The failing in the logic is not the vastness of space but the smallness of the number of rockets carrying bacteria. If we were to send a suitably large number of rockets up then the probabilities start to fall to reasonable numbers. However the definition of 'a suitably large number of rockets' would almost certainly be many, many orders of magnitude beyond what we could produce, let alone have produced.
I suppose it's inherrant in/. that you equate OS usage with job ability.
The most important thing is that they are getting access to the internet, with all that that implies. As such it doesn't matter what OS they use, or realy which browser. But above and beyond that, anyone with any nous can swap between OS with little or no difficulty and it really doesn't matter if the office tools are M$ or OO, they both teach you how to use office tools.
And, cost wise, if it's a choice between an affordable system with OSF tools, or an unaffordable system with M$ tools....
I never said that RAID is a backup, indeed, I suggested that any professional would have valid backups or no job. However, if no loss of any data is acceptable then all the backups in the world won't save you and two mirrored RAID arrays in separate data centres will help eliminate two of your four reasons for data loss (we can survive the complete loss of one data centre - your #3, and no burglar is going to steal two machines in two secure centres - your #4)
So, repeat after me, backups alone are not sufficient for total data security without fault tollerant storage.
Maybe not so bad as losing your entire monthly product, per se... but it does happen If it happens to me then I'm looking for a new job. Honestly, losing 24hrs worth of data is the worst that should happen. Well, OK, maybe 48hrs if you happen to be unlucky enough to have a crash just before the backup after a failed backup (if you see what I mean) And if the data is that important then a suitable RAIDed disk array will sort things out. (we use mirrored RAID5 arrays in separate data centres but I work for a bank)
No, I'm not being pious, I would guess that the loss in revenue from a lost edition would cover the costs of a sufficiently resilient system that data loss would be next to impossible. In a business situation loss of data is nearly always unacceptable.
no increase observed in the part the US cares about - the US. Yep, mostly the terrorists leave the US alone, but, you've got to admit, when they do attack the US it's a doozy. In terms of number of dead from terrorist attacks in the past ten years NY probably beats Bagdad.
Sure they can... the US can bomb the crap outta them, like they do anyone else who raises their ire. This is known as gunboat diplomacy. It's a fine method of practicing international affairs except that, as the NYT reports this morning (sorry, lost the link), everywhere that the US is at war has led to an increase in terrorist attacks.
Bombing the crap out of people always ends up with them doing the best they can to bomb the crap out of you and it's noticeable that all the worldwide military might of the US still hasn't defeated terrorism.
The only reason I care about a tld is when I'm shopping. For us Brits Amazon.co.uk has lower shipping costs and a faster delivery time than Amazon.com where the goods have to come all the way from the USA. As such I look for.uk tld names to ensure that they are in the same country as me.
Without wishing to get involved in flame wars about whether the EU is a good thing or not, for the sort of on-line shopping I do membership of the EU is not really relevant.
This chapter also covers an important aspect of Nagios known as flapping. Flapping occurs when a monitored resource quickly alternates between states. Nagios can be configured for a certain tolerance against rapid alternating changes in states. But I cant find out how to set the alarm when the boss flaps.
Exactly what is so wrong about upgrading to Vista? Sure, presently it's a waste of money, but is it your money they spend? Because I'm the one they phone when it all goes wrong. And this is not an anti MS rant, when my mates ask I recommend that they leave any new OS until it has settled down.
And what's with your beef. You've made a huge number of assumptions because I suggest that the target audience for mp3 players have other priorities than practicality. It's you that has assumed value jugements - and yes, my Mercedes was purchased with my heart, not my head.
In many ways I agree with you - my extensive collection built up over 35 years or so has ~25Gb of music but...
The lads I play poker with on a Monday night who are not technical are, in the main, the target audience and for them bigger is better. Their phones have to have the latest gadgets and they can tell you the number of pixels in their cameras without having to think about it, despite the fact that I pretty sure none of them would know a pixel if they met one in the street. I'm in a desparate battle to stop them all upgrading to Vista 'because it's new'
It all really dates back to the playground and a 'my mp3 player has more storage than your mp3 player' attitude. That's what the purchasing public wants.
Why should you get kicked out of school for smoking pot? It's safer than alcohol and tobacco. Because the drug laws are about perceived risk, not actual risk. No politician in his right mind is going to risk being seen as 'soft on drugs' - look at the fuss when canabis was downgraded from class B to class C her in the UK.
Meanwhile the lawmakers are drinking their double brandies and smoking their cigars (and tooting a little coke on the side)...
Which, at the end of the day, is another pointer towards filters imposed by parents rather than filters imposed by governments. As we each have our separate ideas about what constitutes porn I, as a parent, wish to make decisions for my children, rather than the 'authorities'.
As you point out the figures are 'finger in the air' stuff
How do you define pornography. Like art, I cannot, but I know it when I see it.
But I think the judges point is still valid. Parent installed filters do a better job than the alternatives and avoid constitutional free speach issues - well, maybe I'd better discuss that last point with my teenage son!
Doesn't the US have somethign equivalent to the British Trades Description Act. If they tried selling 'unlimited' internet access with a limit in the UK it would be, de facto, illegal, whatever the small print.
No, you're not the only one. Bill Bailey commented on a recent tour that the US was like the playground bully, with the UK as the little guy who stands behind him going 'Go on, beat him up'. The degree with which the 'special relationship' has made us the USA's lapdog makes me wish I was French - and that's baaaad.
Number of people killed per annum by falling space junk hitting aircraft - 0
Number of people killed per annum by motor accidents in the UK - 3221 (and that was a record low)
I'm not sure this story will keep me awake at night.
From Wikipedia
Even during a period of a prospering book trade, during the Roman Empire, the occurrence of piracy was unlikely. This is because books were, typically, copied by expensive and high maintenance literate slaves. Because of this fact, any pirate would have had to pay much the same expense as the original publisher, effectively destroying any economic incentive for piracy. and
The first copyright privilege in England bears date 1518 In short, copyright dates from the invention of the printing press, and, therefore, the ability to copy inexpensively. And, yes, laws will always be made by a few powerful individuals because they are 'more efficient' and have the better goons.
So when a band of Hell's Angels have beaten you up and are busy gang raping your 12 yr old daughter that's fine, because they're obviously, by definition, 'more efficient'.
The rule of law is for people who want to live with other people. That's why every successful society has one.
And I'm sure you could find someone who says that Bach is overrated, and Mozart not really that good
Given that it is next to impossible to be objective about artistic merit I'll make two points which may, or may not, be significant.
Despite it being fourty plus years since it was written the Beatles music is still played and their songs still covered regularly. Ray Davis may have been a better songwriter but, apart from posibly Waterloo Sunset and Lola, which of his songs can you list without having to look them up?
On a purely personal note, as someone who has an extensive music collection and has worked in the music business, there are precious few other bands from the 60's which I still listen to. Tommy and Quadrophenia, both of which I bought when they came out, I now find pompous and overblown. I still like the Stones, a band I would place up there with the Beatles but I can't remember the last time I listened to the Kinks.
Whilst longevity and popularity do not neccessarily translate directly to artistic merit, they're definite pointers in that direction.
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The failing in the logic is not the vastness of space but the smallness of the number of rockets carrying bacteria. If we were to send a suitably large number of rockets up then the probabilities start to fall to reasonable numbers. However the definition of 'a suitably large number of rockets' would almost certainly be many, many orders of magnitude beyond what we could produce, let alone have produced.
After all, what have the Romans ever done for us?
I suppose it's inherrant in /. that you equate OS usage with job ability.
The most important thing is that they are getting access to the internet, with all that that implies. As such it doesn't matter what OS they use, or realy which browser. But above and beyond that, anyone with any nous can swap between OS with little or no difficulty and it really doesn't matter if the office tools are M$ or OO, they both teach you how to use office tools.
And, cost wise, if it's a choice between an affordable system with OSF tools, or an unaffordable system with M$ tools....
Get down off your soapbox
I never said that RAID is a backup, indeed, I suggested that any professional would have valid backups or no job. However, if no loss of any data is acceptable then all the backups in the world won't save you and two mirrored RAID arrays in separate data centres will help eliminate two of your four reasons for data loss (we can survive the complete loss of one data centre - your #3, and no burglar is going to steal two machines in two secure centres - your #4)
So, repeat after me, backups alone are not sufficient for total data security without fault tollerant storage.
No, I'm not being pious, I would guess that the loss in revenue from a lost edition would cover the costs of a sufficiently resilient system that data loss would be next to impossible. In a business situation loss of data is nearly always unacceptable.
But when it turns out to be an early Cliff Richard recording...
Here's the NYT article
Bombing the crap out of people always ends up with them doing the best they can to bomb the crap out of you and it's noticeable that all the worldwide military might of the US still hasn't defeated terrorism.
The only reason I care about a tld is when I'm shopping. For us Brits Amazon.co.uk has lower shipping costs and a faster delivery time than Amazon.com where the goods have to come all the way from the USA. As such I look for .uk tld names to ensure that they are in the same country as me.
Without wishing to get involved in flame wars about whether the EU is a good thing or not, for the sort of on-line shopping I do membership of the EU is not really relevant.
And what's with your beef. You've made a huge number of assumptions because I suggest that the target audience for mp3 players have other priorities than practicality. It's you that has assumed value jugements - and yes, my Mercedes was purchased with my heart, not my head.
In many ways I agree with you - my extensive collection built up over 35 years or so has ~25Gb of music but...
The lads I play poker with on a Monday night who are not technical are, in the main, the target audience and for them bigger is better. Their phones have to have the latest gadgets and they can tell you the number of pixels in their cameras without having to think about it, despite the fact that I pretty sure none of them would know a pixel if they met one in the street. I'm in a desparate battle to stop them all upgrading to Vista 'because it's new'
It all really dates back to the playground and a 'my mp3 player has more storage than your mp3 player' attitude. That's what the purchasing public wants.
An additional balance is all about data security.
On the one hand Google do better backups than I do and I'd be amazed if I ever lost data from my Gmail account
On the other hand do I want sensitive data stored on someone else's server?
You decide...
Meanwhile the lawmakers are drinking their double brandies and smoking their cigars (and tooting a little coke on the side)
Which, at the end of the day, is another pointer towards filters imposed by parents rather than filters imposed by governments. As we each have our separate ideas about what constitutes porn I, as a parent, wish to make decisions for my children, rather than the 'authorities'.
- As you point out the figures are 'finger in the air' stuff
- How do you define pornography. Like art, I cannot, but I know it when I see it.
But I think the judges point is still valid. Parent installed filters do a better job than the alternatives and avoid constitutional free speach issues - well, maybe I'd better discuss that last point with my teenage son!Doesn't the US have somethign equivalent to the British Trades Description Act. If they tried selling 'unlimited' internet access with a limit in the UK it would be, de facto, illegal, whatever the small print.
No, you're not the only one. Bill Bailey commented on a recent tour that the US was like the playground bully, with the UK as the little guy who stands behind him going 'Go on, beat him up'. The degree with which the 'special relationship' has made us the USA's lapdog makes me wish I was French - and that's baaaad.
I'm on my second Dyson (well, after 10 years the last one was getting a little long in the tooth) and wouldn't consider buying anything else.
Number of people killed per annum by falling space junk hitting aircraft - 0
Number of people killed per annum by motor accidents in the UK - 3221 (and that was a record low)
I'm not sure this story will keep me awake at night.
So when a band of Hell's Angels have beaten you up and are busy gang raping your 12 yr old daughter that's fine, because they're obviously, by definition, 'more efficient'.
The rule of law is for people who want to live with other people. That's why every successful society has one.
Given that it is next to impossible to be objective about artistic merit I'll make two points which may, or may not, be significant.
- Despite it being fourty plus years since it was written the Beatles music is still played and their songs still covered regularly. Ray Davis may have been a better songwriter but, apart from posibly Waterloo Sunset and Lola, which of his songs can you list without having to look them up?
- On a purely personal note, as someone who has an extensive music collection and has worked in the music business, there are precious few other bands from the 60's which I still listen to. Tommy and Quadrophenia, both of which I bought when they came out, I now find pompous and overblown. I still like the Stones, a band I would place up there with the Beatles but I can't remember the last time I listened to the Kinks.
Whilst longevity and popularity do not neccessarily translate directly to artistic merit, they're definite pointers in that direction.