I can't see a problem with private organisations only allowing a certain format - you aren't forced to deal with them.
There's a very strong case for ensuring that all government offices/systems have to accept the relevant open standard for documents/spreadsheets etc. If they choose to accept Microsoft docx files as well as odf/pdf, then that's down to them.
I wish everyone who received any kind of threatening letter from their ISP would change providers - that would create a very strong market pressure for ISPs to not bother dealing with organisations like AFACT/MAFIAA etc.
I've never heard of any problems with re-selling devices with GPL software on them. I don't think that counts as distribution, and you'd have to be extremely unlucky to sell someone a device (e.g. router) and then get them suing you for not providing source code.
I would imagine that the original distributor is still responsible for the source code unless the end-user re-flashed with a custom firmware. If I re-flash a Linksys router with OpenWRT, I can just point the buyer to the website, so it's probably easier than leaving it with original firmware.
RAID5 over 22 disks? You're brave if you're using big disks. The problem with RAID5 is that when one disk fails, you then have to rebuild the data (with a hot spare for instance) completely before another disk fails. As you then have increased disk activity, you increase the chance of a disk failure during that rebuild time even if you don't hit a read error.
I'm not a big fan of relying on vendor's RAID implementations as they can be buggy and if you have a controller go south, you have to ensure you've got a matching controller to even be able to recover you're data. I prefer software RAID (e.g. Linux MD) as modern CPUs and memory sizes can get more performance than a RAID controller and you've got the advantage of being able to read the volumes from any machine.
I don't see how the backplane speed helps if a drive fails as you typically need double the reads from the disk to recreate the data that you're after. I suppose it depends on your workload not needing the throughput that the disks can provide (and not maxing out the array cache).
Mirror and stripe is the answer, now what's the question?
RAID5 implementations are all evil! When a drive fails, you then dramatically increase the disk accesses to recreate the data from the parity. Also, RAID5 can only survive one disk breaking at a time.
I'd imagine they're using something more like ZFS or whatever IBM has that has similar features.
Firstly, Bell's Theorem would dispute that the probabilities can be explained by hidden variables (non-local ones anyway). You are thinking of this in an overly simplified "common-sense" manner whereas the quantum world just doesn't behave that way.
The difference between an undead cat and a cat that died right before you looked at it is in the math. The math describes a superposition of states (i.e undead cat) - why assume that what is happening is different from what the math describes?
Newton's math did match the world very precisely (if I recall, we sent men to the moon using it) and we didn't assume that the world was different from the math just because it was easier to understand.
I don't think you've quite grasped how "strange" quantum physics is. The idea of deterministic rules underlying the probabilities is known as the hidden variable theory and is largely dismissed i.e. there aren't deterministic rules governing the uncertainties that we can't measure.
Applying Occam's razor to ShrÃdinger would surely come up with the simplest answer - as the maths matches the world so closely, then the maths must be right. Hence the cat is in a superposition of states (dead and alive at the same time) until the measurement is made and the wave function collapses.
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No - it just exploded, but it took 21 million years for it's 'now' to arrive here.
Well, if that was a rant, it was an insightful rant judging by your mods.
I was kidding. Over here (UK), we call it irony. Nice response, though.
I'm not a complete retard but I know the difference between lose and loose.
"Truth is a three-edged sword"
I'm in the UK and we've got loads of different ISPs (although a lot of them use BT's copper lines).
I thought America was all free-market and capitalism? It sounds more like communism with your lack of choice.
Where's Dr Bob when you need him?
I can't see a problem with private organisations only allowing a certain format - you aren't forced to deal with them.
There's a very strong case for ensuring that all government offices/systems have to accept the relevant open standard for documents/spreadsheets etc. If they choose to accept Microsoft docx files as well as odf/pdf, then that's down to them.
I wish everyone who received any kind of threatening letter from their ISP would change providers - that would create a very strong market pressure for ISPs to not bother dealing with organisations like AFACT/MAFIAA etc.
How about sending a whole load of spam emails, but altering the specific words and word-order in order to convey a message?
I bet no-one is looking through spam emails and analysing it for steganography.
I've never heard of any problems with re-selling devices with GPL software on them. I don't think that counts as distribution, and you'd have to be extremely unlucky to sell someone a device (e.g. router) and then get them suing you for not providing source code.
I would imagine that the original distributor is still responsible for the source code unless the end-user re-flashed with a custom firmware. If I re-flash a Linksys router with OpenWRT, I can just point the buyer to the website, so it's probably easier than leaving it with original firmware.
RAID5 over 22 disks? You're brave if you're using big disks. The problem with RAID5 is that when one disk fails, you then have to rebuild the data (with a hot spare for instance) completely before another disk fails. As you then have increased disk activity, you increase the chance of a disk failure during that rebuild time even if you don't hit a read error.
I'm not a big fan of relying on vendor's RAID implementations as they can be buggy and if you have a controller go south, you have to ensure you've got a matching controller to even be able to recover you're data. I prefer software RAID (e.g. Linux MD) as modern CPUs and memory sizes can get more performance than a RAID controller and you've got the advantage of being able to read the volumes from any machine.
Mirror and stripe.
GPL doesn't put any prohibitions on the end-user - it's only when you distribute it that you have to make the source available.
I don't see how the backplane speed helps if a drive fails as you typically need double the reads from the disk to recreate the data that you're after. I suppose it depends on your workload not needing the throughput that the disks can provide (and not maxing out the array cache).
Mirror and stripe is the answer, now what's the question?
Hurricane Irene just leveled New York City, and you're here posting about people yapping about Mandingo Linux. Priorities ?!?!?!
RAID5 implementations are all evil! When a drive fails, you then dramatically increase the disk accesses to recreate the data from the parity. Also, RAID5 can only survive one disk breaking at a time.
I'd imagine they're using something more like ZFS or whatever IBM has that has similar features.
Firstly, Bell's Theorem would dispute that the probabilities can be explained by hidden variables (non-local ones anyway). You are thinking of this in an overly simplified "common-sense" manner whereas the quantum world just doesn't behave that way.
The difference between an undead cat and a cat that died right before you looked at it is in the math. The math describes a superposition of states (i.e undead cat) - why assume that what is happening is different from what the math describes?
Newton's math did match the world very precisely (if I recall, we sent men to the moon using it) and we didn't assume that the world was different from the math just because it was easier to understand.
If GameStop "owns the product at that point" then they can't sell it as new, only as pre-owned.
I don't understand how you can be in violation of copyright without distributing it.
Please explain how this is possible.
I don't think you've quite grasped how "strange" quantum physics is. The idea of deterministic rules underlying the probabilities is known as the hidden variable theory and is largely dismissed i.e. there aren't deterministic rules governing the uncertainties that we can't measure.
Applying Occam's razor to ShrÃdinger would surely come up with the simplest answer - as the maths matches the world so closely, then the maths must be right. Hence the cat is in a superposition of states (dead and alive at the same time) until the measurement is made and the wave function collapses.
What second and third part of the Matrix? That film was really cool, I always wondered why they didn't do a sequel.
You spelt it wrong - it should be grammar nazis
Just tell her to use the package repositories.
So are you posting anonymously because you are one of anonymous or to discredit them?
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