I ask myself this a lot: how reliable are HDDs in the long term?
That is why they invented raid. That way you can swap a broken HD. A lot will depend on why you would use DVD's in the first place. Is it for data that you most likely will never use again, exept in very special cases? e.g. logfiles that you need for legal reasons to keep.
Or do you want it to be randomly accessible, like movies?
Also what is the price you want to pay for it and how much data is it anyway.
Many people talk about extrenal HD's, but why not put it on an internal one? Yes, I knwo the advatages, yet I have not ever needed to take more to afriend then could fit on my USB key.
What would be nice is if only two or three stories would be pranks on april first. Now all editors will be falling over each other to get some childish and stupid prank trough.
The best would be to have just 2 or three great ones, instead of many, many, many bad ones. And the best ones are prepared way in advance.
This is just like if everybody telling you all day that your shoelaces are undone, and you wear shoes without laces. The first time you fall for it, The 50th time you hit somebody in the nose.
Not entirely true. You have three groups, not two. The scientists, who do all the work on the science side The teologist, who do all the work on the non-science side. The polulation, that is looking at who they believe more.
Both of the first groups take up a LOT of time, efford and money. look at the time and efford that went into religion in history in the last 6000 years or so (or forever). look into the amounts that go into getting either new believers or keeping those that you already have.
I have no worldwide figures on how much is invested in religion and how much in science, altough it would be nice to see those next to each other. And I mean science, not research and development, although I understand that it might be hard to make the difference sometimes.
Those people will not just be ignorant about science. They will be ignorant about other things as well. Those are the people who will vote.
Education is the best way to stop ignorance. It feels as if certain politicians understand this and try to produce ignorant people, so they will have more votes in the future.
Theologians can pursuade themselves of anything. Anyone who can worship a trinity and insists that his religion is a monotheism can believe anything -- just give him time to rationalize it.
Robert A. Heinlein, JOB: A Comedy of Justice
Given the chance, they would gladly do that - it's just that it's a little hard in this day and age to get away with doing stuff like that.
Just watch the news. There is a difference. In the middle ages, witches were tortured to confession, now they don't..., never mind, just watch the news.
Actually, I've run into a lot of people who have problems with evolution even though they aren't Christian or religious.
I have problems with Perl, but that doesn't say anything about Perl, it just tells me about my ability to understand it. The same thing I see with people who have problems with evolution. That does not mean that evolution is the wrong way. It just means that those people do not understand it.
And that is perfectly ok. You still see people saying we are decendents from monkeys and we are not. We just have a common ancestor.
There also is no reason as not to be a believer in $DEITY and a believer in evolution.
The Bible was written after a lot of word of mouth. Here is the order of the days of creation: Day 1: The heavens, the earth, light and darkness. Day 2: Heaven Day 3: Dry land, the seas, and vegetation. Day 4: The sun, the moon and the stars. Day 5: Living creatures in the water, birds in the air. Day 6: Land animals and people.
Change day 3 and 4 and use a period, instead of a day. Period 1 is the big bang. Period 2 is the expantion after the big bang Period 4 is the formation of the planets Period 3 is the formation of this planet so it becomes inhabitable Period 5 is the formation of sealife Period 6 is the formation of land-life
Exept for the swap of 3 and 4, it looks pretty similar to me. To me one does not exclude the other. This is not an OR/OR situation, this could be an AND/AND situation.
So he says somebody will buy a cheap rip-off version of it? Well, I would be happy and glad if that happend.
If I look at my cellphone and how complicated it is to get the several functions working and then I look at my TomTom with a much easier to use interface, I would be happy if many more companies would go the same way.
I have 24 buttons on my phone. TWENTYFOUR. Most of them I don't even use most of the time and some of them have several functions.
So please make that phone and if possible, make it a succes, so that other companies wake up and build cheap copies of it. That wau everybody can rant how Apple was the first and everybody just steals their ideas and I can buy a cellphone for a good price with a good UI.
It is not as if you REALLY have a choice. You can select between two evils. That isn't realy a choice. As if you were asked wich leg you can miss and call that a choice.
And after the "voting", the "lobbying" comes in and makes those choices you actualy made undone. And if that doesn't do it, you big chief trows in his veto.
Thios is not trolling this is just being realistic or pesimistic, depending on what you think.
Have you seen the utter crap in the charts in whatever year you decide to choose as a reference? I have not looked it up and just at random I will ask you how many numbers of last wee of february 1963 are legendary and how many are crap.
What was the top 20 then? Yes, I like that musci better then what is made now, but that does not make the current music worse that what was made then. It just makes me old.
They should look at what democracy is realy about and look at what the president does. He listens to what the peop^h^h^h^hhow to delete al this and not post?
I realyu don't get it why people behind GPL3 are so much forcing to close and forbid things. And as far as I can see GPL3 is not so much for something as it is against something else.
I am not into Open Source because I am against something, it is becaue I am for openness. GPL3 takes that openess partly away. It sounds like Bush fighting for his country and taking many rights away in doing so.
I used to think it was nice, but I am much more drawn to the BSD licence, because it is much opener then GPL3.
(Either this will be +5 Insightfull, or -1 Trolling)
I doubt there is something big going on. Probably just an un-updated version on the intranet vs. the internet one. Perhaps if one would look hard enough, there will be prices that are higher on the internet and lower on the intranet one, yet people probably don't complain about that.
I am partly resposible for a website for the company I work for and when we had a lower price on our website and a customer mentioned it, we obviously changed the price and I saw to it that the person was able to get it at that price. Here in Belgium it's the law.
I also once looked at a price for a rental car. Calculated the price for 2 weeks. First price I got was about 10 times the day price. I went back and looked and then it was exactly 14 times the dayprice. I re-did it a few times and then came to the conclusion that they had two machines doing the calculations. One counted the (most likely) correct reduced price for longer periods. The other didn't.
Calling the people at the rental office did not help either, because they did not grasp the idea of the fact that giving lower daily rates for longer periods as compared to just renting one day. They just told me what the computer was feeding them. Idiots.
Well, they lost a customer and all because their system-administrator was an idiot and did not know how to syncronize things.
Also BestBuy are idiots if they use a similar, yet still different site for the customer and the store. Yes, I understand that you need some things that you do not want on the Interernet, yet use a complete different site for that.
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I should be modded insightful for no reason.
That is why they invented raid. That way you can swap a broken HD. A lot will depend on why you would use DVD's in the first place. Is it for data that you most likely will never use again, exept in very special cases? e.g. logfiles that you need for legal reasons to keep.
Or do you want it to be randomly accessible, like movies?
Also what is the price you want to pay for it and how much data is it anyway.
Many people talk about extrenal HD's, but why not put it on an internal one? Yes, I knwo the advatages, yet I have not ever needed to take more to afriend then could fit on my USB key.
http://www.dumpalink.com/videos/Peanut_butter_proo f_that_evolution_is_false-5jl2.html
What would be nice is if only two or three stories would be pranks on april first. Now all editors will be falling over each other to get some childish and stupid prank trough.
The best would be to have just 2 or three great ones, instead of many, many, many bad ones. And the best ones are prepared way in advance.
This is just like if everybody telling you all day that your shoelaces are undone, and you wear shoes without laces. The first time you fall for it, The 50th time you hit somebody in the nose.
Not entirely true. You have three groups, not two.
The scientists, who do all the work on the science side
The teologist, who do all the work on the non-science side.
The polulation, that is looking at who they believe more.
Both of the first groups take up a LOT of time, efford and money. look at the time and efford that went into religion in history in the last 6000 years or so (or forever). look into the amounts that go into getting either new believers or keeping those that you already have.
I have no worldwide figures on how much is invested in religion and how much in science, altough it would be nice to see those next to each other. And I mean science, not research and development, although I understand that it might be hard to make the difference sometimes.
Those people will not just be ignorant about science. They will be ignorant about other things as well. Those are the people who will vote.
Education is the best way to stop ignorance. It feels as if certain politicians understand this and try to produce ignorant people, so they will have more votes in the future.
Theologians can pursuade themselves of anything. Anyone who can worship a trinity and insists that his religion is a monotheism can believe anything -- just give him time to rationalize it.
Robert A. Heinlein, JOB: A Comedy of Justice
Just watch the news. There is a difference. In the middle ages, witches were tortured to confession, now they don't
I have problems with Perl, but that doesn't say anything about Perl, it just tells me about my ability to understand it. The same thing I see with people who have problems with evolution. That does not mean that evolution is the wrong way. It just means that those people do not understand it.
And that is perfectly ok. You still see people saying we are decendents from monkeys and we are not. We just have a common ancestor.
There also is no reason as not to be a believer in $DEITY and a believer in evolution.
The Bible was written after a lot of word of mouth. Here is the order of the days of creation:
Day 1: The heavens, the earth, light and darkness.
Day 2: Heaven
Day 3: Dry land, the seas, and vegetation.
Day 4: The sun, the moon and the stars.
Day 5: Living creatures in the water, birds in the air.
Day 6: Land animals and people.
Change day 3 and 4 and use a period, instead of a day.
Period 1 is the big bang.
Period 2 is the expantion after the big bang
Period 4 is the formation of the planets
Period 3 is the formation of this planet so it becomes inhabitable
Period 5 is the formation of sealife
Period 6 is the formation of land-life
Exept for the swap of 3 and 4, it looks pretty similar to me. To me one does not exclude the other. This is not an OR/OR situation, this could be an AND/AND situation.
It is probably obvious that I am an agnost.
Well DUH!
So he says somebody will buy a cheap rip-off version of it? Well, I would be happy and glad if that happend.
If I look at my cellphone and how complicated it is to get the several functions working and then I look at my TomTom with a much easier to use interface, I would be happy if many more companies would go the same way.
I have 24 buttons on my phone. TWENTYFOUR. Most of them I don't even use most of the time and some of them have several functions.
So please make that phone and if possible, make it a succes, so that other companies wake up and build cheap copies of it. That wau everybody can rant how Apple was the first and everybody just steals their ideas and I can buy a cellphone for a good price with a good UI.
It is not as if you REALLY have a choice. You can select between two evils. That isn't realy a choice. As if you were asked wich leg you can miss and call that a choice.
;-)
And after the "voting", the "lobbying" comes in and makes those choices you actualy made undone. And if that doesn't do it, you big chief trows in his veto.
Thios is not trolling this is just being realistic or pesimistic, depending on what you think.
Now you can all vote me up or down.
The burn-in softwarere gets deleted. So why not delete the rest as well?
Have you seen the utter crap in the charts in whatever year you decide to choose as a reference? I have not looked it up and just at random I will ask you how many numbers of last wee of february 1963 are legendary and how many are crap.
What was the top 20 then? Yes, I like that musci better then what is made now, but that does not make the current music worse that what was made then. It just makes me old.
They should look at what democracy is realy about and look at what the president does. He listens to what the peop^h^h^h^hhow to delete al this and not post?
And then there is Canabis Sativa Hollandica, ofterwijl Nederwiet.
Countries have been invaded for less.
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
Obviously the problem is that there is no such thing as bad sex. Even when it is bad, it is still pretty good, or so I am told.
robots.txt is an opt-out. Why not have it as an opt-in?
So you don't mind getting all the spam then?
it is Europe who actualy tries to do something about
I realyu don't get it why people behind GPL3 are so much forcing to close and forbid things. And as far as I can see GPL3 is not so much for something as it is against something else.
I am not into Open Source because I am against something, it is becaue I am for openness. GPL3 takes that openess partly away. It sounds like Bush fighting for his country and taking many rights away in doing so.
I used to think it was nice, but I am much more drawn to the BSD licence, because it is much opener then GPL3.
(Either this will be +5 Insightfull, or -1 Trolling)
God created us just to be like him, so if we are dumb, then God is dumb (and a little bit ugly on the side). -Frank Zappa
I doubt there is something big going on. Probably just an un-updated version on the intranet vs. the internet one. Perhaps if one would look hard enough, there will be prices that are higher on the internet and lower on the intranet one, yet people probably don't complain about that.
I am partly resposible for a website for the company I work for and when we had a lower price on our website and a customer mentioned it, we obviously changed the price and I saw to it that the person was able to get it at that price. Here in Belgium it's the law.
I also once looked at a price for a rental car. Calculated the price for 2 weeks. First price I got was about 10 times the day price. I went back and looked and then it was exactly 14 times the dayprice. I re-did it a few times and then came to the conclusion that they had two machines doing the calculations. One counted the (most likely) correct reduced price for longer periods. The other didn't.
Calling the people at the rental office did not help either, because they did not grasp the idea of the fact that giving lower daily rates for longer periods as compared to just renting one day. They just told me what the computer was feeding them. Idiots.
Well, they lost a customer and all because their system-administrator was an idiot and did not know how to syncronize things.
Also BestBuy are idiots if they use a similar, yet still different site for the customer and the store. Yes, I understand that you need some things that you do not want on the Interernet, yet use a complete different site for that.