Anybody who accepts and uses the term "cloud" is past redemption. You see there is this property of clouds that applies neatly to the current meaning. Clouds quite often dissipate naturally and quickly leaving nothing but clear blue sky. Not somewhere to keep things safe IMHO.
Learning by memorization is just pointless time wasting.
So when you have a problem you've encountered before, you go back and repeat the process of discovery each and every time ? Of course not. You remember what you learned. You learn facts and memorise as much of them as you can. This saves time later and also allows you to make mental connections between the facts you have memorised, which lead to new insight. You have to memorise the basics in order to know what you don't know. Do you check your wallet every time you go home to find out where you live ? Do you remember multiplication tables or do you work out 12*12 in long form every time ?
Learning IS memorisation, fool. You are probably thinking of learning by rote, which is not useless either. Sure you can teach somebody how to do multiplication which enables them to work out answers, but for certain standard answers, it is much faster to just teach the answers. That way you can "prime the pump" and allow you to move onto more advanced concepts knowing that the pupils already have readily available facts to use as a starting point.
Despite the quote, they are making shit up. We have existing data services in Europe that are cheaper and faster than the US equivalent. There is no need for Amazon to "partner" with any specific mobile network. And WTF are they talking about roaming for ? We are in our home countries - we will not BE roaming. We don't have AT&T accounts based in the US. Are they expecting us to make a cell phone call to the US just to download an ebook ? If they publish the books and let the device have a user accessible sim card, it becomes nothing more than a bespoke PDA. But of course they want lock in so they'll never consider that.
Another point against the device IMHO. No-one would buy a car that you could only fill with 1 brand of gas, or only use on certain routes. Why are people rushing to own a fallible end to end solution, when an open one allows the consumer to choose their own network ? My £10 per month data plan gives me unlimited access at up to 7.2Mbps. There is no way I will ever get close to the notional "fair use" limit by downloading ebooks ! The biggest ebook I have in my collection is War and Peace at 2MB. But I don't use PDFs of course. Why don't Amazon just concentrate on selling the devices and the books and let us worry about how we access them.
I don't think any FTP program producers will complain about hidden command line ftp commands being used. You do know about command line programs do you ? I don't see anybody complaining that the windows embedded FTP client interferes with GUI based FTP programs. Not to mention that FTP standards are more rigorously adhered to, or it wouldn't work. MS doesn't break http it breaks html. There is no equivalent in FTP.
Planet carrying capacity ? You do realise that without fossil fuels, we are already way past the planets carrying capacity already. What with plastics, fertilizer, fuels for agricultural machinery and fuel for refrigeration and transport, we could not support as many people as we currently do. There is a growing trend in the UK to use vast plastic sheets over fields to bring on the crops faster. These sheets are not re-used. Baling machines use plastic to encase straw instead of natural twine. This plastic is not re-used. Chicken sheds use vast amounts of heat and light because it is all done inside huge sheds. The food processors and manufacturers have massive factories burning untold amounts of power to create products with subtle differences to their competitors, looking for any way to use every last scrap of material. This is efficient for them monetarily as they already have the materials, but the overall mechanical efficiency is pants.
I'd like to see the alternative proposals for providing all this stuff *without* dropping the planets carrying capacity.
Let's make a mountain out of a pizza. The President will not be subject to disconnection from the net, because (a) he didn't produce the dvds and (b) the DVDs were not pirated over the net.
The batteries are the size of a penny (about twice actually). You'd need more than a few to irradiate a city for hundreds of years. So even though you admit you know nothing, you still spread FUD about possible terror attacks. good job.
gmail SMTP uses TLS so the port is different anyway. There is nothing wrong with 25 if you make sure you get login details first. POP before SMTP has been standard for years.
Yes I realise you can do without a partition, but when I first set up the LVM volume, I followed best practice as found in the howto I linked.
Using the whole disk as a PV (as opposed to a partition spanning the whole disk) is not recommended because of the management issues it can create. Any other OS that looks at the disk will not recognize the LVM metadata and display the disk as being free, so it is likely it will be overwritten. LVM itself will work fine with whole disk PVs.
In future on dedicated machines I probably won't use that method, but then again, LVM has issues anyway. I set up my first volume without using RAID, as the disks were of differing sizes. I added a new disk some time later which very quickly began to exhibit problems. Because the disk wouldn't read properly, I couldn't retrieve any data from it and couldn't therefore remove the PV because it had data on. The only way was to shut down, then remove the disk, then remove the volume then use the metadata to rebuild the volume. I lost a few files but the main worry was whether I would get any files back at all. To this day, I have files visible on the volume that correspond to lost data. I cannot find anyway to delete these files as they only exist in the metadata not on the actual disk. I'm not confident that creating a replacement volume (on the same drives) would allow me to inherit an accurate filesystem from the old volume.
So my only option at present is to buy progressively bigger drives, run them in for a few weeks, then after adding them to the volume, use the free extents to move data off of the older drives. This procedure is fraught with risk. Any tips ?
This meme has to stop. No his stories weren't about how to subvert the 3 laws. The stories were about how robots were used by humans, who manipulated the robots to perform malicious acts without breaking those laws. There is a subtle difference. And due to the diligence of Elijah Bailey, or Wendell Urth, the humans responsible were *always* caught because the 3 laws defined the behaviour of the robots in such a dependable manner.
Human interaction has laws too, but people can ignore them. Robots could never ignore the 3 laws. Breaking news - criminals don't care about laws ! Robots can not become criminals. The 3 laws stand as far as they go, which is to regulate the behaviour of robots. They were not designed to prevent the manipulation of robots by humans. Should we abandon the law against murder because it's trivial for a criminal to set things up so that when you open your front door a person gets blown up on the other side of town ? AFAIK, it's not illegal to open your front door.
The only murder case regarding a robot killing a man ended with the revelation that the man was in fact a robot. The 3 laws were preserved, as they are in all Asimovs stories.
When I was a kid, I was reading a book about some aspect of nature and came across an illustration of a man up to his waist in water surrounded by blood, while a massive vicious looking fish, easily twice the mans size, reared over him half out of the water. This was a depiction of Piranha. It wasn't until many years later that I discovered the true size of those fish, and the massive fish in the picture was in fact an inset.
I use ext2online to resize my LVM based ext3 filesystem. To clarify, when I have added a new disk to the LVM group, I use ext2online to extend the filesystem to cover the new disk. Also, I have never used lvresize. It's the same procedure as either lvreduce or lvextend. Here is my mini howto for adding a new disk to an LVM volume.
adding a brand new disk to the lvm volume
install the disk start system open terminal as root :
check what disks (physical volumes)already exist as part of LV : pvscan
run fdisk on the new drive :
fdisk/dev/sdc # if this new disk is the 3rd sata or scsi disk in the system
# modify accordingly and use the same label throughout this # howto! (sdd, sde, sdf etc)
create a new partition using the whole disk n p 1 when thats done enter the next command t partition will be 1 hex code 8e
write the partition table with w
this exits fdisk
then create a new physical volume on that disk pvcreate/dev/sdc
then add the physical volume to the volume group
vgextend my_movies_group/dev/sdc
run pvscan again to check its in there
then run vgdisplay and take a note of the allocated PE for the logical volume and for the free PE then add them together ! (this figure should already be showing in vgdisplay as Total PE )
then run lvextend -l22222/dev/my_movies_group/my_media/dev/sdc
# where 22222 is the total you just calculated
you can run vgdisplay -v again to check its been added ok
lastly, run this, to resize the filesystem to cover the new drive
The moon and earth orbit around a centre of gravity that is orbiting around another larger centre of gravity. The forces are equalised by mass, speed and distance or everything would fly apart, or crash in together. Consider this, the moon has a day too, and it's not related to the earth.
To discover is to find something that was previously unknown. The headline is fine. Unless it should say "Nasa finds something that was previously unknown previously unknown ring around Saturn." The key word in the headline is "giant". Who did what, where.
Essay = moderate length written piece including an introduction, a descriptive example of the subject, conclusions drawn, summary.
Cliff notes != essay.
If you were trying to demonstrate that you are a facetious twat, then your answer was fine. If however, you were trying to demonstrate your knowledge both of the subject and the interlinked conditions surrounding it, you failed miserably. No-one engineers in a vacuum. The product of your mental labour is usually destined to end up in use in the real world, so having some concept of the issues surrounding the environment where your work will end up is quite essential.
With the tightrope example, you can dismiss the obvious answer (the tightrope) simply because it is obvious. You could dismiss it humorously but get it out of the way. A more interesting approach would broach the subject of the safety net, and draw a correlation between that and a real world situation where your design may be used in a situation where a "safety net" may not be possible. How would you ensure that, in the unlikely event of your design failing, a situation didn't develop that could cause injury or loss of life ? How would you mitigate the risks ? Simply being aware that what you do has consequences further down the line demonstrates a greater understanding of your role. You could have discussed the potential for failure engendered by relying on another teams work to fix the two ends of the tightrope. In the real world you are very rarely responsible for the whole project, so an understanding of the problems and parameters regarding other peoples work is quite a valuable skill. To provide the requisite car analogy, you can be the best driver on the planet, but you still have to be aware of and take account of other drivers actions. A willingness to go beyond your core subject in order to improve the real world application of that subject is a desirable trait, not something to be laughed off or treated with derision.
That you did treat the subject with derision and blew it off by doing as little as possible (in a school-yard level immature manner), shows that not only are you not prepared to take on board serious contemplation of a subject, but also that you are self centred and wilfully ignorant. Not especially endearing qualities in somebody who could potentially be in a position that gives control over other peoples lives. You are obviously not taking your application seriously, so why should the examiner ? And your dig at grammar nazis at the end shows the contempt you have for people who do actually care about the accuracy of what they read and write. Not a team player. You are probably going to spend most of your working life producing brilliant designs that take no account of where they will be used or by whom.
To sum up, you are wilfully ignorant, lazy, contemptuous of others, inaccurate and unimaginative. Sorry we have no place to offer you here. Try again when you're older than 13, or retake a few classes.
What, the Isaac Newton who was a closet alchemist and member of secret societies and was also one of the first true scientists ? That Isaac Newton ? The member of Parliament, the fellow and then President of the Royal Society who gained a knighthood and was buried with great ritual and tradition in Westminster Abbey ? The guy who was seen as the greatest natural philosopher in Europe of his time, in his time ? That Isaac Newton ?
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Anybody who accepts and uses the term "cloud" is past redemption. You see there is this property of clouds that applies neatly to the current meaning. Clouds quite often dissipate naturally and quickly leaving nothing but clear blue sky. Not somewhere to keep things safe IMHO.
So when you have a problem you've encountered before, you go back and repeat the process of discovery each and every time ? Of course not. You remember what you learned. You learn facts and memorise as much of them as you can. This saves time later and also allows you to make mental connections between the facts you have memorised, which lead to new insight. You have to memorise the basics in order to know what you don't know. Do you check your wallet every time you go home to find out where you live ? Do you remember multiplication tables or do you work out 12*12 in long form every time ?
Learning IS memorisation, fool. You are probably thinking of learning by rote, which is not useless either. Sure you can teach somebody how to do multiplication which enables them to work out answers, but for certain standard answers, it is much faster to just teach the answers. That way you can "prime the pump" and allow you to move onto more advanced concepts knowing that the pupils already have readily available facts to use as a starting point.
The first powered flight lasted 12 seconds.
Despite the quote, they are making shit up. We have existing data services in Europe that are cheaper and faster than the US equivalent. There is no need for Amazon to "partner" with any specific mobile network. And WTF are they talking about roaming for ? We are in our home countries - we will not BE roaming. We don't have AT&T accounts based in the US. Are they expecting us to make a cell phone call to the US just to download an ebook ? If they publish the books and let the device have a user accessible sim card, it becomes nothing more than a bespoke PDA. But of course they want lock in so they'll never consider that.
Another point against the device IMHO. No-one would buy a car that you could only fill with 1 brand of gas, or only use on certain routes. Why are people rushing to own a fallible end to end solution, when an open one allows the consumer to choose their own network ? My £10 per month data plan gives me unlimited access at up to 7.2Mbps. There is no way I will ever get close to the notional "fair use" limit by downloading ebooks ! The biggest ebook I have in my collection is War and Peace at 2MB. But I don't use PDFs of course. Why don't Amazon just concentrate on selling the devices and the books and let us worry about how we access them.
Better answer - both directions. RTFA.
I don't think any FTP program producers will complain about hidden command line ftp commands being used. You do know about command line programs do you ? I don't see anybody complaining that the windows embedded FTP client interferes with GUI based FTP programs. Not to mention that FTP standards are more rigorously adhered to, or it wouldn't work. MS doesn't break http it breaks html. There is no equivalent in FTP.
Planet carrying capacity ? You do realise that without fossil fuels, we are already way past the planets carrying capacity already. What with plastics, fertilizer, fuels for agricultural machinery and fuel for refrigeration and transport, we could not support as many people as we currently do. There is a growing trend in the UK to use vast plastic sheets over fields to bring on the crops faster. These sheets are not re-used. Baling machines use plastic to encase straw instead of natural twine. This plastic is not re-used. Chicken sheds use vast amounts of heat and light because it is all done inside huge sheds. The food processors and manufacturers have massive factories burning untold amounts of power to create products with subtle differences to their competitors, looking for any way to use every last scrap of material. This is efficient for them monetarily as they already have the materials, but the overall mechanical efficiency is pants.
I'd like to see the alternative proposals for providing all this stuff *without* dropping the planets carrying capacity.
Let's make a mountain out of a pizza. The President will not be subject to disconnection from the net, because (a) he didn't produce the dvds and (b) the DVDs were not pirated over the net.
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Next bullshit article
The batteries are the size of a penny (about twice actually). You'd need more than a few to irradiate a city for hundreds of years. So even though you admit you know nothing, you still spread FUD about possible terror attacks.
good job.
I for one consider the Nobel shark, jumped.
Which doesn't prevent the site showing ads. It did for a while then they showed up again.
I don't have WGA and I was offered IE8 over auto update.
gmail SMTP uses TLS so the port is different anyway. There is nothing wrong with 25 if you make sure you get login details first. POP before SMTP has been standard for years.
In future on dedicated machines I probably won't use that method, but then again, LVM has issues anyway. I set up my first volume without using RAID, as the disks were of differing sizes. I added a new disk some time later which very quickly began to exhibit problems. Because the disk wouldn't read properly, I couldn't retrieve any data from it and couldn't therefore remove the PV because it had data on. The only way was to shut down, then remove the disk, then remove the volume then use the metadata to rebuild the volume. I lost a few files but the main worry was whether I would get any files back at all. To this day, I have files visible on the volume that correspond to lost data. I cannot find anyway to delete these files as they only exist in the metadata not on the actual disk. I'm not confident that creating a replacement volume (on the same drives) would allow me to inherit an accurate filesystem from the old volume.
So my only option at present is to buy progressively bigger drives, run them in for a few weeks, then after adding them to the volume, use the free extents to move data off of the older drives. This procedure is fraught with risk. Any tips ?
Yeah right. Gob like the mersey tunnel.
And that was a good way to demonstrate that you're an ignorant troll.
This meme has to stop. No his stories weren't about how to subvert the 3 laws. The stories were about how robots were used by humans, who manipulated the robots to perform malicious acts without breaking those laws. There is a subtle difference. And due to the diligence of Elijah Bailey, or Wendell Urth, the humans responsible were *always* caught because the 3 laws defined the behaviour of the robots in such a dependable manner.
Human interaction has laws too, but people can ignore them. Robots could never ignore the 3 laws. Breaking news - criminals don't care about laws ! Robots can not become criminals. The 3 laws stand as far as they go, which is to regulate the behaviour of robots. They were not designed to prevent the manipulation of robots by humans. Should we abandon the law against murder because it's trivial for a criminal to set things up so that when you open your front door a person gets blown up on the other side of town ? AFAIK, it's not illegal to open your front door.
The only murder case regarding a robot killing a man ended with the revelation that the man was in fact a robot. The 3 laws were preserved, as they are in all Asimovs stories.
Chekov.
When I was a kid, I was reading a book about some aspect of nature and came across an illustration of a man up to his waist in water surrounded by blood, while a massive vicious looking fish, easily twice the mans size, reared over him half out of the water. This was a depiction of Piranha. It wasn't until many years later that I discovered the true size of those fish, and the massive fish in the picture was in fact an inset.
I use ext2online to resize my LVM based ext3 filesystem. To clarify, when I have added a new disk to the LVM group, I use ext2online to extend the filesystem to cover the new disk. Also, I have never used lvresize. It's the same procedure as either lvreduce or lvextend. Here is my mini howto for adding a new disk to an LVM volume.
The moon and earth orbit around a centre of gravity that is orbiting around another larger centre of gravity. The forces are equalised by mass, speed and distance or everything would fly apart, or crash in together. Consider this, the moon has a day too, and it's not related to the earth.
To discover is to find something that was previously unknown. The headline is fine. Unless it should say "Nasa finds something that was previously unknown previously unknown ring around Saturn." The key word in the headline is "giant". Who did what, where.
Essay = moderate length written piece including an introduction, a descriptive example of the subject, conclusions drawn, summary.
Cliff notes != essay.
If you were trying to demonstrate that you are a facetious twat, then your answer was fine. If however, you were trying to demonstrate your knowledge both of the subject and the interlinked conditions surrounding it, you failed miserably. No-one engineers in a vacuum. The product of your mental labour is usually destined to end up in use in the real world, so having some concept of the issues surrounding the environment where your work will end up is quite essential.
With the tightrope example, you can dismiss the obvious answer (the tightrope) simply because it is obvious. You could dismiss it humorously but get it out of the way. A more interesting approach would broach the subject of the safety net, and draw a correlation between that and a real world situation where your design may be used in a situation where a "safety net" may not be possible. How would you ensure that, in the unlikely event of your design failing, a situation didn't develop that could cause injury or loss of life ? How would you mitigate the risks ? Simply being aware that what you do has consequences further down the line demonstrates a greater understanding of your role. You could have discussed the potential for failure engendered by relying on another teams work to fix the two ends of the tightrope. In the real world you are very rarely responsible for the whole project, so an understanding of the problems and parameters regarding other peoples work is quite a valuable skill. To provide the requisite car analogy, you can be the best driver on the planet, but you still have to be aware of and take account of other drivers actions. A willingness to go beyond your core subject in order to improve the real world application of that subject is a desirable trait, not something to be laughed off or treated with derision.
That you did treat the subject with derision and blew it off by doing as little as possible (in a school-yard level immature manner), shows that not only are you not prepared to take on board serious contemplation of a subject, but also that you are self centred and wilfully ignorant. Not especially endearing qualities in somebody who could potentially be in a position that gives control over other peoples lives. You are obviously not taking your application seriously, so why should the examiner ? And your dig at grammar nazis at the end shows the contempt you have for people who do actually care about the accuracy of what they read and write. Not a team player. You are probably going to spend most of your working life producing brilliant designs that take no account of where they will be used or by whom.
To sum up, you are wilfully ignorant, lazy, contemptuous of others, inaccurate and unimaginative. Sorry we have no place to offer you here. Try again when you're older than 13, or retake a few classes.
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What, the Isaac Newton who was a closet alchemist and member of secret societies and was also one of the first true scientists ? That Isaac Newton ? The member of Parliament, the fellow and then President of the Royal Society who gained a knighthood and was buried with great ritual and tradition in Westminster Abbey ? The guy who was seen as the greatest natural philosopher in Europe of his time, in his time ? That Isaac Newton ?
No life skills there at all.
dick.