I'm failing to grok this. My two year old Velociraptor can sustain something close to 138MB/s transfer with no tweaking (the speed needed to read 500GB in an hour).
Is there really no enterprise-level drive that can manage this...?
I used to do it in 30 seconds back in the '80s but last time I tried on it took more like a minute.
There's quite a few people out there who can do it in about 15 seconds average using newer methods. That's probably about the limit for humans.
If you see times lower than that it's because somebody got lucky on one particular solve. Sometimes the pieces just fall into place. I once did it in 19 seconds in front of a crowd of people but it was mostly luck (not that I told anybody that at the time...)
When I was a student most other students had twin tape decks and shelves full of cassette tapes. Strangely enough, the "80s revenue streams" happened after that.
I chucked out my old SGI machines not so long ago. The trick is to remove all the outer panels and PCBs, they're about half the weight of the machine. You're on your own with the monitor though.
Simple: They keep a list of everybody (with full names, email addresses, etc.) and give a copy to anybody who's thinking of violating the privacy laws.
I suspect that, if we can get something that appears to be quite strong; but has critical loopholes corporations will be absolutely all over it
Do you seriously suspect we might get anything else? Telemarketers don't seem too disturbed by do-not-call lists and politicians even put exclusions for "political parties" into that law.
Agree. I'm always being told how wonderful/portable it is but every time I try to run a Python program I get "wrong version" or something.
Chapter 0 of the book has "Make sure you install Python 2 not Python 3.". Uhuh, there's a language I want to invest some time in. Not.
Is there a reason why the language designers didn't put some kind of versioning into their language when they took the decision that backwards compatibility wasn't important to them? Some sort of shebang on the first line with the version number...? It's not difficult.
The other setup advice, ie.: Open Edit->Preferences select the Editor tab. Change Tab width: to 4. Select (make sure a check mark is in) Insert spaces instead of tabs. Turn on "Automatic indentation" as well.
Doesn't inspire me to learn Python either. Why impose a rigid spacing structure on a language in a world where tabs aren't standardized (and never will be)? Brackets (or whatever) aren't difficult.
I grok that Python is great for I'm-too-busy-to-learn-a-proper-language programmers to knock batch scripts together quickly but it's not a language for serious work (ie. programs that take more than a day or so to write).
RTFA. They want people to own/spoil them, they don't want them bred in factory conditions and kept in cages with no love when they're tiny and most need it.
When shops are banned you'll have to get them from friends/neighbors/shelters.
What lives will it save? Without the pet industry, these animals would never be born.
If you read the article before rushing to get first post you'll see the problem. Most shop-animals are bred in horrible conditions and spend the first part of their lives in cages in shop windows. Not nice.
This way you'll have to get them from friends/neighbors/shelters. Hopefully the lives it saves will be the ones which would be put down when nobody takes them at the shelter.
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I'm failing to grok this. My two year old Velociraptor can sustain something close to 138MB/s transfer with no tweaking (the speed needed to read 500GB in an hour).
Is there really no enterprise-level drive that can manage this...?
Not to anybody with an IQ larger than their shoe size.
He's fooling you. The number of twists needed to solve that would take years - longer if you're pointing and clicking with a mouse.
Built-in parity checking!
I've seen both schemes...
I used to do it in 30 seconds back in the '80s but last time I tried on it took more like a minute.
There's quite a few people out there who can do it in about 15 seconds average using newer methods. That's probably about the limit for humans.
If you see times lower than that it's because somebody got lucky on one particular solve. Sometimes the pieces just fall into place. I once did it in 19 seconds in front of a crowd of people but it was mostly luck (not that I told anybody that at the time...)
He's trying to be 'funny' by saying he does it by pulling the stickers off.
(I bet it takes longer than 30 seconds though...)
When I was a student most other students had twin tape decks and shelves full of cassette tapes. Strangely enough, the "80s revenue streams" happened after that.
You forgot to put massive losses in quotes (and with a [sic] after it), viz: "massive losses"[sic]
I chucked out my old SGI machines not so long ago. The trick is to remove all the outer panels and PCBs, they're about half the weight of the machine. You're on your own with the monitor though.
John Cleese did it best/a>
I'm pretty sure you've been able to do it on Facebook as well via any number of farming games, etc.
how can they keep track of you being on the list?
Simple: They keep a list of everybody (with full names, email addresses, etc.) and give a copy to anybody who's thinking of violating the privacy laws.
I suspect that, if we can get something that appears to be quite strong; but has critical loopholes corporations will be absolutely all over it
Do you seriously suspect we might get anything else? Telemarketers don't seem too disturbed by do-not-call lists and politicians even put exclusions for "political parties" into that law.
You haven't read the Old Testament, have you?
"Why does the court treat violent images and sexual images so differently?"
Politicians can pretend to be dealing with violence by putting on cowboy hats for photo sessions.
People having Too Much Sex is harder for them to deal with.
Agree. I'm always being told how wonderful/portable it is but every time I try to run a Python program I get "wrong version" or something.
Chapter 0 of the book has "Make sure you install Python 2 not Python 3.". Uhuh, there's a language I want to invest some time in. Not.
Is there a reason why the language designers didn't put some kind of versioning into their language when they took the decision that backwards compatibility wasn't important to them? Some sort of shebang on the first line with the version number...? It's not difficult.
The other setup advice, ie.:
Open Edit->Preferences select the Editor tab.
Change Tab width: to 4.
Select (make sure a check mark is in) Insert spaces instead of tabs.
Turn on "Automatic indentation" as well.
Doesn't inspire me to learn Python either. Why impose a rigid spacing structure on a language in a world where tabs aren't standardized (and never will be)? Brackets (or whatever) aren't difficult.
I grok that Python is great for I'm-too-busy-to-learn-a-proper-language programmers to knock batch scripts together quickly but it's not a language for serious work (ie. programs that take more than a day or so to write).
Who exactly is putting a gun to your head and forcing you to upgrade?
RTFA. They want people to own/spoil them, they don't want them bred in factory conditions and kept in cages with no love when they're tiny and most need it.
When shops are banned you'll have to get them from friends/neighbors/shelters.
What lives will it save? Without the pet industry, these animals would never be born.
If you read the article before rushing to get first post you'll see the problem. Most shop-animals are bred in horrible conditions and spend the first part of their lives in cages in shop windows. Not nice.
This way you'll have to get them from friends/neighbors/shelters. Hopefully the lives it saves will be the ones which would be put down when nobody takes them at the shelter.
Tinfoil and/or drywall burns?
If they had any brains they'd do what the people who live in hot countries do - dig holes and live underground. They'd be safer from mortars, too.
This is exactly why the military budget needs to be slashed. Laziness shouldn't be rewarded with taxpayer money.
You misspelled "stolen"
(from the future generations who'll be footing the bill)
How does "reliable" increase fuel bills?
And if all the air-con is in hospitals then something is badly wrong. Either that or you're talking out of your ass.
looking at the single-walled canvas tents they are cooling with A/C run from diesel generators in a 110 F desert.
If only there was something they could put on the outside of the tent to keep sun/heat out...