buffalo has a terabyte 4x250 drive raid capable of raid5 for 750g. has gige too, but a relatively slow processor, and though the box clearly states it supports nfs it doesn't and they don't plan to. if you're pure windows and just looking for a nice solution it sounds good though, very small and easy to manage. mac and linux will have to use samba, which is a decent bit slower, and without the same permissions, but how much slower depends on your workload. For things like a central backup for important data it sounds great. Costs about $1k, so it's not cheap nor ridiculously expensive.
err, yes, but all knowledge is just total bullshit that hasn't been exposed as such yet.
gravitons leaking out of the universe... part of the attempted quantum gravity reconciliation?
string theory isn't done yet, so it's hard to say it's all being added as a kludge, you want to see a kludge, look at the damn standard model sometime, half the particles are "uhh, we don't know what happens here, so we have particle q come in and take care of whatever exchange is happening" and none of the underlying problems are solved.
string theory seems very promising for a TOE, but the problem is thinking in 11-26 dimensions is surprisingly hard.
oh, fyi:
1-3 dimensions - space 4th dimension - time 5-10th dimensions - kaluza-klein hyperspace manifold (tiny dimensions enfolded to roughly 1 plank length each) 11th dimension - nobody is quite sure but they like to call it probability, has to do with extended quantum interaction modes.
superstring theory and yang-mills theory deal with 11-D subspaces and their intersection with 2D string worldsheets (think a 1 dimensional string flying through the air, but extended along the temporal dimension, forming a 2 dimensional sheet).
This has been worked on for a while, and the equations are getting there. If you think about it though, a fifth dimension can be easily produced from the equations of general relativity, and maxwells equations of electro-mag produce yet another micro-dimension to govern the electromagnetic force.
So this isn't that surprising, the problem is the math for 11 dimensions doesn't work well yet, because it's freaking hard to do energy waveform equations in 11 dimensions, when you don't even know how those 11 dimensions are laid out.
The next breakthrough in physics will be a model for at least some of the underlying dimensional geometry, leading to a final m-theory, likely the long sought theory of everything.
I just like the fact that the standard model is showing it's flaws, trying to write theory to fit your experiments is never as good as trying to understand the underlying causes and drawing conclusions from the emergent properties of the basic model.
also yes and no, the added twisting makes the crosstalk elimination better at different freqencies. at 1ghz a single turn is enough to cause the antenna effect, while at 10mhz (original spec) you need like half a meter or something.
oh fyi, this doesn't help at lower speeds, but common lvds serdes nowadays hit upwards of 10Gbps, so this kind of thing makes a big difference at that point because the wavelength is small enough that the difference becomes possible to vary in the cabling.
basically for 1gbps its just starting, past 5gbps (10g copper spec calls for this though a working group is trying to run 10g on cat5 (boggle)) you need this kind of thing, and it happens to cut down on rf interference and reception, another handy thing, considering how hard it is to get some of these things to pass fcc (been there, done that).
reduces the ability for coupling between strands at a regular point. essentially spreading the crosstalk from a different pair between different coupling points. instead of a pair being completely coupled or not the coupling is spread such that 1 whole interference cycle is generated, cancelling out all crosstalk, or at least more than the constant twist.
tightly twisted pairs take longer to go through than loosely twisted pairs, and so instead of 2 parallel antennae inducting into each other you have two antellae parallel at different points in such a way that the inducted wave at one portion of the cable destructively interferes with the inducted wave at a different part of the cable.
or computer only lanes/sections ala car-pooling? they can have a much higher density, along with less braking idiocy, or the "look at that crash" which stops traffic for miles. the govt can make that an incentive to have auto-cars.
I doubt those movies would be as exciting, fast-paced, and high-grossing if the machines were given too much control over human lives, both sides were happy about it, and everyone lived happily ever after in a beautiful paradise of boringness.
but that's just a thought as to why we see movies like that.
Perhaps "A Sphere of Solid Neutronium greater than it's Schwartzchild radius without the effects of gravitational tides and/or variances in the background energy state of the universe in relation to Gauge symmetries is forever"?
But actually, nobody would remember that, cause it's stupid.
Carbon is essentially the most chemically flexible element. One of the few, basically only element capable of having 4 valence electrons active in covalent bonds. This is why carbon is the only element capable of forming tetrahedral covalent bonds with 4 other c atoms. Also allows for all the hydrocarbon chemistry that is the basis for life, our energy, and all organic chemistry.
It's huge, because it's light, common, and uniquely versatile, capable of having bonds other elements can't, and longer, more complicated molecular chains than other elements too, all from one extra active valence electron.
doesn't have to be earth sized, the volume is much smaller so you just need small magnets lined up around the hull with the proper alignment of their magnetic fields. Essentially creating small runoff trenches for radiation to flow around the ship. Could be like an umbrella that is pointed towards the sun by a servo-robotic assembly, it has to deflect them less if it can do it from farther away.
ahem, if he sends you an email, from a.mil address with contact info you can(must) validate that from a.mil site that before communicating with him about anything sensitive (which you can't over a non-secure connection (email, haha) anyway).
I just love the irony of mentally masturbating to ourselves on slashdot, keyboards humming away to each other, on the edge of our tin-foil conspiracy kicks, when suddenly out of nowhere big-brother clears his throat and says "uhh actually no, and we should not be talking about this".
Not a tin-foil nut myself, but the irony is inescapable.
That is not secure, there are tomes of regulations determining data security, including secure erasure levels and this won't cut it without some kind of integrated hardware encryption in the raid controller (these things are fucking expensive, and sold for a reason). Generally it's just easier to have a single small harddrive and good written procedures. Also, anti-tamper (tamper evident minimum) seals on the case to ensure it hasn't been comprimised internally, etc.
First, I'm not sure you understand all that's entailed in building a terminal for handling secure information. There are basic docs you can pick up at the.mil sites that should give you and idea where to start, and after that I'd go with a Dell/HP because they have experience doing these builds and can give you a box to start with, but there are mandated OS configurations, permissions, auditing that fill filling cabinets. Also there are restrictions on access and other things that will have to be managed (lockable keyboards/shelves, power control, network access control), so the box itself is just the beginning. Have you considered bringing in a computer security officer to tell you how to set up your environment? You'll need one before you can have it designated anyway, and your sales guy who set up the deal should know who to talk to to get one to come over.
This is a complicated thing, and your exact security levels and the number of people involved make it worse. If you are in a secured building already then I'd say do what they do in the rest of the building, then talk to your Sec Officer to make sure a dell is fine. But otherwise there should be people around who know how to get you started, and it's a big enough deal that if your building is designated insecure you have a long ass road ahead of you.
My point is there is stupidity has had value as a scarcity resource.
No we are completely at fault for them hating us, but they don't hate us for the reasons they should hate us(VASTLY raping their region via imperialism), just like we aren't afraid of them for the reasons we should be afraid of them(countries funneling money to bad people for oil).
And no, we do not have a government for the whatever by the whoever, we have a representative democracy... although I don't quite see how a stupid, spoiled, religious, ignorant millionaire asshat from texas really represents me as a person, because, well I'm not like that.
Perhaps we should elect representatives like ourselves, instead of like we want to be. Lets get some fat-balding adulterers up there! Big stupid illiterate people who like to sit around watching reality tv instead of pillaging corporate america while we're distracted.
Or maybe not.
Representative democracy is very good for the representatives, not so good for the democracy. Ask the guys from rome how corruption of officials affects the state.
The simple fact is you can't outspend the idiots, it's unpossible. Research and Development had their heyday, until MBA's realized "hey marketing works better AND is cheaper!". Oh, and they don't have to put up with geeks they don't understand anymore.
The backlash against intellectualism is actually just starting, and we will be hit by a wave of neo-culturalism which has already started to rip through our country, forcing people to assimilate more and more closely to popular icons and imagery. This is partially a backlash for the WWII and post intellectual age we had, and is also part of the huge value being put on "content" nowadays, with content and pseudo-culture being elevated over reality.
In the end, this too shall pass, and another wave will wash over the people, again, and again, and again, each one seen as the true reality.
Yeah, while I agree with you on our side, don't forget we're just afraid of the sheeple lined up on the other side of the field hearing "So you have these 50 virgins and they are completely submissive to your will...".
In a battle of wits both sides have been disarmed by their leaders. Just be glad nobody is actually fighting in this semi-standoff, when the buildup phase of the defense budget hits saturation a war will break out because they have nothing better to do with themselves.
very high development, entry, and "subscription"(basically getting people to use your software model, which is hard) costs make shared commonality a more desirable utility than specialization in some cases. In this case you get the best of both worlds, the specialization per-task of the niche factor, while still keeping the enormous economies of scale and ability to leverage none niche resources. Software is malleable and adaptable enough that not everything has to be coded for one particular niche to be efficient, at least not yet.
And those 3 fields aren't really that different, server needs slightly better io, laptop is all about power, and desktop has been "good-enough" for most everybody for years. Now that even desktops need better power efficiency, everything is moving towards the laptop side of the spectrum, where it will balance out again. Call this the "revenge of netburst" effect.
Awesome ISP with incredible service (you can talk to human people!) and just all-around good packages that don't screw you on bandwidth or static IPs!
Downside: 1. They will honor a C&D served against you, but they will honor it anonymously (ie. stop serving copyrighted X or we temporarily suspend your line) and won't give your details for anything short of a warrant.
2. And this is more of a personal itch, but they don't have ipv6 yet, which is kind of a bummer.
amazing freaking isp. and great notification for coming downtime or local network problems.
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wow, cong modding offtopic based on it looking too real.
Well, guess my sed "s/serve man/kill all humans" script will be entertaining after all.
buffalo has a terabyte 4x250 drive raid capable of raid5 for 750g. has gige too, but a relatively slow processor, and though the box clearly states it supports nfs it doesn't and they don't plan to. if you're pure windows and just looking for a nice solution it sounds good though, very small and easy to manage. mac and linux will have to use samba, which is a decent bit slower, and without the same permissions, but how much slower depends on your workload. For things like a central backup for important data it sounds great. Costs about $1k, so it's not cheap nor ridiculously expensive.
Just a thought.
I am a black hole stage of a former class O supergiant you insensitive clod!
And I for one welcome our new... electro-magnetically generated Supernova 1987a overlords.
having trouble buying this with no fa, especially since it seems to go against all current astronomical data regarding supernovae.
so... does it run linux?
err, yes, but all knowledge is just total bullshit that hasn't been exposed as such yet.
gravitons leaking out of the universe... part of the attempted quantum gravity reconciliation?
string theory isn't done yet, so it's hard to say it's all being added as a kludge, you want to see a kludge, look at the damn standard model sometime, half the particles are "uhh, we don't know what happens here, so we have particle q come in and take care of whatever exchange is happening" and none of the underlying problems are solved.
string theory seems very promising for a TOE, but the problem is thinking in 11-26 dimensions is surprisingly hard.
oh, fyi:
1-3 dimensions - space
4th dimension - time
5-10th dimensions - kaluza-klein hyperspace manifold (tiny dimensions enfolded to roughly 1 plank length each)
11th dimension - nobody is quite sure but they like to call it probability, has to do with extended quantum interaction modes.
superstring theory and yang-mills theory deal with 11-D subspaces and their intersection with 2D string worldsheets (think a 1 dimensional string flying through the air, but extended along the temporal dimension, forming a 2 dimensional sheet).
This has been worked on for a while, and the equations are getting there. If you think about it though, a fifth dimension can be easily produced from the equations of general relativity, and maxwells equations of electro-mag produce yet another micro-dimension to govern the electromagnetic force.
So this isn't that surprising, the problem is the math for 11 dimensions doesn't work well yet, because it's freaking hard to do energy waveform equations in 11 dimensions, when you don't even know how those 11 dimensions are laid out.
The next breakthrough in physics will be a model for at least some of the underlying dimensional geometry, leading to a final m-theory, likely the long sought theory of everything.
I just like the fact that the standard model is showing it's flaws, trying to write theory to fit your experiments is never as good as trying to understand the underlying causes and drawing conclusions from the emergent properties of the basic model.
also yes and no, the added twisting makes the crosstalk elimination better at different freqencies. at 1ghz a single turn is enough to cause the antenna effect, while at 10mhz (original spec) you need like half a meter or something.
oh fyi, this doesn't help at lower speeds, but common lvds serdes nowadays hit upwards of 10Gbps, so this kind of thing makes a big difference at that point because the wavelength is small enough that the difference becomes possible to vary in the cabling.
basically for 1gbps its just starting, past 5gbps (10g copper spec calls for this though a working group is trying to run 10g on cat5 (boggle)) you need this kind of thing, and it happens to cut down on rf interference and reception, another handy thing, considering how hard it is to get some of these things to pass fcc (been there, done that).
if the shirts are wrongly represented as authentic then the counterfeiters have commited misdemeanor or felony fraud against them.
i mean most people buy those shirts for the "hey look at this nice official shirt like wears" value more than anything.
reduces the ability for coupling between strands at a regular point. essentially spreading the crosstalk from a different pair between different coupling points. instead of a pair being completely coupled or not the coupling is spread such that 1 whole interference cycle is generated, cancelling out all crosstalk, or at least more than the constant twist.
tightly twisted pairs take longer to go through than loosely twisted pairs, and so instead of 2 parallel antennae inducting into each other you have two antellae parallel at different points in such a way that the inducted wave at one portion of the cable destructively interferes with the inducted wave at a different part of the cable.
or computer only lanes/sections ala car-pooling?
they can have a much higher density, along with less braking idiocy, or the "look at that crash" which stops traffic for miles. the govt can make that an incentive to have auto-cars.
I doubt those movies would be as exciting, fast-paced, and high-grossing if the machines were given too much control over human lives, both sides were happy about it, and everyone lived happily ever after in a beautiful paradise of boringness.
but that's just a thought as to why we see movies like that.
Perhaps "A Sphere of Solid Neutronium greater than it's Schwartzchild radius without the effects of gravitational tides and/or variances in the background energy state of the universe in relation to Gauge symmetries is forever"?
But actually, nobody would remember that, cause it's stupid.
(ph.ds go easy on me, pls, i failed ochem)
Carbon is essentially the most chemically flexible element. One of the few, basically only element capable of having 4 valence electrons active in covalent bonds. This is why carbon is the only element capable of forming tetrahedral covalent bonds with 4 other c atoms. Also allows for all the hydrocarbon chemistry that is the basis for life, our energy, and all organic chemistry.
It's huge, because it's light, common, and uniquely versatile, capable of having bonds other elements can't, and longer, more complicated molecular chains than other elements too, all from one extra active valence electron.
doesn't have to be earth sized, the volume is much smaller so you just need small magnets lined up around the hull with the proper alignment of their magnetic fields. Essentially creating small runoff trenches for radiation to flow around the ship. Could be like an umbrella that is pointed towards the sun by a servo-robotic assembly, it has to deflect them less if it can do it from farther away.
ahem, if he sends you an email, from a .mil address with contact info you can(must) validate that from a .mil site that before communicating with him about anything sensitive (which you can't over a non-secure connection (email, haha) anyway).
I just love the irony of mentally masturbating to ourselves on slashdot, keyboards humming away to each other, on the edge of our tin-foil conspiracy kicks, when suddenly out of nowhere big-brother clears his throat and says "uhh actually no, and we should not be talking about this".
Not a tin-foil nut myself, but the irony is inescapable.
That is not secure, there are tomes of regulations determining data security, including secure erasure levels and this won't cut it without some kind of integrated hardware encryption in the raid controller (these things are fucking expensive, and sold for a reason). Generally it's just easier to have a single small harddrive and good written procedures. Also, anti-tamper (tamper evident minimum) seals on the case to ensure it hasn't been comprimised internally, etc.
First, I'm not sure you understand all that's entailed in building a terminal for handling secure information. There are basic docs you can pick up at the .mil sites that should give you and idea where to start, and after that I'd go with a Dell/HP because they have experience doing these builds and can give you a box to start with, but there are mandated OS configurations, permissions, auditing that fill filling cabinets. Also there are restrictions on access and other things that will have to be managed (lockable keyboards/shelves, power control, network access control), so the box itself is just the beginning. Have you considered bringing in a computer security officer to tell you how to set up your environment? You'll need one before you can have it designated anyway, and your sales guy who set up the deal should know who to talk to to get one to come over.
This is a complicated thing, and your exact security levels and the number of people involved make it worse. If you are in a secured building already then I'd say do what they do in the rest of the building, then talk to your Sec Officer to make sure a dell is fine. But otherwise there should be people around who know how to get you started, and it's a big enough deal that if your building is designated insecure you have a long ass road ahead of you.
umm? yes?
My point is there is stupidity has had value as a scarcity resource.
No we are completely at fault for them hating us, but they don't hate us for the reasons they should hate us(VASTLY raping their region via imperialism), just like we aren't afraid of them for the reasons we should be afraid of them(countries funneling money to bad people for oil).
And no, we do not have a government for the whatever by the whoever, we have a representative democracy... although I don't quite see how a stupid, spoiled, religious, ignorant millionaire asshat from texas really represents me as a person, because, well I'm not like that.
Perhaps we should elect representatives like ourselves, instead of like we want to be. Lets get some fat-balding adulterers up there! Big stupid illiterate people who like to sit around watching reality tv instead of pillaging corporate america while we're distracted.
Or maybe not.
Representative democracy is very good for the representatives, not so good for the democracy. Ask the guys from rome how corruption of officials affects the state.
bill's 3rd rule of war:
Ignorance is always cheaper than intelligence.
The simple fact is you can't outspend the idiots, it's unpossible. Research and Development had their heyday, until MBA's realized "hey marketing works better AND is cheaper!". Oh, and they don't have to put up with geeks they don't understand anymore.
The backlash against intellectualism is actually just starting, and we will be hit by a wave of neo-culturalism which has already started to rip through our country, forcing people to assimilate more and more closely to popular icons and imagery. This is partially a backlash for the WWII and post intellectual age we had, and is also part of the huge value being put on "content" nowadays, with content and pseudo-culture being elevated over reality.
In the end, this too shall pass, and another wave will wash over the people, again, and again, and again, each one seen as the true reality.
Monkeys are stupid.
Yeah, while I agree with you on our side, don't forget we're just afraid of the sheeple lined up on the other side of the field hearing "So you have these 50 virgins and they are completely submissive to your will...".
In a battle of wits both sides have been disarmed by their leaders. Just be glad nobody is actually fighting in this semi-standoff, when the buildup phase of the defense budget hits saturation a war will break out because they have nothing better to do with themselves.
very high development, entry, and "subscription"(basically getting people to use your software model, which is hard) costs make shared commonality a more desirable utility than specialization in some cases. In this case you get the best of both worlds, the specialization per-task of the niche factor, while still keeping the enormous economies of scale and ability to leverage none niche resources. Software is malleable and adaptable enough that not everything has to be coded for one particular niche to be efficient, at least not yet.
And those 3 fields aren't really that different, server needs slightly better io, laptop is all about power, and desktop has been "good-enough" for most everybody for years. Now that even desktops need better power efficiency, everything is moving towards the laptop side of the spectrum, where it will balance out again. Call this the "revenge of netburst" effect.
Awesome ISP with incredible service (you can talk to human people!) and just all-around good packages that don't screw you on bandwidth or static IPs!
Downside:
1. They will honor a C&D served against you, but they will honor it anonymously (ie. stop serving copyrighted X or we temporarily suspend your line) and won't give your details for anything short of a warrant.
2. And this is more of a personal itch, but they don't have ipv6 yet, which is kind of a bummer.
amazing freaking isp. and great notification for coming downtime or local network problems.