> Heh, I wonder what the world would be like if the first caveman to make fire had patented the process of creating friction by rubbing two sticks together.
Oog, the caveman next door, would have brained him over the head, taken his women and his sticks, patented the "method of ensuring survival at all costs through forced retirement of stingy competitors" and pissed on his dead body on the way out.
Paramount was distributing New Lines movie. This guy had *YET* to distribute.
I love how all of a sudden (20 years) we get laws on the books like "intent to distribute", "conspiracy to commit murder", as opposed to punishing actual crimes. It's a lovely world we live in, were a prosecutor can twist the law to his advantage to punish otherwise reluctant witnesses. Yummy.
Which is why I absolutely refuse to patronize large venues like the Fleet Center in Boston. Can you honestly imagine going into town on the train for a day without a backpack? And catching a concert, and either having the backpack confiscated, or getting denied entry?
Security my ass. They're so busy trying to stop cameras and audio recorders that safety doesn't enter in the picture.
you kidding, my local movie theater (Regal Cinema 14) routinely has two cops in it every Friday and Saturday night standing around jerking off looking mean and ugly (definitely ugly).
These self same cops put 19 bullets in a car in a home depot parking lot because the driver bounced a check.
Hell, the movie theater in the REALLY bad town has NO cops in it... makes no sense to me...
This happened in California, after all. 2 of their governors of the past 30 years were DEEPLY in bed with the motion picture industry? What do you expect?
You guys have watched Judge Dredd one too many times...
<sly-voice> I *AM* the Law! </sly>
This law is stupid for the same reason it'd be stupid to disallow someone putting 93 octane in an 83 octane engine, just because it might run faster and allow you to break the law by speeding. There are already laws on the books for fighting copyright violation, this certainly isn't needed.
I've brought video cameras to theaters before, just as I walk in with a big fat cup-o-joe, nearly always because some cheesy event like some twerps turning 21 and we wanted blackmail material.
I shouldn't have to be constantly worrying about whether the normally legal shit I have on me is going to get me arrested just because of the place I visit. I carry a hemp wallet, should I do time?
no unfortunately not. I toss em. I've been burned so very badly by failed tapes that I refuse to keep them in active rotation for a long time like that.:-/
A lot of places are going to things like a 1 terabyte raid backed filestore that looks like a tape, but is really high-speed harddrives. Since the limiting factor in most over-the-net backups is tape speed, you end your backups quicker by writing to disk. Keep a full, and 6 incremental backups, which you spool to tape at the end of the week, and ship off to Iron Mountain for permanent offsite storage. Start again with another scratch area for next week.
Keep two weeks stored on disk, and you increase your file-restore response time for your users, and reduce the amount of tape swapping (horror stories about iron mountain workers putting a stack of tapes on a generator while smoking a cigarette)... And get DLT. 4mm tapes really suck. I've never had a higher failure rate (except those evil 250MB QIC tapes).
Excuse me? Old it may be, but that's why I trust my and my company's data to it. Old in DLT's case == RELIABLE. A hardshelled case, a tape that practically impossible to accidently or carelessly open and damage, and a duty cycle in the 1000's of hours?
You can have my DLT when you pry it from my cold dead datacenter!
Compared to AIT2 or even SDLT, DLT is seriously lacking for capacity.
No backup master worth his salt is ever going to reuse a single tape more than 5-10 times. I personally retire all my tapes after 8 cycles through the wringer (usually 2 months assuming dailies).
Depending on the tape. DDS4 (since I've had shitty luck with them) 8 cycles maximum, never reused if over a year old.
DLT on the other hand, I have a 20 cycle limit. They are just so much more robust. Same one year limit applies.
Backup tapes are a little like condoms. Great protection, but fragile, and really not designed for excessive reuse.
Hey, if you can get any sgi keyboards, drop me a line. I absolutely LOVE those things and I miss them dearly. (haven't touched an sgi in almost 7 years boo-hoo).
a year ago a 16MB usb keychain was running $50. I just picked up a bunch of em at retail at CompUSA for $8.99. The digital photography revolution is driving solid state storage prices into the ground. A year from now 1GB usb keychains will be sub-100$, you just mark my words.;-)
I really wouldn't mind seeing 3" dual layer DVD-R's.
What, the Air Force's 2000lb concrete laser guided bombs? As my ex-Army buddy likes to say, it's nice to see we've gotten advanced enough that we can go back to throwing stones at our enemies...
But a backhoe is multipurpose. I can use it to lift the explorer/transport, I can dig holes, I can use it to dig out my colony and equipment after a sandstorm buries them. And if it has power take-off, I can pop wheelies in it and have tractor pulls sponsored by Coca Cola and Ford.
I'm not going on a one way trip to Mars without a backhoe and an plutonium RTG.:-) I'll live on powerbars and oats for the whole trip before I give up those...
I just can't see the price/performance benefit of something like this? A mini-itx case isn't much larger, costs less (but may not run silent), and can be an order of magnitude FASTER cpu-wise.
I guess if absolute silence is desirable, then these make great choices. A computer the size of a CDROM... hmm...
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it's called java.
Didn't these lawyers have english teachers skilled in the art of deconstructing run-on sentences?
Geez. I think those lawyers need to go back to school and get an English degree...
> Heh, I wonder what the world would be like if the first caveman to make fire had patented the process of creating friction by rubbing two sticks together.
Oog, the caveman next door, would have brained him over the head, taken his women and his sticks, patented the "method of ensuring survival at all costs through forced retirement of stingy competitors" and pissed on his dead body on the way out.
Define rich, indeed. I know one guy getting rich off pelletized regrind plastic for use in aquariums.
Um, big ass difference.
Paramount was distributing New Lines movie. This guy had *YET* to distribute.
I love how all of a sudden (20 years) we get laws on the books like "intent to distribute", "conspiracy to commit murder", as opposed to punishing actual crimes. It's a lovely world we live in, were a prosecutor can twist the law to his advantage to punish otherwise reluctant witnesses. Yummy.
Which is why I absolutely refuse to patronize large venues like the Fleet Center in Boston. Can you honestly imagine going into town on the train for a day without a backpack? And catching a concert, and either having the backpack confiscated, or getting denied entry?
Security my ass. They're so busy trying to stop cameras and audio recorders that safety doesn't enter in the picture.
you kidding, my local movie theater (Regal Cinema 14) routinely has two cops in it every Friday and Saturday night standing around jerking off looking mean and ugly (definitely ugly).
These self same cops put 19 bullets in a car in a home depot parking lot because the driver bounced a check.
Hell, the movie theater in the REALLY bad town has NO cops in it... makes no sense to me...
This happened in California, after all. 2 of their governors of the past 30 years were DEEPLY in bed with the motion picture industry? What do you expect?
-Chris
You guys have watched Judge Dredd one too many times...
<sly-voice> I *AM* the Law! </sly>
This law is stupid for the same reason it'd be stupid to disallow someone putting 93 octane in an 83 octane engine, just because it might run faster and allow you to break the law by speeding. There are already laws on the books for fighting copyright violation, this certainly isn't needed.
I've brought video cameras to theaters before, just as I walk in with a big fat cup-o-joe, nearly always because some cheesy event like some twerps turning 21 and we wanted blackmail material.
I shouldn't have to be constantly worrying about whether the normally legal shit I have on me is going to get me arrested just because of the place I visit. I carry a hemp wallet, should I do time?
no unfortunately not. I toss em. I've been burned so very badly by failed tapes that I refuse to keep them in active rotation for a long time like that. :-/
A lot of places are going to things like a 1 terabyte raid backed filestore that looks like a tape, but is really high-speed harddrives. Since the limiting factor in most over-the-net backups is tape speed, you end your backups quicker by writing to disk. Keep a full, and 6 incremental backups, which you spool to tape at the end of the week, and ship off to Iron Mountain for permanent offsite storage. Start again with another scratch area for next week.
Keep two weeks stored on disk, and you increase your file-restore response time for your users, and reduce the amount of tape swapping (horror stories about iron mountain workers putting a stack of tapes on a generator while smoking a cigarette)... And get DLT. 4mm tapes really suck. I've never had a higher failure rate (except those evil 250MB QIC tapes).
Excuse me? Old it may be, but that's why I trust my and my company's data to it. Old in DLT's case == RELIABLE. A hardshelled case, a tape that practically impossible to accidently or carelessly open and damage, and a duty cycle in the 1000's of hours?
You can have my DLT when you pry it from my cold dead datacenter!
Compared to AIT2 or even SDLT, DLT is seriously lacking for capacity.
No backup master worth his salt is ever going to reuse a single tape more than 5-10 times. I personally retire all my tapes after 8 cycles through the wringer (usually 2 months assuming dailies).
Depending on the tape. DDS4 (since I've had shitty luck with them) 8 cycles maximum, never reused if over a year old.
DLT on the other hand, I have a 20 cycle limit. They are just so much more robust. Same one year limit applies.
Backup tapes are a little like condoms. Great protection, but fragile, and really not designed for excessive reuse.
Hey, if you can get any sgi keyboards, drop me a line. I absolutely LOVE those things and I miss them dearly. (haven't touched an sgi in almost 7 years boo-hoo).
a year ago a 16MB usb keychain was running $50. I just picked up a bunch of em at retail at CompUSA for $8.99. The digital photography revolution is driving solid state storage prices into the ground. A year from now 1GB usb keychains will be sub-100$, you just mark my words. ;-)
I really wouldn't mind seeing 3" dual layer DVD-R's.
NICS I got, Video cards I got (Intergraph Voodoo anyone?), CDroms and floppies...
Hard drives are in short supply around here...
Castlewoods problem was too-little, too late. A year later DVD-R's were starting to hit the market, 2001 they hit big time.
Castlewood really started hitting the media in '98, and they had an attractive competitive piece of vaporware.
No one figured we'd be getting 54X cdroms and 16x DVD-/+RWs.
Rule #1 of consumerism: never buy ANYTHING from ANYONE with any part of the word "value" in their name. :-)
What, the Air Force's 2000lb concrete laser guided bombs? As my ex-Army buddy likes to say, it's nice to see we've gotten advanced enough that we can go back to throwing stones at our enemies...
Time to build a faraday cage into my skull to help protect against EMP... Yikes...
Agreed.
How is this ANY worse than hotmail.com, mail.yahoo.com, juno.com, or any of a million other "email for ad impressions" providers?
$40 for a 25' KVM cable. ;-)
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I did the same with my setup (my gear in my closet), but because I do photo processing now, I need something better.
Those SBC's with Mini-PCI look attractive for some things. Too bad the volume is so low that the price is so high.
But a backhoe is multipurpose. I can use it to lift the explorer/transport, I can dig holes, I can use it to dig out my colony and equipment after a sandstorm buries them. And if it has power take-off, I can pop wheelies in it and have tractor pulls sponsored by Coca Cola and Ford.
:-) I'll live on powerbars and oats for the whole trip before I give up those...
I'm not going on a one way trip to Mars without a backhoe and an plutonium RTG.
I just can't see the price/performance benefit of something like this? A mini-itx case isn't much larger, costs less (but may not run silent), and can be an order of magnitude FASTER cpu-wise.
:-D
I guess if absolute silence is desirable, then these make great choices. A computer the size of a CDROM... hmm...
Thanks for the links, tho.
20 tons of supplies, 2-3 habitats, and a fuel cell powered backhoe, I could make a serious dent on mars.
The question is, will concrete still set the same in a non-oxygen/nitrogen atmosphere? Or will it just freeze?