Do you have young children, and have you ever spent more than 2 hours in a minivan with them? Law requires me to be in the driver's seat, kids in the back seat. Kinda hard to entertain small children that way.
I agree that there may be other more worthwile forms of entertainment (books and travel games), which I have, but even those fade in time. A headrest monitor with DVD/whatever else capability is another tool in the box to keep your journey sane.
Now, as for the iPadd "killing" this, really??? I've seen dual monitor DVD kits for under $200, not sure how a $500 piece of hardware "kills" that. Shoot, I paid $400 for a laptop that often gets used a a backseat entertainment system, and has a lot more functionality than this Apple contraption.
* iPadd is a reflection of the fact that Apple has finally built a Star Trek TNG padd-like device that can actually be used as such for managing server farms. For this I give them credit.
Transporters on Star Trek were no better explained than hover-craft in Star Wars
In reality they were. Transporters on Star Trek are only one step ahead of what we could build today, and the only reason they don't work in real life is because of Heisenburg's principle. Heisenburg identified that you cannot measure the position and velocity of a molecule at the same time. You either know one or the other. Both are required for the transporter. Hence, Star Trek utilizes the "Heisenburg compensator".
Because the Enterpise often encountered species that were less knowledgeable, it was often that the crew would show off and explain their technology to other guests. Much different than Star Wars. The visiting species didn't want to learn about your tech, they wanted to kill you. By the time they "learned" of the tech, it was because it killed them.
I guess I should point out that my first copy of linux, Redhat 4.2, was purchased at Best Buy in 1997. I later bought 5.2. Back then you got a set of CDs, including source, a thick paper manual, and a Redhat sticker. Well worth the $30 or so I paid both times.
It might be all perception, but I see that the typical Slashdotter is in favor of more privacy and less government. On the average, the left wing liberals seem to have a better grasp on both of these things in the technical spectrum. Since most Slashdotters focus on the technical side of things, I think most Slashdotters lean to the left.
Now, of course, there's more to life than technical issues, which is why there's no perfect party. But that's another discussion.
Since I didn't know about this Act, I searched and found:
This nice writeup. Bottom line is, this guy's a federal employee soliciting funds and pushing a political agenda on work time.
This of course has nothing to do with blogging, as you could replace "blogging" with "making phone calls" or "mailing letters" or "stalking people at the coffee maker".
Everyone I know questioned WHY we were attacking Iraq in response to Al Quida. It appeared to be a smokescreen for something. Today, it still is. A nation in shambles, a ridiculous number of our military missing, oil prices that are obscene, and still, no idea why the hell we went there in the first place.
The whole "boycott the French" thing was just stupid. It was started by leaders who were either misinformed or looking for publicity. Now, excuse me while I eat some french fries (not freedom fries!).
Nationalism will always be, but what you're saying is flat out wrong. The United States leadership is a complete disaster. I support the troops, but I sure as hell don't support the people who sent them there.
I wouldn't call a SAN a "scam". You get what you pay for.
Want a big box full of disk, fully redundant (RAID 1,5,5+1,10, etc)? What it cheap? Got spare parts? Then, my friend, FreeNAS is for you. A homebrewed SAN that delivers enterprise capable performance for practically nothing.
Oh, you want FAST disk? OK, then you have to shell out for SAS or FC disk. Can still use FreeNAS, but now your hardware costs have gone up.
Your box has multile SAS controllers, multiple SAS drives, and now what? Gotta go external. More parts, more cost.
Want professional support on that FreeNAS box? Ummm... whooops. OK, then instead of FreeNAS let's go with Lefthand networks. Similar product to FreeNAS, but carries a price tag for support.
Wait, we just spent a lot of money to build a SAN to our liking. And it's still just a bunch of crap I cobbled together. May as well just have gone to a vendor like Xiotech, Compellent, NetAPP, Equalogic, whoever and bought the real thing.
Then enter larger corporations that have demand for high performance, full management, automatic everything, and of course a 24x7 tech-lives-onsite kind of contract. That's where EMC, HP, and the like have their products.
So you see, there's an option for every need. There's an option for every budget. Some people have a legitimate need to drop some cash on a big reliable SAN. Some don't. Pick your price, but don't call it a "scam".
Considering that Compellent and Xiotech both run Seagate disks, how is the "disk technology" better in Compellent? Keep in mind that Compellent is merely a consumer of Seagate disks, Xiotech now owns a piece of Seagate that makes this new SAN do what it does.
Also, doesn't Xioetch do automated tiers of storage (ILM or some weird acronym)?
Btw, I don't work for either of these companies, but I have evaluated both products extensively.
Even more important, the problem with asbestos is the PARTICLES. A big chunk of asbestos causes no harm, it's the little dust particles coming off of it.
Underwater, there is no dust. In fact, water is needed for proper removal. If you really think about it, the safest place to put asbestos is deep underwater.
Back in 1995, my friends and I were looking for domains to register. One of the domains we considered was pizza.com. We decided to skip it, as we didn't want to invest $35/yr on a domain we would probably never use.
OK, maybe not hate, but I fail to see the excitement around the Apple product line. "ooooohhhh shiny" seems to replace desire for features and functionality.
Google, yeah, they make great stuff. I don't use them because of marketing, I use them because they WORK. I use Google search because I haven't found a consistently better search engine. I use Gmail because it works, and I'm lazy. Google Earth is, at this time, a unique product, and I have relatively few issues with it. And it helps that these services are all free.
Will I some day hate Google? Oh, probably. I used to cling to Altavista until they went south. Will soemthing better come along? Yes. Is it here yet? I don't think so. Ask.com makes a decent search engine, as does ChaCha. I have yet to see consistency in quality search results, so I don't use them.
I use what I like. Today I like Google. Today I also like Lenovo for my computing needs, Sandisk for my music, and LG for my phone. Tomorrow that may change. Such is the world of competition.
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Do you have young children, and have you ever spent more than 2 hours in a minivan with them? Law requires me to be in the driver's seat, kids in the back seat. Kinda hard to entertain small children that way.
I agree that there may be other more worthwile forms of entertainment (books and travel games), which I have, but even those fade in time. A headrest monitor with DVD/whatever else capability is another tool in the box to keep your journey sane.
Now, as for the iPadd "killing" this, really??? I've seen dual monitor DVD kits for under $200, not sure how a $500 piece of hardware "kills" that. Shoot, I paid $400 for a laptop that often gets used a a backseat entertainment system, and has a lot more functionality than this Apple contraption.
* iPadd is a reflection of the fact that Apple has finally built a Star Trek TNG padd-like device that can actually be used as such for managing server farms. For this I give them credit.
That's why I stick to the tried and true Web 1.0. You know the old, boring web where "cool" was writing a submission script in perl.
Generator... check
Icom 746.... check
folding dipole... check
I'm sorry, what are these phone things you were talking about?
Transporters on Star Trek were no better explained than hover-craft in Star Wars
In reality they were. Transporters on Star Trek are only one step ahead of what we could build today, and the only reason they don't work in real life is because of Heisenburg's principle. Heisenburg identified that you cannot measure the position and velocity of a molecule at the same time. You either know one or the other. Both are required for the transporter. Hence, Star Trek utilizes the "Heisenburg compensator".
Because the Enterpise often encountered species that were less knowledgeable, it was often that the crew would show off and explain their technology to other guests. Much different than Star Wars. The visiting species didn't want to learn about your tech, they wanted to kill you. By the time they "learned" of the tech, it was because it killed them.
Check out the Emprise 7000. Scales from 1 TB to 1 PB
If you unracked it, you could squeeze it all into a single Volkswagon, yielding 100 Loc/VW (Libraries of Congress per Volkswagon).
I guess I should point out that my first copy of linux, Redhat 4.2, was purchased at Best Buy in 1997. I later bought 5.2. Back then you got a set of CDs, including source, a thick paper manual, and a Redhat sticker. Well worth the $30 or so I paid both times.
So.... how is this news?
It might be all perception, but I see that the typical Slashdotter is in favor of more privacy and less government. On the average, the left wing liberals seem to have a better grasp on both of these things in the technical spectrum. Since most Slashdotters focus on the technical side of things, I think most Slashdotters lean to the left.
Now, of course, there's more to life than technical issues, which is why there's no perfect party. But that's another discussion.
If you look to the right
This is Slashdot, everyone was looking to the left.
Since I didn't know about this Act, I searched and found:
This nice writeup. Bottom line is, this guy's a federal employee soliciting funds and pushing a political agenda on work time.
This of course has nothing to do with blogging, as you could replace "blogging" with "making phone calls" or "mailing letters" or "stalking people at the coffee maker".
Every American? HARDLY.
Everyone I know questioned WHY we were attacking Iraq in response to Al Quida. It appeared to be a smokescreen for something. Today, it still is. A nation in shambles, a ridiculous number of our military missing, oil prices that are obscene, and still, no idea why the hell we went there in the first place.
The whole "boycott the French" thing was just stupid. It was started by leaders who were either misinformed or looking for publicity. Now, excuse me while I eat some french fries (not freedom fries!).
Nationalism will always be, but what you're saying is flat out wrong. The United States leadership is a complete disaster. I support the troops, but I sure as hell don't support the people who sent them there.
There's an option in Group Policy to disable autorun on all drives.
Start --> Run --> gpedit.msc
Computer Configuration --> System --> Turn of Autoplay
Enable on all drives
You're right, this should be default, but at least there's a fix.
I wouldn't call a SAN a "scam". You get what you pay for.
Want a big box full of disk, fully redundant (RAID 1,5,5+1,10, etc)? What it cheap? Got spare parts? Then, my friend, FreeNAS is for you. A homebrewed SAN that delivers enterprise capable performance for practically nothing.
Oh, you want FAST disk? OK, then you have to shell out for SAS or FC disk. Can still use FreeNAS, but now your hardware costs have gone up.
Your box has multile SAS controllers, multiple SAS drives, and now what? Gotta go external. More parts, more cost.
Want professional support on that FreeNAS box? Ummm... whooops. OK, then instead of FreeNAS let's go with Lefthand networks. Similar product to FreeNAS, but carries a price tag for support.
Wait, we just spent a lot of money to build a SAN to our liking. And it's still just a bunch of crap I cobbled together. May as well just have gone to a vendor like Xiotech, Compellent, NetAPP, Equalogic, whoever and bought the real thing.
Then enter larger corporations that have demand for high performance, full management, automatic everything, and of course a 24x7 tech-lives-onsite kind of contract. That's where EMC, HP, and the like have their products.
So you see, there's an option for every need. There's an option for every budget. Some people have a legitimate need to drop some cash on a big reliable SAN. Some don't. Pick your price, but don't call it a "scam".
Considering that Compellent and Xiotech both run Seagate disks, how is the "disk technology" better in Compellent? Keep in mind that Compellent is merely a consumer of Seagate disks, Xiotech now owns a piece of Seagate that makes this new SAN do what it does.
Also, doesn't Xioetch do automated tiers of storage (ILM or some weird acronym)?
Btw, I don't work for either of these companies, but I have evaluated both products extensively.
Even more important, the problem with asbestos is the PARTICLES. A big chunk of asbestos causes no harm, it's the little dust particles coming off of it.
Underwater, there is no dust. In fact, water is needed for proper removal. If you really think about it, the safest place to put asbestos is deep underwater.
Back in 1995, my friends and I were looking for domains to register. One of the domains we considered was pizza.com. We decided to skip it, as we didn't want to invest $35/yr on a domain we would probably never use.
*bangs head on desk*
They were waiting for SP1 to ship.
640 colors ought to be enough for anyone.
Because nothing says professional like holding a sales meeting presentation on a manilla folder or a NAPKIN.
Does that mean that the LHC has a "7 T-shirts for $10" guy? I would love to own my very own "I visited the LHC and lived to tell about it" T-shirt.
OK, maybe not hate, but I fail to see the excitement around the Apple product line. "ooooohhhh shiny" seems to replace desire for features and functionality.
Google, yeah, they make great stuff. I don't use them because of marketing, I use them because they WORK. I use Google search because I haven't found a consistently better search engine. I use Gmail because it works, and I'm lazy. Google Earth is, at this time, a unique product, and I have relatively few issues with it. And it helps that these services are all free.
Will I some day hate Google? Oh, probably. I used to cling to Altavista until they went south. Will soemthing better come along? Yes. Is it here yet? I don't think so. Ask.com makes a decent search engine, as does ChaCha. I have yet to see consistency in quality search results, so I don't use them.
I use what I like. Today I like Google. Today I also like Lenovo for my computing needs, Sandisk for my music, and LG for my phone. Tomorrow that may change. Such is the world of competition.
1. Company A uses companya@donotreply.com as it's return address
2. Donotreply owner sets up an autoreply for companya@donotreply.com. This auto-reply should be inappropriate, goatse is definitely an option.
3. Company A loses customers in droves, problem solved.
and while I thought I was connecting through my host's access point, it turned out to be someone else's
That's what you get for using an SSID of "Linksys".
no time for that, I've tasked one of my coworkers to check into it.
When did "photoshop" become a verb?
This post has been gimped by the gimper
Minneapolis water was tested, the only drug found was caffeine. Iiiii wwaaanntt too mooovve theerrree.