Isn't due process a constitutionally guaranteed right in the US?
That would be helpful.
True story. In the late 1990s my tax return was offset by several thousand dollars with zero notice. It turns out that an unethical family member had used my wife's SSN to get a loan for college when my wife was 12. This family member then defaulted and ignored warnings for years.
Fast forward a decade or so and the Treasury Department decided to get their money back, so after sending warnings to this family member, they took our joint return. Sadly, I couldn't even get anyone to explain the issue to me because my wife's name did not match the name on the loan, although her SSN did.
The Treasury Department's position was that they gave proper due process to the family member before taking our money.
The situation didn't move until our US Senator spoke to a deputy director at the Treasury Department. At that point the Treasury Department apologized for the misunderstanding and refunded the money.
The sad thing is that without my Senator stepping in, we would have had zero recourse on the matter.
That's fine for voice, but what about 3G? IIRC, there's no phone that works on both T-Mobile and AT&T for 3G.
From what I understand, the Nokia N8 works pretty much everywhere. It also has a micro-USB connector and can even be a USB host, allowing the phone to read and write a thumb drive.
I have to agree. I too live in the Springs and their service is amazing, consistent and fast. Even their techs which they send out have their act together, are polite, friendly, and quick to admit the limits of their knowledge. Truly a joy to work with.
Their phone "support" (and I use that term loosely), on the other hand, is a shining example of mind-numbing stupidity. The phone folks, I kid you not, cannot even give me a listing of the channels available in the potpourri of packages I subscribe to. Really, they can't list the channels. If their internet is having issues (hey, it happens), they cannot accept your word for it until you reboot everything in the house. Their cable modems lock up regularly and one time that I was masochistic enough to call and report it, they made me reboot a server which takes 25 minutes to cycle, before they would accept that I had an issue. Their solution was to replace the cable modem with a new one which poisoned all of the DNS caches until it was "configured" using a Windows machine, which I don't have. Literally, my wife called me at work after she exchanged the modem because the home phone, tivo, internet, Wii, her cell phone and an Xbox360 quit connecting.
In short, if you never have to call 800-I-hate-comcast, their service is fantastic.
Gnome 2.32
KDE 4.5.0 (QT 4.7)
Default KDE browser Rekonq
Pulse Audio is the default sound server
Firefox 3.6.9
OpenOffice 3.2.1
Evolution 2.30.3
F-Spot => Shotwell
Btrfs now available (though, this is still experimental)
kernel 2.6.35-22.33
X.org version 1.9
Don't install it under VirtualBox. VB gets confused about the X software and you lose all of the guest addition goodness.
That said, it didn't like my Acer laptop either and barfed partway through the upgrade leaving my laptop useless. As I write this I am reinstalling from the net onto an iSCSI volume.
Didn't the OpenSolaris effort have problems because they were always waiting on Sun to compile certain libc binaries for them?
Is this resolved in Illumos or is there still a binary blob issue?
Apparently, it isn't. From TFA...
The biggest problem is that an important minority of the code distributed with OpenSolaris is closed source, something that has annoyed the OpenSolaris community for five years. Sun didn't allocate resources to fix this and neither has Oracle.
D'Amore says that a significant percentage of the libc C library (libc_i18n to be precise) is closed, as is the NFS lock manager, portions of the kernel's cryptographic framework and functions, and a bunch of important drives.
So, no, the closed stuff still needs to be written and they don't have it.
Or, you could just read their slides.
On the page titled, "Work Done So Far" you can see "Replaced closed bits of libc (including full locale support)"
My experience with T-Mobile in the U.S. has been nothing short of golden.
I bought my own phone, a Nokia 9500, imported from some middle-eastern country (I can't read the squiggles in the owner's guide). However, I signed a T-Mobile contract, got my SIM card and have been thrilled.
Some time ago, GPRS quit working. I called TM and reported the outage. They asked, "which phone do you have?"
I bristled, knowing that telling them I had a non-TM phone would result in them telling me that it's my phone's fault, that they don't sell or support the 9500. Hesitatingly I mumbled, "Nokia 9500." The cheerful voice at the other end of the line said, "Let me transfer you to the group which supports devices we don't sell." I was perplexed. Weren't they supposed to tell me to go away? Another cheerful voice got on the line and asked me to do a couple of things on my 9500 to test the connection. After confirming the problem was at the tower, the person on the phone asked me what I thought of my 9500 and told me he had a 9300 and loved it.
In my experience, these guys rock. Your mileage may vary.
As another poster mentioned, check out the 9300, 9500 or the new E90.
My first PDA was a Psion Series 5, followed my a 5mx, Series 7, netBook, 9290 and currently a 9500 (which I am posting from now). I got addicted to QWERTY keyboards and could never go back,
Right now a 9500 or 9300 can be had for pretty cheap and work with any GSM carrier.
Yes, I know the full story. Until May of this year I sold Mazdas and the Mazda 3 was PZEV.
I am posting from my phone so I can't link in all of the resources, but what follows is an overview of what got us here. I may have some of the details wrong but the basic facts are correct.
At some point CA had two laws which seemed intelligent at the time but spelled disaster. First, they enacted anti-dumping laws making it illegal to sell stuff below manufacturing costs. Second, they passed a law requiring some percentage of new cars sold to be zero-emission (i.e. electric).
As we all know, electric cars suck and cost a fortune. The only way to comply was to subsidize the price of the electric cars with other car sales, but that was illegal under the anti-dumping regulation. California correctly realized that these two laws would have the result of it being impossible to sell new cars in CA. In essence the only way to get a new car if you live in CA would be to buy it in another state and bring it to CA. The net effect would be devastating for the CA economy and would force people to buy cars which had looser emission requirements than CA. In effect, the zero-emission law would hurt the ecomony and raise emissions.
To overcome this dilemma, CA approved a watered down emission law, called partial-zero-emission. These vehicles would pollute much less, offer zero evaporative emissions (including trapping tank fumes when you fuel up) and have very long emission warranties.
There is no conspiracy and corruption on this issue.
The Mazda 3 is built one way and it will meet PZEV requirements no matter where you buy it. However, if you purchase one outside of CA, the longer emission warranty does not apply. The only difference between a CA Mazda 3 and any other Mazda 3 is that Mazda has the car certified by CA to be PZEV. Every one is built the same, regardless of where it is sold.
How were you counting?
It was simple stuff, keeping track of the ratio of tens left in the shoe. At the beginning of the shoe, 4 of 13 cards, or 31%, are tens. Generally, play favors the player when tens come out and favor the house when smaller cards come out. As the shoe gets played, often it contains a disproportionately high or low number of tens.
Conventional wisdom is to alter wagers based on this information, but small gambling communities often have $5/$5 tables, which means that you may only wager $5. Instead, I alter my play based on the information. Knowing that the shoe is barren of tens, you can more safely hit a 12 against a dealer 6, because in all likelihood, neither of you will bust.
You'll never get wealthy doing this stuff, but you can have a lot of fun and make a few bucks.
A great place to start is to read The World Greatest Blackjack Book by Lance Humble.
The issue of whether or not card counting constitutes cheating was and is a hot topic in the gaming industry with strong opinions on both sides of the issue. The courts have consistently ruled that it is not cheating, from the legal definition of cheating (i.e. the one that results in a criminal prosecution), to count cards provided that one is not assisted in this endeavor by any sort of device (i.e. mechanical, electronic, electro-mechanical, etc). The casinos on the other hand, not surprisingly, consider all forms of card counting, even the type that courts have ruled legal as "intelligent play" (i.e. using your brain), as "cheating".
Having some exposure to the gaming industry, ex-wife is professional poker dealer (just dealt the final table WSOP), and being a card counter myself, I have noticed that casinos, at least in small gambling communities, prefer card counters.
First of all, the courts have stated that casinos can only offer games of chance. If a casino wants to outlaw counting cards on the basis that card-counting pays the player, then, by definition, blackjack is not a game of chance and therefore cannot be offered by a casino.
Back to the point. Most blackjack players, quite frankly, suck, but think they are wizards. Every now and again, a good player walks into a casino, counts cards, tips well and keeps winning. What happens next? All of the gamblers walking by the table notice how "hot" the table is, sit down, and promptly empty their wallet.
One good, polite, well-tipping card counter will advertise the table, pay the dealers well and fill the house's coffers, while not costing the house much to pay the card counter.
More than one pit boss has approached me and asked how I was counting, and then asked if there was anything they could do for me -- food, drinks, etc.
Sorry, I was unclear. If you have a RAIDZ pool (consisting of JBODs), you cannot simply add a drive to the pool. Instead, you must add another RAIDZ set to the pool.
Suppose you start with a pool that is a RAIDZ set with 5x250GB SATA drives (4 data + 1 parity), giving 1TB of data
3 years later, your needs have grown to 3TB and you need better performance and double parity. The right drives for you now are 1TB SATA4 drives. You really want to get rid of your old and slow SATA array, but your system is 24x7, so you cannot take it offline to do a backup.
Your only option is to add an array of 3x1TB (2 data+ 1 parity) drives as a RAIDZ set to the pool and keep the old array around until you go out of business or take the system offline for a backup and you cannot move to double parity.
If your original array gets so old that you can no longer find drives for it, your sunk.
That's not entirely true. ZFS pools consist of one or more concatenated vdevs, each of which can be raw partitions, RAID1, RAID5 or RAID6. ZFS gets grumpy if your pool consists of different types of vdevs, e.g. a raw disk vdev and a mirror vdev. Adding space to a pool can ONLY be done by tacking another vdev to the pool, so if your pool is RAID5, then you can only tack another RAID5 vdev (consisting of multiple disks) to the pool. You cannot simply "add a disk" to a RAID pool, and you can never remove a disk or vdev from a pool without completely destroying the pool.
Well, no actually. A rotary such as the current Mazda 1.3 litre simply spins faster than the equivalent piston engine. The volume passed per unit of time is the relevant comparison, not the static displacement.
Since the RX8 competes with similar HP sports cars by guzzling at SUV rates, it indicates Mazda's best effort so far is still inferior in power conversion of the gasoline.
A production rotary, like the Renesis, actually rotates slower than a piston engine. The RX-8 redlines at 9,000 RPM, but the crankshaft is spinning at three times the rotor speed. At redline, the rotor is turning at 3,000 RPM.
The reason for the high power to displacement ratio (232 hp from 1.3 liter) is the same reason the engine is banned from many racing circuits. For the following math, ignore volumetric efficiency.
In a piston engine, half of the displacement is moved each rotation of the crankshaft. So, a 1 liter piston engine spinning at 6,000 RPM will move 6,000 x 1 / 2 = 3,000 liters of air per minute.
A rotary engine moves the full displacement each rotation of the crankshaft. So, a 1 liter rotary engine spinning at 6,000 RPM will move 6,000 liters of air per minute.
Here's where it gets fun. At 6,000 RPM, the rotor is only moving at 2,000 RPM. Suppose you want to compare internal rotating component speeds and look at a 1 liter rotary with the rotor spinning at 6,000 RPM. This engine will displace 18,000 liters of air per minute.
At the same internal speed and displacement, the rotary engine will move 6x the air of a piston engine. Rotary engines are less efficient, so they produce less power per liter of air moved.
You haven't read The Innovator's Dilemma. Flash drives only have to get "big enough" and "cheap enough" to take over hard drives. Flash doesn't have to get bigger and cheaper than hard drives.
Once flash is "big enough" and "cheap enough" (which is already true in some applications) winchester spindles are done.
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Isn't due process a constitutionally guaranteed right in the US?
That would be helpful.
True story. In the late 1990s my tax return was offset by several thousand dollars with zero notice. It turns out that an unethical family member had used my wife's SSN to get a loan for college when my wife was 12. This family member then defaulted and ignored warnings for years.
Fast forward a decade or so and the Treasury Department decided to get their money back, so after sending warnings to this family member, they took our joint return. Sadly, I couldn't even get anyone to explain the issue to me because my wife's name did not match the name on the loan, although her SSN did.
The Treasury Department's position was that they gave proper due process to the family member before taking our money.
The situation didn't move until our US Senator spoke to a deputy director at the Treasury Department. At that point the Treasury Department apologized for the misunderstanding and refunded the money.
The sad thing is that without my Senator stepping in, we would have had zero recourse on the matter.
That's fine for voice, but what about 3G? IIRC, there's no phone that works on both T-Mobile and AT&T for 3G.
From what I understand, the Nokia N8 works pretty much everywhere. It also has a micro-USB connector and can even be a USB host, allowing the phone to read and write a thumb drive.
I have to agree. I too live in the Springs and their service is amazing, consistent and fast. Even their techs which they send out have their act together, are polite, friendly, and quick to admit the limits of their knowledge. Truly a joy to work with.
Their phone "support" (and I use that term loosely), on the other hand, is a shining example of mind-numbing stupidity. The phone folks, I kid you not, cannot even give me a listing of the channels available in the potpourri of packages I subscribe to. Really, they can't list the channels. If their internet is having issues (hey, it happens), they cannot accept your word for it until you reboot everything in the house. Their cable modems lock up regularly and one time that I was masochistic enough to call and report it, they made me reboot a server which takes 25 minutes to cycle, before they would accept that I had an issue. Their solution was to replace the cable modem with a new one which poisoned all of the DNS caches until it was "configured" using a Windows machine, which I don't have. Literally, my wife called me at work after she exchanged the modem because the home phone, tivo, internet, Wii, her cell phone and an Xbox360 quit connecting.
In short, if you never have to call 800-I-hate-comcast, their service is fantastic.
I find it frustrating that a more complete list of new features and new versions isn't listed with the announcement. I found this blog posting : http://linux.gauravlive.com/ubuntu/ubuntu-10-10-maverick-meerkat-whats-new/
Gnome 2.32 KDE 4.5.0 (QT 4.7) Default KDE browser Rekonq Pulse Audio is the default sound server Firefox 3.6.9 OpenOffice 3.2.1 Evolution 2.30.3 F-Spot => Shotwell Btrfs now available (though, this is still experimental) kernel 2.6.35-22.33 X.org version 1.9
Don't install it under VirtualBox. VB gets confused about the X software and you lose all of the guest addition goodness.
That said, it didn't like my Acer laptop either and barfed partway through the upgrade leaving my laptop useless. As I write this I am reinstalling from the net onto an iSCSI volume.
Good times.
Apparently, it isn't. From TFA ...
So, no, the closed stuff still needs to be written and they don't have it.
Or, you could just read their slides. On the page titled, "Work Done So Far" you can see "Replaced closed bits of libc (including full locale support)"
...does it run RISC OS?
Now that's funny.
Seriously, an ARM based netBook would be a radically advanced idea.
We live in EPOC times.
Poor Psion, ten years too soon, all over again.
I am running Ubuntu Fiesty and tried to upgrade to Gutsy, but thier server is overloaded.
Man, your regex is wierd.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
My experience with T-Mobile in the U.S. has been nothing short of golden.
I bought my own phone, a Nokia 9500, imported from some middle-eastern country (I can't read the squiggles in the owner's guide). However, I signed a T-Mobile contract, got my SIM card and have been thrilled.
Some time ago, GPRS quit working. I called TM and reported the outage. They asked, "which phone do you have?"
I bristled, knowing that telling them I had a non-TM phone would result in them telling me that it's my phone's fault, that they don't sell or support the 9500. Hesitatingly I mumbled, "Nokia 9500." The cheerful voice at the other end of the line said, "Let me transfer you to the group which supports devices we don't sell." I was perplexed. Weren't they supposed to tell me to go away? Another cheerful voice got on the line and asked me to do a couple of things on my 9500 to test the connection. After confirming the problem was at the tower, the person on the phone asked me what I thought of my 9500 and told me he had a 9300 and loved it.
In my experience, these guys rock. Your mileage may vary.
As another poster mentioned, check out the 9300, 9500 or the new E90.
My first PDA was a Psion Series 5, followed my a 5mx, Series 7, netBook, 9290 and currently a 9500 (which I am posting from now). I got addicted to QWERTY keyboards and could never go back,
Right now a 9500 or 9300 can be had for pretty cheap and work with any GSM carrier.
Yes, I know the full story. Until May of this year I sold Mazdas and the Mazda 3 was PZEV.
I am posting from my phone so I can't link in all of the resources, but what follows is an overview of what got us here. I may have some of the details wrong but the basic facts are correct.
At some point CA had two laws which seemed intelligent at the time but spelled disaster. First, they enacted anti-dumping laws making it illegal to sell stuff below manufacturing costs. Second, they passed a law requiring some percentage of new cars sold to be zero-emission (i.e. electric).
As we all know, electric cars suck and cost a fortune. The only way to comply was to subsidize the price of the electric cars with other car sales, but that was illegal under the anti-dumping regulation. California correctly realized that these two laws would have the result of it being impossible to sell new cars in CA. In essence the only way to get a new car if you live in CA would be to buy it in another state and bring it to CA. The net effect would be devastating for the CA economy and would force people to buy cars which had looser emission requirements than CA. In effect, the zero-emission law would hurt the ecomony and raise emissions.
To overcome this dilemma, CA approved a watered down emission law, called partial-zero-emission. These vehicles would pollute much less, offer zero evaporative emissions (including trapping tank fumes when you fuel up) and have very long emission warranties.
There is no conspiracy and corruption on this issue.
The Mazda 3 is built one way and it will meet PZEV requirements no matter where you buy it. However, if you purchase one outside of CA, the longer emission warranty does not apply. The only difference between a CA Mazda 3 and any other Mazda 3 is that Mazda has the car certified by CA to be PZEV. Every one is built the same, regardless of where it is sold.
It was simple stuff, keeping track of the ratio of tens left in the shoe. At the beginning of the shoe, 4 of 13 cards, or 31%, are tens. Generally, play favors the player when tens come out and favor the house when smaller cards come out. As the shoe gets played, often it contains a disproportionately high or low number of tens.
Conventional wisdom is to alter wagers based on this information, but small gambling communities often have $5/$5 tables, which means that you may only wager $5. Instead, I alter my play based on the information. Knowing that the shoe is barren of tens, you can more safely hit a 12 against a dealer 6, because in all likelihood, neither of you will bust.
You'll never get wealthy doing this stuff, but you can have a lot of fun and make a few bucks.
A great place to start is to read The World Greatest Blackjack Book by Lance Humble.
The issue of whether or not card counting constitutes cheating was and is a hot topic in the gaming industry with strong opinions on both sides of the issue. The courts have consistently ruled that it is not cheating, from the legal definition of cheating (i.e. the one that results in a criminal prosecution), to count cards provided that one is not assisted in this endeavor by any sort of device (i.e. mechanical, electronic, electro-mechanical, etc). The casinos on the other hand, not surprisingly, consider all forms of card counting, even the type that courts have ruled legal as "intelligent play" (i.e. using your brain), as "cheating".
Having some exposure to the gaming industry, ex-wife is professional poker dealer (just dealt the final table WSOP), and being a card counter myself, I have noticed that casinos, at least in small gambling communities, prefer card counters.
First of all, the courts have stated that casinos can only offer games of chance. If a casino wants to outlaw counting cards on the basis that card-counting pays the player, then, by definition, blackjack is not a game of chance and therefore cannot be offered by a casino.
Back to the point. Most blackjack players, quite frankly, suck, but think they are wizards. Every now and again, a good player walks into a casino, counts cards, tips well and keeps winning. What happens next? All of the gamblers walking by the table notice how "hot" the table is, sit down, and promptly empty their wallet.
One good, polite, well-tipping card counter will advertise the table, pay the dealers well and fill the house's coffers, while not costing the house much to pay the card counter.
More than one pit boss has approached me and asked how I was counting, and then asked if there was anything they could do for me -- food, drinks, etc.
Sorry, I was unclear. If you have a RAIDZ pool (consisting of JBODs), you cannot simply add a drive to the pool. Instead, you must add another RAIDZ set to the pool.
Suppose you start with a pool that is a RAIDZ set with 5x250GB SATA drives (4 data + 1 parity), giving 1TB of data
3 years later, your needs have grown to 3TB and you need better performance and double parity. The right drives for you now are 1TB SATA4 drives. You really want to get rid of your old and slow SATA array, but your system is 24x7, so you cannot take it offline to do a backup.
Your only option is to add an array of 3x1TB (2 data+ 1 parity) drives as a RAIDZ set to the pool and keep the old array around until you go out of business or take the system offline for a backup and you cannot move to double parity.
If your original array gets so old that you can no longer find drives for it, your sunk.
That's not entirely true. ZFS pools consist of one or more concatenated vdevs, each of which can be raw partitions, RAID1, RAID5 or RAID6. ZFS gets grumpy if your pool consists of different types of vdevs, e.g. a raw disk vdev and a mirror vdev. Adding space to a pool can ONLY be done by tacking another vdev to the pool, so if your pool is RAID5, then you can only tack another RAID5 vdev (consisting of multiple disks) to the pool. You cannot simply "add a disk" to a RAID pool, and you can never remove a disk or vdev from a pool without completely destroying the pool.
IANAP, but I informally study QM for a hobby. I know, I'm sick.
At any rate, from what I understand, if there is a way to detect superposition, e.g. a quantum eraser, then FTL communication should be possible, no?
Manipulating my photons will cause your interference pattern to change. In my QM ignorance, I claim FTL communication.
The reason for the high power to displacement ratio (232 hp from 1.3 liter) is the same reason the engine is banned from many racing circuits. For the following math, ignore volumetric efficiency.
In a piston engine, half of the displacement is moved each rotation of the crankshaft. So, a 1 liter piston engine spinning at 6,000 RPM will move 6,000 x 1 / 2 = 3,000 liters of air per minute.
A rotary engine moves the full displacement each rotation of the crankshaft. So, a 1 liter rotary engine spinning at 6,000 RPM will move 6,000 liters of air per minute.
Here's where it gets fun. At 6,000 RPM, the rotor is only moving at 2,000 RPM. Suppose you want to compare internal rotating component speeds and look at a 1 liter rotary with the rotor spinning at 6,000 RPM. This engine will displace 18,000 liters of air per minute.
At the same internal speed and displacement, the rotary engine will move 6x the air of a piston engine. Rotary engines are less efficient, so they produce less power per liter of air moved.
I thought this was a dead issue too, but I am required to use Promax at my work.
If you can believe it, this thing forces the use of ActiveX objects.
I called to ask how to use it from Solaris or Ubuntu. Their response? "We only support Windows XP. No one uses anything else, anyway."
Ick.
Flash in a vanilla IDE interface? You must be thinking of Compactflash, which has used a small (notebook?) IDE connector since day one.
You haven't read The Innovator's Dilemma. Flash drives only have to get "big enough" and "cheap enough" to take over hard drives. Flash doesn't have to get bigger and cheaper than hard drives.
Once flash is "big enough" and "cheap enough" (which is already true in some applications) winchester spindles are done.
Where do I post a blog? I'll say whatever they tell me to because I need another wireless X station to connect to my Solaris x86 server.
Spam botnets will drive this further. I promise you that ebay is better administered than any company's sea of desktops.
It was fully of typos
Oh, teh inory!
Posting from OM3 right now! Finally, it correctly detects and works with the US tmobileweb service. WooHoo!
Web 2.0 should be enough for anyone.
Does this imply faster-than-light communication?