I've traced it down, It's the WD My Book series, with the exception of the "Essential". The "Pro", "Premium" and "World" editions all have a circular LED ring, though it still behaves similarly. These actually seem to be really nice external drives, a good range of IO options and a solid pedigree.
They're in free fall, as caused by gravitational attraction to the earth. However, because they're moving with another vector component (The 'sideways' bit) the net effect of the two forces is in more of an 'around' direction than a 'down' direction.
But if it's a SAN then you can stick it down in the basement or in your comms room (What, you don't have one?) and just hook it up over network. Gigabit ethernet is fine for most purposes, but if you're really using it for heavy lifting then you may as well invest in dual fibre IO.
You've clearly never changed a light bulb in a government institution. It's along the lines of risk assess the change, source the new bulb through your contractor, assemble a zip tower (ladders aren't safe), shut down power to the entire section of the building in case somebody turns the light on whilst you're working on it, remove the light bulb, carefully dispose of it in a dedicated bin (Glass!), make a record of that fact to please the auditors so they don't think you've got one too many light bulbs in the building, remove the new light bulb from packaging, make a note of its manufacture code, insert it into the fixture carefully, come down from the tower, turn on all the power to check it works, turn the light off again, go back up the tower to fit any shades or diffusers, come down, disassemble the tower, then record the entire thing in the health and safety paperwork.
Back on topic, I never said blades were perfect, but that they were getting a lot closer. Google uses network boot to literally unplug a dead machine from their datacentres and shove a new one in - it's reimaged and rebuilt automatically. Blades hand off things like power, network and other IO functions to their chassis. Combine the two and you're onto a winner.
A light requires electricity, a mounting socket, and a control mechanism. So does a blade server. And if one fails, you whip it out and slot in a new one. The infrastructure behind the blade is generally more reliable than the individual blades, and incorporates stuff like dual networking and redundant PSUs. Get them configured properly and you literally can put a 'blank' blade into the array and it'll be re-imaged as another mail server.
Exactly, media outlets, who as we all know are absolutely spot-on with terminology:D. It's possibly a transatlantic difference, or perhaps I've spent too long in theatres, but the phrase "cue up" just doesn't agree with me. Oh well.
Have you ever developed within the C#/XNA/.NET/DirectX framework?
The entire thing is abstracted away from the architecture, the code really doesn't give a damn if it's running on PowerPC in a 360 or an x86 in a PC. The changes needing to be made are usually very small relative to the entire project (UI tweaks, save games etc).
I disagree. You can't 'cue up' something, you can only 'cue' it. Not sure what's going on in the usage 3. in the dictionary entry, I've worked in venues involving large cue sets of video, audio, effects and actors and never once heard the term 'cue up'. You can 'cue ' most professional grade audio equipment (CD/MiniDisk/decks) ready for cueing later, although this may be a UK/US difference.
So, the jokes would be 'queued', as in placed into a queue for cueing later. He could 'cue the jokes' or 'queue up the jokes', but not 'cue up' the jokes.
Nah. Variation on the scheme, you split the boarding area/lounge for each flight into a number of 'zones' depending on the size of the flight. At the entrance to the boarding area is a barcode scanning terminal which checks your combined pass and intelligently tells you which zone to go sit in. You can then call passengers by zone. For example, depending on the size of the flight, the seating arrangement, the number of people who have arrived through check-in, families etc it can build an optimised loading plan on-the-fly. Perhaps doing clever things like alternate rows, so you don't have too many people trying to get to the lockers at once, or automatically moving families to the first zone (Or even loading families in the front half at the same time as alternate rows of lone passengers in the second half, leaving the front half single traveller seats free for the late arrivals zone).
If it's done properly you don't even need to know your seat numbers until the time you arrive at the departure scanner. Hook it up to your proposed single-barcode checkpointing and you could even have it dynamically re-allocate seating and loading plans based not only on who is meant to be on the flight, but which groups and types of traveller are where in the departure process. For example, if somebody is held up at security it will automatically move them into the last loading zone and move them to an aisle seat. The only place where a seat and loading zone is confirmed is when the person actually arrives at the departure lounge.
I absolutely agree with your "big PDA" comment. It's amazing for holidays and weekends away where you don't want to take your full-blown laptop with all associated rubbish. I can sling an EeePC in my backpack and head off hiking with no worries, it can charge overnight at youth hostels and is great for keeping in touch and offloading/managing photos from my camera. It's taken a few knocks and been through temperature fluctuations, and still works perfectly. The neoprene sleeves are nice as well.
It's not just you, that rule does actually mean "Students shall not inform anybody of any bomb or explosive, even if it is real, the student saw people put it in place, it's big, black, has a fizzing fuse and says "ACME Explosives" on the side".
Plants have certain power capacities, and they run 24/7. You what? Power plants tend to ramp their capacity up or down depending on demand in the local area. The grid provides for unexpected fluctuations or surges, but ultimately (Especially with gas or oil powered stations) the number of boilers in action or turbines in operation varies with the time of day and year. A boiler might be offline for most of the summer for maintenance without any problems, only being brought back online for winter. A turbine (Or bank of) will probably be offline in the middle of the day and a few off again late at night.
It's not an instant on/off and takes a while to switch, but to say a power plant remains constant 24/7 is just plain wrong.
I've never had to do cute IQ-test-like problems in science lessons. IQ tests involved some kind of thought processes, science papers revolve around repeating facts or plugging numbers into an equation. Sometimes, to be really nasty, they make it so equations must be rearranged or derived.
I just showed that to my roommate who is also doing a computing degree. He said "What the fuck does that all mean?".
That is why Linux hasn't taken off. The average user doesn't give two shits if they compile --with-this or --without-that. They don't want to have to delve into the command line to install what should be simple utilities or change simple options. They want a good, solid OS which doesn't rely on them knowing they have to ls -a to just find the config files which has a simple, reliable and intercompatible installation method. Some distros are getting close, but they seem to be being plugged by geeks who spout on about "It's so configurable" or "You can change the code if it doesn't do what you want" to people who haven't even changed their desktop background on Windows.
I was just wondering that myself. Other points, from the article:
It would have the striking design to make an impression in a mobile market dominated by fashion phones... Eh? It looks like something you get free in a cereal packet. Wasting half the form factor on a pointless grille != good design.
...it would instantly be the coolest phone on the market thanks to the popularity of the Alienware brand... No, it would be bought by a few die-hard Alienware fanatics who don't mind trading features for silly design. It looks like it's got relief details on that fascia, they snag in your pocket. This is not a cool design, no matter how many blinky lights it has.
...it would have the marketing muscle of Dell behind it to push it beyond its established niche and into the mainstream... It would have to play on the Alienware brand which at the moment, at least in tech circles, has connotations of overpricing. For Joe Public, I doubt they would see the point in this phone because it would have the 'Gaming' association of Alienware.
...and it would be the mobile gamer's dream, just as video gaming on mobile phones is starting to enter the picture. I don't know how they work this out. Video gaming on mobile phones isn't starting to enter the picture at all, because most people only want their phones to play idle games of Snake on at most. Hardcore mobile gamers would want something easy to play on, the design of this doesn't look to offer much hope of that. More intense gamers wouldn't care for the tiny screen and poor quality graphics, and to make it even stand a chance at reasonable gaming it would sacrifice loads of battery. Perhaps that's why it has the grille, it's to fit a huge battery pack behind.
...learning to play videogames is considerably easier than developing an appreciation for literature of any kind. Yes, so? Learning to read literature of any kind is considerably easier than developing an appreciation for it. Most gamers I know have very little appreciation for games other than "Check this awesome physics" or "look at the bump mapping with 17 quadrillion triangles!". Nobody ever says "That is an amazing piece of level design, see how it flows from one section to the next and leads the player through?" or "This is an amazing piece of character building".
I love reading, have done since I was very young, and enjoy a good book. I would even say I'm capable of appreciating good books, but it took time and experience of a wide variety of literature to get to that point. Likewise with games, I've been playing them since I was young (Not as young as reading), but it took time and experience of a wide variety of games to build an appreciation for the good and a dislike of the bad.
Any idiot can grab a controller and race around in Need for Speed Diamond eXtreme Carbon 16 Special Edition 2 and call it a masterpiece of gaming, but people can also grab Billie Piper's autobiography and call it a triumph of self-expression through writing.
I agree, but installing devices to try repel teenagers from those locations isn't such a good idea. I'm 20 (Oh no, young adult who doesn't understand the big world!) who, living at uni away from home, makes heavy use of public transport to get around. These bloody things drive me absolutely insane. I see no good reason why I should have some device chirping in my ear every second whilst I'm waiting for a train, even if it does repel the idiots who would graffiti the platform.
If you want to treat the kids like the animals they are, go use some harsh words and some action instead of putting up a bleeping box made from 50p worth of electronics which manages to piss off the 90% of the people who can hear it and are trying to get on with their lives.
If you can get anything manufactured at the time of ENIAC (Including, but not limited to, ENIAC) then i'll be impressed. Most of the security would assume such a complex mess of wires and components in such a non-modern case must clearly be a bomb or some form of cyberterrorism device.
Makes no difference at all. What you're talking about is roughly analogous to "This was first published on Royal paper with a 12pt serif font, so if I publish it on Crown Quarto in a 10pt sans-serif it's a different text!"
As for the cropping/filters there is existing legislation about derivative works in music, art and literature which varies by country.
Slashdot Mirror
Nah, X is 60-70s, Y is the late 70s to mid 90s. Millennials are the people who grew up alongside the internet, so mid-80s onwards.
I've traced it down, It's the WD My Book series, with the exception of the "Essential". The "Pro", "Premium" and "World" editions all have a circular LED ring, though it still behaves similarly. These actually seem to be really nice external drives, a good range of IO options and a solid pedigree.
URL: http://www.wdmybook.com/
Can you link, or give a model number? I'm after a new external HDD (or two) and think that having useful lights on the front would be a big bonus.
They're in free fall, as caused by gravitational attraction to the earth. However, because they're moving with another vector component (The 'sideways' bit) the net effect of the two forces is in more of an 'around' direction than a 'down' direction.
But if it's a SAN then you can stick it down in the basement or in your comms room (What, you don't have one?) and just hook it up over network. Gigabit ethernet is fine for most purposes, but if you're really using it for heavy lifting then you may as well invest in dual fibre IO.
You've clearly never changed a light bulb in a government institution. It's along the lines of risk assess the change, source the new bulb through your contractor, assemble a zip tower (ladders aren't safe), shut down power to the entire section of the building in case somebody turns the light on whilst you're working on it, remove the light bulb, carefully dispose of it in a dedicated bin (Glass!), make a record of that fact to please the auditors so they don't think you've got one too many light bulbs in the building, remove the new light bulb from packaging, make a note of its manufacture code, insert it into the fixture carefully, come down from the tower, turn on all the power to check it works, turn the light off again, go back up the tower to fit any shades or diffusers, come down, disassemble the tower, then record the entire thing in the health and safety paperwork.
Back on topic, I never said blades were perfect, but that they were getting a lot closer. Google uses network boot to literally unplug a dead machine from their datacentres and shove a new one in - it's reimaged and rebuilt automatically. Blades hand off things like power, network and other IO functions to their chassis. Combine the two and you're onto a winner.
In answer to C), blade servers are getting close.
A light requires electricity, a mounting socket, and a control mechanism. So does a blade server. And if one fails, you whip it out and slot in a new one. The infrastructure behind the blade is generally more reliable than the individual blades, and incorporates stuff like dual networking and redundant PSUs. Get them configured properly and you literally can put a 'blank' blade into the array and it'll be re-imaged as another mail server.
Exactly, media outlets, who as we all know are absolutely spot-on with terminology :D. It's possibly a transatlantic difference, or perhaps I've spent too long in theatres, but the phrase "cue up" just doesn't agree with me. Oh well.
Have you ever developed within the C#/XNA/.NET/DirectX framework?
The entire thing is abstracted away from the architecture, the code really doesn't give a damn if it's running on PowerPC in a 360 or an x86 in a PC. The changes needing to be made are usually very small relative to the entire project (UI tweaks, save games etc).
I disagree. You can't 'cue up' something, you can only 'cue' it. Not sure what's going on in the usage 3. in the dictionary entry, I've worked in venues involving large cue sets of video, audio, effects and actors and never once heard the term 'cue up'. You can 'cue
' most professional grade audio equipment (CD/MiniDisk/decks) ready for cueing later, although this may be a UK/US difference.
So, the jokes would be 'queued', as in placed into a queue for cueing later. He could 'cue the jokes' or 'queue up the jokes', but not 'cue up' the jokes.
And I think my brain is leaking from my ears.
Nah. Variation on the scheme, you split the boarding area/lounge for each flight into a number of 'zones' depending on the size of the flight. At the entrance to the boarding area is a barcode scanning terminal which checks your combined pass and intelligently tells you which zone to go sit in. You can then call passengers by zone. For example, depending on the size of the flight, the seating arrangement, the number of people who have arrived through check-in, families etc it can build an optimised loading plan on-the-fly. Perhaps doing clever things like alternate rows, so you don't have too many people trying to get to the lockers at once, or automatically moving families to the first zone (Or even loading families in the front half at the same time as alternate rows of lone passengers in the second half, leaving the front half single traveller seats free for the late arrivals zone).
If it's done properly you don't even need to know your seat numbers until the time you arrive at the departure scanner. Hook it up to your proposed single-barcode checkpointing and you could even have it dynamically re-allocate seating and loading plans based not only on who is meant to be on the flight, but which groups and types of traveller are where in the departure process. For example, if somebody is held up at security it will automatically move them into the last loading zone and move them to an aisle seat. The only place where a seat and loading zone is confirmed is when the person actually arrives at the departure lounge.
I absolutely agree with your "big PDA" comment. It's amazing for holidays and weekends away where you don't want to take your full-blown laptop with all associated rubbish. I can sling an EeePC in my backpack and head off hiking with no worries, it can charge overnight at youth hostels and is great for keeping in touch and offloading/managing photos from my camera. It's taken a few knocks and been through temperature fluctuations, and still works perfectly. The neoprene sleeves are nice as well.
Further clarification to preempt the "what is it for then?" people - the X is "10" as in Roman numerals. OS 10. To replace System 9.
It's not just you, that rule does actually mean "Students shall not inform anybody of any bomb or explosive, even if it is real, the student saw people put it in place, it's big, black, has a fizzing fuse and says "ACME Explosives" on the side".
It's not an instant on/off and takes a while to switch, but to say a power plant remains constant 24/7 is just plain wrong.
It greatly diminishes the effectiveness of the condom as well, increasing the risk of splitting.
I've never had to do cute IQ-test-like problems in science lessons. IQ tests involved some kind of thought processes, science papers revolve around repeating facts or plugging numbers into an equation. Sometimes, to be really nasty, they make it so equations must be rearranged or derived.
Google isn't pretending to be a common carrier, and I'm not paying Google to use their service.
I just showed that to my roommate who is also doing a computing degree. He said "What the fuck does that all mean?".
That is why Linux hasn't taken off. The average user doesn't give two shits if they compile --with-this or --without-that. They don't want to have to delve into the command line to install what should be simple utilities or change simple options. They want a good, solid OS which doesn't rely on them knowing they have to ls -a to just find the config files which has a simple, reliable and intercompatible installation method. Some distros are getting close, but they seem to be being plugged by geeks who spout on about "It's so configurable" or "You can change the code if it doesn't do what you want" to people who haven't even changed their desktop background on Windows.
...it would instantly be the coolest phone on the market thanks to the popularity of the Alienware brand... No, it would be bought by a few die-hard Alienware fanatics who don't mind trading features for silly design. It looks like it's got relief details on that fascia, they snag in your pocket. This is not a cool design, no matter how many blinky lights it has.
...it would have the marketing muscle of Dell behind it to push it beyond its established niche and into the mainstream... It would have to play on the Alienware brand which at the moment, at least in tech circles, has connotations of overpricing. For Joe Public, I doubt they would see the point in this phone because it would have the 'Gaming' association of Alienware.
...and it would be the mobile gamer's dream, just as video gaming on mobile phones is starting to enter the picture. I don't know how they work this out. Video gaming on mobile phones isn't starting to enter the picture at all, because most people only want their phones to play idle games of Snake on at most. Hardcore mobile gamers would want something easy to play on, the design of this doesn't look to offer much hope of that. More intense gamers wouldn't care for the tiny screen and poor quality graphics, and to make it even stand a chance at reasonable gaming it would sacrifice loads of battery. Perhaps that's why it has the grille, it's to fit a huge battery pack behind.
...learning to play videogames is considerably easier than developing an appreciation for literature of any kind. Yes, so? Learning to read literature of any kind is considerably easier than developing an appreciation for it. Most gamers I know have very little appreciation for games other than "Check this awesome physics" or "look at the bump mapping with 17 quadrillion triangles!". Nobody ever says "That is an amazing piece of level design, see how it flows from one section to the next and leads the player through?" or "This is an amazing piece of character building".I love reading, have done since I was very young, and enjoy a good book. I would even say I'm capable of appreciating good books, but it took time and experience of a wide variety of literature to get to that point. Likewise with games, I've been playing them since I was young (Not as young as reading), but it took time and experience of a wide variety of games to build an appreciation for the good and a dislike of the bad.
Any idiot can grab a controller and race around in Need for Speed Diamond eXtreme Carbon 16 Special Edition 2 and call it a masterpiece of gaming, but people can also grab Billie Piper's autobiography and call it a triumph of self-expression through writing.
I agree, but installing devices to try repel teenagers from those locations isn't such a good idea. I'm 20 (Oh no, young adult who doesn't understand the big world!) who, living at uni away from home, makes heavy use of public transport to get around. These bloody things drive me absolutely insane. I see no good reason why I should have some device chirping in my ear every second whilst I'm waiting for a train, even if it does repel the idiots who would graffiti the platform.
If you want to treat the kids like the animals they are, go use some harsh words and some action instead of putting up a bleeping box made from 50p worth of electronics which manages to piss off the 90% of the people who can hear it and are trying to get on with their lives.
It's called savings.
If you can get anything manufactured at the time of ENIAC (Including, but not limited to, ENIAC) then i'll be impressed. Most of the security would assume such a complex mess of wires and components in such a non-modern case must clearly be a bomb or some form of cyberterrorism device.
Makes no difference at all. What you're talking about is roughly analogous to "This was first published on Royal paper with a 12pt serif font, so if I publish it on Crown Quarto in a 10pt sans-serif it's a different text!"
As for the cropping/filters there is existing legislation about derivative works in music, art and literature which varies by country.