The article didn't say anything about how they plan to fuel the little bugger (a small fuel tank about the size of a battery maybe?) or how they're going to handle the exhaust (pretty warm I'd imagine). Quite an achievement though and really makes one wonder where all this miniaturization will eventually lead (micro surgical robots in the bloodstream perhaps? Heheh).
As you've probably been able to deduce by now, there are many different backup 'solutions'. I think the best advice for you is to learn from those of us who have a system similar to yours and who have been through this problem over and over again and finally settled on a method that works but doesn't take a degree in IT to implement and use. I could give you a detailed history of all the various things I've tried and rejected over the years, but I won't waste your time with that. First of all, if you've been at this for any length of time, you will have found that CDs or DVDs are definitely not the way to go for reasons too numerous to expound upon in this comment. It really boils down to a matter of statistics and also how much time and energy you're willing to devote to your particular backup needs. You need to answer the question of exactly what do you need to back up. I think most home users would be well advised to create a seperate partition on their hard drive and write all data files to that partition, leaving the main partition strickly for executables and other system files. That in itself is a form of backup in that if your sytem crashes badly enough, even a destructive reinstall can be performed without affecting your data residing on the data partition. It should be mentioned here that part of that data that you've put on the data partition could be the software installation files for applications that you may have a hard time finding and downloading off the net again. My second recommendation is to get yourself an external hard drive dedicated to containing copies of files from your main drive's data partition. How you decide to effect that copying operation is a function of how important you feel it is to keep that data timely. In other words, could you live with the loss of the previous week's changes? That kind of question determines your backup scheduling. You can use any number of backup programs, or you can use XCOPY or XXCOPY via a batch file, or if you feel it necessary or desirable, you can use a compression program. In any case, once the initial copies are put on the external drive, it's a simple matter of selecting the proper arguments for those programs such that only new and changed data is written from your data partition to the external drive. All those high-powered syncing and mirroring programs and RAID are history with me. I settled for the simple and it works well.
Even if Slashdot had a spelling check, it wouldn't help a lot of these folks. It seems that even after using the Preview button (assuming they used it) they still can't see their errors.
A grammar checker would simply be overwhelmed here.
Sometimes the pain induced by reading some of these comments is just too painful and distracting, yet, like Wikipedia, the good outweighs the bad so I keep coming back.
Sounds counter-intuitive to me. I mean you've got billions of 3.3vdc logic elements in a data center. Getting from 380vdc to 3.3v is no small matter. Current is current. Think about it.
It says 'video transfer service', but what if in fact they are just selling them another copy of the same DVD in a new package for 10 bucks? What's illegal about selling DVDs? Then again, maybe they really are making a copy and paying the RIAA 5 bucks every time they do it?
I don't think so. According to other recent calculations I've seen, it's more like 220 generations. Definitions notwithstanding, I think the 32 generations figure is quite off the mark.
How many bits of data make up a HD full length movie? Right. That's how much memory will need to be packaged in that little plastic card. Perhaps holographic ROM? I don't know, but that's one heck of a lot of data.
.. remain the same: describing the problem in the first place. Alloy (or any other set of design programs) can only analyze the information that it's provided. It may be able to flag problems that would have been missed by a human analyst, but it can't possibly deal with real world systems which will invariably produce conditions that weren't considered in the first place. Patching never produces a system as reliable as one that might have been described thoroughly in the first place (a practical impossibility).
Obviously, we can do the same thing in the U.S., but we seem to have a problem that you don't have - previous borrowers who don't give a damn and have scratched hell out of the CD leaving it virtually useless. Pity.
The short but accurate answer (I know that's not at all popular on/.) is that people will switch when it's time to replace their old system and when they go down to WalMart (or wherever) and they have a choice to buy a system that has Linux preinstalled and it comes with monitor, printer, CD/DVD reader/writer/player, fully multimedia capable, etc. Until that happens, switching to Linux is simply not going to be a common occurance. Period!
Face it folks- faster DVD releases are the least of the theater's problems. The handwriting on the wall says the indoor theater is going the way of the drive-in theater. If they're smart, they'll figure out what they're going to do with all those theaters once they close the doors.
It's obvious that there is insufficient information in this article to make a judgement by the reader. One can come up with several different conclusions based on how one 'reads between the lines'. Give us the missing information and then perhaps we'll be able to come to a reasonable conclusion.
Thanks very much for that link. It really explains a lot for anyone curious about what actually happened to OS/2 including some of the typical emotions at the time.
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The article didn't say anything about how they plan to fuel the little bugger (a small fuel tank about the size of a battery maybe?) or how they're going to handle the exhaust (pretty warm I'd imagine). Quite an achievement though and really makes one wonder where all this miniaturization will eventually lead (micro surgical robots in the bloodstream perhaps? Heheh).
The answer is yes but only if "Some folks at Klocwork" have no ties to Microsoft. Duh.
As you've probably been able to deduce by now, there are many different backup 'solutions'. I think the best advice for you is to learn from those of us who have a system similar to yours and who have been through this problem over and over again and finally settled on a method that works but doesn't take a degree in IT to implement and use. I could give you a detailed history of all the various things I've tried and rejected over the years, but I won't waste your time with that. First of all, if you've been at this for any length of time, you will have found that CDs or DVDs are definitely not the way to go for reasons too numerous to expound upon in this comment. It really boils down to a matter of statistics and also how much time and energy you're willing to devote to your particular backup needs. You need to answer the question of exactly what do you need to back up. I think most home users would be well advised to create a seperate partition on their hard drive and write all data files to that partition, leaving the main partition strickly for executables and other system files. That in itself is a form of backup in that if your sytem crashes badly enough, even a destructive reinstall can be performed without affecting your data residing on the data partition. It should be mentioned here that part of that data that you've put on the data partition could be the software installation files for applications that you may have a hard time finding and downloading off the net again. My second recommendation is to get yourself an external hard drive dedicated to containing copies of files from your main drive's data partition. How you decide to effect that copying operation is a function of how important you feel it is to keep that data timely. In other words, could you live with the loss of the previous week's changes? That kind of question determines your backup scheduling. You can use any number of backup programs, or you can use XCOPY or XXCOPY via a batch file, or if you feel it necessary or desirable, you can use a compression program. In any case, once the initial copies are put on the external drive, it's a simple matter of selecting the proper arguments for those programs such that only new and changed data is written from your data partition to the external drive. All those high-powered syncing and mirroring programs and RAID are history with me. I settled for the simple and it works well.
Even if Slashdot had a spelling check, it wouldn't help a lot of these folks. It seems that even after using the Preview button (assuming they used it) they still can't see their errors.
A grammar checker would simply be overwhelmed here.
Sometimes the pain induced by reading some of these comments is just too painful and distracting, yet, like Wikipedia, the good outweighs the bad so I keep coming back.
Expand your horizons:
http://www.christiangeology.com/
There will ALWAYS be music and musicians. One cannot say with any certainty that there will always be a music industry.
Just a thought.
Sounds counter-intuitive to me. I mean you've got billions of 3.3vdc logic elements in a data center. Getting from 380vdc to 3.3v is no small matter. Current is current. Think about it.
It says 'video transfer service', but what if in fact they are just selling them another copy of the same DVD in a new package for 10 bucks? What's illegal about selling DVDs?
Then again, maybe they really are making a copy and paying the RIAA 5 bucks every time they do it?
What about Brown's Gas? http://freeenergynews.com/Directory/NuclearRemedia tion/index.html
I don't think so. According to other recent calculations I've seen, it's more like 220 generations. Definitions notwithstanding, I think the 32 generations figure is quite off the mark.
How many bits of data make up a HD full length movie? Right. That's how much memory will need to be packaged in that little plastic card. Perhaps holographic ROM? I don't know, but that's one heck of a lot of data.
Uh, yeah, but that's only part of the story. Check it out ..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandy
.. remain the same: describing the problem in the first place. Alloy (or any other set of design programs) can only analyze the information that it's provided. It may be able to flag problems that would have been missed by a human analyst, but it can't possibly deal with real world systems which will invariably produce conditions that weren't considered in the first place. Patching never produces a system as reliable as one that might have been described thoroughly in the first place (a practical impossibility).
Exactly. Sheesh. Why wasn't this the very first comment?
Obviously, we can do the same thing in the U.S., but we seem to have a problem that you don't have - previous borrowers who don't give a damn and have scratched hell out of the CD leaving it virtually useless. Pity.
The short but accurate answer (I know that's not at all popular on /.) is that people will switch when it's time to replace their old system and when they go down to WalMart (or wherever) and they have a choice to buy a system that has Linux preinstalled and it comes with monitor, printer, CD/DVD reader/writer/player, fully multimedia capable, etc. Until that happens, switching to Linux is simply not going to be a common occurance. Period!
Maybe you can't correct all the bad grammar in one semester, but please, at least make sure they know the difference between less and fewer.
Here's the result I got after entering my zip code:
The code does not appear to be valid.
Yeah right.
Face it folks- faster DVD releases are the least of the theater's problems. The handwriting on the wall says the indoor theater is going the way of the drive-in theater. If they're smart, they'll figure out what they're going to do with all those theaters once they close the doors.
Yeah. I'm curious about that. What brand of hard drive do they have that hasn't gone south in all this time? Get my drift?
Hmm. Makes sense. Thanks for your insight and knowledge. Not exactly a 'spear through the screen' experience I guess.
Expect the unexpected. That's the best advice I can give you.
Guilty as sin! Here's the rest of the story from GrokLaw:0 7414764/
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060311
It's obvious that there is insufficient information in this article to make a judgement by the reader. One can come up with several different conclusions based on how one 'reads between the lines'. Give us the missing information and then perhaps we'll be able to come to a reasonable conclusion.
Thanks very much for that link. It really explains a lot for anyone curious about what actually happened to OS/2 including some of the typical emotions at the time.