But you have to add in the chances of the RAID controller failing (but that is unknown) in addition to the chances of the individual disks failing. I had it happen.
Given that Seagate doesn't advertise any internal drives at higher than 2 TB, I am guessing that is 2 drives in a RAID0 configuration. Which is a really bad idea - if either drive fails you loose everything, so you have double the failure rate.
You don't need helium - hydrogen is way more abundant and cheaper, and gives you slightly more lift. Sure there was that minor incident with the Hindenburg, but if we are dealing with a cargo ship servicing remote locations (which seems like the best application anyway) the risks to the humanity are much less.
I also think you could build a 2 layer balloon, with the outer layer containing helium and the inner hydrogen. The separating layer could be very thin (and thus not weigh much) and the outer helium layer would greatly reduce fire hazards.
Well the better job is another job in the same field. I've been a software engineer for 15 years, and during that time I was lucky to get 1 or 2 cost-of-living pay increases. But I got enormous pay bumps by switching companies (and the last switch was mid-2009, the height of the Bush economic meltdown). Why companies insist on doing things this way is a mystery to me, but that's how it is.
I wonder how long it will be until we hear they let someone's house burn down due to a clerical error, i.e. they actually paid but the computer says they didn't. Or the 911 operator types in the wrong address when they call. Seems sure to happen sooner or later.
Not only possible but fairly trivial. You don't have to tie directly into the nervous system, you can use the electrical signal to stimulate another patch of skin, and the brain will quickly learn to interpret the signal properly. But it is also possible (but less trivial) to tie directly into the nervous system - this is done on a regular basis with cochlear implants, and there are a few experimental retinal implants now too.
not really the same, even if both things are technically transformers. The typical transformer has the coils very close together and is designed to not radiate power outside the box (and is probably shielded as well) - any EM radiating outside the transformer is energy lost, so is to be avoided. Where as this thing is made to radiate. I wouldn't just blow off any health concerns.
The same people also generally believe the world will end within their lifetimes, so they are not so worried about the effects of population growth a few hundred years from now.
Too bad they don't pause to consider that their grand parents and great grand parents held the same belief about the end times.
"Cash" is a term that indicates that real money is changing hands (as opposed to stock). It does not imply physical currency, it can be a bank transfer or check (or in this case, probably many checks to individual stockholders). This is a very common usage in English, and I would not consider it a mistake in the summary.
TFA says "It’s been proven in other states. New Mexico realized a 37 percent reduction in DWI recidivism"
Getting someone else to blow into it would not work because of the retests once you start driving - they would have to be riding with you, in which case why not just have them drive?
by all means, go ahead and manufacture one. it will be so interesting:-)
but off the top of my head I just wasn't remembering Hitler was Austrian - he's a bit better known for what he did in Germany - and the "culture" section of the wikipedia article was not mentioning him.
Austria must be some small country. never heard of that one..
Seriously? Ever hear of Vienna (in Austria), one of the most important cities in European cultural history? Mozart? Strauss? Freud? Schrödinger? and many others.
And of course Slashdot titles and newspaper headlines are always 100% accurate.
I'm pretty sure "blown apart" would be far more accurate than "shot down". The missile is ground based so it would hit the satellite from below, and the explosion would go up.
Maybe if they did it when the orbit was almost entirely decayed it would be OK, but the article does not indicate that.
Also my experience has been that they are one of the FEW U.S. carriers NOT to cripple their phones from the get-go (Bluetooth File Transfers to/from the phone, no extra software needed to offload your pictures/audio/video).
AT&T doesn't cripple their phones - I had no problem transfer files between phone and computer on both my Motorola Razr and my iPhone (used a cable, didn't try bluetooth, but I doubt it matters). As far as I can tell only Verizon cripples their phones - which is one of the main reasons I will never use Verizon again (the other is that AT&T actually has a better network in Colorado).
You can't fairly compare the TSA to a private employer. A private employer can censor whatever they please on their employee's computers, but the TSA is a government agency, and so shouldn't be censoring anything, especially political debate.
As a home designer, I resent that remark.... these "idiot architects" you rave about don't exist.
I believe that would be "rant", and they do exist. Until recently I lived in a house that was designed like a solar oven. The south face had a front porch with a dark roof which was positioned underneath the second floor windows. It heated the air which would then blow in through the windows. That's nothing if not stupid. And absolutely no overhangs (which not only is a problem because of the solar heating, it means you can never leave your windows open if there is even a slight chance of rain because your house will flood). And that house was originally built by the architect for themselves.
I am sure the market pressures you refer to have an effect, but I think a large part of the effect is producing a generation of idiot home designers. 100 years ago no one would have ever designed a home like that.
That way you can never be charged for failing to predict it. Of course everyone will start ignoring your predictions, even if you really do have evidence a big quake is about to hit, and lots of people may die, but your ass will be covered.
This type of event is generally predicted to only affect things attached to very long antennas - our power grid is unfortunately one such antenna - but unless your electric car is actually plugged in when it hits it will be fine, as will all the gas burning cars controlled by computers. Satellites may be destroyed since they are not protected by the atmosphere - at the very least they will be temporarily inoperable.
An EMP from a nuclear blast has a different profile and may be worse - more localized but a much faster spike, so more likely to affect small electronics even if not on the grid.
China is one of the countries suffering most from hacking.
This is probably true in one sense, because I am sure they count any attempt to circumvent the government firewall as hacking, so they have a lot of hacking.
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But you have to add in the chances of the RAID controller failing (but that is unknown) in addition to the chances of the individual disks failing. I had it happen.
Given that Seagate doesn't advertise any internal drives at higher than 2 TB, I am guessing that is 2 drives in a RAID0 configuration. Which is a really bad idea - if either drive fails you loose everything, so you have double the failure rate.
http://www.xkcd.com/397/
Which is why those "socialist" western European countries have engage in so many more wars that the US since 1945, right? Oh, wait ...
You don't need helium - hydrogen is way more abundant and cheaper, and gives you slightly more lift. Sure there was that minor incident with the Hindenburg, but if we are dealing with a cargo ship servicing remote locations (which seems like the best application anyway) the risks to the humanity are much less.
I also think you could build a 2 layer balloon, with the outer layer containing helium and the inner hydrogen. The separating layer could be very thin (and thus not weigh much) and the outer helium layer would greatly reduce fire hazards.
Well the better job is another job in the same field.
I've been a software engineer for 15 years, and during that
time I was lucky to get 1 or 2 cost-of-living pay increases.
But I got enormous pay bumps by switching companies (and
the last switch was mid-2009, the height of the Bush economic
meltdown). Why companies insist on doing things this way is
a mystery to me, but that's how it is.
I wonder how long it will be until we hear they let someone's house burn down due to a clerical error,
i.e. they actually paid but the computer says they didn't. Or the 911 operator types in the wrong
address when they call. Seems sure to happen sooner or later.
Not only possible but fairly trivial. You don't have to tie directly into the nervous system, you can use the electrical signal to stimulate another patch of skin, and the brain will quickly learn to interpret the signal properly. But it is also possible (but less trivial) to tie directly into the nervous system - this is done on a regular basis with cochlear implants, and there are a few experimental retinal implants now too.
not really the same, even if both things are technically transformers. The typical transformer has the coils very close together and is designed to not radiate power outside the box (and is probably shielded as well) - any EM radiating outside the transformer is energy lost, so is to be avoided. Where as this thing is made to radiate. I wouldn't just blow off any health concerns.
The same people also generally believe the world will end within their lifetimes, so they are not so worried about the effects of population growth a few hundred years from now.
Too bad they don't pause to consider that their grand parents and great grand parents held the same belief about the end times.
"Cash" is a term that indicates that real money is changing hands (as opposed to stock). It does not imply physical currency, it can be a bank transfer or check (or in this case, probably many checks to individual stockholders). This is a very common usage in English, and I would not consider it a mistake in the summary.
TFA says "It’s been proven in other states. New Mexico realized a 37 percent reduction in DWI recidivism"
Getting someone else to blow into it would not work because of the retests once you start driving -
they would have to be riding with you, in which case why not just have them drive?
by all means, go ahead and manufacture one. it will be so interesting :-)
but off the top of my head I just wasn't remembering Hitler was Austrian - he's a bit better known for what he did in Germany - and the "culture" section of the wikipedia article was not mentioning him.
Austria must be some small country. never heard of that one..
Seriously? Ever hear of Vienna (in Austria), one of the most important cities in European cultural history? Mozart? Strauss? Freud? Schrödinger? and many others.
I am imagining self-reproducing bird sized electricity suckers overwhelming the grid. It would make a great premise for a sci-fi movie.
Your military gets free electricity?
They get whatever they want, because they have guns.
Although expecting the electrical grid to be up during an
invasion seems like a bad assumption.
And of course Slashdot titles and newspaper headlines are always 100% accurate.
I'm pretty sure "blown apart" would be far more accurate than "shot down".
The missile is ground based so it would hit the satellite from below, and
the explosion would go up.
Maybe if they did it when the orbit was almost entirely decayed it would be
OK, but the article does not indicate that.
I'm sure the surgeons will be lining up out the door for this $8/hour job
Also my experience has been that they are one of the FEW U.S. carriers NOT to cripple their phones from the get-go (Bluetooth File Transfers to/from the phone, no extra software needed to offload your pictures/audio/video).
AT&T doesn't cripple their phones - I had no problem transfer files between phone and computer on both my Motorola Razr and my iPhone (used a cable, didn't try bluetooth, but I doubt it matters). As far as I can tell only Verizon cripples their phones - which is one of the main reasons I will never use Verizon again (the other is that AT&T actually has a better network in Colorado).
You can't fairly compare the TSA to a private employer. A private employer can censor whatever they please on their employee's computers, but the TSA is a government agency, and so shouldn't be censoring anything, especially political debate.
Sure it does, it creates the job of cashing your welfare check. And you get paid well for it. And you are totally missing the point of the GP.
As a home designer, I resent that remark. ... these "idiot architects" you rave about don't exist.
I believe that would be "rant", and they do exist. Until recently I lived in a house that was designed like a solar oven.
The south face had a front porch with a dark roof which was positioned underneath the second floor windows.
It heated the air which would then blow in through the windows. That's nothing if not stupid.
And absolutely no overhangs (which not only is a problem because of the solar heating,
it means you can never leave your windows open if there is even a slight chance of rain
because your house will flood). And that house was originally built by the architect for themselves.
I am sure the market pressures you refer to have an effect, but I think a large part of the effect is producing a
generation of idiot home designers. 100 years ago no one would have ever designed a home like that.
That way you can never be charged for failing to predict it. Of course everyone will start ignoring your predictions, even if you really do have evidence a big quake is about to hit, and lots of people may die, but your ass will be covered.
This type of event is generally predicted to only affect things attached to very long antennas - our power grid is unfortunately one such antenna - but unless your electric car is actually plugged in when it hits it will be fine, as will all the gas burning cars controlled by computers. Satellites may be destroyed since they are not protected by the atmosphere - at the very least they will be temporarily inoperable.
An EMP from a nuclear blast has a different profile and may be worse - more localized but a much faster spike, so more likely to affect small electronics even if not on the grid.
China is one of the countries suffering most from hacking.
This is probably true in one sense, because I am sure they count any attempt to circumvent the government firewall as hacking, so they have a lot of hacking.