Europe's New ET Life Search Programme [. ..] "The Guardian has a report on Europe's ambitious new programme to search for extra terrestial life. ESA has started a program
Oh, for fuck's sake. Can we settle on a set of spelling conventions, please?
If you're talking about Chasing Amy, I have seen the movie and can't remember that dialog.
You might want to get tested for Alzheimer's. It was definitely in there. It was the lead-in to the big argument between the two guys that ends with Holden confessing (to Banky) that he loves Alyssa.
Is it a social event, or an RPG? Let's be clear, RPG stands for Roll Playing Game.
It's like acting. Kevin Spacey isn't REALLY dead from a gunshot wound to the back of the head. He didn't REALLY cut what-er-name's head off and stick it in a box to freak Brad Pitt out.
Kids today. Never played a real (paper & pencil) RPG. I used to play a character that was always shooting off racial slurs at Dwarves. In fact, once he was at quite a high level, he engaged in a campaign of Dwarficide. THAT'S NOT REAL.
So, if you are in a game, playing a character that should be treated a certain way within the context of the game let's try to do two things. 1. Don't be surprised and 2. Remember it is one FICTIONAL character mistreating another FICTIONAL character. You are not your fucking character.
According to my calculations, this still meets the 99.9999% reliability that MS claims the server to be able to provide
Re-run your calculations.
There are 365 days per year. 24 hours per day. 60 minutes per hour. That yeilds 525600 hours per year. 99.9999% =.999999, by definition.
525600 x.999999 = 525599.4744.
525600 - 525599.4744 =.5256 minutes. We'll round up and say 32 seconds.
That's 2 and 2/3 seconds for each monthly reboot.
4 minutes per month = 48 minutes per year, which works out to 99.9909% uptime.
on enterprise-grade hardware (and what I am running on is decidedly not enterprise-grade, unless eMachines has recently broken into the enterprise market and I forgot to read the press release.) Reboots take about 4 minutes to shut down, restart, wait for the services to resolve themselves, and try again.
Enterprise hardware almost universally takes longer to POST. Initializing RAID controllers and HBAs. Zeroing out ECC ram. Testing power backplanes. Etc. Boot may be marginally faster due to high-end disk and processors.
They realize that the lack of MS Office is what keeps a huge segment OFF of GNU/Linux. My Dad would switch in a minute if he could get just two things, 100% MS Word compatiblity and Outlook.
You seem to have stopped reading half way through my post. I said:
Now, we don't get to have all the feel good programs we're used to if we don't maintain the current level of taxation. I think it would be well worth it to cut those programs.
They aren't "tax cuts", they are "tax debts and burdens" on our future generations.
That presupposes that the budget just can't be any smaller.
Do you realize that the income tax wasn't instituted until 1913? That's 124 years (121, actually, but that's an unnecessary digression) we operated without an income tax.
Now, we don't get to have all the feel good programs we're used to if we don't maintain the current level of taxation. I think it would be well worth it to cut those programs.
Ralph Nader put it quite well when Ali G interviewed him. "Well, you already have tens of millions of cattle, but they haven't figured out how to put a box on their asshole."
I don't like Nader, but it was an astute observation.
First, I said I would look at the information, so you must be using the phrase "throw it away" in some sense unfamiliar to me.
Second, I have no idea what "you'd know more then a meteorologist" means. You may have used an adverb when you meant to use a preposition. You seriously undermine your attempt to bash my (assumed) lack of education with your elementary diction blunder.
Third, meteorologists study weather. Climatologists study . . . that's right, climate.
Fourth and finally, using a y-scale that is not proportional is a classic technique for creating a false impression with genuine data. Anyone with any Scientific background knows this. Therefore, the person who made these charts presumably knows this, and made the decision to mislead. I won't apologize for not lapping up any crap set before me. I am sorry if my use of a colorful phrase confused or distracted you.
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Oh, for fuck's sake. Can we settle on a set of spelling conventions, please?
-Peter
You might want to get tested for Alzheimer's. It was definitely in there. It was the lead-in to the big argument between the two guys that ends with Holden confessing (to Banky) that he loves Alyssa.
In fact, you can find the quote on IMDB.
-Peter
Yes, of course, you're right.
Typing too (to? two?) fast.
-Peter
Is it a social event, or an RPG? Let's be clear, RPG stands for Roll Playing Game.
It's like acting. Kevin Spacey isn't REALLY dead from a gunshot wound to the back of the head. He didn't REALLY cut what-er-name's head off and stick it in a box to freak Brad Pitt out.
Kids today. Never played a real (paper & pencil) RPG. I used to play a character that was always shooting off racial slurs at Dwarves. In fact, once he was at quite a high level, he engaged in a campaign of Dwarficide. THAT'S NOT REAL.
So, if you are in a game, playing a character that should be treated a certain way within the context of the game let's try to do two things. 1. Don't be surprised and 2. Remember it is one FICTIONAL character mistreating another FICTIONAL character. You are not your fucking character.
Hallelujah, holy shit, where's the tylenol?
-Peter
Re-run your calculations.
There are 365 days per year. 24 hours per day. 60 minutes per hour. That yeilds 525600 hours per year. 99.9999% =
525600 x
525600 - 525599.4744 =
That's 2 and 2/3 seconds for each monthly reboot.
4 minutes per month = 48 minutes per year, which works out to 99.9909% uptime.
Enterprise hardware almost universally takes longer to POST. Initializing RAID controllers and HBAs. Zeroing out ECC ram. Testing power backplanes. Etc. Boot may be marginally faster due to high-end disk and processors.
-Peter
Hey, look at me! I'm stupid.
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Anyway, I meant <br
Man, I should use preview more.
-Peter
May I suggest the more modern
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-Peter
Two different meanings. The difference in denotation is slim, but the connotations are quite distinct.
Post hoc, ergo propter hoc refers to the faulty reasoning that one thing causes another simply because it follows temporally.
For example if A causes both B and C, but the C reaction takes longer, one might leap to the incorrect conclusion that B causes C.
A non sequitur is a statement or conclusion that doesn't follow, even on it's face.
For example, A causes B. Therefore purple.
-Peter
Sure.
;-)
I was going for funny, not flame-bait. Ah, well. I got karma to burn
-Peter
Fuck you, cock-biter.
I love that warm feeling I get when I've done my good deed for the day.
-Peter
Give this a try.
-Peter
That was the worst story on slashdot in quite some time.
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I have to concur with the good doctor that things are getting worse. And they seem to be getting worse faster than fixes are going into place.
Interesting times . .
-Peter
You seem to have confused nerds with geeks. That's okay. Common mistake.
-Peter
PS: You're right about Radio Shack, though. They're too focused on cell phones and cheap RC cars these days. It's Fistell's for Denver geeks.
-Peter
Why is it inevitable?
-Peter
He's a buisness type. He won't use "some hack." He wants a shrink-wrapped distro that he can run shrink-wrapped MS Office on, natively.
-Peter
You have it completely backwards.
They realize that the lack of MS Office is what keeps a huge segment OFF of GNU/Linux. My Dad would switch in a minute if he could get just two things, 100% MS Word compatiblity and Outlook.
-Peter
Thank you for your kind attention.
-Peter
That presupposes that the budget just can't be any smaller.
Do you realize that the income tax wasn't instituted until 1913? That's 124 years (121, actually, but that's an unnecessary digression) we operated without an income tax.
Now, we don't get to have all the feel good programs we're used to if we don't maintain the current level of taxation. I think it would be well worth it to cut those programs.
I take issue with your use of the word "middle."
Tax Cut
June still comes before September.
-Peter
"Well, I don't want FOP, goddamn it! I'm a Dapper Dan man!"
- Ulysses Everett McGill
-Peter
Ralph Nader put it quite well when Ali G interviewed him. "Well, you already have tens of millions of cattle, but they haven't figured out how to put a box on their asshole."
I don't like Nader, but it was an astute observation.
-Peter
What are you saying? Bottled wine is too heavy to fall under governmental prohibition?
-Peter
The ramifications of permanent immaturity? I'd say . . . Slashdot.
God, I can't believe I'm going to be 30 next year.
-Peter
Yup. Just like grapes.
-Peter
First, I said I would look at the information, so you must be using the phrase "throw it away" in some sense unfamiliar to me.
Second, I have no idea what "you'd know more then a meteorologist" means. You may have used an adverb when you meant to use a preposition. You seriously undermine your attempt to bash my (assumed) lack of education with your elementary diction blunder.
Third, meteorologists study weather. Climatologists study . . . that's right, climate.
Fourth and finally, using a y-scale that is not proportional is a classic technique for creating a false impression with genuine data. Anyone with any Scientific background knows this. Therefore, the person who made these charts presumably knows this, and made the decision to mislead. I won't apologize for not lapping up any crap set before me. I am sorry if my use of a colorful phrase confused or distracted you.
-Peter