And in fact, the more advanced wear leveling algorithms do this already. There are spare blocks specifically such that the data can be moved, then the old block that was not used can be freed.
Hell, We still use DOS Batch files for tons of our test scripts. We also use Perl and C#, but yeah... right tool for the job. I see no problem with using DOS. -nB
Pacifist protest and War - BOTH overthrow oppresion[sic] with equal efficacy - we HAVE the historical evidence...so how do you justify killing people ?
[troll]: Because I like to? [troll]: Because they deserve it? [realist]: Because most people are too impatient to wait 60 years.
[me]: Because, while I think war is unpalatable, I also realize that for most of humanity's history, wars were fought to promote a "just cause" and to defend against "unjust aggression". That is to say, everyone thinks they're right and the other guy is wrong, everyone thinks everyone else's wars are wrong/unjust/pointless/stupid but not *theirs*, it is perfectly justified. I accept this is human nature, thus I accept my country needs a standing army.
I drive my Ram to work every day. I also drive it to the feed store, the dump, my family's house to move shit, etc.
And while it may be asshattish I charge people who ask me to help them move. Specifically: I fill the tank and when we are done moving I fill it again. They get the bill for the second fill.
I concur. FWIW I've tried to pay the BBC tax/fee/whatever. They don't accept USD. Go figure. BBC content is males better than domestic content in the states, so I consume it by way of BT. I really want to pay for it because it is worth the money. As it is now, I'm buying the DVDs of the shows I like as they become available. They're un-opened because I don't need them, but it's the best way I've found to pay for the torrents. -nB
They still only officially support Windows or OSX. When I moved back under their coverage from a vastly better provider I had to get a tier 3 support person to set it up (previously had remote call forwarding on the line now to be used with DSL) because the old service on the line was incompatible with regular home service and you couldn't set it up on the internet.
When she asked what operating system I was using I responded: "let's go with Windows XP". She laughed and said returning linux customer eh? So XP was entered into the service notes and all was well.
my employer does. every library in my county does. every state parking garage in CA does. the two biggest malls in my area do. the office park up the street from me does. my old employer installed a power drop, just because someone bought a sparrow. Every high tech office I've visited in Santa Clara for my work does. in addition, all these parking/charging spaces are 'preferred' spaces, thus why I want an EV.
It's awesome. I had access to a modified EV2 (acceleration computer disabled). I could take a corvette on the 1/4 mile. The downside of drag racing an EV is that the batteries go to shit *fast*, but it's fun like nothing else. pure acceleration, no gears to shift:)
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha you're joking right? H2 is made by steam cracking CH4 (natural gas), thus is a carbon fuel. Also, do me a favor:
Set your odometer trip meter to 0. Drive your normal drive for a day, what does it read? 10mi? 25? 50? most people have commutes that are under 50 miles, which means this car wouldn't have to "fill up" but once a week overnight. If you are not "most people" then don't buy this car. Bonus points, many employers will let you charge the car for free at work. -nB
yes. And TopGear looked into a Prius Vs. a BMW M3 and found: for a given speed (highway) the M3 had better milage. The M3 cost less (energy) to manufacture. The M3 batteries were greener to manufacture. The Prius NiMh batteries were:
* Mined in Canada at a dirty mine
* ore was shipped to China to be smelted
* raw metal was shipped to Europe to be "foamed"
* Foamed nickel plates were shipped to Japan to be built into batteries
* Batteries were shipped to the US for assembly into the Prius.
In other news: Recycling a plastic bottle is worse for the environment than burning it as fuel.
I don't know about the rest of/. but I do not expect people to care about that, nor do I expect them to believe me.
I used to sell the GM EV1 and EV2 in a past life as a car salesman (just recently my immortal soul finally came off lease from the Devil).
Those cars were awesome, some of the tech that went into them was mind blowing, yet all the leases were canceled and all the cars crushed. This, in spite of some owners offering up to $100,000 to keep them. At my work now we have two EVs, both homebrew. I have been thinking of building my own, based on a small truck chassis.
$50K for 300mi at a 4Hr nominal charge is something I would consider buying. My current design goal for a homebrew is 50mi unrestricted acceleration A/C or Heater and 100mi @ controlled acceleration topping at 55mph no AC or Heat. -nB
let me re-phrase then. there is no real doubt what the predominate *design* use for certain firearms are.
I'd wager that the majority* of AK47s are not in gun safes, nor used for game hunting. I'd wager they are being used for their designed purpose, shooting at people. Similar, any military weapon's designed use is combat, shooting at people.
Enough to know that banning guns won't solve anything, and that while you can point to a legitimate use for almost anything (i.e. BitTorrent and linux distros), there is no real doubt what the predominate use for certain firearms are.
That said, location also matters. If you are hunting boar (or as another poster said, bear defense) then your ownership of said weapons makes more sense. If you live in downtown LA? Not so much. -nB
Both of which I've been required to take off. Last time I traveled with info that I didn't want to share I used an SD card (16 gig) under one of those patch bandages that seals all the way around. Taped it to a relatively hairless part of by body that wouldn't pull when moving (small of my back FWIW). All done. Best part is even if I ended up shirtless, a flat bandage like that won't actually get much attention, yet is expected to be somewhat stiff from likely scabbing underneath. -nB
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And in fact, the more advanced wear leveling algorithms do this already. There are spare blocks specifically such that the data can be moved, then the old block that was not used can be freed.
Perhaps she'll die?
Hell,
We still use DOS Batch files for tons of our test scripts.
We also use Perl and C#, but yeah... right tool for the job. I see no problem with using DOS.
-nB
and 80287 and 8087
meh
I miss those days some times.
then I use my computer to do something and I cease missing them.
It can be.
Specifically strangling kittens can be seen as such.
A twisted one perhaps, but still a form of expression.
I was going to say they both are a form of expression, but you win by leaps and bounds.
Pacifist protest and War - BOTH overthrow oppresion[sic] with equal efficacy - we HAVE the historical evidence...so how do you justify killing people ?
[troll]: Because I like to?
[troll]: Because they deserve it?
[realist]: Because most people are too impatient to wait 60 years.
[me]: Because, while I think war is unpalatable, I also realize that for most of humanity's history, wars were fought to promote a "just cause" and to defend against "unjust aggression". That is to say, everyone thinks they're right and the other guy is wrong, everyone thinks everyone else's wars are wrong/unjust/pointless/stupid but not *theirs*, it is perfectly justified. I accept this is human nature, thus I accept my country needs a standing army.
That is particularly funny.
Then you see them go "off roading" and smack their transmission pan into something and their truck actually bleeds.
You can tell the really dumb ones because they try to drive out.
I drive my Ram to work every day.
I also drive it to the feed store, the dump, my family's house to move shit, etc.
And while it may be asshattish I charge people who ask me to help them move. Specifically:
I fill the tank and when we are done moving I fill it again. They get the bill for the second fill.
I concur.
FWIW I've tried to pay the BBC tax/fee/whatever. They don't accept USD. Go figure. BBC content is males better than domestic content in the states, so I consume it by way of BT. I really want to pay for it because it is worth the money.
As it is now, I'm buying the DVDs of the shows I like as they become available. They're un-opened because I don't need them, but it's the best way I've found to pay for the torrents.
-nB
Oh, and I'd totally buy the kit car...
high.
Very very high.
They still only officially support Windows or OSX.
When I moved back under their coverage from a vastly better provider I had to get a tier 3 support person to set it up (previously had remote call forwarding on the line now to be used with DSL) because the old service on the line was incompatible with regular home service and you couldn't set it up on the internet.
When she asked what operating system I was using I responded: "let's go with Windows XP". She laughed and said returning linux customer eh?
So XP was entered into the service notes and all was well.
my employer does.
every library in my county does.
every state parking garage in CA does.
the two biggest malls in my area do.
the office park up the street from me does.
my old employer installed a power drop, just because someone bought a sparrow.
Every high tech office I've visited in Santa Clara for my work does.
in addition, all these parking/charging spaces are 'preferred' spaces, thus why I want an EV.
It's awesome. :)
I had access to a modified EV2 (acceleration computer disabled). I could take a corvette on the 1/4 mile.
The downside of drag racing an EV is that the batteries go to shit *fast*, but it's fun like nothing else. pure acceleration, no gears to shift
somewhere in that range.
Now, what TopGear didn't show is that in all stop and go driving the Prius would win, especially with jack rabbit starts.
One unit was sold by the dealer accidentally.
It is in a museum (albeit with it's computer removed by GM).
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
you're joking right?
H2 is made by steam cracking CH4 (natural gas), thus is a carbon fuel.
Also, do me a favor:
Set your odometer trip meter to 0. Drive your normal drive for a day, what does it read? 10mi? 25? 50? most people have commutes that are under 50 miles, which means this car wouldn't have to "fill up" but once a week overnight. If you are not "most people" then don't buy this car. Bonus points, many employers will let you charge the car for free at work.
-nB
Also from the hybrid episode:
BMW M3 beats the Prius on mileage.
yes.
And TopGear looked into a Prius Vs. a BMW M3 and found:
for a given speed (highway) the M3 had better milage.
The M3 cost less (energy) to manufacture.
The M3 batteries were greener to manufacture.
The Prius NiMh batteries were:
* Mined in Canada at a dirty mine
* ore was shipped to China to be smelted
* raw metal was shipped to Europe to be "foamed"
* Foamed nickel plates were shipped to Japan to be built into batteries
* Batteries were shipped to the US for assembly into the Prius.
In other news: Recycling a plastic bottle is worse for the environment than burning it as fuel.
I don't know about the rest of /. but I do not expect people to care about that, nor do I expect them to believe me.
Yes. Also the west coast has lots of hydro power, which while not good for the fish, is good for the air.
-nB
I used to sell the GM EV1 and EV2 in a past life as a car salesman (just recently my immortal soul finally came off lease from the Devil).
Those cars were awesome, some of the tech that went into them was mind blowing, yet all the leases were canceled and all the cars crushed. This, in spite of some owners offering up to $100,000 to keep them. At my work now we have two EVs, both homebrew. I have been thinking of building my own, based on a small truck chassis.
$50K for 300mi at a 4Hr nominal charge is something I would consider buying. My current design goal for a homebrew is 50mi unrestricted acceleration A/C or Heater and 100mi @ controlled acceleration topping at 55mph no AC or Heat.
-nB
let me re-phrase then.
there is no real doubt what the predominate *design* use for certain firearms are.
I'd wager that the majority* of AK47s are not in gun safes, nor used for game hunting. I'd wager they are being used for their designed purpose, shooting at people. Similar, any military weapon's designed use is combat, shooting at people.
And just what do you know about guns
Enough to know that banning guns won't solve anything, and that while you can point to a legitimate use for almost anything (i.e. BitTorrent and linux distros), there is no real doubt what the predominate use for certain firearms are.
That said, location also matters. If you are hunting boar (or as another poster said, bear defense) then your ownership of said weapons makes more sense. If you live in downtown LA? Not so much.
-nB
Both of which I've been required to take off.
Last time I traveled with info that I didn't want to share I used an SD card (16 gig) under one of those patch bandages that seals all the way around. Taped it to a relatively hairless part of by body that wouldn't pull when moving (small of my back FWIW). All done. Best part is even if I ended up shirtless, a flat bandage like that won't actually get much attention, yet is expected to be somewhat stiff from likely scabbing underneath.
-nB
only if you've drained the gas tank and chain oil reservoir. Also, gasoline can not be in your 3x1 Oz bottles...