Sadly, lego these days seems to be made up of pre-made chunks. You know, the sort of thing where the kid is supposed to just join together 10 bits and voila! Plus, its really expensive.
I'm keeping all my lego technic for when I have children (or when I need to prototype something:)
Actually, I think you're wrong about the posters:). We can't see UV light at all, so we don't perceive it as white. When UV light hits those special posters, they fluoresc: The 'phosphers' in the poster absorb the UV light, then re-emit it as visible light (and lots of wavelengths are emmited, so we combine them as white)
Thanks, that sounds like a good sort of system. Good to have someone else describe it rather than just doing what seems right:).
How do you know something is corrupted though? Short of comparing the files to a backup, or a whole bunch of hashes...
Also, whats a good way of splitting the data across multiple CDRs? Putting them in an uncompressed RAR file seems the easiest, but I wonder if thats as reliable. (One bit gets screwed, the whole backup is gone, not sure how it archives it when its uncompressed...).
Once my exams are over I think I'll have to start finding ways of implementing this. Will probably have to make a program that does the time consuming stuff automatically.:)
Sounds like you know lots about backing up. I need some advice:)
I want to make sure a collection of documents,photos,videos and misc random stuff its accessible in the future. I'm constantly updating them (currently only at 1.6GB), so I currently I periodically back up the files onto a seperate HDD (same computer, I only have 1), and every few weeks I burn the lot onto a cdr.
When I 'backup' this stuff, I'm basically copying the originals again and again. If the originals get corrupted, I guess I'm sort of screwed.
Basically, I can't think of a good system that is reliable, easy and cheap. Should I be backing up using some sort of 'only copy if new' thing or what? I mean, what is a good system of backing stuff up? (Not what media or whatever as such, just the process) Any advice would be great (yeah, I know this is slashdot, but its worth a shot:P)
I should have said "Essentially an interest free loan" instead of "Basically its an interest free loan". Good point, but its still cheaper than a loan from a bank:)
The following are 2 excerpts from some random person's blog (well, journal), no idea where I found it, but can someone answer this: What language is this?
*** halo... im so veri pissed wif myself dis few daes... why? haiz... lotz of things hav been happening since i laz updated dis journal... i shant mention moz of them... coz.. i dun want to.. it makes mi feel lyk killing myself... arghz.. -=pissed=- haiz.. THe ConCerT == kinda ok.. wif some squeaks here n there... the solos, jy's n vivien's were so cool... sheryl's one, the american graf was nice.. erm, addicted to you.. kinda ok... yarh.. shiqi's one was ok.. alicia's was nice... jocelyn's was abit inaudible.. but the tone n rhythm was nice... yepz... tt's abt all rite? yarh...
dis is alot of updating alreadi... i mean.. i cant stand writing more... kk... cya. -= why does anione hav to care?if i dun care..i dun see y anione hav to... get loz if tt's wad u want...=-
*** halo... erm... yesyes.. i noe.. long tym nv update... too lazy... band has been lyk... horrible.. arghz... k... updating now.. as much as i can.. ok.. i tink all i can tok abt is band... coz.. holis onli got band.. yeah.. so can 4get it...
What is SWAG ? If thats an Aussie word, I've never heard it mentioned other than in reference to the bit of camping gear. (I'm west australian, dialects vary a fair bit, those funny easteners!).
Btw, whats the deal with your sig "...stupid is forever." Shouldn't that be "stupidity"? Or did I just make a fool of myself and miss the joke?:P
I'm an Aussie. A pom is a british person. Well, I guess only an english person, but its a slang term, could encompass all brits.
Compo is short for compensation. I don't have any experience with it myself, but I'm assuming its like the dole but with a bit more money, since you won't ever be able to get a job.
The dole is unemployment benefits/Social Security.
Incase anyone is interested (like, someone from a country without proper social security), I'm on Youth Allowance. I get paid money because I'm studying and my parents don't earn enough to support me (If my parents did, then I'd have to prove my independance from them).
Currently while I'm studying, the university costs are also paid for by the government via HECS. Basically its an interest free loan. Currently our goverment is trying to get rid of this system, not exactly sure why, probably don't want low-income earners to become educated.
By the way, regarding compo, it makes Australian's sound like they have the laziest workforce. Infact, we don't, I think we are close to the top when it comes to workhours. In the old days Australia was considered to be workers paradise, with extremely short working days etc, certainly isn't the case now, but some people seem to think it is.
I'm Australian too, I love our voting system. However, I'm not sure the US could adopt a similar system, because when you vote there, you vote for more than just the House of Reps. and the Senate like we do. They've also got to vote for lots of other stuff too. Can an american verify this please?:P
politically independent electoral authority
Wait...Are you saying that the US doesn't have this? WTF? How else could you organise it, other than with a independent authority? What, have the current party in power organise the voting system? I doubt the situation is that bad...Or is it? Can someone explain that to me?
Don't go outside! Theres germs everywhere! Don't go for a walk, you could trip over and hurt yourself! Don't open your eyes, you might go blind! Don't....
Risk is part of life. Some people can deal with greater risks than other people. Nothing will get done if no one takes any risks.
I dont't block ads (only pop-ups), for the reason grandparent said. So, naturally I see ads. Can someone please answer this question:
WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH 'FREE SMILEYS'!?!?! ARGHHHHhhh. I see ads for them everywhere, anyone bothered to click through and see what the hell its about? I mean, gee whizz yellow cartoon faces.../endrant
Seriously though, anyone know what the deal with them is?:P
Yes, you're the public sector has down all the hard yards in terms of space research. A more constructive thing for me to say would be the cost of private sub-orbital flight is far less than public sub-orbital flight right now. I doubt NASA could have completed the requirements for the X-prize using only $20 million (No, I'm not suggesting anything would be gained by them trying to).
Spaceship one only cost something like $20 million. How much money do you think the Soviet Union spent on in 40+ years ago? I don't know the figures, but I'm guessing its far far more than $20 million.
The amount of money was pretty small. Thats the point of privitization, the price goes down due to neccessity
I hope the a similar thing to the x-prize continues. The next big thing is getting into orbit (far more difficult than the sub-orbital flight, which was still very difficult).
The winning of the x-prize is step one. Hopefully, we'll see more progress in the years to come.
But yeah, it is a shame this hasn't happened sooner.
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Ah yes. Thats a good point. Games shouldn't have such deliberate humour if you have to keep doing the same thing again and again. Guess thats a hard decision to make, but it makes you wonder if that sort of research goes into game development.
I've never been a big fan of single player games, although I must mention that Star Control II was awesome (yes, very old too:P)
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Why exactly does a game need to be playable many, many times? Most single player games are only played once.As someone else pointed out, multiplayer games, on the other hand, can have player-created humour.
Those were some damn good books. Of course, I stopped reading them about 1/4 of the way through Blue mars, god sort of dull. Can't remember any of it now though, maybe its time to go read it again.
On that note, are there any other good fictions based on mars around that anyone can recommend?
Yes, but lets not go calling the US stupid. The election was fairly close (well, not as close as the last election, so thats a bit odd) so its not like everyone in the US voted for bush.
And those who voted for bush might not be stupid, or even poorly educated. Lets look at an analogy:
You are stuck in room with no door and the only way you can observe the outside world is through a tv screen. You have no control over whats displayed on the tv screen. Sure, you might be skeptical, and not believe everything you see on it at first. However, having nothing to compare it to, you may eventually start believing it. After all, whos to say its wrong? The tv keeps saying its independant.
Ok, pretty stupid analogy which is obvious, but its not always the people's fault. Sure they could go and find some other source of information, but...ok, maybe it is partially their fault:P But...Hrmm, I'm running out of reasons to excuse the US population of immiment world destruction.
Anyway, I didn't vote. I wasn't allowed to. I couldn't find any information about where to vote in my entire state! (Australia, it is a state of the US right?)
Heh. I remember we had to give a talk on something random in our English Lit. class. I talked about how the earth was a trianglular prism (or some shape like that). The teacher was a flat-earther. I used lots of techno-babble and came out with a rather convincing explanation:P Certainly made the teacher look like an idiot.
Perhaps. But I read something about testing the age of something by checking the levels of radioactive isotypes in it. Anything before the 50s (ish) has much lower levels than anything after. Anyone care to back this up/refut it?
However oil production is due to peak soon. Although there may be heaps of oil in the wells, once your reach a certain point, it gets harder and harder to get the oil out, due to pressures and such. (The more oil you remove the harder it is to get the rest of the oil out). This means oil becomes more and more expense, to the point where its not economical to drill for much oil except for special reasons - Hence the oil runs out. (Earlier than studies based purely on the volume of oil in the wells say)
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Sadly, lego these days seems to be made up of pre-made chunks. You know, the sort of thing where the kid is supposed to just join together 10 bits and voila! Plus, its really expensive.
:)
I'm keeping all my lego technic for when I have children (or when I need to prototype something
Actually, I think you're wrong about the posters :). We can't see UV light at all, so we don't perceive it as white. When UV light hits those special posters, they fluoresc: The 'phosphers' in the poster absorb the UV light, then re-emit it as visible light (and lots of wavelengths are emmited, so we combine them as white)
Thanks, that sounds like a good sort of system. Good to have someone else describe it rather than just doing what seems right :).
:)
How do you know something is corrupted though? Short of comparing the files to a backup, or a whole bunch of hashes...
Also, whats a good way of splitting the data across multiple CDRs? Putting them in an uncompressed RAR file seems the easiest, but I wonder if thats as reliable. (One bit gets screwed, the whole backup is gone, not sure how it archives it when its uncompressed...).
Once my exams are over I think I'll have to start finding ways of implementing this. Will probably have to make a program that does the time consuming stuff automatically.
Sounds like you know lots about backing up. I need some advice :)
:P)
I want to make sure a collection of documents,photos,videos and misc random stuff its accessible in the future. I'm constantly updating them (currently only at 1.6GB), so I currently I periodically back up the files onto a seperate HDD (same computer, I only have 1), and every few weeks I burn the lot onto a cdr.
When I 'backup' this stuff, I'm basically copying the originals again and again. If the originals get corrupted, I guess I'm sort of screwed.
Basically, I can't think of a good system that is reliable, easy and cheap. Should I be backing up using some sort of 'only copy if new' thing or what? I mean, what is a good system of backing stuff up? (Not what media or whatever as such, just the process) Any advice would be great (yeah, I know this is slashdot, but its worth a shot
Ahhh, that makes more sense. Because 'swag' is an australian word, but used in a different context, confuzzled me!
I should have said "Essentially an interest free loan" instead of "Basically its an interest free loan". Good point, but its still cheaper than a loan from a bank :)
Starts with "Po" and earns in "rn". Thats right, Popcorn!
The following are 2 excerpts from some random person's blog (well, journal), no idea where I found it, but can someone answer this: What language is this?
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halo... im so veri pissed wif myself dis few daes... why? haiz... lotz of things hav been happening since i laz updated dis journal... i shant mention moz of them... coz.. i dun want to.. it makes mi feel lyk killing myself... arghz.. -=pissed=-
haiz..
THe ConCerT == kinda ok.. wif some squeaks here n there... the solos, jy's n vivien's were so cool... sheryl's one, the american graf was nice.. erm, addicted to you.. kinda ok... yarh.. shiqi's one was ok.. alicia's was nice... jocelyn's was abit inaudible.. but the tone n rhythm was nice... yepz... tt's abt all rite? yarh...
dis is alot of updating alreadi... i mean.. i cant stand writing more... kk... cya.
-= why does anione hav to care?if i dun care..i dun see y anione hav to... get loz if tt's wad u want...=-
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halo... erm... yesyes.. i noe.. long tym nv update... too lazy... band has been lyk... horrible.. arghz... k... updating now.. as much as i can.. ok.. i tink all i can tok abt is band... coz.. holis onli got band.. yeah.. so can 4get it...
What is SWAG ? If thats an Aussie word, I've never heard it mentioned other than in reference to the bit of camping gear. (I'm west australian, dialects vary a fair bit, those funny easteners!). Btw, whats the deal with your sig "...stupid is forever." Shouldn't that be "stupidity"? Or did I just make a fool of myself and miss the joke? :P
I'm an Aussie. A pom is a british person. Well, I guess only an english person, but its a slang term, could encompass all brits.
Compo is short for compensation. I don't have any experience with it myself, but I'm assuming its like the dole but with a bit more money, since you won't ever be able to get a job.
The dole is unemployment benefits/Social Security.
Incase anyone is interested (like, someone from a country without proper social security), I'm on Youth Allowance. I get paid money because I'm studying and my parents don't earn enough to support me (If my parents did, then I'd have to prove my independance from them).
Currently while I'm studying, the university costs are also paid for by the government via HECS. Basically its an interest free loan. Currently our goverment is trying to get rid of this system, not exactly sure why, probably don't want low-income earners to become educated.
By the way, regarding compo, it makes Australian's sound like they have the laziest workforce. Infact, we don't, I think we are close to the top when it comes to workhours. In the old days Australia was considered to be workers paradise, with extremely short working days etc, certainly isn't the case now, but some people seem to think it is.
Wait...Are you saying that the US doesn't have this? WTF? How else could you organise it, other than with a independent authority? What, have the current party in power organise the voting system? I doubt the situation is that bad...Or is it? Can someone explain that to me?
Don't go outside! Theres germs everywhere! Don't go for a walk, you could trip over and hurt yourself! Don't open your eyes, you might go blind! Don't ....
Risk is part of life. Some people can deal with greater risks than other people. Nothing will get done if no one takes any risks.
I dont't block ads (only pop-ups), for the reason grandparent said. So, naturally I see ads. Can someone please answer this question:
:P
WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH 'FREE SMILEYS'!?!?! ARGHHHHhhh. I see ads for them everywhere, anyone bothered to click through and see what the hell its about? I mean, gee whizz yellow cartoon faces.../endrant
Seriously though, anyone know what the deal with them is?
Sorry about the spelling mistakes, missing words and bad grammar in that post. Haven't had my morning coffee yet. :)
Yes, you're the public sector has down all the hard yards in terms of space research. A more constructive thing for me to say would be the cost of private sub-orbital flight is far less than public sub-orbital flight right now. I doubt NASA could have completed the requirements for the X-prize using only $20 million (No, I'm not suggesting anything would be gained by them trying to).
Spaceship one only cost something like $20 million. How much money do you think the Soviet Union spent on in 40+ years ago? I don't know the figures, but I'm guessing its far far more than $20 million.
The amount of money was pretty small. Thats the point of privitization, the price goes down due to neccessity
I hope the a similar thing to the x-prize continues. The next big thing is getting into orbit (far more difficult than the sub-orbital flight, which was still very difficult).
The winning of the x-prize is step one. Hopefully, we'll see more progress in the years to come.
But yeah, it is a shame this hasn't happened sooner.
Ah yes. Thats a good point. Games shouldn't have such deliberate humour if you have to keep doing the same thing again and again. Guess thats a hard decision to make, but it makes you wonder if that sort of research goes into game development.
:P)
I've never been a big fan of single player games, although I must mention that Star Control II was awesome (yes, very old too
Why exactly does a game need to be playable many, many times? Most single player games are only played once.As someone else pointed out, multiplayer games, on the other hand, can have player-created humour.
Those were some damn good books. Of course, I stopped reading them about 1/4 of the way through Blue mars, god sort of dull. Can't remember any of it now though, maybe its time to go read it again.
On that note, are there any other good fictions based on mars around that anyone can recommend?
Yes, but lets not go calling the US stupid. The election was fairly close (well, not as close as the last election, so thats a bit odd) so its not like everyone in the US voted for bush.
:P But...Hrmm, I'm running out of reasons to excuse the US population of immiment world destruction.
And those who voted for bush might not be stupid, or even poorly educated. Lets look at an analogy:
You are stuck in room with no door and the only way you can observe the outside world is through a tv screen. You have no control over whats displayed on the tv screen. Sure, you might be skeptical, and not believe everything you see on it at first. However, having nothing to compare it to, you may eventually start believing it. After all, whos to say its wrong? The tv keeps saying its independant.
Ok, pretty stupid analogy which is obvious, but its not always the people's fault. Sure they could go and find some other source of information, but...ok, maybe it is partially their fault
Anyway, I didn't vote. I wasn't allowed to. I couldn't find any information about where to vote in my entire state! (Australia, it is a state of the US right?)
Heh. I remember we had to give a talk on something random in our English Lit. class. I talked about how the earth was a trianglular prism (or some shape like that). The teacher was a flat-earther. I used lots of techno-babble and came out with a rather convincing explanation :P Certainly made the teacher look like an idiot.
Perhaps. But I read something about testing the age of something by checking the levels of radioactive isotypes in it. Anything before the 50s (ish) has much lower levels than anything after. Anyone care to back this up/refut it?
However oil production is due to peak soon. Although there may be heaps of oil in the wells, once your reach a certain point, it gets harder and harder to get the oil out, due to pressures and such. (The more oil you remove the harder it is to get the rest of the oil out). This means oil becomes more and more expense, to the point where its not economical to drill for much oil except for special reasons - Hence the oil runs out. (Earlier than studies based purely on the volume of oil in the wells say)