not legitimate targets? What about officers in the military? During the American Revolution, it was considered against the rules of engagement to purosfully target an officer.
Make sure to post your opinions the next time your country is taken over by a foreign nation, after no provocation, and insists on changing your type of government to match their ideals (if not religion).
I'm sure others have pointed it out, but Iraq and 9/11 had NOTHING to do with eachother. Regardless, war between nations and occupation of a country are completely different than what happened on 9/11.
Sometimes they even abuse the physical metaphor of tabbed browsing by opening multiple pages - not subpages of the same web site! - in multiple tabs of a browser window.
Soooorry! Don't want to abuse your metaphor! Thanks for slapping me on the wrist and telling me "tsk, tsk!" I mean, just because I DARE to open multiple sites all talking, GASP, about the SAME SUBJECT! Yeah, I'm glad that you think it's better for me to have 5 different instances of Moz open when I'm comparing prices on hardware, because we wouldn't want to group things by, say, RELEVANCE. You know, I wouldn't want to bookmark a bunch of tabs and call it "Mobo Price Search". I'll take it easy on the fucking PHYSICAL METAPHOR and make sure I have 5 bookmarks, each with 1 or 2 pages, saying "Pricewatch Mobo Price Search", "NewEgg Mobo Price Search", "blah blah blah". Yup, that's what I want, because YOU think it's better!!!!
I even know few people who never open more than one browser window, viewing all pages in tabs; I hope they do not try to glue a daily set of newspapers together before reading them...
Yeah! Those fucking idiots! How dare they use them however they want! They're so dumb, they probably piss down their legs! Heck, I saw one of them CUT the tamper ring off a gallon of milk! Doesn't the dumbass know you're supposed to TWIST it!?!?
I mean, it's not as if humans are good at spatially remembering the location of information. I know that I simply CANNOT remember where in a book a given phrase is. I have to scan each page to find anything! I mean, it's not like my puny brain could remember that the anandtech tab is about 8 down the list, and that penny arcade tab is about 13 down. NO! I get all confused! I'm just a poor, lonely, confused, cave man cringing from all the strange sights and noises that I cannot comprehend!
On another topic: MS has been "remembering the layout of folders" for years now, without opening another window. You telling me that the only way GNOME can get that to work is by opening another window?
what's the closest real-life representation of a web page?
Here's my answer:
I DON'T GIVE A FUCK! I want it to be easy to use on a computer and not be ARTIFICIALLY CONSTRAINED because you can't map it 1:1 with a physical fucking object.
motherfucker.
god this shit pisses me off. it's ivory tower elitism at its worst, being practiced by a basement-dwelling pleeb.
Folder structure should be simple and as shallow as possible... opening the appriopriate album folder and double-clicking a file icon
No Way! You should have ALL your files in ONE folder! If you start grouping your files with logic, like, say Music->Artist->Album, or Downloads->Drivers/Apps/OS->blah-blah, the next thing you'll know, you'll have folders 10 deep! What an atrocity! They need to be flat! FLAT, I say!
Please, don't stop all these good ideas coming back again.
You can try anything you like. I'll be happy to give it a try, too. But saying that a nice, logical, hirearchy of folders and files sucks because it doesn't perfectly match the "original desktop metaphor" is simply silly. Instead of constraining file layout, maybe it's the metaphor that should change? And, if it truly is a better way (more intuitive, easier to use, etc) then it will be adopted. But, attacking people for using a feature how they want, rather than in the way that you think it should be used, will not warm people up to trying new things. Show us how good it is, don't patronize us for using the tools we have.
They're not saying he doesn't have a good grasp of his field. They are saying that he's not the kind of person they want to be associated with. Despite all its problems, the academic research field is big on intellectual rigor and honesty.
Also, when it comes down to it, he paid for the education, not the certification and diploma. The diploma certifies that he did the course work AND did it in an honorable way. If he was caught cheating during his course work, he'd have been thrown out well before he hit 16 instances. The university has thrown him out of their "club". He can still say he completed all the requirements of a PHD at the school. But, he can no longer say he is affiliated with the school and has their certification as a knowledgable, HONORABLE doctor of philosophy.
When the history of the airplane is considered, one has to be thankful that the Wrights did not work for the National Aeronautic Administration in 1904
No, NASA wasn't there in the workshop helping produce something that you could build then and today in your own garage. And, they weren't there when Marshall was launching rockets in his back yard, either.
But, they do lots of research that industry won't do for itself and provide the results to any citizen. Take wing icing as an example, and this consolidated research approach is most assuredly saving you money every time you fly on an airplane.
I won't consider it a happy day when NASA produces cheap space flight, hands it over to industry, and packs its bags. NASA needs to stay around to keep research results flowing and to make sure that the IP derived from that research stays in the public domain.
Also, what financial incentives are there that have industry chomping at the bit to get to space? Corporate lobbiests definitely have more power than NASA in congress. If industry was so anxious to get to space, they'd be there already; it's been 40 years. Obviously, I don't mind corporations taking NASA's results and making a profit. But, when corporations have had no vision in the space arena and havn't been proactive about developing it, I feel like saying "cry me a fucking river" when I hear things like "the financial incentives for space must be given a chance to exercise their power". Hell, Hawaii is a state only because of sugar lobbyists. I've got a damn hard time believing they can't override any opinions in NASA that might try to keep private industry out of the space business. NASA has a hard enough time even keeping its budget.
FWIW, it seems that the point of a troll nowadays isn't to get responses. It's to get modded to +5 Insightfull. Asinine comments and cliches? Yay! It's got MY vote!
By "harvesting the efforts of private industry", do you mean "licensing patented technology"?
The point of government research is that they often (especially when it comes to NASA) do research that is cost prohibitive for private industry to do. And, since all taxpayers contribute to the development, the results are freely available to all citizens. For example, NASA has large air tunnels and tons of specialized equipment to do research on icing (on airplanes, especially the wings). Their results are freely available to anybody who wants them (like Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Delta Airlines, you and me). I have a very hard time believing that you'd get better results for lower cost using private industry. Even assuming that PI would 1) take on the high-expense (possibly low-yield) research, and 2) produce results more cheaply than NASA, you can be sure that they're not going to give away the results. Maybe I'm too cyincal, but I'm convinced that the few dollars of my taxes that go to NASA every year would be less than all the Intellectual Property fees I'd be paying on my first private industry-provided space service.
My other problem with the PI view is, what the hell are they going to commercialize? Space tourism? Only for a very few damn wealthy. I don't know of any vacations that the wealthy typically spend $200 million on for a few weeks time. The cost per person to make all that research and development (years and years, all operating at incredible losses) profitable would be astronomical. And for what? To float around a bit and have nothing to show for it except a memory? Maybe...
Mining? More likely, in my opinion. Research? Yeah, some companies still do pure research. But, does each one want to develop their own launch vehicles and platforms? No. They want to focus on their core business, and buy launch space. They already can get that from NASA, often for free. So, the question is whether PI can provide launch and mg-housing services for less than NASA (to the ones who actually pay NASA). I'm not holding my breath.
Yeah, but what's "cost"? It probably includes some nice fat paychecks for at least management. Heck, the company cars leased for management directly involved could easily be part of the "cost of doing business" charged back.
Sounds, good, but I'm too cynical to automatically think that that's a good deal.
Reminds me of commercials like: Save $20 when you buy a pack of Juicy Fruit today for only $5!
And, if you don't meet your goals in your Readiness Design Review (the first major prototype review), or Pre-ship review (where you're supposed to be done and ready to fly), your project can get cut.
It's not like they hand Fred $10 million and ask him if he feels like doing something and to report back when he's done.
I really don't give a shit about the ignoramic post. If you don't know intermediate physics, can't logically put ideas together to come up with reasonable and realistic theories, but still insist on posting and acting like you know what you're talking about, fine. That's your right.
What pisses me off is the STUPID FUCKING MODERATORS. This is NOT interesting. It's ignorant. At least it's not modded Insightful.
Why is it ignorant? 1) Assuming that something hasn't happened anywhere in the universe simply because it hasn't happened HERE (and, more specifically, not in the small timeslice that life has existed) is about the most logically flawed thing I can think of. And forget about that fucking E-mc2 quote.
2) Since you're the expert on knowing all the exact details of a frontier field in nuclear physics, why don't you write a paper and tell us the secret of the Unified Theory, super strings, branes, and whatnot? Hmm, or maybe it's hindsight that lets you assume it was stupid to even think that a nuclear fission explosion might cause an unstoppable chain-reaction? (of course, your history is wrong too, since it was pretty well proven in both cited cases that things would be OK before they were attempted)
3) Megatons? So, what's the yield on that black hole, anyway?
Ebola pretty much turns people in to red goo and the only reason it hasn't decimated life on this planet yet is ebola tends to kill off its hosts so quickly they don't usually spread the virus very far and so far its only cropped up in fairly remote regions and not for example in a crowded airport.
Also, ebola isn't a small carbon machine that can float on air currents over thousands of miles and exist in a dangerous form indefinitely. Also, I would imagine that a nanomachine that devoured organic matter wouldn't care about species boundaries.
Does IE load faster than Mozilla? Probably. Thing is, I typically start my browser less than once a week. I leave Moz up with lots of tabs open all the time. If it takes an extra 4 seconds to start, that doesn't bother me.
Now, when IE takes 20 seconds longer to render a page than Moz, that DOES bother me. Especially since I probably view 1000 pages for every time I start my web browser. I've given IE a number of chances (side-by-side on the same machine and same web page), and it has always driven me insane with the amount of time and manner in which it loads pages.
BTW, I don't care about any "you can tweak this n that" stuff. I install them with default choices. It either works OK or it doesn't. IE, IMO, doesn't.
No, it's not compensatory, but it's exactly what happens all the time in the US.
RIAA was charging twice what they should have been for CDs for years? Well, if you could show a receipt proving you purchased a CD in a certain time frame, you got a check for $13. If you could prove that you bought 300 CDs in those years, you still only got $13; they keep the extra $377 they bilked you out of.
Same thing for MS, big tobacco, all large businesses.
Basically, if you sell one person a known piece of shit, you give them all their money back if they return it for being a piece of shit. If you sell 1 million people pieces of shit, you have them keep their pieces of shit and send them a gift card for about 10% of the sale price. Gotta love this country, where it's legitmate to complain to the courts that paying too large a fine will hurt your business model.
Pretty much my situation also. Most congregations of available people are lound and/or have activities going on so that no-one gets bored. The thing is, that usually doesn't leave room for actually getting to know somebody.
I agree. Heck, there are even studies that show the people are less inhibited on-line (as if that's not obvious by anyone who's used it as a communications medium in any substantial way). It lets you see inside people quicker. It lets introverts converse more freely.
I met my current gf online 5 years ago. We sent emails for a few weeks, then talked on the phone for a few months, then met in person. It sure as hell was a better experience than yelling over loud music in a bar trying to get the attention of a girl who's been hit on 50 times already that night. That especially goes for guys like me who've had plenty of girls find their dorkiness attractive, but mainly after a number of conversations have taken place; i.e. not exactly the tall, dark, and I-don't-care-if-you-don't-speak-my-language-just-t ake-me-to-bed evoking type.
Sorry if this is anal retentive or something, but the way I've seen people using tinyurl lately on/. is really driving me nuts and this is the straw that made me snap. In an effort to relieve myself of a brain cramp and feel like I've done something to put this issue behind me, here's an (admittedly inflammitory; take is as constructive critisizm, if anything) email I sent to a local geek group:
Not to beat a dead horse, but somebody has in their.sig:
"Linux security advisories [tinyurl.com]"
where the tinyurl link refers you to http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/
Now, come on. You're already shortening and hiding the destination of the link with the HREF. It's not like you're posting the URL text and need to shorten it up. Then, you go and remove any sense of where in the world the site is supposed to point. Put "linuxsecurity.com" in the brackets? Nooo... I'll put tinyurl.com in the brackets, because pointing to a site with a hash table of millions of links is SO DAMN USEFUL!
So, you're volunteering to remotely log in and reset the screen saver and/or account password after every 14 year old 1337 hax0r locks out the box and puts up a screen saver that says "NIGGRZ SUXOR JEW FAG ASS CHUNKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!", right?
Personally, I hated school because of fucktards like that. Not because of the preventative actions that had to be taken due to their anti-social behavior. It also sucked because, generally, exceptions couldn't be made for 'good' kids; if they were, parents would have a legal basis for suing due to discrimination. Just because their child is a proven devil-spawn doesn't mean that you're allowed to say it and treat them differently because of it!
Gotta agree with you on the Mod thing though (in general, not necessarily this post). Some really asinine shit gets modded up to +5 Informative sometimes.
I think when he said 'better picture' he was talking about getting an interesting shot, rather than actual picture quality.
If someone is forced to enlarge one "interesting" but low-pixel shot vs a "boring" film shot, they're probably going to go with the film or decide they don't want anything:) I suppose a dinky wallet print might be the best trade-off in that case...
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Looks like you've got a good setup. I think I'll give it a try at my next opportunity.
But, the original question *was* about redundancy for a fileserver. I think that people mistook your suggestion as saying he should build his bulk media filesystem with SCSI.
Food is a commodity. If you think the prices are too high on one item, you buy another. If a very few companies provided roads (making all roads toll roads), you'd get instant gouging and there would be no way for the consumers to "vote with their feet/dollar". Also, they would be monopolies: most houses and businesses only have 1 road that gets them to their door. Whoever owned that "last mile" road to a neighborhood would control a persons access to their home.
Think of the situation whith cable companies providing shit service and highly increased rates in areas with no competition.
My PADI certification, Technician class HAM Radio (with code), any my (soon to be) private pilots license brings me joy.
I learned that pissing contest are inane a long time ago
No, you haven't learned that yet.
I got a 200GB Seagate from newegg.com for $90 after $40 mail-in rebate (that's $.45/GB). The best I've seen before rebate is about $.63/GB (also at newegg).
I still get flashbacks, when I hear that phrase, of The Fonz sailing through the air, on water skis, in his leather jacket, giving the thumbs-up.
criminey.
Well, light is just another Electromagnetic Wave. Same as radio waves, x-rays, microwaves, etc. But yeah, it's the frequency / wavelength that's important.
He was saying that since a photon simply has a color (i.e., frequency) and neutrinos do not, then you'd need to find some way of encoding the color into one or more neutrinos.
Weird comment about the neutrino glasses though. AFAIK, neutrinos are fairly rare, and come from all directions. Thus, it would be hard to see a "shadow" of somebody blocking neutrinos.
Exactly. I can't imagine the genious it took to come up with the original ideas.
WHAT???
:)
XCom was one of the best damn games ever!
Aliens, weapons research, individual team members that improve and you get to know, global defense, taking the fight back to the alien home world.
I need to find my floppy backups and see if I can get it running again...
civilian member of the Iraqi government
Huh? Nooo... He was a Government Official. Not a civilian. See, "member of the Iraqi government" is pretty much the definition, righ there!
Are they not legitimate targets? What about officers in the military? During the American Revolution, it was considered against the rules of engagement to purosfully target an officer.
Make sure to post your opinions the next time your country is taken over by a foreign nation, after no provocation, and insists on changing your type of government to match their ideals (if not religion).
I'm sure others have pointed it out, but Iraq and 9/11 had NOTHING to do with eachother. Regardless, war between nations and occupation of a country are completely different than what happened on 9/11.
Sometimes they even abuse the physical metaphor of tabbed browsing by opening multiple pages - not subpages of the same web site! - in multiple tabs of a browser window.
... opening the appriopriate album folder and double-clicking a file icon
Soooorry! Don't want to abuse your metaphor! Thanks for slapping me on the wrist and telling me "tsk, tsk!" I mean, just because I DARE to open multiple sites all talking, GASP, about the SAME SUBJECT! Yeah, I'm glad that you think it's better for me to have 5 different instances of Moz open when I'm comparing prices on hardware, because we wouldn't want to group things by, say, RELEVANCE. You know, I wouldn't want to bookmark a bunch of tabs and call it "Mobo Price Search". I'll take it easy on the fucking PHYSICAL METAPHOR and make sure I have 5 bookmarks, each with 1 or 2 pages, saying "Pricewatch Mobo Price Search", "NewEgg Mobo Price Search", "blah blah blah". Yup, that's what I want, because YOU think it's better!!!!
I even know few people who never open more than one browser window, viewing all pages in tabs; I hope they do not try to glue a daily set of newspapers together before reading them...
Yeah! Those fucking idiots! How dare they use them however they want! They're so dumb, they probably piss down their legs! Heck, I saw one of them CUT the tamper ring off a gallon of milk! Doesn't the dumbass know you're supposed to TWIST it!?!?
I mean, it's not as if humans are good at spatially remembering the location of information. I know that I simply CANNOT remember where in a book a given phrase is. I have to scan each page to find anything! I mean, it's not like my puny brain could remember that the anandtech tab is about 8 down the list, and that penny arcade tab is about 13 down. NO! I get all confused! I'm just a poor, lonely, confused, cave man cringing from all the strange sights and noises that I cannot comprehend!
On another topic: MS has been "remembering the layout of folders" for years now, without opening another window. You telling me that the only way GNOME can get that to work is by opening another window?
what's the closest real-life representation of a web page?
Here's my answer:
I DON'T GIVE A FUCK!
I want it to be easy to use on a computer and not be ARTIFICIALLY CONSTRAINED because you can't map it 1:1 with a physical fucking object.
motherfucker.
god this shit pisses me off. it's ivory tower elitism at its worst, being practiced by a basement-dwelling pleeb.
Folder structure should be simple and as shallow as possible
No Way! You should have ALL your files in ONE folder! If you start grouping your files with logic, like, say Music->Artist->Album, or Downloads->Drivers/Apps/OS->blah-blah, the next thing you'll know, you'll have folders 10 deep! What an atrocity! They need to be flat! FLAT, I say!
Please, don't stop all these good ideas coming back again.
You can try anything you like. I'll be happy to give it a try, too. But saying that a nice, logical, hirearchy of folders and files sucks because it doesn't perfectly match the "original desktop metaphor" is simply silly. Instead of constraining file layout, maybe it's the metaphor that should change? And, if it truly is a better way (more intuitive, easier to use, etc) then it will be adopted. But, attacking people for using a feature how they want, rather than in the way that you think it should be used, will not warm people up to trying new things. Show us how good it is, don't patronize us for using the tools we have.
They're not saying he doesn't have a good grasp of his field. They are saying that he's not the kind of person they want to be associated with. Despite all its problems, the academic research field is big on intellectual rigor and honesty.
Also, when it comes down to it, he paid for the education, not the certification and diploma. The diploma certifies that he did the course work AND did it in an honorable way. If he was caught cheating during his course work, he'd have been thrown out well before he hit 16 instances. The university has thrown him out of their "club". He can still say he completed all the requirements of a PHD at the school. But, he can no longer say he is affiliated with the school and has their certification as a knowledgable, HONORABLE doctor of philosophy.
When the history of the airplane is considered, one has to be thankful that the Wrights did not work for the National Aeronautic Administration in 1904
No, NASA wasn't there in the workshop helping produce something that you could build then and today in your own garage. And, they weren't there when Marshall was launching rockets in his back yard, either.
But, they do lots of research that industry won't do for itself and provide the results to any citizen. Take wing icing as an example, and this consolidated research approach is most assuredly saving you money every time you fly on an airplane.
I won't consider it a happy day when NASA produces cheap space flight, hands it over to industry, and packs its bags. NASA needs to stay around to keep research results flowing and to make sure that the IP derived from that research stays in the public domain.
Also, what financial incentives are there that have industry chomping at the bit to get to space? Corporate lobbiests definitely have more power than NASA in congress. If industry was so anxious to get to space, they'd be there already; it's been 40 years. Obviously, I don't mind corporations taking NASA's results and making a profit. But, when corporations have had no vision in the space arena and havn't been proactive about developing it, I feel like saying "cry me a fucking river" when I hear things like "the financial incentives for space must be given a chance to exercise their power". Hell, Hawaii is a state only because of sugar lobbyists. I've got a damn hard time believing they can't override any opinions in NASA that might try to keep private industry out of the space business. NASA has a hard enough time even keeping its budget.
FWIW, it seems that the point of a troll nowadays isn't to get responses. It's to get modded to +5 Insightfull. Asinine comments and cliches? Yay! It's got MY vote!
Sorry, but "Huh?".
By "harvesting the efforts of private industry", do you mean "licensing patented technology"?
The point of government research is that they often (especially when it comes to NASA) do research that is cost prohibitive for private industry to do. And, since all taxpayers contribute to the development, the results are freely available to all citizens. For example, NASA has large air tunnels and tons of specialized equipment to do research on icing (on airplanes, especially the wings). Their results are freely available to anybody who wants them (like Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Delta Airlines, you and me). I have a very hard time believing that you'd get better results for lower cost using private industry. Even assuming that PI would 1) take on the high-expense (possibly low-yield) research, and 2) produce results more cheaply than NASA, you can be sure that they're not going to give away the results. Maybe I'm too cyincal, but I'm convinced that the few dollars of my taxes that go to NASA every year would be less than all the Intellectual Property fees I'd be paying on my first private industry-provided space service.
My other problem with the PI view is, what the hell are they going to commercialize? Space tourism? Only for a very few damn wealthy. I don't know of any vacations that the wealthy typically spend $200 million on for a few weeks time. The cost per person to make all that research and development (years and years, all operating at incredible losses) profitable would be astronomical. And for what? To float around a bit and have nothing to show for it except a memory? Maybe...
Mining? More likely, in my opinion.
Research? Yeah, some companies still do pure research.
But, does each one want to develop their own launch vehicles and platforms? No. They want to focus on their core business, and buy launch space. They already can get that from NASA, often for free. So, the question is whether PI can provide launch and mg-housing services for less than NASA (to the ones who actually pay NASA). I'm not holding my breath.
Yeah, but what's "cost"? It probably includes some nice fat paychecks for at least management. Heck, the company cars leased for management directly involved could easily be part of the "cost of doing business" charged back.
Sounds, good, but I'm too cynical to automatically think that that's a good deal.
Reminds me of commercials like:
Save $20 when you buy a pack of Juicy Fruit today for only $5!
Umm, that's exactly how it works now.
And, if you don't meet your goals in your Readiness Design Review (the first major prototype review), or Pre-ship review (where you're supposed to be done and ready to fly), your project can get cut.
It's not like they hand Fred $10 million and ask him if he feels like doing something and to report back when he's done.
I really don't give a shit about the ignoramic post. If you don't know intermediate physics, can't logically put ideas together to come up with reasonable and realistic theories, but still insist on posting and acting like you know what you're talking about, fine. That's your right.
What pisses me off is the STUPID FUCKING MODERATORS. This is NOT interesting. It's ignorant. At least it's not modded Insightful.
Why is it ignorant?
1) Assuming that something hasn't happened anywhere in the universe simply because it hasn't happened HERE (and, more specifically, not in the small timeslice that life has existed) is about the most logically flawed thing I can think of. And forget about that fucking E-mc2 quote.
2) Since you're the expert on knowing all the exact details of a frontier field in nuclear physics, why don't you write a paper and tell us the secret of the Unified Theory, super strings, branes, and whatnot? Hmm, or maybe it's hindsight that lets you assume it was stupid to even think that a nuclear fission explosion might cause an unstoppable chain-reaction? (of course, your history is wrong too, since it was pretty well proven in both cited cases that things would be OK before they were attempted)
3) Megatons? So, what's the yield on that black hole, anyway?
Ebola pretty much turns people in to red goo and the only reason it hasn't decimated life on this planet yet is ebola tends to kill off its hosts so quickly they don't usually spread the virus very far and so far its only cropped up in fairly remote regions and not for example in a crowded airport.
Also, ebola isn't a small carbon machine that can float on air currents over thousands of miles and exist in a dangerous form indefinitely. Also, I would imagine that a nanomachine that devoured organic matter wouldn't care about species boundaries.
Man, I was so confused for awhile. I totally read "William Shatner". My poor, poor brain.
Does IE load faster than Mozilla? Probably. Thing is, I typically start my browser less than once a week. I leave Moz up with lots of tabs open all the time. If it takes an extra 4 seconds to start, that doesn't bother me.
Now, when IE takes 20 seconds longer to render a page than Moz, that DOES bother me. Especially since I probably view 1000 pages for every time I start my web browser. I've given IE a number of chances (side-by-side on the same machine and same web page), and it has always driven me insane with the amount of time and manner in which it loads pages.
BTW, I don't care about any "you can tweak this n that" stuff. I install them with default choices. It either works OK or it doesn't. IE, IMO, doesn't.
No, it's not compensatory, but it's exactly what happens all the time in the US.
RIAA was charging twice what they should have been for CDs for years? Well, if you could show a receipt proving you purchased a CD in a certain time frame, you got a check for $13. If you could prove that you bought 300 CDs in those years, you still only got $13; they keep the extra $377 they bilked you out of.
Same thing for MS, big tobacco, all large businesses.
Basically, if you sell one person a known piece of shit, you give them all their money back if they return it for being a piece of shit. If you sell 1 million people pieces of shit, you have them keep their pieces of shit and send them a gift card for about 10% of the sale price. Gotta love this country, where it's legitmate to complain to the courts that paying too large a fine will hurt your business model.
Pretty much my situation also. Most congregations of available people are lound and/or have activities going on so that no-one gets bored. The thing is, that usually doesn't leave room for actually getting to know somebody.
I agree. Heck, there are even studies that show the people are less inhibited on-line (as if that's not obvious by anyone who's used it as a communications medium in any substantial way). It lets you see inside people quicker. It lets introverts converse more freely.
t ake-me-to-bed evoking type.
I met my current gf online 5 years ago. We sent emails for a few weeks, then talked on the phone for a few months, then met in person. It sure as hell was a better experience than yelling over loud music in a bar trying to get the attention of a girl who's been hit on 50 times already that night. That especially goes for guys like me who've had plenty of girls find their dorkiness attractive, but mainly after a number of conversations have taken place; i.e. not exactly the tall, dark, and I-don't-care-if-you-don't-speak-my-language-just-
Sorry if this is anal retentive or something, but the way I've seen people using tinyurl lately on /. is really driving me nuts and this is the straw that made me snap. In an effort to relieve myself of a brain cramp and feel like I've done something to put this issue behind me, here's an (admittedly inflammitory; take is as constructive critisizm, if anything) email I sent to a local geek group:
.sig:
Not to beat a dead horse, but somebody has in their
"Linux security advisories [tinyurl.com]"
where the tinyurl link refers you to http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/
Now, come on. You're already shortening and hiding the destination of the link with the HREF. It's not like you're posting the URL text and need to shorten it up. Then, you go and remove any sense of where in the world the site is supposed to point. Put "linuxsecurity.com" in the brackets? Nooo... I'll put tinyurl.com in the brackets, because pointing to a site with a hash table of millions of links is SO DAMN USEFUL!
Sorry all. I must have pent up rage today.
So, you're volunteering to remotely log in and reset the screen saver and/or account password after every 14 year old 1337 hax0r locks out the box and puts up a screen saver that says "NIGGRZ SUXOR JEW FAG ASS CHUNKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!", right?
Personally, I hated school because of fucktards like that. Not because of the preventative actions that had to be taken due to their anti-social behavior. It also sucked because, generally, exceptions couldn't be made for 'good' kids; if they were, parents would have a legal basis for suing due to discrimination. Just because their child is a proven devil-spawn doesn't mean that you're allowed to say it and treat them differently because of it!
Gotta agree with you on the Mod thing though (in general, not necessarily this post). Some really asinine shit gets modded up to +5 Informative sometimes.
Yeah, I agree.
:)
I think when he said 'better picture' he was talking about getting an interesting shot, rather than actual picture quality.
If someone is forced to enlarge one "interesting" but low-pixel shot vs a "boring" film shot, they're probably going to go with the film or decide they don't want anything
I suppose a dinky wallet print might be the best trade-off in that case...