A few years ago my friend was visiting his family in Texas, and his uncle owned a large plot of land they hunted on. He brought his.270 and 12 gauge shotgun. They made him show they were clear at the baggage check, so he is sitting there manipulating the bolts on these weapons right at the airport counter. People standing in line had that "WTF?" look on their faces as this dude in shorts/t-shirt is playing with a rifle in front of them.
I fly a lot in the gulf and India and the people's behavior is horrible. When they announce the flight everyone jumps up and starts pushing. It is the same as the driving here, get yours first and fuck everyone else
My most interesting flight was on Turkish airlines flying in to Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. I was told to expect this by my boss (who had flown the same flight a month earlier). No sooner had the wheels touched down, all the locals started getting out of their seats and getting their luggage from the overhead bins. After about a minute of trying to get them to sit back down, the flight attendants gave up. So for the whole 5 minute taxi 90% of the passengers were already clogging the aisles. But as we were pulling up to the jetway, the pilot gave them all a nice "fuck you" by performing a brake check just before we pulled up.
Turns out, customs was so frickin terrible @ 2am that everyone mob rushed to get to the front of the custom line, or else it took about 2 hours to clear the airport. If you didn't already have a visa (most of my group didn't), you had to go to a separate window where there was only one person issuing airport visas for about 50 passengers. And no line, mob mentality there as well. One of my coworkers and I managed to shove ours in front of the officials face before a French tour guide dropped off the forms for his group of 8 people.
Thanks, you explained that better than I could have. I was basically going to say that each gear has that "sweet spot" rpm as far as fuel efficiency, and that the sweet spot of the highest gear is where you get the best mpg.
'93 LX 2.3L coupe. Zero mods. I was stationed in the BFE deserts of California (round trip to the mall in Palm Springs was 144 miles). I kept track of my mileage each tank of gas as well as what type of driving I was doing (in-town vs long highway drives). My numbers are accurate.
I remember when supposedly the speed limits on freeways was 55mph in the interests of getting better gas mileage.
I had a Mustang (4-banger) that got its best mpg @ 70mph (24mpg@55 vs 35 mpg@70, down to 18mpg@75). My current car gets it best mpg @ 75mph (29-30mpg).
Then that goes back to my original point that is it more than just buying a disk and having a monkey copying data onto it.
I'm sure Google's clusters are a little more sophisticated than that, and that they would still charge a pretty penny to provided long term archival storage of hundreds of TB of data that required 100% data guarantee.
OK, just take this little scenario: someone else posted about Spiderman 3 having 4TB of raw digital data, how would you store that data in such a way that the next time you need to access it you are guaranteed no degradation?
As I responded to someone else who mitigated costs in the same manner:
If your business machine depends guaranteed access to millions of $$ of digital IP, are you going to rely on "minimum-wage drive jockeys" swapping out cheap disks to archive your data?
I agree that you could mitigate a lot of the costs, but as a film company if my reason for existence is to make money from billions of dollars in films, I am going to have a system in place to damn well make sure I NEVER lose a single bit of data from all that money making IP. And that costs $$$.
I said it was a WAG, for all I know they do store the stuff on plastic. However, the summary mentioned that costs skyrocket when storing the data from a 100% all-digital, so to me that implies a system that meets the needs from filming to production to editing to distribution to storage.
I'll agree that once a film has finished its useful life, it would probably be archived onto some sort of cold storage (plastic, or spun-down drives on 2nd/3rd tier storage), but during its active money-producing life, what I detailed is nowhere near unreasonable.
Just a complete WAG here by someone who has no knowledge of the exact process:
It is not just buying another drive. Other costs include: - power for the drive(s) - power for the server(s) using the drive(s) - costs of the backup architecture for DR - costs of cooling the datacenter housing all of the above - maintenance agreement costs for all of the above - costs related to the admins who manage all of the above (salary, benefits, etc.)
I am missing quite a few things in there as well, such as off-siting DR copies of the data and content management software to actually manage the digital storage.
Of course, a lot of what I listed are pretty much fixed costs that can be spread/amortized over every digital copy being preserved, but 100% guaranteed non-corrupt storage of digital data is not cheap by any means. It takes a little more than just installing a linux box and slapping a few 1TB SATA drives in a raid.
Obviously you, as well as a ton of others who are posting, didn't bother to RTFA.
It is quite clear that book 12 is the last, this author was chosen by Jordan's widow personally to finish it, and there is an extensive set of notes, including numerous chapters already written, for the new author to work from.
I would extend that further and say that most employees who currently have desktops don't need a complete PC at their desk. Thin clients would serve their needs.
And before the vitriol responses start, I said MOST, not ALL. Power Users, scientific workstations, etc, are obvious exceptions.
Their top speed is classified, but it is probably safe to assume they can outrun their battlegroup if necessary. And that's just the surface.
A former coworker of mine was on a carrier that at one point indeed did outrun its escort ships. According to him, the rooster tail of the wake was almost at the level of the flight deck (taking into account that the back end was lower in the water at that speed).
When my friend's GF was in college, 2 of her roommates were a lesbian couple, one of which worked at a pizza place. Apparently once after she had been slicing up jalapenos all day she didn't wash her hands very good. Made for an interesting story after a couple of beers.
While in the Marines, as part of a security school we all got the "opportunity" to get hit with pepper spray. Our training said the same thing, that some people are not effected by it, and that an extremely small percentage will have a massively adverse reaction to it.
I hated it enough that I told myself if I ever saw a cop come out with pepper spray I would very quickly do what he says, since I doubt he would walk me by the hand afterwards to a bucket of water and help me clear out my eyes like they did in the course.
The people most affected by it were the brothers who had bad razor bumps. My Staff Sergeant was reduced to being a bawling bitch for about an hour. And I mean crying like a baby. Was pretty embarrassing for him since he was the boss and everyone got to see him like that.
We also had one guy who got sprayed in the eyes, no effect, sprayed directly in the mouth, no effect, they even used 2 other brands of sprays on him. His response was that it "tasted like shit, Sergeant".
Needless to say, the other 120 of us who got affected by it wanted to kill him...
"Without the law, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Mr. McConnell said the nation would lose "50 percent of our ability to track, understand and know about these terrorists, what they're doing to train, what they're doing to recruit and what they're doing to try to get into this country.'"
But let's looks at the tradeoffs: - less government monitoring my actions - when they do, there is accountability since they have to go through courts again - one more thing taken away from the gov't that someone can abuse for personal/political gain.
Fair trade to me. I feel more unsafe now than before the attacks, but now I am more afraid of my government than the.00000001% chance I might meet up with a "terrorist".
You linked to an article from 2005...ZFS has been in Solaris 10 since update 2 (06/06). New features, enhancements, and optimizations appeared in update 3 (11/06). It just will not be available as a booting FS until sometime in 2007.
The OpenSolaris project is currently working on getting bootable ZFS support (available in the current release as experimental).
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But look at all the DRM technology they built into every layer of the APIs!
A few years ago my friend was visiting his family in Texas, and his uncle owned a large plot of land they hunted on. He brought his .270 and 12 gauge shotgun. They made him show they were clear at the baggage check, so he is sitting there manipulating the bolts on these weapons right at the airport counter. People standing in line had that "WTF?" look on their faces as this dude in shorts/t-shirt is playing with a rifle in front of them.
My most interesting flight was on Turkish airlines flying in to Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. I was told to expect this by my boss (who had flown the same flight a month earlier). No sooner had the wheels touched down, all the locals started getting out of their seats and getting their luggage from the overhead bins. After about a minute of trying to get them to sit back down, the flight attendants gave up. So for the whole 5 minute taxi 90% of the passengers were already clogging the aisles. But as we were pulling up to the jetway, the pilot gave them all a nice "fuck you" by performing a brake check just before we pulled up.
Turns out, customs was so frickin terrible @ 2am that everyone mob rushed to get to the front of the custom line, or else it took about 2 hours to clear the airport. If you didn't already have a visa (most of my group didn't), you had to go to a separate window where there was only one person issuing airport visas for about 50 passengers. And no line, mob mentality there as well. One of my coworkers and I managed to shove ours in front of the officials face before a French tour guide dropped off the forms for his group of 8 people.
Thanks, you explained that better than I could have. I was basically going to say that each gear has that "sweet spot" rpm as far as fuel efficiency, and that the sweet spot of the highest gear is where you get the best mpg.
'93 LX 2.3L coupe. Zero mods. I was stationed in the BFE deserts of California (round trip to the mall in Palm Springs was 144 miles). I kept track of my mileage each tank of gas as well as what type of driving I was doing (in-town vs long highway drives). My numbers are accurate.
I remember when supposedly the speed limits on freeways was 55mph in the interests of getting better gas mileage.
I had a Mustang (4-banger) that got its best mpg @ 70mph (24mpg@55 vs 35 mpg@70, down to 18mpg@75). My current car gets it best mpg @ 75mph (29-30mpg).
Then that goes back to my original point that is it more than just buying a disk and having a monkey copying data onto it.
I'm sure Google's clusters are a little more sophisticated than that, and that they would still charge a pretty penny to provided long term archival storage of hundreds of TB of data that required 100% data guarantee.
Karma bonus?
OK, just take this little scenario: someone else posted about Spiderman 3 having 4TB of raw digital data, how would you store that data in such a way that the next time you need to access it you are guaranteed no degradation?
As I responded to someone else who mitigated costs in the same manner:
If your business machine depends guaranteed access to millions of $$ of digital IP, are you going to rely on "minimum-wage drive jockeys" swapping out cheap disks to archive your data?
I agree that you could mitigate a lot of the costs, but as a film company if my reason for existence is to make money from billions of dollars in films, I am going to have a system in place to damn well make sure I NEVER lose a single bit of data from all that money making IP. And that costs $$$.
I said it was a WAG, for all I know they do store the stuff on plastic. However, the summary mentioned that costs skyrocket when storing the data from a 100% all-digital, so to me that implies a system that meets the needs from filming to production to editing to distribution to storage.
I'll agree that once a film has finished its useful life, it would probably be archived onto some sort of cold storage (plastic, or spun-down drives on 2nd/3rd tier storage), but during its active money-producing life, what I detailed is nowhere near unreasonable.
Just a complete WAG here by someone who has no knowledge of the exact process:
It is not just buying another drive. Other costs include:
- power for the drive(s)
- power for the server(s) using the drive(s)
- costs of the backup architecture for DR
- costs of cooling the datacenter housing all of the above
- maintenance agreement costs for all of the above
- costs related to the admins who manage all of the above (salary, benefits, etc.)
I am missing quite a few things in there as well, such as off-siting DR copies of the data and content management software to actually manage the digital storage.
Of course, a lot of what I listed are pretty much fixed costs that can be spread/amortized over every digital copy being preserved, but 100% guaranteed non-corrupt storage of digital data is not cheap by any means. It takes a little more than just installing a linux box and slapping a few 1TB SATA drives in a raid.
Obviously you, as well as a ton of others who are posting, didn't bother to RTFA.
It is quite clear that book 12 is the last, this author was chosen by Jordan's widow personally to finish it, and there is an extensive set of notes, including numerous chapters already written, for the new author to work from.
I can't wait until it comes out.
Um,
A well designed architecture will mitigate the vast majority of those problems.
I would extend that further and say that most employees who currently have desktops don't need a complete PC at their desk. Thin clients would serve their needs.
And before the vitriol responses start, I said MOST, not ALL. Power Users, scientific workstations, etc, are obvious exceptions.
A former coworker of mine was on a carrier that at one point indeed did outrun its escort ships. According to him, the rooster tail of the wake was almost at the level of the flight deck (taking into account that the back end was lower in the water at that speed).
Nope, means they are coming after married people!
I feel a great disturbance in the Force. As if millions of geeks suddenly cried out in disappointment. I fear they will return to their basements.
When my friend's GF was in college, 2 of her roommates were a lesbian couple, one of which worked at a pizza place. Apparently once after she had been slicing up jalapenos all day she didn't wash her hands very good. Made for an interesting story after a couple of beers.
While in the Marines, as part of a security school we all got the "opportunity" to get hit with pepper spray. Our training said the same thing, that some people are not effected by it, and that an extremely small percentage will have a massively adverse reaction to it.
I hated it enough that I told myself if I ever saw a cop come out with pepper spray I would very quickly do what he says, since I doubt he would walk me by the hand afterwards to a bucket of water and help me clear out my eyes like they did in the course.
The people most affected by it were the brothers who had bad razor bumps. My Staff Sergeant was reduced to being a bawling bitch for about an hour. And I mean crying like a baby. Was pretty embarrassing for him since he was the boss and everyone got to see him like that.
We also had one guy who got sprayed in the eyes, no effect, sprayed directly in the mouth, no effect, they even used 2 other brands of sprays on him. His response was that it "tasted like shit, Sergeant".
Needless to say, the other 120 of us who got affected by it wanted to kill him...
My brand spanking new Macbook Pro just came in yesterday...replacing my Powerbook G4
I would sincerely hope people who get launched into space wouldn't be skittish about going on a rollercoaster...
Now my wife, on the other hand, would probably choose 'dying in a giant fireball' over riding a vertical rollercoaster...
Good point (no mod points or you'd get some.). Unregistered system DLLs didn't flag somewhere?
But let's looks at the tradeoffs:
- less government monitoring my actions
- when they do, there is accountability since they have to go through courts again
- one more thing taken away from the gov't that someone can abuse for personal/political gain.
Fair trade to me. I feel more unsafe now than before the attacks, but now I am more afraid of my government than the
You linked to an article from 2005...ZFS has been in Solaris 10 since update 2 (06/06). New features, enhancements, and optimizations appeared in update 3 (11/06). It just will not be available as a booting FS until sometime in 2007.
The OpenSolaris project is currently working on getting bootable ZFS support (available in the current release as experimental).